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Energy policy is changing globally in the direction of security of supply and climate change. The global trend is towards three energy policy strategies as (i) improved energy efficiency and rational use of energy, (ii) increasing use of renewable sources and (iii) benefiting from un-sustainable resources using low-carbon technologies. Since renewable energy has become a high priority among such strategies, global investment in renewable energy sector is increasing rapidly.
Although Turkey has significant renewable energy sources for electricity production, this potential has not been used efficiently. However, progress has been made with regard to renewable energy regulations in Turkey in order to provide incentives to the renewable energy sector. This article provides an overview of the general provisions of the Law on Utilization of Renewable Energy Sources for the Purpose of Generating Electrical Energy (the "Renewable Energy Law") which, was amended on 29 December 2010, as well as other supporting legislation regarding renewable energy sources ("RES").
1. Renewable Energy Law
Important steps have been taken by the legislator in order to promote the use of RES in the production of electricity and to encourage the investments in the renewable energy market. In 2005, the government passed the Renewable Energy Law which provided feed-in tariffs and other incentives for renewable energy projects. On 29 December 2010, the Turkish Parliament passed the Law Amending the Law No. 5346 (the "New Law") and the New Law was announced on the Official Gazette dated 8 January 2011 and numbered 27809.
a. Incentives provided in the New Law
The New Law provides a Renewable Energy Support Mechanism ("Mechanism") which covers different incentives and benefits for renewable energy projects including feed-in tariffs (fixed minimum electricity sale prices). The New Law covers different feed-in tariffs depending on the type of the renewable energy projects as follows:
- Turkish Lira equivalent of USD 0.073 per kWh for hydroelectric power plants,
- Turkish Lira equivalent of USD 0.073 per kWh for wind power plants,
- Turkish Lira equivalent of USD 0.105 per kWh for geothermal power plants,
- Turkish Lira equivalent of USD 0.133 per kWh for biomass power plants, and
- Turkish Lira equivalent of USD 0.133 per kWh for solar power plants.
The above mentioned feed-in tariffs will be applicable for the legal entities holding generation licenses which start operations during the period from 18 May 2005 to 31 December 2015 and for a period of ten years from the operation date.
The New Law also features further price incentives from 0,004 to 0,024 kWh for the license holders which use locally produced mechanical and/or electro-mechanical equipment/components in renewable energy facilities, for a five-year term provided that they start producing energy before the end of 2015.
b. Lock-up Period
A lock-up period is stipulated for the legal entities holding generation licenses which are subject to the Mechanism. In order to benefit from the Mechanism, legal entities holding renewable energy generation licenses and Renewable Energy Source Certificate (RES Certificate) should apply to the Energy Market Regulatory Authority ("EMRA") by 31 October of the year before they wish to benefit. Generators included in the Mechanism should remain in the Mechanism for the first one year (lock-up period).
c. Pooling System
According to the New Law, not only the retail license holders but all suppliers (generators, wholesalers etc.) should purchase the electricity generated under the Mechanism. The New Law also envisages a pool managed by the Market Financial Settlement Center ("MFSC") whereby the electricity suppliers will make the payment of the renewable energy and the renewable energy generators will collect their fees.1
d. Other Amendments in the Renewable Energy Law
Another incentive granted to renewable energy facilities is regarding the use of state properties. If any state property is used for the generation of electricity from renewable resources, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry or the Ministry of Finance shall permit the use of such properties with respect to the facility, access ways and energy transmission grids up to the connection point of the grid in return for a fee. Such permission may be in the forms of permits, leases, rights of easement or rights of usage. For facilities that start operation before the end of 2015, access ways and energy transmission grids up to the connection point, a discount of 85 per cent shall be applied to the fees for permission, lease, right of easement and right of usage for the first 10 years of their investment and operation periods.
The New Law included waste-to-energy among the renewable energy sources.
The New Law limits the total generation of licensed solar energy companies up to 600 MW until 31 December 2013, and authorizes the Council of Ministers to determine the future limits. According to the New Law, for the RES certified facilities which shall start operations after 31 December 2015, the fees, capacity limits and duration of the future incentives shall be determined by the Council of Ministers provided that the prices shall not be higher than the prices provided in the law. With the aforementioned two authorities, the Council of Ministers will be able to reduce the price incentives and future capacity limits in case that new technologies reduce project the costs especially for the solar power projects.
The establishment of generation facilities based on renewable energy in the national parks, natural monuments, nature reserve areas, protection forests, wildlife protection areas and specially protected environment areas is subject to the approval of the relevant Ministry while establishment of facilities in natural protected areas is subject to the approval of the related Protection Council of Cultural and Natural Properties. The aforementioned approval to be given by the Ministry also used to be given by the Protection Council of Cultural and Natural Properties in the previous version of the law. Such amendment was criticized in the parliament discussions on the ground that this authority requires a specialization which should not be effected by politics.
3. Other incentives provided in the legislation
- Legal entities applying for a licence for the construction of facilities based on domestic natural resources and RES shall only pay 1 per cent of the total licensing fee.
- Generation facilities based on renewable and domestic energy resources shall not pay annual licence fees for the first eight years following the facility completion date inserted in their respective licence.
- TEIAS, the state owned transmission company, and distribution licensees shall give priority to the system connection of generation facilities based on domestic natural resources and renewable resources.
- If the price of electricity generated at facilities based on RES is equal to or lower than the sales price of TETAS, the state owned wholesale company, and if there is no cheaper alternative, the retail licensees are obliged to purchase the electricity generated at facilities based on RES for the purposes of resale to non-eligible consumers.
- Renewable energy plant investments up to 500kW and micro-cogeneration plant investments are exempt from license and company establishment requirements and they can be connected to the grid. Implementing regulation regarding connection to the grid of plants of up to 500kW was published on 3 December 2010. According to the implementing regulation, generators which do not have license can only generate their own consumption. They cannot sell electricity with bilateral agreements. However, they may transfer their surplus energy to the distribution system. In this case, they would benefit from the feed in tariffs of the Mechanism. Distribution companies holding retail license must purchase such surplus. Consumption surplus of micro-cogeneration plants are purchased at the national wholesale tariff.
It is obvious that there is a strong need to promote renewable energy in accordance with the global energy policy towards clean energy. Turkey signed Kyoto Protocol with the intention of promoting clean energy in Turkey. The renewable energy investments have become more important in this regard. Although some progress have been made in legislation in order to promote the renewable energy investments, the incentives provided for renewable energy investments are criticised by the investors since the feed-in tariffs are lower than expected. All the efforts made so far have to be appreciated while there are more steps to be taken.
1 EMRA prepared a draft implementation regulation stipulating the procedures and principles to be followed by the market participants in order to obtain a RES Certificate and to be involved in the Mechanism. The draft regulation is not finalized and published at the time of writing.
2 The eligible consumer limit for 2011 is 30.000 kWh.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.
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by Anika Anand; Video by Kenneth Christensen
Residents learn about recycling, conservation at annual festival
For the fifth straight year, Bronxites gathered at St. Mary’s Park to celebrate Earth Fest, sharing ideas for innovative ways to green the planet.
Representatives from businesses, community organizations, and city agencies combined on April 21st to promote environmental initiatives, through information kiosks, activities for kids and assorted giveaways at Mott Haven’s biggest park.
Julia Wilson, 6, circled a flagpole several times while trying to decide where to tie a bright orange ribbon, to give flight to a sail made of recycled materials. She settled on a spot she could reach at the bottom of the pole.
“Recycling means cleaning the earth and not leaving garbage around,” she said, standing back to admire the plastic bags and ribbons tethered to it that blew in the wind.
“There’s a lot to learn here,” said Levell Peterkin, 40, who was visiting family in the area. “I was over there and talked to Con Ed, who told me you can change all the light bulbs in your house to these things,” he said, holding up a compact fluorescent light bulb. “I could cut my electricity bill by 40 percent.”
With bright green papers in hand, festival-goers like Peterkin strolled from one table to another listening to vendors peddle their wares. The product vendors stamped the papers, allowing participants to collect prizes based on the number of stamps they’d accumulated.
“It’s fun and free, but you have to work to get the free stuff,” said Rachel Amar, the event’s founder. “It’s a way to incentivize green behavior.”
A crowd swarmed the table that was covered with prizes for most of the afternoon. One volunteer yelled, “Hardcover books, three points. Softcover books, two points. All brand new books, come and get them.” Other prizes included t-shirts, healthy snacks and bottles of lotion.
Nearby, a group of kids played a round of Recycling Olympics, the newest addition to Earth Fest. They competed in a recycling toss, where they had to decide whether an item of garbage went in a blue plastics bin, a green paper pin or a black trash bin.
After playing the game, Natasha Perez, 8, reflected on what she learned.
“Plastic should not go in the paper, because later you can’t recycle,” she said.Across from the games, Jayla Garris, 11, stood on stage singing her rendition of Adele’s “Someone Like You,” as part of the youth talent show that featured spoken-word and musical and dance performances. She said it was her first time at Earth Fest.
“It’s nice of people to throw an event because people don’t usually celebrate the Earth,” she said.
Anna Vincenty, a long-time neighborhood activist who worked for many years for housing advocacy group Nos Quedamos and now works as Congressman Jose E. Serrano’s community liaison, was honored with a 2012 GetGreen Environmental Leadership award.
“There is nothing more important than making sure that today you take advantage of everything that you’re learning,” said Vincenty. “We’ve got to make sure we leave our children and our grandchildren a better place than what we found.”
Superhero Global Man Eco-Avenger also accepted an award for promoting green education to children.
“One of the things I want everybody in this community to understand is we believe in you,” he said. “We are committed to making sure the Bronx gets cleaner and cleaner.”
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Yesterday, I visited a very cold Ennerdale to give my new 3D camera a full test. I'm really pleased with the results. The camera, a Fuji W3, is very easy to use - one complaint that I have is that it's very easy to place a finger in front of one of the lenses, due to the lens position... this is easily overcome after re-learning how to hold the camera.
The camera itself has a 3D preview screen, which you don't need to wear any special glasses to view - the screen really does give an illusion of depth! If we've got this technology in our hands now, what are TV manufacturers holding back on? No Glasses, 3D TV is looking really promising for the future!
The 3D Anaglyph images that you see, don't come straight off the camera - I use software to manipulate the left/right photographs that are produced when the shutter button is released. The camera has been designed, so that you can plug it straight into your 3D television (has to be compatible with the mpo file format). 3D images can be printed by a novel process, which means that no 3D glasses need be worn.
To view the 3D photographs from my 6 hour walk -Red/Cyan Anaglyph Glasses are required. Glasses can be obtained off the Internet for free, or if you wish to buy, they are very cheap.
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The government’s response to Edward Snowden’s leaks about the National Security Agency’s secret monitoring of the Internet and collection of our telephone logs is a mass of contradictions.
A passionate debate now rages over whether international safety standards should be enforced against manufacturers in the developing world and their Western retailers. Unfortunately, the debate is unnecessarily narrow. What needs discussing — and radical changing — is the Bangladesh's political-economic system, which benefits elites while keeping the mass of people down.
Nothing will have been learned from this scandal if all that happens is the firing of some IRS administrators and the issuance of new guidelines on 501(c)(4) applications. That is not nearly enough.
Demagogues offend us because they try to bypass our rational faculty with appeals to gut emotion. That pretty well sums up what gun controllers have done since the Newtown tragedy.
It’s hard to believe that in the 21st century, educated people believe the government can produce real wealth by creating money. It’s especially ironic that the main preachers of this superstition fancy themselves progressives and are the first to accuse their opponents of being against science.
The tenth anniversary of the start of America’s illegal and aggressive war against Iraq should not pass without recalling that the mainstream news media eagerly participated in the Bush administration’s dishonest campaign for public support.
The enormity of the crime committed by the Bush administration, with the complicity of cheerleading politicians (Republican and Democrat), journalists, and foreign-policy “experts” cannot be adequately calculated — and the consequences are not all in.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is at a record high, and the unemployment rate has ticked down to 7.7 percent, but this is no time to celebrate. The economy is still in the doldrums.
Budget sequestration is as modest a step toward cutting Leviathan as one can imagine. Further progress will be difficult as long as people believe that slashing the size of government conflicts with reviving the economy. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Anglican theologian Leonard Hodgson’s 1943 book The Doctrine of the Trinity is creative, insightful, and I think believed by no one. It posits what I call a “three self” theory, what others call a “social” theory. But my purpose here is to relay his insights regarding the approach to monotheism in the first three centuries of Christianity.
…”subordinationism.” That term is used to describe theories current in the monarchian controversies of the third and fourth centuries. Those theories were attempts to secure the unity of the Godhead by regarding one Person as ultimately God in His own right and the others as divine in a secondary or subordinate sense. …only one of the three Persons, the Father, was in patristic times regarded in this way as the real God… [the theory is fundamentally an attempt] to find the unity by treating one of the elements as ultimate and reducing the others to terms of it. (The Doctrine of the Trinity, p. 88, emphases added)
Subordinationism… attempts to preserve the unity by making one Person ultimately the real God and the others divine because of their relation to Him. Hippolytus of Rome was notorious for the subordinationism into which he was driven in his efforts to refute Sabellius. Although in this connection Origen is chiefly memorable for the doctrine of eternal generation by which he freed trinitarian theology from one element in subordinationism, i.e. temporal secondariness, yet other elements remained… ( p. 100, bold added)
The notion that in the Trinity one Person may be the fount or source of being or godhead for another lingered on to be a cause of friction and controversy between the East and the West, and still persists into much Christian theology of to-day. …[But in the divine] unity, there is no room for any trace of subordinationism… the thought of the Father as the Source or Fount of Godhead is a relic of pre-Christian theology which has not fully assimilated Christian revelation. (p. 102, emphases added)
A few quibbles; first “subordinationism” as so defined was also common in the second half of the second century, with all the “logos theologians.” And in the second quote, it is anachronistic to speak of “trinitarian” theology in the early third century. On the last quote, he’s assuming equal divinity as necessary for trinitarianism, which is correct.
But yeah, his basic points are correct – too many big dogs? It’s really one big dog, and two little ones.
Finally, a couple of quotations I disagree with but think are fascinating:
What was needed was that into the place hitherto held in men’s thought by the one God of their faith and worship [i.e. the Father] there should be put the Trinity as a whole. (The Doctrine of the Trinity, p. 101, original emphases)
When you put it this way, you see how breathtakingly bold trinitarian speculations were! How could anything or anyone take the place of the one who, according the New Testament, Peter, John, Paul, and the Lord Jesus himself taught and worshipped as the one true God?
Christianity began as a trinitarian religion with a unitarian theology. The question at issue in the age of the Fathers was whether the religion should transform the theology or the theology stifle the religion. (p. 103, emphasis added)
He’s got this much right – all early Christian theology was unitarian. That’s because Jesus and the apostles taught that, and the ball was not dropped – not in those days.
But in what sense was the “religion” – the practice? – trinitarian? As Hurtado has shown, as far as historical evidence is concerned, Christians always worshipped Jesus. But they simply did not, historians agree, worship the Holy Spirit in the early years, nor the three as one triune God. Were they merely “trinitarian” in that they used some threefold forms of speech, as occasionally in the New Testament, then commonly for baptisms by mid second century? But that practice is wholly consistent with unitarian belief and practice.
I can’t come up with any decent sense in which early Christianity was “trinitarian.” The most one could possibly say, is what more careful trinitarian scholars say, which is that the early theologies “contained the seeds” of trinitarianism – whatever that means!
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Here's a question for you. What NEC Articles are the most important for proper surge protection? If you answered, “Art. 250, 280, and 285,” then you're correct. But do you know where these apply, and do you know what other areas of the NEC also have bearing on this issue?
The answer to the second part of that question is “Chapters 1-4, and Art. 90.” In Chapter 1, for example, people tend not to pay much attention to Art. 100. This single fact explains the existence of many power quality problems. You understand why, when you read the Art. 100 definitions of grounding and bonding. Mix these up, and your surge protection devices act more like surge recirculation devices.
Now, where do these three Articles apply?
Because of the energy levels involved, Art. 280 generally applies to wiring outside the facility. An example is a spark gap arrester on the service drop. Article 285 nearly always applies to wiring inside the facility. One example is an SPD unit on an internal power distribution panel.
For the purposes of surge protection, think of Art. 250 as having two components:
- Grounding, covered by Parts II and III. These parts are analogous to Art. 280 in some ways, and generally do not apply to the load side of the service connection. If you have ground rods on the load side, then you probably have NEC violations that increase equipment failure and decrease safety.
- Bonding, covered by Parts IV, V, VI, and VII. The NEC is confusing in this regard, because the titles of all but Part V refer to grounding, but they mean bonding.
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|Reviews for 2008 Summer Olympics Controversy|
| May Elizabeth 9/9/08 . chapter 1
This is good piece, and well researched. Though politics and the olympics are of course entwined. The controversy over the last olympics this summer was over Tibet and China. I suggest you research this issue, to see why the olympic "values" and China's treatment of Tibet is a contradiction. Simply pointing it out. :D
| sharks don't sleep 8/6/08 . chapter 1
Alright, first, there are a lot of grammatical mistakes/typos in this essay, but I didn't think that took away too much from your point, although it is something to improve on if you want more credibility.
Second, in an essay you shouldn't say "my thesis is" anywhere, much less at the END of the essay. A thesis sentence should be the last sentence in the introductory (or first) paragraph, even if you don't want your essay to be very tradition, etc. It helps people to know what points you're going to be making, since you are trying to persuade people to see your side of a debate.
In my opinion, I do think that politics sometimes have to get in the way of the Olympics. I know that in the past, when the Olympics were started, countries stopped wars to have fun and compete in sport. But these days, wars AREN'T stopping during the Olympics because countries can afford to do both all at once. Boycotting the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics takes nothing away from the athletes - just from China. What China is doing is wrong (I personally disagree with China's government system, too, but that's another issue), and in my opinion there are no pros unless you are China. Sure, *they* have pros. They get another country as theirs! What's not to love IF YOU ARE CHINA?
And also, I'm pretty sure that the Olympic Games were held in Germany during Hitler's time in power as a way to present the country to the world in a way that made it out to be a happy, healthy place when it wasn't. Maybe that wasn't 1944, but I don't see when else it could have been.
So basically I disagree with you on this.
(Also, I'm not really sure why you bring up cell phones and TV and other luxuries that we have nowadays in this. To me, that seemed way off-topic or maybe it's just really unclear what point you were trying to make with it.)
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I saw a photo online just now of one of the most striking examples of stained glass I’ve ever seen.
It’s at Buckfast Abbey (home of the notorious Buckfast Tonic Wine), which I visited on a family holiday a few years ago. The window I have in mind is striking in itself, but also because of its context.
Buckfast Abbey was re-established by French Benedictine monks in 1882, and the abbey church was built between 1905 and 1937 – with, remarkably, never more than six monks working on it at any time, and using primitive construction methods (see Wiki for details).
Mostly, the abbey church is pretty conservative. To call it “gothic pastiche” would be unkind to its devoted and consecrated builders, but you’ll notice that didn’t stop me . Anyway, here’s the view as you approach the building:
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Responsible Care® is the chemical industry’s unique global initiative that drives continuous improvement in safety, health and environmental (SHE) performance. It is helping the chemical industry to contribute to sustainable development while allowing us to meet the world’s growing need for essential chemicals and the products those chemicals make possible. The Responsible Care® initiative is committed to open and transparent communication with all stakeholders.
The International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) is the worldwide voice of the chemical industry, representing manufacturers and producers all over the world. Through the participation of over 50 national chemical manufacturing associations – and through them, thousands of chemical sites around the world – Responsible Care® forms an essential part of ICCA’s contribution to the United Nations' Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)
The network continues to expand, which helps to improve the way we share safety, health and environmental information as well as the way we employ increasingly rigorous system, checklists, performance indicators and verification procedures. In addition, Responsible Care® outreach spans a vast range of activities from cooperative, performance-based initiatives with government agencies to community projects such as development of wildlife habitats and tailored programs for schools.
Lucite International is committed to implementing Responsible Care® as broadly as possible and has the following priorities:
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The rankings by Education Week have been promoted by Gov. Martin O'Malley and many other elected officials who have pushed for increased investment in education over the past decade. The state received high marks for overall student achievement, which has been on the rise on national tests, and for how equitably it allocates funds to different schools.
"School finance has been an anchor for us. We do have an equitable funding formula," interim state schools Superintendent Bernard J. Sadusky said.
The state got its best grade, an A, for its early education programs and for preparing students for college and jobs after graduation. Maryland also ranked first among states in the percentage of students who do well on Advanced Placement tests. The state ranked in the middle of states for its academic standards.
No one was more relieved than Sadusky late Wednesday when he shared the news with his staff.
"If it had been two, five or seven, my picture would have been on the bulletin board, and I would have been out of here," Sadusky said, referring to a feared slipping in the rankings.
Sadusky stepped in over the summer as interim superintendent while the state school board looks for a replacement for Nancy S. Grasmick, who held the job for two decades. He said he was delighted, but the state has much more work to do.
In particular, Sadusky said, the state must make more progress in closing the achievement gap between minority and poor students and the rest of the population. Maryland has the greatest gap of any state in the nation in math achievement between poor students and those who don't qualify for the subsidized lunch program.
Students who graduate from Maryland public schools should be prepared for the jobs that are available and for college, he said.
Maryland has not yet incorporated international standards for English, science and social studies into the curriculum students must learn by the end of senior year in high school, the Education Week report said.
Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia joined Maryland among the highest achievers. The District of Columbia, South Dakota and Nebraska were among the lowest achievers.
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[Originally posted on my blog briciole as English-style Coulommiers (a.k.a. English farmhouse cheese)]
I am not sure why I had never tried to make this fresh cheese before, but I am certainly glad that the availability of fresh goat milk (latte di capra) coupled with an impending trip steered me towards it. Different from Coulommiers, its English-style counterpart is not mold-ripened and can be eaten shortly after being made.
I followed the recipe for this cheese given in the book 200 Easy Homemade Cheese Recipes by Debra Amrein-Boyes. I adapted the given recipe by diving the quantities by four and by using one quart of fresh goat milk and 1.5 quarts cow milk (latte di mucca), instead of all cow milk. Ricki Carroll's Home Cheese-Making also has the recipe for it. (They are slightly different, mostly in the use of a different starter culture.) In the introduction Carroll describes the special mold used to make Coulommiers. A Camembert mold can also be used, and this is what I have done.
It was not the first time I had used this mold, so I knew that it requires special attention. After the curd is formed, thin slices of it are ladled into the mold. Draining of the whey (siero di latte) is by gravity, which takes some time, so the watchword here is "patience" (pazienza). In the photo below you can see drops of whey sliding along the side of the mold, which has small holes all around.
I filled the mold almost to the rim, waited until the curd's level dropped then added a bit more. I continued this process until all the curd was used. What happens if you go too fast? The mold has no bottom, so if you overfill it, the pressure may move it and you may end up with curd rushing out from the bottom (been there, done that).
To help prevent any movement of the mold and also to make sure there was no leaking of curd through the cheese mat, I put a sterilized piece of cloth under the mold (the green thing you can glean in the photos). This may or may not be acceptable, but it was certainly useful. If you can manage to be patient and come back to the mold over and over again to fill it, and make sure the draining occurs undisturbed, the process is actually kind of fun to watch. As you can see below, the curd level has gone down and the curd looks more compact than in the photo above.
Unfortunately, I don't have additional images of the process nor of the cheese when it came out of the mold. Just to give you an idea, the mold is 4-1/4" high and the thickness of the final cheese is 1.5 inches. The photo below shows the finished cheese resting on the mat (if it reminds you of a sushi mat, it's because that is what it is). The cheese has already been flipped, and you can see the markings left by the mat on its surface.
After a day or so in the fridge, we started consuming the cheese, whose surface glistens nicely in the light. The cheese is wrapped in a special two-layer paper, described on this page accompanying a previous cheese post.
The end product was a pretty small cheese that tasted fresh and milky. In my case, there was a also delicate tang provided by the goat milk. The cheese pairs well with my homemade bread. Pane e formaggio (bread and cheese) is really one of my favorite foods to eat during dinner. I also used it over French toast. After flipping the toast, I put on it four thin slices of the cheese and let it warm up and soften, but only slightly, to protect the delicate flavor of the cheese. This was a special French toast also for another reason, but the revelation will have to wait a couple of weeks. Let me just say that head of my Quality Assurance department (a.k.a., my husband) fully approved.
A couple of nights ago, I brought the cheese to the table together with 100% whole-grain bread (which you can see in the photos in this post) and my red beet spread: everything was warmly received. Other serving suggestions come from the cheese-making book's author. Amrein-Boyes says:
It is very versatile: try a slice with a muffin for breakfast, or drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with herbs and a few capers for an easy gourmet appetizer.
[I assume she refers to English muffin.]
I will make this cheese again, maybe using Ricki Carroll's recipe for comparison. As always, stay tuned for more reports about my adventures in cheese making.
Exciting update (June 7, 2011): my story on making English-style Coulommiers is featured in today's post on the New England Cheesemaking Supply Company blog. Such an honor!
Hear me pronounce the Italian words mentioned in the post by launching the formaggio fatto in casa: Coulommiers stile inglese audio file [mp3]
[Depending on your set-up, the audio file will be played within the browser or by your mp3 player application. Please, contact me if you encounter any problems.]
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Jeimy J. Cano M., Ph.D., CFE, CMAS
Even before a formal or conceptual structure, a business model requires a vision, a passion, a taste and a different way of seeing the world that allows its creator to shape an idea or thought or a way to develop his intellect and an opportunity to assemble a puzzle of challenges in pursuit of his own dream. A business creator knows he will have many things in his favor as well as many others against him and knows that he must have good judgment to understand his competitor’s considerations and a flair for taking calculated risks to get what he wants in the end.
In this sense, the information security professional should understand that his business is to find the opportunity to meet the demands of the organization’s information protection and a way to create an environment of trust, knowing that uncertainty and the inevitability of failure will test his strategies and safeguards. Understanding the business model of information security means understanding the expectations of top executives and how security is part of the board’s agenda.
Therefore, information security professionals should be part of the organization’s strategy and its tactical plans in such a way that understanding how business value could be generated and how this value unfolds in each one of its areas. In this sense, information security practices become a natural part of the processes, generating proactive actions to be developed by people involved in them.
The information security function will fulfill its promise of value to the clients when it is able to reinvent itself in every business process and has consistently instilled commitment throughout the organization as well as an effective culture for handling information security.
In other words, an information security professional will be considered successful when information security policies and practices allow him to anticipate and understand an emergent risk. These actions will enable the top management to fulfill its promise of value to the customers in an assurance context.
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However, social media offers plenty of opportunities for learning and interactivity, and if you take a moment to think about it, it’s not too hard to see how students benefit from using social media. As younger generations use such technology in the classroom, they remake the educational landscape.
Students are experiencing the world through more than just books and assignments; they are learning and adapting to the world using a relatively new form of communication. In a world where connections are important, graduates are coming into the workplace with a lot to offer.
But what exactly are they learning? Read on to find out.
Social media networks are designed for the purpose of communal connections. Today’s students are accessing Facebook, Twitter and even Instagram to connect and share with those around them. One of the most interesting things about social media is that users can interact and engage with each other solely through a Web presence, perhaps never even meeting in person.
Whether they are sharing personal pictures, links to other sites or even commenting on someone’s post, students engage, stretching beyond social interaction purposes alone. Students use social media day in and day out to interact with their peers and even teachers about class-related subjects. In a world where online engagement is important for businesses, these students are becoming experts at developing a sense of Internet presence. Not only do they know how to interact with others on the internet, they know how to use basic and even complex functions in order to do so.
Social media users share among themselves day in and day out, giving and receiving information at rapid speeds. This information is more than funny cat videos; they share views and opinions; tips, tricks, and even DIY projects; and, among students, helpful information for classes. Their ability to assess, analyze, retain and share information is skyrocketing and they often don’t even realize they’re developing these skills. Only people born before the Internet was invented are likely to understand the magnitude of this new style of communication.
Social Media Marketing
The advent and dominance of social media has created a new breed of marketing, which has required professionals to build and further the field. As social media users join the workforce, they bring their skills to their careers. Social media prepares young workers to become great marketers. It has become essential for major businesses to include a social media marketing strategy and students today are the people filling these positions.
While older generations might not completely understand or agree with the amount of social media activity by today’s student population, they will quickly benefit from it. As technology advances, so does the way the world works with it. Members of the young workforce are keeping up to speed with many forms of social media. Once you get a proper social media marketing strategy locked in, you’ll be grateful for the recent graduate you’ve hired to carry out the details.
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WASHINGTON — The United States Navy has presented U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre, a Lumberton native, with its Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest Navy civilian award.
“I am deeply humbled and honored to receive this prestigious award, and I am thankful to have the opportunity to assist the men and women of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in their mission,” McIntyre said in a statement. “From the sea to the air and land, the Navy and Marines work day-in and day-out guarding and protecting our freedoms and security.”
The Navy Distinguished Public Service Award was established in 1951 and is presented to civilians for “specific courageous or heroic acts or exceptionally outstanding service of substantial and long-term benefit to the Navy, Marine Corps, or Department of the Navy as a whole.”
Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, presented McIntyre with the award for his service to the Navy as a member of Congress, the House Armed Services Committee and the House Committee on Agriculture.
“… His courageous leadership as a member of the Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces as well as the Congressional Shipbuilding, Special Operations Forces, and Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucuses directly impacted the quality of life for the men and women of the Department of the Navy, ensuring that the Navy-Marine Corps team was the most lethal force in history,” Mabus said. “Rep. McIntyre’s ardent advocacy of ship-building programs and support for Navy energy initiatives assured the highest levels of readiness for our combat forces.”
McIntyre, a Democrat who is in his eighth term as the District 7 representative in the U.S. House, said that the honor was especially meaningful to him since his father, Doug McIntyre, was a World War II Navy veteran. McIntyre grew up in Lumberton, attended Lumberton High School and the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He worked as a lawyer before being elected to Congress in 1996.
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All questions and answers are based on the 2008 NEC.
Q. What are the rules on spacing receptacles in a dwelling unit?
A. A receptacle outlet must be installed in every kitchen, family room, dining room, living room, sunroom, parlor, library, den, bedroom, recreation room, and similar room or area so that no point along the wall space is more than 6 feet, measured horizontally along the floor line, from a receptacle outlet [210.52(A)] (Figure).
In addition, a receptacle outlet must be installed for each kitchen and dining area countertop wall space 1 foot or wider, and receptacles must be placed so that no point along the countertop wall space is more than 2 feet, measured horizontally from a receptacle outlet [210.52(C)(1)].
But honestly, there are so many rules on locating receptacles in dwelling units, I suggest you review all of 210.52.
Q. Is PVC conduit permitted to be used to supply circuits in a health care facility?
A. Yes and no. PVC conduit can be used to supply feeder circuits in health care facilities, but not for branch circuits. Branch circuits serving patient care areas must be provided with an effective ground-fault current path by installing the circuits in a metal raceway or cable having a metallic armor or sheath that qualifies as an equipment-grounding conductor in accordance with 250.118 [517.13(A)].
Q. Are switchboards, panelboards, and transformers permitted within a room that serves as a return air space to the air handler?
A. Yes. The requirement that limits wiring methods in return air space doesn't apply to habitable rooms or areas of buildings, the prime purpose of which isn't air handling [300.22(C)].
Q. What are some of the new GFCI protection requirements in the 2008 NEC, and must existing facilities be updated to comply with the new requirements?
A. GFCI protection is required for all 15A and 20A, 125V receptacles located in dwelling unit garages and unfinished basements [210.8(A)(2) and 210.8(A)(5)].
In other than dwelling occupancies, all 15A and 20A, 125V receptacles installed outdoors [210.8(B)(4)] within 6 feet of the outside edge of a sink must be GFCI-protected [210.8(B)(5), and electric drinking fountains must be GFCI protected [422.52].
When receptacles are replaced in locations where GFCI protection is required, the replacement receptacles must be GFCI protected [406.3(D)(2)], but the Code doesn't require you to update your facilities every time a new edition is written.
Q. Is ground-fault protection required for a 1,200A, 277/480V, 3-phase service disconnect switch if it contains a 900A fuse?
A. Yes, ground-fault protection of equipment is required for each service disconnecting means rated 1,000A or more supplied by a 4-wire, 3-phase, 277/480V wye-connected system. The rating of the service disconnecting means is considered to be the rating of the largest fuse that can be installed or the highest continuous current trip setting of a circuit breaker. There are a few points to keep in mind here.
Ground-fault protection of equipment isn't permitted for fire pumps [695.6(H)], and it's not required for emergency systems [700.26] or legally required standby systems [701.17].
Article 100 defines “Ground-Fault Protection of Equipment” as a system intended to provide protection of equipment from ground faults by opening the overcurrent device at current levels less than those required to protect conductors from damage. This type of protective system isn't intended to protect people, only connected utilization equipment. See 215.10 for similar requirements for feeders.
Q. Are light switches for exterior lighting required immediately adjacent to each entrance of a single-family dwelling?
A. No. The Code specifies the location of the lighting outlet in a dwelling unit [210.70(A)(2)(b)], but it doesn't specify the location of the switch.
Q. When 5 feet of conductor passes through a higher ambient temperature location, must the entire circuit still be subjected to ampacity correction?
A. It depends on the circuit length. When different ampacities apply to a length of conductor, the higher ampacity is permitted for the entire circuit if the reduced ampacity length doesn't exceed 10 feet — and its length doesn't exceed 10% of the length of the higher ampacity [310.15(A)(2) Exception].
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Typically when one thinks about a high pressure “ridge” moving into the forecast, you think to head outside and enjoy the sun. That’s because High Pressure promotes sinking air which limits the form of cloud cover. With that said, why have we been fogging up and not seeing much sun in the valley lately?
If you’re a city bug, I’m sure you noticed all the fog formation we have had over the last week. That morning fog typically burns off, or as meteorologist like to say, “mix out.” But there have been several days where that fog doesn’t go anywhere. Meanwhile the coast and the Cascades haven’t seen a cloudy day since the last week of November. There are a couple of reasons for this which I will get into.
The first reason is from what I stated earlier. High pressure promotes “sinking air.” Cold air is more dense, or heavier, than warmer air which is why it’s been so bloody cold in the valley. All that cold air is “sinking” due to the higher pressure and it has no where else to go except the bottom of the valley. It’s sliding down the mountains of the Coast Range and Cascades and pooling up right here in the Eugene, Corvallis, Roseburg, and others along the way. What we need is a little bit of wind to dry it up or a storm to blow it out of here. But that hasn’t happened.
Another reason for the fog is due to the season. During the winter season, we have a very low sun angle. That sun doesn’t get much time to warm us up since daylight hours are so limited. And since it is at such a low angle, we don’t get the direct rays (seen in summer months) that could warm us up to create air movement. These reasons combined are why valley areas tend to see clouds during a “high pressure” time and other locations see sun.
I’d like to take a moment to make sure you all know that these situations make forecasting extremely difficult. It’s hard to calculate how much wind you think will be in the area during this weather trend. The wind is the perfect mechanism needed to dry out that fog and if you get a little bit of it, you can have it burn off by the afternoon. Sometimes models indicate a 5-10 mph wind coming in (which would limit fog growth) but then that wind never comes. So when a winter high pressure ridge builds in I say, “Alright Mother Nature lets see who can out-forecast who.”
Mother Nature definitely has her moments of success. I’m just saying…
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A mask is an essential part of your daily skin care. It is considered to be the exfoliating step in your daily facial skin care regimen.
Adding a mask after you use the cleanser will help you to exfoliate dead skin cells which will expose newer, younger-looking skin. Certain mask formulas can also hydrate and moisturize the skin, remove environmental impurities, clear excess surface oils, and minimize the appearance of pores. All of these benefits help to create healthy, younger-looking skin.
Here’s what you should look for based on your skin type:
Dry and Normal Skin
Look for a moisture rich mask that will remove dead surface cells, hydrates and moisturizes the skin, and helps to remove environmental impurities from the skin’s surface. If you want botanical ingredients in your mask, look for flax seed and sea kelp extract, which contain vitamins, minerals and fatty acids that are important to maintain your moisture balance. Silymarin and Luo Han Guo are botanical ingredients that defend against environmental damage and help promote healthy skin.
Combination & Oily Skin
Find a revitalizing mask that will absorb excess oils and helps removes impurities from the skin’s surface. This is especially beneficial for women with oily skin. The mask should also remove dead skin cells, refines your skin’s texture, and minimize the appearance of pores. Silymarin and Luo Han Guo are botanicals that are helpful for this skin type as well as water lily and Frangipani Flower Extract, which protect against environmental stressors and provide minerals to help maintain healthy-looking skin. Kanuka and Guava Fruit Extract are additional botanicals to look for as well. Kanuka extract (white tea tree) is known for its purifying benefits and Guava Fruit Extract is an exfoliant. (For more information on botanicals for your skin type, click here: best products for your skin type.)
Blemish-Prone Skin (e.g. acne, pimples, blackheads)
A mask should be used once or twice a week especially if your cleanser does not have exfoliating properties in it (some cleansers do have this). You can use the mask as a facial scrub but not on sensitive skin. In other words, the dry-normal, combination, and oily skin types, but not the kind of mask used for women with blemish-prone skin.
Before you purchase a mask skin care product, know what type of skin you have by clicking here… Your Skin Type.
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Today’s blog post is a special message from your AAA Secretary, Deb Martin.
What Do 10,000+ Members of AAA Have In Common?
Beyond having DNA in each of their cells and being smarter than the average scholar, what possibly could 11,000+ active members of AAA have in common? Well, for one thing, 10,000+ active members have not yet voted in the AAA elections.
Why is that?
I know there are some members who feel that their vote doesn’t matter. Here is the thing: Last year, for many of the candidates the vote was very, very close. Literally, some people won their seat by a few votes. More often than not, the votes were very close, like 52% to 48%. So there is empirical data to suggest that this is NOT a good reason for not voting since one vote can make a difference.
I know there are some members who feel that the AAA is run by a small inside group who controls all the power. Here is the thing on that: Not true. I am a biological anthropologist and I didn’t know hardly anyone on the board when I got elected to the Secretary position. Every year, 1/3 or so of the people cycle off the board, and new people cycle on. There are people in positions from all walks of anthropological life and it would be statistically and scientifically impossible for a small group of people to control who is on the board or in section positions at any given moment.
I know that there are some members who feel that only cultural anthropologists get on the slates. This is not true. The slates are made up from a pool of candidates who put their name in the mix. Many of the slates are specifically designated and both candidates must represent the designation: cultural, linguistic, biological, archaeology, practicing/professional etc. At any given time, there is representation by all kinds of anthropologists, and diversity within the subdisciplines as well.
I know that there are some members who do not vote because they don’t personally know any of the candidates. Whoa! This one really makes me chuckle. There are almost 12,000 paying members of the AAA!! Of course we don’t personally know many of the candidates running, why should we? That is why there are platform statements and short bios attached with each candidate. You do not need to personally know anyone to make an informed decision about who you would rather see hold the position.
So please, go vote. Once you are in the system, you will see how easy it is to navigate, with photos, short platform statements and bios, everything you need to see who your gut tells you to vote for.
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WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE URGES WORLD BANK AND FAO TO OVERHAUL MISLEADING FOOD SUPPLY PROJECTIONS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, May 1, 1996
TO OVERHAUL MISLEADING FOOD SUPPLY PROJECTIONS
Lester R. Brown, President, Worldwatch Institute
Projections of future food production trends by the World Bank and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are overestimating food production and misleading political leaders. This in turn may be leading to costly underinvestment in agriculture and family planning, setting the stage for future food shortages.
Official projections by the Bank and FAO through 2010, which are largely extrapolations of past trends, differ only in minor details. Both indicate that the world is facing surplus agricultural capacity through 2010 and falling prices for wheat, rice, and other grains. However, they do not sufficiently take into account emerging constraints on food production, such as the diminishing response to the use of additional fertilizer, spreading water scarcity, the cumulative effects of soil erosion, rising global temperatures and the crop-withering heat waves associated with them.
Using 1990 as a base, the World Bank projects that growth in the grain harvest will average 26 million tons per year between 1990 and the year 2010. The FAO projects a slightly faster growth of 28 million tons per year during the same period. But, after nearly tripling from 1950 to 1990, there has been no growth in the grain harvest during the first five years of the nineties. As a result, world carryover stocks of grain have dropped to 48 days of consumption, the lowest on record, and prices are soaring.
Bank projections have overestimated the grain harvest every year since 1990, with the discrepancy growing from 56 million tons in 1992 to 225 million tons in 1995. (See table below) FAO projections, which appear in World Agriculture: Towards 2010, published in 1995, show an even greater gap. With each passing year, the difference between the Bank and FAO projections of output and the actual trend is growing wider. (See figures below)
The lack of any growth in the world grain harvest during the five years from 1990 to 1995 should not be taken as a new trend any more than the trend from 1950 to 1990 should be taken as a trend that will continue indefinitely. But the reasons for the lack of growth over the last five years need to be carefully examined to see what effect they are likely to have on production over the longer term.
The World Bank is quite explicit about its use of extrapolation to project future growth. In The World Food Outlook, the Bank study that contains its agricultural projections, the authors say, "Historically, yields have grown along a linear path from 1960 to 1990, and they are projected to continue along the path of past growth."
To justify this approach, the Bank argues that the past is the only guide to the future and, therefore, that extrapolation is the most appropriate technique. To project crop yield per hectare beyond 1990, the Bank economists simply extrapolate the historical trend. For example, they take the U.S. wheat yield per hectare in 1960 and in 1990, and draw a line between the two. They then extend this line to get the wheat yield for the year 2010. They simply assume that the historical trend will continue for the next 20 years.
It is true that past production trends must be taken into account, but the recent past also offers evidence that emerging constraints are making it more difficult to rapidly expand production. A well developed body of scientific literature in the field of production biology describes the trends in biological growth processes in finite environments. These trends invariably follow S-shaped growth curves.
The high school biology lab experiment with algae in a petri dish is designed to teach this concept. If a few algae are introduced into a petri dish containing a plentiful feedstock, the colony will grow slowly at first and then more rapidly for a period, but at some point the growth will come to a halt, in this case as the accumulation of waste limits growth. If properly conducted, this rudimentary experiment yields an S-shaped growth curve.
The levelling off in the world fish catch during the nineties reflects such a curve. The catch increased slowly from 1900 until 1950 and then accelerated after mid century, climbing steeply in the sixties, seventies, and eighties before leveling off during the nineties, yielding an S-shaped growth curve as the catch is limited to the sustainable yield of fisheries. Whether measuring the growth potential of algae in a petri dish, the capacity of the oceans to supply seafood, or the rise in grain yield per hectare, any biological growth process in a finite environment eventually slows and levels off. With agriculture, of course, yields are raised by technological advances, but eventually these efforts run up against the limits imposed by plant physiology, metabolic efficiency, and photosynthesis.
If the World Bank, for example, wants to produce more realistic food production projections, it will need to replace the team of economists who do the projections with an interdisciplinary team that can analyze the new forces that are shaping the food prospect. Such a team should contain, at a minimum, a hydrologist, a plant physiologist, an agronomist, a biotechnologist, and a meteorologist, in addition to an economist. There is a need for economic input, but not to the exclusion of other key inputs.
For example, a hydrologist is needed to assess the rate of aquifer depletion, estimating the date when aquifers that are currently overpumped will be depleted and how this in turn will affect irrigation water supplies. With water tables falling in key food-producing regions such as the southern Great Plains of the United States, several states in India (including the Punjab, the country's breadbasket) and much of northern China, any projections that do not take into account aquifer depletion will overstate future food gains.
Closely related to this is a need for an urban planner who can project the future water needs of cities and how these needs will be satisfied. In cities as different as Los Angeles and Beijing, growing needs are being satisfied by diverting water from irrigation.
China now officially recognizes that 300 of its largest cities are facing water scarcity. Of these, 100 cities, including Beijing, face acute water scarcity. In the spring of 1994, the government banned farmers from reservoirs in the agricultural regions surrounding Beijing, because all available water was needed in the cities. This experience is likely to be repeated hundreds of times over the next few decades in the world's water-scarce regions.
Reliable food production projections will require estimates from land use experts on future cropland losses to non-farm uses, particularly in Asia, which is industrializing at an unprecedented rate. This also includes land loss to urbanization and to the development of automobile-centered transportation systems, such as those now planned for India and China. For instance, China plans to expand its car fleet from 2 million in 1995 to 22 million in 2010. That expansion is threatening future food security as cropland is covered with roads, highways, and parking lots.
Any projections of world food supply need to include the inputs of a plant physiologist who understands the limits of existing crop varieties to absorb nutrients and how this restricts the use of fertilizer to raise yields. With millions of farmers already applying more fertilizer than existing crop varieties can effectively use, the future contribution of fertilizer to growth in the world grain harvest needs to be reassessed.
A biotechnologist can strengthen the projections by incorporating an up-to-date assessment of the capacity of genetic engineers to develop crop varieties that are more drought resistant, salt tolerant, or pest resistant. Although biotechnology has not contributed a single high-yielding variety of wheat, rice, or corn during its first two decades, it may one day do so.
Historically, farmers have always had to deal with the vagaries of weather, but in the future they will also have to cope with the consequences of climate change. The 11 warmest years since recordkeeping began 130 years ago have all occurred since 1979. Within these 11 years, the three warmest have been during the nineties, with the all-time high recorded in 1995. Rising temperatures can translate into crop-withering heat waves of the sort that reduced the 1995 grain harvest in several large food-producing countries, including the United States.
A meteorologist can estimate the effect of the continuing rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases on the frequency and intensity of heat waves. In the past, there was little need to be concerned about climate change in agricultural projections, but with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rising to new highs each year, largely as a result of fossil fuel burning, the world may be moving into a climatic regime that is quite different from the one that has prevailed since agriculture began, some 10,000 years ago.
Without an agronomist to assess the effect of soil losses from wind and water erosion on future land productivity, projections will overstate future production gains. Because soil erosion is a gradual process and because data are often lacking on topsoil losses, the effect on food production is often simply ignored.
There is also a need for an economist who can assess the production response to higher prices under the changing conditions outlined above, rather than simply assuming that it will be the same as in the past. In the mid seventies, farmers invested heavily in new irrigation wells. But in many countries, such an investment in the late nineties will only accelerate the depletion of aquifers. Similarly, in the mid seventies, higher grain prices sharply boosted fertilizer use. But in many countries, investing in additional fertilizer in the late nineties will have little effect on production.
In the mid seventies, for example, the doubling of grain prices and the associated rise in food prices overall led to extensive additional investment in fishing trawlers, which in turn boosted the world fish catch. Such additional investment in the late nineties, however, would simply hasten the collapse of oceanic fisheries. In summary, there will be a production response to higher food prices, but it is likely to be muted compared with those in the past.
The failure to take into account such trends as aquifer depletion, the diminishing response of grain yields to fertilizer, the cumulative effects of soil erosion on land productivity, and the effects of increasingly frequent crop-withering heat waves on yields has contributed to the widening gap between Bank and FAO projections of grain production since 1990 and the real world production trends.
Until recently, the Worldwatch Institute was almost alone in arguing that the FAO and World Bank projections were misleading, but this is now beginning to change. At the end of 1995, Japan's Ministry of Agriculture released its own agricultural supply and demand projections, showing that the future would bring scarcity, not surpluses, and a doubling of grain prices. In projections similar to those of the Institute, the Ministry, using 1992 as a base, projected that by 2010 the price of wheat would increase to 2.12 times the 1992 level and that of rice to 2.05 times.
The differences in these projections need to be resolved as soon as possible, certainly before the U.N. World Food Summit scheduled for November. The difference between the projections by the World Bank and FAO on the one hand and the Worldwatch Institute and the Japanese government on the other are not merely a difference of degree, but a difference of direction. The former say that real world grain prices will continue the long-term historical decline through at least 2010. The latter argue that they will rise, more than doubling by the year 2010.
If the Institute and the Japanese government are at all close to the mark, and the world's farmers cannot restore rapid sustained growth in the world's grain harvest, then steeply rising prices will reduce demand until it balances with supply. In Third World cities, where hundreds of millions of people will be trapped between subsistence level incomes and rising food prices, there will be more hunger and political instability. In a global economy that is more integrated than ever before, political instability in any major country or region can affect economic trends everywhere.
World Grain Production, 1950-1995 With World Bank and FAO Projections, 1990 to 2010 Difference Between Difference Between Grain World Bank Actual Production FAO Actual Production Year Production Projectionsand Bank Projections Projections and FAO Projections (million tons) 1950 631 1955 759 1960 847 1961 822 1962 864 1963 865 1964 921 1965 917 1966 1,005 1967 1,029 1968 1,069 1969 1,078 1970 1,096 1971 1,194 1972 1,156 1973 1,272 1974 1,220 1975 1,250 1976 1,363 1977 1,337 1978 1,467 1979 1,428 1980 1,447 1981 1,499 1982 1,550 1983 1,486 1984 1,649 1985 1,664 1986 1,683 1987 1,612 1988 1,564 1989 1,685 1990 1,780 1,780 0 1,780 0 1991 1,696 1,806 - 110 1,808 - 112 1992 1,776 1,832 - 56 1,836 - 60 1993 1,703 1,858 - 155 1,864 - 161 1994 1,745 1,884 - 139 1,892 - 147 1995 1,685 1,910 - 225 1,920 - 235 2010 2,305 2,346
SOURCES: Historical data are from U.S. Department of Agriculture, "Production, Supply and Demand View" (electronic database), Washington, D.C., November 1994; USDA, "World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates," Washington, D.C., January 1996; projections are from The World Food Outlook, Donald Mitchell and Merlinda D. Ingco, International Economics Department, The World Bank, November 1993, and World Agriculture: Toward 2010 Nikos Alexandratos, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, 1995.
A copy of this brief is being sent to James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, and Jacques Diouf, Director General of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Public schools in Maine are reviewing their security in response to the massacre at a Connecticut school last month.
Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen ordered all state schools to review their security in a memo he issued immediately after the killings in Newtown, Conn., department spokesman David Connerty-Marin said Wednesday.
Bowen, Connerty-Marin said, attended a scheduled meeting of the state’s interagency working group on school preparedness a week after the horror of Newtown, in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at a grade school there on Dec. 14.
Bowen expects a list of security recommendations from the working group, which meets monthly, within a month or two. No report date has been set, Connerty-Marin said.
“People should feel comfortable that their schools and communities are on this in general,” Connerty-Marin said of the security review, “but in a horrible situation like this, we look again to see what else we can do to improve security.”
The interagency group consists of state superintendents, Maine Emergency Management Agency officials, police and other emergency service personnel. It is charged with helping ensure school safety, Connerty-Marin said.
Orono High School Principal Jim Chasse said he and other school officials are reviewing the school’s security at the behest of RSU 26 school board leaders. RSU 26 serves Glenburn, Orono and Veazie.
In Lincoln, Police Chief William Lawrence toured Northern Penobscot Tech-Region III on Dec. 21 at the request of school Director Mary Hawkes.
Hawkes said she thinks her school is secure, but wants to be sure.
“I feel safe, personally, in this facility,” Hawkes said. “However, I don’t think you can ever be too safe so I would like to implement any additional safety measures to ensure that we have reached as high a degree of safety as we can with the resources we have available.”
Lawrence gave Hawkes several recommendations during his two- or three-hour review. School officials expect to implement the recommendations within two weeks. They want Lawrence to train the staff on mass-casualty and violence responses, she said.
So the school’s director is working to tighten security after Lawrence’s tour of the school last month, she said.
“They do have a security system in place that is very good,” Lawrence said. “They just need to enhance that a bit further. I really think they need a PowerPoint presentation and to actually run through [evacuation and safety] drills, and once we complete that, we will be in really good shape.”
“These are easy fixes, very easy fixes,” he added. “They are doing the right things. We are just going to enhance what they are doing.”
RSU 67 Superintendent Denise Hamlin said her school system, which serves Chester, Lincoln and Mattawankeag, conducted its own review within days of Newtown. Officials are installing more secure doors and making other improvements at their three schools, a process that began before the incident, Hamlin said.
Connerty-Marin said statewide reviews of school procedures are usually productive.
“It could be that [state public schools] are doing the right things, but [Bowen] wants to see if there are some areas where [security] improvements can be made,” Connerty-Marin said.
One of the challenges state educators face, Connerty-Marin said, is “striking a balance between creating a fortress and maintaining a learning environment” on limited funding.
But after Newtown, Chasse said, educators are certainly well-motivated.
“I think every school in the country did a review after what happened in Connecticut,” Chasse said.
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EC Competition Law
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The development of competition law in the EU can be explored through three interrelated perspectives: the extent to which controversies in economic thinking affect the design of the law; how changing political visions about the objectives of competition law have caused shifts in the interpretation of the rules; and the institution in charge of applying the rules. The economic and political debates on competition law show that it is a contested terrain, and the way courts and competition authorities apply the law reflects their responses to the objectives and economics of competition law. By characterising the application of competition law as a continuous response to policy and economic debates, the author casts fresh perspectives on the subject. Written with competition law students in mind, Monti sets out economic concepts in a non-technical manner and explores the policy dimension of competition law by referring to key cases and contemporary policy initiatives.
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School’s Chinese dragon dance
CHILDREN at a Lockwood school got a taste of China.
The youngsters at Mount Pleasant J&I School took part in Chinese New Year festivities.
The children got the chance to take part in a traditional Chinese dragon dance, led by Josie Bennett.
The pupils performed a dance using the two dragons, to celebrate the year of the snake, which starts next week.
During the dance performers hold poles and raise and lower the dragon.
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ASTM develops roadmap for updating nuclear power standards.November 8, 2012 -
ASTM developed Roadmap in Support of Commercial Nuclear Power to provide practical set of plans for updating ASTM nuclear energy standards in conjunction with Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative. Ultimate goal of roadmap is to ensure safe and economical source of electricity now and in the†future. Priorities for commercial nuclear energy include encompassing objectives of NESCC Task Group on Standards Prioritization and building on results of ASTM survey and June 2011 workshop.
ASTM International Develops Roadmap for Updating Nuclear Power Standards
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Press release date: November 5, 2012
W.CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., —ASTM International recently developed its Roadmap in Support of Commercial Nuclear Power to provide a practical set of plans for updating ASTM nuclear energy standards in conjunction with the Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative (NESCC). The ultimate goal of the roadmap, a document that spells out these plans in detail, is to ensure a safe and economical source of electricity for now and in the future.
A link to the Roadmap can be found in the ASTM Nuclear Portal at www.astm.org.portals/nuclear. The ASTM Nuclear Portal contains information on standards pertaining to the nuclear industry throughout ASTM committees. The Roadmap includes a list of ASTM standards referenced in Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Regulatory Guides.
“There are two especially important features to the roadmap,” says Stephen Byrne, a consultant based in Connecticut, and a longtime member of ASTM Committee E10 on Nuclear Technology and Applications. “One is to organize the ASTM effort so that we can use available resources effectively. The other is to use it as a communication tool within ASTM as well as with the NESCC members.”
NESCC was formed in 2008, at the instigation of the U.S. Department of Energy and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), to coordinate standards development efforts needed for currently operating plants and the design and construction of new plants. The commercial nuclear power industry has been working through NESCC to resolve technical issues and identify gaps in existing technology.
In order to gather information about the importance and status of standards to the nuclear industry, certain ASTM technical committees such as C26 on Nuclear Fuel Cycle, E10 and others were surveyed in November 2010. ASTM also sponsored a workshop, “Emerging Trends in Nuclear Energy: The Standards Component,” in June 2011. With presenters from the NRC, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and ASTM, the purpose of the workshop was to contribute to the roadmap, facilitate communications and discuss issues and priorities.
Byrne says the roadmap is a practical set of plans, though it is not intended to be a self-contained manual on what is to be done. Priorities identified by the roadmap for commercial nuclear energy include encompassing objectives of the NESCC Task Group on Standards Prioritization and building on the results of the ASTM survey and the June 2011 workshop. In addition, the roadmap will be used to manage any gaps in underlying technology and standards based on their significance for NESCC goals.
The roadmap encompasses several near-term goals for ASTM International in contributing to NESCC efforts to update NRC rules and regulations for commercial nuclear power plants. ASTM will work with the NRC to conduct workshops on emerging issues and act on the list of ASTM standards referenced in NRC documents with appropriate technical committees to determine whether cited standards are appropriate and current. In addition, ASTM will coordinate with the American Nuclear Society (ANS) with respect to standards related to nuclear fuel facilities, power plant dismantling and decommissioning. Finally, ASTM will establish areas for collaboration with the Nuclear Fabrication Consortium and with the Electric Power Research Institute that would make optimum use of EPRI and ASTM expertise.
According to Byrne, successful roadmap implementation will require participation by ASTM staff and committee members, as well as NESCC member organizations. The roadmap will be refined as work proceeds and approximate schedules for each item have been provided.
ASTM International is one of the largest international standards development and delivery systems in the world. ASTM International meets the World Trade Organization (WTO) principles for the development of international standards: coherence, consensus, development dimension, effectiveness, impartiality, openness, relevance and transparency. ASTM standards are accepted and used in research and development, product testing, quality systems and commercial transactions.
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Stopping sliver formation
November 6, 2007
Slivers are the result of the aluminum interfacing with the cutting sections or punches. To reduce the production of slivers the severity of friction at the point where the two surfaces interface must be reduced. The general rule for cutting materials is the softer the metal the smaller the cutting clearance.
I have had a few consulting jobs in which the primary focus was on cutting aluminum. Slivers and burrs were the main problems. To address metal stamping problems such as slivers and burrs, the process engineer, tooling designer, or troubleshooting technician must have a reasonably good understanding of the metal's behavior.
Figure 1a and 1bInsufficient clearance during cutting creates compression deformation (top), while excessive clearance creates tensile deformation.
Aluminum is, indeed, a unique metal to work with. It offers some great advantages and some disadvantages. It is one-third the weight of steel, which gives it a serious advantage in reducing the weight of a part or component. Its great strength-to-weight ratio makes it a candidate for automotive and aircraft industry applications.
It also has some disadvantages: It costs more than steel. Second, it is a very "gummy" or sticky material. It also is very elastic. These mechanical properties can cause stamping problems, especially during cutting or piercing. Aluminum's oxide layer is also very abrasive and can really tear up tool steel.
Not all aluminum behaves the same way. Keep in mind that numerous types of aluminum and aluminum alloys are used in today's stamping industry. Some types, such as the 1000 series, are very ductile, while others can be very hard.
Slivers occur when aluminum interfaces with the cutting sections or punches. To reduce the production of slivers, reduce the severity of friction at the point where the two surfaces interface. The general rule for cutting materials is the softer the metal, the smaller the cutting clearance. This is not always the case, however, especially when you are trying to reduce aluminum slivers.
Although it is desirable to trim steel at 90 degrees to the part surface, aluminum is best-suited for angle cutting; as the angle increases, the cutting clearance decreases.
Because aluminum is relatively soft compared to steel, a great deal of deformation can take place before it is cut. Insufficient clearance during cutting creates compression deformation. Excessive clearance creates tensile deformation (see Figure 1a and 1b).
If the clearance between the punch and the die is too tight, after the metal fractures it decompresses. This decompression causes the metal to grip the punch sides, causing an increase in friction between the cutting punch and the metal. This high friction or rubbing action may produce slivers.
To reduce friction at the interface, increase the clearance between the cutting punch and the die. This stretches the metal into the die slightly before fracture occurs. After the metal fractures, it pulls away from the punch, reducing the friction.
Selecting the correct clearance is a function of numerous factors, including the aluminum type, temper, hardness, cutting angle, and punch geometry. In any case, the cutting clearances should only rarely be below 5 percent of the metal thickness per side. Often simply increasing the cutting clearance to between 12 percent and 18 percent per side can greatly reduce sliver formation.
However, keep in mind that as the cutting clearance increases, so does the burr height. To reduce burr height, make sure that all cutting sections are sharp.
The upper section should be square to the bottom of the section.
In short, when you're trying to reduce slivers, make sure that the metal is failing in tension rather than in compression.
Trim at an Angle. Although it is desirable to trim steel at 90 degrees to the part surface, doing so is far less desirable with aluminum. Aluminum is best-suited for angle cutting. Cutting on an angular surface helps to pull the metal downward in tension before cutting takes place, causing the aluminum to pull back away from the punch. As a general rule, as the angle increases, the cutting clearance decreases (see Figure 2).
Sound strange? Remember the goal is to locally strain the metal in tension. By nature, aluminum tends to strain locally, so this just reduces the local area of high strain.
In addition, as the cutting angle increases, so does the need for the cutting sections to be extremely sharp. It is not unusual for a cutting section to have a 0.005-in. radius.
Keep Cutting Sections Square. Make sure that cutting sections are ground perfectly square at a right angle. Even a very slight angle variation can cause slivers. In addition, make sure that the upper section is ground square to the bottom of the section (see Figure 3).
Make sure that the part fits the lower die very precisely and that the pressure/stripper pad closely fits the aluminum part (see Figure 4).
Use an External Pressure Pad. Although using an external pressure pad is sometimes costly and creates scrap removal problems, doing so will most certainly help reduce sliver formation. This helps to pull metal in tension toward the pad, and also helps to refine and reduce the strained area, resulting in fewer slivers and smaller cutting burrs (see Figure 5).
Keep Cutting Sections Finished. The cutting section should have a highly polished surface and should be coated with an antifriction coating whenever possible. Take the time to linearly stone and polish the section in the direction you are cutting. Hand-ground surfaces are extremely poor for cutting aluminum.
Reduce Punch Entry. To reduce the severity of friction at the point where the metal interfaces, reduce the punch entry to as little as possible.
Use Barrier Lubricant. Use a barrier-type lubricant to reduce the friction at the interface.
Completely eliminating slivers in an aluminum cutting operation is a difficult and daunting task. The key is to cause the metal to fail or break in tension rather than compression. This allows the metal to pull away from the punch, reducing sliver formation.
Until next time … Best of luck!S
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The best way to escape from our mindless purchase economy is to ignore your credit cards in favor of pure, reliable cash. Credit cards undoubtedly have value – purchase protection, rewards, convenience – but only for consumers who use credit responsibly. No Credit Needed wrote a useful guide for anyone willing to live the credit-free life.
Life without plastic requires a few components:
- Budget: Every month, NCN writes out a comprehensive budget: “I divide my salary into three major categories – Give, Save, Spend – and then I break those categories into smaller sub-categories. For example: Give – Tithes, Offering, Charity. I then allocate, on paper, all of the funds that I receive for the month into those sub-categories. I spend every dollar, every month, on paper, before the month begins.”
- Payments and Spending: NCN makes payments either through his online account or with plain checks. For internet purchases, he uses a debit card.
- Transfers: NCN dips into his high-interest savings account once per month. We do the same, and enjoy the financial discipline imposed by limited trips to the cookie jar.
A cash-only lifestyle isn’t for everyone, but it’s an easy way to force yourself to consciously consider each and every purchase.
How I Live Without Using Credit Cards – My Simple System For Living On A Budget [No Credit Needed]
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CBPCA Improves a Home Energy Home
As was described in the last issue of Home Energy, Carol Markell, the magazine’s advertising and marketing manager, had volunteered her house for use during a training for the California Building Performance Contractors Association (CBPCA), a nonprofit organization that introduces contractors—and the general public— to home performance services (see “Training Day,”HE July/August ’05, p. 24). During the training, Markell’s house was run through several diagnostic tests, which tested her home’s performance while educating building contractors on the process of building performance testing.
About a month after the training was completed,CBPCA trainers Rick Chitwood and Tim Locke and students returned to Markell’s Kensington, California, home to conduct a complete energy-feature retrofit. The home received a new heating system, a new duct system, a new water heater, a new gas dryer,warm floors in the bathroom, a quiet bathroom exhaust fan, infiltration reduction, high-efficiency air filtration, insulation in the ceiling and stemwalls, a lighting improvement, and a cleaned and sealed crawlspace (see “Test-Out Results”).
Robert Mitchell and his crew were responsible for the job and the paperwork. It’s hard to say whether having two instructors and 16 new home performance contractors at the job was a help or a hindrance, but Mitchell managed to complete the retrofit in the allotted three days.
“It was all done pretty much how Rick explained it to me,” says Markell. “The crawlspace was [finished] much more completely than I realized [with an added vapor barrier]. They put a lock on the crawlspace access so that no one could get into it, like animals. The new gas dryer was put on a pedestal and the duct for the dryer is much improved. My clothes dry in under one hour; before, it could take three hours.”
The old 80,000-Btu furnace was replaced with a 15,000-Btu/hr combined hydronic air handler that is run off the water heater.“Rick warned me that it may take longer to heat up the home in the morning due to the smaller furnace, but it actually heats up faster,” Markell said.
The goal of the improvements was to enhance comfort and reduce energy bills. The predicted space heating reduction is 78% (from $406 per year to $90 per year) and the total bill reduction is predicted to be 48% (from $850 to $443 per year).To take full advantage of the improvements, a list of system operation recommendations was provided. CBPCA recommended that Markell keep the bedroom doors open as much as possible, so that air supplied to each bedroom can get back to the return grille in the hall. Opening interior doors also allows for better temperature communication between the bedrooms and the thermostat in the hall.When windows are opened in the summer, both of the thermostats should be switched off.
To remove moisture from the bathroom, CBPCA recommended that the bathroom exhaust fan always be used when showering. (“I have to remember to turn on the bathroom fan,” admits Markell.) The twist timer should be set to run the fan after a shower for 15 minutes or more (except in the summer when the windows are open and the floor heat
and furnace are off). One possible future improvement could be to replace the bathroom fan twist timer control with a control system that could cycle on the fan to provide whole-house ventilation, humidity control, or carbon-dioxide-level control if further improvement in the indoor air quality were desired.
The fireplace damper should be kept closed except when the fireplace is used. Phantom loads from the audio/video equipment in the living room and the computer equipment in the shed could be eliminated by placing them on a switched plug strip that is switched off between uses.
Markell had computer equipment in the shed; CBPCA recommended that she move the equipment into the house. Heating the shed with an electric heater is 2.6 times as expensive as the gas heat in the house. In addition, kitchen ventilation could be improved by installing a range hood when Markell remodels the kitchen.
For the next year, CBPCA asked Markell to mail a copy of her monthly utility bill to Rick Chitwood at CBPCA. This will ensure that any problems with the heating system or system operation are identified in a timely manner.
To maintain the new heating system, CBPCA recommends that Markell replace the 24 inch x 24 inch x 2 inch air filter at the return air grille once per year in the fall. When she is changing the filter, it is recommended that she also vacuum out the supply boots.The crawlspace should be checked once per year for signs of moisture, infestations, or odor. The crawlspace should be kept closed and locked at all times to prevent damage to the duct system, insulation, and vapor barrier. Finally, sediment should be flushed from the bottom of the water heater once per year and maintenance required by the water heater manufacturer should also be performed.
Markell has already noticed positive changes in the house.“The house temperature is much more even.The bathroom floor is wonderful. The house was not hot [in June] when it was hot out. But I’m interested in seeing what happens during a three- or four-day heat wave.”
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Scientists tap DNA to try to build 'perfect computer'
Using chemicals instead of silicon, researchers take first step toward
A gold-plated piece of glass at the University of Wisconsin could hold the future of computers.Skip to next paragraph
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The device is rudimentary - it can only perform basic high-school-level math problems. But this tiny "biocomputer" no bigger than a dime is powered by DNA, not silicon, and it represents one of the first significant steps toward a holy grail of science.
From air-traffic patterns to human genetic data, DNA computers could theoretically have a nearly limitless ability to store and analyze certain types of information that befuddles even the most advanced silicon computers. They could, for instance, store the information contained on a trillion CDs in a gram of DNA.
Now, as researchers have begun to bump against the outer performance limits of silicon chips, these new advances promise to vastly expand the limits of what humans can compute and accomplish.
"The potential of DNA-based computation lies in the fact that DNA has a gigantic memory capacity and also in the fact that the biochemical operations dissipate so little energy," says University of Rochester computer scientist Mitsunori Ogihara. "The question is: Is it possible to take advantage of these two facts to be able to do something that one cannot do with silicon-based computers?"
The possibilities for DNA computers include developing a credit-card-size computer that could design a super-efficient global air-traffic-control system. Other researchers say the military could take blood samples from an entire army and encode it to form a database of each soldier's blood type and genetic data.
"You could place that in a very compact form and search that easily," says John Reif, a computer scientist at Duke University in Durham, N.C., who is overseeing a US Department of Defense research effort into DNA computing. "And that's just one of an enormous number of possible applications."
Traditionally, biology and computer science have remained separate entities. But at the most basic level, DNA seemed perfect for computation.
Whereas silicon computers use a binary number system that represents all calculations in strings of zeroes and ones, DNA contains information in strings of four nucleic acids, represented by the letters C, G, T, and A.
Silicon computers manipulate the information by changing the values of the strings of ones and zeroes. DNA manipulates the data through biochemical reactions that can alter or match up pairings of nucleic acids.
"In order to do computations, you only need two things: a means of storing information and a means of manipulating information," says Lloyd Smith, one of the scientists who worked on the project at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "Any system that has those two properties one can set up to do those computations. And DNA has them."
The computer in Wisconsin, described today in the scientific journal Nature, is basically a forest of DNA tethered to the piece of gold-plated glass.
While this computer is man-made, scientists have long marveled at the way DNA stores and transmits information in the biological world.
"There exist many examples in nature of problems that are inherently computational. For example, when our immune systems search to find the specific anti-body to fight [an illness], that is an extremely complex computation," says Laura Landweber, a Princeton University evolutionary biologist.
The first breakthrough came in 1994 from University of Southern California professor Leonard Adelman. He first used DNA to solve the "traveling salesman" problem, a classic math treatise that considers how to devise the most efficient route for a traveling salesman. The salesman would have to leave from a specific city and end at a specific city, thus limiting the possible routes.
These types of problems can describe many crucial real world issues, such as how to break top-secret codes. But they have stymied traditional computers because each added variable - for example, each added city - exponentially increases the complexity of the problem.
Still, DNA computers will likely never replace desktop PCs. Instead, they will be used for specialized problems that have proved intractable to traditional silicon computers. For example, DNA computers could be made of organic materials and exist inside the body without harm to the system. Another possibility is to use them to solve complex combination problems like the salesman problem, albeit at much higher levels.
Scientists say that programming DNA computers could prove difficult because of the problems still inherent in manipulating DNA. Furthermore, the number of errors that naturally occur in DNA processes remains a large hurdle to creating reliable computing systems.
Then again, the field is only five years old. "If you think about the history of computing, real computers could not do that much after they were invented either," says Dr. Landweber. "There is quite a learning curve."
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Sunday, 17 April 2011
"Activists called for protests across Syria today to mark Independence Day and to bolster the popular uprising against the country's authoritarian regime. The plans come despite promises by President Bashar Assad to end nearly 50 years of emergency rule and implement other reforms following more than a month of unprecedented - and growing - demonstrations. More than 200 people have been killed as security forces tried to crush the protests using live ammunition, tear gas and batons. Syria's leading pro-democracy group, the Damascus Declaration, urged Syrians to stage peaceful protests in all Syrian cities and abroad to "bolster Syria's popular uprising and ensure its continuity." In a strongly worded statement posted on the group's website, the Damascus Declaration said the regime was responsible for killing and wounding hundreds of Syrians who have been calling for their legitimate rights in the past month. "The regime alone stands fully responsible for the blood of martyrs and all that will happen next in the country," the statement said. Other activists also called for protests through social network sites. Bowing to pressure from the uprising now in its second month, Assad promised yesterday to end the widely despised emergency law, but coupled his concession with a stern warning that further unrest will be considered sabotage. He warned there will no longer be "an excuse" for organising protests once Syria lifts emergency rule and implements a spate of reforms, which he said will include a new law allowing the formation of political parties. "After that, we will not tolerate any attempt at sabotage,"[Same old, same old! Nothing changes in the Rabbit's hole of horror.] Assad said in a televised meeting with his Cabinet. Thousands of protesters took to the streets before and after Assad's speech in a sign that his promises were unlikely to appease a movement that has grown bolder in demanding sweeping changes....."
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Since 1914 the American Bantam Association has represented bantam breeders and their special interests. It has grown into a strong and vibrant national organization that promotes the breeding and exhibiting of all kinds of bantams.
- To encourage the breeding, exhibiting and selling of pure bred bantams.
- To create a cooperative feeling among the different breeders so as to get better acquainted.
- To sponsor national, semi-annual, state and special meets so as to build up a greater bantam fancy.
- To assemble and distribute information on the breeding, husbandry and economic value of bantam chickens and ducks.
- Policy set by Board of Directors representing all of the United States and Canada - 16 districts.
- President, vice-president and directors are elected for two-year terms. They in turn appoint a secretary-treasurer to carry out established policy.
- Membership dues are the same for individuals, partners, couples, families (with no limit on number of children but only one household).
- New members receive free copy of latest available yearbook and quarterly.
- Publication of an authoritative BANTAM STANDARD which gives full descriptions of 57 breeds, 85 plumage patterns and over 400 varieties of bantams and bantam ducks.
- Licensing of approximately 170 judges in all parts of the United States and Canada.
- Publication of a 24 page QUARTERLY which features news of the Association and timely articles on bantam breeding and husbandry.
- Publication of an annual yearbook which goes free to all members. It features an official listing of all members and licensed judges, advertisements from members, educational articles, summary of latest national and semi-annual meets and a complete listing of all ABA award winners of the previous year.
- The Master Exhibitor program has been going since 1979. It identifies and honors outstanding exhibitors and to win this honor the exhibitor must accumulate 20 starred wins over any number of years. A starred win is defined as champion or reserve champion in a class of 100 or more.
- The Master Breeder program identifies and honors outstanding exhibitors. To win this honor the exhibitor must accumulate 20 starred wins in one variety in a period of not less than 5 years. A starred win is defined as Champion or Reserve Champion in a class of 100 or more.
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Update 8/7 – In an earlier version of this story it was reported that Dallas County was considering aerial spraying. Tuesday afternoon the county tweeted they were NOT considering it as a way to fight west nile.
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – North Texas officials could soon change the game in the fight against West Nile virus. The Dallas County Medical Society is urging the aerial spraying to help reduce the spread of the potentially fatal virus, but other organizations are reluctant.
The Dallas County Medical Society made an appeal to Dallas County Commissioners over the matter Tuesday, but the county ultimately decided to not conduct aerial spraying. The Dallas County Health & Human Services department says they don’t have enough information about aerial spraying to recommend to commissioners whether they should try it or not.
If the Dallas County Health and Human Services department had recommended aerial spraying, County commissioners tell CBSDFW they might have considered it, but right now it was just the medical society adding their two cents to an issue that the county says they have under control.
The state health department has reported a higher number of West Nile virus cases than usual across Texas this year. The virus has already resulted in nine deaths across North Texas. The seventh Dallas County resident to die from the West Nile virus lived in Seagoville.
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De-Introducing the New Testament: A Critical Engagement and Pedagogical Proposal
Professors Lopez and Penner are conducting research toward a co-authored book project, the essential aim of which is to critically engage introductory New Testament textbooks. Ostensibly designed to "introduce" material in a value-free manner, such textbooks can be read as reflective of the assumptions, agendas, and values of the discipline and guild of Biblical Studies over the last 150 years. Furthermore, this project seeks to articulate the diverse ways in which modern scholarship, particularly that which is identified as "historical-critical" in orientation, has in effect generated conceptions of "Christian Origins" and "Early Christianity" that cohere with modern ways of thinking, acting, and teaching. That is, modern methods have functioned to construct histories that have much more to do with configuring and reifying contemporary social relations than "accurately" representing a real, original ancient past. Ultimately, this book will rethink modern approaches to the study and teaching of the history and literature of the New Testament, Christian Origins, and early Christianity, coupled with an effort to encourage students to interact with the modern methods in the very act of complexifying such understandings. As teachers committed to the liberal-arts tradition, Penner and Lopez emphasize a pedagogical orientation for this research. The overall thrust of De-Introducing the New Testament is consonant with critical pedagogy in the Humanities, which is invested in empowering undergraduate students to think critically and expansively about the intellectual and cultural worlds they inhabit, adopt, and create. While Scholars-in-Residence, Lopez and Penner are surveying the Burke Library's considerable holdings in introductory New Testament textbooks and teaching materials from the mid-1850s to the present, including lecture notes held in Archival collections of early Union professors who, through their teaching and research, indelibly shaped the modern study of the New Testament, Christian Origins, and early Christianity. Both Austin and Eckerd Colleges promote and support faculty research with undergraduates, and to that end Penner and Lopez are joined in this project by their students Genny Richard (Austin College '11), and Lauren Bridge and Megan Freda (Eckerd College '11).
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ACLU and Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School Argue in Federal Court Today That Prolonged Indefinite Detention of Immigrants Is Illegal
PASADENA, Calif., January 7, 2008—In a federal appellate court in California today, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that the government is violating the law and the court's prior rulings by incarcerating immigrants in detention centers for prolonged and indefinite periods of time while they fight their immigration cases.
In November 2006, the ACLU of Southern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project and the Stanford Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic filed lawsuits in federal district court on behalf of four immigrant men who were being held indefinitely in the Terminal Island Federal Detention Center in San Pedro, California, while they pursued legitimate legal challenges to their pending deportations. All four had been detained for prolonged periods of time and yet had never received a bond hearing to determine if their detentions were justified. Shortly after the lawsuits were filed, the district court ordered the government to provide the men with bond hearings. By February 2007, all four were released.
The government appealed the district court's decision in three of the four prolonged detention cases. Two of these cases - involving the Reverend Raymond Soeoth and Amadou Lamine Diouf - are being argued before the court today. In addition, two separate cases of immigrants Luis Felipe Casas-Castrillon and Manuel Prieto-Romero are being argued today. Casas-Castrillo and Prieto-Romero have been illegally detained for six and three years respectively. The ACLU filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the those two cases which were argued today by attorneys from the Federal Defenders Office of San Diego and the Northwest Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Washington.
"Under our Constitution, the government cannot detain immigrants without basic due process protections" said Jayashri Srikantiah, associate professor of law and director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic, part of the Mills Legal Clinic, at Stanford Law School.
"Locking people up for years without bond hearings is un-American," said Ahilan Arulanantham, an attorney with the ACLU of Southern California arguing today on behalf of Diouf and Soeoth. "The constitutional guarantee of due process applies to all persons in this country, not just to U.S. citizens. The government does not have unfettered authority to imprison people - without hearings - for as long as it takes to determine their cases."
Diouf, one of the released detainees, initially came to the United States when he was 21 years old to study information systems at California State University, Northridge. After he graduated, he overstayed his student visa because he became involved with, and subsequently married, his present wife. Although he is eligible to become a lawful permanent resident based on his marriage to a U.S. citizen, the government detained him after his former immigration attorney failed to file important legal papers on time. His attorney acknowledged his error, but the government refused to release Diouf or to provide him with a bond hearing while he fought his case. Diouf had been incarcerated for almost two years before he was finally provided with a bond hearing before an immigration judge who ordered his release.
"I was separated from my wife and career for almost two years because of an innocent mistake in the filing of my immigration papers," said Diouf. "I'm not a danger to society. All I want is to be with my wife and get a job."
Soeoth, the other released detainee whose case is being argued today, is a Christian who fled Indonesia with his wife in 1999 to escape persecution for practicing his faith. He was initially allowed to work in the United States while applying for asylum and eventually became the assistant minister for a church. However, when his asylum application was denied in 2004, the government arrested him at his home and took him into detention.
For the next two and a half years the government refused to consider his release, even though he filed a motion to reopen his asylum case on the grounds that his new role as a pastor placed him at increased risk of persecution in Indonesia, and even though the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stopped his deportation to allow him to pursue his case. Soeoth was imprisoned for two and a half years before he was finally ordered released on bond by an immigration judge last February.
"This has been very hard for my wife and for my parish," said Soeoth. "I can't understand why in America I must choose between two evils: going back to Indonesia to face persecution or being detained while I fight for asylum."
Although neither Diouf nor Soeoth is a danger to society or a flight risk, the government claims they never should have been released on bond and should go back into detention until their cases are decided, regardless of how long this may take.
"The government's detention policy is not only unlawful and inhumane; it is also irrational," said Judy Rabinovitz, senior staff counsel with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, who is also arguing before the court today. "The government is spending millions of dollars locking up people whose detention serves no purpose. These individuals are ready to comply with conditions of supervision and even electronic monitoring if necessary. There is no reason for them to be locked up for years while their cases make their way through the courts."
Over the past few years, the ACLU has filed multiple lawsuits on behalf of individual immigrants who have been held for prolonged periods of time while fighting their immigration cases, winning the release of more than a dozen individuals who were being unlawfully detained.
Today's cases are being argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Lawyers on the case include Rabinovitz and Cecillia D. Wang of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, Arulanantham and Ranjana Natarajan of the ACLU of Southern California, and Jayashri Srikantiah of the Stanford Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic.
More information on the lawsuits, Soeoth v. Mukasey, Mukasey v. Diouf, Casas-Castrillon v. Lockyer, and Prieto-Romero v. Clark is available online at the ACLU's website.
About the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic
The Immigrants' Rights Clinic (IRC) at Stanford Law School is committed to protecting the human rights of all non-citizens regardless of immigration status. Clinic Director Jayashri Srikantiah and Jennifer H. Lee, the clinic’s Cooley Godward Kronish Fellow, supervise students on direct services and legal advocacy projects. Students in the clinic represent individual immigrants in a variety of settings and since the clinic’s inception, students have sought humanitarian relief from deportation on behalf of non-citizens with criminal convictions, obtained asylum protection for non-citizens fleeing persecution, and assisted immigrant survivors of domestic violence in gaining lawful status in the United States. The clinic’s webpage is at: www.law.stanford.edu/clinics/irc.
About the Mills Legal Clinic of Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School runs a variety of clinics that litigate in a number of specialized fields, including immigrants’ rights, community law, cyberlaw, environmental protection, and educational advocacy. The clinics operate cohesively as a single law firm—the Mills Legal Clinic of Stanford Law School (MLC)—and provide pro bono representation to the public. Clinical courses are structured as supervised settings that teach students: how to work with clients and colleagues, how to address the ethical dilemmas that arise in practice, and how to apply legal concepts taught hypothetically or in the abstract in the classroom to a real world, client representation situation. Overall, the MLC has the capacity for every student to take one clinical course at some point during their three years at Stanford Law School. The school’s long term goal is to expand the number and range of its clinical courses and develop a “clinical rotation” where students take only a clinic during a particular quarter—with no competing exams or classes. Expanding the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and other course offerings within the Mills Legal Clinic is a central part of the comprehensive curricular innovation underway at Stanford Law School. The Mills Legal Clinic homepage is located at: www.law.stanford.edu/program/clinics.
About Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School is one of the nation’s leading institutions for legal scholarship and education. Its alumni are among the most influential decision makers in law, politics, business, and high technology. Faculty members argue before the Supreme Court, testify before Congress, and write books and articles for academic audiences, as well as the popular press. Along with offering traditional law school classes, the school has embraced new subjects and new ways of teaching. The school’s home page is located at www.law.stanford.edu.
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Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic
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DOE to Host Energy Code Webinar
The U.S. Department of Energy's Building Technologies Program is offering a free Webinar on Tuesday, February 22, 2011, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. Eastern titled "Residential Building Energy Codes–IECC 2012 and Beyond."
The program will look at the major changes in the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code from the 2009 IECC. The Webinar program will also provide an overview of the role that DOE's Residential Building Energy Codes Program played in the development of the 2012 IECC, and a forecast of the future of energy codes, officials note.
DOE's Building Technology Web site provides more information on the Webinar, as well as links to register.
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A little premature, don't you think?
There is still the month of December for words to creep in.
Tergiversate. Sounds made up.
Tergiversate (the "g" is pronounced like a "j") means "to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate."
Anohter word for flip-flopping?
The website's Head of Content, Jay Schwartz, says otherwise.
He states that while the word does have a flip-flopping vibe, tergiversate can also a lack of intention. To tergiversate, a person can do so necessarily.
He also states that the word was chosen due to the political strife and the world's economic problems.
Other words in the running were occupy, austerity, insidious, jobs, and zugzwang?
Congratulations to tergiversate for being the Word of the Year.
[Image via WENN.]
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The Logan County Public Service District has issued a boil water advisory for their customers in the McConnell area due to leaks in the main line on Monday, March 11.
The LCPSD recommends bringing the water to a boil, let it boil for one minute, and let it cool before using, or use bottled water.
Customers of the area will be notified when they will no longer need to boil their water.
Customers are also asked share this information with other people who are customers in this area, especially those who may not have received this notice.
For more information, contact the LCPSD at 304-946-2641.
This notice is being sent to you by the Logan County PSD.
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Increasingly, as the core of the Earth adjusts to the approach of her brother, the 12th Planet, this is reflected on the surface of the planet. Humans are aware of radio waves, x-rays, electro-magnetic fields, and gravitational tugs. This is but a tiny fraction of the invisible influences and all of them are affected by the approach of the 12th Planet. Life at the moment of conception and at key points during development of the embryo where cell specialization or the inception of limbs and organs occurs, is delicate, and under more than the influence of DNA. Look to what the drug Thalidomide did to the formation of limbs, where a chemical influence interfered with the message intended by the DNA, and children raised under high power lines developed cancer at an undue rate.
As with white buffalo calves being born, deformed frogs, which will soon be appearing world wide, are heralding the approach of the 12th Planet.
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What Blessing Do I Make?
Answer: It is a fact that with very few exceptions products certified as kosher have no indication on their labeling as to which blessing is to be made upon consuming them. A chassidic leader in Israel conducted a campaign some years ago to compel local companies to include this information on their packaging but did not succeed. There are almost certainly reasons for this, so it will probably be an exercise in futility to pursue the course of customer pressure.
What may be advisable is to contact the heads of the certifying organizations and ask them to provide you with a list of the products under their supervision and the blessing that must be made. If this fails to produce results, you can always consult your local Orthodox rabbi or one of the many books and pamphlets that list a wide variety of foods and the blessings to be made upon them.
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Search for the monster at Loch Ness
Why? Cliched it may be, but Loch Ness is the ultimate must-see. Britain's largest body of fresh water, it holds more than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. Search the deep sea waters for any sign of the legendary monster.
Head to the ancient castle
Why? Dating back to the 13th century, Stirling Castle is one of the largest and most significant castles in Scotland, both historically and architecturally. It's free to enter (unlike Edinburgh Castle) and stands 250 feet above an extinct volcano.
Isle of Mull
Experience wildlife watching
Why? Scotland is the perfect place for wildlife watching and the Isle of Mull holds its first prize spot. With a 98% success rate for sightings, prepare to encounter minke whale, porpoise, basking shark, dolphins, Risso's dolphin, orca and grey seals.
The Cairngorm mountains
Hit the slopes for a spot of skiing
Why? Aside from just being a beautiful place to visit in the Scottish Highlands, and situated close to the picturesque town of Aviemore, the Cairngorm mountains offer fantastic skiing conditions – think black slopes for daring professionals and powdery white snow.
Sample Scotland's famous drink with the Scottish Whisky Experience
Why? Festival haven and home to the Hogmanay festivities, Edinburgh may just be Scotland’s coolest city. And along with Michelin starred restaurants galore, you can also get a taste for Scottish tradition on an exciting whisky tour. Learn the story behind the beverage and try some of the world's finest brews.
What to eat in Scotland?
While most people associate Scottish cuisine with the national dish known as haggis and neeps (innards and offal chopped up with spices and cooked in a sheep's stomach, served with mashed turnip), this is actually usually only served on Burns Night on January 25. The traditional mince 'n' tatties (mince meat and potatoes) is much more of a staple to a Scot's diet and has been enjoyed by families in Scotland for hundreds of years.
Where to eat?
Castle Terrace Restaurant, Edinburgh
Why? This is now the fifth Michelin starred restaurant that Edinburgh can add to its clad of cool cuisine. Castle Terrace is The Kitchin's sister restaurant and showcases the finest Scottish produce around.
The Boath House, Auldearn, Nairn
Why? For an authentic experience, head to one of Scotland's finest Regency Houses. This is a historic site as well as first class dining experience where red deer with crushed peas are grown on the estate and renowned as the favourite dish.
Where to stay?
Ackergill Tower, Caithness
Why? Steeped in history, the spectacular Ackergill Tower is a castle dating back to the 15th-century. It majestically presides over the North Sea and has long been Scotland's most regal hotel
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
However, they may be backing down in the face of massive amounts of bad publicity...
What? It isn't helping to sell homes when people discover you have the right to pump noxious chemicals 500 feet beneath the surface of their land? Just because those chemicals pollute groundwater and might cause earthquakes, people are concerned?
The Durham Herald-Sun's Laura Oleniacz reports that D.R. Horton gave mineral rights back to twenty-two Durham property owners according to the Durham County Register of Deeds office. The reason D.R. Horton gave was based on a technicality, "...company officials discovered last week that some property owners’ contracts didn’t mention that the company was reserving the mineral rights to some properties."
Oleniacz also notes that, "the D.R. Horton company also said that it is now stopping its practice of retaining mineral rights in cases where those rights have not already been reserved by a previous property owner, and until the state legislature 'has fully addressed the issues now pending before it.'"
Does not exactly sound like they have given up.
And clearly, statewide, the battle is not over yet, be prepared to hear the phrase "domestic energy production" hundreds of times in the upcoming presidential election cycle. Fracking is domestic energy production. Folks who attended the information session organized by Durham County Agricultural Cooperative Extension Services and Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA heard that while North Carolina farmers and landowners are being paid as little as a $1/acre for fracking rights, in some western states the going rate is $25/acre. Energy companies offer farmers and landowners, huge initial signing bonuses, too, in exchange for permission to frack on their property.
They build huge well pads, the hydraulic equivalent of open pit mines, often seven to ten acres in dimension. The pump their toxic brew beneath the surface, push what shale and natural gas products they can to the surface and leave, often with no reclamation provisions in place, not even minimal aesthetic repair.1
State Senator Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, introduced a bill to the North Carolina Senate's Energy Policy Issues Committee that recommends to the General Assembly eliminating the state's current prohibitions on horizontal drilling (fracking).
In the status quo many questions remain unanswered. Is D.R. Horton giving back mineral rights to all the North Carolina properties where they have claimed them? Or only where they did not properly disclose they were obtaining them? Are they willing to give back these mineral and subsurface rights to any D.R. Horton homeowner who requests them? What if your neighbor doesn't request their return? What is the effect on the property values of the neighborhood? The individual?
Durham property attorney, Carey Ewing, who was an essential part of bringing the story to the public eye, says that uncertainty prevails, "Homeowners need more information and no one is giving it to them."2
And while D.R. Horton's spokespeople insist, "D.R. Horton is not in the mining business. It is in the business of building, and selling, quality homes and providing excellent value to its homeowners..." What is the other part of their conglomerate up to? What is D.R.H. Energy's role in this dirty business?3
Stay tuned. We will keep you updated.
1If North Carolina does end up legislating to allow fracking, at bare minimum, the state must put in place strong regulation about how the land is to be left afterward, both above and below the surface of the ground.
2Ms. Ewing is quoted in both the Durham Herald-Sun's and the AP's recent stories about fracking in North Carolina. Full disclosure: the Clarion Content editor has previously retained, on an entirely separate issue, Ms. Ewing's firm, the Ewing Law Center.
3D.R.H. Energy also owns mineral and subsurface drilling rights to many D.R. Horton properties in North Carolina. The energy company has not issued a public statement about its role or intentions.
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The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
After weeks of reading about a 340 ton rock, in big brother paper the LA Times, the Quill had to go to the LA County Museum of Art to see. The rock was moved from a quary east of LA using a very special carrier. You can see the front end of the carrier in the background. The rock must now be moved to sit upright across the trench just over Hazel Hart's shoulder. Viewers walking under the rock will see the illusion of a floating rock. If the project interests you google: "LACMA rock, Huffington Post". Good coverage and great pictures. When you go on a trip, take "The Quill" along and have your picture taken with it, then send it to us. Let's see where all "The Quill" can travel.
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Deciding what is good or bad - does God do this or does man? When it is not clear what God has decided then man must make the decision himself. Or so we are told.
The first to do this was Henry VIII. In seeking to know how to proceed with the matter of his divorce, since he considered that the Pope and the Church were unable to decide, he would decide himself. This was the start of the slippery slope which today's culture is whizzing down. His sinister daughter took this to the sixteenth century limit - she decided what the Church should be and she created one for her Kingdom. Since those times, we have seen huge steps forward in decision-making. At the end of the eighteenth century, the people of France decided what was good and what was bad. The next logical step for a people who have taken the decison over good and evil to themselves happened in 1967 - the decision over human life - Parliament ruled that it can be good to take the life of a viable foetus in the womb. The next logical step: every person can decide to impede the transmission of life - the contraceptive pill and the condom. And today, our culture is one in which even though we cannot recognise goodness, each individual must decide for him or herself what is good and what is evil. So much for the Tudors. These false witnesses led the UK into a self-serving cul-de-sac.
In fact, the will of God and the will of man can act together in grace, in friendship with Christ. What is not clear is our integrity and our knowledge of the truth. But the call, in grace and in love, is made to us. (cf B16's "God is Love) This is the primary 'light' which we are called to recognise. Grace and free will - this is the real story.
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Is the much dreaded pull-up a good way to measure physical fitness? A study recently making the rounds put that to the question.
Give Me Ten!
Dr. J over at CalorieLabs recently dug up an interesting piece of research: Paul Vandenburgh of the University of Dayton and his team assembled a number of untrained women and attempted to get them to the point where they were able to do pull-ups. To their (apparent) surprise, not all women finally were able to, but those that were shared some characteristics.
Generally speaking, the women who at the end of the intervention could do a pull-up, were of shorter stature. Vandenburgh reasons that this is so because of the proportion between body size and strength. When you compare two people of similiar build, but one of them is 30% bigger, the latter will only be about 20% stronger, even though he or she has to carry about 30% additional weight.
The general hullabaloo about this study concentrates on the fact that Vandenburgh and company used women as test subjects and turned into “women can’t do pull-ups”, as for example this piece here in the good ole New York Times. The comments over there in spirit range from “take that, all you fitness jocks at high school that made me miserable” to “pah, I can do 50 pull-ups, one-handed, and I am a woman!”
Pull-Ups Mean Fit?
However, that is beside the point, as what the study really wanted to show was if being able to do a pull-up is a good measure of fitness, as for example applied by many law enforcement and military bodies around the world.
In my opinion, pull-ups are among the most complex upper body movements a person can do. They practically involve the entire upper back, as well as the forearms and the biceps. As a measurement of upper body strength, they simply can’t be beaten.
It is also my firm belief that anyone can learn to do a pull-up, including women. They may be at a disadvantage due to body composition, less testosterone and therefore needing longer to build muscle mass, yes. But if 13 women in that study failed to be able to do a pull-up, it most probably would have taken them just a bit longer to get to that point.
All in all, I bet that if you can’t do a pull-up, you do lack upper body strength, no matter if you are shorter or not, as chances are that height will not only influence your performance on pull-ups, but other exercises as well.
Picture courtesy of the U.S. Army.
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Sat, Dec. 08, 2012 Posted: 04:50 AM
Where is hope in the midst of sadness? Where is hope in the midst of confusion? Where is hope in the midst of frustration?
In my pastor’s sermon this week, he talked about how hopeless Israel felt as they waited for the promise of the Savior after 400 years of NOT hearing from God (after Malachi). Zachariah and Elizabeth also felt so hopeless as they had served God so faithfully, yet were old and childless and living in a time where that was shameful to most people. It seemed like they had done everything right, and yet God had allowed them to remain childless. How sad they must have been. It seemed like God was not listening. This feeling is not hard for many who suffer with infertility to understand. It is an illustration of how God’s people felt after 400 years of silence from above. Israel was waiting and praying that the Messiah, of whom the prophets had foretold, would come and save them. God was not hearing their prayers, they thought. How sad God’s people must have been.
There is a unique message here for families who suffer the pain of waiting to have a child. However, first we must know that many will not see the hope of having a child fulfilled. It is a reality that cannot be denied. So how is Elizabeth’s story applicable to them? (Spoiler alert, Elizabeth eventually had the child for which she had prayed.) Back up! Look at the pain she felt before. Was it worse than what Israel had suffered? Her pain was a small picture of what God’s people had felt for centuries. There is a unique sadness, confusion, and frustration that comes with infertility, yet Israel and all of God’s people had those same feelings of sadness, confusion, and frustration as they waited for the Messiah. To understand how great the gift of Hope is, we need to understand how great the hopelessness was that was felt by God’s people. It was as great as the suffering of a woman who is barren.
Yes, Elizabeth (and many others in God’s Word) had a child after years of barrenness, and it was no doubt only an act of God that made any of that happen. After dealing with loss and infertility, many quickly realize what a miracle each and every healthy newborn baby is. They know better than anybody else that it is only ever by an act of God that any child is born into this world. The Biblical stories of these women who eventually have a child are told in God’s Word to show us His direct hand in the Messianic lineage. These stories are important not because it shows us that maybe an infertile woman can have a child, but because they show us upon Whom our hopes should be focused.
The hopes of Zachariah, Elizabeth, and Israel were fulfilled with one announcement to a very astonished Zachariah as he served in the temple and was visited by the angel, Gabriel. Even better, it would be their son, John, who would announce the coming of Christ just as Malachi had prophesied. A woman who cannot have a child understands the unique pain felt by those who waited on a silent God to fulfill the promise of the coming Messiah. Because of that special understanding, let them be all the more eager to announce the ultimate fulfillment of hope in the wonderful news of Christ to others. Just as John proclaimed the coming of Christ, God's people can now confidently tell others of the miracle of Christ who took on flesh to give them the opportunity to find true Hope.
Each Christmas, we sing, “Long lay the world in sin and error pining, till he appeared and the soul felt its worth.” Do you remember that feeling of excitement as a kid when you began to anxiously think about what presents you might receive on Christmas morning? As we see ourselves and others, especially children, wait in anticipation for gifts at Christmas this year, let us be encouraged to think of what it felt like to wait in anticipation for God to send a Savior, the Hope of our world. Because of our Hope, let me say again, may we be the ones who announce the wonderful news of Christ to others.
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The White House has said it plans tomorrow or early next week to officially submit to Congress for ratification the three free trade agreements (FTA) on which it has completed negotiations. This is something that we and a chorus of others have argued should be a priority for the White House and we hope that Congress acts on addressing the FTAs immediately. But we do feel it is important to point out that the trade deals are not perfect. In first installment in this three part series yesterday, we looked at some of the benefits of, as well as problems with, the pending South Korea-U.S. FTA.
Today in the second installment of the trade pact review series, we praise the value of the United States—Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, but also establish some rational expectations on what value it will bring to America:
Once approved by Congress, the Colombia-U.S. trade agreement will immediately eliminate 80 percent of tariffs on goods exported from America to Colombia, with the remaining tariffs withdrawn over a 10-year period. An estimated $1.1billion will be added to our exports, which will increase payrolls by the thousands. The trade deal is even projected to increase GDP by $2.5 billion (note: despite the government's recent track record on economic forecasting, the deal will surely bring some positive changes). But as government negotiators are accustomed to doing, the agreement also encourages the exportation of American labor regulations to Colombia—the same kind of regulations that have contributed to the decline in the number of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. as employers seek more business friendly climates elsewhere. (It is worthwhile to note that inflation, low savings, high taxes, and increased efficiency are larger contributors to the decline in the number of manufacturing jobs.)
The specific language in the agreement that we see adding shackles to business activity includes this clause: “Colombia will change its laws to make it a crime, punishable by imprisonment, for an employer to negotiate special deals (collective pacts) with non-union workers with better terms than union contracts.” The premise for these regulations is the oft-manhandled idea of “workers' rights” yet in a free market workers' rights to demand employment from others don't exist—rather, the threat of losing all potential labor and reputational risk help keep firms from abusing workers.
Workers have the same rights as any other human being, whether they work or not. To suggest otherwise is to assume that workers have some kind of special ownership over the ideas or employment potential of job creators/business owners. In this sense, workers' rights are nothing more than privileges granted to unions that force businessmen (and woman) to lose their individual rights as soon as they offer someone a job. By making it illegal for non-union workers to negotiate freely with employers, workers' rights ironically strip certain individuals of the right to offer and accept labor/services in a free economy.
In absence of these regulations, worker-employer relations would be simple: if the workers don't like their employers they are free to quite and vice versa. If the employer treats their employees bad, this reputation will make it difficult for them to hire and produce. Employers that offer low wages and tough working conditions experience high turnover rates, which equates to high labor costs. Profit incentives eventually force employers to find ways to increase worker productivity so higher wages are possible.
This also leads to safer and more enjoyable working conditions, which create careers out of jobs. All of this explains why and how Henry Ford was able to double wages to $5 a day while cutting working hours from 10 to 8; this also occurred prior to the creation of the Department of Labor. Now, however, American labor regulations turn the process of creating higher wages and better working conditions on its head, and the consequence is increasing labor costs that employers can't offset and outsourcing.
But we have derailed a bit into labor theory. The point is that this trade pact is promoting the bad parts of labor regulation that we have in the U.S., and would not be beneficial for Colombia. It remains a question how warmly the Colombian government will enforce the provision. If they fully implement this clause of the FTA though, it will slow production of goods sent to the U.S. and raise their prices such that American consumers may never see the price reduction benefits that were a leading reason to pursue this Colombia-U.S. trade promotion agreement.
See our previous post on the South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement from yesterday for more on free trade theory. Tomorrow we will look at the third and final FTA pending before Congress, between Panama and the U.S.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee approved the Colombia pact 24-12 this afternoon and sent it to the Senate Finance Committee.
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BEIJING, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's Defense Ministry confirmed late Sunday that China succeeded in conducting a land-based mid-course missile interception test within its territory.
This was the second time that China announced such kind of missile test. A similar operation was launched on Jan. 11, 2010.
Such tests, which involve highly complicated technologies in detecting,tracking and destroying a ballistic missile flying in the outer space, have only been tried before by the United States and Japan.
The success in the anti-missile test, together with a string of other military equipment progress including the sail of China's first aircraft carrier and the test flight of a giant airfreighter, has demonstrated the country's fast-growing ability to defend its own national security and deter any possible threats.
It is understandable that some in the international community would speculate what China would do with these technologies. Some may even take these moves as proof for the ill-grounded "China threat theory."
China has maintained that these military advancements are purely defensive in nature, and has no specific targets.
The speedy disclosure to the public of such an important move has also testified to the country's increasing transparency in military affairs.
Moreover, a militarily stronger China will not abandon its determination to promote economic growth through the path of peaceful development and the construction of cooperative partnerships with countries around the world, as the Chinese people have been well aware that only a peaceful and stable world order can ensure China's national interests.
Also, at a moment when bloody conflicts continue to claim innocent lives in Syria and tensions over the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula are mounting in the Asia Pacific, it is well aware that no weaponry but candid talks, courageous compromises and wise diplomacy could effectively suffocate hostility, restore peace and nurture benevolence.
Wushu masters' life in PLA Marine Corps
China's J-11 fighters fly over Mt. Qomolangma
"Zhoushan" warship in training before open day
Special operation members in new combat uniforms
Marine brigade in amphibious armored training
Frontier defense soldiers on patrol duty in cold weather
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Listening Room contributor Jared Zeide uncovers a hidden treasure and wonders what else he might be missing.
The other day someone in my office gave away a box of tapes and in it was the Rolling Stones’ 1967 album Between the Buttons. Since this was one of the few Stones albums I didn’t already own, it would be a treat to hear it. I fast-forwarded past “Let’s Spend the Night Together” (which I’ve heard countless times) to the second song, “Yesterday’s Papers.” It was not a good song, it was a great song. I thought to myself, “Where has this gem been?” I’ve been listening to the Stones for 21 years and I never managed to hear it.
Then it dawned on me that since I don’t have every Who, Hendrix, Grateful Dead or Doors album, I have probably missed out on gems of similar quality from these artists and many others.
It is not a valid assumption to believe that you have heard every great song from an artist because you have heard all the hits and you own all the allegedly “quintessential” albums. There’s buried treasure out there, kids! Tom Petty even hosts a show called Buried Treasure on the XM Sirius satellite radio channel Deep Tracks where he plays such music.
Below are some treasures I have found. Feel free to share some of yours – and happy hunting!
“Yesterday’s Papers,” Rolling Stones, from the 1967 album Between the Buttons.
“The Good’s Gone,” The Who, from the 1965 album The Who Sings My Generation.
“Hey Baby (New Rising Sun),” Jimi Hendrix, from the 1997 album First Rays of the New Rising Sun (previously unreleased recordings).
“Cymbaline,” Pink Floyd, from the 1969 soundtrack to the film More.
“It’s All Too Much,” the Beatles, from the 1969 album Yellow Submarine.
“You’re Lost Little Girl,” the Doors, from the 1967 album Strange Days.
“As You Said,” Cream, from the 1968 album Wheels of Fire.
“Ballad of a Thin Man,” Bob Dylan, from the 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited.
“I’m Gonna Crawl,” Led Zeppelin, from the 1979 album In Through the Out Door.
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What would B-G have done?
Ben-Gurion, a practical politician, compromised with his principles when the price appeared too high. There are three clear examples: the Korea war, Yitzhak Rabin's participation rally protesting the dismantling of the Palmach, and the establishment of the army chief rabbinate.
Camp David, July 2000. Yasser Arafat surprises everyone and responds positively to the proposals by Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton. As part of the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, with political gain and no bloodshed, Israel disengages from Gaza and forcibly removes the settlers. Would the withdrawal opponents (led by Ariel Sharon, of course) be stronger or weaker than they are now?
The answer cannot be more convincing than any other "if" in history. At the same time, it's nonsense to look to past leaders in other situations, like Ben-Gurion and the Altalena, the firing of national staff chief Yisrael Galili and the dismantling of the Palmach. Ben-Gurion, a practical politician, compromised with his principles when the price appeared too high. There are three clear examples: the Korea war, the participation of Yitzhak Rabin in a protest rally on the anniversary of the dismantling of the Palmach and the establishment of the chief rabbi's office in the army.
In the summer of 1950, Ben-Gurion wanted to please the Americans, who needed help repelling the invaders from North Korea. In a clear deviation from the declared mission of the Israel Defense Forces, Ben-Gurion asked the government to send a brigade from the Givati division to the foreign war. His rivals on the left, adulated by many in the army, wrote and spoke so passionately against it that it raised suspicions - subsequently disproved by a Shin Bet probe - that the commanders in Givati would lead their soldiers to a mass refusal. Finally, the government decided, against Ben-Gurion's wishes, not to send the fighters to Korea.
A few months earlier, Lt. Col Rabin disobeyed Ben-Gurion and ignored an explicit order by then-chief of staff Yaacov Dori. Rabin was put on "disciplinary trial for a violation of discipline" and admitted that "not following the order not to participate in the rally does not comply" with his sworn allegiance to obey all the orders of the supreme command.
Rabin argued during that same disciplinary proceeding that while he did not obey the orders of the military, he did not do so as a result of obeying an order from another source of authority. His argument went: "the personal feeling of duty toward the comrades - that was the order, but there is no constitution preventing a soldier, as a civilian, from participating in his free time in rallies."
Dori filed a "severe reprimand" in Rabin's personal file, and warned that the next case of an infraction of discipline (which did not come) he would face a court-martial for the initial case as well. Rabin was not thrown out of the army.
Ben-Gurion dismantled the Palmach command so that its officers did not dither between the army's chain of command, which he headed, and the party institutions. But he accepted a source of authority that was religious - the chief rabbis and the religious parties.
"Rabbi Goronchik came to see me, a representative of Rabbi Fishman and Rabbi Herzog, to be head of the military rabbis - I sent them to Yaacov Dori," Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary in 1948 about the appointment of Shlomo Goren, the candidate of Religious Affairs Minister Fishman-Maimon and Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Herzog, whose grandson with the same name is now a minister in Sharon's government.
A few months later: "Rabbi Fishman came to see me. The rabbinical chaplains want to resign. He is delaying it. He wants to see Goronchik."
In 1963, a Ben-Gurion whim led to Goren being promoted to major general, with the agreement of then-chief of staff Zvi Tzur, who bargained in exchange for a quick promotion to major general for the head of the training department, Yeshayahu Gavish.
The special two-headed position of the chief military rabbi is the basis of the problem that arose this month when the current chief chaplain, Brig. Gen. Yisrael Weiss, said he would take off his uniform if he were ordered to do so by his rabbis. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon, upon hearing what Weiss said, should have immediately ordered him to remove his uniform, but they made do with pointless clarifications that did not harm Weiss' rabbis as an alternative source of authority for him.
Mofaz and Yaalon did not want a strong new chief rabbi, which would have required the agreement of many different rabbis, but thus the IDF gave up the unity of command. If it's allowed of a brigadier general, why shouldn't another soldier listen to some other rabbi, or to his inner voice, or to the Likud rank and file?
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Is Kiwi Ingenuity a Myth?
Jon Bridges and David Downs have given us a book we needed. No 8 Wire The Best of Kiwi Ingenuity establishes a factual basis for debating whether Kiwi ingenuity is in fact a myth.
The book has an easy to read popular style that belies the depth and extent of the information it contains.
Not only does it flesh out stories that have been part of the mythology, such as continuous fermentation in beer making, but it has also unearthed successful innovations such as the Skystreme, which are relatively unknown.
Richard Pearse and the controversy as to whether he made the first powered flight could not be excluded but, mostly, the authors have restricted themselves to inventions that became innovations i.e. those that gained commercial acceptance. They have clearly sifted though many examples and it would not be surprising if this book had a successor.
There are some odd inclusions, which perhaps had to be got out of the way. They include Rutherford's splitting the atom, Pickering's role in the American space programme and Maurice Wilkins' pioneering involvement in establishing the structure of DNA.
In the Clutching at Straws chapter, we get the good oil on Kiwi shoe polish, the Buzzy Bee and chocolate fish.
Individuals such as John Britten and Peter Witehira illustrate the single-mindedness necessary to carry through successful innovations.
Unfortunately, few New Zealand companies have demonstrated the same imagination, risk-taking capabilities and dedication.
It would be interesting to know what it was in the turn of the century Post Office environment that encouraged R J Dickie to develop his stamp vending machine. Too often people’s interests in preserving or enhancing their positions in the power structure have inhibited innovation in corporate environments.
Fly-By-Wire, the Hamilton Jet and Bungy Jumping are testimony to individual adventure seekers who have commercialised their ideas, while individuals who have taken their software creations to market include Murray Haszard with Ghost and Steve Outtrim of Sausage with his HTML editor.
My favourite invention is the Thermette an amazingly simple device with an association with convivial tea drinking.
Among Government agencies, Industrial Research (formerly PEL) is notable with contributions to Vega Industries' sector navigation lights, fast camera lenses and temperature calibration devices. Probably because mechanical devices are more tangible, there is no mention of innovations that have come from the biologically based Crown Research Institutes, although in the context of the New Zealand economy these are more important.
While the book is not a primer for inventors Bridges and Downs have made an effort to understand the innovation process and quote a handy list of don'ts for would be innovators. This has come from Dr Ross Green, CEO of Wellington Drive Technologies, a company that has had a typically tortuous pathway to commercial success and is not there yet.
The authors have themselves become acquainted with the reality of the innovation process by gaining a patent on their own invention.
No 8 Wire undoubtedly demonstrates that Kiwis are ingenious. I shall feel happier with the label, however, if it carries through to encompass innovation of the sophistication required to support New Zealand's economic well-being in the 21st Century.
Browsers to techhistory.co.nz should enjoy this book.
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What is self. A simple concept to grasp but complicated one to describe. Is self a tangible thing ? I am not looking for a strict psychological paper. Could the concept of self be glimpse of a fraction of god? Why should we as humans seem to have a intrinsic sense of right and wrong. Is this a learned trait, instilled trait?
Or a designed in trait?
When a thought is processed, by a sentient being, I feel that it effects (instantly changes) the temporal universe. Including its “ending“, and immediate processes. I think that there are many (but not infinite) universes, which are connected by a connection somewhat like quantum entanglement. There are theories that allude our brain uses quantum functions on a regular basis. This dovetails nicely with my theories.
And this concept of self is an illusion that is reinforced by our matter based bodies. Therefore it is the only way we can perceive our particular universe. In summary I would risk a guess that the concept, and reality of Self is God , GID, or a part of God. And it is beautiful.
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Stella, a lesser-known work written by Anais Nin in 1945, is an examination of self-discovery and self-worth, a theme central to much of her fiction. The title character is loosely based on actress Luise Rainer, with whom Nin had a contentious friendship. Stella is faced with the contrast between her love affair with a public that adores her for her film roles and her personal inability to find human love. The men in Stella’s life include an ex-husband, a Don Juan lover, and a father who is not unlike Nin’s own.
It is ironic that Stella, like Rainer herself, is an orphan, since the novella itself is somewhat of a orphaned child. Nin experimented placing it in her 1946 Dutton edition of Ladders to Fire, and eventually in Swallow’s 1961 edition of Winter of Artifice, where remains today, as well as in Sky Blue Press’s 2010 anthology The Portable Anais Nin. Nin herself expressed the difficulty of finding Stella a home, so it only makes sense to offer it as a single title.
According to critic Oliver Evans, who compares Stella to D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover, the novella “remains one of [Nin’s] most thoroughly realized performances. She has taken the timeworn theme of the possessive female and examined it through her microscopic lens from new and interesting angles.”
To see and/or purchase Stella at Amazon.com, click here. (The cover art is based on an engraving by Ian Hugo, aka Hugh Guiler, Nin’s husband.)
To see all current Anais Nin titles on Kindle, you can visit our Anais Nin ebookstore.
Today, Vol. 6 of A Café in Space: The Anaïs Nin Literary Journal was released on Amazon’s Kindle. Vol. 6 (2009) contains the remarkable letters between Anaïs Nin and her father, composer Joaquín Nin, during the time just before and after the first nine days of their incestuous relationship in the south of France. Also included are essays by several prominent Nin scholars, such as Tristine Rainer and Sarah Burghauser, analysis of Henry Miller’s writing, feminist literary theory, poetry, and reviews of Nin-related events.
For more information about the contents of the journal, and/or to order the print version, click here.
To order Vol. 6 of A Cafe in Space on Kindle, click here.
Myth #16: Anais Nin didn’t have a sense of humor.
Fact: In his 1969 interview with Nin, Duane Schneider asked: “Do you have a sense of humor?” Nin was surprised by the question, but said: “I think the Diary is humorous; I think Collages is humorous… I don’t think I have what is called humor in the American sense. I have playfulness, and fantasy. But my humor is quieter; it’s more like the Japanese. I don’t like farce, broad humor” (A Cafe in Space, Vol. 5, p. 111).
What follows are some examples of Nin’s brand of humor:
“I telephoned the fire department. But the man who answered heard my French accent, and the gaiety in my voice, and believed it was a student hoax. I called out to Kendall: ‘You talk to him. He does not believe there is a fire because of my accent.’ We were laughing, uncontrollably, because we could not really believe the fire, because it seemed so absurd, because Jimmy stood there with his manuscripts, and because he said: ‘Oh, Anaïs, this is a publicity stunt, of course. On the occasion of Ladders to Fire, we set fire to the house and we will have to come down a ladder.’ We opened the windows. The house was only two floors high and we would fall on the grass and bushes, if the ladders to fire did not arrive soon. We heard the sirens. A huge fireman opened Jimmy’s door, ready to rescue us. How do you rescue people taken with uncontrollable laughter? ‘It was a publicity stunt,’ we said. He thought it was the champagne. There was a lot of noise around. Neighbors had come to watch. Two engines were standing there. And the climax came when the fireman said: ‘No danger. It was the lady downstairs, who left a cake in the oven, and that made all the smoke’” (Diary 4, pp. 171-172)
In a letter to Rupert Pole, dated Nov. 20, 1961, Nin, who was in New York, had their dog, Piccolo, “write” an addendum:
“Dear Rupert—there is a serious shortage of dog psychiatrists. Nobody understands I only pee at the United Nations just to be polite and international, I pee on the 57th St. corner of Tiffany’s just to be fashionable, but I reserve my fullest pee for my temporary home, to assert my temporary ownership, and each time the old German elevator man comes out and grumbles. It’s true I’m not paying any rent—but he should know dog psychology. Cold rainy day—Anaïs tells me you had the same. She hangs on that phone—I don’t feel I own her whole heart! But she brought me a leftover meal from her dinner with rich cousins. Love Piccolo” (A Cafe in Space, Vol. 5, p. 89).
In the novel Collages, which, in her dedication, she calls her “humorous book,” Nin describes a scene with her characters Renate and Bruce, based on her friends Renate Druks and Paul Mathiesen:
“And then one day at Christmas, the terrified animals ran down from the mountains. Renate saw them running before she heard the sound of crackling wood or saw the flames leaping from hill to hill, across roads, exploding the dry brush, driving people and animals down the canyons and pursuing them satanically down to the very edge of the sea. The fire attacked houses and cars, lit bonfires above the trees, thundered like burning oil wells.
Planes dived and dropped chemicals. Huge tractors cut wide gashes through the forest to cut off the spreading fire. Firefighters climbed up with hoses, and vanished into the smoke.
Somewhere, a firebug rejoiced in the spectacle.
Around Renate’s house there was no brush, so she hoped to escape the flames. She wrapped herself in a wet blanket and stood on the roof watering it down. But she could feel the heat approaching, and watch its capricious somersaults, unexpected twists and devouring rages.
Bruce helped her for a while and then climbed down. She was still holding the hose and soaking the house when she looked down and saw what first appeared to be the portrait of Bruce walking. The large, life size painting was moving away from the house and two feet showed below the frame, two feet in shoes just below the naked feet of the painting.
The first thing he had asked of her was to stop painting animals and women and to paint a portrait of him. He had shown her the long hairs which grew on his ear lobes and said: ‘You know that I am Pan, and I want you to paint me as Pan.’ He had posed nude, in the red-gold afternoon sun of Mexico, always showing the same half-smile, the pleasure loving, non-human smile of Pan. He loved the painting, admired it every day. It was the god of the household. When they traveled, it was he who had packed it lovingly. He would say: ‘If any injury came to this painting, it would damage me, something fatal would happen to Pan.’
And so today this was Bruce rescuing Bruce, or Bruce rescuing Pan in himself. At first the painting turned its luminous face to her, but as he proceeded down the hill she saw him behind the painting in dungarees and a thick white sweater. She saw a group of firefighters below; she saw the expression on their faces as the painting walked towards them, as they saw first of all a naked Pan with faunish ears, a walking painting with feet, and then the apparition of the same figure dressed in everyday costume upholding its twin, duplicate half-smile, duplicate hands; and they looked startled and puzzled, as if it were superfluous to rescue a mere reproduction of an original.
So Bruce saved Pan, and Renate saved the house but the fire seemed to have finally consumed their relationship” (Collages, pp. 27-28).
Nin’s relationship with her Peruvian lover, Gonzalo Moré, while fiery and chaotic, was also one in which humor thrived in their conversations. In the unpublished diaries from the 1940s, there are several examples of their discourse:
During a romantic tryst:
“Gonzalo unfastening my new panties with the garters attached and saying: ‘It looks like a pulpo (octopus)—how many pulpos do I have to unfasten?’”
A lazy conversation on a summer evening in New York:
“I said to Gonzalo how strange it is that the spermatozoa sometimes lingers in the womb before fecundating the egg. Gonzalo said: Yes, it’s slumming!’”
I said to Gonzalo: “Janet saw a hermaphrodite, half of her body a man’s, half a woman.” “And the sex,” said Gonzalo, “was it a banana split?”
He talked to me for a whole evening about the activity of the microbes. Coming home we saw lovers sitting in Washington Square. Gonzalo said: “I wonder what makes people fall in love!”
“Don’t tell me it’s microbes,” I said.
After one of their many quarrels:
“I said: ‘Last night I was enmerdé (bored stiff), and I was looking for you in the rain, and I was out for a fight, in fact all ready to throw lightning around and you must have felt it and you ran, off to the movies. You escaped a big scene!’
‘What was it,’ said Gonzalo, laughing.
‘I wrote about it and so it’s all in a book, and you’re safe.’
‘Estoy contento,’ he said. And slept with his hand on my leg.”
From a Spanish newspaper Nin and Moré read together:
“A man has to deliver a coffin. He takes it on the bus as soon as the deliveries are paralyzed after the Spanish revolution. There is no room in the crowded bus. He is sent up to the top. It is raining hard. He is getting soaked. He decides to get into the coffin and cover himself. More people come to sit on the top of the bus. They sit with their backs against the coffin. The man inside of the coffin listens to their conversation, gets bored, lifts the top of the coffin, sits up and says: ‘Is it still raining?’ The people threw themselves off the bus with fright, broke their legs.”
In the 1940s diary, Nin describes going to the staid home of Virginia Admiral:
“At Virginia’s house Hugo said: ‘It looks like the House of Crime and Punishment.’ I answered: ‘But it’s the House of Punishment without Crime.’”
A conversation with Robert Duncan in the 1940s diary:
“Wrote an article on astrology to order. Was nervous about it, being told it might be for Vogue. Wrote it lightly but Robert and Hugo thought it was not light enough. Robert took it up to make it humorous. I was sad…not to be able to be flippant.
I said: ‘I can’t flip!’
Robert said: ‘You must flip! Start on me if you wish. Make fun of me.’”
Special thanks goes to Rebecca (@anaisnin on Twitter) for inspiring this post.
After Anaïs Nin self-published the revised Winter of Artifice (1942) and Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories (1944), she was faced with a formidable dilemma: to begin writing new material—the two previous publications were largely written before 1939, the year Nin fled Paris for New York because of the war, and they were both described as ethereal and dreamlike, neither of which interested the big publishers.
In New York, Nin’s life was in upheaval as she tried in vain to adjust to the indifference her work received and the arid climate in which she did not feel creative. Her personal life, too, was in tatters, and she often confessed to her unpublished diary that she was suicidal. Her relationship with Henry Miller was finished, bitterly, and Gonzalo Moré, her lover of some seven years, was weighing Nin down with his shiftlessness, his suffocating dependency, and the burden presented by his neurotic wife, Helba Huara. Because of these glaring and harsh realities, Nin, for the first time, was forced to face the true nature of her situation and those to whom she’d allied herself. She said often that she created those in her life by seeing them through the eyes of a dreamer, a mystic, which filtered out everything except what she found endearing, beautiful, miraculous.
At first, Nin’s forced awakening put her in unfamiliar territory—the real world, reality, unfiltered, undistilled, in all its ugliness and toxicity. She foundered, not able to find the footing, the philosophy, on which to create her new fiction. On a vacation at the beach house of her friend, Irina Alexander, where Nin went to recuperate from her severe bouts of depression, she was to find the symbol of her new direction:
July 23, 1943
The image which has supported, inspired me, upheld me, put me to shame, is strangely that of the woman Captain Soviet Valentina Orlikova with whom Irina had a friendship. Her photograph gave me the same shock I felt when I first saw it in a magazine cover and heard about her life. A shock of admiration, of love, of identification.
She is born February 22.
La vie frappe. Il faut y faire face, recevoir le coup, et continuer… [Life beats you down. One must face it, receive the blow, and continue…] Every day Valentina faces death, separation from her husband and child, the great tragedy of war, greater catastrophes, universal tragedies. Il y a une self-indulgence dans la souffrance. [There is self-indulgence in suffering.]
Nin became inspired to emulate this “woman of action,” and she found herself buying a coat she would call “Harper’s Bazaar elegance,” rather than her now old and somewhat tattered (but exotically unique) clothing from her Paris years.
Sept. 21, 1943
Symbolically, I fell I love with a Coat—a coat that represents the great change in me. It is not the coat of fire-fish or peacock, but of the woman captain. It is a very beautiful, masculine-material, tailored coat, fitted, with a velvet collar
and cuffs. It is expensive, aristocratic, simple, very pure, for action—and far from mirages or Byzance or the dream! I shall wear it a long time. It is enduring, of good quality. I chose it boldly, in an expensive shop. Then I hesitated because of the high price. But Hugo then insisted I should make him feel like a man of power able to get such a coat for his wife, and when I saw it was a symbol for him too then I yielded. The coat for a new life…
Armed with new inspiration came the excitement of designing an entirely new philosophy of writing, that of selflessness, like the woman captain’s. The seeds just begin to sprout in the following passage:
Sept. 14, 1943
I cannot begin a work casually. Have a concept of something big. Cannot begin—select, eliminate. Feel whatever I do will have to be all encompassing.
What happens if I leave myself out? Then everyone will be restored to his natural value, not mythical, not romantic, not enlarged—not symbolic.
With me absent and only the other characters present, I shall be in a human world, purely of feeling, which is my link with all the world. Irina [Alexander, Nin’s friend] said she always understood my emotions, not my interpretations or analysis of these emotions. Possibly if I eliminated myself as representing the legend, the vision, the far reaching and the cosmic, I might get into direct contact with the natural aspect of human beings. It is only in relation to me that they become “poetized” or translated into a dream. […] No one will see the poetic Gonzalo—only the fêtard [reveler] and the masochist, the adventurer and the masochist. It will be a diminished world. A natural world, not an intensified one. Me absent, passion and intensity will be removed, [as well as] the mirror reflecting people’s potential selves. It might be a way into the human. While I am there it will be mystical and mythical.
It might be good to begin writing about characters as unrelated to me. For example, I see […] the impossible woman, my mother, the extension of her. In a state of destructive revolution—the black anima.
If I disappeared as a character and became merely the vision—if I disappeared as an ego and used myself as the chemical which brought certain elements to light, I might accomplish the objective work of human dimensions which might relate me to the present. For the dream and the myth situate one in the past or the future but not in the present. They cause tragedy and not happiness. They destroy life in favor of the eternal.
These early thoughts laid the groundwork for Nin’s greatest volume of fiction, the novels which would make up the Cities of the Interior series, beginning with This Hunger, which would be published in 1945.
Stay tuned for other posts examining the development of Nin’s writing philosophy.
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By Hilary White
WASHINGTON, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a speech to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Awards Gala, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she admires "Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision." Secretary Clinton said she is "really in awe of" Sanger for Sanger’s early work in Brooklyn, New York, "taking on archetypes, taking on attitudes and accusations flowing from all directions."
Immediately following a trip to Mexico’s Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of the pro-life movement, Mrs. Clinton travelled to Texas on March 28, where she was awarded the Margaret Sanger Award by Planned Parenthood.
She told the abortion movement representatives assembled there, "The 20th century reproductive rights movement, really embodied in the life and leadership of Margaret Sanger, was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race."
The sexual revolution brought about in part by Sanger’s promotion of contraception and abortion, Mrs. Clinton said, has "ushered in demographic and social changes that have brought us closer to gender equality than at any time."
Despite this, she said that the work of Planned Parenthood and the movement inspired by Sanger "is not done." Linking birth control and women’s "empowerment," she said, "women and girls are still the majority of the world’s poor, unschooled, unhealthy, and underfed."
"This is and has been for many years a matter of personal and professional importance to me, and I want to assure you that reproductive rights and the umbrella issue of women’s rights and empowerment will be a key to the foreign policy of this administration."
Mrs. Clinton’s heroine, however, received quite different a treatment in a speech in Congress by Representative Chris Smith, who said on March 31, that Sanger was a racist eugenicist.
Addressing Mrs. Clinton, Smith said, "Are you kidding? In ‘awe’’ of Margaret Sanger, who said in 1921, ‘Eugenics … is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political, and social problems’. And who also said in 1922, ‘The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it’?"
To Mrs. Clinton’s assertion that Margaret Sanger’s work has been "transformational," Smith responded, "Mr. Speaker, transformational, yes. But not for the better if one happens to be poor, disenfranchised, weak, a person of color, vulnerable, or among the many so-called undesirables who Sanger would exclude and exterminate from the human race."
Comparing the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the abortion movement, Rep. Smith said that the former "has for five centuries brought a message of hope, faith, peace, reconciliation and protection for the weakest, most vulnerable among us."
"On the other hand, each year, Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood kills approximately 300,000 unborn baby girls and boys in their abortion clinics scattered throughout the United States."
Highlighting the racist nature of eugenics, Smith further quoted Sanger, who said in 1939, "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social service backgrounds and with engaging personalities ... We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."
Mrs. Clinton has regained the confidence of the abortion movement in the US, after her attempts during the lead-up to the presidential race to present herself as a moderate on the issue. Support for her campaign to take the Democrat nomination wavered among hard-core abortion supporters when she called abortion a "tragedy."
Read the full text of Rep. Smith’s speech in Congress: www.lifesite.net/ldn/2009_docs/Smithspeech.pdf
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Over the past few weeks I have collected some great classroom resources surrounding the use of Google for various classroom activities. Here are a few of my favorites.
September 19th, 2010 // 7:31 am @ admin
Google has been working hard to continually update their suite of tools recently.
Today, the entire public school system of Oregon will embrace Google Apps . 400,000 Students, teachers, and administrators will have access to a common e-mail and chat system, cloud-based collaboration tools, and a robust multimedia streaming service. Traditionally, statewide adoptions of any kind in education are hotly contested, with the most minute details up for extended debate. But the case for Google Apps in education is compelling in many ways.
©2007, Helen C.
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Dear America Book Club
Published on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 3:25pm
This month we will read I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembly, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691.
Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes increasingly caught up in a witch hunt. When the villagers begin to realize that Deliverance is a clever girl who possesses the skills to read and write, the whispered accusations begin. Suddenly she has more to worry about than just the wrath of her uncle, her ill sister, and the fate of the other women in town. Within the pages of her diary, Deliverance captures the panic, terror, suspicion and hysteria that swept through Salem Village during one of the most infamous eras in American history.
Pick up a copy at the reference desk in the children's room.
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The low-maintenance slide gate valve is available in either manual or pneumatic operation. In the manual version, minimal turning of the hand-wheel compresses or relaxes the leaf spring assembly allowing the slide plate to rise or drop from the inlet collar. The valve is then opened or closed by pulling or pushing on the hand wheel. The pneumatic valve operates by an air cylinder closing the valve by forcing the leaf spring assembly to compress against internal stoppers. The slide plate rises to seal against the inlet collar. As the air cylinder withdraws, the leaf springs relax, allowing the slide plate to drop and slide clear of the inlet.
This unit also comes in a wide range of sizes, is offered in carbon or stainless steel versions, and is ideal for high temperatures and severe-duty applications. The slide gate valve lends itself to a wide range of free-flowing materials such as chemicals, minerals, foodstuffs, and plastics.
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Sport kumite is a modern 20th century Japanese addition to the original Okinawan karate. For those that choose to follow a very classical budo Way of karate the sport version represents anathema to them; to others the sport version is karate. After all why learn all those techniques if you have no arena to test them in?
For me personally I tend to swing hot and cold on the validity and worthiness of doing sport kumite. I have no interest in competing and I have philosophical objections to teaching people to ‘fight’ rather than to learn to defend themselves (more on this later). However, sport kumite is a part of our syllabus and I think there are some benefits to be gained from doing it.
There are many versions of kumite in karate so I’ll just define what I mean by sport kumite: I’m talking about minimal contact point sparring with only sparring mitts and mouth guard for protection. The aim is to score points by landing a punch or kick on one of the target areas i.e. the abdomen, head or between the shoulder blades (kicks only) whilst preventing your opponent from scoring against you. Sweeps are allowed and points can be scored by punching the opponent when on the ground. My analysis of sport kumite refers only to this type of sparring so if you are use to a more hard core full-contact version then your list of strengths and weaknesses may be different to mine.
The problems with sport kumite:
1. It can teach a ‘fighting’ mindset rather than a ‘self-defence’ mindset. Fighting requires two people to consent to the ‘fight’. Both are trying to ‘win’ the bout by attacking the other person. Self-defence requires a mindset that wants to avoid fighting and does only what is necessary to avoid, prevent, de-escalate, control or escape a violent situation.
2. It can cause confusion to the student if both classical and sport kumite are being taught side by side. I found this very confusing when I was in the junior kyu grades. Until I understood that two different types of karate were being taught I didn’t understand why in one part of the lesson I needed to keep my feet planted firmly on the floor and punch from the hip and then later on I had to be up on my toes moving around and punching quickly without pulling back to the hip first! I cope with it now by completely compartmentalising these two different versions of karate as if they were two different arts.
3. It does not provide an arena for testing out skills and techniques (other than sport karate skills and techniques). It bears no resemblance to how an encounter in real life may pan out, mainly because of the rules designed to maintain the safety of the competitors which means that most of the effective techniques are taken out.
However, though I don’t feel that sport karate bears any resemblance to a real situation and has many negative aspects that doesn’t mean that there is nothing positive and useful to be learnt from it either. I’m always the optimist and generally look for positive things to take away from any aspect of my training.
The benefits of sport karate:
1. For many people facing an opponent in a sparring bout is the first time they’ve ever been in a ‘fight’ and had to find their courage to defend themselves. Not everyone who does martial arts has a history of getting into street fights or bar brawls as a youth or has worked as a bouncer or in the security sector. Sport kumite is as close as they’ve ever been to a real fight. It can take some people a while to find their courage to spar effectively with an opponent. Finding this courage is essential if you are to have the confidence to defend yourself in a real situation one day.
2. In sport kumite, despite the relatively safe environment and limited number of techniques in use, the fight is still unpredictable and has a random element to it. This teaches you to be very aware and focused for the whole of the fight. It teaches you to react quickly and anticipate your opponent’s next move. It teaches you to look for opportunities to strike and to recognise telegraphing by your opponent and capitalise on it. You have to keep your mind empty of extraneous distracting thoughts, stay in the moment and control your aggression so that you don’t lose control of the fight.
3. Sport kumite also teaches you to take a punch. Even in the light weight version of kumite that we do a punch can land a bit harder than intended and wind you or land on your nose which is very painful. A kick can catch you in the ribs. When this happens you have to learn to carry on despite the pain. This comes as a shock to newcomers whose instinct is often to stop once they are hurt or stop if they have hurt their opponent. However, unless the injury is quite serious the referee won’t stop the fight so you have to learn to just carry on. You can’t afford to just stop defending yourself in a real fight when you feel pain – your attacker will just carry on.
I think that when one is engaged in sport kumite it is important to recognise it for what it is – sport. A real violent encounter in the real world will not resemble a sparring round in the arena and so sport kumite cannot entirely prepare you for this event (neither can any other form of martial sport e.g. boxing, wrestling, MMA etc.). However kumite does teach some skills that are essential to good self-defence – good speed and reaction times, anticipation, focus, defending your head, carrying on after being hit etc. In fact one could question how these skills could be learnt without the random element that kumite provides.
Never the less, sport kumite is an incomplete package, it leaves out the techniques that are essential to controlling and/or restraining an attacker – slaps, eye rakes, vital point strikes, locks, throws, joint breaks etc. It also focuses your attention on violence and attacking rather than avoidance and escape which would be the self-defence strategies of choice.
Though sport kumite offers something useful to the martial artist it is important to be mindful of its limitations as well. What do you think about sport kumite in karate?
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This recording offers an illuminating look at the early work of a great American poet.
Often credited as being one of the founding members of the "confessional" movement, Snodgrass did not consider his poetry as fitting in that school. About his own work, Snodgrass has said, "I first became known for poems of a very personal nature, especially those about losing a daughter in a divorce. Many of those early poems were in formal metres and had an 'open' surface. All through my career, however, I have written both free verse and formal metres."
Formal or free, confessional or contemplative—the whole range of W. D. Snodgrass' broad brilliance is on display here.
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Introduction by Thomas Lux. Tony Hoagland describes Levis's practice "as a kind of tentative, speculating finger poking into the unknown."
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Allegheny County Jail improves prison release measures
Former inmates leave the Discharge and Release Center Thursday at the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh.
Discharge and release coordinators Asia Pruden, foreground, and Ronele Thomas process former inmates at the Discharge and Release Center on Thursday at the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh.
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Inmate Scott Stepp knows it used to be easier to leave the old Allegheny County Jail on Ross Street than it was to leave its replacement on Second Avenue.
But that's not an accident. For decades, the jail let released inmates leave haphazardly -- often in the middle of the night with nowhere to go -- after a judge approved their release.
For the past two years, the jail has been using a more orderly system that releases inmates through the Discharge and Release Center within 48 hours after a judge has approved them for release. The system, which got favorable reviews in a report released by the county last week, gives inmates a chance to let family know when they will be released and allows jail personnel to make sure they get money, medication and any social service referrals they need after they leave.
Admittedly, not all inmates are thrilled with any delay to leaving the jail, but the new system provides an "orderly, known, planned process," said Claire A. Walker, retired executive director of the Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation, who pushed for the changes through the Allegheny County Jail Collaborative. The collaborative began more than 10 years ago to review jail procedures and make recommendations for improvements.
The hope is that by giving inmates a chance to talk with family and releasing them between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. with a little money, appropriate clothing and a bus ticket or shelter reservation if they need it, they will have a better transition into the community.
"You've got to give people a chance," said Ms. Walker. "It's common sense to let someone make a phone call before they are just let go, and make sure they have any medication they need, but it just wasn't being done."
In the past, inmates would be released by court order "forthwith," which meant as soon as the jail got all the paperwork it needed from the court and checked for any other outstanding warrants or other reasons to keep someone. As a result, the period between 2 and 4 a.m. was the second most popular time for release, and inmates often were sent to the street with no transportation and no opportunity to stay at a shelter because they were already full. If they came to jail in the summer wearing shorts and flip-flops, that's the way they were released in January.
In many instances, they would commit another crime just so they could survive until the next morning.
After interviewing inmates and their families to identify the problem, Ms. Walker said, the collaborative worked with social services, jail administration, jail health services and the county court system to revamp the release system. She said officials were "aghast" when they learned the details of how and when inmates were released.
Now, the court orders say inmates will be released within 48 hours, giving staff time to make at least rudimentary arrangements.
Discharge and release coordinators Ronelle Thomas and Asia Pruden get a list of 25 to 40 inmates for release every day. They begin by contacting the inmate in the cell block and asking a series of questions to determine what needs they might have when they get out, including transportation, housing and medication.
Then they work to make appropriate arrangements, sometimes calling family. Once everything is in place, groups of inmates dressed in street clothes come to the basement discharge center, where they receive any money, medications, belongings and a bus ticket if they need it before they are released.
As opposed to the rather drab cell blocks managed by uniformed guards, the discharge center is known as "the happy place" with bright walls and staff in civilian clothes to process the inmates for release. But that doesn't mean there isn't tension there.
During a visit last week, several inmates questioned why they weren't released sooner and another was upset that a radio he had when arrested couldn't be located. Ms. Thomas and Ms. Pruden patiently explained why their release took a bit of time and Capt. Demont Coleman maintained order.
"They are like race horses ready to go. They have no tolerance," said Capt. Coleman, who has been at the jail for 25 years and overseeing discharge since December.
"We have to balance (their interest in leaving as soon as possible) with the things they need when they get out. But short of them committing another crime while they are waiting, we can't do anything to hold them."
Dana Phillips, who heads the jail's medical operations, said she believes preparations provided through the discharge center have caused positive changes after some growing pains as staff bought into the new procedures.
"This gives us a really good way to make sure everybody gets their medications and everything else they need," she said. "It's a big step forward."
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Fitness trainer creates DVD showing how to work out with resistance bands
Working out at home doesn't have to require racks of barbells and dumbbells or other fancy equipment.
Resistance bands might be just the ticket if you're looking to develop muscle strength and increase bone density, and a new fitness video can show you how.
Jeffrey Bonsall, 52, owner of Berkshire Fitness, thought about making a fitness video nearly 20 years ago when he started teaching popular group classes that used resistance bands.
"Eighteen years ago, I was doing them and getting 30 to 35 people in the class," Bonsall said. "No one else was doing them, and I said they are going to be big,"
His sold-out classes made him think he was onto something.
"I said, 'We should video this,' but at the time it was VHS, there was no DVD, and the expense was too high," he said.
He found the time was finally right to create his first video. "Jeff Bonsall's Resistance Tubing Workout for Beginners" became available last month.
"I should have done it sooner, but I finally got the chance to do it," he said. "Now with the Internet and YouTube, tech today is a lot cheaper, a fraction of the cost."
He is specific about his target audience.
"This is for people who want to train in their homes or whenever or wherever is convenient for them," Bonsall said. "This is me trying to get out to everyone who doesn't have the means or the time to come see me."
Bonsall said the bands benefit the user by offering an applied force that you are working against.
"As you're pulling the cord, it is pulling against you," he said.
In Bonsall's video, he focuses on individual body parts for a half-hour workout that can take the place of a circuit on machines. He suggested doing his full-body workout every other day to give the body time to rest.
Prior to making the video, most of his training has been one-on-one in his fitness center in West Lawn.
"This way I can reach many more people," he said.
The video includes instruction and tips. It is catered to beginners who are new to resistance bands, but Bonsall explained anyone of any fitness level could benefit.
"If you use the right cord and the right intensity, even if you are advanced, you can benefit from this by changing the variables," Bonsall said. "I'm telling you, you get a great workout."
The variables consist of using a harder tension chord, doing more sets or taking fewer breaks between sets.
"There are lots of things you can do to up the intensity on this thing," he said.
In the video, Bonsall explains how to increase the intensity and progress in your workouts. For beginners, he recommends one set of 12 to 15 reps for each exercise.
"As you progress, you can start to do three sets of each," he said. "Once you get to 15 reps with good form and proper technique, then shoot for 12 with the next cord up."
He has had first-hand experience of surprising some people with the intensity of a more advanced cord workout.
"I had guys walk out because it was too hard for them," he said. "It was really humbling for those guys. They didn't expect a workout."
He also said working out with bands is good for any age.
"Even for kids, from youth up to seniors," he said. "Even people with any kind of limitations and disabilities."
Bonsall has felt the bands, also referred to as resistance tubing, have been underrated but are finally getting some long overdue credit.
"More people are starting to realize how valuable they are," he said, adding many more trainers are starting to use them.
"There was just a piece on 'CBS Sunday Morning,' " he said. "They had a guy who was saying that he feels some day these cords will replace all the machines."
The tubes are also now more easily available.
"A couple of years ago you couldn't buy them anywhere, and now you can," he said. "Trust me, they are going to be huge."
He has also seen an evolution in the design of bands.
"Because they are becoming so popular, they are getting more technical," he said, referring to a band offered that has a pulley system to enable it to be attached to a door.
Another has four or five cords in one apparatus, and one is braided.
"Two or three braided together to make it more durable and stronger," Bonsall said.
He offered some reasons as to why he is such a big fan of the bands.
"They don't cost you a fortune," he said. "They are convenient, versatile, economical, you can take them anywhere."
The bands are ideal for use in pre- and post-therapy for those with shoulder, elbow, knee and hip problems.
"They offer a full range of motion about joints and help with coordination," Bonsall said.
The initial investment to get the necessary bands doesn't even add up to the cost of one piece of traditional equipment.
Bonsall recommends three cords to get started, ranging from $6 to $10 - the long cord, the figure-eight cord and the power ring.
"Beginners should use yellow," he said, noting the colored cords graduate universally to green, red, blue and then purple, offering the highest tension.
Since you can do this workout at home, that is another cost you don't have to factor in.
"Right now today, with the economy and the one-month membership cost at a gym, you can buy cords and do a full-body workout at home," he said. "They can last a year or a couple of years if you take care of them."
If you travel often, Bonsall said you can take the bands with you to perform the exercises in your hotel room. The bands are small and compact, enabling them to easily fit into a suitcase.
Bonsall has one philosophy when it comes to his training methods.
"It's not about how long you work out, it's the quality and intensity of the amount of time you work out," he said.
His future video projects include sport-specific videos that will enable you to take your gym right to the tennis court, golf course, soccer or baseball field.
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What about the risk of running injuries?
No one has a crystal ball and can predict who will or will not get injured from running. Until recently, it was believed that running less than 20 miles per week lowered the risk of injury, but that recommendation was based on a small number of studies. Now, however, a new study called a meta-analysis (a study that reviews many studies on one subject) evaluated studies of running injuries and published the following interesting results:
2. The most predominant site of injury was the knee.
3. Higher age was reported as a significant risk factor to incur running injuries in four high-quality studies, but two other high-quality studies reported that higher age was a significant protective factor, thus the evidence is conflicting and so it's not clear if running when you are older will cause or protect you from injury.
4. Increasing distance during the week does not appear to be a risk factor for injury, and in fact, in some studies, it was shown to be protective against injury. However, this may be because only strong runners increase their mileage and they may be less prone to injury. More research needs to be done before conclusions can be drawn about increasing mileage and the risk of injury.
5. Running more than 40 miles per week was a risk factor for both male and female runners to incur lower-extremity running injuries, although the risk was higher for males, perhaps because they tend to weigh more than women.
6. There appears to be no association between the use of a warm-up and lower-extremity injuries. This means that stretching beforehand may not reduce your risk of injury. This is not a surprise, as there is virtually no research to show that stretching prevents any type of injury.
7. The most common site of lower-extremity injuries was the knee (7.2% to 50.0%), followed by the lower leg (9.0% to 32.2%), the foot (5.7% to 39.3%), and the upper leg (3.4% to 38.1%). Less common sites of lower-extremity injuries were the ankle (3.9% to 16.6%) and the hip/pelvis (3.3% to 11.5%).
8. A history of previous injuries is a risk factor for running injuries. Runners with previous injuries should pay extra attention to signs of injuries, avoid overtraining (like exceeding 40 miles per week), and take time to fully recover from their injuries.
In summary, the most important findings from this research are that (1) running more than 40 miles per week is a risk factor for injury, (2) previous injury is a risk factor for future injury, and (3) the most common site of injury is the knee*.
* I recommend straight leg raises to strengthen the thigh muscles and protect the knee against injury. To do them, lie on the floor on your back, one knee bent, the other straight, hands palm-down under the buttocks to support the low back. Contract the quadriceps on the straight leg, then raise the leg to the height of the other knee. Pause one to two seconds at the top, then lower the leg but do not allow it to touch the floor. Repeat 10-15 reps, three sets. You can use ankle weights if these are very easy. Start with one pound and work up. You should always be able to do 10-15 reps. As you get stronger, you can progress to leg extensions, leg curls, leg presses, squats, and other leg exercises.
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When the state Office of Traffic Safety asked California drivers to name…
Can you safely talk on a cellphone — or for that matter, check your email or scroll through Google Maps — while driving? Well, of course you can. But those other folks with their hands off the wheel and their eyes off the road are a public menace.
Unfortunately, that sums up the attitude of many American motorists, who widely acknowledge using their phones while behind the wheel but insist they're safe drivers. Meanwhile, the number of people worried about the other guy is soaring. When the state Office of Traffic Safety asked California drivers to name the biggest safety problem on the road, nearly 40% listed drivers who use cellphones. That's a big jump from last year, when the top worry was aggressive drivers and speeders, and only 18.3% were concerned about cellphones.
So what changed? Probably the explosion of smartphones, which aren't so much phones as portable computers — and which, like a computer, require both eyes and often both hands, meaning that, in our view, drivers should never operate them. But they do. More than 1 in 4 Americans who download applications to their smartphones admit to using those apps while driving, according to a survey by Nationwide Mutual Insurance. And the number of people with smartphones is growing fast. U.S. sales of smartphones are expected to hit 95 million in 2011, and 43% of mobile phone owners have smartphones; soon it will be a majority.
Motorists have good reason to worry about this. Studies show that people talking on their cellphones are four times more likely to be in an accident than other drivers, and their level of impairment is comparable to people with a blood alcohol level of 0.08%, the legal limit. And that research was done back when cellphones were used only for making calls. Now that they're used for posting on Facebook or playing Angry Birds, we suspect the dangers are much greater.
Lawmakers haven't caught up. Thirty states ban cellphone use by novice drivers, but none do so for all drivers. California has a law that tries to limit the problem but aims at the wrong target. Here, it's forbidden to text while driving or to hold a cellphone to one's ear, but drivers over 18 can still talk using a hands-free device; moreover, it's still technically legal to use a smartphone app while behind the wheel. This is both outdated and ineffective. There is no evidence that using hands-free devices reduces cellphone-related accidents, which happen because drivers are distracted by their conversations, not because they're using one hand to hold a phone.
A total cellphone ban would avoid the problem of legislating for yesterday's technology, and reduce the number of accidents. Meanwhile, if you value your life and the lives of others, don't dial and drive.
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Home Introduction of Baked Egg
It has been determined that it should be safe to introduce egg in a baked form into your child's diet. If your child experiences any possible reaction or concerning symptoms, stop the food and contact us for further instructions. Once your child has clearly tolerated baked goods with 1/8 to 1/4 of egg per serving, you can add similar products up to three servings a day, as well as commercially prepared baked goods that are otherwise safe. The following is a genreal plan for the introduction of baked egg - you can do this as often as once a day to start, although you can also progress as slowly as you like and do this over weeks or months rather than days:
- Begin with any baked egg recipe - cookies, cakes, muffins, cupcakes, brownies - and use one egg for a recipe that makes 12-16 servings. Your child can have one full serving to start, therefore will get 1/12 to 1/16 of an egg to start. You can also use a recipe with 2 eggs and give one-half serving.
- If there is no reaction to these products, you can increase so that your child can get up to 1/4 egg per servings.
- If these products are tolerated with no signs of a reaction, you child may have them up to 3 servings a day.
- After two to three months, you may introduce pancakes or waffles.
- You can then contact us to discuss the possibility of introducing straight egg if you desire. Up until this point, you also need to continue to avoid mayonnaise, custards, ice creams, meringues, and other foods with concentrated, less cooked eggs.
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Someone should tell him about the boy who cried wolf.
CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – When Harvard University computer scientist LaTanya Sweeney Googled her name she was surprised at what she found. A Google ad questioning whether she had an arrest record. “I almost fell out of my chair! I’ve never been arrested, what’s going on here?“
She’s a law-abiding citizen, but the Google ad from a firm called Instant Checkmate suggested she had a criminal record. “If they sell it don’t they know who they have arrest records for?”
She dug deeper with over 2,100 names, most coming from a study on birth records which identified names given to one race more than another. The name Latisha Smith triggered an ad to check if she had an arrest record as well. The common denominator was the so-called sounding black names. They were 25 percent more likely to yield an ad for a criminal records search.
AdWords is Google’s profitable service in which businesses pay to have their ads appear in the results when users search particular keywords or phrases. She found names like Ebony, Deshawn and Tamika were more likely to offer a search for criminal backgrounds than names like Jill or Ann which turned up neutral.
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I have never really spent a lot of time on the Business Insider website, so I don’t know why they have a fairly significant article culling images of NYC from the early 1970’s. It does speak to the evolution of images in journalism and potential new ways to leverage those images for real cultural reporting…even in a business publication.
There are a huge number of reasons to be a total sucker for this article. The images are old enough to look clearly of a different historical era, the degradation of the color quality helps, the clothing/cars/architecture all place these images in a time gone by which is still close enough to be remembered. The power though is in that juxtaposition of a time far enough removed to be obviously long gone but still have lots of referents that connect with specific personal and community memories. This was an interesting time in New York, it hadn’t turned the corner into a really functional city, remember the city almost went bankrupt in ‘74/’75. The middle class had largely abandoned the Burroughs for the suburbs and the gentrification of the 90’s wasn’t even a possibility. Television had whole series like ‘Welcome Back Kotter’, ‘Barney Miller’ and ‘Taxi’ devoted to the mythic lore of the melting pot that the city was supposed to be.
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In the late 1940s, Jerry Morris, Director of Britain’s Medical Research Counci’s Social Medicine Unit devised one of the first great epidemiological studies to figure out why so many Britons were dying of heart attacks: he looked at bus drivers and their counterparts who, this being the land of double-decker buses, ran up and down the stairs each day collecting tickets. “And there was a striking difference in the heart-attack rate,” Morris tells the Financial Times Simon Kuper. “The drivers of these double-decker buses had substantially more, age for age, than the conductors.”
The key difference between the two groups: the bus drivers led, essentially, sedentary lives; the ticket collectors were constantly moving. As Kuper notes, in a fascinating article, the idea that exercise – or the lack thereof – was intimately associated with disease was so radical, Morris sat on the results until they had been tested by every conceivable means. Then the data from postal workers came in, and the results were the same: those who actually delivered the mail were significantly healthier than those who sat behind counters or worked in an office.
Morris went on to write one of the pioneering works of modern epidemiology, The Uses of Epidemiology (1957); but he also started to live out the conclusions from his study of the data, becoming possibly Britain’s first jogger. Still alive at 99 – and still working – Morris has constantly advocated for physical exercise as a vital change required of humans living, for the first time, in a sedentary culture. As he tells Kuper:
“For the first time in history,” says Morris, “the mass of the population has deliberately got to take exercise. It’s a new phenomenon, which is not appreciated.” For decades he has tried to persuade governments to make exercise easier. He was involved in the pioneering English National Fitness Survey of 1990, which found that half of women aged 55 to 64 could not comfortably walk a mile. These people were in effect disabled. The government ignored the report. Since then, British exercise levels haven’t changed much. His voice becomes high-pitched with outrage: “Just imagine, what historians in the future are going to say about the way we’ve allowed this epidemic of childhood obesity. ‘Disgrace’ is a sort of mild word.”
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Speaking as a current business owner and an economic development director, owning and running your own business is still one of the most independent activities an American can do in this country. On the eve of July 4, 2009, it should be remembered that most of the founders of our country were business owners. In every circumstance I have known, business owners are very independent and passionate about their actions to succeed. That is not to say that entrepreneurs can’t stumble and fall, from time to time; but, they most certainly never give up. In times of trials and failure, it is usually the entrepreneur (business owner) that will make the extra effort toward attaining their goal through using another tactic. If the business fails, they learn from their mistake and grow another business by becoming stronger the learning experience. Think about the number of failures that Edison went through on “one” project, “the light bulb” before success in his business. Think about the number of challenges and heartache Abraham Lincoln went through before he became the President of the United States.
America has always been a country of leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit. With the challenges facing our country right now, it is important for business owners to stand firm. It is important for these current owners to share the experience of freedom they have (although difficult) with their prodogies (the younger generation). Working in a smaller rural community, I have been encouraged by our small town business owner’s leadership for our communities, their passionate leadership to create a better environment for the next generation, and their desire to share and help the next wave of business owners. Most rural communities have lost a vital asset over the last 50 years, many of their youth. These graduating youth have wanted to become free and explore the world outside the rural (small town) environment. Many of our youth, (even myself), throughout our childhood were inspired by business owners (mentors) in our area; though, encouraged by others to get an education and leave to get a better paying job (career), which all seemed to be in larger (urban areas) at that time.
Everyone has to choose their own way and experience different areas, BUT, I feel very strongly that as citizens, educators, business leaders, and parents; we need to share the positives about living and working in small town America, about owning or developing their own business, and about becoming strong servants to our community. Even when I graduated and worked in a larger city for five (5) years, I only then started to grasp the positives that I gave up by working and living in a large town and leaving my Hometown area. One primary reason I came back to live and work in Phillips County was the friendliness of our people; but another was that ability to start a new business at a minimum cost. With that being said, the cost of living was more economical, as I grew the business as well. Yes, I know, many may say — “Well, he just could not make it in the large town atmosphere” or “He just needed to stay longer to experience the true urban setting”. I did have several people say “I had failed, because I had moved back to the area.”. And it may suprise you to know that individuals saying this were not just those I thought I knew in the large town, but those in my HOMETOWN!
Gratefully, there were many more within Phillips County that saw, what I may have not at the time, an entrepreneurial spirit, in myself. To them I say “Thank you!”, and you know who you are! Business owners, residents, teachers and parents, all us have had our own mentors that have inspired us to become leaders for our community. At this time in our country when entrepreneurism and foundational truths are mocked, we all need to realize that our youth is looking for someone to be their mentor. If they know and understand that running a business is challenging, but very gratifying; they will consider pursuing that path. If they are encouraged and supported in their defeats, that is ok to lose a battle, from time to time, but you must always focus on winning the war (long term goal). Encourage someone that may be considering a move back into the area and given them an inspirational boost of support. Especially now, I am sure they probably need it. I will leave with two thoughts. May everyone enjoy their celebration of our independence as a nation on July 4 AND, may all our new citizens moving back to the area have strong mentorship (through you) to become business owners, community supporters and servant leaders.
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Welcome to the real world
Imagine you are driving to a meeting and your boss calls you on your mobile. He’s looking for the latest sales figures but you don’t have them in your head or your briefcase. You say you will get right back to him. You dial into your company private branch exchange (PBX) and say that you would like to arrange a conference call with your sales team. A software-based virtual assistant converts the voice message into text and sends it as an instant message (IM) to the computer screens of your five sales colleagues.
This actually happened to Gary Paris (pictured left), a senior US-based Siemens Information and Communication Networks (ICN) executive, who was in Dublin last week for the launch of Openscape, a new group-working software application from the German technology giant. Florida-based Paris, who heads up the Openscape programme worldwide, used this example to illustrate some of the potential applications of the new system. He added the punchline that his boss was actually contacting him during a break in a board meeting, making a prompt response even more urgent.
The launch of Openscape was also used by Microsoft to plug Live Communications Server (LCS) 2003, its industrial-grade in IM platform that ties in with Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 platforms. Siemens and Microsoft spoke of a "shared vision" where Openscape would provide the gateway to the communications infrastructure and devices and LCS the access to popular business applications such as Word and Outlook.
Clive Ryan, business group head, client and information worker with Microsoft Ireland, took delight in informing his audience that IM was about to hit the corporate domain in a big way. Quoting analyst figures, he said the number of IM users worldwide would grow from the current 200 million to 500 million by 2006 and whereas business users of IM account for only 5pc of the total, by 2006 the share would be 70pc.
Openscape is not just about IM — though that's part of what it offers. It is better understood as a technology that provides a single point of access or gateway to communications devices on the one hand — mobile phones, desktop phones, laptops, personal digital assistants and so on — and applications such as email, IM and Word on the other. Each Openscape user is provided with a personal portal through which he or she manages his or her information flow. Users can set rules to specify what format they would like to receive and send information, and with whom.
For example, if you are in wall-to-wall meetings and want to block all mobile calls except those from a key customer, you set that rule on your portal. Likewise, the system allows you to view the availability of key colleagues via a special window on your PC before you make contact.
Five years ago the need for software such as Openscape would have been limited. What has happened in the meantime is that many office workers have become more mobile (the 'e-working generation'), using mobile phones and laptops to unchain themselves from the office. E-working has many advantages but can also lead to problems, especially when the e-worker's voicemail is on and they cannot be tracked down.
Speaking at the launch, Vijay Bhagavath (pictured right), a senior strategist on the Openscape project, noted that inefficiencies were creeping into the workplace caused by the growing amount of time people were spending playing 'telephone tag' with colleagues — what a recent Georgetown University study described as "the information-related costs of doing business". Bhagavath noted that we can rely less and less on sticking our head over the partition to check whether colleagues are around. Chances are they are on the road or in meetings. If we want to contact them urgently, we need a way of doing that. This "presence awareness" is what Openscape can provide, he said, adding with just a touch of hyperbole, "we have mimicked proximity to the scale of the whole planet".
Every new product targeting the corporate market needs 'business drivers' — compelling reasons why an IT manager or CEO should go out and buy it for their organisation. These are obvious for applications such as email and devices such as mobile phones but less so, perhaps, for Openscape, a technology that most organisations would see as a 'nice to have' rather than a 'need to have' at this stage.
The claimed benefits of Openscape boil down to two areas. First, it supports real-time communication within the organisation, meaning that information is available when and where it is needed. Secondly, the software does not require expensive new servers and other equipment to run; it works in tandem with existing infrastructure such as PBXs and Microsoft's IM software. The main cost is the software licence, currently about US$200 per user.
Openscape was launched in the US in November and is currently being showcased around Europe and South America. So far about 25 customers worldwide have bought the system. In the early stages, Siemens is targeting certain key information-intensive industries to which it feels the technology is most relevant, including financial services, healthcare, education, public sector, retail and professional services. According to Paris: "We see these industries as those more likely to adopt the system but this is still early-stage, early-adopter technology. We don't expect to have thousands of users immediately; it will happen over time."
By Brian Skelly
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Largest corn planting since 1930s could have adverse effect on cotton
U.S. farmers are preparing to plant the most corn in nearly eight decades.
According to a recent Bloomberg Commodities News article, American farmers are set to plant the most acreage of corn since 1936. Much of last year's crop was ruined by drought, and adverse weather conditions have affected crops for the past three years.
Texas Tech University agricultural economics expert Darren Hudson said that since the demand for corn is still high, and drought conditions have subsided somewhat, producers anticipating a high price for the 2013 corn crop have shown an eagerness to plant as many acres as possible. But, he said, the larger amount of corn acreage could affect the cotton industry down the road.
Hudson is a professor and Larry Combest Agricultural Competitiveness Endowed Chair as well as the director of the Cotton Economics Research Institute in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
"In places where corn crops can substitute for cotton planting, it will definitely take away cotton acres," Hudson said. "We've already seen very low intentions for planted cotton acres this year."
Hudson said if the planting season pans out the way this article predicts, one of the biggest effects will be on the cotton industry's related infrastructure, such as gins, mills and seed companies.
"If the corn acres are actually planted, if they do continue on this path, the impact around cotton will be felt in this area in the late fall, after cotton harvesting," Hudson said.
Find Texas Tech news, experts and story ideas at www.media.ttu.edu and on Twitter @TexasTechMedia.
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By Advocate.com Editors
Originally published on Advocate.com April 09 2010 2:25 PM ET
Portugal's highest court ruled on Thursday that the country's proposed
same-sex marriage law should be enacted, which leaves only the
president's signature as the last step before the bill becomes a law.
Portuguese president Anibal Cavaco Silva, a conservative, sent the Parliament-approved bill to the constitutional court last month after he had apprehensions over the constitutionality of the bill. He now has 20 days to sign the legislation.
Tribunal president Rui Moura Ramos said that while the marriage equality bill does not conform to the concept of marriage laid out in the current constitution, he agreed that the concept is open to interpretation and evolution, according to Euro News.
If signed into law, Portugal would become the sixth European nation to legalize same-sex marriage.
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National Geographic's Great Migrations, a seven-part series on the National Geographic Channel, premieres Sunday. at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Here is a look at some of the creatures that will be featured in the documentary.
No single monarch butterfly completes its migration from Mexico to as far north as Canada and back. Instead, generations of monarchs make this journey -- born into a relay race no butterfly ever finishes.
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« Exit photo gallery
10 bluest, reddest states
The pollsters at Gallup have determined the most Democratic and Republican states, using data from interviews in 2012 with more than 320,000 people in the District of Columbia and all the states. Here are the 10 bluest states based on the size of the gap between those who identified themselves as Democratic/Democratic-leaning and those who identified themselves as Republican/Republican-leaning. And the same for the 10 reddest states.
Oklahoma: Red. 48 percent Republicans; 39 percent Democrats. 9 percentage-point Republican advantage.(Photo: AP Photo)
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By Maria-Nicole Marino
Steam billowed through the open doors as a herd of 100 sweat-stained teens piled out onto the cool pavement around the Westcott Community Center about 15 years ago. The building spit out a crowd dressed predominantly in black. For some, ink and piercings covered the skin peeking out of baggy pants and band T-shirts.Others wore blazers speckled with sewn-on patches, paired with skinny ties. Just minutes before, they thrashed around a small rented room, lights off, walls and light fixtures trembling as the night’s headlining band concluded its set. When the mosh pit reached its greatest intensity, the audience was packed together too tightly for anyone to stumble more than a step. As the attendees—many in their teens— made their way outside, not a cigarette or beer was in sight. They sipped cans of soda, discussed political issues, and distributed socially-charged pamphlets. The bands stayed around to hang out with the fans - who were often their friends. They called themselves “straight-edge,” after their strict brand of sociological and punk ideology: sober and conscious.
From the mid-90s into the naughts, the straight-edge scene thrived in the “Westcott Nation,” producing nights much like that every weekend.This last great punk era in Syracuse was a time of self-expression, underground music magazines, alternative thinking, DIY apparel, veganism, and substance- free lifestyles. It was about more than the music. Straight-edge adherents searched for a greater meaning to life and strayed from society norms. They migrated to the area because they felt accepted for their outlandish appearances, which often made others stereotype them as rebels. The WCC was an age-friendly venue that gave them a parent-approved environment for live music outside of their homes and garages.Ondays when the 21-and-older venues, such as now defunct Planet 505, hosted matinee shows for the younger crowd, 200 to 300 teens would line the streets, popping in and out of local businesses. Westcott Street, plastered with fliers and band posters, was their sanctuary; a place where they belonged until the scene began fizzling out over a decade after it began. Although this was arguably the last great punk phase in Syracuse, it certainly wasn’t the first.
By the time Elice Flanders became a punker in 1986, the scene was already though to be dead. “We called ourselves punks, but it was rather tongue-in-cheek,” she says. “It was already a joke.”Original punk dominated Syracuse since the genre débuted in the 70s and 80s with nationally headlining bands like The Ramones and Blondie. The late 80s and early 90s brought on a new generation of punchers who reinvented the area and tried to determine their values. This was the era of MTV: shaved, dyed, bleached, spiked hair; band tees from Down Under Leather on South Crouse Avenue; and tattoos.
Marshall Street was the scene’s hub. Everyone started each night at a graffiti- covered stone wall called The Beach. Bands played at Hungry Charlie’s (which preceded Chuck’s), Lost Horizon onThompson Road, and the Euclid Community Open House (the original name for the WCC). Death Shore Records and Modern Records, the predecessors of Harry’s and Halo Tattoo, spread the word about quality music and recommended which bands should come around.
The punks put on many shows right at home. Flanders recalls shows in attics, basements, and living rooms. “Back then, punk bands never thought they were going to be famous or successful. Nobody thought they were going to be a celebrity,” Flanders says. “They were just happy to travel and play. No one had any money, so if a band could connect the dots from one city to the next, they were thrilled. Band members crashed at our houses, we fed them breakfast, and sent them on their way.”
From Flanders’ point of view, the straight-edge movement that took over in 1992 ended the true punk scene. It’s easy to say it was just another natural shift in music trends, but that’s not how the previous generation interpreted the new punk movement. “Straight-edge is what most of us feel killed what we loved about the Syracuse alternative punk scene,” she says. “Ours was a very, very accepting scene. It seems to me, and others, that the straight-edge scene, with its strict rules of conduct and almost militant method of enforcement, spoiledourscene.”
From the 90s and into the naughts, the WCC attracted straight-edge and hardcore bands almost immediately. There was a consistent group of fans who came to every show, regardless of whether it was hardcore, emo, punk, ska, rock, or metal. Since there was no stage, bands played on the same height as their audience, which fostered a personal and intimate experience. Despite the screaming, moshing, and unconventional fashion, the group was surprisingly well-behaved. Steve Susman, director of the center, says that even after the wildest shows the most damage inflicted on the white, cube-shaped room was wads of gum stuck to the airport-quality carpeting the center purchased for its resistance to everything, it turns out, except gum. “The neighborhood loved the concerts because it got the kids off the street, and we got barely any complaints from neighbors about the noise—just compliments from the cops because they never had to get called here,” Susman says. The community center had a great reputation as one of the longest- running venues in the country for small touring bands. It hosted some big names such as New Found Glory, Saves the Day, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Mastodon during its 15 years.
But to say everyone was straight-edge at the time would be incorrect. There were plenty of people who respected the scene but felt the straight-edge crowd was too authoritarian, or just not for them. The Lost Horizon,The Half Penny, and WestcottTheater typically attracted this older, drinking crowd.
In the mid-2000s, the punk and straight- edge scene began to dwindle. The WCC stopped booking shows every weekend, and other venues like the Half Penny shut down. The punk oasis, once synonymous with the Westcott region, dried up, and people movedon with their lives. There is no concrete answer for why the scene died out. It was a mix of the elder generation aging out of the venues, successful bands leaving to tour around the country, and younger generations not taking to the music the same way. The Internet’s explosion also changed people’s exposure to music. Now someone can find new music online; they don’t need to see live shows in search of new bands. Bands don’t have to work as hard to establish a fan base to get their names out there.
The Half Penny hosted its last punk show on January 1, 2011 before surrendering to the newly-opened apartment complex next door. It didn’t take kindly to loud music. When Christopher Holmes opened the bar in 2003, there were only 80 apartments in the area. Now there are almost 300, with more on the way. Holmes reluctantly remodeled the bar last year to accommodate a wider array of people and keep his business afloat.
Today, a new sign hangs above the entrance that reads “Holmes Pub.” Holmes has stopped hosting punk shows and reopened the bar for everyone outside of the punk scene. The worn, plywood floors are covered by polished hardwood, and new accessories and fixtures strategically conceal decade-old scuffs and dents from the old days. Exposed brick and mahogany-colored paint replace the once beige and white plastered walls, and speakers that once amplified the bar’s well- known punk music are nowhere in sight. “I don’t go a week without talking to someone about how they miss the Half Penny,” Holmes says. “There’s still a demand for this music, and I think it will come back, it just needs to find the right moment and place.”
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Our elementary school started a Readathon today with a Dr. Seuss theme. The PTA knew I was obSEUSSed so they asked if the Cat in the Hat could come visit during lunch to remind all the kids to be reading and tracking their minutes. My husband was so great to jump in our Cat in the Hat costume and walk around the lunchroom juggling balls and talking to the kids. He was a great physical reminder for the kids to be reading this week.
To see how I made this Cat in the Hat costume click here.
The PTA did a great job decorating the doors and halls around school with hand-drawn Dr. Seuss graphics.
Here are some other places and ideas to celebrate Read Across America Day:
Seussville has great printable activities and online games. You can also make your own 'Who' character.
On Saturday, February 26
Target has Dr. Seuss story time and special Dr. Seuss books on sale for 2 for $10.
Lakeshore Learning will offer Dr. Seuss Craft time from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 pm at many locations on Saturday, February 26, 2011.
On Wednesday, March 2, PBS Kids is having a marathon showing 2 hours of "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!", including new episodes. Check your local stations for times. See the TV spot for this on PBS Kids.
GRAB YOUR HAT and READ WITH THE CAT!
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Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
In tort law, the standard of care is the degree of prudence and caution required of an individual who is under a duty of care. A breach of the standard is necessary for a successful action in negligence.
The requirements of the standard are closely dependent on circumstances. Whether the standard of care has been breached is determined by the trier of fact, and is usually phrased in terms of the reasonable person. It was famously described in Vaughn v. Menlove (1837) as whether the individual "proceed[ed] with such reasonable caution as a prudent man would have exercised under such circumstances."
Professional standard of care Edit
In certain industries and professions, the standard of care is determined by the standard that would be exercised by the reasonably prudent manufacturer of a product, or the reasonably prudent professional in that line of work. Such a test (known as the 'Bolam Test') is used to determine whether a doctor is liable for medical malpractice.
Medical standard of care Edit
A standard of care is a medical or psychological treatment guideline, and can be general or specific. It specifies appropriate treatment based on scientific evidence and collaboration between medical and/or psychological professionals involved in the treatment of a given condition.
Some common examples include:
- Treatment standards applied within public hospitals to ensure that all patients receive appropriate care regardless of financial means.
- Treatment standards for gender identity disorders
1. Diagnostic and treatment process that a clinician should follow for a certain type of patient, illness, or clinical circumstance. Adjuvant chemotherapy for lung cancer is "a new standard of care, but not necessarily the only standard of care." (New England Journal of Medicine, 2004)
2. In legal terms, the level at which the average, prudent provider in a given community would practice. It is how similarly qualified practitioners would have managed the patient's care under the same or similar circumstances. The medical malpractice plaintiff must establish the appropriate standard of care and demonstrate that the standard of care has been breached.
A special standard of care also applies to children, who are held to the behavior that is reasonable for a child of similar age, experience, and intelligence.
- Care Standards Act 2000
- Clinical governance
- Duty of care
- National Care Standards (Scotland)
- Reasonable person
- Standard of care in English law
- Treatment protocols
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The Gulf region's first project to store greenhouse gases underground is being held up by pricing issues despite having completed technical feasibility and engineering work.
Masdar, Abu Dhabi's clean-energy company, wants to press ahead with a 500km pipeline network to funnel industrial emissions into oilfields to force out remaining oil. But the customer to which Masdar wants to sell the carbon dioxide, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), already has a source of cheaper natural gas for the same purpose.
Because the two companies have not been able to settle on a price or timetable after two years of talks, a 50km pipeline that is to be the first part of the network is being held up, reducing the time that Masdar has to meet its own targets.
"They are trying to come to some solution. What they are trying to come up with is a commercial model that works," said Paul Crooks, the manager of the pipeline project at Masdar's carbon unit. "There's no point in producing [carbon dioxide] with nobody to use it."
Masdar sees carbon-capture technology as a way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions - which many scientists say contribute to a warming of the planet - as the emirate increases power production and builds immense smelters. The bonus would be that Abu Dhabi could inject the gas - as much as 30 million tonnes a year - and potentially earn the UAE carbon credits and international prestige under a UN system to combat climate change. It would also free up more natural gas for use in power generation.
But the plans Masdar outlined in 2008 have not taken off yet because the state oil company has not agreed on a timetable or how much it will pay for the gas.
"There's a timing issue. They've got a different time schedule than we have," Mr Crooks said on the sidelines of a conference in Abu Dhabi. "They haven't scaled it down. I've always said we have done this in phases.
"We're not going to put a 500km pipeline in the ground at once. We have to match the timeline to Adnoc."
Abu Dhabi is not alone in its trouble moving carbon capture off the drawing board. Last year, one-fifth of all such projects worldwide were cancelled or delayed, according to the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute. That included Shell putting off a high-profile plan to bury carbon in the Netherlands after encountering resistance from the local population.
The plan Masdar sketched out in 2008 was to connect a hydrogen-fuelled power plant, aluminium and steel smelters, and other power stations, with Abu Dhabi oilfields.
Part of that original network has been in question since January, when BP pulled staff off a planned US$2 billion (Dh7.34bn) hydrogen-fuelled power plant that was to feed into the network. The problem, company officials said, was the lack of an established price for carbon.
"It's easier to pump down that natural gas than to capture carbon dioxide," said Brian Freeman, the business development manager at Integrated Environmental Solutions, an energy consultancy in Kuwait.
"With carbon dioxide you've got to capture it, which is half of the battle. Capture technology is very expensive and it just hasn't been developed. You've already got access from your existing exploration, so why not just use that?"
The only engineering completed so far on the Abu Dhabi network has been for the 50km pipeline to connect Emirates Steel Industries' smelter in Musaffah with Adnoc's Rumaitha oilfield, where engineers successfully tested carbon dioxide injection last year.
Masdar completed the engineering work last year. Mr Crooks said the pipeline was a challenge to design because of the high pressure of the compressed carbon dioxide gas and a lack of recommended practice in the relatively new field.
"We need more validated data," he said.
If Abu Dhabi can get that pipeline operating by a scheduled date in 2013, it would be in record time. Masdar hopes to solicit construction bids this year, but that hinges on the negotiations and a go-ahead from the authorities.
"We're going to start the tendering process as soon as we get the green light from the leadership," said Mr Crooks. "It's going at the speed that it is going."
Pricing has been an issue for other energy projects in Masdar, which is informally charged with meeting Abu Dhabi's goal to source 7 per cent of its electricity from renewables by 2020. Shams I, a 100 megawatt solar plant, relied on a "green payment" from the Government to allow the project to proceed.
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17. Let the new people, therefore, who are called to an eternal inheritance, use the word of the New Testament, and say, “Our Father who art in heaven,” 277 i.e. in the holy and the just. For God is not contained in space. For the heavens are indeed the higher material bodies of the world, but yet material, and therefore cannot exist except in some definite place; but if Gods place is believed to be in the heavens, as meaning the higher parts of the world, the birds are of greater value than we, for their life is nearer to God. But it is not written, The Lord is nigh unto tall men, or unto those who dwell on mountains; but it is written, “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart,” 278 which refers rather to humility. But as a sinner is called earth, when it is said to him, “Earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return;” 279 so, on the other hand, a righteous man may be called heaven. For it is said to the righteous, “For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” 280 And therefore, if God dwells in His temple, and the saints are His temple, the expression “which art in heaven” is rightly used in the sense, which art in the saints. And most suitable is such a similitude, so that spiritually there may be seen to be as great a difference between the righteous and sinners, as there is materially between heaven and earth.
18. And for the purpose of showing this, when we stand at prayer, we turn to the east, whence the heaven rises: not as if God also p. 40 were dwelling there, in the sense that He who is everywhere present, not as occupying space, but by the power of His majesty, had forsaken the other parts of the world; but in order that the mind may be admonished to turn to a more excellent nature, i.e. to God, when its own body, which is earthly, is turned to a more excellent body, i.e. to a heavenly one. It is also suitable for the different stages of religion, and expedient in the highest degree, that in the minds of all, both small and great, there should be cherished worthy conceptions of God. And therefore, as regards those who as yet are taken up with the beauties that are seen, and cannot think of anything incorporeal, inasmuch as they must necessarily prefer heaven to earth, their opinion is more tolerable, if they believe God, whom as yet they think of after a corporeal fashion, to be in heaven rather than upon earth: so that when at any future time they have learned that the dignity of the soul exceeds even a celestial body, they may seek Him in the soul rather than in a celestial body even; and when they have learned how great a distance there is between the souls of sinners and of the righteous, just as they did not venture, when as yet they were wise only after a carnal fashion, to place Him on earth, but in heaven, so afterwards with better faith or intelligence they may seek Him again in the souls of the righteous rather than in those of sinners. Hence, when it is said, “Our Father which art in heaven,” it is rightly understood to mean in the hearts of the righteous, as it were in His holy temple. And at the same time, in such a way that he who prays wishes Him whom he invokes to dwell in himself also; and when he strives after this, practises righteousness,—a kind of service by which God is attracted to dwell in the soul.
19. Let us see now what things are to be prayed for. For it has been stated who it is that is prayed to, and where He dwells. First of all, then, of those things which are prayed for comes this petition, “Hallowed be Thy name.” And this is prayed for, not as if the name of God were not holy already, but that it may be held holy by men; i.e., that God may so become known to them, that they shall reckon nothing more holy, and which they are more afraid of offending. For, because it is said, “In Judah is God known; His name is great in Israel,” 281 we are not to understand the statement in this way, as if God were less in one place, greater in another; but there His name is great, where He is named according to the greatness of His majesty. And so there His name is said to be holy, where He is named with veneration and the fear of offending Him. And this is what is now going on, while the gospel, by becoming known everywhere throughout the different nations, commends the name of the one God by means of the administration of His Son.
“The address puts us into the proper attitude of prayer. It indicates our filial relation to God as Father (word of faith), fraternal relation to our fellow-men (our, word of love), and our destination of heaven (word of hope).”39:278
Ps. xxxiv. 18.39:279
Gen. iii. 19.39:280
1 Cor. iii. 17.40:281
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Cracking down on bankers’ bonuses
On the 1st of January 2011, new EU rules came into effect, which force senior bankers to defer at least half of their bonuses for a minimum of three years and which limit the cash element of bonuses to 30% of the total (20% for particularly large bonuses).
Sharon Bowles MEP was at the forefront of forcing through these tough new rules after the banking crisis in 2008/2009. As chair of the European Parliament’s influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, Sharon was instrumental in stopping a system of rewarding failed bankers with excessive cash bonuses or bonus style pension pots. Bonuses dressed up as pension benefits will be stored as a bank asset for a minimum of five years, so bankers will now be the first to take the hit if their bank performs poorly or collapses.
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Syon Monastery, Middlesex, England, founded in 1415 by King Henry V at his manor of Isleworth. The "Monastery of St. Saviour and St. Bridget of Syon" was the only one in England belonging to the modified order of St. Augustine, as reformed by St. Bridget (see BRIGITTINES), and comprised thirteen priests, four deacons, and eight lay brethren, besides sixty nuns. The property extended for half a mile along the bank of the Thames, near Twickenham; and the chief duty of the community was to pray for the souls of the royal founder and his near relatives and for all the faithful departed. Martin V confirmed the foundation in 1418, and the first novices were professed in 1420. Six years later the Regent (John, Duke of Bedford) laid the first stone of the chapel; endowments and benefactions rapidly flowed in, and towards the close of the century and a quarter which elapsed between its foundation and dissolution, the annual income of the monastery was estimated at 1730, equal in modern money to 100,000 dollars. The good observance of Syon was maintained to the last; and even Layton and Bedell, Henry VIII's servile commissioners, could find little or nothing to bring against the community. The inmates were nevertheless expelled in 1539, and the buildings seized by Henry, who imprisoned his fifth wife, Katherine Howard, in them for some months. The nuns retired to a house of their order in Flanders, but in 1557, on the accession of Queen Mary, they returned to Syon, and the greater part of their property was restored to them. At the queen's death, however, they were once more exiled, and after various wanderings in France and Spain settled in Lisbon, where they still own property. The Lisbon community returned to England in 1861, settling at Spettisbury, Dorsetshire (transferred to Chudleigh, Devon, in 1887). The Isleworth monastery was granted by James I to the ninth Earl of Northumberland, whose descendants still hold it. The present mansion is mostly the work of Inigo Jones, the ancient mulberry-trees in the garden being, it is said, the sole relic of the conventual domain.
AUNGER, History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery (London, 1840); BLUNT, The Myroure of our Ladye: offices used at Syon (London, 1873), historical introduction; DUGDALE, Monastic. Anglican., VI (London, 1825), 540, 541; WILLIS, History of Abbies, II (London, 1719), 136; TANNER, Notitia monastica: Middlesex, II (London, 1787); BAXTER, Syon Abbey (Chudleigh, s. d.); GASQUET, Henry VIII and the English Monasteries, II (London, 1889), 256, 459, 476, 483.
APA citation. (1912). Syon Monastery. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14394b.htm
MLA citation. "Syon Monastery." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14394b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Copyright (c) 2001 First Things 111 (March 2001): 15-18.
It was perhaps the most unusual statement in a political year full of surprises. Stockwell Day, new leader of a new conservative political party, the Canadian Alliance, was under attack for his evangelical Christian faith, and sought relief from a hostile press corps by attempting a reductio ad absurdum.
“There is scientific support for both creationism and evolution,” said Day, responding to attacks on his alleged fundamentalism. “But I don’t think that I should have to debate the interpretation of Genesis any more than I would expect Jean Chrétien or Joe Clark [leader of the Progressive Conservative Party] to debate Catholic teaching on transubstantiation or the Immaculate Conception.”
Day’s gambit didn’t work. His opponents were asked no questions about the Immaculate Conception. Instead, an infamous Liberal Party spin doctor showed up on the TV talk shows with a stuffed toy dinosaur, a prop to mock evangelical Christians’ supposed belief that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. Theology did not fare well during the federal election in Canada late last year.
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of the Liberal Party was reelected last November 27—his third straight majority government. That was expected. The surprise was that the so–called moral and religious questions—abortion, homosexuality, public funds for private religious schools—were being discussed at all. Social conservatism was on the agenda in Canada for the first time. That alone was a notable step forward, even if social conservatives got hammered with intemperate and bigoted attacks such as are rarely seen in this nation known for its niceness.
Intense regional and linguistic debates have dominated politics in Canada for at least three decades. On economic issues there has been for the most part a center–left consensus, while there hasn’t been any debate at all on social or moral issues—the secular–libertine mindset has been regnant and beyond challenge. Conservatives challenged the prevailing economic policy in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, and as a result the federal government and several provinces began to take seriously free trade, tax reform (and more recently, even tax cuts), elimination of deficit spending, and cuts to social assistance programs. For social conservatives out to trim the abortion license or to protect the traditional family, however, that famous Canadian compassion and accommodation was in short supply.
It is difficult for outsiders to understand the extent to which secular libertinism grips the major institutions of Canadian politics, law, media, and academia. Since 1988, when the Supreme Court struck down the country’s not–very–restrictive abortion law, there has been no abortion law in Canada. The result: abortion on demand, fully paid for by the state–financed health care system. The Canadian Court has embraced abortion with an enthusiasm that would make the American Supreme Court blush, ruling unanimously that even a child in the birth canal is not a person entitled to legal rights (the case arose from a botched delivery). On homosexuality, the Court did not content itself merely with striking down laws, but actually gave itself the power to amend the Ontario Human Rights Code so that it would be read “as if” homosexual orientation were a prohibited ground of discrimination. During oral arguments at the Court in November 2000, Supreme Court justices ridiculed as untenable the Christian maxim of loving the sinner while hating the sin. Theology does not do too well at the Supreme Court, either.
The sheer ordinariness of all this is most extraordinary. Even Canadians who follow politics would be hard–pressed to name any Supreme Court justices—despite the reach of their decisions, they are not really controversial. For the most part, Canadian governments, both federal and provincial, have been content to follow the Court’s direction, if not grateful for its leadership. Social conservatives in Canada have frequently complained that it’s not so much that arguments are being lost as that they are not even being had.
That began to change in the mid–1990s, when press baron Conrad Black bought most of Canada’s major daily newspapers and reoriented them toward a more balanced position on both economic and social issues. Social conservatives were no longer shut out of the national debate. In 1998, Black launched a new national daily, the National Post, which sought from its first issue to fashion a new political coalition that would challenge both the ruling Liberal Party and the regnant cultural consensus. The goal was to bring together Canada’s admittedly small social conservative base with the larger economic conservative base that had been growing in both the West and in Ontario. The splintering of those groups—along with the numerous other fissures that are a feature of Canadian politics—has been principally responsible for allowing the Liberals to win majority governments with no more than 40 percent of the popular vote.
In 2000 that effort bore fruit. The Reform Party, well established in the West and home for most of Canada’s social conservatives, reinvented itself as the Canadian Alliance in an attempt to win over voters from the Progressive Conservative Party. The PCs, who were in power in the 1980s, had been reduced to a parliamentary rump in the elections of 1993 and 1997, but still drew enough of the conservative vote to prevent a breakthrough for the Reform Party. The Alliance chose itself a new leader, the telegenic Stockwell Day, who established his economic credentials as Treasurer of Alberta, delivering budget surpluses and tax cuts. Day was also an unabashed Christian who did not hide his pro–life, pro–family beliefs. And while the official Alliance platform only called for a national referendum (and then only in response to a citizens’ initiative) on abortion, Canada’s weary pro–life forces convinced themselves that Day represented, well, a new day in Canada.
During his campaign to become Alliance leader last spring, Day attempted something completely new in Canadian politics—a substantive discussion on the role of religious faith in the life of an elected official. His groundbreaking speech on the subject was not a reprise of John F. Kennedy in Houston or Mario Cuomo at Notre Dame, despite what some of his advisers wanted. Instead, Day, a genuine intellectual, outlined a vision of the “public square” that would be very familiar to readers of First Things.
“I have no intention of turning my religion into someone else’s law,” he said. “I support the separation of church and state, but I would oppose any suggestion that I ought to separate myself from my faith in order to participate in the government of the state.”
Having said that, Day signaled over the summer that he was no scold. He smiled a lot, never brought up “divisive” issues on his own, and generally focused on exhibiting his athletic physique by chopping wood, roller–blading, jet–skiing, and even driving in a monster truck pull. He also continued his fourteen–year habit of refusing to campaign on Sundays. He presented himself as a conservative who was also a Christian family man. And that he was fun.
In response, the chattering classes ceased chattering and bared their fangs. The 2000 election campaign put to rest any notion that tolerance defined Canadian politics. The secular consensus went on the attack. Viciousness in the defense of tolerance cloaked itself as virtue.
Hedy Fry, a Vancouver Liberal and the federal Minister of Multiculturism—a sort of tolerance czar—got right to the heart of the matter, declaring that Day’s belief that “Jesus Christ is the God of the whole universe” was “an insult to every Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, [and] everybody else who believes in other religions.” Fry did not take up what kind of god would be god of only part of the universe, but her point was clear enough: in the universe of acceptable Canadian political discourse there was no room for orthodox Christians. Elinor Caplan, a Toronto Liberal and the federal Minister of Immigration—another bastion of tolerance—outdid her cabinet colleague by saying that Day’s supporters were bigots and racists, and of course, Holocaust deniers. The Toronto Star piled on with the Nazi allusions, and the Globe and Mail (an economically conservative, socially liberal national daily) devoted pages and pages to barely concealed glee in lampooning Day’s evangelical Christianity.
Far from reining in his cabinet ministers and spin doctors, the Prime Minister gave them a wink and a nod. For his part, Jean Chrétien chose a Catholic high school to reaffirm his support for abortion on demand, compounding the affront by joking that his wife was too old to have abortions anyway. Both Chrétien and Joe Clark made abortion a campaign issue—a departure from the usual Canadian custom of silence on the matter. Indeed, while both the Liberal and PC parties had previously attempted an ambiguous non–position on abortion, in 2000 both Chrétien and Clark declared themselves foursquare for the extreme abortion license. Consequently, Canadians were treated to the curious sight of two Catholics attacking an evangelical Christian as a threat to “abortion rights.”
There were disapproving voices, among them Lawrence Martin, Chrétien’s sympathetic biographer, who charged him with conducting a campaign that was “not only cynically timed, but cynically executed.” Various other columnists clucked about the antireligious rhetoric, but for the most part the outrage was limited to pro–life websites and polite press releases from aggrieved parties muttering their disapproval. The voice of the churches barely registered. Christians and social conservatives were finally in the town square, but they remained strangely passive while their opponents gave them a public flogging.
It would be a mistake to overstate the role of religion and related issues in the campaign—in a time of prosperity and budget surpluses, incumbency was advantage enough for victory, even without a fractured opposition that by all accounts mounted a flawed campaign. Nevertheless, the eruption of the whole religion–and–politics question bears watching as a potentially promising sign for the future.
Despite the avalanche of abuse heaped upon it, the Canadian Alliance emerged from the election beaten but not buried. The new party increased its share of the popular vote markedly from the last election—more so than any other party—demonstrating that religion–bashing is not as effective as its practitioners might hope. More particularly, the party increased its share of the conservative vote over against the PCs, even if not sufficiently to result in a large increase in parliamentary seats. That being said, social conservatives—especially those informed by Christian social teaching—will need to learn some lessons from the tumultuous year 2000. Already the conventional wisdom is inviting Day and his allies to seek victory by means of surrender.
“You cannot have a successful political party with social conservatism,” advised Brian Mulroney, the Progressive Conservative prime minister from 1984 to 1993. While before the election Mulroney was hostile to both the Reform Party and its successor, the Canadian Alliance, he now favors a merger with his own PCs, provided that the “divisiveness” of social conservatism is junked.
Mulroney may be right, but the results of election 2000 don’t bear him out—at least not yet. Election 2000 proved beyond doubt that social conservatives will face intense and nasty attacks should they show any prospect of making gains. It also showed that if those attacks are suffered for the most part in silence, they will have a limited but not fatal effect. What remains to be seen is what would happen if social conservatives were to fight back.
Abortion provides the clearest example. The Canadian Alliance paid the price for being against abortion, but its pro–life position was so weak that it did not attract voters who are troubled by the more extreme aspects of the abortion license in Canada. Day’s response to the attacks—“Abortion isn’t even on the platform of the party”—gave him the worst of both worlds. Next time round, pro–life forces will have to offer something that puts the other side on the defensive—whether it is a ban on partial–birth abortion, a limitation of public funding, or even simple regulatory enforcement that would end the current de facto exemption of abortion clinics from the standard regulation of private health care facilities in Canada.
More broadly, social conservatives can no longer content themselves with moaning about exclusion from Canadian public life. It is clear that they are no longer going to be ignored—at least not while Stockwell Day is on the scene—and so they must choose whether they will fight back or will just passively accept the role of bogeyman for the secular libertines. It should be de rigueur that any politician or journalist who treats believing Christians as the equivalent of Nazi sympathizers will face a united front of religious spokesmen who will condemn antireligious bigotry and demand consequences.
That is not the case today in Canada, but it could be. One of Day’s most surprising successes was his ability to bring together socially conservative Christians with like–minded allies among Orthodox Jews as well as Muslims. In fact, Day was endorsed by the Supreme Islamic Council of Canada, and the Alliance had more ethnic and religious minority candidates than any other party. Yet so new was this coalition that it was not able to establish an effective common voice. The leadership of the Christian churches in Canada will be critical to any such common voice, and a good place to begin would be for the various churches to at least defend their own when the viciousness is directed their way. Canadians do think of themselves as a tolerant people and will be open to being reminded when their political and cultural elite betray one of their most cherished civic virtues.
Despite the political excitement of 2000, social conservatives in Canada need to see politics as the result of social change, not its principal cause. It is arguable that the pro–life movement in Canada has focused its limited resources on pursuing unattainable (in the short term) political change, while neglecting the necessary work of building alliances. Pro–life forces need to defend those in public who are working gradually to point out that the unlimited abortion license is not what most Canadians say they want. Regarding the homosexual rights movement, social conservatives have not been bold enough in the public square, even though most Canadians already agree with their argument. One of the promising signs of the 2000 political season was the ability of Day to draw together many pockets of social conservatism—evangelical pro–lifers, Catholic homeschoolers, Orthodox Jews concerned about private religious schools, immigrant Sikhs and Muslims worried about family breakdown—who previously felt unwelcome participating in public debate. The hope is not that all such groups will be converted into partisan cells—social conservatives, of all people, ought not inflate the importance of politics—but that they will bring their presence to bear in a way that challenges the monopoly on political discourse currently enjoyed by the secularist elite.
The secular libertine argument will always be made—the chattering classes will chatter. But it is possible now, at it was not ten years ago, for social conservatives to have a voice. It is true that beleaguered pro–life and pro–family forces in Canada, including the Christian churches, have been shot at so often that they are understandably gun–shy. But while understandable, that cannot serve as a perpetual excuse.
Things are changing in Canada. Election 2000 was the first time the Immaculate Conception was ever mentioned. One presumes—and hopes—that will not happen again. Theology is not meant for election campaigns, but its appearance last year was an indication that what comes next in Canadian politics may well be a pleasant change for those who are religiously engaged.
Raymond J. de Souza is a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario,
studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
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Heart Attack: Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) Within 90 Minutes of Hospital Arrival
What is a Heart Attack?
An acute myocardial infarction (AMI), also called a heart attack, happens when one of the heart’s arteries becomes blocked and the supply of blood and oxygen to part of the heart muscle is slowed or stopped. When the heart muscle doesn’t get the oxygen and nutrients it needs, the affected heart tissue may die. The heart is a muscle that gets oxygen through blood vessels. Sometimes
blood clots can block these blood vessels, and the heart cannot get
enough oxygen. This can cause a heart attack.
Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) are procedures that are among the most effective ways to open blocked blood vessels and help prevent further heart muscle damage. A PCI is performed by a doctor to open the blockage and increase blood flow in blocked blood vessels.
Why is this important?
Improving blood flow to your heart as quickly as possible lessens the damage to your heart muscle. It also can increase your chances of surviving a heart attack. There are three procedures commonly described by the term PCI. These procedures all involve a catheter (a flexible tube) that is inserted, often through your leg, and guided through the blood vessels to the blockage. The three procedures are:
- Angioplasty - a balloon is inflated to open the blood vessel.
- Stenting - a small wire tube called a stent is placed in the blood to hold it open.
- Atherectomy - a blade or laser cuts through and removes the blockage.
How are we doing at providing the best care for patients suffering from heart attack?
The measures show how often patients who meet the criteria with a ST Elevation myocardial infarction received Percutaneous Coronary Interventions within 90 minutes of arrival at our hospital.
The graph shows that for every patient who meets the criteria with a ST Elevation myocardial infarction received the above treatment within 90 minutes of arrival at our hospital. The national average for this measure is 89% and the top performers are at 100%.
What efforts are in place to improve performance?
Each case is reviewed in detail with a multidisciplinary team to assess for every opportunity for improvement and change to process.
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Looking Back: 2009
Heading east: Wanting to be near the federal government and its money, technology companies and others move their headquarters to the Washington area
- Sarah Krouse
- Staff Reporter
The Washington area packs a persuasive punch for businesses seeking to business with the federal government.
But apart from the clear benefits of working a Metro ride away from Capitol Hill or the ample opportunities to rub elbows with agency officials and politicians, there is also the draw of state and county incentives, especially in Virginia.
Those incentives sealed the deal in 2009 for four companies in a variety of industries, including hospitality, information technology and biotechnology.
In January, Hilton Hotels Corp., since renamed Hilton Worldwide, announced plans to move its headquarters from Beverly Hills, Calif., to the Washington area. By March, Hilton decided that McLean and Virginia’s nearly $4.6 million incentive package were a good fit.
Federal IT contractor SAIC Inc. announced Sept. 24 it would add some 1,200 jobs to its 18-acre campus in McLean over three years by shifting its headquarters from San Diego.
Virginia shelled out $8.5 million to entice the company, which in turn plans to invest $25 million in not only the move but also a planned redevelopment. SAIC’s campus is the largest property zoned for mixed-use development in the area.
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New Children's Yoga Therapy
It is immensely pleasing to finally get around to doing my Radiant Child Yoga "homework," i.e. reading and commenting on the ever-creative lesson plans that come rolling into my inbox from RCY students after teaching in a city.
Just today, I was working on Austin TX and Millis MA course lesson plans. As I was loving the way that people took the RCY ball and run with it to the goal line, I came across one from Lauren Wolfe, M.S., N.C.C., L.P.C.. After the interesting lesson plan she happened to mention the following:
"I have had some great success in integrating yoga into my therapy sessions (I work as a children and family therapist). I meet with clients individually and have used yoga successfully with two 9 year old boys. One of the boys has Aspergers and the other boy struggles with anxiety and impulsivity. With my client with Aspergers we always start our session with, “I am happy, I am good” (Radiant Child Yoga Song). He looooooves this!! Then we do some yoga poses. Often we make up stories of explorations we are going on. We use the Radiant Child Yoga Warrior cards and then we use our imagination to make up the story as we go. We finish with a relaxation exercise and short meditation (about 1 – 2 min). When he starts wiggling around a lot I know he is done. Then we are ready for our therapy. This little boy is then able to sit calmly and engage in therapeutic play or cognitive behavioral therapy, etc. Until we began using yoga it was very difficult for him to contain his energy during the session. The yoga has proved very helpful with him!
The other little boy I use yoga with also really enjoys it. He is a more mature 9 year old and enjoys laying out a few of the more challenging Warrior Card poses and giving it a try. We also finish with a relaxation exercise and are working our way up to a 5 minute meditation. With this little boy we do the yoga and relaxation/meditation after our therapy session. He is able to share during our session but then feels a lot of shame about some of his impulsive behaviors. The yoga helps him to leave our session feeling relaxed and positive."
I think the part that impressed me the most was how Lauren figured out that the first boy needed the yoga FIRST, and the second boy needed the yoga LAST. It was pleasing to know that these children were being helped with Radiant Child Yoga, and that the therapist understood how to "follow the child" as my hero, Maria Montessori, would always say. Not only did she follow the child, but she designed the yoga class to follow the child, to give the child the experience of his own innate power. What a gift to carry over into those children's lives! Can you imagine? A 9-year old child having the experience of simple tools to feel better, to come to center, to know that he is just fine as he is?
I'm lovin' it... Yoga for Children is the new therapy!
(Oh, and BTW....did you realize RCY now has CEU approval for OTs, PTs, and other professionals? Lovin' that too!)
Shakta Khalsa is one of the world’s leading experts on children and yoga, having worked with both since the mid-1970s. She is a trained yoga professional at the highest level (ERYT-500), and was named one of the top five Kundalini Yoga teachers in the world by Yoga Journal. She studied under the direct guidance of Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga. Radiant Child® Yoga
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Book Description: The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement—the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942The bombing of Darwin on February 19, 1942, is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day—courage, mateship, determination, and improvisation—the dark side of the story lingers: looting, desertion, and a calamitous failure of Australian leadership. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that devastated Pearl Harbor only ten weeks earlier. There was a difference: they dropped more bombs on Darwin, killed more civilians in Darwin, and sank more ships in Darwin than in Pearl Harbor. It remains the single deadliest event in Australian history. Yet the story has remained in the shadows. Absorbing, spirited, and fast-paced, An Awkward Truth is a compelling and revealing story of the day war first came to Australia, and of the underarmed and unprepared soldiers and civilians who faced their toughest test on home soil.
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Use of the NBI® can help individuals and organizations to:
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Thinking preferences give an indication of how an individual:
- Does business
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The resulting Brain Profile looks at the thinking preferences of the individual. As we are dealing with preference, it is important to note that there are no bad or wrong profiles. Brain Profile is a descriptive, non-judgmental analysis, with no profile being better or worse than another. Instead, the report gives a description of an individual’s thought preferences, and makes recommendations based on those.
Brain Profile measures thinking preferences, and not skills or ability in executing those preferences. It could therefore happen that an individual has a very strong preference for ordering, planning and organizing, but has never had the chance to develop the skills to plan and organize. The recommendation in this instance would be that since the desire is there, the skills to support that desire should be developed in order to be effective in a given career. On the other hand, it is possible that a person has excellent skills to be a banker, but has a very low preference (which could lead to a rejection) of the processes associated with the job. The individual would therefore not be able to sustain the passion and energy to stay happy and productive in the banking environment.
These online and user friendly profiling instruments enable the person to discover & apply their hidden potential and make correct choices that lead to better performance, communication, relationships, happiness, contentment as well as an interesting and rewarding career. These instruments, including the highly acclaimed 8 – Dimension Characteristic Model, are available in 18 languages and are being used in 35 countries.
We believe in fulfilling the expectations by being focused, creative, ethical and working with integrity. We also believe that people are the key to success. We follow strict norms for selection, training and development and we keep ourselves abreast with the latest development in the field. Our professionals are mature, qualified and experienced.
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Between the world wars, Hart commanded submarine and cruiser forces and the battleship Mississippi. He graduated from the Naval War College in 1923 and the Army War College in 1924. In 1929, Hart was promoted to rear admiral and took command of submarines in the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets from 1929 to 1931. He was superintendent of the Naval Academy from 1931 to 1934. He commanded a cruiser division of the Scouting Force from 1934 to 1936 and served as a member of the navy's General Board from 1936 to 1939.
In June 1939, Hart was promoted to full admiral and given command of the small U.S. Asiatic Fleet. During the next years, he accelerated fleet training and drills and made plans to defend the Philippine Islands and to cooperate with the British and Dutch if war broke out with Japan. Lacking the resources to counter the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in December 1941 and denied air support from the U.S. Army's Far East Air Force, Hart sent his surface units to the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) at the end of the month and moved his headquarters to Java.
In January 1942, Hart was appointed commander of the naval forces of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM), which was charged with defending the NEI. Hart had no chance of success, for his resources were limited and he had no prospect of reinforcements. Moreover, the British and Dutch disagreed with his plans for using his ships. At the end of January, Hart sent his cruisers and destroyers against Japanese forces in the Battle of Makassar Strait, but the Dutch wished to concentrate ABDACOM's ships for the defense of Java. As a result, in February 1942, Hart relinquished his command to Vice Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich of the Netherlands navy and returned to the United States. Later that month, most of ABDACOM's ships were lost in the Battle of the Java Sea.
Hart served with the General Board until his retirement in February 1945, when he was appointed a U.S. senator from Connecticut, a post he held until 1947. Hart died in Sharon, Connecticut, on 4 July 1971.
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Leutze, James. A Different Kind of Victory: A Biography of Thomas C. Hart. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981.; Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Navy Operations in World War II. Vol. 3, The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931–April 1942. Boston: Little, Brown, 1948.; Morton, Louis. United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific: The Fall of the Philippines. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, 1953.; Truscott, Lucian K., Jr. The Twilight of the U.S. Cavalry: Life in the Old Army, 1917–1942. Edited and with Preface by Lucian K. Truscott III and Foreword by Edward M. Coffman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989.
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These days most university departments provide at least some basic computing facilities for their students, but most students also want to have their own computer for all-night last-minute essay-writing sessions and/or illegally downloading episodes of ‘The Only Way is Essex’ or ‘Jersey Shore’ (depending on which side of the Atlantic you’re on) outside their university’s firewall. Not that I would ever condone or seek to promote such activity, oh no. Anyway, computers are cheap nowadays, but they still represent a major investment for most students, so here is my advice on the matter. All opinions are mine alone, your mileage may vary etc. etc. Feel free to flame me in the comments if you feel I’ve unjustifiably dissed your favourite OS, or whatever.
The initial decision you need to make is which operating system takes your fancy most – and there are really only two options – Macintosh OS X or Microsoft Windows.* A lot of people get very excited by the Windows vs. Mac issue and Mac users in particular seem to have a genuine and somewhat creepy devotion to their chosen OS. My take though, is that the latest version of both (Windows 7 and OS X 10.6) are excellent, and either one will do everything you could possibly want. I regularly use both and have very little issue with switching between the two pretty much seamlessly. Nowadays, you can even install Windows natively on Mac hardware, so you could potentially buy a MacBook and use it purely as a Windows machine. If you were some kind of pervert. Read the rest of this entry
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By DJ Yap, Nikko Dizon – Blown in the wind. Deaths in flash floods.
That’s what happened in areas in Mindanao raked by powerful Typhoon “Pablo” before dawn Tuesday.
Pablo moved swiftly on its predicted path, sending roofs flying off houses, hectares of coconut trees tumbling, rivers bursting their banks, canceling flights and ferry services, church bells ringing and sirens wailing in a large part of Mindanao where the Category 5 storm passed.
Inquirer bureaus in Mindanao and Cebu, in reports attributed to local officials, and civil defense authorities put the initial death toll—mainly in flash floods—at 42 and another 24 unaccounted for. Most of the deaths were in New Bataan in Compostela Valley.
In Manila, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said two Army platoons with possibly 66 soldiers were unaccounted for.
Benito Ramos, NDRRMC executive director, said each platoon had 33 soldiers. He said the command post of Charlie Company of the 66th Infantry Battalion at Barangay (village) Andap in New Bataan was reportedly washed away in a flash flood.
Contact with the platoons had not been established as of 4 p.m.
But Gen. Ariel Bernardo, commander of the 10th Infantry Division, told the Inquirer by phone that reports reaching him indicated only six soldiers were missing from the two platoons.
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"The End and Design of civil Society and Government, from this View of it’s Origin, must be to secure the Rights and Properties of it’s Members, and promote their Welfare; or in the Apostle’s words, that Men may lead quiet and peaceable Lives in Godliness and Honesty, (I Tim. 2.1.) i.e. that they may be secure in the Enjoyment of all their Rights and Properties righteously acquired, and their honest Industry quietly proffess it’s proper Rewards, and they enjoy all the Conveniencies of a social Life, to which Uprightness entitles them; and that Men may peaceably practice Godliness,—may worship & serve the Supreme Being, in the Way they believe most acceptable to him, provided they behave peaceably, and transgress not the Rules of Righteousness in their Behaviour towards others.
In all Governments, Magistrates are God’s Ministers, designed for Good to the People. The End of their Institution, is to be Instruments of Divine Providence, to secure and promote the Happiness of Society; to be Terrors to the doers of Evil,—to prevent and punish Unrighteousness, and remedy the Evils occasioned thereby; and to be a Praise, a Security and Reward to them that do well, (Rom. 13. ch.) The End and Design of Government, is to secure Men from all Injustice, Violence and Rapine, that they may enjoy their Rights and Properties; all the Advantages of Society, and peaceably practice Godliness:—that the Unjust and Rapacious may be restrained, the ill Effects of their Wickedness be prevented, the secular Welfare of all be secured and promoted."
-- Abraham Williams, An Election Sermon, Boston, 1862
"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it."
-- James Madison, Federalist No. 41
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The human brain is amazing. Though it is entirely physical, the brain can produce sensations that seem spiritual, soulful, supernatural.
Oliver Sacks, M.D., a professor of neurology, describes how the brain does this in a fascinating Atlantic article, "Seeing God in the Third Millenium: How the brain creates out-of-body experiences and religious epiphanies."
Here's some excerpts that I found particularly interesting. Below Sacks explains why people are so convinced that what they hallucinate is objectively real, not a product of their own brain -- which it is.
But the fundamental reason that hallucinations -- whatever their cause or modality -- seem so real is that they deploy the very same systems in the brain that actual perceptions do. When one hallucinates voices, the auditory pathways are activated; when one hallucinates a face, the fusiform face area, normally used to perceive and identify faces in the environment, is stimulated.
In OBEs [out of body experiences], subjects feel that they have left their bodies -- they seem to be floating in midair, or in a corner of the room, looking down on their vacated bodies from a distance. The experience may be felt as blissful, terrifying, or neutral. But its extraordinary nature -- the apparent separation of "spirit" from body, imprints it indelibly on the mind and may be taken by some people as evidence of an immaterial soul -- proof that consciousness, personality, and identity can exist independently of the body and even survive bodily death.
Neurologically, OBEs are a form of bodily illusion arising from a temporary dissociation of visual and proprioceptive representations -- normally these are coordinated, so that one views the world, including one's body, from the perspective of one's own eyes, one's head. OBEs, as Henrik Ehrsson and his fellow researchers in Stockholm have elegantly shown, can be produced experimentally, by using simple equipment -- video goggles, mannequins, rubber arms, etc. -- to confuse one's visual input and one's proprioceptive input and create an uncanny sense of disembodiedness.
And here Sacks debunks the supposed experience of heaven while comatose that Eben Alexander has parlayed into a best-selling book, slick web site, and such. In a previous blog post I also talked about why Alexander's tale shouldn't be taken seriously. Sacks says:
Alexander makes much of his experience as a neurosurgeon and an expert on the workings of the brain. He provides an appendix to his book detailing "Neuroscientific Hypotheses I considered to explain my experience" -- but all of these he dismisses as inapplicable in his own case because, he insists, his cerebral cortex was completely shut down during the coma, precluding the possibility of any conscious experience.
Yet his NDE was rich in visual and auditory detail, as many such hallucinations are. He is puzzled by this, since such sensory details are normally produced by the cortex. Nonetheless, his consciousness had journeyed into the blissful, ineffable realm of the afterlife--a journey which he felt lasted for most of the time he lay in coma. Thus, he proposes, his essential self, his "soul," did not need a cerebral cortex, or indeed any material basis whatever.
It is not so easy, however, to dismiss neurological processes. Dr. Alexander presents himself as emerging from his coma suddenly: "My eyes opened ... my brain ... had just kicked back to life." But one almost always emerges gradually from coma; there are intermediate stages of consciousness. It is in these transitional stages, where consciousness of a sort has returned, but not yet fully lucid consciousness, that NDEs tend to occur.
Alexander insists that his journey, which subjectively lasted for days, could not have occurred except while he was deep in coma. But we know from the experience of Tony Cicoria and many others, that a hallucinatory journey to the bright light and beyond, a full-blown NDE, can occur in 20 or 30 seconds, even though it seems to last much longer.
Subjectively, during such a crisis, the very concept of time may seem variable or meaningless. The one most plausible hypothesis in Dr. Alexander's case, then, is that his NDE occurred not during his coma, but as he was surfacing from the coma and his cortex was returning to full function. It is curious that he does not allow this obvious and natural explanation, but instead insists on a supernatural one.
To deny the possibility of any natural explanation for an NDE, as Dr. Alexander does, is more than unscientific -- it is antiscientific. It precludes the scientific investigation of such states.
Deeply wanting to experience the presence of God, a person's brain can produce the experience that is wanted. Nothing supernatural involved. So says Sacks:
Some religious people come to experience their proof of heaven by another route -- the route of prayer, as the anthropologist T. M. Luhrmann has explored in her bookWhen God Talks Back. The very essence of divinity, of God, is immaterial. God cannot be seen, felt, or heard in the ordinary way. Luhrmann wondered how, in the face of this lack of evidence, God becomes a real, intimate presence in the lives of so many evangelicals and other people of faith.
She joined an evangelical community as a participant-observer, immersing herself in particular in their disciplines of prayer and visualization -- imagining in ever-richer, more concrete detail the figures and events depicted in the Bible. Congregants, she writes:
Practice seeing, hearing, smelling, and touching in the mind's eye. They give these imagined experiences the sensory vividness associated with the memories of real events. What they are able to imagine becomes more real to them.
Sooner or later, with this intensive practice, for some of the congregants, the mind may leap from imagination to hallucination, and the congregant hears God, sees God, feels God walking beside them. These yearned-for voices and visions have the reality of perception, and this is because they activate the perceptual systems of the brain, as all hallucinations do. These visions, voices, and feelings of "presence" are accompanied by intense emotion -- emotions of joy, peace, awe, revelation.
Some evangelicals may have many such experiences; others only a single one -- but even a single experience of God, imbued with the overwhelming force of actual perception, can be enough to sustain a lifetime of faith. (For those who are not religiously inclined, such experiences may occur with meditation or intense concentration on an artistic or intellectual or emotional plane, whether this is falling in love or listening to Bach, observing the intricacies of a fern, or cracking a scientific problem.)
Sacks concludes with, not surprisingly, a cogent conclusion:
...Hallucinations, whether revelatory or banal, are not of supernatural origin; they are part of the normal range of human consciousness and experience. This is not to say that they cannot play a part in the spiritual life, or have great meaning for an individual. Yet while it is understandable that one might attribute value, ground beliefs, or construct narratives from them, hallucinations cannot provide evidence for the existence of any metaphysical beings or places. They provide evidence only of the brain's power to create them.
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A.C. Reynolds Middle School provides special education and related services for children who have been determined eligible for special education services by the Individualized Education Program (IEP) team. Referral, evaluation, identification, and special education services are provided as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and the North Carolina Procedures Governing Programs and Services for Children with Disabilities. Special education and related services are provided for students in the Least Restrictive Environment as determined by the IEP team. School based special education teachers and therapists provide the required services for the majority of our students.
Students are identified in a variety of disability categories and served through a variety of methods as required by IDEA. Emphasis has been placed on serving students with a disability within the regular classroom; however, the school system maintains a continuum of services to meet the individual needs of students. Students with a disability participate in all aspects of public education in Buncombe County. Most of our students follow the standard course of study and graduate from high school with a diploma. Some of these students will be following a new course of study, the Occupational Course of Study (OCS).
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This will be the first of a series of blogs regarding age management, diet , exercise and welllness therapies. First I will summarize an excellent diet plan for antioxidation, weight loss, and maximal life extension.
The Age Management/Anti Oxidant Rainbow Diet
First, the diet is 40% protein, 30% carbohydrate and 30% Fat, but of the correct type (mainly olive oil, fish oil, nut oil, avocado oil)
The diet is highly antioxidant and natural. The food you can eat is in its native form, unadulterated by humans, other than to extract the oil from olives.
The 40% protein should be from deep, line caught, cold running fish that do not concentrate mercury. That would be Salmon (Sockeye is the best), Halibut, Cod, Mackerel, Sardines, Anchovies, Monkfish, Sea Bass, Tuna in lesser amounts as they concentrate mercury. Just about any fish is better than mammalian sources of protein, but farm raised is less acceptable than wild, line caught fresh or frozen fish. The rest of the protein source should be from vegetable sources. You want to bake, broil, or grill your food, or cook it in olive oil. The next best source of protein is lean turkey, then chicken, then wild game of all varieties, then beef, then pork.
Vegetables should be of the rainbow variety, in other words, the more highly colored and brilliant, the better. Examples are peppers of all colors, chilies, spices, dark green spinach, avocados ,cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, Brussels sprouts , cauliflower, cabbage, especially purple cabbage, red onions, green onions, leeks, garlic . As many brightly colored vegetable, at least six servings per day are recommended. Eat lots of olives of different varieties. Cook your vegetable in olive oil with small amounts of your protein source and spices.
As far as other carbohydrates are concerned eat brown rice, wild rice, but avoid minute rice, white rice or any grain that is not totally natural. Make your own cereal with raw oats, raw nuts and seeds (pumpkin, sesame, sunflower), dried fruits, especially dates, and figs. Eat it raw; do not cook it, unless you just feel like a bowel of cooked oats. The rawer you eat your food the better.
Dairy should be yogurt, Kefir, low fat or dried milk, and a moderate amount of cheese, but NEVER processed American cheese, cheese spreads etc. Eat real cheese but in moderate amounts. Do not eat ice cream, cream based products, or desert type dairy products.
Do not eat anything that is processed and put into a plastic bag. That would include any snack food, crackers, cakes, cookies, breakfast cereals, etc. Do not ever drink soft drinks or concentrated fruit juices. Make your own fruit juice. Avoid all high fructose corn syrup by reading labels (actually you should not eat anything with a label on it!) Drink green tea, diet drinks are ok, but in limited doses because they have so much preservative type non natural products in them. Never use sugar. Use Splenda instead. You can use Stevia as well. Drink Lemon water, or non caffeinated teas of all types. Coffee is fine in moderation. Even “health bars” are loaded with high fructose corn syrup and all kinds of stuff you don’t want.
The other source of calories should be from olive oil to cook with and from making your own salad dressing with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Also use as much spice in the form of curcumin, curry, turmeric, cayenne pepper, black and white pepper, sea salt, and as many herbal spices like ginger, basil, thyme, etc that you can use.
Eat Brazil nuts (which have selenium 200 mcg per nut!), Cashews, Macadamia, Walnuts, Almonds, Pecans, but avoid peanuts, which are like tubers or potatoes. When ever you are the least bit hungry in between meals, eat a large (two full handfuls or more) helping of mixed nuts, with a large glass of herbal tea. Just wait and see how your hunger goes away.
You want to avoid white potatoes, white rice, all sugar products, all sugar completely, all deserts, all white flour products, eat very little corn products (high glycemic index) Use Splenda for sweetening if needed.
Have a glass of red wine each night, but no more alcohol than that.
Take your supplements three times daily. Divide them up to be taken after a meal. Wash them down with Kefir (a cultured yogurt drink which has more probiotic cultures than simply yogurt) Drink goats milk Kefir over cow’s milk Kefir, but either is great. Eat Activia yogurt often.
Fruits: You want to eat the fruits that grow in the northern or southern hemispheres either above or below the equator. Tropic fruits are laden with sugar. You can eat them, but the preference is to eat Northern hemisphere fruits. Generally Fruits grown above the equator have less sugar and more pulp. Eat as many blueberries, blackberries, dark cherries, boysenberries, strawberries and all berries, especially the dark ones as you can get your hands on. Eat apples, pears, currants, as many different fruits with as many different brilliant colors that you can find. Eat lots of dates and figs.
When you go to the grocery store pick things that have brilliant color, that you have never tried or have no idea what they even are. Just get them, eat them, cook them and figure out if you like them. Experiment as much as possible, because you are in a new world of food now and you can’t be scared to reach out or be stuck in your old ways.
Go to a Whole foods store. Go to the bulk foods section. Get as many different nuts, dried fruits, dried grains in their natural form as you can afford. Start eating this food raw or cooked in chicken stock or olive oil.
This diet does not require calorie counting. In fact you will and should eat more often and possibly more quantity. Now that you have cut our compacted calorie processed food like bread (which is milled, compacted and processed grain), processed meats of all type (lunch meat , bacon etc) and you have eliminated soft drinks, desserts and any sugar containing foods, your calorie count on what you do eat is much lower, therefore you will have to eat more of it. If you eat six meals per day, and front load your calories toward the beginning of the day, and exercise like instructed, you can’t help but lose weight, lean up, increase muscle mass, decrease body fat and feel much better.
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November 07, 2011 4:16 pm ET - by Jamison Foser
The Heritage Foundation is excited to find a wealthy CEO of a huge company who thinks the nation's economic problems can only be solved by giving companies like his a tax cut. McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner argues:
The question is, how can we get the ox out of the ditch?" Mr Skinner said. "In order to create jobs in America, you're going to have to cut taxes... particularly in the business community.
"We pay some of the highest [corporate] taxes around the world. There needs to be some levelling."
As a general matter, the extent to which the U.S. has high corporate tax rates is wildly overstated due to differences in statutory and effective tax rates. A new Citizens for Tax Justice/Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy study of taxes paid by 280 of America's largest corporations explains:
While the federal corporate tax code ostensibly requires big corporations to pay a 35 percent corporate income tax rate, on average, the 280 corporations in our study paid only about half that amount. And many paid far less, including a number that paid nothing at all. ... [A] quarter of the companies in our study paid effective federal tax rates on their U.S. profits of less than 10 percent.
McDonald's, though, actually does pay relatively high taxes on U.S. profits. From 2008-2010, the fast food company paid an effective federal corporate income tax rate of 31.3 percent, one of the highest rates paid among the 280 companies included in the study. Its effective U.S. tax rate was ten percentage points higher than its foreign tax rate — again, one of the highest in the study.
So is the company's relatively high effective tax rate a crushing burden that threatens to drive an iconic American success story out of business? Not exactly. Over the three years in question, McDonald's enjoyed U.S. profits of nearly $8 billion. Profits have increased in recent years, and the company's stock price has soared 122 percent over the past five years:
The McRib remains inexplicably popular, sales are up, and McDonald's is hiring:
As the leader of a remarkable turnaround at McDonald's, Skinner's comments will resonate across the country. His company is one of only a few big US employers still hiring in significant numbers, with more than 500,000 staff on its domestic payroll.
McDonald's has just delivered 100 consecutive months of same-store sales growth. It is ranked number one in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for total shareholder return over the past five years, with the share price rising from $12 in 2003 to $93 today.
Things are going so well for McDonald's, it was able to pay Skinner $17.5 million in 2009.
So, no, its relatively high effective tax rate doesn't seem to be much of a hardship for McDonald's. Sure, the company would like to pay a lower tax rate and keep even more money — but that doesn't mean it can't afford to keep the doors open, or hire new employees, or pay its CEO $17 million.
On the other hand, new Census data shows there are 49 million Americans — 16 percent of the country — living in poverty. Persistent high unemployment and stagnant wages for most of those who do have jobs leave millions more struggling to keep their heads above water.
Skinner is right about one thing: "There needs to be some levelling" — but not in favor of multi-billion dollar companies and their millionaire CEOs. They're doing quite nicely already.
Copyright © 2010 Media Matters Action Network. All rights reserved.
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Small islands battle climate change
07 July 2008 | Audio
A top level summit on strategies to counter climate change and biodiversity loss in EU overseas entities and Small Island States is underway in Reunion Island (7-11 July).
The conference is an event of the French Presidency of the European Union, and brings together governments from the EU and Small Island Developing States, as well as international and regional organizations, research institutes, civil society and the private sector.
Organized by IUCN, Head of Delegation Tamás Marghescu, tells us what’s been going on.
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Discount carriers invade New York
By Marilyn Adams, USA TODAY
For 25 years, Cleveland-based manager Chuck Zirkle flew Continental Airlines (CAL)
to New York's LaGuardia Airport. High fares came with the territory. It was, after all, New York.
But when he had to go home recently during a long stay in New York, Zirkle jilted Continental for AirTran (AAI). The discounter took him to Akron, not Cleveland, adding 90 minutes to his Ohio drive time. But it saved him almost $900 on his plane ticket.
The world's largest air-travel market, New York has emerged as the USA's biggest battleground in the war between discount airlines and powerful Old Guard carriers that have long dominated the area's three big airports: John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty in New Jersey. Like Zirkle, a growing number of travelers are choosing low-fare carriers to slash ticket costs, sometimes sacrificing convenience.
At stake is $14 billion in annual revenue and control of some of the nation's busiest air routes. Giants like American (AMR) and Delta (DAL) are pulling out all stops to fight back with low fares of their own and flier perks. After posting huge losses the past two years, they can't afford to lose New York.
There's also striking symbolism in what's unfolding. Venerable American Airlines, now based in Texas, once called New York home. The now-defunct Trans World Airways and Pan Am, worldwide brands, were once based in New York. The former Pan Am building is a Manhattan landmark.
Today, discounter JetBlue (JBLU) is the hometown airline. Its phenomenal growth at JFK and gains by other low-cost carriers at LaGuardia are serious threats to the traditional airlines.
Nearly 1 in 4 domestic passengers flying from New York's major airports uses a low-fare carrier, and the number is rising. JetBlue is expanding; discount carriers planned by Atlantic Coast Airlines in Washington, D.C., and Virgin USA, part of Richard Branson's empire, want into New York. As US Airways' post-bankruptcy situation grows more precarious, competitors are circling, hoping a sale or liquidation lets them acquire some of US Airways' gates and takeoff rights at LaGuardia.
The increase in low-fare flights "is great for economic development, for families, for tourism," says New York-based airline consultant David Treitel. For Old Guard airlines that have relied on New York's historically high fares, "It's not so great."
How the New York competition plays out will depend largely on the choices of travelers like Mark Medoff. A New York-based design consultant, Medoff says JetBlue is the only carrier with cheap, last-minute fares to his destinations. But he has seen JetBlue's growing pains.
Medoff says he typically waits an hour or more to check in at JetBlue. But, he says, "I'm glad it exists. We need it to force the big guys to change."
Other travelers refuse to put up with the limitations of low-fare carriers. New Yorker Tim Hurley once flew JetBlue to Seattle but won't do it again. He'll pay extra for a seat with legroom on American. The 6-foot-1 management consultant says legroom "is an issue for me. JetBlue's TV was good, but several hours crammed in that little space wasn't my cup of tea."
Low-fare airlines' share of domestic passengers at all three New York airports was 22% in the July-September quarter of 2003, vs. 7% during that period in 1999, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Department of Transportation data. The market share of traditional airlines like American, Continental and Delta dropped to 72% from 87% in the same four years.
New York passenger traffic this year is forecast to be 5% less than in 2000, the last full year before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But it's recovering. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the area's airports, expects 88 million passengers to use the three major airports this year, a 4% rise from last year. At JFK, where JetBlue operates 90 departures daily, domestic traffic jumped about 14% last year, the Port Authority says.
"New York already is the biggest origination and destination air market in the world," says Bill DeCota, the Port Authority's aviation director. "The level of traffic expands dramatically with low-fare competition. Suddenly we have a market that's even bigger than we thought it was."
What's evolving in New York is an airport-by-airport phenomenon: JFK has been transformed by low-fare flights, and LaGuardia is seeing growth in discount service. Newark has been relatively immune.
Transformation at JFK
At JFK, the area's third-busiest airport, the shift in four years has been extraordinary. Low-fare carriers, led by JetBlue, account for more than half of Kennedy's domestic market share.
In February 2000, JetBlue was a start-up with a funny name, a TV screen at every seat and blue-colored snacks. Today, it has surpassed American, the world's biggest carrier, as JFK's leading airline.
Now, JetBlue wants to expand. A proposed terminal calls for a 51-gate, 1.5-million-square-foot facility at JFK that would allow it to nearly triple its flights.
Elsewhere at JFK, Delta, an established New York player, is eyeing the upstart competition. Delta is adding flights and spending $300 million to renovate terminals, roadways, the baggage system and access to trains. Delta's low-fare newcomer, Song, flies from the three major New York airports to leisure destinations. It's struggling to fill planes, however, and an expansion planned for this year is on hold.
"There's a bit of a battle for Kennedy," says JetBlue CEO David Neeleman.
Delta Executive Vice President Vicki Escarra insists the JFK project has nothing to do with JetBlue. Delta had expansion plans before the terrorism of Sept. 11 delayed them, she says.
Escarra says Delta has identified two cities for growth: Atlanta, Delta's home city, and New York, where the airline has operated for more than 50 years.
Meanwhile, American Airlines, which had dominated JFK, is working on a $1.3 billion terminal replacement at the airport that will provide 36 gates, up from 22. Portions will open next year.
Interest in LaGuardia
Airlines prize LaGuardia, the region's busiest airport and the USA's physically smallest major airport. There, low-fare airlines' share of domestic passengers has risen to 14% in four years. Whether it continues to expand depends on two main factors: whether US Airways is forced to sell its takeoff rights and gates there and what the Federal Aviation Administration does when the law setting flight limitations at LaGuardia expires in 2007.
Since the 1960s, LaGuardia has been "slot-controlled," meaning that for safety reasons, the government limits takeoffs and landings. As a result, fares have been among the highest in the country. The FAA might implement a similar system in 2007 to ward off gridlock, but discount carriers might get a chance at a stronger foothold, too.
LaGuardia has a contingent of low-fare airlines: ATA, AirTran, Frontier and Spirit. JetBlue will begin operating five departures a day. Like the other discounters, JetBlue got its LaGuardia takeoff slots under a law to promote competition.
If US Airways sells some LaGuardia slots and gates to raise cash, other airlines are expected to fight over them. US Airways already has taken bids from several airlines while it mulls its options for improving its finances.
Non-issue in Newark
Only Newark, the region's second-busiest airport, has been little affected by low-fare competition.
Newark passengers last year paid 22% more on average than they would have for comparable tickets from another airport, government data show.
But for more fliers, paying a premium for New York travel is out of the question. David Tuthill, a student from Fort Lauderdale who attends college in New York, doesn't check fares on the big airlines anymore. He flies Florida-based Spirit to LaGuardia.
"I have flown different airlines, and the difference in service isn't large enough for me not to consider prices," he says. "LaGuardia has to have these airlines. It's a no-brainer."
Contributing: Patrick Conti in New York
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What if we could save enough energy to effectively close 250 large coal-fired power plants and save the need for $210 billion in investment?
What if we could bring about a reduction in CO2 emissions each year equivalent to the emissions of 122 million mid-sized cars?
These seemingly unattainable goals could actually be achievable through the use of more efficient lighting according to a report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and the Global Environment Facility, in conjunction with the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Overall, the report, which was based on 150 national assessments and a new global policy map on efficient lighting, found that a transition to efficient lighting would reduce global electricity consumption by five per cent, resulting in worldwide savings of over $US110 billion.
Significantly, the report’s authors claim that in some cases, the assessments show that the financial savings and climate change mitigation benefits achieved by phasing out incandescent lighting in developing and middle-income countries are much more significant than previous studies suggested.
It says the yearly electricity savings brought about by the phasing out of incandescent lighting would be equivalent to closing over 250 large coal-fired power plants, resulting in avoided investment costs of approximately US$ 210 billion. Additionally, the 490 megatonnes (Mt) of CO2 savings per year the report’s authors say could be achieved is equivalent to the emissions of more than 122 million mid-sized cars.
India alone, the report says, could cut lighting electricity consumption by over 35 per cent – the equivalent of reducing the need for 11 large coal-fired power plants and taking over 10 million cars off the road.
“One of the most cost-effective ways to contribute to the reduction of global carbon emissions is the phase-out of inefficient lighting technologies,” said UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP executive director Achim Steiner. “Increasing numbers of countries are now achieving major financial savings, generating green jobs, and seeing reductions in mercury, sulphur dioxide, and other pollutants from power stations, through a switch to efficient lighting.”
The report says LED technology, which does not contain any mercury and lasts up to 10 times longer than their CFL counterparts, represent an enormous area of opportunity.
It says that although LED lamps are currently expensive for consumers, bulk procurement by governments, tax incentives and subsidies are making them a viable alternative.
The report’s key findings are as follows:
- Electricity for lighting accounts for almost 20 per cent of electricity consumption and six per cent of CO2 emissions worldwide.
- According to the IEA, approximately three per cent of global oil demand can be attributed to lighting.
- The global demand for artificial light will be 60 per cent higher by 2030 if no switch to efficient lighting occurs.
- Incandescent lamps have already been phased-out, or are scheduled to be phased-out in most OECD countries, Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Mexico, Vietnam and other developing countries.
- If Brazil extends current legislation to include commercial, industrial and street lighting applications, the country could save close to US $ 4 billion and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an amount equivalent to 400,000 cars being removed from the road.
- The complete transition to efficient lighting in all sectors throughout Africa could reduce electrical demand enough to electrify over 14 million currently un-serviced households.
- Up to 95 per cent of the energy emitted by incandescent lamps is heat, and their efficiency is low. In comparison, incandescent bulbs last around 1,000 hours which is significantly shorter than compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) which can last up to 12,000 hours.
- Like all fluorescent lamps, CFLs contain small amounts of mercury, which complicates their disposal.
- Some countries, such as Nigeria and China, are leapfrogging directly to light emitting diodes (LEDs) from incandescent lamps. LEDs do not contain mercury and have other advantages such as long life and low heat generation.
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A list of examples that demonstrate the various ways jNetPcap SDK is used.
jNetPcap follows very similar programming paradigm as the native libpcap library. In most cases you will need to follow similar steps in getting ready to use the jNetPcap functionality. First, you will need to acquire a list of available network interfaces for working with the live network (see
Pcap.findAllDevs()). Second, you will need to use one of the static open calls found in the Pcap class (see
Pcap.openXXXX()). Third, after the open call succeeds, do something through the return Pcap class instance such as read packets, write packets or acquire some information about the network interface (see
Pcap.sendPacket(), Pcap.loop(), Pcap.dispatch().)
The most common way of receiving packets is to use
Pcap.dispatch() to which you supply a handler, a call back function, that will receive all the incoming packets. The call back function then does the programs logic. In more complex and advanced programs the handler puts the incoming packets on a queue shared with another thread, that awaits for the queue to have some packets. It then retrieves those packets and does something with them.
Here are several examples and code samples that present various features and usage of jNetPcap SDK.
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- Back Supports
- Home Seating
Almost all of the causes of back pain - including poor posture, spine misalignment and weak back muscles - can be attributed to the natural force that gravity puts on your body. Inversion therapy will reverse gravity's effects to work for you by allowing you to hang upside down. Instead of crunching your spine, inversion allows your body to work with the downward force of gravity, which will increase the space between your vertebrae and relieve pressure on the areas in your back that are in pain, such as the discs, ligaments and nerve roots.
Your spine is vital to your health as all communication between your brain and your body occur through nerve endings that pass through its vertebrae. Insufficient distance between these vertebrae can cause pressure on these nerve endings which causes back pain. Inversion therapy has been proven to lengthen the space between these vertebrae each session to eliminate the pain that this pressure may cause.
Sitting for a prolonged period of time and slouching while seated takes the spine out of its natural alignment and causes discomfort and pain in all areas of the back. During inversion therapy, the downwards gravitational force allows your body to comfortably reconfigure into its natural s-curve shape. This realignment also reduces the pain that comes from siting in an office chair all day.
Inversion therapy has been shown to improve circulation throughout the body. The human heart generally has to work against the forces of gravity to retrieve blood from the legs and lower torso. The inversion process eases the stress on your heart during this process, leading to many long term aesthetic benefits such as healthier looking features.
The average human body shrinks as it reaches an advanced age due to shrinking discs within the body. This shrinking can range from marginal shortening to a couple of inches. Fortunately, inversion therapy helps maintain the health of these discs which allows individuals to maintain more of their original height.
The ease of circulation during inversion therapy also helps rid the body of varicose veins. These veins can cause pain and look unattractive due to the pressure of pooling blood on the veins. Hanging upside down on an inversion table gives the heart gravity's assistance to pull the pooling blood out of the veins and circulate in throughout the body. The elimination of this pooling blood will help ease the pain and get rid of these unsightly veins.
Inversion therapy is not a high stress exercise, however it is known to have similar and even greater mental benefits then exercises such as weight lifting and running. Just as with those other exercises, endorphins that help reduce pain and cause a feeling of elation are released during inversion therapy. The release of these endorphins, along with the relaxing feeling of inversion therapy combine to help you feel happier and relieve stress.
The relaxation and recharging benefits from using an inversion table can help nullify the feelings of depression as well. In March of 2007, Rosie O'Donnell helped familiarize many people with this means of dealing with depression as she said helped get over her depression by using inversion therapy along with antidepressants.
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and that through his temptations many perish; he is thy creature, Lord, whom thou didst create; therefore, Lord, have mercy upon him."
'God answered: "Jesus, behold I will pardon him. Only cause him to say, 'Lord, my God, I have sinned, have mercy upon me,' and I will pardon him and restore him to his first
'I rejoiced greatly. said Jesus, 'when I heard this, believing that I had made this peace. Therefore I called Satan, who came saying: What must I do for thee, O Jesus?"
I answered: "Thou shalt do it for thyself, O Satan, for I love not thy services, but for thy good have I called thee."
'Satan replied: "If thou desires" not my services, neither desire I thine; for I am nobler than thou, therefore thou art worthy to serve me-thou who art clay, while I am spirit."
'Let us leave this,' I said, 'and tell me if it were not well thou shouldst return to thy first beauty and thy first state. Thou must know that the angel Michael must needs on the day of judgment strike thee with the sword of God one hundred thousand times, and each blow will give thee the pain of ten hells.'
'Satan replied: "We shall see in that day who can do most; certainly I shall have on my side many angels and most potent idolaters who will trouble God, and he shall know how great mistake he made to banish me for the sake of a vile [piece of] clay."
Then I said: "O Satan, thou art infirm in mind, and knowest not what thou sayest."
Then Satan, in a derisive manner, wagged his head, saying: come now, let us make up this peace between me and God; and what must be done say thou, O Jesus, since thou art sound in mind "
I answered: "Two words only need be spoken."
Satan replied: "What words?"
I answered "These: I have sinned: have mercy on me."
'Said Satan then: Now willingly will I make this peace if God will say these words to me."
' "Now depart from me," I said, "O cursed one for thou art the wicked author of all injustice and sin, but God is just and without any sin.'
'Satan departed shrieking, and said: "It is not so, O Jesus, but thou tellest a lie to please God.'
'Now consider,' said Jesus to his disciples, 'how he will find mercy.'
They answered: 'Never, Lord, because he is impenitent. Speak to us now of the judgment of God.'
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To show her support for American workers, President Obama's labor secretary, Hilda Solis, has junked the standard black limo and purchased a new Chevrolet Equinox to ride around Washington in. The problem: the crossover SUV is built and assembled in Canada from parts also made in Canada.
Solis proudly arrived at a media breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor today in the shiny silver vehicle, which she has dubbed the "bullet." She was asked about why she traded the standard-issue limo for the SUV. "What better example could I set if I encouraged my staff to go and purchase and seek how we could acquire a vehicle that would for me would send a signal that we're for supporting our American workers, American-made products, fuel efficient as well," she told the Monitor's Dave Cook, who provided this video of her answer.
Solis added that she was inspired to buy the Chevy because of the pride she saw in American auto workers during trips to U.S. car and truck plants. She said that she was wowed by "the pride that they take making our automobiles here in America."
A company official noted that the profits do come back to the United States.
Solis did note that the Equinox, which she's driven once, is a nice ride. "It drives well. It's a good family car. Its not too big and I think women really like it."
Update: When Whispers notified her office that her “American-made” car was actually Canadian, Labor spokesman Carl Fillichio said, “Modern automobile manufacturing is a global industry and General Motors is a company whose reach extends far beyond the boundaries of the United States. Cars assembled here in the U.S. are made from globally sourced parts, just as cars assembled in other countries utilize parts made in America. Not only is the Equinox the second fastest selling SUV in America—a good sign for the overall health of the U.S. auto industry—66 percent of its parts were made in America. That’s up from about 50 percent just a few years ago.”
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Hot Jobs Will Make Cool City
GRAND RAPIDS — Although the breakfast forum didn’t come to a complete consensus on what a cool city actually is, the event did give two state representatives a chance to say what they felt would make a city the coolest of the cool.
“Good-paying jobs with good benefits will keep people here,” said Michael Sak, who represents the 76th district as a Democrat, in addressing the state’s loss of young workers
“We need to create high-wage jobs,” said Jerry Kooiman, a 75th District Republican.
Sak added that Lansing doesn’t need to pass more regulations that could tie a city’s hands as it tries to become cool. Instead of new laws, he felt diversity, tolerance and understanding would bring people together to make their city cool.
“I’m not so sure that a bunch of legislators can legislate cool,” said Sak.
Kooiman said focusing on entertainment districts, which have been held to be a crucial part of a cool city, can distract from job creation. He felt the Life Sciences Corridor, if done properly, could give a city the jobs it needs to be cool.
But he noted that Wisconsin has come up with $135 million to draw those types of jobs to the Badger state, while Michigan struggles to raise $35 million for the same effort.
“I think we’re forgetting to focus on the main ingredient: jobs,” said Kooiman.
Sak and Kooiman were part of a seven-member panel that discussed the Cool Cities Pilot Program, an initiative unveiled by Gov. Jennifer Granholm in April. The American Institute of Architects-Grand Valley Chapter (AIAGV) held the recent event at the WMU Graduate Center on Ionia Avenue.
Also on the forum panel were Robert Johnson of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth, who heads the pilot program; Charlene Crowell, a policy specialist with the Michigan Land Use Institute; Bryan Gruesbeck, Greenville assistant city manager; David Pasquale, Lowell city manager; and GR Economic Development Director Susan Shannon.
Wayne Norlin, a partner at Design Plus Inc. and AIAGV director of government affairs, said a Cool Cities discussion was a natural topic for the chapter because it tied in with the issues of sustainability and livable communities, two areas that were featured at past forums.
Norlin said improving cities not only helps to slow suburban sprawl, it also helps to retain and attract young professionals, who Cool Cities advocates call the creative class, a term coined by Richard Florida in his book, “The Rise of the Creative Class.” He added that these young, educated and mobile workers normally decide where they want to plant roots before they turn 30, and most never leave that place once they make that decision.
Ted Lott, a partner at Lott3-Metz Architecture, liked the governor’s initiative because it squarely placed attention on urban centers, something he felt state and federal governments hadn’t done for a very long time.
“As far as the terminology goes and the parsing of the issues — and, in my opinion, a lot of the splitting of hairs over political reasons — I don’t think we can expect too much from this. However, it’s great to have these things discussed; it’s great to have it in the lexicon again,” said Lott.
“These are heady times for designers when we have elected officials concerned about the urban environment, and it’s kind of up to us to take advantage of it,” he added.
Greg Metz, Lott’s partner in the architectural firm, also was pleased that cities were back on the agenda, and he hopes that all the talk turns out to be more than just rhetoric.
“Where the architects can come in is, we can then begin to influence zoning and density, the actual makeup of the neighborhoods. Legislatively, they can dictate certain things; maybe they might do a Band-Aid. But they can open doors for us to create this identity and build up this city,” said Metz.
“Jennifer Granholm, God love her, has started the ball rolling,” he added, “and now it’s our job to apply it — to give it that look, that feel.”
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