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The rental car takes to us ......The Asian Asia is born in April 16, 2007, already 3 year old of 2 month 23 were today hugeTraces the Asian Asia with rental car's fate to be born the second day, left the hospital at that time goes home, the Asian Asia first time rides the rental car, trans-regional big motion. The pass first month after childbirth returns to one's old home, afterward the Asian Asia went out goes by car rents a car, we did not have the vehicle, the family was far to grandmother, therefore each time was rental car riding instead of walking. Now the Asian Asia even more likes the rental car, also has the reason which becomes a buddhist get to know early.Because our rental car is the red olivine interaction color, compared with attracts attention, therefore the Asian Asia the rental car is very always outstanding in the understanding automobile in kind, no wonder the Asian Asia many times roars: I most liked the rental car!Near section time weather was sultry, finishes eating the food to come out to take a stroll, I with the Asian Asia to the lively road nearby, the Asian Asia look in advance the distant place the rental car asked: Mother, hires on the front to have the lamp, you see?Mother: Yes, just saw, before mother has not paid attention really.Actually, many things we have become accustomed to,keep baby socks
, does not need to consider again may achieve, as soon as for instance this rental car, the incoming vehicle looks at the red candle, the hint stops, this is the very natural matter, also did not need to consider. But the child is different, she does not have such experience, she feels is very novel, moreover she has the going by car experience, but in the time also to not necessarily note, because had any lamp we only then to board brightly,handmade baby gift ideas
, therefore theory in child's brains, practice in daily experience.Asian Asia: The green light, has the human. Red candle, nobody!Her `discovered that ' this rule, has then confirmed that if, this explained mistakenly her observation is not very careful.Mother: Good, then we have a look is the rental car such which looked like you saying that good?Asian Asia: Good, has come one, the green light, inside has the human. Another, red candle, nobody ......Looked at ten several so repeatedly, is good, this explained that this `discovered ' is correct.Actually paternal grandmother before has said to the Asian Asia, on the rental car the red candle green light represents anything, today is the first time opened mind, she confirmed with her eye paternal grandmother said that this such `discovery ' compared to having a liking for N picture-book to need to remember the jail, records steady!Asian Asia: Mother, the traffic light is also such color, that is the red candle stops, the street light walks, is dissimilar with this?Mother: That is an indicating lamp, not has police uncle's there, how does the nursery song sing.Asian Asia: The big street, extends widely. Among police uncle stands. The red candle is bright, and so on one and so on. The green light is bright, invites your line!Mother: Right, when do these traffic lights instruct us to be possible the street, when can't.Asian Asia: Leaves travels is only then good, on the path you see the favorite, green person?Mother: Saw, this is you who daddy reminds?Asian Asia: Yes,tippy toes baby socks
, the favorite cannot walk, the green person can walk, you might record ......Comes back time mentions Asian Asia's this `with daddy to discover ', daddy intentionally makes things hard for somebody: The green light, does nobody, how the vehicle walk?Asian Asia: Has the driver, hasn't driver who driven!In order to have formed street's good habit, on road frequent reminder, now the Asian Asia became the supervisor, if who didn't walk according to the traffic regulations, the Asian Asia certainly will question. Outside I do not arrange in order, that time arrived at the middle red candle to shine, the Asian Asia said: You are the flour gruel (blurry meaning) the maid, how to straighten out! , I have to admit mistakes, otherwise a severer question will also pound on my!This time stretches across three domains about rental car's traffic light in the Asian Asia impression, had three kind of different understanding. Really not worthy of mentioning,（Related Articlesmoney Yu Yi
）, was these not worthy of mentioning things has developed her cognitive domain, let her know that were more thing which she did not know ......
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Revision as of 13:59, October 18, 2008Ukrainian Orthodox cathedral in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Bathurst Street just to the east of Kensington Market.
The majority of the first Ukrainian immigrants to Canada were Eastern Rite believers, with only a small fraction belonging to the Eastern Orthodox faith. This changed with later waves of immigration that saw more people coming from the Orthodox east. The first Ukrainian Orthodox Divine Liturgy in Toronto was celebrated in 1926.1 For several years the church members met in rented halls and in churches of other denominations. The land on Bathurst was purchased in 1935, work on the church building began in 1946, and it was completed two years later. St. Volodymyr's became a cathedral in 1951 with the coming of its first bishop.
St. Volodymyr's architecture is in the standard Byzantine style used throughout Ukraine.
The bishops who have had their cathedral seat in Toronto include:
- His Beatitude, Metropolitan Michael, served 1951-1977;
- His Eminence, Archbishop Mykola (Nicholas), 1977-1981;
- His Beatitude, Metropolitan Wasyly, 1981-1985 (actually resided in Winnipeg due to the ailing health of His Beatitude Metropolitan Andrew);
- His Eminence, Archbishop Yurij, current bishop (1995-present). (Abp. Yurij lives and serves Toronto and the East but remains bishop of Saskatoon in name due to the Greek Metropolis (also united with Constantinople) having their headquarters in Toronto. The issue has yet to be fixed.).
- 1 "The Ukrainian Community in Toronto from World War One to 1971" by Andrew Gregorovich. From: Polyphony, Summer 1984, pp. 123-126. © 1984 Multicultural History Society of Ontario
- Listing at the site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
- "The Eastern Eparchy of the UOCC: (A Brief Historical Outline)" by Fr. Tymofiy Minenko
- A History of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada, with the dates of the above bishops
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If you’re serving as an advocate for a parent moving to a nursing home, your first responsibility arrives even before your parent relocates. It’s vital to proactively research and personally visit the facilities in your area. Once you’ve chosen your best option and your parent is settled in, be sure to get to know the staff and let them know you will be serving in the role as your parent’s advocate. However, problems can arise no matter how thoroughly your research has been.
What to look for:
Here’s a quick, simple checklist of major signs that could indicate your loved one is receiving poor treatment:
- Stiffening muscles
- Physical restraints
- Chemical restraints (drugs)
5 steps to take if you suspect mistreatment:
Incidents of serious abuse should be reported immediately by calling a toll-free elder abuse hotline, the police or the state department of aging. However, if you’re simply trying to address quality of treatment, try these five steps.
Step 1: Speak individually with the caretaker whom you think may be involved. Be open and friendly to their perspective, rather than accusatory or angry. Keep the focus of your conversation on finding a solution together.
Step 2: Find out when the facility’s next care-planning meeting or family-council meeting is scheduled and attend to raise your concerns.
Step 3: If your issues are not being adequately addressed, talk with a supervisor. Remember to convey specifics about any incidents, including times, dates and other pertinent information. If you are worried that making the complaint may result in retaliation against your parents, be sure to make these concerns known.
Step 4: If you’re still getting nowhere, file a written complaint with the facility. Every nursing home is required to follow a formal grievance process, so find out what time frame you should expect for a response.
Step 5: If the problem continues, consider contacting the long-term care ombudsman in your area, who can be found through your state agency on aging, the National Long Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center or other sources. You can also file a complaint with the state survey agency that licenses nursing homes, which is often overseen by the state’s department of health.
Remember your rights:
As you work to resolve treatment problems, keep in mind that the Nursing Home Resident’s Bill of Rights is codified in state and federal laws to protect seniors’ dignity and self-determination. The list guarantees:
- The right to be fully informed of services, charges and rules.
- The right to know the address and telephone number of the state ombudsman and state survey agency.
- The right to receive information in a language she understands.
- The right to present grievances without fear of reprisal.
- The right to complain to the ombudsman or state survey agency.
- The right to adequate care.
- The right to refuse physical and chemical restraints.
- The right to private communications, treatment and personal care.
- The right to be treated with consideration, respect and dignity.
- The right to visits by relatives, friends and physicians, and the right to refuse such visits.
- The right to make independent choices.
Planning for early retirement and potential long-term care needs is among the smartest decisions boomer women can make.
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NEW HAVEN—In the 1830s and 1840s, Charlotte Cowles had an extraordinary front-row seat to the abolitionist movement in Connecticut and the lives of the African captives of the slave ship Amistad who won their freedom in a historic legal battle.
Cowles, whose abolitionist family took in one of the former Amistad captives, penned letters describing a woman who was burned on her shoulder with a red-hot pipe in Africa. The letters also address the deep divisions in her town over slavery.
"The whole collection is such a rich collection in that it gives us kind of a really penetrating glimpse in a small town in Connecticut during this time period and how broader themes like abolition, anti-slavery, kind of resonate in the community," said Richard Malley, head of research and collections for the Connecticut Historical Society.
The historical society, based in Hartford, bought the letters this week for $66,000 at an auction in New York. The collection of 94 letters written between 1833 and 1846 will be made available for the public to see.
In 1839, more than 50 African captives en route to Cuba on the Amistad schooner rebelled and took over the ship. After landing on Long Island, they were captured and jailed in New Haven.
They won their freedom in a case that started in Connecticut and ended in the U.S. Supreme Court. Former President John Quincy Adams represented them.—Associated Press
A version of this article appeared March 22, 2013, on page A18 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Abolition Data Bought.
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For those not familiar with heating by microwave, a brief explanation is in order. Food is placed in an oven cavity and heated by molecular agitation. When exposed to microwave energy the water molecules in the food try to aline themselves with the rapidly time-varying electromagnetic field. The water molecules oscillate at 2 450 000 000 cps. The oscillating molecules rub against each other and heat is generated by this intermolecular friction. Heat transfer by convection and/or conduction is a secondary process which occurs after the outer surface of the food has been exposed to the microwave excitation. For maximum speed in cooking with microwaves it is desirable to heat the product from all six sides. Materials such as glass, paper, plastics, and ceramics are used to package the food product since they allow microwave energy to pass through them with no retardation. All types of food in any state of preservation (fresh, refrigerated, or frozen) can be used provided that they are properly prepared. The microwave oven does not perform magic; the product turned out of the oven is only as good as the product put in. However, because of the speed with which the oven heats, few detrimental effects occur and the product may have better appearance, quality, and nutritional value.
In the summer of 1963 Litton Industries was approached by a major airline to undertake the development of a microwave oven for the in-flight preparation of meals. As with many new concepts, an incubation period was necessary between initial conception and a working unit. In April 1965 the first flight test of a prototype oven was conducted jointly by the airline, Litton, and the FAA.
This first Litton airborne unit was designated the T-20 model. It was a single magnetron oven, weighing 86 lb, operating at 2450 Mc, and providing approximately 1200 W of power in the oven cavity. The T-20 design utilized many of the commercial state-of-the-art concepts prevalent at the time but used 400-cycle components.
With most revolutionary concepts two design approaches may be taken; one is to make it as simple as possible and add on only when necessary, whereas the other is to provide as many systems as possible within the given space envelope and extract them after new and less complicated solutions are available. The nature of the T-20 microwave oven dictated following the later approach. Therefore, the design incorporated sensing devices to ensure complete protection against any possible RF interference. A sophisticated mechanism was devised which raised and lowered as well as rotated the food product. Although from an operational standpoint this conservative approach was less than successful, we cannot discount the impact this design and the operational flight tests made on the state of the art of airborne microwave ovens. Both the airline and Litton take credit for pioneering a concept which will be '~e forerunner of a valuable tool for in-flight feeding in the age of the Jumbo jets and supersonic transports.
After a complete review of the in-flight tests which included both domestic and transAtlantic flights, the design underwent a series of changes which culminated in the specifications for the present Model E-30. The feeding objectives included the boarding of only frozen prepared foods to be heated to order. This plan allowed foods to be returned to inventory if not used and ideally would make it possible to feed a passenger in less than 2 min.
The E-30 airline microwave oven is a double magnetron unit weighing 110 lb, operating at 2450 Mc, and providing approximately 2400 W of power in the enlarged oven cavity. The new concept deleted a number of the original requirements and concentrated on simplicity, reliability, serviceability, and reduced weight while it retained an acceptable heating pattern for the food products to be used in night. The cavity was enlarged to permit handling of greater quantities. Advancement in the general state of the art of all types of microwave ovens and the old cliche that "necessity is the mother of invention" explain the drastic changes that took place in the evolution of the E-30 sensing devices.
A primary concern during the initial T-20 development had been the effect of RF leakage from the oven on the many navigational and communication systems of the aircraft. No interference was detected at any time during the FAA - observed flight tests or the operational flight-test program. The T-20 had both a no-load sensor and a door-seal sensor which were programmed to shut off the heating cycle in the event that there was no load in the oven or that the leakage from the door exceeded a given level. Both these devices were extremely sensitive and required intricate electronic circuitry which resulted in nuisance shutoffs during operation and increased the cost of the equipment. A light load such as a Danish roll lacked sufficient density to prevent the no-load sensor from actuating. Accumulated moisture running down the front of the oven over the seal was sufficient to actuate the door-seal sensor.
New advances in the state of the art brought inexpensive and reliable solutions to both problems. A lossy glass or ceramic shelf now serves as a medium which can absorb the microwave energy, thus negating the requirement for a no-load sensor. The glass or ceramic is not too lossy to permit bottom heating of the food product; thus no extensive detrimental effect on the cooking pattern occurs. The shelves are capable of absorbing the energy for periods of time exceeding the maximum setting of the timer.
The success of seal-plate and choke-type doors in over 25 000 commercial applications has virtually eliminated the necessity for a door-seal sensor. Simplicity in design has provided adequate protection and reliability at reduced initial and sustaining cost. The E-30 oven which has a seal-plate-type door was tested before and after 30 days of flight testing and no leakage even close to allowables established by reference 1 was measured.
One of the major problems facing microwave oven designers is directing the waves uniformly to the food product. Since the heating is by direct interception of the RF waves and not by conduction or convection, hot and cold spots can occur. Some early designers utilized the rotatingshelf concept to balance the exposed food product to the energy. Other concepts broke up the direction of the waveforms by putting stirrers in the feedbox or waveguide. The T-20 utilized both approaches. The result was a near-perfect heating pattern for nearly all types of food products regardless of their geometric configuration or their density. However, the complexity and reliability of the mechanical system required to provide this optimum heating pattern were not compatible with the aircraft environment. Therefore, only the stirrer concept is used in the present E-30. The approach has been quite successful and it is possible to obtain a uniform heating pattern over a 1 1/2 -sq-ft area.
The primary and most dramatic improvement in the E-30 design is in weight reduction. New components and new electric concepts permitted a 30-percent reduction in weight. The new components also improved reliability and permitted use of modular construction techniques which improve serviceability.
The magnetron used in the T-20 was of an electromagnet type and weighed 13 lb. It was prone to filament failures, especially in the shock and vibration environment of an aircraft. The new L-5181 tubes have permanent magnets and weigh 6. 5 lb. New construction techniques make it possible to fabricate a magnetron which can withstand shock and vibration and provide 4000 to 5000 hr of operation.
A plate transformer is required to raise the input voltage from 200 to 3500 V and to protect the magnetrons from transient voltages present in the aircraft electric system. New design techniques and new high-temperature epoxies have been instrumental in reducing the weight by 50 percent. The transformer in the Model E-30 weighs 13 lb. The original T-20 transformer weighed 26 lb.
The E-30 concept was reduced to practice in early 1968 and underwent an in-flight evaluation during the summer of 1968. Results of these flights were very encouraging. No serious operation or technical problems were encountered. The feeding objectives were achieved, and several airlines are currently designing in-flight feeding systems which include a Litton E-30 microwave oven as an integral part. Litton is engaged in a full-scale marketing effort for both new aircraft installations and older aircraft retrofits.
Two other programs influenced to a large extent the state of the art of airborne microwave ovens. The first was the development of the E-31 oven. The E-31 is a single-magnetron oven operating at 2450 Mc providing approximately 1100 W to the oven cavity. It weighs 82 lb and has a volume of 4.3 cu ft. The E-31 was developed specifically for the presidential fleet and is a 400 cycle version of a standard commercial model. These ovens have been in operation for 14 months The success of this equipment has demonstrated the ability of the electric components to withstand the aircraft shock and vibration environment.
The Speed oven is a large-cavity, 4-magnetron, 400-cycle oven developed for an advanced concept of a U. S. Army field kitchen. It is designed to feed 200 men or to supply 5000 men with bakery products. The ovens used in the Speed kitchens have demonstrated good reliability under actual field operations. At last report the ovens had over 800 hr of operation without magnetron failure.
The state of the art of airborne microwave ovens has improved significantly during the last 6 years. We are now able to provide 22 W/lb of oven, whereas originally we could provide only 14 W/lb. The use of solid-state power supplies could conceivably increase this ratio even more.
The use of microwave ovens for any mode of transportation depends to a large degree on the total feeding system. The type of food, food packaging, food storage, and oven must be compatible. The microwave oven system is superior to more conventional methods for small amounts of food and individual meals. Full power is attained in seconds; no warmup of the oven is required Therefore, the actual high electric power drawn from the vehicle power system is required only during the actual cooking time.
Although cooking by microwave in aircraft is a relatively new development, it has made significant advances in the last few years. The speed, cleanliness, and reliability of the concept make it an ideal system for all forms of transportation.
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LABMF Training DVD
LABMF is pleased to offer our Teen Dating
Violence Workshop on DVD
LABMF began its dating violence workshops for teachers in 2006. Through our workshops, which are approved for professional development contact hours by the Rhode Island Department of Education, we have trained thousands of teachers throughout Rhode Island and Connecticut. In 2007 Rhode Island was the first state to pass a comprehensive dating violence education law known as the Lindsay Ann Burke Act. Since then several other states have passed laws based on Lindsay’s law. The Lindsay Ann Burke Memorial Fund is pleased to present it’s original workshop on DVD to help schools implement these laws. Teachers who are educated and well-trained in dating violence will be able to identify episodes at school, safely help victims, and play an active role in the prevention of dating violence through education in the classroom.
Developed for school staff, this DVD can be used as part of a school-based professional learning community. With minor adaptation, it may also be used to train any group of adults, such as college students, parents, mental health and medical personnel, other professionals, or the public. It is intended for use with adults, as the information contained in this workshop is powerful and can affect people both professionally and personally. This DVD is NOT intended to be used to teach teens.
Cost: $149.00 includes S+H
Introductory offer: $99.00 includes S+H
A copy of your organization’s state sales tax exempt form is needed
Ann Burke, R.N., M.Ed.
Ann has a Master’s Degree in Health Education. She is a retired health teacher who taught school for 26 years, 25 of them for the South Kingstown School Department in Rhode Island She was a school nurse/teacher and taught health full-time for 15 years in South Kingstown at Curtis Corner Middle School.
Member: AAHPERD, RIAHPERD, ASHA, RICSNT
Karen Murphy, M.Ed.
Karen has a Master’s Degree in Health Education. She has been a health and physical education teacher for 26 years, 22 of them for the South Kingstown School Department in Rhode Island. She taught health at Curtis Corner Middle School and presently teaches health at South Kingstown High School.
Member: AAHPERD, RIAHPERD
Additional DVD info:
All handouts for both parts available with purchase of the DVD.
Part 1: 1 hour, six minutes
Audience: school staff including teachers, administrators, assistants, school mental health professionals, school resource officers, school nurses, all teachers who will be teaching this topic to students, or college students, parents, other professionals
Goals of Part 1:
a. increase knowledge and understanding of healthy and unhealthy/abusive dating relationships
b. increase understanding of how to respond to victims
c. increase knowledge of the availability of community resources
Why does this happen to teens?
Goals of teaching dating violence
Types of violence
Cycle of Violence
Healthy and unhealthy relationships
Victimization & effects of dating violence on the victim
Responding to a victim
Referrals within schools
Teens and the law
Steps school can take
Part 2: 32 minutes
Audience: health teachers or any teacher who will be teaching the topic of dating violence in the classroom
Goals of Part 2:*
a. increase knowledge of how to teach teen dating violence
b. increase knowledge of teen dating violence curriculum materials
Overview of teaching teen dating violence within a comprehensive health education curriculum
Scope and Sequence for teaching teen dating violence
Review of current curricula and resources
Adaptation to individual schools and communities
Sponsors: Centerville Bank, West Warwick, RI
“What a landslide of awareness the information created.”
- Mary Caporelli; School Administrator
“The staff is more aware of the implications for our students. They know how to respond appropriately as a result of the training.”
– Michele Humbyrd; Principal
“The strength and knowledge of the presenters filled me with motivation and courage to make a difference in my school and community. In all of my teaching experiences, this was the most effective workshop that I have attended.”
– workshop participant
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– workshop participant
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We’ve finally stepped off the economic roller coaster—we seem to be through with the unexpected, steep drops. Now all that’s left is a lingering motion sickness. Perhaps that’s why we can’t seem to get firmly on our legs and move forward again.
The recession is over—it has been since June 2009. But the recovery has been such a hard slog that it doesn’t feel like much of a recovery at all. Ask the 100,500 Utahns who are still unemployed. And, according to state economists, we can probably expect more of the same: a slow, uneven recovery that may take years to complete.
That doesn’t mean there are no silver linings. Indeed, the economic situation has created sterling opportunities for those with the stomach for new risk.
The Good News
In September, the Salt Lake Chamber’s newly created Utah Economic Council held a roundtable to hash through various economic indicators and come up with a prognosis for the state’s economy. Members of the council have plenty of dire warnings about potential pitfalls—but they also offer a glimmer of hope that the economy does indeed still have a pulse.
“Most of the economic data allow us to be cautiously optimistic. We are certainly past the depths of the recession,” says Juliette Tennert, chief economist for the Utah Governor’s Office. Tennert points to some positive trends, like the fact that new auto sales were up 18 percent during the first half of 2010 compared to the same period last year. And international exports were up almost 45 percent, ranking Utah first among states in export growth for that period.
Members of the council also report that during the same timeframe, personal income rose 1 percent, payroll tax withholdings increased 1.8 percent and most counties saw increased sales tax revenue.
Employment is also on the rebound. According to the latest report from the Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS), Utah added nearly 19,000 jobs during the 12 months leading up to September 2010. During the same period last year, Utah was facing job losses of more than 70,000.
“Job losses got smaller and smaller, and then jobs started coming back,” says Lecia Langston, an economist with DWS. Utah continued to shed jobs through April of this year. And then in May, the economy added 900 jobs over the previous year—a small victory, to be sure, but a trend in the right direction. Since May, employment in Utah has continued to expand rather than contract.
Of course, some sectors are stronger than others. Education and health services—industries Langston calls “recession resistant”—never really lost jobs. These industries continued to grow throughout the recession with the addition of 7,900 jobs in the year leading up to September.
Professional and business services have also gained strength, particularly due to temporary employment services—an indication, notes Langston, that businesses are expanding enough to need additional workers (but still too hesitant to bring on permanent employees).
But it’s not all good news. There are some notable exceptions to the rosy outlook.
A Shaky Foundation
Utah’s construction industry just cannot get off the ground. The industry is still experiencing job losses, although the bleeding has slowed to a trickle. At its peak in 2007, the construction industry employed 109,000 workers. In August of this year, the number was just over 71,000. And the construction sector is not through eliminating jobs: the August year-over-year job count was down by 1,500 positions.
“Because of the irrational exuberance in the market, we were building houses ahead of demand,” says Langston. “What people need to realize is that the peak was artificial…we won’t see construction employment hit 109,000 for a long time.”
The year started out with great promise. New housing starts were up 110 percent during the first quarter, but the summer months saw huge drops after the federal housing credit expired.
“July was just awful,” says James Wood, director of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Utah. “We were like half of what we did in July 2009. So it really got weak.” The state had about 5,200 new housing starts in 2009, and based on the strong first quarter of this year, Wood was hoping for a 50 percent gain overall for 2010. But after the losses in the summer, now Wood is predicting the market will hold steady at 2009 levels.
Those numbers don’t really paint a full picture of just how frail the homebuilding industry has become. In 2005, there were nearly 21,000 new housing starts in Utah. In 2009, just 5,200—a 75 percent decline.
“We’ll be stronger next year than we are this year,” reassures Wood. “We’re getting job growth again. The interest rates are still at phenomenally low levels. And we’ve got some good demographics. It’s just that people are either unwilling or uncertain. They’re waiting for prices to come down. Or they don’t think they’ll qualify, so they stay in their apartment for an extra year.”
Home prices have certainly dropped. According to the Wasatch Front Regional Multiple Listing Service, the median price for a Wasatch Front home was $226,950 in the first quarter of 2007. In the same quarter of 2010, the median price was $209,900.
Wood indicates that prices are on the upswing again, although “one quarter doesn’t make a trend… but I think we’re near the bottom in prices.”
One factor putting pressure on home prices is the record number of foreclosures in the state. Reports from the Mortgage Bankers Association show that there were about 15,000 foreclosures in Utah this year. The rate of new foreclosures is slowing, says Wood, and the numbers should begin to decline next year.
But the large inventory of reduced-price homes on the market makes it difficult for new homebuilders to compete. “The housing prices are going to be very sluggish over the next three or four years. The decline will run itself out here, but we won’t have much in the way of increases over the next three or four years,” predicts Wood.
It’s not all about homes: the commercial construction industry has faced challenges as well. The industry dropped from $1.7 billion in construction to $1 billion in 2009. This year, Wood expects to see only $800 million in commercial construction, which encompasses industrial, retail and office buildings.
“I expect that we’ll have one more year, 2011, where it’ll continue to drift down. So by the time we’re through, we’ll probably see a decline of 65 percent in non-residential construction, which is huge,” Wood says.
One big bright spot has been new governmental and education construction, which are not counted as commercial construction. With an influx of federal spending, construction firms were kept busy with roads, as well as buildings on most of the state college campuses.
Wood also points to the new National Security Agency (NSA) building slated for groundbreaking at the end of the year in Utah County. “They’re going to pay a lot of wages and hire a lot of people,” he says. The NSA building will be among the largest building projects ever undertaken in the state—rivaling Micron and the I-15 reconstruction in the late ‘90s.
Blue Collar Blues
Like construction, Utah’s manufacturing industry was hammered by the recession. In fact, the fortunes of many manufacturing companies are directly tied to new homebuilding. Manufacturers of cabinets, doors, furniture and other related items were the hardest hit by the housing bust.
In August 2007, the manufacturing industry employed 128,600 workers; now, it employs about 110,000. And the industry is still shedding jobs, but at an increasingly slower rate.
“Anecdotally, the pendulum has shifted so we’re seeing more announcements of hiring than of layoffs,” says Langston. “We’ll see continued expansion, but it isn’t going to be anywhere near boom levels.”
Thomas Bingham, president of the Utah Manufacturers Association (UMA) agrees with that assessment. “There is some new hiring going on and the number of people who have been laid off is going down,” he says.
Utah’s manufacturing industry is extremely diverse and includes everything from box makers to smart phone component makers. The average manufacturer in Utah employs less than 50 workers, says Bingham, and the recession did not impact them all equally. Medical device manufacturers, for instance, have weathered the downturn well, and many have actually expanded.
But overall, he says, “the general recovery is not going to be that significant until the second half of 2011.”
The success of the manufacturing industry depends in large part on consumer confidence—on people creating a demand for consumer products. “It’s kind of a vicious cycle,” he says. “People are uncertain about the economy and about their jobs, and that keeps them from buying…we need consumer confidence to come up, but the jobs haven’t come back.”
The overall uncertainty has also affected employers, who are hesitant to take on new workers until they can see more clearly where the economy—and the political climate—are headed. “Manufacturers have money to invest,” says Bingham, but they are stuck in a wait-and-see mode.
Getting the industry moving again is vitally important to the national recovery. “These are the jobs that pay the highest wages. These are the jobs that support families,” says Bingham. “If manufacturing jobs come back, jobs in the service industry will follow.”
Ask any economist what 2011 will bring for Utah, and the answer is “it depends.” It depends on national economic trends, the stock market, the European debt crisis, rising or falling consumer confidence, oil prices and, some say, whether or not the Bush tax cuts are extended.
Natalie Gochnour, chief economist for the Salt Lake Chamber, points out that Utah’s economic peaks and lows tend to follow closely with national trends. Because of that, any blow to the national economy will also hit home in Utah.
“The thought of a double-dip [recession] in an environment like we just went through is really scary. There’s a crisis of confidence out there that has arguably created this slump,” she says. “We’ve been improving now for a year, give or take a few little blips here and there. There are definitely some risks for the Utah economy. The predominant view is that in 2011, things will get better.”
Steve Kroes, president of the Utah Foundation and member of the chamber’s Utah Economic Council, believes the economic situation will force long-term changes in individual and corporate behavior—but creating a much stronger society in the long run.
“The slowdown of the economy is not just a temporary phenomenon,” he says. “There’s a correction going on from a long-term, secular increase in consumer spending that was unsustainable. From the mid 1980s until just a few years ago, consumer spending was growing faster than our incomes almost every year. The way we did that was more debt and less savings. Consumers are starting to cut back and starting to save again.”
Because of this trend, recovery and growth is going to be slow. Full recovery could take five years—or even a decade, says Kroes. However, Utah has some inherent advantages, and shrewd investors may find that now’s the time to begin building the new future.
“Utah is different from the rest of the country. We do have strong population growth and we may start having people move back into the state. We’ve got companies coming here,” says Kroes. The state also boasts a strong transportation system, a well-educated workforce, reasonable taxes and relatively low property values.
Combine those factors with record-low interest rates—and opportunities begin to appear.
“Take advantage of some of the silver linings of the downturn,” says Tennert. “Rates are the lowest they’ve ever been. If you’re in a position to borrow and build, take advantage of what we have going on right now.”
“I’m a big proponent of being a forward leaner, of leaning into difficult times,” says Gochnour. “Be willing to stick your neck out and take the risk. I believe Utah will be one of a handful of states that will lead us out of the recession.”
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The Pine Street and Memorial Drive intersection is one of the quieter improved intersections along Memorial Drive. The intersection is four lanes with left-turn lanes on each approach, including a dual left-turn lane for southbound traffic. The southbound left-turn signal is separate from the mast arm signals, as it stands alone on a pole. The intersection' straight green arrows were deleted in 1980, and right-turn arrows were deleted in 1981. The major traffic signal conversion likely will occur within the next couple of years. The Gilcrease Expressway, which connects Apache Street and I-244 and serves Tulsa International Airport, passes to the north and east of the intersection. Photo taken Serptember 1983.
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In hope-against-hope scenario, countries with balance-of-trade surpluses struggle to maintain it. Put Japan, Germany, Brazil, and China in that group.
In that group, Japan is losing the Balance of Trade Battle.
Japan’s trade deficit widened to a record level in January, as falling exports combined with surging imports of energy.
Imports rose 9.8 per cent from a year earlier, while exports were down 9.3 per cent, resulting in a record monthly deficit of Y1.48tn ($19bn).
Last year Japan’s trade balance fell into an annual deficit for the first time since 1980, driven by subdued global demand and soaring fossil fuel imports in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power crisis.
Japan reported a trade deficit equivalent to 1475 Million JPY in January of 2012. Exports have been the main engine of Japan's economic growth in the past six years. Japan imports raw materials and processes them into high technology products. Japan’s major exports are: consumer electronics, automobiles, semiconductors, optical fibers, optoelectronics, optical media, facsimile and copy machines. Its main trading partners are The United States, China and European Union.
Brazil Declares New Currency War on US and Europe
The Financial Times reports Brazil declares new ‘currency war’
Rand Paul Has the Right Idea, Congress Should Apologize to Apple; Holy Grail of Tax Avoidance; The "Golden Goose"; Hypocrite McCain | Mike Shedlock
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Pulau Macan – Working towards a small “sustainable” island community
Part of what I love about living in Indonesia is that I have friends here who have created unconventional careers for themselves. One of these friends is Roderick, he runs a small Eco-Resort on a tiny island just 1.5 hours off the Jakarta harbor.
This island, Pulau Macan or Tiger Islands, is a speck in the clutter of islands called “Thousand Islands“. In reality, there are about 120. Less than 10 of them have tourist resorts on them, most of them are uninhabited, and some of them have larger island populations of up to a couple of thousand people. Even though they are easily accessible by speedboat from Jakarta for a weekend trip, they have not been that popular with tourists.
Some of these islands are privately “owned” (long-term-leased from the government) oftentimes by wealthy businesspeople who rarely ever make it out to “their” island and usually have a caretaker family looking after it. Tiger Island is one of those islands, it´s owner however agreed to let my friend Roderick rent and manage the island into an Eco-Resort that would be attractive enough for tourists from Jakarta.
This was about 4 years ago, and Tiger Island is now mostly booked out during weekends with a capacity of up to 40 people, and is still quite busy during weekdays. In these years, Pulau Macan has evolved from a tiny island with a few run-down buildings on it into a beautiful weekend getaway for the eco-conscious, with a form of open air lab for green technologies attached.
On my last visit I asked Drigo to give me a tour of the status quo of the island´s eco technologies.
The island was dependant on importing gasoline from the mainland or other islands in order to power its generator. Importing gallons of gasoline on boats which in turn run on gasoline is, as one can imagine, costly and ineffective. This may have been ok when there was only one family living, but would become increasingly more difficult with more and more guests visiting the island.
One of the major improvements for the island was the investment in a “stand alone” solar panel system which charges up batteries when the sun is bright and makes this energy available at night and on overcast days.
To install the system was not cheap, but since it offers a free source of energy and the technology is guaranteed for up to 10 years, it can be easily calculated that the investment pays back.
The island requires about 200 Watts of energy during the day, this mainly to run kitchen appliances such as the fridge, and 1000 watts at night, when all lights are on.
Currently 80% of the island´s energy needs can be covered by the solar panels. The rest still needs to be supplemented by generator. A way of improving this might be the successive exchange of energy saving lightbulbs to LED and the installment of an additional power source such as a wind turbine. Or simply more solar panels?
The other major issue on the island is water. This encompasses the freshwater needed for drinking, showering and washing, as well as the management of wastewater on the island.
Rainwater collecting system
Like gasoline, fresh and drinking water needs to be imported from the main land or neighboring islands. Pulau Macan does not have a well.
To ease the need for expensive water, a simple rain water collecting system was installed. Basically rain is cought in drainage pipes off the roofs of the larger buildings. The water is transportet through an above-ground bamboo piping system and filtered into a large drum. However, in the process the water picks up particles from the bamboo and disintegrating leaves, so that the water is eventually not clean enough to supply guest huts, due to brownish color that is in itself not harmful but looks unhealthy.
The rainwater collected is momentarily used for watering the island and cleaning around the house and boats.
Right now, only a small percentage of potential rain water is collected, which makes sense since its use is so limited. Fresh water still needs to be imported for drinking, cooking and showering. If a way was found of storing more and cleaner rainwater, this might reduce the need for the island to import fresh water significantly.
The water from showers and sinks is captured, filtered, and reused for watering the gardens. This requires the use of biodegradable, non-harmful chemicals in soaps, shampoos and detergents.
The toilets don´t factor into the use of fresh water, because they flush with salt water from the sea.
In this system, the (salty) wastewater seeps through a series of gravel/sand/coral/pineleaves filled tanks, and on top of these mangrove plants grow, freeing the water from some of the harmful nutrients before the waste water seeps back out into the sea.
Compost and Gardens
Kitchen wastes are composted in deisgnated areas around the island. This compost is used in the gardens…
… however, the gardens are still the problem child of the island, at is has been very difficult to grow anything substantial so far, most likely due to the overall high salinity of the soil or an acidity problem which might stem from the many pineleaves from surrounding trees.
The compost pits are a favorite with the island chicken, which roam around freely and dig happily in the dirt. Their job is to hunt for worms and centipedes, which can become a nuisance if they have no natural enemy. Some mice were also introduced to the island to help with the hunt for centipedes. The mice in turn are hunted by the local monitor lizard and some hawks and owls.
A lot of dirftwood reaches the thousand islands, and Roderick and his team occasionally collect driftwood on the beaches of the neighboring islands.
A lot of the island furniture is made out of the driftwood that finds its way there. It makes the interior of each hut unique, like in this beautiful open air, ocean facing coral hut.
Pulau Macan is not a zero-carbon footprint self-sustainable miracle yet. But I do find 80% of energy use from solar pretty impressive. I guess made possible by the fact that very little energy is needed, especially during the day.
Some ideas are floating around, still waiting to be imeplemented and tested.
1. Would planting in a greenhouse environment lead to better results? The soil might be healthier, and pine leaves would be kept out. Should be easy to try on a small scale.
2. A fish farm would be an obvious asset. Right now fish is bought on farms on neighboring islands. Fishing in the waters surrounding the islands is not advisable, since they are already largely overfished.
3. Windturbine to assist the solar panels. There´s always a nice breeze.
4. Of course: algae farm. As additional food source and fertilizer? Or even energy source?
5. Live there? The obvious major flaw to the eco-conscious mind is that you still need to get out there, usually on a gas-eating speedboat. Yea, you could sail, but this takes too long for a weekend trip. Of course living there longer term and cutting back on the number of trips to the mainland would help. 3G connection is pretty stable…
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Monday, February 16, 2004
Wellesley, Massachusetts (AP) -- The Shakespeare lovers at Wellesley College in Massachusetts are going strong.
They're in the midst of a round-the-clock reading of all of the Bard's works. That's 39 plays, along with five poems and 154 sonnets. The 24 hours of bloodshed, treachery, tragic love, wayward passion and humorous misunderstandings began last night. It will finish at sunset with a reading of 'Hamlet.' "
Sunday, February 15, 2004
Wellesley College tackles Bard's canon
The Shakespeare Centre Library comprises the combined collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Royal Shakespeare Company. It is a comprehensive research library on the subjects of Shakespeare's life, work and times and the performance of his plays.
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Commentators support Qld Government's review of Electoral Act
Some political commentators have backed the Queensland Government's decision to review the state's Electoral Act.
Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie is seeking public opinion on electoral reforms in Queensland like compulsory voting, union affiliations and political donations.
Mr Bleijie says it is a chance for everyone to have a say.
Lecturer in politics at Griffith University, Dr Paul Williams, says there is room for improvement for Queensland's electoral system.
"Only a fool would say the voting system is perfect and every piece of legislation should be reviewed from time to time," he said.
However, Dr Williams says compulsory voting should stay.
"The quite preposterous idea of voluntary voting, while the rest of Australia remains in compulsory voting - this is not the place to discuss it."
Political analyst Professor Scott Prasser says this is one of the more sensible documents put forward by the Liberal National Party (LNP) Government.
"It is a bit of that renovation of our system of government people like me have been calling for," he said.
"I know there is always political motives involved and all these things, but I think we should give Government a bit of a tick for at least putting these issues on the agenda."
Professor Prasser says he does not have a problem with unions supporting political parties.
"If a trade union wants to give money to a political party, as long as that trade union is above board, then that's what they should be able [to do]," he said.
"It's no different from a business wanting to give money to a political party."
Meanwhile, Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce says scrapping compuslory voting would decimate the voter turnout at elections.
Senator Joyce says the move would favour conservatives and the Greens, but voting would not be a priority for many in the middle.
"The Australian character is this - there's a job that has to be done, you can bet your life gardening and taking the kids to cricket and doing the shopping will come before voting," he said.
"I know we romance that would not be the case, but that's exactly what would happen."
The Government is accepting submissions until March 1.
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Mount Abu, built around a lake, is the only hill station in Rajasthan
. It is perched on a 1,220 m granite table mountain, in the southwestern end of the Aravalli hills
, amidst dense forests. Mount Abu is also one of the popular Jain pilgrimage sites in India and is 156 km west of Udaipur
According to a legend, the place derived its name from Arbuda, a serpent who descended to the spot to save Lord Shiva's bull, Nandi. Major attraction in Mount Abu is the
Dilwara temples and various archaeological sites that scatter throughout the place.
Interesting treks, delightful picnic spots, lovely lakes and the cool climate, which is quite contrary to the rest of the state, makes it a favored tourist destination. Places of tourist interest include Gaumukh Temple, Nakki Talav, Achalgarh, Adhar Devi Temple, Trevorís Tank (5 km), Mandakini Kund, Guru Shikhar (15 km), the enchanting view points of Honeymoon Point (Anadra Point) and Sunset Point.
Nearest airport is at Udaipur. Mount Abu is served by the
Abu Road Railway station on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad-Ajmer-Jaipur-Delhi route. Buses connect Mount Abu with Ahmedabad (222 km), Jodhpur (235 km) and Jaipur. Udaipur is a 156 km drive via Pidwara but a Journey along this route is advisable only during the day.
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Lost Glasgow: Central Station
Glasgow Central Station is the UK’s largest and busiest station outside of London with 38 million passengers passing through on an annual basis.
The station was built in 1879 and has been expanded and adapted throughout its history.
Between 1901 and 1905 it was extended over Argyle Street with the addition of the Hielanman’s Umbrella, so named by locals because of the shelter that it provided from the rain.
The Grand Central Hotel was also built during this period.
The hotel, which was refurbished two years ago, has hosted big names in the political and entertainment world throughout its history.
Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra and the Queen have all checked in.
It was also the site of the transmission of the first ever television signal by Scots inventor John Logie Baird in 1927.
The station itself is no stranger to illustrious guests.
A young JFK is thought to have given his first public address in the station, at the age of 19, to 150 surviving American seamen whose vessel had been torpedoed by a German submarine.
After his famed flight to Scotland, Hitler’s Lieutenant Rudolph Hess was released from his handcuffs and allowed a final cigarette on one of its platforms before being returned to Germany for trial.
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A deaf dog who was so badly behaved that he had to be re-homed several times, has been taken in by a sign language enthusiast and has been taught sign language.
'Horus' the dog was unruly and badly behaved after being abused as a puppy by his drug addict owners.
Then Rosie Gibbs, from Lockerbie decided to take him in and began using a basic form of sign language called Makaton, to train Horus.
He's now a well behaved dog who responds to 50 different sign language commands.
Rosie also helps to run the Deaf Dog Network, an online community for owners of deaf dogs.
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Tatul (Bulgarian: Татул, the local name for Datura stramonium) is a village in Momchilgrad municipality, Kardzhali Province located in the Eastern Rhodopes in southern Bulgaria. It is lies at 319 m above sea level at , 15 km east of Momchilgrad, and as of September 2005[update] has a population of 189 people. Most of the houses were built of well-cut stone blocks.
In the 2000s Bulgarian archaeologists discovered an ancient Thracian surface tomb and sanctuary in the immediate proximity of the village, and it was soon recognized as an exclusive religious centre in the region of importance to the whole region according to head archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov. Latest archaeological finds date the earliest settlement to 4000 BC. According to Ovcharov, the site is the sanctuary and tomb of an influential Thracian leader who was deified after his death. He also links it with the cult of Orpheus. The ancient sources describe the ritual of burying leaders overground, on the top of a hill (as opposed to in a mound), as extremely rare, mentioning only Orpheus and Rhesus as two of the leaders who were buried this way and as Orpheus was buried in Leibethra close to Olympus, Greece it only leaves Rhesus as a candidate though both of the characters are mythological and may have never existed.
Around 30 clay altars and other items from the 19th-18th century BC have been excavated, as well as an idol, a nude male figure from the Iron Age, proving the sanctuary was used without interruption in the period. A stone wall was erected surrounding the hill between the 4th and the 1st century BC, and the temple was constructed shortly thereafter, with the religious complex gradually expanding and the religious activity worshipping the man buried in Tatul shifting to the mausoleum that was built. Several new buildings were constructed in the 2nd-3rd century AD and the Christianization of the Rhodopes in the late 4th-early 5th century resulted in the conversion of the complex into a local ruler's domain featuring a defensive tower. The complex also suffered from two earthquakes, once in the 12th century BC and once in the 14th century AD.
As the conservation of the site began shortly after the excavations started, it is developing as a tourist destination, with the infrastructure being renewed and created and the Tatul Thracian complex already welcoming tourists.
- Stefanova, Galina (1 August 2005). "Tatul – The Village of Gods" (in Bulgarian). Standart News. Retrieved 2006-08-18.
- "The excavations in Tatul confirm the hypothesis that it is a sanctuary of Orpheus" (in Bulgarian). Actualno.com. 19 June 2005. Retrieved 2006-08-18.
- "Tatul Orpheus Shrine, more ancient than Egypt’s pyramids". Radio Bulgaria. 21 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
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- Овчаров, Николай. Новооткритото светилище при с. Татул, Момчилградско, и въпросът за локализацията там на единствения известен в Тракия храм на Орфей, в: Проблеми и изследвания на тракийската култура, Казанлък 2006, с. 26-37
- Orpheus and Greek Religion (Mythos Books) by William Keith Guthrie and L. Alderlink, ISBN 0-691-02499-5, 1993, page 34: "...the tomb was near the town of Leibethra on Olympos. ..."
- The Dictionary of Classical Mythology by Pierre Grimal and A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop, ISBN 0-631-20102-5, 1996, page 333, "... tomb. It was said that this had once been at Leibethra and that an oracle of the Thracian Dionysus had predicted ..."
- Orpheus: Ancient Greek History by Gregory Zorzos, ISBN 1-4414-6777-7, 2009, page 10: "... Muses collected them, and buried them at the place called Leibethra : ..."
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Can you improve your body’s ability to remember by making it move? That rather odd-seeming question stimulated researchers at the University of Copenhagen to undertake a reverberant new examination of just how the body creates specific muscle memories and what role, if any, exercise plays in the process.
To do so, they first asked a group of young, healthy right-handed men to master a complicated tracking skill on a computer. Sitting before the screen with their right arm on an armrest and a controller similar to a joystick in their right hand, the men watched a red line squiggle across the screen and had to use the controller to trace the same line with a white cursor. Their aim was to remain as close to the red squiggle as possible, a task that required input from both the muscles and the mind.
The men repeated the task multiple times, until the motion necessary to track the red line became ingrained, almost automatic. They were creating a short-term muscle memory.
The term “muscle memory” is, of course, something of a misnomer. Muscles don’t make or store memories. They respond to signals from the brain, where the actual memories of any particular movement are formed and filed away.
But muscle memory — or “motor memory,” as it is more correctly referred to among scientists — exists and can be quite potent. Learn to ride a bicycle as a youngster, abandon the pastime and, 20 years later, you’ll be able to hop on a bicycle and pedal off.
To date, most studies of the effect of exercise on memory have looked at more intellectual tasks, like memorizing lists of words. In those cases, regular exercise appears to improve the brain’s general ability to remember.
But the Copenhagen scientists wanted to see how exercise influences the development and consolidation of physical memories. So before having their volunteers master the squiggle test, they first had a third of the group ride a bicycle at an intense but not exhausting pace for 15 minutes. The other two-thirds of the group rested quietly during this time.
Then, after the computer motor-skill testing, a third of those who’d previously rested completed the same strenuous 15-minute bike ride. The others rested.
All of the volunteers then repeated the follow-that-squiggle test after an hour, a day and a week, to see how well they’d learned and remembered that particular skill.
Their scores for speed and accuracy of squiggle shadowing were almost identical at the one-hour point, although the group that had ridden the bicycle after the first computer practice session was a bit less accurate.
After a week, though, things looked different. The men who had exercised just after first learning the motor skill were noticeably better at remembering the task, with their tracing of the red line on the computer more agile and accurate. The men who’d exercised before learning the new skill were not quite as adept now, although they were better than those in the group that hadn’t exercised at all.
What this result suggests, says Marc Roig, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen who led the study with his colleague Kasper Skriver, is that physical exercise may help the brain to consolidate and store physical or motor memories.
Consolidating a memory is not instantaneous, after all, or even inevitable. Every memory must be encoded and moved from short-term to long-term storage. Some of those memories are, for whatever reason, more vividly imprinted than others.
It may be that physical, aerobic exercise performed right after a memory has been formed intensifies the imprinting, Dr. Roig says. It makes the memory stronger.
In the short term, though, exercise may leave the brain overstimulated, he continues, making it less able to pinpoint and access new memories. That may be why men who had exercised after learning the new skill performed worst during the first motor-memory recall test.
But they performed better in the long term, because their memory of the new skill was, it would seem, sturdier.
How a single workout can strengthen a particular memory is uncertain, Dr. Roig acknowledges, but he suspects biochemistry. “There is evidence that aerobic exercise produces substances” in the brain, like brain-derived neurotropic factor and noradrenaline, that drive memory consolidation and learning, he says.
Ultimately, how exercise operates in this context may be less significant for most of us than when. The “timing of the exercise is critical,” Dr. Roig says. To be maximally effective, it needs to be performed “right after exposure to the information to be remembered.”
Want to remember how to ride that bike, in other words? Then ride it as soon as you have managed to stop wobbling. The exercise seems able then to cement the memory of how to ride. Ditto if you’ve just perfected the snap of your tennis serve or the spin on your soccer kick. Go for a run immediately afterward, and your body may later better remember.
Whether that same run will strengthen the creation and storage of more intellectual memories remains to be seen, although Dr. Roig is optimistic. He and his colleagues are working with schoolchildren in Copenhagen to determine whether having the youngsters run about or otherwise exercise immediately after being taught a new concept improves their later test scores in that subject. Early results are promising, and could make the mastering of algebra almost invigorating.
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In the summer of 1879, a meteor streaked across the sky above Utah, and people throughout the state tried to describe what they had seen and heard.
Some were matter of fact: “A very bright meteor was seen last night about half past eight o’clock. It moved from the zenith towards the southern horizon and was observable for quite a number of seconds.”
Others used poetic terms to add depth to their descriptions: “About 8 o’clock, Thursday evening, a brilliant meteor was seen to fall apparently to the eastward of the town. The light emitted by the wanderer was of the most brilliant description, illuminating the landscape as bright as midday. Immediately after the fall, a loud rumbling sound like unto distant thunder reverberated throughout the surrounding mountains.”
My favorite record captures sight and sound and emotion: “A Singular phenomonen happened this evening at 8 minutes a past eight oclock a met[e]oric flash succeeded by an explosion as of a battle which lasted for a minute or more filling the whole valley with its sound echoing in the Kanyon & among the rocks. Its course was from east to west[.] The people were all alarmed & ran out of their houses expecting as it died away an earthquake would follow. The sound was as of cannon then of can[n]on & smaller artillery in quick succession all together ending in a rumbling sound as of a heavy wagon running over pebbly ground till as if the wagon had gon[e] out of hearing.”
None of these people had ever heard a sonic boom before and lacked the language to describe the meteor’s fall in scientific terms. They did the best they could, drawing from familiar experience to approximate what they had seen and heard.
Prophets ancient and modern have had the same difficulty in describing what they have seen and heard when spiritual events have outstripped language. I’m not speaking of deliberate symbolism, or allegory, or ordinary literary simile or metaphor, but of the failure of words to describe events that prophets strongly wanted to record accurately and objectively:
Elisha watched Elijah ascend to heaven and could think only of earthly might to tell what he saw of heavenly power: “There appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” (2 Kings 2:11)
The brother of Jared was so impoverished as to technical language that he could only repeat himself over and over and over: His boats “were built after a manner that they were exceedingly tight, even that they would hold water like unto a dish; and the bottom thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the sides thereof were tight like unto a dish; and the ends thereof were peaked; and the top thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the length thereof was the length of a tree; and the door thereof, when it was shut, was tight like unto a dish.” (Ether 2:17)
Joseph Smith wanted us to know that Christ had not stood directly on the temple pulpit, but he really didn’t know how to describe whatever it was that the Lord was standing on: “We saw the Lord standing upon the breastwork of the pulpit, before us; and under his feet was a paved work of pure gold, in color like amber.” (D&C 110:2)
What similar instances can you recall from scripture? Does this have any significance for how we read and understand holy writ?
My branch president in the MTC told us that this was trying to describe modern attack helicopters.
Comment by JM — 11/6/2007 @ 11:21 am
Ezekiel saw the wheel;
Way up in the middle of the air.
Now Ezekiel saw the wheel in a wheel;
Way in the middle of the air.
And the big wheel run by Faith, good Lord;
And the little wheel run by the Grace of God;
In the wheel in the wheel in the wheel good Lord;
Way in the middle of the air.
Comment by Ivan Wolfe — 11/6/2007 @ 11:49 am
“In the summer of 1879, a meteor streaked across the sky above Utah, and people throughout the state tried to describe what they had seen and heard.”
Utah didn’t become a state until 1896.
Comment by Mike Parker — 11/6/2007 @ 11:51 am
Picky, picky, picky.
The state as a geographical entity existed in 1879–that space on the earth’s surface which is within the boundaries of the post 1896 political entity known as the State of Utah.
Of course, were there really people “throughout” the “state” who were at a loss for words? Any people in Paragonah, or Vernal, or Randolph? How about any folks in Dutch John? We might have to qualify that “throughout” to make this statement accurate.
Comment by Mark B. — 11/6/2007 @ 12:05 pm
Unfortunately, some people are not at a loss for words.
Comment by Ardis Parshall — 11/6/2007 @ 12:38 pm
I have to say I’m impressed that people in Utah in 1879 were willing and able to describe the meteor in naturalistic terms rather than in supernatural or divine terms: really, it was just a meteor. Have we actually regressed since then?
Comment by Dave — 11/6/2007 @ 1:19 pm
Ardis, that is very interesting. I have nothing to add but I do wonder what Lehi’s vision really looked like compared to the amount he captured in 1 Ne. 8. Nephi even points out a few chapters later some of things Lehi left out. Of course, he discovered those through prayer of his own. So I guess the limits of language can serve divine intent.
Comment by Frank McIntyre — 11/6/2007 @ 1:21 pm
All of D&C 76 is a wonder to me.
Consider what the Lord says below about the “language” Joseph used in the D&C:
6 Now, seek ye out of the Book of Commandments, even the least that is among them, and appoint him that is the most wise among you;
7 Or, if there be any among you that shall make one alike unto it, then ye are justified in saying that ye do not know that they are true;
8 But if ye cannot make one like unto it, ye are under condemnation if ye do not bear record that they are true. D&C 67:6 – 8
The manner of expression Joseph used is a testimony in itself of who he was and is.
Comment by Jared — 11/6/2007 @ 10:17 pm
Somewhere in my dissertation files I’ve got comments from Southern slaves regarding a similar meteorologic event during the antebellum period. I’ll have to find them for you—despite being forbidden to read, those folks knew their book of Revelations!
Comment by Janet — 11/8/2007 @ 2:18 am
This was published elsewhere on 6 November 2007
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JERUSALEM — Shlomo Baum, a founder of a feared Israeli commando unit and a noted right-wing activist, died in Jerusalem on Sunday, Israel TV reported. He was 70.
The cause of death was not immediately known.
Baum was one of the founders of the 101 unit, which carried out bloody reprisal raids in Jordanian-held territory in the 1950s. The unit was led by Ariel Sharon, now Israel's foreign minister.
Baum lived in the mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood of Abu Tor, and was noted for his shaved head, muscular physique and a talent for a controversial turn of phrase.
Baum boasted that he always kept his pistol loaded. "I don't need police protection," he said. "I will shoot anyone who tries to attack me, straight between the eyes."
He would pose for photos walking through the neighborhood accompanied by one or more of his fierce attack dogs.
Baum was based in Jerusalem, but he also spent time on settlements in occupied lands to publicize the settlers' cause. He was a staunch opponent of territorial compromise.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Baum as "defining the image of the modern Jewish warrior," and commended his "bone-deep love of the land and of Jerusalem."
Burial was planned today in Jerusalem.
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Back in January I ran across a section of the book with conflicting information (see below) - namely, a false statement was made that if a user profile is deleted from, say, Active Directory, then the corresponding profile would also be deleted from MOSS during an update. I confirmed this with the author.
Unfortunately, I'm a little sad to see that my contribution doesn't seem to be reflected on his website. Hmmm, maybe it's somewhere else and I missed it. Oh well, I'm just happy to have made my small contribution to the wonderful world of Sharepoint. :)
I got into a little discussion this week with a couple of guys re: Mac vs Vista. One guy was a Mac owner who claimed Vista was bad, tho I don't think he's used it (see Mojave experiment). The other was a PC owner, tho not necessarily a power user, who had recently been dazzled by a Mac presentation in a store and was now considering buying one.
Then there was me - long time Microsoft-lover as well as Mac-owner. I had to give them my $0.02 because their opinions were starting to be driven by the same factors that seem to drive many folks - Mac's "i" software, Mac's "stability", and Mac's alleged freedom from viruses.
Let's get the easy one out of the way first - we know that viruses are created by crazy & malicious hackers out there that want to cause trouble, right. Historically Mac has never had trouble with viruses. Why? Cuz those hackers didn't bother wasting their time on Mac! Windows machines control the world - why would I waste my development time putting a virus together to affect all seventeen of the Mac users of the world! :- )
okay, i'm exaggerating, but you get my point. Anyway, this security piece is recently being proven now that Mac is starting to get products like the iPhone that are taking a bigger bite out of the market. Check the news - you hear more and more stories about Mac being 'hacked' these days. So yes, you probably will have less trouble with viruses while using a Mac, but please don't assume it's because Mac is somehow superior in its security design - and please remember that the more popular your Mac becomes, the more susceptible it will be - will Mac be ready when the hackers decide they're ready to launch a full-blown attack?
Re: stability, for the most part I usually concede that Mac is more stable. But the reason behind this is what's important to understand:
Windows is like those 60's hippies - everyone's welcome to join in, love is everywhere, let's all join hands. Mac is like a fraternity - very selective about who gets in, and once you're in, play by our rules.
Windows is like a wild toga party of 300 people crammed into small house - noisy, wild, people spilling drinks on the floor - but fun. Mac is like 12 people studying in a locked library - yes, you're getting your work done, everything's nice and neat, but you're missing the party.
What the heck am I talking about? I've found over the years that Windows instability for most users comes from the non-Microsoft software they put on it. Vista has been extremely stable for me, and those times that it wasn't ended up being a 3rd party software or driver issue. Is it Vista's fault that it invited another software maker to the toga party that didn't know how to hold his liquor? Meanwhile, Mac doesn't invite quite as many people to library, and when they do, there's a lot of "Quiet, please!" going on.
So yes, normally I'd say Mac is more stable, but for a user like I me, I simply prefer the toga party - I've got more options, and I'm the kind of user that nows how to clean up spilled beer... i mean, troubleshoot stability issues. :) I will point out, however, that mere days into my Mac ownership, I was already having stability issues reminiscent of my Windows experience - could it be that maybe Mac isn't quite as stable as advertised?
Re: software, many people on the web have compared iPhoto vs Windows Photo gallery, iTunes vs Media Player, and iMovie vs Vista's Movie Maker. Here's my comments in a nutshell:
each side's software essentially gets the same job done. tho there's a different experience for each. whose experience you prefer is up to you, but let's not act like one of them is doing something more remarkably groundbreaking than the other.
I like to remember that although both are giving me these software tools for free, with Windows OS & hardware being significantly cheaper than Mac, I wonder if Mac is truly free after all???
Anybody that has traditionally felt Mac's tools were better than Windows needs to try Vista - maybe in the past the argument was true, but Vista pretty much copied a lot of ideas from Mac and put them in Vista.
I agree with many that Mac's tool take away a lot of freedom - which is why i never could make the jump over to iTunes and iPhoto. They're very specific about how they want you to manage your photos & music, and I don't like them telling me what to do. Maybe my 70-year old grandmother, who doesn't care either way and just wants to store her grandkids' pictures, would like iPhoto, but not me.
Find windows - both Expose and Flip 3D are equally useful (or equally useless, depending on your usage)
Virtual desktop - although Windows doesn't come with it, there is a free virtual desktop tool built by the developer community that does the same thing that Spaces does. Tho I'm one of these guys that has never found a lot of value in the concept. Although I'll many time have a dozen or more windows open, I'm never quite comfortable saying that "these 4 windows can be pushed out to another view" - my mind jumps around to all my windows simultaneously! :)
Calendar - iCal and Windows Calendar are equally useless. :)
Remote desktop - VNC is an inferior user experience compare to RDP in Windows. This has been a major issue for me in my Mac adoption.
Today I laughed [a little more] at the iPhone after watching a satirical video ad on the show The Soup. Being a proud HTC Mogul owner, I always tell my Apple-loving friends to "get a real phone, not an iPhone".
In fact, during a recent business meeting, I noticed that someone else in the room also had a Mogul. Turns out we are old college buddies, so we decided to share each other's information. Why pull out our business cards? We just beamed each other's contact info via Bluetooth. Took just a few seconds, and we didn't even have to worry about pointing our IR ports at each other like we used to have to do 'back in the day'.
After swapping info, she told me that she wanted me to check out her company website to see if I might be interested in re-designing it. Since her web address was right there in her contact info, I was able to pull up her site right then and there! (and with the new Internet Explorer that comes with WinMo 6.1, I was able to zoom out and get the full birds-eye view the same way Opera does!)
After doing all this, I felt the need to make a smart-a** comment to my friend sitting next to me. You see, just moments before all this technological euphoria had taken place, he had commented that his son had just bought an iPhone. "Let's see your son's phone do that!", I sarcastically exclaimed. :)
In actuality, tho, I assumed that the iPhone COULD do that. I thought beaming info (contacts, files, etc) via bluetooth was something all high-end phones could do. Well, I just did a little research, and it sounds like the iPhone doesn't do that. Now I admit, the bluetooth stack is a fickle lady that all phones sometimes have trouble with, but I just was sure that the holy iPhone had that stuff mastered. What a surprise. Of course, this also means that the iPhone also can't be used as a wireless Phone-As-Modem the way my phone can. Interesting....
So tell me again why everyone's in such a frenzy about this whyPhone... i mean, this iPhone?.... ;- )
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Lawsuit abuse is one many people's minds
now days. Those who are most vocal about lawsuit abuse regard
personal injury lawyers as the problem
with our current tort system.
They say that there are too many
frivolous lawsuits and too many outrageous lawsuit verdicts
with ridiculously high awards given. Because of lawsuit abuse,
they say the price of healthcare has skyrocketed along with many
other products that have been brought to market.
Many who are vocal about lawsuit abuse mention these high awards
akin to a "lawsuit lottery" where a few win a huge jackpot
at the expense of everyone else who ends up paying for it in the
end. They say that life-saving products are kept off the market
because of lawsuit abuse as well as doctors under-serving communities
and the rise of healthcare costs due to rising malpractice insurance
When the subject of ridiculous, stupid and outrageous lawsuits
pops up, the first incident that pops to many people's minds is
the McDonald's "coffee lawsuit" of 1994. In this incident,
the plaintiff won $2.7 million in punitive damages from the fast
food giant after she spilled hot coffee in her lap. Cries for
tort reform shortly followed this
This incident has been the poster child for legal reform for
many years to come. However, some aspects of this case did not
receive much media attention. For instance, the verdict was lessened
on appeal to $480,000. The 81-year-old plaintiff received third
degree burns on the thighs, groin and buttocks requiring skin
grafts and a 7-day stay in the hospital. The plaintiff simply
asked McDonald's to reimburse her medical expenses and McDonald's
McDonalds kept their coffee 20-degrees hotter than other similar
coffee vendors. The fast food giant had 700 previous incidents
related to hot coffee spills, which they had settled. According
to interviews and internal documents, McDonalds knew they had
a problem and refused to either lower the temperature of the coffee
of warn customers of the potential for injury.
Even so, every year there are outrageously large lawsuit verdicts
that make the news and renewed cries for legal reform always follow.
What the media inevitably fails to report, however, is that these
outrageous lawsuit awards almost never make it past the appeals
process. Many lawsuits are even settled after the verdict and
before appeal since the plaintiff is aware that the amount for
punitive damages will in all
probability be greatly reduced.
When people speak of stopping lawsuit abuse, many talk about
putting a cap on punitive damages
in personal injury cases. Many states
are currently proposing legislation that would put a cap on punitive
damages at approximately $250,000. Large companies do cost-analysis
in order to see if it is cheaper to make their products safer
or litigate the claims in court. When judgments are too small
against these companies they have no incentive to improve their
products and make them less hazardous for consumers.
In 2002, in Hayes v. Courtney and Courtney Pharmacy Inc., the
43-year-old plaintiff with ovarian cancer sued her pharmacist
for intentionally diluting her cancer medication. The defendant
diluted cancer medication to 4,200 other cancer patients as well,
shortening their lives. The plaintiff's husband George was rewarded
a record $2.2 billion in punitive damages. The jury said they
knew that Mr. Hayes would likely not collect, but they wanted
to make a statement about the egregious behavior of the pharmacist
towards cancer patients. The judge later reduced the verdict to
$330 million, which Mr. Hayes is also unlikely to collect. The
pharmacist is serving a 30-year sentence for criminal charges
in the matter.
Tort reform advocates have pointed to this outrageous lawsuit
award and called for legal reform in order to make the numbers
more reasonable. Even many of those who are opposed to tort reform,
would like to see numbers like these come down in order to give
the advocates less fuel when they cry "lawsuit abuse!"
But, it is up to both sides of the tort reform issue to first
acknowledge that lawsuit abuse does take place and what reasonable
steps need to be taken in order to make sure that companies are
reasonably punished when they do commit outrageous acts of negligence
or intentional torts.
For instance, would it make sense that in cases such as the exploding
Ford Pinto, faulty Firestone tires, Exxon Valdez oil spill or
Big Tobacco cancer lawsuits that a cap of $250,000 in punitive
damages would be enough of a penalty so that these multi-billion
dollar corporations would never perpetrate these kinds of civil
Like all negotiations, the high-ball and low-ball figures need
to be thrown out and both the advocates and opponents to tort
reform need to find a rational middle ground in order to affect
real change. It serves none of the interests for each side to
entrench themselves in an unrealistically inflexible position.
One of the reforms that is starting to take hold in some states
is split-recovery punitive damages where both the plaintiff and
the states split the large personal injury awards. In split-recovery
states, the state will take 50 - 75 percent of the punitive damages
awards and use this money for the good of all citizens in the
Other legal reform measures are currently being worked on by
both the U. S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Once such
bill is H. R. 420: The Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2005, which
disciplines personal injury lawyers who "forum shop"
or conceal or destroy documents among other issues. The bill is
divided along political affiliation, with Republicans wholly behind
the bill and Democrats wholly opposed.
While many say frivolous lawsuits are clogging up the court,
other say that there are many other types of lawsuit abuse that
needs to be dealt with in a reasonable and prudent manner, so
that all citizens benefit, ultimately from the reforms.
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Diabetes Consumer Questionnaire
I am a Social Work graduate student at UCLA and am currently conducting a needs assessment in the area of diabetes in Los Angeles County. Specifically, I am trying to identify the existing services and gaps in services for children and families affected by diabetes. I have already contacted several diabetes service providers and have received important information, but I also realize the importance of learning from those directly affected by diabetes. Your input is greatly appreciated.
The survey is closed as of February 3, 2003.
Last Updated: Monday February 03, 2003 08:35:24
This Internet site provides information of a general nature and is designed for educational purposes only. If you have any concerns about your own health or the health of your child, you should always consult with a physician or other health care professional.
This site is published by Children With Diabetes, Inc, which is responsible for its contents.
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Author: WSU Vancouver Faculty
Source: Washington State University, Vancouver
WSU Vancouver's Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program is built around a stakeholder focus and its implications for competitive advantage and long term organizational performance (enlightened shareholder management). Managing for the long term requires working in partnership with relevant stakeholders. To do this, an organization must: (1) understand the vital interdependence between businesses and critical stakeholders such as employees, investors, customers, suppliers, and public constituencies, (2) adopt an executive level perspective in making decisions and take actions that sustain strong relationships with these stakeholders, and (3) apply theory to solve practical problems. A core concept of the program is that, “If we want accountants [and managers] who are capable of acting with integrity and understanding the broader system in which they work, we must teach them to be mindful-aware of their belief systems, conscious of consequences, and capable of thinking broadly about the impact of their actions and decisions” (p 147 - Waddock, Sandra. 2005. “Hollow Men and Women at the Helm . . . Hollow Accounting Ethics?” Issues in Accounting Education. 20 (2), 145-150). Faculty: Login to access a PDF of this document.
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April 23, 2008
Still more perspectives on the death penalty
These two items noted at How Appealing this morning provide perspective on how many different perspectives there can be on the American death penalty:
- "Cruel and Unusual History: The Supreme Court has repeatedly ignored the barbaric history of the death penalty." Gilbert King has this op-ed today in The New York Times.
- "Serial killer Daniel Siebert dies of pancreatic cancer on Alabama's Death Row; Daughter of New Jersey victim says justice not served": This article appears today in The Birmingham News.
Comment away on whose perspective seems more compelling.
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In the second piece, the family seems to be, understandably, confused about what it is they want. On the one hand, it seems they want Siebert to die in a manner that is less humane than the deaths of his victims, yet in their last sentence, they seem to be saying that they wanted him to get the humane execution he deserved. I wonder if they know what they really want. Do those more familiar in working with families find this kind of apparent confusion to be normal? I would assume it changes over time as well. Was the second line simply a plug from the AG's office/Prosecutor whatever to help support the idea that executions are humane?
Posted by: Christopher | Apr 23, 2008 11:24:41 AM
The irony to me about the Siebert case is that his death from pancreatic cancer was much more painful and agonizing than it would have been had he been executed.
Posted by: justice seeker | Apr 23, 2008 10:55:48 PM
Siebert's cheating of the executioner's needle points up the utter irresponsibility of the Supreme Court staying executions during the pendency of Baze. These guys had their chances to challenge lethal injection and chose to wait until the last minute, and the Supreme Court rewarded such behavior--behavior which it has specifically condemned in the past, and behavior which any legal system worth its salt condemns. Perhaps the Supreme Court didn't want to suffer the slings and arrows of the New York Times editorial page whining about executions while the Court was considering the constitutionality of the execution method, but that's why they get paid the big bucks, and to quote Hillary, if you can't stand the heat . . . . So, for a lack of moral courage, the Court made victims suffer needlessly and violated its own rules. So much for the rule of law.
Posted by: federalist | Apr 23, 2008 11:02:57 PM
What is interesting is how the article notes that Siebert was never convicted of the murder whose victim's family is complaining about the lack of execution. Thus, it would seem that their complaints are totally without foundation - was there any evidence besides the confession that Siebert actually was the killer? There are many cases where serial killers have taken credit for murders they did not commit in order to bolster their reputation (and of course, the police also encourage this practice so they can close a cold case).
Justice was served in Siebert's case - he spent the rest of his life in prison which is the exact same result which his execution would have reached. The fact that cancer killed him rather than Alabama is irrelevant for the ends of justice.
Posted by: Zack | Apr 25, 2008 10:36:15 AM
Thus, it would seem that their complaints are totally without foundation - was there any evidence besides the confession that Siebert actually was the killer?
Oh, maybe the fact that he killed 5 others by the same method and roughly at the same time.
There's reason to doubt that Siebert killed McDougall, but McDougall's family's complaints aren't "totally without foundation."
Posted by: | Apr 25, 2008 3:54:01 PM
The first article misrepresents the cases. No one is suggesting that firing squads, electric chairs, or lethal injections always go without a hitch. There have been imperfect executions in the past, and there will likely be more in the future. So what? The NYTimes's graphic descriptions of the executions are a little rich considering that anti-dp types often get upset when the Supreme court graphically describes the circumstances of a murder before ruling on the murderer's procedural rights or on the Eighth Amendment issue before it.
Which perspective one finds more compelling is probably mostly a matter of one's intuitions, rather than any sort of reasonable legal discussion. The Eighth Amendment cases are incoherent, and they change depending on who's on the court.
I'm more sympathetic to the McDougall family's 22-year wait for closure than I am to the extra suffering of murderers who died 100 years ago. I'm sure that there are others who disagree.
Posted by: | Apr 25, 2008 4:04:24 PM
"Justice was served in Siebert's case - he spent the rest of his life in prison which is the exact same result which his execution would have reached. The fact that cancer killed him rather than Alabama is irrelevant for the ends of justice."
Well, yes, if you discount the fact that his "life" sentence would have been a lot quicker had his appeals not dragged out interminably. The sophistry in here rarely ceases to amaze. Dying in prison is now equivalent to capital punishment.
Posted by: federalist | Apr 25, 2008 9:58:02 PM
To answer some of your questions. It was Daniel Lee Siebert that murdered our Mother,on March 8,1986.1979-stabbed to death L.Evans 29times to his death.Dec 12, 1985 killed a girl in Las Vegas.Dec 19,1985 killed N.McEirathy-Las Angeles.Dec 24,1985 killed G.Castro-Hollywood.Feb3,1986 killed S. Evans in Birmingham.Feb 19,1986 killed L.Outum in Talladaga.Feb 19,1986 killed Sherri Weathers in Talladaga & her two Boys,Chad & Joesph (3 & 5 years old)Febuary 19,1986 killed L. Jarman in Talladaga. (2) other girls in Alabama from the time he arrived to the night of Feb 19th. March 8th,1986 my mom. In New Jersey Jail for robbing someone on the boardwalk the night he murdered our mom.Told of possible (2) other girls between their and Atlanta.(That he gave the right answers for) And (1) other in Altlanta before being apprehened in Nashville. How do we know he Beat, Stabbed & strangled our Mom to death...He had our keys to my house& other things of our Moms.And also told them where he left her & how.As he did with many others. Seems to me he had all the right answers for their questions.I know first hand.Let me ask you all....If your loved one was murdered, Mother,Father, Sister, Brother,Child would you not want anyone to answer for it???We were just told by New Jersey she was Murdered.And never to speak to anyone again.Alabama were the ones that informed us as to our answers. It wasn't until last Summer New Jersey finally let us come and read his confession as to our mother murder.Only after my request asking them did they agree.Reading his confession is all we got & our Mothers Body!!!For all of you that don't understand, may you never have to take this journey in your life time.
Posted by: beaiam | Apr 25, 2008 11:06:41 PM
Siebert was charged with our Moms Murder.March 28,1987.By New Jersey.And the others also on dates following April 27.1987.
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MARQOS I (d. 1530)
He belonged to a group of Coptic prelates that had come to Ethiopia in 1481 with Abuna Yeshaq II and was supposed to assume the duties of metropolitan after Yeshaq's death, since he was his principal coadjutor. Thus, when Yeshaq II died near the beginning of the sixteenth century, there was no vacancy in the see, for Marqos I succeeded him immediately. For a long while, historians did not
understand this order of succession, mainly because Francisco Alvares, chaplain of the first Portuguese mission in Ethiopia (1520-
1526), did not explain this matter clearly in his account, of which one phrase was translated into English as follows: "Whilst we were
here the Abuna Ya‘qob died, to whom this one who is now living succeeded." Rossini, however, has shown that this phrase should in
fact be understood to mean that during Alvares' sojourn in Ethiopia, the Coptic bishop Ya‘qob died, who was coadjutor to Marqos and was supposed to succeed Marqos, but did not do so because he died first.
There is little information about this metropolitan in the Ethopian documents. According to the Life of Marha Krestos (d. 1497), ninth abbot of Dabra Libanos, Marqos was present at the transference of the relics of Saint Takla Haymanot, founder of this monastery, but this occurred before Marqos acceded to the supreme throne. According to the Liber Axumae, Marqos I died in 1522 of the Ethiopian calendar (A.D. 1529-1530). Thus, he lived in Ethiopia half a century and held the position of metropolitan for approximately three decades, to a very advanced age. In fact, he considered himself to be more than a hundred years old.
There is, however, more information about Marqos I in the account of Alvares, who had many meetings with him. While noting the inconveniences caused by the fact that in all Ethiopia the metropolitan alone had the right to ordain deacons and priests, Alvares described the ceremony during which Marqos I ordained 2,537 priests all at the same time and in which he was thus obligated to limit himself to a very short allocution warning the priesthood against the sins of bigamy and concubinage. Further, Marqos I recounted to Alvares that in 1508 he had contributed to the success of Queen Elleni, widow of Negus Zar’a Ya‘qob, in having the eleven-year-old son of Negus Na’od, Lebna Dengel, elected to the royal throne. This she achieved by removing all others who had a claim thereto. On 12 January 1521, Alvares saw Marqos I at the ceremony of the transference of the bones of Na’od. On this occasion the metropolitan seemed to be so old that two men had to sustain him by his arms. Marqos I also told Alvares that before the
arrival of Abuna Yeshaq II in 1481, the church in Ethiopia had remained without a metropolitan for some twenty-three years. Alvares was acquainted with the ECCAGE, the title reserved for the abbot of Dabra Libanos, head of all the Ethiopian monks, who related that he was a converted Muslim and had been ordained by Abuna Marqos, "who regarded him as his own son." This high prelate was Enbaqom, eleventh abbot of Dabra Libanos, well known in Ethiopian literary history for his translations from the Arabic.
Finally, three delicate questions remain concerning this metropolitan. First, in 1509, Queen Elleni, the guardian of Lebna Dengel, had written a letter to Manuel I, king of Portugal, in which she proposed an alliance against the Mamluk power in the Red Sea. The letter stated that this overture had been made with the blessings of Marqos I, and certain authors (e.g., Jean Aubin) find in this statement proof that Marqos I thought that he could resolve the problems besetting the church in Ethiopia by joining with the church of Rome. However, this view seems excessive, for the metropolitan must have known of the doctrinal differences separating the two churches. It is therefore difficult to believe that in 1509, with no concrete threat present, Marqos I was thinking of allying himself
with the Catholic church.
Second, in 1535, Joao Bermudez, the physician of the first Portuguese mission to Ethiopia, appeared in Rome. Ten years earlier, when the mission had returned to Europe, Bermudez had chosen to remain in Ethiopia at the request of Lebna Dengel. Now Bermudez related that Lebna Dengel had asked Marqos I, who was then on his deathbed, to name Bermudez "patriarch" (i.e.,
metropolitan of Ethiopia). Marqos I complied with this request and even conferred all the holy orders upon Bermudez, who accepted the investiture, providing that the pope in Rome confirm it. Lebna Dengel then directed Bermudez to go to Rome to make "an act of
obedience" to the pope. According to Bermudez, Pope Paul III (1534-1549) then confirmed him as metropolitan of the church in
Ethiopia. The subsequent vicissitudes of Bermudez in Ethiopia concern the bishopric of Yosab I, but nonetheless it must be remembered that the supposed elevation of Bermudez by Marqos I is considered a fabrication.
The third question involves Alvares' claim that Marqos I, aware of the vagaries of the church in Ethiopia, admired the faith of the
Portuguese mission to the point that he declared that, thanks to the Portuguese, the Ethiopians would not miss "returning to the truth of the Gospel." From this, certain writers have deduced that Marqos I had at least wished to have his own succession governed by the Roman church. However, as Lanfranco Ricci has observed, while there are Portuguese texts favorable to the Catholic position, such as Alvares' account, there are also Ethiopian texts opposing it, such as the Life of ‘Enbaqom, according to which this abbot argued with Alvares and "converted him to the orthodox faith of the Jacobites," which must be read with great care.
Thus, the successor to Marqos I was not Joao Bermudez but rather Yosab I, the Coptic bishop who arrived in Ethiopia after the end of the great Islamic invasion led by Grann, "the Left-Handed One."
YOSAB I (d. c. 1559)
Yosab I must be considered the successor of Metropolitan Marqos I although this succession took place after a long vacancy of the Ethiopian episcopal throne because of complex circumstances. At the death of Abuna Marqos I (1530), Ethiopia passed through a
severe crisis that had begun in 1527 with the Islamic invasion commanded by the imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim, called al-Ghazi (the
Warrior Champion) by the Muslims and Graññ (the Left-Handed One) by the Ethiopians. In 1525, Joao Bermudez, the physician of the first Portuguese mission to Ethiopia, had chosen to stay in Ethiopia at the request of Negus Lebna Dengel when the mission
returned to Europe. Ten years later in Rome, Bermudez recounted that Lebna Dengel had asked Marqos I, who was then on his
deathbed, to name Bermudez as "patriarch" (i.e., metropolitan of Ethiopia. Marqos I acceded to this request by conferring all the holy orders upon Bermudez, who accepted the investiture, providing that the pope in Rome confirm it. Lebna Dengel then directed Bermudez to go first to Rome to make an act of obedience to the pope and then to Portugal, a country with which Ethiopia had relations. According to Bermudez, Pope Paul III (1534-1549) did confirm him as metropolitan of Ethiopia. The majority of historians reject Bermudez' story, first, because no Ethiopian metropolitan ever had the power to name his successor and, second, because no document has ever been discovered to prove this supposed elevaton of Bermudez by Pope Paul III. However that may be, Bermudez did go from Rome to Lisbon, where he solicited Portuguese aid for Ethiopia in its fight against the Muslims. Thus, in 1540, Bermudez joined with the famous Portuguese military expedition to Ethiopia, which was to bring death to Grann (21 February 1541) and put an end to the Muslim invasion. After the departure of the Portuguese troops, Bermudez remained in Ethiopia and asked
Lebna Dengel's successor, Negus Galawdewos, to join the Catholic church. Far fromacquiescing to this request, the negus hastened to ask the Copticpatriarchate for a new metropolitan, whom Bermudez sought in vainto oppose until 1556, when he was forced to return to Portugal,where he died fourteen years later.
The new metropolitan was named Yosab. His arrival is recorded by two documents of the Liber Axumae, as occurring in 1539 of the
Ethiopian calendar (A.D. 1546-1547). However, information about this metropolitan is rather scarce in the Ethiopian documents. The
so-called Abridged Chronicle does not mention him at all, whereas the chronicle of Galawdewos mentions him but once, stating that
toward Easter in the eighth year of this negus's reign (1548), Yosab I blessed Galawdewos, who was departing to lead a military
expedition against the pagan peoples living in the west of the country, near the frontiers of Damot. As for the Liber Axumae, it
records Yosab's name in a confirmation act of a fief, donated in 1546 of the Ethiopian calendar (A.D. 1553-1554).
The Liber Axumae also records one other important fact. In 1551-1552, a Coptic bishop by the name of Petros arrived in Ethiopia. A Portuguese source confirms and adds this information: Petros was supposed to be Yosab's coadjutor and succeed him upon his death. The chronicle of Negus Minas (1559-1563) in fact confirms that P et ros did succeed Yosab I. However, the date of this
succession is not known and can only be approximately determined. In the Liber Axumae, the last document in which Yosab's name is
mentioned is dated A.D. 1553-1554, while the first document naming Metropolitan Petros II dates from 1552 of the Ethiopian calendar (A.D. 1559-1560). It may be deduced thereby that Yosab I died near the end of Negus Galawdewos' reign and that the episcopal throne was immediately occupied by Petros II.
Further, it must be noted that Yosab I is also cited in the chronicle of Negus Sarsa Dengel (1563-1597), who considered him as the predecessor of metropolitan Marqos II. This, however, is probably the result of an error on the part of the chronicler, who seems to have confused Yosab I with Petros II.
PETROS II (d. 1570)
Petros was the successor of Abuna Yosab I, after having been his coadjutor. The Liber Axumae notes the arrival in Ethiopia of a
Coptic bishop named Petros in 1554 of the Ethiopian calendar (A.D. 1551-1552). This information is confirmed by a Portuguese source, which states that the Coptic prelate who arrived in Ethiopia in 1551 was supposed to be the coadjutor of Abuna Yosab I and should succeed him upon his death. The exact date of this succession is unknown, but it must have occurred near the end of Negus
Galawdewos' reign (d. 1559), for in the Liber Axumae the last document to mention Yosab is dated A.D. 1553-1554, whereas the
first document to mention Petros as metropolitan is dated 1559- 1560. From these data it may be deduced that Petros was named and consecrated by the Coptic patriarch GABRIEL VII (1525-1568).
There is little information about this metropolitan in Ethiopian documents. The chronicle of Galawdewos states that it was Bishop
Petros (not yet metropolitan) who consecrated the ark (tabot) of the famous Church of Tadbaba Maryam during the twelfth year of
Galawdewos' reign (1551-1552). Moreover, the chronicle of Negus Minas states that it was Abuna Petros II who celebrated the religious marriage of this king.
There is no other information about this metropolitan, and even the date of his death can only be deduced from the documents
available. According to the chronicle of Negus Sarsa Dengel, after the death of Abuna Yosab I, which occurred in the eighth year of
Sarsa Dengel's reign (1570), the negus received a new metropolitan named Marqos (II), who arrived in Ethiopia during the fourteenth year of his reign (1576). However, this text obviously contains an error, which must be corrected. The predecessor of Marqos II was Petros II (not Yosab I, who died around 1559). But from this text it can be deduced that Petros II died in 1570 and that his successor was Marqos II.
MARQOS II (d. c. 1588)
There is little information about this successor to Abuna Petros II in the Ethiopian documents, but the date of his arrival in the country is known. The chronicle of Sarsa Dengel reports that after the death of Abuna Yosab I, which occurred in the eighth year of
Sarsa Dengel's reign (1570), the negus succeeded in having the Coptic patriarch John XIV (1570-1585) send a new metropolitan
named Marqos (II), who arrived during the fourteenth year of his reign (1576). The chronicler adds that this was a very happy year,
for the negus had just conquered Muhammad, king of Adal, a date confirmed in Arabic sources, and that after seizing power in A.H.
980/A.D. 1572-1573, Muhammad ibn Nasir ibn ‘Uthman, sultan of Adal, undertook a military expedition against Sarsa Dengel in which
he was conquered and killed near the end of 1575 or the beginning of 1576. The date of Marqos' arrival is also confirmed by an
Ethiopian codex in the National Library, Paris, whose Explicit announces that the manuscript was completed during the seventh year of the episcopate of Abuna Marqos II and the twentieth year of Sarsa Dengel's reign (1582). The arrival of this metropolitan in 1576
must thus be considered as certain.
Although Marqos II is likewise mentioned in a document from the Liber Axumae, there is no information extant concerning his episcopate, an omission probably due to the rather dishonorable termination of his episcopate. Around 1624, after Negus Susenyos
decided to join the Roman church, he issued a manifesto in which he set forth not only his reasons for joining this church but also
reproaches concerning the deplorable conduct of certain metropolitans. In particular, Susenyos declared: "The Negus Malak- Sagad [i.e., Sarsa Dengel] has shown that Marqos [II] became guilty of sexual delights that neither the ears dare hear nor the mouth
pronounce, delights of such a nature as to make God rain fire from heaven. Therefore, Malak-Sagad stripped this metropolitan of his
episcopal dignity, deprived him of his holdings, and sent him to the island of Daqq in Lake Tana, where he died an evil death."
There is no document indicating the date of this dismissal, which, however, must have occurred between 1582 (the date contained in the above-mentioned manuscript in the National Library, Paris) and 1588 (the approximate date when the position of metropolitan was filled by another Coptic prelate).
The successor of Marqos II was Krestodolu I.
KRESTODOLU I (fl. late sixteenth century)
There is little historical information available about the successor to Abuna Marqos II, probably because of the brevity of his episcopate as well as accusations of deplorable conduct made against him. Krestodolu I is not mentioned in the Abridged Chronicle of the rulers of Ethiopia nor in the chronicle of Sarsa Dengel. However, he is cited by the Liber Axumae in the texts of two acts of concession of fiefs donated by this negus. In the first act, Krestodolu's name is mentioned with that of the negus' mother, Queen Sellus Khayla, widow of Negus Minas, who upon her marriage had taken the name of Admas Mogasa. This furnishes an important chronological landmark, for, according to the Abridged Chronicle, this queen mother died on 21 Hamle 1586 of the Ethiopian calendar (A.D. 25 July 1594). In the second feudal act, Krestodolu's name is cited with that of Tomas, nebura ed (chief) of Axum, who is known to have held this post around 1588.
There is absolutely no information about his episcopate in Ethiopia, if one excludes the accusations against him made by Negus Susenyos (Seltan Sagad) in the manifesto that he issued around 1624 to announce his reasons for joining the Catholic church. Among the reproaches directed against certain metropolitans, Susenyos wrote as follows: "As for Abuna Krestodolu I, successor of Marqos II, contrary to the customs of a metropolitan, he kept several concubines, a fact that was well known by all those living at the time, of whom some are still alive." It is not known, however, if this accusation caused Krestodolu's dismissal or whether his episcopate came to an end with his natural death.
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Here at the continent’s end, fortifications
linger for the end of the world. They greet
each California morning, these barracks in the fog.
Below, the lagoon is gunmetal, or mercury poured.
Today I saw a river otter, lithe as compacted water,
arch through the tule basin. A heron.
A poker-faced coyote loped into the chaparral.
The pelicans, ancient Christian symbol of charity,
dove, hard spears mining water. I thought:
I know and they do not how they are Renaissance symbols.
How here hummingbirds are Miwok gods.
II. Ghost Town
At the Nike Missile site, one missile
rises for tourists on Wednesdays.
Other days, it is guarded by a mannequin
behind barbed wire, his enclosure
engulfed in thickets and foxtails.
Hikers spelunk through each bunker.
Battery Wallace: Battery Alexander: Battery Townsley.
Labor cemented these hills. 1907. 1938.
They seem almost Roman, these ruins
guarding outpost California.
Each gun could have destroyed this world.
Now conquest is going on elsewhere.
At dusk we watch hills waver in the lagoon.
Imperfect reflections. Tree forms obscured.
Out to sea, through the Golden Gate,
we see the Hanjin Sea Princess
sail west, west, towards China.
As a girl I named the plants here. As a pioneer girl
I crossed the prairies by train: My life delivered me
at the mouth of the Pacific. I learned these plant-names in English.
Miwok gods fed at the bottlebrush tree in our backyard.
In my home I discovered the East
through 19th century novels and movies about New York.
The East was the past: My family came a long time ago.
After lunch, I crest the ridgeline into the next valley
thinking about what we bear or drag behind us,
inadequacies of language to place.
I think nothing, too, examining fur in coyote scat.
Ochre in fault-line sandstone, jarred, upended plates.
I am running on a sea floor sedimented 600 million years.
I am running on willow thickets the Spanish called saucelito.
The fog is a bridal veil but ghostful.
The foghorn sounds perfect fourths.
Below, the latticework fields, chartreuse mustard flowers.
Plum trees from the Portuguese farms wild back into the hills.
On a serpentine outcrop a crow rasps, like the handle
on a hurdy-gurdy. His crackling call
ripens away towards the fogbank.
Poison oak glints among sticky monkey.
I stand on the crumbling fortress, making bouquets of thistles.
Tess Taylor has received writing fellowships from Amherst College, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her chapbook, The Misremembered World, was selected by Eavan Boland and published by the Poetry Society of America. She has received a Dorothy Sargent Memorial Prize and the Morton Marr Prize from the Southwest Review.
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There has always been something disturbingly elitist about the idea of HOT lanes, also known as high-occupancy toll lanes, also known as Lexus lanes.
The notion that some Americans would be able to drive on uncrowded lanes reserved for those who could pay for the privilege while drivers in the next lane are condemned to bumper-to-bumper traffic — it just doesn’t sit right. It brings to mind that line from “Animal Farm,” about all animals being equal, but some are more equal than others.
The idea is particularly galling if taxpayers who are stuck in traffic are forced to pay for construction of the HOT lanes that they can’t afford to use. And let’s make that clear — the whole idea is to make HOT lanes so expensive that most people won’t be able to use them regularly.
That just doesn’t seem right.
Having said that, however, the concept of HOT lanes does have legitimate, practical applications. For example, new lanes that are built specifically as HOT lanes and financed through tolls collected on those lanes don’t raise the same fairness concerns. In that case, the infrastructure is being paid for by the people using it, and that’s fine.
Here in Georgia, the state Department of Transportation is proposing a second approach. It wants to take existing HOV lanes along a stretch of I-85 — one lane in each direction — and convert them to tolled HOT lanes. Car pools could still use the lanes for free, but single drivers wanting to avoid traffic would also be able to buy their way into the lanes. The toll would vary; in times of heavy traffic, the cost would rise to discourage use and thus keep traffic flowing freely.
Potentially, that’s a useful idea. According to Ginger Gooden, a research engineer at the Texas Transportation Institute, allowing motorists to buy their way into under-used HOV lanes can speed travel, raise revenue and even decrease congestion in remaining general-purpose lanes. She cites studies of such conversions in Seattle and Minneapolis that have documented an improvement in traffic flow even in untolled lanes.
However, the Georgia DOT has more controversial ideas as well. On the Downtown Connector and a stretch of I-20 inside the Perimeter, it proposes to convert both an existing HOV lane and an existing general-purpose lane into toll-only HOT lanes.
If that proposal is approved, it would take an already overburdened highway and shrink its availability even further to the general public. Those lanes — infrastructure already bought and paid for by taxpayers — would be reserved for the exclusive use of those able to pay for that luxury.
According to DOT projections, someone using the high-priced toll lanes during rush hour in 2030 would be able make the 21-mile trip from Pleasant Hill Road to downtown in just 30 minutes. Not bad.
But for the rest of you, it would take 90 minutes.
According to Gooden, no other state has taken the step of converting existing general-purpose lanes to HOT lanes; in fact, she knows of no other states seriously considering such a step.
In his visit to Atlanta last week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood also expressed surprise the idea was being proposed. He predicted that once people understand the proposal, public outrage would build pretty quickly.
That’s certainly been the pattern here in Georgia. A few years ago, when the DOT proposed converting Ga. 316 to a toll road, the political backlash forced the department to withdraw the idea. To calm the outrage, it also adopted a policy outlawing the conversion of existing lanes to privately financed toll lanes. That policy remains in effect, at least so far.
Overall, the state DOT is studying construction of a whole network of “managed lanes;” if approved, it would represent the department’s most significant transportation investment in metro Atlanta of the next 20 years.
In a presentation to the state Transportation Board last week, DOT planning director Todd Long estimated the cost of the network at $16.2 billion. Private investors would contribute almost $9 billion in return for a cut of the toll revenue, leaving taxpayers to pay the remaining $7 billion.
Given that Georgia is expected to have only $20 billion to spend statewide over the next 20 years, that $7 billion would represent the lion’s share of state spending in metro Atlanta. Spending it on a project that would speed travel for only a relative few makes no sense to me.
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By Edwin Folven, 9/29/2011
A giant pig balloon flies atop the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, commemorating the release of the re-mastered collectors version of Pink Floyd’s albums, including “Dark Side of the Moon”. The inflatable pig was featured on the sleeve of the 1976 Pink Floyd album “Animals”, and pig balloons celebrating the release were also reportedly flown over buildings in New York City and London to mark the launch of the “Why Pink Floyd?” campaign. The campaign was launched by EMI, which is releasing CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs and music on digital formats, many containing the band’s archive material. The releases are designed to appeal to a wide cross section of fans, with music to excite first time listeners, and super-deluxe box sets targeted to dedicated fans.
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Study looks at why heart attacks cause so much more damage in late pregnancyJuly 2nd, 2012 in Cardiology
The top panels in the figure show the hearts of a non-pregnant and pregnant rat after a heart attack. The bottom panels show cross sections of the hearts -- note the damaged areas of the hearts that are shown in white are much larger during the late months of pregnancy. Credit: UCLA
Heart attacks during pregnancy are uncommon, but the prevalence of heart disease in pregnant mothers has increased over the past decade as more women delay pregnancy until they are older. These women, who are generally less physically active than their younger peers, tend to have higher cholesterol levels and are at greater risk of heart disease and diabetes.
While research has shown that the heart typically functions better during pregnancy due to a rise in cardiac pumping capacity to meet increased demands, a new UCLA study in rats and mice demonstrates that heart attacks occurring in the last trimester or late months of pregnancy result in worse heart function and more damaged heart tissue than heart attacks among non-pregnant females.
The research is published in the July edition of the peer-reviewed journal Basic Research in Cardiology.
"This very early study may help us identify and better understand the mechanisms involved in the higher risks of heart disease during pregnancy and may provide new opportunities to better treat pregnant women with cardiovascular complications and risk factors," said senior study author Dr. Mansoureh Eghbali, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
For the study, researchers assessed heart differences after heart attacks among late-stage pregnant female rats and non-pregnant animals. They found that the pregnant animals' hearts demonstrated poor functional recovery, with only 10 percent restoration of heart function, compared with 80 percent restoration among the non-pregnant group. The pregnant animals also had a four-fold increase in damaged heart tissue over the non-pregnant group.
"We observed worse heart function and a greater area of damage in hearts from the late-pregnancy group, compared to the non-pregnant group," said first author Dr. Jingyuan Li, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of anesthesiology at the Geffen School of Medicine.
"These findings show that the heart in late pregnancy may be particularly vulnerable to the type of injury caused by a heart attack," Eghbali said.
Surprisingly, one day after giving birth, the formerly pregnant animals' heart function was partially restored; after seven days, their heart function was almost fully restored to the levels of the corresponding non-pregnant state.
Researchers took a closer look to see what mechanisms were behind the heart's inability to effectively recover after such a cardiac event in late pregnancy.
After a heart attack caused by a lack of blood flow to the heart the reintroduction of blood to the affected area can sometimes lead to problems, a phenomenon known as reperfusion injury, they said. When the blood hits the oxygen-starved tissue, it can result in a sudden increase in oxygen radicals that cause cell damage.
The research team found that in late pregnancy, several components of this process are especially aggravated, including the dysfunction of mitochondria, which are key cellular sub-units that are involved in cell death, and the reduction of signaling proteins that protect the heart against reperfusion injury.
Eghbali noted that the next stages of research will focus on understanding in more detail why the heart in late pregnancy is at a higher risk for coronary heart disease and will explore interventions and identify promising candidates for drug therapy.
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles
"Study looks at why heart attacks cause so much more damage in late pregnancy." July 2nd, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-heart-late-pregnancy.html
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This health page was created to help pregnant women who have not been able to detect a heartbeat in early stages of pregnancy. I see this question posted a lot in the pregnancy forum, so I have decided to dig up some facts and do research on this topic. I hope it helps answer some of the questions members have about seeing or hearing a fetus' heartbeat before 8 weeks.
How and when a fetal heartbeat can be detected
1. An ultrasonic examination with apparatus based on the Doppler effect will under certain conditions make it possible to detect the fetal heartbeat beginning with the 7th to 8th week of pregnancy. When a pregnancy is over 13 weeks, the life or death of a fetus is established with certainty.
When can I see a fetus on an ultrasound Scan
The gestational sac can be visualized as early as four and a half weeks of gestation and the yolk sac at about five weeks. The embryo can be observed and measured by about five and a half weeks. Ultrasound can also very importantly confirm the site of the pregnancy is within the cavity of the uterus.
Sometimes a fetus is not found when a woman has ovulated later than suspected. If a fetus or gestational sac is not found by 6 weeks gestation then a second ultasound should take place 1-2 weeks later.
Normal Fetus Heart Rate
Normal heart rate at 6 weeks is around 90-110 beats per minute (bpm) and at 9 weeks is 140-170 bpm. At 5-8 weeks a bradycardia (less than 90 bpm) is associated with a high risk of miscarriage.
A regular heart rate of 140-170 is maintained at 8 weeks gestation.
If a normal heart rate is not detected by a transvaginal ultrasound at 9 weeks gestation, then your doctor may suspect a miscarriage.
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Building on a long history of involvement in complex renovation and historical preservation projects, TSAV is proud of the results of nearly two years of work with First Congregational Church of Atlanta. The project, involving a complete renovation of the National Historic Registry property and integration of campus wide systems, is considered a tremendous success. Sound quality being paramount in supporting the wide range of sophisticated worship and performance events pioneered by Dr. Andrews, the design team’s approach to the facility focused on intelligibility and accuracy. Leveraging first the natural properties of the space, TSAV’s engineering team working with Bose Professional’s Modeler and Auditioner systems then built electronic systems to enhance what was already there. The results are both pragmatic and impressive.
The First Congregational Church in Atlanta, established as a “gathered church” on May 26, 1867, is one of the oldest African American Congregational churches in the United States. "First Historic Restoration and Preservation, Inc. (the “First Historic”) is a tax-exempt organization, formed to assist in restoring and preserving one of the few African American owned buildings in Atlanta listed on the National Registry of Historic Buildings. First Congregational Church is completing the revitalization of it’s historic sanctuary (built in 1908) to restore its historic beauty while incorporating modernizing features that allow the church to meet the challenges of faith and life in the 21st Century.
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All the Pretty Horses is a beautifully written story set at the beginning of the end of two ages – the decline of the cowboy and the end of youth. It is 1949 and John Grady Cole is sixteen, ready to become a man and to put his love of horses to work. To do so, he and his seventeen-year-old friend, Lacey Rawlins, saddle-up and leave their Texas homes behind them in search of ranch work in Mexico. Of course, things aren’t always as simple as we think they should be. It isn’t for these boys either.
Reading the description, I thought this novel was as a bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, in which the protagonist goes through a tough time to learn valuable lessons which enable him to become an adult. Such stories often include a romantic relationship which helps to achieve this end. But while reading, I felt John Grady was already an adult. This kid knows his mind and how to handle himself. He is already equipped with a trade (braking horses) and is darn good at it. I’m thinking of Dickens’ Great Expectations, often considered a bildungsroman. Pip goes through much to grow up and I don’t think the pattern is the same for John Grady. John is perhaps reckless but not immature. He falls in love but is not a hopeless romantic like Pip. Having finished reading, I will concede this as a coming-of-age story because John undergoes a shift in the way he understands the world. He acquires a more “grown up” perspective. He always tries to do what he thinks is right but still struggles with his conscience. Finally, John recognizes that not everything in life can be explained and rationalized, that all events in life can’t be nicely wrapped up as we would like. More than the physical events that John experiences, it is this mental growth that signals adulthood. For me, watching how John processed his actions was as motivating to turn pages as reading for the plot.
I am a huge fan of McCarthy’s unconventional writing style. I’m amazed at his command of language and find his writing beautiful and inspiring. This is a text to take your time with, to enjoy the language and visualize what is being described. The descriptions are out of this world if you will allow yourself to sink into the text and not worry about finishing and finding out what happens. This is an “enjoy the journey” book and is not about getting to the end but appreciating the steps that lead to it. I realized on page one that I would have to slow down. I’m glad I did. Here’s an example of a description:
Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world. (McCarthy 67)
Wow, I just love that. I had to read it four times, once out loud to my husband, and we gushed about it (much like I’m doing now). It just so happens to be storming outside right now, too, and that’s just how the lightning is. On another note, I enjoyed the Spanish mingled throughout the text and was surprised at how much I remembered from class. But if you don’t know Spanish don’t worry as the text is 98% English.
Every time I opened this novel, I felt completely transported to the West. It was like I was hanging in the clouds watching John Grady ride his horse. I think that’s why I enjoyed this book so much. This is book one of the “Border Trilogy” but All the Pretty Horses stands well on its own. If I didn’t know there were more books I would have thought it was a standalone novel. Book two will be in my reading list for the future.
Publisher: Vintage, 1993 Source: IC Public Library
Rating: 4 Stars Pages: 301
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Leather fetishismLeather fetishism is the name popularly used to describe a fetishistic attraction to people wearing leather, or in certain cases, to the garments themselves.
One reason why leather may be fetishised is perhaps that the garment forms a "second skin" that acts as a fetishistic surrogate for the wearer's own skin. This is heightened by the fact that the leather was originally animal skin. The smell of the leather and the creaking noises it makes is often an erotic stimulus for people who fetishise leather.
Leather can also be polished to be shiny and can also be produced in bright colours, adding further visual stimulus to add to the physical sensations produced by the material.
Leather enthusiasts often fantasize about trades where leather clothing is commonly worn. In particular, some leather fetishists fantasize about cowboys or bikers and their leather clothing.
The feel of tight leather garments may also be viewed as a kind of sexual bondage, and much bondage equipment is made out of leather. This led to the term "leather culture" being applied in the 1960s to describe a particular American sadomasochistic subculture.
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Certification for food and fibre
There are several certification schemes that apply to food and fibre products. They include certifications that apply to:
- social issues
- organic products
- sustainable stewardship
Social certification tells buyers that the producers have received a fair price for their products and that other social and environmental standards have been met. Fair Trade is the most famous of these certifications.
An organic product is an agricultural product that has been certified as organic. A product can be certified if it is produced using the methods outlined by the Canadian Organic Standards [link] and certified by an accredited certification body.
The Canada Organic
regulations and logo came into use on 1 July 2009 in response to requests by the organic sector and consumers to develop a regulated system for organic agricultural products. The regulations define specific requirements that organic products have to meet in order to be labelled as organic or to bear the Canada Organic logo. The use of the logo is voluntary, so it will not appear on all certified organic products.
assures buyers that they are purchasing products from sustainably managed resources. Products carrying a stewardship label are individually certified to come from stocks that are well managed and meet the social, economic and environmental requirements of the standard. Every company involved in the production, manufacture, trading and labelling of a product must be certified for a product to carry the stewardship label.
For example, the Marine Stewardship Council
standard for sustainable fishing is the standard that a fishery must meet to become certified, which tells buyers and consumers that their seafood comes from a well managed and sustainable source. Fisheries that receive this certification demonstrate that they are using good management practices to safeguard jobs, secure fish stocks for the future and to protect the marine environment.
Other food and fibre certifications
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Victoria's native grasslands once spread from Melbourne to Portland, but scientists now believe as little as 1% of high quality grassland habitat now remains.
Victoria's heritage-listed Alpine National Park is one of the finest national parks in Australia, but it is coming under increasing pressure from invasive pest plants and animals.
The VNPA's Phil Ingamells found himself surrounded by cow pats after venturing into the Alpine National Park during controversial alpine cattle grazing trials.
Some of Melbourne's best known heritage sites got a taste of what it's like to be treated like a cow paddock in March 2011.
In February 2011 Tony Burke, federal environment minister for the environment, saw for himself the damage cattle are causing in the Alpine National Park.
Cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park is already causing damage to fragile wetland ecosystems and habitat of the nationally threatened Alpine Tree Frog.
From the Twelve Apostles Marine National Park to Port Phillip Heads, Merri Marine Sanctuary and the Flinders Pier, Victoria's underwater world is filled with beautiful surprises.
Local resident and budding marine biologist Stefan Backhausen talks about why Somers reef is such a unique place and why it needs marine national park protection.
Take a tour of Victoria's unique, diverse and beautiful marine environment and see why it's worth protecting, all from the comfort of your own home!
Our new marine conservation television ad aims to raise awareness about the threats facing Victoria's unique marine environment, and encourage people to be part of the solution.
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“In the bright new age of whale science, Graham Burnett's astounding and wide-ranging report from the front lines of cetacean studies is hugely welcome. Rooted in historical fact, political, philosophical, and scientific analysis, it lays out the sorry story of the interaction of humans and whales in an era that redefined the ever-uneasy meeting of natural and human history. By turns enlightening, lively, and disturbing, always intuitive and drawing on a wealth of knowledge as vast as its subject, Burnett’s book is set to become a new high water mark in a still unfolding story.”
Philip Hoare, author of The Whale
“The wait is over. We finally have a comprehensive, brilliantly written chronicle of science in the history of whaling—or whaling in the history of science. Graham Burnett’s leviathanic opus covers everything you ever wanted to know—or didn’t know you wanted to know—about the biology, conservation, politics, and history of what is perhaps man’s most troubled relationship with wild animals. This masterly study eclipses every cetological work that precedes it. Well, maybe not Moby-Dick.”
Richard Ellis, author of The Great Sperm Whale
The Sounding of the Whale
Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
D. Graham Burnett
|Publication Date: 31 January 2012 ||Cloth • $45.00 • £29.00 |
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“In the early twentieth century, whale biology was restricted to the flensing decks of factory ships, where scientists were in danger of being sucked ‘into the belly of the beast’ of modern whaling.
D. Graham Burnett artfully renders the history, and the often fractious relationship, between biologists and whalers; I felt as if I had discovered a trail of ambergris meticulously arrayed along the shores
of twentieth-century cetology. The Sounding of the Whale is a work of stunning scholarship
and a bracing read.”
Joe Roman, author of Listed and Whale
D. Graham Burnett is professor of history and history of science at Princeton University. He is an editor at Cabinet magazine and the author of four books, including A Trial by Jury, Trying Leviathan, and Masters of All They Surveyed. He is available for interviews
Please contact Levi Stahl at (773) 702-0289 or firstname.lastname@example.org for more information.
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John Kanter: 603-271-2461
Liza Poinier: 603-271-3211
April 14, 2010
N.H. Fish and Game Eligible to Receive $740,673 in Federal Funds to Conserve Nongame Wildlife; Matching Funds Needed
CONCORD, N.H. -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced that the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is eligible to receive State Wildlife Grants through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, totaling $740,673, to conserve wildlife and their habitats. The State Wildlife Grants Program is designed to provide annual funding to fish and wildlife agencies that have established wildlife action plans. New Hampshire’s plan has been in place since 2006.
"These federal funds provide more than 75% of the money available for New Hampshire to accomplish targeted conservation for species that are not hunted, fished or trapped," said John Kanter, Coordinator of Fish and Game's Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program. "We're clearly proud of the Nongame Program's successes, such as restoring Karner blue butterflies to Concord and bringing terns to the seacoast, but our challenges are steeper every year. We're battling White Nose Syndrome, a devastating bat disease; and trying to save New England cottontails, which are on the brink of disappearing from New Hampshire," Kanter added. "Just being able to account for so many species is difficult; we don't even have basic information about the numbers and status of most of the creatures we care for, so gathering this data is a critical part of our mission."
To receive the available federal grant funds, Fish and Game's Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program must provide matching funds from non-federal sources. Each year, the Nongame Program conducts a fundraising campaign to generate private donations, which the state matches up to $50,000 (the 2010 campaign is underway through June 30; donate by going to www.wildnh.com/Wildlife/Nongame/support_nongame.htm). Volunteers, dollars contributed by conservation partners and other non-federal grants are also used as match to qualify for and use the federal funds.
One of the most important impacts of the State Wildlife Grant funding in New Hampshire has been the creation and leveraging of the N.H. Wildlife Action Plan. It is used by a variety of agencies and organizations to rank the wildlife conservation impact of land protection efforts and identify the state's most valuable habitats. It has been adopted by the N.H. Department of Environmental Services for evaluating mitigation projects and is used by the Open Space Institute (OSI) and other organizations to rank land protection projects for funding. OSI alone has pledged more than $1 million to protect highest value habitats in New Hampshire as identified by the Wildlife Action Plan.
"With this year's money, we'll be accelerating our efforts to save New England cottontails, to work with N.H. Audubon to prevent the further decline of whip-poor-wills and other shrubland birds, and to develop a recovery strategy for black racer snakes by following the movements of individuals using radio transmitters," said Kanter.
Across the nation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will distribute more than $76.5 million to the fish and wildlife agencies of the 50 states, commonwealths, the District of Columbia, and territories to help conserve and recover imperiled fish and wildlife through the State Wildlife Grant Program. The $76.5 million dollar figure represents a significant increase in funding over the 2009 levels. Since the program's inception, Congress has provided over $573 million for conservation work on public and private lands.
"The State Wildlife Grant program is part of the Department of the Interior's ongoing commitment to the essential conservation efforts of states," said Salazar. "In our challenging economic climate, the program ensures that states will have the necessary resources to help conserve their highest priority wildlife, plants, and habitat -- an investment that will pay dividends for years to come."
Support for the State Wildlife Grant program has been advocated by Teaming with Wildlife, a coalition of more than 5,000 conservation-minded organizations and businesses (www.teaming.com) nationwide. The coalition is also working to support legislation that will dedicate greater and more reliable funding to wildlife conservation becoming necessary because of climate change. New Hampshire’s Teaming with Wildlife contact is Fish and Game wildlife educator Judith Silverberg (email@example.com).
For more about the national State Wildlife Grant funding program, visit http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov.
To learn more about the work of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department's Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program, visit www.wildnh.com/nongame.
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Raincoat flickers to rhythm of rain
A coat that glows when it rains has been created by a US-based designer.
Elise Co, of design and technology firm Aeolab in Los Angeles, will be discussing the latest version of her Puddlejumper coat at a textiles show in France this month.
Puddlejumper is a luminescent, nylon raincoat that turns the prospect of walking in the rain into an opportunity for play and performance, says Co, a former professor of new media.
It's coated with PVC and has water sensors on its back and left sleeve.
The sensors are wired via interior electronics to electroluminescent panels on the front of the jacket.
When water hits one of the sensors, the corresponding lamp lights up on the front, creating a flickering pattern of illumination that mirrors the rhythm of rainfall, says Co.
"You get a pattern of lights that really looks like water falling," she says.
Co says the electroluminescent panels are of the same kind of material used as backlighting for phones.
The material is usually purchased pre-manufactured as plastic sheets that are cut up and wired together.
But Co mixed up the chemicals that make the panels and silk-screened them onto the jacket by hand, and hand printed the water sensors onto the jacket.
Co will help facilitate a workshop on wearable technology in Canberra next year called reSkin, where she will discuss her work.
"Although technology has the bad rap of being dry or technical, at the very least, intimidating, it is great to illuminate how creative a process it is, and how doable," she says.
"I especially like the mixture of wearable plus technology because clothing and accessories on the body are so expressive and design oriented, not only visually but also in terms of materiality and usability and wearability."
Co says her raincoats are still prototypes but the fact they are made of industrial materials mean they could be developed further.
"There is no reason why they couldn't be made durable enough to be worn normally," she says.
"It would be a matter of doing tests and tweaking the construction process to make sure they're protected well."
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Find your career path using Science Careers myIDP
As a graduate student, you are spending intensive time and effort pursuing your Ph.D. degree, but it's never too early to focus on how to leverage your expertise into a career by using Science Careers Individual Development Plan called myIDP. This unique, web-based career-planning tool is tailored to meet the needs of Ph.D. students and postdocs in the sciences, and will help you explore career possibilities and set goals to follow the career path that best fits you.
The Individual Development Plan (IDP) concept is commonly used in industry to help employees define and pursue their career goals. In 2003, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) proposed an IDP framework for postdoctoral fellows in the sciences.
- Exercises to help you examine your skills, interests, and values
- A list of 20 scientific career paths with a prediction of which ones best fit your skills and interests
- A tool for setting strategic goals for the coming year, with optional reminders to keep you on track
- Articles and resources to guide you through the process
This service is free and only requires you to register an account. To start an account, please click here. Once you have registered, we strongly encourage you to start the assessments of skills, interests and values in order to discover which career path would best suit you. (These items are located under the second heading in the left-hand column.)
To learn more about the value of IDPs for scientists, read this article about the myIPD series.
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The Danger of Climate Change Denial
As a climate scientist, I have seen my integrity perniciously attacked, politicians have demanded I be fired from my job, and I’ve been subject to congressional and criminal investigations. I’ve even had death threats made against me. And why? Because I study climate science and some people don’t like what my colleagues and I have discovered. Their attacks on scientists are part of a destructive public-relations campaign being waged in a cynical effort to discredit climate science.
My work first appeared on the world stage in the late 1990s with the publication of the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which featured what is now popularly known as the hockey-stick graph. Using what we call proxy data – information gathered from records in nature, like tree rings, corals, and ice cores – my co-authors and I pieced together the puzzle of climate variability over the past 1,000 years. What we found was that the recent warming, which coincides with the burning of fossil fuels during the Industrial Revolution, sticks out like the blade of an upturned hockey stick.
By itself, this finding didn’t indicate that humans were solely responsible for the warming, but it was a compelling demonstration that something unusual was happening and, by inference, that it was probably related to human activity. Over the last few decades, the evidence, based on work from thousands of studies, has become much more robust and conclusive.
Nevertheless, our graph depicting the anomalous warming trend became an icon in the climate-change debate. Since then, I’ve found myself a reluctant, and almost accidental, public figure in the larger discussion about human-caused climate change.
Being caught in the middle of this “debate” has given me an opportunity to talk about the stark reality and dimensions of the problem. As the staid scientific journal Nature put it, climate researchers are in a street fight with those who seek to discredit the accepted scientific evidence, and we must fight back against the disinformation that denies this real and present danger to the planet.
Make no mistake: Skepticism is fundamental to good science. Whenever a conclusion is drawn or a proposition is made, the demand that it stand up to scrutiny is the self-correcting machinery that drives us towards a better understanding of the way the world works. In this sense, every scientist should be a skeptic. Good science responds to good faith challenges, and to contradictory evidence that is presented, and climate-change science should be no different.
Unfortunately, many of the people who call themselves climate skeptics and have attacked my work and the work of my colleagues are not really skeptics at all, but climate contrarians or climate deniers. Their skepticism only runs one way – against studies that point to the reality of a changing climate. They dispute evidence with the flimsiest of arguments, which don’t stand up to the least bit of scientific scrutiny. A recent attack on NASA’s climate scientists by people, including some astronauts, with little to no expertise in climate scienceis a powerful case in point.
With the help of well-oiled politicians, ill-equipped and often complicit media outlets, and vested interests like the fossil-fuel industry, climate deniers have tried to portray the evidence for human-caused climate change as some house of cards – a hoax that’s teetering on a single hockey-stick graph. In reality, the evidence for human-caused climate change is more like a vast puzzle, a few pieces of which come from paleoclimate data like what my colleagues and I studied in our hockey-stick paper.
The climate-change policy debate is often framed purely as a question of science. Science is a necessary part of the debate, but the question of when, how, and if we adapt to climate change and reduce the emissions that drive it is also a necessary part of the debate, and must be informed by economics, politics, and ethics.
By digging up and burning fossil fuels, humans are releasing much of the carbon that had been buried in the earth over the eons into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide and other gases. Those gases are acting like a heat-trapping blanket around the planet.
If we continue down this path, we will be leaving our children and grandchildren a different planet – one with more widespread drought and flooding, greater competition for diminishing water and food resources, and national-security challenges arising from that competition.
As a father of a six-year-old daughter, I believe we have an ethical responsibility to make sure that she doesn’t look back and ask why we left her generation a fundamentally degraded planet relative to the one we started with.
There’s a tendency for people to be so overwhelmed by the challenge and the threat of climate change that they go from concern to despair. They shouldn’t. While some warming is already locked in, there’s still time to turn the ship around. We can still limit our emissions in the decades to come in a way that prevents some of the most serious impacts of climate change from occurring.
The worst thing we can do is bury our heads in the sand and pretend that climate change doesn’t exist. We can, and should, have the worthy debate regarding what to do about it –a discussion that is sorely needed – from Washington to Beijing and back again.
Michael E. Mann is a member of the Pennsylvania State University faculty, holding joint positions in the Departments of Meteorology and Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with other scientists who participated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He recently published a book “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars” describing his experiences at the center of the climate change debate.
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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
If everyone paid cash, you make another 2% for that bookstore. Bring us a friend or a new customer once a year. We don’t want people to shop here out of moral obligation or guilt. We want to provide serendipity, literary events.
Because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.
We have probably passed the point where there can be any credible objections to the existence and use of electronic readers. (I like the feel and smell of books as much as anybody, but come now: you can keep all of Montaigne and Tolstoy on a phone in your pocket. That’s amazing.) And booksellers have wholeheartedly embraced the online selling that keeps them in business. Yet bookstores provide something irreplaceable that we shouldn’t easily relinquish. Their knowing charms and surprises (even, admittedly, their parochialism and occasional cluelessness) spring from the people who run them and who decide what they will carry. Bookstores are, in essence, personal libraries. In this way, they are macrocosms of the books they contain—there is life inside them.
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California's Safer Consumer Products Law
There are some chemicals and applications that warrant urgent action, such as phthalates in toys or carcinogens in cosmetics.
When a chemical is particularly harmful or used in products marketed to vulnerable age groups, the Breast Cancer Fund takes targeted action.
Unfortunately, there's a bigger issue at work: our entire chemicals management system is broken. Right now, chemicals linked to diseases like breast cancer can be used in everyday products without warning to consumers. That's where the California Safer Consumer Products program fits in.
What kinds of products contain chemicals linked to breast cancer?Explore by category >
The foundation of this initiative is two state laws that the Breast Cancer Fund helped secure passage of in 2008. These laws granted the state authority—for the very first time—to regulate the chemicals used in everyday consumer products and to create a public online database of health hazards associated with these chemicals.
The Breast Cancer Fund has been working for the last four years to ensure proper implementation of this important program.
Now the Brown administration is poised to finally begin doing the work. Regulations outlining the specifics of the program are currently being vetted through a formal approval process and are slated to be finalized on July 1, 2013.
Once the program begins, there is much work to be done, but we are anxious for this important milestone so that we can stop talking about how to eliminate toxics in products and actually start doing the work.
Related Blog Posts
Breast Cancer Fund Director of Program and Policy Janet Nudelman explores the threats to men's health from personal care products in this Huffington Post blog.
Reaction to Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed changes to Prop. 65, the state's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act.
UC-Berkeley study finds metals linked to breast cancer in lipsticks and lip glosses.
Breast Cancer and the Environment (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences podcast, 3/15/2013)
Breast Cancer Fund President and CEO Jeanne Rizzo talks about why translating breast cancer research is critical for the decisions we make in our everyday lives.
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An Illinois research team has succeeded in overcoming one major obstacle to a promising technology that simultaneously reduces atmospheric carbon dioxide and produces fuel.
University of Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Paul Kenis and his research group joined forces with researchers at Dioxide Materials, a startup company, to produce a catalyst that improves artificial photosynthesis. The company, in the university Research Park, was founded by retired chemical engineering professor Richard Masel. The team reported their results in the journal Science.
Artificial photosynthesis is the process of converting carbon dioxide gas into useful carbon-based chemicals, most notably fuel or other compounds usually derived from petroleum, as an alternative to extracting them from biomass.
In plants, photosynthesis uses solar energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) and water to sugars and other hydrocarbons. Biofuels are refined from sugars extracted from crops such as corn. However, in artificial photosynthesis, an electrochemical cell uses energy from a solar collector or a wind turbine to convert CO2 to simple carbon fuels such as formic acid or methanol, which are further refined to make ethanol and other fuels.
"The key advantage is that there is no competition with the food supply," said Masel, a co-principal investigator of the paper and CEO of Dioxide Materials, "and it is a lot cheaper to transmit electricity than it is to ship biomass to a refinery."
However, one big hurdle has kept artificial photosynthesis from vaulting into the mainstream: The first step to making fuel, turning carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, is too energy intensive. It requires so much electricity to drive this first reaction that more energy is used to produce the fuel than can be stored in the fuel.
The Illinois group used a novel approach involving an ionic liquid to catalyze the reaction, greatly reducing the energy required to drive the process. The ionic liquids stabilize the intermediates in the reaction so that less electricity is needed to complete the conversion.
The researchers used an electrochemical cell as a flow reactor, separating the gaseous CO2 input and oxygen output from the liquid electrolyte catalyst with gas-diffusion electrodes. The cell design allowed the researchers to fine-tune the composition of the electrolyte stream to improve reaction kinetics, including adding ionic liquids as a co-catalyst.
"It lowers the overpotential for CO2 reduction tremendously," said Kenis, who is also a professor of mechanical science and engineering and affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. "Therefore, a much lower potential has to be applied. Applying a much lower potential corresponds to consuming less energy to drive the process."
Next, the researchers hope to tackle the problem of throughput. To make their technology useful for commercial applications, they need to speed up the reaction and maximize conversion.
"More work is needed, but this research brings us a significant step closer to reducing our dependence on fossil fuels while simultaneously reducing CO2 emissions that are linked to unwanted climate change," Kenis said.
Explore further: Working backward: Computer-aided design of zeolite templates
More information: The paper, "Ionic LiquidMediated Selective Conversion of CO2 to CO at Low Overpotentials," is available online at www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/09/28/science.1209786
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With everyone trying to be more eco-friendly whether it be to recycle or plant trees in the neighborhood, there’s now a great way to support the movement of a greener earth by wearing sunglasses! Smith Optics uses recycled and renewable materials that will help to reduce damages to the environment as well as reduce carbon footprints. They make their eco-friendly sunwear from a material called Rilsan Clear derived from castor oil. And their cases are made from COCONUT!
Sporty Smith Shelter=love for the environment
For all those fashionistas out there, I know how you feel. Sometimes things that are good for the environment are not always pretty. Have no fear! Revo makes some pretty stylish ones as well. So we can all do our best to support Mother Earth and be fabulous at the same time. Check these out from EyeSave.com!
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I have used this book extensively since the mid 80's and love it. It has educated me on many different varieties of plants, how to grow, how to fertilize, how to care for the plants, and plant requirements. It's my plant bible. I will never loan it although I've been asked to do so. And sometimes I just sit on my deck, look across my fish pond at my flower beds and read the book over and over.
This old standard (first published in 1929) is the Bible for gardening in Houston. It is a general gardening book, so many areas are treated. Some are necessarily quite brief. As it is old, it does not cover some of the newer introductions. However, it is the plant lists that have been most useful to me. They are very thorough. Indeed everyone who gardens in Houston, should, at the outset, acquire this book. The index is excellent.
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Daniel Altschuler: A Day Without Immigrants: Georgia's Anti-Immigration Law
This week, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the most controversial sections of HB 87, but the law is already having an impact: the economic devastation caused by scaring away immigrants. Georgia is an agricultural heartland, producing peaches, Vidalia onions, berries, and a host of other produce--all of which need human hands to pick. In recent decades, native-born Americans have turned their backs on such daunting, seasonal, outdoor work; immigrant laborers have picked up the slack. But now these workers are fleeing Georgia, leaving the state with an estimated 11,000-worker shortfall. The estimated price tag for farmers' lost production: approximately $300 million.
Farmers and other business leaders warned Governor Nathan Deal and state legislators about this likely outcome. But Deal and company refused to listen, instead heeding dubious estimates by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a restrictionist organization deemed a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its ties to eugenicists and white separatists.
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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
Anycasting is an Internet Protocol routing technique in which the same address may exist at several points in the network, with the caveat that each instance of the address must provide exactly the same services. While the term anycast came into prominence with IPv6 work, it can be quite useful with IPv4. The technique, while somewhat counterintuitive, is useful for load distribution, fault tolerance, or both. IPv4 has no infrastructure explicitly for anycast while IPv6 does, but the technique can be applied in both areas, with different address structures. Miller discusses "shared anycast", which is different from the IPv6 specific work in RFC 4291, which superseded the RFC 3513 mentioned in the Miller paper.
Traditionally, an IP address, inside a given routing/addressing domain, needed to be unique. In this discussion, assume the IPv4 address 22.214.171.124 belongs to a single server. That is indeed true in a "flat" address space of a single IP subnet (i.e., network prefix). When the environment is split by routers into logical subnets — remember that a router commonly receives different paths to what it assumes is the same address — picks the "best", and puts the associated prefix and outgoing address in its routing table. It was realized, however, that the router, unless very deliberate steps are taken, really does not know if two potential paths to an address are merely different ways to get to the same instance of an address, or if they represent unique paths to different instances of that address.
As long as the behavior of multiple instances of the address are identical, it makes no difference (to the requesting client) whether server A, B, or C actually executes the request.
The IPv6 architecture describes it as:
Anycast: An identifier for a set of interfaces (typically belonging to different nodes). A packet sent to an anycast address is delivered to one of the interfaces identified by that address (the "nearest" one, according to the routing protocols' measure of distance).
Contrast to multicast
Multicasting is essentially a mirror image of anycasting. In multicasting, a source S sends to a group G of recipients. Broadcasting is a special case where G contains all possible recipients. It is assumed that G has more than one member.
An anycast source S sends to a destination address D, which S believes to be a single recipient. In reality, there are multiple instances of D, any one of which can respond to the message addressed to D.
Load balancing case
In the illustration to the left, there are three instances of a server, which carries out a read-only function; it makes no difference to the client which server actually satisfies its request.
The simplistic routing mechanism here adds up the costs of routes to a destination. From router 1, server A is closest. From router 3, server C has the least cost.
Fault tolerance case
Now, simplify the scenario to have but one host. As long as server A is up, router 1 will see a cost of 1 to reach server A. The routing process was aware of other routes to 126.96.36.199, but there was a cost of 2 to server B and a cost of 3 to server C. Router 1 only put the lowest-cost route into its routing table.
But what if server A fails? The router knows other paths to the same address, so it will install the path that goes through router 2. The client will still receive exactly the same service from exactly the same address.
Of course, if client 2 reconnected to Router 3, it would have the lowest cost path to server C as long as Server C stayed up. If Server C fails, router 3 would change its route to 188.8.131.52 to the path to Server B.
Anycast works well for any application that is read-only and where the relevant servers have a common database. One common application is the root servers for the Domain Name Service: While the official list has tens of named servers, there are actually hundreds of geographically distributed machines.
Another application is in Internet Protocol infrastructure security, where the "application protocol" is IP itself. Large networks, especially of Internet Service Providers, may have multiple sinkholes for diverting hostile traffic away from the true IP address of the server or router under attack, as well as providing a place to analyze the threat. When an attack is detected, the server under attack would be useless due to overload, so its address is effectively reassigned as the more-preferred anycast address of a set of sinkholes. The sinkhole nearest the ingress router does the analysis of a single-stream denial of service (DoS) attack, while anycast-addressed sinkholes respond well under distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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Beekeepers agree more research is needed because bees continue to perish from colony collapse disorder and other ailments. But some say they want to be able to choose what research to support, and others say they just can't afford the tax with their businesses struggling.
Beekeepers must approve the proposal in a summer referendum for it to take effect.
The plan calls for the creation of a California Apiary Research Commission that would tax any beekeeper with more than 50 colonies of bees at a rate of up to $1 per hive.
California attracts beekeepers from all over the nation every spring for almond pollination.
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The Grail & the 12 Tribes
These two subjects are something whose true facts are lost simply
because it has been a very long time since they may have been.
What are the origins of the Twelve Tribes? The Eleven are so difused
today, that it is difficult to divide them out and group them according
to tribe. Yes names, but that is like saying that I am only a Sinclair.
I'm not. Through me are at least four other clan names and added into
that are the non-Scots who married them and produced children. And that
is eight generations.
So why are we today, trying to define something so ephemeral? Are we
like Jesus, trying as the good shepherd to find the lost lamb and bring
it to the fold to be safe? There has been much written and even more
speculation, but seemingly, no one to date has been able to find a
central place that this mssing group went to.
The Holy Grail - like the stories told by the minstrels and troubadors
of old. Told and sung of and changed to fit whatever the singer wanted
to illustrate, embroider, until whatever real fact(s) are forever lost.
Back in the late 1940s or so, Thomas Costain wrote of medieval times and
incorporated the story of The Grail into one of his books. Very
persuasively put, I thought then.
Back when I was eight or nine or so, the story of Eric the Red and Lief
Ericcson came to the fore. The story was told and retold and I first
read it as a child's book. It is evidently Norwegian history. According
to Daniel Boorstin's "The Discoverer's" the story has always been
known, yet when it came into print, it was as if the story of the ice
ages and land bridge between Asia and North America - pure fantasy.
That someone could actually live in Greenland. That Greenland could have
been warm enough to support farming. It was all over by 1369, when other
ways of getting the imports Norway/Europe wanted could be obtained in
other ways. The story has now slipped once more into obscurity. To that
now add Prince Henry's trip to North America - what is the date of that
trip? Pure conjecture on my part, would Henry have known about the
Greenland colony? Of Ericcson's trip and "Vinland, the Good"?
The end statement is this - that as long as there is something to tie to
and that information is kept in some other manner than oral tradition,
which as we know is not the way to keep to the facts and not too far in
the past there is a chance that it may be retrieved and
And yet one or more sentences from me. To Laurel and her patience. Her
desire to bring out all the stories of our family. I promised her I
would bring out the story of at least one of "my" Arthurs. But then I
did not want to put something in that be full of holes and could not be
authenticated, so I have not told the stories, at least not as a
statement, but rather as a question to be pursued. So thank you Laurel.
I am still delving for facts to put down as truth, not speculation.
[ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, firstname.lastname@example.org
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the European Union, an exhibition in Rome celebrates the art of member countries. The UK is represented by JW Turner.
The exhibits range from ancient Greek artefacts to more modern painters. This 1941 oil is by Estonia's Erik Haamer.
One of the newest of the member states, Bulgaria, has a number of works representing its rich artistic heritage. This dates from the Byzantine period.
The world famous French sculpture Rodin is one of the attractions. The Thinker is one of Rodin's most iconic pieces, and various versions can be seen around the world.
Germany has loaned the Albrecht Duerer masterpiece Portrait of Jakob Muffel, painted in 1526.
Ireland's Jack Butler Yeats's The Singing Horseman (1949) shows his development into Expressionism.
Tiziano, better known as Titian, is one of Italy's most famous and beloved painters.
Joseph Kutter is considered one of Luxembourg's most important painters. He lived from 1894 to 1941 and was greatly influenced by the Impressionists.
Spain's Velazquez's popularity has endured through the centuries. This painting, View of the Garden of Villa Medici in Rome, was inspired by his time in the Italian capital.
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A Childish Miracle; The Great Stone Face; Ethan Brand; The Canterbury Pilgrims; The Devil in Manuscript; My Kinsman, Major Molineux
he, smiling with a mother's pride; and, smiling at herself, too, for being so proud of them. "What other children could have made anything so like a little girl's figure out of snow at the first trial? Well; but now I must finish Peony's new frock, for his grandfather is coming to-morrow, and I want the little fellow to look handsome."
So she took up the frock, and was soon as busily at work again with her needle as the two children with their snow-image. But still, as the needle travelled hither and thither through the seams of the dress, the mother made her toil light and happy by listening to the airy voices of Violet and Peony. They kept talking to one another all the time, their tongues being quite as active as their feet and hands. Except at intervals, she could not distinctly hear what was said, but had merely a sweet impression that they were in a most loving mood, and were enjoying themselves highly, and that the business of making the snow-image went prosperously on. Now and then, however, when V
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At the outbreak of war, Ian Fleming was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander RNVR in the Naval Intelligence Division. He entered the now famous Room 39 in the Admiralty as Personal Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiral John Godfrey.
Fleming worked tirelessly throughout the war and was involved with the work of every section of naval intelligence. As one of the key members of NID 17, he played a pivotal role in coordinating special intelligence to ensure the smooth running of the British and Allied war machine.
Fleming’s energetic personality and imagination and keen organisational skills were valuable attributes. He attended countless committees where he contributed to the work of the Political Warfare Executive, Joint Intelligence Committee, Special Operations Executive and Secret Intelligence Service. Fleming’s distinctive literary style can be recognised in the daily situation reports and regular draft memos he wrote. He is also credited with building a strong list of civilian contacts outside Whitehall on which the Intelligence machine came to rely. It is now known that he liaised between the Admiralty and Bletchley Park, the top secret codebreaking institution in Buckinghamshire.
Fleming’s war work took him on official trips overseas. In 1941 and 1942 he and Godfrey made confidential missions to the US to report back on US intelligence organisations and to coordinate them with those in the UK. Their work with William Stephenson, the legendary ‘Intrepid’, and ‘Wild’ Bill Donovan contributed to the establishment of the office that was to go on to become the CIA.
Fleming’s work also took him to France, Spain and North Africa, where he visited British embassies and nurtured Operation Golden Eye – a plan to provide for the defence of Gibraltar should the Germans try to invade through Spain. He also travelled as a representative of NID to Ceylon, Jamaica and Australia and to conferences in Cairo and Tehran.
In 1942, inspired by German intelligence commandos, Fleming began to shape the 30 Assault Unit, a detachment of intelligence personnel whose work was to accompany troops on raids with the purpose of obtaining intelligence, such as cyphers, and weapons. The unit grew from a strength of about 60 in 1942 to nearer 450 by the end of the war.
Patrick Beesly, an NID colleague of Fleming, wrote in his biography of Admiral Godfrey, ‘Those of us who saw Ian at close quarters during the war are agreed that he made a very great contribution indeed to NID’s success.’ Admiral Godfrey himself said: ‘Ian should have been DNI and I his naval adviser’.
It is unquestionably true that so much of what Ian saw and learnt in his role at the NID found its way into James Bond adventures. Admiral Godfrey is generally considered to be the inspiration for M.
There was a creak from M’s chair and Bond looked across the table at the man who held a great deal of his affection and all his loyalty and obedience.
Diamonds Are Forever, 1956
Ian himself said, ‘I could not have had a more interesting time.’ However, like everyone else involved in intelligence, he had signed the Official Secrets Act, and he never spoke openly about his wartime work.In 1942, he attended a U boat conference in Jamaica, and although it rained heavily while he was there, he fell in love with the country and promised to return after the war and build himself a house.
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UPDATED: Facebook’s Sync Contacts feature on its iPhone app is the latest target of fearful critics who are wondering if the social networking giant has gone too far in peering into your personal information.
Arthur’s concern, which is built largely off a previous blog post from developer Kurt von Moos, is that Facebook now has access to all your contact data from your phone, and he worries that Facebook can take that information from your phone list and share it on Facebook. Or if someone obtains your phone, they can access all your friends’ information. Another blogger worries that sharing of data without user consent actually violates Apple’s App Store guidelines.
Arthur points to your Facebook phone list as a way to suggest that there are phone numbers inadvertently shared by your friends after syncing their phones. I’m not quite certain about that, because most of the numbers in my list appear to have been pulled from the profile page information that my friends willingly gave up.
The basic worry from Arthur is that Facebook hasn’t been upfront about pulling your data from your phone and explaining what it’s doing with that information. Even with the notice from Facebook prior to syncing that you should “make sure your friends are comfortable with any use you make of their information,” he warns that Facebook is in possession of more of your data than you might have realized.
Facebook is no stranger to privacy concerns. The company routinely pushes the boundaries, then retreats occasionally in the face of opposition. This issue touches on some of the inherent security concerns around cloud services, which, by their nature, store some of your personal data on remote servers. But this isn’t exactly new. Google and Apple have lots of your personal information and contact data stored in the cloud. Palm also brought similar features with its Synergy interface.
While there’s a legitimate concern about how Facebook handles this cell phone data — something I hope they further clarify — it also speaks to just how big a target Facebook has become. The company has grown in size to the point that, like Google, it can’t do much without prompting warnings from critics. With more than 500 million users, Facebook enjoys an ubiquity that can be unnerving for many. It behooves Facebook to be even more cautious with future moves or at least, provide even more transparency, especially for less savvy users who are increasingly entrusting more and more of their lives to the social network.
UPDATE: Facebook refuted Arthur’s charge Thursday and said synced phone numbers from a mobile phone are not shared with a user’s friends online but are only available in a user’s private phone list. That would make them vulnerable to hacking but it’s no different than any other cloud service, a spokesperson told the Main Online.
“Only you can see your Phonebook on Facebook; it can’t be seen by anyone else,” the spokesoman said. “This is the same as online phonebooks or email contact lists many people already have.”
Related research from GigaOM Pro (subscription req’d):
- Facebook Tries to Navigate the Privacy Storm
- Could Privacy be Facebook’s Waterlook?
- Google Fighting on Two Fronts: China and Privacy
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- change ups
HSA The New Benefit On The Block
Billed as a way to curtail the escalating cost of providing health benefits, health savings accounts allow employers to set up personal accounts to help employees pay for primary care.
Both employees and employers may make pre-tax contributions to the tax-free accounts.
Part of the Medicare reform bill that Congress passed and President Bush signed late last year, health savings accounts potentially could usher in major changes in employer-sponsored health benefits. In theory, they provide more choices to employees and employers who are struggling to cope with escalating costs and by involving consumers financially in their health-care decisions.
“It’s going to be huge,” said Jeff Rubleski, sales team manager in West Michigan for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the state’s largest health insurer.
Rubleski believes that health savings accounts have the potential to do for employee health benefits what the creation of the 401(k) accounts in the 1980s did for retirement planning.
“It’s going to have fundamental changes in how employers look at their plans,” Rubleski said.
Health savings accounts (HSAs) are designed with much more flexibility and are broader in scope than medical savings accounts (MSAs) and similar plans like health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) and health flexible spending accounts.
Health savings accounts operate much like an IRA and can generate tax-free interest. Participants can use the money in their health savings accounts for primary health care expenses such as doctor and dentist visits, prescription and over-the-counter medications, and medical products, as well as for long-term care insurance, to pay deductibles or co-pay on a health plan, and to continue coverage under COBRA.
Under the new law, anyone under 65 years old and covered under a lower-cost, higher-deductible health plan or insurance policy — with a minimum $1,000 deductible for individuals, or $2,000 deductible for families — is eligible for a health savings account.
Employees or their employers, or both, can contribute up to the amount of the health plan’s deductible, to a maximum $2,600 a year tax-free for individuals, or $5,150 annually for families, into the account. A “catch-up” clause allows people between 55 and 64 years old to make additional annual contributions of $500, an amount that will increase by $100 a year through 2009.
Unlike HRAs, health savings account balances can roll over from year to year and accounts are portable, meaning an employee retains possession of the account when leaving a job.
In describing the provision when he sighed the bill Dec. 8, President Bush said, “Our laws encourage people to plan for retirement and to save for education. Now the law will make it easier for Americans to save for their future health care as well. A Health Savings Account is a good deal, and all Americans should consider it.”
This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford,” he said.
While many see health savings accounts as promising, some issues temper those hopes.
For starters, health savings accounts can only catch on with employers and consumers if health plans and insurers embrace and offer viable products, said Jim Kenyon, a principal in Pinnacle Insurance Partners, an independent agency in Grand Rapids.
MSAs, while touted in the same manner as HSAs, never gained a large foothold in the marketplace, Kenyon said. In part that was because Congress for years drastically restricted their use.
The future for health savings accounts depends on how well insurance carriers and health plans formulate and push the product and how much interest in HSAs emerges from employers, he said.
“If the product is not available in the marketplace, all the theory in the world is going to go by the wayside,” Kenyon said.
“As the old adage goes, ‘The devil’s in the details.’ We’ll see if this is a viable product that will come out of the new legislation and if the theory will be able to be put into practice.”
National health insurance carriers such as Aetna and Fortis Health have indicated they plan to offer health savings accounts. Such accounts are tied to an emerging trend: Consumer-driven health care, designed to get consumers far more involved in their health-care decisions and more responsible for their health.
Yet a survey of health insurance brokers and agents conducted last fall by the National Association of Health Underwriters found only modest interest in those plans. Instead, employers largely opt to raise deductible and co-pays to mitigate higher premiums.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, however, says it is “definitely” looking at the Medicare reform bill and the provisions pertaining to health savings accounts.
Spokeswoman Helen Stojic said any offering would depend on market demands for health savings accounts and how much interest Blues clients show in the new product.
“It does make a difference. If we do start to hear from employers, we’ll consider it,” she said.
The Blues presently offers HRAs and FSAs in connection with consumer-driven health plans.
Part of the issue with HSAs, and what could potentially hamper health savings accounts, is how well employers articulate and educate employees about the new product and how well employees adapt to what is a significant change in health benefits.
Many employees have already been faced with higher out-of-pocket costs through larger co-pays and deductibles as employers in recent years reacted to double-digit premium increases.
A switch to health savings accounts brings with it a major education process for employers to explain to employees how the accounts work and how they are used, Stojic said. That, in turn, could generate additional administration costs, negating part of the savings, she said.
“That is one of the drawbacks. It is such a big change. This is something employers have to look at — the change quotient — in the entire mix,” Stojic said. “They (HSAs) often require a higher level of participation than other products do on the part of employees.”
Despite those and other questions, many believe the availability of HSAs will spark interest in consumer-driven health plans. HSAs, according to a recent alert from Aon Consulting, are “likely to cause employers with consumer-driven health plans to reconsider their existing plan design and cause other employers to closely examine consumer-driven plans.”
One of the early adopters of health savings accounts could be the federal government. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is reviewing health savings accounts and how they fit with the federal employee health benefits program for 3.1 million federal employees.
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Researchers have found the first evidence that chemical activity within networks of brain cells displays behavior that is characteristic of self-organized criticality. Previously seen only in physical processes, self-organized criticality describes complex systems far from equilibrium that spontaneously move toward a critical state without external tuning.
While the implications of the work remain unclear, the researchers believe further study could lead to new insights into disease processes, improved techniques for diagnosing diseases of the brain, and perhaps even new treatment options. Modelling techniques developed for the work could also give neuroscientists a new way to study long-range signalling in the brain.
"This work makes a connection between physics -- where we understand self-organized criticality -- and complex biological systems," said Dr. Peter Jung, a visiting physicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "It is a starting point for a complete new way of thinking about waves in the brain and disease processes."
Jung and Dr. Ann Cornell-Bell of Connecticut-based Viatech Imaging, combined theoretical modeling with experimental observation of chemical activity in cells taken from the hippocampal area of a rat brain. Their collaboration began after another researcher, Dr. Frank Moss from the University of Missouri at St. Louis, noticed similarities between calcium ion waves that Cornell-Bell observed and mathematical models of noise-enhanced pattern formation developed by Jung.
Development of Imbalance Makes Waves More Likely
The calcium ion waves studied by Jung, Cornell-Bell, Moss and
collaborator Dr. Kathleen Shaver Madden arise randomly in brain
cells known as astrocytes, whose normal task is to regulate the
flow of ions and neurotransmitters in the neuronal cells that
transmit signals in the brain. The astrocytes can become
Contact: John Toon
Georgia Institute of Technology Research News
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From Media Strategies Class Wiki
Add links to online resources you want to share with the class.
- Frontline's News War: What's happening to the news? explores (from a United States perspective) what new media mean for television and print journalism. Are business and the public interest at odds? Watch online (this is part 3 of a four-part series)
- IBM GIO blog A blog from a series of meetings IBM is holding round the world on the media and content. I attended the London session last week, and some of my fellow guests will be joining us in Oxford. (Jonathan Black)
- Andrew Keen story A story in yesterday's Observer newspaper on Andrew Keen who is challenging the cultural effect of web (JB)
- Amen Break Following yesterday's lecture and discussion, Harrison traces the use of the Amen break, a drum break in the middle of a B-side single from the '60s all the way to the present - via the time when sampling seemed limitless to today where we're getting more interested/concerned about DPM and IPR (jb)
- Networking & Business Management Training Course A course focusing on how social media networking changes business interactions. (MD)
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How much health can be gained by banning smoking in pubs? Or by increasing tax on alcohol? Scientific knowledge to answer such questions often exists, but in disparate sources. At the start of this project, no off-the-shelf, generally applicable tool was available to integrate this knowledge into a quantitative answer (see: Standard tool for quantification in health impact assessment: a review).
The DYNAMO-HIA project has developed and built an instrument to quantify the health impact of policies influencing health determinants. The instrument, a dynamic model called DYNAMO-HIA, is be generic (adaptable to the health determinants and outcomes relevant for the policy in question), applicable throughout the EU, and can be downloaded from this website.
As an illustration, the instrument will be used to estimate the health impact of achieving in all EU-countries the situation of the best performing country with regard to smoking, obesity and alcohol consumption.
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Washington D.C.: See the Sights in the Heart of American Democracy
Washington D.C. is perhaps my second favorite place out of the U.S. cities I have visited so far. It’s clean, soaked in American history, and perfect for a budget traveler thanks to the numerous free or very inexpensive sightseeing options. Here is what I love to do when I go down to the Capital City.
1. Take a stroll along the National Mall.
Most of you watched the famous scene from Forrest Gump, when Robin Wright’s character throws elbows and makes her way through the crowd of pacifist hippies to meet Forrest halfway in the reflecting pool. Among my favorite movies of all time, I have always wanted to reenact this particular scene one day. Although I didn’t get to jump into the pool, I finally made my way to the National Mall, which is especially gorgeous in spring when the cherry blossom trees burst out in colors during the blooming season and their aroma floods the nearby streets.
Be sure to say ‘hi’ to President Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial. There is some kind of powerful energy you sense when you stand at the top of the stairs gazing out over the reflecting pool at the Capitol located on the other end of the mall, and the view is impressively stunning.
2. Check out the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art.
If you’re into museums, allot at least a day to peek into the Smithsonian museums and the National Gallery of Art. The best reason to do so is that they are free of charge. Located on both sides of the National Mall, these history depositories cater to both kids and adults. Check out the dinosaurs from Night at the Museum in the Natural History Museum, take a look at the impressive Soviet and American missiles in the Air and Space Museum, or learn about this county’s past in the American History Museum. With more than a dozen of them, you’ll be sure to have a fulfilling day.
One of my favorite museums is the Holocaust Memorial Museum, which is also located next to the National Mall. Although not part of the Smithsonian, this microcosm of tragic history of many generations is worth paying tribute to.
3. Learn about the history of professional espionage at the International Spy Museum.
Introduce yourself to the romantic yet dangerous world of renowned spies. With an intriguing motto “Where Nothing Is What It Seems,” the International Spy Museum will give you a sneak peek into the history of world espionage. Exhibiting curious devices such as invincible ink pens, briefcases with hidden compartments carrying top secret documents, or glasses with concealed cameras, this place is reminiscent of James Bond’s secret lab and will captivate your imagination just as much.
4. Catch a game at the Verizon Center.
Washington D.C. is notorious for its hardcore sports fans, so if you want to be part of it and experience the crazy energy at the heated games along with the passionate D.C. fans, watch a game at the recently renovated Verizon Center, where the Wizards or Capitals will show you how to handle a ball or puck. Be sure to rock the red, white and blue once inside.
5. Dine out in Georgetown.
Georgetown is one of the prettiest areas in D.C. Its main street is swamped with shops, restaurants, bars and coffee houses. If you have a sweet tooth, be sure to visit the famous DC Cupcakes for a decadent indulgence in out-of-this-world flavors. The street is especially bedazzling when it’s lit up at night. With its gingerbread-like brownstones and old-fashioned street lamps, it reminds me of old European charm, which I am quite partial to.
6. Explore beautiful Old Town Alexandria.
This place is my absolute favorite! Located just outside of D.C., Alexandria is a fairly big city, but the most worthwhile site there is its Old Town quarter. Stretching from the scenic waterfront to the imposing Masonic Temple, Old Town’s King Street features numerous exquisite restaurants, trendy bars and classy boutiques. I’ve dined out there many times, and being biased toward ethnic food, I give my preferences to Taverna Cretekou, a real-deal Greek restaurant with a cozy fireplace and a rustic interior, and La Tasca, an authentic tapas restaurant that wins you over with its delicious Spanish food, bottomless Sangrias, live performances, and a to-die-for dessert — Tres Leches — light and fluffy cake soaked in three different kinds of milk: whole, condensed and evaporated.
7. Take a tour of the Capitol.
Pay a visit to the heart of democracy by touring the Capitol building. Its impressive architecture and grandiose dome will certainly make you feel special. Learn about the American legislative history absolutely free of charge. Note that you cannot bring in any large backpacks or luggage, and being rambunctious is extremely frowned upon.
8. Strike a presidential pose in front of the White House
The closest you can get to the President of the United States is the fence surrounding the White House. So stay there, take some pictures and perhaps you’ll be lucky to get a glimpse of Obama working hard in his Oval Office.
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Xochicalco is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a fortified political, religious and commercial centre from the troubled period of 650–900 that followed the break-up of the great Mesoamerican states such as Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Palenque and Tikal.
Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco
© Jesse Michael Nix
Justification for Inscription
Criterion (iii): Xochicalco is an exceptionally well preserved and complete example of a fortified settlement from the Epiclassic Period of Mesoamerica. Criterion (iv): The architecture and art of Xochicalco represent the fusion of cultural elements from different parts of Mesoamerica, at a period when the breakdown of earlier political structures resulted in intensive cultural regroup-ing.
Xochicalco is an exceptionally well-preserved and complete example of a fortified settlement from the Epiclassic period of Mesoamerica. Its architecture and art represent the fusion of cultural elements from different parts of Mesoamerica, at a time when the breakdown of earlier political structures resulted in intensive cultural regrouping. The city was built on a series of natural hills. The highest of these was the core of the settlement, with many public buildings, but evidence of occupation has been found on six of the lower hills surrounding it. Substantial engineering work in the form of terracing and the construction of massive retaining walls in order to create a series of open spaces are defined by platforms and pyramidal structures. They are linked by a complex system of staircases, terraces and ramps to create a main north-south communication axis.
There are three distinct levels of organization to be recognized in material terms at Xochicalco - social, political and religious. The lower part is encircled by walls, pierced by defended entrances; it contains largely residential buildings. Next comes the intermediate level, the so-called 'Market Ensemble', which is the Plaza of the Stele of the Two Glyphs, a ball court, with more residential structures. The highest level consists of a group of temples and other monumental buildings for the use of the ruling class around the main plaza. The crest of the hill is the 'Acropolis'. In the lower level there is an access way beginning at the base of the southern hill and entering the city through the main gateway, flanked by two bastions. The causeway is paved with irregular flagstones and flanked with low walls fronting to residential areas.
In the intermediate level there is the Market Ensemble. Beyond it is another plaza on a platform from which a broad staircase ascends to the Plaza of the Stele of the Two Glyphs. This square is closed on its east and west sides by two buildings that are similar in form and size, and to the north by the Great Pyramid, the largest structure on the site. It consists of seven steps, with the remains of a temple at the apex. The stele from which the plaza takes its name is located on a square podium in its centre: this was the focus of civic and ceremonial life for the community, not least because it is easily accessible. The southern ball court, the largest at Xochicalco, is reached by a wide causeway. Beyond it is a group of structures known as the Palace; residential rooms, kitchens, workshops, and storerooms, along with a temazcal (steam-bath) are ranged around a series of patios. A series of 21 calendar altars line the causeway, recording the months (and in one case days) of the ceremonial year.
In the upper level a large platform is built around the northern, southern and west sides. To the east is a complex of three structures. The first of these is rectangular in plan and opens onto a patio sunk below the external level; it is accessible only from the roofs of the rooms. The second unit is a large patio closed on three sides by narrow galleries and delimited on the fourth side by three pyramidal platforms. Alongside it is the third element, the east ball court, separated by a monumental ramp paved with stone slabs engraved with images of birds, reptiles, insects and mammals, known as the Ramp of the Animals. The northern sector includes a large rainwater cistern that formed part of a complex water system covering the whole settlement. Beneath this platform is to be found the entrance to the caves that were used in the early phases of occupation for quarrying building materials. Later it was modified as an observatory for studying the heavens and for ceremonies. The Main Plaza is on an enormous artificial mound, accessible only through the two defended porticoes. It is dominated by two architectural complexes. That to the north consists of four very large rooms round a patio. The eastern one is more complex in plan, round four patios. In the south-eastern corner of the Main Plaza is the Pyramid of the Stele of the Two Glyphs, a stepped pyramidal base with a structure at its apex consisting of a patio defined by two lateral rooms and a temple at the far end. Two pyramidal structures are located in the middle of the plaza. One is the remarkable Pyramid of the Plumed Serpents and the other is the so-called Twin Pyramid. The Acropolis, built on a platform to the west of the Main Plaza, is formed of a series of buildings laid out on variations of a central patio with lateral rooms. Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC
The decline of the political and economic primacy of the Teotihuacan cities in the 7th and 8th centuries AD marked the end of the Mesoamerican Classic period and the beginning of an age of some two centuries that saw the fall of other large Classic capitals, such as Monte Alban, Palenque, La Quemada, and Tikal, which had dominated large territories. The result was reduction of urban populations or even complete abandonment.
There was considerable movement of peoples and new relationships were established between different regions such as the Central Highlands, the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan, Chiapas, and Guatemala. This period, from c 650 to 900, is known as the Epiclassic Period. New expansionist societies developed, though none achieved the dominance and magnitude of Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, or Tikal. There was a low level of integration between them, confederations being formed and dissolved. Their survival depended upon their success in controlling scarce resources, development of specialized productions, and dominance of commercial routes.
In a period of political instability and commercial competition such as this, the military infrastructure became crucial, and new settlements grew up at easily defensible sites, equipped with ramparts, moats, palisades, bastions, and citadels. Xochicalco is the supreme example of this type of Epiclassic fortified city. It appears to have been the creation of a confederation of settlements in the large region which is now constituted of the States of Guerrero, México, and western Morelos.
A large number of impressive public and religious structures were erected in a very short time, and these show cultural influences from both the Central Highlands, the Gulf coast, and the Mayan region. It was founded in the second half of the 7th century and was abruptly abandoned after having been sacked in the late 9th century. Source: Advisory Body Evaluation
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You read that right. I painted our half bath in chalkboard. And I love it!
Here’s the story. The boys love to write on chalkboard. And so I figured, what better place to draw than in the bathroom!?
Of course I want to do something creative and artsy, like this chalkboard that I just did, (and by the way, one three year old has already ruined), but I’m sure, the bathroom will get volcanos, traced bodies, practicing letters and numbers, and trucks drawn all over it, BUT that is a-okay. I’m thinking guests will love to leave messages…you will won’t you?!
So, I was trying to be inspirational….boys under 7 don’t “do” inspirational. Apparently.
Onto the bathroom…it’s the only room in the house that has something other than white. And that’s how it’s going to stay. For now.
I had the guys at Home Depot mix up the Rustoleum Tintable Chalkboard Paint in a dark gray. Now. It’s not an option on the box. You have to ask and get a really brave employee to help you out. I told him I wanted a dark gray, not black, not light gray…and I think it is perfect!
Does anyone else think regular doors in half bathrooms are ridiculous? There is no room to move! You have to walk in, turn around, move your body and shut the door. We will be changing that door to a slider as soon as I can find one!
It took three coats to finish. And I had some help from several individuals under 4 feet tall…..
And so you wonder….why didn’t she paint to the top?! My thought was crown moulding. I was determined to learn how to do it.
I tried. Then I cried. Then I found these little gems:
You can get them at Home Depot or Lowes. They are just a box, really. AND they are AWESOME. It means that you can just do a straight cut on your moulding without crying.
And who needs tears when your bathroom looks like this?!
I thought about tin tile, but at $20 for one, and I needed 8, I didn’t think this little bathroom needed that much drama.
I still have to caulk the edges, and we have to finish the trim in here….and the rest of the house….but I think the drama in this bathroom is awesome. I love it.
What about you?! Any interest in an entire room full of chalkboard?!
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Face Couture Explores The Transformative Power Of Masks
Aside from the skier and bank robber demographics, masks never really made a lot of progress in the fashion market. That is, until we had something to hide from. We’ve seen masks that pixelate your face for CCTV cameras, as well as make up and accessory tips for fooling facial recognition software, but this is something a little different.
Fascinated by the power of transformation contained in fashion accessories, Felipe Caprestano set out to manufacture his own line of masks that push the boundaries of contemporary fashion. Rather than conventional masks, he produced a series of headpieces using parts of other clothing items, calling it Face Couture Project. Let’s hope no one wore those pants before that model started wearing them on his face.
Caprestano documents the creative process of Face Couture Project, his references, and his inspirations on a blog, complete with animated GIFs, pictures of his workspace, photos of exhibits he visits, and magazines, in addition to film scenes and videos produced for Face Couture.
We talked with Felipe about the project and the importance technology in developing his work.
The Creators Project: You’ve been dedicating yourself to this project for two years now. Where does this fascination with masks come from?
Felipe Caprestano: I’ve always been interested in ornaments, both facial and head ones, in how they can dramatically change a person’s identity and how they’re interpreted by society. From a haircut to a pair of sunglasses, they can influence not only the attitude of those who incorporate them, but also of those who see them.
Anyone can follow your creative process online on your blog. Is the process as important as the final result? Why?
For me, the process and the result are not separated. When I think of a piece, I don’t imagine it ready and then start finding a technique and figure out how I should produce it. Most often that can be frustrating. I think of how I can bring that idea to reality by using techniques and materials I have available, and then I start refining it. Sharing that process is not only interesting from a documenting point of view, but it’s also a way of checking those steps off the list and moving on with the piece.
How is the use of technology essential for your work?
Technically, building the pieces is a very old-school activity, but what makes technology essential is the environment I can immerse myself in when I’m working. From recording ideas online to looking for references and even the music I may be listening to, everything is supported by the resources we have available today. The possibility of putting myself in a state of isolation in a productive routine, and still being able to communicate and perform other tasks is something I would never be able to do in such a functional way in other times.
Photos by: Humberto Furtado
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Over time, as you get older, your arteries naturally begin to harden and get narrower, leading to atherosclerosis. However, there are many factors that can dangerously accelerate this process. These are described below.
High-fat diets and cholesterol
Cholesterol is a type of fat that is essential for the functioning of the body. Cholesterol helps to produce hormones, to make up cell membranes (the walls that protect individual cells) and to protect nerve endings.
There are two main types of cholesterol:
- Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is mostly made up of fat, plus a small amount of protein. This type of cholesterol can block your arteries, so it is often referred to as 'bad cholesterol'.
- High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is mostly made up of protein, plus a small amount of fat. This type of cholesterol can help to reduce any blockage in your arteries, so it is often referred to as 'good cholesterol'.
Most of the cholesterol that your body needs is manufactured by your liver. However, if you eat foods that are high in saturated fat, the fat is broken down into LDL ('bad cholesterol').
Foods that are high in saturated fat include:
- processed meat
The LDL cholesterol sticks to your artery walls in the form of fatty deposits which, over time, gradually build up, narrowing, or completely blocking, your blood supply. The fatty deposits are also known as plaques or atheroma.
As well as a high-fat diet, a lack of regular exercise, being obese and drinking excessive amounts of alcohol can also increase the levels of LDL cholesterol in your body. The medical term for having high cholesterol is hyperlipidemia.
Smoking can damage the walls of your arteries. If your arteries are damaged by smoking, blood cells, known as platelets, will form at the site of the damage to try to repair it. This can cause your arteries to narrow.
Smoking also decreases the blood's ability to carry oxygen around your body, which increases the chances of a blood clot occurring.
High blood pressure
If you have high blood pressure (hypertension) it will damage your arteries in the same way as cigarette smoke. Your arteries were designed to pump blood at a certain pressure. If that pressure is exceeded, the walls of the arteries will be damaged. High blood pressure can be caused by:
- being overweight
- drinking excessive amounts of alcohol
- a lack of exercise
See the Health A-Z topic about High blood pressure for more information and advice.
If you have poorly controlled type 1 or type 2 diabetes, the excess glucose in your blood can damage the walls of your arteries.
For more information and advice, see the Health A-Z topics about Type 1 and Type 2diabetes.
Being overweight or obese does not directly increase your risk of developing atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD), but it does lead to related risk factors that do. In particular, people who are overweight or obese:
- have an increased risk of developing high blood pressure
- tend to have higher levels of cholesterol as a result of eating a high-fat diet
- have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes
See the Health A-Z topic about Obesity for more information and advice.
Lack of exercise
As with being overweight or obese, a lack of exercise is not directly related to an increased risk of atherosclerosis and CVD. However, it is linked to an increased risk of being overweight or obese and having high blood pressure (hypertension).
See the Live Well guide to Fitness for more information and advice about exercise.
Drinking an excessive amount of alcohol can cause high blood pressure (hypertension) and raised blood cholesterol levels, increasing your risk of developing atherosclerosis and CVD.
Most heavy drinkers also tend to have other unhealthy habits, such as smoking, eating a high-fat diet and not taking enough exercise.
See the A-Z topic about Alcohol misuse for more information and advice.
If you have a first-degree relative (a parent, or a brother or sister) with atherosclerosis and CVD, you are twice as likely to develop similar problems compared with the population at large.
Rates of high blood pressure and diabetes are higher among people of African and Afro-Caribbean descent. This means that people in this group also have an increased risk of developing atherosclerosis and CVD.
People of South Asian descent (those from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) are five times more likely to develop diabetes compared with the population at large. Again, this increases this group's risk of developing atherosclerosis and CVD.
See the Live Well section for more information and advice about health issues that affect black people and those of South Asian descent.
Research that was carried out during 2009 suggested that air pollution, in particular traffic pollution, can cause a slight increase in levels of atherosclerosis.
Researchers found that people living within 50 metres of a major road had higher levels of atherosclerosis than would otherwise be expected.
- Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
- Obesity is when a person has an abnormally high amount of body fat.
- Cholesterol is a fatty substance made by the body that lives in blood and tissue. It is used to make bile acid, hormones and vitamin D.
- High blood pressure
- Hypertension is when the pressure of the blood in your bloodstream is regularly above 140/90mmHG.
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Thousands of Networked Cars Take to US Roads
Networked cars connected wirelessly can warn drivers about collisions at intersections.
CREDIT: U.S. Department of Transportation
Today's cars don't talk with drivers as KITT did in "Knight Rider," but the ability to talk wirelessly with other vehicles could prove even better. Thousands of volunteer Michigan drivers have begun testing how a vehicle-to-vehicle network can make U.S. roads safer.
In the largest ever real-world experiment, the U.S. Department of Transportation kicked off a yearlong project yesterday (Aug. 21) with about 3,000 cars, trucks and buses in Ann Arbor, Mich. All of the vehicles-carry Wi-Fi technology that allows them to exchange wireless messages with other vehicles or traffic devices — a capability that can warn drivers about possible collisions at blind intersections or vehicles creeping up in a blind spot.
"This cutting-edge technology offers real promise for improving both the safety and efficiency of our roads," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has projected that networked car technology could help avoid or reduce the severity of four out of five crashes involving unimpaired drivers.
Networking may prove to be a crucial part of any future involving self-driving cars. Cars could react quickly to impending collisions or traffic warnings, boosting road safety even more than simply by alerting their human operators.
"Vehicle-to-vehicle communication has the potential to be the ultimate game-changer in roadway safety — but we need to understand how to apply the technology in an effective way in the real world," said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland.
The newly launched road tests represent the second phase of the government's Pilot Safety project. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to collect data from the yearlong test to decide when to push the vehicle safety technologies to more U.S. vehicles.
Ninety percent of those who tried out the technology in Department of Transportation "driver acceptance clinics" wanted the safety features installed in their personal vehicles, officials said.
But a world of cars talking wirelessly with one another also raises new risks. Any network suffers from the problems of hacking and computer viruses — a new challenge for car security.
MORE FROM LiveScience.com
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Big Buckets and Social Media
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been encouraging Federal agencies to consider the use of “big bucket schedules,” or large aggregation schedules, to schedule records.
Flexible scheduling provides for concrete disposition instructions that may be applied to groupings of information and/or categories of records. Flexibility is in defining the record groupings, which can contain multiple records series and electronic systems. The difference from the traditional scheduling approach is that the unit to be scheduled is not the individual records series or an electronic system, but all records in all media relating to a work process, group of related work processes, or a broad program area to which the same length of retention should be applied.
Flexible scheduling using “big buckets” or large aggregations is an application of disposition instructions against a body of records grouped at a level of aggregation greater than the traditional file series or electronic systems. The goal of this type of flexible scheduling is to provide for the disposition of records at a level of aggregation that best supports the business needs of agencies, while ensuring the documentation necessary to protect legal rights and ensure government accountability. In theory, “big buckets” simplify disposition instructions in a way that may be more useful to agencies implementing an Electronic Records Management Application.
For a variety of reasons, NARA is cautious about the application of big buckets to permanent records. NARA encourages an agency to define the level of risk- i.e., the degree to which records are in danger of improper disposition- before proceeding.
However, agencies are submitting schedules applying the concepts of “big buckets” to permanent records, and NARA is approving these schedules. The National Archives will be accessioning records of all types that have been organized using big buckets.
The goal of this presentation would be to present the concepts of big bucket scheduling to a group of archivists, discuss possible advantages of big bucket schedules, and to hopefully discuss (Web 2.0 or Social Media) tools that may help archivists to describe, preserve, and provide reference service to the records aggregates.
This presentation has not been completely thought out, and I am seeking the advice of archivists who may have suggestions for NARA as it moves toward the description of these record types.
Date: August 5, 2009
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iPhone Jailbreak Allows Unlock Using Gestures Instead of Passcodes
Android smartphones have always had a wide array of methods for unlocking the phone, rather than just using a password. Now, this functionality also comes to jailbroken iPhones in the form of the Stride application available on jailbroken-only store Cydia.
"Never again do you need to worry about entering some lengthy password, or are limited to 9 points on a grid," notes developer Adam Bell. "With Stride, you can unlock with gestures, and custom made gestures at that! Even though stride is pretty secure on its own, for best effect you should set a PIN/Passcode as it makes things extra secure, and a lot nicer too!"
Stride costs $0.99, but can also be obtained for free. Full details at the link below.
1. Jailbreak your iPhone. I've written a detailed, easy-to follow guide that takes just a few minutes and is ABSOLUTELY FOOLPROOF.
2. Search for, download, and install Stride from the Cydia store app that appears on your new Springbaord.
3. Search for, download, and install Stride. It's supposed to cost $0.99 cents, but you can also get it for free by opening the Cydia the store and navigating to Manage > Sources > Edit > Add “http://repo.hackyouriphone.org/“ to your list.
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End Daylight Savings Time
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Daylight Savings Time (DST) no longer saves energy. Recent studies indicate that it may now be costing us energy. DST is also a distraction from far more real and effective energy saving solutions that need our attention.
DST disrupts sleep patterns; all mothers and fathers of young children know this very well. Every spring, it causes a spike in car accidents on the Monday immediately following the time adjustment. It also causes an immediate spike in heart attacks.
For something that no longer has any true benefit, the disruption, annoyance, mistakes and accidents, and even pain that it causes are now greater than any benefit it may have had in the former century.
"It's about time" for it to come to an end.
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This editorial appeared in the Anchorage Daily News:
Sound off on the important issues at
Frank Murkowski left behind his mark, but not the natural gas pipeline or higher oil production he had promised in his winning campaign for governor in 2002.
His mark, if you can call it that, comes from legislators looking to pass new laws intended to block future governors from repeating a couple of Murkowski's most notable and troublesome headline-grabbers.
That's a hard way to be remembered, but it's deserved.
Just three weeks into this year's legislative session, lawmakers already are close to passing a new law that would require governors to notify crime victims of a pardon application and give them time and a formal opportunity to comment on the request. The bill also would require mandatory review by the state parole board of all pardon requests, to ensure an independent look at each case.
There is no such law in Alaska, although the provisions seem so obvious. Perhaps there is no law because it never occurred to anyone that a governor would pardon someone of a serious crime the way Murkowski did - without even bothering to tell the victim's family.
But that's exactly what Murkowski did in his final days in office, pardoning a company convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of an employee. Legislators want to make sure it never happens again.
And after enduring three painful special sessions last year - five total during Murkowski's term - legislators have before them a bill that would double the notice a governor must give lawmakers before calling them back to work in a special session.
No more 15-day notice. The bill, by House Speaker John Harris, would require a governor to give lawmakers 30 days' notice that they need to park their private lives and get back to Juneau for a special session of legislative work.
Just in case some future governor goes special-session happy, legislators would like a little more warning.
Both measures are understandable. It's just too bad that they're needed.
Juneau Empire ©2013. All Rights Reserved.
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Quote: Please don't try to argue against me by restating what I've already said. There is a difference between linguistic research ... and an anecdotal thread on an internet message board from geographically dispersed regions that involves vague information, hearsay, and probably a bunch of embellished or fabricated information.
Nowhere did I claim that "anecdotal" refers to what you just exuviated.
"Internet thread"?? Please don't try to argue against me by changing what I write.
Quote: While linguistics is subjective and highly diachronic, it is NOT informal.
Are you implying that, because linguistics is "subjective* and diachronic", we should somehow expect it, on account of these attributes, to be also informal? If so, you would be wrong. The diachronic attribute of a discipline (and not just Lingustics) has little to do with the informality of it. It can be informal and stand the test of time. Or it can (aspire to) be formal and not survive the year.
I was specific, and I thought also very clear, in stating that Linguistic research on modern languages is based almost entirely on the "anecdotal".link to post Being anecdotal is not the same as being based on the anecdotal -- in any language... And the brackets are no accident.
* Linguistics is not something like stone sculpture! But that would digress on the issue of subjectivity.
Quote: Are you implying that, because linguistics is "subjective* and diachronic", we should somehow expect it, on account of these attributes, to be also informal?
No, I'm saying the exact opposite, in plain English.
There is a difference between linguistic research which collects evidence that INCLUDES anecdotes and oral histories in a larger, more formal context, and a thread on the internet that contains ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE - informal, random, unverifiable, etc.
One is useful and one is not.
In other words, there is a difference between COLLECTING ANECDOTES in the course of research, to analyze their structure, significance, content etc, which is what linguists do, and being ANECDOTAL, meaning comprised totally of anecdotes, hearsay, and informal information. A paper on linguistics in any respected journal will not be described as 'anecdotal.'
Quote: If one concedes that there are some portion of straight men who speak in an effeminate manner (there seems to be such a trend among men in the deep south raised by higher society domineering mothers in my experience), and that some portion of all men speak with a lisp, there must be some small number of effeminate, lisping straight men.
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From its beginning in 1957 by Mr. William Janse, a visionary educator, Riverview has developed and sustained a progressive, effective program and did so before the field of intellectual disabilities was defined. The evolution of the School has reflected the growing understanding of people with intellectual disabilities among educators, medical and social service professionals, governmental agencies, and society in general. Riverview is proud to hold the first license issued by the Massachusetts Office for Children to operate a special needs boarding school. Prior to the definition of the term "learning disability" in 1963, students were often misdiagnosed, misplaced and ineffectively served by school systems and related institutions. Riverview has contributed greatly to changing this negative trend.
During the late 1960s, Riverview established a long-term relationship with the Learning Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Groundbreaking work in language and reading disabilities was developed and field-tested on Riverview's campus. Throughout the decade, the School experienced important development of its physical plant and program. A library, gymnasium, classrooms and dormitories were constructed from 1961 through 1967 on our 16 acre campus.
Over the ensuing decades program enhancements included the initiation of a post-secondary program (for ages 18-22), GROW (Getting Ready for the Outside World). GROW opened three residences for its students and formed an affiliation with Cape Cod Community College (Project Forward) in order to offer a vocationally-based college experience to students. More recently major initiatives have included a vocational training partnership with Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod (Project SEARCH) and Cafe Riverview where students are learning food service skills. A redesign of the curriculum, an assessment of procedures at all levels, introduction of research-based instructional strategies, and the implementation of detailed transition planning have been completed. Music, art, and drama have also been expanded greatly.
Today, Riverview School serves over 180 students ages 11 to 22 with limited intellectual functioning and adaptive skills (within the 65-90 IQ range) from 29 states and 9 foreign countries as well as increasingly more from the Cape Cod community. The school is committed to developing student competence and confidence in academic, social, and independent living skills so that our graduates become contributory members of their adult communities.
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Part I of III
In the current age of emails, texts, tweets and social media, the importance of personal communication, whether one-to-one or in front of a group, has never been more important, nor more difficult to accomplish. While the movement to digital communications channels provides speed and potentially broad reach, they generally fail to incorporate that which makes each of us unique, our personalities and human traits. From my experiences in the business and academic worlds, whether delivering a business presentation, making a sales pitch, or over the past decade teaching business classes, the ability to engage colleagues, clients or students, has become more challenging and critical.
For the business executive, manager, sales representative, in fact from virtually every functional area, this vital skill set is often overlooked in favor of analytic analysis, or the creation and utilization of the next ”hot app” for our ever-increasing reliance on the individual’s smartphone or tablet. There is no argument that texting, tweeting (with its 140-character limit), posting on social media such as Facebook and Linked-In, and other digital options, are rapidly becoming our modern “lingua franca.” PowerPoint, with its disengaging format of slides rather than speech, has become the preferred “modus operandi” of the business world, supplanting the individual as the focal point of corporate communication.
Yet none of these communications mediums delivers like a personal address. From hybriding the words of communication, to eliminating human characteristics such as body language and voice usage, modern digitized communications falls short. No matter how technology changes there will always be situations where a personal presentation is the most effective way to reach someone and convince them of something. The simple fact is there is nothing more powerful than one’s ability to forcefully deliver a speech, presentation, lecture, address or other personal communication. An individual’s presence is that unique element that differentiates these from a written, or in today’s environment tweeted, communication.
A major part of any lecture is without question the material you are sharing. Yet we all know that a good presentation goes well beyond the material. So what makes one presenter more interesting, engaging and successful than another? We’ve all experienced both excellent speakers who make time fly by, as well as dreadful speakers, who make every minute seem to last forever. So what makes the difference? Here are some tips I’ve picked up during my career that might help your presentations be more engaging, impactful and memorable.
Kalan’s Presentation Tips: Part I
Organization Balanced with Flexibility – Be organized, be prepared, know what you want to cover and in what order. Yet also be flexible. Be comfortable allowing your presentation to flow with the interests of your audience, which may not be immediately evident. And while you exercise the option to follow an unplanned path, always remember what you intended to accomplish and bring your audience back to that destination. You are in control of the flow and pace. Don’t feel so constrained to “stick to your script” when opportunities to expand beyond present themselves. Take advantage and capture your listeners by speaking “to them” and not “at them”.
Introduce Yourself - Always introduce yourself as well as all of those who will be presenting you so your attendees are aware of your full team. Be sure to consider your relationship with the audience (do you have an existing relationship or are you a new face to them). Your introduction has several objectives:
Cell Phones and Other Electronic Devices – Audience members texting, emailing, tweeting, surfing the net, etc. are not engaged in your presentation. These behaviors are distracting both to you and those in the audience. Other than for taking notes,I always ask for electronic devices to be turned off while I’m speaking. In my classes, I have been known to ask those breaking this request to leave the room.
Bring a Passion – It starts right here, right at the beginning, the opportunity to win or lose your audience. Your personal commitment to your presentation is paramount, and nobody can or should care about your subject more than you do. Your audience will read this from word one, and once lost it is difficult, if not impossible, to regain. A comment I often hear these days is that I bring a passion to each of my classes, a passion that is seen and appreciated by my addressees. So bring your passion and grab your audience with it.
Individual skill areas to enhance your physical presence and managing the overall presentation experience will be covered in parts II and III, which will be posted here on Wednesday and Friday (Jan. 9 and 11).
Marc H. Kalan is a marketing/business development executive with more than 30 years of diverse consumer marketing experience at clients (from established Fortune 500 to start-ups), suppliers, and promotional marketing agencies. Kalan’s background includes a foundation in brand and sales management. Upon an extensive industry career he began teaching at the college and graduate level in 2003 and now serves full time on the faculty of the Rutgers Business School, Department of Supply Chain Management and Marketing Sciences. Kalan can be reached at email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.org .
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Your Child's Brain in Week 98
Around the time of your child's second birthday, be on the lookout for a seemingly insignificant interaction: If she is playing with an interesting toy while you have your back turned toward her, she'll now walk in front to show it to you directly. Generous? Sure. But meaningless? Not at all! This simple exchange indicates that your child realizes you and she have different perspectives. Now, she's beginning to understand that you don't literally share one experience of being in the world.
Your toddler has acquired so many skills that support this learning, starting with the initial understanding that she is a similar creature to you. At birth, she stuck out her tongue when you did to signify, "Hey, I'm someone like you who can do that, too!" Later, she began to follow your gaze, trusting that you'd look at things that were crucial for her to see. Shortly thereafter, she used your judgment to guide her actions, a skill referred to as social referencing.
In her second year, your toddler copied your behavior as if to try on the role she saw you playing, and she was thrilled and validated when you mimicked her back. Later still, she realized that despite their human-like qualities, robots didn't fit into her category of being. And in a similarly disconcerting way, she discovered that the things you desired sometimes conflicted with her own preferences. Now, she recognizes herself in the mirror and knows she has a name (and even pronouns!) distinct from yours. Most importantly, your toddler is developing empathy, and realizing that other people not only have thoughts and feelings different than her own but also literally see the world differently is a key step in understanding that the two of you are, indeed, separate individuals.
What the Research Shows
To study "self definition," what scientists call the phenomenon of knowing oneself from others, researchers observed as mothers asked their children to sequentially perform three tasks. Each mom asked her toddler to:
- Show her his own back: This required the child to turn around, away from Mom.
- Show an object blocked to Mom's vision by a piece of cardboard: The toddler controlled the movement of the cardboard.
- Name an object the mother was looking at: The child would need to follow the mother's gaze to determine which of a few objects she was observing.
Each child's responses reflected his or her ability to differentiate his own perspective from that of his mother. And the toddlers passed the test if they responded correctly (if not perfectly) to the three tasks—and by 23 months, most did.
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In our era of more powerful personal computers, applications that were once quick and simple have become larger, slower, and full of bloat. Any one of these application’s developers would have done well to have picked up a copy of Randall Hyde’s Write Great Code Volume 2: Thinking Low-level, writing high-level, published by No Starch Press. Write Great Code Volume 2 exceeds its goal of helping developers pay more attention to application performance when writing applications in high-level languages. The author of this book makes it clear that the focus is to produce higher performance applications by better code design, and not by code optimization alone. This book is a must for any high-level application developer.
Write Great Code Volume 2 is another title from the publisher No Starch Press, featuring the recognizable cover color schemes, and also the "I lay flat" binding that makes it easier to keep the book open when typing out program examples. Even though the book is quite large, it is not difficult to read on the go.
This book is a must for any high-level application developer.
Write Great Code Volume 2 weighs in at a hefty 615 pages, encompassing 16 chapters, an appendix, and an index. The book covers contents including how to read and understand assembly, assembly language on different platforms, and generating assembly from compiled applications. The rest of the book focuses on programming concepts and the machine-level instructions that are actually executed when the high-level application statement is used. Among the programmatic concepts used are variables, constants, arrays, strings, pointers, records/unions/classes, expressions, control structures, iteration, and functions. Each chapter does a good job at going into depth on the respective topic.
I especially enjoyed the author’s discussion of pointers. Pointers have been a tricky item to master for some programmers, but this book does a nice job of explaining them, and how they are used at the machine-level.
Who’s this book for?
This book is perfect for an application developer who uses a high-level language, such as, but not limited to, C and C++. C and C++ are used most often in the high-level examples, but the principles apply to just about any programming language.
Relevance to free software
Write Great Code Volume 2 is very relevant to free software. This book presents code snippets and building blocks that can have an positive impact on free software and non-free software alike. Both free and proprietary compilers and assemblers are mentioned, but most of the concepts apply to programmers regardless of the "freeness" of the software.
If you are a high-level C or C++ application developer, you should pick up a copy of this book. The author presents some ideas and examples that you might not have thought of before. In addition, the text discusses some important details regarding the 80x86 and PowerPC architectures. If you want to write code that produces the best performance, this book is for you. A discussion of assembly code is provided in the early chapters, so knowing assembly isn’t necessarily a requirement to reading this book.
The author’s writing style makes reading this book a pleasure, even though assembly can be a tedious and somewhat slower topic.
I really couldn’t identify any major cons of this book. I felt it was very solid.
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Stopping The Pain Of Toothaches
Everyone out there at some point in time, will experience the pain of a toothache. Toothaches are very excruciating, some of the worst pain you will ever feel in your life. Even though you may have had dental work in the past and follow proper hygiene, toothaches can happen at anytime. Although it can be very painful, there are ways to get relief through natural herbal remedies or pharmaceuticals.
If you plan to use herbs, you should use them in tincture form, as the alcohol content will disinfect the area, and help to reduce the inflammation and kill the infection. Once you have the tincture, you should use roughly a teaspoon of it and gently rinse your mouth out. Once you have help it in your mouth a minute or so, you should either swallow it or spit it out. Tinctures are natural remedies that use herbs and alcohol to massage the affected area and stop the pain by numbing the nerves of the tooth that is causing you so much pain.
The best way to deal with toothache is to put out the fire. If you manage to put the fire out, the pain will follow. Even though the pain may go away, the problem will still be there until you go to the dentist and get it treated. Although the dentist is the preferred way to go, you may have to wait on an appointment, or the toothache may occur on a weekend or a time when the dentist isnít available.
Your best advice is to seek dental care ASAP, as the infection can always return at any given time. If you donít get problems fixed as soon as you can, they can spread and cause you more problems with your teeth. Cavities will need to be filled, while the rotten or dying teeth will need to be extracted. If caught in time, the dentist can normally save the tooth via root canal.
The most common way to stop the pain of a toothache is by using a pharmaceutical such as Ambesol. With these types of toothache relief products, you simply rub the ointment on the affected area and it will kill the pain. These products work quickly, although they may not be able to help if the infection has spread or has gotten so bad that the tooth is literally dying.
Another way to stop the pain is to use Tylenol or aspirin. If you are going this route, you should use tablets that dissolve. Simply take the tablet and put it in your mouth, then use your tongue to hold it against your tooth. The aspirin or Tylenol will start to dissolve, and work itís way into your nerve and stop the pain. This is a very effective way to stop the pain, although once the pill dissolves it can leave a terrible taste in your mouth.
The best way to stop the pain is to visit the dentist and have it treated once and for all. Keep in mind that if the problem is an infection, youíll need to use antibiotics until the infection is gone. Once the infection is gone, the dentist will be able to proceed with treatment. Most toothaches are the result of a cavity, which will need to be filled. Anytime you start to experience a toothache you should get it treated. If you arenít able to make it to the dentist, simply get some Ambesol or other product that will give you relief from the pain until you can get to the dentist and get the problem taken care of.
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"An integrated multisector approach for addressing the MDGs can lead to rapid improvement in child survival in rural sub-Saharan Africa."
Is this impact?
The paper introduces comparison villages in year 3, so MV sites can be contrasted with these comparison sites. This is a move in the right direction, but because the comparison sites are introduced so late on in the project we don't really know how comparable they are and they rely on recall data.
The assessment of the comparability of these villages (on observable characteristics) is based on 3 sets of data:
(a) village level infrastructure at year 0, but recorded at year 3 for the comparison villages (I think, but the paper is not clear). These are relatively fixed features of villages and for the features that vary over time should be able to be derived from recall
(b) household characteristics at year 3 (collected in year 3 for both sets of villages)
(c) household characteristics at year 0, collected at year 0 for the MV villages, but at year 3 for the comparison villages. This is more problematic--it is is difficult, but not impossible, to construct accurate recall data at the household level over a 3 year period
The mean values of the three sets of variables are pretty comparable across the two sets of villages--in both time periods--so that is somewhat reassuring, but the comparison sites are not control sites (for one thing, we cannot say that the unobservable characteristics have been equally allocated between the two). But it is progress.
The crux of the paper are the results in Table 2. This table makes three sets of comparisons on outcome variables:
(1) for 17 outcome variables, the changes within MV sites between years 0 and 3 are assessed. In 13 out of 17 comparisons, there has been a statistically significant improvement (5%) in the outcome indicator. This could be due to the MV or to some other effect. So the results are neither here nor there. What we are really interested in is the comparison of improvements in MV sites with improvements (or otherwise) in the comparison sites
(2) the second set of comparisons is between the MV sites in year 3 and the comparison sites in year 3. For these comparisons to isolate impact, the MV and comparison villages need to be comparable at year 0 in observable AND unobservable characteristics. We don't know whether the latter holds and we only have a partial and somewhat fragile perspective on the comparability of the former. Of the 12 comparisons of outcomes between year 3 in MV and year 3 in comparison sites, 3 are substantially improved at 5% significance levels (bednet use, malaria prevalence and access to improved sanitation)
(3) the third and final comparison is a "kind of" difference-in-difference comparison: what is the difference in the change in MV sites between years 0 and 3 the change in comparison sites between years 0 and 3? It is "kind of" because the sites were not randomly allocated between MV and comparison at year 0, and the year 0 data for comparisons sites are collected in year 3. Of the 6 outcome comparisons made here, 2 are substantial improvements that are significant at the 5% level (skilled birth attendance which increased by 24.7 percentage points in MV and by 12.7 percentage points in comparison sites; and mortality rate in children younger than 5 years of age (deaths per 1000 births): in MV sites this number decreased by 24.6 and in the comparison sites it actually increased by 5.9).
- 5 of the 18 outcome comparisons between MV and comparison sites show significant improvements. This does not seem like a very high number. Why so few?
- But some outcomes are more important than others, and a big outcome is the decline in child deaths, and this was in one of the "kind of" difference-in-difference comparisons.
- If we find the cost data credible, is this a good enough return for a more than quadrupling ($27 to $116 per person per year) of spending over the three years on these multi sector interventions? I have no idea--it would have been really helpful if, for example, the child mortality numbers had been converted into cost per death averted so we could benchmark against other interventions.
- The more interesting comparisons will be the changes in outcome variables between year 6 (say) and year 3 between the MV and comparison sites, because although the nonrandom allocation of sites problem remains, at least the observations in years 3 and 6 in MV and comparison sites will not be based on 3 year recalls.
- The key thing remains sustainability--is there life beyond proof of concept or is the MV doomed to the start-up "valley of death"? To assess this it would be good to have a better sense of what is in and what is out when the cost data were assembled.
Impact? Getting warmer, but more work to do.
Sustainability? This needs some serious research.
Verdict on MVs? Still out.
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As usual, never consider the following commentary associated with these photos as a formal interpretation of the National Electrical Code (NEC). Without criticizing anyone or any product, the following scenarios present us with serious safety questions.
All references are based on the 2008 NEC.
MISGUIDED METER INSTALLATION
Ted Robinson, P.E., a self-employed electrical consultant specializing in building inspections in Queens, N.Y., submitted these photos as an example of what not to do. “The first photo is of a new 200A service in an existing house. Although it's very hard to see, the main bonding jumper is not being used. In addition, notice the six taps on the main feeder cable and the two branch wires terminated on one 30A circuit breaker. The second photo shows the installer couldn't decide what to do with the meter pan ground jumper.”
Robinson identified a few of the many problems here. As noted in 110.14(A), “Terminals for more than one conductor and terminals used to connect aluminum shall be so identified.” In addition, 300.4 notes the requirements for protection of wires against physical damage. More specifically, 300.4(G) states: “Where raceways contain 4 AWG or larger insulated circuit conductors and these conductors enter a cabinet, box enclosure, or raceway, the conductors shall be protected by a substantial fitting providing a smoothly rounded insulating surface, unless the conductors are separated from the fitting or raceway by substantial insulating material that is securely fastened in place.
Exception: Where threaded hubs or bosses that are an integral part of a cabinet, box enclosure, or raceway provide a smoothly rounded or flared entry for conductors. Conduit bushings constructed wholly of insulating material shall not be used to secure a fitting or raceway. The insulating fitting or insulating material shall have a temperature rating not less than the insulation temperature rating of the installed conductors.”
Found a Code Violation? E-mail your photos (no cell phone images, please) to Joe Tedesco at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Downsized. The proposed critical habitat for the Cape Sable seaside sparrow was cut in half in 2007.
Credit: Lori Oberhofer, Everglades National Park
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
consistently disregarded scientific advice when determining how much land to protect for endangered species during the George W. Bush Administration, a new study shows. The analysis, which includes decisions made between 2002 and 2007, shows that the agency was
much more likely to ignore expert advice to increase protected areas. Instead, the agency typically ended up cutting the amount recommended by scientists,
often by a sizeable amount.
FWS is required to designate critical habitat when it puts an organism on the endangered species list, although it doesn't always do this unless sued by
environmental organizations. A study in 2005 found that the conservation status of species with designated critical habitat was
twice as likely to improve than the status of species without any designation.
Here's a snapshot of how the process works: Agency scientists rely on five biological criteria to determine whether land should be considered critical
habitat, such as whether it was historically part of a species' range. Their recommendations are peer-reviewed by a panel of external scientists and put
out for public comments before the agency makes a final decision.
During the Bush Administration, there were high-profile cases of
political interference with the science involved in the designation of critical habitat. To get a broader view, Noah Greenwald and Kieran Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity, an advocacy group in Tucson, Arizona, filed a request
under the Freedom of Information Act for peer reviews used by FWS to inform 42 designations of critical habitat.
Greenwald and Suckling found that of the 169 peer reviews, 85 recommended increasing the area for 36 designations. But more than 90% of the time, FWS
ultimately decided to do the opposite. For 34 of these designations, they cut the amount of proposed habitat by an average of 43%—which added up to 4.9
million fewer hectares. FWS was more likely to listen to peer reviewers who recommended removing proposed areas of critical habitat for reasons such as
because it had not been properly identified.
The findings are "pretty damning," says conservation biologist Karen Hodges of the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, in Canada, who was not
involved in the research. "It's devastating that a federal agency responsible for endangered species is asking experts for advice and consistently ignoring
that advice." She says the findings are consistent with a paper she published in 2008, which showed that
FWS preferred using biological criteria, such as proximity to a nest or den, that tend to minimize the amount of critical habitat.
That's a problem, says Stuart Pimm of Duke University, who is one of the new study's co-authors. "It's very hard to imagine circumstances where less
habitat translates to a better outcome" for a species, he says. Pimm has personal experience with having scientific advice overlooked. When FWS first
proposed critical habitat for the endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow, based
on his 2 decades of research on the species, Pimm liked the map. But the final decision in 2007 removed half the proposed habitat. "They gutted it," he
says. "It was totally counter to science."
FWS said it could not comment on specifics of the report without having reviewed it in depth, but offered this response: "The Fish and Wildlife Service is
strongly committed to using the best available science to inform its policy decisions under the law. ... Scientists may not always agree on the conclusions
of a scientific analysis, especially in analyses as complex and challenging as critical habitat designations. In some cases, peer reviewers may disagree;
in others, our biologists may not agree with the conclusions of individual peer reviewers. Additionally, in the case of critical habitat, the law gives us
the authority to consider other factors when making final designations, including economic considerations and new information we receive through public
review and comment."
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Hyenas are People Too
Human exceptionalism is under furious assault on many fronts, with advocates who seek to dismantle it, zealously looking for any and every sign that we are no different, really, from animals.
One of the newest memes in this regard is that animals are moral beings--just like us. I bring this up because University of Wisconsin professor (of course) Deborah Blum in the New Scientist uses the vehicle of a book review to push the notion that animals are moral people too. From the review:
Wild Justice makes a compelling argument for open-mindedness regarding non-human animals. It also argues that social behaviours such as cooperation provide evidence for a sophisticated animal consciousness. In particular, the authors propose that other animal species possess empathy, compassion and a sense of justice--in other words, a moral code not unlike our own.Well animals clearly cooperate, look at lions on the hunt and cape buffalo or bison making a circle to protect the calves from predators. But that is hardly a moral code, at least not in the human sense.
The book apparently views this so-called "moral code" (which may be Blum's term) as merely evolutionary behavior:
Their definition of morality is a strongly Darwinian one. They see moral actions as dictated by the behavioural code of social species, the communal operating instructions that bond a group safely together, the "social glue" of survival. They believe such codes are necessarily species-specific and warn against, for instance, judging wolf morals by the standards of monkeys, dolphins or humans.Perhaps, but that certainly isn't true of human beings. We have many different societies with divergent moral codes and behaviors--ranging from flat-out pacifism and chastity, hardly conducive to raw survival--to cannibalism. And that is precisely because our morality is not wholly "dictated" by blind evolutionary forces.
The evolutionary argument seems reasonable, but Blum clearly yearns for animal "morality" to be something more:
My only complaint is that the book is overly careful. The authors try too hard to keep their conclusions non-threatening. I wish they'd attempted to answer that tricky question that nags at me whenever I study a captive animal. As I stand on the unrestricted side of a fence watching a hyena, and it watches me back with deep, wary eyes, which one of us is really the moral animal?If Blum really doesn't know the answer to that question, I'll help: We are. Hyenas can never be held morally accountable for anything they do. But we can and should be so held. That is a distinction that no amount of anthropomorphizing can erase.
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The present state of the university is a difficult issue to comprehend for anyone outside of the education system. If we are to believe common government reports that changes in policy are somehow making life easier for university graduates, we cannot help but believe that things are going right and are getting better in our universities. Ivory Tower Blues gives a decidedly different picture, examining this optimistic attitude as it impacts upon professors, students, and administrators in charge of the education system.
Ivory Tower Blues is a frank account of the contemporary university, drawing on the authors? own research and personal experiences, as well as on input from students, colleagues, and administrators. James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar offer an insider?s account of the university system, an accurate, alternative view to that overwhelmingly presented to the general public. Throughout, the authors argue that fewer and fewer students are experiencing their university education in ways expected by their parents and the public. The majority of students are hampered by insufficient preparation at the secondary school level, lack of personal motivation, and disillusionment. Contrary to popular opinion, there is no administrative or governmental procedure in place to maintain standards of education.
Ivory Tower Blues is an in-depth look at the crisis facing Canadian and American universities, the factors that are precipitating the situation, and the long-term impact this crisis will have on the quality of higher education.
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There were at least 2 times when USA extended its territory by purchasing it outright - Louisiana+ from French and Alaska from Russians.
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), for a total sum of 15 million dollars (less than 3 cents per acre) for the Louisiana territory ($233 million in 2011 dollars, less than 42 cents per acre).
Alaska Purchase: The negotiations concluded after an all-night session with the signing of the treaty at 4 a.m. on March 30, 1867, with the purchase price set at $7.2 million, or about 2 cents per acre ($4.74/km2).
While the historical non-monetary reasons for the transactions were already discussed on History.SE, there was obviously also a financial side involved.
Every transaction involves the buyer and a seller somehow deciding on a value that the item holds for them.
Question: What exactly was the process and the logic/algorithm by which both Russian, French and American governments arrived at the valuations quoted above?
The answer should reference historical documents, not just guesses.
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Commentary on CNN.com: Deadly Meningitis Outbreak was Completely Avoidable
October 16, 2012
The ever-expanding outbreak of life-threatening fungal meningitis in back pain patients linked to steroid injections prepared by a compounding pharmacy, which so far has sickened at least 214 people and killed 15 in 15 states, is a public health catastrophe. What is particularly tragic for those who have been sickened or killed by the tainted drug and for their loved ones is that this situation was completely avoidable.
Since federal laws were enacted in 1938 and 1962 giving the Food and Drug Administration the authority to ensure that all brand name and generic drugs were both safe and effective, compounding pharmacies have traditionally filled a very narrow health care niche in which they prepared, in response to physicians' prescriptions, individually tailored preparations of drugs for patients having unique medical needs that could not be met by a commercially available standard drug manufactured by a pharmaceutical company.
To read the complete commentary, go to http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/16/opinion/carome-meningitis.
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Also known as a USB
hard drive, USB
keychain hard drive or USB
diskette, this refers to a solid state storage
unit coupled to a male
on a device the size of a keychain
While portable solid state memory is not a new technology (e.g. Sony's Memory Stick, CompactFlash, SmartMedia, etc.), most solid state memory modules are of a proprietary nature -- usually directly coupled to a particular brand of digital camera, and almost always requiring special hardware in order to interface with a PC.
However, USB keychains combine the stability and convieneince of solid state memory (no moving parts == Good Thing) with the ease and ubiquity of the non-propietary USB interface. Ultimately this technology may finally succeed where zip disks have fallen short: that is, replacing floppy disks as the common pluri-compatible method of data transfer between PC's.
At the time of this write-up, the following USB keychain products are available in capacities ranging from 8 to 128MB (including the powers of two in-between):
Personally, they are a bit pricey at this time, but when the price comes down I'll get myself a nice USB hub and a few of these. And if anybody figures out how to boot off of one of these babies, I don't think I'll ever own a FDD again . . .
Update! 3 Feb 2002: generic-man kindly informs me that "some BIOSes can boot to USB right now. I've heard tales of people using USB keys to do minimal Debian installs."
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Celebrating Dickens 2012
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens Edited by Jenny Hartley
‘Glorious. This is a book for which readers have been waiting for a very long time. It takes you directly, in Dickens's own words, and with incomparable vividness, into his extraordinary life and mind. The notes and editorial matter deftly paint in the background to provide a detailed and constantly astonishing portrait of one of the most interesting men who ever lived.’ simon callow 978-0-19-959141-1 | February 2012 | 584 pages | Hardback | £20.00
Dickens and the Workhouse Ruth Richardson
The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide. This book, by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these exciting new findings, presents the story for the first time, and shows that the two periods Dickens lived in that part of London were profoundly important to his subsequent writing career. 978-0-19-964588-6 | February 2012 | 240 pages | Hardback | £16.99
Charles Dickens's Networks Public Transport and the Novel Jonathan H. Grossman
The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, the first railway line in London opened. Charles Dickens’s Networks explores the rise of the global, high-speed passenger transport network in the nineteenth century and the indelible impact it made on Dickens’s work. 978-0-19-964419-3 | March 2012 | 272 pages | Hardback | £25.00
The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens Edited by Paul Schlicke
‘Will prove invaluable to scholars, readers and admirers of Dickens into the next century and beyond’ peter ackroyd, The Times The most engaging, and wide-ranging, reference work on Dickens available – covering his life, his works, his reputation, and his cultural context in over 500 a–z articles.
A N N I V E R S A R Y E D I T I O N
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978-0-19-964018-8 | November 2011 | 704 pages | Hardback | £25.00
Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples with Sketches of Young Ladies by Edward Caswall Charles Dickens Introduced by Paul Schlicke
‘The young Dickens at his most playful, writing anonymously and slyly observant of the manners and morals of the 1830s, when he was himself a young gentleman and one member of a young couple. Paul Schlicke’s delightful edition includes the original Phiz illustrations.’ claire tomalin
978-0-19-960328-2 | December 2011 | 240 pages | Hardback | £9.99
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Thinking Inside the Box
‘Did I say I had a TV set now?’ wrote Philip Larkin to Kingsley Amis in March 1979. ‘Where’s all this porn they talk about?’ By October, he had still found nothing but chat shows and non-comedy and B-films and NEWS – God I hate news – can’t watch it – to see these awful shits marching or picketing or saying the ma’er wi’noo be referred back to thu Na’ional Exe’u’ive is too much for me. Why don’t they show NAKED WOMEN, or PROS AND CONS OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN GIRLS’ SCHOOLS?
The following year JR was shot, which allowed Larkin to see lots of Pam Ewing in her high-thigh swimsuit, and two years after that his chances of finding naked women further improved with the launch of Channel 4. By the time he died in 1985, EastEnders had been running for ten months and had he watched it – as I’m sure he did – Larkin would have enjoyed the scandal of Dirty Den getting Michelle Fowler, his teenage daughter’s best friend, up the duff. It was a Fowler family tradition, as The Guardian’s TV critic Nancy Banks-Smith put it, to be impregnated by the landlord of the Queen Vic.
Larkin would have made a good TV critic. Not because he was especially insightful about television, but because most TV critics try to sound like Larkin. TV critics love to hate television.
Writers, in general, love television and are unashamed of their passion. If you want to find out what’s worth watching, go to a book launch or a literary event: the main topic of discussion will always be what everyone is recording in order to see later that night. Since the first episode of the HBO mafia drama The Sopranos in 1999, writers won’t hear a word against television. Individual episodes of The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, or the Danish thrillers The Killing and The Killing 2, are not only better, literary folk insist, than any recent Hollywood movie or West End play, but richer and more challenging than most contemporary fiction.
Writers are voyeurs: we like watching but don’t like being watched. How perfect then, to have this one-way screen in the dark heart of the house. And because many writers dislike spending too much time with other human beings, television provides the perfect companion. Writers also like strong narratives, and television – currently going through a golden age – provides these on tap. Just as the original serialisations of The Old Curiosity Shop and Middlemarch once held readers in thrall to the magazines, we are now gripped by the endlessly expandable plotlines of television dramas which run for months and months before the series ends on a cliffhanger. In 1841 the New York docks were lined with frantic Dickens fans shouting ‘Did Little Nell live?’ at the sailors on the incoming mail boats, who had read the latest instalment. Today’s equivalent experience would be the US audience wanting to know in advance whether Mr Bates in Downton Abbey will get his reprieve.
So completely has television drama replaced the nineteenthcentury novel that a large percentage of the country now only knows the works of Dickens, Eliot, Austen and Trollope through television programmes. Writers, however (apart from Larkin, who described Z-Cars as ‘chaps walking about and standing and staring and watching each other and cars drawing up and chaps not getting out, just watching and staring’), prefer cop-shows to costume dramas. Dickens would have been addicted to The Wire; Henry James would have preferred the Englishness, repression and melancholy of Morse; Hardy would have watched Midsomer Murders while Virginia Woolf secretly enjoyed Prime Suspect, because all women are in love with Helen Mirren. For those of us who spend our days alone at a desk, there is nothing more thrilling than the thought of entering an open-plan office through swing doors with a plastic cup of coffee and calling someone ‘sarj’.
Television dramas tend to focus on the one subject the novel shies away from: work. Writers like television because we like to know about people who have real jobs. Over a glass of warm wine following a recent poetry reading, the four poets on the panel discussed not the Poetry Book Society’s loss of government funding, but Mad Men, a series about an advertising firm in the Sixties. The discussion was less our need to linger nostalgically on a pre-feminist age in which everyone drank before lunch, smoked excessively and was tacitly racist, than whether all men want to be Don Draper – the amoral antihero who has stolen the identity of a dead soldier – or simply are Don Draper. It ’s a question that takes us to the heart of our current television culture, obsessed as it is with helping us both to find our roots (Who Do You Think You Are?) and to reinvent ourselves (The X Factor and so forth). But none of these reasons, I was told later in the week by another poet of international standing, really explains why we like Mad Men. The appeal of the series, he stressed, is Joanie, the voluptuous office manager: all men want to have her and all women hope that, should they quadruple in size, they might look like she does.
Once considered mad, bad and dangerous to know, television is clearly good for those who live by the pen. As well as taking us into offices, it provides the ‘real people’ otherwise so hard for writers to find. Reality television is as real as most literary lives get; what we know about class comes from Wife Swap or Come Dine with Me; what we know about being young we get from Big Brother, The Only Way is Essex and Made in Chelsea; what we know about modern families we learn from Hotter Than My Daughter and The World ’s Strictest Parents. If you have a problem, television provides the solution: we are invited, on a daily basis, to watch other people have their houses, bodies, families and marriages ‘made-over’ by experts. Real life at the end of a remote control: had Larkin lived to be ninety rather than dying at sixty-three, he would not have said: ‘TV seems awful these days … the novelty’s worn off I suppose.’ r m a r c h 2 0 1 2 | Literary Review 1
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Everyone at some point in his or her life, whether just day dreaming or by necessity, has pondered the idea of packing up and moving to a new location. The reasons are plentiful including being offered a job, a fresh start, warmer weather, excitement, and more.
Whatever the reason, they are all legitimate. Below is what we hope is an objective look at some of the decisions and questions that should be answered before embarking on such a life changing journey.
There are many reasons for considering a move, including the aforementioned. For decision making purposes, it may be a good idea to separate the reasons into a few camps including, career, necessity, and personal.
• Certain locations are well known for your specialty, education or experience, and may offer more choices and career advancement opportunities, e.g. Biotech / Boston, Semiconductor / SF Bay area, Hospitality / Las Vegas, and Finance / New York.
• You may be receiving a promotion from your current company and this would be a good career move. Keep in mind, nothing has to be forever. Many people have relocated with a company, and after a few years, moved back to their home state. Take away the - every decision is permanent mentality - and you may be more amenable to the idea of a move.
• There are no suitable employment opportunities for your background in your current area. You have made a concerted effort, not just blasting off an occasional resume to a company once a week, and there just are not any real options for you.
• Based on the pay for your occupation, your expenses are greater than your income in your current location. You may be able to live with a much better standard of living in another location. A better quality of life and standard of living is a powerful reason for moving.
• If you know that you will be happier, you are adventuresome, it is your calling, you have friends or family in another area, than let these be positive factors for a change. You should consider the negatives to a possible move, but do keep your thoughts balanced with all of the positives as well. Negative thoughts tend to overrun the positive ones. Be prepared for various reactions to your announcement, including; negative, positive, and even jealously. If it helps, the Henry Ford II quote, "Never complain, never explain" may help the situation. Remember, nothing has to be forever, and you know what is best for you.Ponder further...
- The cost of living in the new location. You need to research this thoroughly and we suggest not relying on cost of living calculators, although they are very useful. It would be helpful to actually write out your current and possible new expenses. Most people have not relocated to a new area, so be aware that the cost of living is significantly different (many time for the better) in various locations. Housing / renting costs, sales tax, real estate taxes, car registration / insurance, fuel costs, food, etc. should be researched thoroughly. There are many good relocation websites, including city and county government sites that can give you details.
- If you are relocating without a job lined up, how easy is it going to be to get one, and do you have enough capital on hand to live for a while? How long can you go without a paycheck? Would you be able to get by with a lesser job temporarily? Can you stay with a friend or relative? If it does not work out, do have an exit strategy?
- Crime: It is everywhere of course, but it is certainly worse in certain locations, and not always just in areas of a large city. You do not want to show up somewhere and be blindsided by a less than desirable area. This is the type of stress you do not need. There are some very nice crime map websites that you can explore. Often, the police or sheriff's department website will have a crime map search feature. As well, take a frequent look at the online newspapers for the locations you are considering. You rarely hear about local events outside of a particular area.
- Interview considerations. While it is the case that for certain positions companies will fly someone to their location, it is often not their first choice. Companies tend to try and find local candidates due to the extra expense. If you have unique enough skills and experiences for a job, many companies will bring someone in for a meeting. Be prepared though that the first question they will ask you is… Are you sure relocation is not a problem? You do not what to have a company invest time and money unless you are 110% sure you are ready to relocate.
- Can you break a lease or sell your home easily? Depending on your situation, relocation packages offered by companies will provide for temporary housing, and they will often pay for you to break a lease. Even though you may have heard stories that an apartment will break a lease for a job change, you should really find out the rules ahead of time. It does not usually work this way.
- What about the people you may be leaving behind? This is often the prime reason people do not relocate, and sometimes the reason people do! Would you be able to afford vacations back to this area? Will they be able to visit you? Will you be miserable not being around these people? Like anything, time changes things. Initially, it will be hard, but after a while it will be a little easier. Some say that it makes the time they do spend with family and friends even more valuable and precious.
- If you have a spouse or significant other that needs to work, will they be able to find employment? Would they would be willing to take a position not necessarily in their chosen field if need be?
- How much will a move cost? When relocating on your own, it would be wise to calculate ahead of time the cost to move you and your belongings. This is an expense you cannot escape. There are various new options these days, including U-pack and Pods type services that can save money. When you are ready to move this needs to be an area that you research thoroughly, considering the costs vary greatly. Needless to say, always get multiple quotes if using a moving company.
- Is the new school system going to be suitable? It may be slightly difficult for you to assess this, but there are plenty of school rating related websites that can provide decent information. Often it will be one of three situations; rural, suburbs or inner city. Each has its pros and cons and each can be researched.
- What will the new commute be like, if you will have a job ahead of time? Often times the miles calculators are not a true gauge as to how long a commute will be. Ask around if possible. Ten miles in Los Angeles may require you to bring a lunch.
- If considering moving into a large city, are you prepared for a different culture, possibly much faster paced, than what you are used to? Some say that city living is often cold and impersonal, or that rural living is slow and boring. Is your personality the type that can deal with either of these scenarios? If you are fortunate enough to interview and get a job before moving, ask as many questions as possible to the people that work there.
- Do the Ben Franklin decision making method. Draw a line down the middle of a piece of papers and write PROS on one side and CONS on the other. If the pros win, go for it. Many people have had outstanding experiences relocating to a new area.
Relocation packages from companies offer various components. This is often something that is negotiable with a job offer. Instead of three months temp living, ask for six. Ask for extra miscellaneous expense money. Ask for a point to buy a new house or other real estate expenses. Everything is negotiable, although relocation packages have suffered the last few years. Often, a large company will utilize an outside relocation service to help coordinate and work with you during your move. Take advantage of this service. Some standard items that you will typically find in a relocation package include:
Temporary Living - Anywhere from one month to six months usually.
Moving expense (often based on weight). Sometimes you can get the company to pay to pack your goods, do not count on it though.
Storage (again based on weight, and may range from one to six months)
Vehicle moving expense.
Meals and travel expenses for you and your family.
One or two house hunting trips for you and your family.
Mortgage points, new home down payment, and closing costs, to help buy and sell a home.
Often times a company will just give you a flat amount for relocation and let you work it out on your own. Many people actually profit from a relocation package, which is nothing to feel guilty about. If a relocation package is essential for you to join a company, be sure to discuss this topic before getting too involved in the interview process. You may not get specific details on the amount, but at least you know the basics and relocation is offered.
Like anything, nothing worthwhile is ever easy, especially long distance job searching. It requires a lot of research and diligence to make it happen. It is usually the case that unless the opening is a hard to locate skill set, or a top level position, you may run into relatively few companies willing to bring someone in for an interview or help with relocation. If you are wondering why you are not getting any calls for positions you are clearly suited for, this is possibly the reason.
Even for companies willing to look for candidates outside of the area, it is not uncommon these days for them to leave the relocation expense up to the person moving. It may help your cause to indicate on your resume or other correspondence that you are very willing to relocate, and if it is the case, pay for it on your own. If your situation allows, your best bet is to move to your location choice and then get a job. You will be pleasantly surprised just how many more calls you receive when you are actually living in the new area. The key is to have some money saved and to go on an all out assault to find a new job. No playing, not yet anyway.
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Gaining numbers, gaining strength
They say that there’s strength in numbers. When it comes to cancer treatment, the numbers and strength are growing, as researchers pursue new treatment strategies and students pursue careers in oncology. But in cancer prevention, the numbers aren’t as large and the effect isn’t as strong.
“Cancer prevention research, as compared to research on cancer treatment, has received very little attention. This is unfortunate, as research suggests that nearly two-thirds of cancer is largely attributable to smoking, lack of exercise, and diet,” says Jakob D. Jensen, assistant professor of communication and an RCHE faculty affiliate. In fact, research estimates that for both cancers in general as well as breast cancer, which is one of the better-studied cancers, anywhere from 50 to 75 percent of cancer is preventable.
This led a group of Purdue researchers in the Oncological Sciences Center at Discovery Park to launch a new initiative to attract students to cancer prevention and then train them for the challenges they will face. The result has been not only a prevention-focused training program but a campus conversation on the opportunities for preventing cancer.
CPIP: The Future of Prevention
“The program is designed to be broadly interdisciplinary, bringing together researchers from the social sciences, including communication and education, to the basic scientists, including engineering, nutrition and other basic sciences, to optimize our ability to identify and develop strategies for prevention of cancer,” says Dorothy Teegarden, professor of Foods and Nutrition and director of the Cancer Prevention Internship Program. Purdue is the first to design and implement a curriculum that includes this broad of a range of researchers to train students.
“We do a great job of training researchers in cancer treatment. Our goal, and the goal of the program, is to train high-quality cancer prevention researchers as well,” he said.
CPIP takes about a year to complete, with tracks for both undergraduate and graduate students. In both cases, students are required to take cancer prevention-related courses, including a CPIP seminar, and participate in research.
ndergraduates go through the Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship (DURI) program; graduate students are placed directly into labs. Undergraduates are also required to participate in EPICS, a service-learning program through the College of Engineering. The program exposes students to cancer prevention from the laboratory, classroom, and community standpoints.
Like the faculty, students in the program come from a variety of disciplines, something the team feels is essential. “By exposing them to a variety of themes from across disciplines, we can create a new pool of scientists who are trained to work together, drawing from many areas of study, to develop new prevention techniques and possibly save many lives.”
A Campus Conversation
Recently, the CPIP team launched a “campus conversation” to focus attention on cancer prevention. Breast Cancer Prevention 2020, or BCP2020, asks the Purdue community, “What can we accomplish in the next 10 years of breast cancer research?” The first event, Breast Cancer Awareness Day, was held this month to coincide with national Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
“Breast cancer is one of the five most common cancers in the U.S. We also have a very active group of researchers studying breast cancer at Purdue, which made breast cancer a logical first site for us,” says Jensen. The conversation on breast cancer will culminate in an international symposium in October 2010.
Students interested in the cancer prevention program should contact Professor Jensen at firstname.lastname@example.org. For more information about the BCP 2020 campaign, please visit www.purdue.edu/hicc/bcp2020.html.
The BCP 2020 campaign focuses attention on breast cancer and prevention and treatment research at Purdue. The Purdue community is encouraged to participate in the campaign through attending or facilitating discussions on breast cancer prevention, and cancer prevention activities, among others.
For more information about the BCP 2020 campaign and to download logos to show your support, please visit www.purdue.edu/hicc/bcp2020.html.
Professor talks health policy with PBS viewers
George Avery, assistant professor of health and kinesiology, joined a panel of experts to discuss healthcare policy and reform with Northern Indiana PBS viewers. The program, We the People: Health Reform, included questions from both a studio audience and an online chat after the program. Other panelists included Dr. Tom Vidic, Indiana State Medical Association; Martin de Agostino, AARP Indiana; and David A. Roos, Covering Kids & Families of Indiana Inc.
“[The questions] were across the board and ranged from quality to access, etc.” said Avery. Many commented on the lack of system integration or coordination. This is particularly evident with patients who have more than one chronic condition, as they often see multiple specialists in addition to their primary care provider. Another common concern expressed was the setup of the current system, fee-for-service. The PBS audience questioned whether fee-for-service creates the wrong incentives, encouraging providers to do more tests and procedures because that is how they get paid more, rather than being paid for helping patients to better health outcomes regardless of the number of procedures necessary to do so.
As Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine, said at RCHE’s spring 2009 conference, “when you pay for units of service, what you get are more units of service.” By contrast, there are select medical systems around the country where providers receive a specified salary regardless of the number of procedures performed or tests run.
We the People: Health Reform ran on October 18, on WNIT in Northern Indiana. Currently, a transcript is not available. Future We the People episodes will focus on other pressing topics in the news.
Avery’s areas of specialization include public health, healthcare quality management and regulation, and public health preparedness.
RCHE welcomes new faculty and research affiliates
RCHE faculty and research affiliates share research interests with RCHE. More than 60 Purdue faculty are RCHE affiliates, and the number grows each month. New this quarter are:
- Brad Duerstock, research associate. Research interests include assistive technology, speech recognition.
- Niti Pandey, visiting instructor, Organizational Business and Human Resources. Research interests include multifunctional teams in healthcare and healthcare economics.
A full list of affiliates is available at www.purdue.edu/rche, under “About Us.”
RCHE, HEA conference draws diverse audience to discuss key delivery issues
With healthcare again at the forefront of the political world, it has rarely been clearer how important collaboration and partnerships are in finding the best solutions. In support of these partnerships, RCHE and the Healthcare Engineering Alliance (HEA) teamed up for the RCHE fall conference and HEA 2009 meeting at the end of September. The events brought together researchers from several universities to discuss healthcare issues and partnership possibilities.
Two key issues
The conference highlighted two key issues that emerged from RCHE’s spring 2009 conference — care coordination and population health.
Better care coordination can not only decrease errors and increase good outcomes but can also be less expensive. However the current medical system encourages aspiring physicians to choose specialties over primary care and practicing physicians to run many tests, said speakers Mark Braunstein, professor of the practice at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Health Systems Institute, and Peter J. Fabri, professor of surgery at University of South Florida. One opportunity on the horizon is electronic or personal health records, which would allow physicians to know what other care a patient is receiving. Bill Cast highlighted NoMoreClipboard.com, one company offering personal health records.
In contrast with care coordination, population health focuses on impacting the health outcomes of an entire group. Glen Mays, associate professor and chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, noted that only three percent of national health spending is on prevention and public health services; the rest is treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term care. Per capita spending in the U.S. is among the highest in the world, yet more than 25 countries have higher life expectancies than the U.S.
While personal health records may be a good start, it is critical that the system begin to use that information to create this continuity. Other technologies, either placed in the home or worn, may also be able to provide information that helps patients and physicians better understand and manage health outcomes. While the system is not perfect, noted Vinod Sahney, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, we must also take a certain amount of responsibility for making better food choices and exercising regularly. Patients must become involved in their treatment, either on their own, with a friend or family member, or another health advocate.
Cancer Prevention and Healthcare Retreat and Poster Competition
Graduate and undergraduate students across campus are invited to participate in a poster competition co-sponsored by RCHE, the Department of Foods and Nutrition, and the Oncological Sciences Center.
December 4, 2009
Eligibility: All Purdue undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to present. Faculty advisors will be contacted to confirm poster registration.
Topic: All posters must represent research being done to advance the healthcare systems, delivery, care, products, or advancements.
Deadlines: Posters must be registered by November 20. Posters must be submitted to suite 225 Mann Hall by December 1 and will be hung on December 2. Judging will be December 3 and 4.
Registration: All posters must be registered at www.purdue.edu/rche/education/postercompetition.php.
Patient-Centered Communication with Cancer Patients
Shields, C. G., Coker, C. J., Poulsen, S. S., Doyle, J. M., Fiscella, K., Epstein, R. M., & Griggs, J. J. (In Press) Patient-Centered Communication and Prognosis Discussions with Cancer Patients. Patient Education and Counseling.
Objective & Methods
To examine physician communication associated with prognosis discussion with cancer patients. We conducted a study of physician–patient communication using trained actors. Thirty-nine physicians, including 19 oncologists and 20 family physicians participated in the study. Actors carried two hidden digital recorders to unannounced visits. We coded recordings for eliciting and validating patient concerns, attentive voice tone, and prognosis talk.
Actor adherence to role averaged 92% and the suspected detection rate was 14%. In a multiple regression, eliciting and validating patient concerns (β = .40, C.I. = 0.11–0.68) attentiveness (β = .32, C.I. = 0.06–0.58) and being an oncologist vs. a family physician (β = .33, C.I. = 0.33–1.36) accounted for 46% of the variance in prognosis communication.
Conclusion & Practice Implications
Eliciting and validating patient concerns and attentiveness voice tone is associated with increased discussion of cancer patient prognosis as is physician specialty. Eliciting and validating patient concerns and attentive voice tone may be markers of physician willingness to discuss emotionally difficult topics. Educating physicians about mindful practice may increase their ability to collect important information and to attend to patient concerns.
Let us help your project grow: Announcing two RFP opportunities for 2010
RCHE’s third annual research RFP dates and criteria are now available. This year, RCHE is also announcing the addition of a new funding opportunity, the implementation RFP.
RCHE will award six seed grants of up to $40,000 each to projects with the potential to improve healthcare delivery. The grants are designed to enable projects to become competitive for external funding by the end of the one year seed grant period.
Faculty and researchers from all Purdue campuses are eligible to submit proposals. The topic range is open; however, preference will be given to projects that improve delivery in care coordination or population health, two key areas in which RCHE has chosen to focus research activity based on this year’s conferences. More information about these topics is available through the RCHE website and by viewing the archived pages of past conferences.
RCHE will award up to three grants of up to $40,000 each to projects taking research results into a clinical or “real world” setting to demonstrate the impact of the research on the healthcare system.
Faculty and researchers from all Purdue campuses are eligible to submit proposals. Topics are open. Preference will be given to projects in which the initial research was completed through RCHE.
Both RFPs require use of the RCHE proposal template, available on the website. Please visit www.purdue.edu/rche/research/funding.php for more information about each RFP process and requirements.
Please note that all deadlines are in 2010.
January 20: Letter of intent due
February 17: Proposal due
April 2: Grant recipients notified
July 1: Funding begins
PROPOSAL TEMPLATE AND EVALUATION CRITERIA
Both RFPs must use the RCHE proposal template, which is available online as a Word document.
Visit www.purdue.edu/rche/research/funding.php for the template and other important evaluation criteria.
Winter 2009 Events
Joint Retreat on Cancer Prevention Poster Competition
December 4, 2009
Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital Toy Drive
Submit by December 7, 2009
Deliver donations to Mann Hall, suite 225
RCHE will collect toys for patients from toddlers through teens. Suggestions for donations include toys, books, video games (Wii, Nintendo DS, X box, PSP), DVDs, and character pillowcases. A complete wish list is included on the RCHE website.
All items must be new, no food, and contain no latex.
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According to recent Gallup polls, American levels of happiness are at a four-year high, with 60 percent of all Americans reporting they feel happy without a lot of stress or worry. Books about happiness are selling in record numbers. So why don’t Americans seem more satisfied?
One reason is, as I have written in a previous post, “There’s more to life and marriage than happiness.” Another reason is that 40 percent of Americans have not discovered a satisfying life purpose. Having a clear purpose and meaning for your life has been shown in research to increase your life satisfaction, improve your physical and mental health, and decrease the chances of depression. It is very possible to be both relatively happy and yet still live an unsatisfied life.
“It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness,” conclude researchers. Yes, pursuing happiness and pleasure can actually hinder you from having a meaningful, satisfying life as an individual and as a married couple.
A new study to be published in the Journal of Positive Psychology examined the attitudes of 400 Americans over a month and found that while a meaningful life and a happy life overlap in some ways, they were very different. Researchers determined that leading a “happy life” was associated with being a “taker” who at times appeared shallow, selfish or self-absorbed, but with satisfied demands. These happy individuals might be healthy and have plenty of income for what they needed or wanted, as well as few worries.
A meaningful life, on the other hand, was associated with being a “giver.” The participants in this category derived meaning from sacrifices. They actively looked for meaning in their activities, even when they knew the action might decrease their happiness or require them to give something up for themselves. Examples might be a parent who takes time to care for their children, a person who buys a present for a friend to cheer her up, or a spouse who offers to help around the house.
Finding meaning can even involve extreme sacrifices, such as the one made by the Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist Viktor Frankl in Vienna in September 1942. Read about his fascinating story and more about the research in this article from The Atlantic called “There’s more to life than being happy.” Frankl, who survived the Nazi concentration camps, later wrote the best-selling book Man’s Search for Meaning. After working on suicide prevention for teens earlier in his career, he helped two suicidal inmates in the camps find meaning for their lives and gave them something to live for. Don’t we all need something to live for?
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to ‘be happy,’” wrote Frankl. He also wrote the enduring words: “Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself—be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is.”
This last quote brings me to the point of this post. To find meaning in life and certainly in our marriages, we need to direct our attention away from our desire for happiness of the moment and toward others. By loving our spouse and family more fully, we can find greater fulfillment and satisfaction.
Researchers say happy people derive joy from receiving benefits from others, while people leading more meaningful lives derive a great deal of joy from giving to others.
Why is finding a deeper meaning for your life and marriage more important than seeking happiness for your family? Because it affects every choice you will make. When one spouse reaches a turning point in their life, such as a mid-life crisis, someone focused on personal happiness might assess what they are getting from others and who is making them happy. They may say things like “life is short” and “you only live once” to justify behavior focused on personal pleasure. On the contrary, someone focused on meaning might assess what memories and values they are giving to their loved ones and how they have improved the lives of others. They will wonder what legacy they are leaving and how they can strengthen that legacy.
The idea that we are responsible for something greater than ourselves is contrary to the value of freedom above all. Are these values at odds in your mind?
Please share how you find meaning in your life and in your marriage.
If you are interested in more on this topic, here are other happiness-related posts:
Lori Lowe is the author of First Kiss to Lasting Bliss: Hope & Inspiration for Your Marriage. It tells the inspiring, true stories of couples who used adversity to improve their marriages–from overcoming drug addiction to cancer, infidelity, religious differences, family interference and infertility, among many others. It’s available at Amazon.com and in all e-book formats at www.LoriDLowe.com.
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Worm targets vulnerability in Windows OSes
A worm exploiting a recently announced vulnerability in many Microsoft Windows operating systems has infected thousands of unprotected computers.
The vulnerability could let attackers execute code on exploited machines. The MSBlast worm apparently carries a payload that was programmed to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack against Microsoft's update site.
Microsoft announced the vulnerability and on July 16 released a patch for it. The Remote Procedure Call Distributed Component Object Model buffer overflow affects Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
Systems can be protected by patching as described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026. The bulletin and the patch are available from the Microsoft Web site.
William Jackson is a senior writer of GCN and the author of the CyberEye blog.
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Paradigm Shifts in Plant Breeding: Automated Phenotyping Combined with Modern Genetics
During the last 50 years plant breeding has resulting in gigantic improvements of crops in terms of yield, quality, resistances and appearance of our agricultural products. However the traditional methods are now reaching their limits. At the same time society needs large improvements of our crops to meet the current and future demands for high quality food, feed fiber, fuel, flowers and fun agricultural products.
In this presentation paradigm shifts are elucidated that will lead to to the desired improved and innovative crop varieties. First, large scale genomics information is available and used for an increasing number of crops. Second, besides Genetic Modification alternative molecular genetic methods are under development that allow fast Molecular Breeding and Molecular Mutagenesis. Third, new automated and robotized phenotyping methods are now being implemented enabling the establishments of correlations of genetic variation with traits of socio economic importance and thereby enabling a new and integrated way of molecular plant breeding. In a number of practical examples it will be shown that genomics in combination with new phenotyping approaches leads to fast and directed ways of genetic improvements of our crops for the future.
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Software was a seminal exhibition of software art curated byJack Burnham for the Jewish Museum in Brooklyn,1970 and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1970-71. The show put together computers and conceptual artists, linking them through the idea of software as a process or a program to be carried out by a machine or, why not, by the audience based on "instruction lines" formulated by the artist
Participating artists: Vito Acconci, David Antin, Architecture Group Machine M.I.T., John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Linda Berris, Donald Burgy, Paul Conly, Agnes Denes, Robert Duncan Enzmann, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, John Godyear, Hans Haacke, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Nam June Paik, Alex Razdow, Sonia Sheridan, Evander D. Schley, Theodosius Victoria, Laurence Weiner.
The Vilém Flusser seminar took place in 2004 and was a cooperation between MECAD, Barcelona, and the _Vilém_Flusser_Archive. Presented was a text selection of Flusser’s writings on art. The seminar included also a presentation by Silvia Wagnermaier and a reflection text on Flusser’s theory by Siegfried Zielinski. via @monoskop
The ReCode Project is a community-driven effort to preserve computer art by translating it into a modern programming language (Processing). Every translated work will be available to the public and contemporary artists to learn from, share, and build on.
To participate, find an artwork below that you would like to translate. Email us your Processing sketch or visit our GitHub repo.
In the late nineties and during the first decade of this century the term “new media art” became the established label for that broad range of artistic practices that includes works that are created, or in some way deal with, new media technologies.
The Emergent Digital Practices program at the University of Denver brings together art, design, media, culture and technology studies in a hands-on, collaborative environment.
EDP is currently accepting M.A. and M.F.A. applications for the Fall quarter 2013. Priority consideration for admission and financial assistance will be given to those who submit complete applications by January 20, 2013.
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Party election broadcasts are broadcasts made by the political parties for transmission by television services such as BBC or Independent Television during the period of an election campaign. Party election broadcasts (PEBs) are a form of unmediated political communication.
Party election broadcasts are broadcasts made on behalf of the political parties which are then simply transmitted by the broadcasters in the course of the election campaign. In this respect, the broadcasters offer free air-time to the political parties for them to transmit their broadcasts.
This practice has developed from the early days of BBC radio and continues today in a form that has adapted to the existence of a fragmented media landscape. One of its founding principles remains, namely, that public broadcasters should make free air-time available to the main political parties so that they can communicate directly to the electorate.
Party Election Broadcasts (PEBs) are different from Party Political Broadcasts (PPBs). PEBs are broadcasts transmitted during an election campaign, whilst PPBs are broadcasts made by the political parties which are transmitted throughout the period of a Parliament, that is, outside of an election campaign.
The first television party election broadcast was transmitted in 1951. Although they have changed in style and length, they continue to feature at every British general election.
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GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
The GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER, located at 601 Erieside Avenue, opened in July of 1996 in the North Coast Harbor district of Cleveland's lakefront. (See also: ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM and CLEVELAND BROWNS STADIUM.) The center grew out of a mid-1980s proposal to establish a Great Lakes maritime museum on the lakefront, a plan spearheaded initially by the GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY and several faculty members of CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY. By 1990, when a planning board was organized, the project had taken on the more ambitious form of a $55 million interactive education center dedicated to "the environment, science, and technology of the Great Lakes Region." Major donors over the following six years of planning and construction included the GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION, CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION, Ford Motor Company, BP Amoco, Society Bank, Ameritech, and TRW. The building itself was designed by Boston museum architect E. Verner Johnson. Upon opening, the center featured roughly 350 science exhibits and activities organized into three floors, each dedicated to one of its educational themes (environment, science and technology), as well as an Omnimax wide-screen movie theatre.
In its first two years of operation the center drew over one million visitors, including many Cleveland area school groups. In 1998, the Board initiated a $12.5 million endowment, receiving its principal funding from the George Gund Foundation. Touring exhibitions such as Robot Zoo (2001) and Titanic (2002), in combination with Omnimax theatre attendance, sustained the center's relatively profitable operations into the mid-2000s. In 2004, founding President and Executive Director Richard Coyne retired and was succeeded by Linda Abraham-Silver. Under Abraham-Silver, the Board announced plans to increase the center's educational programming and develop stronger ties with local schools.
In 2005, as part of Cleveland's lakefront development plan, the STEAMSHIP WILLIAM G. MATHER MUSEUM was relocated to a neighboring spot at Dock 32 from its former docking place at the East 9th Street Pier. The move allowed the center to share ticketing, educational programs, and parking with the Mather. The following year, the Harbor Heritage Society, which owned and operated the Mather, donated the museum to the center, and plans were made for an all-weather connector to be built between the two facilities. That same year, a 150-foot-tall wind turbine was erected on the center's front lawn to demonstrate renewable energy.
In 2007, Abraham-Silver continued in her position as President and Executive Director.Last Modified: 19 Mar 2008 07:59:35 PM
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The gruesome mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School has sparked national conversations about stricter gun control. The Journal News, a newspaper serving Westchester and Rockland, New York, has taken measures into its own hands by publishing the names and addresses of local gun owners.
The paper was able to retrieve information about residents from Westchester, Rockland and Putnam county thanks to the Freedom of Information Law. In the piece titled "The gun owner next door: What you don't know about the weapons in your neighborhood," the Journal News published names and addresses of licensed gun holders from the aforementioned neighborhoods. The amount and type of weapons owned were also requested by the paper but that information was withheld.
Additionally, the online article featured an interactive map of those licensed gun holders.
The Journal News is receiving extensive criticism for the article. The paper posted the article as a safety measure of sorts for local residents, but some touched on the negative effects of making this information public—like, allowing criminals to target houses without legal firearms.
In a statement to ABC News regarding the article, The Journal News said its readers "are understandably interested to know about guns in their neighborhoods," after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Check out the map here.
[via Huffington Post]
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Let them eat cake! According to legend, this is how Queen Marie Antoinette of France responded to the plight of peasants who didn’t have bread. Besides showing the sad disconnect between royalty and reality, the statement also points to the inescapable truth that just about everyone loves cake.
If you have the Save Our Bones Program, you know that you can eat all foods in the right balance. Cake, however, poses a slight challenge because its basic ingredients are mostly acidifying.
And I sometimes crave something sweet and mushy like cake, but at the same time, I’d rather it be perfectly balanced and bone healthy. Not long ago I discovered that my local supermarket was making fresh peanut butter at the deli counter. Enticed by the delicious smell, I decided to try some.
When I got home I opened the small plastic tub and tasted the creamy concoction. It was absolutely delicious! And right on my kitchen countertop was a large basket filled with fruit. I grabbed a banana, peeled it, and spread the peanut butter on it. It really tasted like cake! And the best part is that this delicious melange is a perfect 80/20 balance.
I still indulge and eat real cake every now and then, but the banana and peanut butter treat is my new guilt-free anytime cake substitute. I hope you’ll try it soon.
Enjoy it in good health!
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An exhibition called The Architecture of Halychyna, 1871-1914 has opened in the State Historical Library in Kyiv with the assistance of the Polish embassy for Ukraine. Visitors can convince themselves that previous generations could build much better than current ones.
Halychyna-born architects Julian and Alfred Zakharevych considered that cheap construction would cost you much, because the concrete boxes we got used to offend the psyche and ruin taste.
The Zakharevychs’ work — Lviv’s Polytechnic Institute, Chamber of Commerce, and many other buildings (some of them are over 100 years old) decorate the city, and houses built in Soviet time cannot compete with them in any way.
Giving a speech at the opening ceremony, Polish ambassador for Ukraine Jerzy Bar expressed satisfaction that Western Ukrainian cities and Lviv in the first hand will finally “get rid of Soviet desolation and kitsch.”
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By Emily Gallagher
Times West Virginian
The Town of Monongah is getting closer to finding out why it has lost some of its water in the past few months.
The town hired Steve Cain, an engineer with StanTech, to determine the reason for the loss. During Monday’s council meeting, Cain told council what has been found so far.
“The first step was to get with the distribution system operators and start doing some random testing of meters,” Cain said.
He told council that the water tank was having to be filled halfway because it took longer for the tank to be 100 percent full and employees had to work overtime to fill it.
“It would cost us more overtime to fill it up,” Mayor Don Harris said. “If we can go ahead and get rid of the overtime and concentrate on the accountable water, we still have a lot of water that’s not accounted for.”
Cain also told council that leaks in water lines may be a factor in the loss. They have eliminated a few lines where they know there is no leak and will continue to look for leaks.
“It’s not one big leak,” Cain said. “But it’s sure starting to appear like multiple smaller leaks are in the system.”
Fixing valves may be another solution to the loss. Cain said there may be something wrong with the water plant, but if there is it will be under warranty.
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October: Not Just for Pumpkins!
October is Arts & Humanities month and people keep asking us what we are doing to celebrate. Our answer: doing what we always do–bringing free humanities programs that stimulate informed dialogue to Marylanders! Click here to take a look at our jam-packed October calendar to see all of our events.
As part of our One Maryland One Book program, we are bringing Song Yet Sung author James McBride to seven locations around the state in October, as well as holding scores of related programs—about the Underground Railroad, music, slavery on the Eastern Shore, and book discussions (including one with food tastings!)– in schools, colleges and universities, libraries, museums, and other venues.
In addition, we are celebrating Edgar Allan Poe October 16 in Baltimore with a ‘battle of the Poes’, involving teens in writing poetry in Dorchester County and helping adults tell their life stories in LaPlata. Kent Countians are thinking and talking about Jane Eyre; Frederick Douglass will be in Caroline County; oysters are the topic in Perryville, and Princess Anne is featuring a genealogy workshop.
You can celebrate the humanities in October and every other month with the Maryland Humanities Council. For arts programs, please go to www.msac.org to check out events on the Maryland State Arts Council’s website.
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Conflict at Work: From Problem to Productivity Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills
Are you the sort of person who finds yourself reacting emotionally to other people? Or do you tend to want to please others, taking on extra responsibility without getting your own needs met?
If you have ever had your opinion ignored by your supervisor, had a co-worker consistently expect your assistance without reciprocating, blown up after tolerating a colleagues annoying habit too long or been expected to act on conflicting directives you know that relationships are as much a part of the world of work as they are our personal lives. In fact, our relationships at work may be as big a factor in our success or failure as our skills and knowledge of our job.
Too often we enter an interpersonal situation with pent up emotion and no clear idea of what we want to achieve. Effectively navigating work relationships requires that we first know our goals in the situation. It's important to know not only what specific results you want to achieve, but also how you want the other person to feel about you after the interaction and how you want to feel about yourself.
Knowing what you want in any given situation is complicated enough. Actually carrying out a plan for dealing with interpersonal conflict, especially in a work situation where the consequences may be quite important, can be extremely difficult. The Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills Training Module in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was designed teach people how to navigate through complicated interpersonal situations without avoidance of conflict or intense confrontation. At work, the goal of these skills is to use interpersonal problem-solving and assertiveness skills to change the environment and meet your goals.
First, you must consider how strongly to make your case. If you want your opinion taken seriously by a supervisor, is it best to ask firmly and insist on your point-of-view? Ask tentatively, but accept no? Or is this a situation where you merely want to hint at what you want. DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness skills outline how to assess factors such as your priorities, your long vs. short term needs, self-respect issues and reciprocity in order to choose an appropriate course of action.
Once you have determined your goals and how strongly to make your case, you chose to focus on one of three primary interpersonal skills. The first skill gives specific steps on how to stand up for yourself and be taken seriously, request others to do something so that they do it, refuse unwanted requests, resolve conflict, and get your opinion taken seriously. The second skill focuses on the ability to maintain and improve relationships while obtaining your objectives. When this skill works, you get what you want and the person likes or respects you even more than before. The third skill focuses on maintaining your sense of self respect while interacting with others. It involves acting with personal integrity and in a way that makes you feel capable.
There is no one way to resolve conflict in a work environment and no matter how skillfully you act, not every conflict is within your control to resolve. However DBT skills are useful particularly for those people who experience intense emotions at work and either find themselves in frequent confrontations or putting their own needs aside to please other people.
Linehann M. M. (1993). Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder. New York: The Guilford Press.
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