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May 30, 2007
New Biography of Robert E. Lee To Be Discussed on June 12
Robert E. Lee was a more complex and contradictory man than his iconic image suggests. In her new biography, historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents dozens of previously unpublished letters to draw a new portrait of Lee’s beliefs, his military ability and the times he lived in.
Pryor will discuss and sign her new book, "Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters," at noon on Tuesday, June 12, in the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C.
The program, part of the Books & Beyond author series sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. The Library’s Manuscript Division, the largest source of material for the book, is co-sponsoring the event.
Pryor uses Lee’s newly discovered family letters as departure points for a series of surprising "historical excursions," telling his life story through an innovative blend of analysis, historiography and rich period detail. She looks into Lee’s troubled childhood, the hardening of his anti-abolitionist views, his decision to join the South, his celebrated but controversial battlefield performance and his final wrenching years.
The author also delves into lesser-known aspects of Lee’s life, such as his pioneering role in engineering science, the fluctuation in his religious beliefs and the way he shaped his own leadership style.
Pryor has combined careers as an award-winning historian and a senior diplomat in the American Foreign Service, most recently as senior advisor to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe of the U.S. Congress. Her 1987 biography, "Clara Barton, Professional Angel," is considered the authoritative work on the founder of the American Red Cross.
The Center for the Book was established by law in 1977 to use the Library’s resources to promote books and reading. More than 70 book talks presented by the center can be viewed on its Web site at www.loc.gov/cfbook/.
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MORROW — When Georgia officials announced plans to severely restrict public access to its state archives, it set off a firestorm not only among scholars and people tracing their family roots, but national historical groups.
Archives supporters expressed outrage at plans to limit access to appointments-only on six days a month to view some of the state’s most valuable papers, from the fading parchment of the 1798 Georgia state constitution to Jimmy Carter’s 1976 statement of candidacy. They collected more than 17,000 signatures on an online petition, rallied at the State Capitol and hired a lobbyist.
On Thursday, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and Secretary of State Brian Kemp backed off of the plan — sort of. Deal announced that he was restoring $125,000 of a $733,000 budget cut so that the archives could remain open two days a week and visitors could view records without making an appointment.
“Georgia’s Archives are a showcase of our state’s rich history and a source of great pride,” Deal said in a statement, which did not address the fate of seven workers who recently received pink slips effective Nov. 1. Three other employees — the new archives director, an archivist and a building manager — will definitely stay.
The controversy focused national attention on shrinking funding for state archives at a time when they’re processing, preserving and digitizing far more records than just a few years ago.
Georgia’s cost-cutting move was “a continuation of a trend we see at the federal level,” said Lee White of the National Coalition for History in Washington. “It’s not something we want to see spread to the states.”
While most states have had to slash their budgets in recent years, making layoffs almost routine, the proposal to slash the Georgia Archives’ budget struck a nerve in the Peach State, which celebrates a rich history from the Civil War to the civil rights movement.
Deal, a Republican, had ordered agencies to their cut spending during the current budget year by 3 percent. Kemp imposed the entire cut for his department on the state archives. His spokesman acknowledged that it was a “brutal cut” but necessary given past funding reductions for the secretary of state’s office, which is also responsible for elections, professional licensing, business regulation and the State Capitol.
The agency is already struggling to keep pace with more stringent ID requirements for professional licenses, part of a new law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration in Georgia.
But archives supporters pushed back.
“We’ve complained for years” about budget cuts that whittled down the archives staff from more than 50 to 10 and reduced public access from five days a week,” said Kaye Manning Minchew of the Coalition to Preserve the Georgia Archives. “It takes a near disaster to get more attention.”
They were soon joined by groups such as the National Coalition for History and the Council of State Archivists.
Vicki Walch, the council’s executive director, said the number of workers at state archives has declined 20 percent since 2004 as the volume of paper records has increased from 2.4 million to 3.4 million linear square feet over the same period. She said many archivists were surprised that Georgia had been hit so hard because the archives, located south of Atlanta in a 10-year-old complex next to a National Archives satellite facility, was regarded as a premier program.
“To have this happen has just sent a shock wave throughout the community because if it can happen in Georgia, what’s going to happen someplace else?” Walch said earlier this week.
Archivists complained that no serious research could be conducted during two-hour periods. The archives contains 260 million documents, 1.5 million land grants and plats, and 100,000 photographs.
Archives backers also lamented that people wouldn’t be able to easily leaf through important documents such as the 1798 Georgia state constitution — kept in a green bound volume in a secure, climate-controlled room — or Georgia’s Royal Charter.
“I think any archivist will tell you that an archive should be open at least five days a week, if not one weekend day, because our mission is to serve the broadest possible constituency we can, said Sarah Quigley, manuscript archivist at Emory University.
In Thursday’s announcement, Deal said he would propose that the archives be shifted to the University System of Georgia, effective July 1. The state Legislature must approve the change.
Jared Thomas, a spokesman for Secretary of State Kemp, said his boss supported the changes and would be determining the effect on the laid-off employees, including those in charge of preservation, conservation and reference.
“We don’t know yet,” he said. “We’re still working through the issue. The current level of public access will be maintained.
If the staff cuts remain, Walch is concerned that three staff members won’t be able to handle the workload.
“The real shortsighted part of this is without that processing, you’ll have access to things processed years ago but the things coming in now that just get shelved won’t be open to anybody,” she said, suggesting that Georgia could become the first state to shift its archives to a university system.
Minchew said she was “delighted” by the governor’s decision to restore some funds and shelve the appointments plan, but also expressed concern about staffing levels. “Now we want to hear more details.”
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FRIDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- They'll never replace the traditional Christmas ham, but mealworms (beetle larvae) may someday offer an environmentally friendly alternative to meat, a new study suggests.
Researchers in the Netherlands used three factors -- land usage, energy needs and greenhouse gas emissions -- to compare the environmental impact of mealworm farms to chicken, pork, beef or milk farms.
Compared to the other types of farming, mealworm farming produced more edible protein using the same amount of land and less energy, according to the study in the journal PLoS One.
The same team of researchers previously found that mealworms produce less greenhouse gases than other meat-producing animals.
"Since the population of our planet keeps growing, and the amount of land on this earth is limited, a more efficient, and more sustainable system of food production is needed," study author Dennis Oonincx, of the University of Wageningen, said in a journal news release.
"Now, for the first time it has been shown that mealworms, and possibly other edible insects, can aid in achieving such a system," he added.
The University of Arizona has more about mealworms.
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In modern times the requirement for wireless technologies has been growing fast, including in the automation industry. There are that many potential applications in producing the sheer options can become overpowering. The key has a sound method for wireless applications, realising that some systems benefit from hard-wiring, and that hard-wiring also makes a good ‘back up ‘ plan for when a wireless system goes down.
There are several common applications for wireless technology in the automation industry. One is simple monitoring. This regularly eliminates the requirement for a human eye. Over time that can save a company cash. Think of inventory control as a good example, including remote inventories. Particularly in established firms this becomes a difficult task for employees doing it by hand. Having a wireless, automated application simplifies everything and also provides higher precision.
Another glorious application for wireless monitoring is for identifying issues with power usage and management. By spotting variables in say gas usage a company can then find ways to lower consumption (again saving money). The same sort of monitoring is applicable to pipeline instrumentation. The wireless automatic system can track remote information constantly.
Having asserted all that, there are limits. Some control processes simply are not suited to underlying wireless net necessities. The secret is how swiftly the wireless system provides reply, and what reply time is necessary. In these time sensitive circumstances, hard-wiring remains the way to go.
The simplest way to know for sure if your automation systems suit the wireless world is by checking your current infrastructure. What should be added to that sub-structure to deal with the wireless service insuring proper performance? Those elements have to be part of your position and your planning process. Think about this like laying a foundation to a building. Each time-honoured stone needs to be solid and placed in the specified order, particularly if you selected mesh networking. The great part of this design is that each device talks with every other device in the network, and can also become a router if it's required. As you expand the number of sensors in this system, the daddy your wireless net stretches.
What about overall guidelines for wireless technology in automation? There have been steps made here too. The industry standards is named WirelessHART. These standards provide customs for a wide-range of wireless communications. While this is no means a unified standard, it’s a start.
Is there in your place which is not suited to a person to continue to be there to evaluate important course of action? If yes, then dealing with this challenge will not be not easy to you. Feel the article and you will find the option which is within your reach. Are you acquainted with the use of industrial camera, particularly which are used in the commercial houses? Most of these cameras are generally playing interesting roles and easing a tricky task tremendously. Therefore, you can employ a close signal camera the location where the environment is not proper for any human being as part of your industrial residence premises.
There are a few places of a plant wherever intensive checking is required. This really is tough part of an individual to focus on the same for long hours, keeping there. Additionally, the skilled persons might require monitoring the method from the main room. Therefore, you can find just one answer in this concern the industry solution of all the barriers and that is CCTV digicam. Once you set up the same electronics in your professional house, a lot more than single problem will be gone away. Like, you wouldn’t require having a person, especially for the same function and another person to bring information from there towards the expert individuals. Therefore, going for a single calculate you can cope with several troubles very effectively.
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The main objective of an Industrial plant is always to make profit. If anything helps reduce the same then the industrial individuals want to use the same. Since the close routine cameras tend to be enhancing the capability of an expert person in relation to monitoring an activity, in terms of save your time etc. Hence, through these approaches, they are receiving so many benefits with this engineering derivation. The management persons have discovered this digicam very useful and consulting with experts they are using the same in various locations of a grow. There are some particular places similar to, the main gateway, the processing unit with the plant and several other places are simply most suitable spot employing a photographic camera, which documents everything inside the same uninterruptedly and displays in monitors situated at another place of the industrial house.
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Top five Printers Within the Marketplace
Deciding upon a printer can at instances prove to be a daunting task in particular if the shopper occurs to become a 1st time printer buyer. You can find various varieties of printing technologies and each is suited for precise demands. It’s important to note 1 thumb rule when purchasing for any printer. For long lasting photographs, an inkjet printer is an absolute need to and for creating rapidly text documents; a laser printer is an perfect choice. Having a wide assortment of printers offered inside the market place; it truly is challenging to make a prudent choice. Mentioned under are the top five printers accessible in the marketplace currently.
Brother MFC- 9440CN colour laser multifunction
This colour laser multifunction printer is perfect for work groups or little offices. Its USP lies in its constant and rapidly speed as well as an impressive scan and print quality. It can carry out multifunctional tasks and provides sophisticated features and functions to meet the diverse demands of an workplace. Additionally, it has an Ethernet port in the rear and it can be connected for the pc via a single USB cable. It’s compatible with MAC also as Windows operating systems. It comes with a default 64 MB memory and this can be upgraded up to 576 MB. It has the frequent copy functions and also the could make up to 99 copies at as soon as at the same time as enlarge and cut down by means of custom values or present values. In addition, it comes with enhanced security functions. The Settings Lock enables you to set a Pin number and secure your printer from being tampered by a third party.
HP Photosmart A826
This printer is often a favourite among individuals who choose an excellent print excellent at lightening speed. It comes packed with some fun characteristics like captions and clip art. The menu section is neat and effectively organized and in addition, it functions a user-friendly touch screen and is terrific for displaying slide shows. Given its size and lack of portability; the printer could be an ideal choice among professional photographers and expert celebration organizers. The touch screen comes packed with the majority of its vital attributes. The setup also is fairly uncomplicated. The A826 can simply be setup to print from a Computer. Photographs might be viewed as a slideshow and also the settings of this could be adjusted to randomize the order, image duration, continuous loop and much extra. The A826 presents a wide selection of options in regards to printing and editing of photographs.
Epson Stylus Pro 3800
This printer delivers a fine blend of capabilities, all packed into one machine. That is the least pricey printer readily available in the Epson’s Pro series. Apart from providing extended lasting prints and an awesome black & white print high quality; it also has a wide tonal range and delivers an array of paper possibilities. The minimum ink droplet size is 3.5 Pico liters and a max resolution of 2880×1, 440dpi. It could hold 9 cartridges of Epson’s Ultra Chrome K3 inks: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Matte Black, Photo Black, Light Cyan, Light Magenta, Light Black, and Light Light Black. It comes with an Ethernet port and can thus be shared on a network. So, it makes an ideal printer to get a smaller office environment. The best part of this printer is that delivers high high-quality black and white prints. While the neutrality of colors will depend on the type of paper getting used; the colour fidelity on different paper forms is extra than impressive.
HP Officejet Pro L7680 All-in-One
This printer comes packed with loads of utilizable characteristics like built-in networking, high quality and speedy prints, a built-in ADF, media card slots, Digital Filing, duplexer and a variety of other office-oriented features. This printer is highly recommended for someone who is looking for an all-in-one functionality. Additionally, it provides a wireless print server also as a Bluetooth adaptor for wireless printing (optional). Be it printing, scanning, copying or faxing; the machine accomplishes it all. Although it really is network-ready; the printer could be also connected through a USB. It makes it possible to send and receive both colored at the same time as black and white fax copies.
This printer presents some highly useful and user-friendly capabilities and provides high good quality and speedy prints for just about any print type. It comes network ready having a built-in duplexer as well as a separate photoconductor. This printer is perfect for high volume printing requires and also characteristics an automatic double sided printing. Furthermore; the printer is quite energy efficient and results in lesser material waste. Its toner cartridges have been separated into 2 units. While 1 piece would be the toner; the other piece will be the photoconductor. Its print excellent is highly impressive as well as the printer also has an expandable on board memory.
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Why do HP and Lexmark compatible ink cartridges expense greater than Epson and Canon?
We get asked this query a whole lot by consumers who own an HP or Lexmark printer, in particular ones who have previously owned an Epson or Canon printer. So why do the majority of HP and Lexmark compatibles ink cartridges price additional? Effectively, it is generally down to the design and style of the ink cartridges these brands of printer use. Most HP and Lexmark printers use a cartridge exactly where the print head (the device that puts ink the on the paper) is incorporated in to the cartridge and cannot be removed. This suggests every single time a new cartridge is installed inside the printer the print head can also be replaced.
Replacing the print head at each and every time the ink runs out includes a quantity of benefits when it comes to the high quality and reliability with the print made. The downside nevertheless, is the fact that a print head is costly to manufacture, it’s a very engineered electrical device which demands higher levels of experience and technically advanced machinery to make. You may not locate third party companies offering print head cartridges less costly than the branded goods, because they are unable to manufacture them at a low enough price that would draw the customer away the branded OEM product. One more downside to getting a throwaway print head of every cartridge is the fact that its not very environmentally friendly in terms of the power it requires to create it. Although HP and Lexmark do recycle the materials utilized in their ink cartridges.
So what are compatible HP & Lexmark cartridges? Compatible HP & Lexmark cartridges are remanufactured. This indicates the cartridges have been recycled in an environmentally friendly way ready to be utilized again. So they just refill them with ink? No, remanufacturing and refilling are entirely different things. Remanufacturing is a much lengthier and thorough process; as a result it produces a much far more reliable recycled ink cartridge.
The remanufacturing process consists of sourcing empty cartridges that are suitable for remanufacturing. The majority of these are bought from brokers and the price of which varies tremendously, depending around the availability of your particular cartridge (new cartridges for the market are generally extra costly due to the fact there are less in circulation). Once the cartridges are received every single one is carefully inspected for any signs of damage. Cartridges that pass visual inspection are then thoroughly cleaned using state-of-the art equipment and then electronically tested to ensure the electronic circuitry on the cartridge is functioning. The next stage from the process is refilling, this is done using premium good quality ink and very accurate manufacturing equipment. On completion from the filling process the cartridge is again inspected visually, electronically and under pressure controlled conditions to ensure the unit is suitably sealed (so that it doesn’t leak). The final stage is packaging, this involves placing the item in a uniquely designed box which is clearly labelled with all relevant product codes. The box will also contain a freepost bag to return the cartridge for the recycler when it has been applied in order for it to be recycled again.
As you can see this is not a process that can be done “while you wait”. Due for the amount of time and equipment needed to recycle ink cartridges the end solution can be a little bit more expensive compared to third celebration compatibles for Epson and Canon printers.
So why are Epson and Canon compatible cartridges cheaper? The reason for this is that the majority do not contain a print head and are therefore, simply ink tanks. These can be manufactured (in China mostly) in a really price effective way and the end item can be retailed at a much cheaper cost compared for the equivalent OEM branded solution.
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Buy Laser Printer for helpful printing
Laptop printers are a vital peripheral for any company homes currently. The usage of printer is endless it is possible to use a printer for printing reports, documents, publishing newsletters or for just printing pictures. One particular of the most preferred printers in a lot of massive company houses these days is a laser printer.
A laser printer utilizes a laser beam to create an image on a drum. The light that the laser releases alters the electrical charge around the drum. The drum is then rolled by way of a toner picked up by the charged portions in the drum. Finally the toner is transferred to the paper by way of a combination of heat and transfer.
Laser printers are viewed as to become probably the most excellent printing tools for printing these days. Initially because of their high price they were only favorable to big small business houses however off late with a fall in prices they have been accepted in each properties and workplace environments.
Laser printer is identified for its high quality text printing and fantastic graphics printing. Although laser printer has a a lot higher initial price as compared to inkjet printers or dot-matrix printers but they have a comparatively much lower operating price.
Laser printers are controlled via web page description languages (PDLs). Page description languages have two de facto standards
• Printer Control Language (PCL)
Most application can print utilizing either of those web page description languages. PostScript is far more high priced than PCL however it has extra characteristics that PCL lacks.
Guidelines that may make it easier to pick the proper printer
• Choose what variety of documents you might be printing
• Choose what featured you will need like capability to handle substantial files, ability to print on numerous media, two or much more paper trays and so on
• Compare the print excellent of diverse printers
• Evaluate the resolutions of diverse printers
• Compare the speed specifications of unique printers
• Check whether the printer’s paper path is sharper than 90 degrees to manage envelopes, card stock and transparencies.
• Compare printer warranties and service contacts.
If you sit and function upon the above helpful ideas you’ll understand that laser printer just fits the bill.
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This week I’ll be posting about and oldie but a goodie, The Sword and the Flame. Originally written in 1979 we frequently play with the 20th anniversary edition. The Sword and the Flame pretty much covers all your Victorian British wars. This rule set generally requires a game master to get the full experience. D6, D20, and playing cards are used to determine most of the game’s effects. Six sided are used to determine movement and close combat results. Depending on formation and nationality you roll different numbers of dice for movement. For example British infantry in close order move 2D6 while a Dervish mass moves 3D6. Charging grants an additional die while rough terrain doesn’t reduce the number of dice but removes the highest die rolled.
shooting uses twenty sided dice. Units check if they are in range and then roll one die for every figure firing. The score to hit is determined by a chart. The weapon is referenced against the class of the target. Class I is a mass of guys in the open. This carries onto Class IV which is troops in a building or behind walls. Better trained troops have a higher range of numbers than the rabble. All hits are allocated to the unit with the flip of a card. A hearted suit kills while all others wound. An ace means an officer is hit while a face card is a key figure (scouts, gun crews, etc.) Wounded models don’t matter for most non imperial troops. British and their allies however are forced to carry the wounded like the good chaps they are. In game terms this means anyone carrying a wounded model cannot shoot nor fight in melee.
Close combat is initiated by a charge order. If the attacker rolls high enough to contact he takes a morale test to complete the charge. This is more difficult if the leader has been killed previously. If they are successful the defender has to roll to stay and fight. This is also more difficult if the leader has been killed. In the close combat phase models are matched up and a series of 1v1 duels are fought. Both combatants roll a D6. The close combat chart has a series of modifiers. Charging generally allows the attacker to win ties. defending a wall or emplacement gives a +1 to the die roll. If the loser rolls a 1 he is killed. On a roll of a 2 he is wounded. 3 or more the loser falls back. After the first round the combatants are matched back up. This continues until someone wins. All of the members of the unit that fell back take a major moral test or flee. That’s it for the major rules, onto the game!
The mission for the British and their Indian allies was to burn the village down as a friendly reminder for the tribes to pay their taxes. The Pathans of course wanted to see them off with the village intact. The was a hill fort overlooking the town that provided some defence and an old cannon. Most of the Pathans started the game hidden. The British were given a wide corner away from the village to deploy. The mountainous terrain dictated most of the routes the British could take although a detachment of Gurkhas were able to scale the various ridges. I was in charge of the hill fort so that will color most of my battle report. The Indians were tasked with taking the fort while the British advanced on the town. The Guides set up a mountain gun on a ridge opposite of the hill fort. Between that and the regular Indians they eventually shot the Pathans into hiding and climbed to the fort.
Along the other side, the British were peppered by ambushing Pathans. They persevered and eventually assaulted a Pathan occupied building. The British were mercilessly wiped out. Then we looked at the die the British player Jerry was using and found it to be a D3! So we replayed the assault and the British still lost but the Pathans took enough casualties and fled.
At that point we looked at the clock and called it a night. The Pathans were battered while the British had fresh reserves to commit. The game played smoothly and we were all satisfied by the result. The Sword and the Flame provides a good game with enough lead to push around and concludes in a decent time. You’ll eventually see more reports on TSaTF as we use it for the Boxer Rebellion, The Zulu Wars and other Northwest Frontier games. I’m currently reading through the SAGA rule book to give a better researched review. I also plan on putting a .45 Adventure game on in the near future.
You may have noticed I switched up the picture format. Like it? Dislike it? let me know.
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Journal October 5th.....
It is deadly still here. The silence is broken only by bird songs and the waves that lap against these once bloody shores. There are better than a hundred of us on this beach head and all of us are silent. Bob and I have crossed the Dardanelles and are in Gallipoli at a place called Seddulbahir which is the final resting place of ANZAC forces who tried to land here in 1916. Those of us who love words and understand their power suddenly have none. As you walk the rows of well kept graves the headstones tell the tale. James McElroy age 18. Thomas Shoemaker age 19. Johnny McBride age 17. The oldest in this cemetery is 37. The old lie was repeated....Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...and young men once again died in a war not of their making. Before this eight month battle ended 552,000 young men would lose their lives and leave wives and mothers to grieve their loss. Half were Aussies and New Zealanders. The other half were Turkish. Mustafa Ataturk, who would become the leader of the new Turkish nation, left this memorial for all who died at Gallipoli.
"Those heroes that shed their blood
And lost their lives.
You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country.
Therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies
And the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side
Here in this country of ours.
You, the mothers,
Who sent their sons from far away countries
Wipe away your tears,
Your sons are now lying in our bosom
And are in peace
After having lost their lives on this land they have
Become our sons as well."
Take care and stay well. Blessings......Mary
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In partnership with Open Europe and the Centre for European Reform, Business for New Europe brought together a distinguished panel of speakers to discuss the role of Brussels in British foreign policy. The event was chaired by David Rennie, The Economist, and the speakers included Lord Hurd of Westwell, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1989-1995), Alexandr Vondra, Czech Minister of Defence, Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish Minister for Development Cooperation and the Rt Hon David Lidington MP, Minister of State for Europe, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Lord Hurd started the discussion noting that whilst member states continue to represent themselves as individuals in foreign policy negotiations there are, at the same time, strong cases of collective EU action, which is often under-reported. For example, Palestine is an example of where the EU has taken a specific stand and it is important to remember, Hurd emphasized, that these actions are exercised by Lady Ashton on the UK’s behalf.
There is a clear relationship between Brussels and Britain in the foreign policy domain; however, it is not a case of one against the other argued Hurd. He said that counties act on their own and countries act collectively at the EU level; in short, this dynamic in European foreign policy relations should not necessarily be viewed as a negative conflict.
Looking forward, Hurd hopes that unanimity is the key to dealing with any problems of EU-level foreign policy. Hurd suggests that it is useful to look back at the referendum and the advantages noted by Thatcher – most of all, it would undoubtedly help Britain speak with one voice along with Europe on global issues.
However, he recognized this is not particularly possible because – as Libya demonstrated this year – the EU faces the problem of a lack of unanimity. Indeed, the US may increasingly think that they can leave problems in the hands of the Europeans but the reality is that this poses a challenge which the EU and the UK are not particularly prepared for. The majority of Europe’s military operations are in the hands of Britain and France, Hurd argued that this is because both countries have a greater likelihood of intervention in comparison to their other EU counterparts. Plus, Europe has been too successful in demilitarizing Germany.
Russia is a key area that Hurd advocated joint EU activity, he said this was highly desirable. The UK should be cautious here because the reliance on Russian oil and gas is a concern. Hurd believes a non-EU level approach to Russia could be detrimental to the EU/Russia relationship and could further exaggerate the already-present worries about dependence. Despite clear national divergences on the issue – namely Germany – it is crucial he argued that EU member states operate together, with individual sectors working more closely and minor difference put aside; there are big possibilities here if the UK is willing to play its part collectively. Furthermore, Germany should not be encouraged to continue on an inward-looking path.
On a whole, Hurd concluded that there are many different disputes on foreign policy issues and he knows that progress is slow mainly because of the need for unanimity. However, he closed by saying that the potential of Europe acting together should not be underestimated – the potential of Europe acting together is great and has not yet been fully realised.
Gunilla Carlsson considered what is currently at stake in European-level foreign policy and argued that there is a need for Britain to be a positive force. She noted that whilst the UK and Sweden are both outside the eurozone, they remain dependent on stability, particularly because of significant trade links with eurozone countries. Indeed, Carlsson recognized that this demonstrates the self-interest of member states like the UK and Sweden but nevertheless its importance cannot be undermined. The EU really needs to stand united in order to be able to take on huge challenges; the peaceful stability of Europe is a strong example of this.
There is a need for greater cooperation because otherwise there is a clear risk of a weakened Europe developing, particularly as new global powers continue to emerge. Carlsson emphasized this by noting that China is a good example of an emerging international relation player but, on the other hand, the US – being in a bad shape currently – is another example a shifting military structure because their austerity measures have placed significant pressure on their arms sector.
There is no doubt, stated Carlsson, that there is an expectation that Europe will stand up for human rights and democracy, particularly in the Arab Spring. The worst thing that could happen in foreign policy is for a clear division amongst EU member states to emerge because for both the EU27 and individual member states, a successful EU foreign policy is something that will only work united.
Carlsson closed by emphasizing what she viewed as a key foreign policy issue for Europe – Turkish accession. It is not too late, she argued, for Turkey to join the EU and it must not be forgotten that enlargement is one of the greatest assets of the EU. Carlsson stated that there was a definite importance of Turkey in the UK – and indeed the EU – which must be more effectively recognized.
Britain has really served the EU in a good way she said and Sweden needs Britain to be a positive force in Europe, particularly taking a core role in the decision-making process on Turkey. Sweden takes a key interest in working more closely together with Turkey and has confidence in what the EU should continue to be about.
David Lidington outlined three key points about the relationship between Brussels and Britain on foreign policy. Firstly, Lidington sees European policy not as a substitute for UK foreign policy but as a tool to compliment and give further leverage; this is the general thinking behind the UK’s foreign policy he argued. In an EU context, Lidington said he recognized that statement is far easier for a British government to say than a smaller – perhaps newer – EU member state. He added that unlike other policy domains in the EU, foreign policy is strictly a matter where the unanimity rule still applies and this is why there are not common positions on issues such as Turkey and Russia.
Secondly, when the EU seeks to work together and have greater leverage as the EU27, rather than individually, it needs to have clear and limited priorities. The EEAS should not try and do everything but focus on specific programmes that it can do best and at full capacity, argued Lidington. Obama does have visible impatience with a US/EU summit and he put forward what he views as three collective priorities for EU member states in the foreign policy.
1. Working collectively to open up the Chinese market and reduce bureaucratic restrictions; more broadly, Lidington believes that securing global partners for domestic businesses is a shared goal for EU member states like France and Germany, and working together to do this would produce the greatest results.
2. Continue with the success of the European Neighbourhood Policy to build a new approach to European policy with greater leverage capabilities than before.
3. The EU should focus on what it is particularly good at – conflict resolution and conflict prevention. Lidington stated that Lady Ashton has done a really good job on Iran sanctions and emphasized that this was a particular achievement because neither Washington nor Tehran thought Europe was capable of delivering here.
Finally, Lidington concluded by looking at how you achieve the above institutionally. He argued that the UK and fellow EU member states must seek to influence the EEAS and ensure that their focus remains on collective responsibilities. Also, he stated that there is a collective obligation for EU foreign affairs ministers to work together more effectively and more frequently than they have in the past; Lidington said that he has already begun to observe the growth and habit of routine in consultations between foreign affairs ministers and this has made it possible to identify a common position more swiftly.
Alexandr Vondra agreed with Lidington’s view that strong alliances can be achieved and Carlsson’s view on the value of Turkish accession. On Turkey, Vondra elaborated that the reality of Turkish accession is that France and Germany will never allow Turkey in because firstly, it is larger than they are and the EU has never actually agreed to accession for a country of this composition. Also, countries seriously view Turkish accession as a competition issue and always will. The problem now is that Turkey is no longer oblivious to this.
Moving forward in terms of EU foreign policy, Vondra argued that the first priority is strategic and the second is operational.
Strategically, there are several important relationships, like those with US, Russia, Turkey and China. With US, for example, the EU is not in any better shape than it was ten years ago and with Russia, there was a promise that a bigger EU meant they would be able to defend interests better. In terms of the latter, the EU is now in a situation where it is facing a greater dependence on Russia than before and Germany is just likely to further exacerbate these concerns.
Operationally, the question is of ownership of the common interest and the difficulty is that the EU has created a dilemma amongst member states. Considering his own country, Vondra noted that if you are running a small diplomatic service you have a dilemma because you have a minimal number of skilled people and whilst you do not what to lose them to Brussels you cannot match the salary levels.
Vondra noted that the question of ownership applied throughout the foreign policy structures of the EU and specifically noted the EEAS here. As a result of a lack of ownership, it is not Brussels who runs the show but a small group of diplomats and these few are likely from the North; twenty years ago there was an east/west divide and today, the EU has a significant north/south divide. However, Vondra argued that there have still been success stories coming out of Europe, such as Iran.
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Global Solar Power Growth Doubled In 2010: Study
Author: Gerard Wynn
A general view of the new PS20 solar plant which was inaugurated last month at ''Solucar'' solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, October 7, 2009.
Photo: Reuters/Marcelo del Pozo
The world added about 16 gigawatts of new solar photovoltaic (PV) power in 2010, double the growth seen a year earlier, the European Photovoltaic Industry Association told Reuters on Monday.
Uncertainty about Italian figures made a precise figure difficult, after an end-of-year rush to qualify for a higher solar power price premium, called a feed-in tariff.
The global increase compared with 7.2 GW of new capacity in 2009, confounding a financial crisis and reflecting sharp falls in solar panel prices and generous subsidies, especially in Germany and Italy.
"Solar PV is continuing to develop in countries that put a feed-in tariff in place," said EPIA economist Gaetan Masson.
The added capacity in 2010 brought cumulative, global solar PV power to nearly 40 GW, up 70 percent from nearly 23 GW in 2009.
Europe dominated new solar power installations last year, at about 13 gigawatts (GW), Masson estimated, with Germany and Italy accounting for nearly 7 GW and about 3 GW respectively.
Estimates for the other major European players included the Czech Republic (1.3 GW), France (0.5 GW), Spain (0.4), Belgium (0.25) and Greece (0.2).
Outside Europe, the biggest markets were Japan (about 1 GW), United States (0.8 GW) and China (0.4 GW).
Solar panel prices have halved since 2007, say analysts, at about $1.8 per watt at the end of 2010 compared with $3.7 three years earlier.
The fortunes of the solar market contrasted with wind, which last year shrank for the first time in two decades as a result of a difficult market for project finance as well as uncertain regulatory support.
(Editing by Json Neely)
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Thank You for The Soul Survivor
The term Survivor Guilt was established in the 60’s to describe a reaction by those who witnessed terrible events where others were traumatized or killed.
Sole survivors of disasters, mass suffering, and terrible events, can be so effected by the suffering and loss of others that they find their own survival unbearable and develop anxiety and depression symptoms.
Survivor Guilt lost recognition as a bona fide mental disorder when the DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) was published.
The term was usurped by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
As human beings, we are effected by the suffering of others—unless we are one of the unfortunate broken people who experience no empathy.
It is in our nature as a species.
But unlike the myth of the Lemmings, who are believed to commit mass suicide when their territories become over populated, we do not follow our fellow humans into death or suffering.
That is not in our nature.
We are wired to survive by whatever means is required.
By the way, so are Lemmings.
They are actually trying to swim to survival when they reach cliffs and jump into the water.
They are compelled to do this for survival, not mass suicide.
The myths, folk lore, and metaphors have omitted some of the details of Lemming behavior.
Like Lemmings, humans are compelled to survive.
The only exception is when our wiring gets tangled up, either by external stimuli, mythological heroics, or distorted internal dialogue.
So what can we do with all those complex feelings we experience when we see so many people around us suffering?
You know, that feeling when your coworkers are getting laid off and you get to keep your job?
That discomfort when someone loses a loved one and your family is in tact and healthy?
That awful feeling in your stomach when you read about genocides, famines, disasters, and tragedies that happen to other human beings?
What do we do about the shame of having so much when so many have so little?
We are constantly confronted with the suffering of others these days. From the homeless pan handler on our way to work, to the tear jerking photos on the television imploring us to Save the Children, the suffering of others permeates our lives.
I think that feeling powerless contributes to survivor guilt.
I think if we look deep into ourselves, to the Soul of who we are and realize that we are lemmings, (in the true sense) compelled to survive, that we are not powerless, just wired by nature to avoid suffering, we can also recognize the opportunities to alleviate some of the suffering of our fellow humans.
One of the ways that people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Survival Guilt cope with their circumstance is to assist others in getting through their own traumas.
That is one way to put a soul into survivor.
~ by leakelley on April 15, 2012.
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Steve Jobs delivers the keynote address at the 2011 Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the Moscone Center on June 6, 2011 in San Francisco, California.
It's looking more and more like Apple is going to enter the TV business. The Wall Street Journal recently characterized this as one of Steve Jobs' "ambitions." But was it really? From the same WSJ report:
In meetings as far back as 2010, Mr. Jobs met with a series of cable and satellite executives to discuss next-generation television services for Apple devices, according to people familiar with the matter. Among the questions Mr. Jobs asked in the series of meetings was how much of the universe of video content the providers actually had the rights to, according to a person familiar with the meetings.
Apple's own executives have wondered what the company had up its sleeve. Last year, at its "top 100" meeting for senior managers in Carmel, Calif., an attendee asked Mr. Jobs whether Apple was developing a television.
He responded that it would be a bad business to get into, noting that the margins on television are far lower than the margins Apple makes from its other devices and that consumers don't buy new televisions very frequently, according to this person.
So Jobs himself said don't do it—but then had a change of heart?
His assessment of the TV business is accurate. What makes matters worse is that Apple has a premium pricing model. It has to price a TV set at a high level, for it to be a proper Apple TV — and for Apple to make enough money on the idea. Mind you, Apple's new CEO, Tim Cook, has a reputation for extracting tremendous economies from the supply chain — the network of largely Asian companies that supplies the bits and pieces of all those iPads and MacBooks. So if anyone could transform TVs into true Apple TVs, Cook is the guy.
But building the TV is only half the battle. The pressure is on Apple not just to introduce a fully blown TV — and not just a set-top box, as it already has — but to reinvent the whole business of TV.
Apple certainly did this with mobile phones, turning them into mobile Web-browsing and app-downloading devices and redeeming what had been up to that point the gruff, consumer-unfriendly wireless business. Prior to that, Apple saved the music business, with the iPod and iTunes (although the price of its survival was that Apple took a generous cut of the renewed profits).
Can Apple capture lightning in a bottle yet again? Maybe. But there could be a degree to which it's going against the reservations of it legendary co-founder. And that would be dangerous.
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Even non-soccer fans know how hooliganism can quickly turn a harmless match into a veritable war zone, full of riots, stabbings, even death. To help keep the peace at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, FIFA has decided to go high-tech by enlisting military robots for security.
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champions are Spain, who won the 2010 tournament.
The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s).
The 19 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to...
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Students at one JPS school took a trip back in time Thursday morning.
In honor of Casey Elementary School's 50th anniversary…music from the past filled the school. Students enjoyed listening to a number of local musical artists, including Blues man Jesse Robinson. Casey Elementary is known for its excellence in teaching the performing and visual arts.
Students have been studying the music, literature and arts of the past fifty years in preparation for the schools anniversary.
JPS Interim Superintendent Jayne Sargent says, "I think it's absolutely fantastic that children at an early age in our elementary schools get an opportunity to relive those days in their dress and their art and the music and the wonderful artists who have come to share their time and to share those periods of history with the students."
November 9th is Casey Elementary School's official anniversary. However, school administrators say they're celebrating all year long!
Copyright 2011 WLBT. All rights reserved.
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First published in 1926 in Voyenny Vestnik No. 3.
Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, , Moscow, Volume 35, page 385.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive. You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work, as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.
Other Formats: Text • README
May 2, 1919
I express my very deepest gratitude and appreciation to the comrades of the 2nd Ukrainian Soviet Army for the tank sent as a present.
This gift is dear to all of us, dear to the workers and peasants of Russia, as evidence of the heroism of their Ukrainian brothers, and is dear also because it bears witness to the complete collapse of the Entente which seemed so strong.
Best greetings and the warmest good wishes for success to the workers and peasants of the Ukraine and the Ukrainian Red Army.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Defence Council
The war trophies captured by the Red Army on the Southern Front included several French tanks. The Command of the 2nd Ukrainian Soviet Army sent one of them to Lenin as a gift, accompanying it with a loiter of welcome.
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CPU Rocks... except in physics and strings?
This is strange.
I have an overclocked Q8200 (@ 2.87 GHz). My CPU scores all exceed comparable CPUs (Q8200s, Q9400s), except for Physics and String Sorting, which are both less than 40% of the comparable computers.
This is strange, right?
What could be making my Physics and String results so out of whack with the rest of my CPU results, and other comparable CPUs?
What are the actualt results?
I think it is these 2 tests which make the most use of main RAM. Some of the other tests use a small enough amount of data to be held entirely in the L2 / L3 cache.
Thanks for the reply.
The overall CPU Mark is 4178.
Integer is 1794.
FPU is 2758.
Primes is 1012.
SSE is 10.1
Compression is 6264.
Encryption is 18.
Physics is 63.8.
String Sorting is 1046.
In all but the last two categories, I'm at (and usually well above) the comparable systems. But I get blown out by a scale of magnitude on the last two...
Yes, those 2 results look a bit low.
I would start by looking at your memory access speeds. Maybe the memory timings have got worse as you have overclocked the CPU.
Try going back to stock settings and see if these 2 benchmarks improve.
Originally Posted by passmark
Well, I got rid of my overclock, and little changed. Physics = 81, String = 1252.
Any other ideas?
Also, in terms of real world performance impact (e.g., games)... is there likely to be much, as a result of this?
Thanks again for your help!
One other thing: my MB doesn't technically support my processor. I have a Q8200 on an ASUS P5N-E SLI.
I say "technically" because the 45 nm quads aren't on the official CPU support list. I haven't had any trouble with the pairing, however I understand that some others have. The notional incompatibility is due, I've read, to the board not being able to pump out the required amount of juice at all times.
Could this be the cause, or is it more likely a separate memory issue?
Performance improved around 25% by slowing down the CPU. As this is the opposite of what one would expect, I think this is signficant.
While I can't tell you the exact cause of the problem. I think this might have a real world impact.
We actually had a similar issue in house with a i5 CPU and a Foxconn motherboard. Memory access speeds were very bad. It affected some of the CPU results, the memory benchmarks and the disk benchamrk to some extend. After investigating the problem for half a day we gave up and threw away the motherboard. Replacing the MB fixed the problem for us. We won't be buying another Foxconn motherboard in the future.
Try some other benchmarks, have a closer look at memory performance & timings.
Well, I fixed it. The Passmark results were what sealed it--I decided to get a new MB, and my results in the test and performance (especially in modern, CPU-intensive games like Battlefield BC2 and Assassn's Creed 2) more than doubled.
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A year ago, for the first time, the Jerusalem Municipality and the Israel postal service established a post office in the village of Isawiyah, which lies below Mount Scopus, within the municipal boundaries. Along with the opening of the new branch − part of a plan to improve postal services in East Jerusalem − the village streets were given names and the houses received numbers. These developments followed a petition to the High Court of Justice, submitted by residents with the aid of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. But the municipality could not find a site for the post office, since most of the buildings in the village were illegal structures, so their future was thus in question.Ha'aretz, being Ha'aretz, quotes Meretz politicians about how it is awful that Jerusalem is being united, which for some bizarre reason they claim kills the two-state solution.
Finally, a site for the post office was improvised between the support pillars of the neighborhood sports center.
However, on the night before the scheduled festive dedication of the new branch, which the mayor was to attend, the site was torched and slogans against normalization and collaboration with the municipality were scrawled on the walls.
“In the morning I get an urgent call from the residents,” Tsachar says. “They say: ‘Don’t ask − people tried to burn down the place.’ When I got there I found 20-30 people milling around and cursing: ‘Look what the sons-of-bitches did.’ I told them it was not a problem, because the structure was made of iron. ‘It’s just scorched a little. We can clean it up and go ahead with the ceremony,’ I told them. They organized and cleaned it up, and to this day the post office is operating just fine.”
Barkat showed up that day as scheduled to dedicate the site. His convoy was subjected to some stone-throwing on the way, but the local mukhtar, Darwish Darwish, joined a group of villagers who positioned themselves near the car to protect the mayor and the other officials.
The story of Isawiyah’s post office is a microcosm of the contrasting trends unfolding in East Jerusalem. Along with the nationalist radicalization, widespread support for Hamas and violent clashes reported in the media, far-reaching changes are taking place among the local Palestinians. These processes can be described as “Israelization,” “normalization” or just plain adaptation. The Israeli authorities, with the Jerusalem Municipality at the forefront, are encouraging and in some cases fomenting this process, and displaying surprising bureaucratic flexibility along the way.
Examples of this trend are legion. They include: increasing numbers of applications for an Israeli ID card; more high-school students taking the Israeli matriculation exams; greater numbers enrolling in Israeli academic institutions; a decline in the birthrate; more requests for building permits; a rising number of East Jerusalem youth volunteering for national service; a higher level of satisfaction according to polls of residents; a revolution in the approach to health services; a survey showing that in a final settlement more East Jerusalem Palestinians would prefer to remain under Israeli rule, and so on.
But dry statistics tell only a small part of the story; other elements are not quantifiable. For example, there is the pronounced presence of Palestinians in the center of West Jerusalem, in malls, on the light-rail train and in the open shopping area in Mamilla, adjacent to the Old City’s Jaffa Gate. These people are not street cleaners or dishwashers, but consumers and salespeople. Another phenomenon is the growing cooperation between merchants in the Old City and the municipality.
Everyone involved in developments in East Jerusalem agrees that a tectonic shift is occurring, the likes of which has not been known since the city came under Israeli rule in 1967. Opinion is divided about the source of the change. Some believe it sprang from below, propelled by the Palestinians’ feelings of despair and their belief that an independent state is not likely to come into being. Others think it is due to a revised approach to the eastern part of the city by Israeli authorities, spearheaded by the municipality. Everyone mentions the separation barrier, which abruptly cut off Jerusalem from its natural hinterland − the cities and villages of the West Bank − as a factor that compelled the Palestinians in Al Quds (“the holy sanctuary”) to look westward, toward the Jews.
The huge light-rail project, which cuts across the city and greatly facilitates access from the eastern neighborhoods to the city center, is also contributing to the transformation. Most of these changes are occurring below the radar of the Israeli public, but their consequences could be dramatic, particularly with regard to the possibility of dividing Jerusalem − and the country. It is very possible that Jerusalem has already chosen the binational solution.
Three months after Israel captured East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, the new school year began. The government, which by then had already annexed the eastern part of the city, sought to implement the Israeli curriculum in its public schools. However, the teachers, parents and principals adamantly refused. They launched a strike that became the symbol of the struggle by the Arabs of East Jerusalem against Israeli attempts to normalize the occupation. The strike persisted for two full years, until Israel finally capitulated and agreed to allow the Arab schools in Jerusalem to continue teaching according to the Jordanian curriculum. In time, that was superseded by the curriculum of the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinians view that victory as a milestone in their resistance to Israel’s annexationist thrust. However, the triumph has begun to erode of late. Increasing numbers of parents now want their children to obtain an Israeli matriculation certificate, and more and more high-school graduates are attending special colleges that prepare them to enter the Israeli academic world. At present, there are three schools in East Jerusalem geared toward Israeli matriculation, while in others special programs are being launched with the same aim.
A school in Sur Baher, for example, initiated a track for Israeli matriculation last year. The school expected about 15 students to register, but 100 signed up − and the number is likely to grow in the years ahead.
2. Housing and water
There are hardly any water meters in East Jerusalem, because most of the homes were built without a permit, and it is prohibited to supply water or install a meter in an illegal structure. About two years ago, again after an appeal by ACRI, the municipal water corporation, Hagihon, came up with a creative legal solution. Instead of calling it a “water meter,” it’s now called a “control device.”
The change of name made it possible to circumvent the law and install water meters and a water supply system in thousands of homes − and to start charging for the service. About 10,000 of the devices have been installed in the past two years. Hagihon has also received hundreds of requests from families that want to disconnect from the Palestinian water network, which still supplies water to some of the northern sections of East Jerusalem, and tap into the Israeli grid. The reason: The water supply by the Palestinian company is sometimes erratic.
“We received so many requests from residents to be connected to the Israeli system,” Tsachar, the mayor’s adviser, says. “Let’s say I am an incorrigible Palestinian nationalist, but I also want to shower. What can I do? In that case, [asking to be supplied with] Israeli water is legitimate and pragmatic, and it will also be available all the time. I can fly a Palestinian flag next to the water container on the roof, but I would rather get the water on a regular basis. Now think about the ‘tower and stockade’ settlements [of the 1930s and 1940s]. Do you think they would have said, ‘We will not build a tower but will hook up to the Jordanian network, because it’s more practical’? Obviously not. So there is a process underway here. It’s something that cannot be ignored.”
The matter of issuing building permits provides another example of the authorities’ administrative flexibility in East Jerusalem. The main problem is that most residents cannot get a building permit because they do not have documents attesting to their ownership of property. To solve this problem, the municipality devised the so-called “Barkat procedure.”
“The problem is that if you don’t have confirmation of land ownership, the whole judicial system is stuck,” says Barkat. “We therefore created a mechanism in which the mukhtars, community directorate and municipality meet, and if they reach the conclusion that there is no reason not to believe someone who says the land is his, he gets a temporary permit.
After 20 years, if no one else claims ownership, it becomes permanent. This is a city in which legal creativity is a must. I would rather be right and smart than right and dumb.”
Among the achievements Barkat lists: investments in infrastructure and transportation, planning of neighborhoods, building of schools and more. To illustrate the altered perception on the Palestinian side, he recalls the events surrounding the city-sponsored Festival of Light in the Old City and the behavior of the merchants there. The festival, which focuses on sculptures and performances relating to the theme of light, was held for the third time this year.
“The first year we had a pilot program, only in the Jewish Quarter, and 100,000 people showed up,” Barkat says. “In the second year we held it in the Jewish Quarter and the Christian Quarter, and 200,000 people came. This year it was in all the quarters and there were 300,000 visitors. At first the merchants were afraid to open up for the event, because they got threats. But then they saw that one store opened and then another, and before you knew it they were all open. Everyone made a killing and people got used to the idea.”
[I]n one area, the gap between the Jews in the west and their neighbors in the east has almost closed: public health. The past decade witnessed something of a mini-revolution in this sphere in Jerusalem. Until about 15 years ago, the Arabs of East Jerusalem were severely disadvantaged in terms of health care, mainly when it came to the health maintenance organizations. There were few clinics, physicians were unqualified, services were lacking. In the wake of the enactment of the National Health Law, which rewards the HMOs according to the number of members they have and their upgrading of various medical indices − none other than Leumit HMO, which is identified with the Revisionist Zionist movement − decided to enter the market in the eastern city. A major draw was the fact that the East Jerusalem population is young.
Around the same time, whether by chance or not, the Leumit logo also underwent a transformation: The long-time Star of David morphed into a flower. Within a few years, unbridled competition broke out between HMOs in the eastern city, which are run by local concessionaires − for the most part physicians, but in some cases businessmen.
The competition and privatization generated protests by organizations such as Physicians for Human Rights and ACRI. Their concern was that there was substandard supervision by the HMOs and a preference for making a profit instead of improving medical care. In the end, the process brought about a situation in which almost every neighborhood now has a number of clinics that boast advanced equipment. Following a number of cases in which ambulance drivers refused to enter Arab neighborhoods, some of the clinics now have their own forward ER units. In some cases the residents get free transportation to the clinics, free subscriptions to health clubs or free dental care, to ensure that they don’t switch to a rival HMO. ....
Prof. Yosef Frost, director of the Jerusalem district of Clalit, describes the health developments in East Jerusalem over the past few years as an international record.
“Take the quality indices, which are objective and universal, and examine the quality of medical service,” he says. “Four years ago, the indices were extremely low, whereas now they are almost equal to the Israeli national average. Some of the clinics in East Jerusalem are the leaders in the whole district; I could easily put them in the center of Tel Aviv.”
According to Frost, the health quality indices in East Jerusalem rose from a grade of 74 in 2009 to 87 today. That is the same grade the clinics in West Jerusalem receive, and just one point below the national average of Clalit clinics.
4. ID cards
... Interior Ministry data show that several hundred Palestinians from East Jerusalem received Israeli citizenship in each of the past few years. Lawyers who are involved in this process say the queue of applicants is getting longer all the time.
“The shame barrier has fallen,” says attorney Amnon Mazar, who specializes in applications for citizenship. “People have reached the conclusion that the PA will not be their salvation and that Israel is a cornucopia. So they do it for their personal benefit. People who obtain Israeli citizenship are no longer necessarily considered traitors to their nation. It’s the trend. They don’t feel they have anything to be ashamed of.”
The fall of the shame barrier was also discernible in a survey conducted among East Jerusalem residents by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy − an independent think tank − last January. The results were dramatic. One question was, “In the event of a permanent two-state solution, which state would you prefer to live in?” No fewer than 35 percent of the respondents chose Israel, 30 percent opted for Palestine and 35 percent refused to answer.
“It was a surprise,” admits Dr. David Pollock, who conducted the survey. “We thought people would not want to say or admit it, but they did. You can see from the large number of people who declined to answer that it is a highly sensitive issue. So I would say that these figures are the minimum.”
(h/t Anne, Yoel)
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The Federal Employer's Liability Act (FEMA) is a federal law that provides benefits to workers who are injured on or around trains engaged in interstate commerce. This is an oversimplification, and there are many rules and exceptions that apply to FELA coverage. It is designed to offer employers standardized uniform liabilities. An injured worker under FELA is entitled to receive damages if the road he or she works for is involved in interstate commerce or if the worker's injury is related to negligence or defect of equipment (i.e. cars, engine, track, etc.)
Injured workers may be entitled to the following damages:
- Emotional distress
- Medical expenses
- Permanent injury
- Pain and suffering
- Loss of wages
You should consult with a lawyer about FELA coverage if you believe that your injury may be covered. Unlike workers' compensation, workers may be entitled to sue for damages if their injuries were caused by the employer's negligence. Also unlike workers' compensation, there is no limit on the amount of damages that can be recovered. Some difference between FELA and workers' compensation are that the employee assumes the risk of the job and under FELA it may not be seen as a valid claim. Another difference is that partial negligence on the employer's part is not valid for the reduction of settlements or the dismissal of a case.
Under FELA, the railroad companies have certain duties that they are held accountable for, such as:
- Enforcing regulation and safety rules
- Keeping work environment free of hazards
- Providing training, supervisors and assistance within job functions
- Inspecting equipment and tools for safety
- Failing to adhere to unreasonable work quotas
- Taking care of reasonable climatic conditions (such as the removal of snow)
Because of the potential for a large settlement under the FELA, workers should consult with a lawyer if their injuries occurred on or around a train or train track. Ogletree, Abbott, Clay & Reed, L.L.P., is available to consult with you in this very important matter. Call us today at 713-223-1234. Or, if you prefer, email us and we will contact you right away. Call today about your possible FELA claim.
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Last year, Raoul De Keyser gave a series of 187 works on paper to the museum. The donation contains works from the period 1964-1979 and illustrates how Raoul De Keyser evolved from making figurative work to the abstract compositions for which he is internationally known. The drawings are made on different types of paper and in diverse media, including pencil, ink, watercolour and acrylic. The gift comprises important series of studies from the years 1974-1978, in which De Keyser explores the possibilities of drawing based on natural motifs. On the occasion of this exhibition, the entire gift was on display and was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. Paintings by Raoul De Keyser from the same period as the drawings were also on show.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — While the nation’s highest court ponders the use of race in college admissions, Oklahoma voters will decide next month whether to prohibit any affirmative action programs in state government.
State Question 759, a Republican-backed proposal approved by Oklahoma lawmakers last year, would specifically ban any programs in government employment, education or contracting that give preferred treatment based on race, gender, ethnicity or national origin. Supporters say affirmative action programs, first implemented in the 1960s to provide equal opportunities for minorities and women, are no longer needed, while opponents maintain racism and sexism still exists and that eliminating such programs would move the state backward.
“The only way we’re going to get past racism and get people not to see the color difference is to get our government to lead by example,” said state Sen. Rob Johnson, R-Kingfisher, who sponsored the proposal in the Legislature.
Ryan Kiesel, the director of the Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the group opposes the ban and questioned whether Republicans placed the question on the ballot in part to help drive white, conservative voters to the polls.
“You have to wonder if politics are behind the motivation to put this on the ballot,” Kiesel said. “I think this is an unnecessary state question. I think the negative impacts of it are much greater than any of the purported positives that the supporters are putting on the table.”
The ballot question in Oklahoma comes as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case involving a white Texas student, Abigail Fisher, who contends she was discriminated against when the University of Texas did not offer her a spot in 2008 because of its program that considers race in college admissions. The high court, which is expected to rule on the case next summer, heard arguments in the case Oct. 10.
But in Oklahoma, state officials say racial preference programs like those in place at the University of Texas already have been abolished and that passage of the state question here will have little effect, other than to eliminate a handful of scholarships at public universities that target women and minorities. The question specifically allows exemptions for programs in place because of existing court orders or consent decrees or when affirmative action is needed to keep or obtain federal funds.
“Our practices will stay the same regardless,” said Shelley Reeves, a spokeswoman for the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, the state agency that oversees both state hiring and contracting. “In practice, we’re comfortable with the hiring practices that we employ in providing the state with a diverse workforce … and based on the way that we interpret the resolution, there would be no change in the bidding practice.”
The ballot measure in Oklahoma is based on similar proposals that already have passed in California, Michigan, Nebraska, Washington and, most recently, Arizona in 2010.
The measures have been spearheaded by Ward Connerly, the founder and president of the nonprofit American Civil Rights Institute, who argues that the time for affirmative action programs, implemented in the 1960s under President John F. Kennedy, has ended.
“I think that the initiative in Oklahoma is one whose time has come,” said Connerly, who recently visited with civic organizations in Oklahoma City to build support for the proposal.
Most of the studies into how these measures affect states come from California and Washington, which put the bans in place in the 1990s. According to a 2012 study by the Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California’s Berkeley School of Law, state contracts to women and minority-owned businesses in California dropped by more than 50 percent after the affirmative action ban was implemented.
The study also notes that data from Washington shows a similar decline in transportation construction awards after that state passed its ban in 1998 and that there was a dramatic drop in minority applicants at the University of Washington. The number of African American, Hispanic and Native American students applying to elite law schools in several states that banned affirmative action, including California and Washington, also declined, the study notes.
And while those impacts may not be felt in a state like Oklahoma, which doesn’t use racial or gender preferences in college admissions or contracting, the proposal could still have negative implications for race relations in the state, said Michael Sumner, who helped author the 2012 study.
“One of the things we’ve found in our research is that people become afraid of both violating the law accidentally as well as just becoming afraid to talk about race and ethnicity and gender,” Sumner said. “Part of this chilling impact is that it creates an environment where even bringing up these issues at all, people become fearful.”
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Bird watching is the activity of observing wild birds in their natural habitat.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service, more than 50 million people in America consider themselves to be birdwatchers. Some birdwatchers may never venture beyond their own backyards, while others will travel to other parts of the world to observe wild birds. There are about 800 species of birds in North America. You could probably find about 100 species near and around where you live.
Birding (another name for bird watching) can be done in your backyard, at your local park, at work or on vacation. As you can see, birding can be done almost anywhere. Once you're hooked on bird watching you may even travel to some well know birding locations to expand your life list. I will explain what a life list is a little later.
Learn how to plan a bird watching trip here.
Birding is an easy way to connect with nature. Bird watching gets you outside and moving around. Exercise is easiest when it's effortless. While focusing on your search for wild birds, you won't realize the distances you're traveling.
Bird watching used to be done with a shotgun... today we use binoculars for birding, lucky for the birds. We all enjoy treasure hunting and the satisfaction of discovery and birding provides both.
Birding is a hobby that the entire family can enjoy together. ntroducing your children to nature through birding will elevate their appreciation of the natural world around them.
Northwest Ohio Nature is a great source for information on the natural resources of Northwest Ohio. It includes many beautiful pictures. I know you will enjoy this site, even if you do not live in Ohio.
Birding can be social or solitary. You can spend a day watching birds and gathering information in total solitude. Then share your findings with other birders at local bird watching clubs.
Birds also benefit from the growing interest in bird watching. Many birding enthusiasts will set up bird feeders, birdhouses or even a wild bird habitat in their own yard. Suitable natural bird habitats continue to be lost to development. Creating sustainable natural habitats for wild birds is more important than ever before.
Bird watching is more than just learning names of birds. It is about their behavior and how they relate to nature and the world around them. The scientific study of birds is called ornithology. Ornithologists use information gathered by amateur birders to learn more about migration, species health and habitat. One of the ways that birders can contribute is by participating in annual bird counts.
Compared to other hobbies, bird watching is relatively inexpensive. Compare the prices of a notebook, a field guide and binoculars to that of a set of golf clubs and a year's worth of green’s fees and you will see that it is very economical.
Best Birding Binoculars: It can be very difficult choosing the right pair of binoculars for birding, but the right pair will make all the difference in the world. When starting out, just use whatever you have. You may decide to invest in a better quality pair of binoculars as your hobby progresses. If possible, everyone in your group should have their own pair. Sharing could mean that somebody will miss something.
Field Guide: A good field guide is a must. It will provide you within valuable information needed for wild bird identification. A good field guide should include pictures, bird descriptions, habitat descriptions and bird behaviors.
Birding Equipment: As with any outdoor activity, you need to dress for all possible weather conditions. Comfort is key when choosing clothing to wear while birding. This is extremely important when it comes to footwear. Make sure that your shoes are comfortable enough to spend the entire day out walking. The colors don’t need to be camouflaged, but bright colors should be avoided. A hat to shade your eyes will also be helpful.
Notebook or Journal: A journal is important when it comes to recording your observations. For example, you will want to remember where you were when you saw your first bald eagle. Many birdwatchers keep a life list. A life list is a record of when you see a species for the first time. When you see a species for the first time it is referred to as a life bird.
There are many places where you can find more information on bird watching.
Find out if there is bird club in your area. Bird clubs are great resource for local information.
Get involved in a local or nation bird count. Click here for information on the Great Backyard Bird Count and the Annual Christmas Bird Count.
You don't need to buy a bunch of books, but you should read as much as you can. Go to your local library and check out a few books for that next rainy day.
Most of all get outside! Keep your eyes and ears open to what is around you. BE READY when that never before seen bird arrives at your feeders. Keep a pair of binoculars and a field guide close to your viewing area.
When it comes to taking great pictures of birds, there are a number of dos and don'ts. This site Practical Photography Tips has a page dedicated to tips on taking great photos of birds.
Birding can be done in your own backyard. Learn how to attract more wild birds here.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
Colonel Landa is an SS officer. Although members of the Wehrmacht were always expected to be apolitical the SS was the military arm of the Nazi Party, they were NOT members of the Wehrmacht.
AnachronismsWhen Landa has Raine and Uitivich as prisoners, and is gesturing toward the telephone, the handset is connected to the phone with a perfectly coiled black cord that didn't exist until after 1960.
AnachronismsThe highly flammable nitro film of the period plays a major role in the film's showdown. However, in the projection booth, projectors are show with visible running film reels, which would have been totally unthinkable at that time. All projectors were equipped with fire proof boxes in which the reels would run. These boxes had only small windows for the projectionist to check for the amount of run off or taken up film. If the film started burning, only the few inches actually running through the mechanics would be affected, not the major portions in the fire proof boxes.
Character errorWhen Colonel Landa speaks with Lieutenant Raines and Private Utivich about chances being "999-point-999 out of one million" it appears he misspoke. However, when counting in Germany, a period is used where a comma would be used in the English world, and vice-versa. He did mean 999,999 out of one million but mistranslated.
Character errorAfter the bar-basement fight, when Landa is identifying soldiers, he says that Wicki "immigrated to the United States" when he should have said that he "emigrated", as Landa was standing in the country from which Wicki left. If he has been in the US, the country to which Wicki emigrated, then he would have been correct in saying that Wicki "immigrated to the United States".
ContinuityIn the final scene where Col. Landa is surrendering to Lt. Raine, Lt. Raine's tie is untied and hanging off both shoulders. In one shot, the right half of the tie moves behind him, then returns in front in the next shot.
ContinuityWhen Shosanna takes the specially prepared fourth reel (with her 'surprise' for the Nazis) out of the case, her hair is down and hanging loose. In the next shot, just a few seconds later, as she is putting the reel on the projector, her hair is pinned back. Some time after this, when the bell on her projector tinkles to let her know it's time to switch reels, she glances out the projector porthole at the audience and we see her hair is again down and hanging loose. As she pulls the lever to activate the reel, just a few seconds after this, her hair is once again pinned back, remaining this way throughout her final scene.
ContinuityIn the basement bar scene, Stiglitz's hand is under the SS officer's arm. When he shoots, his arm is over the officer's arm.
ContinuityAfter the shootout in the La Louisiane tavern, Bridget von Hammersmark's silver earrings completely disappear only to later reappear in the scene at the veterinary hospital shortly thereafter.
ContinuityIn the tavern scene, when Bridget von Hammersmark is shot she falls backwards in her chair to the floor; but a moment later, when we see the room after the shoot out, her chair is still upright at the table.
Crew or equipment visibleReflection of camera and operator is visible on the short wave radio mike that Landa's holding when speaking to the American general.
Incorrectly regarded as goofsAny mistake relating to actual facts of the Second World War can be thrown out with one explanation: This is Quentin Tarantino's universe, whose history diverged from ours in the early 1940s, and where Adolf Hitler was gunned down in a burning theater. Troop movements, uniforms, and technological developments occurred differently in the Tarantinoverse. Actor Christoph Waltz has stated that the film is "a piece of art. Not a history lesson."
Incorrectly regarded as goofsThe following continuity errors are considered to be intentional stylistic homages to the bad editing in the "spaghetti western" genre:
- At the beginning of the film, the timing it takes for Hans Landa and his men on the motor vehicle to arrive at the dairy farm is completely inconsistent. When the camera shows them approaching the farm in the background, they pass the same tree next to the road three times.
- In the first chapter, when Col. Landa was talking to Perrier, the glass of milk he was drinking repeatedly moved positions back and forth, and the level of milk in the glasses changes.
- In chapter one, when Colonel Landa is sitting at the kitchen table with Perrier LaPadite, the shadow changes shape and "density" and sometimes disappears completely during different shots from the same camera angle. When Colonel Landa starts writing on the piece of paper, the shadow nearly covers half the table and is very dark, but then when we see the same camera angle a few seconds later, there's no shadow on the table. It then reappears again but of different length in another shot from the same angle about a minute later.
- When Hugo Stiglitz is introduced, we see a newspaper. There are initially 2 rows of 6 officers pictured on the front page, but when the paper's shown in close-up there are 7 officers' pictures in one row.
- In the basement scene, when Eric, the bartender reaches for his gun, in the background, you see Hicox and Stiglitz with their guns aimed at Hellstrom. At that point in the scene, however, Hicox hasn't yet revealed that he's been aiming his gun at him, nor has Stiglitz made his move to Hellstrom's crotch.
- When Shosanna takes the specially prepared fourth reel (with her 'surprise' for the Nazis) out of the case, her hair is down and hanging loose. In the next shot, just a few seconds later, as she is putting the reel on the projector, her hair is pinned back. Some time after this, when the bell on her projector tinkles to let her know it's time to switch reels, she glances out the projector porthole at the audience and we see her hair is again down and hanging loose. As she pulls the lever to activate the reel, just a few seconds after this, her hair is once again pinned back, remaining this way throughout her final scene.
- After Donny and Omar kill Adolf Hitler and Josef Goebbels in the Opera box, as they begin to fire randomly into the panicking crowd, Donny's white shirt is clean and spotless. Each successive view of him as he continues firing into the crowd, shows his shirt becoming more and more blood-spattered even though the crowd he is firing into, is more than ten feet below him on the floor of the auditorium. The only people close enough to spatter his shirt with blood were Hitler, Goebbels and the woman companion, who they'd already killed before any blood is shown on Donny's shirt.
- When Lt. Aldo Raine is speaking to Col. Hans Landa in the forest, his open bow tie on his right disappears and reappears under his jacket.
- In the last scene Aldo shoots Herrman. In the shot where he shoots Herrman it is seen that he falls facing away from Aldo, i.e. is the farthest away from Aldo. But later when Uitivich is scalping Herrman we see that Herrman's head is facing Aldo. This can be proved because Uitivich even looks up in Aldo's direction.
- In the last scene where Aldo is carving a swastika in Landa's forehead Aldo is carving the bottom of the Swastika to the left which is incorrect. In the next scene that mark is gone and he's correctly carving it to the right.
- When Aldo is carving the swastika onto Landa, it shows Landa's hands beside him gripping the grass in pain. Yet Landa's hands had just been handcuffed behind his back.
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|Canto 5: The Creative Impetus||Chapter 9: The Supreme Character of Jaḍa Bharata|
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.9.17
iti teṣāḿ vṛṣalānāḿ rajas-tamaḥ-prakṛtīnāḿ dhana-mada-raja-utsikta-manasāḿ bhagavat-kalā-vīra-kulaḿ kadarthī-kṛtyotpathena svairaḿ viharatāḿ hiḿsā-vihārāṇāḿ karmāti-dāruṇaḿ yad brahma-bhūtasya sākṣād brahmarṣi-sutasya nirvairasya sarva-bhūta-suhṛdaḥ sūnāyām apy ananumatam ālambhanaḿ tad upalabhya brahma-tejasāti-durviṣaheṇa dandahyamānena vapuṣā sahasoccacāṭa saiva devī bhadra-kālī
iti — thus; teṣām — of them; vṛṣalānām — the śūdras, by whom all religious principles are destroyed; rajaḥ — in passion; tamaḥ — in ignorance; prakṛtīnām — having natures; dhana-mada — in the form of infatuation by material wealth; rajaḥ — by passion; utsikta — puffed up; manasām — whose minds; bhagavat-kalā — an expansion of the plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; vīra-kulam — the group of elevated personalities (the brāhmaṇas); kat-arthī-kṛtya — disrespecting; utpathena — by a wrong path; svairam — independently; viharatām — who are proceeding; hiḿsā-vihārāṇām — whose business is to commit violence against others; karma — the activity; ati-dāruṇam — very fearful; yat — that which; brahma-bhūtasya — of a self-realized person born in a brāhmaṇa family; sākṣāt — directly; brahma-ṛṣi-sutasya — of the son born of a brāhmaṇa exalted in spiritual consciousness; nirvairasya — who had no enemies; sarva-bhūta-suhṛdaḥ — a well-wisher to all others; sūnāyām — at the last moment; api — even though; ananumatam — not being sanctioned by law; ālambhanam — against the desire of the Lord; tat — that; upalabhya — perceiving; brahma-tejasā — with the effulgence of spiritual bliss; ati-durviṣaheṇa — being too bright and unbearable; dandahyamānena — burning; vapuṣā — with a physical body; sahasā — suddenly; uccacāṭa — fractured (the deity); sā — she; eva — indeed; devī — the goddess; bhadra-kālī — Bhadra Kālī.
All the rogues and thieves who had made arrangements for the worship of goddess Kālī were low minded and bound to the modes of passion and ignorance. They were overpowered by the desire to become very rich; therefore they had the audacity to disobey the injunctions of the Vedas, so much so that they were prepared to kill Jaḍa Bharata, a self-realized soul born in a brāhmaṇa family. Due to their envy, these dacoits brought him before the goddess Kālī for sacrifice. Such people are always addicted to envious activities, and therefore they dared to try to kill Jaḍa Bharata. Jaḍa Bharata was the best friend of all living entities. He was no one's enemy, and he was always absorbed in meditation on the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He was born of a good brāhmaṇa father, and killing him was forbidden, even though he might have been an enemy or aggressive person. In any case, there was no reason to kill Jaḍa Bharata, and the goddess Kālī could not bear this. She could immediately understand that these sinful dacoits were about to kill a great devotee of the Lord. Suddenly the deity's body burst asunder, and the goddess Kālī personally emerged from it in a body burning with an intense and intolerable effulgence.
According to the Vedic injunctions, only an aggressor can be killed. If a person comes with an intent to kill, one can immediately take action and kill in self-defense. It is also stated that one can be killed if he comes to set fire to the home or to pollute or kidnap one's wife. Lord Rāmacandra killed the entire family of Rāvaṇa because Rāvaṇa kidnapped His wife, Sītādevī. However, killing is not sanctioned in the śāstras for other purposes. The killing of animals in sacrifice to the demigods, who are expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is sanctioned for those who eat meat. This is a kind of restriction for meat-eating. In other words, the slaughter of animals is also restricted by certain rules and regulations in the Vedas. Considering these points, there was no reason to kill Jaḍa Bharata, who was born in a respectable, highly exalted brāhmaṇa family. He was a God-realized soul and a well-wisher to all living entities. The Vedas did not at all sanction the killing of Jaḍa Bharata by rogues and thieves. Consequently the goddess Bhadra Kālī emerged from the deity to give protection to the Lord's devotee. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura explains that due to the Brahman effulgence of such a devotee as Jaḍa Bharata, the deity was fractured. Only thieves and rogues in the modes of passion and ignorance and maddened by material opulence offer a man in sacrifice before the goddess Kālī. This is not sanctioned by the Vedic instructions. Presently there are many hundreds and thousands of slaughterhouses throughout the world that are maintained by a puffed-up population mad for material opulence. Such activities are never supported by the Bhāgavata school.
Copyright © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
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Peoria Public Radio Staff
Thu May 2, 2013
Kazakhstan Says It's Cooperating In Marathon Bombing Case
The government of Kazakhstan says it's cooperating with U.S. officials in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings, a day after two men from the Central Asian country were charged in connection with the blasts that killed three people and wounded more than 250.
"As we have repeatedly stressed, Kazakhstan strongly condemns any form of terrorism," a statement from Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry office read, according to The Boston Globe. "The Kazakhstan side is cooperating with the U.S. law enforcement bodies in their investigation."
The Globe writes:
"The brief statement also outlined the charges against Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, who were both charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. They allegedly disposed of a backpack and a laptop that they found in the dorm room of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is accused of planning and executing the Boston bombings.
'We would like to emphasize that our citizens did not receive charges of involvement in the organization of Boston marathon bombings,' the Kazakhstan foreign minister's office said. 'They were charged with destroying evidence.'
The foreign minister's office also said that Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov were receiving 'the necessary consular assistance' but did not elaborate on what that assistance might entail.
'Their guilt has not been proven and the investigation is ongoing,' the statement read."
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov were charged Wednesday with attempting to destroy evidence by disposing of a backpack and laptop thought to have belonged to suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports that, "Forensics experts are combing through the computer's hard drive now looking for things Tsarnaev searched for and possibly deleted."
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A series of bank downgrades expected by Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday evening will have little impact on corporate borrowers as investors have been anticipating the rating firm’s moves for some time, according to capital markets bankers.
“The downgrades are largely priced in,” to the cost of the banks’ capital, said Justin D’Ercole, head of investment-grade syndicate at Barclays. He said large banks have recently backed away from issuing debt as they await the Moody’s decision.
The ratings service announced in February that it would review the ratings of 17 banks, with several in danger of having their ratings downgraded by up to two notches, including Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley, among others.
One capital markets banker said that the effect of the downgrades will be “negligible” on corporate borrowers, as many banks can tap their deposit bases to fund lending activities.
The deposit base “creates an important cushion and we haven’t seen the U.S. loan market react to fluctuating cost of funds thus far, so there’s no reason to believe it will start now,” the banker said.
“In theory, the downgrades will mean [the banks’] cost of capital will go up,” said another banker who advises financial institutions. He said the banks could pass on any increased costs to customers. However, the reality is more likely that the banks won’t be able to pass along all the costs and will see their margins shrink. Additionally, banks not in danger of taking a ratings cut, like Wells Fargo, will likely see an increase in market share because they won’t need to increase costs, he said.
Wells Fargo on Tuesday sold $2.75 billion of bonds in two parts. The bank paid more for the debt—1.5% for a $2 billion tranche, as compared with 1.25% for a similar sized offering in February— but the deal represented the first offering by a bank since Wells and Goldman Sachs sold debt at the end of April, according to S&P Capital IQ’s Leveraged Commentary & Data unit.
There are other signs that investors are less concerned about the looming Moody’s downgrades. As Katy Burne reported Thursday at fellow WSJ blog Deal Journal, the cost of insuring bonds using credit-default swaps has narrowed this month, which could help lower the cost of future debt issuance for banks.
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Letters to the Portland Editor, December 11, 2009
I'd like you to think about something. Ever seen the bumper sticker: "Intolerance will not be tolerated"? You have to think about that for a moment to truly appreciate its wit. It's kind of like the parent who yells at the top of his or her voice, "You kids stop yelling!"
Intolerance will not be tolerated.
I suppose we all have things we won't or can't tolerate. For me, it's not intolerance — it's tolerance that I can't tolerate.
Let me explain. I don't know exactly where or how it began, but in the past few years it's become acceptable when referring to same-sex couples, or the queer community in general, to say things like: "I don't believe in same-sex marriage, but I believe we should be tolerant." Even President Obama and Vice-President Biden have stated this opinion on several occasions. Tolerant? I gotta tell you, I cannot tolerate their tolerance. What kind of message is that kind of tolerance anyway? "We don't like what you're doing. We don't believe it's normal, but we'll tolerate your abnormal behavior because we're just that good." Well, isn't that just big of them?
I will not tolerate their tolerance! Accept me as a full and equal citizen of the United States, yes! But tolerate me? No. That suggests that I'm less. That I don't measure up somehow. How would you like to wake up every morning and know that at best you are tolerated among the people you live with? Tolerance? Gays and lesbians have tolerated the prejudice, fears, and hateful actions of societies for far too long. We've tolerated stereotypes in TV and movies. We've tolerated horrific jokes and discrimination in almost every area of our lives. We've tolerated heterosexual couples enjoying special rights. Tolerance?
Enough is enough. To those who say they tolerate our lifestyle, I say I will no longer tolerate your tolerance. Accept me as a free and equal citizen of the United States, or be honest in your discrimination. But do not hide behind the current wave of tolerance.
Your tolerance will not be tolerated. Thanks for thinking.
, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Politics, More
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OTTAWA – New Democrat Health critic Libby Davies criticized the Minister of Health for moving backwards on trans fats and making it harder for families to keep this health hazard off their dinner tables. New Democrats were reacting to news that the Minister has decided to ignore the advice of her own experts at Health Canada and is refusing to take action.
“Canadian families want to be assured that they know what’s in the food they are feeding their children, and want to be able to make healthy and nutritious choices,” said Davies. “But with the Minister killing proposed regulations and ignoring departmental advice, it’s harder and harder for families to make these healthy choices.”
The NDP has taken the lead on tackling this issue, including garnering all party support in 2004 for a New Democrat motion to limit trans fats in foods – unfortunately, Conservatives have refused to live up to this commitment.
"This is a worrying trend we’re seeing with the Minister of Health. The Minister has already dropped the ball on a variety of food safety issues – from sodium to energy drinks to food labelling,” added Davies. “Conservative inaction on important food issues is putting the health of Canadians at risk. It’s time the government listened to Canadian families instead of just taking their marching orders from industry.”
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Basil is a kind and attentive host, particularly when evening scraps are his due. He might be ugly, scarred and with a bad case of bung-eye (I forgot to get some Golden Eye ointment for his conjunctivitis from the local clinic) that hopefully should be cleared up in a few days. He isn’t riddled with ticks and is obviously reasonably healthy – in mind and body. In all he is just a normal dog – except that he is (technically) homeless.READ MORE
This brings us back to the Notice at the Nyirripi Store and begs the following question.
Has anyone bothered to ask the locals if they want the Police to shoot their dogs?
No? I thought not.
Dingoes play an important role in Australia’s ecosystems; they are apex predators and the continent’s largest terrestrial predator. Because of their attacks on livestock, dingoes and other wild dogs are seen as pests by the sheep industry and the resultant control methods normally run counter to dingo conservation efforts.READ MORE
Out here fires can sometimes run for weeks – if not months – and burn-out huge tracts of land – I’ll try to keep a watching eye on this fire over the coming weeks – if you have any information on its progress please log in and post a note about its progress.READ MORE
Ten questions for Jane Clifton – a lapsed Catholic on life, failed guide dogs and the “fuckery” of Amy Winehouse
I love Amy Winehouse. You hear her records and just go “Oh, wow!” And her songwriting! “What kind of fuckery is this?”. She is inventing words. I remember when I first heard Macy Gray, I was listening to Triple J I think and that stopped the car. I thought “Wow!”. That is a voice, not an over-produced, octave-separated product, great soul and an interesting voice.READ MORE
AMRRIC is covering a wider field now in that we are trying to help out with not only facilitating vets into communities but also to help the local Shires with legislation, trying to increase awareness at the Federal government level of the problems with animal management nationally and we are also trying to increase education of the community.READ MORE
Like many other aspects of life in Aboriginal communities the dogs there are far more visible in Aboriginal communities where there are few fences and the dogs can all be seen in public, whereas in the suburbs of Palmerston and Darwin the dogs are all behind fences and locked inside houses and you just don’t see them.READ MORE
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When your child is between one and three years old, she will probably be interested in everything and everyone, especially if it's new or different. She will want to be part of whatever you do. She will try to imitate you. She will also insist on trying to do many things by herself as she becomes more independent. She will want to pick out her own clothes and will become more vocal about what she want, like and dislike. Being as loving and supportive as possible during this time of exploration will increase your child's sense of confidence and independence.
Between the ages of 2 and 3 years old, your child will begin to push the limits to see what she can get away with. By breaking the rules or pushing the limits your child is seeing how you react to them. She is testing you to see if you will still love her even when she misbehave. And although it can be extremely frustrating at times, your child is learning that you are someone she can count to keep her safe. This is why having Effective Discipline techniques are vital to raising 2-3 year olds.
How to Support Your Child's Learning Process
- Read to your child
- Stay calm when your child is upset
- Reinforce attempts at speech by responding, imitating vocalizations, and maintaining eye contact
- Play matching games with your toddler
It's important to remember that development is not a race. What's most important is building on your child's strengths and providing her with support when she needs it. Children at this age need to be held and nurtured often. Healthy growth and development occurs within loving relationships: ones in which children can go out and explore, learn, and grow; and then return to a safe and caring environment.
Social and Emotional Development
- Enjoys playing with other people and may cry when playing stops
- Becomes more communicative and expressive with face and body
- Imitates some movements and facial expressions
- Develops a sense of security
- Can identify primary caregiver
- Walks on own
- Walks backwards
- Is able to pick up toys while standing
- Pushes and pull s objects
- Paints and scribbles
- May use one hand more than another
- Grasps, holds, and throws a ball
- Climbs on and off furniture
- May begin to run
- Turns over and pours out containers
- Feeds himself
- Recognize themselves in the mirror
- Finds objects when hidden
- Understands and responds properly to words and commands
- Distinguishes between “you” and “me”
- May begin to match similar objects
Speech and Language Development
- Says more words every month
- Uses some simple questions (“where kitty?”)
- Puts two words together
- Speech can be hard to understand at times
- Points to some body parts
- Follows certain commands
- Points to pictures in a book
(Adapted from kidshealth.org)
Many parents call their doctors out of concern because they have noticed their children touching their genitals during diaper changes. Some parents may even notice that their baby boys have frequent erections. They are reassured that these behaviors are perfectly normal and told that even the youngest children naturally explore their bodies.
Many children, especially toddlers enjoy being naked. How you react- your voice, tone, the words you use, your facial expression- is one of your child's first lessons in sexuality. By responding with support and guidance, you are teaching your child that curiosity about his or her body is a normal and healthy part of life.
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Posted on | December 15, 2006 | By Rabbi Label Lam | 6 Comments
A few years back I found out something about myself that surprised and amazed me. It was Erev Yom Kippur and a colleague of mine, we’ll call him Zalman, and I were on our way to Williams College (a small liberal arts school in western Massachusetts). We were going to meet with some college students to talk about Yom Kippur and present an opportunity for some to come to Jerusalem for a winter session. We drove up the New York State Thruway before turning into the back woods of western Mass. It was hours before we found our destination and a warm delegation of thirsty souls. After our presentation and discussions had run their course it was time to make the long trek home. It had certainly been worth our while. A number of students had shown interest in coming with us to Israel and as it turned out a few from that night made it “all the way to the Wall!”
On the way home Zalman and I had tossed our hats and jackets into the back seat of his station wagon and we had ceased to talk about work and began to talk “in pajamas” as the phrase goes. I asked Zalman how he had gotten involved in Yiddishkeit and what had spurred him on. He began to tell me how he had a brother that went to camp one summer and drowned. My heart fell into my stomach. He explained how he started to wonder, “What’s it all about?” and “Where do we come from and go to?”
When he finished, I asked him if he had heard about my story. He acknowledged that he had not. I told him that I had a little brother that went to the dentist to get a load of teeth fixed and they gave him gas and he never woke up. I explained with vivid recollections all the haunting philosophical questions that have followed me since. Here we were two grown men with families at home barreling down the New York State Thruway and we were both crying about matters that happened more than three decades earlier.
Then a verse from this week’s Torah Portion came to me. Yosef confronts a man who is really the angel Gabriel while he blunders on his way and the angel asks him, “What are you looking for?” Yosef answers, “I am looking for my brothers!” (Breishis 37:15) I told Zalman, “Look at us two crazy guys! Here we are grown up guys with families and it’s Erev Yom Kippur! Under normal circumstances we should have been in bed along time ago but here it is already Two O’clock in the morning and we are hustling down the thruway to get home. If the angel Gabriel would turn on his police lights and pull us over and, instead of giving us a ticket, he would peek into the car and ask us, “What are you guys doing out here at this crazy hour so far from home? What are you looking for?” If he would ask us the same question he asked Yosef, I think we could give him the very same answer with the fullest of hearts, “We are looking for our brothers!”
I never understood this aspect of my own life until that drive. Sometimes HASHEM puts a hole in our hearts, we get such a deep hurt that we spend the rest of our lives filling the gap and it may form the basis for our main accomplishments in life.
Each year on Chanukah, at some point shortly after candle lighting, I pile the kids into the car with a handful of candies of course and we take a ride all over our town and even to some uncharted areas. We drive through some of the wealthier and some of the more modest sections of town but our goal is not to scout out real estate at all. Rather what we are looking for in the heart of the night, in the windows of Jewish homes, are flickering Chanukah flames, keeping in mind the words of the wisest of men, Solomon “The candle of G-d is the soul of man.” (Mishle’) It’s always a treat and a thrill of endless depth, especially on Chanukah, looking for our brothers.
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Congress Puts Lake Thunderbird on Life Support as Water Levels Plummet
Filed by KOSU News in State Impact.
January 3, 2013
Residents in Norman, Del City and Midwest City get their drinking water from Lake Thunderbird, but levels have dropped during Oklahoma’s ongoing drought.
Norman Mayor Cindy Rosenthal says the situation is “dire,” but Congress has stepped in with a short-term fix to allow Thunderbird to tap into a pipeline that carries water from Atoka to Oklahoma City. The Norman Transcript reports on the Lake Thunderbird Efficient Use Act:
[Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District] General Manager Randy Worden said negotiations with Oklahoma City will start immediately. Worden said passage of the bill will allow COMCD to provide adequate water supplies.
“We’re very grateful,” Worden said. “We’ll get a contract executed with Oklahoma City before we can actually put water in the lake. It’s their pipeline, so we have to abide by their rules.”
Using the Atoka line as a supplement won’t solve the problem, however. While residents are currently being asked to conserve water, Mayor Rosenthal tells KWTV that officials are likely to issue “mandatory rationing.”
And with the drought expected to drag on for years to come, more long-term solutions are being considered. From KWTV:
City leaders are also considering the possibility of building a new reservoir in the area. However, leaders say that could take 10 to 15 years to complete.
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Article: Introduction to Virtual Service Oriented Grids
This article by Intel brings together three themes - virtualization, services, and grid computing - to create a hybrid approach to architecture and application design.
While the idea of virtual service-oriented grids may be a new business concept, the technologies that build the groundwork for this idea go back many decades to the early days of computing research. That being said, the combination of these technologies brings non-functional, yet significant capabilities to a system. Virtual service-oriented grids have the capacity to fundamentally change the way business is conducted in much the same way that the Internet did by reinserting a middleman in the form of software, rather than human. The key to this paradigm shift lies in services, the abstraction of interoperability and reuse.
The article begins with a bit of history, the development of the three technologies and their contribution to business software design, then describes how the combination offer benefits for the enterprise that are greater than any of the three in isolation. An industry example concludes the article.
The authors include three architects (Enrique Castro-Leon, ,Jackson He, and Parviz Peiravi) and a strategist (Mark Chang) with backgrounds in software development, data center architecture, manageability, and enterprise solutions. Read Introduction to Virtual Service-Oriented Grids for a basic understanding of this techology.
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prominent characteristic of OWDs organization structure
is the devolution of authority for the execution of new road construction
and road maintenance work to geographically based Circles and
Divisions which are located throughout the State. There are 7
geographically-based Circles in the Roads Wing, between them controlling
NH Wing also adopts a decentralized model for its operations.
There is one Circle responsible for design and planning and three
regional circles, controlling 12 Divisions. These arrangements
were shown in Figure.
perform the range of duties devolved, the Divisions are structured
organizational arrangement provides a means of scheduling, implementing
and monitoring the large number of road maintenance and construction
projects undertaken annually throughout the state.
Delegation of Powers
delegation of authority in OWD is strictly limited. Officers involved
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The Search for Justice
The year 1999 was billed as a watershed in the history of international humanitarian law. Fifty years after the signing of the Geneva Accords, a new treaty outlining a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) was finally in place. And, following years of fruitless efforts, the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague was showing progress in its efforts to prosecute major war crimes suspects from former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The Tribunal had growing confidence, an expanding staff and, for the first time, a relatively stable budget. It was at that expectant moment that Kosovo exploded in a series of mass killings and deportations evoking images of the Nazi era.
As hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians were deported by Serbian forces and packed into squalid refugee camps outside Kosovo, war-crimes investigators were again dispatched to the Balkans. They arrived in the region perplexed by the seemingly unstoppable tide of atrocities. "When we first arrived here, we thought there's far too much work," said Niccolo Figa-Talamanca, an Italian war crimes investigator. "The number of crimes and level of violence was such that it's literally impossible for the Tribunal or anybody to do justice - criminal justice within an international jurisdiction." Talamanca left the Tribunal for non-governmental groups, hoping he could have more impact in the locales where crimes were committed, thereby helping to break the cycles of violence. He is now working with the International Crisis Group (ICG), one of several non-governmental organizations attempting to assist the Tribunal in locating the most important and most promising cases in Kosovo. The ICG's work in Kosovo includes compiling a massive data base of war-crimes evidence, including interviews with victims, details of forensic work, and maps to help Tribunal teams find important sites.
Though no official estimates have been released to the public, Western governments and NATO place the Albanian death toll in Kosovo at around 10,000 people. In addition, Human Right Watch estimates some 500 Serbs were killed in NATO air bombardments.
Yet despite months of forensic work by The Hague Tribunal, well under 3,000 bodies have been recovered in Kosovo. This has led critics to charge that the discrepancy between the death toll citied by Western governments and the actual number of bodies found so far in Kosovo suggests NATO exaggerated the level of Serbian killing to justify its air war. But investigators in the field say the question is much more complex, and they point to efforts by the Serbs to destroy evidence and hide the remains of Albanian victims.
Investigators say Serbian forces burned bodies, tossed corpses down wells and mixed animal bones in mass graves with human remains. Nicolo Figa-Talamanca, the Italian war crimes expert, said this was a deliberate strategy that Serbian commanders learned from mistakes made earlier in Bosnia and Croatia. "The pattern of war crimes here and the efforts of concealing them shows that people who plan and organize and conduct crimes against humanity know they have to cover their tracks," he said.
Several Serbian fighters also described a complex system of disposing of bodies or conducting executions at pre-selected sites. It was a rule that, for some reason, was not followed in the massacre at Cuska.
Despite their grisly task, investigators from the Tribunal and human rights groups are surprisingly optimistic about Kosovo. The reasons are clear - NATO's entry into the province has for the first time given investigators unrestricted access to relatively fresh crime scenes. The second factor was the Tribunal's decision last May to indict the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, and four lieutenants for committing crimes against humanity in Kosovo. "We have actually indicted a serving head of state," said Dennis Milner, the Tribunal's lead investigator for Kosovo. "I think that that is unique and a courageous step by the prosecutor. If we manage to get Milosevic and his cronies into court, we'll stamp the history of the Tribunal into books forever."
Milner explained the Tribunals strategy in Kosovo was a departure from Bosnia, where initial indictments lacked a particular focus and tended to target mid-level suspects.
"You have to bear in mind that the Tribunal was not set up to prosecute ground-level perpetrators," said Milner. "At the same time, there are occasions where they have been prosecuted. These guys fall in to the category of notorious offenders. Because the events in which they participated have been so bad that only the Tribunal can reflect their crimes." Though critics have warned that the Tribunal may be spending too much time solely on Milosevic, Milner defended the Tribunal's focus on getting the "big fish" as a sound strategy given limited resources and a rush to complete forensic work before winter.
"How do you define a killer here? Is it the guy who gives the order to the six or 12 guys on the ground? Is it the guy above him? We will assert that the guys at the top are the ones responsible and they by implication have pulled the trigger." But what about the hundreds of mid-level commanders and the men who acted as executioners? If they are not investigated by the Tribunal, who will do the job?
The hope is that local courts being rebuilt by the UN one day will be able to handle war-crimes cases. Milner said the Tribunal will provide evidence and other assistance for these local courts once they meet legal standards. But it remains uncertain whether local courts will be able to handle such complex and volatile cases. A lack of Serbian judges makes the courts almost purely Albanian. Already, the Serbian leadership has denounced the new courts as illegal and anti-Serbian. Nevertheless, more than a dozen Serbian suspects have been detained by NATO troops under suspicion that they participated in war crimes.
What concerns Tribunal investigators is whether they are spending all their time investigating men who may not be apprehended for many years. The chief Bosnian Serb war-rimes suspects, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, remain at large.
"We can't prosecute these suspects in absentia," said one Tribunal investigator. "So the last thing we want to be doing in two years is continuing to appeal to Milosevic and his cronies to turn themselves in. If that's all we're doing in Kosovo by then, then it's a failure." Some independent experts suggest the Tribunal should remain open to prosecuting mid-level and even low-level suspects who may be easier to catch. If nothing else this would show to Albanians that some progress is being made to punish those responsible for the atrocities.
A major setback in the pursuit of justice in Kosovo has been the violent attacks on Serbs and other minorities in the province since the return of expelled Albanians. Despite a massive deployment of Western troops and no less than three international organizations administering the province, the security situation has continued to deteriorate. The UN says over 300 people, many of them Serbs, have been killed in Kosovo since June, 1999, apparently by Albanians. The violence has deepened the divide between Serb and Albanian and dashed hopes for gradual reconciliation between the ethnic groups.
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The Department's pollution prevention (P2) program
was significantly expanded in the 1998 legislative session with
the funding of a P2 coordinator in each of the six regulatory
districts. These individuals, in coordination with the Bureau's P2
program, provide technical assistance to businesses to reduce or
eliminate sources of pollution, thereby reducing regulatory
exposure and providing P2 as an alternative to fines resulting
from enforcement actions.
The municipal solid waste recycling rate has grown
from 4% in 1988 to a current estimated rate of 40%, an increase
from 1 million tons of recyclable materials recovered in 1988 to
nearly 10 million tons today. There are now nearly 300 curbside
recycling programs in Florida providing curbside collection
service to an estimated three million households.
The department was successful during the 1997
legislative session in strengthening the laws governing the
disposal of construction and demolition debris (which previously
had been all but exempt from regulation) and has recently adopted
rules requiring permits, ground water monitoring, financial
assurance for closure and other needed controls.
The Bureau has implemented a number of programs to
reduce the amount of mercury in municipal solid waste resulting
from mercury-containing devices such as thermostats, fluorescent
lamps and household batteries. As a result, mercury in the waste
stream is projected to be less than 5 tons by the year 2000, down
from an estimated 37 tons in 1989.
Through the Performance Partnership Agreement the
department negotiated with Environmental Protection Agency Region
IV in 1997, the Bureau has streamlined the reporting requirements
and other paper work required to implement the federally delegated
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle C program
which governs the management and disposal of hazardous waste.
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ICD Implants for Heart Failure
Medical College of Wisconsin Cardiologist
James Roth, MD
Named one of the “Best Doctors in America®” 2005 by Best Doctors, Inc.
The heart has a natural pacemaker that sends electrical pulses through the heart, regulating the beat and moving blood throughout the body. When the electrical system of the heart is disrupted, a person is said to have an arrhythmia (irregular heart beat). In the United States, more than half of all cardiac deaths are sudden deaths — the abrupt loss of heart function — and more than 80 percent of sudden deaths are caused by an arrhythmia.
An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is designed to quickly detect a life-threatening arrhythmia and prevent sudden cardiac death. In January of 2005, Medicare expanded the indications for coverage of ICD services to include more categories of people with heart disease.
Q. What causes cardiac arrest?Cardiac arrest is the sudden, abrupt loss of heart function. Most cardiac arrests that lead to sudden death occur when the electrical impulses in a diseased heart become rapid (ventricular tachycardia or VT) or chaotic (ventricular fibrillation or VF) or both. The irregular heart rhythm causes the heart to suddenly stop beating.
- Ventricular tachycardia is rapid regular beating of the ventricles, the bottom chambers of the heart. The rapid rate prevents the heart from filling adequately with blood; therefore, less blood is pumped through the body.
- Ventricular fibrillation is rapid irregular beating of the ventricles. The ventricles quiver and are unable to contract or pump blood to the body.
Ventricular arrhythmias impair the pumping ability of the heart and greatly raise the risk of sudden cardiac arrest. These arrhythmias tend to develop in people with (known or unknown) coronary artery disease or heart muscle disease. Most people will die the first time they experience sudden cardiac arrest, which is why prevention is so important.
Sudden cardiac arrest is not a heart attack, which is caused when a blocked blood vessel interrupts the flow of blood to the heart. Heart failure is another cause of cardiac death that occurs when the heart muscle becomes weakened.
Q. What is an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD)?An implantable cardiac defibrillator or ICD is a device that is placed in the body. It recognizes rapid arrhythmias such as VT and VF and corrects them with an electronic shock. First developed in the 1980s, the defibrillator continuously monitors the heart rhythm to prevent sudden cardiac death.
An ICD consists of a pulse generator and a capacitor that can shock the heart, a circuit that tells the ICD when to discharge, and electrodes placed in the heart to sense the rhythm and deliver a shock to the heart muscle. All ICDs also have a built-in pacemaker, which also allows the device to correct heartbeats that are too slow.
An ICD runs on batteries that last for five to seven years. During regular clinic visits, a physician can determine when the device is running low and needs to be replaced.
Q. How can an ICD help?The defibrillator corrects the heart rhythm by delivering a high-voltage electrical shock, when needed, to restore a normal heartbeat. Sometimes, a person might have a heart rhythm that is too slow. In this case, the pacemaker in the ICD will send a low electrical pulse to the heart to “remind” it to beat.
Q. How is an ICD implanted?Today’s ICDs are much smaller and lighter than those first in use. They are also easier to implant. In a low-risk, minimally invasive surgical procedure, the pulse generator is surgically implanted under the skin in the upper chest. A wire from the ICD is threaded through the blood vessels to the heart. The procedure takes less than two hours. Following an overnight hospital stay, a person may return home.
Q. For what conditions has an ICD been traditionally used?An ICD has traditionally been used to prevent recurrence in people who have survived a cardiac arrest. Prior to 2005, the standard indications for using an ICD were to:
- Prevent death in people who have survived a cardiac arrest due to VF, and whose condition is not due to a reversible cause. This is the most serious type of condition that can lead to sudden death.
- Treat people with VT that is not associated with having had a cardiac arrest, but the rapid rhythm places them at high risk.
- Treat people who have severe symptoms (especially fainting spells) that, after a medical evaluation, are thought to have suffered a VF or VT episode.
- Treat people who have familial or inherited conditions that place them at a high risk for cardiac arrest, even though they have not suffered cardiac arrest.
Today, Medicare has expanded the guidelines for coverage of ICDs to include patients who might have a cardiac arrest, without needing to have symptoms of a ventricular arrhythmia (VF or VT). Basically this means that an ICD can be used in people who have not had serious rhythm problems, but who have a history of heart disease that could lead to rhythm problems.
Q. What are the new guidelines for using an ICD?
The expanded guidelines are based on three clinical research trials that found that defibrillators saved lives. The studies involved people with ejection fractions less than 35 percent along with other risk factors.
The ejection fraction is the portion of blood that is pumped out of a filled ventricle as a result of a heartbeat. With each beat, the heart normally ejects about half to two-thirds of the blood that is in the ventricle. This is referred to as the ejection fraction, and it is an indicator of the heart’s health. A normal ejection fraction is 50 percent or higher. A reduced ejection fraction indicates heart disease.
In the studies, it was found that an ICD generally helped patients who had an ejection fraction of:
- Less than 35 percent and who have symptoms due to heart failure
- Less than 30 percent and who had a prior heart attack
The expanded Medicare guidelines now include ICD coverage for people in these two groups.
The expanded Medicare guidelines also include patients who need a biventricular pacemaker to treat symptoms of fatigue and shortness of breath due to congestive heart failure. These pacemakers help to synchronize the ventricles of the heart. About a third of patients with heart failure suffer from severe symptoms of fatigue and shortness of breath, which is caused by this asynchronous contraction of the ventricle. A cardiac resynchronization therapy device (called a biventricular pacemaker) stimulates both heart ventricles to pump in a synchronized way. This maximizes blood flow and immediately improves the person’s symptoms. The device is implanted just like a standard pacemaker with one electrical lead attached to the right ventricle and another on the upper chamber (atrium). But unlike a standard pacemaker, the device has a third lead that stimulates the left ventricle. When it’s turned on, the failing heart synchronizes and pumps more efficiently. A defibrillator and biventricular pacemaker are usually combined into a single device so that the same device also protects from VT and VF like a conventional ICD.
Q. Could I be a candidate for an ICD?Before considering the implantation of an ICD, it’s important to first use standard treatments for heart disease. To prevent heart disease, we look at the patient’s diet, cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking and other factors. If serious heart disease is found, we focus on ways to remove blockages in the arteries, prescribe medication, manage cholesterol, and perform other treatments. For some people with severe heart disease, however, these options aren’t enough. If they still have congestive heart failure and poor heart function, an ICD may be a good option.
Each person, along with his or her physician, needs to decide if an ICD is right for them. An ICD is implanted as a preventive measure to cardiac arrest, and many factors need to be considered, such as family history and the patient’s heart function (ejection fraction). If the ejection fraction is less than 35 percent, the patient and physician should discuss what can be done to improve it or improve the patient’s symptoms, and if an ICD should play a role in treatment. If you have questions about ICDs, talk to your physician.
Source: Every Day
Date: May - July 2006 Issue
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Remember when a toy could captivate a child's attention and stimulate their imagination without the aid of a computer chip? We at Babalu, Inc. feel that child's play is important business. Too important, in fact, to leave it up toys that quite frankly do so much while ironically doing so little.
That's why we created FeltTales -- a new line of artfully-designed classic felt storyboards designed to inspire young minds. Children ages 3-7 can use the many movable pieces in bright, captivating colors to create their own stories and scenes for hours of open-ended play. And they're perfect for sharing.
Babalu, Inc. was launched in 2006 to better a classic toy tradition with the introduction of the FeltTales brand. Its founder, Blair Everett, has an exceptional thirty-year career in the toy business and he brings that knowledge and commitment to the growing classic toy product with improving play and quality.
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WEST JORDAN, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Have you ever struggled to see a road sign? The problem is about to explode as trees bloom in the coming weeks.
ABC four found trees partially blocking three stop signs near Grizzly Way and 7000 South in West Jordan. The signs are clearly visible within 50 feet, but one sign is hard to notice at 100 feet away.
"I know the one on this corner has been trimmed before, but there are some if you don't know where they are you're going to have a problem," said Kathy Dunford.
West Jordan Mayor Melissa Johnson immediately got into her car and drove past the stops signs after ABC 4 contacted the City.
Johnson says she takes the safety of her citizens is her top priority.
She says while the signs are street legal she can see how the trees are obstructing their view.
"I haven't had any problems, but also I've lived here a long time and I know where they are," said Dunford.
West Jordan says it will not trim the trees now, but will watch them closely as they bloom in the coming weeks.
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Atopic dermatitis is a long-term (chronic) skin disorder that involves scaly and itchy rashes.
Infantile eczema; Dermatitis - atopic; Eczema
Atopic dermatitis is due to a hypersensitivity reaction (similar to an allergy) in the skin, which leads to long-term swelling and redness (inflammation) of the skin. People with atopic dermititis may lack certain proteins in the skin, which leads to greater sensitivity.
Atopic dermatitis is most common in infants. It may start as early as age 2 to 6 months. Many people outgrow it by early adulthood.
People with atopic dermatitis often have asthma or seasonal allergies. There is often a family history of allergic conditions such as asthma, hay fever, or eczema. People with atopic dermatitis often test positive to allergy skin tests.
However, atopic dermatitis is not caused by allergies. The condition tends to get worse when the person is exposed to certain triggers.
The following can make atopic dermatitis symptoms worse:
- Allergies to pollen, mold, dust mites, or animals
- Cold and dry air in the winter
- Colds or the flu
- Contact with irritants and chemicals
- Contact with rough materials, such as wool
- Dry skin
- Emotions and stress
- Exposure to too much water, such as taking too many baths or showers and swimming too often
- Feeling too hot or too cold, as well as sudden temperature changes
- Fragrances or dyes added to skin lotions or soaps
Typical skin changes may include:
- Blisters with oozing and crusting
- Dry skin all over the body or areas of bumpy skin on the back of the arms and front of the thighs
- Ear discharge or bleeding
- Raw areas of the skin from scratching
- Skin coloring changes -- more or less color than the normal skin tone (See: Skin abnormally dark or light)
- Skin redness or inflammation around the blisters
- Thickened or leather-like areas, called lichenification, which can occur after long-term irritation and scratching
Both the type of rash and where the rash appears can depend on the age of the patient:
- In children younger than age 2, skin lesions begin on the face, scalp, hands, and feet. They are often crusting, bubbling, or oozing rashes that itch.
- In older children and adults, the rash is more commonly seen on the inside of the knees and elbows, as well as the neck, hands, and feet.
- During a severe outbreak, rashes may occur anywhere on the body.
Itching, which is sometimes intense, almost always occurs. Itching may start even before the rash appears. Atopic dermatitis is often called the "itch that rashes" because the itching starts, and then the skin rash appears from the scratching.
Exams and Tests
A physical exam will be done. A skin biopsy can be done to confirm the diagnosis or rule out other causes of dry, itchy skin.
Diagnosis is based on the:
- Appearance of the skin
- Personal and family history
Allergy skin testing may be helpful for people with:
- Hard-to-treat atopic dermatitis
- Other allergy symptoms
- Skin rashes that form only on certain areas of the body after exposure to a specific chemical
SKIN CARE AT HOME
Taking care of your skin at home may reduce the need for medications.
Avoid scratching the rash or skin:
- Relieve the itch by using a moisturizer, topical steroid cream, or other prescribed cream and taking antihistamines to reduce severe itching.
- Keep your child's fingernails cut short. Consider light gloves if nighttime scratching is a problem.
Keep the skin moist (called lubricating or moisturizing the skin). Use ointments (such as petroleum jelly), creams, or lotions 2 - 3 times a day. Moisturizers should be free of alcohol, scents, dyes, fragrances, or other chemicals. A humidifier in the home will also help.
Avoid anything that makes your symptoms worse. This may include:
- Foods such as eggs in a very young child (always discuss with your doctor first)
- Irritants such as wool and lanolin
- Strong soaps or detergents, as well as chemicals and solvents
- Sudden changes in body temperature and stress, which may cause sweating and worsen the condition
- Triggers that cause allergy symptoms
When washing or bathing:
- Keep water contact as brief as possible and use gentle body washes and cleansers instead of regular soaps. Short, cooler baths are better then long, hot baths.
- Do not scrub or dry the skin too hard or for too long.
- After bathing, it is important to apply lubricating creams, lotions, or ointment on the skin while it is damp. This will help trap moisture in the skin.
At this time, allergy shots are not used to treat atopic dermatitis, although there is evidence that they may benefit certain adults with atopic dermatitis.
Antihistamines taken by mouth may help with itching or if you have allergies. Often you can buy them without a prescription.
- Some antihistamines can cause sleepiness, but they may help with scratching while sleeping.
- Newer antihistamines cause little or no sleepiness. Some are available over the counter. These medications include fexofenadine (Allegra), loratadine (Claritin, Alavert), and cetirizine (Zyrtec).
Most causes of atopic dermatitis are treated with medications that are placed directly on the skin or scalp (called topical medicines):
- At first, you will probably be prescribed a mild cortisone (or steroid) cream or ointment. If this doesn't work, you may need a stronger steroid medicine. You may need different strengths of steroids for different areas of skin.
- Medicines called topical immunomodulators (TIMs) may be prescribed for anyone over 2 years old. TIMs include tacrolimus (protopic) and pimecrolimus (Elidel). Ask your doctor about concerns over a possible cancer risk with the use of these medicines.
- Creams or ointments that contain coal tar or anthralin may be used for thickened areas.
- Barrier repair creams containing ceramides
Wet-wrap treatment with topical corticosteroids has been shown effective for atopic dermatitis, although it can have side effects such as infection.
Other treatments that may be used include:
- Antibiotic creams or pills if the skin is infected
- Drugs that suppress the immune system, such as cyclosporine, methotrexate, or mycophenolate mofetil
- Phototherapy, a medical treatment in which your skin is carefully exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light
Atopic dermatitis is a long-term condition, but you can control it with treatment, by avoiding irritants, and by keeping the skin well-moisturized.
In children, the condition often clears beginning at around age 5 - 6, but flare-ups will often occur. In adults, it is generally a long-term or returning condition.
Atopic dermatitis may be harder to control if it:
- Began at an early age
- Involves a large amount of the body
- Occurs along with allergic rhinitis and asthma
- Occurs in someone with a family history of eczema
- Infections of the skin caused by bacteria, fungi, or viruses
- Permanent scars
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if:
- Atopic dermatitis does not respond to moisturizers or avoiding allergens
- Symptoms get worse or treatment does not work
- You have signs of infection (such as fever, redness, or pain)
Studies have shown that children who are breast-fed until age 4 months are less likely to get atopic dermatitis.
If the child is not breast-fed, using a formula that contains processed cow milk protein (called partially hydrolyzed formula) may decrease the chances of developing atopic dermatitis.
Excema and hand dermatitis. In: Habif TP, ed. Clinical Dermatology. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009:chap 3.
Atopic dermatitis. In: Habif TP, ed. Clinical Dermatology. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009:chap 5.
Greer FR, Sicherer SH, Burks, W and the Committee on Nutrition and Section on Allergy and Immunology. Effects of early nutritional interventions on the development of atopic disease in infants and children: The role of maternal dietary restriction, breastfeeding, timing of introduction of complementary foods, and hydrolyzed formulas. Pediatrics. 2008;121:183-191.
Lewis-Jones S, Mugglestone MA; Guideline Development Group. Management of atopic eczema in children aged up to 12 years: summary of NICE guidance. BMJ. 2007;335:1263-1264.
Ascroft DM, Chen LC, Garside R, Stein K, Williams HC. Topical pimecrolimus for eczema. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007 Oct 17;(4):CD005500.
Bath-Hextall FJ, Delamere FM, Williams HC. Dietary exclusions for established atopic eczema. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Jan 23;(1):CD005203.
Kevin Berman, MD, PhD, Atlanta Center for Dermatologic Disease, Atlanta, GA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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Deaf cricket started out as a Great Britain Team - part of the British Deaf Sports Council in 1988, with a trip to the West Indies by a squad of 15 players to play some matches against local teams.
In 1991, a Great Britain Team toured Australia playing five test matches, which the home nation won easily 4-0.
In 1994, the Australians visited England and retained the Deaf Ashes winning a five test matches series by two matches to nil.
In 1996, the inaugural Deaf World Cup was held in Melbourne, Australia, featuring teams from Pakistan, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the host nation and Great Britain. The British side reached the final, reaching 261 off their allocated 50 overs before losing by 5 wickets to Australia.
In 2000, the second World Cup which was due to be held in South Africa, was called off three weeks before, due to financial and administrative difficulties experienced by the organisers in South Africa.
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Mexican Tamales Cookware
Tamales are a traditional Mexican dish that was inherited by the ancient Indians of Mesoamerica, although who actually invented the tamale and when, is not known for certain, but it is known that they have existed since pre-Columbian days. It was the food of choice among the Aztecs and Spaniards, because of how portable and easy it was to heat.
Though all tamale variations are similar, the preparation and style for Mexican tamales (tamales Mexicanos) varies by region. There are numerous amounts of tamales recipes and methods to prepare this delicious and traditional food, the most common way to prepare them is by steaming. Special pots are used to cook the tamales which are called Tamale Steamers or Tamale Cookers.
In order to use a Steamer (Tamale Pot) you must add enough water to the pot in order to produce the right amount of steam as well as keeping the level low enough so it doesn’t touch the tamale rack. Position the tamales on the rack while making sure to leave enough room for each so the tamales don’t fall over as they steam when the tamale dough expands. Place the lid on the steamer, bring it to a boil and adjust the heat, steam for approximately two hours and check frequently to prevent the water in the pot from going dry. To make sure they are done, remove a tamale from the steamer and peel back the husk, if the tamale dough easily separates from the husk and the surface is smooth this most likely means the tamales are done. If you’re unsure taste the tamale to test the dough’s consistency and make sure it is fully cooked.
MexGrocer.com proudly brings you the best Mexican Tamales Cookware, so you can have the proper tools to cook sensational and delicious tamales. Try our stainless steel and enamel tamale steamers by La Mexicana and El Mexicano. We also recommend Mex-Sales Tamales Masa Spreader; it’s the ideal tool for spreading the dough on your tamales.
For those tamale lovers who want to learn to make tamales or get started on a great holiday meal, MexGrocer.com has excellent gift suggestions and gift packs to get you and your loved ones started with the art of Tamale Making. Share the fun of preparing this traditional Mexican dish with our gift packs.
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FERPA & Release of Information
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 provides students certain rights regarding their education records. By federal regulation, with certain exceptions, all records including a student's grades, transcripts, account information, health and counseling records, placement files and official files maintained by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences or by the Dean of Students can only be released with the student's consent.
When you call a Pacific University Office for information about your student, staff members are trained to be very discreet in their answers due to our high sensitivity regarding the rights of our students. While this may be frustrating for you, please understand that we are protecting your students' privacy.
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Park Naturalists: Job Duties and Requirements for Becoming a Park Naturalist
Park Naturalists help the public to understand the historic, natural and scientific significance of parks. They are offered a wide degree of latitude in their jobs and allowed to determine how best to plan, organize and direct programs whether through verbal presentations, practical demonstrations or interactive programs. Park Naturalists, sometimes called environmentalists or natural scientists, also perform emergency duties to protect human life, government property, and natural features of park.
Career Definition of a Park Naturalist
The goal of a Park Naturalist is to generate interest in the environment and natural world. Park Naturalists do this by highlighting historical, ecological or scientific features of outdoor surroundings by organizing nature walks, camping trips, crafts or outdoor skills. Many visit local classrooms to introduce children to the outdoors and teach them of its importance.
Becoming a Park Naturalist
Required Education for a Career as a Park Naturalist
Knowledge of the principles of natural history is required to be an informed Park Naturalist. Most positions require a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Resource Management or Wildlife Biology and include coursework such as environmental science, ecology, vegetation and earth science. Typically those hired on a full-time basis begin as a volunteer or seasonal worker according to the Department of Natural Resources, www.dnr.com.
Skills Required for a Career as a Park Naturalist
A love for the environment and the ability to share that passion and knowledge with the public is the main skill required for a career as a Park Naturalist. It's crucial to feel comfortable making presentations, giving lectures and leading tours. Key to success as a Park Naturalist is an ability to identify and describe points of interests to groups in a way that will hold their interest, which is why teaching experience is also recommended.
Career and Economic Outlook for a Park Naturalist
The average salary for a Park Naturalist, or equivalent, is $46,000 per year according to Salary.com, www.salary.com. Those holding the position should be prepared to work weekends, evenings and holidays. Most Park Naturalists pursue this line of work for the love of nature, not money. Jobs in this field are highly coveted despite their relatively low wage due to their flexibility, diversity, outdoor work environment and constant challenges and rewards.
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LA Times' Quinones Prints The Truth About Immigration!
Journalists and editors spend a lot of time worrying about the "lead"—the opening lines of a story. How about this:
"With two teenage daughters at home and triplets still in diapers, Angela Magdaleno's family overflowed from a one-bedroom apartment in South Los Angeles that they strained to afford… Diapers had to be changed 15 times a day, feedings held every three hours. One triplet, 3-year-old Alfredo Jr., needed special attention because he was born with liquid on his brain and partially paralyzed.
"And that was before the quadruplets arrived."
Sam Quinones' July 28 article—6 + 4 = 1 Tenuous Existence: An illegal immigrant couple with six children were already living in poverty. Then the quadruplets arrived. They're still in a daze—just might be the best in the rather dull history of the Los Angeles Times. It combines the two things traditionally lacking in that notoriously stuffy liberal newspaper.
- First, human interest:
"On July 6, Magdaleno gave birth to two boys and two girls, drawing national media attention as a bewildered mother of 10 (with nine living at home). Now, she and her husband, Alfredo Anzaldo, 44, must figure out how to provide for everyone on Anzaldo's maximum pay of $400 a week as a carpet installer…"
- Second, relevance—in a newspaper normally willfully oblivious to what's actually happening in Los Angeles:
"But that is not Magdaleno's story.
"Both Magdaleno and Anzaldo are illegal immigrants, settled for years in an immigrant enclave. Magdaleno has the same number of children as her parents, who were peasant farmers in Mexico. Like her parents, she is living in poverty and struggling to provide for her family…
"Yet all of Magdaleno's 10 children are U.S. citizens. The triplets receive subsidized school lunches. All the youngsters have had their healthcare bills covered by Medi-Cal, the state and federal healthcare program for the poor."
I must confess that I sometimes admire the stiff-necked elitism of the LA Times—its devotion to esoteric foreign coverage of the "Whither Kyrgyzstan?" ilk, its enthusiasm for thumbsucking wonkery about the future of the Social Security trust fund, its lofty disdain for chronicling the tabloid-worthy events actually taking place on the streets of America's most tabloid-worthy city.
Unfortunately, as much as I respect its attempt to be the New York Times West, it's simply not as good as the NYT. So it winds up being a second-rate national newspaper and a third-rate local newspaper.
For years, though, the LA Times' tediousness didn't matter. It held the monopoly on classified advertising in the vast Southern California market.
But now all that advertising is going to the Internet. Further, massive immigration, obsessively defended by the LAT, is helping drive the newspaper's natural audience, English-literate Americans, out of the city. Even though the population of the newspaper's five county circulation area grew during 2000 to 2004 by more than 1.5 million to 18 million, readership has been plummeting.
Wikipedia reports: "The Los Angeles Times paid circulation figures have decreased since the mid-1990s. It has recently been unable to pass the 1 million mark that was easily achieved in earlier decades." Circulation is now down to 851,000.
This is not surprising since, as Edwin S. Rubenstein has reported in VDARE.com: "A new study by the United Way of Los Angeles finds that 53 percent of the city's adult population—3.8 million people—are functionally illiterate."
In a few years, the LA Times might as well rename itself the Hollywood Hills Times. Most of its remaining readers will live in the posh strip within a few miles of Mulholland Drive.
This is not to say that the LA Times shows much actual interest in the millions of illegal immigrants within its circulation zone.
Like many politically correct institutions, the newspaper seems to find illegals dull and depressing. But the LAT is loathe to admit in print that the lumpenproletariat barrios of Southern California are anything other than "vibrant."
Reporter Quinones, however, can't keep himself from piling on the facts. For example:
"Alfredo Jr. had been hospitalized all his life until recently. He's had three state-funded brain operations and will require several more, the family said. The couple receive $700 in monthly Social Security payments to help with his medical needs.
"'I thank this country that they gave me Medi-Cal,' Magdaleno said.'There's nothing like that in Mexico.'"
It's not widely understood in America, but for many Mexicans, a big family becomes more affordable if they sneak into the United States. As Steven A. Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies pointed out in his October 2005 report Birth Rates Among Immigrants in America,
"Among Mexican immigrants in the United States … fertility averages 3.5 children per woman compared to 2.4 children per women in Mexico."
In Mexico, women of the limited education characteristic of immigrants to America average only 2.3 babies apiece. So immigrating, typically illegally, appears to allow them to have an extra 1.2 babies.
Conversely, alas, the rapid growth in the Mexican population in California discourages native-born Americans from having children by making family formation less affordable. The cost of living in California is 40 percent above the national average. Wages are mediocre. Not surprisingly, the expected number of babies per non-Hispanic white woman in California dropped from 1.93 to 1.65 during the ten years from 1990 to 2000. I suspect the huge run-up in California home prices during this decade will drive native fertility down even farther.
In contrast to the Los Angeles Times' routinely genteel approach (Mickey Kaus in Slate has noted dozens of exciting local stories the newspaper has buried), Quinones provides lots of juicy details about Mrs. Magdaleno having her tubal ligation reversed and then dosing herself with bootleg Mexican fertility pills to give Mr. Magdaleno, who had previously sired four daughters by three different women, the son he'd always wanted.
The reporter also brings up the kind of facts usually glossed over in the LAT—such as how uneducated illegal immigrants tend to be.
"She grew up in Los Positos, in the central Mexican state of Jalisco, the eldest of 10… Angela and [her sister] Justina left school at fifth grade to work in fields and tortilla shops to help support their family."
This lack of schooling is not at all unusual. According to Camarota's July 2005 CIS report Births to Immigrants in America: 1970 to 2002, 59 percent of all Hispanic immigrant mothers don't have high school degrees. Nor do 32 percent of American-born Hispanic mothers. In contrast, just 12 percent of non-Hispanic white mothers lack a diploma.
Quinones also sketches the more successful story of Mrs. Magdaleno's nine (!) immigrant siblings:
"Magdaleno's existence contrasts sharply with that of her younger siblings, who followed her to Los Angeles but then left. They have settled in Lexington, Ky., had no more than two children each and built better lives than they had known before. Four bought houses. Their children speak English fluently…"
Of course, the ten children of the least assimilated sibling will make up a sizable fraction of the clan's next generation. The Magdalenos display an exaggerated version of a widely seen pattern—the more likely someone is to give their children a poor start in life, the more kids they are likely to have.
"Her sister Alejandra was the first to leave. In Los Angeles, she and her husband were barely able to make ends meet. As in Mexico, 'there was little work and it's poorly paid,' she said.
"Eight years ago, she and her family moved to Kentucky, where a friend said there was more work and were fewer Mexican immigrants bidding down the wages for unskilled jobs.'
Funny, isn't it, how uneducated illegal immigrants have a more acute understanding of how the Law of Supply and Demand affects wages than do many academic economists? Quinones' story goes on:
"They went to night school to learn English because few people in Lexington speak Spanish.
"Today, the Magdalenos in Lexington earn more than they did in Los Angeles, in a city where the cost of living is lower [only 65% of LA]. Kentucky is now their promised land, and they talk about California the way they used to talk about Mexico…
"'What we weren't able to do in many years in California,' Alejandra said, 'we've done quickly here. We're in a state where there's nothing but Americans. The police control the streets. It's clean, no gangs. California now resembles Mexico—everyone thinks like in Mexico. California's broken.'"
It's The Beverly Hillbillies in reverse. Now people are moving from California to Kentucky to be part of a more advanced civilization. More details from Quinones:
"Justina was the last to leave Los Angeles, about the time Angela was pregnant with the triplets.
"She and her husband wanted better schools for their sons, 15 and 9.
"In Lexington, she said, 'at the school there are just people who speak English. It's helped my children a lot.'"
Neocons like Tamar Jacoby are always claiming that mass immigration will turn out just fine so long as we "assimilate" the newcomers. But this example shows that, when it comes to assimilation, numbers count. For their kids to start acting like Americans, these Mexicans had to get away from the twelve million Mexicans in California.
But how can many ever succeed in assimilating if the borders remain porous? The story continues:
"Last year, however, [the mother of ten] sent her daughter, Kelly, 17, to Kentucky for several months. Though American born and raised, Kelly hadn't been outside South Los Angeles.
"In Lexington, school was hard because few people spoke Spanish, and the city 'barely had one Spanish radio station,' Kelly said.
"Her cousins, she said in English, 'use more educational words than here. My cousin is 7 years old, and he has a better reading level than me. He don't see picture books or drawings or anything like that. He just likes books with pure letters.'
"Girls from Mexican-immigrant families in Kentucky, she saw, were in their mid-20s and still didn't have children."
The Hispanic teen birthrate is now 27 percent higher than the African-American teen birthrate and 136 percent higher than the white rate. The illegitimacy rate for Mexican immigrant mothers is 41 percent, but it goes up to 48 percent among American-born Mexican women, twice the white figure.
"'I said, 'Damn, that's weird,' Kelly said. 'The girls right here in Los Angeles are like in Mexico. There are girls that are 14, they got kids.'"
Congratulations to Sam Quinones [email him] for slipping a bit of Los Angeles reality into the Los Angeles Times.
When he makes himself too unpopular there, maybe he could have a career at VDARE.com!
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The Battle of South Mountain, John Hoptak, The History Press, 222 pp., maps, illustrations, order of battle, notes, bibliography, index, 2010, $21.99.
The History Press is causing a stir with its clear, concise, accurate, well illustrated and mapped, and well designed Civil War Sesquicentennial Series. Indicative of the series is its newest addition: The Battle of South Mountain by John Hoptak. In the preface, the author recognizes John Michael Priest's Before Antietam: the Battle of South Mountain and others of being the giants upon whose shoulders upon which his own work stands. And a remarkable work it is.
Within the confines of 222 pages, Hoptak and the History Press have produced an exemplary work with seven fine maps and 50 period illustrations and photographs. Hoptak's five chapters are focused and have a fine degree of clarity. Lee's decision to drive North and McClellan's state of mind after Second Manassas are aptly described. The marches of both armies to South Mountain are presented with close attention to the men in the ranks. The combat is fully covered at each of the gaps in South Mountain. Fortunately, in a single chapter Hoptak tells the entire story of the fights at each gap. Taking the reader back and forth between the gaps would be confusing. Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap, Turner's and Frostown Gaps, each have their own chapters, combatants, and topography. Hoptak organization creates a fullness in his story telling and even lends itself to building suspense.
Hotpak's use of biography is attractive. Clear and pertinent descriptions of many of the commanders are everywhere present in the book. Extensive, dramatic and effective quotations from both commissioned officers and enlistment men are frequently provided. Hoptak does not ignore the cavalry but puts them on the field. The reader may compare the similarities of Confederate cavalry commander Jeb Stuart's conduct at South Mountain and the Gettysburg Campaign and conclude that he did indeed have his bad days.
The work leaves the reader with questions of contingency. Jesse Reno, commander of the Federal Ninth Corps was killed at Fox's Gap on September 14. What if Jesse Reno had been in command at Burnside's Bridge on the 17th? Hoptak sides with Joseph Harsh, author of Sounding the Shallows: A Confederate Companion for the Maryland Campaign of 1862 , in that at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain, the Army of Northern Virgina suffered one of its worst defeats. What if the Federal Sixth Corps had on September 15th stormed into Pleasant Valley and trapped McLaws Division? Hoptak refrains from speculation and encourages readers to ponder the situations.
With such a geographically concentrated event and with four gaps, nine relevant towns and eight roads, readers would have been aided by at least the first map being to a measurable scale or with distances between locations written on it. Additionally a topographic map showing the steepness of the path which attackers faced would be helpful. Also, readers may have been aided if muster numbers had been included in the Order of Battle and possibly if the order of battle had been organized with forces attacking the gaps and the forces defending the gaps on the same page.
Such small discomforts do not detract from the overall usefulness and enjoyment that The Battle of South Mountain by John Hoptak offers the reader. Certainly anyone who is traveling to the Antietam National Battlefield Park, the Harper's Ferry National Park or Maryland's South Mountain Civil War Trails, will find Hoptak's book essential to their understanding of the Maryland Campaign.
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The tragically destroyed neo-segregationist verandah where President Bush is "looking forward to sitting" (hopefully as a premature retiree) now has its own website.
JD Considine has analyzed the chord that Bush is playing in the famous guitar picture, taken at the height of the Katrina disaster. It seems to be a strongly dissonant sonority consisting of the notes G, G#, A, B, C, and D. Considine speculates that Bush was trying to play a G-major chord and messed up, but I suspect that our Commander-in-Chief, mindful of the inherent tendency of the musical material, has followed Schoenberg over the threshold of atonality. Here he plays the pitch-class set named 6-Z11 in the Allen Forte system — a hauntingly ambiguous chord that brushes against the ghost of a now defunct tonality even as it stares ahead remorselessly into the chromatic future. I am looking forward to the rigorously atonal works that Bush will have time to write on Trent Lott's porch.
Update: Paul Mitchinson has cast doubt on Considine's description of the Katrina dissonance. He says it's a different collection of discordant tones, namely B, C#, E, F, G, G#. Now, I know less than nuttin' about gee-tar-playin', so I will let these two gentlemen duke it out amongst themselves. But I am excited by the news that Bush might be playing pc set 6-Z49 rather than 6-Z11. He thereby shows awareness of the possibilities of octatonicism as the basis for a coherent atonal language.
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Statement on Academic Integrity
The University of Michigan-Dearborn values academic honesty and integrity. Each student has a responsibility to understand, accept, and comply with the University's standards of academic conduct as set forth by the Code of Academic Conduct, as well as policies established by the schools and colleges. Cheating, collusion, misconduct, fabrication, and plagiarism are considered serious offenses. Violations will not be tolerated and may result in penalties up to and including expulsion from the University.
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"We didn't do anything magic," said Amber Crist, program development director at Cabin Creek Health Systems. "We gave the patients good care management and more frequent contact, and - this is important - we taught them ways to improve their own health from day to day."
In 18 months, the patients' ER visits were reduced by 60 percent and hospital visits by 49 percent, according to CAMC records.
"We showed it can be done here," Crist said.
The 1,200 patients had tough problems: diabetes, obesity, poverty, heart disease, arthritis, and depression. "Many also deal with things that push health care way down the priority list," Crist said. "The truck breaks down, there's nobody to watch the kids, they don't have the rent, their mother moved in because she can't pay her rent."
How did they get those results? They:
• Worked as a team. Nurses and aides showed patients how to do things at home that kept their blood pressure and sugar down, for instance
• Helped the patient set do-able, concrete goals for exercise, eating and medical maintenance.
• Called periodically between visits for a friendly how's-it-going chat. "Patients take your advice more willingly if they know you care," Crist said.
• Made sure patients used equipment like asthma inhalers correctly.
• Checked medicines to make sure they were up-to-date, not conflicting and being taken correctly. "That was a biggie," Crist said.
• Provided dieticians, depression counselors or drug counselors if needed.
• Got help for practical problems like transportation or child care or a ramp for their home.
• Exchanged medical records by computer with hospitals when necessary.
• Followed up immediately when a patient left a hospital
Most importantly, Medicaid gave each center money to hire a care manager. "That was the key," Crist said. "That's the part we usually can't afford." After the care team and patient agree on a health plan, the manager tracks it.
Medicaid wants to do the same thing statewide for complex patients. "We think there are dramatic savings to be had in this model," Becker said. "Considerable national research says it works." North Carolina saved $1.6 billion in the first five years of a similar program.
"I want to be paying for improved health outcomes, not just for services," Atkins said. "That means paying for prevention. As it is now, people just bill us, and we pay."
Spreading prevention statewide?
Now, under health-care reform, Medicaid can routinely pay West Virginia doctors and clinics to provide care management. "That will make a huge difference," Cabin Creek's Crist said.
"That's been the problem right there," she said. "Insurance would pay us to fix problems, but not to prevent them."
Medicaid has to submit its plan to Washington for approval.
It wants to care-manage obesity, diabetes and drug problems, medical director Becker said. "If we could get a grip on those problems, we could make a huge impact," he said. It should improve health and lower ER use, he said.
Leaders will start small. In early 2013, they plan to ask for permission to start with 7,300 bipolar patients (high drug and ER-users) in five counties. The feds advised them "to get our system running with a small group before we take on a lot of people," Atkins said.
By the end of 2013, they hope to submit a second, much larger request to give obese patients with diabetes and depression care management. That could be as many as 100,000 patients, Becker said.
"We have a real chance to make an impact with obesity and diabetes," he said, "so we want to be ready to hit the ground running. We want to take full advantage of two years at 90 percent."
The feds will pay 90 percent of the cost for two years, then the normal 72 percent.
Until now, half of West Virginia Medicaid's population -- including all mothers and children -- has been monitored by three national health-maintenance companies. "The problem is, they often don't seem to keep up with individual patients," advocate Bryant said. The mother who brought her child to the ER 49 times is assigned to one of the three companies, he noted.
Eight of CAMC's top 36 ER users are assigned to the three companies. "They're supposed to catch inappropriate cost, but they don't notice a patient is going to the ER once or twice a week," Bryant said. "In the care-management model, the providers know what the patients are doing."
To be certified as a health home, West Virginia clinics or doctors' offices will have to go before a Medicaid panel and prove they can supply required services. An online link to draft requirements is at the top of this story at www.wvgazette.com.
In North Carolina, when doctors' offices can't supply all services, they contract for them. "We expect to do that here," Becker said. New jobs will be created in the process.
Medicaid plans health homes for other groups, he said: foster children with specialized problems, people in long-term care, Alzheimer's patients, and mentally ill people with lung disease.
"It's the right direction," CAMC's Whitler said. CAMC's Family Medicine Center is applying for certification as a medical home, he said, "so we'll be ready."
Reach Kate Long at katel...@wvgazette.com or 304-348-1798.
"The Shape We're In" has been supported by a Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism fellowship, administered by the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>What can West Virginia do?
Here are three facts:
• Seven out of 10 of West Virginia's health-care dollars are spent on obesity-related diseases, including diabetes and heart disease.
• West Virginia spends about $11 billion a year on health care. That will grow to $22 billion by 2018, as obesity and diabetes spread, unless action is taken.
• Half of all health-care dollars pay for the care of the most expensive 5 percent of patients.
Those facts were supplied by health-care economist Ken Thorpe, who was hired by the Legislature to advise the state on ways to save money while improving health. He recommends that West Virginia do three things:
• Get children active every day.
• Create statewide diabetes-prevention classes.
• Get expensive patients into intensive care management to improve their health and reduce their time in ERs and hospitals.
Improving health, lowering high ER usage
• CAMC's 36 most-frequent emergency room users came to the ER 978 times in six months -- once a week, on average -- according to a 2011 CAMC computer search. The top user came to the ER 108 times in 180 days.
• Only four of the 36 were uninsured. Twenty-three were Medicaid patients.
• Half of all Medicaid patients (200,000 of them) have no care management, which means nobody checks to find out why they are coming to the ER so often.
• In a Medicaid pilot study, three community health centers cut in half the ER and hospital use of 1,200 patients, while improving their health by giving them intensive care management.
• In 2013, Medicaid plans to spread care management statewide, paying West Virginia medical providers to do what the three centers did. "There are dramatic savings to be had with this model," said state Medicaid medical director Jim Becker.
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Author: W. Patrick McCray
Hardcover: 324 pages
When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing critical and otherwise unavailable information about the first satellites. In Keep Watching the Skies!, Patrick McCray tells the story of this network of pioneers who, fueled by civic pride and exhilarated by space exploration, took part in the twentieth century's biggest scientific endeavor.
Around the world, thousands of teenagers, homemakers, teachers, amateur astronomers, and other citizens joined Moonwatch teams. Despite their diverse backgrounds and nationalities, they shared a remarkable faith in the transformative power of science--a faith inspired by the Cold War culture in which they lived. Against the backdrop of the space race and technological advancement, ordinary people developed an unprecedented desire to contribute to scientific knowledge and to investigate their place in the cosmos. Using homemade telescopes and other gadgets, Moonwatchers witnessed firsthand the astonishing beginning of the Space Age. In the process, these amateur scientists organized themselves into a worldwide network of satellite spotters that still exists today.
Drawing on previously unexamined letters, photos, scrapbooks, and interviews, Keep Watching the Skies! recreates a pivotal event from a perspective never before examined--that of ordinary people who leaped at a chance to take part in the excitement of space exploration.
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How biased are the media, really?
By Paul Farhi,
Charges of media bias have been flying like a bloody banner on the campaign trail. Newt Gingrich excoriated the “elite media” in a richly applauded moment during one of the Republican debates. Rick Santorum chewed out a New York Times reporter. Mitt Romney said this month that he faces “an uphill battle” against the press in the general election.
Meanwhile, just about every new poll of public sentiment shows that confidence in the news media has hit a new low. Seventy-seven percent of those surveyed by the Pew Research Center in the fall said the media “tend to favor one side” compared with 53 percent who said so in 1985.
But have the media really become more biased? Or is this a case of perception trumping reality?
In fact, there’s little to suggest that over the past few decades news reporting has become more favorable to one party. That’s not to say researchers haven’t found bias in reporting. They have, but they don’t agree that one side is consistently favored or that this favoritism has been growing like a pernicious weed.
On the conservative side, the strongest case might have been made by Tim Groseclose, a political science and economics professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. Groseclose used a three-pronged test to quantify the “slant quotient” of news stories reported by dozens of media sources. He compared these ratings with a statistical analysis of the voting records of various national politicians. In his 2011 book, “Left Turn: How Liberal Bias Distorts the American Mind,” Groseclose concluded that most media organizations aligned with the views of liberal politicians. (Groseclose determined that The Washington Post’s “slant quotient” was less liberal than news coverage in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.)
Even with conservative-leaning sources such as the Drudge Report and the Washington Times factored in, “the aggregate slant is leftward,” said Groseclose, who describes himself as a conservative.
But that’s not the end of the story. A “meta-analysis” of bias studies — that is, a study of studies — shows something different: When all is said and done, left-leaning reporting is balanced by reporting more favorable to conservatives. “The net effect is zero,” said David D’Alessio, a communications sciences professor at the University of Connecticut at Stamford.
D’Alessio drew his conclusion from reviewing 99 studies of campaign news coverage undertaken over six decades for his newly published work, “Media Bias in Presidential Election Coverage 1948-2008: Evaluation via Formal Measurement.” The research, he says, shows that news reporting tends to point toward the middle, “because that’s where the people are, and that’s where the [advertising] money is. . . . There’s nuance there, but when you add it all and subtract it down, you end up with nothing.”
So why the rise in the public’s perception of media bias? A few possibilities:
l T he media landscape has changed.
There’s more media and more overtly partisan media outlets, too. The Internet has given rise to champions of the left — Huffington Post, Daily Kos, etc. — as well as more conservative organizations such as Drudge and Free Republic. This means your chance of running into “news” that seems biased has increased exponentially, elevating the impression that “bias” is pervasive throughout all parts of the media.
“There’s a kind of self-fulfilling perception to it,” said Robert Lichter, a pioneering media-bias researcher who heads the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University. “Once people see something they don’t like, they notice things that reinforce the belief that there’s bias” in the media as a whole.
l There are more watchdog groups focused on rooting out media bias.
Long ago, a few watchdog groups, such as the conservative AIM (Accuracy in Media) and its more liberal counterpart FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), kept an eye on reporters’ work. Nowadays, not just politicians criticize the media for their alleged bias; an entire cottage industry exists to highlight the media’s alleged failings. This includes ideological outfits such as Media Matters for America and the Media Research Center; the satirical “Daily Show” and “Colbert Report”; and blogs by the hundreds.
All that scrutiny of the press may suggests an inescapable conclusion: There’s something wrong with the news media. All the time.
Journalists have gotten that message, too. “Reporters have heard the criticism from the right so often that they lean over backwards to be fair to them,” said Eric Alterman, a journalist, college professor and the author of the best-selling “What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News.”
l In the public’s mind, “the news media” encompasses the kitchen sink.
Few people make a distinction between news reporting — which attempts to play it straight — and opinion-mongering, which is designed to provoke and persuade. Tellingly, when asked what they think of when they hear the phrase “news organization,” the majority of respondents (63 percent) in Pew’s news-bias survey cited “cable news,” and specifically Fox News and CNN. But while cable news networks do some straightforward reporting, their most popular programs, by far, are those in which opinionated hosts ask opinionated guests to sling opinions about the day’s news.
“A big part of the conversation on cable is [people] telling you how the rest of the media is getting the story wrong,” said Mark Jurkowitz, a former press critic and newspaper ombudsman who is now associate director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a Washington-based research group affiliated with Pew. That, he noted, is likely to sow more doubt about the media’s integrity or accuracy.
Of course, reporters have helped blur the very lines they want the public to respect, Lichter said, by writing up news stories and then appearing on TV or going on social media to tell people what to think about their stories.
“The modern way [for journalists] is to be edgy and opinionated and to call attention to yourself,” Lichter said.
l We know more and can second-guess.
Thanks to technology, people have more access to more sources of news than before. Which means they can check several accounts of the same event. This can create its own kind of suspicion; savvy readers often ask reporters why they ignored or played down facts that another reporter emphasized.
l People believe their preferred news sources are objective and fair, while the other guy’s are biased.
Pew’s research suggests that people think the other guy’s media are spreading lies while one’s own are, relatively, a paragon of truth.
A clear majority (66 percent) say news organizations in general are “often inaccurate.” But the figure drops precipitously (to 30 percent) when people are asked the same question about the news organization “you use most.” Jurkowitz said this is the analogue of how people feel about Congress — most give low marks to lawmakers in general, but they vote to reelect their incumbent representative more than 90 percent of the time.
“If you watch the Channel 2 newscast night after night, you trust the people on the air,” he said. “The mere fact that you’re a habituated user makes you think better of them.”
Despite the low esteem the public seems to hold for “the news media,” the good news may be that it’s all relative. Pew found last year that people said they trusted information from the news media more than any other source, including state governments, the Obama administration, federal government agencies, corporations and Congress.
The lowest degree of trust? By far, people named “candidates running for office.”
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Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 13th, 2009
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City Offers Free Condoms for Kids? Why Not?
Well, the Philadelphia Health Department has gone and done it. They're making condoms available to teens and tweens who want them. So how are parents responding? With joy that their kids are actually thinking to wrap it up before they turn Mom into Grandma? Oh, don't be silly.
Of course Philadelphians are freaking. Because everyone knows that suddenly making condoms available to kids who ask for them is just like saying "go forth and get freak nasty!" Right? Well, actually, not at all.
Studies have shown that access to condoms does not actually increase the rate of teens having sex. What it does do is ensure that more of the kids engaging in sexual activities are safe from STDs and pregnancy because more of them actually USE a condom.
The Take Control Philly program is open to kids from 11 to 19, and that lower number is worrying parents and the media who are again trotting out the myth that condom access = promotion of sex. They're just 11! True, but what's scarier? An 11-year-old having sex or an 11-year-old having unprotected sex? That's what I thought.
An 11-year-old, in a perfect world, would not be sexually active. But if they are, I'd prefer to think it's with protection, and they have some education about the consequences of their decision. And that's makes this particular program in Philly so necessary.
It's set up focuses on what kids really need if they're engaging in sexual activity. Condoms aren't being handed out willy nilly to kids on the street corner like candy. Kids have to actually go online to a website for the Take Control Philly program and request the prophylactics be mailed to them. That means these are all kids who were -- wait for it -- going to have sex anyway! And they're actually doing the smart thing. They're trying to be safe about it.
The site includes a host of other important things for sexually active kids -- from information about STDs to videos on how to actually use a condom (including female condoms!). Of course, that's got people up in arms too. As Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky warns parents: "Be warned: The site contains very straightforward info, including explicit animations illustrating the proper way to don or insert a condom."
Can you imagine? Telling kids HOW to use a condom? So that they don't just "think" they're protected, but KNOW they're protected? Scandalous, I know, but I'm going to come out and say it. I'd rather have a kid wrapping it up than ending up with herpes and a new baby.
What about you?
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Most of us will probably never go into space, but thanks to Commander Chris Hadfield, we can get a pretty good idea of what life is like aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Hadfield already had an active presence on social media before he went into space on Dec. 19, but he's becoming known as much for making strides on social media as he is for his work as an astronaut.
Often keeping a cheerful demeanor, thousands are keeping up with Hadfield as he broadcasts space travel in real time with photographs and observations of his day-to-day life. With only about 20,000 Twitter followers when he took off, he now has over 216,000 followers and counts Star Trek alums William Shatner and Wil Wheaton among his fans.
Hadfield is already raking in the Internet karma and gets even cooler with each post. He's got some time before he returns to Earth in May, but we've put together a list of reasons we'd follow him anywhere.
1) He's a redditor.
Many were first introduced to Hadfield when he stopped by Reddit for an AMA shortly before his departure. Originally encouraged by his son Evan, Hadfield came for the AMA and stayed for the community. He engaged with r/space and even crowdsourced for ideas of what people wanted to see from space. Depending on the Internet connection and PR restrictions, he may do an AMA from space.
Hadfield's hasn't posted anything since Jan. 6, but his day job probably keeps him busy.
2) He's rubbed shoulders with another famous captain.
Hadfield made headlines on Jan. 4 after a Twitter exchange with another famous commander, James T. Kirk—or rather, actor (and fellow Canadian) William Shatner—to the excitement of nerds everywhere.
Hadfield shared a photo of them from a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) photo challenge. The CSA then invited Shatner to chat with Hadfield from space, who said that while he couldn't make any promises but would see what he could do.
3) He composes his own music.
Hadfield is a musician and will sometimes play the guitar when he's not working. He recently teamed up with fellow astronaut Catherine Coleman on the flute and performed "Ride On" in tribute of Sally Ride. He also composes his own music, and on Christmas Eve he posted "Jewel of the Night" to YouTube, a song he wrote and performed aboard the ISS.
4) He can count William Shatner, Bryan Adams, and Wil Wheaton among his friends.
While Hadfield's chat with Shatner is still up in the air, the CSA is making it possible for him with other people such as musician Bryan Adams, with whom he chatted with earlier Tuesday. Wil Wheaton, who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, offered Hadfield a connection if they ran into any Nanites outside the ISS.
5) He answers the questions people actually want to know …
When Hadfield posted his AMA last month, he also included a list of Frequently Asked Questions where he covered everything from the existence of aliens, items he's bringing from home, the logistics of sex in space and another bodily function, which he also explained in a video he posted online in December.
6) As well as the ones we never thought of.
Thanks to Hadfield, we now have the answer to a small-yet-vital question: How do you cut your nails in space? With zero gravity, the clippings would fly around and possibly get into someone's eye. Luckily, the astronauts have a solution, demonstrated in this CSA video.
7) His outside view is way better than yours.
When Hadfield is not working, he'll often post photos of his view outside the ISS and down below to Earth, which, aside from making us all jealous of the view, lets us view our planet in a way that we never would have been able to see otherwise.
Photo via Chris Hadfield/Twitter
8) Despite his workload at the ISS, he still finds time to tweet often.
Hadfield tweets photographs and snippets of his life on the ISS several times a day, and it's essentially become part of that job. And while we often look on with awe, others have wondered whether he's actually working—something Hadfield has managed to take in stride.
Photo via Chris Hadfield/YouTube
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Handbuilding is wonderful stuff. You can do so much with it, and quite frankly it prepares students for the next step, later on of working on the potter's wheels.
Here is a list of things I have done over the years that I am sure you can adapt.
belt buckles, necklaces, bracelets
apartments (each kid makes an apartment, like shoebox size, and everyone stacks their finished work on top of the other for a completed apartment)
pop art food
clothing that looks like it is hanging from a nail (they become wall pieces).
clay books (stand opened, can be painted, glazed and or collaged)
clay plants (pot in coil, dirt is slab built over newspaper in pot, hole in bottom of pot to let out gasses from newspaper, plants are coil and slab built on the slab dirt..these are great when finished, and never die!)
oil lamps/votives/incense burners
clay clocks (basically slab with an indentation on the back for the battery operated guts.
I'm sure I am forgetting something, after 35 years of teaching it all is a blurr!
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Decision time (maybe)
Gay marriage might be about to reach the Supreme Court for the first time
THE battle for what its backers call “marriage equality” has been waged on three fronts: in legislatures, in courtrooms and at the ballot-box. For much of this year it is the last of these forums that has seen the most passionate fighting. On November 6th gay-marriage advocates unexpectedly emerged victorious in all four states in which their cause was on the ballot. Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approved gay-marriage laws, and in Minnesota they rejected a proposed ban. The results ended a long electoral losing streak for the gay-marriage cause.
But this week attention turned to the nine justices of the Supreme Court, who on November 30th may decide whether to consider seven same-sex marriage petitions that have been placed before them. For each case, four justices must support its consideration if the court is to take it up. If it does agree to hear one or more of them, rulings should follow by June 2013.
Five of the seven cases are challenges to the 1996 Defence of Marriage Act, Section 3 of which defines marriage as a heterosexual union. This denies federal benefits to married same-sex couples, an anomaly that has led to, among other things, bereaved partners facing huge inheritance-tax bills on the death of a spouse.
One reason most analysts expect the court to take up at least one of the DOMA cases is that not doing so would create an unholy administrative mess. Two federal appeals courts have ruled Section 3 unconstitutional this year. And in an unusual move for the executive branch, since last year the Obama administration has declined to defend the law. It has fallen instead to congressional Republicans to make the case for DOMA.
Many think Section 3 is doomed. Striking it down would be unlikely to incur the wrath of conservatives, as such a decision would directly affect only individuals and couples already legally married. The case may also appeal to justices sensitive to federal overreach. When DOMA was passed, no state had approved gay-marriage laws. Today nine, plus Washington DC, have done so. “The more states legalise same-sex marriage, the less this becomes a hypothetical issue,” says Patrick Egan, a political scientist at New York University.
The Supreme Court will also consider a DOMA-style law in Arizona. But the other case before the justices is thornier. In February an appeals court struck down Proposition 8, a gay-marriage ban approved by voters in California in 2008. Prop 8’s backers now want the Supreme Court to overturn that verdict. The justices may well refuse to hear the case, more-or-less instantly restoring marriage rights to tens of thousands of Californian gay couples. The court could also put the case on ice until it has concluded its DOMA deliberations.
If they do take it up, the justices are not restricted to a narrow review of the lower court’s Prop 8 ruling. They could, if a majority could be mustered, issue a verdict that in effect extended same-sex marriage rights to all 50 states. (If that happens, “get ready for a whole new culture war”, warns Brian Brown of the National Organisation for Marriage.) They could also uphold Prop 8 in a broad ruling that solidifies similar bans in dozens of other states. More likely would be a decision somewhere between these extremes.
The crucial voice on the court, as so often, will be that of Anthony Kennedy. Although conservative by instinct, Justice Kennedy is sensitive to public opinion, which is rapidly loosening up. He also provided, via a 1996 ruling, the legal foundation for the appeals court’s decision to strike down Prop 8. If, says Jane Schacter at Stanford Law School, he believes that a future court will guarantee same-sex marriage rights across the country, the prospect of issuing a narrower decision upholding the Prop 8 ban may look appealing to a 76-year-old justice with an eye on his legacy.
While the nation awaits the justices’ verdict, next year the action returns to state legislatures. Gay-marriage advocates are seeking wins in Illinois, New Jersey and Minnesota, among other states. Their opponents have an eye on a possible constitutional amendment in Indiana, but are in a defensive crouch for now. On this issue America is changing, quickly.
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valley today incorporates three major settlements, each have their own distinctive character with outstanding temples, works of art and architecture and a varied calendar of feasts and festivals. All three have their roots in being capital cities of the valleys three principality's in times gone by. Between them they boast the highest density of World Heritage Sites to be found anywhere in the World, seven in total. There are many other fascinating settlements in the valley, which offer their own reasons for being there.
Some major sights of interest within the valley include.
Kathmandu Dubar Square
Kathmandu's most impressive sight, Durbar Square, is crowded with ancient temples and palaces reflecting the religious and cultural life of the people. It is also home to Kathmandu's Kumari, or 'living goddess', a young girl believed to be a reincarnation of the goddess Durga.
Bouddhanath lies eight kms east of the centre of Kathmandu in the heart of theTibetan/Sherpa district. It is one of the largest Stupas in the World and the centre of Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal. It was listed by UNESCO as the World Heritage Site in 1979. An early morning visit around 5:30 is recommended, many Tibetan pilgrims visit at this time.
One of the world's most famous Buddhist Chaityas, Swoyambhunath dates back over 2000 years. It is commonly referred to as the 'monkey temple' because of its resident population of apes. This spectacular Buddhist Stupa with its all seeing eyes, sits on a hilltop, 2 km from the center of Kathmandu. The views of Kathmandu and the surrounding valley are superb from here.
The ornate and fascinating Pashupatinath temple is situated five kilometers east of Kathmandu on the banks of the sacred Bagmati river which is a tributary to the Ganges. The temple of Lord Shiva, who in his manifestation of Pashupatinath, is both the creator and destroyer of life. It is a famous Hindu pilgrimage site. The area along the banks are lined with Ghats where the recently dead are cremated.
Patan (The city of beauty) stands on the southern bank of the holy river Bagamti (a tributary of the Ganges) five kilometers southeast of Kathmandu. Nowadays, it has virtually become part of sub metropolitan Kathmandu. The pace of life here is more relaxed than its bigger brother. The city is renowned for its wealth of Buddhist and Hindu temples as well as having an abundance of fine bronze gateways and wonderful carvings. Patan is also known for its expert craftsmen and metal workers.
Patan Durbar Square
Situated in the heart of the city, Patan Durbar Square is a major focal point of a visit to here. The square is full of ancient temples palaces and shrines noted for their exquisite carvings. It also houses the Patan museum which has many fine examples of Nepal's ancient culture.
Bhaktapur is situated 14 km east of Kathmandu. It is the least developed large settlement in the region. Bhaktapur (the city of devotees) is the most "laid back" of the three valley towns. Its narrow brick paved streets remain as intact as they were centuries ago and harboring, it seems, hidden shrines and statues around every corner. Many of Bhaktapur's practices have changed little over time. It is quite easy to spend a whole day here relaxing and taking in the atmosphere of this ancient Newar town famous for its woodcarvings, pottery and cloth weaving.
Bhaktapur Durbar Square
The main square of the City was devastated by an earthquake in 1933. However, it still contains many temples and other architectural showpieces. The lion gate, the statue of the King Bhupatindra Malla, the National Art Gallery, the Palace of 55 Windows and the Bell of the Barking Dogs are major attractions to name but few.
Kirtipur is situated 10 kms south west of Kathmandu. Less frequented by tourists this ancient Newar township is a natural fortress with a proud and courageous history. The Chilmahu Stupa and the temple of Bagh Bhairab are two major sights here. Kirtipur offers medieval narrow streets lined with artistic houses and temple squares. The people are known for their skill in building and weaving.
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The Summer Food Service Program plan to provide one healthy meal a day for local children.
Now, this summer, kids can have fun and free food at their local park. On Monday, June 11, The City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation & Parks posted a report that the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) will be providing free lunches between June 25 and August 10 at 100 parks (or recreation centers) throughout the city of Los Angeles. The Summer Food Service Program carries the goal of ensuring that children, ages one to 18, who are currently out of school (for summer vacation), receive at least one healthy meal a day.
Funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the SFSP will have a "positive impact on the lives of more than 5,500 children across Los Angeles everyday who partake in the program", as stated by the General Manager of the Department of Recreation & Parks, Jon Kirk Mukri. With so many children in our community attending Crenshaw, Dorsey, Audubon and the like, it would be beneficial to research and determine exactly which locations we can patronize. So be sure to conduct your investigation(s), gather family members and friends to attend the commendable action of SFSP and the City of Los Angeles.
Some locations nearby are the following: Baldwin Hills Recreation Center at 5401 Highlight Place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Jim Gilliam Recreation Center at 4000 S. La Brea Avenue from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., and Martin Luther King Jr. Therapeutic Recreation Center at 3916 S. Western 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. For more information, visit the Official Website of the City of Los Angeles.
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The Historical site of the White Cloud Flowing Well Park, has a history that dates back to nearly 80 years. The artesian well ( a State Park at the time) was enhanced with fountains and flowers and was frequently used for picnics, family gatherings, and even marriage proposals. The park was very popular with locals and visitors in the 1920's where people came to enjoy the beautiful setting and tranquility.
In the 1940's and 1950's the White Cloud Flowing Well suffered from neglect and vandalism until it reached a point of disrepair. However, in 1999 restoration was discussed by the White Cloud Garden Club, and several other community organizations. These groups decided to take on the mission of restoring the Park with fund raising events and a lot of hard labor.
See the progress of the restoration of this historical site with pictures below.
The Flowing Well Park is now in phase one of the restoration project. This phase was completed in the fall of 2005.
The bricks surrounding the flowing well were purchased by individuals and are inscribed with the names of those individuals or dedicated to a loved one or family member.
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Solar energy is an emerging technology across the United States and in other countries but still provides only a fraction of the nation’s power.
Glassy panels that absorb radiation from the sun send energy through wires to provide electricity to homeowners or energy to the utility grid.
For the most part, solar energy is produced either by large, industrial-scale solar farms or by individual homes that draw energy from sun-soaking panels on roofs or in yards. Homeowners who produce more solar energy than they need feed the energy back to the utility for general distribution.
Relatively few homeowners or business people are believed to rely exclusively on solar power because it doesn’t work at night or during extended rainy periods. That’s one of the big criticisms of solar.
So most folks, unwilling to try and live “off the grid,” use solar power in combination with traditional power from the local utility company. Using less traditional power often lowers the overall amount a person pays the electric company each month.
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The Bangarra Dance Theatre, which has been described as "Australia's most sensual performing arts troupe," strives to fuse modern movements with elements of Australia's native culture.
In Awakenings, which will be performed this fall in Washington, the company examines the symbolism of 40,000 years of Aboriginal life - and how those ancient rituals both collide with and inform modern culture.
The troupe was formed in 1989; it gets its name from the word bangarra, which means "to make fire" in the Wiradjuri language of New South Wales.
Bangarra is possibly the only major dance company in the world to create its works in collaboration with a tribal elder, who bears the title of "cultural consultant." The choreographers' and dancers' painstaking attention to authenticity is apparent in every gesture on stage. When the troupe performed at the Kennedy Center in 2004, The Washington Post described an earlier work, Bu sh, as "a stimulating, rich, and textured portrait of spirituality."
"Awakenings" will be performed at 8 p.m. Oct. 16 and 17 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F St. N.W., Washington. Tickets cost $22-$65. Call 800-444-1324 or go to kennedy-center.org.
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Montgomery "Scotty" Scott was a Human Starfleet officer serving in the 23rd century. He was recruited by James T. Kirk to replace Olson as chief engineer of the USS Enterprise before the Battle of Earth in 2258.
Scotty had been engaged in a debate with his instructor on the issue of relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel. The professor was of the opinion that the range of a transporter was limited to a few hundred kilometers; Scotty felt that he could beam a lifeform from one planet to the next within a solar system. His theory, however, had never been tested. As he was experimenting with his theory of transwarp beaming he used Archer's prized beagle as a test subject but was unable to locate the dog afterwards.
Scott was sent to the Federation outpost on Delta Vega with his assistant, Keenser, in late 2257, six months before the destruction of Vulcan. He believed his blunder with Archer's dog was the real reason for him ending up there. In 2258 Keenser brought him two visitors, James T. Kirk and one Spock whom Scotty believed were sent by Starfleet to supply him.
Spock helped Scott fix this transport problem by giving him the finished version of the governing equation "his" Scotty – a longtime friend from his own future timeline – had completed in the future. The final detail Scott needed was to construct the equations from the perspective that outer space itself, not the ships, was moving. Using the new calculations, Kirk and Scott were able to beam aboard the Enterprise while it was moving at warp.
Despite his technical knowledge and engineering specialty, Scotty suffered an initial run of bad luck when it came to transporter targets. When beaming himself and Kirk to the Enterprise he ended up in a water conduit labeled Inert Reactant in Engineering, nearly drowning before Kirk was able to evacuate him through an emergency hatch. The first time he used the Enterprise transporter he aimed for the cargo bay of the Narada where he believed Kirk and Spock would be able to materialize unobserved; the area turned out to be crawling with Romulans. His second use of the Enterprise transporter, however, was a tremendous technical success: beaming three people from two different locations onto one pad, something he had never done before.
After Spock's ship, the Jellyfish, was destroyed, the Enterprise began to be sucked into the black hole created by the simultaneous detonation of its entire store of red matter. However, Scotty was able to eject and detonate the ship's warp core, creating a large enough shock wave that the Enterprise could ride to safety. With Olson, the ship's original chief engineer, having been killed in action, and his benefactor Kirk in command, Scott eventually took this position (bringing Keenser along with him) aboard the Enterprise. (Star Trek)
"You are Montgomery Scott!"
"You know him?"
"Aye, that's me. You're in the right place, unless there's another hard-working equally starved Starfleet officer around."
"Get tae–shut up! You don't eat anything. You can eat, like, a bean, and you're done! I'm talking about food. Real food."
- - Spock Prime, James Kirk, Montgomery Scott and Keenser
"Are you from the future?"
"Yeah, he is - I'm not."
"Well, that's brilliant. Do they still have sandwiches there?!"
- - Montgomery Scott and James Kirk
"So, the Enterprise has had its maiden voyage, has it? She is one well-endowed lady! I'd like to get my hands on her ample nacelles if you'll pardon the engineering parlance."
- - Montgomery Scott
"The notion of transwarp beaming is like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet, whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse."
- - Montgomery Scott
"I like this ship! You know, it's exciting!"
- - Montgomery Scott, after Spock leaves the bridge following a fistfight between Spock and James Kirk
"Are you a member of Starfleet?"
"Uh... yes. Can I get a towel, please?"
- - Spock and Scotty
"I've never beamed three people from two targets onto one pad before!"
- - Montgomery Scott
"Kirk to Engineering. Get us outta here Scotty."
"You bet your arse Captain!"
- - James Kirk and Montgomery Scott
"I'm giving her all she's got, captain!"
- - Montgomery Scott, when escaping the black hole
"Get off there, its not a climbing frame."
- - Montgomery Scott, before beaming onto the Enterprise
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Montgomery Scott (alternate reality) appears in:
Simon Pegg modeled his Scottish accent on the Glaswegian one of his wife and her family. Pegg concocted a backstory for Scotty on his MySpace page to reconcile his performance's accent with the traditional belief Scotty was born from Aberdeen or Linlithgow.
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Exceeds FDA regulations & Consumer Safety Commission guidelines
We were searching for an affordable, sustainable, insulated travel mug when we found this BPA-free travel mug. Made from eCycle®, Aladdin' s proprietary blend of post-consumer recycled plastics, each tumbler is made from 100% recycled polypropylene, which contains 25% post-consumer content. Designed to help you cut back on waste when taking beverages on-the-go!
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Dimensions 7.75” (with lid) 2.75” base 3.25” opening Weighs 8.2 oz
Design & Functionality Just the right size for a medium coffee to-go, slim shape fits in most car cup holders. Lid features splash-proof twist-closure and flared lip for no-spill drinking. BPA-free, non-leaching, and microwave safe. Plus, it keeps your drinks hot after you microwave the drink in the tumbler! Easy clean up in the dishwasher or by hand with a mild soap.
Materials 100% recycled and recyclable plastic, made up of 25% post-consumer food-grade polypropylene.
Sustainability An eco-friendly alternative to paper and plastic cups. Eliminate hundreds of disposable beverage cups over the course of one year – and thousands over the course of a lifetime. Designed with a cradle-to-cradle philosophy, this tumbler is made of 100% recycled food-grade polypropylene and is, itself, 100% recyclable when it is no longer useful. Bring your own mug to your favorite coffee shop, or use it at home.
About Aladdin For over 100 years, Aladdin has been creating safe, sustainable and stylish food and drink solutions. Best known for the metal lunchboxes kids used to carry to school, the company has evolved to offer innovative tumblers and lunch boxes. Every Aladdin product goes through stringent testing protocols and is inspected for health safety before it leaves the factory. Aladdin complies with all global regulation and where appropriate, they adhere to all ASTM standards for children’s products.These products also exceed FDA, CSPC and other government regulations and are Proposition 65 compliant. Proposition 65 is the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. The Proposition exists to protect California citizens and the state's drinking water sources from chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects and other harm.
Care Instructions Top-rack dishwasher safe or hand wash with mild soap. Do not microwave empty.
I knew what I was getting before I purchased these online. I love almost everything about this cup (tumbler). The ONLY contention I have is that the o-ring that forms the water-tight seal where the lid meets the tumbler itself can be a collection spot for mold if you drink out of the cup for too many days in a row and can be a pain to clean since it is difficult to manage in a dishwasher and must be removed to be cleaned efficiently. I have NOT seen a travel mug style coffee cup that performs the function MORE adequately. So this one thing is relatively minor in my opinion. Everything else is, in my opinion, top notch. From the time that it keeps my coffee hot to the lack of a handle; all well within my preferences and tolerances.
I love the color and feel of the Aladdin 16 oz eCycle Tumblers [ALA-16]. It is very sturdy and keeps my coffee warm for an acceptable amount of time. My only complaint is the base is too big to fit tightly in my car cup holder. So it really doesn't work for a travel cup. (Which was the main reason I purchased it.) It would be a good work cup or something like that.
I was unhappy with how this leaks when turned even at an angle, let alone upside down. I probably would not recommend this product, although it is cute in a simple, minimalistic way, and I'm very happy it's at least made from recycled materials. If you are putting coffee or tea in it, don't tilt it :)
Just because a product is recycled doesn't give you leeway to opt out of quality! A brand new tumbler should never leak, plain and simple.
I just purchased a few more of these great cups. They don't drip, they are microwavable, the are made from recycled plastic. My husband and I use them everyday, and we take them with us when we go to Starbucks, on vacation, everywhere.
I've been using these tumblers for a couple of years. They're lightweight, sturdy, and hold up well in the dishwasher. The threads at the lid have not loosened. Nice colors too. Almost -- but not entirely -- spillproof; they can leak a bit if they're tilted, such as if you're carrying them in a lunch bag, so be careful with that, but overall a great item
This was a wonderful cup with the handle and I had purchased two ugly green ones w/o the handle and the sticker came right off. I know that is a small problem and that it will eventually wear away, but the green one were gifts. Still, all in all, great purchase, as always. Thanks!
Originally I was looking for a stainless steel travel mug. In my search I came across this item instead. It was half the cost, no worry about BPH, and I liked the colors/look of it. It does hold the heat pretty well. The only other thing I want to mention about this product is that you can't tilt it too much if it's filled up to the top. The liquid will spill out of the top around the slider. I don't mean the sides of the lid, I'm talking specifically the slider on top where you open it to drink from. I find this happens a lot when I'm walking fast to cross the street and not watching the mug. It doesn't spill over the sides from the top, it usually stays on the top. Just wanted to let you know about that happening. Otherwise, I would recommend this product.
Well made, I like that it is recycled. I wish they would make a slimmer version; I have small hands and this one is too big to hold comfortably. It is dishwasher safe, unlike older cups that filled with soapy water around the edges and came out when you took a sip, yuck! :)
I love that they are made from recycled material and are recyclable. They are attractive, work well and save cups. They are the first dishwasher safe thermal mugs I have found. I haven't put them through the dishwasher yet.
Measure your microwave! I bought this tumbler specifically because it was microwaveable & it does not fit into my microwave at home. Luckily, it fits into the one at work, so I did not have to return it. Otherwise, I love it.
This is one of the few tumblers that actually fit securely in the cupholders of our cars. I love the color selection, and the fact that they are made from recycled plastics makes me feel a whole lot better about buying them. What I love the most about them is that they go through the dishwasher without warping, rusting, or otherwise falling apart! A lot of cheaply made stainless travel mugs with plastic inserts seem to fall apart. These are tough tumblers. I love 'em. I'd buy more of them if I wasn't unemployed right now.
Cute, environmental, but definitely NOT spill proof or insulated... As far as keeping things warm, it does no better than the traditional paper cup from the coffee/tea shop. But I do enjoy the weight of it and the color selection, but it is tough on the commute to work because it does not have a good lid.
We really like these! I have even gone back and ordered more. I like that they are recycled, have no bpa, and they are a really good price. Perfect for drinking coffee in the car and on the way to work. They do not have a perfect seal but if you are not holding it upside down when its full of coffee then you will be fine.
This tumbler is perfect! I have been reluctant to use plastics for drinking cups for a while. I felt very reassured after reading that this is a safe plastic without the chemicals that make some plastics unsafe. I purchased this for my husband and he has been using it daily, which is a first for him. Coffee stays hot, the latch to keep it from spilling works just right. The lip is easy to drink from, which has been a complaint from him for some time with certain lids. It fits the car holder. I also like that it is made from recycled materials, and it to can be recycled. I think I will get more and give them for Christmas presents this year.
5.0 I purchased the first Aladdin 16oz eCycle Tumbler
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I purchased the first Aladdin 16oz eCycle Tumbler from a local grocery store. The O-ring seal and easy closing lid made this a great product. After using two for the past several months (drinking coffee during the ride to work) we decided more of these "mugs" were needed. Found the products on the internet at this company (reusablebags.com) and thought even better about my decision to purchase more of them. We love these mugs and will continue to buy them.
I like the product. I saw that others mentioned that the top will leak if laid on it's side which is true. I bought this travel mug because you can put it in the microwave which is good. The pink is a liitle lighter than it shows online. Overall for the price it is great.
4.0 This was the third of these tumblers I've purchase
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This was the third of these tumblers I've purchased. Finally learned--after having to launder my backpack twice--that they leak if not kept upright. However, I really like the discounted "refill" rate I pay at coffee shops. I like my coffee really hot, and the tumbler keeps it that way. Also, I can use it in the microwave. For my purposes a great product for the money.
I love this cup! I just received it this week. It fits in my car cup holder and keeps my coffee hot for a pretty long time. It does leak from the lid if placed on its side, but that's not a problem for me. The cup also had a funny odor, as do many plastic mugs, but it did not effect the coffee taste in any way.
I really like the tumbler. I have it in green. It is perfect for carrying tea in the car. Like other reviewers have mentioned. Please note that the lid/seal over the "mouth hole" is designed to prevent sloshing only! It does not seal tightly and will leak significantly if put on its side. On the plus side, the ability to wash it in the dishwasher and heat it up in the microwave have won me over and have made this product worthy of a five star rating!
5.0 I ordered two Aladdin tumblers and am considering
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I ordered two Aladdin tumblers and am considering ordering more. I've been using them for a few weeks and love them. It's true that the Aladdin cups don't hold heat as long as stainless steel travel mugs, but they keep coffee long for a decent amount of time. I love that these tumblers and their lids can go through the dishwasher, unlike most tumblers. The recycled materials are an added bonus.
5.0 I bought four of the Aladdin recycled tumblers and
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I bought four of the Aladdin recycled tumblers and love them. I wanted something specifically so that I could take my hot tea in my car, and these fit in my car's cup holders with no handle to get in the way. I was unsure at first about them because they're made of plastic and I try to stay away from plastic due to concerns about bisphenol A and phthalates, but since these are made from a product derived from corn I felt comfortable buying them. They might not keep hot beverages hot for as long as some other products, but they work for me. It's easy to drink from them in the car, and my tea doesn't dribble down the side like with my old tumblers. They will leak some liquid if you knock the tumbler on its side, however, even when the top is closed -- they're not completely spill-proof. Overall, a great product at a really great price.
4.0 I have other hot beverage carriers that have metal
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I have other hot beverage carriers that have metal on the inside and they get very "mucky" sometiems on the inside. This one, so far does not do that. I LOVE the fact that I can put this in the microwave! It doesn't keep things as hot as the metal containers but the microwave ability evens that out!
Love, love, love this tumbler. It is the only one I could find (recycled or not) that is meant to be used in the microwave. I carry it every day to work and sometimes on the weekend when I'm running errands. It is attractive, easy to clean, has no unpleasant taste/odor and fits automobile cup holders. It holds 16 oz of fluid and keeps it hot or cold for a pretty good amount of time. But, be advised, the little tab on the top only keeps the liquid from sloshing out as you walk or roll along. Packing it full of liquid in your lunch bag ends up soaking everything. (Duh!) Oh, and measure your microwave on the inside before you buy this. It fits the microwave at work just fine, but it is almost too tall for my microwave at home.
5.0 I had the hardest time finding an "eco-friendly" t
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I had the hardest time finding an "eco-friendly" travel mug that was dishwasher safe, but this mug is perfect. It's a solid cup that doesn't tip over in my car, doesn't leak, doesn't collect condensation, and I don't have to wash it separately by hand. It does a great job keeping my tea warm, and the lid has a "twist" type opening that stays put and doesn't get in the way. This is by far the best travel mug I own.
These are great! I'm finally done with buying bottled water! Their size is perfect for using powdered drink mix-ins, and they fit nicely in my car's cupholders. The fact that they are dishwasher safe (unlike most thermal tumblers) makes them pretty much perfect as far as I'm concerned. I bought two so I always have a clean one while the other one is in the dishwasher.
My Favorite Commuter Mug!!!! My husband and I make our own coffee to take to work everyday and are always looking for the perfect mug. Made from recycled plastic, microwavable, dishwasher safe, great price, and they don't leak....This is it!
Great product! Not only is it recycled and recyclable, but it is also dishwasher safe and BPA free. What more could you want from a tumbler? It keeps my coffee hot and doesn't give it a weird plastic flavor like some tumblers do. I definitely recommend it!
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Gaudi on fast track to become architecture’s first Saint
We will never know what was uppermost in Antoni Gaudi’s mind in the last moments before he fell under a Barcelona tram on the 9th June 1926 but we can probably be sure that he wasn’t expecting to become architecture’s first saint.
Now, 81 years after his ignominious end, WAN has learned that wheels are turning deep within the walls of the Vatican that could see the architect receiving the ultimate commission. Cardinal Jośe Saraiva Martins is wrestling with this crucial decision and just needs to give the nod to Pope Benedict XV1 for history to be made. Apparently Guadi’s candidature is based not on his architectural visions but on his ability to “intercede with God on behalf of those who pray for him”
Gaudi of course has been inextricably linked to the Catholic Church through his Sagrada Familia cathedral, now a world famous icon for Spain’s second largest city. Campaigners (yes its true) for his canonisation say that “his greatest creation has made faith accessible to the average person and inspired thousands who were not Catholics before they visited.”
However the decision for Cardinal Martins is a bit tricky as Gaudi is not up to specs in a few key areas. Usually saints will have inspired miracles or at least an apparition or two. Only one sighting of the saint-in-waiting was recorded by a German artist living in Barcelona who said that a younger version of Gaudi appeared in her flat, “He wanted to tell me something important about the way the Sagrada Familia worked. But I couldn’t hear him as I had earplugs in. When I took them out he disappeared.” Of course he could have been trying to warn her about the new underground Madrid Express which will rattle through only feet from the cathedral’s foundations threatening to shake the structure to bits even before it can be completed in 20 years time.
In a last (?) twist of irony the express train tunnel route, confirmed this week, has ignited an unholy row between the city of Barcelona and just about every action group imaginable. An engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called the railway plan “a thoughtless act of vandalism” while the president of the cathedral board of directors, Joan Rigol, said it could be “the kiss of death.”
We hope that the Cardinal can make his decision quicker than the 127 years the Sagrada Familia has taken so far to construct, still being only half complete…or maybe the St. will stand stand for Station not Saint...
WAN believes this story has yet to run it’s course…watch this space…
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Experimental Prostate Cancer Medication Could Extend Lives
New research finds an experimental prostate cancer drug that works differently than other treatments actually extends the lives of men with spreading cancer by an average of nearly five months.
The medication, a hormone pill called MDV3100, launches a three-pronged attack against testosterone and its related hormones (also called androgens), which fuel the growth of prostate cancer.
Men with in the late stages of the disease who were given MDV3100 lived an average of almost 18 months from the start of treatment, some five months longer than those given a placebo.
All the men in the study had cancers that continued to spread despite previous hormonal therapy and chemotherapy.
“About 32,000 men die of prostate cancer each year in the U.S., and virtually all the deaths are due to this type of cancer,” said Howard I. Scher, MD, chief of the genitourinary oncology service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He presented the findings at a news briefing in advance of the fourth annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, being held later this week in San Francisco.
In addition, results of the study are being submitted to the FDA in anticipation of gaining approval, Scher told WebMD.
If approved, MDV3100 would join a growing number of drugs for late-stage disease. And while the FDA recently signed off on the prostate cancer pill Zytiga, which may also extend life by four months, Dr. Scher says there’s a difference between the medications.
“Zytiga requires that men also receive prednisone, which produces side effects like fluid retention that have to be managed,” he said. “MDV3100 does not.”
“This is an outstanding drug,” says Bruce Roth, MD, a prostate cancer specialist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a spokesperson for the American Society of Clinical Oncology, who was not involved with the research.
What he finds most exciting is the idea of using the once-a-day treatment earlier in the course of disease to delay the time until men need chemotherapy — which is something that’s currently being tested in a large study.
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In other positive news, Dr. Max Langham, lead general surgeon of the 13-hour, Aug. 29 operation in Memphis's Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, said of the boys: "Not only are they healthy, but both of them are using their legs and beginning to crawl," reports the city's Commercial Appeal.
As their mother, Adrienne Spates, kissed and played with the "wide-eyed" infants Wednesday morning, the newspaper reports, she said, "Hey, Jacob, you see your brother?" It was the first time they had.
Wednesday was considered something of a coming-out day for Joshua and Jacob, whose story was prominently covered on the morning shows both in the U.S. and the U.K. Overflowing with emotion, their mom hugged members of the staff in the hospital.
A single mother, Spates, 28, has two other children. Last November an ultrasound revealed she was carrying conjoined twins, and they were born via C-section two months later.
"It was scary," Spates said of the high-risk births. "We could've lost them."
Conjoined twins occur in one out of 100,000 births, according to statistics.
"Most conjoined twins don't ever get a chance to get to separation because they die from complications at delivery," said Dr. Langham.
No dollar amount has been revealed, but the estimated cost of the separation operation – which required a medical team of 34 and a month of pre-planning – was said to be astronomical. While Medicaid will cover much of it, the Joshua and Jacob Spates Trust has been established at First Tennessee Bank to help with supplemental assistance for the twins.
Spates said that although Jacob is still too frail to hold, her sons already are displaying two distinct personalities. She added: "I see us becoming a family soon. ... I know I was chosen for this. And if I was chosen, I can do it."
Lisa Waddell Buser / Le Bonheur Children's Hospital / AP
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James Joyner reflects thoughtfully on Huntsman’s campaign and suggests that a post-Tea Party-madness era will come when candidates such as the Utah governor are popular in the GOP again:
It’s pretty obvious to dispassionate observers that the trend of the last twenty years or so is unsustainable if the GOP is to remain a nationally competitive party. Cultural and demographic changes are such that relying on Southern whites and a social message stuck in 1980 will mean permanently ceding the White House and the Senate to Democrats. While Ron Paul-style isolationism will never appeal to a majority of Americans, neither will perpetual war. While safeguarding our borders and enforcing our laws will remain popular, policies and rhetoric that come across as anti-Hispanic will not. And, as the younger generation supplants the older one at the ballot box, anti-gay, anti-science talk will come across as positively alien.
Joyner thinks this train could take a while to arrive, but certain demographic and fiscal factors may bring it home faster than he projects. Republican Party members are not just disproportionately Southern, they are also disproportionately over the age of 60. The Tea Party platform is to balance the federal budget without raising taxes or reducing defense spending. There is one and only one way to do that: Slash federal spending on the elderly. That would drive down Republican support among senior citizens to the point that the GOP would have to either extrude the Tea Party toxin or fade from the national stage.
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School can be a nightmare for children with ADHD. Your child is eligible by law for special accommodations in the classroom like extra time on tests. Talk to your child’s teachers and school administrators about your family’s needs. An educational advocate can help you gain accommodation. Build an educational team for your child to include teachers, learning specialists, and administrators. 20% to 30% of kids with ADHD also have a learning disability like dyslexia (trouble reading).
How do you react when your child brings home a bad grade? As parents we want our children to succeed, to do well in school. We often measure their success in terms of a letter or number grade because it is sometimes the only measurement available. If you and your child's teacher have been regularly communicating, the bad grade, whether on an …
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Classes promote healthy families
Published: Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:16 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 11:33 p.m.
The Bayou Council on Alcoholism is offering “Families in Focus: Prevention in the Home,” a program to help families become healthier through life-skills education.
Families in Focus gives attention to characteristics of a healthy family, including decisions, pride, values, feelings and communication. The program includes 12 weekly sessions in the family’s home.
There is a $25 enrollment fee. Call 446-0643.
Reader comments posted to this article may be published in our print edition. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.
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These must be sleepless nights for former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
His opponent faced high unemployment. No incumbent had won re-election with such numbers. His opponent had campaigned on promises to cut the deficit in half. It was doubled. The number of people on food stamps nearly doubled, while 40 million homes remained in foreclosure. Detroit was bailed out when much of the country agreed automakers should pay the price for years of shoddy workmanship and bad designs.
But a majority of voters decided the Republican candidate didn't speak for them. He didn't care about 47 percent of them. He didn't think millionaires should pay taxes. He didn't understand why the rest of the country didn't own horses so their wives could practice dressage. He didn't acknowledge people on Social Security had been paying into the system their entire working lives and resented being called moochers. He didn't like seeing all those nonwhite faces representing America 2012.
In the end, he just didn't get it. And he still doesn't. Romney attributes his loss to the incumbent's generosity toward the underprivileged, when in truth it was his own sense of entitlement that was his undoing.
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Price signals can only influence demand and supply if they actually reach economic agents and if those economic agents have the opportunity to respond to them. In Russia, energy intensity increased by 30% between 1990 and 1998, while energy prices also increased tremendously (IEA, 1997b, p. 50)14. Experience shows that it takes time for economic agents to adjust their behaviour to new price signals, not only because of capital stock turnover, but also because consumers often do not have an accurate knowledge of their energy consumption, or the technical capacity to reduce it. Various types of energy market reforms and the pace of energy price reforms are designed to create and clear channels for market signals to work.
It is a difficult policy challenge, and therefore a time-consuming process, to bring prices into line with real costs. This is true both in developing countries, where the poor pay a high cost for low-quality energy services (or a low cost that is heavily subsidized) and in developed countries. Although data on energy subsidies are incomplete, partly because such support is difficult to identify and measure, some evidence indicates that subsidies on coal production, including transfers from both consumers and taxpayers, are declining in a number of OECD and developing countries. Recent data suggest that the total producer subsidy estimates for the coal production of Germany, UK, Spain, Belgium, and Japan, which amounted to over US$13 billion at the beginning of the 1990s, had declined to less than US$7 billion by 1996 (OECD, 1998a, 1998b). In addition, case studies in the energy supply sector identified the following areas for potential subsidy reforms: removal of coal-producer grants and price supports; reforming subsidies to investment in the energy supply industry; and regulatory reform to eliminate non-tariff barriers to the energy trade (OECD, 1997a, 1997b).
An IEA (1999b) analysis of fossil energy subsidies in China, Russia, India, Indonesia, Iran, South Africa, Venezuela, and Kazakhstanwhich accounted for 27.5% of the worlds total energy demand in 1997claimed that removing such subsidies would lower CO2 emissions by 16% in these countries, amounting to a 4.6% reduction in global emissions15.
The transport sectorto give an important exampleis another sector
that receives subsidies detrimental to the environment. Transport is indirectly
subsidized through infrastructure financing and through tax benefits, which
enhance the transport volume. According to Shelby et al. (1997), energy
subsidies were higher than those to transportation for the OECD area. They also
found for the USA that larger CO2 savings could be achieved through
reform of indirect rather than direct transport subsidies, such as free parking
and supporting the highway infrastructure. Reform policies to internalize external
the effects will, according to one study, probably lower sector-wide emissions
by 1015% (OECD, 1997c)16.
These findings are in line with the results from other work on internalizing
the external cost of transportation (ECMT, 1998). The same studies also indicate
that local communities can better carry out policy reform in the transport sector,
because transport subsidies may originate at the local level and local communities
are more likely to value other ancillary benefits through policy reform (OECD,
1997c; ECMT, 1998). The transport sector is only mentioned as an example, because
it is responsible for a large share of the national emissions in many countries17.
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Italian Wireless operators contact their subcribers in South Asia with a message from the Foreign Office
The Italian government has temporarily waived local privacy laws and asked Italian cellphone-service providers to send a text message to about 6,500 subscribers traveling in South Asia, according to a spokeswoman for TIM. (Cellphone-service providers' computer systems typically know where customers are because they track the location of calls made and received.)
The message says: "From the Foreign Office, please reply by indicating your identity, health conditions and location. Thank you," according to the TIM spokeswoman. [via the WSJ]
-- Links to all Tsunami/cell phone stories posted in Textually.org.
The Permanent Link to this page is: http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2005/01/006600.htm
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A voter poll taken during the 1936 presidential election provides a good example of the danger of biased sampling. The magazine Literary Digest sent a survey to 10 million Americans to determine how they would vote in the upcoming election between Democrat Franklin Roosevelt and Republican Alf Landon. More than two million Americans responded to this poll, and 60% supported Landon. The magazine published these findings, suggesting that Landon was guaranteed to win the election.
Despite the findings of the poll, however, Roosevelt defeated Landon in one of the largest landslide presidential elections ever. What happened? The sample used in the Literary Digest poll -- a sample collected through magazine subscription lists, lists of car owners, and telephone directories -- was not representative. Not all Americans at this time owned cars, had telephones, or subscribed to magazines. Moreover, Democrats were much less likely to own a car or have a telephone, and thus were less likely to be included in the sample. As a result, the sample was not representative, and the poll did not predict the outcome of the election.
<< back to Part D: Bias in Sampling
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Durring Brazil's military dictatorship (US sponsored, of course) which spanned the 60's through the 80's, many of the country's artistic luminaries were forced into exile or were imprisoned. One of the most famous to go into self-imposed exile was Caetano Veloso, one of the founding fathers of the Tropicalia movement. This song, who's tittle translates into I want to go Back to Bahia, was dedicated to Caetano from his friend Paulo. Caetano was from Bahia and when things got to hectic in his homeland, he took refuge in London although he yearned to return to the sun and people of his home land. The chorus of the song, which is sung in English, his a nod this fact.
Thank you, Valeria, for this wonderful record and for the history behind it!
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Last night’s prime-time back-and-forth between President Obama and John Boehner was interesting political theater, and a useful digest of the arguments (“shared sacrifice” versus “no new taxes”) that we’re going to hear a lot over the next year or so — both in the presidential election and, if we only get a short-term increase in the debt ceiling, in the run-up to the next round of deficit brinksmanship. But it felt irrelevant to the endgame that’s currently taking shape in Congress. The president will almost certainly sign any bill that can pass both houses of Congress, and we’re down to three scenarios for how that happens. Assuming that Boehner can muster enough Republican votes to pass the plan he announced yesterday — which would cut a trillion dollars in discretionary spending, raise the debt ceiling for six months, and then empower yet another bipartisan commission try to negotiate a longer-term deal — and assuming that Harry Reid can find the votes to push his plan, with similar spending cuts but a longer debt-ceiling extension, through the Democratic-controlled Senate, then some compromise between the Boehner plan and the Reid plan seems like a natural solution to the impasse. (Ezra Klein has one plausible example of what such a compromise might look like.) However, enough Republicans regard Boehner’s plan as a sellout to begin with that the speaker of the House might not be able to make that compromise, in which case it becomes a question of who cracks first: Enough moderate Senate Democrats to push the Boehner plan through that body, or enough moderate House Republicans to push a version of the Reid plan through the House. (Note that Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Reid’s plan, suggesting that most House Democrats would vote for it if necessary.)
If you read the conservative commentariat, you’d put money on the latter outcome, since a number of conservative pundits (see, among others, Larry Kudlow, James Capretta, and Michael Barone) are suddenly hinting that the Reid plan isn’t such a bad deal for a party that only controls the House and needs to win another election to get the kind of transformations it wants. But these pundits understand that passing the Aug. 2 deadline (update: okay, maybe make that the Aug. 8 deadline) would be a disaster, which is something that a lot of Republican lawmakers and right-wing activists don’t want to admit. Hence the case for pessimism, which Megan McArdle makes eloquently today.
I’m not quite there yet: I still trust (or want to trust) the Congressional leadership to do its patriotic duty. But when the hopes for a bigger deal evaporated over the weekend, my sympathy for the decision to tie the debt ceiling to the deficit reduction debate evaporated with them. Linking the two made sense if the goal was to leverage President Obama’s desire for a deficit package into a biggish bipartisan deal that started to tackle entitlement spending. But if that kind of broad package isn’t available or workable or wise, then Republicans need to cut a smaller deal and just move on to the 2012 campaign. Putting the credit of the United States on the line in pursuit of the fantasy of “cut, cap and balance” (and making that fantasy a litmus test for conservatism and serious deficit-cutting) is folly.
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Your Voice Counts for Kids
What is Children First/CIS Advocacy? Is is inspiring community action to build opportunity for children.
Laws, budgets, and regulations passed by our U.S. Congress, NC State Legislature, Buncombe County Commissioners, Asheville City Council, and local school boards impact the health, education, and safety of children everyday. By speaking up, we can make investments in children and youth the top priority for elected leaders.
Children First/CIS works to build a strong, local advocacy voice for our children, youth, and their families. When our leaders create policies that are good for children, it leads to better health, education, and safety for our whole community. Will you help us educate and inspire our leaders to put children first?
Join us to make your voice count for kids:
2. Follow us on Twitter @CFCISAdvocacy
3. Watch our training videos.
2011-2012 Advocacy Outcomes:
- Sent 22 e-mail alerts to educate and engage over 400 Advocacy Alert subscribers on policies such as the following: Promoting a balanced approach to the NC budget; Raising the age of adult sentencing; protecting child care subsidies for Buncombe County; and addressing childhood hunger
- Organized and published a 2011 candidate survey and voter guide for Asheville City Council elections. Thirteen local nonprofits co-sponsored the publication made available in print and online
- Worked on the following advocacy campaigns: Raise the Age of Juvenile Sentencing (in partnership with Action for Children NC), Promoting a Balanced Approach to the State Budget (in partnership with Together NC), Supporting Fair and Stable Funding for Child Care Subsidy in Buncombe County, Living Wage for City of Asheville Contract Employees (in partnership with Just Economics of WNC)
- Convened local volunteers to plan and implement the 2012 Action Plan for the Success Equation. The 2012 Child Watch Tour supported the Success Equation’s focus on early childhood education. The Tour educating 76 community stakeholders and leaders on issues related to access and affordability
- Worked with advocates and legislators from Haywood, Henderson, and Buncombe County to pass a budget amendment aimed to protect over $1 million to child care subsidies in Western North Carolina
- Continued to train other nonprofits and churches on effective nonprofit advocacy
Greg Borom– Directory of Advocacy
fax: (828) 281-3308
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After an intense Imperial interrogation on Coruscant, the battered and beaten Corwin Shelvay and his Sullustan Jedi Master Darrin Arkanian attempt to find Captain Rashh and get off the planet. They're confronted by Imperial High Inquisitor Tremayne, who engages Arkanian in a lightsaber battle. Soon, a group of Stormtroopers arrive and point their guns at Shelvay, and Tremayne tells Darrin to drop his lightsaber, or his Padawan would be killed. Arkanian reluctantly turns off his lightsaber, allowing Tremayne to swing his own lightsaber at the Sullustan, killing him. Suddenly, Shelvay grabs his master's lightsaber and, in one slash, cuts off Tremayne's arm and part of his face, which would later be replaced by prosthetic arm and cybernetic eye, respectively.
When Tremayne woke up from his medical bed, he was met by Darth Vader, who showed clear disappointment in Tremayne's failure to obtain any information from the two Jedi. Tremayne vowed he would not fail again.
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How Much is That Carbon in the Window?
Paul Krugman’s recent column, “An Affordable Salvation,”
gushes about how, now that the “junk science”-loving (and Nazi-hugging)
former occupant of the White House is gone, we can finally start saving
the planet. And it won’t cost much, either! That is, if only we can
get cap-and-trade skeptics to stop practicing “junk economics.”
“The best available estimates,” according to Krugman, suggest that
turning industrial civilization green will basically be painless, and
in the end will actually be good for us. Perhaps his “best available
estimates” include the recent, breathless press release
from the Environmental Defense Fund: “For about a dime a day we can
solve climate change, invest in a clean energy future, and save
billions in imported oil.” New EDF slogan: Saving the planet and 90
cents will get you a cup of coffee!
In the Rube Goldberg scheme of alternative energy sources, permits,
taxes, carbon credit swapping, and rebates known as “cap-and-trade,” I
count at least six additional charges consumers will directly or
indirectly face. First, there is the cost of less efficient
“green” energy production, which will be passed on to consumers.
Second, there is the charge for emissions permits, which will also be
passed on to consumers.
Third, there are the private and governmental bureaucratic costs of administering this system. Fourth, there are costs from lobbying
and inefficient allocations of carbon credits to congressional
districts in exchange for pro-cap-and-trade votes, to industries in
exchange for union support, and to companies in exchange for campaign
Fifth, there are inefficiencies that will result from the illegal
selling and trading of credits and the costs of prosecuting this
corruption. Finally, there’s the cost of industry leaders and
investors’ uncertainty regarding possible cap-and-trade regulations the
government could decide to introduce or expand any time it wants.
But, Krugman reassures us, carbon credits would become a “scarce”
resource, just like oil, land, and water; he snidely adds that the
“magic” of the free market should allow it to “cope” with emissions
limits just fine.
Any idiot realizes that natural resources are not the same thing as
artificial, government-imposed restrictions. The former allow us to be
productive; the latter prevent it. Legal leg irons are not amenable to
expansion through scientific innovation.
Mocking laissez-faire capitalists for believing the free market is
“magic” is a straw man—no one ever said the marketplace could
compensate for unpredictable, industry-destroying, government-imposed
limits, which preclude the very existence of the free market. How’d
the “magic” of the marketplace do in overcoming “scarce” resources in
the former Soviet Union?
In case we’re still not persuaded that cap-and-trade isn’t suicidal
folly, Krugman tempts us that “committing ourselves now might actually
help the economy recover from its current slump.” This, from an
“economist” whose patron saint is John Maynard Keynes, who once
famously said that the government could stimulate the economy by
putting money in jars, burying them, and paying unemployed people to
dig them up again.
If “green” business were profitable, wouldn’t companies already be
doing it? If alternative forms of energy were so efficient, would they
need massive government subsidies to keep the companies that produce
them from going bankrupt?
Krugman argues that cap-and-trade would “create major incentives for
new investment—investment in low-emission power plants, in
energy-efficient factories and more.” All of which, of course, are
less efficient and less preferable to investors. Cap-and-trade might
allow for “major technological innovation,” as he claims, but at the
cost of discarding already profitable, more efficient innovation.
The “argument from economy” is designed to reassure those who think
cap-and-trade is necessary that it is affordable, and those who think
cap-and-trade is not necessary that it at least will not hobble our
economy. But those who are rightly skeptical of cap-and-trade should
be aware that it is anything but a harmless indulgence.
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Canadian Champion Trap Shooter Amanda Chudoba, lawyer Darin Slaferek, Brandi Labonte with Parkinson Alberta Society, lawyer Paul Moreau and CEO Of Parkinson Alberta Society John Petryshen, all gathered at the Edmonton Gun Club to shoot for a cure for Parkinson Disease.
With so many worthy causes hosting fundraisers nowadays, it is very difficult to find an original way of raising money to fund research. However, the Parkinson Alberta Society seems to have hit on a very unique way to raise both awareness and funds, in the form of their "Shooting For Parkinson's" event.
On August 25th, approximately 40 long gun enthusiasts gathered at the Edmonton Gun Club located behind the Edmonton International Airport, and blasted away at some clay pigeons all in the name of finding a cure. This was only the second year the shoot had taken place but organizers hope it will turn into an annual event.
"This is a completely new audience for us." shared John Petryshen, CEO of the Parkinson Alberta Society. "We are very excited about this as every nickel and dime raised matters to us."
Despite the fact that a famous actor such as Michael J. Fox suffers from Parkinson Disease, it is not as "high profile" as say, cancer research, so it can make raising money quite difficult. Even though it is the second most common neurodegenerative disease next to Alzheimer's, it is not high on the list for generating donations to find a cure.
"There are approximately 8,000 people in Alberta that suffer from Parkinson's," said John, "and the most common perception is that it is an 'old person's' disease. Unfortunately more and more people in their forties and fifties are now being diagnosed with Parkinson's, and it's not a club that anyone wants to belong to as there is no cure."
There are however, treatments currently available in the form of medications, or in extreme cases deep brain surgeries, but can they only alleviate some of the symptoms, some of the time. A person with Parkinson's can be expected to live a normal lifespan, with the symptoms getting progressively worse over time.
Parkinson's is caused by a degeneration of the cells that produce dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter which sends signals from one nerve cell to another, and when dopamine levels drop, it affects the parts of the brain that control movement. So Parkinson's sufferers typically develop tremors, shaking, stiffening of the arms and legs, and overall slowed movement which can make everyday tasks, such as buttoning a shirt, brushing one's teeth, or feeding yourself, impossible. Because of the lowered dopamine levels, the disease can also affect the moods and thinking processes, as well as control over involuntary movements such as blood pressure and bowel function.
Since Parkinson's is a lifelong degenerative disease, all money raised is split between finding a cure, and easing the burden of families affected by the disease. Some of the core services the Society offers are counseling, support groups, learning resources and speech therapy, to name a few. With an average of $160,000.00/year being raised and split between priorities, this means that there is only an average of $10.00/ family available in financial aid from the Society. Hence, the reason John and his volunteers are so anxious to get the word out about this cause, and why the Shooting For Parkinson's fundraiser is so important.
Even though it is only the second year of this event, two of the organizers and board members for the Parkinson Alberta Society, well known Edmonton lawyers Paul Moreau and Darin Slaferek, said that they are hoping to raise about $1,500.00 with this fundraiser. With a door prize valued at $500.00 donated by Wholesale Sports, plus a steak dinner and silent auction after the shoot, it is no wonder that the event can draw squads from as far away as Hinton and Athabasca, as well as the likes of world class trap shooters such as Amanda Chudoba. In July, Amanda was the Women's Champion at the Canadian International Trapshooting National Championships.
The event drew supporters of all ages, with shooters ranging in age from 12 years old to well over 60. One older gentleman was himself a sufferer of Parkinson Disease.
The Parkinson Alberta Society itself is a relatively new thing as well. Formerly the Society was split in two, with a North and South division in the province. Just over a year ago they decided that to better organize and serve people all across Alberta they should amalgamate into one Society, and now there are five offices spread across the province to assist people with the disease.
With their biggest fundraiser of the year fast approaching, John is hoping to see a lot of local participation in the 2013 Edmonton Parkinson SuperWalk on September 8th. More information on this devastating disease, on the SuperWalk, or how you can get involved and help with this Society can be found on their website at www.parkinsonalberta.ca.
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Earlier in the year, many were speculating the Euro was a risk of breaking up. Up step Mario Draghi with his promise to ‘save the Euro whatever it takes’
Under Mario Draghi, the ECB have done two things to help reassure bond markets:
- Long term refinancing for banks – helping to avoid liquidity crisis in banks spilling over into sovereign debt crisis.
- Outright monetary transactions – the willingness to buy an unlimited amount of bonds (in exchange for a country implementing strict fiscal rules)
These policies have helped see bond yield differentials narrow, and there is now more optimism the Euro will survive.
However, it’s curious in the FT article on the Euro crisis FT Person of the year – Mario Draghi , that there is not a single mention of the word ‘unemployment’ or ‘recession’. Just a repetition that Mr Draghi insists austerity can work.
“To give up now, as some suggest, would be tantamount to waste the great sacrifices made by the citizens of Europe,” he says. He also has no time for suggestions that surplus countries such as Germany should inflate away some of their competitive edge. “Inflation is not a policy tool; one does not toy with inflation.”
It does leave you wondering, how exactly do European policy makers judge success?
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Wallace Shawn is an American actor and playwright. He is regularly seen on film and television, where he is usually cast in comic roles. As a stage actor, he has appeared mostly in his own plays and projects with Andre Gregory. He is also a voice actor for animated films and animated TV series, including “Toy Story” and “Happily N’Ever After.”
Shawn has also written political commentary for “The Nation.” and in 2004 he published “Final Edition,” which features interviews with and articles by Jonathan Schell, Noam Chomsky, Mark Strand, and Deborah Eisenberg. He is credited as translator of “The Threepenny Opera,” which opened at Studio 54 in Manhattan on March 25, 2006.
Source - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Shawn
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Dr. John Lewis, Monday, 5-28-12 May 29, 2012Posted by The Space Show in Uncategorized.
Tags: asteroid mining, Chinese lunar program, Chinese Space Program, commercial space, Common Heritage of Mankind, Dr. John Lewis, Indian space program, ion propulsion, Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky, Law of the Sea Treaty, lunar mining, Planetary Resources, property rights, Return to the Moon, revenue sharing, space government regulation, space venture capital, The Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study, Tsiolkovsky Plan of Space Exploration., West Indies Company
Dr. John Lewis, Monday, 5-28-12
Guest: Dr. John Lewis. Topics: Asteroid mining, Chinese space program. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog,
. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal use) & are a violation of the Space Show copyright. We welcomed back Dr. John Lewis to discuss asteroid mining and the Chinese space program. You can order Mining The Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets by Dr. Lewis as we talked about his book throughout our program. If you use this Amazon URL, Amazon will make a donation To The Space Show/OGLF: www.amazon.com/Mining-The-Sky-Asteroids-Planets/dp/0201328194/ref=onegiantlea20. Our first segment focused in on asteroid mining, where are today, its future, legal issues to be settled, risks, and more. Near the end of this segment, we also talked about the Law of the Sea Treaty, the common heritage of mankind and revenue sharing ideas, all of which would be detrimental to asteroid mining and expanding space commerce. Earlier Dr. Lewis referenced the Keck study, The Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study which says we can capture a certain size NEO and put it in orbit around the Moon. Dr. Lewis carefully went through the pros and cons of doing this.
In the second segment, Tim called in and continued the revenue sharing and common heritage discussion. Dr. Lewis then cited his family history dating back to 1625 coming from theNetherlands with the West Indies Company, then staying here and moving west rather than returning to theNetherlands. He drew parallels with this and potential space settlement and risk taking. Next, we talked about the Chinese space program, their space station, the upcoming taikonaut launch in June and the fact that they are actually “bending metal” in making hardware for going to the Moon, unlike the Indian program which is still largely talk. Near the end of the segment, we talked about lunar mining, the needed future vision and leadership, the need to be a multi-planet species and why. Our discussion with Dr. Lewis is full of important information so I urge you to carefully listen to this program and use the internet to follow up on many of the topics and issues he brings to our attention. For example, you might find it interesting to see the 1926 Plan of Space Exploration as developed by Tsiolkovsky (www.informatics.org/museum/tsiol.html).
Please post your comments/questions on The Space Show blog.
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A year from now, the state of California will face a dilemma. That's when decisions about medical insurance coverage under the new Affordable Care Act will have to be considered for the first time.
Under the federal law, also known as Obamacare (which goes into full effect Jan. 1, 2014), all legal adult residents will have the responsibility to buy medical insurance, regardless of personal health condition, age, etc.
The stated aim is to cover everyone, well, almost everyone. And therein lies the state's problem. The legislation specifically forbids illegal immigrants from taking part in the insurance program.
And that really complicates things here. The Public Policy Institute of California estimates that 90 percent of the illegals in this state are adults, or about 2.4 million individuals out of the total of 28 million adults, or nearly one in every 11 of those age 18 and older.
They will be unable to buy medical insurance unless they already have coverage through an employer.
That will put a distinct crimp in California's efforts to control health care/insurance costs. San Mateo County authorities have indicated that, for now, they are anticipating that the new law will have a neutral impact on their big and growing public health care budget. That's too bad because we have been told that the dramatic changes to come soon would be beneficial for such operations.
Still, we're going to have to wait to see how
Save the date
The 23rd Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet will be held June 11, 2013, at the San Mateo County Event Center.
The affair, begun in 1989 by The Times as part of its centennial observance, is presented by the San Mateo County/Silicon Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Ten individuals will be added to the Hall of Fame during the ceremonies. Currently, more than 220 local sports luminaries are members of the Hall of Fame, which is located at the San Mateo County History Museum in downtown Redwood City.
The summertime induction dinner has been conducted in concert with the San Mateo County Fair since 2011.
John Horgan's column appears on Thursday. Follow him on Facebook and email him at firstname.lastname@example.org or reach him by regular mail at P.O. Box 117083, Burlingame, CA 94011.
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Do You Recommend Applying Fungicides On Wheat At Green-Up?
Mar 14, 2011
Question: Is there an advantage to applying fungicides on wheat at green-up? Wheat here has just had nitrogen applied, and growth has really started to jump. Some consultants are recommending an insecticide and Headline. Some are seeking Prosaro to apply. Wouldn't a fungicide be more beneficial at flag leaf?
Answer: Without knowing the specific region the wheat is planted in and additional information such as the density of the wheat, wheat variety and the specific disease/insect pressure, it’s hard to make any kind of accurate recommendation. However, if the grower or agronomist is scouting the field and finds threshold levels of aphids (5+ in the early spring) or other insects at economic thresholds, then the application of an insecticide would be recommended.
If the wheat is dense and early-season diseases are visible within the canopy, or the variety planted is susceptible to mildew, tan spot, early rust or septoria (these diseases may be specific by the region), then an application of a fungicide early would likely be a good economic decision. Single fungicide applications early in the season have been found to increase yields by 5-7% many times, even at lower rates. These early applications are not a substitute for later season fungicides, however, because fungicides applied at flag-leaf emergence to early heading are timed to protect the flag leaves and grain heads from diseases, preferably all the way through the completion of grain fill.
These steps help wheat growers improve stands and, ultimately, yield results.
This blog is provided as an interactive way for you to have your questions answered by our Farm Journal Agronomists. E-mail your nitrogen, soil fertility, soil density, planter set-up, scouting, and other questions to: TestPlots@FarmJournal.com.
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A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD).
A blessing, (also used to refer to bestowing of such) is the infusion of something with holiness, divine will, or one's hopes. Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions, anyone may formally bless another. A curse at least in its most formal sense is the opposite of a blessing. Blessing is similar to charm.
In the Bible, blessings and curses are related; the book of Deuteronomy prescribes that obedience to the Torah brings God's blessing, while disobedience brings a curse. The Priestly Blessing is set forth at Numbers 6:24-26:
May the LORD bless you, and keep thee;
May the LORD make his face shine to upon you, and be gracious to you;
May the LORD turn his countenance to you and grant you peace.
This formula has been introduced into Roman Catholic worship as well. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus pronounces blessings on the poor, the humble, and the persecuted in the Beatitudes at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.
Printed with permission from Catholic Expert.
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Here is the previous Mr. Smarty Plants question to which you are referring. It was published first in the Ask Mr. Smarty Plants section of our website and then reprinted in the Austin American Statesman, which we very much appreciate.
You are correct, southern Florida is not the only place in North America where an avocado will grow. If it were in our Native Plant Database, which it is not because it is not native, we could go to our webpage on the plant and discover which states it would grow in and, again, follow the link to the USDA Plant Profile Map to see if it grew in Travis County.
The original question was "will it grow outside in Travis County?" From GardenGuides.com., here is an article on Hardy Avocado Trees in Austin. As you said, they point out:
"Traditional cultivation of avocado trees (Persea americana) takes place in the lower Rio Grande Valley in the southern tip of Texas around Corpus Christi and Brownsville. Austin is much farther north, and typically gardeners there deal with thin alkaline soil--much more challenging for successful cultivation of the subtropical avocado. Avocado can be grown in containers but inevitably becomes a tree taller than 30 feet. Austin is in U.S. Department of Agriculture Hardiness Zone 8b, although a warm winter may temporarily make it zone 9--cautiously good for avocado culture."
To take this just a step further, Austin, TX is in USDA Hardiness Zone 8b, the southern tip of Florida is in Zone 10b, and Weslaco, in Hidalgo, right down in the southern tip of Texas, is in 9b to 10a. If you notice in the quotation above, the thin alkaline soil of Travis County is also difficult for the avocado. We don't pretend to be right about everything (a tough thing for Mr. Smarty Plants to admit), but we just answer the questions, and our answer was basically, we don't know. We told that customer that if the only choices were keep it inside where it had outgrown its space or move it to Travis County, then there was very little to lose in transplanting it outside in Austin, but we did not guarantee that it would survive our soils and winter temperatures.
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Student evaluations of faculty teaching in the clinical, laboratory, and classroom settings are an important source of information for individual faculty and program improvement. Students are asked to evaluate the extent to which the content, teaching methods and management of a course contributed to their learning.
- Evaluations are conducted at the end of each learning unit, usually at the end of a semester and during one of the last class meetings. In addition, students are asked to provide evaluation information at the time of graduation related to their experience in the total program, and periodically as alumni.
- Data are considered by faculty and administrators to be an important source of information for the maintenance and development of the program, and seek faculty cooperation in this continual process.
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Product Announcement from Baldor Electric Company
The Super-E® electric motor offers outstanding efficiencies that are better than many industry and country standards. Super-E motors meet or exceed the efficiency levels defined by NEMA Premium®, EPAct in the USA, NRC in Canada, CEMEP EFF1 in Europe and the new IEC IE3 class. Energy efficiency improvements can deliver a very large return on investment, as initial purchase costs are typically only around 2% of the lifecycle cost of an electric motor.
This particular motor range has some 30 years of design and manufacturing expertise behind it, as it was first produced in the 1980s to reduce the energy costs of a tire manufacturer. Baldor engineers determined that considerable energy savings could be gained from a motor design focused on "active materials." By adding more copper to the windings, upgrading the laminations to premium-grade steel, designing precision air gaps between the rotor and stator, and reducing fan and other losses in the motor, Baldor was able to set a new standard for energy efficiency.
Today's line of Baldor Super-E motors offers customers some ofthe highest levels of efficiency available worldwide, in ratings from 1/2 to 15,000 horsepower (0.37 to 20,000 kW), and in NEMA or metric frames. Baldor has over 600 ratings available immediately from stock, with non-stock motors manufactured in typically 10 working days. All Super-E motors (except Explosion-Proof) are also "Inverter-Ready".
The optimum motor
Whether it's a premium efficient motor for harsh, outdoor conditions at a petro-chemical plant, or for continuous duty in a distribution center, Baldor offers a variety of choices. Super-E Totally Enclosed Fan Cooled (TEFC) and Open Drip Proof (ODP) are reliable motors that have kept plants operating efficiently since their introduction in 1983. Explosion-Proof, Close Coupled Pump and Automotive Approved Super-E motors deliver premium efficiency for special duty applications.
In applications requiring added protection from corrosion caused by severe environmental operating conditions, Baldor Super-E Severe Duty motors are available in TEFC ratings from 1 through 15,000 HP (0.75 to 20,000 kW). Cast-iron construction, epoxy primer and finish paint inside and out, gaskets on all joints and many other features provide added protection where and when you need it most.
For the ultimate in protection from severe environments - where you need added insurance against downtime - Baldor offers IEEE 841 motors. Delivering reliable, rugged performance with the industry's highest energy efficiencies, these motors exceed IEEE 841 - 2001 standards for severe duty TEFC induction motors.
Inpro/Seal® bearing isolators at both the drive end and fan end. Baldor IEEE 841 motors are available immediately off the shelf, in 1 - 250 HP (0.75 to 186 kW) ratings, with special designs available in just 4-6 weeks.
Leadership in Premium Efficiency
Called a "key breakthrough" by the USA's Consortium for Energy Efficiency, the CEE in 1998 recognized Baldor's Super-E as the first premium efficient motor line to meet their stringent efficiency criteria, citing "For the first time, one manufacturer will carry all qualifying products."
As countries and regions across the world establish minimum efficiency levels for motors, more companies are turning to the Baldor Super-E. This includes plant and processing applications, as well as OEM products.
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Source Newsroom: Texas A&M University
Newswise — Bad news again for the Monarch butterfly: Drought conditions and historic wildfires the past few years continue to decrease their numbers as they wing across Texas this spring. Worse news: milkweed plants – the only kind they need to survive – are also not in plentiful supply, says a Texas A&M University Monarch watcher.
Craig Wilson, a senior research associate in the Center for Mathematics and Science Education and a longtime butterfly enthusiast, says reports coming from Mexico where the Monarchs have their breeding grounds show their numbers are significantly down, a disturbing trend during much of the past decade.
“The severe drought in Texas and much of the Southwest continues to wreak havoc with the number of Monarchs,” Wilson explains.
“The conditions have been dry both here and in Mexico in recent years. It takes four generations of the insects to make it all of the way up to Canada, and because of lack of milkweed along the way, a lot of them just don’t make it.”
The dry conditions and changing farming practices are hampering the growth of milkweed, the only type of plant the Monarch will digest as it makes its trip north. Texas has had dozens of wildfires in the past few years that have hampered milkweed growth, and even though there are more than 30 types of milkweed (Asclepiadaceae) in the state, the numbers are not there to sustain the Monarchs as they start their 2,000-mile migration trip to Canada. Increased use of pesticides is also adversely affecting milkweed production, he notes.
“But if people want to help, they can pick up some milkweed plants right now at local farmer’s cooperative stores,” he says, “and this would no doubt be a big boost to help in their migration journey.”
The Monarch reserves are in the Mexican state of Michoacan. It’s an area where tens of millions of Monarchs spend the winter and mate before heading north, Wilson points out.
“On a recent visit to the Monarch overwintering sites in Michoacan, former President Jimmy Carter said: ‘The Monarch butterfly unites the three countries of North America in peace.
It is an ambassador of peace which requires protected areas and ecosystems that are preserved through sustainable agricultural and forestry practices. We need to work together to maintain a healthy and balanced ecosystem for all North America,” Wilson adds.
“It is important to have a national priority of planting milkweed to assure there will be Monarchs in the future,” Wilson believes. “If we could get several states to collaborate, we might be able to provide a ‘feeding’ corridor right up to Canada for the Monarchs.”
Wilson is currently adding a variety of milkweed plants to the existing Cynthia Woods Mitchell Garden on the Texas A&M campus. He recommends the following sites for Monarch followers: Journey North, Texas Monarch Watch and Monarch Watch.
About Research at Texas A&M University: As one of the world’s leading research institutions, Texas A&M is in the vanguard in making significant contributions to the storehouse of knowledge, including that of science and technology. Research conducted at Texas A&M represents an annual investment of more than $700 million. That research creates new knowledge that provides basic, fundamental and applied contributions resulting in many cases in economic benefits to the state, nation and world.
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This year’s Tax Guide was written in what could turn out to be the eye of a tax legislation storm.
As we went to press, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction announced its failure to reach a bipartisan agreement. The lack of a compromise has both tax and investment implications.
The most obvious implication relates to our country’s deficit. Though current legislation calls for $1.2 trillion in cuts to be triggered in 2013, some members of Congress are already looking for ways to stop them. More importantly, we remain without a long-term plan for bringing down our deficit. As you know, this has the potential to drive up future interest rates.
Another implication is continuing uncertainty about taxes. This year’s payroll tax cut expires in 2011 and, although President Obama has asked for its extension, Congress has yet to authorize legislation to do so. Exemptions for the alternative minimum taxwill shrink considerably in 2012 if Congress does not pass yet another AMT fix. The ability to deduct state sales taxes also ends on December 31, 2011.
Looking further out, the Bush-era tax cuts expire on December 31, 2012. The current estate tax, which has a $5 million portable exclusion in 2011, will also expire on that day. New Year’s Day 2013 will bring higher tax rates and the disappearance of many tax credits and deductions if Congress does not reach a compromise beforehand.
The expiration of these cuts impacts not only individual taxpayers, but also businesses.
The uncertainty makes it difficult to plan. From the standpoint of investors, the lack of tax clarity creates more headwinds with the potential to slow the pace of economic and earnings growth. (Executives are more reluctant to spend if their future cash flows are difficult to forecast.)
Compounding matters is the forthcoming presidential election. A divided Congress combined with a hard-fought election and a large quantity of special interest advertising do not provide conditions conducive to revamping the tax code and creating a pragmatic solution for reducing the country’s debt. I’m loath to make predictions right now about what 2013 taxes will be.
To help cope with the uncertainty, use the next 12 months to seek out ways to make your portfolio more tax-efficient. This means thinking about which accounts you put certain assets into. Tax-efficient investments, such as municipal bonds, should be held in a taxable account. The least tax-efficient investments, such as mutual funds with high turnover, belong in a tax-deferred account.
The tax guide is not the only commentary in this month’s issue. There are three other feature articles that I think you will enjoy.
The first is John Bajkowski’s First Cut. John applied Joel Greenblatt’s Magic Formula to identify the 30 stocks with the highest combined rank based on Greenblatt’s value and return on enterprise measures. These stocks are listed here.
The second explains how to analyze young growth companies. These are companies with rapidly growing revenues and bright futures, but little to no current profits. Thus, traditional valuation measures, such as price-earnings and price-to-book ratios, do not work well. Rather, assigning a valuation requires a combination of making assumptions and looking at more established companies. Aswath Damodaran, a professor of finance at New York University, shows you how to do this here.
The third discusses a strategy for dampening the volatility of your portfolio. Stuart Ritter of T. Rowe Price says a portfolio composed of 60% stocks and 40% bonds has 40% less volatility than a 100% stock portfolio. Long-term annualized returns are lower, 8.52% versus 9.87%, but the trade-off might be worth it from an emotional standpoint. You can see Ritter’s study here.
On behalf of everyone at AAII, I wish you happy holidays, and a healthy and prosperous new year,
Charles Rotblut, CFA
Editor, AAII Journal
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Apple's iWork '09 suite, introduced at the 2009 Macworld Expo earlier this month, already has pirated versions swirling around the less savory parts of the 'net. But if you're too cheap to pony up $79, you may end up infected with a trojan.
Security firm Intego identified the trojan in question late yesterday. Dubbed "OSX.Trojan.iServices.A," the trojan is hidden as an extra package—iWorkServices.pkg—in an otherwise fully-functional iWork '09 installer. Once you authenticate with your password to install the software, the trojan installs as a startup item in /System/Library/StartupItems/iWorkServices, an area normally reserved for Apple-only files, giving it read, write, and execute permissions as root. It then connects to a remote server, essentially creating a wide open back door for malicious attackers to do just about anything they want.
Of course, the simple solution is to not download pirated copies of iWork '09 (or any software for that matter), though Intego notes that at least 20,000 copies of the trojan-infected installer had been downloaded by 6am ET this morning. Predictably, Intego's own VirusBarrier and the latest definitions file will of course protect you from infection if you still fail to heed warnings against downloading software from untrusted sources. It's also possible to remove the trojan yourself with some Terminal-fu, but there's no guarantee that damage hasn't already been done; the trojan could install keyloggers or other hacks via its remote connection.
Seriously, though, is $79 so much that you would risk getting a trojan?
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"I walk through the club where I work and I get frustrated watching the poor people on the machines. They're attached to these medieval torture devices when they could be getting a much better workout, and having fun, playing racquetball."—Jim Winterton, former head coach of the US Racquetball Team.
Indeed, an intense racquetball session burns more calories per hour than the
and does wonders for hand-eye coordination and reflexes. It also adds a competitive edge to your workout and it's a lot of fun. Even with all its benefits, racquetball remains underutilized as a fitness activity. Perhaps beginners think it will be difficult to learn, or maybe they are afraid of getting hit in the eye.
Fear not. "Racquetball is the easiest racquet sport to learn," says Winterton, who is currently head coach of the Junior US Racquetball Team. "The ball and the racquet are big, and you can hit the ball almost anywhere." As for getting hit in the eye, you just need to wear
safety glasses. "Eyeguards are the first piece of equipment anyone needs. It only takes getting hit once to do serious damage, but if you wear eyeguards you will be safe," Winterton assures players.
The rules of racquetball are fairly simple: "Just hit the hollow blue ball to the front wall. Do whatever it takes to get it there," says Kelley Beane, assistant coach of the Junior US Racquetball Team. Beane, who was ranked fifth nationally as a player in the 25+ age group, mentions that the ball is allowed to bounce once, but it is okay if beginners let it bounce two or three times as they learn how to hit and rally. "The important thing is to lighten up and have fun when you are first starting. If you like it, it becomes almost addictive. You will get pretty good pretty quick," Beane adds.
Once you can keep a rally going, you can start keeping score. Winterton encourages match play because "competition pushes you and makes you work a little harder." Beane says as long as you play with an opponent whose ability level is well matched to yours, you will have a great time.
Scoring is simple. You only win points on your serve. In other words, if the server wins a rally, he or she scores a point. The non-server is fighting for the right to serve. Games are played to 15, and you only have to win by one point. Usually, matches are best two of three games. If the match goes to a tie-breaker game, 11 points wins it.
With every muscle group working during play, it is not surprising that racquetball can burn over 650 calories. Spend an hour playing hard on the racquetball court, and you will walk off the court sweaty and spent. Even better, you will never watch the clock. "I never realized what a great workout racquetball is until I was injured and could not play. No workout I tried, not even
spinning, could match it," Winterton attests.
Beane agrees, "Racquetball is second only to
in terms of calories burned per hour." She attributes this to the fact that the court, which is 20 feet wide, 40 feet long, and 20 feet tall, "is strategically designed to make you think you can get to everything. So you work really hard chasing down every last ball, but you are having a blast doing it."
With any sport there is a chance of injury. A few quick steps may help keep you safe on the court.
Give your muscles a few moments to gear up. Try a light activity that involves your entire body like a walk or light jog around the court.
Some common injuries are avoidable if you use proper technique. So before taking on racquetball for the first time, consider taking a lesson to make sure you are doing things right.
Safety glasses are the most important protective equipment you will need. This is a precaution that bears repeating several times. Eye protection is very important. A ball in the eye could easily cause a
In addition to safety glasses, Winterton recommends wearing a wide-bottomed shoe that can accommodate the quick starts and stops of a racquetball match. The right shoe can prevent the
that might occur with this kind of movement.
Also make sure you have a racquet with a tether. Remember you will be sweating a lot, and the tether keeps the racquet from flying out of your hand and into your opponent's (or your) head.
Sometimes even every precaution can not stop an injury. Most injuries will respond to ice and a little rest. If an injury continues to give you trouble despite rest, see your doctor. Treating a minor problem now may keep it from becoming a bigger problem later.
Overall fitness is important, but you also have to get your body ready for the rigors of racquetball. Focus on core training. That is, strengthen the muscles that stabilize the spine and pelvis over the entire length of the torso. They can help you make the quick changes and shifts required for a competitive game.
Aerobic exercises will also help you with your endurance so you can last the whole game. When choosing exercises, consider how your body moves when you play racquetball. Exercises like quick sprints, jumping, and throwing will help you keep your edge. Finally, strength exercises may help you prevent injuries in your arms and shoulders.
If you are looking to pick up the pace of your workout routine, consider a few rounds of racquetball. It might just be the extra boost you need when you hit your training plateau.
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Insight to Impact Attached Brochure
Insight to Impact – A Short History
By Debbie Wilde
The YouthZone Model is a documented pattern for sustainable success in helping young people reach their potential.
Since its beginnings, YouthZone has been about helping kids make the best of their lives. This is no different than the myriad of other youth organizations. What is different is that about 17 years into the organization’s history, YouthZone began to get serious about determining if the “good work” being done was resulting in any change for youth.
An evaluator was hired to create baseline information from the years of data that had been collected from the youth that came through the organization’s doors. This data was combined with research and assessment knowledge to create a scientific based screening tool. The tool not only gave YouthZone case managers a better understanding of each young person they met with, put provided a pre-post tool to measure progress over time.
Over the next three years, YouthZone administered the pre-post test screening to several hundred youth. The analysis of the data showed that youth were in fact experiencing positive improvements in their lives after participating in YouthZone services. The evaluation identified areas for improvement which were addressed with new procedures and programming. The next three year analysis showed that all the critical areas being measured demonstrated highly significant improvement by the youth.
When young people were being asked how YouthZone made a difference for them, their replies made it plain that something critical was being accomplished: “I stopped drinking. It’s not a part of my life anymore, and I will stay and keep myself out of trouble.” “Made me realize what I am doing with my life. I need to turn it around.” “I have more respect for myself and more confidence in schooling and home life.” “My life got better.”
Now that YouthZone knew “what” the results of its services were for young people, work began to get a clear grasp of “how” that was being accomplished. Each step of the process was reviewed and recorded by staff and consultants. The result is an evidenced based model designed to support a holistic approach to youth services.
Subsequent evaluations reveal the significant changes for youth from YouthZone services are being maintained. A longitudinal evaluation was undertaken which determined that youth involved in YouthZone services continued in a positive direction months after their program with YouthZone was completed. The study also showed that case managers were consistent in their success with youth. These findings further established the validity of the YouthZone Model.
Instead of keeping its success to itself, YouthZone wants to do its part in providing programs that improve the ability of other communities to raise responsible youth. The organization provides a menu of innovative, replicable and proven modules delivered by Insight to Impact: Evidence-Based Systems for Youth Development, an entity of YouthZone that is dedicated to the development, marketing and on-going support of these practices.
By meeting the following standards, the model returns a maximum value to YouthZone and other organizations that implement it:
- Withstands the rigors of intense evaluation i.e. reliably measures change in youth overtime,
- Attains results with limited resources, and
- Provides a foundational structure for even inexperienced staff to realize effective results
The first programs to use the Insight to Impact system including the YouthZone Screening for Positive Youth Development™ are the Longmont Community Justice Partnership in Longmont, Colorado and La Plata Youth Services in Durango, Colorado. Each of these organizations find the web-based system helps them meet organizational goals including outcome measurement and evaluation.
A quote from evaluator Jerome R. Evans, Ph. D.
The YouthZone Example for Excellence in Services to Youth
On its own initiative, YouthZone has raised the accountability bar. Ahead of its funders or even of those referring adolescents for help, it has asked the hard questions about program effectiveness. Further distinguishing this effort, YouthZone invests in database development and client assessment. YouthZone is unique in its willingness to disseminate findings not only within its own organization but also to others in local communities and beyond who have a stake in the well-being of youth. Youth, parents and all the stakeholders in their well-being are the beneficiaries of this example.
Debbie Wilde served as YouthZone Executive Director for 30 years before taking the reins of Insight to Impact. Debbie continues her commitment to youth and families through her leadership of this new entity of YouthZone.
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Monterrey is one of the most important industrial cities in Mexico. About 80% of the northeast industrial activity is concentrated in Monterrey, Saltillo, Matamoros and Reynosa. Monterrey boasts an excellent industrial infrastructure, a highly trained workforce and proximity to the United States. In addition, Monterrey is located on the main NAFTA east industrial corridor, which connects important industrial cities, such as Montreal and Toronto in Canada, Detroit, Chicago and Houston in the US with Mexico City and the Bajío.
Monterrey is a fast-growing city, with a continually improving industrial and office sector infrastructure meeting international standards. Smart local and foreign investors have contributed to the increasing value of real estate property in Monterrey through the development of important assets.
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Scholar Class – 2009
Ruben Ortega Jr. was born in El Paso, TX, but relocated to Albuquerque, NM during the 8th grade. Because of a lack of friends and isolation [from peers], Ruben moved back to El Paso to live with relatives in order to become more active in his high school and community. After coming out in his junior year, Ruben felt it would be best to return to his accepting parents in Albuquerque where he could fully express himself. He immediately became an active member in the LGBT community.
Ruben has dedicated much of his time to furthering human rights in New Mexico. He has lobbied the New Mexico State Legislature to fight for equal rights for LGBT citizens and has volunteered for Equality New Mexico and PFLAG. Ruben has also been actively involved in activities at his school by serving as a Student Body Officer and as President of Eldorado High School's Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) where he has created the ABQ GSA Network, which hosts a variety of events for the LGBT youth. He has worked with the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) in two of their selective programs: Students of Color Organizing Conference and Safe Schools Advocacy Summit.
His inspiration comes from what this community has taught him: be free to express yourself, be proud of who you are and empower others to do the same. Ruben will be attending Cornell University School of Hotel Administration to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Hospitality Administration and a Minor in Real Estate.
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We are collecting a series of resources for supporters of the MWSN and migrant workers. If you have any suggestions for what would make sense to include, please e-mail us as mw.solidarity (at) gmail.com.
Presentations on Migrant Worker Issues
About Migrant Workers and the MWSN – a presentation by MWSN members about the MWSN and the issues we work on.
Food System Localization & Migrant Labor – a presentation by MWSN members about how migrant labour fits into the issue of ‘buy local’.
Interviews on Migrant Worker Issues
Gustavo Mejicanos of the Agricultural Workers Alliance on labour issues for Manitoba farm workers (courtesy of CKUW 95.9 and Mud and Water Radio). Download
Thomas Novak of St. Ignatius church on Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs (courtesy of CKUW 95.9 and Mud and Water Radio). Download
El Contrato: a documentary following a group of Mexican migrant farm workers as they travel to Canada to work in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) in Ontario. Available online courtesy of the National Film Board for free here.
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There’s a lot of excitement at the local unit of the Commemorative Air Force. After almost two years of hard work, its C-53 Skytrooper is about ready to fly and start touring airshows. “”A C-53! What’s that?”" some of you may ask.
At the beginning of World War II, commercial DC-1s, DC-2s and DC-3s were leased to the military under a variety of “”C”" designations for cargo carriers – the DC-3s were designated C-48, C-49, C-50 or C-51, depending on the model and the powerplants used.
The two models built specifically for the military were the C-47s and C-53s. The better known C-47, or its Navy version the R4D, had reinforced floors, more powerful engines, and were generally beefed up to be used as cargo planes. The C-53s were essentially bare bones DC-3s with troop benches instead of seats, astrodomes, and rifle grommets in the windows. These planes were used for paratrooper operations and for carrying litters when flying wounded troops.
The “”Gooney Bird,”" as C-47s were affectionately called by some, was never in the limelight like the B-17 Flying Fortress or the P-51 Mustang. Instead, Douglas’ quiet, dependable and unobtrusive transport that had made airline travel acceptable to the traveling public and profitable for the fledgling airlines in the late 1930s became the cargo workhorse for the military during World War II. It carried men, materiel, and mules to remote parts of the world. After the war, surplus C-47s and C-53s gave many an airline and transport company its start. Later that decade, the military C-47 and its big brother, the C-54, also built by Douglas, were the workhorses of the Berlin Airlift that broke the back of the Cold War blockade.
Considering that the DC-3, as well as its military versions, was in many ways the greatest transport plane ever built, it’s no wonder artists find it an intriguing subject to paint. While several prints depicting this Douglas legend have been published, the image shown here is Robert Watts’ colorful “”Flagship Over Manhattan,”" which was published by Military Gallery.
According to Arthur Pearcy’s book, “”Douglas Propliners DC-1–DC-7,”" this plane, NC25664, is a DC-3-277B that was delivered to American Airlines on March 28, 1940, and entered service as “”Flagship Rochester.”"
It is interesting to note that this plane, like other earlier models built for American Airlines, has a right-hand side passenger door. According to Pearcy, this plane was leased to the military between April 18, 1942, and Aug. 23, 1943.
The artist depicts the DC-3 outbound from La Guardia Airport. He has taken the golden glow of afternoon sunlight shining through the haze to make a stunning background for the knightly shining aluminum armor of this American Airlines DC-3. The orange-red trim on the airliner delicately compliments the color of the distinctive Manhattan skyline. The artist has done a superb job of using a different, but complimentary, color to backlight the plane and make it stand out as the focal point of the picture.
As this image so aptly shows, successful artists make something as important as lighting and color balance seem so simple, so natural, that the viewer is often unaware of the artistic talent and training required to accomplish it.
Lighting, like composition, authenticity and perspective, is just one of many aspects of a painting that we often are subconsciously aware of when properly executed.
That same artistic bent and craftsmanship was seen in the DC-3.
“”The DC-3 was, in my opinion, the stepping stone for pilots from the Ford and Stinson tri-motors, the Condors, the Boeings, to the modern airliner,”" said one airline captain in the book “”Grand Old Lady.”" “”It was the schooling and transition airplane from our early commercial aircraft to the mighty and complicated liners as we know them today. We who flew the 3 had perfect confidence in it as we never had for any other plane up to that time.”"
Another book that has many interesting stories told by pilots who spent hours in the cockpit of Douglas’ Commercial Model 3 is Capt. Tex Searle’s “”The Golden Years of Flying as We Remember.”" In it he captures a lifetime legacy of flying the Rocky Mountain empire with Frontier Airlines.
Other than a couple of commercial flights decades ago, my own experience with the legendary DC-3 has been limited but memorable. The DC-3′s engines give off a distinctive sound as it rumbles slowly overhead. In my youth the sound of any airplane flying overhead was motivation enough for me to tear outside for a glimpse of it, and I would watch as it lumbered across the sky until it disappeared on the horizon.
There are several airworthy DC-3s here in Southern California now, so occasionally I’m fortunate enough to see one passing overhead. When I was a youngster, my mother didn’t understand the magnetism these planes had to draw me out to watch in wonder and longing. Now 50 years later, when I come charging like a bull elephant through the house and race outside to see one, my wife observes that it’s probably my enthusiasm that’s keeping me young.
Oh, about that C-53, who knows? Maybe I’ll get a ride in it some day.
Larry W. Bledsoe is an avid aviation historian and writer. He can be reached at 909-986-1103 or at BledsoeAvArt.com.
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Beijing made news headlines around the world last week due to recent, shocking air pollution levels. While China will walk a long, hard road before it reaches the land of crisp, clean, blue skies, our campaigner Zhou Rong is cautiously optimistic about the future. "Particularly on information disclosure, we've seen in recent times the public, media and NGOs come together to demand transparency, which has really triggered a big change. But we've also noticed that when it comes to the real health impacts of air pollution, the Chinese public has very limited knowledge. Only once there's real understanding of how harmful air pollution is, can concern turn into pressure and momentum to make real change."
© Greenpeace / Kuang Yin
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colporteur (KAWL-por-tuhr) noun
A peddler of religious books.
[From French colporteur (peddler), from col (neck) + porter (to carry), from Latin portare, from the idea of a peddler carrying his wares in a bag hung around his neck. Ultimately from Indo-European root per- (to lead, pass over) that gave us other words such as support, comport, petroleum, sport, passport, Swedish fartlek (a training technique), Norwegian fjord (bay), and Sanskrit parvat (mountain).]
"By then, because a Seventh-day Adventist colporteur had come into
Croscombe selling religious tracts, his parents had joined that Church,
and Hardy became a keen member of it."
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A proposed federal “Millionaire Tax” has many of America’s wealthy elite bristling. Often called the “Buffet Rule” (after multi-millionaire Warren Buffet, who is credited with conceiving the idea), the proposed tax would adjust the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). The AMT is usually adjusted every year to keep up with inflation, but many feel it has not been adjusted enough to reflect current economic conditions, or that a more permanent solution is needed. When the present iteration of the AMT was introduced in 1982, it placed a surcharge on income over $250,000, which at the time was worth considerably more than it is today. The Millionaire Tax would push this threshold up to include only incomes over $1 million, ensuring they would get taxed at a rate of no less than 30%. This money would be used to fund schools, hospitals, and infrastructure projects, and could create new jobs that would help the nation’s struggling economy.Advocates argue that, with today’s disheartening employment outlook, the Millionaire Tax could bring some much needed relief for struggling middle and lower class families.
The Millionaire Tax would also address the problem with the capital gains tax. Traditionally, capital gains have not been counted as ordinary income and have been taxed at a lower rate. The fact that many millionaires don’t have traditional income and make the majority of their money from capital gains means they end up paying the lower 15% rate while most Americans pay a much higher rate. Capital gains also put some millionaires in a lower income tax bracket than they would be if these types of revenue were counted as income. The Millionaire Tax would mean that capital gains would be counted as income and taxed at the same rate. This would help ensure that millionaires end up in the highest tax bracket rather than in the lowest.
Those who think this tax seems like a radical new idea might be surprised to learn that the Millionaire Tax has already existed in several forms and in several states over the past few years. One state where the tax was arguably successful was California, which in 2004 added a surcharge to annual incomes over $1 million. The money was used to repair California’s mental health facilities as well as curb unemployment. In a state with an average unemployment rate of 11.1% (and in some counties is as high as 20%) — well above the national average — the Millionaire Tax helped fund projects that created or protected jobs. While the tax did not alleviate all of California’s financial woes, one could make the argument that it did no harm either. The California economy is a complex one, and the state still has its much-publicized problems, but supporters contend that at least the Millionaire Tax helped bridge the gap between income and outgo.
A proposed extension of the tax is currently being debated in California’s legislature. Lawmakers intend to use this tax to raise more than $5 billion each year over the next five years. While keeping higher taxes on California’s wealthy may seem like an ideal solution to some, critics say the revenue generated will be far less than expected, and that the extended tax hike may send millionaires running to other states with lower taxes. An editorial published in The Wall Street Journal claimed the Millionaire Tax caused an exodus from states in which it was implemented.
One example was Maryland, which imposed a Millionaire Tax in 2008 to offset a $1.2 million budget deficit. Though the tax expired at the end of 2010, Maryland’s Comptroller’s Office estimated the tax raised about $120 million. The WSJ claimed that over one-third of Maryland’s millionaires left the state because of the tax, a claim based on the decrease of million-dollar income tax return filings from 2008-2009. In a study conducted in New Jersey (another Millionaire Tax state), Stanford University’s researchers refuted the claim. Stanford reported the reason million-dollar filings went down is that everyone was making less money after 2008, which meant there were simply less millionaires around. In other words, millionaires didn’t leave the state, earners just didn’t make enough to be hit with the Millionaire Tax.
While the nation’s millionaires may not be excited about the prospect of higher taxes, they may have to accept them. President Obama’s proposed tax would exclusively affect these wealthy individuals , but could help raise revenue to pay off the ever-expanding national debt. Because of the vast amounts of money involved, this issue will always be hotly debated, but hopefully Washington can come to a conclusion that benefits all Americans, not just a select few.
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Natural and Reusable.
Our alternative Christmas tree is:
- Made with classic American hardwoods
- Natural and biodegradable
- Reusable year after year
Unlike artificial trees, which are generally manufactured in China using polyvinyl chloride, Jubiltree Wooden Trees are made in the USA of solid maple, walnut, and cherry.
And instead of using an entire tree for a single holiday, you'll use your Jubiltree Wooden Tree for many Christmases to come.
We know you'll feel really good about making this natural, reusable alternative a part of your Christmas tradition.
One of the driving principles behind The Jubiltree Company, LLC is that a business can be both profitable and socially and environmentally conscious. We strive not only to make beautiful, functional, and natural alternative Christmas trees, but also to give back to our community and the world. As one expression of this commitment, we donate a percentage of our profits to local and national environmental projects working in the areas of wildlife conservation, habitat restoration, and sustainable forestry.
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Torrance, Calif., September 21, 2011 - In response to 30-year study finding that women who had regular screening mammograms were 31 percent less likely to die of breast cancer, compared to women who didn't get regular screening mammograms, Torrance Memorial Medical Center will offer a discounted cash price of $125 for screening mammograms between October 1 and December 31, 2011. The screening mammograms will be offered at the Torrance Memorial Vasek & Anna Maria Polak Breast Diagnostic Center's four South Bay locations in Torrance, Carson, Manhattan Beach and Rolling Hills Estates.
The very large, long-term Swedish study, which began in 1977 and involved 133,000 women ages 40 to 74, was published in the June 2011 issue of Radiology. It found for every 414 women screened over seven years, one death from breast cancer was prevented.
"In our current economic climate, many women are finding it necessary to place their own health care on the backburner," said Patricia Sacks, M.D., medical director, Polak Breast Diagnostic Center. "A digital mammogram takes just a few minutes, but can uncover disease in the earliest stages while it's most treatable. Our goal with this offer is to make it easier for women to give themselves a pre-holiday gift-a gift that could save her life."
Early diagnosis through mammography can allow for less invasive treatment, limit the spread into other parts of the body and save a life. A mammogram is a digital image of the breast tissue. A screening mammogram is a mammogram that is performed on a woman without breast symptoms. The value of routine mammogram screening had been questioned in November 2009 when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended that routine screening mammograms for women with an average risk of breast cancer should start at age 50 instead of 40. The recommended changes were very controversial and were not adopted. Much research supports the value of mammogram screening starting at age 40. U.S. guidelines call for all women age 40 and older to have screening mammograms every year. While not ideal, some women may choose to have a screening every other year.
Since 1986, the Vasek & Anna Maria Polak Breast Diagnostic Center at Torrance Memorial has been a leader in women's health care in the South Bay community and beyond. Designed for the specific needs and comfort of women, its four convenient locations are staffed with compassionate experts, including nurse navigators, trained specifically in breast disease.The Center is recognized by the
American College of Radiology as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence
. In addition, the Breast Diagnostic Center is a member of the National Consortium of Breast Centers, a non-profit organization of breast health care professionals dedicated to the continued excellence and improvement of breast health care.
The Center's board-certified radiologists use a full toolkit of imaging services for quick and accurate screening. All appointments and procedures take place in a single private suite, where patients and their families have access to radiologists and registered nurses who can answer any questions that arise. All four Breast Diagnostic Center locations are certified in mammography by the state of California, the FDA, and accredited by the ACR.
For more information on the Vasek & Anna Maria Polak Breast Diagnostic Center visit www.torrancememorial.org/BDC.To schedule a screening, call 310-517-4738.
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