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Information Technology Degrees
The Leadership concentration of the Master of Science in Information Technology Management (MSITM) focuses on how IT fits into the larger context of corporate strategy. Learn how your IT role can impact and improve functions such as marketing, sales, finance and trend analysis. You'll also gain the business skills you need to be an effective leader, such as:
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If you have experience managing programs, systems or people and are looking to enhance your leadership skills to move into a management role, the Leadership concentration of the MS in Information Technology Management may be for you. Upon completion of the program you should be able to:
- Understand the core concepts, capabilities, and tools of IT
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An interdisciplinary combination of professional skills, business knowledge, and IT expertise, the Leadership concentration of the MS in Information Technology Management is a must for IT professionals who want to move up the ladder.
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I. A person is guilty of conspiracy if, with a purpose that a crime defined by statute be committed, he agrees with one or more persons to commit or cause the commission of such crime, and an overt act is committed by one of the conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy. II. For purposes of paragraph I, "one or more persons'' includes, but is not limited to, persons who are immune from criminal liability by virtue of irresponsibility, incapacity or exemption. III. It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this statute that the actor renounces his criminal purpose by giving timely notice to a law enforcement official of the conspiracy and of the actor's part in it, or by conduct designed to prevent commission of the crime agreed upon. IV. The penalty for conspiracy is the same as that authorized for the crime that was the object of the conspiracy, except that in the case of a conspiracy to commit murder the punishment shall be imprisonment for a term of not more than 30 years.
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No one would ever mistake the White House press briefing room for a courthouse or a confessional, so the blue curtains and official seal made an ironic backdrop this summer for President Obama’s impromptu homily on honesty in public life. “The truth of the matter is you can’t just make stuff up,” he told the scribblers who get paid to check his facts. “That’s one thing you learn as President of the United States. You get called in to account.” It was just what reporters wanted to hear, even if it was not exactly true.
At the time, Obama was speaking about a campaign ad from Mitt Romney that falsely claimed that the President had eliminated the work requirement for welfare. The ad was unmistakably deceptive. But just five minutes earlier in the very same press conference, Obama had offered some misdirection of his own. “Nobody accused Mr. Romney of being a felon,” he said. In fact, one of the President’s senior strategists, Stephanie Cutter, told reporters a month earlier that Romney was misrepresenting himself either to the American people or to securities regulators — “which is a felony,” she said.
Cutter’s was a conditional accusation but an accusation nonetheless, and at the time it allowed the Romney campaign to take its turn playing truth teller. “A reckless and unsubstantiated charge,” protested Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades, who asked Obama to apologize. Of course, no apology was forthcoming. So the posturing got worse.
“You know, in the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad,” Romney complained about Obama a few weeks later, without any apparent self-awareness. That was followed by Obama aides’ announcing that Romney’s campaign was built on a “tripod of lies” and that Republicans “really think that lying is a virtue.” Romney continued his protests, saying, “The challenge that I’ll have in the debate is that the President tends to — how shall I say it — to say things that aren’t true.”
So it goes in the world’s most celebrated democracy: another campaign day, another battle over the very nature of reality. Both of the men now running for the presidency claim that their opponent has a weak grasp of the facts and a demonstrated willingness to mislead voters. Both profess an abiding personal commitment to honesty and fair play. And both run campaigns that have repeatedly and willfully played the American people for fools, though their respective violations vary in scope and severity.
The rules for this back-and-forth were set in 1796, in the nation’s first contested presidential election, when John Adams’ supporters falsely charged Thomas Jefferson with atheism and loyalty to France while Jefferson’s forces made up fables about Adams’ monarchist ambitions. In the centuries since, campaigns have evolved into elaborate games of cops and robbers. Candidates and their supporters bend, twist and fabricate facts as much as they can without sparking a backlash. Reporters and opposing politicians do their best to run down the deceptions for voters.
But the perpetrators usually remain a step ahead of the cops. “It’s like the campaigns are driving 100 miles an hour on a highway with a posted speed limit of 60, but the patrol cars all have flats,” says Mark McKinnon, a Republican ad man for the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain. “There was a quaint era in politics when we were held accountable for the truth and paid consequences for errors of fact. No more.”
Indeed, the 2012 campaign has witnessed a historic increase in fact-checking efforts by the media, with dozens of reporters now focused full time on sniffing out falsehood. Clear examples of deception fill websites, appear on nightly newscasts and run on the front pages of newspapers. But the truth squads have had only marginal success in changing the behavior of the campaigns and almost no impact on the outside groups that peddle unvarnished falsehoods with even less accountability. “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers,” explained Neil Newhouse, Romney’s pollster, echoing his industry’s conventional wisdom.
Similarly, the so-called Truth Team for the Obama campaign has found itself in recurring spats with journalists brandishing facts. One of the most galling Obama deceptions, embedded in two television ads, asserts that Romney backed a bill outlawing “all abortion even in cases of rape and incest.” This is not true. Romney has consistently maintained, since becoming a pro-life politician in 2005, that he supports exceptions for rape and incest and to protect the life of the mother.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
As Congress debates what sounds like a horrendous Internet regulation bill, it is worth considering, in real, concrete terms, what having an unrestricted Internet really means. Rather than, perhaps, appreciating what we had only after losing it, we could consider what life is like for those who already don't have it. Someone living in China notes that lots of things we are beginning to take for granted (but would be hard-pressed to see ourselves doing without) just aren't there:
Imagine having no Google, no Youtube, no Facebook, no Vimeo, no Twitter...being forced to use Bing to search, no accessing any sites hosted on blogspot or wordpress, Gmail having intermittent outages, sites using Google Analytics taking ten times longer to load, Dropbox only working on occasion, and no other file sending services.Don Chow ends with a warning and what amounts to a prediction:
Imagine that there are equivalents of these sites that are state-owned and controlled: a search engine that only returns government approved sites, a censored twitter where you must register with your real name and passport number, and an internet radio site that is forced to play "red" songs celebrating the government. Imagine that these government-sanctioned alternatives are shoddily and hastily assembled and have none of the quality or convenience the originals had.
I know SOPA doesn't imply that all of this would happen in the US. But it certainly feels like a step towards this sort of restriction, and sets a dangerous precedent.Private intellectual property and freedom of speech are both crucial for the prosperous, technologically-advanced civilization we now enjoy. As exemplified by the above, we cannot have either for long without the other. Congress seems to be laboring under the illusion that we can.
... These restrictions here haven't slowed down pirating a single bit.
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If things that are not journalism entertain, inform and facilitate agency better than things that are, don’t bet on journalism to thrive.
I work for a newspaper and I think about how to reinvent newspapers and reassert their relevance all the time. And people are consuming more news than ever, so we must be doing something right. My guess, though? Most innovation in media and most of the revenue and most of the value will come not from the incumbents and not even from news startups, but from people who unwittingly stumble into producing media as the solution to another problem.
He argues that journalism’s disrupters are companies that don’t actually produce journalism, but fulfill the same underlying consumer needs that traditional journalism has sought to fulfill.
I will repeat this because it’s important: YouTube nor Facebook or any of these other companies aim to be an alternative to journalism and much of what they facilitate or do doesn’t look like journalism at all. A good chunk of it contains written or spoken words, but sometimes not even that. It’s not journalism. But you’d be naive if you thought their services aren’t often consumed instead of news. It’s the same kind of functionality in a different package, after all, and that new package happens to be rather attractive a lot of the time.
Thus, the shift in journalism is radical—“from narrative and stories and reporting to entirely different and entirely unrelated ways of sharing knowledge.”
News organizations and publications may be able to survive in the digital era, but that’s about it:
I’m confident that strong digital players like The Guardian and the New York Times and Digital First Media will survive. I’m less confident that they’ll ever thrive. I mean, we’re congratulating The Guardian for losing money online, NYTbecause its paywall isn’t the crash-and-burn we expected it to be, and because the Journal Register Company is in the black. If you don’t go out of business, you’re a hero.
Through this same lens, he comments on effective changes being made in the news industry, and what more can be done.
If people tell you, as they did assistant professor Amy Zerba’s research assistants, that they hate not being able to multitask when reading a newspaper, does that mean we should try to find ways to make it easier for readers to multitask, or is it simply a symptom of people not caring all that much about the news? And does that in turn mean they just don’t care about stuff in general anymore and have become jaded and uninterested in politics and world news (for which there is some evidence), or is there more to it and are people perhaps getting their information needs met in other, more convenient or more exciting ways? Are we trying to get better at something that doesn’t matter anymore? Perhaps we should take the best traditions of journalism and do something entirely new with it.
To cover Capitol Hill reporters need access to lawmakers and press events. However, a new generation of publications with new business models, or without print distribution are being shut out, in spite of the important role they play in covering Washington affairs.
Josh Stearns of Free Press uses Storify to tell how obtaining media credentials for new journalism organizations is a job unto itself.
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Chuck Schumer, you are a hero for standing up for what’s right. Let’s bring meaning back to American citizenship.
I’m venting again, but I just read this absolutely asinine article by two individuals who are planning to also become Singaporean. I don’t know if these two are rich, but they are defending Eduardo Savarin and attacking Chuck Schumer for the Ex-Patriot Act, which will prevent wealthy tax dodgers from re-entering the country if they avoid taxes by renouncing their U.S. citizenships.
Saverin and expatriates like him are practicing a perfectly rational arbitrage in a world of diverse systems and growing opportunity. Rather than question the loyalty of such global citizens, Congress should examine what their choices tell us about how Americans can succeed in the knowledge economy of the future.
Migration is about opportunity, not loyalty.
I’m disgusted by this. Absolutely disgusted. Schumer wasn’t talking about migration; he was talking about citizenship. Citizenship should be about loyalty, not opportunity. Citizenship should not be for sale.
Granted most immigrants these days come here for opportunity. But in most cases, they don’t come to avoid a tax bill; they come because they are fleeing poverty, escaping oppressive regimes, and desiring freedom. Poor immigrants come for safety and basic survival when their countries can’t provide it. Facebook never in a million years would have started in a country like Singapore where people get caned for chewing gum in public. It would have never even started in a tech-savvy country like India where people segregate by caste. The idea of people posting their own lives and creating their platforms is very American, and the structure succeeded because of American laws and social networks, funded by American tax dollars. To make treat citizenship as a commodity is a complete corruption of values.
On this Memorial Day, let’s remember those who died for our country. Let’s remember that not everyone has reduced citizenship to a tradable commodity. Let’s be thankful that we have heroes like Chuck Schumer who are willing to stand up for what’s right.
(Also see What Money Can’t Buy by Michael Sandel.)
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|Molecular structure of lung epithelial cells. Similar structures are being targeted with pharmaceutical agents by Ghadiali and his students.|
The fluid causes shortness of breath, wheezing and the sensation of drowning. Anxiety and panic set in. The patient requires immediate medical attention.
The only available remedy is a mechanical ventilator that pushes air into the lungs, breathing for the patient until he can breathe on his own. But the machine further harms air passages and causes a 40 percent mortality rate after several days of use. The phenomenon, ventilatorinduced lung injury (VILI), contributes each year to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans.
Ghadiali, the Frank Hook Assistant Professor of bioengineering in Lehigh's department of mechanical engineering and mechanics, believes the optimum treatment for VILI lies in a sound application of engineering principles. He and his students employ computational modeling and lab experiments to gain a clearer picture of the vital functions of the lung and the punishment it endures from VILI.
Ghadiali's goal is twofold. A better understanding of the biological mechanisms of lung-cell injury during VILI, he says, can lead to the development of drugs that protect lung cells and improve the survival rates of patients undergoing ventilation. Ghadiali also wants to develop a biomimetic drug-screening system that evaluates the impact of air bubbles on cells during ventilation and measures the degree to which that impact is moderated by drug candidates.
"We believe there may be cell-based therapies that can improve patient survival rates," says Ghadiali. "If you have to undergo ventilation, it may be possible to first take a drug that makes your cells less susceptible to damage during ventilation. Your cells will still be struck by the sledgehammer of passing air bubbles, but they are more resistant to it. This would minimize cell injury. Your lungs can then recover on their own and you can go off the ventilator and survive."
LIFE IN THE DEEP LUNG
Ghadiali's study of pulmonary mechanics, which is funded by a Parker B. Francis Fellowship and a grant from the American Heart Association, focuses on the "deep lung." There, at the tips of the lung's elaborately branching airways, micron-sized sacs called alveoli expand and contract when a person breathes, diffusing oxygen into the blood while drawing carbon dioxide from it.
A thin layer of epithelial and endothelial cells, called the alveolar capillary barrier, separates the alveoli from the bloodstream. A severe disease or injury can break down this barrier, allow blood and bacteria to leak into the lungs and prevent the exchange of O2 and CO2. A mechanical ventilator restores that exchange, but at a cost.
"The ventilator saves your life," says Ghadiali, "but exacerbates the lung injury. We're trying to understand why the ventilator damages the thin layer of epithelial cells and how that can be prevented." Medical researchers have attempted with little success to minimize ventilator forces with surfactant, a compound that helps premature babies breathe.
GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN
Ghadiali has taken the opposite approach. Rather than modify the mechanical forces created by ventilation, his group seeks to modify the responses of cells so they better survive the trauma of ventilation.
To test its hypothesis, Ghadiali's group accounts for an array of interdependent variables – the functions of lung, blood cells and alveoli, and the mechanical responses and interior activities of cells. This complexity can best be studied, Ghadiali says, by integrating experiments in the laboratory with mathematical modeling on the computer.
"Modeling allows us to study phenomena that are too complex to investigate systematically in the lab. It also enables us to manipulate parameters that are difficult to manipulate in the lab. Models can suggest new lab experiments that might unveil important information."
Ghadiali's students use a software program to simulate the response of alveolar epithelial cells to the shear stress and pressure gradient forces imposed by passing air bubbles. They collaborate with Lehigh biologists to measure the response of cells to these forces, growing and staining a "confluent" group of fully grown cells and a "subconfluent" group of immature, less densely packed cells. They compare the lab data with the modeling results, improve the models and run new tests.
The group's results have been surprising, says Ghadiali.
"We thought that placing more force on cells would kill larger quantities of cells, but we have found that in some cases that is not true. Like others, we also assumed that a cell modified to become more rigid would better resist certain types of forces. But the truth is more complicated."
Computational modeling – and what Ghadiali calls a "minimalist approach" to the technique – helps explain some of the counterintuitive results. Ghadiali and his students build their models one level of complexity at a time, choosing only those variables they think are critical to the phenomenon they are examining, rather than attempting to account for every variable at once.
VISCOELASTICITY IS VITAL
This "piece by piece" approach has helped reveal the lifesaving potential of viscoelasticity for epithelial cells, he says.
"We have found that a cell's ability to resist force depends not only on how rigid or soft the cell is but also on how viscous it is, that is, how much it behaves like a liquid and how much it moves or deforms over time. In modeling the forces imposed on epithelial cells, we found that only when we added viscosity to the cells did we get results consistent with our lab experiments."
Ghadiali's group has confirmed the cells' viscosity by using "optical tweezers," a laser tool that oscillates the cell's cytoskeleton to measure its mechanical properties. The group collaborates with Daniel Ou-Yang, professor of physics at Lehigh and a pioneer in developing the tweezers.
"We've found that in addition to making cells softer, some treatments can also make cells viscous," says Ghadiali. "This viscoelasticity enables a cell to 'damp out' the transient forces imposed by microbubble flows in the deep lung.
"The fact that we can manipulate this viscoelasticity suggests to us that it may be possible to develop pharmaceutical compounds that alter the viscoelasticity of the cells so they better withstand the forces of VILI."
Ghadiali's group is building a biomimetic, microfluidic system that contains flexible, branching air passages and models the entire alveolar-capillary barrier. The goal, he says, is to develop an in vitro system that prescreens drug candidates before they undergo in vivo testing.
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Authors: Conway, Martin Franklin; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
Date: July 20, 1857
General Order No. 2 established divisions and brigades which were to protect the ballot box in Topeka. It lists the divisions, brigades, and the superintendents of the divisions and brigades. James Lane was organizing the Kansas Volunteers and Martin Conway was the Adjutant General for the K.V.
Keywords: Conway, Martin Franklin; Deitzler, George W.; Election, Topeka Constitution, August 1857; Grasshopper Falls, Kansas Territory; Kansas Volunteers; Kansas Volunteers for the Protection of the Ballot Box; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Militia; Moore, H. Miles (Henry Miles), b. 1826; Plumb, Preston B., 1837-1891; Root, Joseph P., 1826-1885; Stewart, John E.; Topeka, Kansas Territory; Voting; Williams, Henry H.; Wyandotte County, Kansas Territory
Joseph Pomeroy Root, Wyandotte City, KT to William Hutchinson
Authors: Root, Joseph Pomeroy
Date: November 17, 1857
Root described seeing Governor Robert J. Walker on a steamer as he left Kansas Territory for Washington. He speculated that Walker's administration was in jeopardy. Root made other comments that reflected the negative view of Free State party members towards pro-slavery Democrats in Kansas.
Keywords: Calhoun, John; Free State Party; Hutchinson, William, 1823-1904; Root, Joseph P., 1826-1885; Walker, Robert J. (Robert John), 1801-1869
Pamphlet, Address to the American People on the Affairs of Kansas
Authors: No authors specified.
This address recounted the history and purpose of the formation of the Kansas State Government of Topeka, in peaceful opposition to that of the Territory. The free state message accused the systems of the Territorial Government of encouraging influence from abroad in their election process, and indicated that they had nothing inherently against Missouri's citizens as a whole, but implored that they not attempt to violate the rights of Kansas settlers. The address stated that the Territory was "organized for defence" by a pledge from Governor Walker, and appealed that outsiders remain in their homes for the benefit of all.
Keywords: Adams, Henry J.; Arny, W. F. M. (William Frederick Milton), 1813-1881; Atchison, David Rice, 1807-1886; Big Springs Convention; Border disputes and warfare; Crane, Franklin Loomis; Election fraud; Elliott, Robert G.; Free state activities; Free state legislature; Grasshopper Falls Convention; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866; Miller, Josiah; Missourians; Root, Joseph P., 1826-1885; Schuyler, Philip Church; Walker, Robert J. (Robert John), 1801-1869
Letter, J. P. Root (?) to Rev. S. Y. Lum
Authors: Adair, Samuel Lyle
Date: March 19, 1858
Mr. James Root wrote from Wyandotte about the possibility of providing support to organize a Congregational Church in that city. He explained that a number of denominations had organized but they had a small number of members and no buildings. A Congregational minister, Mr. Storrs, had been dividing his time between Quindaro and Wyandotte but was going to focus on Quindaro in the future. He asked for whatever support was possible.
Keywords: Churches; Congregational churches; Lum, S. Y; Quindaro, Kansas Territory; Religion; Root, Joseph P., 1826-1885; Wyandotte County, Kansas Territory; Wyandotte, Kansas Territory
Letter, J. P. Root to Hon. Charles Robinson
Authors: Root, Joseph Pomeroy
Date: January 17, 1859
Joseph Root wrote to Charles Robinson from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, informing him of a development that was splitting the Republican (anti-slavery) Party. Root mentioned that a large majority of the free state House members had begun to call themselves "Radicals," or extreme Republicans. He stated that he would leave the party if, in order to be a Republican, he had to be a member of the "Jim Lane Montgomery Men." Root also informed Robinson that a court had been established in Lawrence in order to try violent offenders from Linn, Lykins, and Bourbon counties.
Keywords: Courts; Douglas County, Kansas Territory; Free State Party; Kansas Territory. Legislature; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Medary, S. (Samuel), 1801-1864; Montgomery, James, 1814-1871; Republican Party (U.S.: 1854- ); Roberts, William Young; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894; Root, Joseph P., 1826-1885; Smith, Samuel C.
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The best way to cure this problem is to get out and visit other charter schools! This applies to governing board members, principals, business managers, curriculum directors, teachers, and simply: everyone!
One of the best parts of my job is that I have been to almost every charter school in the state and get to see the incredible things happening at these schools. A lot of what I do is spread the word to others who may be struggling in a particular area or need an idea for how to handle a situation. Many of these best practices are on the CDE website: either in the eguidebook of best practices, the administrator's handbook, or the governing board training modules. The charter school community is very open to sharing, without reservation, and so there is an ideal climate for gaining from each other's experiences.
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Susan Hassler, editor for IEEE Spectrum, gave us a look at the possibilities for technology in the next 10 to 20 years in her talk on Up & Coming Technology. The subject of her talk came from the results of a survey of 700 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, known as the IEEE Fellows. They were asked to project out 10, 20 and 50 years on where they see potential technological advancements. The engineers balked at projecting out 50 years, but did come up with some predictions for the next 10 to 20 years. According to Hassler, the engineers were very serious about their predictions and stayed away from the sci-fi realm. For example, they did not see robotic nurses caring for the elderly any time in the near future or self-driving cars. She focused her talk on two major areas of potential advancement: extending biology and the smart interconnection of everything. The full article that IEEE Spectrum ran on the survey results can be found here.
The surveyed engineers predicted biotechnology would impact us before nanotechnology. They were particularly interested in augmenting our own biologies, ie bionic humans. These developments could be used to fix people with injuries or trauma, but they also talked about enhancing people. Artificial retinas were one example. Not only could they cure blindness, but they may also be used to detect infrared or to enhance vision in other ways.
This was the first point where Hassler began discussing RFID, which we revisited later in “Sensor Nation” portion of her presentation. RFID is a great thing for companies like Wal-mart, she said, because they can keep inventory, but if you put it in your pocket, “they can track where you are.”
She mentioned a husband and wife who planted RFID chips in their hands so they would not need to use keys or passwords. You can read more about this couple here.
There are a couple of schools in Japan where kids have RFID tags in their backpacks or on their person. When they arrive at school, an e-mail is sent home saying they arrived safely at school. (Yikes! Personally, I find this very creepy.)
Smart Interconnection of Everything
Three areas of technology converge to get to the Smart Interconnection of Everything.
- Computation and Bandwidth to Burn
- Sensor Nation
- Distributed Networks
Computation and Bandwidth to Burn
Many survey respondents (44%) predicted that in developed countries we will have Gigabit Internet access available in homes in 10 years or less. Another 45% said it will come in 11 to 20 years.
Hassler talked about a world where people have teeny tiny cameras and teeny tiny GPS sensors. Prices are falling for both RFID chips and RFID sensors. Hassler said the 1980s were shaped by personal computers, the 1990s were shaped by the Internet. “The next 20 years will be the era of sensor networks.”
Technology and other entities have typically followed a top-down, hierarchal structure. This is changing in many areas. For example, in the power industry, electrical power had always been delivered from the power source. We now have the capability for consumers to generate power during low-use periods and feed it back to the power plant for use by another consumer. Hassler saw this in the library profession as well, where users can have more of a role in library service.
What happens when these three areas converge. Hassler’s response is Google Maps, (powered by computers with large bandwidth, using satellite technology (Sensor Nation), on a distributed network.) But Hassler sees much more significant results as these three areas become bigger and seesmore convergence.
A note on Google: Hassler says Google’s search is very fast, very great. But it’s also very crude. They’re bringing audio and video into the search, “but it’s not like bringing a human being in” (hmm….like a super information-seeking librarian?) Hassler says, “When our technology starts to mimic our own abilities, we expect it to do more. ..Technologies are like extensions of ourselves, but we get disappointed when they don’t live up to our expectations.”
Hassler talked about a OptIPuter project out of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technlogy where scientists are using an enormous optical network and software that allows users to to look at multiple streams of video content in real-time to watch real-time video with absolutely no degradation (think of the jerky video you see when you’re streaming on YouTube.) I won’t go into too much detail here other than to mention that although this all seems like very high level stuff with no relevance to the ordinary user, Hassler noted that the Internet started out this way. Hollywood has been very interested in this technology as a way to delivery movies over the Internet, and this is something that can plausibly be available in households in the future.
Hassler did discuss some issues for libraries to consider amidst all this technology:
- What does it mean to be literate? It no longer means just being able to read and write. How can libraries help people become literate?
- Libraries need to think about archiving digital content. Will an academic library archive every podcast created by the class of 2007?
- Physical libraries will still have a role in building social networks.
The discussion following this presentation was very interesting. The question of cost – who will pay for all of this? Hassler says it will most likely be private industry that will see a value in making this happen. Will the data collected by private industry with this technology make it worthwhile?
A comment was made that it may increase the divide between the haves and the have nots. Hassler’s response – maybe, maybe not. She didn’t see the cost lying in the devices, but in the bandwidth. With the growth of publicly available wireless networks, it may not be as much of an issue here. The $100 laptop project has sent computers to people in developing nations, but the problem there is they don’t have a telecommunications infrastructure that supports high bandwidth.
Hassler had talked briefly about the differences between digital natives (the generation that has grown up with computers) and digital immigrants (the rest of us) which led to a question about a younger generation of technology users who are looking for instant gratification and may not be fully considering the consequences of these decisions. In response, Hassler asks, “Are they less well educated? Are they less equipped to make plans? Or do they just make them in another way?”
An academic librarian said his concern is making technology relevant for students, and he doesn’t see that the current equipment in his library is supporting this. With the proper technology, he said, these students could be in digital group study instead of going to the library for group study. “I thought that as I walked through the exhibit hall,” Hassler said, noting that she was surprised there wasn’t more technology in the exhibits. “I thought where is all that stuff?”
I will attach Hassler’s PowerPoint to this post as soon as I get it.
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Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) August 09, 2011
The Mac operating systems has surpassed Linux in popularity as a development environment in North America according to the recently released Evans Data North American Development survey. Although Windows remains overwhelmingly the most popular operating system for development with over 80% of developers using it, Linux has slipped to third place with only 5.6 percent using it as their primary development platform, while 7.9 percent now use Mac OS.
"Apple has made tremendous strides in the last few years with innovative products and technologies," said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data Corp. "So it’s quite reasonable to see developers adopting the Mac and its OS as a development environment. Windows firmly remains king, but developers are obviously attracted to Apple’s devices, while at the same time Linux has lost some of its luster after years of only single digit adoption.”
Mac OS has not, however, displaced Linux as a development target. Still more than twice as many developers primarily target Linux as do Mac.
Other highlights from this comprehensive survey of over 400 professional software developers in North America, conducted June 2011 include:
The Evans Data North American Development survey is conducted bi-annually and is part of the Global Development Survey series. It explores a wide range of development topics including language and platform adoption, mobile development, cloud development, SOA, Database development and other technology adoption.
See complete Table of Contents for the latest edition here:
About Evans Data Corporation
Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans' syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.
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The Easterlin Paradox concerns whether we are happier and more contented as our living standards improve. In the mid 1970s Richard Easterlin drew attention to studies that showed that, although successive generations are usually more affluent that their parents or grandparents, people seemed to be no happier with their lives? It is an interesting paradox to study when you are writing about measuring economic welfare and the standard of living.
What is the Easterlin Paradox?
1) Within a society, rich people tend to be much happier than poor people.
2) But, rich societies tend not to be happier than poor societies (or not by much).
3) As countries get richer, they do not get happier.
Easterlin argued that life satisfaction does rise with average incomes but only up to a point. Beyond that the marginal gain in happiness declines.
Easterlin and others including Professor Richard Layard and Daniel Kahneman have spawned a huge amount of research into the economics of happiness and well-being.
One of Easterlin’s conclusions was that relative income can weigh heavily on people’s minds.
Faced with this choice what would you rather have?
You get £5,000 and a friend gets £3,000
You get £10,000 and a friend gets £15,000
Economists such as Justin Wolfers have challenged the Easterlin Paradox - see this recent article:
There is a continuous debate about whether we can actually get accurate and reasonably objective measures of our well-being. Clearly income is just one of many factors that influences how satisfied we are with our lives.
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According to the New York Times, Google has been expressing concerns about the fact that Internet Explorer 7’s search box will ship with Microsoft’s MSN Search as the default search engine:
Google, which only recently began beefing up its lobbying efforts in Washington, says it expressed concerns about competition in the Web search business in recent talks with the Justice Department and the European Commission, both of which have brought previous antitrust actions against Microsoft.
The new browser includes a search box in the upper-right corner that is typically set up to send users to Microsoft’s MSN search service. Google contends that this puts Microsoft in a position to unfairly grab Web traffic and advertising dollars from its competitors.
The move, Google claims, limits consumer choice and is reminiscent of the tactics that got Microsoft into antitrust trouble in the late 1990′s.
“The market favors open choice for search, and companies should compete for users based on the quality of their search services,” said Marissa Mayer, the vice president for search products at Google. “We don’t think it’s right for Microsoft to just set the default to MSN. We believe users should choose.”
Many view Google’s position as hypocritical, given that Firefox, Safari and Opera browsers feature Google as the search engine. Here is Nathan Weinberg’s take:
I hate to say it, but there a few more hypocritical positions Google could take. Google very prominently pays a lot of money to be the default search engine in both Firefox and Opera, so what right does it have to complain if Microsoft intends to do the very same thing?
Microsoft didn’t invent the idea of putting a search box in the upper right hand corner of a web browser, but some of the people who did now work at Google. Google isn’t exactly demanding that Firefox offer up Yahoo search as the default, and if it wants Microsoft to give up its position, it’ll have to give up the Firefox search box as well. And that will never happen.
Others disagree, pushing more of a David v. Golliath argument:
Google has a 50% market share in search, and unlike Microsoft, Google does realize a fiduciary responsibility to their users. Google doesn’t use their dominance in search to put Google’s interests ahead of their users. Google doesn’t only feature Google properties, or invisibly direct users to Google partners, or bias search results to harm competitors. It’s certainly in their power to do so, but they choose not to because that would be lowercase ‘e’ evil.
Unfortunately, Google’s actions aren’t necessarily as benign as this argument hopes. Consider their their deal to pay Dell $1 billion to pre-install Google Toolbar on all their machines, pushing Google products onto users, enabling further penetration of their various personal data-gathering tools. What about the fact that Google’s homepage now features a plug for Firefox if you visit using Internet Explorer? That seems to quality as an act meant to “harm competitors.”
Finally, almost all of Google’s recent actions point to the fact they want to become just as dominant as Microsoft, ultimately eliminating the very need for an operating system in order to experience the web and be productive: Google has lauched e-mail, chat, RSS, and calendar applications. They aggregate news and financial information as well as provide image and mapping services. They’re working on providing database and financial services to users, and even web-based word processing. All these applications tied to the Google name, featuring a Google search bar and Google advertising. All linked witih the same Google cookie to facilitate the collection of user information.
And Google wants us to consider Microsoft evil for defaulting their OS to MSN Search? Don’t be hypocritical, Google.
UPDATE: Nicholas Carr adds his analysis:
But what’s the most powerful and influential default setting in the search world today? It’s not – at least yet – in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. It’s on Google’s home page. I would guess that a strong plurality, if not a majority, of web searches are done through Google’s home page, at least in the United States. As “Google” has become synonymous with “search,” people head to its home page as much out of habit as anything else. It is, quite simply, where you go to search the web. But Google doesn’t give you any choices when you arrive at its home page. There’s a default engine – Google’s – and it’s a default that you can’t change. There’s no choice.
If Google wants to fully live up to its ideals – to really give primacy to the goal of user choice in search – it should open up its home page to other search engines. That would be easy to do without mucking up the page or the “user experience.” You could just add a simple drop down menu that would allow users to choose whether to do a search with Google’s engine, or Microsoft’s, or Yahoo’s, or one of the other, less-well-known engines that now exist. The result would be that users get more choice as well as fuller access to the wealth of information on the web (another of Google’s goals). By enabling broader competition in search, right at the point of user access, Google would also promote innovation in search technology, again benefiting the user.
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HOW ARE YOUR VEGGIES COMING ALONG? Any troubles to report? My own kitchen garden, above, is at the “better pick me now” stage. Here’s what I’m pulling, picking, or snipping as the summer of 2012 draws to a close:
In case you’re wondering, I grow all of my onions from seed, not “sets.” Sets have never produced decent harvests for me.
On Sunday, I pulled 67 red onions. Reds are delicious for raw eating on hamburgers and in salads. They are great for winter-storage, too. How I harvest, cure, and store onions.
…or from green to yellow, depending on variety. When your peppers achieve the color you want, by all means harvest them immediately. Otherwise they can quickly rot on the plant. I saute and then freeze my peppers as a colorful, nutritious condiment called “Piperade.”
Strictly for your benefit, I reached into a bed and retrieved 3 ‘Blue’ potatoes. Other varieties in the same bed are ‘Red Norland,’ ‘Kenebec,’ and ‘Yukon Gold.’ Although potatoes can be harvested anytime after the foliage withers away, my own policy is to keep them in-ground until October. That’s when my cellar is cool enough to accommodate the tubers. How I plant, grow, harvest and store potatoes.
I harvested ‘Nutri-Bud’ broccoli back in mid-July. The heads of this heirloom variety were enormous. Now, as you can see, the side-shoots are producing a second crop. These smaller heads are still quite large.
On other tall, wooden trellises are tomatoes. They seem to enjoy these structures far better than cages. My policy is to pick the fruit while it is still green and blemish-free, and let it ripen indoors. One tri-pod trellis accommodates red, yellow, and white cherry tomatoes; another supports 3 heirloom varieties — ‘Cherokee Purple,’ ‘San Marzano’ (marvelous for sauce), and ‘Rose.’ I hope you’ll talk about your own tomatoes in the comments field below.
Sandwiched between ‘Ace’ bell peppers and the cucumber vines are 3 plants of ‘Red Russian’ kale. These have grown almost too well. I harvest the leaves weekly, and then either freeze them or saute them in vermouth (vermouth removes the bitterness from the leaves).
Here in zone 5-b, kale can produce well into December. The plants are not bothered by the occasional hard frost. It is only after temperatures remain consistently below 40 degrees for several weeks that the plants finally give up.
When you are in my Kitchen Garden, you can look down and see the small Herb Garden that grows between the Music Room wing and North Wing of my house. There are more veggies in that garden, too. But let’s save these for another time, okay?
Meanwhile, tell me about your own veggie patch. What are you harvesting these last days of summer? Or has high-heat and drought put the kibosh on your crops?
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Commentary & Opinion
Wed April 25, 2012
Herbert London: From Religious Fragmentation to National Unity
Writing in the New York Times (4/8/12) Ross Douthat argues “that religious common ground has all but disappeared.” The existence of a Judeo Christian center that helped bind the teeming nation together is in retreat, he claims. In a nation as divided as ours, religious polarization is inescapable as the race to the presidency has already suggested.
The fear about radical secularism, on one hand, drivingany aspect of religion out of the public square, and the specter of theocracy haunting the precincts of the liberal left, are offset by churches that are institutionally weak and fragmented. Americans do not separate religion from politics, but they are sensitive to the manner in which they are combined.
As I see it, notwithstanding the Douthat thesis that fragmentation characterizes the religious landscape, there is hope for a strategic alliance, a way for religions to embrace a common theme. The United States owes its origin and unique institutional qualities to religion, to the Judeo Christian tradition.
John Winthrop compared those seeking to avoid English religious prosecution in their pursuit of the New World with the exodus of Jews from Pharaoh’s Egypt. Thomas Jefferson’s reference to the phrase “all men are created equal” comes from the Book of Genesis. The separation of powers in the Constitution is based on the Augustinian supposition that evil and avarice must be countered with institutional checks and balances.
The Federalist Papers, written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay are filled with direct and indirect references to Original Sin including the belief that “if men were angels” institutional sanctions would be unnecessary. The founding of the new nation was seen through a belief in God’s will. Illustrations of the political motives and religious ideas abound.
For secularists to deny these antecedents undermines the unique history of the United States. We the people are religious to our historical core and those who want to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance or deny religiosity in our public events eviscerate the national heritage.
It seems to me American history transcends the present fragmentation to which Mr. Douthat accurately refers. Most significantly, this reliance on the religious ideas that led to the birth of the Union could serve to unify our diverse population. The key would be an effort to educate Americans about their religious past, specifically the biblical ideals that helped to formulate the idiosyncratic system of government we have.
Our Declaration of Independence refers to God-given inalienable rights. Presumably since they are God-given, they cannot be removed by governments or those intent on dictatorial authority. Students may read the words in the Declaration, but do they understand and imbibe the lesson?
That is our challenge, to educate Americans about this civic dimension of religious ideas. A foundation for freedom and democracy can be found in our history and in the desire for unity, for the indivisible nation, Lincoln fought to create. Our historical past can be harnessed as a vehicle for coming together through an understanding of our religious heritage. Yes, we are divided now in part because our history is like a forgotten dream, but that might change if we can recall the gifts that God gave the new nation.
Herbert Londonis president emeritus of Hudson Institute and author of the book Decline and Revival in Higher Education (Transaction Books).
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The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), a Canadian non-profit organization specializing in utility law and regulation released a study today that suggests that the restructuring of the electricity industry in Canada may create results which disproportionately burden low-income customers. Michael Janigan, Executive Director and General Counsel of PIAC and co-author of the study stated,
” While it is difficult to predict outcomes based upon the current experience with restructuring in the electricity industry in other jurisdictions, there is reason to believe that small volume customers will suffer a detrimental impact as a result of electricity restructuring.”
Several provinces, including Alberta and Ontario have moved towards the creation of a competitive retail market for electricity. Others including New Brunswick are committed to studying the prospect.
The PIAC report Keeping The Lights On: Maintaining Universal Access To Electricity looks at possible policy solutions for financial hardship to low-income consumers. The report surveys various programs that have been put in place by US jurisdictions to deal with problems in maintaining utility access, but does not recommend an immediate move to US style programs.
“Prolonged and sustained electricity increases as a result of restructuring would be a likely result of poor market design,” Janigan said. “This shouldn’t be fixed by subsidizing low-income customers but by fixing the market design.”
Conversely, the report concludes that the problem of short-term electricity price spikes may justify the implementation of a program to mitigate the impact of such price increases.
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre provides legal representation, research, and advocacy services on behalf of consumers, particularly vulnerable consumers of important public services.
A hard copy of the report may be obtained at a cost of $8.00.
To order your copy today please contact the Public Interest Advocacy Centre
(613) 562-4002 ext. 60(phone)(613) 562-0007 (fax) or by e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org
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In 2006, Simone Chisena asked to identify the font used on a scanned two-page spread from a 1970s Italian gardening book. The face turned out to be the American metal type classic Ronaldson Old Style, a MacKellar, Smith & Jordan metal face dating back to 1884. Ronaldson Old Style was never digitized up until that point. A conversation about it started, and the rest was a great 22-month adventure in type history, the result of which is this digital version of what was the best selling and most unique American text face of the nineteenth century, all the way into the 1920s.
The metal Ronaldson was the magnum opus of Alexander Kay, a first generation Scottish-American expert punchcutter. His expertise at cutting roman faces was world-renown. This expertise is quite evident in Ronaldson Old Style’s confident serifs, which loom from the T like an eagle’s wings, and point out of the C, E, F, G, L, S and Z like the proverbial thorns on a rose. Only a master handcutter would be able to include such ornamental traits in a typeface yet still succeed in creating such a cleanly readable face. The popularity of Ronaldson Old Style around the turn of the century can still be seen in new editions of novels from that era.
This digital version of Ronaldson revisits the original sizes, where some of the letter forms varied considerably from one size to another, with a more technologically current, scalable type approach. The forms that were originally cut in display sizes are included in this digital version as alternates. The metal Ronaldson was only a roman style in different sizes. There was a sloped (oblique) version that was mostly deemed unworthy of being a counterpart to the roman, so there were plenty of instances were other old style italics were used with it instead. But even in those instances, the italic always seemed loose and clunky compared to the attractive color and evenness of the roman. In this digital version, a brand new italic was made, as well as a bold weight. Roman and bold small caps were also added, along with oldstyle, tabular, superior and inferior figures, and fractions of both the vulgar and nut varieties. Then plenty of ligatures and extra alternates were added.
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After eight long years of internment at the United States’ Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, the so-called Gitmo prison, Omar Khadr’s military trial is scheduled to resume on October 18, 2010. This comes nearly two months after his trial was suspended on August 13—the first day of arguments.
There is no more room for delays. Since being interned at Guantánamo, Khadr has faced delays after delays, he has fired his lawyers and has seen his trial postponed while the Obama Administration reviewed the functioning of military commissions. Then, on the first day of Khadr’s trial, his freshly-appointed military lawyer, Army Lt.-Col. Jon Jackson collapsed in the courtroom, and was air-lifted from the base to the United States for medical treatment. It is thought his malaise might be linked to a previous gallbladder surgery.
On top of that, Khadr has turned down a plea bargain, which would have limited his prison term to five years instead of the 30 years he faces.
Either way, the trial is off to a bad start
The military judge presiding over the 23-year-old Canadian citizen’s trial, Army Col. Pat Parrish, ruled that evidence obtained through interrogations while Khadr was 15 years old was admissible. His lawyers maintained those confessions were extracted under duress and torture. The Supreme Court of Canada, Canada’s highest court, had reached the same conclusion in its January ruling but stopped short of ordering Canada to ask for Khadr’s repatriation to Canada.
“The whole thing was a disgrace in terms of the rule of law,” says Allan Hutchinson from the University of Toronto’s prestigious Osgoode Hall.
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Google grows Knowledge Graph, improves voice search and adds personal search results (video)
The latest round of improvements to Google’s services is what the search giant sees as baby steps towards building the ‘search engine of the future’. Judging by this, the future of search will involve a deeper understanding of user queries, be they entered by text or spoken out loud, and ‘personal results’ coming from user accounts.
With Apple's voice search feature Siri taking a lot of credit for a job Google does fairly well already, the search giant has decided to improve speech recognition on its own voice search feature so it can better understand users’ natural language and talk back to them. The updated service, which is already available on Android and coming soon to iOS, will now give users a spoken response to a direct question and results have been improved thanks to the Knowledge Graph.
Spread of knowledge
Yes, the Knowledge Graph: a big improvement to Google’s search results introduced to US users in May. This service is now being rolled out to every English-speaking country, offering at-a-glance fact sheets with key information alongside search results.
The spread of the Knowledge Graph also comes with improvements to the service. To help users better define ambiguous terms in search, suggested terms will now offer different meanings for a search term (say ‘Rio’, which could be a city, a hotel or an animated film released last year) powered by the Knowledge Graph.
The Knowledge Graph will also help Google to collate lists of answers for searches where the query refers to a collection of sorts. These lists or collections will appear as a carousel of results across the top of the page. If the query is subjective, such as ‘things to do in Paris’ or ‘best films from 2008’, answers are based on what is frequently mentioned and currently being discussed online.
Google is also starting a trial where users can sign up to retrieve search results from their Gmail accounts directly from the Google search box. These results will appear to the right of web results on the page in an expandable box.
This function is still in development with Google intending further enhancements, such as searching for ‘my flights’ and seeing a neatly arranged itinerary of any upcoming travels logged in your email.
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“ Any single book on this subject can only be an introduction, but what an introduction this is! The book is very generously illustrated with his own works, plus those of many of his favourite past masters. These images fully justify their place by showing us what it is possible to achieve, especially from the imagination, by those who are willing to go beyond a simplistic approach to ‘colour theory.’
“...I'm quite certain that Color and Light will mark the beginning of the end for the simplistic approach to color that still predominates in art teaching. If you are an art or design student, get this book, study it, and then pester your teachers ceaselessly until THEY study it.”
David Briggs is none other than the mastermind behind the website “Dimensions of Color.” It’s one of the best resources on light and color on the Internet. I owe much of what I’ve learned on the topic to Mr. Briggs. For example, check out his analysis of "The Basics of Light and Shade/ Specular and Diffuse Reflection."
Along with his review of the book on a Concept Art forum, Mr. Briggs also offers a long list of links to free PDF versions of the out-of-print books listed in my bibliography.
David Briggs Color and Light review on ConceptArt
The Dimensions of Color (huevaluechroma.com)
Color and Light on Amazon internationally: USA | CA | UK | FR | DE | JP
Color and Light signed (and doodled in) by me, from the Dinotopia Store
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Most people who go into veterinary medicine do it because they love animals. They don't just love them in the abstract; they love holding them, staring into their eyes, and, apparently, pulling back their lips and gazing deep into their mouths.
But consider this: Who helps more animals, and who helps animals more, the hands-on veterinarian in private practice, or the researcher who rarely sees a patient? Given the incredible advances in veterinary science in recent years, including new diagnostic tests, surgeries, and other therapies, there's no question that it's the second.
For those veterinarians who want to combine the stethoscope and the microscope, a new program may be just what's needed to address a critical shortage of animal health scientists:
A new program—the Pfizer Animal Health–Morris Animal Foundation (MAF) Veterinary Fellowship for Advanced Study—gives current practitioners necessary financial support while they pursue a veterinary research career. The program commits a minimum of nearly $1.7 million over four years toward a solution to the growing need for trained veterinary scientists.
“Many practicing veterinarians may wish to become veterinary scientists but can’t continue their educational journey due to financial constraints, such as high student debt,” said David Haworth, DVM, PhD, director, global alliances for Pfizer Animal Health. “The Pfizer Animal Health–MAF fellowships help these professionals pursue a new career path and provide a unique solution to the critical need for more veterinary scientists.”
Check out the release here, and kudos to Morris Animal Foundation for getting this up on their site before sending it to the media. You wouldn't believe how many organizations don't do that!
Speaking of good reading, Dr. Patty Khuly's on fire over at Dolittler, raging against the machine that is the AVMA and its ethically and scientifically bankrupt position on antibiotic use in confinement-based industrial agriculture and why, yes, that was some loaded language I just used. As if you no one here knows how I feel on the subject.
Dr. Patty also quotes two of my favorite people, Gina and veterinarian Susan Wynn. You go, Patty! Now you all, go read!
And if that's not enough, in other news:
PetPAC founder Bill Hemby is in some hot water with the state attorney general's office over some questionable fundraising practices at a law enforcement non-profit organization, his hometown newspaper reports.
From PeoplePets.com, news that Chanel, the Wirehaired Dachshund who held the Guinness record as oldest dog, has died at the age of 21:
Earlier this year, the dog's owners, Karl and Denice Shaughnessy of Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., said that the canine, who wore sunglasses for cataracts but was otherwise in good health, still had plenty of pep.
"We were saddened to learn of Chanel's passing on Friday evening," Marco Giannini, founder and chief executive officer of Dogswell told PEOPLE Pets in a statement. "Our team at Dogswell had built a great bond with Chanel, as well as her owners, who show great love and care for their pets. We were thankful to have had some part in making Chanel’s life a little more comfortable and enjoyable. As the World's Oldest Dog, Chanel touched many lives and inspired pet owners around the globe. She will be missed."
Condolences to her owners on their loss.
And Nathan Winograd interviews UCLA law professor Taimie L. Bryant about the fate of animals now that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has suspended some provisions of the Hayden Act, which extended the period of time the state's shelters had to hold stray animals; that time period has now been dropped to just 72 hours as a cost-cutting measure. Bryant was one of the chief drafters of the law.
And here's some news worth sharing: The longest-term resident at the Portland Humane Society is a black and white kitty named Sporty Spot. The organization has launched an all-out social media blitz trying to get him a new home. He's FIV+ but in good health... and if you want two, a second FIV+ cat comes with him at no cost. Even if you can't give him a home, share his story with anyone you know who might!
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This is one of my favorite – fairly clean – jokes that I’ve had in my little joke arsenal since I was a pre-teen:
In Arizona, there is a ranch where people come from all over the world to play charades. Why? Because the game of charades there is serious. If you guess right, you win a million dollars. So brilliant people, scientists, and Mensa members come from all over to figure out what the charade is so they can fund their projects and lifestyles.
Before hundreds of the most brilliant people in the world, a man positions 7 women, all naked, lined up in a row across the stage. They stand there, doing nothing, facing back, front, back, front, back, back, and back.
The miracle minds guess and guess and no one has an answer. Time goes by and still no answers.
The door at the back of the theater opens and a drunk from the bar stumbles in. He takes one good look at the naked women on the stage and cried out, “The Lone Ranger!”
Afterward, everyone crowds around him and asks how he could know the answer to this most complex puzzle. One which all these brilliant minds could not figure out.
He says, with a belch, “It was easy. Rump, titty, rump, titty, rump, rump, rump!”
Now, if you are a US citizen, born before 1990, the odds are that you got this immediately and are probably still giggling. Just a little. Or groaning.
However, if you were born more recently, or not a US citizen, the odds are you have no idea what I’m talking about and are still trying to figure out the joke.
While living in the Middle East, a friend of mine wanted to practice telling jokes, since, truth be told, she couldn’t tell a joke without cracking up in the middle of it, or screwing it up at the end. This is a no fail joke. So I told it to her. She went into hysterical laughter. For a few seconds I laughed with her, and then realized that her laughter was the kind of laugh you laugh when you are supposed to laugh. Not when you are really laughing.
I realized that growing up in the Middle East, where television didn’t arrive until the 1970s, and even then, there were only a couple channels until the late 1990s, the chances of her growing up watching the original or even re-runs of The Lone Ranger, screaming “Hi-Oh, Silver!” and riding an imaginary horse with friends and school mates, were rather slim. In fact, they were none.
The Lone Ranger, famous black and white adventure of the “good guy”, with the white horse and white hat, a cowboy western, fought against the “bad guys”, with black horses and black hats, to “fight for the day and let right prevail”, wasn’t part of their culture. A lot of American television gets exported, often dubbed in with foreign language voice-overs (In Spain, I saw a John Wayne movie where he sounded like a 15 year old squealing girl.), but not all. The Lone Ranger just didn’t make it to the Middle East.
Not much later, I was joking with my neighbor and heard myself making a joke about Ovadia Yosef. I cracked myself up so hard, I almost fell down the stairs. I realized I’d been in the country too long if I could make a Ovadia Yosef joke. He is a heavily bearded, radical Orthodox rabbi who thinks he’s the spiritual soul of Israel. His Hebrew is so bad, he actually has a Hebrew translator for his popular radio show. When he’s talking on television, they sometimes use subtitles. He makes great public political and relgious statements, and many just shake their heads and consider the source. To combine Israel and American humor, I’d say that he is kinda like the Pat Robertson of Israel.
But trust me, no one outside of Israel would get the joke.
Blog for Your Cultural Recognition
Have you ever tried to explain American baseball to a Russian? Or anyone who has no familiarity with baseball? I did and it was a nightmare. Americans, even those who don’t understand the game at all, use baseball terminology as part of our daily dialog.
“So, did you get to third base last night?” “Oh, gees, I struck out again.” “You know the law. Three strikes, you’re out.” “Hey, take a walk.” “Well, that came out of left field.” “It was a home run, baby!” “It was a line drive I didn’t see coming at me.”
Just like Ovadia Yosef, baseball, and the Lone Ranger, these are cultural icons and expressions people within their own culture and society instantly recognize. On a post recently, I commented “Houston, we have a problem.” How many of you recognized the reference? These icons and catch phrases are part of our daily life. They are so ingrained, we think nothing of them. Our reading audience might.
As you write on your blog, do you think about the words and phrases you use, ones you normally say when talking to friends and family? Do you think about how they might be interpreted by people who don’t know what you are talking about?
In a taxi in Israel driving through the mad house traffic in Tel Aviv, I was speaking to the driver who spoke fluent English. Suddenly, some wacko cut right across us and the taxi driver slammed on the brakes. Without thinking, I said, “What a maniac!” The taxi driver wheeled around in his seat and wagged his finger at me with a warning to NEVER use that word in Israel again. “What word?” It took a while for him to let me know that the worst thing I could ever call anyone was “maniac”. To this day, I still don’t know what it means, but it is a “bad word” there. They don’t have problems with saying the English “f” and “s” words between every third word, but “maniac” is totally out. In fact, I’m probably in trouble right now!
That’s a pretty specific reference, but I want you to think about how you use fad phrases and references that could be misunderstood in your blog writing. It’s important for most bloggers to be understood by their audience. You don’t want to talk above them or beneath them, but to them. Therefore, you want to be understood, on all levels.
Keep an eye out for colloquial phrases and asides that don’t add to your blog writing. The occasional pop culture reference won’t hurt, and adds color, just be conscious of it. Consider the phrase and how you use it. If it helps, leave it. If it doesn’t, consider taking it out or changing it to something less society specific.
If you are writing for a very specific audience, be it a specific age or generation, or society, then definitely use terms and phrases they will recognize. It’s part of the appeal.
Growing up in Washington State, I recently overheard someone saying they went to school at the “U-Dub”. I rushed over and said, “Me, too!” Instant connection. “U-Dub” is a term heard all over Washington State, immediate recognizable as the abbreviation for University of Washington, but unknown to people outside of the area.
Identifiable cultural colloquialisms connect people. They can be critical to your blog’s success if it serves your audience and their expectations.
Have you had a situation where someone misunderstood what you were blogging about because of a cultural expression or phrase? Do you think about the expressions you use when you write and if they will be recognized by your audience?
Oh, for those still shaking their heads over the Lone Ranger answer to the charade, the theme music for the Lone Ranger, and the music used to represent the charge of the hero to the rescue, was the 1812 Overture by Gioachino Rossini. That probably would have also been the right answer to the charade puzzle.
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Feb 25, 2009 (12:02 PM EST)
Coghead Failure Highlights Risks Of Cloud Computing
Read the Original Article at InformationWeek
Govind Davis, a Coghead customer, didn't see its sudden closing coming. Enticed by the cloud computing vendor's low-cost service, Davis built some of his customers' applications using Coghead's online database. Now his company, MCF Technology, has nine weeks to extract data from Coghead and build new applications for it, some of which will run on Intuit's QuickBase, also in the cloud.
Davis is still a huge proponent of cloud computing -- but a wiser one. "We'll be a little more wary with startups, as we realize the risk of going with one can be real," Davis said.
On Tuesday, a few days after Coghead said it was shutting down, a more widely known cloud vendor -- Google -- had a brief outage of its Gmail service because of a data center problem. Undaunted, Google announced that same day that it will start charging for Google App Engine, its Web-based application platform (or platform as a service).
No one should expect cloud computing to be infallible; software and servers never are, no matter where they reside. But Coghead's closure lends sobriety to the excitement surrounding cloud computing, which has attracted entrepreneurs big and small and fueled a new wave of venture capital in recent years.
Coghead's sudden closure also highlights the biggest gotcha of a platform as a service, software as a service, or anything else in the cloud genre: The vendor controls the systems and software. Coghead has told its customers their data needs to be out of its systems by April 30. If a traditional software vendor suddenly went belly up, at least its customers wouldn't face the pressure of a nine-week timeframe to find new software.
Choosing a stable vendor can reduce some of the risks of cloud computing. But even Google acknowledges that the migration path off the Google App Engine, should its customers want one, needs some work. "This is an issue, and we know it's not as easy as it should be," said product manager Pete Koomen.
Google offers an open source data-uploading tool, and to ease migration, will soon offer an open source downloading tool, Koomen said. Google supports the Python-based Django Web development platform, and if customers write their apps to conform with it, data portability is going to be the easiest, he added. Data portability "is something the team is very interested in and will make a lot of progress on going forward," Koomen said.
With Google's first-time payment structure for the previously free-with-quotas Google App Engine, customers pay 10 cents per CPU core hour, 10 cents per gigabyte of traffic in, 12 cents per gigabyte of traffic out, 15 cents per gigabyte of data stored per month, and $1 per 10,000 e-mails sent.
It's that type of low-cost payment structure that attracted Davis to Coghead. He's been an Intuit QuickBase customer for a while and still is, but Coghead was a little cheaper, starting at about $10 a month per seat.
"There's all kinds of reasons why a platform as a service is valuable, and that doesn't change because Coghead fell apart," Davis said. "If people want a low-cost way to deploy apps all over the world, then a Web-based database is the absolute best choice."
QuickBase accounted for just a portion of Intuit's $3.1 billion in revenue last year, but the company has customers big and small for it, said Intuit VP Bill Lucchini, including Affinity Health Care, with 15,000 seats, and another large company, with 50,000 seats. When it comes to SaaS, PaaS, or anything related, "a proven vendor is your first line of defense here," reasoned Lucchini. "You must choose vendors that are stable."
If a customer wanted to move its data from QuickBase to something else, Lucchini said, they can use QuickBase Desktop, which he described as providing a Microsoft Access replica of a customer's data. Some customers currently use it for backup or to work offline; it synchronizes with QuickBase when back online, he said.
The promise of cloud computing has launched many PaaS startups: Caspio, LongJump, TeamDesk, Wolf Frameworks, and PerfectForms are among them. It would be unfair to link them to Coghead just because they're startups, as some of them may grow into huge success stories. Still, others will not. And with any cloud computing effort, it's up to users to have an emergency exit strategy in place. Just in case.
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Located in the Horsham district of West Sussex is the gorgeous, tranquil village of Amberley. With neighbours such as Storrington and Arundel, the village has excellent transport links, including rail transportation.
The village is perhaps best-known for its rich heritage and the Amberley Museum, which features frequent exhibitions on the town’s history, railway history and the chalk quarry that was once situated within the town. Amberley Museum was used as a location in the James Bond film “A View to a Kill” and features an open air museum space.
Also nearby is the Amberley Wild Brooks, a glorious wetland credited as a site of Special Scientific Interest, featuring an amazing array of wildfowl and invertebrates. Amberley hosts a working pottery and a ceramics designer, both amazingly interesting things to see, and the summer months play host to a vast range of British traditions and attractions, including a fun Morris Dancing display.
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, Near Arundel, West Sussex BN18 9LT (01798) 831370
Covering 36 acres, the Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre is a veritable treasure trove of vintage transport and industrial collections.
Exhibitions include traditional craftspeople such as potters, blacksmiths, broom makers and foundry men. There are a variety of other displays ranging from road making, architecture and printing. Regular car rallies and fun days are held throughout the year. Facilities include a 200-seat restaurant.
Green Wood Worker, Greenwood Village, Amberley, West Sussex (07910) 126 679
Demonstrating a raft of traditional woodcrafts, including polelathe, shave horse work and gate hurdle making; Green Wood Worker aims to preserve this dying art.
A number of traditional woodworking courses are also available. These range from taster courses, where students are able to learn to turn and produce an item; to three-day starter courses. Check first for availability!
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Here's the essay:
lack of experience actually USING GRAMMAR they’ve learned in order to PROCESS MEANING.
I've been thinking about this since I read it here. I had the reverse experience the other day, when I discovered that a "high level" class (they scored well on the proficiency test at the beginning of the year, they regularly get high scores in the weekly vocab quizzes I give) were quite unable to a) read an understand the comprehension questions (in English) on a short piece of written English. The questions were simply asking them to identify certain key concepts and topics in the text, but many seemed unable to understand what they were supposed to do.
The problem seemed to be the meta language of the instructions; yet the language does not seem particularly difficult to me: Look at the article again. Find these things. Then compare with a partner. 1) an interesting topic of conversation 2) an example of an information question 3) a question to show you're interested in the other person... (The text is Touchstone 2, CUP).
It was then I realized I usually explain textbook tasks in Japanese. That day, I did not. Why do I usually explain in Japanese? Because I sense that they will not be able to suss out the instructions on their own, perhaps?
In some classes, students express a desire to talk to me. In many classes, students seem to expect that this is what the class is for: it will give them an opportunity to interact personally (one-to-one) with me, the "furner". When I first started teaching in Japa, I did this a lot, but not so much recently. It got old: students may (or may not, it varies) actually want to talk to you, but what became clear was that many of them were quite incapable of making themselves understood even in broken English; of those that could, fewer actually had something to say.
"First, you prepare something to say. When you're ready, come back." I did that for a while, but although a few in most classes are ready and willing, most need more practice first, so I slowly abandoned the "conversation class" and spent more time drilling (in fun ways) and generally having students practice using the language.
Perhaps a further couple of reasons I abandoned the "conversation corner", the "fireside chats with the foreigner" (do you get the feeling I'm a little uneasy with this?) are:
- my growing awareness of a belief among Japanese students of English that they can somehow learn English ONLY by being in the presence of an English-speaking foreigner - "English by osmosis" - and that practice (alone or with a Japanese partner), drills (both oral and written), learning vocab, are either irrelevant or can somehow be bypassed when you have a real, live, English-speaking (and preferably blond(e) and blue-eyed because we all know that those are the only real foreigners) "gaijin" to yourself, if even for a few minutes;
- a growing awareness of a patronising attitude (in some cases, open disdain) on the part of colleagues towards the "conversation" teachers: glancing references like "students are not going to progress much if they're just repeating 'hellomynameis' every day" (so that's what they think we're doing).
Something I should realize by now that has probably been sadly lacking in their experience of English language education.
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Marx's Grundrisse and Hegel's Logic by Hiroshi Uchida (1988)
As noted in the Preface to the present work, the Chapter on Money in Marx's Grundrisse corresponds to the Doctrine of Being in Hegel's Logic. However, at the beginning of the Chapter on Money we find the following paragraph, which is written with reference to Hegel's description of 'Identity, Difference, Opposition and Contradiction' at the beginning of the Doctrine of Essence. Marx writes:
The simple fact that the commodity exists doubly, in one aspect as a specific product whose natural form of determinate being [natürliche Dasein] ideally contains (latently contains) its exchange-value (money), in which all connection with the natural form of determinate being of the product is stripped away again - this double, differentiated existence [Existenz] must develop into a difference, and the difference into opposition and contradiction (N 147, M 81).
Why does Marx write in that way? He does so, because he is thinking in the following manner. The identity of a simple product with itself is differentiated into dual form: 1. the 'natural form of determinate being of the product' (in other words, use-value; in fact Marx refrains from using this term for a reason explained later), and 2. the 'form of exchange-value'. When the product is brought into an exchange-relation it becomes a commodity. When exchange-value, which the commodity-owner pursues, is further realised as money, the immanent difference between use-value and exchange-value becomes an external opposition between commodity and money. As we shall see later, this opposition will develop into a contradiction within money, and from money arises capital. Marx thus links the movement 'from product to commodity to money and on to capital' with the movement 'from identity to difference to opposition and on to contradiction', as Hegel writes in the transition from 'being' to 'essence'.
A commodity cannot simply exist as such, and so money is generated. From money arises capital. In the paragraph cited above, Marx obtains a theoretical perspective on this development. In other words, the product is explicitly defined as a commodity when it is the product of capital, or when capital posits or produces a product. Therefore the commodity is by nature commodity-capital. This means that the product is posited as a commodity through the capital-relation, into which the value-relation has transformed itself. If we inquire why the product exists as such, we must trace it back to capital. 'Positing reflection' at the beginning of the Doctrine of Essence is the determination which mediates 'being' and 'essence'. 'Determinate being' (Dasein) will be revealed as that which 'essence' (Wesen) has posited as 'ground' (Grund). It is the semblance of 'essence'.
Using this logic Marx connects the commodity with capital in this way. The commodity as 'determinate being' is in fact the product which capital has posited. Because the product becomes a commodity, the commodity gives rise to money, and money gives rise to capital. But now capital posits the product as a commodity. Therefore the product at the beginning of this analysis is de facto that which capital has posited.
For capital, the product as 'the simple' or 'the posited' is a result. The product is thus posited or reproduced at the end in order to become the next presupposition. Marx has obtained this perspective on the circular relationship of presupposition or 'the posited' from Hegel's 'positing reflection'.
Marx grasps the relation between the Chapter on Money and the Chapter on Capital in a similar way. The logical relation between presupposition as 'the simple' or the product, and 'the posited' as 'the complex' or capital, is already established in the Introduction to the Grundrisse. This is the logical phase of the logico-historical circulation through which what is historically posited is reproduced as the next presupposition in logic.
Marx uses this methodological perspective in the Chapter on Money. In that work he interprets Hegel's Doctrine of Being as the genesis of the value-consciousness shared amongst the bourgeoisie, in effect a phenomenology of the bourgeois spirit.
At the beginning of the Chapter on Money in the Grundrisse, Marx defines the commodity as follows:
The commodity is neither posited as constantly exchangeable, nor exchangeable with every other commodity in its natural properties; not in its natural likeness with itself, but as unlike itself, as something unlike itself, as exchange-value (N 142, M 77).
What is 'natural likeness' in the above quotation? Marx uses the word 'natural' as an antonym of 'social'. It means something that is free from social determinations, or free from the commodity-money relation. In other words, historical and social determinations are abstracted from 'natural' ones. Therefore the 'natural likeness' or 'natural properties' of the commodity means use-value or 'the product as such', which people obtain from nature through labour.
So long as the relations of the primitive community persist, human beings as natural force or natural form are directly united with nature itself or natural matter. When members of the community are dissociated into modern individuals, they relate to each other through the exchange of their products. Then the product is no longer a mere natural 'likeness' but becomes a commodity. The product as a commodity is not posited in its natural likeness to itself or as use-value, but as unlike itself or as exchange-value. Its use-value now changes into 'use-value for others', or social usevalue.
This two-fold determination of the product as a commodity is based on Hegel's 'pure reflection': 'Likeness is an Identity only of those things which are not the same, not identical with each other; and Unlikeness is a relation of things that are unlike (Shorter Logic §118).
Both likeness and unlikeness are defined, not in the sense that they are separated and indifferent to each other, but in the sense that they hold each other as their own indispensable element, connected in their own definition. Hegel continues:
In the case of difference, in short, we like to see identity, and in the case of identity we like to see difference. Within the range of the empirical sciences, however, the one of these two categories is often allowed to put the other out of sight and mind. Thus the scientific problem at one time is to reduce existing differences to identity; on another occasion, with equal one-sidedness, to discover new differences (Shorter Logic §118).
Marx does not try to discover a definition of identity without differences, nor one of differences without identity, but one in which both 'likeness' and 'unlikeness' are mutually mediated. He does this in his critique of political economy, one of the typical empirical sciences, by treating it as the self-recognition of bourgeois society. His critique of Hegel also limits the validity of the Logic to bourgeois society.
Marx considers in detail how exchange-value is generated and transformed:
I equate each of the commodities with a third ; i.e. unlike themselves. This third, which differs from them both [the two commodities in exchange], exists initially only in the head [of the commodity-owners], as a conception, since it expresses a relation; just as relations in general can only be thought, when they should be fixed, in distinction from the subjects who relate to each other (N 143, M 7 7 - 8).
By using Hegel's definition of 'likeness', i.e. the identity of what is not identical, Marx considers commodities on a new level. He calls their 'likeness' exchange-value.
What is exchange-value in reality? Marx thinks that it is the relation of private exchange, which is unconsciously separated from the subjects who form the relation. Exchange-value arises through the action of equating products as commodities. This can occur because of the presumption that an equivalent exchange-value originally exists in each commodity.
The use-value of a commodity for its owner is a non-use-value. Thinking of Adam Smith's explanations of exchange and division of labour in The wealth of nations, Marx writes as follows: 'Exchange and division of labour reciprocally condition one another. Since everybody works for himself but his product is nothing for him' (N 158, M 91). The commodity-owner brings his product to exchange. Use-value is non-use-value or 'nothing' for the commodity-owner, but it may be a use-value or 'being' for others. Each use-value is different, but in order to be exchanged, each must be equated to another through 'a third'. What is 'the third'? What really exists in the exchange-relation is the use-value of each commodity. Therefore 'the third' can only be another relation through which products with different use-values are linked. This relation exists only in the minds of persons. It is what is thought.
It is noteworthy that the relation of 'the third' comes to exist only when persons, who relate to each other, keep it in mind. However, they do not notice this mental action. Though they form the relation of commodity-exchangers, they presume that exchange-value exists originally in a commodity, without an awareness that exchange-value derives from an unconscious reflection of the real exchange-relation between their products. Exchange-value is a relation which is abstracted unawares from exchange and transformed into an immanent factor of the commodity itself. In that way the real exchange-relation is alienated as exchange-value from the exchangers and is materialised in the commodity.
In writing the sentences quoted above, Marx is surely remembering the following passage from Hegel:
Difference is 1. immediate difference, i.e. diversity. In diversity each of the different things is by itself what it is, and is indifferent to its relation to any other. This relation is therefore external to it. Because of the indifference of the diverse things to the difference between them, the difference falls outside them into a third, something comparable ( (Shorter Logic §117))
Hegel does not explain 'the third' any further, but Marx assumes that it is the value-consciousness of commodity-owners, which they unconsciously project on to their products and take to be an original feature of the commodity itself.
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NEW YORK (AP)-- A free diabetes-friendly cookbook is now available as part of an educational campaign called, "Take Diabetes to Heart."
The campaign is designed to raise awareness of the link between Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Actress Phylicia Rashad, best known for her work on "The Cosby Show," is the group's spokeswoman.
The cookbook, "Take Diabetes to Heart! Cookbook-Meals for People With Diabetes in 30 Minutes or Less," has more than 140 recipes as well as information about managing the disease.
It is available by calling 1-800-307-7113 or at http://www.takediabetestoheart.com.
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In which Hank talks about the smallest animals in the world in a variety of categorizes, moving from vertebrates to reptiles to amphibians to fish to birds to mammals to primates to dogs to horses to cats.
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NPF South Dakota was started in order to grow programs and services in the entire state of South Dakota.
“The National Parkinson Foundation South Dakota
is dedicated to improving quality of life for people
touched by Parkinson’s disease.”
The History of NPFSD
by Elaine Spader and Phyllis Newstrom (2006)
Nearly twenty-two years ago there was a book-lined and unusual, artifact-strewn room off the lobby of Sioux Valley Hospital (now Sanford USD Medical Center). It was to become the Center for Elder Health and Enrichment, staffed with two RN’s who had neurological and geriatric interests. This interesting room soon became a visiting hub for patients and their families, mostly those with chronic disabilities and with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The Parkinsonians visited most frequently, discussing symptoms and the possibility of organizing and creating a support group.
Willis Wibben arrived there nearly daily, laden with new ideas and hopes for bringing Parkinsonians together. He served as the spokesman to the hospital administration and also organized the quasi-support group of five by offering to fill the roles of president and treasurer. He also allowed his home to become a PD information center by holding support group gatherings and using his home telephone number as a source for any communication.
The Struthers Parkinson’s Center, well-known in Minneapolis, graciously extended support with finances and personnel during the early stages. That outstanding relationship has spanned the years, and has become stronger as the support group grew, and PASD continues to use their services.
In 1986 Reverend Marvin and Marilyn Schultz joined the small, struggling group, and Marilyn enthusiastically took over as president. Willis stayed on as treasurer as others dedicated themselves to positions as they were needed. It was about this time that the first Walkathon was held. It was small – only five walkers – and mostly to create awareness. No funds were raised, but all five walkers readily agreed that awareness at that time was more important than funds. Membership dues were $10, and they were voluntary. It was amazing that the small group was able to make so many things happen with no operating funds!
The group began looking into national organizations and researching the possibilities and benefits of joining one. About 1991 the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) began courting the group to encourage affiliation with them. The Minnesota Association had already joined, and late that same year South Dakota followed. About 1996, the Sanford support group disengaged from the APDA affiliation because of some internal issues within their organization. It was then decided to incorporate. Sanford USD Medical Center was very helpful with guidance and financial aid in establishing this status.
In 1996, the Parkinson’s Association of South Dakota (PASD) was incorporated as a non-profit organization in the State of South Dakota. During the summer of 1996, PASD diligently reviewed a variety of national organizations with which to affiliate. In the end, following the lead of Minnesota, PASD sought membership with the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF).
PASD continues a close relationship with NPF which supports the organization with current and encouraging information, education, and guidance to many channels through PD research. Together, PASD and NPF rely on each other to make things happen in the world of Parkinson disease.
For more information about PD, please call the National Parkinson Foundation Helpline at 1-800-4PD-INFO (473-4636) or e-mail email@example.com.
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HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN PASCO COUNTY
This page was last revised on June 8, 2013.
The first school was established here was called the Lang School, as the community was not yet known as Hudson. Benjamin Lee Blackburn (1852-1940) is said to have been the first teacher. According to Brenda Knowles, the Lang School was located where the Sea Pines subdivision is now.
Hernando County school board minutes of Oct. 1877 show Lang’s School with trustees W. M. Lang, W. G. Frierson, and D. J. Strange. No teacher or dates for the 1877-78 school term are listed, implying the school may not have operated that year. Charles William Malachi Lang (1837-1908) was an early settler in the Hudson area. According to Ash, a log schoolhouse was built on Lang’s property in 1881. His homestead is today in the golf course in the Sea Pines subdivision.
An 1878-79 list of Hernando County schools shows Lang’s school with trustees Wm. Lang, W. G. Frierson, and D. Fillman. The teacher is shown as James M. Neil.
An 1879-80 list of Hernando County schools shows B. L. Blackburn as the teacher.
An 1883-84 list of Hernando County schools shows the Hudson School with teacher J. S. Bryan and trustees William Lang, W. G. Frierson, and J. W. Hudson.
Henry Clay Bush (1857-1906), later a surveyor, is said to have been a teacher at the Lang School.
According to a newspaper article by Ralph Bellwood, the Lang School was named for the builder. According to Brenda Knowles, the Hays and Lang schools were the same school, and it was built with logs.
In a 1972 interview for West Pasco’s Heritage, Mrs. J. M. Mitchell recalled:
The first school I went to was in Hudson. It was called the Old Lang School, named for a family that lived nearby. I especially admired one lady teacher who lived in Brooksville and drove a horse and buggy to school every day. Another teacher, a man, I remember very well had a long white beard and when teaching wore it braided in one piece, tucked under his shirt, but on Sundays as he came galloping along on his horse to go to church his freshly washed beard would part in the center and blow in the wind on both sides of his face. It was a funny sight to see. We were graded by readers and no tests were ever given. Once a day we lined up at a long table built along the wall and practiced our Spencerian Penmanship. During the rest of the day we had to hold our books in our laps while sitting on wooden benches. Nothing was furnished by the county and we had to walk many miles a day to get to school.
According to an article by Julie J. Obenreder in West Pasco’s Heritage:
The school referred to by "Aunt Omie" was no doubt the one built by the settlers in 1881, east of the present Highway 19 on what was known as Fivay Road. There were ten pupils in the first session. The school was very primitive and uncomfortable for the children as compared with today’s standards. It had one room heated by an old iron stove using "pine knots" for fuel. These were easy to light and heated the room with amazing speed. Seats were fashioned from logs and a wide shelf was built around the wall of the building which was the long table referred to by "Aunt Omie" as the place to practice their writing skills.
According to The Story of Hudson, Florida (1973):
In 1881 a schoolhouse was built east of the present Highway 19. However, the school burned down a short time after it was completed and a new one had to be put up.
School board minutes of Sept. 5, 1887, show Hays School, no. 20. Trustees are Jesse Hay, C. Stevenson, and William Lang. [C. Stevenson was Constantine Stevenson, according to Brenda Knowles.]
School board minutes of Dec. 3, 1887, show Hudson School, no. 20, with a total enrollment of 30 and an average attendance of 9.
A deed shows that on Feb. 8, 1888, property in S23 T24 R16 was transferred for $1 to the School Board of Pasco County, consisting of G. W. Bearden, J. W. Higgins, M. Jones, Stephen Weeks, and W. B. Hay.
School board minutes of March 5, 1888, have: “A deed from the Cootie Improvement Company for two acres of land was presented, upon which is located the Hudson School house No. 20. As there are two small schools in this vicinity, near together, the Board is of the opinion that it would probably be best to consolidate the two. Supt. is instructed to inquire into the matter and report at next regular meeting,. and the Board withholds its acceptance of the deed for the present.”
Minutes of the school board meeting of Feb. 4, 1889, show that the school trustees had requested funds for a heating stove costing $4.50.
School board minutes of Aug. 8, 1889, show the teacher at school no. 20 was C. Stevenson.
County commission minutes of May 2, 1892, refer to a new schoolhouse in Hudson.
School board minutes of July 1, 1895, have: “On motion a public school was established for the present at Hudson with M. L. Mosely supervisor. Name Hudson School #31.”
School board minutes of Aug. 2, 1897, show the teacher at the Hudson school (no. 14) was Ella Goshorn.
School board minutes of Aug. 1, 1898, show the teacher was Kate Littell.
A roster of pupils for 1904-05 shows Mr. Lash was the teacher. [This could have been John Lash, age 30 in the 1910 census, born in Finland.]
School board minutes of July 3, 1905, show the principal was Katie Littell Riggins and the assistant was Bessie Miller.
A 1909 photograph shows Mr. and Mrs. Terrill as the teachers.
Minutes of 1912 show Winnifred Lee as a teacher, apparently at Hudson.
A directory for 1915-1916 shows D. Foster as the teacher with a Hernando Co. certificate.
At the school board meeting of July 3-5, 1916, D. Foster was appointed the teacher at Hudson for a special term.
School board minutes of Sept. 4-5, 1916, show D. Carl Cripe appointed the teacher.
The Tampa Morning Tribune of July 29, 1918, carries a classified ad: “WANTED—Teacher for Hudson School of 40 pupils. State salary; give reference. Address J. B. Hudson, Hudson, Fla.”
In August 1919, Mr. A. E. Lane was appointed the teacher.
In March 1920 the school board members, county superintendent, and attendance officer inspected the schools in western Pasco County. Their notes show: “Hudson school was found to be temporarily closed on account of influenza, about 16 per cent of the entire population confined to bed by flu. Board took note of decayed condition of roof of building.”
On Dec. 2, 1921, the Dade City Banner reported, “HUDSON. November 29.—Our teacher, Miss Jessie Raulerson, went to Tampa last Wednesday to visit friends and has not returned yet.”
Alice Linkey spent five months as a teacher in Hudson in 1922-23, as she recalled in a 1970 newspaper interview. (She actually recalled that it was 1921-22, but apparently it was in fact 1922-23.) She was a student at Falconer High School in New York and came to Florida in 1922 to take a course at a Dade City summer school which, she recalled, was conducted by the County Superintendent of Education. She received her certificate to teach and came to Hudson in September 1922 to take over the local school located east of what is now U. S. 19. The term was five months. The salary was $70 per month or $350 for the entire term. The Dade City Banner of Sept. 8, 1922, reported, “School opened in Hudson this Monday morning with an attendance of twenty-two pupils. The board of trustees and some of the patrons were present at the opening, showing unusual interest in school affairs. Miss Alice Linkey of Zephyrhills is in charge and was accompanied to Hudson by her parents, sisters, and brother, who returned to Zephyrhills in the afternoon. Miss Linkey will make her home with Mrs. Gregg Davis.” Later she attended FSU and graduated in 1926.
On July 14, 1922, the Dade City Banner reported, “Superintendent E. B. O’Berry and the county school board took a jaunt to Hudson Tuesday to inspect the school house and also the Baptist church building which has been offered the board in place of the school building which was wrecked by the hurricane last October. The membership of the church has dwindled till there are only about three left who are unable to maintain regular services and they have offered to sell their edifice to the board for the same or lower price than the school building can be repaired for. If the present building can be disposed of the board will probably accept the offer.”
A Sept. 1923 newspaper article reported that the Hudson school had grown to the point where it became necessary to appoint two teachers.
On July 11, 1924, the Dade City Banner reported that Miss Edith Paramore was appointed a teacher at Hudson.
On Sept. 21, 1926, the Dade City Banner reported, "As usual at this time of the year, everything revolves around the schoolhouse and very properly so. The Hudson school has two efficient teachers, Mrs. Katherine Riggins, principal, and Miss Vahey of New Port Richey, assistant. The grades taught are up to and including the sixth, with an enrollment of 39.”
A 1927 map located an unnamed school in the NE ¼ of the SW ¼ of Section 27.
School board minutes of Aug. 9, 1928, show Kate Riggins and Ila O’Berry as the teachers.
In June 1929 a newspaper reported that Mrs. Kate Riggins will teach at Hudson.
On Nov. 22, 1930, a newspaper article reported that Miss Florence Sessoms was the teacher at Hudson.
On Aug. 6, 1931, a newspaper article reported that Mrs. S. A. Glass was approved by the school board to be the teacher at the Hudson school. She is also shown as the teacher in Feb. 1934. (Mrs. Alton Glass is the married name of Florence Sessoms.)
On Sept. 4, 1936, the Dade City Banner reported that Mrs. Lettie E. Bareford was appointed teacher at the Hudson School.
On May 25, 1945, the New Port Richey Press reported: “Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the school house at Hudson on Monday afternoon shortly after 5 o'clock. The New Port Richey fire department was called to the scene and arrived quickly, but were unable to stem the blaze. The Hudson school taught up to the 7th grade.”
According to The Story of Hudson, Florida (1973):
Nearly thirty years ago the Hudson school, then located on the east side of Highway 19, was destroyed by fire. The school authorities immediately began to formulate plans to put up a new building on the old site. There was some opposition to this by the parents of pupils who wanted a location that would be closer to the center of the school population. The Board of Education was asked to consider this and the Board members agreed to it if the townspeople would donate adequate space for the school.
At a meeting in September 1953, the School Board discussed the possibility of closing the Hudson school, which had an enrollment of 13 pupils. No final decision was made.
The teacher in 1954-55 Mrs. Marguerite Gooding.
On Aug. 24, 1955, the School Board voted to close Hudson School because of low enrollment.
On Sept. 14, 1955, the St. Petersburg Times reported:
The County Board of Public Instruction yesterday agreed to reopen the Hudson School closed last month due to low attendance. A delegation from the community protested the closing, claiming that the rapid growth of the community would make a school compulsory under state law within a short time. The board agreed to hold a school registration Saturday at the Hudson School and if 17 or more students register, the school will be reopened but will remain open only as long as the attendance holds about the 17 minimum.
In 1962 the vacant school building and 1.5 acres of land were sold to the Hudson Community Club, Inc., for $2,250.
In a 1960 interview, Jennie Sheldon (Keller) recalled that she was principal of a two-teacher school in Hudson where 55 pupils in one room were taught grades 1 through 6. No date is given.
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United Nations: The Strange Logic of Mr. Gromyko
By JAMES RESTON ();
October 04, 1968,
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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Oct. 3 -- In his speech to the General Assembly here today, the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, put forward a couple of intriguing propositions. There is no contradiction, he said, between the Soviet Union's aggression in Czechoslovakia and its desire for peace.
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Let Them Eat Sirloin
It could be said that Americans, at least those who came of age after World War II, have come to think of a hearty steak dinner less as a privilege than as an inalienable right. Few institutions better exemplify this line of thinking than budget steak houses, those Western-themed franchise restaurants—some of them cafeteria style, some sit-down—that have become fixtures of strip malls and interstates. They have names like Bonanza, Sizzler, and Ponderosa, and their menus promise a full steak meal at rock-bottom prices. The steaks are often a thin cut from the chuck or sirloin section—as opposed to the giant porterhouses and filets mignons favored by upscale steak houses—but they rarely fail to satisfy.
Suburban budget steak houses began to appear in the 1950s and '60s; among the first was Sizzler, which was the brainchild of a California salesman named Del Johnson. He got the idea for his restaurant in 1958 after reading about a steak joint in San Francisco called Tad's, which offered faux-Victorian décor and a T-bone steak dinner for $1.09. (Tad's later inspired a chain of its own.) A few months later, Johnson and his wife, Helen, opened Del's Sizzler Steak House in Culver City, California, making use of a building owned by the father-in-law of his friend Jim Collins, who ran the hamburger stand next door. Del's Sizzler sold two kinds of steak, a top sirloin and a new york cut, accompanied by a baked potato and a green salad adorned with a single cherry tomato.
"He used a wood platter with a hot metal plate in the center that made the steak sizzle," Collins says. "That's where the name came from."
Johnson managed to undersell Tad's by a full ten cents. By the time he sold his business to his friend Collins and two of Collins's partners, in 1967, there were four company-owned restaurants, 160 franchises around the country, and a growing number of imitators. During a boom in fast-food franchising during the 1960s and '70s, hundreds of budget steak houses cropped up around the country, all offering similar menus and reasonable prices. "When you get a new concept that's doing well, other people come along and try to do something with it," says Collins. "Sizzler definitely spawned a few." With 307 franchises operating today, Sizzler is still going strong amid all that competition.
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The last time this corporate rapist ventured onto KI land, protesters learned anew what white man's justice is all about. Six non-violent protesters were jailed. And these aboriginals are being sued by Platinex for $10 billion (yes, you read that right) for daring to defend their traditional territory.
Opposing big mining interests, in fact, has its consequences in the province of Ontario. As I noted back in March, 2008, no nonsense from Native people will be tolerated by Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty. It's prison if you dare to protest, as First Nations people opposed to uranium mining in southern Ontario discovered last year. (The judge handing down the draconian sentences was a certain Judge Douglas Cunningham. Name ring a bell?)
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug leaders also faced judicial assault. As I noted at the time:
Justice Patrick Smith sent six band members to jail, including Chief Donny Morris and Deputy Chief Jack MacKay. Two others, Enus McKay and Evelyn Quequish, were given suspended sentences after they agreed to stop protesting.
The judge cited [Justice Cunningham's] decision as a precedent for the jail terms, and stated that he could not impose fines in any case because the defendants would be unable to pay them. One member "purged his contempt" by agreeing to stop protesting. Indian land is now safe for Platinex Inc. to commence its drilling operations.
The short message is this: if you are Native, forget about protesting peacefully in Ontario. Miners can come on to your land with impunity, and dig it up at their whim. You have no recourse. If you stand up, white judges will lock you down. The justice system stands with the mining companies, and the McGuinty government, including the feckless Aboriginal Affairs minister Michael Bryant, stands with the justice system.
This time Platinex is bringing along the
Stay tuned. This won't be pretty.
[H/t Cam Holmstrom]
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Vass, N.C. — The fourth-graders at Vass-Lakeview Elementary School put down their pencils Thursday to play with a golden retriever named Bonnie and Ivan, the German shepherd.
But it wasn’t recess. The pups were the stars of a special class designed to help the youngsters understand what it means to be responsible pet owners.
“Overpopulation in the area is terrible. Animals are euthanized daily,” said Kristine Staples, Ivan’s owner and a volunteer teacher with the Citizens’ Pet Responsibility Committee in Moore County.
The committee is made up of more than 50 volunteers who offer a six-session program on pet ownership to all fourth-grade classes in public schools. By Staples’ count, they’ve talked to more than 1,000 kids in the five years of the program.
“Fourth grade seems to be the age they really understand what is happening,” she said. “They are at the time when they have responsibility at home where they have to feed the dog or cat, or water the dog or cat.”
Angela Zumwalt, who co-chairs the committee, agreed.
“Students can take home a message. They can talk about that message, and it stays with them the rest of their lives,” she said.
The students learn about spaying, neutering, care and grooming. Staples said the ultimate goal is to teach the next generation and help reduce the number of unwanted animals that end up in shelters or euthanized.
“It can be very expensive to take care of your pet, and it’s OK not to have a pet,” she said. “Dog food is expensive, cat food is expensive, hay is expensive. And I don’t think people realize what they’re taking on an animal.”
The message seemed to be sinking in with the students.
“I learned that you need to spay and neuter them, make sure that they get their shots,” 9-year-old Bradley Maloof said. “You need to have a leash and tags and stuff for them.”
When asked why love animals, 9-year-old Avery Meredith offered a simple, honest answer: “Because they keep you company and, like, they can make you happy.”
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SOUND arguments against Grover Norquist's infamous pledge to not raise taxes abound. Some, such as Peter King and Saxby Chambliss, signatories both, argue that the world has changed since they signed the pledge, and they no longer feel bound by it (but it's worth noting that neither have they acted against it). Tom Coburn argues that the pledge is ineffectual, and has already been violated by signatories who voted to end tax giveaways for certain industries. Mr Coburn also argues, shrewdly and sensibly, that Democrats benefit from Mr Norquist's pledge far more than Republicans, because it allows them to paint their opponents as "uncompromising ideologues" marching to the tune of an unelected drummer.
Then there is John Dean (yes, that John Dean), who took to the virtual pages of Justia to advance a couple of truly silly arguments against the pledge. Mr Dean notes that Article I of the constitution gives Congress "power to lay and collect taxes". The 16th amendment, enacted in 1913, gives Congress power "to lay and collect taxes on income, from whatever source derived". And Article VI says that members of Congress "shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution". Mr Dean argues that because members of Congress swear an oath to the constitution, which gives them "the defined power to raise or lower taxes, not just to lower them", and because Mr Norquist's pledge forbids them from ever raising taxes, signing the pledge amounts to a violation of a senator or congressman's oath of office. This is preposterous. If it were true then every campaign promise to lower taxes would also be tantamount to oathbreaking. Besides, not everyone can, will or should agree on when, whether and how much to raise taxes. Mr Dean writes that "only outliers and malcontents (along with a few, very selfish members of the well-to-do) deny that we need to raise taxes on those who are very able to pay additional taxes, in order to prevent a further downturn in the economy". However much America could benefit from raising taxes on high earners, Mr Dean's summation is both overstated and remarkably cranky. True, 61% of registered voters believe we ought to raise taxes on the rich. But 36% do not, and writing off 36% of voters as "outliers and malcontents" treads unpleasantly close to Mitt Romney territory.
Mr Dean goes on to argue that the threat that has kept Mr Norquist's pledge effective—that Mr Norquist will find and fund an effective primary challenger to any oathbreaker—"comes dangerously close to violating the very broad language of the federal extortion law, 18 U.S.C. § 875 and the federal conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C § 371." This is more bombastic nonsense. The extortion law in question refers in three of its four subsections to kidnapping or physical injury. The fourth, true, is broader, barring as it does any "threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime", but the notion that it would apply to implicitly threatening a sitting politician with a primary challenger comes dangerously close to criminalising speech, and beyond that is simply batty. As for the conspiracy charge, presumably the co-conspirator Mr Dean has in mind is the challenger Mr Norquist recruits. But campaign operatives recruit challengers to sitting politicians all the time: are they too guilty of conspiracy? And in the course of a political campaign, those challengers often lob reputation-damaging accusations at their opponents: is this too a crime? Should Barack Obama and his speechwriters be brought up on federal extortion charges for coining the word "Romnesia"? (Note to any WND readers: they should not.)
I suspect Mr Dean knows all of this. I suspect he wrote this article to provide a high-minded rationale for any Republicans who feel they need one ("As much I would like to support Mr Norquist in his endeavours, my oath to Congress and the constitution comes first etc etc etc." Rinse, repeat, retch.) But plenty of Republicans—36, by Think Progress's count—have already found mettle enough to distance themselves from Mr Norquist.
As for the pledge, one reason it has proven so effective is that its underlying promise is popular. The current Congress may well need to raise taxes, and many Republicans will have to swallow extremely bitter pills in so doing. Some may well find themselves challenged from the right in the 2014 primaries. That will be due not just to Mr Norquist, but also, ironically, to having gerrymandered themselves into redder and redder districts.
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
Aline Jenckel interviews, TOM B.K. GOLDTOOTH, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network
- For centuries, indigenous peoples and their rights, resources and lands have been exploited. Yet long overdue acknowledgment of past exploitation and dedicated efforts by indigenous peoples have done little to end or prevent violations of the present, stated indigenous leaders in the Manaus Declaration of 2011.
The declaration, part of preparations for the upcoming U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, frequently referred to as Rio+20, in June, recounted the “active participation” of indigenous groups in the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and similar efforts in 2002 that led to the adoption of the term “indigenous peoples” for the United Nations (U.N.) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Despite this work, “the continuing gross violations of our rights…by governments and corporations” remain major obstacles to sustainable development, the declaration continued. “Indigenous activists and leaders defending their territories still continue to be harassed, tortured, vilified as ‘terrorists’ and assassinated by powerful vested interests.”
As Rio+20 approaches, IPS interviewed Tom B.K. Goldtooth, who has been an activist for social change in Native American communities for more than three decades and is the executive director of Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), an alliance of indigenous peoples that combats the exploitation and contamination of the earth and will participate in the Rio+20 conference.
Goldtooth called for a “new paradigm of laws that redefine humanity and its governance relationship to the sacredness of Mother Earth and the natural world”.
The activist explained that the most effective measures for reducing deforestation, protecting the environment from unsustainable mineral extraction and preserving a better world for future generations are to strengthen international, national and sub-national frameworks for collectively demarcating and titling indigenous peoples’ territories.
Q: At the Rio+20 conference in June, you will speak on behalf of indigenous peoples and their human rights, in terms of protecting their natural environment and creating sustainable development. What is the key message you hope to convey? A: The thematic discussion of green economy and sustainability creates differences in views between the money-centred Western views and our indigenous life-centred worldview of our relationship to the sacredness of Mother Earth.
Many of our indigenous peoples globally are deeply concerned with the current economic globalisation model that looks at Mother Earth and nature as a resource to be owned, privatised and exploited for maximised financial return through the marketplace.
With this development model, indigenous peoples continue to be displaced from their lands, cultures and spiritual relationship to Mother Earth, and destruction to the life-sustaining capacity of nature and the ecosystem that sustains us and all life continues as well.
For the sake of humanity and the world as we know her, to survive, there must be a new paradigm of laws that redefine humanity and its governance relationship to the sacredness of Mother Earth and the natural world.
This includes the integration of the human-rights based approach, ecosystem approach and culturally- sensitive and knowledge-based approaches. The world must forge a new economic system that restores harmony with nature and among human beings.
We can only achieve balance with nature if there is equity among human beings.
At Rio+20, global governments must look cautiously at any green economy agenda that supports the commodification and financialisation of nature and take concerted action to initiate the development of a new framework that begins with a recognition that nature is sacred and not for sale and that the ecosystems of our Mother Earth have jurisprudence for conservation and protection.
Full recognition of land tenure of our place-based indigenous communities are the most effective measures for protecting the rich biological and cultural diversity of the world.
Q: What are the biggest threats to Indigenous people’s livelihoods today, and how can they be addressed? A: Indigenous peoples from every region of the world continue to inhabit and maintain the last remaining sustainable ecosystems and biodiversity hotspots in the world.
Destructive mineral extractive industries continue to encroach on indigenous peoples’ traditional territories. Unconventional oil and extreme energy development, with the real-life effects of climate chaos, are directly affecting the wellbeing of indigenous peoples from the North to the Global South.
Indigenous peoples can contribute substantially to sustainable development, but they believe that a holistic framework for sustainable development should be promoted.
With the knowledge that development that violates human rights is by definition unsustainable, Rio+20 must affirm a human rights-based approach to sustainable development.
Particularly, the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples must serve as a key framework which underpins all international, national and sub-national policies and programs on sustainable development with regard to indigenous peoples.
Q: Recently, some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) expressed deep concern about the reversals on agreements made by governments in 1992 and say there’s no country taking leadership of or acting as a visionary role in the conference. Do you believe there is still hope for new, binding commitments? A: Because of the climate chaos, financial instabilities and ecological devastation, the world doesn’t have an option to reverse the agreements made in 1992.
World leaders must remember the active participation of indigenous peoples in the Rio Earth Summit (UNCED 1992) and the parallel processes indigenous peoples organised, which resulted into the Kari- oca Indigenous Peoples’ Declaration.
Agenda 21 embraced the language of Kari-Oca that recognised the vital role of indigenous peoples in sustainable development and identified Indigenous Peoples as a Major Group. Rio+20 must reaffirm the commitments made by UNCED to indigenous peoples in 1992.
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[Alex] collects retro gaming consoles. One day while playing a SNES title, his save games got wiped when he powered off the system. It turned out that the battery inside the game cartridge got disconnected somehow, and it got him thinking. He decided he wanted to find a way to back up his save games from the cartridges for safe keeping.
While cart readers exist, he says that they are hard to find nowadays, so he decided to construct his own using an Arduino. SNES cartridges are relatively complex, so he opted to focus on Gameboy cartridges for the time being. Before attempting to back up save games, he first chose to learn how to communicate with the cartridges in general, by reading the ROM.
He breaks the cartridges down in detail, discussing how they are constructed as well as how they can be addressed and read using the Arduino. He was ultimately successful, and offers up code as well as schematics on his site for any of you interested in doing the same. We imagine that save game reading (and perhaps editing) will likely happen in the near future.
Check out the video below to see his cart reader in action.
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About Parks and recreationThe recreation department of Montgomery was created on March 1, 1948, through the efforts of several Montgomery citizens, including Earl James. Mr. James used the recreation plank in his campaign for the City Commission, was elected and immediately followed through with his plans to create the department. T.A. Beiser was named Superintendent of the new department.
The only recreational facilities were two lighted softball fields and a pavilion at Hamner Hall Park, along with a grandstand and a baseball diamond that were located at Bruce Field, which is where O'Connor Tennis Center sits today. The O'Connor Tennis Center is an eleven-court facility, which opened to the public in September of 1971.
During its initial year of operation, square and folk dancing, arts and crafts, talent and puppet shows along with play days and softball dominated the first summer of activities and sports.
In April of 1949, the Parks and Recreation departments were merged into one unit. The board members were: Mrs. James Fitts Hill, Chairman; Junie J. Pierce, Vice-Chairman; Harold McGlynn, Secretary-Treasurer; Charles Covey and Florian Strassburger.
The Golden Age (senior citizens) program was initiated into the department by Miss Bebe Smith. In 1958, five large community centers were opened to the public under supervision from the staff of the department. These centers feature gymnasiums, club rooms, dressing rooms and foyers with football, softball and baseball fields adjoining these buildings. This phase of the department has grown into one of the finest in the South.
Montgomery citizens have benefitted from the facilities of the Parks and Recreation department for years, but the road to a successful program has not always been easy. Among the issues were the court battles concerning segregation ordinances. In the mid-50's several suits were brought up to erase the segregation rule in parks and playgrounds, but of to no avail. On January 1, 1959 the City Commission of Montgomery voted to close all parks and playgrounds to avoid the integration of races. With this order by the commission, 13 parks were closed, including Hamner Hall Community Center, the first of its kind to be built by the department.
On February 5, 1959, Jude Frank Johnson Jr. denied a motion to dismiss a suit brought to end segregation in the city's parks. In September 1959, Judge Johnson ruled the ordinances were unconstitutional and if the parks and playgrounds were reopened they must be integrated.
When the Oak Park Zoo was closed the animals were sold or donated to various organizations. The swimming and wading pool at Oak Park was also disposed of, thus eliminating public pools city-wide. Yancey Park, located in the Capitol Heights area, was sold to the Montgomery Spastic Children's School, which is now the Children's Center. The Perry Street Park property was sold to the local YMCA.
On February 24, 1965 the City Commission voted to reopen the parks and playgrounds throughout the city to all races.
One facility unique to the city of Montgomery along with the Parks and Recreation department is the W.A. Gayle Planetarium. The planetarium is one of only a few of its kind in the United States and was opened to the public on September 25, 1968. This facility is located in historic Oak Park, adjacent to the administrative offices of the department. top
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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) has approved Carnegie Learning® Common Core Math Programs for implementation in the state through 2018. The approved list of curricula provides an array of core/basal and supplementary instructional materials for purchase by school districts using state education funds with the goal to enhance the delivery of instruction that will support student proficiency in meeting New Mexico state standards.
The Carnegie Learning Middle School Math Series, courses 1-3 for grades 6, 7 and 8, and Algebra I Common Core curricula offer a unique blended solution of textbooks and software that delivers highly personalized instruction to support students of varied skill levels as both a core and a supplemental intervention solution. Instructional materials on the approved list are reviewed and formally adopted by the Public Education Department for purchase by New Mexico school districts using state education funds.
In addition, Carnegie Learning Professional Development Services support Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice by preparing New Mexico teachers for classroom instruction that deepens student content knowledge, promotes problem-solving, and encourages students to reflect on their thinking and consolidate new mathematical ideas.
New Mexico is one of 45 states and the District of Columbia embracing Common Core with the goal to prepare all students for college and careers in the 21 st century. New Mexico's education leadership was actively involved in drafting Common Core alongside the National Governor's Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The state was among the first to begin implementing new CCSS-aligned curricula in the 2011-12 school year.Based on more than 20 years of research and third-party evaluation, Carnegie Learning curricula and professional development support for teachers are currently adopted in fifteen of 20 curricula adoption states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia. About Carnegie Learning, Inc. ( www.carnegielearning.com) Carnegie Learning is a publisher of innovative, research-based mathematics software and textbooks for middle school, high school, and post-secondary students aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Providing differentiated instruction in schools across the United States, Carnegie Learning is helping students to succeed in math as a gateway to graduation, college, and the 21st century workforce. Carnegie Learning, located in Pittsburgh, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Apollo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) and is the sole source provider of Cognitive Tutor® and MATHia® software for students in grades 6-12. About Apollo Group, Inc. ( www.apollo.edu) Apollo Group is one of the world's largest private education providers and has been in the education business for approximately 40 years. The Company offers innovative and distinctive educational programs and services both online and on-campus at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels through its subsidiaries: University of Phoenix, Apollo Global, Institute for Professional Development and College for Financial Planning. The Company offers programs and services throughout the United States and in Latin America and Europe, as well as online throughout the world. For more information about Apollo Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries, call (800) 990-APOL or visit the Company's website at www.apollogrp.edu. SOURCE Carnegie Learning, Inc.
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Jean de La BruyèreArticle Free Pass
Jean de La Bruyère, (born August 1645, Paris, France—died May 10/11, 1696, Versailles), French satiric moralist who is best known for one work, Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec avec Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle (1688; The Characters, or the Manners of the Age, with The Characters of Theophrastus), which is considered to be one of the masterpieces of French literature.
La Bruyère studied law at Orléans. Through the intervention of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the eminent humanist and theologian, he became one of the tutors to the Duke de Bourbon, grandson of the Prince de Condé, and remained in the Condé household as librarian at Chantilly. His years there were probably unhappy because, although he was proud of his middle-class origin, he was a constant butt of ridicule because of his ungainly figure, morose manner, and biting tongue; the bitterness of his book reflects the inferiority of his social position. His situation, however, afforded him the opportunity to make penetrating observations on the power of money in a demoralized society, the tyranny of social custom, and the perils of aristocratic idleness, fads, and fashions.
La Bruyère’s masterpiece appeared as an appendage to his translation of the 4th-century bc character writer Theophrastus in 1688. His method was that of Theophrastus: to define qualities such as dissimulation, flattery, or rusticity and then to give instances of them in actual people, making reflections on the “characters,” or “characteristics,” of the time, for the purpose of reforming manners. La Bruyère had an immense and richly varied vocabulary and a sure grasp of technique. His satire is constantly sharpened by variety of presentation, and he achieves vivid stylistic effects, which were admired by such eminent writers as the 19th-century novelists Gustave Flaubert and the Goncourt brothers.
Eight editions of the Caractères appeared during La Bruyère’s lifetime. The portrait sketches were expanded because of their great popularity. Readers began putting real names to the personages and compiling keys to them, but La Bruyère denied that any was a portrait of a single person.
Topical allusions in his book made his election to the French Academy difficult, but he was eventually elected in 1693. The Duke de Saint-Simon, the diplomat and memoirist, described him as honourable, lovable, and unpretentious.
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Alex Konrad, Forbes Staff
Staff writer covering NY tech, advertising, and startups in-between
The future of architecture is evolving before my eyes on the laptop of Luca Frattari. In a series of keystrokes the architectural engineering Ph.D., now a business development manager at software firm Altair, thins out the blocky outer shell of a new skyscraper into a willowy exoskeleton that would stand out even among the gaudier designs in the Dubai skyline. Its irregular lattice leaves room for giant, undulating pools of window glass. Yet when he runs a wind-flow analysis on the simulation, the building’s organic form wicks away stiff breezes far more efficiently than a rectilinear structure. And the reduction in outer material gives the building an excellent chance of going up faster and for less money.
More things should look bony. Millions of years of evolution have honed the skeleton into the perfect shape for survival. Our hollow, long bones are thick and strong where needed, and light and flexible where possible. Their excesses were purged long ago.
Adapting nature’s forms to human problems, a trend called biomimicry, is an idea that has taken root at engineering-intensive firms such as Ford, General Motors, Boeing and Airbus, all of them hungry buyers of technology to improve the shapes of the machines and structures they build. The biggest computer-aided engineering software firms, Ansys, Dassault Systemes and LMS International, a Siemens subsidiary, have enjoyed double-digit revenue growth in recent years as large customers snap up their pricey suites of simulation and material analysis software. Unseen by drivers and frequent fliers, the straight angles and solid forms under the skins of autos and airliners have been replaced over the past several years by funky-looking ribs that are lighter and stronger than the original. For each hundred pounds trimmed off a car, drivers could save about 1% to 2% on fuel economy, which could add up to billions of dollars nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Even shaving 1 gram off a water bottle would eliminate 160 million pounds of material per year, assuming consumption of 200 million bottles per day, says Thierry Marchal, Ansys’ director of industry marketing for consumer goods
Altair of Troy, Mich. has a lead over its rivals in a particularly interesting field called topology optimization, according to research firm CIMdata. Altair’s OptiStruct software simulates on metal and carbon-fiber structures the same trial-and-error forces that have shaped bone growth over millennia–but repeats them at semiconductor speed until an engineer arrives at a design that meets the need without any excess material. The process can lead to unique and sometimes non-intuitive shapes that are often 20% to 30% lighter than traditionally formed structures.
The privately held company, cofounded by CEO James Scapa, a Ford veteran, and two others in 1985, got half of its estimated 2012 revenue of $240 million (up 13% from 2011) from the auto industry but is growing 30% year over year in aerospace and electronics, three times the growth of its steady auto business. Airbus used Altair software to shed a thousand pounds off the A380 by redesigning 13 wing ribs on each side of the plane. Altair now works with more than 3,000 clients, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, NASA and the Department of Defense, but it is rapidly spreading the gospel of evolutionary perfection to a wider audience in consumer products and infrastructure and among commercial architects.
In October Altair released what it says is the first simulation and analysis software designed to be easily used by the engineering masses. Called solidThinking Inspire, it will be bundled into Altair’s flagship software package ($20,000 on average) or sold separately for $8,000. Early adopters of Inspire include auto supplier Key Safety Systems and the Pratt Institute in New York. Architects in the U.S. and Europe are planning high-rises to be unveiled later this year in Asia that will look like descendants of the biomorphic forms created by Antoni Gaudi and Frei Otto.
Altair got its inspiration for bone-based software 20 years ago when Scapa and his chief technology officer, Jim Brancheau, found Jeff Brennan in a lab at the University of Michigan. Brennan was a biomechanical engineer studying how humans bones grow; Scapa brought Brennan in to oversee what would become OptiStruct. Brennan spent the early 1990s schlepping a computer from one carmaker to another, struggling to get analytical engineers to accept his OptiStruct software’s counter-intuitive visual results. After OptiStruct became part of Altair’s bigger HyperWorks software suite and no longer needed individual salesmen, Brennan eventually took over as CMO. “We brought Jeff in, and for years and years the competition couldn’t see why we did it–they said there was no market,” Scapa says. “Now they are trying to catch up.”
Altair says it has grown at a 14% compounded annual rate since 2004 but has no plans to go public. It is majority owned by its three founders and last raised money eight years ago selling an undisclosed minority stake to General Atlantic for $30 million. Scapa aims to reach $1 billion in revenue by 2020, a stretch goal that largely depends on how much Inspire broadens the user base.
Even if Altair fails to hit the billion-dollar goal, it will be an aesthetic victory for the rest of us as more buildings, cars, trains and gadgets take on the swooping curves beloved by nature.
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Ebbw Vale group helps abandoned horses on Manmoel Common
Volunteers are trying to help abandoned horses and ponies near Ebbw Vale after several animals died of starvation.
Animal welfare charities claim that without continued feeding from passers-by more horses on Manmoel Common are likely to die, following lack of food after last year's bad weather.
Some mares are pregnant and the RSPCA says it is extremely concerned about their welfare.
The site is common land and is used to graze sheep.
It is thought eight animals died recently and a vet was called on Thursday afternoon because many of the remaining ponies were struggling to stand.Donations
Animal charities are trying to care for the animals, and have received hundreds of pounds in donations from local people.
Philip York, from Barnsby Home of Rest for Horses in Leominster, Herefordshire, said: "This situation here is replicated across south Wales.
"Large numbers of ponies are dying because of a lack of food, when they're sick they're not being attended to."
Mr York, who travelled to the common to help, added: "We need to do something to alleviate the suffering of these animals."
RSPCA spokeswoman Elaine Spence said: "Wild ponies in Wales are suffering because the weather last year meant they could not get enough feed to fatten themselves up for winter and the current cold spell has stopped the spring grass growing.
"This is of great concern to us and we are trying to do all we can to help."'Increasing problem'
A Blaenau Gwent council spokesperson said the dead animals were being disposed of "as soon as is reasonably practicable".
"Our joint policy on horses is that we do not involve ourselves in equine issues not associated with licensed/licensable or agricultural premises.
"As such, we do not routinely deal with fly grazing/horse abandonments on commons, nor do we have the resources to do so.
"We do however recognise that this is an increasing problem in Wales and that there are horse charities that do get involved in these instances.
"We are contacting them in relation to the horses at Manmoel."
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Owing almost $16 trillion dollars can make even the most free-spending of governments more fiscally responsible. The Pentagon has been the beneficiary of 10 continuous years of military budget increases. But with planning for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 federal budgets coming during an election year, there is no doubt that the US Department of Defense (DoD) will have less operating capital next year. And less DoD dollars will directly translate into less RF and microwave dollars.
The DoD's budget accounts for about 20% of total annual federal spending, the impact of which can be readily seen in many of the catalogs and websites for companies throughout the RF/microwave industry. Affected products range from electronic components and modules for electronic-warfare (EW) and radar applications to devices for terrestrial and satellite-communications (satcom) systems.
Some of the reductions in defense spending will come from diminishing overseas operations (e.g., the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan). Overall, the Pentagon is planning for a year-over-year decrease in its FY2013 budget and, hopefully, the start of a trend that will result in about $487 billion in cuts over the next decade. The DoD goal is for a smaller, more-agile fighting force, with less fighter aircraft, ships, and fighting forces.
Politicians will argue that a defense force with so many fewer troops will be "toothless" when needed. But military professionals should take some comfort from the concept of more agile fighting forces, backed by judicious use of technology.
Scaled-back military budgets should not put an end to technology advancements at major contractors, but merely a rethinking of their approaches. Far-reaching and over-ambitious efforts should be replaced with more practical attempts to equip soldiers in the field with reliable and secure communications, EW, radar, and countermeasures systems. History has shown that almost any electronic product can be improved over time and made smaller and lighter and for less. The move towards using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic components was a step in the right direction.
In addition, many of the technologies that military funding has helped to developsuch as software-defined radios (SDRs) and cognitive radios (CRs)lend themselves to cost reductions over time by "borrowing" technology from leading computer chip manufacturers, without sacrificing the encryption security and in-the-field reliability that those radio technologies provide. Quite often, the DoD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is viewed as a form of "cash channel" to different industries, including the RF/microwave industry, for technologies that may serve little purpose. But it should also be pointed out that DARPA's funding of this industry has enabled such technologies as GaAs MMICs, and GaN and SiC power transistors.
Cutbacks in the defense budget will no doubt impact some companies in this industry. But those same cutbacks will also mean opportunities for others, provided they are willing to work with defense contractors on finding the means to advance technology while also achieving cost reductions.
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202 West 58th Street,
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Actor-turned-playwright John Golden was a former architecture student and designed the layout for his self-named theater himself in 1926, although the main designs were by architect Harrison G. Wisemean. Built across the street from Jolson’s Theatre, on 58th Street, the Golden’s facade was almost severely plain-looking but inside, it was something out of Old Spain.
The 885-seat theater included a balcony, a very narrow, unadorned lobby, a full orchestra, and a square-shaped proscenium. The general color theme of the auditorium was originally olive and gold, and contained wrought-iron chandeliers and the house curtain was decorated with an illustration of a Spanish galleon.
After nearly a decade of legitimate theater, Golden was forced to sell off his theater due to the Depression, and in 1935, it was taken over by John Cort, who renamed it Cort’s 58th Street Theatre, and featured mostly stage comedies.
However, within a year, Cort gave up the theater, and it began to screen foreign movies, under the name of the Filmarte, and shortly thereafter, as the Fine Arts.
In 1942, it was renamed yet again, as the Concert Theatre, and presented its first live act in seven years, a comedy called “Of V We Sing”, which played very briefly. A year later, the theater became a house of worship, as the Rock Church, and seating was increased to over 1,000.
However, by 1946, the church was gone, and it was named Cort’s 58th Street once again. However, rather than a return to legitimate theater, as was planned, it was instead leased by the ABC network as a radio studio for a number of years, before again returning to foreign feature films in the late-1940’s, this time under the name the Elysee Theatre.
In 1955, ABC returned and used it as a television studio until it closed in 1985. It was demolished a few months later.
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Thiruvananthapuram's most interesting temple i open to Hindus only, and even
they must wear wear a 'dhoti' or 'sari'. Still , it's worth visiting -even if
you are just passing through town-to see the temple's seven story carved gopuram
reflected in the nearby sacred tank.Constructed in the Dravidian style by a
maharaja of Travancore in 1733, the temple is dedicated to Vishnu,
who reclines on the sacred serpent, Anantha, which gives Thiruvanathapuram
is just 16 kms away from Trivandrum. This unique internationally
renowned wonderful beach will get pride of place amongst the loveliest
beaches in the world has been a favourite haunt of tourists since
the 1930s. Today Kovalam has become
one of the most popular beach hangouts in India. Kovalam means a grove
of coconut trees and truly the coconut trees along the beaches gives it
a ravishing look.
The palm-fringed bays in
secluded coconut groves, promise a relaxed stay. The boundless blue
waters of the Arabian Sea and miles of white sands washed away by the
surf at the feet of the stalwart palms and the rocky promontories, makes
this beach paradise. This marvellous beach is a tourist's dream come
A sheltered natural bay with cool soothing
palms and gentle waves. Where when you are tired of aquatics, swimming
or sunbathing, you can explore the handicrafts, jewellery and cloth
shops spread along the waterfront. Not to speak of the delightful
sea-food fare including lobsters available at the beachside restaurants.
The recently opened Puthen Maliga Palace Museum, adjacent to the temple ,is
housed in several wings of the palace of the maharajahs of Travancore.
It's open from 8.30 am to 12.30pm and from 3 to 5.30 pm; entry is Rs.5.
The zoo and a collection of museums are in a park i the north of the city .
The museums are in a park in the north of the city. The museums are open Tuesday
to Sunday from 10am to 4.45pm, but not until 1pm on Wednesday. A single Rs.5
entry ticket covers all the museums and is obtainable from the Natural History
Housed in a whimsical, decaying, Keralan style building dating from
1880, the Napier Museum displays an electric assortment of
bronzes , historical and contemporary ornaments , temple carts , ivory carvings
and life size figures of Kathakali dancers in full costume.
The Natural History Museum has a rudimentary ethnographic
collection as well as an interesting replica of a Nayar wooden house built in
the Keralan style.
The Sri Chitra Art Gallery has paintings of the
and Tanjore schools, together with works from China, Tibet, Japan and Bali.
There are also many modern Indian paintings , including works by ravi Varma,
Svetoslav and Nicholas Roerich.
The Zoological Gardens are among the best designed in Asia -set among
woodland , lakes and well -maintained lawns - but some of the animal
enclosures (and their inhabitants) are misreble. The zoo is open Tuesday
to Saturday from 9am to 5.15pm. Entry is rs.4 and there is an additional Rs.5
charge for a camera or Rs.250 for a video camera.
The Science & Technology Museum and Planetarium , about
100m west of the Mascot Hotel, cater mostly to high school students . The
Museum is open from 10am to 5pm daily and entry is Rs.2. The Planetarium has 40
minute shows in English at noon daily (Rs.10).It's closed on Monday.
Padmanabhapuram Palace was once the seat of the rulers of Travancore, a
princely state for more than 400 years which included a large part of present
day Kerala and the Western coast of Tamil Nadu.
Padmanabhapuram is just inside Tamilnadu , 65km south-east of
Thiruvananthapuram. To get there , you can either catch a local bus from
Thiruvananthapuram or Kovalam beach or take one of the Kanyakumari tours
organised by the KTDC. The palace is closed on Monday.
Boardered by Veli lagoon and the Arabian Sea, the village
includes water sports , waterfront park, floating bridge, children's park,
restaurant, garden etc. it is 8km. away from the city. Visiting hours: 10am. to
A popular picnic spot with boating facility.
It's a pleasant place to walk or watch the fishermen securing
their catch. A large sculpture of a mermaid graces the roadside, an example of
the work of the local artist Canai Kunuram. At dusk, during temple festivals,
the beach is the site of the ritual bathing of the temple idols.
There are many churches in Thiruvananthapuram.
The CVN Kalari sangam in East Fort, near the Sree
Padmanabhaswamy Temple, is a small but remarkable bulding-part training centre,
part temple and part hospital.
Also in East fort is the Ganapathy Temple, dedicated to
The KTDC operates a variety of tours in the city and further
afield. They all
depart from the Tourist Reception Centre opposite the Railway station
lying against the southern low hills of the western ghats, 32 kms away from the Thiruvananthapuram
city is a popular picnic spot with a lake and a picturesque dam site. Neyyar dam
affords a panoramic view of the the mountains and the lake. The lion safari is a
The reservoir also offers boating facilities in addition to a crocodile farm.
The project offers facilities for boating and mountaineering. A miniature wild
life sanctuary, a lake garden and a swimming pool are the major attractions.
resort is cool and quiet. As the hills come awake you can begin a pleasurable
exploration of the wooded paths. Trekking is a passion with visitors to Ponmudi.
Ponmudi has other surprises too for you.
Orchids, for instance, grow in abundance here. A charming deer park is only
3kms. from Ponmudi. Picnic hampers that the staff at the guest house would be
happy to arrange, which you could take down the hill to a picturesque ruined dam
site or golden valley which is another pretty scenic spot. Other attractions are
Bird watching, Deer park and long, enjoyable walks.
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The phenomenal speeds reached by the teenage Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen at the 2012 Olympics are raising questions about whether the gap between men and women in sport may one day disappear.
Ye, who has so far won two gold medals and broken a world record at the London Games, clocked a time for the last, freestyle lap of her medley swim that rivaled the male champions.
There's plenty of evidence to show the gender gap exists, and has done ever since women have competed alongside men in international sporting events.
Yet the gap has been narrowing over the decades - so will women one day catch the men?
They'll get close, says John Brewer, a professor of sports science at Britain's University of Bedfordshire - but only in some events.
More women doing more sports
Women first took part in the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, four years after the first Games of the modern era in Athens.
Female participation has increased steadily since then, with women accounting for around 45 percent of athletes at the 2012 Games, compared with 23 percent in Los Angeles in 1984 and just over 13 percent in Tokyo in 1964.
But women have not always been allowed to compete in all the sports at all the distances that men tackle.
In more "mature" sports where women and men have been running, jumping or swimming alongside each other in international competition for many decades, the gap has stabilized, Brewer said.
"But where the gap is still narrowing is in female sports that are less mature, like the endurance events - the marathon, the 10,000m, and long-distance swimming," he said. Women have only been allowed to run the marathon at Olympic Games since 1984, while the 10,000 meter women's running race was only introduced in 1988.
A study published in 2010 in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, which looked at the difference between men's and women's world records since the start of the modern Olympics in 1896, found that the gap narrowed consistently until about 1983, then stabilized.
The average difference between men and women across all events is around 10 percent, but that ranges from 5.5 percent in the 800-meter freestyle swim to 18.8 percent in long jump.
Experts point to important physiological differences between men and women.
China's Ye Shiwen (R), with her gold medal, smiles with silver medal winner Elizabeth Beisel of the US during the women's 400m individual medley victory ceremony at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre July 28, 2012 (Photo: Reuters)
More fat, less muscle
"Females tend to have more body fat, which makes them more buoyant in the water, and that can sometimes help in terms of speed," said Alexis Colvin, assistant professor of orthopaedics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
"But on the flip side, women have less muscle mass and power, so the effect is cancelled out."
Men's hearts are generally larger, allowing them to pump more blood for each heartbeat, and their lungs are able to take in more oxygen for each breath. The combination means their blood can take more oxygen to the muscles, making them stronger and more powerful.
The relative infancy of some disciplines for women and the Olympics means, however, that women could squeeze the gap as coaches, sports scientists and psychologists learn more about how to train, support and push women at elite level.
With so many more years of data to study, the science behind training is likely to be skewed towards men, and learning more about how elite women competitors train, improve and compete could help coaches get more out of them.
"Even though biology is responsible for a lot of things, we're also learning a lot more about the most effective ways for women to train and recover," Colvin told Reuters. "That might help us overcome some of the biological differences."
Brewer thinks much of that women-specific knowledge has already been gained and implemented - something that could account for the rapid narrowing of the gender gap in some swimming and running events in recent years.
"But while a very good female be able to beat a good male, at the highest level the very best females won't be able to beat the very best males," he said. "Sadly, in my view, the gap will never close completely."
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World Wide Web (WWW) is so ubiquitous that it seems strange to think
that it has only been around for a few years. Indeed, use of the WWW
became widespread in the mid 1990's, but its beginnings can actually
be traced back to 1980 when Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman who had
recently graduated from Oxford, landed a temporary contract job as
a software consultant at CERN ( the famous European Particle physics
Laboratory in Geneva). He wrote a program, called Enquire, which he
called a "memory substitute," for his personal use to help him remember
connections between various people and projects at the lab (Wright,
64). This was a very helpful tool since CERN was (and still is)
a large international organization involving a multitude of researchers
located around the world.
finished his work at CERN and left, but he returned in 1984 with a
more permanent position. His previous work with Enquire had left a
mental mark. He envisioned a global information space where information
stored on computers everywhere was linked and available to anyone
anywhere. There were two technologies already developed that would
allow his vision to become reality. In 1945, Vannevar
Bush wrote an article entitled, "As
We May Think," in which he described a theoretical system for
storing information based on associations. Others like Ted
Nelson and Douglas Englebart had
furthered Bush's work with their own work on hypertext. Hypertext
allows documents to be published in a nonlinear format. Hypertext
links allow the reader to jump instantly from one electronic document
to another. Berners-Lee had already used this format when he wrote
The other technology was the Interneta computer network
of networks. The Internet is a very general infrastructure that allows
computers to link together . It uses standardized protocols (TCP/IP)
which let computers of different types using different software communicate.
Hypertext would allow any document in the information space to be
linked to any other document. The Internet would allow those documents
to be transmitted.
CERN if researchers wanted to share documents they had to organize
and format them so that they would be compatible with the main CERN
computing system. This was a problem since the researchers contributing
to the work going on at CERN were located around the world and used
many different kinds of computers and software. Many researchers were
upset and sometimes unwilling to expend the extra effort to make their
work conform to the CERN system. Berners-Lee thought, " it would be
so much easier if everybody asking me questions all the time could
just read my database, and it would be so much nicer if I could find
out what these guys are doing by jumping into a similar database of
information for them" (Wright, 66).
He decided that a simple system with simple rules that would be acceptable
to all was needed. The new system would need to be easy and decentralized
so that anyone anywhere could share informationwithout having to go
to a centralized authority.
1989, Berners-Lee submitted a proposal at CERN to develop an information
system that would create a web of information. Initially, his proposal
received no reply, but he began working on his idea anyway. In 1990,
he wrote the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
computers would use to communicate hypertext documents over the Internet
and designed a scheme to give documents addresses on the Internet.
Berners-Lee called this address a Universal Resource Identifier (URI).
(This is now usually known as a URLUniform Resource Locator.)
By the end of the year he had also
written a client program (browser) to retrieve and view hypertext
documents. He called this client "WorldWideWeb." Hypertext pages were
formatted using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that Berners-Lee
had written. He also wrote the first web server. A web server is the
software that stores web pages on a computer and makes them available
to be accessed by others. Berners-Lee set up the first web server
known as "info.cern.ch." at CERN.
Berners-Lee tried to sell his new creation at CERN as a way to link
data between the many incompatible systems at CERN. Still the bureaucracy
at CERN was slow in acknowledging his efforts. Berners-Lee then turned
to the Internet community. In 1991, he made his WorldWideWeb browser
and web server software available on the Internet and posted notices
to several newsgroups including alt.hypertext. The Web began to take
off as computer enthusiasts around the world began setting up their
own web servers. Often the owners of the new sites would email Berners-Lee
and he would link to their sites from the CERN site. His dream of
a global information space was finally happening.
the number of users on the Web grew it became more attractive as a
medium. Scientists, who were already used to sharing information on
the Internet began to embrace the Web. It was easier to post information
on the Web once than reply repeatedly to multiple requests for the
same data. They also no longer had to worry whether or not the other
scientists used a different operating system. Government agencies
who had responsibilities to make their information public also began
turning toward the Web.
more people began using the Web the need for more point-and-click
browsers became evident. Berners-Lee had developed his WorldWideWeb
browser on a very specialized personal computer called a NeXT. What
was needed now was browser that Mac, PC, and Unix users could use.
This need was soon met as others, mostly students, began creating
new browsers. For instance, Students at the Helsinki University of
Technology wrote Erwisea browser for Unix machines, and Pei
Wei, a U.C. Berkeley student wrote Viola. Colleagues of Berners-Lee
at CERN wrote a browser for Mac machines called Samba. Marc
Andreesen, a student at the University of Illinois, with the help
of fellow students, created the Mosaic browser.
of the Web and Potential Problems
browsers and the increasing amount of information that could be found
Web made it an ever more attractive medium. It grew exponentially,
both in the number of sites and users. The number of visitors to the
info.cern.ch server was growing by a factor of ten every year. By
the summer of 1993, the site was getting ten thousand hits a day (Berners-Lee,
75). Berners-Lee was predictably happy about the growth of his
brainchild, but various groups seemed to be going in opposite directions.
He feared that the Web would splinter into various factionsacademic,
commercial, free, etc.
was concerned over some of the new directions the Web was taking.
There were decided differences between his original vision and the
visions of Andreesen and the Netscape crowd. The Web was designed
to be a serious medium. Berners-Lee feared that this new visuallyappealing
Web was becoming frivolous. Berners-Lee and other HTML purists were
alarmed by all the new tags created by Netscape. Andreesen remembers,
" Tim bawled me out in the summer of '93 for adding images to the
thing," (Reid, 12).
Wide Web Consortium
was also concerned that the new success of the Web would lead to destructive
competition that would create proprietary Web products that could
destroy the open nature of the Web. He knew that some sort of oversight
was needed to keep the Web running smoothly, but any new oversight
organization could also not be allowed to fundamentally alter the
free and open character of the Web. He envisioned a forum where developers
of servers and browsers could reach a consensus on how the Web should
operate. On May 24, 1994, the first WWW conference was held at CERN.
Berners-Lee used this conference to share his vision to create a consortium
to help the Web develop smoothly: "The conference was the way to tell
everyone that no one should control it, and that a consortium could
help parties agree an how to work together while also actually withstanding
any effort by any institution or company to 'control' things." (Berners-Lee,
also discussed the idea of a consortium with some his friends at MIT.
In July of 1994 he received a phone call from one of those friends.
MIT agreed to host the consortium. MIT would be the American headquarters
and CERN would be the European headquarters. (CERN would later decide
to drop out of the consortium and France's National Institute for
Research in Computer Science and Control became the European headquarters).
Berners-Lee moved almost immediately to MIT to head the new consortium,
which was known as the World Wide Web consortium or simply W3C.
purpose of the new consortium was to " 'lead the Web to its full potential,'
primarily by developing common protocols to enhance the interoperability
and evolution of the Web." (Berners-Lee,
94). Membership in the consortium would be open to any organization:
commercial, governmental, educational, etc. Any member would be free
to participate in any meeting or working group put together by the
W3C develops open technical specifications that can be used for free
by anyone. These specifications are reached by a very democratic process.
Any member can suggest a new project. If there is sufficient support
within the consortium the project proceeds. When it is finished it
is released by the consortium as a "recommendation." The W3C does
not enforce its recommendations. It simply encourages everyone to
Cerf discusses his views on the WWW.
the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide
Web by Tim Berners-Lee
the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web
Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide Web (Unlocking the
Secrets of Science) For ages 9-12
Vannevar Bush | J.C.R.
Licklider | Larry Roberts | Paul
Bob Metcalfe |
Doug Engelbart | Vint Cerf | Ted
Nelson | Tim Berners-Lee |
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Maybe this has been a mistake.
- In the fall of 2008, when Digg raised $29 million at a $164 million valuation, cofounder and eventual CEO Kevin Rose sold part of his stake for millions of dollars. Last week, New York holding company Betaworks bought Digg for $500,000.
- In 2010, when Foursquare raised $20 million from Andreessen Horowitz at a $100 million valuation, cofounders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai took home $4.64 million. Today, Foursquare user growth is flat, Selvadurai is gone, and the service looks like it will remain a niche product – not become the next Twitter or Facebook.
- When Groupon filed for its 2011 IPO, it revealed that during its time as a private company, Groupon's founders sold $870 million worth of their stock to investors. Today, Groupon's market cap is $5 billion; far less than the $30 billion bankers whispered about when the company first filed.
To be fair: in the case of Digg and Groupon, the investors were offering the CEOs liquidity because the CEOs had, at the urging of their boards, recently turned down acquisitions that would have made them rich.
The CEOs and founders were allowed to take something off the table as an inducement to go for a larger goal.
It just turns out those goals were not reached.
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A barrel of oil settled Friday at $99 on the New York Mercantile Exchange--$2.58 more than the week prior.
The Federal Reserve’s announcement last week to move forward with more stimulus measures in an effort to spur economic growth caused oil prices to jump. In addition, the escalated violence in the Mideast and North Africa has led to concerns of supply disruptions. This comes at a time when Iran’s output is down because of sanctions against the country. In 2011, the Middle East and North Africa were responsible for approximately 36 percent of global oil production.
"With the stimulus announcement and increased tensions overseas, it’s surprising oil prices are not above $100 a barrel,” said Jessica Brady, AAA spokeswoman, The Auto Club Group. "However, it’s very likely the cost of a barrel of oil will surpass $100 this week, as concerns of a supply disruption in the Middle East intensify.
"Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like motorists will see much of a decrease, if any, at the pump, as initially expected this time of year. Instead, gas prices are likely to increase.”
The national average price of regular unleaded gasoline is $3.86, 3 cents more than last week. Florida’s average of $3.81 and Tennessee’s average of $3.67 both increased 2 cents from a week ago today. While Georgia’s average of $3.77 fell 4 cents from last week, respectively. Visit AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report to find national, state, and local metro market retail gasoline prices.
Current and past gas price averages: National:
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Djibouti | Economy and Infrastructure News
It was time to create this thread and I'll try to regularly post articles.
Djibouti: A new paradise for banks
(HornTrade) – The number of banks is growing. But BCI-MR still retains 60% market share. After opening in Djibouti in October, a subsidiary of the Warka Bank for Investment and Finance of Iraq, a private bank based in Tanzania is the Exim Bank (Djibouti), while the Central Bank of Djibouti negotiates the arrival of a Russian institution. The banking market seems quite limited and busy to handle such an influx of banks. Thus, the Exim Bank (Djibouti) can not be expected to take large market share. Because even if Tanzania and Djibouti are part of the Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa (Comesa), the two countries have very little trade between them.
In addition, the installation of these new facilities is not always easy. The Shoura Bank, recently opened in Djibouti, just to start: it is looking for local shareholders and has been a misuse of funds even before its opening. For its part, the Bank of Africa (BOA), which bought Banque Indosuez Red Sea (BIMR), recorded an early leak of clients, including French, to one of two banks owned European Bank for Trade and Industry – Red Sea (BCI-MR, a subsidiary of BRED) and Bank of deposit and credit of Djibouti (CDD). BCI-MR, which claims to hold 60% market share, works much like the State Bank of Djibouti, recovering the management of external funding for government and bank accounts of state corporations.
The new banking law under consideration, bringing the banks’ minimum capital 300 million FDJ (1.2 million €) FDJ 1 billion (€ 3.9 million), may lead to departure, the redemption or bankruptcy of some of these banks.
Djibouti: SCINET installed in the African port of Djibouti, an assembly of mini-plants in containers
(HornTrade) – Through the agreement with Factoring & Management, SCINET install the new plant near the port’s container terminal in Djibouti is located in a strategic zone between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The plant will assemble mini-plants in the models of basic necessities such as water purification and desalination of water, dry food, egg production, clothing, footwear, steel nail production, tire retreading, Sheeting for Roofing, ceilings and walls, Injected Polypropylene Housewares, Pressed Melamine Items (Glasses, plates, cups, spoons), plastic bags and packaging, dairy products, natural rubber latex products, etc.
Also be joined emergency medical units. These modules are equipped with everything needed to operate autonomously even in places that lack any infrastructure. In addition to addressing medical emergencies, these containers serve specialties such as medical imaging, ophthalmology, dentistry and midwifery. They also include a module with vending machines that provide medical supplies such as serum, syringes, forceps, pharmaceutical material, etc.
Another important feature is the fact that the assembly are connected to the WTS (World Trade System) also managed by SCINET with access to more than 60 million of goods, raw materials, products and services, and the system of automatic operations international trade and trade digital certificates.
The certificates allow exchange transactions automatically using the reciprocal recognition of the value of stocks. In this way, it gives the partners an immediate solution to sell their stocks and obtain raw materials, products and services in real time, globally.
For more information see http://www.scinet-corp.com/
Djibouti: Djibouti banks would like to rate the Ethiopian birr
(Horntrade) – The banking center of Djibouti would like to contribute more substantially to the international trade of Ethiopia. But unlike the Djibouti franc, fully convertible and pegged to the dollar, the Ethiopian birr is highly regulated. Djibouti has a solution.
At the initiative of BICMR (Bank of Industry and Commerce Red Sea), a discussion was opened up recently between the Bank of Djibouti and the Central Bank of Ethiopia in order to remove the obstacles faced by traders in the transfer of cons-dollar values of their holdings in Birr. These barriers are a major hindrance to the development of regional trade.
The idea advanced by BICMR is simple: the banks open accounts in Djibouti birr for their clients and that the Central Bank of Ethiopia opened an account back in Birr to the banking Djibouti. A stabilizing device, via a fund dollars which international institutions could participate as to ensure a daily call auction mechanism for trading in the currency of Ethiopia in Djibouti. “If the proposed scheme goes ahead, the trade will be facilitated in Birr and less expensive,” argues Ould Amar Yahya, CEO of the leading bank in Djibouti.
Naturally, the main obstacle is likely to be political. It will not be easy to convince the Ethiopian authorities to delegate such management of their money. Mr. Yahya is optimistic: “The effects of this accord on the Birr are small. There will be no loss of sovereignty of Ethiopia. “However, this solution would be to him a tremendous stimulus for regional economic cycles in global markets.
Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita, supports this proposal as it considers register entirely in the interest of the Ethiopian economy as to Djibouti. At the Central Bank of Djibouti, “we know this project, but to date we have not received positive feedback from our Ethiopian counterparts,” said Ahmed Osman, somewhat dubiously.
For some weird reason, our ancestors decided to settle in the driest, resource-poor corner of Africa.
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States: Kansas: Jackson
There are several Passley families listed in the 1870 Jackson Co., KS Federal Census records, Douglass Twp.
Does anyone know whether or not these families should be Pasley, Passley, or Parsley surnames? I am trying to find out whether or not a Penelope Passley family listed in the 1870 Jackson Co., KS census should be Pasley, Passley, Parsley or something else. She is married to W. H. Parsley in 1860.
Their surname looks like it is Parsley in the 1860 California Census, but could be Passley. Both were born in Kentucky, and in 1870 I assume she is widowed as the husband is not listed and she is with children Mary, Margaret and James.
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President Bush has done far more to address the everyday concerns of black Americans than any president of recent memory.
That includes former President Bill Clinton who became an honorary black man when he pledged to have a cabinet that "looked like America." And indeed, Clinton assembled the most racially and ethnically diverse cabinet ever. By the end of his first year, the Washington Post reported that 22 percent of his appointees were minorities.
Much of black America found this all wonderful and amazing. They clasped the president close to their bosom. And with good reason. The diversity of Clinton's cabinet facilitated more hiring of African Americans in government at every level. This created a positive ripple effect throughout the community. For example, a black politician may maintain close associations with other black community figures, such as ministers, teachers, entrepreneurs and union officials. These interlocking relationships proclaim to black Americans that they are part of the administration, while keeping the administration in touch with the chief concerns of black voters.
Very good. But few in the press acknowledged that while Clinton facilitated the ethnic diversity of his cabinet, he tended not to appoint blacks to top policy positions. As former Clinton Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers snorted after vacating her post, the upper echelon of Clinton's cabinet is a "white boys club."
Like Clinton, President Bush has consciously assembled an ethnically diverse cabinet. The Washington Post reports that 25 percent of Bush's appointees are minorities. Bush has far superseded Clinton, however, when it comes to appointing blacks to top posts. According to a recent White House release, minorities have filled 45 percent of the administration's highest policy positions.
Most notable are the appointments of Gen. Colin Powell as secretary of state and Condoleezza Rice as national security adviser. Every time Bush enters the situation room or sits down with foreign leaders, Rice and Powell flank him on either side. Other high-profile black appointees include Education Secretary Rod Paige, HUD Deputy Secretary Alphonso Jackson, deputy secretary for HHS, Claude Allen, and Veterans Administration deputy secretary, Dr. Leo Mackay.
At the same time, Bush has crafted an education reform policy that holds the promise of a new civil rights movement. Currently, school districts mirror housing patterns. As a result, economically segregated communities have produced economically segregated public schools. The result is a brutal and arbitrary divide between rich and poor, urban and suburban, minority and white.
There exists an astonishing body of evidence that these "poor, minority" schools are failing to properly educate their students. Bush's education reforms - specifically his support of vouchers - could help redress this inequality by holding public schools accountable for the proper education of their students, while ensuring that poor people - mostly of color - no longer remain trapped in schools that are failing their needs. This change could be the single most important factor in redressing the achievement gap between the races.
Additionally, President Bush has pushed programs aimed at facilitating home ownership, welfare reform and faith-based initiatives - all issues that are of chief concern to black voters.
When former President Clinton proclaimed that he would facilitate racial inclusiveness within the government, the press all found it dazzling. When President Bush did much the same - and then some - the press barely took notice. But, if the midterm results are any indication, this rousing fact has not gone unnoticed by the American electorate.
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Three Vermont authors target teens
With recreational reading out of fashion among teens, there's been a lot of talk about improving "young adult" fiction. That semi-amorphous category of literature aimed at the 11 to 17 crowd doesn't have to be juvenile -- most adult bookworms can recall at least one YA fave.
Nonetheless, critics complain that YA fiction has been dumbed down since the days when Harriet the Spy snuck into dumbwaiters with her trusty notebook. In an article in the online magazine Slate last July, Ann Hulbert surveyed these critiques in a round-up story about the genre. Most of them blasted fluffy teen lit such as the Gossip Girls series -- basically, scandalous WB soaps in book form.
Hulbert herself has scathing words for a more prestigious YA genre, "problem" fiction, which attempts to introduce kids to difficult issues but too often does so in the lead-footed "ABC Afterschool Special" fashion. Many of these "issue" books are taught in schools, but are they any more educational than the fluff? "Reared on a regimen of earnest YA fare through middle school," Hulbert writes, ". . . kids are well-trained to discuss timely topics, like terrorism or juvenile delinquency . . . They learn to look for themes that are right on the surface . . . They are instructed to spot trite symbols . . . They are asked to probe two-dimensional characters."
But some offerings from local authors suggest that modern YA fiction isn't the intellectual desert these critics imply it is -- nor does it always have to be a well-intentioned snooze.
Introducing... Sasha Abramowitz is the first YA book by Sue Halpern, a Ripton adult novelist and freelance journalist who publishes in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. It's easy to classify as a "problem" novel. As 11-year-old Sasha herself says early on, "I have a brother and he has 'problems.'" Moreover, those "problems" turn out to revolve around the oh-so-trendy Tourette syndrome. When Sasha was 8, we learn, her older brother Danny's quirks and compulsive swearing blossomed into a scary breakdown in the family swimming pool. Ever since, he's attended a "special school" in the Berkshires. Sasha lives on the campus of Krieger College with her professor parents, who make her see a therapist she calls the Eraser. She explains the nickname: "He always wants to talk about my feelings, as if by talking about them they'll go away or something."
As the sly irony of that passage suggests, Sasha is no two-dimensional character. Nor are the "problems" the novel raises -- for the most part -- easily solved. And there are a lot of problems besides the Abramo- witzs' fractured family. Andrew Hardy, a student baseball player and ace magician whom Sasha befriends, falls suddenly and mysteriously ill. Sasha's teacher has to leave school for months in order to adopt a baby from Guatemala. One of her classmates has deaf parents who can't hear him act in the school play. And the college's baseball team, the Krieger Cats, has never won a single game -- much to the dismay of Sasha's dad, whom she calls the "distinguished professor of baseball poetry."
With all the "issues" it raises, Sasha Abramowitz occasionally does verge on "Afterschool Special" territory. Pop culture -- even the Internet -- is conspicuously absent from Sasha's life, and there are moments when one gets the sense that Halpern is using her precocious narrator to educate the reader. "Have you ever read Great Expectations?" Sasha gushes. "If you haven't, you should."
Despite moments of didacticism, though, Sasha's narrative seems likely to pass the kid test -- it's brisk, freewheeling, eventful and uncensored. Like her role model, Harriet the Spy, Sasha calls it as she sees it when observing the adult world. In one memorable digression, she analyzes the magical thinking of diehard Red Sox fans.
Halpern doesn't sentimentalize Tourette syndrome or sugarcoat Sasha's frustration and anger at her brother for turning family life into a place where "Anything could happen." The novel's simple, sensible lessons on dealing with "problems" are woven unobtrusively into the narrative, as when the boy with deaf parents tells Sasha that he knows it's okay for his family to be different, but "being okay is not the same thing as being easy."
Sasha Abramowitz is a "problem" novel that turns out to be more entertaining than that label might suggest. M or F? is the opposite: a YA novel that starts fluffy and ends up being a fairly substantial meal.
Coauthored by Chris Tebbetts of Hinesburg and Massachusetts writer Lisa Papademetriou, M or F? is clearly aimed at older readers than Sasha. Set in a suburban Chicago high school, it embraces pop culture to the same degree that Halpern's novel abjures it. The snarky dialogue between best friends Frannie and Marcus could be lifted straight from one of the smarter teen-oriented TV shows. They refer to an unconvincing rawker chick as "Goth in a Box" and tell each other things like "You're big smitten, aren't you?" Phrases such as "convo," "irony meter," and "on the double DL" fly fast and furious as the principals tell their sides of the story in alternating chapters.
That story is basically Cyrano de Bergerac in cyberspace. Frannie's straight and Marcus is gay, but neither has ever had a real boyfriend. When Frannie develops a crush on Jeffrey, who has dreamy blue eyes and writes poetry, Marcus encourages her to "go for it," wishing he had as many options. ("Roaring Brook High School wasn't exactly crawling with out and eligible gay boys," he laments.) Frannie gets go-ahead signals from Jeffrey, first in the school chatroom and then in person. Only problem is, their conversations, whether online or face to face, just don't have "flow." That's where Marcus steps in. Assuming Frannie's online identity -- first with her connivance, then behind her back -- he develops the easy, flirty rapport with Jeffrey that Frannie can't seem to elicit on her own.
Like all deception-based love triangles in all high-concept romantic comedies ever written, this one is obviously headed for serious fall-out, further complicated by the sexual orientation issue. But the authors have built a few more twists into their romantic maze than one might expect. The characters are individuals, not teen-movie stereotypes. Perfect on paper, Jeffrey can be a bit of a bore: "He only ate things that were (a) vegetables and (b) not hurting Tibet." And some of the novel's insights will hit home with adults as well as teens. Like many women, Frannie wishes she could have as much fun with her dream guy as she does watching Bollywood movies with her gay best friend. Meanwhile, Marcus wonders about his online masquerades, "What did that say about me, if I felt like my own best self when I was pretending to be someone else?"
Both these novels manage to get a message across without the heavy-handedness that Hulbert decries in YA fiction.
Looking for Lucy Buick doesn't quite manage to strike that balance. But it does draw great charm from its deftcombination of the real and the fantastic.
Award-winning Calais author Rita Murphy's novel starts as a modern version of the classic fairy tales about foundlings. The heroine is discovered as an infant inside a 1968 Buick Skylark convertible won in a poker game by stocking-factory magnate Rocco Sandoni. She's adopted into the "Sandoni clan" -- five fussy, nurturing old women and three childless "uncles" who soon start behaving like wicked stepfathers, plotting to marry Lucy off for money. Within the first few pages, the Sandoni women expire, only to return in spectral form as Lucy's busybody guardian angels. A freak accident -- one of several out-of-the-blue events in the plot -- frees 17-year-old Lucy from the male Sandonis' grip and gives her a chance to do what people in this type of book invariably want to do: find her real family. With nothing concrete to go on, she envisions her birth-parents as "the Buicks" -- "strong, big-boned people with shiny teeth and deep, gravelly voices."
The rest of the book is like that description: beautifully crafted and heavy on the whimsy. Lucy's favorite Sandoni great-aunt has taught her to follow signs such as "the pattern of oak leaves on the sidewalk in early autumn," which she calls "messages from a strange and benevolent universe." The signs lead Lucy onto a train going west, then to a small Iowa town where she meets a motley cast of characters: a five-times widowed woman who runs a motor lodge, an old Japanese man who spends his time hatching the cocoons of monarch butterflies, a handsome professional storm chaser.
Like the novels Hulbert mocks, Lucy Buick features some pretty obvious symbols -- butterflies represent freedom, storms represent emotional crisis -- and a theme that's hard to miss: a "real" family is the people who love you. For young fans of magical realism, the novel's poetic prose may make up for its thematic simplicity.
Still, signs and portents play a central role in moving the plot along, and this creates a dilemma for the reader. If we don't accept Lucy's belief that the world is a tapestry of meaningful symbols, we're likely to find her behavior bizarre and juvenile. Why does she expect to stumble on her birth family in Iowa, for example, when they abandoned her in New York?
On the other hand, if we do go along with the notion of benevolent fate, it's hard to see Lucy as an active character with the power to steer her own destiny. Although she says she wants to escape her "small suffocating self," we never really see her blossom as an individual, as opposed to a literary conceit. And that's a serious flaw, in a literary genre that's basically about finding and carving out one's own place in the world. Still, the novel's musical prose and memorable imagery may stick in young readers' heads, reminding them of the things books can do that TV can't.
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Warning: mobiles and lightning don't mix
UK doctors are advising mobile-addicted Brit youth to lay off the chat during thunderstorms - or risk the consequences.
According to the BBC, the British Medical Journal cites the case of a 15-year-old girl who was struck by lightning in a London park while talking on her phone. She suffered a burst eardrum and cardiac arrest and, a year later, "has severe physical difficulties as well as brain damage which has led to emotional and cognitive problems".
What the kids of today don't understand, apparently, is that when you're struck by lightning, your skin's high resistance will cause most of the charge to pass over the body in a process called "external flashover". If, however, you have metal objects or liquids in contact with the skin, these can provoke the charge to enter and pass through your body where it can wreak havoc with your internals.
The Northwick Park Hospital doctors who treated the unfortunate London victim discovered three fatal cases of mobile phone chat lightning strike - in China, Korea and Malaysia. Swinda Esprit, of the ear, nose and throat department said: "It is obvious really, but we all carry mobile phones and we don't think about it. Children particularly won't realise the risk."
It's not, however, simply a matter of not making calls during tempests. The mere presence of your phone about your person increases the risk of lightning-induced internal injury, as Met Office boffin Paul Taylor noted: "It is well known within the thunderstorm detection community that wearing or carrying metallic objects can increase the likelihood of injury.
"It certainly adds to the intensity of the skin damage and the article certainly amplifies that here. I would treat a mobile phone as yet another piece of metal that people tend to carry on their persons like coins and rings." ®
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VMware's new VMware Labs site enables a company's engineers to strut their stuff and highlight their latest development projects but also give virtualization enthusiasts a central
In creating the site, VMware took cues from Google Labs, a place where many of Google's now mainstream applications first saw the light of day.
VMware calls the projects "flings" because "the applications offered here are intended to be played with and explored" and are "totally free."
At press time, VMware Labs housed 10 flings that range from the utilitarian esxplot, a GUI tool visualizing esxtop performance data, to the ambitious Apache Pivot, a Java platform for building rich Web applications.
At least in terms of concept, most of the flings will be familiar to VMware watchers. For instance, VMware first released a technology preview of one of its featured flings: the vCenter Mobile Access (VCMA), fully one year ago.
But the site features some relatively new efforts such as the VMware Guest Console, uploaded last week. This graphical user interface tool provides users with a means of interacting with and managing the operating system installed in a virtual machine (VM). With VGC, for example, administrators can list running processes, perform basic file system operations against the file system, manage snapshots, display guest statistics, and perform actions such as installing agents.
"This is a great idea," commented Anders Gregersen, a Danish network administrator and member of VMware Communities. "This is one tool that [is] going to help a lot of people in their daily work."Zenoss monitors open source Xen
IT monitoring and management provider Zenoss Inc. now offers new monitoring capabilities for the Xen hypervisor via the Zenoss Xen monitoring plug-in and the Xen Virtual Hosts ZenPack, both part of the open source Zenoss Core 2.5.2. The Xen Virtual Hosts ZenPack discovers guests and provides performance and availability monitoring via Secure Sehll and from the same console as physical and cloud resources. Zenoss Core 2.5.2 and the Xen Virtual Hosts ZenPack are available from the Zenoss Open Source Community Site. Xsigo I/O virtualization certified for Citrix
Xsigo Systems Inc.'s I/O Director has been certified as Citrix Ready, providing virtualized local area network and storage area netowrk connectivity Citrix XenServer hosts, without needing to reboot the server. I/O Director also provides predictable application performance by dynamically allocating server bandwidth, isolating resources to a specific server and controlling bandwidth to specific virtual network interface cards and host bus adapters.
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Agile Open Northwest
"Agile for Real"
About Open Space
Back in 1983, Harrison Owen made a discovery. He had spent a year organizing an international conference and, when it was over, everyone agreed that the best learning, information sharing and networking had occured in the coffee breaks!
Owen went on to originate Open Space Technology, an approach to organizing meetings that allows groups of all sizes to self-organize, create an agenda and solve complex problems. Agile Open Northwest is based on Open Space Technology.
Over the last 20 or more years, the Open Space movement has grown to the point where entire conferences based on its principles are not uncommon. Working without an agenda, but with specific strategies to encourage and direct participation, groups of up to 1000 people have successfully self-organized around a complex problem, held meetings and published results.
OST is particularly appropriate for an Agile conference, because it delays all decisions about what sessions will be held, when they will be scheduled and who will attend them until the last responsible moment. If you have ever signed up for particular sessions in a traditional conference months in advance, only to discover that your needs and interests had changed by the time you got to the event, you'll appreciate the value of this!
The opening session of Agile Open Northwest takes place on the first morning with everyone attending. At that time, the principles of Open Space will be explained and you will have a chance to ask questions about them.
The Four Principles
- Whoever comes is the right people.
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
- Whenever it starts is the right time.
- Whenever its over, its over.
Creating a Session
After this introduction, we will invite those who want to host a session to come forward and present it. This is a simple process. No papers, slides, flip-charts are needed - or even desired. You will simply step forward and talk to us about the session you are proposing. You should include just enough information to let people decide whether to attend - and no more. Generally, less than one minute is needed.
After presenting a summary of your proposed session, you will select a time and place from those available on our wall-display and post a notice there.
It's important for everyone attending our conference to be present for the opening. You should listen to the presentations and take note of those you would like to attend. As you listen, you may be inspired to present a session yourself. There are no deadlines or time limits: simply step up and describe your idea for a session.
At the end of the presentation, you will be invited to browse the notices on the wall and sign up to attend any sessions that interest you. Signing up for a session is optional. You may attend any session you like and even move between sessions.
You may add a sesson to the schedule at any time during the event by posting information about it in an available slot. We'll have periodic announcements of any new or rescheduled sessions as well, but it's a good idea for all participants to keep an eye out for schedule changes.
For additional info, see the Frequently Asked Questions.
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Quick Gourmet Cooking
No time to cook but you don't want to eat Top Ramen or macaroni and cheese in a box? Do you have a sophisticated palate and a thin wallet? Don't despair! These chefs will help you cook delicious food in no time.
For additional titles, browse the library catalog under the subject heading: Quick And Easy Cooking.
Food Made Fast: Weeknight
Prolific food writer Melanie Barnard offers a collection of recipes and cooking tips for such quick-to-make, flavorful meals as fennel-crusted pork tenderloin, miso-glazed salmon, and spring vegetable risotto--all of which have been streamlined for easy preparation any night of the week. Part of the Williams-Sonoma Food Made Fast Series.
Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express: 404 Inspired Seasonal Dishes You Can Make in 20 Minutes or Less
Kitchen Express gives readers 101 quick recipes for each season, all of which can be prepared in ten minutes or less. For people who like to eat well without the fuss, Bittman offers his trademark pared-down elegance and contemporary style. See also his Quick and Easy Recipes from the New York Times.
Jacques Pépin More Fast Food My Way
Pepin's TV series was popular enough to result in a second book. These are dishes that can be assembled with relatively little effort by the experienced cook.
Kitchen Simple: Essential Recipes for Everyday Cooking
James Peterson offers gourmet recipes that use only a few ingredients and can be assembled quite quickly. It does, however, use "gourmet" ingredients such as dried porcini, cream, Parmigiano-Reggiano, butter, nuts, arugula, duck breasts, squid, fresh tuna, etc.
For more cooking videos, browse the Food Network Takeout Collection.
Fancy but easy dishes from the chefs at Cook's Illustrated
Jacques Pepin's PBS television series from KQED-TV is available in 3 volumes with 2 videodiscs in each.
Instruction in Southern Italian cuisine by a singing chef. Demonstrates how to prepare full course dinners for four in under thirty minutes. Originally produced as six individual episodes of the Toronto television series.
Relying on a handful of stocks, master chef Ming Tsai shows how to prepare a variety of Asian-inflected dishes that can be prepared quickly and easily.
Epicurious: Quick and Easy Recipes
The folks at Gourmet and Bon Appetit have created a collection of their quick and easy yet sophisticated recipes that you can browse by course.
Epicurious: Weekly Dinner Planners
Quick and easy dinner menus for families on the go. They give you a menu and recipes for each night of the week as well as a weekly shopping list!
Food Network: Quick & Easy Recipes
Theoretically, TV programs should be great sources of quick recipes since they have to be completed in an hour or less...
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The following is an account based on reports and experiences of VOA correspondent Steve Herman during his time covering the nuclear crisis in Japan.
KORIYAMA, JAPAN _ Confusion and anxiety abound in the communities closest to the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. But even experts, in Tokyo and other world capitals, attempting to keep track of the situation at the crippled plant, say the information from the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has been sometimes contradictory, opaque and obtuse.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan, speaking during a nationally broadcast news conference Friday evening, assured Japanese all information is being shared with them about a situation he acknowledged is "very grave." His only reassuring words, without providing specifics, were that "quite soon" the whole situation would be under control.
Mainstream domestic media, including on-set announcers on the quasi-official NHK, have criticized the widening credibility gap between officials and the public. However, the Japanese media themselves appear to have been overly restrained in their reporting, perhaps to avoid panic and a patina of sensationalism, by giving little attention to particular nuggets of data, such as the official twice-a-day radiation readings for cities and towns here in Fukushima Prefecture.
While these readings are not of a level to spark immediate health concerns (such as the figures showing 20 microsieverts per hour at Iitate village on Friday) they are significant. They demonstrate that radiation is drifting from the plant in measurable quantities to the northwest (Fukushima City also has been recording elevated readings).
By comparison, TEPCO says some of the workers at Fukushima-1 have already been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts (note that milli is 1000 times micro.)
Some of the international media, on the other hand, have hyped the overall story without providing much context. That has sparked near panic among those with access to these foreign language reports. Even in Tokyo there are numerous foreigners who have concluded it is prudent to quickly leave Japan.
The U.S. State Department, in its latest travel warning issued late Saturday in Washington "strongly urges U.S. citizens to defer travel to Japan at this time and those in Japan should consider departing."
While Japanese officials say there is no reason to flee the country because of the crippled nuclear plant, what is starkly evident north from Tokyo, based on information exchanged among various correspondents this week, is store shelves have emptied and most businesses, including restaurants, are closed.
In Koriyama on Saturday morning long lines snaked for more than a kilometer outside several gasoline stands where drivers were told they can only purchase a limited amount of fuel, usually 10 liters.
If there is re-criticality of exposed fuel rods, or, less likely, a reactor core meltdown, news of these events would only exacerbate panic buying and hoarding. It will also make truck drivers reluctant to pass through Fukushima to re-supply this prefecture, as well as Miyagi and Iwate, the two hardest hit by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
That will mean extended misery for hundreds of thousands of survivors living in paralyzed communities damaged by the natural disaster or who have moved to makeshift shelters.
So what is the situation at the nuclear power complex? It is not one that can be summarized in a paragraph.
Compared to the Three Mile Island 1979 partial core meltdown incident in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, this is evidently worse. But nearly all experts quoted by domestic and foreign media, in recent days, explain that the plant design and current circumstances at Fukushima mean we should not see a catastrophic meltdown on par with that in 1986 at Chernobyl, history's worst power plant accident.
Fukushima-1 is 40 years old, although some of its six reactors are newer. During the March 11 quake, all the reactors did what they were designed to do in such a large seismic event - safely shut down. What failed in the entire design was adequate property protection to prevent a huge tsunami from destroying the power lines feeding the system to keep the fuel rods cooled.
Here is a more specific breakdown for each of the reactors at Fukushima-1 based on information from TEPCO, the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, the Kyodo wire service and other sources, as noted:
-- Reactor No. 1 - Operations suspended after the quake, suffered a cooling failure, partial melting of core, vented vapor, building housing reactor damaged March 12 by apparent hydrogen explosion and the roof was blown off. Seawater was pumped in meaning the reactor can never again be used.
-- Reactor No. 2 - Operations suspended after the quake, cooling failure, seawater was pumped in (destroying the reactor), the fuel rods were fully exposed temporarily, vapor was vented and the building housing the reactor was damaged March 14 by blast at reactor No. 3. A blast was heard near the suppression pool of the containment vessel on March 15, raising fears that the containment vessel housing the reactor fuel has been cracked. Since the outer building has not blown off, water cannot be sprayed in from the outside. Reconnection of electrical power to the reactor to re-start the cooling process was expected Saturday.
-- Reactor No. 3 - This reactor, fueled by MOX (containing highly toxic plutonium) is getting the primary attention, at present. Its operation was suspended after the quake. But it also suffered a cooling failure, partial melting of the core is feared, vapor vented and seawater was initially pumped in, meaning that as is the case with Reactors 1 and 2 it will never be used again to produce electricity. Additionally the building housing the reactor was damaged March 14 by an apparent hydrogen explosion, high levels of radiation were recorded in its proximity the following day and a plume of smoke was observed March 16, presumably from the spent-fuel storage pool. Seawater was dumped over the pool by helicopters on March 17 but much of it appeared to be dispersed by the wind. On-site water spraying has been under way since Thursday. TEPCO says it hopes to have power restored for cooling to the reactor late Sunday.
-- Reactor No. 4 - This is the second most serious situation, at present. The reactor was under maintenance when the quake struck and its fresh fuel rods (much more dangerous than the spent rods in other reactor buildings) were all safely submerged at the time to keep them cool. However, the temperature in the storage pool reached 84 C on March 14. There was a fire the following day, possibly caused by a hydrogen explosion at the pool. A fire was observed Wednesday at the building housing the reactor. A renewed nuclear chain reaction was feared after the pool water level dropped. Only the skeleton of the building survived the fire. TEPCO says it hopes to have power restored for cooling to the reactor late Sunday. But The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times report the floor or sides of the spent fuel pool appear to be damaged, which would make it very challenging to refill the pool. The New York Times report, quoting an unnamed engineer, said that the stainless steel lining of the pool and the concrete base possibly were damaged by the quake. The pool's steel gates could also be leaking water if they no longer can close tightly.
-- Reactors No. 5, 6 - They were under maintenance when the quake struck. Water temperatures in the spent-fuel storage pools increased to about 64 C on Thursday. Plant operators said on Saturday that engineers were able to restart a diesel pump to cool reactor No. 5.
The top Japanese government spokesman on Thursday, before military helicopters made a futile attempt to cool the number 3 and 4 reactors with water drops and the initial spraying of water commenced from fire trucks, termed it the "last ditch effort." On Friday and Saturday, similar relays of trucks with powerful hoses targeting the number 3 reactor have been under way.
So far, no Japanese official is declaring these efforts a success. Because the emergency workers on the site can only remain at the plant for brief periods and cannot get too close to the damaged reactors and spent fuel ponds it is impossible to ascertain the full extent of the damage and the level of the pools after three days of water spraying.
The best clues come from radiation monitoring, both on and off site. Those are the numbers to watch closely and which the domestic and international media should be quickly reporting while attempting to provide scientific context for those numbers.
VOA's Northeast Asia Bureau Chief Steve Herman, spent the last week in Fukushima Prefecture. His experience with nuclear-related issues began in the late 1970s as a teenaged journalist at a Las Vegas radio station, reporting on activities at the Nevada Test Site and covering a highly-technical federal court trial stemming from the accidental release of radiation into the atmosphere from the U.S. government's 1970 Baneberry nuclear test.
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|Ali, 18 months, is vaccinated against polio at home, in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon. The first round of a two-part immunization campaign against polio was launched on 30 October.|
By Serene Assir
BENT JBAIL, Lebanon, 31 October 2006 – In another key step towards recovery in post-war Lebanon, the first round of an emergency polio immunization campaign began yesterday, targeting all children up to five years of age.
More than 320,000 children throughout the country will receive their first dose of the vaccine against the crippling and potentially fatal disease this week. The second round of immunization is set for December.
Lebanon was declared polio-free in 2002, and Lebanese children are normally vaccinated as part of their primary health care. However, the recent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah severely disrupted routine health services – including childhood immunization – as approximately 1 million people were displaced from their homes.
“Usually, it wouldn’t be too hard for us to vaccinate all the children in Bint Jbeil, as we all know each other here and we know where we all live,” said local nurse Nawal Saab, a member of one of the teams working in Bint Jbeil. “This year, because so many houses have been destroyed and so many families have had to move in with relatives, outreach has been rendered more complicated. The map has changed.”
Indeed, well over two months after the ceasefire, an estimated 200,000 people remain displaced and are living with relatives or friends across Lebanon – making the current campaign especially challenging.
Still, Ms. Saab is certain that in the next week all of Bint Jbeil’s young children will be vaccinated. She noted that the campaign’s door-to-door approach means vaccination teams will reach children whether they are residing in their own homes or elsewhere. The teams have devised a system for marking each house to indicate how many children are living there and how many have been immunized.
|© UNICEF Lebanon/2006/Debbas|
|Lebanon’s polio vaccination campaign is targeting more than 320,000 children across the country.|
If a child is not home when a team visits, the teams let parents know that they will return over the coming days.
Communities play key role
“People here are welcoming the campaign openly,” said Ms. Saab. “They know how important it is for their children’s health.” To reinforce this awareness, UNICEF has supported a national media effort comprising TV and radio advertisements, posters and flyers.
Among the many partners involved in the immunization drive are the Ministry of Public Health, Red Cross and Red Crescent societies from Lebanon and the region, and local non-governmental organizations. In all, 2,000 medical volunteers and professionals trained by the ministry and UNICEF are administering the oral polio vaccine to children.
UNICEF is also providing 1 million doses of the polio vaccine, as well as the necessary cold-chain equipment to transport and preserve them. The quantity is more than enough to supply both the first and second rounds of the immunization campaign.
Immunizing every child
UNICEF previously supported an emergency polio campaign while the war was still going on; that drive vaccinated some 8,000 young children in centres and host homes for displaced families.
But the dangerous nature of the conflict made it impossible to reach children in the most affected areas, including southern Lebanon. Tracking of children in those areas was also impossible, given the constant movement of their families. Hence the urgent importance of nationwide immunization.
“To keep Lebanon polio-free and protect children’s health, it is critical to immunize every single child,” said UNICEF Representative in Lebanon Roberto Laurenti. “Since people from polio-affected countries in the region regularly move in and out of Lebanon, children are now vulnerable to infection. We need to act quickly and on a massive scale to eliminate that risk.”
Immunization Plus: Eradicating polio
Middle East crisis
Palestinian students return to school [with video]
News note: Violent spell rivals worst times for Palestinian children
Renewed violence in Gaza [with audio]
Lebanon launches polio campaign [with video]
Post-war, Israeli and Lebanese teens talk [with audio]
In Lebanon, back to school at last [with video]
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By Bio-IT World Staff
November 14, 2012 | Gen9, a developer of scalable technologies for synthesizing and assembling DNA, today announced the five winners of its inaugural G-Prize contest. Collectively, the awardees stand to receive more than 1 million base pairs of DNA manufactured with Gen9’s unique next-generation gene synthesis technology.
The Cambridge, Mass.-based company was founded in 2009 by George Church, Drew Endy and Joe Jacobson to create the first true chip-based fabrication (“fab”) capability for the high-throughput, automated production of synthetic DNA. The G-Prize contest was launched to foster creative and innovative approaches for using synthetic DNA to advance industries including chemical and enzyme production, biofuels, pharmaceuticals, and data storage.
Contestants submitted applications describing their breakthrough ideas for using gene constructs, and those entries were judged by a panel of experts.
“The proposals for the 2012 G-Prize represent some of the most cutting-edge approaches to using synthetic biology that I have seen, spanning fields as diverse as reprogramming protein interactions, computational design of antibodies, and DNA storage for space exploration,” said Michael Jewett, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University and a G-Prize judge in a press release. “Gen9’s contest truly spurred innovation and will enable these research teams to make critical leaps forward in their projects.”
Joining Professor Jewett on the judging panel were Sri Kosuri of the Wyss Institute at Harvard and Chris Emig of Stanford University.
The winners of the 2012 G-Prize are:
- 1st place (winning 500 GeneBits, up to 500kb): Tanja Kortemme, University of California, San Francisco, Computer-Aided Design of Sensor/Actuators
- 2nd place (300 GeneBits, up to 300kb): Sarel Fleishman, Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel), Computational Design of Novel Binding Antibodies: Designing High-Specificity and High-Affinity Insulin Binder
- 3rd place (100 GeneBits, up to 100kb, two winners): Alfonso Jaramillo, Institute of Systems & Synthetic Biology (Evry, France), Combinatorial Synthesis of RNA Integrated Circuits to Program Living Cells; and Xavier Duportet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Towards the Manipulation of Genomes On-Demand: High Throughput Discovery of New Recombination Sites
- CEO’s Award (100 GeneBits, up to 100kb): Lynn Rothschild, NASA, DNA Toolkit for Space Exploration
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Strong U.S. economic growth is achieved through robust investment. A thriving and growing small-business sector — one that is creating jobs — is critical to a sustainable recovery. However, many small-business owners are immobilized. They are unwilling to hire, expand or invest because of frivolous government policies combined with weak economic conditions, which keeps them in a constant state of limbo.
New findings from a Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey released on Nov. 30 underscore the grave situation. The survey found that small business owners “expect to add fewer net new jobs over the next 12 months than at any time since the depths of the 2008-2009 recessions.” According to the survey, small businesses intend to reduce capital spending over the coming months. One in five small-business owners plans to decrease employment, while just 17 percent plan to increase their number of employees. This net negative employment outlook bodes ill for our economy next year.
Congress is working against a hard deadline of Dec. 31 to reach an agreement on the fiscal cliff. They are looking at various approaches to increase new revenues, possibly targeting America’s energy sector. A letter to President Barack Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner signed by House Democrats emphasizes the need to get rid of tax deductions valuable to the growth of America’s energy industry. The fact of the matter is that small-business owners and consumers will ultimately pay for any rolling back of deductions or tax increases that Congress may impose on the energy industry. Furthermore, increased taxes on the U.S. energy industry would reduce U.S. investment and our competitiveness. New burdens on the energy industry would also shift jobs from the United States to friendlier tax regimes abroad.
Obviously, gas prices have remained high in the United States for an extended period of time. These higher costs have weighed heavily on small businesses. Some politicians, however, are pushing to make the situation much worse. They are suggesting that current energy tax provisions be repealed, which would only drive costs higher for small businesses. These higher costs, or the threat thereof, do not foster an environment for risk-taking and hiring. The lame-duck Congress needs to advance measures that support small businesses and our overall economy. Helping to make energy more affordable and abundant is an important step to that end.
Make no mistake, the burden of additional taxes on the oil and gas industry will be passed on to all consumers — from the gasoline we put in our vehicles to the fuel that powers our nation’s manufacturing and utility companies. Americans will be forced to dig even deeper into their pockets. For small businesses just barely making it, higher energy costs could be the straw that breaks their financial backs. In a recent survey by TechnoMetrica for the Small Businesses & Entrepreneurship Council, 43 percent of respondents said their business would not survive if energy prices remain high or increase further.
Small-business owners want solutions and policies that will provide certainty and help them compete in the tough economic climate. Small businesses cannot be dynamic job creators and innovators if they do not have the capital and confidence required to grow and invest. A future of burdensome taxes and costs, including higher energy costs, means a future of pessimistic small-business owners. Washington needs leaders who will focus on pro-growth policies where all businesses can succeed.
Rep. Bill Cassidy has his blood drawn by Alesha Barbour during a free hepatitis screening in the Rayburn House Office Building hosted by the Congressional Viral Hepatitis Caucus to recognize "National Viral Hepatitis Testing Day."
Roll Call has launched a new feature, Hill Navigator, to advise congressional staffers and would-be staffers on how to manage workplace issues on Capitol Hill. Please send us your questions anything from office etiquette, to handling awkward moments, to what happens when the work life gets too personal. Submissions will be treated anonymously.
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"The challenge that currently lies before scientists," Henderson said, "is to unravel the variables leading to neurological disorders and to obtain data on the malfunction of the expressed genes that cause disease. Using an interdisciplinary approach including molecular epidemiology, neurobiology and genetics, USC scientists will be able to understand how each variable contributes to disease progression and can help in delineating and identifying diagnostic and potential therapeutic alternatives.
"The Neurogenetic Initiative will draw faculty from both USC campuses and from many of its hospital partners," Henderson said. "We will be seeking solutions to health issues that have enormous economic implications for the future. The cost to treat neurodegenerative diseases is skyrocketing, and the future cost of facilities and professionals to care for patients severely afflicted by these diseases can't begin to be estimated."
Ryan said that to address the problem the school will, "draw on all our resources, on both our campuses, and use our considerable expertise in the management of multidisciplinary research to make a difference in the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The effort will be focused in the new Neurogenetic Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. The Keck gift makes the effort possible."
On the USC Health Science Campus, the initiative will involve the Keck School of Medicine's departments of cell and neurobiology, neurology, neurosurgery, preventive medicine, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and ophthalmology, as well as USC's Institute of Genetic Medicine, the Doheny Eye Institute and USC's Gene Therapy Program.
On the University Park Campus, the initiative will involve researchers in USC's
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data for : Spratly Islands Pacific Island
newspaper reporter stationed in Southeast Asia/Ren Qian
the face of the rising South China Sea disputes, frequently in Taiwan recently shot. Taiwan’s military announced, would send the missile boats stationed in the South China Sea, and in the control tanks stationed on the disputed islands. Although Taiwan has denied military exercises in the South China Sea, but according to the Taiwan military’s latest claims, end of June, Taiwan’s navy and the “Coast Guard” to go to the South China Sea Fleet will perform grouping “blue sea drill.”
Taiwan has constantly reiterated the “ROC” the sovereignty of the South China Sea and to develop positions, which allow cross-strait cooperation in the South China Sea issue had the potential.
moves intensive care units the South China Sea
the past two months, Taiwan has a series of sound on the South China Sea. April 19, Taiwan’s “foreign minister” will replace the Army announced that the Marine Corps, responsible for training deployed to the South China Sea, “Coast Guard” members. April 27, the Taiwan Navy’s “Friendship Fleet” in the return to Taiwan on the way, specifically to cruise the waters of Nansha Taiping Island. June 7, Taiwan Kaohsiung District Highway Administration sent take control of the military, and flew more than 400 km from Kaohsiung’s Pratas “inspection.” Up to June 10, Taiwan’s “Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ press release issued five times reiterated,” Spratly Islands, Paracel Islands, the Zhongsha Islands, the East Sand Island and its surrounding waters are the waters of the Republic of China’s territory and “made willing” sovereignty I, shelve disputes, peace, reciprocity and common development “to develop the basic principles and the surrounding South China Sea resources.
Taiwan’s move on the South China Sea, but also by the mainland’s attention. Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Yang Yi said that China’s South China Sea Islands and their adjacent waters has indisputable sovereignty, the sovereignty of the South China Sea is the common responsibility of compatriots on both sides. This is also being viewed as the mainland and Taiwan has been a tacit understanding in the South China Sea issue, will work together to safeguard the common interests of both sides.
guarding Taiwan’s largest island of Nansha
Nansha Islands are Chinese territory. Due to reasons known to both sides that has sovereignty over the South China Sea. In 1946, the then government of the ROC Navy to send “peace ship” to receive the largest island of Nansha Islands – Taiping Island. Since 1956, Pacific Island, has been stationed at the Marine Corps from Taiwan, the South China Sea to become the most important symbol of sovereignty.
Spratly Islands in the Pacific Island is the only island freshwater resources exist. Pacific Island area of ??0.49 square kilometers, administratively under the jurisdiction of the Kaohsiung City Cijin District. Taiping Island in Nansha Islands North Central “Zheng reefs” in the northwest corner, the highest in the South China Sea west of the east channel, location is very important. Nansha island has a hospital, weather stations, satellite communications telecommunications, radar monitoring equipment, five public telephones, more than 100 “Coast Guard” and Navy meteorologists stationed.
military experts pointed out that, due to location, and there is fresh water resources, Pacific island can build ships or submarines, an important supply base. Paracel Islands with Pacific Island People’s Liberation Army garrison from only 410 sea miles, if the two sides together to realize the idea of ??guarding the South China Sea, can invade the South China Sea at any time of the mad scramble to take action resources.
cross-strait military had joined forces to protect the island
It is because of history, geography and many other factors, the Taiwan issue in the South China Sea also plays an important role. The DPP government, for Vietnam, the Philippines and other countries invaded and occupied the behavior of the South China Sea islands, rarely stated its opposition. After the KMT return to power, the position of the South China Sea issue be adjusted constantly reiterated the “ROC” the sovereignty of the South China Sea and to develop position.
history, there had been cross-strait understanding shared by members of the South China Sea. January 1974, the PLA Navy Sea Paradise Islands of South Vietnam Navy in self-defense operations, the troops to support the East China Sea Fleet, was blocked for nearly 30 years, Taiwan’s Taiwan Strait south of the People’s Liberation Army troops the green light to make it passed the Taiwan Strait . In March 1988, Continental Navy Red Reef of the Nansha occupation of Vietnam Navy counterattack, the PLA has to spend a week in the Pacific island of supplementary food water.
However, the two sides on the issue of cooperation in the South China Sea, there are many obstacles. This respect, mainland scholars and military experts mention more, but Taiwanese attitude is very ambiguous. Taiwan authorities that the South China Sea is the “ROC” territory, the mainland is that the boundaries of the People’s Republic, Taiwan, mainland to take advantage of fear. Political mutual trust become an obstacle to cross the South China Sea together to safeguard the common interests of the largest emerging.
related topics: Vietnam and the Philippines in the South China Sea, I renewed the dispute
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This year, Inauguration Day is Thursday, January 6th. Inauguration day marks the beginning of the second term of the Patrick-Murray Administration.
On this important day, The Governor and Lt. Governor want to engage residents from across the Commonwealth, and encourage everyone to work towards the common goal of strengthening the future of Massachusetts. Their Inauguration will bring together residents from all 351 cities and towns to participate in several exciting events.
On Inauguration Day, Governor Patrick and Lt. Governor Murray will be sworn in a ceremony held in the House of Representatives Chamber within the State House. Though space in the Chamber is limited, members of the public are invited to watch from various areas within the State House via television monitors. State House doors open at 10:00 am. The ceremony begins at 11:00 am.
After the ceremony, join the Governor and Lt. Governor at the Grand Staircase inside the State House for a meet and greet with entertainment and refreshments. The Open House begins at 1:30pm, and is free and open to the public.
On Saturday, Governor Patrick and Lt. Governor Murray will convene a group of youth Ambassadors representing every city and town in the Commonwealth for a day of enrichment, action and community service, known as Project 351. Together, the participants will work to improve the lives of over 10,000 children facing economic challenge in the areas of nutrition, early childhood health and development, and educational excellence.
The Governor and Lt. Governor invite people from across the Commonwealth to embrace this same spirit of service on January 8th and beyond. For more information on how you and your family can join in on this day of service, please visit the Project 351 website.
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Rural America: New Markets, New Understanding, Unlimited Opportunity
At the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we work with thousands of farmers, ranchers and rural communities every day and we know that there is no limit to the economic potential of rural America. Rural areas provide a great deal to Americans everywhere - an abundant food supply, outdoor recreation, clean water, renewable energy and more.
USDA has undertaken historic new investments to help farmers and rural businesses seek out and develop groundbreaking partnerships. These investments are creating new markets - both for farmers and for business - in four key areas:
- Opening Foreign Markets: USDA has opened more markets abroad for U.S. commodities - helping the Obama Administration secure new agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea. These agreements will generate new markets for U.S. farmers and ranchers to the tune of more than $2 billion per year in additional exports.
- Breaking Down Barriers: USDA has removed numerous barriers to U.S. trade. In the past year alone, we have removed unfair restrictions to help farmers provide more U.S. apples to South Africa; potatoes to Japan; logs to China; organic produce to the European Union; and more.
- Researching New Methods: USDA scientists and university partners are conducting research every day to help farmers and businesses grow and produce more. In recent years they have revealed the genetic blueprints of apples, pigs, and turkeys. In 2012, they furthered understanding of the tomato, bean, wheat and barley genomes.
Local and Regional Food Systems
- Creating Local Markets: In 2009, USDA launched the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative to help bridge the gap between local farmers and local business. Our efforts to promote local and regional marketing opportunities have increased the number of farmers markets to 7,800 nationwide, a 67 percent increase over 2008.
- Furthering Regional Businesses: USDA is helping create strong regional supply chains and the jobs that come with them. USDA invests in local food infrastructure - from cold storage facilities, to processing plants, to food hubs that aggregate products from many farms and help smaller producers reach larger buyers. There are over 200 food hubs in operation nationwide today.
- Providing New Resources: To bring businesses and farmers closer together, USDA has delivered several new resources. These include a digital atlas of Farmers Markets and local food marketing opportunities; a new guide to regional food hubs; and an open collection of data for use by outside developers and businesses. These are available at www.usda.gov/KnowYourFarmer.
The Biobased Economy
- USDA has helped create markets for advanced biofuels from non-food, non-feed sources - from the farm field to the end user.
- Growing New Fuel: USDA helped jumpstart efforts to provide a reliable supply of advanced plant materials for biofuels. In 2010 USDA established a program to incentivize hundreds of growers and landowners farming nearly 60,000 acres of advanced biofuel feedstocks for energy conversion facilities.
- Creating New Infrastructure: To ensure those feedstocks are put to use, USDA has invested in the work needed to create advanced biofuels refineries. Since 2009, USDA has invested in efforts to create 9 new advanced refineries nationwide. We have also created six regional research centers across America to develop advanced biobased energy technology thats appropriate to every region.
- Putting Innovation to Use: USDA has worked with agencies across the government to strengthen markets for the use of advanced biofuels. This includes the U.S. Navy, which has undertaken efforts with USDA to create a "Great Green Fleet" of ships and aircraft that run on the next generation of advanced biofuel.
Conservation and Natural Resources
- Water Quality Markets: USDA has supported States and other partners in their efforts to establish water quality trading markets. Through three regional initiatives, USDA is demonstrating the potential for farmers and ranchers to receive new revenue streams while delivering cost effective results for businesses regulated under the Clean Water Act.
- New Conservation Tools: USDA is preparing new greenhouse gas estimation guidelines for farmers, ranchers, and rural land owners. These tools will assess greenhouse gas reductions and carbon sequestration from conservation activities - an important step to helping farmers earn revenue for their work to help the environment.
- New Uses for Wood: USDA scientists conduct research on the use of wood, helping companies meet green building design standards and creating jobs using forest products. Forest Service research into wood-based nanotechnology is leading the way to plant-based construction materials, body armor, and more. USDA scientists even worked with Major League Baseball to reduce the occurrence of broken baseball bats.
- A New Strategy in the Forest: USDA adopted and is now implementing a new planning rule for 193 million acres of USDA-managed National Forests. This modern plan will help develop land management practices that protect water and wildlife while creating stronger and more dependable supplies of wood products and other natural resources.
Inspiring and innovative work is going on across the country today - from our smallest towns to our biggest cities. USDA will continue investing to build partnerships and further innovation. Together, we can grow more prosperity in rural America, and grow the bottom line for American business.
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November 30, 2008
Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in MumbaiBy Andrew G. Bostom
Sixty hours of jihadist terror depradations throughout India's financial capital, Mumbai -- during which nearly 200 innocent victims were murdered, and 300 wounded -- apparently ceased this Saturday, November 29, when Indian commandos slew the last three gunmen inside a luxury hotel, while it was still ablaze. Mainstream media coverage of these rampaging, cold-blooded murderous acts of jihad terrorism -- perpetrated by a self-professed "mujahideen" organization (i.e., "The Deccan Mujahideen") -- consistently ignored the clear ideological linkage to Islam. Simply put, "mujahideen" are Muslim jihadists, "holy warriors," because there is just one historically relevant meaning of jihad, despite present day apologetics.
The root of the word jihad, appears 40 times in the Koran and in subsequent Islamic understanding to both Muslim luminaries -- from the greatest jurists and scholars of classical Islam, to ordinary people -- meant and means "he fought, warred or waged war against unbelievers and the like." As described by the seminal mid-19th century Arabic lexicographer E.W Lane, "Jihad came to be used by the Muslims to signify wag[ing] war, against unbelievers." A contemporary definition, relevant to both modern jihadism and its shock troop "mujahideen" was provided at the Fourth International Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research at Al Azhar University, Cairo -- Islam's most important religious educational institution-in 1968, by Muhammad al-Sobki:
Contemporary validation of the central principle of jihad terrorism -- rooted in the Koran -- (for example, verses 8:12, 8:60, and 33:26)-i.e., to terrorize the enemies of the Muslims as a prelude to their conquest -- has been provided in the mainstream Pakistani text on jihad warfare by Brigadier S.K. Malik, originally published in Lahore, in 1979. Malik's treatise was endorsed in a laudatory Foreword to the book by his patron, then Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq, as well as a more extended Preface by Allah Buksh K. Brohi, a former Advocate-General of Pakistan. This text -- widely studied in Islamic countries, and available in English, Urdu, and Arabic -- has been recovered from the bodies of slain jihadists in Kashmir. Brigadier Malik emphasizes how instilling terror is essential to waging successful jihad campaigns:
The Islamic correctness of most mainstream media outlets -- which refused to consider such ideological motivations, rooted in jihad -- did not apply, however to Hindus, or Jews-targeted infidel victims of the attacks. Blithely ignoring obvious Islamic and Muslim connections -- credit taken for the attacks by a mujahideen organization; or testimony from a Turkish Muslim couple briefly apprehended, and then released unharmed by the jihadists because, "...[w]hen the (Muezzinoglus) said they were Muslims, their captors told them that they would not be harmed" -- some media (at Fox; NPR) even voiced their own "speculations" about the possible culpability of "Hindu extremists," an absurd calumny, stated in full paranoid transference mode by the Muslim Brotherhood:
Yet these same media offered no speculation about Islamic Jew hatred as an obvious potential motivation for the transparently selective attack on Mumbai's Chabad House -- a focal point symbol of the miniscule Jewish community of 5000 (or 0.03%) in a city of some 15 million inhabitants. More egregiously, this neglect of any hateful Islamic motivations for the targeted murder of such innocent Jews -- including a young Lubavitcher Rabbi and his wife -- was accompanied by consistently dehumanizing and demeaning references to these victims as "Ultra-Orthodox," and their entirely false characterization as "missionaries."
This current Jewish tragedy within a much larger non-Muslim, primarily Hindu tragedy, reminded me of the Indian Sufi "inspiration" for The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, Ahmad Sirhindi. Nearing completion of my first book compendium, The Legacy of Jihad, in early 2005, specifically the section about jihad on the Indian subcontinent, I came across a remarkable comment by the Indian Sufi theologian Sirhindi (d. 1624). Typical of the mainstream Muslim clerics of his era, Sirhindi was viscerally opposed to the reforms which characterized the latter ecumenical phase of Akbar's 16th century reign (when Akbar became almost a Muslim-Hindu syncretist), particularly the abolition of the humiliating jizya (Koranic poll tax, as per Koran 9:29) upon the subjugated infidel Hindus. In the midst of an anti-Hindu tract Sirhindi wrote, motivated by Akbar's pro-Hindu reforms, Sirhindi observes,
The biographical information I could glean about Sirhindi provided, among other things, no evidence he was ever in direct contact with Jews, so his very hateful remark suggested to me that the attitudes it reflected must have a theological basis in Islam -- contra the prevailing, widely accepted "wisdom" that Islam, unlike Christianity was devoid of such theological Antisemitism. Having originally intended to introduce, edit, and compile a broader compendium on dhimmitude in follow-up to The Legacy of Jihad, this stunning observation inspired me instead to change course and focus on the interplay between Islamic Antisemitism, and the intimately related phenomenon of jihad imposed dhimmitude for Jews, specifically.
Of course Jew-hatred was merely a sidelight to Sirhindi's hatemongering Islamic "ethos." He was an intensely anti-Hindu bigot, as revealed by these words:
Completely uninformed about (and stubbornly resistant to any informed discussion of) the motivating Islamic ideology for the Mumbai attacks, the media "meta-narrative," repeated ad nauseum, is also oblivious to the living historical legacy of jihad on the Indian subcontinent. Thus journalists and even policymaking elites appear to accept at face value, and uncritically, the "rationale" for this wantonly murderous jihadism as stated, for example, by one of the Muslim perpetrators:
The Muslim supremacist, jihad-inspired conflict in Kashmir -- really a tragic ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Hindus by Muslim jihadists which began in earnest during the 14th century -- re-emerged in late June of this year when the Indian government had the "temerity" to want to transfer 99 acres of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, a trust running the popular Hindu shrine (including the cave that houses a large ice stalagmite itself, revered by Hindus as an incarnation of Siva, the god of destruction and reproduction). Hundreds of thousands of Hindus visit the area as part of an annual pilgrimage to the cave.
Please view the poignant, elegantly produced video by Kashmiri filmmaker Ashok Pandit, "And the World Remained Silent," (linked here, Parts 1 and 2) which chronicles in gory detail the brutal ethnic cleansing of some 350,000 indigenous Hindus from Kashmir during early 1990, orchestrated by Pakistan. and it's Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. (Focus on the time period 2:15 to 4:00 minutes, from Part 1 above, and witness the jihadist speech of the late, much ballyhooed "modernist reformer" Ms. Bhutto. She was a jihadist, plain and simple; the head of what remains a jihadist state.)
Despite the brutal Islamization of India -- dating back to the initial 8th century Arab Muslim jihad ravages, and the subsequent more extensive campaigns under the Ghaznavids (Islamized Turkic nomads who annihilated the indigenous Hindus of Afghanistan by the mid-9th century), through the Delhi Sultanate period (1000-1525 C.E.) during which an estimated 70-80 million Hindus were slaughtered -- due largely to bowdlerized educational and public discourse on Islam, even many modern Hindus remain ignorant of both this history, and the Koranic injunctions which inspired the brutal waves of jihad conquest, and Muslim colonization of India.
The Muslim chroniclers al-Baladhuri (in Kitab Futuh al-Buldan) and al-Kufi (in the Chachnama) include enough isolated details to establish the overall nature of the conquest of Sindh (in modern Paksitan) by Muhammad b. Qasim during 712 C.E. These narratives, and the processes they describe, make clear that the Arab invaders intended from the outset to Islamize Sindh by conquest, colonization, and local conversion. Baladhuri, for example, records that following the capture of Debal, Muhammad b. Qasim earmarked a section of the city exclusively for Muslims, constructed a mosque, and established four thousand colonists there. The conquest of Debal had been a brutal affair, as summarized from the Muslim sources by the renowned Indian historian R.C. Majumdar. Despite appeals for mercy from the besieged Indians (who opened their gates after the Muslims scaled the fort walls), Muhammad b. Qasim declared that he had no orders (i.e., from his superior al-Hajjaj, the Governor of Iraq) to spare the inhabitants, and thus for three days a ruthless and indiscriminate slaughter ensued. In the aftermath, the local temple was defiled, and "700 beautiful females who had sought for shelter there, were all captured". The capture of Raor was accompanied by a similar tragic outcome.
Practical, expedient considerations lead Muhammad to desist from carrying out the strict injunctions of Islamic Law and the wishes of al-Hajjaj by massacring the (pagan) infidel Hindus of Sindh. Instead, he imposed upon the vanquished Hindus the jizya (Koranic poll-tax, pace Koran 9:29) and associated restrictive regulations of dhimmitude. As a result, the Chachnama records, "some [Hindus] resolved to live in their native land, but others took flight in order to maintain the faith of their ancestors, and their horses, domestics, and other property."
Thus a lasting pattern of Muslim policy towards their Hindu subjects was set that would persist, as noted by Majumdar, until the Mughal Empire collapsed at the end of Aurangzeb's reign (in 1707):
Regarding the Islamization of Hindu Kashmir, although Mahmud of Ghazni made brutal forays into Kashmir in the early 11th century, it was not until the mid-14th century when the ruling Hindu dynasty was displaced completely by Shah Mirza, in 1346, and Kashmir was brought under Muslim suzerainty. During the reign of Sikandar Butshikan (1394-1417), mass Islamization took place as described by the great historian K.S. Lal:
Lal also notes that,
When the Moghul ruler Akbar annexed Kashmir in 1586, the majority of the population was already Muslim. Lal summarizes the chronic plight of the Kashmiri Hindus during a half millennium of Islamic rule, through 1819, which explains the modern demography of Kashmir:
There is also a modern era nexus -- rooted in jihad-between the Hindus of Islamized Kashmir, and the Jews of Islamized Palestine. Hajj Amin el-Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, and Muslim jihadist, who became, additionally, a full-fledged Nazi collaborator and ideologue in his endeavors to abort a Jewish homeland, and destroy world Jewry, was also a committed supporter of global jihad movements. Urging a "full struggle" against the Hindus of India (as well as the Jews of Israel) before delegates at the February 1951 World Muslim Congress, he stated:
And el-Husseini's jihadist, Koran (and hadith)-inspired Jew hatred was shared by a seminal modern Muslim ideologue from the Indian subcontinent, Maulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi (d. 1976), a major late 20th century Koranic commentator. An eminent scholar, Maulana Muhammad Shafi served as a professor and as a grand Mufti of Darul-Uloom Deoband, the well-known university of the Islamic Sciences in pre-partition India. In 1943, he resigned from Darul-Uloom, because of his active involvement in the Pakistan movement. When Pakistan came into existence, he migrated to Karachi devoting his life to the service of this new Muslim state. He also established Darul-Uloom Karachi, an renowned institute of Islamic Sciences patterned after Darul-Uloom Deoband, and considered today as the largest private institute of Islamic higher education in Pakistan. Here is Maulana Muhammad Shafi's commentary on the central antisemitic motif in the Koran, sura (chapter) 3, verse 112:
Nearly six decades ago, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (d. 1958), the preeminent historian of Mughal India, wrote admiringly of what the Jews of Palestine had accomplished once liberated from the yoke of jihad-imposed Islamic Law. The implication was clear that he harbored similar hopes for his own people, the Hindus of India, and those of their Muslim neighbors willing to abandon the supremacist, discriminatory, and backward mandates of Islam:
The jihadist carnage in Mumbai, and some 12,327 other acts of jihad terrorism since 9/11/2001 -- motivated by supremacist Islamic doctrine, and the atavistic hatred of Hindus, Jews, and other non-Muslims it inculcates -- provides ugly living proof that Sarkar's wistful admonition from 1950 remains almost entirely unheeded.
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The targeted drug bevacizumab (Avastin) extends the amount of time women with advanced ovarian cancer live without their disease progressing, according to findings from two phase III clinical trials. The results were published December 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In both trials, women initially received a combination of bevacizumab and standard chemotherapy, followed by bevacizumab alone for a defined period. Not enough time has passed in either trial to determine whether the approach extends lives (improves overall survival), although data from both trials suggest a possible small survival increase. Read more > >
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It is reminiscent of the excuse given to invade Iraq in 2003 – Israel will consider the “military option” in Syria to make sure its chemical weapons do not “reach the hands of extremists,” according to the Times of Israel.
“Israel will do everything it takes to ensure Syria’s chemical weapons do not fall into the hands of terrorist organizations – and if such a situation arises, then Israel will weigh a military option,” Netanyahu told a group of European ambassadors in Jerusalem. He said Hezbollah has aided Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
In August, rebels supported by the CIA and MI6 and funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar said they had seized Syrian weapons “that were converted to carry non-conventional warheads and which can be equipped with chemical or biological warheads.”
The Supreme Military Council of the Syrian rebels called on Arab countries and the international community to immediately intervene in order to protect the lives of the Syrian people “before the regime moves to a new level of crimes, which will have tragic consequences for the entire region.”
Syria admits possessing chemical weapons and al-Assad has said he will only use them if his country is invaded. “All of the stocks of these weapons that the Syrian Arab Republic posses are monitored and guarded by the Syrian army,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said in July. “These weapons are meant to be used only and strictly in the event of external aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic.”
Despite al-Assad’s admission, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said the United States is using chemical weapons as an excuse to invade the country.
“The claim that we have chemical weapons is an American invention aimed at pressuring the regime in Damascus. The Americans said the same about Iraq just to have an excuse to invade its territory,” Moallem said in an interview with Syrian media on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Syria’s fears were heightened when the United States sent a specialized military team to Jordan under the pretext of monitoring its chemical weapons. The Italian News Agency reported on October 14 that British troops had joined the Americans in Jordan and French troops may also be operating on the Syrian border “on concerns over Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.”
NATO boss Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on October 1 that Syria’s chemical weapon stockpiles are a “great concern” and NATO was monitoring the situation closely.
On Wednesday, while speaking at a NATO conference of defense ministers in Brussels, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the U.S. is working with Jordan to monitor chemical and biological weapons sites in Syria, according to the Associated Press.
“As we’ve said before, we have been planning for various contingencies, both unilaterally and with our regional partners,” Pentagon press secretary George Little said in a written statement delivered from Paris. “There are various scenarios in which the Assad regime’s reprehensible actions could affect our partners in the region. For this reason and many others, we are always working on our contingency planning, for which we consult with our friends.”
Netanyahu’s comments signal that Israel may get the ball rolling on a Syrian intervention under the guise of protecting Israel from a chemical attack.
“The growing fear is that extremist fighters and other groups may get their hands on Syria’s vast chemical and biological weapons stockpiles if Assad falls. The threat of the weaponry falling into rebel hands has grown as the uprising has intensified in recent months,” the Times of Israel reports.
Israel has threatened to attack Syria’s alleged chemical weapons in the past.
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I've already had a few comments that didn't address my question, so I will add this: Everyone knows the kind of qualifications it requires for an MD-college degree with pre-med classes/MCAT, 4 years of med school, and minimum 3 years of residency training.
My question is, when you picture in your mind what a med student has to do to learn what is required to practice medicine, how do you see that happening? This relates to course work, learning how to examine patients, "practicing" on patients, etc...Are there any myths, pre-conceptions (i.e. doctors are all intelligent [not saying that this is true BTW, just an example of what many people assume]), movies that bias you? Have you ever wondered about the rituals that occur to create a med student? It is not straightforward like: you go to class, you learn anatomy, you learn pathology/microbiology/pharmacology, and suddenly you can be someone's doctor. Have you ever wondered what it is really like? Do you think you know what it is like bc you have a friend/relative who is an MD? If so, I want to hear what you think you know.
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Lovely 'snowfakes' mimic nature, advance science (2/28/2009)
Exquisitely detailed and beautifully symmetrical, the snowflakes that David Griffeath makes are icy jewels of art.
But don't be fooled; there is some serious science behind the University of Wisconsin-Madison mathematician's charming creations. Although they look as if they tumbled straight from the clouds, these "snowfakes" are actually the product of an elaborate computer model designed to replicate the wildly complex growth of snow crystals.
Four years in the making, the model that Griffeath built with University of California, Davis, mathematician Janko Gravner can generate all of nature's snowflake types in rich three-dimensional detail. In the January issue of Physical Review E, the pair published the model's underlying theory and computations, which are so intensive they are "right on the edge of feasibility," says Griffeath.
"Even though we've artfully stripped down the model over several years so that it's as simple and efficient as possible, it still takes us a day to grow one of these things," he says.
In nature, each snowflake begins as a bit of dust, a bacterium or a pollutant in the sky, around which water molecules start glomming together and freezing to form a tiny crystal of ice. Roughly a quintillion (one million million million) molecules make up every flake, with the shape dictated by temperature, humidity and other local conditions.
How such a seemingly random process produces crystals that are at once geometrically simple and incredibly intricate has captivated scientists since the 1600s, but no one has accurately simulated their growth until now. Griffeath and Gravner's model not only gets the basic shapes right, including fern-like stars, long needles and chunky prisms, but also fine elements such as tiny ridges that run along the arms and weird, circular surface markings.
Griffeath considers himself part of a long tradition of scientists, starting with famed mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, who have marveled at snowflakes and simply wanted to understand them. But on the practical side, the model could help researchers better predict how various snowflake types in the clouds affect the amount of water reaching earth. Griffeath is now exploring that possibility with a UW-Madison meteorologist.
In the meantime, the project has given him a newfound appreciation for water, whose one-of-a-kind properties are what make snowflakes possible.
"Water is the most amazing molecule in the universe, pure and simple," he says. "It's just three little atoms, but its physics and chemistry are unbelievable."
Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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because of socioeconomic disadvantage, inadequate organization of instruction in the schools they attend, limited proficiency in English and in standard English, and cultural differences.
TEACHING READING TO CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY
As noted in Chapter 4, social class differences, especially measured in the aggregate, have long been recognized as creating conditions that lead to reading difficulties (Stubbs, 1980), although there is considerable variability within social strata. The conditions causing the reading difficulties are complex, however, and do not rest solely on home experiences (Baker et al., 1995; Delgado-Gaitan, 1990; Goldenberg et al., 1992). Low income level can be accompanied by other factors that place children at risk, for instance, attending a school that has chronic low academic achievement.
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 was the first major federal aid specifically for children from low-income neighborhoods. There were great expectations that Title I would not only help disadvantaged children but indeed also close the large achievement gap between poor children and others. However, the original Title I was actually a funding mechanism rather than a specific program or policy for assisting students at risk; in fact, Congress mandated that all school districts should be eligible for at least some of the Title I funds. Furthermore, because little was known about which compensatory practices or interventions were effective, these federal funds were not used to fundamentally alter the educational opportunities provided to children in poverty (Mosher and Bailey, 1970).
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Today, we have a guest post from our colleague Deborah Kohl of Massachusetts.
Many people are surprised to learn that mental disability claims due to workplace stress are compensable by workers’ compensation. Unfortunately, claims like these are on the rise as people work longer hours and feel the pressure of an increasingly competitive working environment.
Recent studies on mental health and the workplace have led researchers to discover that, over time, conditions such as extended working hours and long periods of solitary work can lead to decreased productivity, anxiety, and even major depression.
Employers can create conditions that are more supportive of mental health by taking simple steps like allowing workers to take breaks where socializing is permitted.
While it may seem initially counter-intuitive, studies show that in the long run, policies like these can lead to a more productive workplace.
Here are a few tips workers can use to stay mentally healthy at work:
- Form friendships in the workplace. A positive relationship with even a single colleague can make a big difference in combating loneliness and depression. A friend at your office could provide an ear when you really need to release some steam or just take a mental break from an intense task.
- That said, make a distinction between work and leisure, and make time for social activities outside the workplace. Continue reading
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3 Useful And Recommended Tips For Beautiful Garden
In this post I will share with you some tips that can be very useful for anyone who want to make his own beautiful garden easily.
Firstly, you should enjoy planting your own garden but definitely not find it stressful. That is why we will be looking at some tips to make things much easier for you and eliminate as much stress as possible from what should be a really enjoyable pastime.
The basic necessity of air for plants is often forgotten when looking at what plants really need. There’s lots of air in the atmosphere anyway so we don’t need to care about this, right? Well, not exactly.
Plants need to breathe through their roots as much as their foliage, which means that soil shouldn’t be waterlogged mainly because it will mean that the roots can’t extract the underground oxygen and will end up rotting.
Ensuring the soil doesn’t get compacted is a good way of avoiding this situation. In other words, if it’s wet, avoid walking on it or digging in it.
If the soil is looser it will contain more oxygen. A good level of underground oxygen can be achieved by adding some organic matter, such as dense clay soil.
Additionally, it is very important that you will not keep your plants too close together, especially if they’re susceptible to mildew or other such diseases, and you need to ensure your garden has good draining.
Plants must have light, as obvious as that sounds. Some plants might need more light than others plants, but they all need some. For example, growing mushrooms inside a shed is possible as they only need a small amount of light, whereas daisies need a lot of sunshine.
What you can plant and where it can be planted all boils down to the angles of sunlight and the amount of light in the backyard.
Because light is what helps plants to create their energy they need all of their leaves to be exposed to sunlight throughout the entire day at different angles. So it is very important that you will get the right types of plants in accordance with the lighting conditions in your yard, which is a fairly easy task as almost all of them have labels on.
Due to the size of some fruit plants and the care they may need, planting fruits might be a bit more complicated for your garden. For example, growing pineapples can be really difficult.
However, there is certainly a lot more to pick from depending on what you like. If space isn’t an issue you could go for fruits like apple trees, apricot trees, peach trees or cherry trees.
Or, you can decide on vine fruits such as grapes and kiwis, shrub fruits like raspberries and blackberries or fruits that grow on the ground such as melons and strawberries.
Taking into consideration how long a fruit plant will take to yield its produce is really important. Fruit trees can take many years to produce any fruit, but once they do they’ll continue to do it for many years, whereas melons are ready to harvest in the same year as they’re annuals.
Creating a beautiful garden at home is well worth the effort required to do it.
Gardening meant to be a hobby and not a chore, so take a breath and remember this when you are making your own beautiful garden.
I hope that these tips on how to build your own beautiful garden were helpful for, all the best!
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Good morning everyone!
Today I want to share with you some gardening tips that can help you to get the best from your garden. Some of these tips are safety tips and some other are professional tips, however both of them can be helpful for any gardener.
I guess that you have seen those professional and beautiful gardens at huge estates that are open to the general public. The impressive way the flowers are planted, and the sheer variety of them can at many times be really breathtaking.
So it’s no wonder that many people wish to try and get a bit of that beauty in their own gardens. You can come up with an amazing garden design with a bit of patience and know how.
In case you’re feeling very ambitious you can make several gardens around your home. Certain types of plants do better in the shade, so if you have a shaded area at your backyard that’s really great. You can give yourself lots of enjoyment since there are so many possibilities.
There is nothing else like the beauty of flowers derived from bulbs. Perhaps you already know that and have seen the masses of beautiful daffodils, tulips and other various bulb flowers. The amount of bulbs which are readily available to buy has exploded thanks to the internet these days.
However, I would advise you to do some research before you buy anything online as you will need to make sure the site you buy from is well trusted.
You can also buy from a local shop and it certainly has advantages, as you can take a close look at the bulbs before purchasing them. You need to ensure that the bulbs you buy are healthy, so they should be firm. When you are looking at the bulbs don’t go for any that have damage, like little cuts.
What about herb garden? Have you ever visited a garden that has herbs in it? The aroma from the herbs can be mesmerizing, and it really fills the air with the sweetest natural scent. Unfortunately we do not see, or smell, enough herb gardens when we are out.
Setting up a herb garden at your backyard isn’t a difficult task, so maybe you should consider it. These kind of gardens are able to grow in the proper conditions, and you will find that they can grow like weeds can.
I definitely recommend choosing the herbs carefully as you don’t want any herbs that smell bad. For example, if you get sage or mint you’ll notice that they smell nice, especially in the early evening. Overlooking herb garden is not good as lots of people seem to do this.
When there is a good weather we tend to do lots of work outside in our garden. That means it is very important to be careful about too much exposure to the sun. Be familiar and understand the dangerous of skin damage and sunburn.
The neck, face, arms and hands can show a burden of all the work you do over the years so try to wear a colorful hat that’s nice and light. In addition to this, sunscreen should be worn on your arms and face every time you go outside to your garden to protect yourself. Since I am concerned about safety, I also wear gloves, and they also provide protection from the sun.
Gardening is really a wonderful way to use a weekend if the weather outside is nice. However make sure you understand these safety tips to ensure you don’t hurt yourself.
I hope that these gardening tips will be helpful for you and for your garden, have a great day!
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In this post I want to share with you my own thoughts about gardening and how you can benefit from it.
Today many people are interested in building their own beautiful garden at home and for those of you that enjoy gardening each and every year, adding one outside of your home will contribute to its overall beauty.
Gardening is fun for everybody, young or old, experienced or not, because it allows anyone to create something beautiful with his or her own hands. The sky is literally the limit as to what you can plant and grow in your garden depending upon your own desires and personality. Before you begin gardening, let’s take a look at what is available for you that can grow.
As times have changed, the thoughts surrounding a contemporary garden have evolved and do not follow the strict codes that were once seen in Japanese or English gardens. Of course, you still have to pay attention to what your plants and flowers require, but the design is really up to you, and may be altered to suit your environment. Even though they are limited on space, many people living in the city have created gardens. If you live in a city or in a condo, for example, you can build a terrace of patio garden.
Traditional gardens are usually the source of inspiration for contemporary gardens. If you like unusual, and beautiful, a butterfly garden is the perfect way to begin your gardening this year. The goal is to plant certain plants that will attract butterflies from neighboring areas that are quite a sight to see. To ensure that it is a success, the plants that you grow must excrete certain nectar that will attract the butterflies to them. Your garden should also be sheltered from wind and exposed to as much sunlight as possible.
Doing this will allow you to experiment with a variety of colors in your flower garden that are not only fragrant but also extremely attractive. Your garden will actually be magical with stellar colors in your flowers and butterflies that will visit each and every day.
Cottage gardens are like traditional European gardens, however cottage gardens are less formal and less structured. Herbs that can be eaten, as well as vegetables, are included in a cottage garden, and cottage gardens are usually more practical. In contrast to the English Country style gardens, cottage gardens are modeled after the type of gardens that English peasants largely relied on for their own food supply.
That’s why they include quite a few edibles, along with wildflowers and some other decorative plants and flowers. There is plenty of elbow room when you are deciding on the size and structure of the garden, since regular cottage gardens are informal.
What you want to grow and where you want to grow it plays a huge part in the many forms of gardening, as we’ve seen. You can have a rugged and natural rock garden, a formal European style garden or to make your own hybrid style. Regardless of what you go for, you should do some research online to find out the ultimate conditions for the plants and flowers to survive.
These are my thoughts about gardening and I hope that they will help you.
In case you are interested in building your own organic garden at home then take a look at the links below and learn about two of our most recommended gardening guides that will help you to make your own garden easily.
Have a great day everyone!
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After negative growth rates in 2009 following the economic crisis, industrial production in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia experienced relative high growth rates in 2010 and 2011, but lost some momentum in 2012, when it returned to more modest growth rates.
Industrial production in the Russian Federation grew by 8.2% in 2010 and 4.8% in 2011 but fell to 2.6% in 2012. Ukraine saw large variations in its industrial growth, from a fall of 22% in 2009 to growth rates of 11% in 2010 and 7.6% in 2011; and in 2012 production fell by 1.8%.
Another large economy of the region, Kazakhstan, saw similar declines, from growth rates of 10% in both 2010 and 2011, to 0.4% in 2012.
Armenia showed a different pattern, however. After a record high of 14.2% growth in 2011, industrial growth was back at 8.8% in 2012, the same level of growth as in 2010.
Azerbaijan experienced a different development: After a fall of 4.9% in industrial production in 2011, the country experienced positive growth of 1.1% in 2012.
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Incorporating Experience into Certification Programs
BackBy Patrick von Schlag — July 2007When the IT certification industry really began to grow in the 1990s, the focus almost exclusively was on technology, and in most cases, a specific vendor’s technology.
At issue was being able to demonstrate the usual abilities in that technology: How do I install it? How do I set up basic configurations? How do I troubleshoot it when it breaks? How do I design systems with it?
The universality of the paradigm shift is remarkable. Regardless of whether you’re discussing operating systems, databases, Web servers, routers, switches or storage devices, there are just so many things you can actually learn to do with the device.
Unfortunately, that’s where we stopped. When the certification market began to retreat after the dot-com bomb went off, many of us knew something wasn’t quite right. All the mumblings about “paper” Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (hardly the case now) had an undeniable air of truth.
We might know how to install, configure, manage, monitor, troubleshoot and design it, but did we know when to do it? Where to do it? Why to do it? How would deploying a particular solution deliver impact to the business or organization we were supporting?
Certification must continue beyond the scope of merely demonstrating technical acumen to delivering business impact. One of the more effective and challenging ways to begin this endeavor is by leveraging experience as a fundamental part of the certification process.
Context is King
When vendors or other groups develop certification programs, they usually begin by developing a job-task analysis — take an area of expertise and break it down to the specific knowledge and skill components someone would need to perform that job. So, for example, to set up the configuration for a network client in Windows XP, they would start with the control panel, look at the particular network connections and, from there, break down to installing and configuring transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP).
This type of detailed knowledge is necessary to the work of a competent technician, but it isn’t sufficient. The bigger question is: When would I want to come in and look at my TCP/IP network setup? Of course, there could be many answers, from initial setup and configuration of a new laptop being issued to customer connectivity problems of many kinds.
The missing link in certification has been business context — when, where and why will I use this skill to deliver results for the business? Incorporating experience more specifically into the certification process will help address this issue.
Many private organizations and a few public certifications have figured this out and are beginning to implement certification models that go well beyond the traditional ones. One of the major IT integrators, for example, has established its own skills-development boot camp that provides a two-week, real-world assessment of the developed business skills of a team.
Interestingly, the team (not the individual) is what becomes certified because intact teams complete most project work. These types of certification models cover broad arrays of mission-critical business skills in context with the technical skills needed for that type of project. A sample might include:
- Assembling a team, understanding the different skills and resources on the team and identifying team roles and leadership.
- Meeting with a customer to capture requirements. Emphasis here is on effective process, professional management of the interview, customer-relationship-management skills and understanding of the business objectives.
- Working as a team to translate the customer’s business requirements into technically achievable services. Note that this approach, at this stage, gets us out of thinking in terms of servers and routers and more in terms of customer services — the end customer’s goals and objectives for the systems and services built. This encourages different organizations and technicians with different skill sets to collaborate more effectively, and it helps them see the end service and their role in achieving it.
- Prototyping a solution and asking for feedback from the client before investing large amounts of resources to build a solution.
- Technical design and implementation of the projected solution (usually, just this part is certified).
- Testing and end-to-end documentation and ensuring the project meets the original business objectives, not just a subset of technical specifications.
- Rework as needed until the objective is met.
- Relationship management among the members of the team. Project managers and business analysts are graded on project scope and control. Technicians are graded on the technical accuracy of their system and their collaborative efforts to ensure the result is achieved.
Consider the implications of this type of model.
First, it is much more expensive than a traditional certification, and it’s not nearly as scalable. Team certifications are hard to keep relevant, as turnover and restructuring prevent teams from staying intact. And in this model, there are two weeks of downtime associated with the certification process.
Given the disadvantages, why are many organizations doing this anyway?
Fundamentally, it comes down to the true value of certification — business results.
These organizations recognize the costs of certification truly are dwarfed by the benefits: improved customer satisfaction, repeat purchases, more efficient project delivery and higher profits. But the costs of not having people certified on the right skills can be enormously expensive.
The rework cost of missing a key requirement for a project can be as much as 600 times more expensive than getting the requirement correct in the first place. The loss of one customer because of poor customer relationship management can cost hundreds of thousands or even many millions of dollars.
In this context, investing in the right mix of business, process and technical skills certifications can be the best investment an organization makes, with a high rate of return.
Some Experience Required
So, how do traditional certification programs evolve to stay relevant for you and the companies that require your services?
Incorporating experience into the certification program rapidly is becoming a fundamental part of the certification itself. These come in different levels.
- Level 1: Recommend experience. Many Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) exams identify a recommended level of experience. For A+, it’s six months. For Network+, it’s 18 months to two years. Although this gives us some expectation that the candidates have at least seen a computer before, we don’t have a good feel of their ability to do the work. It does provide a good guideline for hiring managers about the relative level of background of the certified individual and can be helpful in establishing job roles and salary ranges.
- Level 2: Certify you have experience. Other exams, including the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP), require you sign and attest to having a certain level of practical experience. Although doing this protects the certifying body — to a certain extent — from certifying people who turn out to be unqualified, it doesn’t really tell us much about the level of experience. Even if they do have a certain number of years, what have they been doing? Have they served as project leaders or done cost control, estimation, resource allocation and delivered projects on time? The certification won’t tell you that. Your background interviews and resume will help.
- Level 3: Produce work to get the certification. Some exams take a very practical approach to experience. Performance-based testing adherents typically cite the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exams as the best-known examples of exams for which you must demonstrate your technical competencies in a physical, real-world context. It’s not surprising these are considered among the best certifications to have — there’s no hiding or test-prep software that’s going to disguise a candidate’s lack of real, practical skills. Other exams that take this approach include Information Systems Examinations Board/Examination Institute for Information Science’s ITIL Practitioner certifications, which require in-class assessments that demonstrate the candidate’s ability to oversee change management processes or technical support services. Together, these types of exams test a candidate’s specific knowledge and skills in a particular technology or other discipline.
- Level 4: Produce business results with technology. The example from the major integrator of the two-week team certification program is a great example of a Level 4 certification. The certification exam itself is training, testing and validation of a business process, and it demonstrates the team’s ability to produce the desired business — not just technical — outcome. There are many other private in-house certifications that take this approach, and there definitely is a role for the other certifications to play in designing Level 4 scenarios.
We have seen a great deal of increased emphasis on business skills and process frameworks in recent years, and you should expect to see even more going forward. IT exists to serve the business, and certifications will continue to evolve to ensure mission-critical IT services will be available. Ultimately, the more mission-critical IT becomes, the more value IT certification will have for you.
Patrick von Schlag is president of Deep Creek Center, an enterprise training and skills development company. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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In this installment of our “primary highways” series, we look at the states of Mississippi and Alabama. In some ways, this is a particularly challenging edition, as I have never personally visited either of the states – in fact they are among only five remaining states I have yet to visit (Kansas, which held its causes on Saturday, is another of the five). So we will do the best we can.
I did come close to visiting Mississippi in 2006. For one day while I was in New Orleans, I had rented a car to reach places outside the public transportation grid that was still limited after Hurricane Katrina, including the Lower Ninth Ward. I was tempted to get back on I-10 and head east to Mississippi, just to be able to say I was there. But in the end I decided against it. Had I continued, I would have crossed into Mississippi in a sparsely populated area along the Pearl River. To the north of I-10 is the John C Stennis Space Center, where NASA has tested engines for many of our legendary space vehicles including the Apollo Saturn V and the Space Shuttle.
Given that it is an engine test facility, it’s not surprising there isn’t much of a permanent population in the area. Several communities were removed when it was built, and supposedly a few remnants of the communities, particularly Gaineville, still exist. Indeed, off of Highway 607, the “Shuttle Parkway”, is Lower Gainesville Road, which heads past various space-center complexes towards the Pearl River and ends at what could be the remains of the town.
Heading southward on 607 from I-10, we eventually reach US 90, which continues along the Mississippi coast through the towns of Waveland and Bay St Louis, which were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Perhaps the most dramatic example was the bridge carrying US 90 over St. Louis Bay, which was completely destroyed.
It has since been replaced by a new bridge, a graceful flowing structure that has won the American Transportation Award and became a symbol for the region.
US 90 continues along the coast as Beach Boulevard towards the cities of Gulfport and Biloxi. Biloxi is a big resort and casino town on the coast, but it, too, was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Although it sounds like there is still much rebuilding to be done, many of the city’s casinos have since reopened and landmarks restored including the iconic Biloxi Lighthouse and the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum Of Art that was designed by Frank Gehry. The Ohr-O’Keefe was under construction when Katrina hit and was severely damaged. It ultimately opened in 2010.
South of nearby Gulfport is Cat Island. I thought maybe it had something in common with the famous Cat Island off the coast of Japan, but no such luck. As far as I can tell, there are no cats there, and the name itself was a mistake.
From the southeast corner of the state, we jump to the northwest corner. Specifically, we are going to a junction outside of Clarksdale where US 61 and US 49 meet. This crossroads is considered by many “the crossroads”, where according to legend blues musician Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his musical gifts.
Legend or not, Clarksdale has a particular association with the blues, and is home to the Delta Blues Museum.
US 49 has long been a major highway traversing the state diagonally. From Clarksdale, it winds its way through the Mississippi Delta, even splitting into separate east and west parts, before leaving the delta and approaching the capital and largest city, Jackson. On the northwest approach to the capital, US 49 carries the name Medgar Evers Boulevard in honor of the civil rights leader who was assassinated in Jackson in 1963. The highway then bypasses the downtown with I-220 and I-20 before continuing to Hattiesburg, home of Southern Mississippi University.
In Hattiesburg we meet I-59. The drive along I-59 and US 11 to the town of Laurel was recommended to me (actually, the drive south from Laurel to Mississippi State University). In Laurel, I-59 had an unusual S-curve that rivaled Dead Man’s curve in Cleveland due to railroad overpasses, but it has supposedly been reconstructed. I-59 continues north to Meridian, where it joins with I-20.
Briefly leaving the freeway in Meridian, one can take Highway 19 north to the town of Philadelphia, made infamous for the death of three civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. The murders took place off of Highway 19, and it was presumably the route they took to Neshoba County.
I-59 and I-20 continue as a single route into Alabama, all the way to Birmingham. It is largest city in either of the states in this article, and is crisscrossed by several major highways. A large interchange between I-59/I-20 and I-65 just west of downtown is known as Malfunction Junction because of the frequent (and unfortunately, sometimes deadly) accidents that happen there.
Interestingly, it does not look that complex from a map view, especially when compared to a nearby junction of I-59/I-20 and US 31/US 280. While it does look more complex, it does afford a good view of the city skyline when approaching from the south.
Birmingham has a strong industrial past, especially in iron and steel. Indeed, the Sloss Furnace in the city is one of the few industrial sites preserved as a National Historic Landmark.
Visitors can wander and enjoy the site, which features defunct but preserved industrial buildings and machinery. This would be a fantastic place to photograph! I could also see it as a musically inspiring location, for pieces based on metallic resonances. The center does hold concerts, and has a highly regarded program in metal arts. (I wonder if they have arts residencies?)
As has happened with many other industrial cities that experienced long declines, downtown Birmingham appears to rebounding as a residential and cultural center, with lofts and galleries. There is also the restored Alabama Theatre which functions as a performing arts center while retaining many of its movie-palace features, most notably its original Wurlitzer Organ. (It should be noted this is the second Wurlitzer to be featured in this year’s “primary highways” series.)
South of Birmingham is the town of Selma, which has a storied place in the Civil Rights Movement. A voting rights movement in the town ultimately grew into the Selma to Montgomery Marches in 1965. The marches took place on US Highway 80 heading east from Selma and crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
The first march was met by state troopers and the marchers were brutally assaulted. Images “Bloody Sunday” were broadcast nationwide, shocking many and galvanizing support among some for the civil rights movement. Two more marches along the same route were organized. The third march passed the bridge and continued all the way east on Highway 80 to Montgomery. The march then veered north onto the Mobile Highway, parallel to present day I-65, and then along city streets to the state capitol. The entire route is now marked as the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Route.
From the state capital, one can travel south on I-65 to Mobile and back to the Gulf Coast, where we began. We switch on to I-165 which enters the downtown and becomes Water Street. Heading further south, we come back to I-10, which crosses Mobile Bay on a long causeway. From the causeway, we can look back at the city at sunset.
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Now this is just too cool! Laura and David Hughes, who have an almost surreal knack for finding interesting and unusual things, have scored once again and big time. They spend a fair bit of time over in eastern Ohio's Monroe County, and during their wanderings noticed a well traveled game path. So, they set up a Wildgame Innovations trail camera, switched to video mode, and achieved some awesome results.
The following clip shows an adult Bobcat, Felis rufus, ambling down the path shadowed by a kitten. And boy-o-boy is that one cute (and fierce) kitten! To our great benefit and viewing pleasure, the baby Bobcat pauses in front of the camera and roots around a bit before trotting off to catch up with mama.
It's encouraging to see the comeback of Bobcats in Ohio and adjacent regions. In 2011, there were 136 verified sightings in Ohio - an increase of 30 over 2010. It's thought that these little cats - a big male might weigh 40 lbs. - had become extirpated in Ohio by 1850 - victims of persecution and habitat loss. By the 1960's, a few sightings were being reported, and the number of documented observations very slowly but steadily has grown ever since. Today, there are certainly hundreds of Bobcats - maybe even 1,000+ - roaming the hills of southern and eastern Ohio, and there are even occasional sightings outside of the hill country.
Thanks to Laura and David for allowing me to share their wonderful video work. I'll soon post another of their videos, and believe it or not, this one is even cooler than these Bobcats. It shows, in wonderful clarity, a family unit of River Otters and if you thought that baby Bobcat was cool, wait until you see a pack of otters playing right in front of the camera lens!
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One hundred and forty-eight years ago today, Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Four months earlier Union forces had repelled the Confederate army at the Battle of Gettysburg. The three-day battle, which marked a turning point in the Civil War, remains one of the bloodiest in U.S. history. As Lincoln spoke, more than half of the Union dead remained buried in hastily dug field graves nearby.
Lincoln was not the featured speaker at the dedication. That honor fell to the famed orator Edward Everett, who spoke for two hours. Once Everett finished, Lincoln spoke for just two minutes. Initial reactions to the speech were mixed. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican called it a “perfect gem.” However, Lincoln’s home state paper, the Chicago Times, declared that the “cheeks of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dishwatery utterances.”
The verdict of history has sided firmly with the Springfield paper. What is widely considered one of the greatest speeches ever delivered has spawned thousands of books and articles. Some analyze the five written copies of the speech and debate which wording is most accurate. Some examine the history of the speech’s writing and its legacy in U.S. history. Some look at the sources, from Pericles to the Bible, that inspired Lincoln.
None of these analyses compare with the words Lincoln spoke that blustery November day:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Reading that speech nearly a century-and-a-half later, it is easy to see why Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner was moved to write that the “battle [of Gettysburg] itself was less important than the speech” that Lincoln gave.
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This week's theme: newly coined words.
carbon-neutral (KAHR-buhn NOO-truhl, NYOO-) adjective
Adding no net carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
[A greenhouse gas such as carbon dioxide is a contributor to global warming. Carbon-neutral means contributing zero total emission of the gas into the atmosphere. The earliest citation of the term is found in a 1992 article in The Independent (London, UK).]
Being carbon-neutral doesn't necessarily mean producing zero carbon dioxide. What it means is that the net addition is zero, offset by other actions, such as planting trees, buying clean energy, etc. And it doesn't have to be all or nothing. If you cannot be completely carbon-neutral, you can definitely reduce your carbon footprint.
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-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
"As an award-winning leader in green design, it's no surprise that Vancouver architect Peter Busby is planning North America's first carbon-neutral office tower." Kerry Gold; Carbon-neutral Building Sets a Standard; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Nov 20, 2007.
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money. -Arne Garborg, writer (1851-1924)
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Deadly Poultry Virus Caused By Gene-Swapping Vaccines
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
Australian scientists looking to vaccinate chicken populations against a respiratory disease may have accidentally unleashed a disease far more deadly than the one they hoped to prevent.
According to a report published this week in Science, the genomes from two different strains of the herpesvirus infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) virus that were used in vaccines have recombined to produce more virulent ILT viruses near Sydney and Melbourne.
“These new strains were formed by recombination from the different vaccine strains and that they were actually more virulent than the vaccine strains that gave rise to them,” said lead author Joanne Devlin from The University of Melbourne, Parkville.
Australian strains of ILT vaccine were first developed in the 1950s, but several problems were associated with their use, including the potential for the virus to lie dormant in a vaccinated bird until it can spread to unvaccinated populations.
In 2006, Australian officials purchased a European strain of the ILT vaccine, which was then used to combat the virus. Two years later, deadlier strains of ILT began showing up in flocks. While the original strains typically killed 5% of the chicken population, the two new strains were killing up to 17% of chicken populations.
At first, scientists theorized that the new vaccine’s weakened virus might have reverted back to a disease-causing form. However when the researchers sequenced the genomes of the viruses found in infected birds and the three vaccine strains; they realized that the new forms of the virus were composites of the European and Australian strains.
In their report, the research team attributed the recombination events to the fact that live viruses were used in the vaccines. Live, or attenuated, vaccines use a weaker version of the virus to cause the host’s immune system to build up its own defenses. They are commonly used for both animals and humans, and include vaccines for polio, measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox and rabies.
“It’s relatively common for there to be multiple live attenuated vaccines like this used in animal populations, and we suspect that this sort of event could potentially happen in other animal species as well, with other viruses,” said co-author Glenn Browning of the University of Melbourne.
“So we believe that what we’ve seen here has potentially got wider implications than just this particular disease in poultry.”
Despite the unique genetic recombination that occurred in Australian chicken flocks, scientists said there is no need for alarm regarding human immunizations.
Ian Gust, a professor from Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne, said the equivalent of the ILT vaccine for people was the varicella vaccine, which is used to prevent the disease that causes chicken pox.
“That vaccine is given to children, but it’s given individually,” Gust said.
“While there are two licensed vaccines available in Australia, both of them use exactly the same starting strain … of the varicella virus. It would be extremely unusual for a vaccine session in a doctor’s office to involve vaccines from two different manufacturers sequentially. Almost invariably the material comes from the same manufacturer.”
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Caring for the coast
Hampshire County Council, through its policies of land acquisition and its management of sites, is in a unique position to protect and conserve. Many of its sites are designated for conservation, and the County Council is leading the production of a coastal biodiversity plan with the aim of identifying and protecting priority habitats and species.
The County Council plays an important role in caring for our coastline through the provision of Nature Reserves and coastal defence, through environmental improvement, and through protection against pollution.
The County Council manages some important sites on the coast as nature reserves, including:
Lymington-Keyhaven Coastal Nature Reserve: an extensive area of unspoilt grazing marshes and saline lagoons in the shelter of Hampshire’s largest shingle beach (Hurst Spit)
Calshot Marshes Local Nature Reserve: a superb example of coastal saltmarsh, rich in bird life
Mercury Marshes, Hacketts Marsh and Hook-with-Warsash Nature Reserves on the lower estuary of the River Hamble: between them these reserves encompass extensive mudland, saltmarsh, shingle beach, reedbeds, brackish lagoons, wet pasture, scrub and woodland.
Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve: one of Hampshire’s finest reserves, with reedbeds, fen vegetation and wet pasture flanking the River Meon, and man-made ‘scrapes’ (shallow freshwater lagoons with islands) that provide an ideal habitat for birds.
The Kench Local Nature Reserve: a small area of inter-tidal mud and saltmarsh within Langstone Harbour, close to the harbour entrance, near the south-western tip of Hayling Island
Gutner Point Nature Reserve: an extensive area of species rich and relatively undisturbed saltmarsh on the east side of Hayling Island.
Sandy Point Nature Reserve: on the south-eastern corner of Hayling Island, this site is a unique mixture of coastal habitats found nowhere else in Hampshire (a complex mixture of sand dune, shingle, heath, grassland and mixed scrub)
The County Council has sought opportunities to improve the environment of the coast, either on its own land or on other sites in partnership with other organisations.
In the past 10 years environmental improvement schemes have been funded by the County Council in a number of locations which are listed under the projects page.
The natural processes of tides, winds, waves and currents are constantly influencing a dynamic coastline such as Hampshire’s. The prospect of sea level rise and increased storminess presents growing threats to many coastal sites.
'Coastal defences' is the general term used to encompass both coastal protection against erosion and sea defence against flooding. They consist of soft defences (beach replenishment) and hard defences (sea walls, revetments and groynes), and are generally the responsibility of District Councils and the Environment Agency.
However, as a major coastal landowner, the County Council has had to spend considerable sums of money to defend its land from the sea, especially where important features and assets are at stake. Where this has been necessary, the Authority has been anxious to use materials that have the least impact on the environment. For example, the groynes built to maintain the beach at Lepe Country Park were made of timber from sustainable sources.
The County Council is carrying out a review of the effects of climate change on its coastal landholdings, with the aim of agreeing with other relevant agencies (e.g. the district councils, the Environment Agency and Natural England) a sustainable long-term strategy that works with- rather than against- natural processes.
Pollution and safety
Hampshire County Council provides an emergency planning unit to deal with major incidents such as pollution. The Unit is responsible for overseeing that Hampshire County Council is prepared to act in an emergency such as pollution and helps to assist in the preparedness of the Districts and Boroughs. Comprehensive instructions for dealing with oil and chemical pollution are contained in the Hampshire County Council coastal oil and chemical pollution plan maintained by the Emergency Planning Unit.
In the event of a major oil pollution incident affecting the Hampshire coastline, the County Council has a responsibility to assist with oil on beaches in terms of providing districts with additional resources for clearance activities. District councils remain responsible for physical clearance in respective areas of jurisdiction, although the County Council will co-ordinate operations in the event of widespread pollution affecting more than one district. In the event of a major incident of chemical pollution the County Council through the County Oil and Chemical Pollution Officer (COCPO) is responsible for co-ordinating reports, the notification of the incident to government departments and to other authorities. Co-ordination of action within the County is undertaken.as appropriate, and general assistance to district councils including the co-ordination of assistance from sources outside the county.
The Solent Water Quality Association which is managed by the Solent Forum plays an important role in the promotion of good water quality in the Solent. It supports and complements the work of Local Authorities, the Environment Agency and other agencies in protecting and improving the quality of recreational water and the coastal environment.
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Photograph by Victor R. Caivano, AP
Published June 21, 2012
Military helicopters whir overhead and trucks full of well-armed troops weave around a steady stream of shuttle buses, which ferry thousands of official delegates, nonprofit staffers, and journalists from the airport and hotels around Rio de Janeiro to the Riocentro Convention Center.
Framed by verdant hills in a suburban part of the city, Riocentro was built to house the first Earth Summit in 1992. Now it is hosting delegates from 190 nations for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), including the heads of state of Russia, France, India, and Brazil, plus high-level representatives from many other countries.
The official UN negotiations are taking place June 20 to 22, although there have been more than 3,000 Rio+20-related events around the city over the past month, drawing more than 50,000 out-of-towners. These have included gatherings of indigenous people, protest rallies, art exhibits, themed beach parties, and even a march by topless feminists who called for an end to exploitation of nature.
Activists built a tank out of bread, an imitation shantytown, and elaborate sand castles on Rio's stunning beaches to draw attention to their causes.
After a two-year effort, the conference pre-negotiations wrapped up Tuesday with a 49-page document called "The Future We Want." Participating world leaders are expected to accept that document Friday, with the intended goal of laying out a road map for sustainable development.
Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil, told the conference on Wednesday, "Current development models have pretty much exhausted their ability to respond to contemporary challenges."
Rousseff went on to detail some of the progress made by Brazil since the first Earth Summit, including sourcing 45 percent of the country's energy through renewable sources (mostly hydropower), setting voluntary commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and placing a vast amount of land in the Amazon under protection—all while creating 18 million jobs and boosting agricultural productivity by 180 percent.
Rousseff called sustainable development "the best possible response to climate change," and added, "We do know that the cost of inaction will be higher than making the necessary arrangements... To that end we must be ambitious. It is a major commitment not to have a setback from what we agreed in 1992."
The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, told the conference, "Twenty years ago the Earth Summit put sustainable development on the agenda." But he added, "Our efforts have not measured up to the challenge."
Ban Ki-moon said, "We recognize that the old model for economic development and social development is broken. We must create a new model, and set a new course that balances imperatives of economic growth and sustainable development."
Ban Ki-moon pointed out that 20 years ago there were 5.5 billion people, but now there are 7 billion. By 2030 we will need 50 percent more food and 45 percent more energy than we do today.
"Let us not forget the scarcest resource of all, time. We are running out of time," Ban Ki-moon said.
Building a Road Map
Time was running out quickly for the delegates who were trying to hammer out a final document before the top leaders arrived in Riocentro Wednesday. As the lead negotiators, the Brazilian delegation worked late into the night on Monday to build international agreement on the draft.
The result was a document that speaks in broad terms about the need to extend economic opportunities to the world's poor while preserving the environment for future generations. The draft does not call for specific reductions in climate emissions and it does not define concrete Sustainable Development Goals, which many hoped would take the place of the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015. The final draft cut out a proposed 30-billion-dollar fund that would have helped finance a transition to a green economy.
The document does call for increasing support to the United Nations Environment Program, a move that requires approval by the UN General Assembly. In broad terms, the draft acknowledges that gross domestic product (GDP) is not a complete way to measure a country's development, since it makes no mention of the state of the environment. The document also calls on the private sector to more thoroughly incorporate sustainability.
Many environmentalists at the conference criticized the document as inadequate to make meaningful progress. Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International's executive director, said in a statement, "Rio+20 has turned into an epic failure. It has failed on equity, failed on ecology, and failed on economy."
The World Wildlife Fund called the document "less than satisfactory from any point of view" and warned that without improvement the conference "will have been a colossal waste of time."
During a pre-conference plenary, delegates from the European Union criticized the draft for lacking specific time frames and targets and for having a "lack of ambition."
On Wednesday, France's newly elected president, Francois Hollande, told the conference that he regrets that the plan does not specify funding goals.
Tropical ecologist, George Mason University professor, and National Geographic fellow Thomas Lovejoy told National Geographic News in Rio, "I think we are all disappointed by the watering down of the text." (The Society owns National Geographic News.)
Asked at a press conference if the Brazilian government is disappointed with the final draft, Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota said, "If everyone is equally dissatisfied, it's because it is the result of compromise. Given the difficulty we were facing a few days ago, with only 30 percent of the agreement done, we did accomplish a lot."
Conspicuously absent from Rio+20 are Barack Obama, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, all of whom were in Mexico for the G20 economic summit earlier this week. Although Obama has reportedly dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Rio, his absence disappoints observers who remember that George H.W. Bush had attended the first Earth Summit.
Acknowledging that world leaders are grappling with economic stagnation and instability, especially in Europe, Hollande admonished, "There is not just the financial crisis, there is also the ecological crisis."
Wen Jiabao, the premier (prime minister) of China, told the conference Wednesday, "We must promote global sustainable development and promote equal right to development for all countries." Jiabao said, "The gap between the North and the South is widening."
Jiabao pointed out that the green economy has grown rapidly, but he said it lacks uniform standards.
(See "5 Challenges for Green Jobs")
Still Much to Celebrate
After lamenting the lack of rigor in the conference draft, Brazilian environmentalist Tasso Rezende de Azevedo told a small group in Rio, "It really doesn't matter, because Rio+20 is an immense success. What's happened around it is very rich."
Azevedo is referring to the massive exchange of ideas through the conference's many associated events, plus many more around the world and online. Azevedo, who recently served as Director-General in Brazil's Ministry of the Environment, said that he had been a 19-year old student during the first Earth Summit in 1992, when he slept on the beach and hung out in the neighborhood Flamengo, where the NGOs were gathered. "Now you see governments, the private sector, and NGOs together," said Azevedo, who consults with Imaflora, a nonprofit that certifies sustainable forestry and agriculture in Brazil.
Lovejoy said he found many of the side events encouraging. "The private sector is very impressive in terms of serious commitments," Lovejoy said. "The Inter-American Development Bank has a new biological diversity platform. The green economy sessions in various forms are all very encouraging, although there is still a minority that mistake it for 'putting a price on nature.'"
As president of Rio+20 as well as president of Brazil, Rousseff said, "This can be called the largest UN conference of active participants in civil society." She added, "Deep-seeded changes in collective institutions are needed."
It's unclear whether Rio+20 will result in those changes, but for now delegates are still working behind the scenes, and the dialog continues in Brazil.
Road to Rio+20
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Future of Fish is helping fishermen improve their bottom line while better managing stocks for the future.
The Change Reaction blog investigates in California.
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Ever since I bought those two jars of shimmer sugar, I have been keeping a lookout for recipes using sugar sprinkles. Most are cookie recipes and I did use the amethyst shimmer for some teapot shaped Lavender Sugar Cookies which turned out beautifully. I was excited when I saw this Cinnamon Spiced Kumquat Nut Bread over at Sumptuous Spoonfuls. Not only did the bread have a sprinkling of raw sugar on the top but it also uses one of my current favorite winter fruit, the kumquat.
Kumquats are tiny, bright orange oval fruits with a sweet rind and a tart flesh. In many parts of East and Southeast Asia, kumquats are associated with the Chinese or Lunar New Year. They are considered to be auspicious because their name in Cantonese, gam gwat, means “gold orange”. The shrubs with their golden fruits are prized and often used as ornamental plants during the festivities. The fruits do look pretty stunning against the backdrop of glossy deep green leaves.
This bread is fragrantly spiced with cinnamon, ginger, cloves, cardamom, and nutmeg. These warm spices go really well with the kumquats. I did change out the flours used from all-purpose and whole wheat flour to whole spelt and oat flour because of some diet sensitivity issues in the family. I also reduced the number of eggs used to just one instead of two for the same reason. The bread turned out beautifully and was almost gone in one sitting. Thanks Ann, for a wonderful recipe. It’s a keeper for sure!
- 20 kumquats yielding ¾ cup (180g) puree
- 1 cup (130g) whole spelt flour
- ¾ cup (105g) whole oat flour
- ¼ cup (25g) flaxmeal
- 1 tsp salt
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp each of ground cloves, ground cardamom, and nutmeg
- ⅔ cup (160ml) milk
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup (135g) brown sugar
- ½ cup (50g) toasted chopped walnuts
- 1 tbsp gold shimmer sugar or raw sugar for the top
- Cut kumquats into halves and remove seeds. Puree kumquats in a food processor.
- Preheat the oven to 350 F (180°C).
- In a medium sized bowl, combine spelt flour, oat flour, flaxmeal, salt, baking powder, and spices.
- In a large bowl, combine milk, egg, olive oil, vanilla extract, and brown sugar.
- Add the flour mixture and stir until well mixed.
- Fold in the pureed kumquats and walnuts.
- Pour the batter into a greased 9-inch x 5-inch loaf pan and sprinkle the top with
- gold shimmer sugar.
- Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Cool and remove from pan.
This bread is especially delicious spread with a layer of butter or cream cheese. Enjoy…
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The original purpose of hatha yoga -
i.e. asana and pranayama - is to enable the yogi/ni to sit
comfortably in meditation for three hours, and to enter into
deep meditational states without damaging the central nervous
system. This is achieved by gradually building strength and
flexibility, by increasing lung capacity, and by training the
mind to monitor and regulate these internal physical states.
The goal of asana is to learn physical self-regulation from
two basic kinds of muscular sensation: the "itch" that you
effectively scratch by gently stretching and releasing a tight
muscle; and the "burn" that results from building muscle isometrically.
These sensations also supply important internal cues for improving
anatomical balance and alignment. Learning from Itch-Burn Yoga
requires that you focus your attention inward while performing
each posture. How you look is irrelevant, and preoccupation
with your or others' external appearance is counterproductive.
Here are some vinyasas that promote overall strength, flexibility,
cardiovascular exercise, and stress relief. Adding a deep three-part
Ujaiyii breath, and "riding the breath" to set their tempo enhances
their effectiveness in relieving stress. I am not trained as a teacher
of asana (clearly), so these should be done only under the guidance of
a certified and experienced hatha yoga teacher, preferably trained in
the Krishnamacharya lineage (i.e. Ashtanga, Iyengar, or Viniyoga).
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By Liz Smith, Tribune Media Services
11:45 PM CDT, May 31, 2012
"DON'T INCENSE the king, sir. You know what Thomas More used to say: 'If the lion knew his own strength, it were hard to rule him.'"
So speaks the character Richard Riche in a new novel about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
I AM busy now reading Hilary Mantel's "Bring Up the Bodies." This is the best-selling hit sequel to the writer's Man Booker prizewinner, "Wolf Hall" -- a story that even amateur historians just can't get enough of -- the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn and of the men and women who rose and fell with her.
Even when you know what will happen, Mantel's novelistic version of this moment in the bloody life of King Henry VIII, as seen by his adviser Thomas Cromwell, is surprising in the adroit hands of this writer. She makes that terrifying history with its emphasis on power, men rising to greatness, only to fall to the hangman's axe, like a more personalized reign of terror to come. (The French Revolution's Bastille hasn't a patch on the horrors of the Tower.)
The author is a lyrical, mysterious Shakespearean sort of writer, her words as beautiful as falcons against the sky, then landing with gore on their talons. (All birds named for women, incidentally.)
I want to add, there has never been anyone to describe the neurotic, cruel, self-indulgent, intelligent, but egotistical King Henry as well as Mantel does. And, I've read all the other books.
Let me just show a small part of this novel, dealing with 1530's England, that doesn't deal with torture, terror and survival, but seems to resonate today: "But Parliament cannot see how it is the state's job to create work. Are not these matters in God's hands, and is not poverty and dereliction part of his eternal order? ... It is an outrage to the rich and enterprising to suggest that they should pay an income tax, only to put bread in the mouths of the work shy. And if Secretary Cromwell argues that famine provokes criminality: well, are there not hangmen enough?"
IN CASE you're interested (if not, just skip this "what I did on my vacation" bit.) I spent the most divine Memorial Day weekend in Maine and I want to rave about how beautiful that incredible state is in the springtime when the grass and trees are green, the water slate blue and the skies azure.
The White Barn Inn is a kind of sprawling place that seems to "have just growed" in Kennebunkport and it excels in -- charm and service. You can't need or want anything that there isn't someone at your elbow to help you get it. The service here is old-fashioned, exquisite -- the way things used to be. The food was great and everything ran like clockwork.
My group took a two-hour tour out of the harbor and past the George Walker Bush compound that equals any experience I've ever had on a sailboat. We went past the different colored lobster buoys bobbing in the water and used binoculars to see the statue of a life-size cow with calf, situated on the Bush lawn. We were told that President George Bush the elder is now in a wheelchair but still goes out on his own boat and commands the wheel the entire way. It is difficult to imagine a storm here.
Kennebunkport, with its monastery of monks and its plethora of brilliantly-kept-up houses, magnificent spring flowers, coffee emporiums, fast and slow food and divinely retro nightlife -- all offered in the utmost taste -- was just perfect. I expect traffic here in the summertime is another matter, but for now, it was great.
I'll say one thing for this past Memorial Day. The celebrations of our veterans seemed genuine and heart-felt for a change. And nobody, but nobody in my diverse party of 20 people, mixing and mingling for three days, said a single word about politics.
This reminds me that they used to say in the good old days, "As Maine goes, so goes the nation!" This turned out not to be true when Maine ceased to be a political weather vane and voted only with Vermont!
NOW THE New York Times columnist Gail Collins uses this hoary saying to update reality in her brand-new book published any minute: "As Texas Goes..." -- meaning as Texas goes, so goes the nation these days.
Gail kicked off her latest in a party at the Times building yesterday. Her book is maybe the most important one of the year when it comes to the election of the president and the manner in which state's "rights" seem to be dominating the entire process.
You can hear Gail Collins in an interview with the Wowowow women on Sirius XM Radio at 10 a.m. come June 6. I hope to be one of Gail's inquisitors. And as I know a little bit about Texas myself, it should be rousing.
David Westin, the recently departed head of ABC News, has also written a book I couldn't put down. He runs the gamut, telling first of how things were from the spectacular rise of Roone Arledge till the ever-changing news treatment of today. (Roone with his real-time TV, his circus of continuing big stars, and his peculiar way of never being available to anyone unless he wanted to be, is a story in itself.) Westin deals with the multi-changes that have taken place since the '70s in the coverage of news. (I am speaking, of course, about the current partisanship, argument and fact-distorting progress of the Internet.)
Mr. Westin, whose attractive helper wife, Sherrie, is an engaging overseer of the Sesame Workshop, starts his book off with a fabulous anecdote about the late Peter Jennings. It seems the broadcasting star, Peter, didn't believe the death of Princess Diana was going to be a big story and he dug in his heels. The winners? Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters who knew Diana was the story of the year and stuck to their guns.
There is more, much more, in "Exit Interview" and David Westin, surrendering the helm of ABC News, is a surprising storyteller. His book is an important addition to TV history. As he once clerked for a Supreme Court justice, I am just waiting to see what David Westin does next.
(E-mail Liz Smith at MES3838@aol.com.)
Copyright © 2013, Tribune Media Services
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First results from ongoing research show an average carcass-value advantage of $134 per head for Angus-sired calves compared to those with bos indicus or Brahman influence.
The Southern Carcass Improvement Project (SCIP) was initiated in 2009 as a collaboration between Kansas State University, Virginia Tech and Gardiner Angus Ranch. Its goal was to measure the impact that a single generation of high-quality Angus genetics can have on feedlot and carcass performance when mated to Brahman-crossed cattle commonly found in the Southern U.S.
“It had to show the effect in one generation to have much impact and gain many believers,” said Mark Gardiner, the Ashland, Kan., Angus breeder who shared SCIP progress at his family’s bull sale in September.
The idea came up while talking with longtime friend Tom Brink, senior vice president of Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, about beef quality in the South, where many herds were selected for adaptability with little emphasis on carcass traits.
Brink had bought many calves and feeders from those states, and he knew a huge share of them hit a genetic roadblock to marbling. Gardiner had sold many bulls into those states and saw what a difference genetic improvement was making for his customers. Both men saw the USDA Choice percentage climb in Kansas packing plants while Texas plants lagged.
“This is a major problem, yet there is no broad-scale effort to improve quality grades in Southern-origin cattle,” Brink noted at the Gardiner sale. “In fact, the industry problem is rarely even discussed, although its annual cost is more than $200 million, not counting the lost beef demand due to lack of sufficient high-quality beef.”
Three years earlier he and Gardiner wondered, what if a demonstration project could be set up in with a major university to show the added value in breeding to an Angus alternative? They talked to Virginia Tech animal scientists Dave Notter and Bill Beal, geneticist and breeding systems experts, respectively. Gardiner would fund the research if a scientifically valid structure could be set up.
As Beal recalled, “Tom proposed that we identify a group of cows typical of Southern herds and breed them either to typical Southern bulls or high-growth, high-carcass Angus bulls. The question was how to do it.”
He liked the idea of “demonstration” as opposed to clinical study.
“We could all sit back and go to the Journal of Animal Science, where there are published studies that used bulls with different marbling levels, and they show that what you see is, in fact, what you get in carcass merit. Okay,” Beal said, “but those were controlled studies that some meat scientist did at a university.” Such results still seemed theoretical to real-world ranchers.
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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned consumers about the dangers of drinking clay-based ‘detox’ drinks after finding dangerously high arsenic and lead levels in supplements sold online.
Arsenic exposure had been linked to increased risk of lung, skin and bladder cancer, the FSA said, while lead could stunt brain development in children and affect intellectual performance.
Pregnant women were also at risk, the agency said, because of the threat to unborn children, and (adding that it was not a definitive list), cited the following products and retailers below:
Bentonite Clay (sold by buywholefoodsonline.co.uk, nealsyardremedies.com) Calcium Bentonite Clay (natures-harvest.co.uk) Montmorillonite Clay (synergy-health.co.uk, naturalrussia.com), and Edible Earth digestive detoxicant and mineral supplement (detoxpeople.eu, wholesalehealthltd.co.uk).
One US website – Sonne’s Organic Foods – markets ‘Liquid Hydrated Bentonite Clay’ as a beverage-based detoxificant, derived from the volcanic clay, which has a beneficial ‘cleansing action’.
An FSA spokeswoman told BeverageDaily.com: “The issue is that a lot of these things are just clay powder, but then are marketed as detox drinks, i.e. you mix it with water and it will ‘suck out all your toxins’. It doesn’t matter that you’re drinking, well, concrete almost.”
She added: “But there are lots of other clay-based detox drinks out there, there’s a massive proliferation of ways in which such products are used.
Asked about trace amounts of such substances, the spokeswoman said: “It’s all about safe levels. Arsenic and lead occur in everyday life anyway – lead can even be present in normal foods.
“But it’s about the quantity that you are exposed to. In these specific products, it was determined that the levels of arsenic and lead were dangerous to human health.”
The FSA spokeswoman explained that some food grade Bentonite Clay was perfectly acceptable for human consumption, but would not have dangerously high arsenic and lead levels.
She said the agency was aware that many such products were still on the market. “That’s why we’ve issued the reminder, which we wouldn’t do if it were just a case of a couple.
“And these products are sold online, and the problem with independent sellers (especially if you can’t trace the manufacturer) is how you get hold of people and advise them on the dangers.”
Firm ‘assured’ of clay quality
A spokeswoman for Nature’s Harvest, one of the firms cited by the FSA, told BeverageDaily.com that she had sourced the Bentonite Clay from another firm on the agency’s list, Natural Russia.
She said: “I never actually saw the Bentonite Clay at all, but I was assured it was good quality. And I wasn’t selling it for food use. There was information on the product about the history of clay, how people used it.”
“But nothing on there saying ‘take three teaspoons a day’ or that it was for food use at all.”
So would Nature’s Harvest sell Bentonite Clay again, if lead and arsenic levels were within European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) food limits? “Of course – lots of people use for skin use, or for dogs that have skin problems,” she added.
The spokeswoman recommended that we contact ‘Galina’ at Natural Russia for more information, but the naturalrussia.com website is now offline due to “planned product and informational changes and restructuring”.
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GIVE these snaps a double take – they’re part of a brilliant new picture craze taking off online.
Blog Dearphotograph.com is full of old pictures which have been held up and re-shot at their modern day location.
It creates an arty illusion of young children, couples and families from years ago posing outside the same buildings and places today.
Hundreds of examples have already sprung up on the website from users all around the world – including Britain.
And more than 3.5million people have already logged on to check out the bumper album.
Every image posted on the site must carry a message to the image, starting: “Dear photograph¿” followed by a note about the image.
One of a young girl reads: “Dear Photograph, That swing always brought a smile to my face”, while another at The Magical Kingdom says: “Disney will always be magical, no matter what age.”
The website was the brainchild of 21-year-old Taylor Jones, a social media community specialist from Ontario, Canada.
Seems such a cheesy idea when you see it now!
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Jean Prouvé (1901-1984)
Born to an artist Father and pianist Mother, Jean Prouvé grew up surrounded by the ideals and energy of the influential art collective l'École de Nancy. Heavily influenced by his Father’s involvement with the group, its objectives to make art readily accessible and to forge links between art and industry are all visible within the Frenchman’s works.
Prouvé began adulthood as a metal worker, receiving an apprenticeship within his hometown of Nancy immediately after leaving school. His incredible talents as an architect and furniture designer were all self-taught, inspired by his youth and knowledge of raw materials.
Equally as famed for his industrial and structural design, Prouvé’s furniture is amongst the most sought after of his generation. Celebrated worldwide for the striking shapes used in his pieces, permanent galleries devoted to Prouvé’s work have been installed at the Musée des beaux-arts and Musée de l’Histoire du Fer in Nancy.
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Josh George has always been attracted to the urban landscape. “It holds a different kind of beauty,” says the artist. “The decaying masonry work of time tested dwellings and the dismal skies that surround them. Quilt like patterns are revealed when you view through these arrangements. Shadows that cast on withered walls display individual windows where people go about their routine lives.” The people in Josh George’s paintings are engaged in static acts of everyday locality. They drink coffee, they smoke or stare at beer. They stroll about town hearing the urban world, but not quite listening. Everyone simply exists. “I use a barrage of materials to record these scores and a lot of fat paint knifed over torn strips of wallpaper and ugly product labels. The piece is finished with a delicate brush to define a street sign or a highlight on someone's wine bottle. “
Josh George has been influenced by many artists, including Degas and Mary Cassat, both excellent drawers, and the Ash Can artists George Bellows, John Sloan and Robert Henri. “I love the way they documented the changing city from a street level,” says George. Contemporary artists Richard Diabankorn and Wayne Thiebaud have also served as inspiration for Josh who appreciates the liberties they took redesigning the cityscapes to fit their own views. For more information on Josh George, please click this link to read his vitae.
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A day in the life of a World Solar Challenge driver
Driving in the World Solar Challenge is a unique experience, requiring the preparation of a space mission, the technical expertise of a systems engineer, and the physical exertion of an endurance athlete. The finely tuned competition vehicles demand a driver’s complete concentration. When skilfully driven, solar cars are the most efficient and beautiful vehicles on the road.
An Aurora driver’s day during the World Solar Challenge is long and tiring, yet highly satisfying. The day begins before sunrise, when the entire Aurora team wakes and sets up the solar car for the morning charging session.
Upon release of the car at 8am, the two Aurora drivers share driving duties for the next nine hours, with each driver spending four to six hours at a time behind the wheel. Driver changes are strategically planned at control stops; extra stops out on the road cost race time and are to be avoided!
While in the car, a driver may experience cockpit temperatures up to 50°C, which requires a slow, steady intake of cold water to prevent dehydration and regulate body temperature. A driver may also have to regularly countersteer against strong side winds, especially in South Australia.
After the team pulls over at 5pm, an Aurora driver’s day is not yet over; there is still more work to do. Until sunset the entire team checks over the solar car and addresses any maintenance issues. Only after the evening charging session ends and the car is put away in the trailer can the two drivers go to sleep!
By Andris Samsons, Aurora Solar Car Team
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Seed Papermaking Workshop
Linda Janklow of peopleOlogie will lead us in a Seed Papermaking Workshop. Papermaking is the most fun and natural integration of ecology, science, art, and history. Based on the ancient 2,000 year old tradition, you become part of the entire process from beginning to end. Tear paper, blend pulp, and pull your own sheet of paper. Add seeds to it, and you've got something to plant and grow in your garden or give as a gift! Space is limited, so please register (650.851.0560 or email). For ages 4+. This program is generously funded by the Friends of the Portola Valley Library.
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Hi there. I am trying to construct a composite beam by copying the given beam model, and then connecting the midpoint. I cannot figure out how to do this. Do you maybe have examples of where you have connected several flexible bodies?
I have a uitable placed in an HBox object, and would like the table to resize with the divider. I was hoping to do this with a callback from the HBox component. How would I go about implementing this type of functionality?
I have a dataset that would be best inspected via a tree structure. The labels can be broken into something like a tree. I was hoping to use this tool. Is there a way that I can generate a SimScape logging node without actually using Simulink, but creating a node from the data?
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the course of the day you may write a check at the drugstore, charge
tickets to a concert, rent a car, call home on your cell phone,
or apply for a credit card. Chances are you don't give these
routine transactions a second thought. But others may.
Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in America, affecting
half a million new victims each year. Identity theft or identity
fraud is the taking of a victim's identity to obtain credit,
credit cards from banks and retailers, steal money from a victim's
existing accounts, apply for loans, establish accounts with utility
companies, rent an apartment, file bankruptcy, or obtain a job using
the victim's name. Thousand of dollars can be stolen without
the victim knowing about it for months or even years.
The imposter obtains your social security number, your birth date,
and other identifying information such as your address and phone
number. With this information and a fake driver's license,
they can apply in person for instant credit or through the mail
posing as you. They often claim they have moved and provide their
own address. Once the first account is opened, they can continue
to add to their credibility.
They get the information from your doctor, lawyer, school, health
insurance carrier, and many other places. "Dumpster divers"
pick up information you may have thrown away, such as utility bills,
credit card slips, and other documents.
To prevent this from happening to you
- Do not give out personal information over the phone, through
the mail, or over the Internet unless you have initiated the contact
or know whom you're dealing with. Identity thieves will
pose as bank representatives, Internet service providers, and
even government officials to get you to reveal identifying information.
- Shred all documents, including pre-approved credit applications
received in your name, insurance forms, bank checks and statements
you are discarding, and other financial information.
- Do not use your mother's maiden name, your birth date,
the last four digits of your social security number, or a similar
series of numbers as a password for anything.
- Minimize the identification information and the number of cards
you carry. Take what you'll actually need. Don't carry
your social security card, birth certificate, or passport, unless
- Do not put your social security number on your checks or your
credit receipts. If a business requests your social security number,
give them an alternate number and explain why. If a government
agency requests your social security number, there must be a privacy
notice accompanying the request.
- Do not put your telephone number on checks.
- Be careful using ATMs and phone cards. Someone may look over
your shoulder and get your PIN numbers, thereby gaining access
to your accounts.
- Make a list of all your credit card account numbers and bank
account numbers with customer service phone numbers and keep it
in a safe place.
- When you order new credit cards in the mail or previous ones
have expired, watch the calendar to make sure you get the card
within the appropriate time. If the card is not received within
that time, call the credit card grantor immediately to find out
if the card has been sent. If you don't receive the card,
check to make sure a change of address was not filed.
- Do not put your credit card number on the Internet unless it
is encrypted on a secured site.
- Pay attention to your billing cycles. Follow up with creditors
if bills don't arrive on time. A missing credit card bill
could mean an identity thief has taken over your credit card account
and changed your billing address.
- Cancel all credit cards that you have not used in the last
six months. Open credit is a prime target.
- Order your credit report at least twice a year. Reports should
be obtained from all three major sources: Equifax at 800-685-1111;
Experian at 888-EXPERIAN (397-3742); or TransUnion at 800-680-7293.
- Correct all mistakes on your credit report in writing. Send
the letters return receipt requested. Identify the problems item
by item and send with a copy of the credit report back to the
credit reporting agency. You should hear from the agency within
- Write to Direct Marketing Association, Mail Preference Service,
PO Box 9008, Farmingdale, NY 11735 to get your name off direct
Return to Crime Prevention Tips
Crime Prevention Tips Provided by:
National Crime Prevention Council
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It might be a completely new species--a very tricky new species.
Learning skills that will be invaluable in later foxhood
In the future, the great Pixel Wolves Of The Sky will look down below on the mutated fish. The wolves will be hungry but also weirded out.
Cliff the beagle can sniff out a dangerous bacterium just by smelling patients--no stool sample or long lab analysis necessary.
Researchers discover an adorable (yet scary!) species of slow loris.
Find out how these arachnids avoid getting trapped in their goo.
Research on how the deadly fungus affects immune systems may help HIV research.
Following the shooting of a tagged Yellowstone grey wolf just outside the park's borders in Wyoming--the eighth such wolf shot this season--the state of Montana has banned wolf hunting in areas adjacent to the park. The NYTimes quotes a Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Park commissioner who cites the "time and money and effort" that goes into the tagging and research of these wolves, as well as a Yellowstone biologist who still seems to be smarting from the loss, saying this is a "moderate" decision that addresses "some of the issues as far as the science." [NYTimes]
Wyoming's anti-scientific laws have allowed the most famous wolf in Yellowstone to be shot. Shooting wolves isn't only senseless--it actively harms the environment.
The benefits of living with an engineer
Aerial surveillance, radio tagging and ranger patrols aim to fight poaching in Asia and Africa.
The "spidernaut" Nefertiti has died. It was 10 months old. A "Johnson Jumper" spider, it was sent on board the International Space Station in July as part of an experiment; researchers watched to see if the spider would adapt its feeding behavior to weightlessness (it did). Nefertiti was returned to Earth after a 100-day stay, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History then placed the spider in its insect zoo. The display opened to the public on November 29, but the spider died of natural causes yesterday morning. Rest in peace, spidernaut. [SPACE.com]
The elephant, Duchess, goes under the knife, with doctors using custom tools for the rare surgery.
By tracking the cows' diets, and thus their methane production, researchers can help slow global warming.
Scientists in the UK injected dogs with cells grown from the lining of their noses, which continually regenerates.
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Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.
Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.
An officer on horseback confronted the warriors: Maj. George Washington Chilton of the Third Texas Cavalry. A 33-year-old honey-tongued secessionist, “Chilton was over six feet tall, and was straight as an Indian,” according to Pvt. A.W. Sparks. “Graceful in gesture, witty and eloquent in delivery, he captured his audience, and at will could bring forth tears or laughter.”
The current predicament in which Chilton and his command found themselves was no laughing matter: The Creeks and Seminoles sympathized with the Union, commanded by a longtime federal ally, Chief Opothleyahola. And the warriors had reason to be suspicious of the Southerners: Chilton and his troops were part of a force commanded by Col. James McIntosh, a West Pointer and former frontier fighter with a brother who wore federal blue, on a campaign to subdue pro-Union Native Americans and gain influence in the region.
Chilton rode out about halfway toward them and motioned with hand signals for one warrior to approach him. The “request was immediately complied with,” Sparks reported. “The Indians refused to speak the American language, by which token Major Chilton was soon convinced that they were hostiles, and abandoned the conference; whereupon, the silent cavalcade as mysteriously disappeared in the mountains as it had appeared.”
But rising smoke from campfires in the nearby mountains indicated that the warriors were not in retreat, as some believed. They were positioned along the rocky slope of a craggy hill and ready for action.
The next day, Dec. 26, McIntosh formed a line of battle comprised of cavalry with an infantry support. Chilton and his men occupied the center. All advanced across the rough terrain. “Slowly the command marches to the very base of the last elevation, and the enemy’s sharpshooters are commencing to fire,” Sparks recalled. “A thousand frenzied yells reply, as a thousand excited horses plunge madly up the steep ascent, and a thousand rifles pour such a leaden hail into the ranks of the astounded and terrified Indians, that no effort is made to hold the works, and the victory is won ere the battle had fairly begun.”
The triumphant Confederates named the engagement for a nearby mountain stream known as Chustenahlah. The defeated Creek and Seminole warriors fled with their families, a trek that took a fearful toll on the Native Americans as they struggled across Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) into Kansas in the dead of winter.
According to Sparks, the Confederates captured 250 women and children, 40 to 50 individuals of African descent, and a sizable inventory of animals, supplies and trinkets. One unique item caught his attention: a silver medal dated 1694 that commemorated a peace treaty between the Creek Nation and the British Government. “What became of this souvenir, the author knows not; but hopes it has been returned, ere this, to its original owners.”
The Confederates suffered few casualties. Chilton, “while acting with conspicuous gallantry, was wounded by a rifle-ball, slightly, in the head; but, disregarding which, he remained at his post until the last gun was fired,” Sparks said.
Kentucky-born Chilton often found himself in the center of the action. His father, Thomas Chilton, was a Baptist minister and attorney who served a stint in the House of Representatives and helped frontier legend Davy Crockett write his autobiography. The elder Chilton eventually made his way with his family from Kentucky to Alabama and finally Texas. Chilton followed in his father’s footsteps and studied law; he served in a cavalry company during the Mexican War before settling in Tyler, Tex., in the northeast corner of the state.
Chilton soon became active in politics as a Democrat. When called upon to speak, his simple, conversational manner stood in stark contrast to fiery stump-speakers who blasted their audience with flowery oratory. His handsome looks were talked of openly and caused Texas belles to blush. But Chilton was also an aggressive and militaristic man with a hot temper.
An outspoken pro-slavery zealot, he owned five slaves. Their ages and gender as reported in a federal census slave schedule suggest he kept a family: A 35-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman, along with three children ages 4 to 16. Like many Southerners, Chilton believed that slavery for blacks was a better life than that of barbarism in Africa. There is no question that he agreed with Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens’ pronouncement that the fledgling government’s “foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition.” Indeed, Chilton belonged to the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret organization dedicated to not only protecting the slaveocracy, but expanding it southward into an empire of servitude.
After the war broke out, Chilton turned his notable energies toward recruiting. “The promptness and dispatch with which this gentleman responded to the late call for men, is worthy of the genuine soldier,” reported the Dallas Herald. Chilton “raised 100 men and marched 120 miles — all within the space of six days! This is unparalleled, we believe, in the history of volunteer armies. The genius of the man, leads him to promptness, and his energy will ensure success.” Chilton and his volunteers joined the Third Texas Cavalry. The rank and file elected staff officers, a common practice in both armies. They voted Chilton major.
Following the success at Chustenahlah, the Confederates retired to the Arkansas outpost of Van Buren for the winter. Sparks related that “Major Chilton munificently ‘stood treat,’ and purchased a barrel of choice whisky, which the boys of the regiment disposed of by drinking frequent ‘potations pottle deep,’ and all got as merry as merry could be, and many didn’t get home till morning, and some, only after the lapse of two or three days; but, in the case of these latter, whether their absence was attributable to the effects of Arkansaw corn-juice, or to Arkansaw belles, deponent sayeth not.”
Chustenahlah was the high water mark of Chilton’s army service. In May 1862, five months after the battle, the regiment reorganized after its original one-year enlistment expired. Chilton was not re-elected major and left the army. But he returned in 1863 as captain and ordnance officer on the staff of Brig. Gen. Hamilton Bee. He spent most of the rest of the war in Texas, away from frontline fighting.
An incident in early 1863 tarnished his military career. During the night of March 14, he led about 150 troopers on an unauthorized manhunt for three Texans who remained loyal to the Union and served in the federal First Texas Cavalry. Chilton and his detachment crossed international borders into Mexico and captured all three soldiers, lynching one of them, William W. Montgomery.
The well-traveled British observer Lt. Col. Arthur Freemantle saw Montgomery’s corpse shortly after he arrived in Texas. “He has been slightly buried, but his head and arms were above the ground, his arms tied together, the rope still round his neck, but part of it still dangling from quite a small mesquite tree,” he noted in his journal on April 2. “Dogs or wolves had probably scraped the earth from the body, and there was no flesh on the bones. I obtained this my first experience of lynch law within three hours of landing in America.” Word of the incursion and hanging made its way to Mexican authorities. They protested the act, and Chilton received a stern rebuke.
He remained in uniform until July 1865, when he signed an oath of allegiance to the federal government. Texans elected Chilton to Congress in 1866, though the Radical Republicans, who ran the majority, denied Chilton and the rest of the state delegation their seats as punishment for the war.
Meanwhile, the Radicals resolved to investigate Montgomery’s death as a murder. The incident had become wildly exaggerated, including an allegation that Chilton had ordered the head and right arm of the victim cut off and sent home as a war trophy.
The Montgomery lynching haunted Chilton for the rest of his days. He turned to alcohol and went on periodic binges. He died in 1884 at age 56, survived by his wife, daughter, and son, Horace, a future senator.
Sources: Allison W. Sparks, “The War Between the States, as I Saw It”; Fort Worth (Texas) Morning Register, Sept. 3, 1899; Joseph J. Arpad, Ed., “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee”; Eugene C. Barker, “The African Slave Trade in Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly; Texas Library and Historical Commission, Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861; The Standard (Clarksville, Texas), March 30, 1861; Dallas Herald, June 19, 1861; 1860 Slave Schedules, Federal Census, National Archives and Records Service; Samuel B. Barron, “The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry”; George W. Chilton military service record, National Archives and Records Service; The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Vicki Betts, “Private and Amateur Hangings: The Lynching of W.W. Montgomery, March 15, 1863,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly; Tyler (Texas) Reporter, April 16, 1863; Walter Lord, Ed., “The Freemantle Diary”; Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Thirty-Ninth Congress.
Ronald S. Coddington is the author of “Faces of the Civil War” and “Faces of the Confederacy.” His forthcoming book profiles the lives of men of color who participated in the Civil War. He writes “Faces of War,” a column for the Civil War News.
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By Michael Trostel
Museum Moment: John Reid’s Red Jacket
Oct 14, 2010
St. Andrew’s and Early Golf in America
“In Scotland, when work ends, the good man… plays golf… The typical American, on the other hand, receives little honor at home or elsewhere. He is a drudge, a slave of gold, during all the days of his life. The ancient and royal game will remedy these deplorable conditions in America!”
Those are the words of John Reid, whose experiment on an improvised three-hole course in a cow pasture in 1888 has blossomed into a game that tens of millions of Americans play and watch each year. Oct. 14, 2010 is the 170th anniversary of Reid’s birthday, so what better way to honor the “Father of American Golf” than to take a look back at the club he started, St. Andrew’s, and its distinctive red wool jacket.
While golf’s roots are in Scotland, the game took hold in America in the early 18th century. It was established among the early British and Scottish communities in New York City in the 1770s, in Charleston, S.C., in the 1780s, and in Savannah, Ga., in the 1790s. Throughout much of the 1800s, however, enthusiasm for golf went dormant. America was a nation of spectators, not participants. Boxing, horse racing and baseball captured the country’s imagination, but there was little recreational activity for non-athletes to participate in. With an increase in leisure time by the 1880s, however, Americans were ready to play again. Golf resurfaced in such diverse places as Estes Park, Colo., in 1875, Burlington, Iowa, in 1883, Oakhurst, W. Va., in 1884, Foxburg, Pa., in 1885, and Dorset, Vt., in 1886. Once the game was reestablished in the 1880s, it grew steadily.
John Reid emigrated to the United States in 1865 at the age of 24. He served as treasurer and manager of the J.L. Mott Iron Works in New York City for more than 40 years, a connection that would later prove quite valuable when it came to procuring the equipment needed to construct and maintain golf courses. In addition, Reid was a leading member of the Scottish community in New York and had an intense passion for Scottish music. In 1888, Reid received a gift from his friend, Robert Lockhart, a linen merchant from New York, who had just been to Scotland on business. Lockhart brought back six clubs and two dozen golf balls from the shop of Old Tom Morris.
With these new implements, Reid and his friends played golf every Sunday. On Nov. 14, 1888, the group met to discuss how to perpetuate their weekly tradition. After some discussion, a handful of resolutions were passed, forming a club and naming officers and first members. They called the newly minted club “St. Andrew’s” to honor the birthplace of the game in Scotland and hoped that it would become the cradle of golf in America. St. Andrew’s is now recognized as the oldest continuously existing golf club in the United States.
John Reid’s Red Jacket
“The finest thing the St. Andrew’s Golf Club did in starting the game of golf was… that they started it right, with the right traditions.” – Robert Tyre Jones Jr.
Made by Rogers Peet Company around 1900, John Reid’s red jacket from St. Andrew’s Golf Club is one of the most distinctive artifacts in the USGA Museum. Red jackets were worn in Great Britain by individuals to distinguish themselves as gentlemen, as members of a social club, and, often, as members of the military. Following the custom of Scottish clubs, red wool jackets were worn at many American clubs as well, including Shinnecock Hills, Newport, and Brookline, at the turn of the century.
In 1894, in preparation for the first U.S. Amateur, John Reid designated an official coat for St. Andrew’s. The jacket was “hunter’s pink” with a blue collar, brass buttons and a silver St. Andrew’s cross embroidered on the lapel. In addition, the club adopted a uniform that all members were expected to wear. It consisted of the red coat, worn over a blue-checked waistcoat, a button-down oxford shirt, gray knickers, plaid socks and a pearl gray hat with blue and white stripes. The only distinguishing feature of the uniform was the tie, which members could choose themselves. In Scotland, it had been the custom of clubs to fine members two schillings or two quarts of Scotch for appearing without the red coat, but there is no indication that such a penalty was exacted from forgetful members at St. Andrew’s.
Many contemporary clubs have continued the tradition of jackets as part of a club uniform, including probably the best known example, Augusta National and its green jacket.
To see John Reid’s red jacket and read more about the origins of golf in America, visit the USGA Museum in Far Hills, N.J.
Michael Trostel is the curator/historian for the USGA Museum. E-mail him with questions or comments at MTrostel@usga.org.
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PRASTYA, ADHE KUSUMA (2010) Hubungan antara Citra Diri dengan Intensi Membeli Pakaian Bermerk pada Remaja. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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