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We are constantly unconsciously putting meaning and value onto the world – the external materialism and people whom we come in contact with. And the meaning we give unto them is how we experience our relationship with them.
I was chatting with a loved one online today and he mentioned how he realised he is now able to identify which friends stand him up, and those who stand by him. When we eventually discussed on the subject where a friend was to borrow money from us, his point of view was that it depends on the ‘storyline’ the other is able to come up with and that will determine if he wishes to lend money to the other. While that is indeed the practice of most, many fail to see the intention or motivation behind such action. It is common for people to reason that they will loan money to friends because of ‘friendship’. Unfortunately, while that seems true, the truth is we loan money to friends because of guilt and pity.
If a request has been made, why the need to justify why the money is to be given? All kinds of concepts come into the picture – it’s my money, are you worth the amount of money I am about to give you?, will I get my money back and etc etc. If that is such a case, it is a clear case in the mind that one doesn’t wish to comply with such request. But what happens next is that we will proceed to ask probing questions like – why you need the money, when can you pay me back, how will you pay me back. Seldom do we question why the need for justifications of loaning or giving away money in order to change our minds. Likewise, if we are truly giving the money to someone, why is it that there is a feeling of incompleteness until this person pays us back the money, or at least acknowledge that we have done a good deed for him?
So some say that the amount of money must be within vicinity of their means, which again will serve as verdict whether or not the money is to be given or lent to friends. A Ringgit or a million Ringgit, what is the difference, except for the meaning we give to the amount and also to the friend? In that, value is ascertain if a friend is ‘worth’ that amount of money that we are about to give up! If it was our loved ones in trouble, we’d probably go to the extent of borrowing from someone else or selling our assets just to free our loved ones from such worries. Please don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with either or. Only, we seldom consider that all these arise because of the meanings we give to a friend, a loved one, money or anything else in the world. And that ascertains the extent we would do for someone or something.
Attention is constantly given to the external world; the difference is the level of attention focused on the objects. For instance, I may put more attention to my parents because I have this idea that they gave me life, they brought me up and nurtured me, I love them and it is my duty to put them in priority; but for a touch and go friend, I might not put so much of my attention onto him because this person doesn’t ‘mean’ so much to me and there the derivation of meanings I give to each of them thus creating the experience of how I relate to them each. But consider again, what difference is anything or anyone in the world except the meanings, thus value that I give to them?
It is indeed of wonderment to those who have seen this. I myself was also marvelled at my own recent experiences. The other day, someone blurted out jokingly, “give me a hundred Ringgit”. Without qualms, I took out a hundred from my purse and gave it to him. He was somewhat shocked before shyly accepting the money. He said, “I will pay you back” and I told him that if the money was meant to come back to me, it will. End of story. And another day, a girlfriend text me and asked me to loan her twenty dollars urgently. It was only twenty dollars, but the whole request didn’t feel true to me so she did not receive the twenty dollars from me. End of story. But if I were to go on expecting that the money to be given back to me, or to justify why I ought to lend the money to my girlfriend e.g. it was only twenty dollars and I didn’t do it, I might as well be on the fastest train straight to a self created hell. Is there a difference between the two people who asked me for money? There was none, except my experience at that point in time.
First, we give meaning to the world then we are restricted by the meanings we perceive the world gives us which is in truth, also another meaning we give. And then we feel guilty and try to find an external reason to cover up the guilt. It is like I created this game of my own in the mind, and then I run away from it. How absurd!
Sin has no real existence, it is you yourselves who create it when, as in the nature of adultery, you are unfaithful to your true nature and act within the habit of your corrupt nature. – J
Lest you realise the meaning you have given to the world, you will find the meaning you have given to yourself. And there you find all sins, which in turn is not a single sin at all.
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The Executive Order will work together with the Presidential Policy Directive on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience that the White House also released today.
“America must also face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks,” Obama said. “We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private e-mail. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, and our air traffic control systems. We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy.”
Obama focused on improving cyber security for the defense industrial base, which is one of the top targets for foreign hackers. His executive order streamlines the amount of information sharing within the U.S. defense industrial base on real time cyber threats.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology will also work with companies to make sure that best practices are shared throughout the nation’s corporate infrastructure.
“I signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy,” Obama said.
The president’s order also directs government agencies to review cyber security regulations. Dated regulations must be replaced by more modern ones to keep up with the evolving issue, the president directs.
Congress tried to pass cyber legislation twice last year. The Cybersecurity Act failed the second time in November although Republican and Democrat lawmakers claim it has bipartisan support.
“Now, Congress must act as well, by passing legislation to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks,” the president said Tuesday.
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From Our 2010 Archives
Positive Brain Changes Seen After Body-Mind Meditation
Latest Neurology News
The study included 45 University of Oregon students who were randomly selected to be in either a study group that did integrative body-mind training (IBMT) or a control group that did relaxation training. IBMT was adapted from traditional Chinese medicine in the 1990s.
A comparison of scans taken of the students' brains before and after the training showed that those in the IBMT group had increased brain connectivity. The changes were strongest in connections involving the anterior cingulate, an area that plays a role in the regulation of emotions and behavior, Yi-Yuan Tang of Dalian University of Technology in China, University of Oregon psychologist Michael I. Posner, and colleagues found.
The boost in brain connectivity began after six hours of IBMT and became more apparent after 11 hours of practice, according to the report published in the Aug. 16-21 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The meditation-induced changes may be due to a reorganization of white-matter tracts or due to an increase of myelin that surrounds the brain connections, the study authors suggested.
"The importance of our finding relates to the ability to make structural changes in a brain network related to self-regulation. The pathway that has the largest change due to IBMT is one that previously was shown to relate to individual differences in the person's ability to regulate conflict," Posner said in a university news release.
-- Robert Preidt
Copyright © 2010 HealthDay. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: University of Oregon, news release, Aug. 16, 2010
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Where were you in 1966?
The space race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. was going strong, actor Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California, “The Sound of Music” won the Oscar for Best Picture and gas cost 32 cents a gallon.
It was also the year Tom Maxon and his father finished construction on a Fifth Street building, which would house their successful music shop. Buried in a concrete slab at the entrance was a little brass tube, a time capsule that Maxon, now 78, dug out of the ground on Thursday.
Tom Maxon's music store became Humboldt Bay Trade and Pawn in 1997, when he sold the building to Rus Krause, another music store owner from Eureka. On Thursday, Tom Maxon and Krause -- who had just graduated high school when the capsule was buried -- joined forces with a collection of tools and a gaggle of onlookers to pull the piece of history out of the ground.
Tom Maxon and his father Frank came together on the idea of burying a piece of history in their new building.
Tom Maxon's wife, Gwyn Maxon said, she remembered time capsules being all the rage in the mid-1960s.
”Everyone wanted to put in a time capsule,” she said. “And, they wanted to put strange things in them.”
Anticipation grew as Tom Maxon fired up a power chisel and gestured toward the concrete, where a long crack showed evidence of a past earthquake.
”You sure you wanna do this?” he called out to Krause, who
He began to cut into the ground around a small discolored yellow circle. The time capsule was originally buried with a silver dollar facing out of the slab to mark its location.
”I came to work one morning and some kid was out there with a hammer and a screwdriver beating the tar out of the thing,” Tom Maxon said. He covered it in epoxy to prevent future tampering.
Cutting through the concrete proved to be slow business.
”They don't build them like this anymore,” Tom Maxon said, referring to the thick concrete slab. They hauled out a second chisel and pounded away at a small hole in the pavement that looked like a dusty moon crater after several minutes.
Customers watched the process from inside the big glass windows at the front of the store and Krause's sons and other employees took turns coming out to see the progress.
After 20 minutes, the little brass tube finally broke free.
About three inches long and one inch in diameter, Tom Maxon held the stained, dusty brass vessel easily in one gloved hand.
Digging the capsule out was only half the battle it turned out. The tube was soldered shut. Krause and Tom Maxon spent another 15 minutes attacking the metal with a reciprocating saw.
Two blades later, the tube end was off.
Maxon shook out some damp concrete powder. A nickel. He pulled out several wet pieces of plastic.
With a pair of pliers, he removed a rolled piece of copper engraved with a message.
”This dollar placed here April 15, 1966, during construction of building by Frank T. Maxon, president Maxon's, Inc.,” Tom Maxon read aloud after cleaning the copper plate with steel wool.
There were chuckles about the minimal contents.
”What a cheap bastard,” Tom Maxon joked.
Krause identified the silver dollar that capped the tube, its face slightly shorn away by the struggle to open the capsule. It was a 1925 Liberty Head dollar, and along with a 1964 nickel and the note, it was all that remained.
That and the memories. As they cleaned up their archeological dig, Tom Maxon reminisced, pointing out that with his father and his son, three generations of Maxons had provided decades of service to musicians in the area.
Humboldt Bay Trade and Pawn has seen two Krause generations operating the business, and Maxon pointed out a potential third among young eyes that had watched the extraction.
As Tom and Gwyn Maxon left with their coin, container and message in hand, Krause offered a friendly solace.
”At least there was more in it than the Titanic safe,” he said.
Grant Scott-Goforth can be reached at 441-0514 or email@example.com.
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In Greek mythology, it was identified as the Nemean Lion (and may have been a source of the tale) which was killed by Heracles during one of his twelve labours, and subsequently put into the sky. The Egyptians worshipped the lion because the sun was in this constellation at the time of the life-giving floods of the Nile.
The astrological sign Leo (July 23 - August 22) is associated with the constellation. In some cosmologies, Leo is associated with the classical element Fire, and thus called a Fire Sign (with Aries and Sagittarius). Leo is also one of the Fixed signs (along with Taurus, Scorpio, and Aquarius). Each astrological sign is assigned a part of the body, viewed as the seat of its power. Leo rules the heart and spine. The symbol for Leo is the lion. Leonine qualities include affectionate warmth, an outgoing nature, an imperial bearing, aggressive self-expression, and generosity of spirit.
- Wikipedia (2005). Leo. Retrieved March 2, 2005
- This page was originally sourced from Thelemapedia. Retrieved May 2009.
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UMASS-Amherst Women's Studies Department Collection
UMASS-Amherst Women's Studies Department Collection, 1960-1986
3 boxes (3.75 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 350
Resource files from the UMASS-Amherst Women's Studies Department containing printed material on a variety of topics relating to women including abortion, rape, lesbianism, domestic violence, reproductive rights, journalism, literature, the arts, prostitution and women's rights.
Terms of Access and Use:
Restrictions on access:Restrictions on use:
The Collection is open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection without any additional restrictions.
Note: This collection has not been fully processed and may be somewhat difficult to use. This means the container list may not have very detailed descriptions, or be completely accurate. Some items may also be fragile or deteriorated, requiring further preservation treatment. Handle fragile or deteriorated items with extreme care. Locations of materials are subject to change when the collection is fully processed at a later date; therefore, when citing materials do not depend solely on box and folder numbers as they may change.
Published material may be protected by copyright. Copyright for unpublished material, such as student papers, may be owned by the authors. Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Sophia Smith Collection
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'Mad Men' stars January Jones, Jon Hamm, John Slattery and others opened up about everything from how they found their characters to what’s really inside all those liquor glasses on set.
Along with youth, Don Draper’s new wife, Megan, apparently has a sharpened sense of seduction. When picking a siren song to perform for Draper’s 40th birthday during the season-five premiere of Mad Men, Megan passes over hits by American pop’s reigning songstresses in 1966—Nancy Sinatra, Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield and the like—and instead chooses a flirty French tune written as a teen confection, Zou Bisou Bisou.
Of course, the song also speaks to Matt Weiner’s own powers of seduction, as the popular series’ writer continues to ensure that musical precision remains part of Mad Men’s allure.
But what, exactly, is Megan singing? And what are the song’s origins?
Roughly translated, “zou” is a casual exclamation and “bisou” is a sweet kiss—a peck on the cheek to say hello and goodbye. So the lyrics hash out to:
Oh! Kiss kiss / My God, they are sweet! / …Oh! Kiss kiss / the sound of kisses /…Oh! Kiss kiss /…That means, I confess / But yes, I love only you!
The original version was recorded by Gillian Hills, a Brigitte Bardot lookalike who found fame as a French yé-yé girl—one of a handful of young, female European singers who catapulted yé-yé music into an international movement, popular among teens during the era. (“Yé-yé” refers to exclamations of “yeah yeah!” during rock and roll. )
“Zou Bisou Bisou was a summer smash for a 16-year-old, my first record, the summer of 1960,” Hills, who still records music and also works a visual artist, told The Daily Beast in an email.
A rendition of the song was later recorded by Maya Casabianca, an Israeli-French pop star, and landed on France’s Billboard chart in September 1961.
Loaded with saccharine and little spice, and most popular in France, Spain and Quebec (Megan’s home turf), yé-yé hitmakers—most notably Francoise Hardy and Sylvie Vartan—were pretty, with full bangs, high cheekbones and long lashes. They sang about puppy love and heartbreak through the eyes of an innocent. The pop style found its groove before French musician Serge Gainsbourg scandalized the airwaves with overtly sexual sounds, and it came on the heels of the big band swing of the previous decade.
The song speaks to Matt Weiner’s own powers of seduction, as the series’ writer continues to ensure that musical precision remains part of Mad Men’s allure.
But Zou Bisou Bisou may not have been totally unfamiliar to Draper’s party crowd. Sophia Loren sang an English version, Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo, in The Millionairess, a 1960 film that co-starred Peter Sellers. Loren’s version uses the same tune, but the lyrics and delivery swell with a bit more sophistication. The movie was a hit in the U.K., though the American response was lukewarm.
“Eddy [Barclay, the head of Barclay Records] let me listen to Sophia Loren’s English version after I had recorded the song,” said Hills, now in her late 60s and living in London. “For some reason her version did not catch on.”
Hills said she had no idea the song would be performed on Mad Men (before The Daily Beast reached out after an early viewing), a show she calls “a very classy production.” But she did offer a prediction: “My guess: with Mad Men the song will be sultry.”
Did they really smoke that much? A Newsweek secretary-turned-Washington correspondent says the on-screen sexism, drinking, and smoking capture the office culture of the early ’60s.
What was the inspiration for Newsweek's 1960s issue? In an interview airing at 11:35 p.m. on ABC, 'Nightline' goes behind the pages with editor-in-chief Tina Brown.
January Jones talks about her bra, John Slattery on whether he's been asked to dye his white hair, and more. Watch video.
'Mad Men' has wrapped up an intense season. See what books appeared on the show, and Sam Jacobs put together a suggested reading list.
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An expose in today’s Washington Post tells how federal and state officials for years have failed to gather the political will to save the Chesapeake Bay, instead feeding the public false information about “progress” in the cleanup effort in order to maintain their funding, to the tune of $6 billion so far.
Officials have long known how rampant shoreline development and runoff from farms, storm drains and industry were destroying the Bay. They’ve even had the science to solve the problem. But they just never had the guts to tackle the issue head-on. Goals for curbing pollution have never been met. Instead, state environmental agencies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were painting a rosy picture of the Bay’s health using phony computer models rather than actual data. The truth was, the EPA didn’t even have the equipment in place to actually monitor what was happening in the Bay.
Recently Maryland and Virginia officials asked the Bush administration to declare the Bay’s crab industry a disaster in order to scare up federal funds to help out-of-work watermen. The Bay’s once thriving oyster population has long been in shambles, almost non-existent. Each summer pollution spawns huge “dead zones” in the Bay where the water is starved of oxygen and lifeless.
“It’ll always be beautiful,” said Bernie Fowler, 84, a former waterman, county commissioner and state senator from Calvert County, who has argued for cleaning the bay since 1970. “But there’s nothing out there living.”
Environmentalists and watermen have threatened to take the EPA to court to enforce cleanup goals. Otherwise, it’s business as usual.
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The Sun is made of plasma. The plasma moves from areas that are hot to areas that are less hot. In this picture, the hottest areas are red and the less hot areas blue. The plasma moves from the center of the Sun to the surface of the Sun and back.
Image courtesy of Mount Wilson Observatory
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It almost seems tit for tat. Last week, a Deutsche Telekom exec publicly pushed for a German cloud that would be safe from U.S. snooping. His revelation came just weeks after the U.S Department of Justice sandbagged the proposed sale of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA unit to AT&T.
Reinhard Clemens, CEO of Deutsche Telekom’s T-systems group, wants regulators to create a new certification to enable super-secure clouds to be built in Germany or elsewhere in Europe. There’s much pent-up demand for such offerings among customers that don’t want to expose their data to U.S. government scrutiny, as the U.S. Patriot Act requires, he said.
As Clemens told Bloomberg News:
The Americans say that no matter what happens ‘I’ll release the data to the government if I’m forced to do so, from anywhere in the world’ … Certain German companies don’t want others to access their systems. That’s why we’re well-positioned if we can say we’re a European provider in a European legal sphere and no American can get to them.
That idea of local restrictions on data-handling based on privacy concerns is not new: Germany, Argentina and Switzerland field the most-stringent privacy laws. (See Forrester Research’s CloudPrivacy Heatmap.)
But the momentum has been toward updating and modernizing laws so that the reality of where the data physically resides isn’t nearly as important as what is done with that data, said Dana Gardner, principal analyst with Interarbor Solutions. “This [DTE proposal] is going in the other direction.”
(More on enabling transnational data flows.)
Any movement to fracture the Internet around legal and/or geographic lines is a concern for cloud computing–the premise of which is to abstract out the notion of geographical location when it comes to IT.
“I don’t think it’s realistic to set up a bunch of sub-Internets based on geographical boundaries,” Gardner said. ”That starts to fracture the Internet around legal jurisdictions and that defeats the very purpose of cloud computing.”
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Efficiency of Load / Unload Capacity Control?
It is estimated by the DOE that the average compressor in industrial plants operates at approximately 70% of full load. This fact underlies the importance of air compressor capacity controls that operate efficiently at partial loads. Determination as to what compressor control is appropriate is not always easily determined. Literature from sales brochures usually present charts or graphs that are misleading at best, leaving out details that would be needed to achieve such efficiency levels. One of the air compressor capacity controls most commonly promoted is the Load/No Load control.
Oil injected rotary screw air compressor with load / no load controls are thought to be one the most efficient part load air compressor control schemes. This however is misleading, since an adequate receiver volume is essential to obtain real savings in energy at loads other than full load. Without adequate storage a linear drop in actual power requirements from full load to unload bhp is not realized. Storage in gallons verses compressor output in cfm would have to be approximately 20 /1 for the reduction in power to be almost linear.
The reason for this is that it takes time for the compressor to drop from 100% power to its lowest unloaded power level, the Transition Period. The Transition Period starts when the compressor reaches it's unload pressure, which is the highest pressure on the pressure switch differential setting. At this point the inlet valve is signaled to close and the air / oil receiver is blown down, either partially or completely to atmospheric pressure. Blow down of the reservoir will reduce the power requirement from 100% at full load/maximum pressure to 15% - 35% at the fully unload point depending on h.p. and manufacturer. This is accomplished in a controlled manner with a duration time of 20 - 60 seconds for oil flooded rotary screws from 10 - 350 h.p. The air / oil reservoir blow down is controlled mainly to reduce the oil carryover and oil foaming that would result with an instantaneous relieving of pressure. The rate of blow down and pressure decay occurs rapidly at first then gradually slows as the pressure is reduced. This corresponds closely with the power requirements which also drops rapidly then slows down until the lowest power requirements air achieved (20 -60 seconds). Without adequate storage the compressor could be forced to reload before the Transition Period is over thus keeping the compressor from ever attaining its lowest unloaded power. The longer the compressor is allowed to stay at the lowest unloaded power level, after the Transition Period, the more efficient the compressor will operate at partial loads.
The graph illustrates the percent of power at various storage levels reflecting the efficiency of compressor operation. As you can see the general rule of thumb of 1 -2 gallons of storage per cfm does not result in a very efficient part load operation. Whereas storage capacity at a ratio of 10/1 or greater will result in an almost linear drop in power making the load/no load control one of the most efficient part load capacity controller.
Potential application of a load / no load air compressor should always involve the question of storage capacity. Factors that need to be addressed should include the initial cost, installation and floor space for the size of reservoir needed to provide adequate storage for efficient operation of the compressed air system. Lastly, does the ROI support that level of investment?
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|When Steve Jobs passed away, not only did we lose a visionary, but we lost a world class speaker as well. In fact, all of us who speak in front of others can learn a lot from the man who turned business keynote speeches into an art form. Not bad for a Techie. |
Here are some of the things I learned from the former CEO of Apple:
1. Connect to the Audience - No one likes being lectured to, and Jobs had the ability to make a speech sound "un-speechy" He talked to his audiences, not at them, which often made his remarks sound off-the cuff. In fact, because he was so conversational and didn't use notes, many people were surprised to learn that he spent a great deal of time memorizing and rehearsing his speeches. That's the brilliance of a great speaker - keeping it conversational and making a well rehearsed speech look improvised.
2. No Podium, No Notes, No PowerPoint - In order to have a successful speech, a speaker has to connect with an audience. Jobs made sure he connected by usually not having anything between him and his audience. Instead of being hidden behind a podium, Jobs strolled the stage. He had no notes and made eye contact with people, not paper. Jobs used pictures to convey a mood, or a product, not mind-numbing Powerpoint slides filled with technical data.
3. Be Yourself Authentic Self Onstage - Jobs didn't wear the typical CEO suit. He was a "jeans and a turtleneck" kind of guy... and that's exactly what he always wore. Many speakers want to look exactly like the audience and dress in "business-casual" rather than finding their own "brand" which includes not only their content, but what they wear.
4. Tell Stories Rather than Facts - Although Jobs was a Techie and spoke to a high tech audience, his speeches were never a mechanical recitation of specs, data, and insider jargon. Rather, he emphasized real-life stories of how Apple products changed lives and he focussed on the stories of the customers who used their products.
5. Reveal Your Personal Life Struggles
In this era of reality shows where there are no personal secrets, even CEOs need to reveal the non-business side of themselves. As you will see in the linked video, Jobs draws stories from some of the most pivotal points in his his life -- his loves, losses and his struggle with cancer. He inspired audiences with not only his products, but with his life.
He will be missed. For those of you who have never seen Jobs in speak,, here are a few links to some videos.
Stanford 2007 Commencement speech - Urging graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself.
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Posted on Wed, Mar. 25, 2009
last updated: March 25, 2009 06:46:34 PM
WASHINGTON — Sargent Shriver once walked the halls of Congress pressing senators and members of the House of Representatives for more money for the Peace Corps, Head Start and Job Corps, his daughter, Maria Shriver, testified Wednesday.
"He knew every senator and every congressman by name. He knew their careers, their interests, their politics and, of course, their soft spots," California's first lady said. Now, at 93, the one-time adviser to two presidents doesn't remember his daughter, thanks to the ravages of Alzheimer's, the disease that's left him entirely dependent on others.
It was for her dad and millions like him that Shriver testified Wednesday, pushing for increased attention to Alzheimer's in the wake of a new report that suggests the disease "could very easily surpass even the current economic crisis in the damage it inflicts on individuals and our economy."
The report by the Alzheimer's Study Group projects that Alzheimer's-related costs to Medicare and Medicaid alone will top more than $1 trillion annually by 2050.
"We have to put Alzheimer's on the front burner, because if we don't, Alzheimer's will not only devour our memories, it will cripple our families, devastate our health-care system and decimate the legacy of our generation," Shriver told the Senate's Special Committee on Aging.
Her words on her father's behalf earned her a standing ovation from the dozens of Alzheimer's advocates who'd packed the ornate Senate hearing room, many of them wiping away tears as she spoke.
The study group — convened by Congress in 2007 and chaired by former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Nebraska Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey — recommends creating what it called an Alzheimer's Solutions Project to accelerate and focus national efforts, including an emphasis on research into preventing Alzheimer's. Research funding for the disease has been flat for five years.
"The human pain and financial burden of Alzheimer's is so great and the potential breakthroughs in science are so encouraging that a 'Manhattan Project' . . . approach to ending Alzheimer's is more than justified," Gingrich said, referring to the government project to develop a nuclear weapon during World War II. He noted that polio infected more than 50,000 Americans in the 1950s, but the disease largely was eradicated when a vaccine was found.
"An Alzheimer's preventive would dramatically overshadow even that great scientific victory," Gingrich said.
Pitching for more money in a tight economy may be tricky, but Gingrich suggested that research should be based on potential savings.
"The choice for our generation is not whether or not to spend the money on Alzheimer's," Gingrich said. "The choice for our generation is to invest the money early and save a lot of lives, pain and money later or to be foolishly cheap."
Kerrey noted that many researchers think that they may be close to developing the ability to delay or event prevent Alzheimer's.
New cases of the disease — which the report notes strikes almost half of those who are older than 85 — are projected to increase by more than 50 percent in 20 years and then double to as many as 16 million cases by 2050.
"We just can't face that kind of personal tragedy and the cost," said retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a member of the study group who has personal experience with Alzheimer's: Her husband, John, has the disease.
O'Connor called for a major prevention initiative and more help for families, noting that many patients require two or more people providing around-the-clock care.
"The disease is devastating not only for those who are afflicted, but also their friends, family and colleagues," O'Connor said.
The study group also is calling for changes to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, noting that the system discourages the use of counseling and community services, which Kerrey said could be of great value to dementia patients.
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1865 Born in Bombay, where his father was a Professor of Architectural Sculpture at the Bombay School of Art.
1870 Rudyard and his younger sister are taken to England by his parents and placed in Calvinistic foster home were he is nagged, bullied and beaten.
1876 Rudyard's mother returns to England and discovers the mistreatment that her children had endured. Rudyard is removed from the foster home and he is sent to a private school called the United Services College.
1881 Schoolboy Lyrics published.
1882 Rudyard leaves school to return to India. His father, who was then the curator of the museum at Lahore, gets him a job as assistant editor of the English paper, The Civil and Military Gazette, which was published in that city.
1886 Departmental Ditties is published.
1887 After five years as sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, Rudyard is sent to Allahabad, several hundred miles to the south, to work on the much more important sister-paper, The Pioneer. The proprietors were starting a weekly edition for home, and he was given the editorship. He publishes Soldier Tales, Indian Tales, and Tales of the Opposite Sex. Among them were such powerful and grusome stories as The Mark of the Beast and The Return of Imray.
1888 Publishes Plain Tales from the Hills his first work which explores the psychological and moral problems of the Anglo-Indians and their relationship with the people they had colonized. Also published are: Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White, Wee Wee Willie Winkie and Turn overs from "The Civil and Military Gazette"
1889 Rudyard leaves India for England and settles down in Villiers Street, Strand.
1890 The Courting of Dinah Shadd and Other Stories and The City of Dreadful Night are published.
1891 The Light that Failed, Letters of Marque and Life's Handicap are published.
1892 Barrack-Room Ballads, Rhymed Chapter Headings and The Naulahka are published. Rudyard marries Carolyn Balestier, the sister of Wolcott Balestier, who is an American. Because of his health breaking down, Rudyard and his wife settle down in Brattleboro, Vermont where his wife's family had long been established.
1893 Many Inventions is published.
1894 The Jungle Book is published.
1895 The Second Jungle Book is published.
1896 The Seven Seas and Soldier Tales is published.
1897 After a violent arguement with his in-laws, Rudyard and his wife move back to England and settles on a country estate. Captains Courageous is published.
1898 An Almanac of Twelve Sports,The Day's Work and A Fleet in Being are published.
1899 Rudyard goes to South Africa, in the midst of the defeats of the Boer War. His eldest daughter Josephine dies of measles. Stalky and Co. and From Sea to Sea are published.
1900 The Kipling Reader is published.
1901 Kim and War's Brighter Side are published.
1902 Just So Stories is published.
1903 The Five Nations is published.
1904 Traffics and Discoveries is published.
1906 Puck of Pook's Hill is published.
1907 Collected Verse is published. Rudyard Kipling becomes the first English author to recieve the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1909 Actions and Reactions is published.
1910 Rewards and Fairies is published.
1911 A History of England is published.
1912 Collected Verse (British edition) and ,Songs from Books is published.
1914 Rudyard emerges from seclusion as the official writer-up of the new armed forces of the Crown.
1915 The New Army in Training and France in War are published. "Mary Postgate."
1916 Rudyard's son is killed with the Irish Guards. Sea Warfare is published.
1917 A Diversity of Creatures is published.
1919 The Graves of the Fallen and The Years Between are published.
1920 Horace Odes, Book V and Letters of Travel are published.
1923 Elected Lord Rector of St. Andrews University. The Irish Guards in the Great War and Land and Sea are published.
1924 Songs for Youth is published.
1926 Sea and Sussex and Debits and Credits are published.
1927 Songs of the Sea is published.
1928 A Book of Words is published.
1929 Poems, 1886-1929 is published.
1930 Thy Servant A Dog is published.
1932 Limits and Renewals is published.
1934 Collected Dog Stories is published.
1936 January 18th Rudyard Kipling dies of a perforated duodenum.
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Singapore (CNN) -- At nearly the length of four football pitches, the container ship Eugen Maersk takes some stopping when traveling at full speed -- around 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) before it can come to a complete halt.
It can also burn through 250 tons of highly polluting bunker fuel each day when at sea, but while berthed in Singapore last month the ship was trying its best to keep a low profile, at least in terms of its impact on the environment.
The 397-meter long vessel was running on a low-sulfur fuel while in port, something its owners say reduces toxic sulfur dioxide emissions by 85%.
Financially, the shipping industry is in the doldrums, suffering from over capacity and high oil prices. With tough times have come new ideas on how to cut costs and improve the environmental impact of shipping.
These days many shipping lines believe that bigger is better, not just for the shipping companies' bottom line, but also the environment.
"The bigger the ship the lower the fuel consumption, that's one thing," said Thomas Riber Knudsen, Asia Pacific CEO of shipping line Maersk. "The most important thing that we're doing (to reduce costs) on all our ships is we're reducing speed so simply sailing slower than we would normally do.
"There is a benefit in financial terms. Our biggest financial cost is fuel consumption; (cutting it) happens to be very good for the environment so probably there is shared interest there."
As well as travelling slower, new ships like the Eugen Maersk have other fuel-saving and potentially environmentally-friendly features, such as a redesigned bow and special paint to reduce friction through the water.
Built-in measures to make vessels more efficient are increasingly important believes Knudsen, as there is a growing awareness in the industry that it needs to take a long view on its environmental impact.
Shipping's international regulator, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), has embarked on a greenhouse gas reduction program, part of which will come into action in 2013, which for the first time includes CO2 emissions. The IMO believes the new measure could reduce CO2 emissions by 180 million tons annually by 2020 and save $34 billion to $60 billion in fuel costs.
So far the most toxic of pollutants from ships, like sulfur dioxide, have been the main focus of the IMO program and also other regional regulations. In some areas of Europe and the U.S., ships have been required by law for years to use low-sulfur fuel when in port.
Currently Asian countries lag behind others in environmental regulations, relying instead on voluntary initiatives like the one introduced in Singapore last year. Its Green Shipping Initiative offer incentives such as reduced port fees for ships in return for using low-sulfur fuel.
Maersk say that despite the financial sweeteners from Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority the company is actually losing money by using low-sulfur fuel that can cost twice as much as ordinary bunker fuel.
"Its' very difficult to stand out as a single shipping line to do this...What we would like is to have comprehensive rules spanning the globe, so we don't have areas that are different from each other," said Knudsen.
"We think the industry has a responsibility (to the environment) but it's very hard to be the one standing out and doing it as a competitive differentiator."
Some believe that retrofitting ships with equipment like "scrubbers" that remove harmful emissions from vessels could help the industry to clean up its act. Critics of existing scrubber technology however point out that the technology only removes the toxic chemicals from the atmosphere at the expense of depositing them in the ocean as contaminated waste water.
The Singaporean company Ecospec, supported by the country's government, believes it has avoided this problem with its emission abatement system developed over the last ten years. According to the company it removes not just sulfur dioxide, but also carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
However the company's managing director, Chew Hwee Hong is sanguine about the potential for any green shipping technology to succeed without the push of uniform regulations.
"I would say a good 95% of (shipping industry green initiatives) is incentivized or is driven by international regulations," he said. "You get 5% who are volunteers, who are green advocates; they want to do it by themselves, irrespective of whether there are those regulations."
Until firmer international regulations emerge, linking cost-savings with environmental action is the best way to encourage the industry to do more, believes Manish Singh, of shipping consultancy, Ideocean.
"I don't expect fuel prices to go down but if they did and still the industry as a whole had become a lot more efficient, I think that efficiency will stay with us," he said.
"The fact they remain high today is helping to get the opinion and the action done. There is a genuine commitment to the ecological cost but I suppose the fact that we have a very strong economic reason to take action adds to the urgency."
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Need to Know!
Listed below are the applicable laws pertaining to Personal Watercraft and Firearms. These two laws are among the most important that govern operations at the Missouri National Recreational River (MNRR). For any other questions regarding laws please see the link below to the Code of Federal Regulations.
Personal Watercraft Prohibited
36 CFR §3.9(a) states that persons may operate a personal watercraft (PWC) only in areas where authorized by special regulation. Under this regulation, all waters of the Missouri National Recreational river are closed to the use of Personal Watercraft (Jet-Ski®, WaveRunner®, etc).
This includes the following areas:
- Missouri River between Gavins Point Dam & Ponca State Park
- Missouri River Between Fort Randall Dam & Running Water, SD
- Niobrara River in Knox County
PWC are permitted onthe following:
- Lewis & Clark Lake
- Lake Francis Case
- The Missouri River downstream of Ponca State Park.
As of February 22, 2010, a new federal law allows people who can legally possess firearms under applicable federal, state, and local laws, to legally possess firearms on lands owned by the National Park Service in this park unit. It is the responsibility of visitors to understand and comply with all applicable state, local and federal firearms laws before entering this park. As a starting point, please visit the states' websites.
- Links to firearms regulations.
- Codified Laws (enter "firearms" in search box).
Federal law also prohibits firearms in certain facilities in this park; those places are marked with signs at all public entrances.
State parks within the river corridor may have their own firearms and hunting regulations. Please contact the individual park for details.
Private Property Bordering The MNRR
The Missouri National Recreational River has a complex pattern of land ownership with most of the land bordering the river being privately owned.
Take note: Please respect private property rights in your river use. The Karl E. Mundt National Wildlife Refuge is closed to the public for the protection of bald eagles and their habitat.
Code of Federal Regulations
Title 36 Regulations covering all National Park Service units.
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines conducted a study to determine if commercially available automatic sprinklers could withstand the high static pressures in deep underground coal mines without leaking and if exposure to the mine environment affected their leak pressures. New sprinklers and sprinklers exposed to the mine environment were subjected to increasing pressures until leakage occurred. The average leak pressures of the new sprinklers ranged from 640 to 2,300 psig and were significantly different for sprinklers from different manufacturers and for different types of sprinklers. Generally, standard-response sprinklers withstood higher pressures than fast-response sprinklers. The results indicated that most commercially available sprinklers would withstand the high static pressures in deep underground coal mines; however, they would not provide the same reliability and safety factor as sprinklers used aboveground at or below their rated pressure of 175 psig. The average leak pressures of the sprinklers exposed to the mine environment ranged from 740 to 1,180 psig. The mine environment affected the ability of 66% of the sprinklers to withstand high static pressures. New sprinklers were also evaluated at pressures of at least 500 psig for 30 days to determine their ability to withstand long-term exposure to high static pressures; no leakage was observed.
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We understand that you may have a lot of questions if your child has been diagnosed with aplastic anemia.
- What exactly is it?
- What are potential complications in my child’s case?
- What are the treatments?
- What are possible side effects from treatment?
- How will it affect my child long term?
We’ve tried to provide some answers to those questions here, and when you meet with our experts, we can explain your child’s condition and treatment options fully.
What is aplastic anemia?
Aplastic anemia is a blood disorder that occurs when the bone marrow produces too few of all types of blood cells: red cells, white and platelets.
- A low number of red blood cells reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen.
- A reduced number of white blood cells makes the child more susceptible to infection.
- A low number of platelets reduces the blood’s ability to clot.
What causes aplastic anemia?
Aplastic anemia in children has multiple causes, some of which are “idiopathic,” or occurring with no known reason. The disorder can be the result of a previous illness or existing problem, or be caused by an inherited genetic disorder.
Acquired causes of aplastic anemia in children make up about 80 to 85 percent of cases and may include a history of:
- specific infectious diseases, such as hepatitis, Epstein-Barr virus, or cytomegalovirus
- taking certain medications including some antibiotics and arthritis drugs
- exposure to certain toxins, such as benzene, pesticides and insecticides
- exposure to radiation or chemotherapy
In much fewer—about 15 to 20 percent of the time—children inherit a disorder that predisposes them to developing aplastic anemia, such as:
- Fanconi anemia
- Dyskeratosis congenita
- Shwachman-Diamond syndrome
- Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
What are the symptoms of aplastic anemia?
The most common symptoms of aplastic anemia are:
- lack of energy or tiring easily
- pale skin, lips, and hands, or paleness under the eyelids
- shortness of breath
- fevers or infections
- bleeding, such as bruising, bleeding gums, nosebleeds or blood in the stool
- irregular heartbeat
- dizziness or headache
It is important to understand that the symptoms of aplastic anemia may resemble other blood disorders or medical problems, some of which are very common and easy to treat, while others are more serious. The symptoms listed above are common presentations of the disease, but do not include all possible symptoms.
Your child may experience symptoms differently. Therefore, it is important to be evaluated by a physician to obtain an accurate diagnosis. Always consult your child's physician if you have concerns.
Questions to ask your child’s doctor
You and your family are key players in your child’s medical care. It’s important that you share your observations and ideas with your child’s health care provider and that you understand your doctor’s recommendations.
If your child is suffering from aplastic anemia, you probably have a lot on your mind. So it’s often helpful to write questions down. Some of the questions you may want to ask include:
- What does a diagnosis of aplastic anemia mean for my child?
- How will my child’s symptoms be managed?
- Can my child receive a stem cell transplant?
- How long will my child need to be in the hospital?
- What are the possible short and long-term complications of treatment? How will they be addressed?
- What is the likelihood of cure?
- What services are available to help my child and my family cope?
Q: What is the expected outcome after treatment for aplastic anemia?
A: Aplastic anemia was once fatal in many cases. Today, treatment has improved significantly due to innovative new therapies including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and effective supportive care. However, aplastic anemia is still a very serious condition requiring extensive ongoing care. Your child’s physician is available to answer questions about treatment options and outcomes.
Q: Is there a cure for aplastic anemia?
A: Hematopoietic stem cell transplant can cure aplastic anemia when blood stem cells come from a matched sibling donor. However, a matched sibling donor may not be available in all cases. Stem cells from a matched unrelated donor, cord blood or family member may also be considered under certain circumstances, such as when drug therapy is ineffective.
Patients with aplastic anemia also have a higher risk of developing complications from stem cell transplantation (including graft-versus-host disease). Your child’s physician can tell you whether a stem cell transplant might be appropriate for your child.
Q: Where will my child be treated?
A: Children treated through the Fanconi Anemia and Bone Marrow Failure Multidisciplinary Clinic will receive outpatient care at Children’s Hospital Boston. If your child receives a stem cell transplant, he or she will see doctors at the Jimmy Fund Clinic at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and will stay in a specialized stem cell transplant unit at Children’s Hospital.
Q: What services are available to help my child and my family cope?
A: We offer a many of services to help you, your child and your family get through this difficult time. Read more about our support services.
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Houses with walls of glass that is designed to provide an fabulous place to live. Supported directly by the pretty natural beauty. Equipped with parallel sliding doors are a special feature of the building to another. The lounge is bright, minimalist interior design, and an additional bedroom downstairs. Next to the north side of the main building there is a double garage, which can be accessed directly from the basement, and also there is a staircase in the lounge is a direct link to the home. The idea of energy utilization to be sure that all the energy needed to run the building gained from regenerative sources. Blending expertise with a geothermal energy method as well as a highly efficient heat pump that creates the energy needed to produce hot water and heating and cooling needs. The whole surface of the roof is equipped with photovoltaic systems that generate additional power over the annual average of the buildings in which they live. This is the first building in the world where Zero idea developed by Werner Sobek will be fully implemented.
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March 30, 2009
Bryan Appleyard sums up a study by Berkley psychologist Philip Tetlock:
He studied pundits and discovered they were, to a rough approximation, always wrong when making predictions. He took 284 pundits and asked them questions about the future. Their performance was worse than chance. With three possible answers, they were right less than 33 per cent of the time. A monkey chucking darts would have done better.
Part of the problem arises from belief perseverance. Once we form a theory, we tend to stick to it, even in the face of contradictory information.
Low scoring forecasters exhibited that behavior in Tetlock’s study: they latched onto one big idea and blinded themselves to other drivers of history. Think about someone who peppers their speech with “moreover” and “all the more so,” continually stretching their idea and denying other interpretations. This over-reaching makes them prone to exaggeration, such as those who thought Quebec would secede and Canada would consequently disintegrate.
High scoring forecasters, on the other hand, recognized, even flaunted, a probability distribution of events. These are the people who qualify their arguments with “however” and “but,” those who accommodate opposing theories. They stitch together a framework of smaller ideas, rather then working down from a Grand Scheme.
March 27, 2009
An excellent series of visualizations dissecting the crisis. Here’s an example (click to enlarge):
March 6, 2009
One benefit of bubbles: they usually leave something useful behind. Despite the grief and anxiety wrapped with the downturn, bubbles fuel innovation at a breakneck pace and finance the infrastructure that vaults the economy forward.
Daniel Gross elaborated on this thesis in his book Pop: Why Bubbles Are Great For the Economy, citing irrational exuberance as the main factor for new commercial developments. During the post Civil War booms, for example, companies laid out competing and often redundant rail networks. Fifteen years later, a quarter of the companies landed in bankruptcy. The same pattern repeated during the ’90s: each major telecommunications company strung enough wire to service the entire nation. Collectively, they dropped over ninety percent by 2002.
But these busts were like phoenixes: new life arose from the ashes. The Internet pop directly led to Web 2.0 (Google, Skype, Wikipedia), technologies that gained critical mass after the bubble burst. Each directly benefited from the cheap excess capacity built during the ’90s.
This time around, the bubbles didn’t produce anything tangible which we can latch onto as consolation. A rise in house prices reflects paper growth, lost amidst the downturn, and reshuffling CDOs doesn’t provide the country with any lasting contribution.
February 21, 2009
Via the AP:
Republicans are preparing to pounce on any wasteful spending in the $787 billion stimulus package as they refocus their criticisms of a measure whose success could hurt their 2010 election prospects.
If the stimulus works, nitpicking won’t hold much weight. A few earmarks, which are less than one percent of the overall budget, are a small price to pay for a rejuvenated economy.
If the economy remains sluggish , the Democrats have already set forth a sequence of arguments to rebut charges of fiscal irresponsibility.
Obama has said that Republicans hardly have the authority to lecture about budgetary management as they squandered the Clinton surpluses and doubled the national debt over the past eight years. But there’s a time decay to this argument, and many Republican candidates in 2010 will have no link to Bush’s excess spending. Essentially, the purely partisan wrangling acts as a stop-gap until Obama can prove fiscal responsibility through his track record.
This week, Obama’s entire budget layout is oriented toward that theme of fiscal prudence. On Monday comes a comprehensive “fiscal responsibility” summit, and on Thursday, the administration reveals its first budget. Peter Orszag revealed that there will be a plan to “restore the nation to a sustainable fiscal trajectory over the five-to-10- year window.” Putting the country back on track for balanced budgets will establish Obama as a prime fiscal steward, even if Republicans hassle over a couple of earmarks.
February 20, 2009
First Read on the latest stimulus politics:
“A half-dozen Republican governors are considering turning down some money from the federal stimulus package…Who are these GOP governors? They’re a “who’s who” of possible presidential candidates in 2012 — Sanford (SC), Jindal (LA), Palin (AK), Perry (TX), and Barbour (MS).
If the governors reject the federal money, they will be forced to balance their budgets through a combination of tax hikes and spending cuts – not the ideal resume for any presidential candidate.
In general, economic prosperity lets governors build up that Record of Accomplishments – lower taxes and more services – which forms a pragmatic reputation. Such policies aren’t possible now, thus the tough decisions.
February 20, 2009
Ambinder notes that by signing the stimulus, Obama approved one of the largest tax cuts in history:
It’s hard to imagine we won’t hear about this four years from now. And if that’s not boxing a future Republican candidate in ahead of time, I don’t know what is.
Think about how many potential Republican arguments are going to be pre-empted by that nice little fact?
One upside of compromise: it spreads ownership and, as a result, blame if the plan fails.
February 9, 2009
Mitch McConnell on January 27, the day Obama met with Republican leadership to discuss the stimulus:
“Everyone was pleased with the level of candor and the desire to look for bipartisan solutions…It was a very productive meeting.”
“You know, there was no meaningful consultation in the early part of the process. So if you don’t have that on the takeoff, you don’t end up having it on the landing.”
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Youngest son of King Malcolm III Canmore and Saint Margaret of Scotland; brother of Saint Matilde in whose court he grew up and was educated. Prince of Cumbria in 1107. Married. Ascended to the throne of Scotland in 1124. Fought in the border wars with England, and in 1138 participated in the armistice that halted the fighting. Devoting himself to the welfare of his people, he re-organized the system of land ownership and implemented both new laws and a new legal system. Worked to bring the faithful in Scotland closer to the Vatican, founded convents and monasteries, supported monastic work and the organization of five new dioceses. Spiritual student of Saint Aelredo of Rievaulx.
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Kirken i Norge
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
- Santi e Beati
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Spring maintenance is easy again with these simple tips on maintaining gutters and downspouts and preventing drainage issues around the home's foundation
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Gutters and Downspouts
It is really important to make sure gutters and downspouts remain bonded to the home. Every spring it is necessary to check for loose downspouts and sagging gutters.
Tighten any loose gutter straps and, if spout extensions have been added to help keep water away from the house, make sure to reconnect any that have come loose.
It is critical to keep gutters and downspouts clear and free flowing.
Consider adding a few helpful accessories to your gutters like screens to cover the spouts or gutter cap systems that go a long way to keep gutters and downspouts free flowing.
Re-Grade Around Foundation
Note: If water pools against the home's foundation it's only a matter of time before it finds its way into the house.
In order to create positive drainage, it is important to remove any mulch or debris from the surface before moving the soil. The mulch can be reused on the new spot but it's important not to mix it with the soil. A mixture of soil, mulch and debris can actually make drainage problems worse.
A small area should only need a vertical drop of about half an inch per foot. Once enough of the soil has been moved tamp it down well to make sure it stays in place. Then add back the covering mulch.
Test Sump Pump
Once the outside water is under control, it is time to bring in a sump pump. A sump pump captures ground water in a pit, or a sump, and pumps it out and away from the house.
With a two plug system the float on the pump controls the front plug. The float has to be up for power to flow. The back plug is a direct feed to the pump. To test the pump, take the plugs apart, take the back plug, plug it in and watch the pump run, or with the plugs plugged in, lift the float to simulate a full pit. The pump should start pumping out water.
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Omega Learning Center
Omega Learning Center offers K-12 tutoring by certified teachers. The math and reading tutoring programs are infused with school curriculum and parents and teachers receive daily communication. Tutoring is offered in homework help, remediation, study skills, test preparation and enrichment. Individualized instruction is available for all course subjects, which include history, Social Studies, geography, fundamental math, algebra (I, II, III), calculus, Spanish, AP/honors homework help, kindergarten readiness and SAT/ACT preparation. Students' are assessed using the Woodcock Johnson III academic assessment in order to tailor a program to them individually. Omega Learning Center is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
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The Delectation of Despair
Indian miniature paintings reach simultaneously for the crispness of realistic depiction as well as the poise of idealised representation. Gautam Bhatia’s collaboratively produced miniature paintings (he conceives and draws, while miniature artist Shankar Bhopa paints) appear at first glance to sustain the promise inherent to this traditional form. But as you peer closely, they begin to subvert the lyrical effect of this traditional manner of representation completely. The paintings, exhibited recently at Apparao Gallery in Chennai, show impossibly profane, highly absurd, imaginary urbanscapes, presented in the disarmingly ‘naïve’ manner of traditional paintings. While ordinary buildings, objects, streets, landscapes and people (in various states of half-comic clothing and undress, and in various acts of grabbing, consuming, coming, going or simply letting go) are their visual substance, the paintings are about the culture of urban living in India. Or, more specifically, about Bhatia’s frustration with the sheer crassness that gift-wraps injustice and sloppiness in suddenly-affluent India. But this is no simple critique of urban culture. The limit to which Bhatia pushes absurdity, and his formidable commitment to being endlessly inventive in doing so, hint at a deeper motivation perhaps: a wounded recognition of his own complicity and entrapment with/in that same urban culture. The tour of the absurd city and landscape is as much autobiography as travel sketch.
One must partake, at least to some extent, of Bhatia’s essentially black vision to truly enjoy the delectation of the miniature paintings he presents. That comes naturally to the thoughtful (and cynical) city dweller, especially if he or she is also part of Bhatia’s middle- to upper-class professional background. However, the sheer ridiculousness of situations that Bhatia creates stops the encounter from becoming the opposite of a sentimental love-fest: a boring ritual of artist and viewer sharing self-hate. Bhatia’s thoroughgoing irreverence and wit turn, twist and subvert the subject. This is part devious, part mischievous, but wholly entertaining. There is something original—in the sense that its origins lie deep within him—in the unselfconscious and unpredictable shuffling (and occasional conflation) of schoolboy humour with thoughtful critique of Indian city life in all its shambolic glory.
Each painting oscillates between many different limit conditions, each vividly suggested by the concrete ‘facts’ of the painting. The hotel as a row of carved wooden boxes is ‘real’ even if naively drawn. And yet, it is obviously surreal. The unremarkable people who occupy it are nice everyday folk, drawn as such. But they are routinely doing things we will never see them do in reality (and which decent people never do). Yet, we know (from our life outside the gallery), that they certainly do those things all the time. The paintings allow these divergent thoughts no secure place at which to come to rest. Simple and seductive to the eye accustomed to the vivid joys of the traditional aesthetics of royal scrolls and truck-doors, they are simultaneously maddening to the mind that can never fully reach the extremes of despair, compassion and insouciance that Bhatia effortlessly keeps returning from.
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I went to a high school that was pretty lax about class requirements. Students were strongly encouraged to take at least three years’ worth of every major subject: English, Social Studies, Math, Science. But the word “encouraged” is key.
My guidance counselor was just too sweet for her own good. Or I guess for my good, really, because once I realized that the requirements were flexible, it was goodbye to Math and Science. Anything with numbers or facts? Peace out, see ya later.
What I loved was English. I was always reading. You know that phrase people (it seems like only old ladies, actually) always say, like: “That Billy always has his nose in a book! Such a bookworm!” I was that bookworm. Literally, though; at almost all times, I walked around with my big nose in a little book. I would read on the bus, step down, and keep reading as I walked across the parking lot to class. I looked like Belle in The Beauty and the Beast, walking through the halls like I was strolling around Paris with a book in front of my face and a croissant in the other hand. If mentioning a non-Pixar animated movie is too archaic, by the way, and the reference has been lost on you, go to 1:45 in this vid. The chick ecstatically sliding across the bookshelf, that’s me.
I also loved languages. Beginning in seventh grade, we had to take a language and our choices were Latin, Spanish, or French. The hot girls took French, the apathetic masses took Spanish, and the parent-pleasing “intellectuals” took Latin. Which one do you think I chose?
After three years of Latin, I liked learning a language so much that I added Spanish, too. I dropped Math in order to do so. Then, junior year, I dropped Science, too, in order to double up in English. Our choices that year were Classical Lit—in which we read Homer, Aeschylus, and other dead Greeks, or AP (Advanced Placement) Lit, which involved Joyce, Dickens, Dostoevsky and blablabla, you know those dudes. The literary giants.
I couldn’t just choose one. I elected to take no Science, no Math, and to make up for the void by adding something called an “independent study.” For my independent study, I sat in a small storage closet with my favorite English teacher (poor, kind man) and we would discuss short stories from the 1800s.
So, to reiterate the list here: I was taking two sections of foreign languages, two sections of English, and a special private study of Hawthorne and Poe. I was a huge fucking nerd.
Senior year, I wanted to do it again—no Math or Science. But my guidance counselor insisted that colleges might not like the discrepancy, and that I should really choose at least a Science class. Of all things, we went with AP Biology, based on the logic that I had taken regular Bio freshman year and scraped by with a B, and hey, it was just memorization, after all. Kingdom, Phallus, Order, Genius, right? Lots of lists and stuff.
On the first day, the teacher announced to us, “This is AP-level Biology, I expect AP-level work and commitment.” Fuuuuck. Then she passed out a huge book and said we would cover a chapter a week and have a big multiple choice exam every Friday.
For the first test, I studied for a little while, memorized the bullshit, and felt pretty good after taking it. She handed them back Monday, and I got an 85. I was pretty happy with that. 85 was a B, and hey, if I could get a straight B in the class, that was okay.
I felt really good after taking the second test. I felt like I maybe even brought up my score from the first one, maybe got into the 90s range. But on Monday, she handed them back and I got a 74. “Hmm,” I thought, “That’s a bit of a drop. But it’s not so bad, and I’ll pull it up next time.”
For the third test, I studied harder than before. I made flashcards, and had my parents quiz me. I felt good. After actually taking the test, though, I didn’t feel so good. I just wasn’t gettin’ this science stuff! We got the test back Monday, and sure enough, I got a 65. Uh-oh. That’s like a D, right? I was upset, to say the least. I wanted to burn my Bio textbook. A year later, in college, I would get the chance to burn a book, but it would be Eccoci, my text from first-year Italian. As I held the flame to its angry pages, I closed my eyes and thought about AP Bio. Note: No books were harmed in the making of this TNB post (nor even in the photo below; after holding the lighter there long enough for a picture, I wussed out).
Meanwhile, we were nearing the deadline to drop a class. Soon, I’d be in too deep. But I also knew I couldn’t really drop the class, because I needed a science corurse.
So, for the fourth week’s test, I really kicked into high gear. I started studying a week in advance, read through each chapter twice, and tried to think of any surprise, trick questions. This time, I wasn’t fucking around.
At this point, you know where the story is headed, don’t you?
I took the test, and boy, it went great. I knew all of the questions with confidence, and walking out of class Friday, I thought that if anything, I had been overprepared!
After completing the test, I felt so good about it that after school that very afternoon, I actually went to the Science office to approach the teacher. I wanted to find out my grade, and I knew that even though we didn’t get tests returned until Monday, they were all graded with the Scantron machine (“Use #2 pencils only! Darken each rectangle fully! No errant pencil marks!”) and therefore took a teacher thirty seconds and zero effort to score each one. She had probably already graded them.
The teacher’s name was Miss Tyson. “Hi Miss Tyson!” I said when I walked into the Science office. “Hello, Daniel,” she said quietly. She looked grim.
“Hey, so, I know we won’t get back them til Monday, but I thought maybe if you had already scored them, I could find out my grade from today’s test now? I just feel really good about it and wanted to see mine early!“
She looked at me, and said, “Are… are you serious?”
“Yeah!” I said with genuine, doe-eyed enthusiasm.
She looked around the office at the other science teachers like she was embarrassed, and she said, “I’m going to write your score down for you on a piece of paper.”
“Gee golly, okay!” I said, excited to see my A+ grade.
Then she took a little corner of scrap paper and brought out her pen. I still remember it today; it was a purple Le Pen. Felt tip, gorgeous ink. A really nice pen! She wrote something on the scrap of paper and then slid it over to me with her hand covering it. Then she slowly lifted her hand.
On the piece of paper, she had written the number 47.
I gave her a puzzled look and asked, “Oh, was it graded out of 50 this time?”
“No, that’s your score out of a hundred,” she said.
I smiled, and thought for a second. I probably thought about what I would eat for my after-school snack. Then I looked up at her and said, “Okay, will you sign this drop sheet?”
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Or what to eat when you’re feeling like hell. I’m not saying that New Year’s Day has to mean you have a hangover, but after that evening of almost-enforced carousing, this dish of eggs cooked in a fiery tomato sauce can feel like heaven.
I feel I should address this recipe’s name, but I have nothing conclusive to offer you. The heat of the red pepper and the red of the tomato might more plausibly have led this to be called Uova in Inferno rather than in Purgatorio. Purgatory is the place where those who die in a state of grace but are not ready for ascension into heaven must wait, in a long-suffering limbo. This, I do appreciate, is a simplistic categorization, but please: I’m writing an introduction to an egg recipe, here, not a work of doctrinal history. Besides, not being Catholic, all I know about purgatory I learned from reading Dante. So I particularly liked the hopeful literary attribution which suggests that said dish of golden egg yolks rising out of Parmesan-hazy tomatoes might be a reference to Dante’s having reached purgatory at dawn, and later hailing the advancing sun as the “cheeks of beautiful Aurora ... changing into orange.” Yes, I know, I wouldn’t push it too far either, but you can’t blame a person for trying.
Let’s put questions of attribution and whimsical theories aside, for we have the pure and pleasurable physicality of the dish to consider. Now, normally I have an almost hysterically inflexible no-red-with-egg rule: I can’t bear to see so much as a blob of ketchup or broiled tomato near (let alone mixed with) an egg on someone’s plate. But these heavenly Eggs in Purgatory utterly challenge and overturn my previously rigid prejudice.
To the cooking itself: if I use my little cast-iron skillet, only 7 inches in diameter, there is really only room for 1 egg; but generally, a small frying pan tends to come in at about 8 inches in diameter, in which case you can easily fit 2 eggs in. Or you could always do 1 egg and drop the yolk of the second egg on the white of the first. … Either way, this is so easy and speedy to make, I can find time to rustle it up for breakfast, brunch, lunch, supper, or late-night snack, whatever state I’m in.
If solo salvation turns into brunch for a roomful of people, obviously use a bigger pan and I would think 2 cans of tomatoes could provide enough liquid—if there’s room in the pan—for up to 8 eggs.
Pour the olive oil into a frying pan, then grate in (or mince and add) the garlic, scatter in the red pepper flakes, and put the pan over a medium heat, stirring, for 1 minute.
Tip in the tomatoes, stir in the salt, and let it come to a bubble. It’s got to be hot enough to poach an egg in.
Crack in the egg (or eggs), sprinkle the Parmesan over it, leaving some of the yellow yolk still exposed, and partially cover with a lid. Let it bubble for 5 minutes, by which time the white should be set and the yolk still runny, but keep an eye on it.
Remove from the heat and serve—if so wished—sprinkled with a little more Parmesan and some chili oil, and some bread to dunk in.
Reprinted by arrangement with Clarkson Potter from Nigellissima: Easy Italian-Inspired Recipes. Copyright © 2013 by Nigella Lawson.
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The National Park Service has expressed concerns about a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal at the mouth of the Columbia River. The park service sent a letter to federal regulators saying concerns must be addressed in the environmental review of the Oregon LNG project at Warrenton.
In his letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, park official Chip Jenkins expressed concerns about the effect on threatened and endangered species and bald eagles, wetlands near or in the park, and threats to historic sites and trails. Local opposition led backers to drop plans for another LNG terminal, upriver from Astoria, in 2010.
A third terminal project, at Coos Bay, remains active.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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Published November 10, 2012
Soundings: Be a 'Washivore,' Olympia group urges residentsJOHN DODGE
Armed with convincing facts, Heather Hansen has launched a fanciful social media campaign to tout the breadth and depth of Washington-grown food. The executive director of Olympia-based Washington Friends of Farms and Forests typically spends much of her time lobbying on behalf of the agriculture industry, working on her fair share of contentious issues such as pesticide use and genetically engineered food. This latest endeavor to boost consumer knowledge about the state’s sizeable bread basket really is less about politics and agriculture policy and more about the simple fact that Washington is home to crops so diverse, you could survive quite nicely on just those grown in this state. And if you did so, you would be a full-fledged “Washivore,” the name for Hansen’s new public-education and outreach campaign. It has a website, www.washivore.com, a Facebook page and a Twitter feed to boot. “Our goal is to help people learn about how important agriculture is to Washington state, along with how to select vegetables and learn a bit about nutrition,” Hansen said. “We keep it light and fun and encourage readers to share recipes and photos.” The project grew out of a Seattle luncheon Hansen attended with other professional women a year ago. As one woman was munching on French fries, Hansen pointed out that Washington produces more potatoes per acre than any other state. “Everybody looked at me with blank stares, and one woman said, ‘French fries come from Washington?’” Hansen recalls. Hansen quizzed other folks about their knowledge of Washington agriculture and came away with the impression that few know it is a $38 billion industry that employs some 160,000 people, making it the largest employer in the state. Even more noticeable was the lack of knowledge of what actually grows in Washington: more than 300 crops, ranking it second only to California in commercial crop diversity. “That was the motivation behind ‘Washivore,’” Hansen said. Each month, a different Washington crop is highlighted. This month, the spotlight is on cranberries. With its 120 cranberry growers centered on 1,700 acres primarily around Grayland and Long Beach on the coast, the state is the nation’s fifth-largest producer of cranberries. Cranberries tend to find a place on our Thanksgiving Day dinner tables, then disappear the rest of the year. But they shouldn’t. They are high in antioxidants and might help protect against heart disease, cancers and ulcers. They mix well with other fruits, including apples, pears and oranges, and can be eaten raw as a relish. Don’t forget to use some honey or sugar to counteract their tartness. In addition, dried cranberries are great in salads or squeezed into juice. It takes more than 3,000 cranberries to make a gallon of juice. While I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about Washington-grown food, Hansen had no trouble coming up with facts and figures that were new to me. For instance: • Farmers in this state produce 25 percent of the fresh frozen peas, corn and carrots consumed in the United States. We might not have a year-round growing season, but that doesn’t mean you can’t eat Washington-grown vegetables 12 months a year. • Washington grows 91 percent of the country’s supply of red raspberries, mostly in Whatcom County. Raspberries are high in fiber, vitamin C and folate, but contain only 70 calories per cup. • Washington wine has grown into a $3-billion-a-year industry with more than 740 wineries and 350 wine-grape growers. All this activity makes the state the second-largest producer of premium wines in the United States. • At the end of the day, when it’s time to quit eating and brush your teeth, another Washington crop comes into play: mint oil. It’s used to flavor toothpaste, as well as mints and gum. No other state produces as much mint oil as Washington, thanks to the mint farmers in the Yakima Valley. Hansen’s enthusiasm for Washington-grown food dates to her days growing up on her family’s Lewis County farm. Her mom was a county home economist, and Hansen holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Washington State University in agriculture-related fields. “I’ve been cooking since I had to stand on a stool to reach the kitchen counter,” she said. More than 40 years later, Hansen is reaching out to young and old alike, reminding them that this state’s great soils, ample supply of water and hard-working family farmers grow an amazing diversity of food that makes being a Washivore easier than you might think.
John Dodge: 360-754-5444
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The ACE Center provides a variety of learning support services to help students improve basic skills, prepare for college work, and be successful in their college courses. It is open to all students registered for college credit classes as well as students who are working on their GED. An academic computer lab is available to improve basic skills and support course work in a number of areas. Some assistance is provided on a walk-in basis – other services are available by appointment.
The ACE Center offers materials and resources related to a variety of subject areas. Faculty who wish to provide materials for use in the ACE Center should forward them to the Associate Dean for ACE Services. Materials used for multiple courses are typically purchased by ACE Center funds; those used for specific classes are charged to individual departments or programs.
The First Alert Program is designed to help students who lack the essential skills to succeed in current course work, and who need more time and attention than faculty can devote to them. Faculty may refer students to First Alert to receive tutoring. The tutoring time may only involve a few sessions but more help is available if necessary. Faculty must obtain student's permission before referring students to the First Alert program. Once permission is obtained, faculty must complete a First Alert Referral Form, available through the division office coordinator. Students may also self-refer. For further information, call 636-922-8549.
The involvement and cooperation of the faculty in assisting students to overcome barriers is extremely important. In order to facilitate physical access, each classroom is equipped with a desk for wheelchair access.
If necessary, the College will make reasonable modifications to its academic requirements to comply with legal requirements ensuring that such requirements do not discriminate or have the effect of discriminating, on the basis of a student's known and adequately documented disability, unless the requested modification would require alteration of essential elements of the program, or essential elements of directly related licensing requirements, or would result in undue financial or administrative burdens. The faculty, in cooperation with the Accessibility Coordinating Counselor, will determine the appropriate modification or substitute. A Waiver and Substitution Form, along with additional information, can be found at Office of Accessibility Services – Administrative Procedures.
Audio-visual equipment stored in a division office must be scheduled through the division office coordinator. Transportation of the equipment is the faculty member's responsibility. Equipment must be returned at the end of class. Any audio-visual equipment needing repairs should be reported to the division office coordinator.
The Instructional Media Office is located in Room 209 of the Learning Resource Center. It contains various specialized audio-visual equipment, including music and sound systems, laptop and multimedia computers, video/data projectors, scanners, CD-ROM recorders, digital and 35mm cameras, and camcorders. This equipment is available for use by all college personnel.
See Distance Learning.
Instructional Media personnel are available to assist faculty members with planning, preparing, and using various forms of instructional media, including photography, video, audio, computer multimedia, and the Internet. They can consult with you to determine what types of media are appropriate and effective for your course material and can help you prepare materials for classroom use. Call either extension 8449 or 8445 for assistance.
See SCC Library.
Each division has an assigned office area in one of the office suites of the Administration (ADM) building, Humanities (HUM) building, Fine Arts (FAB) building, Technology (TECH) building, Social Sciences (SSB) building, or Visual Arts (VAB) building. A mailbox/message center is provided in each division office. Interoffice mail should not be used for commercial solicitation or personal business. U.S. Mail service is provided to division offices twice daily.
Office and classroom supplies (e.g. pencils, whiteboard markers) are available in each division office. For questions or specific needs, please contact the division office coordinator.
For materials other than class handouts or syllabi, the request for printed materials and publicity must be made through the dean to the Office of Marketing and Communications. This also includes items for the Chaz, e-Outlook, College Calendar, etc. Guidelines for all external publications and internal postings must be followed. Guidelines can be found on the college Intranet or from the Office of Marketing and Communications.
Audio-visual Equipment Purchases
All audio-visual equipment purchases must be sent through the Instructional Media (IM) Office. The IM office will check the bid to ensure that the department is ordering equipment according to the minimum college specifications. The Purchasing Department orders, receives, and if necessary, inventory tags the equipment. The IM office checks the equipment to make certain that it is in working order and inventories the equipment.
Installation of software on faculty computers is done by IT personnel. "Testing" computers are available in each building to install software on a trial basis to check for network and Microsoft compatibility.
Books and Other Reference Materials
All books and reference materials purchased by departments should be catalogued in the Library and checked out to the department, even those that are purchased with department funds. This will ensure that all college-owned materials are available to faculty, staff, and students.
Secretarial services are available through the division office coordinator in each division office. Duplicating service is provided through the College Copy Center. Contact the division office coordinator for routing information. Faculty are expected to comply with the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S. Code).
The College can downlink teleconferences and show them live or tape them for later use. The requestor will be responsible for publicizing and hosting the teleconference. Some teleconferences of general interest to the College may be licensed and paid for by the Learning Resource Division; others should be licensed and paid for with Division/Department funds. Contact the Instructional Media Office to schedule the use of the satellite dish and reserve the room.
The College website provides information about the College, its mission and services, and its events and programs. In addition, Web pages may be used to provide access to educational resources, informational tools, navigational aids, and further the professional growth and development of the faculty and staff. Full-time and part-time faculty are encouraged to develop home pages to provide materials they believe will be of interest to people within and outside the College. To develop a personal Web page, review the policies and procedures on the Web publishing information page of the College website.
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Story URL: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=139219
Story Retrieval Date: 5/21/2013 12:31:10 PM CST
Shahzad Chaudhary / MEDILL
American International Group Inc., the U.S.-based insurer that nearly imploded in 2008 because of its exposure to risky financial instruments, is taking a different tack these days.
Earlier this year, the insurance giant became the first company to offer Islamic homeowners insurance, known as Takaful, in the U.S. with plans to expand into auto and other insurance products in the next six months.
The concept of Takaful insurance was first introduced in Malaysia about 15 years ago and has since spread to other Muslim countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Pakistan.
Takaful in the U.S. is currently issued through AIG’s underwriting subsidiary, Risk Specialist Companies, Inc., along with Lexington Insurance Co. The exclusive broker for the product, New York-based Islamic financial services firm Zayan Finance, is currently offering Takaful in 13 states.
“We hope to be in every state by the end of the year,” said Nasser Nubani, spokesman for Zayan Finance, who says that so far only several hundred policies have been sold.
That number is expected to increase substantially. According to the 2009 Takaful Report compiled by Ernst and Young L.L.P., the global market could reach $7.7 billion in 2010, more than doubling from $3.4 billion in 2007. This expected growth is what prompted AIG to begin offering the product.
“We are pleased to offer socially responsible solutions to this segment of the domestic market,” said Matthew F. Power, president of Risk Specialist Companies, in a news release.
AIG first began offering Takaful health, auto, and property and casualty products in Bahrain in 2006 through AIG Takaful Enaya. The company maintains a Shariah board made up of Islamic scholars who have given legitimacy to the Takaful alternative to conventional insurance.
Many Islamic scholars believe conventional insurance contracts are forbidden by Islam, except for what’s required by law, such as car insurance in the U.S.
The Cheshire, England-based International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation cites three reasons conventional insurance is unacceptable under Islamic law: uncertainty within a contract, gambling or speculation, and investment in interest bearing assets.
With conventional insurance, a policyholder is uncertain whether he’ll receive anything in return for the premium he’s paid, and the insurance company doesn’t know if it will have to pay out more than the policyholder has contributed.
To avoid this type of uncertainty, Takaful pools are jointly owned by the policyholders and are “a separate entity from the insurance company,” Nubani said. The policyholders pay into the pool with the intention of helping the community in case of accidents, fully expecting that the money may not be returned.
This means that at the end of each year, if the pool of money runs out, the insurance company provides an interest-free loan that must be paid back by the policyholders through regular premiums. In case of a surplus, the money is distributed back to the policyholders.
However, that’s rare, said Karen Hunt-Ahmed, assistant professor of finance at DePaul University. “In theory the customers may get a profit from it, in practice I don’t think it’s ever happened,” Hunt-Ahmed said.
Nubani admits that Takaful doesn’t completely eliminate uncertainty, but he maintains that it’s the intention of the policyholder in Takaful to contribute money to the pool as a donation that is most important.
“The intention becomes an important designation,” Nubani said.
But Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America, an organization that helps to educate and advise its members on matters related to Islamic law, disputes the need for Takaful as an alternative to conventional insurance.
“[Conventional insurance] is a cooperative type of venture, where people are paying money so they can be safe and secure,” Siddiqi said. “It’s like if somebody pays to hire a guard.”
Siddiqi points out that the intention to “donate” could apply to conventional insurance as well, and doesn’t need to be restricted to Takaful.
As for using Takaful as a way to avoid gambling or speculation, experts are also divided.
“Conventional insurance is based on speculation in the sense that you’re speculating how long a person may live or whether or not your home will be damaged,” said Hunt-Ahmed. She sees Takaful insurance as a way of managing risk without the troubling aspects of speculation.
However, Siddiqi sees little difference between the two. “I do not believe [conventional insurance] is gambling because the purpose of gambling is to hope that you’ll win,” he said. “The person who gets insurance is doing it to avoid risk.”
The point that’s least in dispute is that conventional insurance companies invest policyholder premiums in interest-bearing assets, something that is strictly forbidden for Muslims.
It is for this reason that Takaful companies must not invest their policyholder contributions in banks and other companies that earn profits through interest. They may invest in real estate, stocks of companies that don’t deal with interest and other non-interest investments.
Another potential hurdle for Takaful is that it operates for the most part outside the reach of state insurance regulators. AIG’s underwriter, Lexington Insurance Co., is a surplus lines insurer, which means it is only regulated in its headquarters state.
“Surplus lines are free of rate and free of form,” said Rich Dunlap, assistant executive director of Surplus Lines Association of Illinois, meaning that a surplus line company can charge whatever it wants, free of review by the state insurance department.
It is for this reason that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners warns consumers to be careful before purchasing such policies. “[We] strongly recommend that you thoroughly investigate such plans before joining,” said a spokesman for the NAIC.
Still, Takaful’s success in other countries, combined with the success of Islamic banking, which reached $729 billion in global assets in 2007, a 37 percent increase from 2006, has raised hopes for similar success with Takaful insurance.
“The American Muslim population has grown and so has the demand for Shariah-compliant products,” Nubani said.
But the success of Takaful insurance in America may hinge less on business, and more on the outcome of the religious debate.
If a pronouncement is made against Takaful insurance by an influential Islamic cleric or organization, many potential customers could be deterred.
The Fiqh Council of North America’s Siddiqi sees the difference of opinion as a difference between literal and objective interpretation of Islamic law. “The objective interpretation is to look out for people’s well-being,” he said.
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Who we are
We exist to improve the lives of children and young people with epilepsy to enable them to fulfill their potential and ensure they have the best quality of life.
- We campaign for better health and education services, to raise awareness and increase understanding of epilepsy through our information, support and training.
- Our world class health services provide diagnostic, assessment and rehabilitation services to children and young people in the UK and from other countries. These services along with our research programme aim to achieve valuable insights into childhood epilepsy.
- Our specialist school and Further Education college deliver a range of outstanding day and residential services for children and young people with complex epilepsy, autism and other neurological conditions.
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Finish Work Methods for Lasting Beauty
Finish Work Methods Include Surface Preparation
Finish work methods can make all the difference in a woodworker’s project. One of the major challenges for the beginning woodworker, intermediate woodworker, or even an experienced longtime woodworker can be the ability to achieve a satisfactory wood finish. Surface preparation is a key ingredient to achieving the desired results. In this woodworking article we will focus on these important woodworking skills. These finish work methods include the use of a card scraper and also the use of sandpaper with a sanding block.
The Value of Using a Card Scraper
Why include the card scraper in the finish work methods? The card scraper gives the woodworker a controlled way of leveling the surface of his woodworking project. In the woodworking video, the woodworker uses the card scraper to level the decorative wood inlay banding to the surface of the picture frame. Not only is the woodworker taking thin shavings off of the banding, he is also cleaning up all the glue lines and any excess glue that may be on the surface. It is critically important to remove this dried glue prior to applying the finish. If not removed, the glue will stick out like a sore thumb once the chosen finish is applied. So, it is imperative that we take care of that now before it becomes an issue.
Control the Wood Being Removed
Another important reason the card scraper is included in these finish work methods is because the decorative wood inlay banding is of only 3/32″ thick and the banding is inlaid and glued into a shallow depth of a 1/16″ dado. The card scraper allows the woodworker to remove thin shavings of wood at this time while eliminating the need for any heavy sanding. In this way the woodworker can carefully control the amount of material being removed. We definitely want to make sure that the inlay banding is not sanded through.
Why Sand with a Sanding Block?
Sandpaper is used with a sanding block. This woodworking technique allows for the woodworker to comfortably grip the sandpaper. This method also provides the woodworker with a great means for applying an even pressure to the picture frame surface. Keep in mind that we are looking for a smooth, flat surface for our woodworking project. Depending on how well the work is performed with the card scraper and the type of wood being used for the project, it is likely that the initial sanding can begin with 100 to 200 grit sandpaper. In the case of this picture frame, the woodworker continued to prepare the wood surface up to 400 grit sandpaper.
How to Check for Glue Stain
A portion of the finish work methods includes applying a small amount of paint thinner to a rag and then applying it to the picture frame. Why is this an important element of the finish work methods? There are two parts to this answer. The wiping of the woodworking project with paint thinner helps to clean up any sawdust that may remain from the sanding. This cleaning technique will also show us any glue that may may be left on the surface of our project. If we see any glue stain showing at this time, we still have some more work to do before we apply the wood finish. If any glue stain remains, we need to remove it with further sanding.
Sanding Sealer, Cherry Wood, and Blotching
These finish work methods lead us up to the important moment of applying the finish. In the case of the woodworker’s picture frame, he chose to apply a coat of sanding sealer to the cherry picture frame. Cherry is prone to blotching and the sealer will help to remedy this issue.
Applying the Lacquer
After the sanding sealer has been applied and given time to adequately dry, it is time to perform a light sanding. This sanding will help by giving the surface some “tooth.” In other words, when the lacquer is sprayed onto the freshly sanded surface, the lacquer will have a good surface to adhere to. (Be sure to remove any and all sanding dust prior to applying the lacquer.) The woodworker can then proceed to build up layers of lacquer to achieve a desirable wood finish for his or her woodworking project.
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House-training pets can feel like an uphill battle, especially since pets are drawn to the scene of an old accident as a toilet spot. Effectively getting rid of urine smells from carpets and furniture can help reduce the likelihood of repeat performances.
Soak it up. If youre aware of the accident while its still wet, soak up as much of the liquid as possible right away. Use paper towels, and dab until the puddle is gone. If you can lift the carpet or open the coverings on your soft furniture, slip a thick wad of paper towels under the spill. Put another wad on top of the spill, cover with newspaper if you have any and then stand on the wet patch for a minute or two as the paper absorbs the liquid. Repeat this process if necessary until the fabric is barely damp. Aid your retraining efforts by leaving the urine-soaked paper towels where you want your pet to "go."
Rinse it out. If you have a wet vac, use it on the area with plain water. Avoid using harsh chemical cleaners as they may mask the urine smell from you, but your pet will still smell it. The Michigan Humane Society says that you should also avoid the heat of steam cleaners, as this will bind the proteins in the urine to man-made fibers, setting the stain.
Dry it. Once you have removed as much of the liquid as possible, sprinkle baking soda liberally over the area. The powder will absorb more of the liquid, and the alkali in bicarbonate of soda will neutralize uric acid in the urine. Leave the powder to absorb overnight, and then vacuum.
Neutralize it. Although the baking soda will neutralize acids, pet urine naturally loses its acidity and becomes alkaline as it dries, so finally you need to neutralize the alkali also. One of the cheapest, most environmentally friendly ways to do this is with distilled white vinegar. Do a spot test to ensure the colorfastness of the fabric first. If the fabric can take it, dab neat vinegar onto the affected area and rub it in. Leave to dry and then vacuum again. If not, mix 1 or 2 cups of vinegar in a gallon bucket, and flush the area, using a wet vac or paper towels to dry the area again.
You may need to repeat the process, alternating between baking soda and vinegar two or three times with particularly nasty odors or old, dried-in stains. Alternatively, use a commercial pet odor neutralizer available from pet stores.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - The beloved Galapagos Islands giant tortoise known as Lonesome George will remain a tourist attraction even in death.
Ecuador's environment minister says the reptile that became a symbol of disappearing species will be embalmed and placed on display on Santa Cruz island.
Minister Marcela Aguinaga told reporters Tuesday that an autopsy determined that Lonesome George died of old age. He was believed to be about 100 years old.
Lonesome George was the last of the Pinta Island giant tortoise subspecies, and he failed to leave offspring despite the best efforts of conservationists.
He was discovered in 1972 discovery on Pinta Island and became an ambassador of sorts for the archipelago off Ecuador's coast whose unique flora and fauna helped inspire Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
Sage Moonblood, Pilot Inspektor, Diva Thin Muffin. The list goes on.
The pope invited a teen with Down Syndrome up to his car for a spin.
Lil Wayne: I wasn't intentionally stepping on the U.S. flag. (Video)
Meet the newest liligers - mom's a liger and dad's a lion. (Photos)
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Hey, Austin: It's Bloody Balloon Battle 2012!
If his mission, like that of the Blues Brothers, is a mission from God … then it's likely some ancient Aztec god like Xochipilli, who requires an annual sacrifice of human blood.
Luckily for us all, Vines' particular mission involves fake blood – approximately 5,000 handsized balloons' worth of it.
That's right: 5,000 blood-filled balloons waiting to be thrown with great force in the brief, mad frenzy that is Bloody Balloon Battle 2012. At which battle all the combatants are encouraged to be dressed in white clothes – and in which battle the general public is invited to participate.
Obvious question, even here in the heart of keep-it-weird Austin:
Why would someone begin a tradition like this in the first place?
"Mainly because it's a hell of a lot of fun," says Vines, grinning. "I did special-effects work on a short film last year, and I had a couple of gallons of fake blood left over. I thought it'd be fun to put it into water balloons, gather a few friends dressed in white, and throw 'em at each other – rather than just pouring it down the drain. So, I posted my idea on Facebook and got so many responses that I quickly realized I didn't have enough fake blood. I got to work making more, and in one week I'd made 1,000 balloons by myself in my living room. Then my friends and I gathered in Adams Park and unleashed hell. The whole thing lasted about a minute and a half. By the end of it, everyone was giggling and covered in blood from head to toe."
And now, due to Vines' wrangling & direction, the crimson spectacle's about to happen again. But maybe even bigger and better than last year?
"There were about 35 or so participants last year," says Vines, "so the 1,000 balloons went pretty quickly. This year, I'll have 5,000 balloons and I'm expecting 100 to 150 participants – so, even with five times the balloons, it still probably won't last more than a few minutes before it's all over. Last year I also had two special "prize" balloons in the mix. One of them was the "Vulcan;" it was filled with green blood. The other was the "Hitchcock," filled with chocolate syrup. The idea was that whoever was struck with one of the those balloons would win a prize. But at the end of the melee, nobody had a trace of green or chocolate on them, so it's likely that the special balloons missed their mark and ended up on the ground. I'm going to do the same thing again this year, and I'm hoping at least one of them will find their target."
And is special effects – are special effects? – is it something that this, ah, sanguinista does for a living?
Vines laughs. "I wish it was my day job!" He nods, chuckling at the thought of it. "It'd be cool as hell to wake up in the morning and make monsters for a living. I'm working towards that, but I've got a long way to go. In the meantime, I'm just having fun learning as much as I can about the craft. I've been dabbling in special-effects work for about six years now, and in that time it's gone from a casual hobby to a semi-professional gig. Lately I've been doing stuff for Blue Goggles Films and Moosestache."
And so here comes the second annual Bloody Balloon Battle, exploding into vivid liquid fury a little past noon on Sunday, November 4th, in Adams Hemphill Park. But this won't be the last one, right? Surely the gung-ho Vines has plans for the future … ?
"Next year, I want to have ten thousand bloody balloons," says Vines. "I want to stage the event on a football field that's entirely covered in white sheets. I want to have it filmed and photographed from every possible angle, and I want an aerial photograph of the blood-splattered ground when the whole thing's done. I'd also love to have next year's event be a charity event for Dell Children's Hospital – and have an actual blood drive, too." He smiles, stretching an empty balloon between stained hands, gazing into some middle distance where fake-blood dreams can come true. "If all goes according to plan," he says, "this event will get larger and larger each year until we finally break the world record for the largest water-balloon fight – only we'll be using blood balloons. The record is currently 175,141 balloons and 8,957 participants."
Vines looks me square in the eye, determined as a masked crusader; I almost expect him to do the Batman Voice.
"If I have my way," he says, "we'll smash that record into a bloody pulp."
Xochipilli would be proud.
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The sudden, violent and unjust overthrow of the duly elected head of the government of Haiti is more than simply the latest tragedy to befall that long-suffering land. After years of foreign occupation and decades of a corrupt dictatorship, the people of Haiti were finally enabled, last year, to express their will freely and democratically. They voted overwhelmingly for Jean-Bertrand Aristide and had the satisfaction of seeing him take office, despite threats and an attempted coup, last February. Now, once again, their hopes have been dashed, perhaps more cruelly than ever before.
Not only has a fragile democracy been thrown aside by armed forces who have yet to explain their actions, but hopes of economic assistance from the international community, aid desperately needed in this poorest of the countries in our hemisphere, have probably been wiped out for the foreseeable future
I wish to express the deep sympathy of our Conference with our fellow bishops of the Haitian Episcopal Conference with whom we have just recently met, and with all the Church and people of Haiti. We join with them in praying that this lawless disregard for the democratic process will soon be reversed and that the Haitian people can begin again to construct a more just, prosperous and peaceful society.
We call on the United States government to collaborate with other nations in the hemisphere to support the return of the elected government and the long postponed hopes of the Haitian people for both democracy and justice.
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Research In Motion's New Operating System, BBX, Unifies BlackBerry And PlayBook Platforms
Research In Motion has unveiled a new mobile operating system that will power its next-generation BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets to better compete with Internet-friendly Apple and Android devices.
The announcement Tuesday came just days after the BlackBerry maker had the worst service outage in its history and as it tries to reposition its wireless devices as market leaders.
"Today, I'm pleased to announce our next-generation platform, BBX," co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said via webcast from RIM's software developer conference in San Francisco.
The new mobile operating system is based on the software already running the PlayBook tablet but has been expanded, Lazaridis said. He was joined on stage by developers to show the new operating system at work on a PlayBook tablet.
Research In Motion (TSX:RIM) is expected to launch a new generation of BlackBerry smartphones that run on the BBX system early next year. They are expected to be even more like mobile computers.
With the more powerful BBX operating system, users will be able to seamlessly perform multiple tasks at the same time, such as watching a video in high-definition and doing emails and other tasks, Lazaridis said.
RIM said BBX will incorporate the reliability and security features of QNX — which RIM snagged in 2010 by purchasing QNX Software Systems. It will also enable software developers to create more advanced, dynamic apps for the devices.
To appeal to more developers, Lazaridis said the BBX operating system will give RIM's future smartphones and tablets the ability to run Android software applications, such as games, business and medical apps.
The Android operating system, developed by Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG), is used on a variety of, smartphones and tablets made by numerous manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC and LG — making it an attractive technology environment.
"We're sensitive to what our developers want. We're trying to understand where they want us to go," said Lazaridis. "BBX positions you, the developer, at the forefront."
Some analysts have complained that it was difficult for developers to write software applications for RIM.
Research In Motion launched its BlackBerry App World store in 2009 and said it achieved more than one billion apps downloaded in July. By comparison, Apple had announced it achieved the same milestone after nine months.
"At DevCon today, we're giving developers the tools they need to build richer applications and we're providing direction on how to best develop their smartphone and tablet apps as the BlackBerry and QNX platforms converge into our next-generation BBX platform," Lazaridis said.
Lazaridis reiterated that Research In Motion won't ditch its PlayBook tablet, which has been languishing on store shelves and has sold fewer than one million units since its debut last April.
"We're absolutely committed to the BlackBerry PlayBook," he said.
RIM also has lost market share in the competitive North American arena to Apple and Android and has faced criticism for not launching new smartphones quickly enough in recent years that provided consumers with an easy-to-use Internet experience.
But RIM has sold 165 million BlackBerrys through August. Apple had sold 129 million iPhones as of June, but its device has been on the market for a much shorter amount of time.
The Waterloo, Ont., company once claimed a market value of about $70 billion and has, from time to time, been Canada's most valuable company.
RIM's shares have been held by millions of Canadians in their pensions, mutual funds or other investments and the company was once of the most widely held in the country. It now has a market value of about $12 billion or so and shareholders have complained about its lagging stock price and corporate leadership.
Activist shareholder Jaguar Financial said Tuesday it had arranged a meeting with two of RIM's independent directors to discuss the issues of governance, among other issues but it was cancelled by RIM.
"Unfortunately, today Jaguar received a call from RIM's counsel informing Jaguar that the planned meeting with the two independent directors would not proceed," said Vic Alboini, the Toronto-based company's chairman and CEO.
Jaguar has said it wants RIM to either be sold, split up or have its leadership changed. Both Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie serve as co-chairmen and chief executives.
"As tiny as this incident may appear, we believe it speaks volumes about the sad state of governance at RIM. Our call for a strong and respected independent chairman and new transformational CEO rings loud and clear," Alboini said in a statement.
RIM said after consulting with a lawyer it doesn't believe that Jaguar's interests are "aligned" with the company's long-term shareholders and declined to meet.
What may be more pressing for RIM is how consumers like its devices with the new BBX operating system.
Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies & Co. in New York, said much of RIM's future depends on releasing the new generation of BlackBerrys.
The conference comes after a global outage of BlackBerry text, email and Internet services last week that hit Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North and South America.
To make amends for the outage, RIM has offered its 70 million users a selection of free apps totalling $100 and its business customers free tech support for a month.
This is not the first time the company has stumbled with its future at stake. RIM overcame doubts when it went public 14 years ago and then again during the tech crash 11 years ago. At one point, a patent dispute threatened to shut down BlackBerry service in the U.S. until the company settled in 2006.
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This book shows how to use a mixture of home-grown scripts, native SQL Server tools, and tools from the Red Gate SQL Toolbelt, to successfully develop database applications in a team environment, and make database development as similar as possible to "normal" development.
Only small projects, relevant to very few people, are built by the sweat and toil of a lone developer. Larger projects, affecting whole organizations, will invariably require a team of people to design and develop the application and its storage layer, or database.
In some cases, this will mean some developers and one or two DBAs, but larger organizations can afford a higher degree of specialization, so there will be developers who work exclusively within the data access layer of an application, database developers who specialize in writing T-SQL, architects who design databases from scratch based on business requirements, and so on. Stepping up the scale even further, some projects require multiple development teams, each working on a different aspect of the application and database, and each team performing of a collection of these specialized tasks. All these people will have to work together, mixing and matching their bits and pieces of work, to arrive at a unified delivery: an application and its database.
While performing this feat of legerdemain, they'll also have to deal with the fact that the different teams may be at different points in the development life cycle, and that each team may have dependencies on another. These various differences and dependencies will lead to conflict as the teams attempt to work on a single shared system.
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This book shows how to use of mixture of home-grown scripts, native SQL Server tools, and tools from the Red Gate SQL Toolbelt (such as SQL Compare, SQL Source Control, SQL Prompt, and so on), to successfully develop database applications in a team environment, and make database development as similar as possible to "normal" development.
It shows how to solve many of the problems that the team will face when writing, documenting, and testing database code in a team environment, including all the areas below.
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- Deploying code between environments.
- Unit testing.
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- Searching and refactoring your code base.
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Not far from Valdivia, and worth a visit, are the Spanish forts at Niebla and Corral. The river that divides these two forts still has a sunken ship further in that was swept up by the massive earthquake that hit Valdivia in 1960. The earthquake caused massive damage to the area.
To view the forts you can get to Niebla by car or bus. To get to Corral you should take a ferry across.
The Castillo de Niebla is a 30 minute drive approx outside of Valdivia towards the coast. It is the ruins of an old fort which is now a preserved monument and tourist attraction. There are the remains of some of the barracks which now houses a museum with maps, paintings and ornaments and outside there are old gun establishments.
There is a small admission fee.
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Well, today I thought I would submit a lesson on a specific subculture that I used to be a part of. Everyone knows about the tutorial I did on the cartoon emo character I drew, and I also have some other tutorials on emo characters that I created in the past. Today, I will be teaching you guys "how to draw Gothic", step by step. Even though we are all familiar with this word, have you ever thought about when and where it was originated? First off, it all started in the United Kingdom back in the eighties being a rub off of the punk genre. We started to see some simplified examples of the goth subculture with bands like “The Cure”, and from movies with a lot of vampires like Dracula. Soon enough fashion started becoming more and more important and cultural with the goth genre. Chained pants from brand names like Tripp, and shirts with fishnet sleeves and arm socks where some of the fashion trends if you are or where part of the Gothic crowd. Dark eye lined make-up is also something that is very common with individuals, and sometimes one will add a white tone to their normal skin color to add a more intensifying look. Performers like Marilyn Manson also maintains a Gothic sense of style as he displays in his all of his videos, and in music. Dark black hair, dark eyes, and dark clothes, this is some of the traits that one would be equipped with, and as you can tell, it is all very similar to the emo subculture. For individuals that fall in the emo category, they are more sensitive, a bit more creative, and they are more reserved then a Gothic individual. This is why they say that emo is short for “emotional” because they truly are. I had a friend a while ago that was severely traumatized from something that happened to her when she was young. Of course I never tried to prey into her life, I just let her take baby steps until she opened up to me. When this happened, I knew she trusted me. It is very hard for an adolescent who is emo to trust people. Anyway, I think you guys will like this tutorial that shows you "how to draw Gothic". I tried to have fun with the character, and if you can’t tell, she is holding a Gothic cross rosary in her hands. That’s about it, I will be back later with more drawing fun. Enjoy folks!
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High and low, high and low, up in the sky and away you go with the Little Movers Airplane.
- Lights, sounds and a fun sing-along song help your child's imagination take flight. The Little People figures wiggle and wobble as kids spin the airplane wheels.
- The toy's easy-to-use carry handle helps the airplane seem to soar through the sky. The set includes the toy plane and 3 Little People figures: Mia and Roberto are your passengers while the trained pilot takes your child on an imaginative ride through the skies.
- Requires 3 AA batteries.
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Your child will love this toy airplane! Watch as he/she pretends to be a real pilot with this fun-filled plane.
Push the plane and watch the people wiggle in their seats; push down on the pilot and watch the plane come to life! The bright lights, fun sounds, and a song really add to the fun!
The handle serves two purposes: it helps enact flight simulation during play AND it makes this toy easy to take to their friends' houses!
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When I read the Pocohontas story to my kids (we have the Disney version), we usually have a little discussion when we get to the page where Pocohontas attempts to dissuade her father (the local Indian chief) from starting a war with the settlers. The kids are interested in the idea that both people are trying to do the right thing, but they have completely different ideas about what the right thing is.
For those of you not familiar with the story, Pocohontas has fallen in love with a mercenary on the voyage (John Smith), and the two of them want to establish peace between the settlers and the natives. The book suggests that peace involves the settlers staying in North America. Powhatan, her father, is assembling a war party to drive the settlers away.
We can look back in history to better understand who was "right".
- As the book makes clear, a war between the settlers and the Indians is going to lead to many Indian casualties, since the settlers have guns and the Indians do not. Furthermore, most of the settlers are not intending to do harm to the Indians, as they've been told they are settling land that has no ownership yet. Pocohontas' efforts end up saving many well-intentioned people's lives.
- These same settlers would probably understand that, had they landed anywhere in England and built a village where they landed, they would be summarily evicted by whomever owned the land they were on. The racism here is lightly touched on in the book, but it's helpful because it's pretty easy for the kids to see how convenient it is for the settlers to suppose that nobody in North America owns anything yet.
- I usually tell the kids what little I know of the Mauri, the indigenous people of New Zealand. As I understand it, they immediately made war with white folks who arrived. I suspect that the Mauri were territorial in a way that worked better with the White conception of property, and because of that Mauri today have a significant representation in the New Zealand constitution and legislature, and own very large amounts of New Zealand's real estate. I expect many Native Americans would prefer the Mauri outcome to their own.
- The Na'vi are territorial. They have a few specific high-value trees. My understanding is that most of the North American natives had a much less specific sense of property.
- The movie has the natives resisting under human leadership, which is interesting to think about. It seems a bit condescending (especially the bit where the human, after 3 months of training, is outperforming the best of the natives), but historically North American natives really did not grasp the nature of the European threat fast enough to organize a massive resistance in time, and it seems at least possible that a charismatic European might have communicated the continent-level consequences of the European idea of property to enough of them to organize a resistance.
I once asked a friend who is a lawyer if all property rights, at least in North America, trace back to peace treaties of some kind, or if some (particular the French claim to the center of the continent that was then sold as the Louisiana Purchase) are based on bald assertions of authority without even a war. I never did get a decent answer.
If, in reading this post, anyone is wondering if I'm willing to cede my house to a Native American, the answer is no.
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The criminal justice system at both the national and local level consists of law enforcement agencies, courts with judges and attorneys and corrections from community-release programs to maximum-security prisons. After decades of increasing the nation's prison population, however, many states are looking for less costly alternatives for punishing nonviolent offenders. The rise of DNA testing as a forensic tool, and the subsequent release from death row of inmates wrongly convicted, has fueled the movement to abolish the death penalty with Connecticut becoming the 17th state abolished capital punishment in April 2012. Overall crime rates have been trending downward for more than a decade for a variety of reasons from better policing and social programs to an aging population, according to experts. That in turn has reduced the potency of crime as an issue for politicians campaigning on their toughness on criminals. And with the economy in crisis, pollsters are finding the public more concerned about jobs than crime.
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One of the many things I enjoy about both knitting and crocheting is that they both tend to be fairly straightforward. You start with X number of stitches, work them in stitch pattern Y, and when you’re done, you have project Z completed.
Except sometimes, it’s not all that straightforward. There are increases and decreases to be worked, colors to be changed in and out, stitch patterns to be changed between, finishing to be done…you get the idea. Once you start thinking about all that, your nice, easy hobby becomes a bit more daunting. There’s no reason to panic, though — all these things are really, when it comes down to it, still pretty straightforward.
Let’s take a look at increases, for instance. When you encounter an instruction for an increase, try not to over-think it. Most of the time, the instructions are pretty literal.
In crochet, the most common increase is to work two stitches into one (e.g., “2 sc in next st”). This can be a little confusing if you over-think it, but it’s really literally just what it says: you make a single crochet (sc) into the next stitch just as you normally would, then you go back into that same stitch and make another sc. That’s all there is to it. (Note: it doesn’t have to be a sc — this increase can be done with any type of stitch.)
Knitting increases are a little more complicated. Some involve making a completely new stitch between two other stitches, like the yarn-over (YO) or make 1 (m1). One of the most common, however, is the kfb, which stands for “knit in the front and back of the stitch.” There is one little trick to this stitch, and that is that after you make the first knit (into the front of the stitch), you don’t complete the ultimate step of removing the worked stitch from the left needle; instead, you immediately make the second stitch (into the back of the stitch). Only then do you remove the worked stitch from the left needle.
See? Increases are nothing to fret about!
One thing that will help you keep on track is to check your total stitch count whenever you’re given a reference in the pattern. It’ll look something like this at the end of a row: “– 15 (17, 19).” If your stitch count is correct, you should be in pretty good shape.
Need more help? Visit our YouTube channel for new video tutorials on increasing.
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Southern Hospitality, Courtesy of the Deans
Suzanne Pollack and Lee Manigault are the duo behind the Charleston Academy of Domestic Pursuits. The ladies, known as The Deans, host classes and events that cover everything from beer brewing to making your own edible gifts and packaging. Even with the growing number of world-class restaurants in Charleston, turning one’s home into a themed eatery is a South Carolina pastime. After producing our May/June Wander story on Charleston, AFAR wondered whether our notions about what a proper Charleston bash meant might be a little outdated. So we ran the following ideas past The Deans to see if we knew how to do it right.
AFAR: If it’s not fried, don’t eat it.
THE DEANS: The modern culinary arts have finally reached Charleston shores. No longer does going out mean being accosted by macaroni cheese, Jell-o molds and fried chicken. The legions of fried foods persist because that’s what ya’ll expect when you visit Charleston. But The Deans can assure you that in our kitchens we braise, poach, sauté and even sous vide if needed.
Restaurants like Husk, Macintosh, and Fig are part of the locavore movement that is breaking the fried-food stereotype in Charleston. Only fresh produce and meat from South Carolina and neighboring states is used to make dishes such as mustard-crusted grey triggerfish and confit duck leg with glazed beets. Marion Square farmers market is a popular haunt for residents on Saturdays from April to December.
AFAR: Manners matter—Yes ma’am, yes sir.
THE DEANS: If there comes a time when good manners are no longer in vogue, we hope we are in our graves long before. Manners exist so we don’t offend one another when we go out in public. “Yes ma’am” and “yes sir” are only the frosting. The Deans use their dining room table as a classroom for our children, where manners and etiquette can be taught and reinforced on a daily basis. A quick tip: always leave the blade of your knife toward the plate and your napkin on the seat.
AFAR: Southern hospitality is key—strangers welcome.
How else can the wheels of society turn if we don’t expand our social network on a regular basis? If The Deans take a shine to someone, that person can be assured of an invitation to one of our houses shortly.
One Charleston party staple is an oyster roast. It’s a cold weather affair where pounds of mollusks are steamed on sheet metal over a coal fire. A wet towel is thrown over the oysters to create the steam. Once cooked, guests stand around outdoor tables and shuck the seafood—discarding the empty shells in a center pit. We guarantee you’ll make plenty of new friends by throwing one of these.
AFAR: On time means strolling in fifteen minutes late.
Not in Charleston. Not ever. Six o’clock means six o’clock, not 6:15, not 6:30. This is not a generational divide. Events in Charleston start at the appointed time.
AFAR: Collared shirts for the guys, dresses to the ankles for the girls.
It is common for men to wear blazers for dinner parties, but there is no firm dress code. Fashion trends are always changing and Charlestonians keep up with the times. In the South, even men know how to dress to the nines. Places like the Carolina Yacht Club host annual black tie events that are men-only affairs. Don’t worry ladies, we enjoy exclusive get-togethers too.
AFAR: No evites. Paper only.
Absolutely! Our favorite place is RSVP Shoppe on Broad Street. Not only are paper invitations a must, so are paper thank you notes. All notes are handwritten, with recipients names underlined in the bottom corner. Did we mention the cards are always dropped off and never mailed?
For more information about what The Deans are up to at the Academy, visit charlestonacademyofdomesticpursuits.com.
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Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at a lunch hosted by Mr. SAITO, Vice-Chairman of BIAC, with members of Keidanren
Tokyo, 24th April 2012
(As prepared for delivery)
Dear friends, dear Mr. Saito,
It is a great pleasure to exchange views with Keidanren members on each of my visits to Tokyo.
Today, more than one year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, I would like to focus on the future, on a fundamental source of growth and human progress, for Japan as for every country: the skills of our people.
The skills of a country have become a determinant factor in their efforts to recover from the crisis and build a stronger, cleaner and fairer economic growth. The skills of our people represent that refined material with which we build the future of our nations, but it is also a key component of our solutions to immediate problems, like unemployment, poverty or climate change.
This is why at OECD we have developed a Skills Strategy, which we will present to our Ministers in May, during our upcoming Ministerial Meeting. This Strategy will help countries identify the strengths and weaknesses of their national skills systems, benchmark them internationally, and develop policies that turn better skills into better jobs and better lives.
We need to better understand the skills that drive our economies. We then need to make sure that those skills are taught and learned effectively over the course of our entire lives. And we need to provide an environment in which employers fully utilise the talent available to them. This is everyone’s business: governments, employers, employees, and learners need to establish sustainable arrangements as to who pays for what, when and how.
Let me share with you some of the main implications of the OECD Skills Strategy for a country like Japan.
It all starts with developing the right skills.
A generation ago, Japanese teachers could be sure that what they taught their students would remain relevant throughout their lifetime. Today, education and training need to prepare people for more rapid change than ever before, for jobs that have not yet been created, using technologies that have not yet been invented, to solve problems that we don’t yet know will arise.
Education today needs to be much more about ways of thinking, involving creativity, problem-solving and decision-making; about ways of working, including communication and collaboration; about tools for working, including the capacity to recognise and exploit the potential of new technologies; and, last but not least, about the capacity to live in a multi-faceted world as active and responsible citizens.
However, results from PISA – the OECD International Programme for Student Assessment -- show that many Japanese students still struggle with tasks requiring them to creatively use and apply knowledge in novel situations. For sure this is an area where Japan has seen important progress. But it still needs to work hard to create a culture of lifelong learning.
Here is what it takes to do this.
Japan first needs to gather and use better intelligence about changing skill demand. Japan can also better engage the business sector in designing and delivering curricula, education and training programmes. You need to link better the world of learning and the world of work.
Learning in the workplace allows young people to develop ‘hard’ skills on modern equipment, and ‘soft’ skills through real-world experience. Hands-on workplace training can also smooth the transition from education into the labour market and help to motivate disengaged youth to stay in or re-engage with the education system. It is also essential to ensure sufficient local flexibility in designing and managing training programmes.
Tapping underutilised resources and talents is also essential.
Once again, developing the right skills is just the beginning. The much harder challenge for Japan lies in making more effective use of its talent. In fact, many Japanese have strong skills, but for a variety of reasons they do not bring them fully to bear in the labour market. And we know from research – and from our own experience – that unused skills deteriorate.
In particular, the female labour force remains heavily under-used in Japan. In 2010, 63% of working-age women were employed in Japan, as opposed to 85% of working-age men. Japan needs to better identify inactive individuals and the reasons for their inactivity. It will need to create financial incentives that make work pay and dismantle non-financial barriers to participation in the labour force. One of these is the workplace culture, which promotes long working hours and excessively favours seniority. Japan will need to reform its remuneration and career systems, provide high-quality affordable childcare to all parents and encourage a more equal sharing of parental leave. This would help, inter alia, to reduce its gender pay gap, the second largest in the OECD.
In undertaking these reforms, Japan can find inspiration in our current OECD initiative on gender equality. This project looks at measures that encourage further gender equality in three critical areas: education, employment and entrepreneurship. We will present its first results in our up-coming Ministerial Meeting end of May.
But women are not the only underutilised labour resource in Japan. Older workers also have much to contribute and could be brought to the labour force. With the highest dependency ratio in the OECD, Japan will need to consider extending its retirement age, even if 69% of its older workers are already employed.
Aligning skills with demands and needs is another a key challenge
But even if the right skills are developed and people are willing to supply them, that does not guarantee that they will be effectively used. Youth unemployment is a tragedy in many OECD countries. And a bad start into professional life leaves scars. In this regard, Japan looks a lot better than most other OECD countries. But improvement is possible in some important areas. Let me highlight those where employers can act:
- First, Japanese employers need to re-align their business strategies with human-resource practices and skills development in their workforce. Firms that are good at deploying accepted best-practice management techniques are more innovative and perform significantly better. In well-managed firms, the skills of employees are used more productively and this also has a strong positive impact on job satisfaction.
- Second, Japan needs better information on the skills needed and available, including through transparent qualification systems. Quality career guidance should become a critical part of Japan’s skills strategy. It can steer individuals to the learning programmes that would be best for their prospective careers. Coherent and easy-to-interpret qualifications facilitate recruitment and matching. Competency-based qualifications provide employers with a sense of what a future employee can perform on the job. They also enable individuals with work experience to secure credentials reflecting their skills “learned on the job”.
- Third, Japan could benefit from still more flexible work arrangements. Family and professional lives are increasingly interwoven and have to be managed in parallel. Work places have to adapt to these changes and offer much more flexibility to avoid excluding individuals from active professional life, beginning with women. As already mentioned, this is crucial and duly documented in our report on Gender Equality.
Another avenue for Japan is to stimulate the creation of more high-skilled and high value-added jobs. Labour markets are not static; policies can ‘shape’ demand, rather than merely respond to it. By fostering competition, policy makers can contribute to stronger growth and the creation of more productive and rewarding jobs.
Last but not least, Japan needs still more entrepreneurs. This is critical for the economy to renew itself and stay creative. And entrepreneurship skills can be learned and fostered through education. Japan’s education and training institutions can help their students to identify opportunities, turn them into successful ventures, and recognise and respond to difficulties and obstacles that may emerge. In promoting entrepreneurship, universities themselves need to be entrepreneurial and innovative.
Ladies and gentlemen,
This is a tough agenda, but one on which Japan’s future critically depends. Without adequate investment in skills, people languish on the margins of society, technological progress does not translate into inclusive economic growth, and countries can no longer compete in an increasingly knowledge-based global society.
In short, skills have become the global currency of 21st century economies. But individuals lose the skills they do not use, so this ‘currency’ can depreciate. For skills to retain their value, they must be continuously developed throughout life. Getting the best returns on investment in skills depends on determining and anticipating the skills required by the labour market. It also calls for developing and using those skills effectively.
Working towards achieving this is everyone’s business. And employers have a central role to play. I am confident that Keidanren will be a key player in ensuring that Japan develops and implements a successful skills strategy. I look forward to discussing it with you.
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NEXAVAR may cause birth defects or death of an unborn baby. Avoid becoming pregnant while taking NEXAVAR and for at least 2 weeks after stopping your treatment. Men and women should use birth control during and at least 2 weeks after NEXAVAR therapy. Call your doctor right away if you become pregnant. Do not breastfeed while taking NEXAVAR as this medication may be passed through breast milk. continue reading below »
A diagnosis of cancer can change everything in an instant. Depending on the type of cancer you have, there can be several different treatment options, each with many specific considerations to keep in mind. That is why it is important for you to take an active role from the beginning by talking with your doctor to develop the best treatment plan for you.
This website provides information on Nexavar—one of several anticancer treatments that may be an important part of that plan. Nexavar is an FDA-approved oral anticancer medicine available only by prescription.
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Treatment with Nexavar is proven to have certain benefits but can also carry serious side effects, so it is especially important to continually communicate with your health care team about what you can expect on your treatment plan.
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The "Boom" Goes Boink?
Development got off to a slow start as the winning companies moved into the planning and design process. Some of the delay arose from the fact that, before they could get shovels in the ground, the companies had to gather baseline environmental data to comply with the slew of new environmental laws recently adopted by Congress - the Wilderness Act in 1964, the Clean Air Act in 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 1970, the Clean Water Act in 1972, the Endangered Species Act in 1973, and the Safe Drinking Water Act in 1974. Furthermore, any operations beginning on BLM lands after 1976 would also have to meet the requirements of that year's Federal Lands Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), which compels the agency to develop land use plans that accommodate multiple uses and protect the scenic qualities of the landscape.
Whether these new regulations, economic fluctuations, the old technological difficulties, or (most likely) a combination of factors were responsible, by 1976 oil shale development seemed more boink than boom. The embargo-induced energy crisis had abated, inflation was up, lessees had started requesting a suspension of their leases until the situation changed for the better, two companies had given up their leases entirely (although they maintained other private holdings in the area), and the industry's outlook was generally sour. Even the official industry magazine, Shale Country, folded up. 16
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Name: Michael Faraday English physicists Date of birth: September 22, 1791 Date of death: August 25, 1867 Profession: Physicist, Chemist Awards won: Copley Medal, Rumford Medal, Royal Medal Michael Faraday MICHAEL FARADY is the source of inspiration to people who think that higher education is absolutely necessary to be a renowned scientist like Faraday. This is not so! To support this argument Michael Faraday is t Continue Reading.
Biography of Sir Isaac Newton: Sir Isaac Newton Isaac Newton alone contributed more to the development of science than any other individual scientist in history of science. Newton was the most successful scientist in the world who meticulously defined scientific methods and their impacts upon human life. Newton’s contribution to modern science is enormous and immeasurable. He is widely acclaimed and recognise Continue Reading.
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This soundtrack to the revolutionary natural history documentary (or so I've read, I can't track down a copy of the DVD locally) was never supposed to be commercially available. Composer Edward Williams had 100 copies privately pressed on vinyl to give away to the musicians involved in the score only. Fortunately, Trunk records has released this compelling collection of tracks officially on cd for the rest of us to enjoy.
Reviewing soundtrack work can be tricky. It's hard to know how to talk about the music in relation to the visuals that it originally accompanied. Luckily, I don't have this problem since I've completely missed out on seeing the original "Life on Earth" documentary. What I'm left with is the raw music to create my own visuals with internally. It's easy to do because the sounds and melodies that Williams presents are so colorful and captivating. Just pop this disc in and before you know it you'll be slipping off into a dream world of dramatic growth and discovery.
Willaims' score immediately reminds me of vintage sci-fi dramas- its otherworldly charms are filled equally with orchestral sounds and synthesizer flourishes. Quiet, eastern tinged melodic passages share equal space with symphonic bombast. There is a decidedly 1970's feel that is hard to pin down- maybe it's just the recording quality, but something in the music seems slightly over saturated (in the best way possible). I can only imagine how epic the retelling of nature's evolution on our planet might seem being presented via this music. Williams score is part space voyage, part vintage Disney soundtrack and part avant garde experimentation. It's unique to say the least, and quite an adventure to experience. 8/10 -- Charles Franklin (28 April, 2010)
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Gasoline prices have increased rapidly during the past several years, pushed up mainly by the sharply rising price of oil. A gallon of gasoline in the US rose from $1.50 in 2002 to $2 in 2004 to $2.50 in 2006 to over $4 at present. Gasoline prices almost trebled during these 6 years compared to very little change in nominal gas prices during the prior fifteen years. The US federal tax on gasoline has remained at 18.4 cents per gallon during this period of rapid growth in gasoline prices, while state excise taxes add another 21.5 cents per gallon. In addition, many local governments levy additional sales and other taxes on gasoline. Gasoline taxes have not risen much as the price of gasoline exploded upward.
The price of gasoline is much lower than in other rich countries mainly because American taxes are far smaller. For example, gasoline taxes in Germany and the United Kingdom amount to about $3 per gallon. Some economists and environmentalists have called for large increases in federal, state, and local taxes to make them more comparable to gasoline taxes in other countries. Others want these taxes to rise by enough so that at least they would have kept pace with the sharply rising pre-tax fuel prices. At the same time two presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, proposed a temporary repeal during this summer of the federal tax in order to give consumers a little relief from the higher gas prices. We discuss the optimal tax on gasoline, and how the sharp increase in gas prices affected its magnitude.
Taxes on gasoline are a way to induce consumers to incorporate the "external" damages to others into their decision of how much to drive and where to drive. These externalities include the effects of driving on local and global pollution, such as the contribution to global warming from the carbon emitted into the atmosphere by burnt gasoline. One other important externality is the contribution of additional driving to road congestion that slows the driving speeds of everyone and increases the time it takes to go a given distance. Others include automobile accidents that injure drivers and pedestrians, and the effect of using additional gasoline on the degree of dependence on imported oil from the Middle East and other not very stable parts of the world.
A careful 2007 study by authors from Resources for the Future evaluates the magnitudes of all these externalities from driving in the US (see Harrington, Parry, and Walls, "Automobile Externalities and Policies", Journal of Economic Literature, 2007, pp 374-400). They estimate the total external costs of driving at 228 cents per gallon of gas used, or at 10.9 cents per mile driven, with the typical car owned by American drivers. Their breakdown of this total among different sources is interesting and a little surprising. They attribute only 6 cents of the total external cost to the effects of gasoline consumption on global warming through the emission of carbon into the atmosphere from the burning of gasoline, and 12 cents from the increased dependency on imported oil. Perhaps their estimate of only 6 cents per gallon is a large underestimate of the harmful effects of gasoline use on global warming. Yet even if we treble their estimate, that only raises total costs of gasoline use due to the effects on global warming by 12 cents per gallon. That still leaves the vast majority of the external costs of driving to other factors.
They figure that local pollution effects amount to 42 cents per gallon, which makes these costs much more important than even the trebled cost of global warming. According to their estimates, still more important costs are those due to congestion and accidents, since these are 105 cents and 63 cents per gallon, respectively. Their figure for the cost of traffic accidents is likely too high –as the authors' recognize- because it includes the cost in damages to property and person of single vehicle accidents, as when a car hits a tree. Presumably, single vehicle accidents are not true externalities because drivers and their passengers would consider their possibility and internalize them into their driving decisions. Moreover, the large effect of drunk driving on the likelihood of accidents should be treated separately from a gasoline tax by directly punishing drunk drivers rather than punishing also sober drivers who are far less likely to get into accidents.
On the surface, these calculations suggest that American taxes on gasoline, totaling across all levels of government to about 45 cents per gallon, are much too low. However, the federal tax of 18.4 cents per gallon is almost exactly equal to their figure of 18 cents per gallon as the external costs of global warming and oil dependency. To be sure, a trebled estimate for global warming would bring theirs up to 30 cents per gallon. However, the federal government also taxes driving through its mandated fuel efficiency standards for cars, although this is an inefficient way to tax driving since it taxes the type of car rather than driving. Still, the overall level of federal taxes does not fall much short, if at all, from the adjusted estimate of 30 cents per gallon of damages due to the effects of gasoline use on global warming and oil dependency.
Any shortfall in taxes would be at the state and local levels in combating externalities due to local pollution effects, and to auto accidents and congestion on mainly local roads. Here too, however, the discrepancy between actual and optimal gasoline taxes is far smaller than it may seem, and not only because single vehicle accidents are included in their estimate of the cost of car accidents, and accidents due to drunk driving should be discouraged through punishments to drunk drivers. One important reason is that congestion should be reduced not by general gasoline taxes, but by special congestion taxes- as used in London and a few other cities- that vary in amount with degree of congestion (see our discussion of congestion taxes on February 12, 2006). Congestion taxes are a far more efficient way to reduce congestion than are general taxes on gasoline that apply also when congestion is slight.
In addition and often overlooked, the sharp rise in pre-tax gasoline prices has partly accomplished the local pollution and auto accident goals that would be achieved by higher gas taxes. For higher prices have cut driving, just as taxes would, and will cut driving further in the future as consumers continue to adjust the amount and time of their driving to gasoline that costs more than $4 a gallon. Reduced driving will lower pollution and auto accidents by reducing the number of cars on the road during any time period, especially during heavily traveled times when pollution and accidents are more common.
The effects of high gas prices in reducing congestion, local pollution, and accident externalities could be substantial. These authors estimate the size of local driving externalities, aside from congestion costs, at 105 cents per gallon. Even after the sharp run up in gas prices, this may still exceed the 28 cents per gallon of actual state and local taxes, but the gap probably is small. It surely is a lot smaller than it was before gas prices exploded on the back of the climb in the cost of oil. In effect, by reducing driving, higher gasoline prices have already done much of the work in reducing externalities that bigger gas taxes would have done when prices were lower.
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No matter how often we bang on about it, there will always be some people who neglect to back up their valuable data. But it’s an important task, so we’ll repeat our advice: fail to back up, and you’ll risk losing everything stored on your PC.
Back up and restore with Crashplan
You might think your daily computing activities are relatively ‘safe’, and have perhaps never even had a virus on your machine; you may believe it will never happen to you. But data loss is often caused by events outside of your control. See Security Advisor.
Your PC could be stolen, for example, or suffer fire damage. A simple power surge could take it to an early grave. Hard-drive failure is another what if, and data recovery won’t always be possible.
Whether your computer is primarily used for work or leisure, the results of data loss can be catastrophic.
Don’t keep putting off to another day the proper safeguarding of your data. Scheduling backups to occur automatically requires only a little thought and energy.
If nothing else, you could copy to an external hard drive all your irreplaceable photos and important documents. Although this won’t eliminate the potential for local damage or theft, it will rule out data loss in the event of total hard-drive failure. Offsite backup is a better choice.
Over the following pages, we explain how to set up and use CrashPlan, a cloud-based storage service with a cross-platform desktop client.
CrashPlan works with Windows, Mac and Linux, while Android, iOS and Windows Phone support is coming later this year. You can download a 30-day free trial from crashplanuk.com. Download Crashplan.
Get started with Crashplan
Step 1. Head to crashplanuk.com to take a look at the options on offer. For the purposes of our workshop, we downloaded the 30-day trial. Click ‘Download Free 30 Day Trial’, then click the correct link for your operating system. We chose ‘Download for Windows’. Opt to save the downloaded file to your machine. See Crashplan review.
Step 2. Run the setup file and follow the prompts to install and configure CrashPlan. The setup wizard will request that you create an account by entering a username (a valid email address) and a password. Keep a note of your login credentials, since you will need them to access the service. See Crashplan Pro review.
Step 3. CrashPlan will begin backing up your data as per its default settings following the completion of your account. This can take some time, depending on how much data is installed on your computer. CrashPlan will inform you when the process is complete via its simple, easy-to-navigate interface. Crashplan wins Best Utility 2011.
Step 4. A number of configurable settings allow you to ensure CrashPlan is covering your backup needs effectively. Click Settings, then choose the General tab. From here you can specify when CrashPlan runs its backup duties; you can also give your PC a meaningful name – useful if you have more than one machine.
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This issue brief examines methamphetamine use, its impact on Missouri communities, and policy initiatives proposed to curb methamphetamine use and production. The paper also presents an overview of key ingredients used to make meth, primarily pseudoephedrine, and summarizes existing policies addressing pseudoephedrine availability.
This study examines the current state of health care in the criminal justice system and objectively assess the major health needs, concerns, and challenges found within Missouri's correctional system.
This issue overview presents a broad look at how Missouri and other states have defined and worked on issues relating to charity care. Within the parameters of hospital charity care, this paper examines the historical context in which charity care emerged and evolved, as well as important concepts that have stemmed from the topic of charity care. It provides a broad sketch of the national landscape of charity care, paying special attention to the state of Missouri, and discusses policy and legal implications of charity care.
This paper provides an overview of health promotion and prevention services in a faith-based setting. It offers background information, history and assets of faith communities, preliminary provisions regarding health-related activities in a faith-based setting, key elements for successful faith-based programming and illustrations of faith-based programs.
This document provides definitions, background information, and statistics relating to respite care. It discusses key elements for successful programming and offers examples of model respite care programs.
This paper offers a brief history and definitions from the field of social marketing. It includes relevant social marketing theories and models, elements of effective campaigns, and examples of successful programs. The document concludes by reviewing the main components that can be used to successfully develop a social marketing campaign.
This paper outlines the basic premises on which health promotion is founded. This document provides a brief overview of the issue, key elements of success, definitions and explanations of concepts used within the field of health promotion, and a discussion of general concepts that lead to effective programming. It features specific examples of successful health promotion programs targeted to youth.
This issue brief provides definitions and significant development from the field of case management. It discusses its role in health care and provides diagrams of case management as well as examples of successful programs.
This study provides an overview of the general structure of both the Massachusetts and Japanese health care systems and outlines how each achieves universal health care for its residents. Additionally, the paper compares and contrasts no only the health care systems, but the demographic and cultural differences that affect the implementation of the health structures within these entities. Finally, the paper concludes with an outlook on how universal coverage in Massachusetts might affect the health outcomes of the residents of that state.
This brief paper presents an estimate of the number of uninsured Missouri residents likely to receive health insurance coverage under the 2004 Democratic Presidential contenders' health care plans. Their proposals differ in scope, complexity, and cost. Most analysis of those plans have been focused at the national level. The impact on a specific state has rarely been determined.
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“Consumption-based footprinting” is a mouthful, but while it may not flow smoothly off the tongue, it’s an elegant concept — and an important way of looking at our problems.
A footprint, of course, is the measurement of the total impacts of a thing, be it a building, business, or ballgame. Consumption, of course, describes the things we use. So consumption-based footprinting is an attempt to measure the total impacts of everything we use. Boiled down: If we use it, its emissions are ours, no matter where the thing originated.
Now, footprinting is a bit of an arcane art. Because cities themselves are brain-boggling in their complexity, modeling the kinds and amounts of greenhouse gases their economies create represents a considerable task. It is not an impossible task, however, especially if what we’re seeking is a model good enough to guide decision-making, not a perfect reflection of reality.
In order to get our “good-enough” model, we need to know what it is we’re trying to measure — and this is where the disagreements really begin. Essentially, there are three camps, which we might think of as city-map footprinting, mailbox footprinting, and shopping-basket footprinting (though their technical descriptions are often geographic, production, and consumption footprinting, respectively).
The city-map footprinters generally say we should measure those emissions created within a city, or created to directly power activities within a city: the oil burned in the cars we drive, the gas burned in our hot-water heaters, the coal burned in a nearby power plant to electrify the garage door, that sort of thing. This is the most common approach to footprinting, but its virtue is simplicity rather than accuracy.
The mailbox footprinters say we should measure all the emissions we ourselves produce. In other words, yes, we should include our cars, water heaters, and garage doors, but also the emissions our factories and workplaces create in the process of making the goods and services we export. This is a less common approach.
The shopping-basket footprinters say we should count all the emissions created by the things we use and consume, or created by the systems that support those things. So, yes, we should count our cars, water heaters, and garage doors, but also the roads on which those cars drive, the manufacturing plants that made those water heaters, and the mining and shipping operations that produced the coal burned to raise and lower those garage doors. Basically, this consumption-based approach says that if we use something and benefit from its use, we are responsible for all of the greenhouse gases it took to make that thing.
Even this can seem a bit complex, though, so I like to imagine that carbon emissions are cakes, and emissions-reductions are a diet. If we think of cakes and diets, we see that the three approaches like to count very different calories:
- Geographic footprinters say, “I will count only those cakes I both bake and eat at home.”
- Production footprinters say, “I will count all the cakes I bake, whether I eat them or not.”
- Consumption footprinters say, “I will count all the cakes I eat, no matter who bakes them.”
If what we care about is modifying our caloric intake (read: greenhouse gases), consumption-based footprinting is clearly the best approach. (For ethical reasons, we may also want to take a hard look at the kind and number of cakes we’re baking and sending elsewhere, but if we’re looking to lose weight … well, baker, heal thyself.)
Consumption-based footprinting helps us imagine carbon zero cities, because it gives us a truer sense of our climate impacts. In addition, it draws our attention to big systems. Looking at our lives, we begin to realize that large percentages of the greenhouse gases created in the process of housing ourselves, feeding ourselves, shopping, working, and getting around are emitted out of our sight or within systems not immediately amenable to change by individuals. We have a lot of work to do, and we cannot reach our emissions goals simply by tweaking the end product in a system — because most of our emissions come from the inner workings of the systems themselves.
This kind of understanding can be overwhelming, but also empowering: If we can see the systems that underpin our various ways of living, we can see, too, how changing those systems can produce large reductions in emissions patterns. Every city will be different, of course, having differently shaped carbon footprints and thus different systems-change priorities. But every city can use consumption-based footprinting to see its climate impacts more clearly and completely.
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KU is regarded as one of the premier research institutions in the country, and researchers in our department are at the forefront of advancing knowledge in health care. Students not only have the opportunity to learn from accomplished clinicians, but also from scientists striving to expand our knowlegebase in a variety of health and science areas.
By examining factors that influence motor skill learning such as aging, injury, and sleep, researchers seek to better understand how individuals with brain damage recover motor function and the underlying mechanisms that promote recovery.
Scientists in two distinct lab groups have combined significant expertise across disciplines such as physiology, molecular and cell biology, biochemistry and animal behavior to unlock the secrets of diabetes.
Through the study of posture and gait disorders in post-stroke individuals, as well as those suffering from Parkinson’s disease, researchers are developing novel approaches and technologies in neuro-rehabilitation.
The REACH lab aims to understand the cardiovascular and pulmonary adaptations to chronic disease (heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, stroke and cancer) and to develop effective exercise interventions that maximize cardiovascular health.
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News tagged with spices
(HealthDay)—U.S emergency rooms tended to more than 11,400 cases of drug-related health complications specifically linked to the use of synthetic marijuana in 2010, a new government report reveals.
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Imagine a world where you could never dine away from home, wear makeup, smell of sweet perfumes or eat a large percentage of food on store shelves. According to allergists at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology ...
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(Medical Xpress)—Cilantro or coriander as it's known in Britain and some other places, is a leafy green herb commonly used in Mexican food and has a history of having one of those kinds of flavors that ...
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(AP) Russia's leading anti-drug crusader says the abuse of synthetic marijuana is turning into a "horrible" epidemic in his country.
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Scientists have just identified a new reason why some curry dishes, made with spices humans have used for thousands of years, might be good for you.
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Curcumin, a compound found in the spice turmeric, is proving effective at preventing clumping of a protein involved in Parkinson's disease, says a Michigan State University researcher.
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Curcumin, an active component of the Indian curry spice turmeric, may help slow down tumor growth in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a study from researchers ...
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The holidays are over, January has arrived, and many of us enter the New Year determined to live our lives a little healthier than last.
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(Medical Xpress) -- A large study to investigate causes of common cancers in India is being carried out through a collaboration between Oxford University and 12 leading cancer centres in India.
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YES, there is some truth behind the "1 billion heartbeats " claim.
And when I say "some" I mean the creator of the comic didn't just make it up out of thin air.
While it's not literally true that all animals get 1 billion heartbeats before they die, a relation between metabolic rate (which is related to heart rate) and life span has been observed.
San José State University - Animal Longevity and Scale:
Heart rate and life expectancy in mammals and humans:
Life expectancy and total heart beats per lifetime in mammals
As a corollary, the basal energy consumption per heart beat and heart mass may be the same for all animals.
This suggests that the life span is predetermined by the basic energetics of the living cells, and that the apparent inverse relation between life span and heart rate reveals the heart rate to serve as a marker of the metabolic rate.
This may be exemplified by considering the vast range of physiological cardiac parameters between one of the smallest, the shrew weighing 2 g, and the largest extant mammalian, the blue whale of 100 000 kg.
Despite a difference of many millions in body weight, heart weight, stroke volume, and total blood pumped per lifetime, the total oxygen consumption and ATP usage per unit mass and lifetime are almost identical together with the total number of the heart beats per lifetime.
Mice and Elephants: A Matter of Scale
As animals get bigger, from tiny shrew to huge blue whale, pulse rates
slow down and life spans stretch out longer, conspiring so that the
number of heartbeats during an average stay on Earth tends to be
roughly the same, around a billion.
Mysteriously, these and a large variety of other phenomena change with body size according to a precise mathematical principle called "quarter-power scaling".
It might seem that because a cat is a hundred times more massive than a mouse, its metabolic rate, the intensity with which it burns energy, would be a hundred times greater. After all, the cat has a hundred times more cells to feed.
But if this were so, the animal would quickly be consumed by a fit of spontaneous feline combustion, or at least a very bad fever. The reason: the surface area a creature uses to dissipate the heat of the metabolic fires does not grow as fast as its body mass.
To see this, consider a mouse as an approximation of a small sphere. As the sphere grows larger, to cat size, the surface area increases along two dimensions but the volume increases along three dimensions. The size of the biological radiator cannot possibly keep up with the size of the metabolic engine.
Things behave differently at different scales, but there are orderly ways -- scaling laws -- that connect one realm to another.
Metabolic Rate and Kleiber's Law:
The first accurate measurements of body mass versus metabolic rate in 1932 shows that the metabolic rate R for all organisms follows the 3/4 power-law of the body mass,
R ~ M3/4
This is known as the Kleiber's Law.
The reasons behind the power law are not yet fully understood, although there are of course theories. But since the OP's question doesn't actually ask for an explanation I feel it's okay to leave it to the interested reader to click through the links above and below to learn more about the proposed theories (plus, I believe it would make my answer just unbearably long if I include them in my post).
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Press Release 12-198
In Blown-Down Forests, a Story of Survival
To preserve forest health, the best management decision may be to do nothing
October 16, 2012
In newscasts after intense wind and ice storms, damaged trees stand out: snapped limbs, uprooted trunks, entire forests blown nearly flat.
In a storm's wake, landowners, municipalities and state agencies are faced with important financial and environmental decisions.
A study by Harvard University researchers, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published in the journal Ecology, yields a surprising result: when it comes to the health of forests, native plants and wildlife, the best management decision may be to do nothing.
Salvage logging is a common response to modern storm events in large woodlands. Acres of downed, leaning and broken trees are cut and hauled away.
Landowners and towns financially recoup with a sale of the damaged timber. But in a salvaged woodland landscape, the forest's original growth and biodiversity, on which many animals and ecological processes depend, is stripped away.
A thickly growing, early-successional forest made up of a few light-loving tree species develops in its place.
But what happens when wind-blown forests are left to their own devices?
The Ecology paper reports results of a 20-year study at NSF's Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in Massachusetts. Harvard Forest is one of 26 such NSF LTER sites around the world in ecosystems from coral reefs to deserts, grasslands to the polar regions.
"To manage sustainable ecosystems, we must understand how they recover from extreme, natural events, such as hurricanes, fires and floods," says Matt Kane, a program director at NSF for LTER. "This process can take decades. The NSF LTER program is uniquely able to support important experiments at the time scales needed."
At Harvard Forest in 1990, a team of scientists recreated a major hurricane in a two-acre patch of mature oak forest.
Eighty percent of the trees were flattened with a large winch and cable. Half the trees died within three years, and the scientists left the dead and damaged wood on the ground.
In the 20 years since, the researchers have monitored everything from soil chemistry to the density of leaves on the trees.
What they found is a remarkable story of recovery.
Initially, the site was a nearly impassable jumble of downed trees. But surviving, sprouting trees, along with many new seedlings of black birch and red maple--species original to the forest--thrived amid the dead wood.
Although weedy invasive plants initially tried to colonize the area, few persisted for long.
"Leaving a damaged forest intact means the original conditions recover more readily," says David Foster, co-author of the paper and director of the NSF Harvard Forest LTER site.
"Forests have been recovering from natural processes like windstorms, fire and ice for millions of years. What appears to us as devastation is actually, to a forest, a natural and important state of affairs."
After severe tornadoes in Massachusetts in June 2011, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Division of Fisheries and Wildlife pursued a watch-and-wait policy at a site in Southbridge, Mass.
There, salvage work is limited to providing access routes for public safety.
The area is quickly regaining lush, native vegetation. It supports everything from invertebrates to salamanders, and black bears that winter in thick brush piles and forage for insects in rotting logs.
While a range of economic, public safety and aesthetic reasons seems to compel landowners to salvage storm-damaged trees, paper co-author Audrey Barker-Plotkin of the Harvard Forest site suggests that improving forest health should not be one of them.
"Although a blown-down forest appears chaotic," she says, "it is functioning as a forest and doesn't need us to clean it up."
Cheryl Dybas, NSF (703) 292-7734 firstname.lastname@example.org
Clarisse Hart, NSF Harvard Forest LTER Site (978) 756-6157 email@example.com
NSF Long-Term Ecological Research Network: http://www.lternet.edu
NSF Harvard Forest LTER Site: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/
NSF Discovery Article: The Colors of Fall: Are Autumn Reds and Golds Passing Us By?: http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125511&org=NSF
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2012, its budget was $7.0 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions. Each year, NSF receives about 50,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes about 11,500 new funding awards. NSF also awards about $593 million in professional and service contracts yearly.
Get News Updates by Email
Useful NSF Web Sites:
NSF Home Page: http://www.nsf.gov
NSF News: http://www.nsf.gov/news/
For the News Media: http://www.nsf.gov/news/newsroom.jsp
Science and Engineering Statistics: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/
Awards Searches: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/
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The Muse and the
Who wrote this?
The Mind Errant home
All writings on this website Copyright 2008-11 by Dana
Wilde. Images Copyright Dana Wilde unless otherwise
attributed. You may use what you find here for any
noncommercial purpose as long as you give full credit to
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Reviews & Recollections
On the Difficulty of Reading
Modern Poetry: Hart Crane and
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"'It was because you wanted to be a teacher that you provoked
that trouble with the lions,' said the heavenly king. 'How true,'
said Monkey with a smile, 'how true.'"
- Journey to the West, Chapter 90
the globalization of poetry
In the last few decades, the worldwide
Poetry Industry has refined its product
down to two essential purposes: 1) Poetry is
a means of self-expression, or 2) poetry is a
vehicle for fostering social justice. These are
certainly two things poetry can do. But two
Before about the 1970s - for 5,000-plus years,
that is - the primary purpose of poetry,
whether written or oral, was entertainment.
It happens that language can do powerful
things to your mind. So poetry was a form of
entertainment that could awaken your mind.
The awakening was to emotions and other
kinds of mind-expanding feelings that words
Anyone can write poems to entertain
himself or express himself in his own private
world. This can be a useful, even awakening,
activity. But when the poems are offered for
others to read, the activity is no longer the
writer's, and becomes the reader's. Simple
outpourings of feeling usually do not stir
anything that is not already awake, or
Social issues can be useful topics for poems.
And so can everything else. When a poem on
a social topic is offered for others to read, it is
a good poem not when it expresses a moral
view you already hold, but is good when it
inspires a powerful feeling that is a new
understanding of the topic. It's not the topic
or the moral "message" that makes the poem.
Poems that restate the statements of other
poems awaken nothing new. Eventually they
become tiresome. If a poem conveys to you a
feeling or thought you already know, then
it's not much of a poem. What makes a poem
is the awakening it inspires.
There are myriads of kinds of inspiration
beyond those that state your sense of social
justice. Poems can awaken them.
Unfortunately for all of us, the Poetry
Industry does not see it this way. Some
high-profile, wealthy industrialists have
stated flat-out that the only legitimate
purposes for reading and writing are to
foster social justice or to express personal
feelings. This narrow view of poetry is a
framework for worldwide psychic poverty.
Essays from Maine's backwoods
available for immediate
or in paperback ($16.95)
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Music in China
By Nancy King
Charlottesville, VA – In the mid-19th century, American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote that "music is the universal language of mankind."
Nancy King, found a Virginia orchestra conductor whose recent trip to China confirms the timelessness of Longfellow's observation.
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Sorry for the delay on this, but I don't think I've checked this forum in a while. Anyway, assuming I'm not still asleep this morning, I can see three really simple solutions.
First off, you can simply use Object as the return type. Since Java uses a singly-rooted object hierarchy, this would cover all non-primitive cases (unlike in C++, where you often have objects with no common superclasses). However, this won't work with primitive types (though you can of course use the equivalent wrapper classes), you'll need to downcast the objects, and you may need to use instanceof()
to check the correct type first. In the function itself, you can use a HashMap
or some other form of lookup collection to select the correct table name.
Second, you can make this method and the class it is in abstract
, and create a subclass for each of the cases which handles the specific instances, calling the parent's method to handle the actual performance. I doubt that this would be much more acceptable than the current situation, however, as there would still be a lot of redundancy, but it would at least reduce
the amount of duplication.
Finally, if you are using the newest version of Java (1.5), you can use generics
, which work very similarly to C++ templates. There are some differences, however, and you'll want to check to make sure that what you have in mind would work.
Schol-R-LEA;2 ELF JAM LCF BiWM MGT GS
First Speaker, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality #define KINSEY (rand() % 7)
// Keeper of the Tent Peg of Homosexuality +5You draw it, we misinterpret it.
- Bo Lindbergh // Realitas vestri renuo, sufficioque mei."Fundamentalism, not atheism, is the ultimate rejection of faith."
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Fighting For Their Freedom: The Ongoing Struggle between New York’s Psychologically Disabled and the Adult Homes They Live In
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
By Brian Park
Coney Island winters can be unforgiving. Gone are the tourists and beachgoers of the summer months. The cold winds, exacerbated in their fury by the Atlantic, bite at exposed skin like an unyielding flurry of tiny whips. The sidewalks are mostly bare.
But there is at least one place in Coney Island where it isn’t hard to find people moving about. Down a barren avenue, past Nathan’s Famous and MCU Park, is where you’ll find Surf Manor. The building’s red brick façade stands out against the general brown, grey and black of its surroundings. Despite its glamorous name, Surf Manor is not some fancy hotel or local hot spot. Surf Manor is an adult home for the psychologically disabled.
Outside its doors, it is common to find a number of residents huddled together against the cold, smoking cigarette after cigarette. With every swing of the door, the smoke penetrates indoors and permeates every level of the four-story building.
“[Smoking] is a routine for a lot the residents here,” said Norman Bloomfield, a resident of Surf Manor. “There aren’t many stimulating activities for the residents to partake in, so if they’re not in the lobby watching television or sitting idly in their rooms, a lot of residents choose to smoke.”
Bloomfield, 63, is one of the nearly 200 residents at Surf Manor, the overwhelming majority of whom suffer from a psychological disability. In New York City, there are 63 adult care facilities in operation, 17 of which can be found in Brooklyn, the second most of any borough, only behind Queens with 23 facilities.
Surf Manor and other like facilities are specifically classified as adult homes—privately owned, for-profit residential facilities whose tenants are largely made up of the psychologically disabled. The medical profiles of New York City’s 4,600 adult home residents span the gamut of diagnoses, but the way in which they find themselves there is often the same.
Bloomfield, who will have lived at Surf Manor for nine years this coming January, was once a college student at New York University’s now defunct Bronx campus. He was and still is a passionate musician, having attended the Julliard Preparatory School. But somewhere along the line, Bloomfield lost his way, and after a three-month stay in the psychiatric ward at Maimonides Medical Center, he was left with no reasonable option except Surf Manor.
“I didn’t have much choice at the time,” said Bloomfield. “The choice is basically going to a shelter and being homeless or going to an adult home.”
Over the years, there has been plenty that’s been said and written of the abject conditions of New York City’s adult homes. The most notable and often cited of these works is the three-part, 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative report by the New York Times’ Clifford Levy entitled “Broken Homes.” Through his own investigation, Levy discovered that adult home residents were not only living in modern day squalor but that state and city regulatory groups were doing little to nothing to address the issues and to reprimand adult home operators.
“Whether it’s something as small and criminal as this dump we’re living in or something as sinister and large as the government, people don’t like the truth being told about them,” said John Glusenkamp, another resident of Surf Manor. “Especially when they’re doing bad things.”
But while improving current conditions in adult homes is still an issue, the controversy has shifted considerably in recent years. Since 2003, New York City’s adult home residents and their advocates have been deadlocked in a legal battle with the state over contested discriminatory practices.
At the heart of the issue is freedom. Adult home residents contend that they have very little choice in where they stay, how they live and whether or not they can advance beyond their lives in adult homes. They argue that the New York State Department of Health (DOH) and the state Office of Mental Health (OMH), the two governing bodies that oversee adult homes, have done little to alleviate their current situations and that they are reluctant to offer alternatives.
A victory for residents like Bloomfield and Glusenkamp would signal the most dramatic shift in care for the psychologically disabled since the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1970’s.
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
The proliferation of adult homes came on the heels of the deinstitutionalization movement that began in the 1950’s, continued into the 70’s and to a lesser degree, in the 80’s.
The changes began under the Kennedy administration in 1963 when the United States Congress passed the Community Mental Health Act to provide federal funding for community-based mental health centers. Although President Kennedy’s belief—that “an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of care”—is viewed by modern experts as slightly misguided, the government’s growing interest in mental health signaled a shift in public perception of the mentally ill and the large institutions they are often sent to.
“In the 60’s, 70’s and even in the 80’s, if you were diagnosed as schizophrenic, there’s this huge negative perception,” said Glenn Liebman, chief executive officer of the Mental Health Association in New York State. “There’s no way conditions should be like that. There’s no excuse.”
As the poor conditions and ghastly treatment in large institutions came to light, the mentally disabled needed new places to go. Unfortunately, while fewer people with mental disabilities were being sent to psychiatric institutions, there was not yet a uniform system in place for these individuals to live in, receive treatment and rehabilitate.
Soon enough, adult care facilities began to spring up all across the country. These for-profit homes, shrouded by good intentions, were widely accepted by state officials as a relief from the growing number of psychologically disabled persons who were now homeless on the streets or in the prison system.
Unfortunately, adult homes have now become modern day versions of the large institutions America once tried to do away with. Residents are provided room and board but little else. In New York, the DOH and OMH have often promised change but it has come in small, unnoticeable increments.
“There are broad based regulations in place but the reality is, you can regulate forever but you have to change the mindset and direction of both the operators and the residents,” said Liebman. “A lot of residents of the homes have gone straight from a psychiatric center to an adult home. They’ve been run down by the system.”
Adult home residents and their advocates are now fighting for two things: freedom in and from adult homes, and new supported housing that provides a better opportunity to live a normal life. Naturally, adult home operators and state government, motivated by lost income and increased expenses, respectively, have fought against this change.
Trapped In The System
When the psychologically disabled are deemed well enough to leave psychiatric wards or institutions, their choices are often limited to surviving homeless or living in an adult home. Social workers arrange admissions interviews between the psychologically disabled and adult home operators. Once approved, these reluctant tenants sign a lease or an agreement to pay a monthly rent for room and board.
However, most adult home residents do not have jobs. Instead, they receive their income from monthly Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Supplemental Security Disability (SSD) checks. Furthermore, when an individual signs an agreement with an adult home operator, the monthly state-regulated cost for room and board is roughly 87 percent of a resident’s SSI or SSD check. Adult home operators receive the residents’ checks directly from the government and the remaining amount—between $178 to $198 a month or roughly six dollars per day—is dispersed as “personal needs allowances.”
Included in room and board are three daily meals. As such, despite the poor quality of food and their meager allowances, adult home residents are not eligible for government food stamps.
“If residents can’t stomach the food in the dining room, then they have to use up some of their own money to buy [expensive] outside food,” said Bloomfield. “What you have are a lot of residents desperate for money, especially near the end of the month. A few residents will be begging out on the street.”
Residents have the option of filing formal complaints against adult home operators to the DOH but their concerns often fall on deaf ears. Prior to his current stay at Surf Manor, Glusenkamp was a five-and-a-half-year resident at Garden of Eden Home in Bensonhurst. “A very bad joke,” said Glusenkamp. “It was no garden and sure as hell ain’t Eden.”
Said Glusenkamp, “I should have known if you can’t get something corrected in five years of telephone calls and seeing politicians, then it’s like going to Las Vegas and trying to win. The deck of cards is stacked against you. You cannot beat the house.”
Adult homes are not places of treatment and rehabilitation. While residents do receive daily medication, there is not a system in place in New York City’s adult homes to re-acclimate the psychologically disabled back into society. Residents and advocates also say that while they can freely leave adult homes, operators discreetly discourage this through retaliatory threats such as hospitalization.
New York State does have alternative housing options available but until recently, none of those beds were earmarked for the psychologically disabled. These alternative housing options, or government subsidized, supported living apartments, offer far more freedom than do adult homes. While more money is taken out of SSI and SSD checks, residents in supported living apartments own their own rooms, have more personal spending cash and have the opportunity to integrate within their communities.
That is the focal point of the current legal battle between adult home residents and advocates versus the state. Adult home operators do not want to lose their monthly allotments and the state is reluctant to spend more money to place residents in these supported living arrangements. On the other side of the argument, advocates argue that adult homes, like racially segregated schools of the past, are a violation of an individual’s rights and freedoms. Adult home residents just want a chance to make more of their lives, they say.
The Legal Battle
In 2003, Disability Advocates, Inc. (DAI), a legal advocacy group based in Albany, filed a lawsuit on behalf of adult home residents against then-Governor George Pataki, the DOH and the OMH.
The adult home residents represented in the case were from 28 adult care facilities in New York City that are classified as “impacted.” That is, an impacted home is one that houses at least 120 residents of which at least 25 percent suffer from a mental illness.
DAI alleged that the state, DOH and OMH violated the rights of the psychologically disabled as set forth by Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. DAI justified such allegations with the landmark decision Olmstead v. L.C. in which the U.S. Supreme Court stated that the “provisions of the ADA and Rehabilitation Act are violated when a state places people with mental illness in ‘unjustified isolation,’ and that a person with mental illness may sue the state for failing to place him or her ‘in the most integrated setting appropriate to [his or her] needs.’”
In September 2009, Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis found in favor of DAI and adult home residents. Later in March 2010, Garaufis offered a remedial plan based on DAI’s proposal that called for the state to develop 1,500 new supported housing units each year for the next three years. But instead of complying with Garaufis’ decision, the state appealed the decision and the case is yet ongoing.
“It’s really about people’s rights under the ADA to not be forced to live with deficient services,” said Cliff Zucker, executive director of DAI. “The state provides services but it insists that residents rely on institutions forever as a condition of getting these services. Supported housing offers a better alternative but the state has denied adult home residents of this.”
From Adult Homes to Supported Living
Following the New York Times’ investigative piece on adult homes, the initial reaction caused the formation of an adult home workgroup whose goal was to improve the lives of adult home residents.
The workgroup’s investigation found that at least 50 percent of all adult home resident were eligible for integrated housing communities, much like the supported units the state is currently fighting against.
“Levy’s work really exposed a lot of wrongdoing on the part of the state and forced them to respond,” said Geoff Lieberman, executive director of the Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled (CIAD). “But the state and the DOH and the OMH have done very little in response.”
Zucker agrees with the sentiment and said that while Levy’s work was important, its success in influencing change was “limited.” Part of that limited success, however, is a clear indicator that supported housing may be a more viable option for current adult home residents.
One of the small victories to come after the workgroup was the introduction of 60 supported living units for a few adult home residents. Phil Shapiro was one of the fortunate 60 adult home residents who applied and received supported housing. He currently lives in an apartment in Midwood.
“There’s no regimentation,” said Shapiro. “When I take my medication I take it immediately before I retire. Whereas in the home, you would get it between 8:00 and 9:30 and it would make some people woozy for an hour or two.”
“You go shopping and you buy your own food,” added Shapiro. Compared to his former life at Kings Adult Care Center in Brooklyn, Shapiro said that he considers himself “lucky” to be out of an adult home because of the freedom he is offered to live a normal life. Said Shapiro, “I feel great. I’m on my own. I make my own decisions.”
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Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection (LESI)
An epidural steroid injection is the injection of a small amount of anti-inflammatory, not muscle-building, steroid into the epidural space, outside the spinal cord, in the low back area. This can treat inflammation or irritation of the spinal cord or spinal nerves. The epidural space surrounds the spinal cord and spinal nerves, and insulates them from the spine bones and disks. Many things can irritate the spinal cord or spinal nerves and cause pain, numbness, and weakness. Examples would include herniated or bulging disks, bone spurs, spinal stenosis, arthritis changes, or scar tissue from previous spine surgeries. This type of pain, referred to as radicular or sciatic-like pain, is felt in the area of the body that the irritated nerves(s) go to (innervate). If the irritation or inflammation is treated effectively, then possibly all of the pain, numbness, or weakness will resolve, thus preventing the need for surgery. If, after a single injection, the relief is partial, the injection can be repeated to try to achieve complete relief. The LESI is for the treatment of low back and leg pain, numbness, and weakness. The LESI is performed at the spinal level of the lower disks.
For a LESI, you will be placed in the sitting position or on your side. Your back will be cleansed with an antiseptic, and then numbed. The doctor will then guide the needle into the epidural space, and then inject the steroid. Sometimes, local anesthetic (like Novocain) is mixed with the steroid and can cause transient feelings of tingling, warmth, numbness, and weakness in your legs for up to 12 hours after the injection. The procedure may take up to 30 minutes. After the injection, you will lie down for 15 minutes and the nurse will monitor your blood pressure and pulse. A Band-Aid will be applied to the injection site. A nurse will review your discharge instructions with you before you go home.
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Here is a good simulation for seasons. Try to follow along without putting in the equator line. Can you identify the seasons of the northern hemisphere? Can you identify the seasons of the southern hemisphere? If it was Spring in Japan, what season is it in Missouri? in New Zealand? in Paris, France?
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Dogs and dog cages
Many people have a notion that it is cruel to put dogs in cages. In real sense, it is not. Dogs actually love being put in cages; naturally dogs are ‘cave’ animals. If you are observant enough, you will notice that dogs want to spend most of their time sleeping or just relaxing. You will find them lying under the table, chairs or hiding at the corner of the room fast asleep. Actually, their brother in the wild, such as wild dogs and wolves are generally known for borrowing holes where they can sleep in or breed in.
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Pub. Date: Jan. 13, 2006
AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO JESUS
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Beer and Pie combinations. Was: Most Perl 6 will look like Perl 5
billy at cowfish.org.uk
Fri Feb 1 09:58:17 GMT 2008
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, John Costello wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Bob Walker wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, David Cantrell wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:55:40PM +0000, Kake L Pugh wrote:
>>>> This has made me wonder about using beer in sweet pies rather than
>>>> savoury ones. I had a quite fantastic pint of Downton Chocolate
>>>> Orange stout at the Bricklayer's Arms in Putney the other week. I
>>>> wonder if it would be possible to incorporate that into some kind of
>>>> pie. Although chocolate pies do tend to be heretical pies.
>>> I think that, chocolate being one of the essential ingredients in a
>>> balanced diet, it is an exception from the rule that "the pie that
>>> contains not meat is not the true pie".
>> its more that chocolate pies normally arnt entirely encased in pastry.
> Should be possible to do so, or even to make chocolate pastry shells,
> though that might lead to strange things such as chocolate chicken mole
> pies (chicken + mole + poblano peppers inside a chocolate pastry shell).
Depending on what you define as pastry you can call many things pie, a
standard trick in pie-offs that I may have been involved in
"You may have to metaphorically make a deal with the devil. And by 'devil'
I mean 'Robot Devil' and by 'metaphorically' I mean 'get your coat'"
Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
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Soot buildup, dusty or poorly lubricated fans, flickering pilot lights, and loose fan belts can add hundreds to your heating costs each year. Getting your furnace tuned up regularly by a heating contractor can do wonders for both your wallet and your overall comfort. Natural gas–powered systems should be serviced every two to three years, while oil-fired units need a tune-up every year, since they burn dirtier. To make your system even more efficient, prevent heated air from leaking into your attic or crawl spaces by sealing ductwork with mastic duct sealant—a nontoxic, paint-on material—or foil-backed tape. Doing so will reduce your home's air leakage and could save you a bundle in heating and cooling bills. Hire an HVAC pro
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[In this post, I reworked some of the ideas from an earlier post for clarity and tone. I'll try to pull the theories out of the deep pool of sarcasm...emphasis on "try". I'm also going to break my original post into two posts. ]
Bedrock belief(s) and practice(s)
Jesus invites all people to follow Him. People who hear this invitation answer in a number of ways. Some say “Yes, I will follow you” and they do. Some say, “No I won’t follow you”, and they don’t. Still others say, “Yes, I will follow you” and don’t. And, according to Matthew 21:28 – 31, some say “No, I won’t follow you”, and subsequently change their mind and do.
For those that say “Yes” to Jesus and follow Him, they move from death to life, experience forgiveness from sin, become a part of God’s family (the church) and are empowered by the Spirit to walk in newness of life as they are transformed, by that same Spirit, into the image and likeness of Jesus.
This is a bedrock belief for many, many Christians.
The zeitgeist of the early 21st Century is critical of Christians for this, because this belief does separate people into one of two categories: Those who take Jesus up on his invitation and follow and those who don’t. Christians use various terms -some of them clumsy, some of them helpful – to describe these two groups. Some of them are; Lost vs. found, saved vs. unsaved, believer vs. unbeliever, and Christian vs. non-Christian. (for the remainder of this post, the term “lost” refers to those who have not made a positive decision to follow Jesus)
Another bedrock belief for many, many Christians is that Jesus calls those who follow Him to invite others to follow Him as well. This belief and practice finds its clearest support in Matthew 28:16 – 20, but also in places like 2 Corinthians 5:16 – 21. We often refer to this at outreach or evangelism (although outreach can denote a wider range of activities that includes service to others).
These two beliefs, when held together, direct Christians and Christian ministries towards the goal of “reaching the lost”. Whether you are talking about youth ministry, children’s ministry or ministry to adults, “reaching the lost” is a part of that ministry. That means that those who follow Jesus are to invite those who haven’t yet made the decision to follow Jesus to do so. That’s pretty simplistic, but it provides a basic, big picture, framework.
Focusing on youth
Given what we know of adolescent faith development, “reaching the lost” is a critical focus of ministry to pre-teens and teens. Decisions to follow Jesus, made at this time of life – when they find support in a healthy faith community – often serve as the starting point for a life of faith lived in pursuit of Jesus. That’s why it is a critical time.
At the same time, adolescence is also full of possible pitfalls. In the midst of trying to figure out who one is, what one values, what one is going to do in key areas of life like vocation, relationships, and so on, there are also many choices that, once made, can radically alter the course of one’s life. Some teens will fall into drug use and addiction. Others will become sexually active, opening them up to a host of other issues like pregnancy, STDs, etc.. Some may get involved in illegal activity that can have long-term impacts on education and employment, etc. Adolescents often deal with mental health issues like depression, as well. That is to say that parents of teens are often anxious, and for good reason. This leads to a tension that most, if not all, youth ministries have to deal with.
A tension within youth ministry
On one hand, youth ministries need to be engaged in “reaching the lost.” The primary motivation for this, to quote Bill Hybels, is that “Lost people matter to God.” This is not a means to another end, but is an end in itself for the sake of people. A secondary motivation is discipling those who already follow Jesus into a mature engagement with others for the sake of inviting them to follow Jesus (evangelism training, if you will?). Too often, this part of discipleship is overlooked in favor of deepening an inner spiritual commitment. As we go deeper in our relationship with Jesus, it is also important that we learn to go out. We follow an incarnate Jesus who seeks and saves that which is lost. That means his followers are also to engage in this praxis for the good of others. [Having been discipled in the context of Campus Crusade for Christ, this was ingrained in me in my early formation as a Christian (Thank you John, Dave and Fred).] With Jesus as our model, the call to “reach the lost” must involve going to the margins, where lost kids are. Yes, youth ministries will experience varying degrees of success at attracting lost kids into their activities, but even at its most successful, that still leaves an awful lot of kids out there, somewhere, in need of hearing the gospel. Some students require “going to them” because they will never “come to us”.
On the other hand, it is difficult to ask teenagers, who are themselves going through the tough process of growing up, to befriend kids on the margins. There is fear that the student might get caught up, in an unhealthy way, with what the “lost” kids are doing. That leads many youth groups to also take on the goal of “providing a safe place for kids to be.” This is a common expectation of parents towards the youth groups their kids attend. And, I believe it is a good one. In Jesus’ ministry, we see a rhythm between the time Jesus spends alone in prayer, the time he spends with just his disciples, the time he spends with a larger circle of people and the time he spends with large crowds. A crucial time of formation for his disciples is the time he spent alone with them, teaching them what was happening in his engagement with the larger crowds, etc. There does come a point when Jesus sends out his followers to do ministry without him, but this occurs after a season of intentional training and maturation (not that it always sunk in deeply).
These two impulses – to “reach the lost” and to create a safe place for Christian kids to grow and mature – can create pressure on youth leaders to be all things to all people with limited time and resources. There is always more to do than time to do it.
There is another layer to all of this, in both church-based youth ministry and para-church ministry. Mark Yaconelli, in his book Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus, writes
As a result most youth ministries in North America are ministries of anxiety. In fact, most Christian communities don’t even consider the spiritual needs of young people until there’s a critical mass of anxious adults. Look behind most youth ministry programs and you will find pastors and church boards nervous about declining membership, parents afraid their kids will lack morals, congregations worried the Christian faith has become irrelevant to younger generations, and persistent frustration among adults that something (“anything!”) needs to be done with ‘those kids’. [italics added] (pg 36)
Youth workers, both paid and volunteer, are under pressure from pastors, church boards, parents ,and congregants to produce something, “anything!”. This pressure, which comes from all sides can lead to unhealthy modalities in youth ministry.
Cooking the books
In my original post, I talked (perhaps, too) sarcastically about something I called “cooking the books”. This is a negative practice that I am not condoning, but it is a real phenomena, none-the-less, and something we need to be aware of. Sometimes the competing pressures of time demands, creating a safe place for Christian kids, reaching the lost, and answering to churches, boards and supporters leads to “cooking the books”. This is something I have witnessed, although it was never done dishonestly or with intent to deceive, etc.
The primary move involved is using criteria other than ”making a decision to follow Jesus” to distinguish the lost from the found. For example, I am a Mennonite and in our statement of faith we affirm non-violence as something Jesus calls his disciples to believe and practice. Imagine that instead of defining “lost” by who has or has not made a decision to follow Jesus, that we added another requirement that people be pacifist, too. (we don’t do this) By our definition, not God’s, followers of Jesus who are not pacifists would now be labelled “lost”. That’s my definition of “cooking the books”. It is creating a man-made designation between lost and found that adds to a biblical definition (here my reformation roots are showing).
There are two (at least) areas where these additional requirements may come from. One is the area of doctrine or beliefs. There are essential doctrines that Christians affirm (God is real, for example). There are also non-essential doctrines that faithful followers of Jesus disagree upon (the proper mode of baptism is immersion). We can cook the books by elevating non-essential doctrines to a place of the essentials as in my example above. This creates a space where some people who have made a decision to follow Jesus are considered lost by others. The other area is faith maturity. An immature follower of Jesus will live differently than a mature follower of Jesus. This doesn’t mean the immature follower isn’t a follower at all, it just means they need to mature. We can “cook the books” by making a particular level of faith maturity the demarkation between lost and found. For example, you are not a Christian if you don’t pray daily, read your bible daily, go to church each Sunday, give money to others, serve others, and so on.
Both of these things can happen in youth ministry. Leaders in both church-based and para-church ministries come out of a religious tradition. Sometimes they elevate that tradition’s non-essential beliefs to a point of being determinative regarding other’s salvation. At the same time, kids come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are very mature for their age. Some are very immature for their age. Some kids grow up in church and can have a very mature faith at an early age. Other kids may be just days, weeks or months into their faith journey. Because of this, it is tempting (and easy) to “cook the books” or to move the line between lost and found based upon maturity.
Why would anyone “cook the books”?
The simplest reason is that it creates a way through the rough waters of anxiety and pressure to perform.
Time: Even in a smaller community or school, there are more students that don’t participate in any form of ministry, youth or otherwise, than do. If every student matters to God, and reaching them is something one is passionate about, it will take going to those students, meeting them on their turf, and developing relationships with them. That takes lots of time. Likewise, creating a safe group for Christian kids involves creating many different group environments, teaching events, fun stuff, and social alternatives for students. This also takes a lot of time. Add to that the intentional relationship building and intentional discipleship of students in the group and one goes from time demands to time impossibilities quickly. There, literally, isn’t enough time to do it all.
Objectively, a strong majority of youth ministries are understaffed. Even though this is clearly visible, the expectations that youth ministries address all of the various anxieties of pastors, churches, parents and kids do not decrease. Add to that the youth workers salary is often dependent upon keeping pastors, congregants and parents, happy, and you get invisible, but not that subtle, pressure to “cook the books”.
Why? Because by “cooking the books” a leader can roll all of these various expectations into one event – the weekly, attractional, youth group gathering. This is the holy grail of youth ministry. The all-in-one seeker-friendly, safe, discipleship environment that allows us to meet pastoral expectations, assuage congregational anxiety, reassure parents that their kids are safe, moral and growing in their faith, while also making the time-demands on youth leaders manageable.
A (possible) way out
The first step of “righting the books”, so to speak, is honesty about the situation. This can be incredibly difficult for the youth minister (not being honest, but confronting an entire system, driven by anxiety, that makes youth ministry hard). Youth Ministers are often at a disadvantage from a power perspective. They are often the youngest on church staffs and, even, among their volunteer teams. Often, but not always, they are the least educated. Their salary depends on juggling these various expectations. They also bump up against the subtle (and you would be surprised how not-so-subtle) pressure to grow up and mature out of youth ministry. [When I worked primarily as a youth worker people would often say, "When are you going to get promoted into a Senior or Lead Pastor role?"] Another factor, borrowing from family system theory, is that youth ministers are often perceived as the most vulnerable staff member. That means when people have issues with the church, the safest place to unload their anxieties is on the youth minister. (S)he is a much safer target than the Sr. Pastor or Board Chair. The proof that youth ministry can be a tough, if not toxic, ministry environment; consider that the average tenure for a youth minister in a church context is 18 months. For that to be the average, that means a good many youth ministers don’t make it that long.
Pastors, congregant, parents – and even students – need to have a realistic set of expectations as to what a given youth ministry can accomplish. When churches and para-churches realize that they can’t, on their own, be all things to all people, it opens up new space for creativity and collaboration. It also takes the youth ministry/leader off the hook for producing unrealistic results that can lead to “cooking the books”.
In the next post, I will talk a bit about the role of friendship and centered-set outreach as another step in “righting the books”.
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Black cherry (Prunus serotina) is sometimes known as cherry, wild black cherry, and wild cherry. It is the only native species of the genus Prunus of commercial importance for lumber production. Black cherry is found from southeastern Canada throughout the eastern half of the United States. Production is centered chiefly in the Middle Atlantic States.
The heartwood of black cherry varies from light to dark reddish brown and has a distinctive luster. The nearly white sapwood is narrow in old-growth trees and wider in secondgrowth trees. The wood has a fairly uniform texture and very good machining properties. It is moderately heavy, strong, stiff, and moderately hard; it has high shock resistance and moderately high shrinkage. Black cherry is very dimensionally stable after drying.
Black cherry is used principally for furniture, fine veneer panels, and architectural woodwork. Other uses include burial caskets, wooden ware, novelties, patterns, and paneling.
*Much of the base wood information presented here is made available by the USDA FPL FS. If you are interested in a much more technical description of wood properties, I encourage you to visit the source.
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When the pen, brush, and record were mightier than the sword
October 5, 2007 11:35 AM Subscribe
Ellsworth Kelley, Bill Blass, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and a host of lesser known but equally talented painters
, designers, sound engineers
and actors served together during World War II in the Ghost Army
– the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, a unit whose existence remained an official secret
until 1996. German soldiers referred to them as the "Phantom Army," because one moment they were in one place, and the next, they were attacking their flanks or from the rear.
Together, they made rubber tanks and fake Jeeps; their changing unit insignia
were designed to fool spies and allied units alike. They recorded the sounds of Allied units building bridges or moving troops and broadcast them from special sound trucks
, leading the Germans to conclude that the U.S. Army had more troops in more places than it did. "Guys drew, or painted, all the time
," documenting their lives, the lives of their fellow soldiers, and that of the local populations in wartime Europe.
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News In Depth
No clear front-runner for pope
No clear front-runner has emerged as a successor to Pope Benedict XVI who is formally resigning as leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Cardinals across the globe are arriving in Rome in advance of the conclave, when those eligible to vote are literally locked away to cast ballots in secret in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.
Before the conclave starts, cardinals are expected to take part in general congregations, pre-conclave meetings where they discuss the qualities needed in a future pope.
Speculation is mounting that the cardinals could choose to back a candidate from the developing world - either Africa, Latin America, or Asia - which have the largest Catholic populations.
But it is unclear whether a cardinal from any of these continents would be able to command the necessary majority.
By country, Italian cardinals make up the biggest group of electors, at 28 votes and by continent, Europe is dominant with 62 electors.
There has not been an Italian pope since John Paul I died in 1978 and some commentators believe that the papacy could well revert back after the reigns of John Paul II, a Pole, and Pope Benedict, who is German-born.
Michael Walsh, a Vatican expert and historian who revised the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Popes, said he believed the papacy could return to an Italian.
He said Pope Benedict's choice of Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi to lead the Vatican's Lenten spiritual retreat this year was "significant" as this was viewed as a papal favour.
Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was chosen for this task before going on to become Pope John Paul II, he said.
"Clearly there is a lot of pressure from around the church for somebody from Africa or Latin America," he said.
"The question is - who is it going to be?
"The only names being regularly mentioned are Cardinal Peter Turkson from Ghana and Cardinal Odilo Scherer from Brazil.
"I think what they may very well do is go back to an Italian.
"The Italians are a very large contingent.
"They are more likely than most to operate as a bloc, because they know one another.
"Most of the 28 are cardinals in the curia (the Vatican departments which govern the global Church) and they know one another."
Mr Walsh said he backed a return to a more collegial style of governing the Church with less power centralised in the hands of the curia.
"I believe there ought to be an Italian pope because I believe we ought to cut down on the power of the Vatican," he said.
"It ought to return to being a Bishop of Rome and if there is a return to the Bishop of Rome then it ought to be an Italian."
Mr Walsh said his personal favourite to become Pope would be Cardinal Luis Tagle, Archbishop of Manila since 2011 but he did not think he would be elected.
"He has been a great success in Manila, he is very approachable and very well liked by everybody.
"He won't get it for one very good reason which is simply that he is too young, at 55-years-old, he could be pope for 30 years, which is an awfully long time," he said.
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The Good News: Scientists have discovered that coffee can help protect the brain against Alzheimer's disease.
Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center researcher (and coffee lover) Gary Arendash and colleagues discovered that 500 mg of caffeine can ward off Alzheimer's:
They've found that adding caffeinated water to rodents' diet results in big improvements. The mice perform better on short-term memory and thinking tests. But only if they get enough caffeine.
"The human equivalent of two to three cups of coffee does not have benefits in our Alzheimer's mice," says Arendash.
Arendash's team also documented that these super-caffeinated mice end up with about a 50-percent reduction in abnormal amyloid proteins, which are thought to play an important role in the development of Alzheimer's.
The typical American drinks about a cup and a half of coffee a day. "So you can see that many of us are below that threshold level that we believe confers protective benefits," says Arendash.
Allison Aubrey of NPR explains: Link
The Bad News: You may have to wear this T-shirt below.
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Dear Abby: I have an offensive habit of looking people “up and down” when I first meet them, and when I think no one is aware of it. I have tried breaking myself of the habit, but I often don’t realize I’m doing it until I catch myself. I know other people notice.
I’m a shy, self-conscious person, but at my age I should be comfortable enough with myself to not allow my insecurities to be so obvious. How can I stop this bad habit? — Ms. Lookie-Loo in Georgia
You may be looking people up and down because your social insecurity makes it difficult for you to look them in the eye — which is what you should be doing. As with any habit, breaking it will take practice. When you meet someone, make a conscious effort to look no further down than the person’s shoulders. If you can’t continue eye contact, shift your glance between the person’s mouth and forehead.
Dear Abby: My co-workers and I are having a debate and need you to settle it for us. “Anthony” was born in Mexico and spoke Spanish for the first four years of his life. He was then adopted and has lived in the United States ever since. He does not remember any Spanish at all.
Anthony says that Spanish is his first language (since it was the first one he learned) and that English is his second. My other co-workers, however, say that Spanish cannot be his first language if he doesn’t know any. Who is correct? — Speaking Up in Indianapolis
If Spanish was the language your co-worker learned in his early childhood, then Spanish was his first language. However, because he has spoken (and thought) only in English since the age of 4, English is his dominant language. Readers, do you agree?
DEAR ABBY is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military ChildrenMaryland, along with forty-three other states, has joined the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to ease the transition for students and to ensure that there are no barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents. For a list of the Compact member states, please visit the Military Interstate Children's Compact Commission (MIC3) website. The Maryland State Department of Education and our twenty-four local school systems have a long history of establishing effective policies, regulations and procedures that address enrollment and serve to ease the transition of any student who transfers into or out of our schools. However, with Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) that was passed by Congress in November 2005 identifying Maryland as a BRAC state receiving between 40,000 and 60,000 jobs and with our 10 military installations located in Maryland, we enthusiastically joined the Interstate Commission to demonstrate our commitment to easing the transitions of children of military families.As a member of the Interstate Commission we will have the opportunity to dialogue with other member states on the Articles of the Compact and identify best practices to ensure that we address the educational issues associated with the frequent transitions that a student of a military family must make. Information on BRAC and the Interstate Compact can be found on our website. Should you have questions about the Compact, please do not hesitate to contact Mary Gable, Assistant State Superintendent, at 410-767-0473 or email@example.com. We look forward to working with military children.
Lillian M. Lowery, Ed.D.State Superintendent of Schools
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Gold has been important as precious metal since early times. Techniques of extraction and treatment trend to improve gold recovery each time more and more. Process selection is an iterative procedure which usually starts as soon as exploration has established the presence of gold mineralization in sufficient grade and tonnage for the orebody. The effort devoted to process selection is related to the degree of certainly of the grade and reserve estimations and their absolute values, such as attractiveness of the deposit. The risk associated with the development of gold projects can be minimized planning a good work metallurgical program, and considering aspects that have been considered in the project: capital, profitability, risk and environmental factors. Sometime, gold recovery is not simple and is required to study a special process to recover gold.
A metallurgical problem can appear during the initial steps of the project or during the operation of plant. No matter the case, the solution sometimes is not easy and the solution must be founded with perseverance. The first step to solve a metallurgical problem involves the mineral and rock identification and classification; study the mineral occurrence and the characteristics upon which the treatment depend. The microscope may save much time and money in qualitative determinations which frequently will demonstrate the uselessness of more elaborate quantitative investigations. Mineralogical studies can help to solve problems because they can tell us more details of the minerals presents in the ore. Of greater importance is the knowledge given by the polished section as to particle size and method of occurrence of the valuable minerals. The first fact can be established with coarse grained ores by a sizing sorting assay test, for such ores, the second fact is of minor importance, but with finely disseminated and complex ores the polished section quickly gives essential information obtainable in no other route.
The metallurgical response to a proposed treatment scheme directly determines the economics of the process, or combination of processes used. The factors to be considered in the evaluation are: Recovery of gold and other valuable minerals; Quality of product, and the need for further processing; Treatment rate; capital cost; Operating cost; Environmental impact; and Technical risk. When there are problems, sometimes the solution is not simple and the most unexpected suggestions can give a preliminary idea of the solution. But, the most important tool is the knowledge and practical experience obtained because they can tell us where and what is necessary to do to find the solution. If there is a recovery problem during a cyanidation process will be required to review step by step all metallurgical parameters. For example the fineness to which the ore was ground, alkali employed, pulp density, strength of cyanide, residence time in leaching tanks, activated carbon dosage, and perhaps the most important, find out if the ore changed in mineralogical composition. The latter one can indicate presence of refractory ore or perhaps the unexpected presence of any oxide copper ore. Analyze all the factors take time, but the reward is satisfactory.
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Agency funding contingent upon systems’ protection.
While military combatants continue to fight the war against terrorism on the battlefield, U.S. government officials are stepping up work to protect the borders of cyberspace. Information infrastructure security is such a high priority that government agencies are now required to provide reports on risk assessments, system security needs and security plans before they receive program funding.
Information assurance has been an important issue since the beginning of communications over long distances. The introduction of computers into everyday life and the increased use of technical systems to share data significantly broaden its role. Today, everyone from the Internet shopper to the agencies gathering vital intelligence can be affected—or infected—by a breach in security. Because other types of critical infrastructures, including power grids and financial institutions, now rely on computer systems, the need to protect them has grown exponentially.
The U.S. Defense Department as well as other government agencies is employing defense in depth to ensure that its systems are not compromised, and the issue has received support from the highest level of the U.S. government. Late last year, President Bush ordered the establishment of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board (CIPB) within the executive branch to coordinate government agency efforts to protect information, obtain industry input about technology and best practices, and uncover citizens’ concerns about computer security. A national strategy to protect information systems will be one product of this work.
The board works with representatives from both government and industry to gather ideas about protection and defense. When requested to do so, it will assist in the development of voluntary standards and will consult with the legal, auditing, financial and insurance communities to identify areas of mutual concern. In addition, the board will coordinate activities of senior liaison officers who are appointed by the attorney general, the secretaries of various government departments and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to explore critical infrastructure protection issues within the private sector.
Howard Schmidt, vice chair, CIPB, Washington, D.C., reveals that facilitating information sharing among government agencies, industry and academia is one way the board will help accomplish these tasks. Many of these organizations are working on similar solutions. By bringing their people together, they are able to compare the work they are doing and, in some cases, coordinate their efforts or solve each other’s problems, he says.
Multiple information sharing and analysis centers, or ISACs, established by private-sector entities such as the power companies and financial institutions are some of the main constituencies of the board, Schmidt shares. In addition, joint committees with representatives from various government agencies discuss information security issues. Finally, the board also is calling on academia to contribute expertise. More than 30 universities currently are centers of excellence on the topic.
The CIPB’s members are responsible for shepherding the pieces together. “For example, different agencies in the government conduct different work with different laboratories. Historically, they work in tandem but may be working on the same types of projects. We identify the ones we know and bring them around the table, and they talk together. In one case, we brought a group of ISPs [Internet service providers] together to report on how ISP collaboration can bring about an environment that is more secure, more robust and recovers faster if attacked. Once they talk, we turn it over to them. We use our kind of ‘bully pulpit’ to bring them together, and then they go back on their own, and they’re giving us input on what ISPs can do,” Schmidt explains.
Software and hardware vendors are another group that can have a huge impact on infrastructure protection. Schmidt says the board has seen considerable work accomplished from these sectors, but it is their responsibility to let the government know what is required to continue making progress.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is one hurdle that must be overcome when private industry interacts with the government, Schmidt points out. Information that is shared with government agencies may be requested under FOIA guidelines. Because proprietary information may be included in discussions, firms must be concerned about adequately protecting their data. Exceptions can be made to the FOIA; however, they must be narrowly crafted and designed so that they cannot be used to cover up illegal activities, he offers.
Two of the most promising security technologies available today are biometric and two-factor authentication; however, government agencies and even some in the private sector have been slow to adopt the capabilities. Schmidt attributes this reluctance to perceptions about the costs of incorporating these technologies into present systems. In addition, certain policy issues must be resolved. For example, two-factor authentication may require use of a smart card and a fingerprint. Organizations must determine what procedure to follow when someone loses a smart card.
“These approaches have only been successful in a few places. We are working with the Defense Department’s PKI [public key infrastructure] board to move PKI quickly within the government. We will continue to push it. As we move into the next fiscal year, we will be using two-factor identification and will use the Defense Department as a model,” Schmidt allows.
Schmidt also identifies software patch management as one of the other obstacles to information security. “Since the early days of computing, I have met with many of the most senior computer people in the private sector. Security is job number one. Some have created free software to alert you if you need a patch. For the federal government, there is now a GSA [General Services Administration] contract to do patch management for the government,” he shares.
Schmidt is referring to a contract awarded to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for one base year and four one-year options to provide support to the Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC) under the SAFEGUARD program. FedCIRC will serve as a central point for federal agencies to receive notification of pending software patches that correct known vulnerabilities. Follow-up notifications will be provided when the patches are received and validated. SAIC’s offering includes technology from Vigilinx Digital Security Solutions.
Government agencies have a lot at stake with regard to securing their systems. The Government Information Security Reform Act (GISRA), signed into law in 2000, requires annual agency program reviews, inspector general evaluations and agency reports to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In addition, OMB must submit to Congress summaries of agencies’ reports as part of the budget process beginning in 2001. Schmidt explains that in effect GISRA means that if a department wants its information technology budget approved, it must document that an information security plan is part of it. “There are some real incentives out there now,” he states.
But equipment is only part of the government’s information assurance surge. Training is another element Schmidt identifies as vital to addressing the vulnerability issues. Education goes beyond systems administrators and government computer users in his view. It is about getting the word out to every computer user—both professional and occasional—about the importance of staying safe online. He relates that in shopping online during the past seven years, his credit card information has never been comprised; however, the information has been stolen while using a credit card in traditional stores. “If a bank were to say that I am responsible for more than $50 in charges, there would be a move to make sure it was secure. With the training of people, there are too many moving parts. The same people who have their VCRs flashing at 12 o’clock are the ones who are using computers.
“We are working with community colleges to get the word out about how to be more secure. We have a Web site that is easy to read so users don’t need a computer science degree to understand it. We are working with elementary schools to make security part of their curriculum. We are really an entrepreneurial organization,” he says.
The Web site Schmidt is referring to is http://www.staysafeonline.info, sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance. The alliance is a partnership between the federal government and leading private-sector companies. Its goal is to raise citizens’ awareness of the crucial role that computer security plays in protecting the nation’s Internet infrastructure and to encourage all computer users to protect their home and small business systems.
The site includes beginner’s guides, hot links to security sites and a self-test that evaluates a visitor’s security knowledge and practices. In the site’s first month of operation, it received more than 2 million hits, and alliance membership doubled with more than 40 companies joining the group.
Schmidt emphasizes that information assurance personnel working to secure cyberspace were dedicated to the effort long before September 11. Since that time, work has accelerated. “For the CIPB, this is not a new issue. We all work together—people, processes and technology,” he states.
Although much of the board’s work involves facilitating government and private-sector collaboration, its efforts have not stopped there. To help develop the national strategy to protect cyberspace, the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office published 53 questions on the Internet that were chosen by the CIPB to obtain input from small businesses, large companies and home users alike. A deadline for input was set as last April; however, the questions are still available and comments continue to be welcome.
Ideas are being sought on topics that range from awareness and assistance to disclosure of risk by ISPs and hardware or software vendors. The survey also invites comments about who should be responsible for security in an organization, the role of the board of directors and security breach reporting.
In addition to the questionnaire, the board sponsored four town meetings at various locations across the United States. To ensure public participation, the events were widely publicized. Schmidt says the purpose of the meetings was to solicit citizens’ ideas and concerns about computer systems. The meetings were conducted as open forums that began with very brief presentations made by experts followed by an opportunity for audience members to express their opinions.
“Some of them [meeting participants] talked about different types of technology they own that they think the government can use. They suggested holding vendors accountable for making more secure products. They asked if there was enough technology in the hands of law enforcement agencies so they could investigate crimes. They wondered about network configuration and wanted to know how to better protect themselves and their computers while online. The input will become part of the national strategy,” Schmidt shares, adding that attendees also were concerned about privacy.
“This is not just a piece of technology. Everyone is part of cyberspace. Everybody has to do his or her part to secure cyberspace,” he says.
Additional information on protecting information systems is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.staysafeonline.info, and information on the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace is available at http://www.securecyberspace.gov.
Bundled Requirements, Bundled Solutions
U.S. government agencies will receive new security options that will simplify their efforts in information assurance. When work is completed, which could be as soon as early fiscal year 2003, departments will be able to select and adopt a designated security level for their organization without shopping around among hundreds of vendors.
Although information protection always has been of concern to agencies, today’s volatile environment heightens the urgency to get security right. First, cyberspace is yet another battlefield where adversaries can launch an attack or gather intelligence. Second, recent changes in federal budgeting procedures now require that all departments demonstrate that their systems are secure before they receive funding.
The General Services Administration/Federal Technology Service (GSA/FTS) is developing an approach that will help agencies meet these challenges. John C. Johnson, assistant commissioner for service development, GSA/FTS, says that although his group has offered security tools for some time, recent work will make it easier for government personnel to find the solution that meets their needs.
“The service development organization that I run is responsible for leading FTS strategic planning, refinement of technology and next-generation services. Our research found that customers are looking for a greater selection, and that’s why we have such a broad array of services.
“They also need simpler delivery methods to give them more time to focus on their own missions. We’re continuing to align a strategy,” he offers.
Johnson points out that the organization has always addressed three key issues: selection, savings and simplicity. Now, it is adding a fourth component: security. It will be offered in a different, more coordinated way.
Numerous discussions with other government officials about information security revealed that the ultimate approach to security would be a totally private network, also called an air gap network. This approach would provide almost total immunity against cyberattacks. Work on this network continues; however, in the meantime, a more immediate solution is required, Johnson states.
To address this need, Johnson’s group assembled a team made up of representatives from approximately 15 agencies to discuss various ways to meet users’ needs. Multitier security profiles (MTSP) are the result of this evaluation. “These are increments of security that can be implemented within the networks. They are somewhere between what we have today and totally air-gap solutions,” he relates. As a result, FTS services can provide improved security, reliability and survivability and bring value-added services to meet emerging needs, he adds.
Requirements for a total of four tiers have been developed that provide different levels of security. Tier one is standard service and offers protections for basic Internet connectivity for nonmission systems or noncritical operations. Tier two is a protected service, similar to the sensitive but unclassified communication systems used by the military.
The third tier is a high assurance service for customers who deal in extremely sensitive information. These would include federal law enforcement and cyberincident reporting agencies. In addition, this level of security might be needed for interagency collaboration. Tier-three connectivity would occur using approaches approved by the National Security Agency.
The final tier would offer the highest level of security. Although each tier must comply with certain government standards, systems with a tier-four level of security still would not be connected to those using lower levels of security.
Unlike the U.S. Defense Department’s nonsecure and secure Internet protocol router networks, which are owned and operated by the government, security solutions offered for each tier will be commercial offerings, Johnson says. This is an important feature, he adds, because agencies are of different sizes and have different needs. The Defense Department’s approach is somewhat rigid; the MTSP approach addresses specific concerns but also meets the needs in the gray areas, he explains.
GSA/FTS already has contracts established with several companies, and work on developing appropriate solutions for each tier will be conducted by them. At a meeting with these firms, GSA/FTS outlined the requirements for each tier and asked them to design a plan for any or all of the tiers. The next step is modifying original contacts to include these solutions. Solutions can be unique as long as they meet the functional requirements, Johnson states.
As companies present their solution ideas, GSA will evaluate them and determine the costs. Providing savings to agencies continues to be an important goal for GSA/FTS, he says.
Once the security tools have been identified, the next step from FTS’ point of view will be testing and certification. This process will ensure that customers receive what they want, he says. In addition, a re-certification process will most likely be put into place to confirm that companies continue to provide an acceptable level of products and services.
Tier requirements address network security only. Individual and groups of users at each agency would still be responsible for ensuring that they comply with the tiered services and that their own systems are protected, Johnson explains.
Because work on this project is still underway, a deadline for offering the tiered solutions has not been published. However, Johnson says that at least some of the capabilities should be available within the next six months.
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Juba — The African Union Liaison Office in South Sudan (AULOSS) and its implementing partners have signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) on post-conflict reconstruction and development in the young nation.
The first agreement, signed on Monday between AULOSS and South Sudan Development Organization (SSDO) on 12 November, reportedly caters to a 2-months project on improving hygiene and environmental sanitation services for the Juba prison.
"The objective is to ensure provision of adequate sanitation services and improved hygiene practices for the prisoners and improve the lives of prisoners through appropriate sanitation services to meet basic needs and prevent hygiene and sanitation related diseases," partly reads the AULOSS statement, also extended to Sudan Tribune.
South Sudan attained its independence last year after over two decades of a bloody civil war. An estimated 2.5 million people reportedly died during the war, with over 4 million displaced and several properties destroyed.
The other agreements, according to the AULOSS, were completed with the Health Ministry in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria state on Tuesday.
The two MoUs, it said, specifically focused on a project for the construction of a female ward in Chukudum hospital, which will reportedly be the first maternity fitting in Lanya County. However, the second phase of the project, it notes, will target Haforiere health center, built using AU funding in 2011.
"The female ward in Chukudum hospital will see the construction of a four-room design that will include a waiting room, maternity ward, delivery room and the genecology room," further says the AULOSS statement.
Currently, South Sudan has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world. The country, according to statistics from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), experience more than 2,000 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
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October 23rd, 1958 was a big day.
It was a Thursday, and at around eight o’clock that evening something bad happened at the No.2 colliery in Springhill, Nova Scotia. Bumps are underground earthquakes and are probably set off by our infernal digging. They are common enough and were often ignored – there had already been a bump an hour previously. The eight o’clock bump, though, was huge.
A hundred and seventy-four miners were in the deep, deep shafts of No.2 and only a hundred would see daylight again. Under the circumstances this was good going – rescue teams came from far afield. It even became the first major international event to be broadcast live.
After the bump, the Dominion Steel & Coal Corporation shut the mine down and it never reopened. Lives had been lost, others devastated and a town robbed of its principal source of income. The disaster is now an entry in the annals of North American folklore. It has been written about in any number of books and sung of by artists from Peggy Seeger & Ewan McColl, to Peter, Paul & Mary, to U2.
That said, most people are probably more familiar with the other thing More
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I recently tweeted “Fear is useless,” and got a mix of responses. There were some favorites, a direct message about different kinds of fear, and friends who disagreed. I’m glad they thought differently, because it made me think about fear a little more in-depth.
I wrote “Fear is useless” because I was frozen about starting a two-week project over smack dab in the middle. I had been working in one direction, and then was presented with compelling reasons to change my approach. I was under pressure, and I really, really wanted this client presentation to go well. I wanted to succeed so strongly that I was afraid of failure.
Being scared of fucking up was keeping me from getting my hands dirty, from doing the work I knew I needed to do. In that moment, sitting at my computer worrying about how to do what I needed to do, fear was hurting more than helping. Sending that little message to the world was my moment of resolve, giving the middle finger to the silly human feelings that were keeping me from doing a good job. After that, I signed out of Twitter, rolled my sleeves up, and dedicated myself to working out the problem.
What I learned–or what I remembered–is that fear is useful, depending on what you’re scared of and why. I’m scared of being a boring person. I’m scared of dying a boring person. On my tombstone they would write nothing, because I gave nothing. So I work hard, and I make things with my hands that feel important to me. Lots of people feel this way.
Stephen DeStaebler says this more eloquently than me:
“Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.”
If you haven’t already, go read Art and Fear. When I follow the authors’ advice closely, I have a greater chance of conquering fear.
What are you scared of? How does it hurt you? How does it help you?
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The Can Spam Act is designed to stop bulk email campaigns that target unrequested email. By implementing suppression lists you are effecting online marketers who advertise their service through requested mailings only! This will have serious consequences on e-commerce and the livelihood of thousands or more internet based businesses and the customer base that they support with their products or services. This is a serious blow to free enterprise on the web and goes against the capitalistic ideals that make this country great. Spam is the problem. Internet marketing is not. Please consider the millions who will suffer from the implementation of the wrong measures before you act. Thank you with all sincerity.
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mlove_qiniqcom on Family Tree Circles
Journals and Posts
I have been able to trace my Love lineage back to the birth of Robert Love in 1770 of Taghey/Craigatempin, Ballymoney, Antrim.
In a refernce cited in the book "The Love Family" by Franklin D Love, 1929, a Robert love settled in an area called Craigatempin about 4 miles east of Ballymoney prior to 1666. (Earl of Artrim trust records) Franklin claimed that Robert was problaly a son or grandson of William (Luiff)Love, who was the original Love to migrate from Scotland to Ulster. William Love settle in Cooly/Androme, Tyrone in 1629.
How was Robert Love of Craigatepim related to William Love of Androme?
Franklin list Sally Longwell as the wife of Matthew Love. Matthew Love was problaly born 1738 to 1742, however Sally Longwell from many other histories is listed as being born in mid 1600's? I now question Frnaklin's work.
Linton E. Love, a noted Canadian Love genalogist has published works on the Love descendants of Tyrone. He has been able to trace William Luiff-Love to Scotland and his family's settlement there.
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When Michael Gregory, a 24-year-old musician, started to watch a lot of television news during the recent presidential election campaign, he decided that what America’s pundits and anchors really needed was a little remixing. So he started creating musical mash-ups of news clips he found on YouTube and used a bit of technical wizardry known as “Auto-Tuning” to transform the talking heads into singing heads.
In an article in The New Yorker last summer, Sasha Frere-Jones wrote that Antares’s Auto-Tune is software “singers sometimes choose to correct recorded flaws in pitch.” As Mr. Frere-Jones explained:
Most of the time, Auto-Tune is used imperceptibly, to correct flat or sharp notes. … But pitch correction has also taken on a second life, as an effect. [...]
Processed at zero speed, Auto-Tune turns the lolling curves of the human voice into a zigzag of right-angled steps. These steps may represent “perfect” pitches, but when sung pitches alternate too quickly the result sounds unnatural, a fluttering that is described by some engineers as “the gerbil” and by others as “robotic.”
With that in mind, readers who can handle one poorly-bleeped out obscenity are advised to head to YouTube and enjoy the most recent episode of Mr. Gregory’s comic video blog series, “Auto-Tune the News.” The latest installment features the Auto-Tuned song stylings of Ruth Marcus, Sean Hannity, Katie Couric and Hillary Clinton on gay marriage, drugs, rage and pirates — alongside Mr. Gregory himself (in a Yankees cap) and his brother, who address the women in the video in mock-rapper style as “Shorty.” The previous episode of “Auto-Tune the News” featured a singing Newt Gingrich. Read more…
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Mysterious Structure Found in Britain, May Have Led to Ancient Artificial Island_Featured_, Archaeology Sunday, June 24th, 2012
(LiveScience) Archaeologists have unearthed the foundation of what appears to have been a massive, ancient structure, possibly a bridge leading to an artificial island, in what is now southeast Wales. The strange ruin, its discoverers say, is unlike anything found before in the United Kingdom and possibly all of Europe.
“It’s a real mystery,” said Steve Clarke, chairman and founding member of the Monmouth Archaeological Society, who discovered the structural remains earlier this month in Monmouth, Wales — a town known for its rich archaeological features. “Whatever it is, there’s nothing else like it. It may well be unique.”
Clarke and his team discovered the remnants of three giant timber beams placed alongside one another on a floodplainat the edge of an ancient lake that has long since filled with silt. After being set into the ground, the pieces of timber decayed, leaving anaerobic (oxygen-free) clay, which formed after silt filled in the timbers’ empty slots, Clarke told LiveScience.
The team initially thought the timber structures were once sleeper beams, or shafts of timber placed in the ground to form the foundations of a house. However, the pieces appear to be too large for that purpose. While a typical sleeper beam would span about 1 foot (30 centimeters) across, these timber beams were over 3 feet wide and at least 50 feet long (or about 1 meter by 15 meters). The archaeologists are still digging and don’t yet know how much longer the timbers are. Clarke says the structure’s builders appear to have placed whole trees, cut in half lengthwise, into the ground.
“One other thing that is striking, that might be relevant, is that the timbers seem to be lined up with the middle of the lake,” Clarke noted, suggesting that the structures may have been part of a causeway to a crannog, or artificial island, constructed in the middle of the lake. “Even so, if it is a path to a crannog, it’s huge.”
Read the full article:
Photo: Steve Clarke
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After the tweet above, news outlets from The Next Web to Spatially Adjusted shared the news that Apple basically did the right thing. The gory details include how both the OSM Foundation and an iOS developer helped Apple make the change (Talking Points Memo coverage). Why is this change such big news? Honestly, it's not big news. It's just that any Apple news is exciting. And, in the mapping arena Apple mapping news, is well, news.
A better question to ask is how to turn this non-news in a teachable moment for geography and GIS students and geography and GIS practitioners. My answer is to use this as a jumping off point to look at spatial data licenses.
First, of course, have a look at what the OpenStreetMap license says. OpenStreetMap is currently distributed under a Creative Commons (CC) License. It's stated in plain English that you can use the map images or map data, so long as you include attribution and if possible a link to the OSM website and the CC license. The OSM license page even includes sample text you can copy! The page also makes clear that if you alter or build on the data you can only release it under the same license. (If you want to be really up to date, prepare yourself because OpenStreetMap is changing to a new license. That said, I'd get familiar with CC first.)
Once you are familiar with the current OSM license consider these questions:
- Are the Creative Commons Licenses new to you?
- Where else have you seen them? If you haven't, find some non-mapping content that is licensed that way.
- Why do you think OSM and other creators chose this license?
- Would you distribute your works (article, music, art, maps, data, etc.) under this type of license? Why or why not?
- Did you know you can use some search engine tools to identify content release under CC licenses (and sometimes other licenses)? See if your favorite search tools allows such a search. (Hint: you might need to look under "advanced" searching.)
- VMAP0 (formerly Digital Chart of the World, DCW)
- The City of Chicago
- The City of Vancouver
- Nokia (formerly NAVTEQ)
- TomTom (formerly Tele Atlas)
Finally, think about why we have licenses for data and for creative works. Should we? Do the licenses you found for the geodatasets listed above make sense? Serve their intended goals? What should be changed? Anything?
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Szentendre & Skanzen
Szentendre with its colourful houses, narrow alleys, and 24 museums, is the most frequently visited tourist centre along the Danube. This Mediterranean-like town is the home of Serbs who fled from the Turks and settled here in the 14th-17th centuries. Seven church towers rise high in the sky. Four of them belong to the Orthodox Church. Icons, works of gold and silversmiths and other treasures are found in the Serb Orthodox Church Museum. The 13th-14th century Roman Catholic Parish Church stands on the Castle Hill, a sun-dial on its wall tells the time.
For the tourist who is looking for nostalgia, there are: shops, restaurants, trade signs, the ancient buildings of the Main Square, and the house ornaments. The Kovács Margit Museum is a tiny jewel-box. Its charming ceramic figures are visions of goodness, beauty and humanity. The works of the most talented artistic family of 19th century Hungary, Károly Ferenczy, his wife and his children, can be seen in the Ferenczy Museum. The Gallery of Szentendre in the former 18th century Serb merchant house and the Gallery of the Artists' Colony exhibit the works of the town's contemporary artists. The Marzipan Museum offers fantasies made of marzipan, while the Dobos Confectionery Museum introduces visitors to the real Dobos Cake.
The ethnography of Pest County is shown in the House of Folk Art. Antiquities from the Roman town of Ulcisia Castra (1st to 4th centuries) can be seen in the Museum of Roman Stonework Remains. The open-air Ethnographic Museum (or Skanzen) has the largest ethnographic collection in Hungary with 340 buildings in 10 sections. Folk monuments worth preserving are transported here from all over the country. Demonstrations of folk handicrafts are held at the weekends and "notable days" of Hungarian folk culture are celebrated.
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Do you work for an employer that offers a retirement plan?
If your employer offers a retirement plan, join it as soon as you can and contribute as much as the plan allows. Most employers with a 401(k) plan match a fixed percentage of the employee's contribution. The most common match is 50 percent of the employee's contribution up to a maximum percentage of wages or salary (usually 6 percent). The majority of employers offer 50 percent or more. That's like getting free money! While all job categories may not be included in your employer’s plan (those of part-time or temporary workers, for instance), your job may be one that is.
Remember, by saving early you have time on your side. Your savings will grow and your earnings will compound over time.
Have you worked at the job long enough to earn retirement benefits?
In many companies, you may have to work for 5 years to become eligible to receive retirement benefits. Some workplaces have a shorter vesting period (vesting simply means that you have worked long enough to earn the right to benefits from a savings or pension plan).
Too often employees, especially women, quit work, transfer to another job, or interrupt their work lives just short of the time required to become vested. Ask the personnel office, retirement plan administrator, or union representative about the vesting period and other details of your company’s plan.
Do you keep copies of the documents that define the provisions of your retirement plan?
In addition to asking questions of company or retirement plan officials, you should keep copies of the summary plan description (SPD) and any amendments. The SPD is a document that retirement plan administrators are required to prepare, and it outlines your benefits and how they are calculated. The SPD also spells out the financial consequences – usually a reduction in benefits – if you decide to retire early (earlier than age 65 in many plans). You probably received a copy of the SPD when you joined the pension or savings plan, but you may request another one from your employer or plan administrator. Also remember to keep retirement-related records from all jobs. They provide valuable information about your benefit rights, even when you no longer work for a company.
What happens to your retirement benefits if you change jobs?
You may lose the retirement benefits you have earned if you leave your job before you are vested. However, once vested, you have the right to receive benefits even when you leave your job. In such cases, the company may allow, or in certain cases may insist, that you take your retirement benefits in a lump sum when you leave. However, other companies may not permit you to receive your money until retirement. The rules for your plan are spelled out in the SPD.
A word of caution: If you receive your retirement benefits in a lump sum, you will owe additional income taxes, and may owe a penalty tax. A better way is to reinvest your savings in another qualified retirement plan or an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) within 60 days. You avoid tax penalties and you keep your long-term retirement goals on track.
If you do want to reinvest the money, it is important that you do not directly receive it. If you receive the money directly, you will have to pay a 20 percent withholding tax on the amount you receive and then file for a refund in the next year, providing proof that you have transferred the funds to an IRA. Instead, instruct the retirement plan to transfer your money directly to an IRA you have established or to another qualified retirement plan. This is easy to do using simple forms supplied by the new plan. If you want help with the forms, representatives of the plan are generally available to assist you.
Do you know how you can save for retirement even if you don’t belong to an employer-sponsored retirement plan?
Anyone receiving compensation or married to someone receiving compensation can contribute to an IRA. In addition, if you are self-employed, you can start a Simplified Employment Plan (SEP) or a Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees of Small Employers (SIMPLE).
As with other retirement savings plans, there may be tax consequences, and possibly penalties, if you withdraw your savings early.
Are you tracking your Social Security earnings?
More women than ever work, pay Social Security taxes, and earn credit toward a monthly income at retirement. These earnings can mean some income for you and your family in the form of monthly benefits if you become disabled and can no longer work. If you die, your survivors may be eligible for benefits. In addition, you may be eligible for Social Security benefits through your husband’s work and can receive benefits when he retires or if he becomes disabled or dies. Special rules apply if you and your husband have been employed and both have paid into Social Security. Special rules also apply if you are divorced or if you have a government retirement plan.
To calculate your benefit estimate, visit the Social Security Administration’s Web site.
Are you entitled to a portion of your spouse’s retirement benefit if you and your husband divorce?
As part of a divorce or legal separation, you may be able to obtain rights to a portion of your spouse’s retirement benefit (or he may be able to obtain a portion of yours). In most private-sector plans, this is done using a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) issued by the court. You or your attorney should consult your spouse’s plan administrator to determine what requirements the QDRO must meet.
Are you aware of the rules that govern your retirement plan and the retirement plan of your spouse if either of you dies?
The rules are different for defined contribution and defined benefit plans.
If you or your spouse belong to a defined benefit plan (a traditional pension plan), the surviving spouse may be entitled to receive a survivor benefit when the enrolled employee dies. This survivor benefit is automatic unless both spouses agree, in writing, to forfeit the benefit. You will need to check the SPD or consult with the plan administrator regarding survivor annuities or other death benefits.
If you are a beneficiary under your spouse’s defined benefit pension plan, you may want to request a copy of the SPD and other plan documents that describe your spouse’s vested benefits. You will probably want to make the request in writing, and you may be charged a fee for the information.
The rules may be different if you or your spouse participate in a defined contribution plan (such as a 401(k) plan). Consult the plan administrator for details about spousal rights.
It's Up to You
Once you’ve answered these questions, you’re on the road to learning more about financial freedom. As a resource for women (and men), the Employee Benefits Security Administration has issued Savings Fitness: A Guide to Your Money and Your Financial Future and Taking the Mystery Out of Retirement Planning. The booklets include resource and Web site sections.
Employee Benefits Security Administration
View the following booklets on the Web site. Request copies by calling the publication request line.
In addition, visit the following Web sites for more help:
This publication has been developed by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. It is available on the Internet at www.dol.gov/ebsa. For a complete list of EBSA publications or to order copies, call toll-free 1.866.444.3272. This material will be made available in alternate format upon request: Voice phone: 202.693.8664, TTY: 202.501.3911.
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Penarth, located in Vale of Glamorgan, is a seaside resort that is popular with tourists. The town is situated to the south west of Cardiff. It is actually the second largest town in the area. Penarth became popular as a destination area during the Victorian era. During that time it was known as The Garden by the Sea and attracted visitors from all over the area. A number of buildings from both the Victorian era as well as Edwardian era have survived. There are numerous accommodation options in the area along with a variety of eating establishments.
Book Penarth hotels, Penarth Bed and Breakfasts or other Penarth accommodation below.
The Welsh town and seaside resort that is known as Penarth is located within the area that is known as the Vale of Glamorgan. The town of Penarth is located about five miles to the south of the capital city of Cardiff. The town is located on the northern banks of the Severn Estuary and also on the southern shore of Cardiff Bay. The town of Penarth is the second biggest town within the Vale of Glamorgan and the biggest town is known as Barry.
The town of Penarth was very popular during the Victorian era, as a holiday destination and it became know nationally as the garden by the sea. The town was once even a very popular place for day-trippers who would arrive on the trains in order to spend a day by the seaside.
Even nowadays the town is a very popular place for people to go during their summer holidays and it is especially popular with the older visitors. The number of visitors has decline but it is still very popular. The town is also very popular as a commuter town for people working in the city of Cardiff.
The town of Penarth has a population of about twenty three thousand two hundred and forty five. The town has managed to retain a lot of its architecture that dates back to the Edwardian and Victorian times. A lot of the parts of the town have some very high housing prices caused mainly by it becoming a commuter area.
We hope you enjoy your stay in one of our cheap Penarth hotels, mid range or luxury Penarth hotels.
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Engage China to redress grievances: Tibetans
Dharamsala, Feb 14 : As cases of self-immolation to protest Beijing's "repressive policies" reached 100, the Tibetan administration-in-exile Thursday appealed to the global community to engage China to redress the grievances of the Tibetans.
"We call on the national governments and international agencies, including the United Nations, to use their good offices and actively engage with China to stop the deteriorating situation in Tibet," Lobsang Sangay, the democratically elected leader of the Tibetan people, said here.
A Tibetan monk in early 20s reportedly set himself afire near a monastery in Kathmandu in Nepal Wednesday. He is said to be critical.
This was reported to be the 100th case of self-immolation. Except two self-immolations, all of them occurred in Tibet.
Sangay demanded that concrete steps need to be taken up by China to stop such extreme steps.
"Concrete steps the leaders of the world need to take up immediately are to send Navi Pillay of UNHCR to visit Tibet and investigate the real causes of self-immolations and convene a meeting to discuss and address the crisis in Tibet," he said.
These steps, he said, would go a long way not only to encourage the Tibetans in their effort to embrace democracy and non-violence but also to be a catalyst for a moderate China.
The Central Tibetan Administration, based here, said 100 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since February 2009. The common cry of all self-immolators is the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet and freedom for Tibetans.
The CTA clarified that it was not encouraging self-immolations and asked China to send an investigation team here to prove their allegation.
"We have pledged full cooperation and unhindered access to our offices," Sangay added.
China has blamed the Dalai Lama-led group of Tibetans of making "false charges" against the Chinese government and instigating its people to get global attention.
The Dalai Lama has lived in India since fleeing his homeland in 1959. The Tibetan government-in-exile is based in this Himachal Pradesh hill town.
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Pot linked to psychosis in teens, or maybe it's vice versa12/26/2012
Do teens who smoke pot have a greater risk of developing psychosis? Or are psychotic symptoms the reason they toke up? In a recent "chicken or the egg"-style study from the Netherlands, researchers explored how THC—the active property in marijuana—changed teenagers' brains. After surveying 2,120 teens, researchers learned that 44 percent reported smoking marijuana. They also found there was a so-called "bidirectional link" between psychosis and pot use. "Using pot at 16 was linked to psychotic symptoms three years later," the research said. "And psychotic symptoms at age 16 were linked to pot use at age 19." The authors did note that smoking pot was a risk factor for these disorders, but not the cause. [Source]
Click to see more on msnNOW.com , updated 24 hours a day.
What do you think of this research?
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As many probably know, 'Iolani Palace is the only royal palace in existence in the United States. It served briefly as the seat of the Hawaiian Kingdom during the late 19th century until the monarchy was overthrown in a bloodless coup in 1893. However, Queen Liliuokalani's removal and later abdication did not end the importance of the palace. It was just the beginning.
The official 'Iolani Palace site notes, "A Hawaiian national treasure and the only official state residence of royalty in the United States, `Iolani Palace was the official residence of the Hawaiian Kingdom's last two monarchs--King Kalakaua, who built the Palace in 1882, and his sister and successor, Queen Lili`uokalani. During the monarchy period, the Palace was the center of social and political activity in the Kingdom of Hawai`i. "
After the fall of the monarchy, both the Provisional Government of Hawaii and the Republic of Hawaii used 'Iolani Palace as their capitol building. After sovereignty of Hawaii was transferred to the United States in 1898, the palace served as the capitol building of the Territory of Hawaii and the State of Hawaii. It also served as the headquarters of the Military Governor of Hawaii during World War Two. Many of the counteroffensives against the Japanese were planned within the walls of the palace.
Here is the official use of 'Iolani Palace during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries:
1882-1893: Home of the monarchy of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
1893-1894: Capitol building of the Provisional Government of Hawaii
1894-1898: Capitol building of the Republic of Hawaii
1898-1959: Capitol building of the Territory of Hawaii (military government 1941-1944)
1959-1969: Capitol building of the State of Hawaii
1969 to present: Museum under the auspices of the The Friends of `Iolani Palace
As can be seen above, 'Iolani Palace only served a royal palace for a brief period shortly after it was built. However, it has served as a capitol building for the majority of time it has existed. Not surprisingly, a home built for the Hawaiian royal family did not always function the best as a seat of government with a bicameral legislature and a governor. The palace was damaged badly throughout the early and middle 20th century. After a new seat for the Hawaiian government was built, 'Iolani Palace was vacated and the process of restoration was begun. It currently has been repaired and reconstructed to look as it did briefly under the Hawaiian Kingdom.
'Iolani Palace also has been featured in fiction. The TV series Hawaii Five-O had the state police headquarters here. I am also a fan of alternative history. As such, I have liked many of the Harry Turtledove books. In Days of Infamy and End of the Beginning, Turtledove has the Japanese puppet government of Hawaii that replaced an alternate world Hawaiian Kingdom in the palace.
I have only been to Hawaii once. However, that trip has convinced me that I will be visiting multiple times in the future. Next time, I am getting a tour and going inside this palace! My next post about my Hawaiian visit will be on Diamond Head Crater and my hike up to the top.
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Free Speech or Hate Speech?
By Faisal Kutty
(Wednesday February 22 2006)
“…the full context of its initial publication can shed some light on the intent behind its continued publication. They were published against a backdrop of ever increasing levels of Islamophobia and racism, where even the Queen of the land had called for the demonization of Muslims.”
“I don’t know of anything more important than freedom of expression,” said former Supreme Court Justice Peter Cory commenting on the Court’s decision to uphold Jim Keegstra’s conviction for willfully promoting hatred in 1991.
The offensive Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have now ignited global interest in the subject. To date four Canadian media outlets have entered the fray.
Despite death and destruction, some free speech advocates have characterized this as a defining battle. It has now become a clash of extremes with both sides reeking of double standards. Muslim extremists, some of whom regularly insult others, and dictatorships are trying to claim the moral high ground by defending the sacred in clearly non-sacred ways. An equally hypocritical extreme in the West is pretending as if there are no limits and as if subjective restraint is not exercised daily.
Many of the nations where these cartoons have been published have laws against anti-Semitism and rightly so (for an excellent summary of the situation in Europe see Professor Ruti Teitel’s article ). In fact, about two weeks ago Italian prosecutors even announced charges against eleven individuals who displayed Nazi symbols during a football game. Meanwhile, media in Italy have reproduced the cartoons with impunity.
Indeed, even in Denmark there are limits. The offending newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, refused to publish caricatures of Jesus in 2003 because they would “offend.” Moreover, section 140 of the Danish Penal Code prohibits blasphemy while section 266b prohibits expressions that threaten, deride or degrade others on various grounds. Of course even limits and laws are viewed through political, social and philosophical lens and so the public prosecutor determined that these cartoons did not violate any laws.
Freedom of expression is alive and well in Canada, but cannot be used as a carte blanche. We have restrictions. We have libel laws and censorship of various forms in keeping with “community standards.” Moreover, criminal and human rights legislation also restrict free speech in the interest of protecting minorities and maintaining harmony.
Section 319 of the Criminal Code proscribes statements that incite or promote hate. Convictions have been few and far between because of the specific intent required, but it has withstood constitutional challenges.
Subsection 319(1) makes it an offence to incite “hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace.” To be convicted an accused must have communicated statements in a public place and ought to have known that the incitement was likely to have brought about a breach of the peace.
The SCC has held that the mens rea required is less than the intentional promotion of hatred, but the immediacy of the breach of the peace would make it extremely difficult to convict unless the cartoons were being provocatively displayed in a mosque or Muslim gathering.
The second and more relevant offence is set out in subsection 319(2) which makes it an offence to “communicate statements, other than in private conversation, that willfully promotes hatred against an identifiable group…” The mens rea will flow from the establishment of the elements of the criminal act. The trier of fact must not only consider the statement (broadly defined) objectively, but also with regard to the circumstances, the manner and tone used and the persons to whom the message was addressed. The SCC held in R. v. Keegstra that willful blindness (“knew or strongly suspected”) as to the consequences is sufficient to satisfy the mens rea requirement.
Though it can be argued that the cartoons in and of themselves may not be caught under subsection 319(2), I believe that there are strong grounds to lay a charge against those who republish them now. I base this viewpoint on at least five reasons, the first being that the news value has diminished given that anyone wishing to understand the controversy and see the cartoons can do so without having them republished. Secondly, at least two of the cartoons, especially the one showing the prophet with the bomb and the one calling for an end to suicide bombings because of a shortage of virgins, suggest that Muslims are necessarily and inherently evil (this is a reasonable interpretation), because a Muslim by definition tries to emulate the prophet. The issue for most is not whether the prophet should be pictured. It is his portrayal, essentially, as a poster boy for al-Qaeda and by extension, Muslims in general as violent and therefore worthy of hate. Thirdly, given the fact that Muslims — both observant and non-observant — have made it very clear that these are offensive and violate their dignity as a community (granted this is an alien notion in our individualistic society), republishing them is therefore intentionally provocative and can promote hatred. Fourthly, it can be reasonably argued that the intent behind their publication in the current climate will serve no real free speech purpose and may in fact expose Muslims to hate.
Lastly, I believe that the full context of its initial publication can shed some light on the intent behind its continued publication. They were published against a backdrop of ever increasing levels of Islamophobia and racism, where even the Queen of the land had called for the demonization of Muslims.
The following quote from the South African newspaper the Mail & Guardian is illustrative:
“Further, they were published in Denmark, which has been named by the European Union Commission on Human Rights as the most racist country in Europe. It has witnessed a large number of attacks against Muslims, some resulting in the killings of Muslim immigrants. And, they were published by a newspaper with historical ties to German and Italian fascism and which called for a fascist dictatorship in Denmark. Jyllands-Posten is also anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim. Within such a context, these cartoons are clearly hate speech. Their publication is an ontological attack against the foundations of Islam.”
Indeed, some commentators have argued that given the foregoing, the aim of the cartoons was nothing short of inciting hatred against “the terrorist within” .
However, conviction under ss. 319(2) would be extremely difficult given the evidentiary burden and indeed even initiating the prosecution requires the consent of the attorney general – a Herculean task for communities that often lack political clout. Moreover, the accused has a number of defenses available under ss. 319(3) which dilute the provisions effectiveness, but minimizes abuse.
Though not specifically designed to regulate speech it may be easier to pursue a hate-monger using the lower civil standard of proof required under human rights legislation. Such legislation is concerned with the broader effect of hate and not just the intended effect. Legislation in both British Columbia and Alberta have been successfully used to curb hateful speech. The SCC has not yet ruled on whether this would be ultra vires by infringing on federal jurisdiction over criminal law.
Muslims in Canada have acted responsibly. Editors must reciprocate and exercise their rights tempered by civic responsibility. The community will be looking to the various Attorneys General to enforce the laws against those who cross the line and join the bandwagon of hate in the name of freedom of expression.
As Mr. Justice Cory pointed out more than 15 years ago, laws against hate were justified because inciting hatred can be “as damaging as actual physical violence.”
“Limits on free speech,” said the justice, “must be considered as much as the right itself.”
An abridged version of this article appeared in Lawyers Weekly (February 24, 2006).
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We're regularly told how complex the national debt issue is, particularly with programs like Social Security and Medicare radically underfunded. I agree that Medicare is tough, but Social Security is fixable merely by maintaining the original intent of the program-and if more Americans developed and lived out a Christian worldview, the fix would be even easier.
The original intent of Social Security was to fund, on average, 13 years of retirement for men and 15 years for women: That was the life expectancy for 65-year-olds in 1935. A macabre fact aided the program's finances: Little more than half of men and women aged 21 were expected to make it to age 65, so everyone paid in for what some would receive.
Now, we live on average a decade longer. Congress slightly recognized this in 1983 by changing the age at which workers can receive full benefits from 65 to (in 2022) 67. The early eligibility age (a 1956 invention, originally for women only) remained at 62. Medical advances minimally warrant raising the full benefit age to 70 by 2022, and the early eligibility age to 67. The difference over time is trillions of dollars.
Ironically, the original Social Security age almost was 70 rather than 65. Roosevelt administration officials based their calculations on the experience of state pension systems, half of which had 65 as the retirement age and half of which provided benefits starting at age 70. Officials chose 65 because it was the retirement age within the Railroad Retirement System-and because it was politically popular.
The continued search for popularity may bankrupt the whole system. Raising the eligibility age could be tough on some in physically demanding jobs, but that's 8 percent at the most, according to an Urban Institute study, down from 20 percent in 1950. Special provision could be made for such workers, and for those in poor health-but with relatively few jobs requiring heavy lifting, and with the medical advances of recent decades, an overwhelming percentage of people between 65 and 70 are able to work.
The deeper issue is not "able" but "willing," given the option of kicking back instead. John Piper's pamphlet Rethinking Retirement (Crossway, 2009) notes that many Americans believe "we must reward ourselves now in this life for the long years of our labor." Retirement-playing, traveling, sleeping late-is "the world's substitute for heaven since the world does not believe there will be heaven beyond the grave."
Retirement beckons to many just as pretty fruit enticed Eve. Many people bite in and then find many of their days to be empty. Christians should understand that, as Piper writes, "most of the suggestions this world offers us for our retirement years are bad ideas. They call us to live in a way that would make this world look like our treasure. And when that happens, Jesus is belittled." But many Christians fall into worldly thinking.
If Roosevelt administration planners had operated within a Christian worldview, they would have helped religious and civic organizations to carry on their work in helping the poor and the elderly, instead of creating an impersonal governmental system. They would have offered supplementary income to the elderly poor that would have encouraged them to stay with their extended families. How much have we lost in intergenerational community by creating elderly ghettos?
Social Security's fiscal problems are growing not only because the age of access is too low, but because the baby boom bulge will leave millions of retirees supported by too few earners. If more Americans had a Christian worldview, more of us would work as long as we remain able. The elderly would inspire the young by example-I know one physically fit widow who insisted on mowing her own lawn well into her 80s-and contribute financially as well.
Piper says it well: "Finishing life to the glory of Christ means resolutely resisting the typical American dream of retirement . . . We are set free from the cravings that create so much emptiness and uselessness in retirement. Knowing that we have an infinitely satisfying and everlasting inheritance in God just over the horizon of life makes us zealous in our few remaining years here to spend ourselves in the sacrifices of love, not the accumulation of comforts."
Listen to Marvin Olasky discuss the original intent of Social Security on The World and Everything in It.
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- Special Sections
- Public Notices
The year has already begun – 2011 has started with a bang. One month has already flown by and life continues to move at a rapid rate. It seems the older you get, the faster life goes by. Do you think about what’s left? How many years do I have? What kind of quality of life will they be? What kind of health will I be in? Will my money hold out? And what about this day? Where will I go from here?
God has a plan for all of us. His plan is laid out in His Word – our road map for life. In this life you’ll have trials, tests, mountains and just plain questions. You’ll be up, you’ll be down, you’ll have victories, you’ll embrace losses; but one thing’s for sure – you will have the opportunity to believe and trust God. It’s called living by faith.
With so much chaos and wars and famine and pestilences, you and I can be of good cheer. John 16:33, “In this world you will have tribulation (troubles); but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” Jesus Christ has overcome the world – yes, the same world you and I live in with fear, greed, confusion, and doubt. A world filled with wrong priorities, false allegiances, and just a bunch of people who have lost their way.
Jesus gave us many answers to life. He said, “I am The Way, The Truth and The Life, and no one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6. So if you’re confused about which way to go, He is The Way. If you’re looking for truth, He is The Truth (and His truth will set you free!). If you have no life, or you’re tired of being broken, bruised, abandoned or just hating your sin-filled life, He is The Life.
Is it that simple? All my direction in life, my purpose, the plan, the passion that resides in me can flow through a relationship and dedication to one man, Jesus Christ? Yes it can! Jesus Christ led the way so we can follow. In the remaining years we have on this earth, we are going to leave something. This something is called a legacy. Your legacy will have tracks that distinguish marks in your life.
Your tracks leave their marks on this world. Some people have left tracks of goodness, mercy and love — Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham. Some people have left tracks of darkness, sin destruction and death — Adolph Hitler, Stalin and the terrorists of 9/11.
The truth is that we leave tracks, legible imprints that others not only will observe, but also in some fashion follow. You and I will never go wrong following Jesus, our Creator, as we walk through life. Our trust in Him will allow us not to lean on our own wisdom, but trust in His direction for our life.
It’s up to us. When we are gone will our tracks lead us to Him or away? Will they lead toward Heaven or toward Hell? Truth is, they’ll lead somewhere. Let’s lead people to Him, Jesus Christ, and then toward our home, which is Heaven. Let’s make the most of our remaining days –a glory and blessing to the Lord.
The Rev. Pat Butcher is pastor of Family Worship Center, 2520 Hwy 227 in Carrollton, Ky.
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Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors
Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the role that public and private policy have played in enabling—and sustaining—swift innovation in a variety of industries, from agriculture and the life sciences to information technology. Chapters highlight the factors that have determined the impact of past policies, and suggest that effectively managed federal funding, strategies to increase customer demand, and the enabling of aggressive competition from new firms are important ingredients for policies that affect innovative activity.
Keywords: Energy Sources;
Innovation and Invention;
Weather and Climate Change;
Demand and Consumers;
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“The Line” documents the stories of people across the country living at or below the poverty line. They have goals. They have children. They work hard. They are people like you and me. Across America, millions are struggling every day to make it above The Line.
From Emmy Award-winning producer Linda Midgett, The Line is a groundbreaking documentary chronicling the new face of poverty in America. As Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis puts it, “more and more of our friends are in poverty — in the pews, in our workplaces — through no fault of their own, and they are slipping below the poverty level.”
What does this mean for the future of our country? How do real-life stories change the narrative about poverty?
What can we do about it?
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Ashe County Christmas tree farmers joined a nationwide effort on Friday morning by donating trees to the “Trees for Troops” charity.
“Trees for Troops,” a program of the Christmas Spirit Foundation, provides free, farm-grown Christmas trees to United States armed forces members in all branches of the military and their families, through donations, sponsorships and the hard work of volunteers.
According to Jennifer Greene, the executive director of the N.C. Christmas Tree Association, this will be the eighth year of the program, and in that time, over 103,000 Christmas trees have been shipped to 62 military bases nationally.
Greene said Ashe County barely met its goal of 1,000 donated trees on Friday.
The majority of donated trees came from tree farmers. however, individuals also get involved in this project.
According to Travis Birdsell, the extension agent for agriculture, individuals often purchase trees from growers so they can donate to the “Trees for Troops” project.
Another part of the charity is FedEx, who has delivered trees to military bases at no cost since the project began in 2005.
This year, the trees from Ashe County will be sent to Fort Benning, located in Cusseta, Ga., and Fort Polk, located 10 miles east of Leesville, La.
Every year, the Ashe County High School ROTC has sent students to help load the trees donated by the community.
Klein Church, who’s nursery was used as a collection site for Ashe County, said “It’s hard to believe how much this event has grown.”
“When we began eight years ago, we didn’t know how long this event would continue, but we decided to be a part of it because it was for a good cause. Not only has this event continued over the past few years, it has grown,” said Church.
“Now, this has really became a big event that people want to be a part of. Not only is the ROTC helping us load the trees, kindergarten students have also come to help the last few years,” said Church.
This year, nearly 60 kindergartners came from Boomer-Ferguson Elementary School in order to help tag Christmas Trees before they were shipped to the military bases, said Greene.
Also, volunteers were treated to baked goods and hot beverages provided by Calvary United Methodist Church.
According to Greene, the Christmas Spirit Foundation, a non-profit subsidiary of the National Christmas Tree Association. In addition to the “Trees for Troops” project, the foundation is involved in other programs including college scholarships, hurricane relief and recycling programs.
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