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Just across the state line that separates Pennsylvania from Delaware, there is an oenophile’s dream. It is a store that sells oceans of wine, beer and spirits that are hard to come by, if not impossible, in our home state, at fair process, with salespeople who are knowledgeable about what they sell, friendly about helping someone choose between a Pinot Noir and a Pinot Grigio, and with prices that are friendly on the wallet. We do not want to be accused of promoting that business, but it is the sort of place that we would hope will be opening soon much, much closer to home.
That is a way of saying that, with a few tweaks here and there that we believe would not be hard to fashion, we support Gov. Tom Corbett’s ambitius plan to get our state out of the liquor and wine business and give the people more choices when it comes to where, how, and what we buy when we want an alcoholic beverage.
“I want Pennsylvanians to enjoy the same convenience that virtually every other American today has,” said Corbett, who unveiled his proposal last month. The Republican governor, who had campaigned on the idea, as had his GOP predecessors, said the plan would generate $1 billion in revenue that would be funneled to public schools over four years to create a proposed block grant program. The money would help finance programs involving school safety, learning in reading and math through third grade, individualized learning programs and science, technology, engineering and mathematics instruction in the sixth to 12th grades.
Other revenue would flow from the sale of beer and wine licenses to retailers including big-box stores, grocery stores, pharmacies and convenience stores.
Beer distributors, which currently only sell beer by the case, could obtain an enhanced license that allows them to sell beer in smaller quantities. Also, because they also would be eligible to compete for the wine and liquor licenses, beer distributors could become the only one-stop sources of liquor, wine and beer.
The tweaks we envision would be a repositioning of the “block grant” idea of funneling revenue to schools, making sure that the neediest of our public school districts would stand first in line, and measures that would help transition employees in the current state system to the private sector. With those reservations, we wait for the state to join the 21st century when it comes to the sale of spirits.
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Elbow Problems, Noninjury
At one time or another, everyone has had an elbow problem that may have caused pain or swelling. Most of the time our body movements do not cause problems, but it's not surprising that symptoms develop from everyday wear and tear or overuse.
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APRIL 1, 1958
NEW YORK—I am sure no one was surprised at the news that Mr. Bulganin has been replaced as Prime Minister by Mr. Khrushchev. Our own officials stated at once that they expected no change in Russian policy.
Mr. Khrushchev now holds the same positions that Stalin held during his lifetime, which means that he is in complete control of policy and that the people will look to him to alleviate their troubles and to meet their complaints. In actual fact, probably very little change has come about. While Bulganin has signed notes that have gone out from the Soviet Union to foreign countries, Krushchev has undoubtedly been the author. The only difference now will be that Khrushchev will openly take responsibility for what he has said.
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We seem to have a bipartisan approach on the Reciprocal Trade treaties. Both the President and Adlai Stevenson have spoken before a day-long rally in favor of renewing these treaties. And both tried to bring home the fact that these treaties had a bearing on American prosperity and American jobs.
Although our foreign trade is a small percentage of the overall trade of the country, it is this percentage which is important to the whole picture. On the diplomatic side, these treaties have strengthened our power of leadership in the world. As I have pointed out before, the economic situation is one of the areas where the Soviets are pushing their plan for world control by Communism. The Reciprocal Trade treaties are part of our whole foreign policy. The more we trade with the nations of Asia, Africa and South America, the more they feel the value of our friendship and the need for the help which that friendship brings in building up their own strength at home. They will never have stable governments until their own economic situations are more stable. The Soviets have recognized this and are moving to bolster their campaign for world Communism through economic aid. Every time we neglect our economic ties we give the Soviets an advantage. I hope that the people of our country will understand that Reciprocal Trade treaties are one of the ways we try to help nations who are not yet economically developed enough to stand on their own feet.
At the conference on disarmament held at Arden House recently, many phases of possible action toward this end were discussed. After I left, however, I was told that there is a growing fear in many countries that the sharing of atomic secrets with many smaller nations of the world might well mean great danger.
The more people possess these dreaded secrets, the more will they be tempted to use them. It has been felt so far that the great nations, fully aware of the terrific destruction that could be brought about, would avoid using atomic power for warlike purposes and try to turn it to useful ends. A frightened small nation, however, might be tempted to act secretly and quickly in order to obtain a particular objective, and in so doing might unleash disastrous consequences.
It would therefore seem better for a time to share only such things as can be used for the good of mankind. This, we know, is a difficult thing to do, since nearly all materials involved can be used in both ways. So it may well be that for the present these secrets had better remain in as few hands as possible.
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Advanced Depression Options and Neurostimulation (ADDON) Clinic
For an appointment with Washington University depression specialists, please call
(314) 286-1700. Please note that a physician referral is needed.
The Department of Psychiatry at Washington University has established a referral
clinic for those suffering from treatment resistant depression.
Mission of Clinic
It is estimated that as many as 2-3 million people in the United States suffer from
a more severe form of depression known as treatment resistant depression (TRD).
We have established this clinic at Washington University with two primary missions:
To provide a thorough and comprehensive evaluation of individuals suffering
from TRD, so as to provide guidance/input into the TRD patient’s care going forward.
Often in the treatment of TRD, patients will have been on a wide and extensive array
of medications with little opportunity to get a comprehensive overview of what treatments/treatment
combinations the patient has been on. This clinic is designed to take a “big picture”
view of the patient’s treatment, with a careful review of the patient’s psychiatric
medical record, detailed review of their history, and recommendations to the referring
physician regarding future treatments.
Using cutting edge treatments and knowledge, to explore the biological and psychological
basis of TRD and how this relates to treatment outcomes. Very little
is known about TRD. We have little understanding of the biological, physiological,
anatomical, and psychological nature of this horrible form of depression. The staff
at the ADDON clinic is committed to better understanding this illness so as to be
able to provide better treatments to help those with this daunting illness. With
this in mind, we are undertaking studies to assess the impact of genetics, endocrinology,
family history, brain function (using brain imaging), psychology, and pharmacology
Referrals To the ADDON Clinic
Because the ADDON Clinic functions on a consultative basis, all patients must currently
be receiving care by a treating physician (psychiatrist or primary care). We do
not accept new patients for followup care. In order to be seen in the clinic,
patients must be referred directly, in writing, to the clinic by their treating
physician. To receive a phone screen for determination of appropriateness of the
clinic, please contact Linze at 314-286-1757.
What Happens in the Clinic Evaluation?
Once accepted into the clinic, the TRD patient will be asked to forward their complete
psychiatric medical record for careful review. Doctors in the clinic will carefully
and comprehensively review the record to determine which treatments have been attempted,
what response/nonresponse to these treatments was, which treatments have not been
attempted and which would be most appropriate as the next step. On the day of your
evaluation, the patient undergoes a one hour interview with the clinic doctors to
further detail their treatment history. A brief physical examination is performed.
After these occur, the doctors in the clinic will meet to discuss your situation
and you will be called back to meet with the ADDON clinic doctors for a preliminary
evaluation summary. Finally, the ADDON clinic will provide a written copy of your
evaluation, complete with specific recommendations intended to guide your referring
physician on “next steps” in treatment.
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Copyright (c) 1998 First Things 83 (May 1998): 9-11.
A few decades ago I published a short piece in Christianity Today about something I had observed on a Chicago expressway. I had been following a car that exhibited a Playboy bunny decal in its rear window; then as I went to pass the car I also noticed a plastic statue of Mary on its dashboard. My published reflections were meant to be lighthearted, although they now strike me as a bit too smart-alecky. Was there some intra-family compromise at work here, I wondered—between, say, a would-be Hugh Hefner and his pious wife? No, I opined, this must be an expression of some profound theological perspective—and I went on to play around with some Tillichian and Bultmannian possibilities.
Even though I was simply trying to pull off a bit of theological humor, my attempt to do so was based on an important assumption: that the juxtaposition of these two seemingly conflicting images required some kind of coherent explanation. Either the car’s symbol system was a battleground between different persons with different value systems, or the symbols did in fact cohere, in a way not immediately apparent, within a single person’s perspective on reality. What I did not take seriously as an option was that these symbols were indeed incompatible and yet were held simultaneously and sincerely by the same person.
This latter option seems much more plausible for me today. The leader of an evangelical ministry on university campuses told me a while back that his organization is struggling with difficult questions about how to present the claims of the Christian faith to present-day students. In the not so distant past, he observed, evangelicals would employ an apologetic approach that placed a strong emphasis on the coherence of a Christian view of reality. The biblical perspective was shown to tie things together, to answer adequately more questions than other worldviews. Such an approach challenged students to make a clear choice between Christianity and, say, a naturalistic or an Eastern religious perspective. But today’s students don’t seem to put much stock in coherence and consistency. They think nothing of participating in an evangelical Bible study on Wednesday night and then engaging in a New Age meditation group on Thursday night, while spending their daily jogging time listening to a taped reading of The Celestine Prophecy—without any sense that there is anything inappropriate about moving in and out of these very different perspectives on reality.
This syndrome was brought home to me in a poignant manner a while back when I was a guest on a radio talk show. It was during a time when two major newsmagazines had just run feature articles about "the historical Jesus," and the host was quite eager to discuss the topic. My fellow guest was a church leader of liberal bent, and he expressed strong skepticism about the reliability of the New Testament accounts of the resurrection of Jesus—an assessment with which I strongly disagreed. When we opened the discussion to questions from our listening audience, one of our callers was a young woman who was identified as Heather from Glendale. "I’m not what you would call, like, a Christian," Heather began. "Actually, right now I am sort of into—you know, witchcraft and stuff like that? But I agree with the guy from Fuller Seminary. I’m just shocked that someone would, like, say that Jesus wasn’t really raised from the dead!"
I was taken aback by Heather’s way of offering support for my position. Her comment still strikes me as rather bizarre. And the more I have thought about what Heather said, the more I worry about her and what she represents in contemporary culture. To be sure, I am not as shocked by this phenomenon as I would have been in the days when I wondered about the juxtaposition of Playboy decals and plastic Madonnas. Indeed, I can imagine having a rather enjoyable conversation with Heather from Glendale. In the account given in Acts 17, the Apostle Paul was engaged in what looked like a productive and friendly dialogue with some Athenian philosophers until he told them about the resurrection of Jesus; then many of them began to ridicule him. The narrator adds, however, that "others said, ‘We will hear you again about this’" (Acts 17:32); some of these latter folks, we are told, eventually became believers. I have often wondered what the conversation was like when Paul talked further to these pagan inquirers intrigued by the idea of Jesus’ resurrection. Maybe a conversation with Heather from Glendale would give me a feel for the tone of that dialogue.
But for all of that I do worry about Heather. I am concerned about the way she seems to be piecing together a set of convictions to guide her life. While I did not have the opportunity to quiz her about the way in which she makes room in her psyche for an endorsement of both witchcraft and the Gospel’s resurrection narratives, I doubt that Heather subscribes to both views of reality, Wicca and Christianity, in their robust versions. She is placing fragments of worldviews side by side without thinking about their incompatibility. And it is precisely the fact that these disconnected cognitive bits coexist in her consciousness that causes my concern.
While I worry about Heather’s inner life, I am also concerned about the larger moral and spiritual context that has contributed to her psychic confusion. There is a sense in which Heather is a microcosm—or a microchaos—of the larger culture.
Back in 1990 Harper’s magazine invited five specialists on urban life to discuss what is, and what is not, happening in America’s public spaces today. The editors asked the experts to address in particular the decline of public life that is resulting in the "debauched public discourse" of talk radio and Jerry Springer-type TV shows. The assembled experts included two architects, one urban planner, a sociologist, and a sculptor, so they naturally paid special attention to the physical dimensions of urban life. And while the experts did not agree among themselves about how best to construct a healthy public space, they were unanimous in thinking that things are not well in our urban communities. Nor were they confident that our problems will be solved by better urban planning alone. As one of the architects put it, "What we long for in the design of our public space and in the character of our public life is not fragmentation and difference but a sense of what we have in common while knowing our difference—a sense of wholeness."
This larger picture can be seen writ small in Heather’s inner landscape. She experiences "fragmentation and difference" within her inner world. She lacks a sense of commonness, of wholeness, in her psyche. And her individualized fragmentation mirrors the larger cultural brokenness.
The disturbing thing is that there are intellectual leaders who celebrate this kind of disconnected selfhood. Take the case of Kenneth Gergen, a psychologist who has written a much-discussed study of contemporary selfhood, The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life (1991). Gergen argues that traditional conceptions of how to understand personhood—namely, that we do or do not have souls or unconscious minds, that people have "intrinsic worth" or "inherent rationality"—have been exposed by "the postmodern turn" as inappropriate. These are, after all, ways of talking, not reflections of the actual nature of persons. In contrast to the narrow range of options and the oppressive restraints favored by "totalizing" systems of understanding, postmodernism opens the way to the full expression of all discourses, to a free play of discourses. From this way of viewing things, we help people best, says Gergen, by inviting them into an "endless wandering in the maze of meaning," in which they regularly experience "the breaking down of oppositions."
To be sure, Gergen wants individuals to find some way of blending, through both internal and external dialogues, various "richly elaborated discourses into new forms of serious games that can take us beyond text and into life." But it is not clear exactly what standards are to guide this process in a world in which all comparative judgments are arbitrary, indeed "imperialistic." Why should my Dodger-fan self have any less status in my life than the self that senses a need to serve the poor? Why should I prefer any instinct or preference over any other one? In such a world, what is the difference between a healthy and an unhealthy self?
Similar problems face us on the collective level. When Phyllis Trible, a well-known Old Testament scholar, completed her term as president of the Society of Biblical Literature a few years ago, she observed that the field of biblical studies is presently in a chaotic state. "Gone are the days," she said, "when the Society could define itself in rather precise and limited ways. Competing voices, tongues, and the confusion of tongues have extended research almost without limits." And while some scholars lament this situation, there are many others "who rejoice in the loss of a center, seeing it as the demise of a privileged point of view. Far from despairing, they encourage the celebration of chaos."
Trible’s comments are directed to a specific field of academic studies, but her description can be taken as a fairly accurate portrayal of the larger cultural scene in North America. While many people complain about a widespread loss of a sense of centeredness, others rejoice in this loss, celebrating the chaos. For these celebrants it is good to be rid of the conviction that the array of conflicting perspectives and convictions can be confidently assessed from a standpoint of epistemic privilege.
Trible alludes in passing to the image of Babel in her comments about the "confusion of tongues" in contemporary biblical studies. In his book Ethics after Babel, Jeffrey Stout uses that image more extensively, arguing that our contemporary cultural situation is one for which the biblical image of the Tower of Babel can serve as a "trope." In Stout’s account of our moral situation, the Babel of our moral diversity is haunted by three "specters"—"skepticism, nihilism, and relativism"—that are causing what he sees as "worrisome effects on how we live our lives." While Stout refuses to give in to the threat of these three specters, he still assumes the backdrop of Babel, arguing that we can develop a workable moral discourse by a pragmatic process that he describes as "moral bricolage": a kind of moral puttering, a piecing things together by drawing on whatever odds and ends that are available.
Stout is quite right when he says that "we are all bricoleurs, insofar as we are capable of of creative thought at all." I certainly am, and I am very aware of the fact that my habits of bricolage are shaped by many of the cultural factors that are celebrated by the postmodern anti-"imperialists." There are significant ways in which I am very pleased to be engaged in bricolage. I am a traditional Calvinist in my theology, but my Calvinism is not, nor should it be, of the exact vintage of my forebears. I have had many more opportunities than they could have imagined to enter into serious dialogue with other kinds of Protestants, Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Jews; and I have come away from those encounters with new theological odds and ends to incorporate into my understanding of reality.
My own experience, then, can be seen as confirming Stout’s hypothesis, that it is possible to piece together a workable moral perspective in the midst of Babel. But I am not content to leave it there. In the Christian scriptures, there is a more profound corrective to Babel’s chaos: Pentecost was God’s reversal of Babel. There the confusion of tongues was replaced by effective communication. On that founding event of the Christian church, multiculturalism was not eradicated, but people were nonetheless capable of understanding each other: "Are not all these who are speaking Galilieans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in our own native language? . . . [I]n our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power" (Acts 2:7-11).
I take the Pentecostal alternative to Babel seriously, because I believe the miracle of Pentecost really did happen. But I also believe that it can serve as an alternative trope for anyone who refuses to allow Babel to function as the normative image for the human condition. Babel represents one kind of multi-culturalism. It posits an irreducible diversity, a loss of common patterns of understanding; Babel confuses, divides, and erects barriers. Pentecost, on the other hand, represents a very different kind of multiculturalism. The Pentecostal experience does not eliminate the diversity of tongues, but it provides us with the ability to communicate across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Pentecost heals, unites, and promotes understanding.
It is these Pentecostal convictions that I would bring to my dialogue with Heather from Glendale. I would probe for what she might see as the deeper connections—however confused she might be in describing them—between her apparently disconnected odds and ends. I would offer her the promise, not of a mere mingling of disparate cognitive claims as she walks through the maze, but of an integrated selfhood.
Albert Borgmann, who teaches philosophy at the University of Montana, wrote an excellent book, Crossing the Postmodern Divide, a few years ago in which he discusses the ways in which the postmodern consciousness often limits its attention to the surfaces of reality. He addresses this malady with a call to rediscover "the eloquence of things" in their particularity, to recognize "the things that command our respect and grace our life," and help us to find "the depth of the world." This is what I hope for in Heather from Glendale’s psyche. And it is also what I hope for in our larger culture.
Richard J. Mouw is President of Fuller Theological Seminary.
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Members of the Mock Trial Team in front of the federal courthouse
On March 4, 2013, a crowd of spectators had the opportunity to watch mock trial proceedings of a civil suit at the federal courthouse. The mock trial was performed by Baylor Law School's American Association for Justice Mock Trial Team.
Local lawyers, high school teachers and an administrator, members of the community, courthouse staff, and 60 high school students were in attendance. The students represented Pleasant Grove High School, Texas High School, Liberty-Eylau High School, and Arkansas High School.
The presiding judge was Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant. A panel of judges and lawyers was at hand to deliver feedback: Chief Justice Josh Morriss, Justice Jack Carter, Justice Bailey Moseley, Judge Donald Dowd, Troy Hornsby, and Jason Horton. The day before the mock trial, the team had the opportunity to perform a practice session before Judge Ralph Burgess.
Texarkana attorney Justin B. Smith, who was in attendance, said the event was very successful. "The courtroom was packed with high school students, the Baylor team performed exceedingly well, and the panel of judges and lawyers gave great feedback."
Smith encourages other local affiliates to coordinate similar presentations. "High school students can get a lot out of it, and it puts the legal profession and young lawyers in a great light."
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After reading in the ripping forum I came across a comment by Emm regarding Styles and realized I know nothing about the use of Styles. Does anyone have a good tutorial on using Styles in Photoshop?
Thanks in advance,
Assuming you mean Layer Styles, I don't know of a tutorial specifically about styles in general, but many use them in some way. I suggest playing with them, they can do tons of stuff very easily. Mess around and see what the different things do. They're aren't that hard to get a hang of.
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In accordance with the prescriptions of canon 1253, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops decrees that the days of fast and abstinence in Canada are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fridays are days of abstinence, but Catholics can substitute special acts of charity or piety on this day
Called to Penance
Our Lord: Jesus invited us to follow him by carrying our cross with him each day (Luke 9.23). He indicated that his followers would fast and do penance after he returned to heaven (Luke 5.33 35). We are to go hungry and thirsty for the sake of justice (Matthew 5.6) and to do our praying, fasting and almsgiving without showing off (Matthew 6.1 6, 16 17).
Christians: From the earliest centuries, Jesus’ followers have tried to follow these commands. Since it was on a Friday that Jesus freely died to save us from our sins, believers made a special effort to do some form of penance on this day: going without food for most of the day, spending extra time in prayer, doing good works, refraining from eating meat. Like St. Paul, they wanted to offer their penances for Christ’s body, the Church (Colossians 1.24).
In today’s Church: Over the centuries, these forms of penance have varied, and sometimes have been neglected. Today, we are being invited once more to obey our saviour: we are to do penance for our sins and those of others, for the people of God, for peace in the world, and for the building up of God’s kingdom on earth.
When we were baptized, we were made sharers in the priesthood of Jesus Christ. By our penance, we share with Jesus in his work of saving the world. We continue to die with him to sin and self, and to live with him for God.
For everyone: All who believe in Christ—young and old, sick and healthy, lay and religious—are invited to make Friday a special day. It is a day when we seek to share more fully in Christ’s sufferings, and to work with him to help save the world by our prayer, penance, and good works.
A Day of Penance
Doing penance is not a form of self punishment, or an unhealthy desire to inflict pain on ourselves. Rather, we do penance in order to discipline ourselves (1 Corinthians 9.24 27) and to live in union with Jesus who suffered to save the world. We offer our penitential actions in obedience to the gospel commands, so that our Lord may purify our love for him and make us stronger in the service of God and the people of God. We freely offer our penances to help make up for sin in our own lives and in the lives of others.
Different kinds of penance: There are various types of penance that we can offer to our God:
- Doing God’s will. We can try to keep the commandments because they are God’s will for us. We can start cutting down on our disobedience to God’s will: our gossiping, or lying, or laziness; our petty thefts, or selfishness, or failure to pray. We can begin to do our daily work as well as we can, with more cheerfulness and less grumbling.
- Giving up things we enjoy. We can cut down on the amount of our food, candy, treats or snacks. We can give up meat or dessert, or be less picky in our eating. At times we can turn off the radio or TV, give up a movie or a party, stay away from newspapers and magazines.
What form of penance will I begin to do this Friday and every Friday from now on?
A Day of Good Works
We are called to do good works every day. On Friday we may do them to thank Jesus for suffering and dying on the cross for us.
- Works of charity. We may visit a sick person, or help an older person or a busy parent. We may listen patiently to someone who needs to talk. We may invite a lonely person to share a meal with us or bring a treat to someone with few friends. We can give alms to good causes, especially those that bring food to the hungry. We can reach out to the discouraged, the suffering, the lonely, the people who feel they are failures or rejected by others.
- Prayer. We may spend some extra time on Friday praying for peace or for a family in need. We may pray with an older person or someone who is sick. We may pray for a person who seems intent on getting in trouble with the law. We may offer prayers for those who persecute others and for their victims. We may pray for those who are in the grip of alcohol or drugs, and for those who are confused. We may pray that more people will offer their talents and their lives in the service of the Church and of other good causes.
- God’s word. Each Friday we may spend some time in reading God’s word. We may read a chapter from the gospel slowly and prayerfully, letting Jesus speak to us. We may pray a psalm, giving praise to God in the words of the Spirit, and asking for help for ourselves and for others. We may read another passage from the scriptures, and let the Spirit of Jesus bring its message alive in our hearts and in our life.
Friday in Our Homes
For Friday to come alive once more as a day of penance and good works, it must be kept in our homes. Parents and children, adults living alone, students and teachers, clergy and religious: all of us are invited to listen to Jesus’ invitation to carry the cross and to do penance for the good of the Church and the world.
Acts of penance: We can do at least one of these good actions each Friday:
- Penance. Abstain from meat, or some other form of food, drink or entertainment.
- Prayer. Take part in a service of worship with others, or pray with our family, or spend some extra time in personal prayer.
- Good works. Do good to others by visiting the sick or aged, helping those in any need, or by contributing time or money to a work of charity.
When each Christian home keeps Friday as a day of prayer and penance, the whole believing community carries on the saving work of the Lord Jesus in our time. If we are generous, we may wish to do more for our Lord and his Church, and do some penance and some good work every week on the day when he died to bring us life.
Other days for penance: As well as Fridays, we observe Ash Wednesday and the weekdays of Lent as days of special penance. On Good Friday and Holy Saturday, the Church invites us to continue the ancient tradition of the paschal fast: we prepare by penance and prayer to renew our baptismal promises and to enter more fully into the joys of the Easter season.
The law of Friday abstinence obliges Catholics who are 14 years of age or older. Parents and pastors are to help younger children grow in their understanding of the meaning and practice of Christian penance.
On Good Friday, Jesus obeyed the Father’s will, obedient even to dying on the cross for us (Philippians 2.8). The Father raised him up and proclaimed him the king of glory.
Each day, God calls us to walk in the footsteps of Jesus as we live out the promise of our baptism.
Each Friday, we share in the Lord’s cross, learning to obey with him, joining in his death to sin and evil.
Each Sunday, we celebrate Jesus’ victory over sin and death, and our eventual victory with him.
Every Friday is a promise from God that we who are baptized will rise again with Christ. We suffer and carry our crosses now, but we will share in Jesus’ glory if we are faithful by his grace.
Lord Jesus, our brother,
we praise you for saving us
by dying on the cross
and by rising from the dead.
Help us to share
in your cross today,
and to come to glory with you,
for you are our Lord for ever. Amen!
Keeping Friday: Liturgical Leaflet, edited by the National Liturgy Office, and published by Publications Service, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2500 Don Reid Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 2J2 Canada. Copyright © Concacan Inc., 1985, 2002. All rights reserved. This text may be reproduced for personal or parish use. For commercial licence, please contact the publisher.
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This year the omens are not good. After our wettest summer on record it's feared that butterfly populations will have been devastated. David Attenborough, the charity's president, has encouraged people to join the count - if only to confirm our worst fears.
Last year I saw eighteen species on a single day - at Somerford Common in Wiltshire. This year, I've barely seen that many butterflies in total! There was a brimstone in the park in March, and I spotted an orange tip in April. A fortnight ago I rode my bike the length of England, and despite a week of relative sunshine I saw only 12 butterflies. I have a huge buddleia bush in my garden which we carefully pruned to encourage more flowers. It has had no visitors. Pathetic.
So as I opened the curtains yesterday and saw yet more rain I was not hopeful. By midday it had cleared to a milky sky; warm but wet. We went to the beach at Newgale, flew a kite in the onshore breeze, then drove the lanes into town - nothing doing. On our return I walked the lane opposite my house that was once a drove road, hoping there might at least be some whites or a speckled wood - still nothing.
Butterflies, for all they are in serious decline, are actually quite robust to extreme-weather. We had a similarly bad summer in 2007 and numbers quickly recovered. If we get a reasonable autumn and a better spring we'll see an improvement next year. Far worse than the rain is the loss of habitat to industrial agriculture and the overly-liberal use of pesticides. It's the species on the brink that are most vulnerable to a bad summer- clinging on in isolated colonies, a wet few months can be enough to tip the scales; years of conservation effort wiped out by a few degrees shift in the jet stream.
So my worst year for sightings was being topped off with my worst ever day's recording. I was resigned to a 'nil entry', which the Big Butterfly Count website says are as scientifically valuable as positive sightings. That may be so, but they're crap for the spirit. Spotting a butterfly is always a little moment of joy - with the exception of cabbage whites to allotment gardeners, nobody dislikes their arriving. A summer without butterflies is the visual equivalent of a silent spring.
And so my pulse leapt as I spotted a brown flicker over the hedge between our garden and next door. Five seconds later and I'd have been indoors. It was a ringlet: close relative of the meadow brown, family Satyridae - common throughout the UK and distinguishable by a line of bright rings on the underside of the hind wings. It's one of the very few butterflies that takes to the wing in overcast weather. For all that the guidebooks will tell you it has a velvety sheen on emergence, most adults are rather dusky and look as if they've been battered in the wind.
I didn't care. I'd seen a butterfly; and what's more I'd recognised it from a passing glimpse, verified when it landed. I felt pretty cool, buoyed up even. I went inside and recorded it on the website - one of three contributions from Pembrokeshire. There were eight ringlets spotted in the county - second only to the meadow brown of which there'd been ten. It's a depressing picture, but not without hope.
Today I walked to the white tower at Porthgain - one of my favourite places and pictured on the title of this blog. Dylan was with me, demonstrating how to master a wizard blast and shield block if ever I were attacked by a goblin. He cast an imaginary spell over the harbour - I summon 'rays of light' he roared. And as he did so, I saw the tell-tale flash of brown and orange eyes on a shard of volcanic rock. I ran over and they moved to a sprig of heather. It was a grayling - my favourite of all butterflies - this year's offspring of a small colony that thrives on the North Pembrokeshire cliffs.
If you look on the Big Butterfly Count website you'll see a nil sighting from Porthgain - that's because graylings weren't on the tick-list. But they are there, despite the weather and despite my worst fears - even Dylan showed a passing interest. You can too - all you have to do is look.
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The Burnham Park Yacht Club represents more than a building, docks and grounds to serve its members, it is a connection between men and women who have worked during the last sixty six years to honor the original Club goals identified in the September 14, 1938 papers of its incorporation. These original goals have been honored and have been broadened as expansion and changes came to the Club facilities and to Burnham Harbor.
The Burnham Park Yacht Club is situated in the newly configured Museum Campus Area of Chicago's lakefront and is located on Northerly Island which forms the Eastern shore of Burnham Harbor, the most sheltered harbor in Chicago.
The clubhouse provides views facing the harbor offering magnificent views of the harbor activity as well as a panoramic vista of Chicago's skyline, said to be the most exquisite view of Chicago.
Be sure to check out the video of our home, Burnham Harbor, and the Burnham Park Yacht Club.
Help us identify some Burgees we found at the club...click here
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American and Iranian tensions over Iran’s nuclear programs are part of a broad pattern of competition between the two countries. However, Iran’s nuclear program is only one of many interrelated areas in which Washington and Tehran struggle for influence. Energy, economics, trade, and sanctions all interact with the nuclear issue, and with one another, to form one axis of US-Iranian competition. This axis is intersected by a series of bilateral and multilateral issues, interests, and institutions—from energy security and nonproliferation, to arms sales and economic investment, to the IAEA and the UN. Strategic competition between the US and Iran incorporates all of these issues into a broader cycle of preemptive and reactive competition.
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Football player Pat Tillman enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2002. He was killed in action in 2004, and the exact circumstances of his death are still in question.
Pat Tillman - Mini Biography (2:16)
A short biography of Pat Tillman who was a great athlete but also an avid reader and family man. His friends viewed him a Socrates in Surfer-Boy packaging. Leaving his football career behind, he enlisted in the army after the 9/11 attacks.
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In 2002, Pat Tillman left a successful football career with the Arizona Cardinals to join the U.S. Army. He was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. The official story was that he was shot by enemy forces during an ambush, but it was later revealed that he may have been killed by friendly fire, and that Army commanders and members of the Bush administration covered up the truth of what had happened.
Athlete, professional football player, soldier. Born on November 6, 1976, in San Jose, California, the oldest of three sons. Tillman excelled at football in high school; as a star player, he helped lead Leland High School to the Central Coast Division I Football Championship. Tillman's considerable talent landed him a scholarship to Arizona State University (ASU), which he attended after graduating high school.
At ASU, Tillman thrived on the field and in the classroom. The linebacker helped his team to achieve an undefeated season and to make to the 1997 Rose Bowl game. He won the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year and was selected as the ASU Most Valuable Player of the Year in 1997. Tillman also earned awards for his performance as a student, winning the Clyde B. Smith Academic Award in 1996 and 1997; the Sporting News Honda Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1997; and the 1998 Sun Angel Student Athlete of Year.
Tillman was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the 1998 National Football League (NFL) draft. Over time, he earned his place as a starting player and set a new team record for the number of tackles in 2000. Loyal to his team, Tillman turned down a lucrative contract with the St. Louis Rams to stay with the Cardinals in 2001.
When the United States' invaded Afghanistan, Tillman decided to put his professional career on hold in order to join the U.S. military. "Sports embodied many of the qualities I deem meaningful," he said in 2002. "However, these last few years, and especially after recent events, I've come to appreciate just how shallow and insignificant my role is . . . It's no longer important." After finishing the 2001 season, he planned on enlisting in the U.S. Army with his younger brother, Kevin. His decision to leave the sport to join the military garnered a lot of media attention; some had a hard time believing that Tillman would give up all of the perks of being a professional athlete in order to fight for his country. Yet Tillman turned down a three-year, $3.6 million contract with the Cardinals enlist. Before starting his military service, Tillman married his high-school girlfriend Marie.
Tillman and his brother went through training to become Army Rangers and were assigned to the second battalion of 75th Ranger Regiment in Fort Lewis, Washington. Tillman served in several tours of duty, including time in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as a stay in Afghanistan to serve in Operation Enduring Freedom.
On April 22, 2004, Tillman was killed in action while in a canyon in eastern Afghanistan.
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Hollywood stars often get flack for their extravagant lifestyles, and sometimes they seem to be far removed from the rest of us. Not so for all celebrities, though—a surprising number of stars have taken on the big responsibility of serving in the United States Armed Forces. We know them as actors, athletes, musicians, and comedians, but these brave individuals have actually put their lives on the line for their country. Here's a look at celebrity enlistees.
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An unsolved crime never fails to fascinate us, especially when it involves the death of a celebrity. Over the years many famous individuals, from movie stars to politicians to rockers, have died in mysterious circumstances. Conspiracy theories and accusations of foul play abound, but we may never know fact from fiction. Here's a look at some of the most famous mysterious deaths.
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The ideal statistical software for teaching would be powerful, easy to learn and free. Stata, SPSS and SAS are powerful and relatively easy to learn, but not exactly free. R is free and very powerful, but has a long-toed learning curve (see previous discussion on software package preferences here). At one point I toyed with PSPP (an open-source knock-off of SPSS) but it is a very poor substitute and not worth anyone's time. Now I've found Gretl (The GNU Regression, Econometric and Time-Series Library). Gretl is a stand-alone open-source cross-platform package. It can directly import files from Stata 9, Excel, csv and several other formats, although the imports do not always proceed smoothly. It uses menus or scripting, and it can invoke R for more sophisticated analysis and graphing (if R is installed). The built-in routines include the expected (e.g., ols and logit) as well as time-series and some arcana (3sls). The post-estimation analyses are first rate. Gretl won't supplant Stata on my personal desktop any time soon, but it's worth considering for the classroom if you are teaching statistics to law students with Excel or Datadesk.
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Born in Kitzbühel, Sailer was known as the “Blitz from Kitz” for his daring and thrilling skiing style. He was the first Alpine skier to win three gold medals at one edition of the Olympic Games.
He made his debut at the 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Games. Firstly he won the giant slalom by 6.2 seconds. This is still the largest margin of victory in the history of Olympic Alpine skiing. Two days later he won the slalom by 4 seconds, recording the fastest time in both runs.
His last race was the downhill event. Less than 15 minutes before it was his turn to head down the course, Sailer tightened the straps that tied his boots to his skis – and one of the straps broke. He did not have a spare strap. Fortunately, the trainer of the Italian team, Hansl Senger, removed his own strap and loaned it to the Austrian team.
Sailer survived one near fall before winning the downhill race by 3.5 seconds. After the victory ceremony, he gave one gold medal to his father, one to his mother and saved the third one for himself.
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“College for all” has become a curse, writes linguist John McWhorter in the New York Daily News. Young people are told the only way to a middle class life is a four-year degree, but vocational training also can lead to the American Dream, he writes.
There is nothing ignoble about finishing high school, spending a year learning how to fix heaters and air conditioners and going off to ply a trade and make a good living (i.e.. the one we know plumbers make when we pay their fees).
. . . Did the guy who installed your cable-TV service have a college degree? How many sound technicians, mechanics or building inspectors spent four years on a college campus? How about the person who did your ultrasound?
Complaining of a maze of federally funded job training programs, House Republicans have introduced the Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act to consolidate 35 federal employment and training programs into a single $6 billion Workforce Investment Fund.
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Criminals tempted to return to the scene of the crime might find themselves rethinking that impulse if the Questionable Observer Detector is embraced by police forces. The QuOD scans video of a crime scene, searching for those in all-too-frequent attendance, hoping that those repeat gawkers might in fact know something about the crime itself.
The QuOD, as it's called, comes from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, is essentially 3-D facial recognition software. It creates "face tracks," some kind of recognizable pattern in a face, to pick individual people out of a crowd. The interesting part is that it works from any video stream, a big bonus in a world where our first impulse at seeing a crime is to whip out our smartphones and document it on video.
That means that the QuOD is useful for picking out those who show up at crime scenes repeatedly, but also at picking out faces in areas documented with multiple security cameras or personal video recordings. The software counts the number of times a particular face pops up, and if it's more than a certain amount (set by the operating authorities), it'll present that person as a possible person of interest--though it doesn't seem to link to any database, like this FBI face detector does.
Luckily, that's all it does--there's no Minority Report-style motive assessment. It's simply a shorthand for a formerly tedious and arduous task, that of scanning through footage to try to find any recognizable faces. The QuOD hasn't as yet been picked up for use by any police force, but we could see it being a useful timesaver.
Five amazing, clean technologies that will set us free, in this month's energy-focused issue. Also: how to build a better bomb detector, the robotic toys that are raising your children, a human catapult, the world's smallest arcade, and much more.
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count, don't count - Inside Out London explores number blindness
BBC ONE London, Monday 2 February, 7.30pm
many as five to six per cent of the population– or 400,000
people in London - could be suffering from number blindness, or
dyscalculia as it is known.
people have heard of dyslexia - a learning difficulty associated
with reading - but few people are aware of dyscalculia, a condition
which is only just beginning to receive attention.
are the findings of a specialist team of psychologists at University
College London led by Professor Brian Butterworth and revealed on
BBC London's Inside Out programme (Monday 2 February, 7.30pm, BBC
is a simple failure to make sense of numbers - an inability to distinguish
and process numbers. The difference between figures and numbers
is indistinguishable to those who have dyscalculia.
India Thain copes very well with her dyscalculia and is receiving
a lot of specialist help in a private school in Hammersmith.
teacher, Dorien Yeo, says: "..the whole label of being stupid
is one that tends to stick with dyscalculics."
who have dyscalculia are rarely identified in mainstream schools.
Instead they are labelled as bad at maths or stupid when, in fact,
what they have is really no more than number blindness.
there is no special government provision for identifying or treating
Butterworth says: "It was exactly the same with dyslexia 20
years ago and the government made special provision for dyslexics
but as yet there is no recognition or help for the treatment of
those who are dyscalculics."
Moorcraft has been a noted war correspondent and writer for over
30 years. Yet he has struggled with numbers since he was a child.
He only realised that he had dyscalculia when he went to see Professor
says: "It's still a problem. I get confused between £10
and £20 notes. I had a problem with numbers at school because
my arithmetic ability was zero. A joke was made out of it because
I was good at other subjects.
time I developed strategies for dealing with it and fortunately
I have a photographic memory, so I have a limited range of numbers
that I remember and with things like telephone numbers I get people
to repeat the numbers to me and remember them that way."
blindness is a problem for those who have it and Professor Butterworth
believes that identifying the affliction early on in childhood can
lead to more effective treatment.
team have developed a simple computer programme – a test that
lasts 20 minutes – to determine whether people are affected
aims to spot the children who are having difficulty recognising
the numbers on the screen. If a student fails the test, it is a
strong indicator of dyscalculia.
Out went to Hackney Community College to try out the test on 31
students aged between 14 and 21 and of all abilities. A few find
it a bit difficult, including one of the teachers, but most passed
with flying colours.
students failed – around the average that Professor Butterworth
correlates with what the Head of Maths at Hackney College already
knows. He says that around one in twenty students needs help with
numbers, about five per cent.
Butterworth estimates that five to six per cent of the population
could suffer from number blindness.
blindness may well be a bigger problem than anyone first thought
and it will require specialist help and money to overcome.
Moorcroft says: "Just because you can't count, doesn't mean
you don't count. People who have this problem are not thick. They
have an inability with numbers but they can achieve a great deal
in other areas."
ONE London, Monday 2 February, 7.30pm
the BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
offers the BBC's eight television channels, interactive services
from BBCi, as well as 11 national BBC radio networks.
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The rule of completeness for oral statements is encompassed within this section. A party's use of an out-of-court statement to show an inconsistency does not automatically give the opposing party the right to introduce the whole statement. Under the rule of completeness, the court has discretion to admit only those statements necessary to provide context and prevent distortion. State v. Eugenio, 219 Wis. 2d 391
, 579 N.W.2d 642
There was no misuse of discretion in allowing a 3-year old child witness to sit on her grandmother's lap while testifying regarding an alleged sexual assault. The trial court has the power to alter courtroom procedures in order to protect the emotional well-being of a child witness and is not required to determine that a child is unable to testify unless accommodations are provided. State v. Shanks, 2002 WI App 93
, 253 Wis. 2d 600
, 644 N.W.2d 275
While sub. (1) provides the circuit court with broad discretion to control the presentation of evidence at trial, that discretion is not unfettered and must give way when the exercise of discretion runs afoul of other statutory provisions that are not discretionary. State v. Smith, 2002 WI App 118
, 254 Wis. 2d 654
, 648 N.W.2d 15
Whether the trial court erroneously exercised its discretion under sub. (1) (a) to exercise reasonable control over the mode and order of interrogating witnesses and presenting evidence so as to make the interrogation and presentation effective for the ascertainment of the truth must be determined based upon the particular facts and circumstances of each individual case. The discovery provisions of s. 971.23 do not trump the trial court's ability to exercise its discretion to grant a continuance order. State v. Wright, 2003 WI App 252
, 268 Wis. 2d 694
, 673 N.W.2d 386
Under the circumstances of the case, when a defendant seeks to introduce evidence of prior specific instances of violence within the defendant's knowledge at the time of the incident in support of a self-defense claim, the circuit court has the authority under this section, in conjunction with s. 901.04 (3) (d), to order the defendant to disclose prior to trial any specific acts that the defendant knew about at the time of the incident and that the defendant intends to offer as evidence so that admissibility determinations can be made prior to trial. State v. McClaren, 2009 WI 69
, 318 Wis. 2d 261
, 767 N.W.2d 550
There is no blanket rule barring or limiting the admission of the type of evidence that linked the cartridge case and bullet to the gun in this case. The admission and scope of such evidence is left to the reasonable discretion of the trial courts to exercise under ss. 904.03 and 906.11, and to cross-examination by adversary counsel. State v. Jones, 2010 WI App 133
Writing used to refresh memory.
If a witness uses a writing to refresh the witness's memory for the purpose of testifying, either before or while testifying, an adverse party is entitled to have it produced at the hearing, to inspect it, to cross-examine the witness thereon, and to introduce in evidence those portions which relate to the testimony of the witness. If it is claimed that the writing contains matters not related to the subject matter of the testimony, the judge shall examine the writing in camera, excise any portions not so related, and order delivery of the remainder to the party entitled thereto. Any portion withheld over objections shall be preserved and made available to the appellate court in the event of an appeal. If a writing is not produced or delivered pursuant to order under this rule, the judge shall make any order justice requires, except that in criminal cases when the prosecution elects not to comply, the order shall be one striking the testimony or, if the judge in the judge's discretion determines that the interests of justice so require, declaring a mistrial.
Sup. Ct. Order, 59 Wis. 2d R1, R193 (1973); 1991 a. 32
Prior statements of witnesses. 906.13(1)
Examining witness concerning prior statement.
In examining a witness concerning a prior statement made by the witness, whether written or not, the statement need not be shown or its contents disclosed to the witness at that time, but on request the same shall be shown or disclosed to opposing counsel upon the completion of that part of the examination.
(2) Extrinsic evidence of prior inconsistent statement of a witness. 906.13(2)(a)(a)
Extrinsic evidence of a prior inconsistent statement by a witness is not admissible unless any of the following is applicable:
The witness was so examined while testifying as to give the witness an opportunity to explain or to deny the statement.
The witness has not been excused from giving further testimony in the action.
Sup. Ct. Order, 59 Wis. 2d R1, R197 (1973); 1991 a. 32
; 1999 a. 85
A witness for the defense could be impeached by prior inconsistent statements to the district attorney even though made in the course of plea bargaining as to a related offense. Taylor v. State, 52 Wis. 2d 453
, 190 N.W.2d 208
A statement by a defendant, not admissible as part of the prosecution's case because it was taken without the presence of the defendant's counsel, may be used on cross-examination for impeachment if the statement is trustworthy. Wold v. State, 57 Wis. 2d 344
, 204 N.W.2d 482
A bright line test for determining whether a defendant's prior inconsistent statement is admissible for impeachment is whether it was compelled. State v. Pickett, 150 Wis. 2d 720
, 442 N.W.2d 509
(Ct. App. 1989).
This section is applicable in criminal cases. A defense investigator's reports of witness interviews are statements under sub. (1) but only must be disclosed if defense counsel has examined the witness concerning the statements made to the investigator. State v. Hereford, 195 Wis. 2d 1054
, 537 N.W.2d 62
(Ct. App. 1995), 94-1596
A prior inconsistent statement is admissible under sub. (2) without first confronting the witness with that statement. Under sub. (2) (a) 2. and 3. extrinsic evidence of prior inconsistent statements is admissible if the witness has not been excused from giving further testimony in the case or if the interest of justice otherwise requires its admission. State v. Smith, 2002 WI App 118
, 254 Wis. 2d 654
, 648 N.W.2d 15
Calling and interrogation of witnesses by judge. 906.14(1)(1)
Calling by judge.
The judge may, on the judge's own motion or at the suggestion of a party, call witnesses, and all parties are entitled to cross-examine witnesses thus called.
(2) Interrogation by judge.
The judge may interrogate witnesses, whether called by the judge or by a party.
Objections to the calling of witnesses by the judge or to interrogation by the judge may be made at the time or at the next available opportunity when the jury is not present.
Sup. Ct. Order, 59 Wis. 2d R1, R200 (1973); 1991 a. 32
A trial judge's elicitation of trial testimony is improper if the cumulative effect of the judge's questioning and direction of the course of the trial has a substantial prejudicial effect on the jury. Schultz v. State, 82 Wis. 2d 737
, 264 N.W.2d 245
The practice of judicial interrogation is a dangerous one, but does not require that no court should be allowed to call and question a witness prior to completion of the presentation of evidence. State v. Carprue, 2004 WI 111
, 274 Wis. 2d 656
, 683 N.W.2d 31
Exclusion of witnesses. 906.15(1)
At the request of a party, the judge or a circuit court commissioner shall order witnesses excluded so that they cannot hear the testimony of other witnesses. The judge or circuit court commissioner may also make the order of his or her own motion.
(2) Subsection (1)
does not authorize exclusion of any of the following:
An officer or employee of a party which is not a natural person designated as its representative by its attorney.
A person whose presence is shown by a party to be essential to the presentation of the party's cause.
A victim, as defined in s. 950.02 (4)
, in a criminal case or a victim, as defined in s. 938.02 (20m)
, in a delinquency proceeding under ch. 938
, unless the judge or circuit court commissioner finds that exclusion of the victim is necessary to provide a fair trial for the defendant or a fair fact-finding hearing for the juvenile. The presence of a victim during the testimony of other witnesses may not by itself be a basis for a finding that exclusion of the victim is necessary to provide a fair trial for the defendant or a fair fact-finding hearing for the juvenile.
The judge or circuit court commissioner may direct that all excluded and non-excluded witnesses be kept separate until called and may prevent them from communicating with one another until they have been examined or the hearing is ended.
Sup. Ct. Order, 59 Wis. 2d R1, R202 (1973); 1991 a. 32
; 1997 a. 181
; 2001 a. 61
Under sub. (3) a circuit court has the authority to prevent an attorney from sharing with a nonparty witness who has yet to testify the testimony of prior witnesses during a recess, including barring a witness from reading a transcript of that testimony. State v. Copeland, 2011 WI App 28
, 332 Wis. 2d 283
, 798 N.W.2d 250
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For years, Rita Perlingeiro, Ph.D., has been looking for ways to use embryonic stem cells to improve muscle function. Now the University of Minnesota researcher’s findings could advance new therapies for muscular dystrophy, a devastating disease characterized by progressive degeneration of the muscles that control movement.
In a study published in the October issue of Experimental Neurology, Perlingeiro and her team showed that transplanting embryonic stem cells that have “specialized” into skeletal muscle stem cells into mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy can restore function to defective muscles.
Making muscle cells from embryonic stem cells in a Petri dish isn’t easy to do, says Perlingeiro, an associate professor in the Division of Cardiology who also conducts research aimed at generating new cells to help the heart and blood vessels repair themselves. “We were seeing that muscle cells were inefficiently produced, and not enough of them were being produced to make muscle,” she says.
But using a gene called PAX3, Perlingeiro essentially “instructed” embryonic stem cells to make muscle cells instead of other cell types.
Once enough muscle cells were produced, Perlingeiro’s team injected them into the injured muscles of mice that have muscular dystrophy. Upon transplantation, the cells not only helped to grow muscle tissue but also improved muscle function. The strategy has proved effective for Duchenne and other forms of muscular dystrophy.
“The most exciting thing about this work is that what you are doing might help someone,” Perlingeiro says.
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Made Right Here: Bio Med Sciences
Bio Med Sciences President Mark Dillon describes his company as "small, with a large reach."
In fact, that reach now spans the entire globe. Dillon estimates that his Upper Macungie Twp., Lehigh Co.-based company sells wound care and scar management products in 50 different countries.
"We make a line of products that are used as a temporary skin replacement for burn victims and also products that are used to cover skin graft sites," said Dillon.
It all began with a nagging curiosity in the classroom while Dillon was a student at Alfred University in New York.
"The root of the idea actually was a question I asked in class one day and the professor didn't have an answer for it," Dillon explained.
Dillon wanted to combine Teflon and silicone to add elasticity to a certain bio-material. The professor didn't think it would work, but Dillon made it happen.
"When I came back and showed him what I had done, his first response was, 'I think you can get a patent on that,'" Dillon recalled
And that's exactly what Dillon did.
"I ended up with my thesis project and a couple of patents and a diploma," said Dillon.
Dillon's business began as a one-man operation inside his apartment in Boston. He recalls developing his so-called Silon technology in a frying pan in his kitchen. He used Lehigh University's Ben Franklin business incubator as a springboard to officially launch Bio Med Sciences in the Lehigh Valley in 1991.
Now, Dillon said he's happy to know that his bright idea is helping him make his mark in the business world and beyond.
"I think we've made a significant improvement to the standard of burn care in this country and around the world," said Dillon.
Copyright 2012 WFMZ. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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In Memory of GRIID contributor Kate Wheeler
Long time GRIID contributor Kate Wheeler passed away on Saturday after fighting an illness for years.
Despite an illness that limited her mobility, Kate Wheeler was a tenacious fighter for justice and someone with a solid grasp of history.
Kate had been contributing to GRIID over the past few years, with numerous stories on the consequences of Governor Snyder’s austerity measures, the battle against Michigan’s Emergency Financial Manager Law and the role that the right wing think tank, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, played in the push to privatize more public services in Michigan and punish public workers.
In addition, Kate wrote numerous stories under the heading of “This Day is Resistance History,” a column that was intended to show that there is a rich history of public resistance to injustice in the US and around the world.
Her last column was on April 17, The Capitalist Shame of the Titanic.
We at GRIID are grateful for Kate’s contributions and we will miss her tenacious commitment to justice.
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Postcards (5), Sydney scenes, Sydney 2000 Olympic bid, card, Australia, 1991-1993
These postcards feature the logo of Sydney Olympics 2000 Bid Limited, and reflect its campaign to host the 2000 Olympic Games. A key element of this bid was the promotion of Sydney as a desirable destination for IOC delegates, athletes and tourists. These five postcards were created as giveaways to international VIPs, IOC delegates and interested parties. On the back of each postcard is the bid logo and a different text message from Rod McGeoch, emphasizing Sydney's cultural diversity, love of sports, experience in major events, environmental standards and the offer to pay the return airfares of athletes and officials.
The Sydney Olympics 2000 Bid Limited defined its image in 1992 when it selected a corporate theme, 'Share the Spirit', and held a protracted competition for a corporate logo. Eight local designers, including well-known artists like Ken Done, Ken Cato and Michael Bryce, submitted a total of almost sixty logo designs. Seemingly lacking a sense of energy and Indigenous references, these designs were rejected by all five judges: Rod McGeoch, Leo Schofield, Greg Daniel, Andrew Anderson and David Churches.
A second round of submissions saw the selection of Michael Bryce's new design - a multicoloured flash echoing the roofline of the Opera House, and random dots referencing Aboriginal dot painting. By this time, Bryce was already recognised for his work on sporting logos, having designed the logo for the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. Soon after the selection, ISIS/FHA Design Company, in- house designers for Sydney Bid Limited, made some minor adjustments to Bryce's design.
In 1992, Bryce explained the informality of his logo, saying that he wanted to create an image that could be drawn simply in the sand - "no slide rule, no set square, no computer. If it can't be drawn by your fingers in the sand, then it's no good". Rod McGeoch, Chief Executive of Sydney Olympics 2000 Bid Limited, also warmed to this informality, explaining that the logo "set the creative tone of what the Sydney bid was all about. colourful, vibrant, youthful and energetic". Moreover, the resulting merchandise "gave the impression that everyone associated with the bid was a bright, upbeat person with a youthful outlook". This image would permeate preparations for the Games and the Games themselves.
Kept by SOCOG to document the bid.
Owned by the Olympic Coordination Authority/Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, and donated to the Powerhouse Museum.
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For appointments, call 513-475-8787
UC Health Urology is a national leader in state-of-the-art treatments for all urologic cancers and general urologic conditions. We have expertise in treating the full range of female uro-gynecological conditions, pediatric urology, sexual dysfunction and urologic trauma.
U.S. News & World Report has listed UC Health Urology among the nation’s top 50 urology programs. Many of our physicians are recognized by Best Doctors in America and Top Doctors in Cincinnati.
We offer comprehensive and innovative treatments in the following disciplines:
Exceptional Service & Treatment for General Urologic Conditions
UC Health Urology provides expert care for the entire spectrum of general urologic conditions. These include:
- Stone disease
- Voiding dysfunction/Urinary incontinence
- Benign prostate conditions
- Urologic infections
- Urologic reconstruction & Urologic trauma
- Prostate enlargement
- Urologic infections
- Urologic tramua and reconstruction
The kidneys produce urine as they process waste and extra water out of the blood and maintain the body’s balance of water, salts, acid, and minerals. These substances normally dissolve in the urine, but may become concentrated and form crystals (stones) in the wall of the kidney. There are several different types and sizes of kidney stones.
Kidney stones are most commonly diagnosed when they break away from the wall of the kidney, travel with the flow of urine, and lodge in the ureter. The stone(s) obstruct or restrict the flow of urine and increase pressure in the ureter and kidney. The resulting pain, which is typically felt in the back and lower abdomen/groin, is often excruciating and prompts the patient to seek emergency treatment. Kidney stones can cause other symptoms that include blood in the urine, nausea/vomiting, persistent urinary tract infections and urinary frequency.
Our urologist will perform a thorough evaluation of all symptoms, as well as diagnostic tests to confirm the presence and location of the stone(s). Urine will be tested for infection or evidence of blood, and a blood test will determine the baseline kidney function. X-rays or a CT scan may be performed to provide definitive proof of the stone(s).
Based on the results of the diagnostic tests and examination, we will develop an appropriate treatment plan. Kidney stones that are too large to pass on their own, cause pain that cannot be controlled with oral medication, or are associated with infection, fever or vomiting require urgent treatment. Additionally, patients with poor kidney function, a single kidney or a complete blockage of urine need emergency treatment.
There are a number of treatments available for kidney stones, and we will counsel patients and select the method best suited for their individual condition. The most common treatment options are (click to expand):
- A series of shock waves are used to break the stone into fragments small enough to pass out of the kidney
- Requires no incision and is usually performed as an outpatient procedure under general anesthesia
- A small telescope is inserted through the bladder and up the ureter to reach the kidney stone
- The stone is fractured using laser energy delivered via a small glass fiber. Fragments of stone are removed by grasping with a stone “basket”
- Typically an outpatient procedure that allows patients to return home the same day; although some patients may need 24-48 hours of observation after the procedure
- Used for removal of larger stones that cannot be treated by other means
- A hollow tube is placed into the kidney through a small (1 inch) incision in the back
- An ultrasonic lithotripter (or laser energy) is used to pulverize the stone(s) into granules that can be suctioned from the kidney or removed with graspers
- For kidney or ureteral stones – is rarely required
- May be used in patients with especially large stones that are not successfully removed by any one technique
After their removal, the kidney stones are analyzed to determine their chemical characteristics. This information is important for effective post-treatment management, as there are several ways to help prevent kidney stones from recurring. For patients with recurrent kidney stones, analyzing the urine’s molecular components with a 24 hour urine collection will further guide prevention efforts.
Additional information can be found at the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC) and the American Urological Association Foundation (AUAF).
Voiding Dysfunction/Urinary Incontinence
The bladder is a hollow muscular organ that stores urine. As it fills, the muscles of the bladder relax, allowing it to expand. Urination is controlled by the sphincter, a muscle at the bottom of the bladder. When the bladder gets full and the situation is appropriate to urinate, the sphincter relaxes and the bladder contracts to allow urine to pass through the urethra without difficulty.
Voiding dysfunction describes abnormal bladder and/or urethral functions. The condition can affect both men and women. It includes the abnormalities associated with the bladder’s ability to store urine or empty properly. Urologists treat the entire range of voiding dysfunctions including incontinence (involuntary release of urine), overactive bladder, and urinary retention.
Overactive bladder is a common problem that causes a sudden urge to urinate. It sometimes leads to Urgency Urinary Incontinence (UUI). Patients describe UUI as the inability to postpone urination even when the bladder is nearly empty. The condition can affect both men and women. One of every six Americans suffers from overactive bladder symptoms, which may also include urinary frequency and nighttime voiding frequency.
The patient’s description of symptoms, complete medical history and physical examination are the initial steps in diagnosing overactive bladder. Urodynamic testing, which provides objective and quantitative measures of bladder capacity and bladder pressures, may be utilized to assist in the diagnosis. (Urodynamics means the study of the transport, storage, and expulsion of urine.)
Video urodynamics may be used to provide a more detailed understanding of the patient’s bladder physiology. Video urodynamics combines traditional urodynamic testing with fluoroscopy (moving X-rays) to gather anatomical information in real-time with subjective input from the patient. Having both functional and anatomic information allows our urologist to develop more individualized treatment strategies.
Additional information regarding urodynamics testing can be found at the American Urological Association Foundation (AUAF). You can also read more about the UC Health Video Urodynamics lab at West Chester.
Effective treatment options for overactive bladder range from prescription medicine to physical therapy to surgical intervention. Many patients will benefit from a conservative (non-surgical) treatment plan. These treatments include:
- Pelvic floor rehabilitation – The patient performs simple exercises that strengthen the pelvic muscles, also known as Kegel exercises.
- Behavioral therapy – Methods such as bladder retraining or timed voiding can help control urgency.
- Medical therapy
When non-operative intervention is ineffective, the following minimally invasive surgical options may be considered:
- Bladder Botox Injection – Medication is injected into the bladder to help the muscle relax and reduce urgency, frequency and incontinence
- Neuromodulation – Sacral neuromodulation (InterstimTM), a small implantable device that prevents the transmission of urgency impulses to the bladder
- Posterior tibial nerve stimulation (Urgent PCTM) – A needle is inserted in the skin at the ankle area and the needle is stimulated by a low voltage device for 30 minutes. The session is done in the office and repeated weekly for a total of 12 weeks.
- Pundendal nerve stimulation - Stimulation of a nerve located in the pelvic region.
Urinary Incontinence (UI) is the accidental release or leakage of urine. Incontinence affects over 14 million Americans and can markedly affect the patient’s quality of life. UI is almost twice as prevalent in women as it is in men.
There are several types of UI with the most common being Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI), followed by Mixed Urinary Incontinence (MUI) and Urgency Urinary Incontinence (UUI). SUI is the involuntary release of urine due to the contractions of the abdominal muscles when sneezing, laughing, coughing, etc. Patients describe UUI as the inability to postpone urination. MUI is the combination of both SUI and UUI. SUI is rare in men and usually a consequence of prostate cancer surgery.
The patient’s description of symptoms and their impact on quality of life followed by a complete physical examination are the first steps in diagnosing voiding dysfunction. Patients may also complete a questionnaire to help identify the type and severity of incontinence. At the initial consultation, urine analysis and bladder ultrasound are usually performed.
Treatment options for urinary incontinence include:
- Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation- Exercises that strengthen the pelvic muscles, also known as Kegel exercises
- Behavioral Therapy- Methods such as bladder re-training, timed void and double voiding
- Medical Therapy- Medications are available that reduce symptoms of UUI
For more complex cases that fail to respond to the previous therapies, UC Health Urology provides minimally invasive treatments as well as complex surgical procedures for the entire range of incontinence conditions.
Minimally Invasive Procedures include:
- Neuromodulation – implantable devices that prevent the transmission of impulses to the bladder
- Bladder Botox Injection – medication injected into the bladder to help relax the bladder muscle and reduce urgency
- Sub-urethral Sling – a procedure that restores the urethra to its normal position
- Urethral Bulking Agent Injection – Using a cystoscope, bulking materials are injected around the urethra to aid urethral closure
- Artificial Urinary Sphincter – an implantable device that replaces the function of the patient’s bladder sphincter
Complex Surgical Procedures include:
- Bladder Augmentation - a procedure that uses a piece of tissue from the bowel, stomach or ureter (the tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder) to enlarge the bladder capacity
- Urinary Diversion – diverting the urine flow from the natural urethra to an abdominal stoma (opening)
Neurogenic bladder is a condition in which a person lacks bladder control due to a brain or nerve condition such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, or stroke. Symptoms include overactive bladder (frequent urination, loss of bladder control) or an underactive bladder (bladder becomes too full due to urinary retention, trouble starting to urinate, or unable to tell when the bladder is full). This condition may be further complicated by recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs), urinary stones or cancer.
Neurogenic bladder involves the nervous system and the bladder. Our urologist will recommend a variety of tests to determine the status of both. Video urodynamic studies measure bladder capacity, bladder pressure, urine flow, and bladder emptying. Kidney function will be assessed to see if the kidneys have become compromised due to high bladder pressure. Imaging studies of the skull, spine, and urinary tract with x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or computed tomography (CT) complete the evaluation. If necessary, a neurologic evaluation with EEG may be recommended.
The most effective treatment plan is developed based upon a thorough evaluation of all of the test results, voiding symptoms and type of bladder dysfunction. Therapies for neurogenic bladder fall into four categories: behavioral, electrical stimulation, drug therapy, and surgery.
- Methods such as bladder training, timed voiding and double voiding can help resolve urinary retention and urinary incontinence.
Electrical Stimulation Therapy
- Small electrical stimulators are implanted to either help with bladder emptying in cases of urine retention or to help suppress the urgency waves in cases of urgency and frequency
- This is an outpatient procedure performed after a thorough testing period
- The device has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat urge incontinence, urgency-frequency syndromes, and urinary retention in patients who have not responded to other therapies
- There are no medications available that target specific muscles such as the sphincter to better control urine flow. However, there are medications that reduce bladder spasms or induce bladder muscle contractions that are effective in certain neurogenic bladder conditions.
Surgical treatments include:
- Not strictly a surgical procedure but may be used to ensure complete bladder drainage
- A thin tube is inserted through the urethra and into the bladder
- Patients can learn to insert the catheter themselves. This is also known as Clean Intermittent Catheterization (CIC). Exceptional sanitary procedures must be followed, as the risk of urinary tract infection is significant with any type of catheterization
- Indwelling catheterization is an option for patients that require a catheter for extended periods. These catheters prevent bladder distension by continually draining urine into a collection bag
- Similar to an internal catheter
- The stent is surgically inserted through the sphincter muscle to expand the urethra and allow urine to be drained
Intraurethral Botox Injection
- The sphincter muscle is relaxed to reduce the feeling of urgency.
- The urethral sphincter is viewed using a small telescope
- The urethral sphincter muscle is cut to allow urine to pass from the bladder
Intravesical Botox Injection
- Uses a bladder scope to inject Botox into the bladder wall to promote improved bladder function
- A cuff is placed around the bladder neck (or urethra)
- A pressure-regulating balloon is placed beneath the abdominal muscles and a pump is used to inflate the cuff
- The pump is placed in the labia in women and in the scrotum for men.
- The pump diverts fluid from the cuff to the balloon, allowing the cuff to open and urine to pass. The cuff re-inflates automatically in 3 to 5 minutes.
For more information, visit the American Urology Association Foundation (AUAF).
Prostate enlargement, also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), is a common, non-cancerous condition with symptoms occurring in up to 50% of men by age 50. As a man ages, his prostate may become larger and start to cause urinary symptoms. The most common symptom is the urge to urinate often, as the enlarged prostate pushes on the urethra. Other symptoms can include slow stream when urinating, a sense of incomplete emptying and getting up frequently at night to urinate. In extreme cases, complete inability to urinate (urinary retention) may occur.
Because symptoms caused by prostate enlargement can be confused with prostate cancer, infection, or inflammation of the prostate, a thorough check-up is needed to isolate the cause of symptoms. Patient evaluation includes a blood test and a digital rectal exam to determine the size of the prostate and the presence of nodules that may raise suspicion of prostate cancer. Additional tests may include a prostate ultrasound, CT scan or MRI to obtain a more accurate measurement of the prostate’s size.
Once we determine that the symptoms are due to prostate enlargement, there are multiple treatment options to alleviate the symptoms. Treatment is not always immediately necessary, as symptoms for prostate enlargement can “come and go” or progress slowly. Management with medication is often a suitable option. When necessary, minimally invasive surgery can relieve symptoms by removing the central portion of the prostate that is pressing on the urethra.
Additional information on the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is available from the American Urology Association Foundation and the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC).
Urological Trauma and Reconstruction
UC Health Urology offers evaluation, diagnosis and treatment for patients that have experienced injury to their urologic system. We provide surgical treatments for the following:
- Urethral stricture
- Peyronie’s disease (curvature of the penis)
- Urethral disruption injuries from pelvic trauma/fractures
- Recto-urinary fistulas
- Radiation-induced urinary fistulas
- Complications of prostate cancer
We also offer bladder and ureteral reconstruction for other conditions.
Discover the latest news on UC Health Urology at UC Health News, your link to the most up-to-date information on education, research and clinical care.
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Who was responsible?
muckraker David Horowitz has been verbally mugged for peddling an ad to college newspapers giving ten reasons why reparations are racist. But the name callers have done little more than canonize Horowitz as a martyr for truth and free speech. Even worse, they've failed miserably to tell why reparations merit a serious look. There are ten compelling reasons it does.
- The U.S. government, not long dead Southern planters, bears the blame for slavery. It encoded it in the Constitution in article one. This designated a black slave as three-fifths of a person for tax and political representation purposes. It protected and nourished it in article four by mandating that all escaped slaves found anywhere in the nation be returned to their masters. In the Dred Scott decision in 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that slaves remained slaves no matter where they were taken in the United States.
- Major institutions profited from slavery. In October, the California state legislature passed a bill requiring insurance companies to disclose whether they wrote policies insuring slaves. This was recognition that insurance companies made profits insuring slaves as property. The insurance industry was not the only culprit. Banks, shipping companies, and investment houses also made enormous profits from financing slave purchases, investments in Southern land and products, and the transport, and sale of slaves.
- Slavery ended in 1865 but the legacy of slavery still remains. A report by the National Conference for Community and Justice, a Washington D.C. public policy group in 2000, found that blacks are still the major economic and social victims of racial discrimination. They are far more likely to live in underserved segregated neighborhoods, be refused business and housing loans, be denied promotions in corporations and attend cash starved, failing public schools than whites.
- There's a direct cost for slavery's legacy. Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Andrew Brimmer estimates that discrimination costs blacks $10 billion yearly through the black-white wage gap, denial of capital access, inadequate public services, and reduced social security and other government benefits. This has been called the "black tax."
- The U.S. government has shelled out billions since the 1960s to pay for resettlement, job training, education, and health programs for refugees fleeing Communist repression. Politicians and the majority of the public enthusiastically backed these payments as the morally and legally right thing to do.
- The reparations issue will not fuel more hatred of blacks. Most Americans admit that slavery was a morally monstrous system that wreaked severe pain and suffering on America. City councils in Chicago, Dallas, Oakland, and Los Angeles, and other cities in the past year have passed resolutions supporting a federal commission to study reparations. Also, there was no national outcry when the U.S. government made special indemnity payments, provided land and social service benefits to Japanese-Americans interned during World War II, Native-Americans for the theft of lands and mineral rights, and Philippine veterans who fought with the American army during World War II.
- No legislation has been proposed that mandates taxpayers pay billions to blacks. A bill by Michigan Democrat John Conyers that has languished in Congress since 1993 simply establishes a commission to study the effects of slavery. The estimated cost is less than $10 million.
- There is a precedent for paying blacks for past legal and moral wrongs. In 1997 Clinton apologized and the U.S. government paid $10 million to the black survivors and family members victimized by the syphilis experiment conducted in the 1930's by the U.S. Public Health Service. In 1994, the Florida legislature agreed to make payments to the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives and property when a white mob destroyed the all-black town of Rosewood in 1923. The carnage was tacitly condoned by public officials and law enforcement officers. The Oklahoma state legislature is currently considering reparations payments to the survivors and their descendants of the destruction of black neighborhoods in Tulsa by white mobs in 1921.
- Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, Michael Jordan and other mega-rich blacks will not receive a penny in reparations. Any tax money to redress black suffering should go into a fund to bolster funding for AIDS/HIV education and prevention, underfinanced inner-city public schools, to expand job skills and training, drug and alcohol counseling and rehabilitation, computer access and literacy training programs, and to improve public services for the estimated one in four blacks still trapped in poverty.
- Thirty years ago a writer passionately argued that the U.S. government has kept the "black ghettos in a colonial status since Reconstruction" and refused to meet the "most basic political and economic demands of the black movement." That writer was David Horowitz. He made the argument in his book, Empire and Revolution, a blistering indictment of the U.S. government. Radical hyperbole notwithstanding, Horowitz recognized then that America owed a debt to black America for past and present sins. It still does.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is the President of The National Alliance for Positive Action and the author of The Disappearance of Black Leadership (Middle Passage Press).
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April 9, 2001 (http://www.monitor.net/monitor)
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Great O'Reilly article that tries to define Web 2.0.
One of the most highly touted features of the Web 2.0 era is the rise of blogging. Personal home pages have been around since the early days of the web, and the personal diary and daily opinion column around much longer than that, so just what is the fuss all about?
At its most basic, a blog is just a personal home page in diary format. But as Rich Skrenta notes, the chronological organization of a blog "seems like a trivial difference, but it drives an entirely different delivery, advertising and value chain."
One of the things that has made a difference is a technology called RSS. RSS is the most significant advance in the fundamental architecture of the web since early hackers realized that CGI could be used to create database-backed websites. RSS allows someone to link not just to a page, but to subscribe to it, with notification every time that page changes. Skrenta calls this "the incremental web." Others call it the "live web".
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ISP proposes independent body to police copyright
iiNet's modest proposal
Having survived legal action brought by content owners, ISP iiNet has proposed an independent body be established to help police illegal access to and distribution of copyright material on the Internet.
In its white paper, entitled Encouraging legitimate use of Online Content, the company says the independent body could act as a clearing house for evidence presented by the industry that content is being copied illegally.
It would then seek customer information from the ISP involved, decide whether action is warranted, and follow up with the consumer accused of either accessing or publishing the infringing content. iiNet's illustration of its model is here.
iiNet says its model would relieve ISPs of what it sees as the onerous burdens that "Hollywood" seeks to put on ISPs. As recipients of private investigators' reports from content owners, iiNet says ISPs are expected to then shoulder the burden of assessing the evidence, deciding whether the customer’s action warrants termination of service, and then terminating the service.
Its alternative model would allow the independent party to act on "unequivocal and cogent evidence" of infringement, and iiNet suggests the independent body would follow the model suggested by the Federal Court (in its judgment in Village Roadshow and Others v iiNet PDF/289KB) for customer contact. This would allow customers to challenge allegations brought against them before action is taken. The independent body would also be responsible for dispute resolution.
Two other important points raised by the iiNet proposal are that the independent body could be indemnified against legal action from consumers (for example, if the consumer challenges its decisions), and that regulation would be required so that when the independent body is investigating allegations, ISPs are permitted to release the relevant customer information.
iiNet also believes that termination of access should be considered a last resort rather than, as sought by the content industries, the centerpiece of penalties. Citing France's statements that access to the internet falls under the Declaration of Human Rights, the ISP states that "disconnection without judicial oversight violates the presumption of innocence".
It offers an "imperfect" analogy to traffic infringements, noting that whatever penalties someone may incur as the driver of a car, punishment never extends to "the total denial of access to transport". iiNet also notes that termination from one ISP is ineffective in an age where individuals often have multiple accounts (DSL, smartphones and mobile broadband), and excessively punitive if it meant termination of all an individual’s accounts.
The company argues that some kind of graduated "scale" of offence would be fairer and more effective than a simple "three strikes" policy.
In line with Justice Emmett's comments in the appeal judgment, but likely to infuriate content owners, iiNet proposes that most of the costs of the scheme would lie with content industries on the basis that they will derive the greatest benefit from such a scheme.
Comment: will it work?
iiNet has closely read the judgment that (bar a High Court action) settled the appeal in Village Roadshow and Others v iiNet – and not only those parts of the appeal that were favourable to it.
There are, however, several obstacles in the way.
The first is the content industries’ willingness to fund an industry policing scheme. Content owners have a demonstrated desire to push the costs of enforcement onto others: either by demanding that ISPs act against customers on the basis of evidence that the Federal Court found inadequate; or by lobbying for wider criminal definitions of copyright infringement (which would shift enforcement costs to government).
The second relates to the relationship between content owners and government. As The Register noted yesterday, the content owners' brand-new industry body, the Australian Content Industry Group, already has a Canberra-based lobbyist working to get in the ear of politicians. Having pressed home its assessment of economic impacts well enough to get ministerial endorsement (or at least citation), would the industry be willing to dilute its message to back the iiNet scheme?
Nor can iiNet assume that the Australian outposts of the content owners make their own policy. To a great degree, they are merely the mirrors for policy – along with lobbying positions and probably the fundamental assumptions in their economic models – created in America. To back the iiNet proposal, content owners would have to show a capacity for independent decision-making they currently lack.
Without at least the consent, if not the active support, of content owners, iiNet would have to persuade the government that its proposal can work. At least one of the key ministers, Senator Stephen Conroy, seemed unsympathetic to ISPs during the iiNet trial, describing the company’s stance (that it lacked the power to take the actions requested by content owners) as "stunning".
Winning the media won't be enough: the government has faced almost unanimous media opposition to the Great Aussie Firewall, but still it presses on.
If the battle is to be won, it will have to be in Canberra. The ISPs – or at least the Internet Industry Association – have a lobbyist, but they don’t have a great record of wins in Parliament House. There’s a lot of ministerial, opposition, and cross-bench door-knocking to happen before iiNet's proposal is taken seriously where it matters. ®
The MPAA/RIAA wil be shutdow, the owners jailled for life and DRM declared ILLEGAL. is the day i might think about buying legal content only.
but since the MPAA is a KNOW, PROVEN and DOCUMENTED international criminal organisation, buying anything produced by it;s member is a CRIME.
if you're into irony
...if they had invested as must effort as they have invest trying to pursue the copyright infringers into actually creating viable, reasonably priced DRM free alternatives they would be laughing all the way to the bank.
Let's face it - torrents suck... quality is always an issue - poorly seeded torrents download crazy slow and there is always a chance that you'll finish the download to find a "password protected" zip, or worse a trojan. Even with usenet you never know what you are going to get.
So if there was a uber-fast server waiting to zap me a top quality DRM free alternative at a reasonable price... I'd be there.
It's worse than that, Jim
> It offers an “imperfect” analogy to traffic infringements, noting that whatever penalties someone may incur as the driver of a car, punishment never extends to “the total denial of access to transport.”
More like as the owner of a car you get penalised, regardless of whether you're driving it or not.
While it's my name on the contract with the ISP, there's no telling who's actually using the connection to do the naughty, but they're seeking to punish the whole household. (And yes I accept that I should be responsible for securing the WiFi, policing what the family are up to blah blah).
They stamped out piracy on Kazaa and Limewire and it's ilk, and if they get their way they'll kill public bittorrenting. But do they really think this will stop online piracy?
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Surah Al 'Alaq @ The Embryo
These are the very first 5 verses of the Holy Qur'an which was revealed by the Archangel Jibreel Alaihis salam @ Gabriel (peace be upon him) to Almighty Allah's Final and Greatest Messenger to all Mankind, the Blessed Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam.
This event took place when Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam was meditating in seclusion atop the Mountain of Light @ Jabal al Nur, in Makkah al Mukarramah, Arabia in a small cave called 'Hira on a dark, lonely night.
A thousand four hundred years ago , this scientific revelation came down to the Unlettered Prophet of God, bringing salvation to a world where idolatry had set in and mankind were steeped in useless pursuits and constant warfare and mayhem, with many suffering from injustice and cruelty from those who didn't have mercy.
Click at the link below to download for free the entire Holy Quran with English translations to help you understand what God's Final Testament for Mankind contains.
This free Al-Qur'an is provided by www.islamasoft.co.uk, a British Muslim Software Company.
I find it to be very useful in my study of the Holy Qur'an. I am sure that you too will appreciate it.
Download and read the Qur'an from the link I have given you. You owe it to yourself to learn about it.
After all, you too have the birthright to know and learn about the Qur'an, God's Last and Final Testament to us, the Children of the Holy Prophet Adam Alaihisalam.
Verily, God loves those who make an attempt to learn about Him and be among the learned!
I will share more on this topic later. Got an appointment to go to. Have a meaningful day! Amen.
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While partial hospitalization as a treatment modality has existed since the 1930s it has only recently begun to gain widespread attention. The attempts at defining partial hospitalization are traced to the current standards and guidelines. The authors review studies of efficacy and cost-effectiveness and find that partial hospitalization almost invariably compares favorably with inpatient treatment. There are a number of factors militating against increased use of the modality, including haziness in the definitions of goals and target populations, prejudice among clinicians and patients, institutions' resistance to relinquishing beds, and difficulty in establishing third-party reimbursement. The state of the art in partial hospitalization is an attempt to translate face-value validity into an acceptable and fundable alternative to inpatient treatment. The authors conclude that, despite the relatively small growth of programs nationwide and the reluctance of third-party payers to reimburse for the modality, partial hospitalization has an enduring role as a treatment modality.
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The Evolution Deceit
The remains of a 1.7 million-year-old stone hut, identical to structures still in use in various regions of Africa today
The history of Homo sapiens, which represents modern man on the imaginary evolutionary family tree, goes back much further than evolutionists expected. Paleontological findings indicate that human beings identical to us were alive nearly a million years ago.
One of the discoveries in this regard is a fossil found in the Atapuerca region of Spain. The fact that this fossil has the same characteristics to those of modern man rocked evolutionist beliefs regarding the evolution of man. Because according to the evolutionary family tree, no Homo sapiens should have lived 800,000 years ago.
Indeed, many findings showed that H. sapiens goes back even further than 800,000 years. One of these was the discoveries made in Olduvai Gorge by Louis Leakey in the early 1970s. Leakey determined in the Bed II stratum that Australopithecus, Homo habilis and H. erectus had all lived there together and at the same time.
However, the really interesting thing was a structure—the remains of a stone hut—found by Leakey in that same stratum (Bed II). Its most interesting aspect was that such a structure, which is still in use in some African regions today, could have been made only by Homo sapiens! According to Leakey’s findings, Australopithecus, Homo habilis, H. erectus and modern man must all have been living together around 1.7 million years ago.209 This fact of course invalidates the theory of evolution that maintains that modern human beings evolved from the monkeys described as Australopithecus.
Moreover, there are findings of traces of modern human beings that go back even further than 1.7 million years. The most important of these is the footprints found in the Laetoli region. (See Laetoli footprints, the.) These prints, identical to those of modern human beings, have been calculated to date back some 3.6 million years.
These footprints discovered by Mary Leakey were later examined by such well-known paleoanthropologists as Don Johanson and Tim White.
Examinations of the morphological structure of the footprints again showed that they had to be regarded as belonging to a human and, what is more, to modern man, Homo sapiens. Russell Tuttle investigated the prints and later wrote:
A small barefoot Homo sapiens could have made them. . . In all discernible morphological features, the feet of the individuals that made the trails are indistinguishable from those of modern humans. 210
Unbiased investigations described the owners of these two sets of footprints: There was a total of 20 fossilized footprints belonging to a human being aged around 10, and 27 fossilized footprints belonging to someone slightly younger. They were very definitely normal human beings just like ourselves.
The fact that evolutionists persist in their theory that clearly conflicts with the scientific findings, and the way that they distort or ignore every discovery that works against it, clearly reveals that theory’s unscientific nature.
209 A. J. Kelso, Physical Anthropology, 1st Edition, 1970, p. 221; M. D. Leakey, Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, p. 272.
210 I. Anderson, “Who made the Laetoli Footprints?” New Scientist, Vol. 98, 1983, p. 373.
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True repentance involves repairing damages done (where possible). In this case, it would mean returning the money.
Leviticus 6:2-7 (KJV)
2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
If you don't return the money then you haven't truly repented.
Notice Numbers 5:7 even suggests you should return more than you take.
Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
See also Ezekiel 33:15, Luke 19:8.
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Sustainability and Renewable Merino
Wool runs on grass
The primary inputs for wool production are water, sunshine and fertile soils to grow grass – the primary diet of sheep.
As such merino production inherently has the potential of being fully sustainable providing it is operated within the carrying capacity of the ecosystem.
They must operate, or be in the process of implementing, a grazing management strategy based on long term sustainability.
The management system must embrace holistic farming principals with the goal of developing a resilient ecosystem that can regenerate, withstand stress and rebuild itself when necessary.
This goal should be to aim for 100% ground cover all year, with a focus on perennial grasses to regenerate the ecology and increase biodiversity.
Holistic farming principles include:
- Clear goals for the people involved
– Clear goals for the land in use
– Clear goals for the business
- Clear goals for the management of livestock
The management process should involve:
- Reviewing these strategies regularly
– Making decision with these goals in mind
– Monitoring the health of your land, your business and the people involved
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Language of Scouting
This reference is the Boy Scouts of America’s definitive resource on terms and style specific to Scouting and this organization. The Language of Scouting encompasses style, usage, grammar, and spelling norms observed by the Boy Scouts of America and used by the Marketing Group and Communication Services Department at the national office. These standards have been developed so that the BSA can disseminate resources and other information in the most professional, consistent, coherent, and uniform manner for all forms of communication—printed, electronic, and so forth.
Scouting terms are based in part on the Charter and Bylaws and Rules and Regulations of the Boy Scouts of America. Grammar, spelling, style, and usage decisions are based on the latest editions of the following references, in order of preference: Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, The Associated Press Stylebook, and The Chicago Manual of Style. Turn to these references (in the given order) for further reference. However, the Language of Scouting always takes precedence.
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Unless you don’t have a blog or a website of your own, chances are, you have heard about the term SEO (search engine optimization) before. SEO is the process of improving a sites online visibility on search engines results. That really is the simple and short version of what SEO is all about (here’s a longer version of SEO).
As for the “who cares” part, it is no surprise that all who are serious about building an online presence cares about it. Yeah, SEO is far from dead, otherwise, what’s the point of Google and Bing, coming out with a lot of new stuff just to help webmasters improve their sites visibility?
Here’s a quick roundup of what’s new (or relatively recent) and suggested SEO resources:
Webmaster Academy – Webmaster Academy provides practical and easy-to-understand lessons for webmasters to help you improve your site with topics like getting your site indexed, providing search engines with helpful information about your video and image content, and understanding Webmaster Tools features.
SEO for startups in under 10 minutes (June 2012) – Maile Ohye from Google advises your startup as if she had only 10 minutes as your SEO consultant.
Webmaster Tools – The new webmaster tools of Bing is, guess what, mainly all about SEO. If you have not tried it yet or have forgot all about it, I am sure that you will find the “new” version much more interesting than before. From fixing on-page SEO problems, to their disavowing links, Bing has features for everyone interested in search engine optimization.
Here on iBlogzone
Yeah, I got my own SEO resource page, that I regularly update. It has “tons” of articles, videos, and guides, that are targeted for the DIY SEOers. If you are new to SEO or want to learn a bit more, start there. I am sure that there is something that you will find useful.
As mentioned above, you can easily come to the conclusion, that both Google and Bing’s webmaster tools are mainly geared towards search engine optimization. Hopefully, that will answer the question about whether or not, SEO is something that you, as an aspiring problogger or small business owner, should care about. Just remember the balance (YIn-Yang), provide quality content for users and optimized them for SEO. After all, you do want your quality content to be found, right? On the other hand, what would you SEO, if you don’t have content?
Anyway, if you are still are not convinced that SEO is something that interest a lot of people, maybe this study, presented in the form of an infographic, would shed a bit of light. This infographic, courtesy of BlueCaribu, shows just how big the SEO industry is. Some interesting facts, include India, being the largest community searching for related SEO topics, and Thursday being the most popular day for looking up on SEO.
What about you? Do you care about SEO?
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Evolution, as we learn in school, is so gradual that changes take place over hundreds or thousands of years. And of course, most of us never get a concrete look at what the process of evolution looks like. But a certain type of Australian lizard is teaching the whole world a lesson about evolution by changing right before our eyes. The yellow-bellied three-toed skink looks like a small snake with tiny legs. In the cold mountainous regions of Australia the skink gives birth to live young, but in the warmer coastal regions the same species lays eggs. Scientists say that we are essentially seeing the lizard in the middle of evolving from egg-laying to live-bearing births.
The process to go from egg laying to live birthing isn’t all that complicated. The females simply start keeping their young inside their bodies for longer and longer, usually because of harsh weather or other environmental factors. Over the generations, the incubation time inside mothers’ bellies gets longer and longer, and egg shells – which once protected the young from the outside world and provided calcium – get thinner and thinner.
Because the process is relatively simple (in evolutionary terms, anyway) it’s happened plenty of times before. In fact, almost a hundred types of lizards have made the switch from egg-laying to live births. Currently, only two types of lizards other than the skinks use both types of reproduction methods. Seeing the skinks in this stage of their evolution is helping scientists figure out exactly how the change is made.
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This is the first biography in the English language of Joaquin Rodrigo(1901-1999), the great 20th century Spanish composer whose famous work, the Concierto de Aranjuez, steadily established his international reputation from the 1940's onwards. This volume covers the composer's early years with an account of his time as a student of Paul Dukas in...
If you're getting into jazz or expanding your jazz chops, this comprehensive approach is for you. From comping and chord voicings to single-note soloing, you will learn, step by step, the tools necessary for playing jazz guitar. The book is easy to understand and contains hundreds of great-sounding playable examples to serve as springboards for ...
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The pros and cons of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) have been a subject of debate since it was passed. There is no argument that the public—along with health care professionals—will be affected by the details of this bill as they roll out. Clearly, this bill will also greatly impact our economy. Who can ever forget that infamous Nancy Pelosi comment, “We will have to pass the bill in order to find out what is in it”? So, as our elected representatives grapple with questions of how to revive this country’s economy, health care reform is still a top agenda item.
The problem is how the health care reform “details” are being handled—and how can we have any confidence that we are on the right path? There is real reason to wonder when we learn that the Obama administration recently cut a major planned benefit from the health care law, as reported by The Washington Post. Suddenly, the plan to offer Americans long-term care has been scrapped as “simply unworkable.”
Called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, this plan would have offered all working Americans a basic lifetime benefit of at least $50 a day in the event of illness or disability. Critics objected that this legislation was both “unsound and unsustainable,” but the supporters projected that this measure would reduce the federal deficit by $86 billion over the next 10 years. Now—19 months later—it looks like the administration and supporters of CLASS were mistaken.
Unfortunately, time has been wasted on big government ideas that simply don’t work. As Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said about this sudden shift, “The Obama administration today acknowledged what they refused to admit when they passed their partisan health bill. The CLASS Act was a budget gimmick that might enhance the numbers on a Washington bureaucrat’s spreadsheet but was destined to fail in the real world.”
It is time to stop such budget gimmicks and hold government accountable to balance their budgets, just as the average American family does. While the measures in the PPACA sound appealing, it is unrealistic to think that nationwide health care can be rolled out with no burden to the economy. As the long-term care benefits example shows, it is clear that budget gimmicks just don’t translate into useful legislation. It is shameful that the complexities of nationwide health care were not examined in a transparent manner and such a partisan bill was passed in the first place. So, we are just finding out now that the devil is in the details.
In this Cough & Cold issue, we are pleased to bring you a host of valuable resources and information so you can face the winter months and help your patients find better health. Please join your colleagues in enjoying Pharmacy Times on iPad, where a wealth of additional multimedia resources can be found. And remember to utilize the free online CE activities that not only bring you health topics in depth, but also provide the opportunity to fulfill your CE requirements.
Thank you for reading!
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What To Do - Fishing
Locals and visitors alike agree that it is the diversity of fishing options that enhances the challenge and keeps them coming back. From the rock wall jetty at Amity Point to the waters off Jumpinpin, there is something to suit everyone from beginners to the more experienced fisherman.
The Rainbow Channel is around 20 metres deep and ideal for tuna or mackeral from about September to February. The foreshore beaches of Flinders and Main are not only famous for the best camping, but are also very popular fishing spots, especially when the gutters are running. Main Beach is a great spot for picking up some bait, such as worms or pipis, which can then be used to catch tailor, whiting, flathead, swallowtail or bream straight off the beach.
Fishing, especially rock fishing, can be dangerous. Follow these basic safety tips at all times when rock fishing:
- Never fish by yourself - fish in a group of at least three people and within sight of each other. If someone is washed in, one person can stay and help while the other alerts emergency services (dial 000). Mobile phone users can also dial 112 to access emergency services.
- Inform others of your plans. Always let friends or family know where you are going and when you will be back.
- Wear light clothing. Light clothing such as shorts and a spray jacket will let you swim easily if you are washed in. Jumpers may be heavy and difficult to take off.
- Wear appropriate footwear. Cleats, sandals and sandshoes with non-slip soles suit different surfaces. Use the appropriate shoes for the conditions.
- Carry safety gear. Wear a life jacket or buoyancy vest. Also bring something buoyant that can be easily thrown and held onto, to help you stay afloat. Carry ropes and torches.
- Never fish in exposed areas during rough or large seas. Make sure you are aware of local weather, swell and tidal conditions before going fishing. Listen to weather forecasts or call the weather information line on 1900 937 107. Be aware that conditions may change dramatically in a short period of time.
- Observe first, fish later. Spend some time (at least 30 minutes) watching your intended spot before fishing to get an idea of the conditions over a full swell/wave cycle. Wave conditions can get worse as the tide changes - you should know whether the tides are high or low and coming in or going out.
- Plan an escape route in case you are washed in. Stay calm - if you are washed in, swim away from the rocks and look for a safe place to come ashore or stay afloat and wait for help to arrive.
- Stay alert. Don't ever turn your back on the sea - if the waves, weather or swell threaten your fishing spot then leave immediately.
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Transcript for Astronauts' Fainting Spells Lead to Breakthrough
Unusual medical detective story and breakthrough last night we told you about a national campaign launched by doctors to raise awareness. Of the dangers of fainting -- fainting. Could be a sign of... See More
Unusual medical detective story and breakthrough last night we told you about a national campaign launched by doctors to raise awareness. Of the dangers of fainting -- fainting. Could be a sign of problems with your heart. Tonight what happened after astronauts kept fainting what doctors learned that is helping other patients in new ways. ABC's Andrea canning explains. This price is right contested collapsed when she thought she might win a car this room's been lost consciousness at a wedding yeah. But wherever it happens it can -- will during. Even terrifying. Our hearts started racing very fast Kathy Chandler is a chronic feature and her doctor says it's startling scenes like this that may hold clues to keeping her healthy. Watches astronaut hiding greet Stefan chain collapses after returning from her first space mission. Astronauts are very prone to fainting dizziness if you're in space. You're not using all your muscles including your heart because you don't have gravity to fight against. And so their -- sizes were decreasing. These symptoms can be shared by patients like Kathy who -- under diagnosed heart condition called pot syndrome. It affects up to a million people mostly women. Now NASA researchers have come up with a tailored exercise program that is being used not only on astronauts but on -- patients like -- it involves. Exercises that avoid gravity and so for the first time ever we actually have a way. Two to actually turn around a person's symptoms and actually cure that. The hope is that it will help the heart grow in some patients and others -- -- in the heart muscle and prevent fainting. Kathy also eat salty food to keep her blood pressure up until through bad when she sleeps to keep her blood flowing but the key for her. I've worked. Exercising more I feel like I wanna be at my best. We spoke to a NASA scientist who says they're constantly trying to bring what they learn in space back to the clinic here. While these exercises will be the answer for every one with pot -- they can certainly make a big difference in the quality of life. And we're talking about any gravity exercises like swimming stationary -- things that keep you closer to the graft and never know how the dots will be connected them and -- like thank you Andrea.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Q. Are MLB talent scouts able to evaluate players based on intuitive judgments?
A. The thought was floated that they aren't. In this article the author implies that the only appropriate tool for making roster decisions is a performance-based analysis.
Every year, though, decisions are made based on how players do in March. The decisions are justified by claiming that it they aren’t based on the results, but on how the players look to experienced coaches and scouts who are paid to evaluate players in an up-close-and-personal atmosphere. The problem is that human beings — even experienced scouts and coaches — are pretty terrible at evaluating the difference between “how a guy looks” and what his results are.
Incidentally an incorrect implication, but the spirit is clear.
Q. What makes you think that "experienced scouts and coaches" can evaluate anything based how a guy looks?
A. Oh, just f'r instance, let's consider the amateur draft.
In this Baseball Analysts article, Sky Andrecheck examines the MLB return that franchises have gotten with their draft picks.
He finds a verrrrrrry nice, smooth curve: the higher an amateur player was taken, the better the career he had in the major leagues.
Q. Implying what? What's your point?
A. That MLB franchises knew how good that amateurs would turn out to be, up and down the draft, with a remarkable level of accuracy.
Q. Implying what? Still don't get your point.
A. Do you think they used a performance analysis paradigm to evaluate anything? Or do you suppose that they evaluated 18-year-olds based on how a guy looked?
If experienced scouts and coaches can't tell anything based on how a guy looks, what is that curve doing there?
A. Any time we sabermigos get to thinking we know it all, and Eric Wedge knows nothing, we might do well to remember the amateur draft. How large a distance is there between you, gentle reader, and your being able to achieve a curve like the one above, based on watching high school games?
There is a million miles between ME, and me getting a curve like the one above, by watching high school players. I doubt the distance between YOU and there, is much less than that.
Now remember something: the above curve is based on the talents and abilities of fine men who are at the bottom of the MLB employee pool. Jack Zduriencik, and Eric Wedge -- and all GM's and Managers -- are they at the bottom of the MLB employee pool? Or are their skills at all toward the top of the pyramid.
Q. One last question. The Mariners did seem to do pretty lousy last March, making decisions off Arizona performance.
A. I think there's a lot of "noise" in their 2-for-7 result last year. :- ) But if you want us to go point-by-point, just let us know.
Supposing the Mariners did do lousy last year, which I don't necessarily suppose, would that mean you'd give up the task? After all, every good organization watches spring training ......
Q. What is appeal to authority, by the way?
A. The syllogism thusly:
- Most of what authority A has to say on subject matter S is correct.
- A says P about subject matter S.
- Therefore, P is correct.
If you can find ANY statement in the last few years, locally, with that final line in it, I'll buy you a Good Humor bar.
We are arguing about whether Capt Jack's and Sgt Wedge's intuition should be ONE PIECE OF THE PUZZLE, or whether it shouldn't be.
Nobody says Eric Wedge must be correct because he's the manager. Nobody.
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Nine more cases of Schmallenberg livestock virus reported
UK livestock may have been infected by midges blown from mainland Europe
27 February 2012 Last updated at 17:08
Nine more farms in the south of England have reported cases of a disease which causes birth defects and miscarriages in livestock, the government says.
It means a total of 83 cases of the Schmallenberg virus have been reported in the UK.
Earlier, the National Farmer’s Union warned British cases of the disease may be “under-reported”.
Humans are thought to be unaffected by the virus, which is understood to be spread by midges, mosquitoes and ticks.
In England, it has now been identified on the Isle of Wight and in Wiltshire, West Berkshire and Gloucestershire.
This is in addition to farms in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, East and West Sussex, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Hampshire and Cornwall, which have previously identified cases.
Infection is apparently symptomless in adult sheep. However, the virus can damage the foetus when pregnant females are infected, leading to a range of deformities at birth.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it suspected livestock may have got the virus from infected midges blown across the Channel from affected areas in Europe.
None of the affected farms have imported animals during 2011 from the affected areas in mainland Europe.
The impact of the disease on the UK sheep flock should become clear over the next two weeks as the lambing season reaches its peak.
The UK’s chief veterinary officer, Nigel Gibbens, said that at present, there was little farmers could do to protect their animals.
He told the BBC: “With a vector-borne disease like this, there really is very little you can do and time will tell whether it will need a vaccine.
“We know that vaccine manufacturers are showing an interest but it takes them time – quite often two years or so – to develop a vaccine.”
He added that the disease did not appear to pose a risk to humans.
“The European Centre for Disease Control, who looks at this across Europe, and our own health protection agency looked at this very early on, and, given the knowledge the experts have of this group of viruses, they seem to affect only animals.
“We can’t, of course, rule that out but we think the likelihood is very low. It’s always, with a new virus difficult to talk about ‘never’, but all the indications are that human health won’t be affected.”
Ian Johnson, a spokesman for the south-west England branch of the National Farmers’ Union, said farmers were worried about the disease.
“Nobody knows much about the virus and nobody knows the extent to which it may have spread,” he said.
“That will manifest at peak lambing time in March and April.”
He said the risk should be kept in context – last year in south-west England 25,000 cattle had to be slaughtered because of Bovine TB, he said, while so far fewer than 100 cases of Schmallenberg have been reported.
He added “the problem is, it’s an unknown”, and went on: “Potentially, it could be extremely serious depending on how widespread it is.”
Mr Johnson urged farmers who suspected their livestock might be affected to report it.
Chris Partridge, a sheep farmer from Suffolk, told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme of the moment he realised some of his stock had been infected.
He said he had not known about the disease until last month when two lambs were born malformed and dead.
“I spoke to the vet the next day and they told me about it. And from there we had several more cases over the next few days,” he said.
“Lambing time should be a joyful time of year and it is something I normally look forward to but this year it has been very depressing because having lambs born alive and having to kill them, or having them born dead, is very unpleasant.”
He said the extent to which his ewes were affected remained an “unknown quantity” because the infection in sheep does not have any symptoms. Mr Partridge does not know whether others will be affected.
“If it goes across the country in commercial flocks it really will be very significant. The advice is that there is very little we can do,” said Mr Partridge.
Jamie Burrows, 29, who works at Sandridgebury Farm in Hertfordshire, told BBC Newsbeat “waiting around” to find out if the farm was affected was unnerving.
He said: “I think the fear at the moment is the unknown, we are about to start lambing here and there are no clinical signs of disease so we won’t know whether we’re going to be affected until then.”
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News Releases By Date
EPA report on environment highlights national and regional trends
Release Date: 05/20/2008
Contact Information: Gerard Bulanowski 303 312-6141; Rich Mylott 303 312-6654
Indicators for EPA's Mountains and Plains region include measures of air and water quality, land use, climate, human health, population, disease
(Denver, Colo. -- May 20, 2008) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the 2008 EPA Report on the Environmenttoday, a document that provides the American people with information on trends in the condition of air, water, and land and related changes in human health in the United States.
In addition to national scale indicators, the ROE also provides data broken out by EPA Regions. This includes nearly 30 indicators for EPA Region 8, which includes the states of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Indicators presented include air pollutant emissions and concentrations, acid deposition, drinking water quality, land use patterns, population, fertilizer use, cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, forestland, fish populations, carbon storage, temperature and precipitation, and more.
The EPA 2008 ROE is a valuable resource that will inform and focus EPA activities to improve and protect America’s environment. The report frames key questions related to the protection of human health and the environment, and addresses each issue using scientifically sound indicators that have been developed with extensive public input. The 2008 ROE updates a draft report released by EPA in 2003.
This report and the indicators it contains were created in an open and transparent manner. The Agency took the extraordinary step of having the proposed indicators reviewed in a public forum to determine if citizens- -not just scientists- -believed the proposed indicators provided the kind of information that was useful, and were supported by technically sound data. From the ROE, EPA and the public will know better where the U.S. needs to focus future work and resources.
It is important to note that the EPA 2008 ROE is not intended as a “report card.” There are both positive and negative trends contained in the report. The purpose of the report is to create a reliable set of information that can be used for year-to-year comparisons as well as planning. It is hoped that in the future, EPA will be able to look at the trends of ROE environmental indicators over a span of years, similar to the analysis done on the 20 years of data in the Toxics Release Inventory. The report may also lead to the development of new indicators, new monitoring strategies, and new programs and policies based on measured environmental trends.
Later this year, EPA will also publish the 2008 Report on the Environment: Highlights of National Trends, which summarizes highlights of the EPA 2008 ROE without all of the technical detail. EPA is committed to releasing periodic updates of the ROE and its indicators so that up-to-date information on environmental conditions and trends is available to the American public.
EPA’s 2008 Report on the Environment: http://www.epa.gov/roe
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MUMBAI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) believes that hypertension has reached epidemic proportions and plans to raise an alarm against its growing incidence on the World Health Day. Nearly 1.5 million deaths in the south-east Asia are attributed to high blood pressure making it the most prominent risk factor for non-communicable diseases like heart problems and stroke. Experts say the deaths, mostly preventable, are caused mainly because of ignorance. The reluctance among people to get checked routinely or seek treatment on time has been putting more lives at stake.
September 30, 2012 |
PATNA: The risk of heart disease is found to be higher among Indians compared to Americans and those from European nations, with cardiovascular diseases claiming around 2 million lives annually in India. This was stated by experts here on the occasion of World Heart Day, which was observed at the PMCH. HoD, medicine, PMCH, Dr J K L Das said Indians were getting more prone to heart diseases due to poor physical activity, intake of high-fat diet and low intake of fruits and vegetables.
September 28, 2012 |
MUMBAI: On the eve of World Health Day, which falls on Saturday, BEST bus conductors are being trained to handle on-road cardiac emergencies. On Thursday, a team of medical experts, led by Dr Rajeev Boudhankar and Dr Rajesh Jharia from Kohinoor Hospital, conducted a workshop at BEST's Colaba depot for conductors and other employees of the transport arm. This was the first time ever that a para-medical crash course was conducted for conductors on...
September 13, 2012 |
VARANASI: The Faculty of Dental Sciences, Banaras Hindu University ( BHU ), organised a series on programmes to mark the World Oral Health Day on Wednesday. According to the dean and head Prof TP Chaturvedi, events like dental health check up, lectures and demonstration were held to create awareness on oral health at the hospital. Every year the World Oral Health Day is celebrated on September 12 by the World Dental Federation and National Associations across the world. The aim of this day is to increase awareness for oral health as well as the impact of oral diseases on general health of well being.
April 24, 2012 |
MYSORE: To commemorate World Health Day, the department of Community Medicine, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, will hold a programme for senior citizens at the platinum jubilee auditorium in JK grounds on May 1. The topic of World Health Day-2012 is 'Ageing and health', while the theme is 'Good health adds life to years'. "The focus is on how good health throughout life can help older men and women lead full and productive lives and be a resource for their families and communities," said Dr S N Manjunatha of the department of Community Medicine.
April 23, 2012 |
CHANDRAPUR: Activists of environmental organization Green Planet Society undertook cleaning of Mahadwadi village pond to mark World Earth Day. The pond was in mess since a week after a mini-truck carrying edibles including eggs, snacks packets and noodles had overturned into it on April 15. Mahadwadi is a village along Chandrapur-Mul road. The village pond is located along state highway and since the accident, the area was stinking with foul smell of decaying edibles. "All the eggs being carried in the mini-truck had broken during the accident and entire area was stinking since then.
April 9, 2012 |
PATNA: Art of Living (AoL) organized a 'Surya Namaskar Challenge' to mark the World Health Day on Saturday. The event was organized as part of 'Yogathon', a nationwide initiative of the AoL in which lakhs of yoga enthusiasts participated in different parts of the country. In Bihar , the event was organized at 18 different places, including IIT- Patna , NIT-Patna, BIT-Patna, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Vidya Vihar Vidyalaya Ground, Rambagh Fort, Darbhanga, Sri Sri Gyan Mandir, Ekwari (Bhojpur)
April 8, 2012 |
VADODARA: After celebrating World Health Day, the Vadodara chapter of Young Indians (Yi), the youth wing of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), will now organise a flash mob to promote good health via good eating habits. On Friday and Saturday, Yi had celebrated World Health Day by conducting health awareness programmes at two 'aanganwadis' which the chapter has adopted. Through this programme, awareness talk was conducted with pregnant and lactating women wherein Yi members gave information to the participants about adoption of healthy life-style during pregnancy and lactation.
April 8, 2012 |
LUDHIANA: As the world celebrated World Health Day on Saturday, many people in this city were involved in different activities to stay healthy. We caught up with some such people, who take fitness seriously. A group of four businessmen who meet and do yoga regularly and also make sure to do some laughter therapy did exactly that on World Health Day too. Anil Dhawan, 48, a resident of Sarabha Nagar, who along with his three friends, Pawan Ahuja, Rajwant Singh and Kumar Dhawan met for yoga at the Rose Garden, near Kitchlu Nagar on Saturday said, "It has been six years that we have coming here in the evening for an hour to do yoga and some laughter therapy.
April 7, 2012 |
SHILLONG: On the occasion of World Health Day, the Art of Living Foundation organized 'Yogathon', an initiative to create awareness about yoga and its benefits in the Pine City. More than 500 participants and 15 premiere institutions participated in the event at Malki ground on Saturday. "The event attracted the youth and the elderly alike," one of the organizers said. Speaking on the occasion, deputy chief minister Bindo M Lanong stressed on the need to have a "disease-free body" and inspired people to practice yoga in their day-to-day life.
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Validation of the twitch interpolation technique to assess muscle activation in the leg press
We examined the extent of muscle contraction in a multi joint task (45 degree leg press). We found that results were comparable to previous work on single joint exercises and that humans could voluntarily contract 100% of muscle fibres in the quadriceps muscle during a maximal isometric 45 degree leg press. Accuracy was dependent on the strength of the interpolated twitch and knee angle where a stronger interpolated twitch and decreased knee angle (increased knee flexion) resulted in more accurate measurement.
Pickles, T, Shield, A, Zhou, S & Brennan, G 2000, 'Validation of the twitch interpolation technique to assess muscle activation in the leg press', Book of abstracts : 2000 Pre-Olympic congress : International Congress on Sport Science, Sports Medicine and Physical Education, Brisbane, Qld., 7-12 September, The Congress, Brisbane, Qld.
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Say it with me: I can do this one!
Do it Tuesday and add in your link Wednesday or do it Wednesday.
This is a topic anyone can tackle, and I hope everyone does: how and when do you use your words?
I've got some sample scenarios to throw at you, but I'd be glad for you to add your own in to your post, as well.
Here's how the Hump Day Hmm works: I supply a topic. You write a post. On Wednesday, I put up a post with Mr. Linky section and you add in your link. In your post, link to my post or blog so your readers can see the other participants. I encourage everyone to read all the contributions and hopefully comment. It ends up being a great roundtable every week. Everyone is welcome to participate!
Topic for this week: How and When Do You Use Your Words...Social Scenarios
Feel free to pick and choose any one, combination or all of these scenarios, or create your own. The object is to share complicated situations we often find ourselves in, and to discuss when we feel open or restrained from using our words, and why.
Scenario 1: You, two friends, and all of your children are walking out of gymnastics class together. Suddenly, in front of you, and your children, one of your friends starts discussing her son's upcoming birthday party---to which everyone but your son, it seems, has been invited. How do you feel? Do you say something? If so, what?
* What if it was a playdate the next day? How would you feel? Would you say something? If so, what?
Scenario 2: You're having coffee with some of your playgroup mom friends when one tells you she has the funniest story. "Some dad wanted in our playgroup," she laughs, "I told him no boys allowed. He was disappointed, but having a man would be too awkward, and anyway, our group is full, don't you think?" What do you think? What do you say?
Scenario 3: Your mother purchased six months of maid service for you after you had a baby. You know this was a big expense for her, and you know she prepaid for the service. The first two times the maids came, they did a great job, but their service has been slacking off. Last time, you know for sure they didn't vacuum upstairs. You called the service to notify them about this. The maids said they completed the job, and the service said they believed them. What do you do?
Scenario 4: On a coworker's recommendation, you began using a service that provides fresh, healthy snacks and coffee for your office breakroom. Everyone loves this; plus the quality is better than what you had been getting at the large stock store. However, you've noticed that their delivery of products is a little unreliable. Some weeks they deliver on Monday, other weeks on Friday, and there have been a couple of weeks of no deliveries. People are becoming agitated, frustrated to not be able to count on coffee or snacks.
On the day you planned to order and restock office supplies, you noticed the coffee and snacks were finished. So you sent an email to your vendor---the only company that provides this service---that read, "Can you tell me if you definitely plan on delivering products to us this week and if so, when? Today is the day I restock the office, and we are out of products, so I need to know if I ought to pick up some items to hold us over until you can get here. Thank you."
Later that day you got an extremely angry and long email from the coffee and snack vendor. He told you that if you are dissatisfied, you may leave their service. He added that he's never had another client complaint.
How do you feel? What do you do?
That's the wrap-up of scenarios!
Remember...take your time thinking these through. Situations are often more complex than they seem on the surface. Big difficult request with huge please and smile attached: be honest. What would you really do? Extra question: do you note any threads of commonality in these scenarios?
Copyright 2008 Julie Pippert
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Pub. date: 2008 | Online Pub. Date: June 25, 2008 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412963978 | Print ISBN: 9781412909280 | Online ISBN: 9781412963978| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
Brown's Values-Based Career Theory
Duane Brown & Robert Kelly Crace
Brown's values-based career theory emphasizes the central importance of values in career counseling and occupational choice. Values are defined as cognitive structures that are the basis for self-evaluation and one's evaluation of others. Values also have an affective dimension, are the primary basis of goal-directed behavior, and are the stimulus for the development of behavior related to goal attainment. Values have been portrayed as more fundamental traits than interests, and it has been suggested that concerns for values should be the primary consideration in career counseling, without precluding the use of other constructs. The values-based approach is also predicated on the idea that career counseling should in most cases be life-role counseling because of the interaction among life roles and the The ...
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Aberdeen Maritime Museum
Aberdeen Maritime Museum tells the story of the city's long relationship with the Sea. This award-winning museum is located on the historic Shiprow and incorporates Provost Ross's House, which was built in 1593. The Maritime Museum houses a unique collection covering shipbuilding, fast sailing ships, fishing and port history. It is also the only place in the UK where you can see displays on the North Sea oil and gas industry. Aberdeen Maritime Museum offers visitors a spectacular viewpoint over the busy harbour.
Discover more about the award winning Aberdeen Maritime Museum and the unique collection it hosts.
Uncover the incredible history of Aberdeen Maritime Museum incorporating Provost Ross's House which was built in 1593.
An exciting range of exhibitions, events, talks and walks organisedby Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.
Learn more about Aberdeen Maritime Museum by arranging a fascinating tour or visit.
Maritime Museum Shop, Café and Crèche Services.
Parking, schools and disabled access information.
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One of Stevens' poems begins: "The poem must resist the intelligence/ Almost successfully." He then offers an illustration: an unidentified man on a winter evening, carrying an unidentified object. There! the poet seems to say; you don't know who the man is or what he is carrying or where he is going. Deal with it. Think about it. Gather your information in bits and scraps, like scattered snowflakes. Toss and turn all night in your uncertainty, until, if you are lucky, the "bright obvious" appears.
Stevens is abstruse by design. He wants the poem to reflect the thing itself -- the world -- which is abstruse. He wants the poem to resist the intellect the way nature resists. Almost successfully. No poem that is crystal clear can adequately represent a world that is deeply mysterious and tantalizingly beyond our grasp. Almost beyond.
The great 19th-century physicist James Clerk Maxwell said something similar: "It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a discoverable law, yet have a mystery to move in." Science, like the poem, finds its highest expression in that qualifying word "almost."
Most people reject the world of "almost." They want unambiguous answers. Clear. Dogmatic, even. They want certainty, even if it requires a suspension of disbelief. Even if it requires a high degree of cognitive dissonance. That man in the winter evening is God, say. The thing that he carries is Truth. Fixed. Infallible.
Poets and scientists live in a rather different sort of world, with (as in the Stevens poem) "parts not quite perceived/ Of the obvious whole, uncertain particles/ Of the certain solid." Confident of the existence of a discoverable law, but content to live with a substantial measure of mystery.
Man Carrying Thing
The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully. Illustration:
A brune figure in winter evening resists
Identity. The thing he carries resists
The most necessitous sense. Accept them, then,
As secondary (parts not quite perceived
Of the obvious whole, uncertain particles
Of the certain solid, the primary free from doubt,
Things floating like the first hundred flakes of snow
Out of a storm we must endure all night,
Out of a storm of secondary things),
A horror of thoughts that suddenly are real.
We must endure our thoughts all night, until
The bright obvious stands motionless in cold.
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Dolphin calving season has just begun in the Gulf of Mexico and marine biologists are reporting an alarming trend. Between 2000 and 2009, an average of 25 to 30 dolphins were found dead on the beaches of the Gulf each year. This year, 13 dead dolphins were found between 13 January and 14 February alone; 11 were aborted or newborns. Biologists have been following this trend for three years, since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster claimed 11 lives and triggered the worst oil spill in US history.
This month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared an “unusual mortality event” for dolphins and whales in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In the last three years there were 865 cetacean strandings in the region; 95% of them were dead.
On Monday, barring last-minute reversals, teams of lawyers from BP, the rig’s owner, will face off with the US government’s finest legal minds, to determine the extent to which the British oil giant can be held accountable for those deaths and the wider damage done to the Gulf – the ninth-largest body of water in the world, one of the world’s most complex ecosystems and the US’s biggest supplier of seafood, which is home to 4,500 oil and gas platforms and structures.
The complexity of the Gulf is echoed in the case itself. This trial brings together the justice department and the five states affected by the disaster. After months of negotiations the parties have failed to reach not only an agreement with BP, but with themselves. Tourism and fishing – huge industries in the gulf states – were all devastated by Deepwater. Each state wants to appease angry residents and make sure it gets adequate compensation. Last week a meeting to broker an agreement collapsed, with insiders saying states were unable to agree terms.
For the government and BP’s detractors, cause and effect are obvious. The department of justice has been pouring over marine biologists’ data, fishery books, mud samples – anything to build a damning case against BP. But even the marine biologists the government is likely to call as witnesses point out that this is going to be a complex case.
David Uhlmann, a University of Michigan law professor and former chief of the justice department’s environmental crimes section, said until recently that he thought a settlement was inevitable. The risks of a trial are too high for both sides, he believes. But given reports of the breakdown in talks, Uhlmann said such an outcome “appeared far less certain”.
BP has already had its reputation smashed by the Deepwater disaster. A trial could be devastating for its image and its finances. But if the government fails to prove its case, any payout would be dramatically reduced.
The oil firm has set aside bn for payments and spent more than bn on spill response and clean-up. Another bn in payments has gone to local governments, individuals and businesses. Uhlmann calculates that BP’s bill from the trial could be .5bn in penalties, before any fines relating to damage to natural resources. Those remain “a great unknown” but will be counted in yet more billions.
‘They are the canary in the coal mine’
Experts concede that establishing the direct impact of the spill on marine wildlife will be extremely difficult. The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, a non-profit research and conservation group based in Gulfport, Mississippi, has been on the front line as the numbers of dead dolphins and turtles have escalated. “They are the canary in the coal mine. They are at the top of the food chain – whatever happens to them tells you something about what is happening in the wider environment,” said the IMMS president, Dr Moby Solangi.
Solangi is not allowed to talk about the case but while he says the spill must be playing its part, he adds that the Gulf is as biologically complex system that has been subject to massive abuse for decades.
To pin blame on one party may prove difficult. BP’s response to the disaster was unprecedented, using enormous quantities of dispersant to break up oil before it hit shorelines, with unknown consequences. Then there is all the other pollution that the area has been subject to.
“In addition to all that oil you have the Missouri, the Arkansas, all these rivers bringing agricultural waste right down into the gulf, creating dead zones,” Solangi said. “Combine that with the impact of flooding. It’s going to be very, very hard unless you can isolate a particular substance to work out the toxicology here.” NOAA points out that its own “unusual mortality event” began in February 2010, before the spill.
On top of that complexity comes the sad truth that until recently, research in the area was minimal, meaning that the real scale of what has been lost may never be fully known.
The risk for the government is also huge. Under the Clean Water Act, penalties plummet if the government fails to prove “gross negligence” – that the standard of BP’s Deepwater operation was so far below acceptable that a reasonable person would deem them to have been grossly negligent. Fines range from ,100 for every barrel spilled through simple negligence to as much as ,300 a barrel if gross negligence is found.
If no deal is done, the government and BP will go to trial again in September as the government tries to prove its assertion that Deepwater poured 4.9m barrels of oil into the Gulf in the three months. BP claims that the figure is closer to 3.1m. A BP victory at that trial could further reduce the fine levied by the government. “They could end up with a fine that does not exceed -bn,” said Uhlmann. “If this case goes to trial, literally billions of dollars are at stake.”
‘They polluted 300 miles of the most pristine beaches in
The pressure is on state and government officials to punish BP. In New Orleans, many are hoping for a trial. Stuart Smith, an attorney at Smith Stag, represents a number of clients who have refused to settle with BP. He says the area is still devastated by the spill.
“There was massive contamination caused by the hurricane this year, blowing oil all over the place,” he said. “They polluted 300 miles of the most pristine beaches in North America. It’s going to be ruined for generations,” he said.
The oil company is talking tough. “Gross negligence is a very high bar that BP believes cannot be met in this case,” said Rupert Bondy, BP’s general counsel, in a statement on Monday. “This was a tragic accident, resulting from multiple causes and involving multiple parties. We firmly believe we were not grossly negligent.”
Uhlmann said it was “difficult but not impossible” to prove gross negligence.
Whether or not BP and the US settle on Monday or in the first few days of next week, the fallout from Deepwater will continue for years to come. The justice department has filed criminal charges, including manslaughter, against four BP employees. Two partners in Deepwater, Transocean and Halliburton, are still in dispute with BP. And once this case is done, BP will face more than 10,000 cases brought by people unhappy with its settlement offer.
Stuart represents about 500 of them, and they are all hoping week’s case goes ahead. “This is a case that needs to be tried,” he said. “The truth needs to come out and the only way you are going to do that is with a trial.”
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010
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It's not often we find ourselves truly examining or appreciating the board books that we read our young children and babies. Usually they are either purely educational or entertainment with bright colorful pictures usually focusing on first words, colors or some zany story. In this sense Cozy Classics is a breath of fresh air and an idea that executes flawlessly.
Taking the classics, such as the first two available books Pride and Prejudice and Moby Dick, in twelve simple words the authors boil down the essence of the story and distill it in an easy to understand format geared toward the little ones. Bringing classic literature to infants would be great by itself, but the fantastic visual accompaniment is what gives the books a distinctive look and feel.
On each page you'll find illustrations of a needle-felted variety. Various dolls and set pieces are lovingly lighted and pictured depicting various scenes from the classic. The scenes themselves are usually set up well and clear from just looking at them what is going on. Even the overall quality of the book itself is outstanding, every page is heavy and completely baby slobber repellant.
In another nice move the book itself is fashioned after an actual novel. Most book boards tend to be small and square or long and rectangular while with Cozy Classics the spine and everything about the book mimics an actual novel. Intentional or not I found it to be a fantastic touch to an already world class experience.
I have two children, a 6 year old boy and a 4 and a half month baby girl. Pride and Prejudice was the book I received by mail and my daughter was instantly entranced by the well done pictures of the dolls. In fact, still building depth perception, she continually tried to take the dolls out of the pages; the quality is that good. To maintain her attention is impressive enough and the lovingly stitched pictures did just that.
My older son, still working on reading in school, was thrilled to be able to read the entirety of the book to his little sister. Not only that, but the pictures and gist of the story had left him intrigued to learn more about the book himself and led to me giving him a more beefy outline of the story until he can read it on his own.
Cozy Classics sets out to bring classics to our children and raise both the narrative and physical quality of board books. I can say without hesitation that they have succeeded splendidly. With Christmas coming up I can think of few better gifts for someone's new bundle of joy or tenacious toddler than the gift of classic literature in such a lovable little package.
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The Afghan government Monday demanded that the United States provide proof that the country's largest private airline is involved in smuggling drugs or pay it compensation.
The US military barred Kam Air from its list of potential contractors after accusing it of transporting large amounts of opium into neighbouring Tajikistan, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
The airline denied the allegation and Afghanistan's cabinet backed its call for compensation if the charges are not proven, describing the airing of the allegation in the media as "irresponsible".
"The US military should have informed the Afghan government first with evidence and documents, before notifying the media," a statement from the president's office said.
"The Afghan government has demanded that the US embassy deliver any evidence regarding the charges. The US embassy (has) so far failed to deliver any evidence.
"If it is not proven, the government of Afghanistan asks for restoration of legal dignity and compensation to Kam Air airline," the statement said.
The allegations by US military officials state that Kam Air ferried "bulk" quantities of opium -- the key ingredient in heroin -- on civilian flights, the Wall Street Journal newspaper said.
The US discovered the alleged drug smuggling when it started scrutinising Kam Air after the airline sought a US contract, Richard Longo, the commander of Task Force 2010, a coalition anti-corruption unit, told the WSJ.
Afghanistan produces about 90 percent of the world's opium and last year the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned that opium cultivation in the country had increased by 18 percent.
Poppy farmers are taxed by Taliban militants who use the cash to help fund their insurgency against the government and NATO forces, UNODC said.
The poppies, which provide rich pickings in one of the world's poorest countries, also play a large part in the corruption that plagues Afghan life at every level, from district to national government.
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In this bikecast, I anthropomorphize the tendency of matter to increase in complexity when provided an energy source. In the case of earth, I posit a race in which DNA attempts to give rise to an organism complex enough to escape the destruction of the earth and the end of the sun. A specific episode of this race is the rise of humankind–a species entirely capable of spreading off planet and out of the local solar system. If we fail, but the earth and sun remain, DNA will carry on building increasingly complex organisms which will face their own clock in trying to survive and escape.
The other position is that we manage not to eradicate ourselves, embrace stateless atheism and stay one step ahead of entropy until heat death of the universe–or maybe beyond as in this must-read Azimov short story: http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
I believe the highest hurdle before DNA-as-human spreading throughout the universe is the rationally trivial but psychologically near-impossible task of accepting the equality of all humans and recognizing as vile and anti-human the use of violence as a means of social organization.
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Lewis Center is located in Ohio.
Lewis Center, Ohio has a population of
Lewis Center is
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The county average for households married with children is 43.82%.
The median household income in Lewis Center, Ohio is
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SANTA CRUZ - The use of the phrase "natural" on everything from peanut butter to orange juice could be imperiled by a statewide proposal to label genetically modified food, even if the food in question has never seen the bottom of a test tube.
That claim is being made by opponents of Proposition 37, who include biotech representatives, grocers' groups, farmers and Fortune 500 companies, arguing the proposal's language could ban even frozen fruits and vegetables from being labeled "natural," no matter how they are grown.
"It will limit how we market ourselves," said Jamie Johansson, owner of Oroville-based olive oil producer Lodestar Farms, saying those labels help small family farms distinguish themselves from large operations. "This would affect our ability to do that."
Prop. 37 supporters dismiss the claim as a genetically modified red herring, saying the clear aim is foods where the DNA has been modified in some way.
"The initiative is clearly intended to cover genetically engineered foods only," said Stacy Malkan, a spokeswoman for the California Right to Know campaign.
But the possibility is supported by the nonpartisan state Legislative Analyst's Office, which concluded courts could apply the label prohibition to "all processed foods regardless of whether they are genetically engineered."
Johansson would have opposed Prop. 37 anyway - he is the second vice president of the California Farm Bureau,
He is in the minority. A recent poll by the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and the California Business Roundtable found Prop. 37 among the most popular of the 11 initiatives on the November ballot, with 69 percent of voters favoring it.
The bill would require the labeling of any product containing genetically modified foods, something the European Union, China and several other countries already do.
There is no evidence genetically modified foods are harmful, but proponents say without labels, there is no way for consumers to choose not to eat them. Mercola.com Health Resources, the Organic Consumers Fund and Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps are major donors to a campaign supporting Prop. 37.
In Santa Cruz County - which helped foster the growth of the organic food movement - locals were active in getting the initiative on the ballot and are strong supporters, organizing meet-ups, seminars, concerts and a weekly radio show on KSCO.
The language in question has to do with which foods may be labeled "natural," which has long been a source of controversy. The Food and Drug Administration does not define it, and generally doesn't interfere with the term as long as a product does not contain artificial flavors or colors, or synthetic substances.
Prop. 37 addresses that controversy, setting out a series of criteria for foods that may not be labeled "natural." One includes processed foods, defined elsewhere as any food that has undergone "canning, smoking, pressing, cooking, freezing, dehydration, fermentation or milling."
Whether that applies to foods that don't include genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, is the source of the controversy.
Attacks on Prop. 37 have so far focused on the cost to producers and a provision allowing lawyers to sue over violations. In their latest salvo, opponents point out that the disputed language differs from failed labeling efforts in two other states, and that regardless of intent, words matter.
"Aim, or intent, doesn't matter, only the language," said Kathy Fairbanks, a spokeswoman for the No on 37 campaign.
Follow Sentinel reporter Jason Hoppin on Twitter: @scnewsdude
©2012 the Santa Cruz Sentinel (Scotts Valley, Calif.)
Visit the Santa Cruz Sentinel (Scotts Valley, Calif.) at www.santacruzsentinel.com
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"Ours is a mission accomplished,” Johnson said. “We put a true small-government, individual-freedom option on the ballot in virtually every state and have assembled an organization that will carry that message forward.”
The long-shot candidate, a former New Mexico governor, knew he had essentially no chance of becoming the next U.S. president, but he argued on Election Day that he had delivered his message to the public and still wanted to get 5 percent of the vote. That would give the Libertarian Party equal access to federal funding in 2016 and easier access to ballots in all 50 states.
"I think Obama’s going to win, that’s what I think," Johnson said. "[My vote is] really spread out, meaning I don’t think there’s any state that I’m going to do better than another."
Johnson ran first as a Republican candidate in the primaries but appeared in only one debate because he was too low in the polls.
Supporters think federal funding would help a Libertarian in the next presidential cycle have enough resources to get to 15 percent in national polls, enough to enter the presidential debates.
The 59-year-old Johnson thanked supporters Tuesday and said the 2012 campaign was “just a step in the movement that we will absolutely carry on."
Still, he was taciturn about the meaning of “we” – specifically whether he plans to run again for elected office.
Johnson said he “fully expects” to remain a messenger for a liberty, small-government agenda.
“But it is too soon to be talking about 2016," he added.
Spokeswoman Natalie Dicou said Johnson’s only plans now are to get ready for the ski season and to chickpea in Argentina with his family.
Pollsters and other political analysts thought early in the general election that Johnson might play the spoiler -- taking enough votes away from Romney to help Obama win the race. However, he barely ever climbed as high as 5 percent in most national polls.
In 1992, third-party candidate Ross Perot won roughly 19 percent of the popular vote, which many people think cut into GOP incumbent George H.W. Bush's take and put Democratic candidate Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, even though Clinton won just 43 percent of the vote.
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PAS's ruling on gender-segregation guidelines that forbid women to cut the hair of men and vice versa is certainly an outdated practice and makes little common sense.
Where would all the non-Muslim men get their haircut then as many of the hair saloons there may employ women?
State exco member Takiyuddin Hassan's statement that hair saloons are a "hotbed for immoral activities" goes to show how shallow is his presumption of how adults behave, that we would behave as sex deviants by getting a hairdressing services from a hair salon operators from the opposite sex? We wonder if your party is fishing for votes with your policies.
Enough with all these religious rhetoric. If PAS is indeed a party for the people then why implement hudud law policies on non-Muslims as well?
The people of Kelantan had come a long way since been cast under the administration of the Kelantan PAS government.
It is mindsets like this that will make our nation transgress instead of progress.
The people of Kelantan have waited a generation long for more infrastructure and economic activities to take place.
It is still not too late for the people of Kelantan to achieve an even better GDP (which is only a fraction of the richer states like Penang or Selangor) and to develop into a forceful economic power.
Time for the people of Kelantan to rethink if such policies work any more. You have a choice.
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Have you ever heard the expression that there are only so many hours in a given day? If not, you need to move out from under the rock you’ve been living under and see a little bit more of the world. When you have the power to go online and find just about any kind of information your heart desires, the old rule of “never enough time” starts to lose some of its old validity. Who doesn’t have enough time for almost anything when you can access a treasure trove of knowledge in mere moments without even getting up to go to a bookshelf?
This is the new found power of sites such as OnlineEducation.com. With sites like that, you have the time to get your degree (and do your research) from practically anywhere. You pretty much have no excuses anymore. No car? No problem anymore. Stuck waiting for someone at the coffee shop or the airport? You can work while you wait these days. There is pretty much no excuse for not having enough time, unless you lack the discipline to make your dreams come true. While it might sound a little on the hokey side to say it like that, it’s completely true. You can turn your dreams into completely doable goals, faster than you would believe.
For instance, not only can you attend your classes online from wherever, no matter what time it is. You also have the capacity to do your research wherever (and more importantly, whenever) you have a little bit of downtime and the desire to do so. So if you find yourself waiting around, why not begin to outline that paper you were assigned the other day? Why not just start cracking off your assignments left and right, since you now have the time and are rapidly running out of excuses not to do what needs doing?
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The form factor of a PC is rarely something that you need to think about, until you try to purchase a PC that's smaller than a mid-tower. That's when tough decisions need to be made. Do you go for a pre-built system from Shuttle or Dell, which, for the most part, use proprietary designs, or do you try and build one using an off-the-shelf micro-ATX motherboard and the smallest case you can find?
If you're a do-it-yourself kind of person, then you'll probably take the last approach and mix and match the best components to suit your needs. The good news is that AMD is thinking about the small form factor PC market and has introduced a new open-standard form factor for motherboards and cases - it's called AMD DTX - which it hopes will be adopted by end users and PC companies alike.
AMD DTX isn't a revolutionary design (it hasn't 'flipped the script' like the BTX form factor did to ATX, for example); motherboards based on DTX will actually be compatible with ATX-style cases, and while DTX motherboards may look similar to a micro-ATX motherboard, DTX boards will be smaller.
This, in turn, should allow case manufacturers to create smaller enclosures than ever before, or even allow them to pack more gadgets into certain models, without completely cluttering the enclosure with cables.
There will be two versions of AMD DTX introduced: full DTX and Mini-DTX. Full DTX-based systems will be able to dissipate up to 65W of heat, when running AMD's 65W CPUs, while Mini-DTX systems will be able to dissipate up to 45W of heat, when running AMD's 45W CPUs. Systems based on the Mini-DTX form factor, therefore, should be sought by users who want a standard, low-cost PC that won't burn too much coal.
From a design perspective, AMD DTX boards will still have the same basic components as micro-ATX boards, and the same number of rear expansion slots, but their dimensions will be smaller. Additionally, and this is of most benefit for users who wish to adopt the DTX standard early, DTX boards will be usable in ATX cases.
AMD sent us an engineering sample of its AMD DTX concept PC, which is being used to showcase how DTX can be implemented. It was fitted with PC and notebook-style components, using AMD's Diamond 2, Full DTX-based motherboard, which runs AMD's 690G chipset.
It will be up to motherboard vendors to decide what type of features their products will eventually have, and which chipset they will use, but one thing that aroused interest was the provision of an ExpressCard slot on the front of the case. While the Diamond 2 motherboard doesn't feature an ExpressCard facility, we can only hope that motherboard vendors will implement this feature on their new models, as it will give users another option, and a more convenient one, for expansion.
- AMD DTX small form factor PC: expert review
- AMD DTX small form factor PC: verdict
- AMD DTX small form factor PC: image gallery
NEXT PAGE: optical drives, hard drives and verdict > >
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In the article:
| Number of Bones in the Spinal Column
By Cynthia Kirkeby
Jan 22, 2007, 10:48
Bones in the Body
By Sarah Lane
The total is incorrect..
- 26 vertebrae (7 cervical or neck, 12 thorax, 5 lumbar or loins, the sacrum which is five fused vertebrae, and the coccyx, our vestigial tail, which is four fused vertebrae);
7 + 12 + 5 = 24.
Sorry Alan but you're incorrect, according to Apparelyzed:
The spinal column is comprised of 33 bones, these bones are refered to individually as vertebrae. The spinal column is divided into 5 different areas contaning groups of vertebrae and are refered to as follows:
- 7 cervical vertebrae in the neck
- 12 thoracic vertebrae in the upper back corresponding to each pair of ribs
- 5 lumbar vertebrae in the lower back
- 5 sacral vertebrae which are fused together to form 1 bone called the sacrum and 4 coccygeal vertebrae that are also fused together to form the coccyx or tailbone.
- The vertebrae are refered to by their name and number, counting down from the top of the spinal column as follows:
- The cervical vertebrae are C1 - C7
- The thoracic vertebrae are T1 –T12
- The lumbar are L1 – L5
- The sacrum and coccyx do not have numbers and each is thought of as one bone.
Taking into account the fused bones of the sacrum and the coccyx, you subtract 7 bones which leaves us with 26 vertebrae.
(5 sacral vertebrae which are fused together to form 1 bone – subtract 4 bones since they are considered one bone)
(4 coccygeal vertebrae that are also fused together to form the coccyx – subtract 3 bones since they are considered one bone)
So, Sarah was correct at 26 bones.
© Copyright 2007 by ClassBrain.com
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Refer to the South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct and opinions of the South Carolina Ethics Advisory Committee (such as SC EAO 96-11) to be sure you take all steps reasonably necessary to protect the confidentiality of client information
Sufficient indicia of "separateness." The impression created in the mind of the public is paramount. Separate signs for all lawyers are a must.
Have separate phone and fax numbers
Keep files, mail, faxes, e-mail, etc. separate. Confidential files should be locked up or access should be restricted.
Make sure your engagement letter with clients states clearly that you are not associated with any of the other lawyers in the office and that no confidential information will be shared with them. Make sure the other lawyer's engagement letter says the same.
Instruct clients to leave confidential messages with your employees or your voice mail only
If you share a high-speed Internet connection with other lawyers in the office, make sure that they are all taking proper security precautions. If a virus compromises one lawyer's computer, it can result in greatly reduced connection speed and even in termination of Internet service for everyone.
Never use a shared computer network with lawyers in other practices
Will the nature of your practice allow you to have a shared waiting room for clients?
Make sure stationery, business cards, your sign, etc., make it clear that you are not in a business relationship with another lawyer if that is not the case
If there is a shared receptionist, make sure she/he answers your phone with your name or your firm name only
- Instruct the receptionist to not take messages from clients, but to forward them to your voice mail
- Instruct the receptionist not to discuss your cases with anyone, including clients
Make sure that you and any employees you may have don't discuss clients' cases in public areas
Exchange insurance policies (liability) with the other lawyers
Notify your insurer of your situation and ask for advice on managing your risk
See How to Protect Client Confidences in a Shared Office Suite by Wells Anderson and Joseph M. Hartley, Law Practice Management magazine, March 2002. See also The Essentials of Office Sharing and Executive Suites, Chapter 17, Flying Solo in the Bar Lending Library or you can take a look at it online here.
See form Office Share Agreement in forms
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RoboCup 2011 – @Home (concludes with RoboCup overview)
Robocup@Home is the newest league, and focuses on real-world applications and human-machine interaction with autonomous robots. The aim is to foster the development of useful robotic applications that can assist humans in everyday life. The ultimate scenario is to give robust aid to individuals in the real-world itself.
This short documentary was filmed at the 2011 competition in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Sockeye SalmonUntil one actually hooks their first sockeye salmon, it is hard to imagine such strength and speed is possible from such a compact fish. Likewise, it is unlikely that anyone can imagine how delicious these fish are until they sample that deep, firm flesh. These two factors, combined with their abundant numbers, liberal three fish limit and do-it-yourself nature, make the Kenai River sockeye (red) one of the most popular fisheries in the state!
Not unlike their larger cousin, the Kenai king, there are two distinct runs of sockeye salmon in the Kenai River. The early run, primarily Russian River bound fish, begin arriving in mid/late May and continue through June. The late run, which typically begins entering the mouth of the Kenai in early July, historically peaks the third week of the month.
It is important to understand the two main differences between early and late run sockeye in the Kenai River. First, and foremost, is the fact that the early run is much smaller of a return in terms of sheer number of fish. In addition, early run fish (Russian River bound reds) are screaming up river at such a frantic pace that effectively fishing them in the lower river becomes very challenging. Conversely, in July, huge pushes of steady moving late run fish enter the river. The combination of more fish and slower traveling fish works to the angler's benefit in July and (in recent years) early August as almost anywhere on the lower or middle river becomes a "good spot," provided fresh fish are traveling through. Early run reds are best fished where they slow down and concentrate, specifically the upper Kenai near the Russian River confluence.
"How to fish for Kenai River sockeye" is an easy subject; perhaps this is another large factor that contributes to their immense popularity. Anyone can do it, and the tackle and gear needed is simple and inexpensive. A medium action casting, spinning or 8 weight fly rod (the locals favorite!) filled with 20 lb. test (these 5-12 lb. fish are powerful!) will do the trick. Terminal tackle consists of an inexpensive bucktail Coho fly and a 3/8-1 oz. sinker placed on the mainline 3-5 feet above the fly. (You can find everything you need at Soldotna Hardware.) Strip off a manageable amount of working line, say 10-15 feet, flip it up stream and methodically drift it down as it swings, making sure that periodic contact with the bottom is occurring. Aggressive and repeated snagging is not necessary, nor legal: only set the hook when your offering pauses or pumps. Then hang on! Appropriately called lining, or "flossing" by the locals, an angler is simply attempting to pass their line through the mouth of an up-river bound fish.
Find fast water where sockeye swim close to the bank and begin methodically covering this travel lane until reds pass through. Kenai River sockeye enter and travel in pulses, and thus sockeye fishing action often goes from "dead" to "hot" in a blink of an eye!
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By Rom Badilla, CFA
Growing income inequality can be a major issue as the gap between the rich and the poor can have long term implications on both a society and economy. Income inequality can create a class system that is determined by wealth, both earned and inherited, and de-emphasizes the importance of opportunity and innovation. Separation can lead to social tensions as the "have's" and "have nots" are divided with opportunity to bridge that gap becoming limited. Such tensions could lead to political instability as was the case in Egypt and in Syria that were driven by a young population seeking economic opportunity and a better way of life. Furthermore, economic growth and the benefits that come with it, are not being shared equally, specifically the middle class which comprises the bulk of the population. Those that are left behind and do not take part could lead to under-consumption on an aggregate level. For an economy such as the U.S., this is significant since consumer spending accounts for seventy percent of economic growth.
That said, income inequality in the U.S. has been rising for many decades. As mentioned in the New York Times article, "For Two Economists, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start" by Annie Lowrey, income inequality has been an issue even before the Financial Crisis. Based off the work by economists, Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, she wrote the following:
From 2000 to 2007, incomes for the bottom 90 percent of earners rose only about 4 percent, once adjusted for inflation. For the top 0.1 percent, incomes climbed about 94 percent.
Furthermore and despite the collapse of the stock market and financial asset prices which typically affects the rich, she stated that the Great Recession did not derail the widening gap. The rich continued to become rich through higher income gains even after the recovery.
Data that the two economists released in March showed that the top 1 percent of earners got nearly every dollar of the income gains eked out in the first full year of the recovery. In 2010, the top 10 percent of earners took about half of overall income.
The U.S. is far from alone with this problem. China with all of its economic growth is experiencing a similar problem. In fact, China has a bigger problem that is growing at an alarming rate according to Societe Generale's Albert Edwards and Dylan Gracie. In their latest Global Strategy Weekly, they wrote the following:
Regular readers will know that we have been concerned about the social tensions that have resulted from 2008 The Great Recession and its aftermath. Our concerns were especially heightened by the extremely rapid rise in inequality in many countries in the decade running up to the crash most especially, but not exclusively, in the US. But not only is China more unequal than the US, it has become more unequal at a faster rate.
This is evident by using the Gini Coefficienet which measures inequality among values where zero represents perfect equality while a value of one represents maximum inequality. The Economist by way of Societe Generale provided the following chart showing Gini Coefficients on various countries with China at the top of the list.
In addition, Societe Generale cited the recent results from Pew Research which shows that Chinese citizens are becoming more concerned of government corruption and income inequality.
Rising income inequality and the potential for social unrest in China could have significant implications from an economic standpoint. Given the fact that China has been and should continue to be one of the main drivers of global growth, any disruption which would be exacerbated by the distribution of income could send waves around the world and to the shores of the developed world.
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Information and Advisory Note Number 8 Back to menu
1.1 Grazing can be important in keeping swards open enough to allow seed germination and establishment, but levels of nutrient inputs should not be increased.
1.2 Most plants and animals benefit from a grazing regime in which there is "a mouthful left when stock are taken out". Take what the field has to offer then move on to another pasture before damaging the sward.
1.3 Maintain or encourage a range of plant structures including short sward, tall herbage, scattered grass tussocks and limited areas of bare ground to support as wide a range of insects and birds as possible.
1.4 Maintain or encourage a wide variety of plants.
1.5 Leave up to 5% total area of field—e.g. field comers, ditch sides and iris beds— ungrazed to provide early spring cover for birds and other wildlife, if necessary by fencing from regularly grazed areas. Electric fencing can provide a cheap way of keeping cattle out and allowing areas to grow rank—it can be easily removed to allow later grazing to prevent scrub developing.
1.6 Take particular care not to overstock in wet periods or in winter which may lead to break-up of the sward and colonisation by aggressive weed species, e.g. creeping thistle and broad-leaved dock.
1.7 Avoid supplementary feeding on unimproved grassland which can lead to poaching and localised enrichment due to dunging—4his can damage the sward, reduce plant diversity and introduce weeds. Troughs can be used for feeding concentrates, provided they are moved on before the area around them becomes damaged.
1.8 Wherever possible avoid grazing stock treated with ivermectin on unimproved grassland. Ivermectin is excreted largely unaltered in dung, so it remains powerfully insecticidal. This reduces the number and variety of insects in dung, thereby slowing down its decomposition which can lead to a reduction in food resources for insectivorous birds such as curlew and chough. Bolus formulations result in ivermectin being excreted in dung over a longer period of time. Where ivermectin is used, pour-on or injected formulations are therefore preferable.
2.1 The following stocking rates are intended as general guidelines based on
average stocking rates over the year as a whole. Proportionately higher stocking
rates may be acceptable for seasonal grazing in line with the recommendations
given on timing. Calcareous grassland—0.5 LSU/ha; neutral grasslands—1 LSU/ha;
acid grasslands—0.4 LSU/ha. (1 LSU = 1 cow or 6 medium sized sheep).
2.2 Shut-up periods are a less attractive alternative if higher stocking rates over the whole year are necessary—these periods can be timed to benefit the most important plant species present.
2.3 An increase in the amount of uneaten grass, the accumulation of litter, an increase in vigorous rank and unpalatable grasses, and
a reduction in low-growing herbs indicates undergrazing (i.e. stocking density too low)
2.4 A reduction in diversity of plants, excessive poaching, weed invasion and the development of bare patches indicates overgrazing (i.e. stocking density too high).
2.5 Low summer stocking density is important to allow plants to flower and set seed.
3.1 The plants and wildlife associated with each area of grassland will have evolved according to past management. Meadows grazed in early spring, shut up for hay from May-July/August and then re-opened for grazing of the aftermath after taking a hay crop, are likely to be dominated by summer flowering species, whereas pasture which has been summer-grazed for many years is likely to be dominated by spring flowering species. Maintenance of long-standing management regimes is therefore usually beneficial, but bear in mind the following points.
4.1 Sheep are more selective feeders than cattle. Unless stocked at high
density, sheep grazing therefore results in short-cropped areas of palatable
vegetation interspersed with ungrazed areas of rank growth. Sheep are also more
likely to eat flowers, which may affect seed production and the abundance of
4.2 Cattle eat a wider range of coarser plants than sheep so that the effect of grazing is more evenly spread, and cattle are better able to break up a mat of accumulated plant litter. Trampling by cattle is more likely to expose bare soil which may damage archaeological features and marshy ground. However, moderate cattle trampling creates sites for seedling establishment which are essential for maintaining and improving botanical diversity.
5.1 Artificial fertiliser, farmyard manure and slurry should not be applied to
areas of unimproved and herb rich grassland used for grazing.
5.2 Lime should only be applied as required and never apply more than 3 tonnes/hectare of calcium oxide (CaO) equivalent.
6.1 Harrowing should only be carried out before ground-nesting birds have established their nests—ground conditions permitting.
Andrews, J. and Rebane, M. (1994). Farming and wildlife—a practical management
Crofts, A. and Jefferson, R.G. (1994). The Lowland Grassland Management Handbook. English Nature/The Wildlife Trusts.
Daniel Gotts, Agricultural Landscape Ecologist
Countryside Management Consultant
Lanark, ML11 8HA
Jane MacKintosh, Grassland Ecologist
Jane MacKintosh, Daniel Gotts
Research and Advisory Services Directorate
Agriculture and Woodland Environments
2 Anderson Place, Edinburgh, EH6 5NP
Tel: 0131-447 4784
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Safe in Common, a non-profit organization of healthcare safety advocates dedicated to eradicating needlestick and sharps-related injuries, has planned a Nov. 14, 1 p.m. Eastern free multi-media exploration of the past, present and future of needlestick safety, called, "The Unfinished Agenda.
As of Nov. 12, more than 800 members of the global healthcare community, from veteran nurses and healthcare administrators to pharmaceutical manufacturers, have registered for the online event and the chance to submit questions to Safe in Common's panel of experts.
"The Unfinished Agenda" is the first in a series of discussions among the nation's foremost healthcare personnel safety experts and the frontline workers who face needlestick and sharps danger without a unified plan to address the shortcomings in injury prevention. A press release says this event picks up where federal regulations left off more than 10 years ago and is an examination of modern needlestick safety—past, present and future—from its roots in the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis to where we stand today.
The online conference will be moderated by Safe in Common Chairperson Dr. Mary Foley, PhD, RN. Dr. Foley, the Director at the Center for Nursing Research/Innovation at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing. Foley will be joined by the following professionals:
• PJ (Pamela J.) Haylock, PhD, RN, FAAN, Chief Executive Officer of the Association for Vascular Access
• Dr. Janine C. Jagger, Professor of Research of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia, Founder and Director of the International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia
• Gina Pugliese, Vice President of the Premier Safety Institute, adjunct faculty at the University of Illinois School of Public Health and Rush University College of Nursing, Senior Associate Editor of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
This online conference is part of Safe in Common's continued mission to unify and educate people about the risks of needlestick and sharps-related injuries. This event will explore myriad concerns and demands for action from doctors, nurses, healthcare personnel, and administrators whose unity is needed to introduce the long-overdue innovation, awareness, and demand for a safer work environment for the healthcare personnel who save lives each day.
The event is part of SIC's on-going efforts to spark innovation, awareness and change across the healthcare spectrum, with a core focus on the Needlestick Safety Pledge.
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As many of you know, Utah 4-H is celebrating their 100th anniversary this year! We are conducting a survey among teens and college age students to find out more about their 4-H and volunteer experiences. We hope to use some of the information gathered to find out how better to help youth have a positive youth development experience in the upcoming years. Information gathered will be kept confidential.
We are asking those who are between the ages of 14-25 to participate in this survey. If you agree to participate in this study,you will be asked to complete a thirty minute anonymous online survey about volunteerism and psychosocial development. Please read the informed consent before starting the survey. By clicking on the survey link, you acknowledge that you have read the informed consent and agree to participate in the survey. 4-H Members (grades 9-12) 4-H Alumni (ages 18-25)
As an incentive for participation in this anonymous survey, you will be entered into a drawing for your choice of $100 off any future county or state 4-H event, a kindle, or a $75 gift card to anywhere of your choice. (Please note this is an increase from what is in the informed consent, thanks to a generous sponsor!) There will be at least one drawing in each age group – high school and college age students (depending on sponsors).
Participants may also receive an extra entry in to the drawing by sharing this link with other 4-H alumni between the ages of 18-25. If you know of someone between the ages of 14-17 that wants to participate but their parents didn’t receive a letter, please contact Lauralee with their mailing address and email address.
Each person should only complete the entry once - additional completions will cause the person be disqualified from the drawing.
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Psychological Services provides a broad range of confidential, individualized mental health of services provided by professional staff. Psychological Services is a warm and welcoming environment centrally located on the main SMC campus.
The primary mode of counseling is brief, individual counseling with the goal to improve functioning within the targeted areas of concern. Individual counseling sessions are typically 45-50 minutes and are scheduled with a specific staff clinician. Counseling is provided by licensed psychologists and advanced trainees under close supervision by the licensed staff.
If an individual counselor determines that more intensive or extensive treatment is required, a referral for additional services outside of SMC is provided.
Psychological Services will provide immediate intervention in crisis situations (e.g., assisting a student in need of hospitalization, gravely depressed students, and students who may be a harm to themselves or others).
Walk-in/crisis hours are set aside each day for students who feel they cannot wait for a regularly scheduled intake and are not experiencing a serious emergency, but who want to be seen the same day. Standing walk-in hours are now scheduled Monday-Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Fridays walk-in hours are 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Walk-in hours tend to fill quickly, and are available on a first-come first-served basis.
Community referrals to appropriate agencies are made for students in need of medication evaluations and/or long-term care beyond the scope of services provided by Psychological Services. Psychological Services collaborates with several community agencies, and students in need of specialized services (e.g., psychiatric medication, psychological testing, eating disorder program, domestic violence intervention) are referred to such agencies.
Psychological Services offers faculty, staff and administrators the opportunity to get assistance dealing with challenging students, difficult circumstances and disruptive situations involving students.
Alcohol and other Substance Abuse Program
A Substance Abuse Specialist is available through Psychological Services to provide consultation, presentations and workshops related to alcohol and other drug treatment, recovery support, and coping with family and academic issues resulting from addictive behaviors.
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Meet Judith, a Batonga Scholar in Cameroon
Judith, a 20 year-old Batonga scholar, was left blind after an accident she had at age five. With no family to support her, she grew up in a hostel for blind children in the central region of Cameroon. If it was not for Batonga and our local NGO partner, African Action on Aids (AAA), Judith would not have been able to attend school. She is extremely grateful for the support Batonga provides and says, “This scholarship is not only giving me an opportunity to go to school and fulfill my dream of becoming a teacher; it also places me in a network of other girls benefiting from the same scholarship
and who have received me with open arms.”
Judith dreams of becoming a teacher and hopes to one day set an example for other handicapped students by proving that they are not victims and can achieve great things!
Meet Catherine, a Batonga Scholar in Benin
Catherine is 10 years old and is a Batonga Scholar in Benin. Catherine’s father recently was released from prison and her mother passed away a few years ago. She lived with hergrandmother who was not able to send her to school because it was too expensive. Even though her father is out of prison, she still lives with her grandmother. She says the Batonga scholarship has changed her life. She is excited to be back in school.
Meet Bernadette, a Batonga Scholar from Benin
A few years ago, Bernadette’s family rarely had enough food to feed the entire family. Bernadette’s parents could not afford school fees or the cost of necessary school supplies, so they sent her to stay with her aunt who could better support her. Things did not work out and Bernadette returned to her family. At that point, the mother’s association, a community organization dedicated to improving the quality of education and raising the status of girls and women, intervened and convinced Bernadette’s parents to make sacrifices and to send Bernadette to school. Soon after enrolling, Bernadette was selected to receive a scholarship. Bernadette says, “I am very happy because now I go to school and have enough to eat. If I go to school, I can learn.”
Meet Aynalem, a Batonga Scholar in Ethiopia
Aynalem lost both of her biological parents to famine as a child and lost her adoptive parents to HIV/AIDS six years ago. Despite her difficult childhood, she completed high school with high scores and was able to begin studying law in the evenings through the help of a Batonga scholarship. She is now in her second year, performing well in school, and looking toward a bright future.
Meet Fidakwa, a Batonga Scholar in Ethiopia
Fidakwa lost both of her parents at the age of 10. She was abducted at 13 and later abandoned by her husband and left with twin babies at age 15. Thanks to a Batonga scholarship, she is now attending a private medical college where she is studying to be a laboratory technician. She is in her third year of school with excellent grades and expects to graduate this year.
Meet Sara, a Batonga Scholar in Mali
Sara is 14 years old and has three brothers and four sisters, only two of whom went to school. Sara is the niece of a pastor and likes all school subjects especially French and English. Sara considers education to be the future of tomorrow. Sara said, “if I study now, I will have a great future. I want to work in an office, or be a teacher. I like school, and I like to study very much. I hope to become a teacher, a journalist or a nurse. Education is important because people respect me. My parents are proud of me. I gain knowledge and am proud to go to school. I want to become a famous journalist!”
Meet Minata, a Batonga Scholar in Mali
Minata lives in northern Mali with her family of two sisters and four younger brothers. Neither of her parents went to school, but they check her homework everyday. She speaks four languages and French and English are her favorite courses. She is a hard worker and she loves the challenge of doing well and succeeding in school. Teachers and boys pressure her to do well in school and she loves the challenge. She would like to become a Minister of Health or a doctor.
Meet Adama, a Batonga Scholar from Sierra Leone
Adama’s father died when she was a child and she currently lives with her aunt and three cousins in Waterloo. Before receiving her Batonga scholarship, she was not able to attend school regularly because she was unable to afford text books and school fees. Upon hearing of the scholarship, she shed tears of joy because for the first time she had 7 text books and a bag for school. She said that she is so grateful to Batonga for this opportunity. Adama came in third in her promotion exam this year.
Meet Salamatu, a Batonga Scholar from Sierra Leone
Salamatu is a 16 year old orphan from Sierra Leone. Her father died before she was born and her mother died soon after she gave birth to Salamatu. Her mother’s friend raised Salamatu and brought her up as if she was her biological mother. She enrolled Salamatu in a community primary school, but before she could finish, this woman also got sick and suddenly died. Salamatu then found it very difficult to finish school. She had to drop out because she could not afford it. Salamatu said, “ I thought all was lost, but with CAW and Batonga’s support I will be able to complete my skills training.”
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So, History happened. Reactions were mixed.
The Arab world’s values are driven largely by pride and shame (it’s a “face” culture, as the jargon goes), so Saddam’s humiliation naturally caused quite a stir: this disheveled, unkempt man looked less like a madman who strikes fear into the hearts of millions and more like a madman who falls asleep on the street talking to himself, stinking of dirt-cheap liquor. He had two AK-47s and a pistol, but went without so much as firing a shot before being dragged out of his “spider hole” (and oughtn’t that join “shock and awe” in the buzzword file?). “He disappointed a lot of us, he’s a coward,” noted Yemeni teacher Mohammed Abdel Qader Mohammadi to the AP. “They say he’s been captured, do you believe that?” went the refrain at an outdoor market in Cairo, and many couldn’t. Those less invested in Saddam as an Arab icon took the news better. “Saddam should not be spared, he should get the death penalty, which is the least he deserves,” said 22-year-old Saudi student Rasheed al-Osaimi.
It might be said that American newscasters live in a face culture of their own, albeit with a different connotation; it is the non-facial portions of their heads that seem the most undernourished. Case in point is CNN’s Aaron Brown, who, noting Saddam’s meager end, seemed to reduce Saddam’s long reign of terror to a class-warfare, calling the dictator “a man who had lived in enormous luxury and wealth.” That was slightly more coherent than Dan Rather’s early-morning warning that “We’re in the school of ‘you trust your mother but you cut your cards.’” (Those Ratherism are said to be Texan. Have any of our Texan readers actually heard that expression?)
Of course, for sheer malevolence, few American journalists can possibly compete with their colleagues in the left-wing press across the pond. Reuters, the British news service that won’t use the word “terrorist” outside of quotes, chose for its lede, “U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein near his home town of Tikrit in a major coup for Washington’s beleaguered occupation force in Iraq.” (“I’m actually HERE and I don’t consider ANY of us ‘beleaguered,’” responded Major Sean Bannion in Baghdad.)
John Simpson of the BBC called the capture “a remarkable end to an extraordinary life.” Perhaps to British ears that doesn’t sound so bizarrely fawning, but there’s no mistaking the anti-Americanism of his bewildered colleague Guto Harri: “We all imagined that if the Americans got a tip off they would just bomb somewhere off the face of the earth.” Imagine how shaken Harri must be to learn that Saddam, not Bush, is the genocidal coward!
Meanwhile, in Iraq, the bloggers provide the best copy once again, having recently been filling out the front-of-the-book of conservative magazines (the current National Review’s “This Week” quotes The Mesopotamian, and the current Weekly Standard gives over its “Scrapbook” section to photos of an under-reported pro-democracy rally by Zeyad of Healing Iraq.) Perhaps the purest expression of joy comes from the blogger at Iraq at a Glance, to whom I’ll give the last words (ellipses in original):
“I don’t know what to say.. I am confused.. no … I am very happy.. I am very happy.. .. I am very happy.. .. I am very happy.. .. I am very happy.. .. I am very happy.. .. I am very happy.. This is the end of tyranny.. congratulations .. a great day.. for Iraqi and all the good people.. share us our great day.. I can’t express my feelings.. thanks to the coalition forces and all the honest people who helped in that great operation….thank you thank you thousand times..”
A man of faith in a godless age is hitting Americans where it hurts.
Mr. and Mrs. American Spectator Reader, let P.J. O’Rourke talk sense to your kids.
In Britain, defending your property can get you life.
The debacle of this president’s administration is both a cause and a symptom of the decline of American values. Unless Congress impeaches him, that decline will go on unchecked. An eminent jurist surveys the damage and assesses the chances for the recovery of our culture.
It won’t take long for conservatives to scratch this presidential wannabe off their 2008 scorecard.
The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it, makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so many people seem to be hostile to it?
Was the President done in by the economy, or by the politics of the economy?
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Elwood Holzworth's home actually is a two-story house built of sturdy Florida pine. It's been moved twice since it was constructed in downtown Vero Beach in 1910. With air-conditioning, Holzworth pays about $30 a month for electricity, even in the summer.
Hugh Willoughby also is credited with building the world's first seaplane, which he named the Pelican. Stuart researcher and writer Alice Luckhardt discusses the life of this remarkable man, who also made a historic trek across the Everglades in 1892.
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Six large technology and music companies have announced they have banded together in an attempt to bring some interoperability to the DRM (digital rights management) systems protecting digital content such as music and movies within the next nine months.
HP, Sony, Philips, Panasonic, Samsung, InterTrust and Twentieth Century Fox Film have joined the Coral Consortium, which will seek to establish a framework – or as the group describes it, a new technology layer – to allow consumers to play digital audio and video content regardless of the service provider or the device.
But notably absent from the list of Coral members are three of the market's biggest players: Microsoft, RealNetworks and Apple, which produces the iPod and iTunes Music Store, the market's dominant digital music player and online music service, respectively.
Though establishing a group seeking interoperability is an important first step, compatibility between DRM systems isn't going to happen any time soon, according to Mark Mulligan, senior analyst with Jupiter Research in London.
"What could Apple have to gain by making iPod and iTunes interoperable with other devices and content on the market? A symbiotic relationship is absolutely essential for Apple to sell its iPod device," Mulligan said.
Apple's FairPlay system does not support the DRM technology used by other services, like Microsoft's Windows Media Audio and RealNetworks' Helix technology. In July, against Apple's wishes and amid threats of legal action, RealNetworks released the beta version of its Harmony technology to enable users to play tracks on 70 music player devices, including iPod.
"On the supply side, there is widespread enthusiasm for interoperability," Mulligan said. "But there is resistance from Microsoft. I can understand that Microsoft and Apple don't want to concede any ground. Apple is very strong in the market with iPod."
Mulligan believes that a big consumer backlash will come against technology and music companies as the consumption of digital content becomes more mainstream. "I think such a backlash could come as early as the beginning of next year, when people start to try and use the iPods and other digital players they received at Christmas as presents, only to realise for the first time the constraints that exist. For example, that a lot of the music and video they already have can't be played on their new devices," he said.
The fact that Sony has joined Coral is a sign that changes are coming within the industry, Mulligan said. "Sony has traditionally been very closed, so this is quite a sea shift for them. But iPod has stolen a lot of Sony's traditional ground in the market, and Sony has realised that if they are going to creep towards the mainstream, they must have some interoperability."
When it comes to implementing interoperability, the industry will most likely begin relying on cross-licensing agreements rather than an industry standard, which will then be followed by firmware updates for devices, Mulligan said.
Until that process begins, groups like Coral are also pushing for industry standards.
Though Microsoft, Apple and RealNetworks have not yet joined Coral, the door is open for them to do so, said Caroline Kamerbeek of Philips' intellectual property and standards division. "Philips hopes that as many companies as possible will join Coral because it is important to have many partners. The key to driving the market forward is interoperability and it is very important to the end user," she said.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
When I was trying to decide how to commemorate Bridget on my blog this year, this quotation immediately came to mind. Last year I talked about how everyone who loved her shared the pain of losing her and that we should do our best to share with others about her life and not about her death.
One of the things I admired most about Bridget was that she wasn’t afraid to feel. Whether it was love for her brother or hatred for bitches on the soccer field, Bridget never shied away from wearing her heart on her sleeve – and it was something I really respected about her.
When I talk to other people about what it’s been like to lose her, the feelings come rushing back. I remember picking up my phone to hear Sarah Gaylord (now Collyer’s) voice on the other end of the line saying “Bridget was in an accident – she’s gone.” I essentially blacked out and kept repeating, “What do you mean, WHAT do you mean?”
I ran outside of the newspaper office on the Fisher campus, sat on the sidewalk, and lost it. I absolutely lost it.
The striking pain I felt that day is something that will always stay with me. It was the first time I lost someone and really understood what it meant. And it killed me to know that I had passed up an opportunity to see her only three days prior.
So many of us (myslef included) spend our lives trying to stifle our feelings. We get embarrassed if we cry in public, we hold back punches (okay, so maybe that isn’t such a bad thing), but the worst thing we do is we rarely tell anyone how they make us feel.
Bridget brought a lot of joy into my life. I was constantly in awe of her energy, her spirit, and her determination. Losing her brought a lot of pain, as it did for so many of us. And while it hurts, I don’t want the pain to stop. It means that she truly meant something to me and that she had an impact on my life.
Today, and moving forward, I want to allow myself to feel. And I have Bridget to thank for that.
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north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Book Now
Tourist Attractions :
The Mall, Viceregal lodge,
Himachal State Museum, Jakhoo Hill, Annandale, Glen, Summer Hill, Chadwick
Falls, Prospect Hill, Sanjauli, Temples, Daranghati Sanctuary.
Best Buys :
Wooden Articles, Toys, Kullu and Kinnauri
Shawls, Caps, Tibetan Carpets and other handicraft articles
Best Activities :
Trekking, Skiing, Golfing, Fishing
Nearby Tourist Destinations :
Chail, Kasauli, Kufri,
Solan, Nahan, Narkanda, Renuka Lake, Sarahan, Sirmour, Mashobra &
Craignano, Naldehra, Rampur, Sarol, Dharamshala.
When to Visit :
Any time of the year.
Shimla (also spelt as 'Simla') derives its name from goddess 'Shayamla
Devi', which is another manifestation of Goddess Kali. Shimla is one of the
few places in the world where an enormous amount of history and heritage has
been distilled into such a small place in so short a time. Shimla has been
blessed with all the natural bounties, one can think of. Dwelling on a
panoramic location, the hilly town is surrounded by green pastures and
spectacular cool hills accompanied by the structures made during the
colonial era create an aura, which is very different from other hill
Shimla retains its colonial heritage, with grand old buildings, among them
are the stately Viceregal Lodge, charming iron lamp posts and Anglo-Saxon
names. Apart from its natural beauty, Shimla is also famous for its
architectural buildings, wooden crafts and apples.
Major Tourist Attractions in Shimla Book Now
The Mall, packed with shops and eateries, is the centre of attraction of
the town. At the top end of the Mall is Scandal Point, a large open square
with a view of the town-a favourite rendezvous for visitors and the local
people. Overlooking it is the elegant Christ Church with its fine stained
glass windows. The labyrinth of Shimla's bazaars spill over the edge of the
Kufri is a tiny hill station located 19-kms from Shimla on the National
Highway No.22. It is famous for its trekking and hiking trails.
Adventure-seeking travelers throng Kufri in winters to enjoy skiing and
tobogganing along its snow-covered slopes. The Skiing season spreads between
November to February and the tourist inflow is at its peak during winters.
Housed in the Gothic splendour of the Viceregal Lodge is the Indian
Institute of Advanced Studies, India's premier academy for higher research.
Himachal State Museum
Very close to the Institute, in a colonial building set in spacious lawns,
is the museum. It has collections of Pahariminiatures, stone sculpture,
local handicrafts, textiles and embroidery.
Annandale Hill is Shimla's highest point, is rewarding for there are superb
views of the town and its surroundings. At the top is an old Hanuman temple
at a distance of 2 Km. A pretty picnic spot beyond Annandale is located in
the thickly Wooded Glen, beside a sparkling stream at a distance of 4 Km.
Hill is Shimla's highest point, is rewarding for there are superb views of
the town and its surroundings. At the top is an old Hanuman temple at a
distance of 2 Km.
The quiet and lovely summer Hill has secluded, shady walks and charming
views. Summer Hill is located on the Shimla - Kalka railway line at a
distance of 5 Km.
A 15 minute climb from Boileauganj, Prospect Hill is another favourite walk
and vantage point with breath taking views. There is a little temple to
Kamna Devi on the top of the hill.
Just beyond Summer Hill is the 67 m waterfall, cascading into a deep gorge.
The Falls are best seen after the monsoon.
Among the little temples dotted around Shimla is the ancient temple of
Bihargaon - a splendid example of traditional Himachal architecture. Just
short of Shimla are the temples of Tara Devi and Sankat Mochanb.
The Jubbarhatti airport is 23-km from Shimla and major
domestic airlines cater their services from here to Shimla. One can catch
direct flights from Delhi.
Shimla has a narrow gauge railway line on which toy train
runs from Kalka to Shimla. Kalka connects Shimla to other parts of the
Roads connect the capital city of Himachal with other places
in the state as well as other major towns and cities. There is regular bus
service from Delhi and Chandigarh as well as ordinary; semi deluxe, deluxe
and AC coaches for Shimla are also available.
The capital city and commercial hub of Himachal Pradesh has got some of the
finest options of accommodation. The options range from luxurious, luxurious
five star hotels, cottages and holiday resorts to economy class and budget
hotels and lodging rooms. Shimla Tour Package.
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Bletchley Park, Sherwood Drive,
No one has favorited this theater yet
Located at Bletchley Park, where during World War II, the German secret codes were broken by the Enigma machine, developed by computor genius Alan Turing.
For many years, some of the buildings have been the home of the Projected Pictures Trust, an organisation set up in 1978 which is dedicated to preserving cinema equipment and memorabilia. The Enigma Cinema is a focal point of the Museum of Cinema Technology, and is equipped to screen 16mm, 35mm and 70mm film. It is open on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays from 1:30pm.
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater
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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S DECISION to wage war in Libya without Congressional authorization is the worst abuse of power we've seen in his administration, and its most glaring hypocrisy: this is a man who said as Senator that "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." Though it is impossible to know now whether American involvement is going to be seen as a mistake, the pragmatic grounds for intervention are shaky too, especially for a country already waging two wars with an overstretched military and a huge budget deficit.
You'd think I'd be happy to have the most influential voice in movement conservatism as a fellow Obama skeptic on this matter. But observing Rush Limbaugh these last several weeks has confirmed my suspicion that he is a malign force even when he's speaking out against others engaged in questionable behavior. His commentary has misled his audience, his prejudices have helped to distract the conservative movement from the stance it ought to be taking, and even his defenders will have a difficult time explaining away his latest buffoonery. Probably they'll choose to ignore it instead.
That's a shame. President Obama's behavior is the appropriate focus of ire for all of us who care about constitutional governance and the separation of powers in matters of war. But Limbaugh's commentary on Libya is also noteworthy as an example of how talk radio's charlatan streak hurts the United States and the conservative movement at moments when a better version of itself could serve as effective opposition to abuses of power. Anyone on the right keen to address this pathology should seize this opportunity - Limbaugh often discredits himself, but seldom on a subject of such import, or as glaringly as below. Even some of his fans will agree.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE now know that several weeks before being told anything about the course he would take on Libya, President Obama was covertly authorizing the CIA to aid the Libyan rebels, something about which his administration shamefully misled Americans. The exact time line remains unclear.
We also know that 7 March 2011, Limbaugh raised the subject of the president and his approach to Libya. Here is the analysis he broadcast:
This guy's got a chip on his shoulder about the country. He doesn't believe in exceptionalism about America, doesn't believe in America's greatness. One of the reasons he's not doing anything in Libya with Khadafy -- has anybody got a clue? -- is he doesn't believe we have the moral authority to do anything other than mouth a bunch of words in the first place.On 10 March 2011, Limbaugh doubled down:
We had a caller say, "Why doesn't Obama stop the bullying in the Middle East?" I think it would help everybody to recall what Obama's opinion of this country is. He thinks this country has been a bully in the world. Look, you know it and I know it. He believes that this country is a bully. It's one of the reasons why he's not doing anything in Libya.Limbaugh is a man confident that his mistakes will drift off into the ether unnoticed. But this is a teachable moment for his listeners: every week on his show he leads you astray by making incorrect and ungrounded assertions about the interior lives of his ideological adversaries, and even when he turns out to be wrong other thinkers in the conservative movement are loath to call him on it.
On 15 March 2011, Limbaugh continued to misinform his audience. As Obama worked behind the scenes on behalf of the Libyan rebels, a course of action that eventually led the US to intervene militarily, the talk radio host remained ignorant, asserted that the fight against the Libyan leader was already lost, and insisted that the Obama administration was meeting with rebel leaders only to give them safe passage abroad:
Where is Obama? I'm still amazed at how utterly out of it Obama is. Where is he? Has he checked out, is he sick? Are his handlers busy in other parts of the world? Get this. Mrs. Clinton has met with Libyan rebel leaders in Paris. Now, it's safe to do that, I figure, now that the revolution against Khadafy is safely lost. Khadafy's probably gonna win this or has won, so now it's safe to go meet with the rebel leaders, probably trying to arrange a place for 'em to live, Paris, Miami, LA. LA looks a lot like Libya, certain parts of it. I've been there. I have seen it. You've got that going on. I mean it's baffling. His handlers are busy in other parts of the world and unable to give him direction? What's going on? He's acting like a child.On 17 March 2011, the talk radio host delved even deeper into faux-psychoanalysis:
Okay, so here's Libya. He doesn't even seem to care much less do anything about it, and people chalk it up to traditional explanations. "Well, he's looking at polling data, can't go in there because he criticized Bush, would look bad," all the standard conventional wisdom stuff of people trying to come up with the explanation. That's not it.A decent person would apologize for all this when it proved incorrect. With Limbaugh, it's like it never even happened. He respects neither himself nor his audience enough to correct the record. Or to maintain a decent amount of consistency: On 18 March 2011, newspapers reported that the previous day the US joined a UN Security Council Resolution that authorized military action against the Libyan regime. That same day, Limbaugh suddenly sounded a lot less hawkish:
It's very simple. He doesn't look at America as the solution. We're the problem. He doesn't think the United States has any moral authority in places like Libya. In fact, I would venture to say that if you get Obama to be honest, he'd tell you that there have been times in our history when we have been Libya. We're no different. He probably thinks, who are we telling Khadafy what to do? Who are we to stand up for people around the world who want freedom? Hell, the way Obama looks at it, we've been denying freedom to our own citizens for who knows how long. I'm serious. I think the explanations for Obama's inaction, indecision are quite simple. He just doesn't have the view of America as an exceptional place, as a solution to the world's problems. He just doesn't.
Now, back to the Middle East for just a second, 'cause when I offered my theorem here that could it be the rebels in Libya are in fact the Muslim Brotherhood? We know that they probably are supported by Al-Qaeda. The Iranians are involved in supporting rebels in other parts of the Middle East. My friend Andy McCarthy has raised this point. Let's say that these rebels do represent the Muslim Brotherhood or Iran or Al-Qaeda and they are engaged in trying to get rid of Khadafy. Are we doing their dirty work? Now, this is something that has to be considered. We had a very long, drawn out discussion yesterday about US national interests, why it takes incredibly deep, intelligent, responsible people to make these kinds of judgments. We can topple the regime in Libya if we want to, but what would follow Khadafy? If it's the Muslim Brotherhood, then make no mistake, we are advancing Sharia law, we are helping the advance of Sharia law, we are empowering Iran.As American involvement escalated, Limbaugh explained to his listeners that "All of this is nothing more than one of these intellectual exercises to excuse Obama, give him a pass. It really isn't war. You know, Democrat presidents don't like using the US military," he continued, failing to mention the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama's forays into Pakistan, President Clinton's military campaign in the Balkans, Vietnam, Korea, World War II, or World War I. "If the truth be known, liberals actually are happier when the US military loses. Liberals don't want military success. They don't think the world should be shaped that way. Of course, ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force. Liberals hate that. To them, this is a world governed by the aggressive use of speeches."
On the 28 March 2011 Limbaugh aired a new theory: "Here is why we're in Libya. There's the chart. This chart shows every energy and oil installation in Libya, offshore and on, every one of them is a European-owned entity. You got BP, you've got ExxonMobil." Who would've expected Limbaugh of all people to go all "no blood for oil"? But the next day, it wasn't about oil anymore, as hinted at by the segment's title, Barack Obama, Citizen of the World, Is Undoing America's Sovereignty. "I want you to understand what's happening, and that's why I'm telling you," he said. "Now, Obama is setting in place a new precedent all of a sudden, respecting our foreign policy and our military. And I don't mean he respects them. He's setting a new place, new terms, if you will: All roads first go through the UN."
The 30 March 2011 is as good a place as any to conclude. Said the talk radio host who earlier that month questioned Obama's love of country when he failed to intervene immediately on behalf of the Libyan rebels:
Dissent in wartime can be vital to the health of a democratic polity. On Libya, I am a dissenter myself, and inclined to believe that President Obama's actions make him as unfit for high office as his predecessor, who at least got Congressional authorization for his ill-conceived, poorly executed military adventure. Senator Rand Paul has called on his colleagues in Congress to reassert their power to declare or not declare war. Good on him. And some earnest critics of President Obama have echoed some of the arguments made by Limbaugh. As shown above, however, the talk radio host isn't guided in his commentary by any consistent principle, nor does he acknowledge obvious errors in analysis. Instead he blithely misinforms his audience about reality daily.
Obama and Mrs. Clinton are suggesting now that we make it official, that we start arming the rebels in Libya. They are suggesting that we arm Al-Qaeda - and yet, ladies and gentlemen, we, you and me, are the extremists. We are arming Al-Qaeda in Libya!
Then there is his impact on the country. I am having trouble finding just the right word for it. Perhaps Rich Lowry or Bill Kristol or Victor Davis Hanson or Jonah Goldberg or Jennifer Rubin could help me out. What would you call an influential entertainer who, during wartime, takes to the airwaves to misrepresent the views of America's Commander In Chief, questions his patriotism, accuse him of going to war for oil, and implies he is an extremist who is arming Al Qaeda? If his name was Michael Moore, and his target was President Bush, I'd wager a large sum you'd speak up, and grasp exactly why that sort of rhetoric was an unhealthy part of any ideological coalition built around it.
Who will speak up now?
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April 23, 2011
Equal Rights for PachamamaBy Jeannie DeAngelis
The nation of Bolivia "just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things" in the central South American country that it does for living breathing people. It seems the Andean country is standing for planetary parenthood and has plans to draft a "United Nations treaty giving 'Mother Earth' the same rights as humans."
Alpacas, chinchillas, bunchgrass, Amazon River anacondas, and most especially erythroxylon coca plants are rejoicing as Bolivia takes the lead in giving the earth dominion over men, instead of how it was originally planned when God made man dominant over creation. "In indigenous Andean culture, the Earth deity known as Pachamama is the centre of all life, and humans are considered equal to all other entities."
Was God mistaken when He said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all creatures that move along the ground"?
The Creator must have been, because Bolivia is hoping to urge the UN to "recognize the Earth as a living entity" that humans have sought to "dominate and exploit" to the point that the "well-being and existence of many beings" is now threatened. Does preserving the "well-being and existence of many beings" mean that if a Bolivian swats a malaria-infected mosquito, in lieu of a parasitic infection it could lead to jail time in San Pedro Prison?
Remember Aymara Indian Evo Morales? He's the trumpet-playing "indigenous leader" of the poorest nation in South America. President Morales was one of two people who demanded President Barry box up the Nobel Prize and ship it back to Oslo. The one without the bowler hat was Russian Liberal Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
Anyway, on behalf of Pachamama, good son Evo Morales distributed a pamphlet at the UN which listed Bolivia's "10 'commandments'... to 'save the planet' -- beginning with the need 'to end capitalism.'" It's no surprise that Bolivia's economy just ranks ahead of Haiti's as "one of the poorest in the Americas." Seems Evo is "an avowed socialist, his political ideology combines standard left-wing ideas with an emphasis on traditional Andean values and social organization," neither of which bode well for Bolivia's economic future.
Even so, the treaty's wording is still "evolving," which is not only apropos, but also downright Darwinian. In the end, the Pachamama Pact's "general structure is meant to mirror Bolivia's Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, which President Evo Morales enacted."
The "Mother Earth" document speaks of the country's natural resources as "blessings," and grants the Earth a series of specific rights that include "right to life" -- which gives new meaning to "Keep off the grass" -- as well as the right to "water and clean air; the right to repair livelihoods affected by human activities; and the right to be free from pollution."
One good thing: while 60% of the Bolivian population live below the poverty level, the Gaia agreement will establish "a Ministry of Mother Earth, and provide the planet with an ombudsman whose job is to hear nature's complaints as voiced by activist and other groups, including the state." That means at least one job will be created for a Bolivian version of Dr. Dolittle.
Bolivia's Ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solón Romero, expressed the following earth-loving opinion: "If you want to have balance, and you think that the only [entities] who have rights are humans or companies, then how can you reach balance? But if you recognize that nature too has rights, and [if you provide] legal forms to protect and preserve those rights, then you can achieve balance."
Before Solón goes dragging polluters and slug-salters into court, someone should inform him that plastic, automobiles, and insecticide are some of Bolivia's biggest imports.
Another dilemma also arises as Evo and Pablo rant on about plants rights, pollution, and saving the plant, because to make ends meet:
In an effort to balance the debate, Solón explained, "We're not saying, for example, you cannot eat meat because you know you are going to go against the rights of a cow," which is a steak rider, so to speak. "But when human activity develops at a certain scale" that you cause a species like stink bugs to disappear, "you are really altering the vital cycles of nature or of Mother Earth. Of course, you need a mine to extract iron or zinc, but there are limits."
The UN was set to began the Morales-initiated debate prior to International Mother Earth Day. Global environmentalist/activist Maude Barlow, who hails from Canada, supports Evo's Bolivian treaty, and planned to launch a book during the UN debate called Nature Has Rights, which is not to be confused with the as-yet-unpublished UN work Fetuses Do Not Have Rights.
In the future, an impoverished Bolivia hopes a UN sponsored Terra Mater treaty will usher in equal rights for the Rio Itenez Rice Rat, Bolivian Mountain Coconut, and 40 year-old pet rocks. As a result, the hope is that lesser beings will find their place at the breast of a "Mother Earth" who, at least in Bolivia, appears to be cocaine-addicted and sporting a white powdered nose.
With that in mind, and based on Bolivia's indigenous President Morales' skewed sense of priorities, maybe he would better serve the planet if from now on, instead of lobbying on behalf of Mother Earth, he just concentrated on keeping track of disingenuous Nobel Peace Prize winners.
Author's content: www.jeannie-ology.com
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Washington, DC (written by Richard Wolf, Mary Beth Marklein/USA Today) -- The use of racial preferences in university admissions appears to be in jeopardy -- at least at the University of Texas, if not nationwide.
With the author of the last landmark affirmative action case, retired justice Sandra Day O'Connor, seated in the front row, the Supreme Court openly struggled Wednesday with this central question: How much racial favoritism is enough?
Programs used by university admissions offices nationwide to achieve diversity hung in the balance as the court took up the case of Fisher v. University of Texas, the latest in a long string of affirmative action cases that until now have upheld the limited use of race in college admissions.
As the justices peppered questions at lawyers for the university and for Abigail Fisher, the 22-year-old Texan who says she was denied admission to the school's flagship campus in Austin because she was white, it became clear they were searching for a bright line that does not exist.
The court's conservatives - who may command five votes - appeared dissatisfied with the current standard of seeking a "critical mass" of minority students. They wondered whether universities can tip the balance between two equally qualified students toward the one who is black.
"I thought that the whole point is that sometimes race has to be a tiebreaker," said Justice Anthony Kennedy, the potential swing vote on the court and an opponent of racial preferences in the past.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito expressed skepticism with Texas' effort to achieve diversity even in small classrooms, where Gregory Garre, the university's lawyer, said minority students feel "shocking isolation."
"What's the logical endpoint?" Roberts asked. "When will I know that you've reached a critical mass?"
The lawyers seemed particularly focused on Justice Anthony Kennedy, who dissented from O'Connor's 2003 opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan case that upheld a limited use of racial preferences. That case remains the law of the land, but Kennedy and the other four conservative justices, including Clarence Thomas, could overrule it in this case.
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, defending the university's use of affirmative action, directed much of his argument directly to Kennedy. "There's no quota" in the university's use of racial preferences, Verrilli said. "Everyone competes against everyone else."
But Kennedy said the university's effort to get students of varying backgrounds, even within races and ethnic groups, shows that it's putting race first. "You want underprivileged of a certain race and privileged of a certain race," Kennedy said. "So that's race."
The case hearkens back to 1950, when the Supreme Court backed Heman Sweatt's effort to be enrolled at the University of Texas. Four years later came the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education outlawing public school segregation.
"The issue back then was about excluding African Americans, and we were on the wrong side of history," said university President Bill Powers. "The University of Texas lost that case, but the nation won."
Attorneys for the university argued that race is never considered alone, only as part of a holistic approach that takes a variety of factors into consideration. They admitted, however, that one goal is to increase the percentage of black students on campus.
The school uses a "Top 10 Percent" plan through which students in the top 10% of their high school graduating classes are automatically admitted to the state university of their choice. That has helped schools boost racial diversity, primarily because most of the state's public high schools are segregated by race and ethnicity.
But because that does not create a "critical mass" of racial groups, the school also considers race in filling out the rest of each year's class. As a result of that policy, enacted after the Michigan decision, black enrollment grew only slightly, from 4% to about 6%. But Fisher's attorney, Bert Rein, noted nearly 40% of students are minorities, about half of them Asian Americans.
"What we are concerned about ... is universities like UT and many others have read (the Michigan decision) to be 'green light, use race, no endpoint,'" Rein said. "That unchecked use of race ... needs to be corralled."
Conservatives who have backed Fisher's case are hoping the court won't just throw out Texas' system but overrule the 2003 decision - in essence, eliminating racial preferences in college admissions. That would force both public and private schools to change the way they give preferences to blacks and other minorities whom they consider underrepresented on their campuses.
Proponents of affirmative action - including many University of Texas students who traveled to Washington for a rally outside court Wednesday - hope the school's program will be upheld. The court also could strike it down in a more narrow fashion that does not affect other schools.
The high court has taken a turn to the right since the Michigan case was decided. Now, five justices are on record opposing the practice, with Kennedy considered the crucial fifth vote.
Justice Elena Kagan has recused herself from the case, presumably because she was involved with it while serving as solicitor general in 2009-10.
If the Texas plan is declared unconstitutional, Marie Bigham, director of college counseling at the highly diverse Greenhill School in the Dallas suburb of Addison, predicts a chilling effect.
"My students of color, I worry they're going to say that 'these places don't value what I bring,' " she said. White students, too, will look elsewhere, she said.
"When my students are shopping for colleges, (diversity) is an important data point for them," Bigham said. "We're going to lose out on a lot of great kids."
Outside court, Fisher spoke just one sentence to reporters before turning questions over to Rein. "I hope the court realizes that a student's race and ethnicity should not be considered" in admissions, she said.
Rein praised Fisher, who has since graduated from Louisiana State University, for having the "courage and perseverance to stand up for what was right." He said she will continue to suffer the consequences of not having a degree from Texas' top public university.
"It is critical to be a University of Texas graduate in Texas," he said. "She can't have that back."
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Baltimore Catechism #3
Q. 1257. What is the fourth Commandment?
A. The fourth Commandment is: Honor thy father and thy mother.
Q. 1258. What does the word "honor" in this commandment include?
A. The word "honor" in this commandment includes the doing of everything necessary for our parents' spiritual and temporal welfare, the showing of proper respect, and the fulfillment of all our duties to them.
Q. 1259. What are we commanded by the fourth Commandment?
A. We are commanded by the fourth Commandment to honor, love and obey our parents in all that is not sin.
Q. 1260. Why should we refuse to obey parents or superiors who command us to sin?
A. We should refuse to obey parents or superiors who command us to sin because they are not then acting with God's authority, but contrary to it and in violation of His laws.
Q. 1261. Are we bound to honor and obey others than our parents?
A. We are also bound to honor and obey our bishops, pastors, magistrates, teachers, and other lawful superiors.
Q. 1262. Who are meant by magistrates?
A. By magistrates are meant all officials of whatever rank who have a lawful right to rule over us and our temporal possessions or affairs.
Q. 1263. Who are meant by lawful superiors?
A. By lawful superiors are meant all persons to whom we are in any way subject, such as employers or others under whose authority we live or work.
Q. 1264. What is the duty of servants or workmen to their employers?
A. The duty of servants or workmen to their employers is to serve them faithfully and honestly, according to their agreement, and to guard against injuring their property or reputation.
Q. 1265. Have parents and superiors any duties toward those who are under their charge?
A. It is the duty of parents and superiors to take good care of all under their charge and give them proper direction and example.
Q. 1266. If parents or superiors neglect their duty or abuse their authority in any particular, should we follow their direction and example in that particular?
A. If parents or superiors neglect their duty or abuse their authority in any particular we should not follow their direction or example in that particular, but follow the dictates of our conscience in the performance of our duty.
Q. 1267. What is the duty of employers to their servants or workmen?
A. The duty of employers to their servants or workmen is to see that they are kindly and fairly treated and provided for, according to their agreement, and that they are justly paid their wages at the proper time.
Q. 1268. What is forbidden by the fourth Commandment?
A. The fourth Commandment forbids all disobedience, contempt, and stubbornness towards our parents or lawful superiors.
Q. 1269. What is meant by contempt and stubbornness?
A. By contempt is meant willful disrespect for lawful authority, and by stubbornness is meant willful determination not to yield to lawful authority.
Q. 1270. What is the fifth Commandment?
A. The fifth Commandment is: Thou shalt not kill.
Q. 1271. What killing does this commandment forbid?
A. This commandment forbids the killing only of human beings.
Q. 1272. How do we know that this commandment forbids the killing only of human beings?
A. We know that this commandment forbids the killing only of human beings because, after giving this commandment, God commanded that animals be killed for sacrifice in the temple of Jerusalem, and God never contradicts Himself.
Q. 1273. What are we commanded by the fifth Commandment?
A. We are commanded by the fifth Commandment to live in peace and union with our neighbor, to respect his rights, to seek his spiritual and bodily welfare, and to take proper care of our own life and health.
Q. 1274. What sin is it to destroy one's own life, or commit suicide, as this act is called?
A. It is a mortal sin to destroy one's own life or commit suicide, as this act is called, and persons who willfully and knowingly commit such an act die in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of Christian burial. It is also wrong to expose one's self unnecessarily to the danger of death by rash or foolhardy feats of daring.
Q. 1275. Is it ever lawful for any cause to deliberately and intentionally take away the life of an innocent person?
A. It is never lawful for any cause to deliberately and intentionally take away the life of an innocent person. Such deeds are always murder, and can never be excused for any reason, however important or necessary.
Q. 1276. Under what circumstances may human life be lawfully taken?
A. Human life may be lawfully taken:
1. In self-defense, when we are unjustly attacked and have no other means of saving our own lives;
2. In a just war, when the safety or rights of the nation require it;
3. By the lawful execution of a criminal, fairly tried and found guilty of a crime punishable by death when the preservation of law and order and the good of the community require such execution.
Q. 1277. What is forbidden by the fifth Commandment?
A. The fifth Commandment forbids all willful murder, fighting, anger, hatred, revenge, and bad example.
Q. 1278. Can the fifth commandment be broken by giving scandal or bad example and by inducing others to sin?
A. The fifth commandment can be broken by giving scandal or bad example and inducing others to sin, because such acts may destroy the life of the soul by leading it into mortal sin.
Q. 1279. What is scandal?
A. Scandal is any sinful word, deed or omission that disposes others to sin, or lessens their respect for God and holy religion.
Q. 1280. Why are fighting, anger, hatred and revenge forbidden by the fifth commandment?
A. Fighting, anger, hatred and revenge are forbidden by the fifth commandment because they are sinful in themselves and may lead to murder. The commandments forbid not only whatever violates them, but also whatever may lead to their violation.
Q. 1281. What is the sixth Commandment?
A. The sixth Commandment is: Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Q. 1282. What are we commanded by the sixth Commandment?
A. We are commanded by the sixth Commandment to be pure in thought and modest in all our looks, words, and actions.
Q. 1283. It is a sin to listen to immodest conversation, songs or jokes?
A. It is a sin to listen to immodest conversation, songs or jokes when we can avoid it, or to show in any way that we take pleasure in such things.
Q. 1284. What is forbidden by the sixth Commandment?
A. The sixth Commandment forbids all unchaste freedom with another's wife or husband; also all immodesty with ourselves or others in looks, dress, words, and actions.
Q. 1285. Why are sins of impurity the most dangerous?
A. Sins of impurity are the most dangerous:
1. Because they have the most numerous temptations;
2. Because, if deliberate, they are always mortal, and
3. Because, more than other sins, they lead to the loss of faith.
Q. 1286. Does the sixth Commandment forbid the reading of bad and immodest books and newspapers?
A. The sixth Commandment does forbid the reading of bad and immodest books and newspapers.
Q. 1287. What should be done with immodest book and newspapers?
A. Immodest books and newspapers should be destroyed as soon as possible, and if we cannot destroy them ourselves we should induce their owners to do so.
Q. 1288. What books does the Church consider bad?
A. The Church considers bad all books containing teaching contrary to faith or morals, or that willfully misrepresent Catholic doctrine and practice.
Q. 1289. What places are dangerous to the virtue of purity?
A. Indecent theaters and similar places of amusement are dangerous to the virtue of purity, because their entertainments are frequently intended to suggest immodest things.
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Nearly 2,200 of San Francisco's public school students are homeless, enough to fill five or six elementary schools or an entire high school.
That's nearly 400 more homeless schoolchildren than a year ago.
The spike reflects an alarming increase in families across the city sleeping in cars, shelters, cramped single-occupancy hotel rooms or a series of couches or floors. Some are occasionally on the streets.
As of late last week, 267 families - a record number - were on the waiting list for one of 59 rooms in San Francisco's three city-funded shelters that allow families to stay for months at a time. That's triple the number of previous years.
On Tuesday, several of those homeless families gathered on the steps of City Hall to demand a meeting with Mayor Ed Lee. They want him to consider opening up vacant public housing units to meet the demand.
"From our perspective, we are facing a crisis of homelessness of families in San Francisco," said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.
As things stand, those 267 families will have to wait for the rooms for at least seven months, and even then they would get to stay just three to six months, said Elizabeth Ancker, assistant program director for Compass Connecting Point, which helps manage shelter placement.
As a last resort for families, overnight sheltersare filling up nightly, Ancker said.
Yet there are hundreds of vacant public housing units that could be opened up, Friedenbach said Tuesday on the steps of City Hall.
"Those units are sitting empty while families are suffering," she said.
City officials downplayed the situation, noting that none of the families on the shelter wait list are out on the streets.
The Bethel African Methodist Church, for example, opens up gymnasium floor space for up to 50 families during the winter. About 30 families are currently taking advantage of that, said Trent Rhorer, director of the city's Human Services Agency.
"Seeing an increased need for economic support and shelter among families who are currently residing in housing is certainly troubling," Rhorer said. "But I wouldn't call it an emergency or crisis situation that would demand opening a new shelter.
"If we had hundreds of families sleeping on the street and exposed to the elements, yeah, that's a crisis."
Showing the strain
Celia Colon, 24, a single mother, has been homeless for a year and is thankful she never had to sleep on the street. She and her two daughters, ages 5 years and 10 months, instead bounced from one overnight shelter to another in Oakland and San Francisco
Last week, they finally landed a room at the city's Compass Family Shelter.
Still, the wear and tear on her daughter Sofia Ayala, a kindergartner on scholarship at Holy Family Day Home, is evident.
She struggles with attention issues and occasionally screams in class. Sofia and her mom get therapy and other support to address the stress caused by their situation, said Colon.
"Sometimes (Sofia) says, 'Don't buy me toys, buy me a house,' " the young mother said.
Colon, who became homeless late last year to escape domestic violence and multiple burglaries at her Bayview apartment, said she hopes to get into public housing before her time runs out in the shelter.
Friedenbach said she has been trying to meet with the mayor for six weeks, just for a 30-minute conversation to discuss options for the homeless families, but she has been rebuffed.
With a dozen or so homeless families behind her, she knocked on Lee's City Hall door on Tuesday to demand a meeting.
Joaquin Torres, the mayor's director of Neighborhood Services, stepped outside Room 200, said the mayor was out, and offered to meet with the families instead - an offer they rejected.
Torres declined to set up a meeting with the mayor, but said if they met with him, he could pass their concerns and their request on to Lee.
After 15 minutes, Friedenbach and the families vowed to return, perhaps with tents.
An invisible problem
For too long, Friedenbach said, family homelessness has been an invisible problem exacerbated by an inability to accurately count how many there are. A recent city homeless count identified 95 families, well shy of reality.
The school district's count is one of the most accurate, although it doesn't include children like Sofia who are in subsidized private schools or who aren't in school yet.
All told, the homeless families comprise more than 5,000 parents and children, Friedenbach said.
"It's certainly not getting better," she said. "We could actually populate a small town with the number of homeless families in San Francisco."
Chronicle staff writer Heather Knight contributed to this story. E-mail Jill Tucker at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia has revised up its estimates for the amount it will invest in power projects over the next decade to more than 400 billion Saudi riyals ($106.6 billion) from 300 billion, its deputy electricity minister said.
“Some time (ago) we announced 300 billion (riyals) and we increased it due to the latest developments especially in the housing sector and also the new infrastructure funded by the government,” Saleh al-Awaji told Reuters at a water and power conference in Dammam in Saudi Arabia on Monday.
The chief executive of Saudi Electricity Co (SEC)told Reuters last year that the Gulf’s largest utility may change its 300 billion riyals ($80 billion) 10-year investment plan as it speeds up delivery of its power projects to meet state infrastructure demands.
The funds would be used to boost capacity to at least 80,000 megawatts by 2020 from an installed capacity of 50,000 megawatts, said Awaji, who is also the chairman of SEC.
“We are experiencing a growth (in demand) of 8 percent in the last ten years and we are expecting to maintain almost the same level for the next ten years, no doubt that at the end of the decade we are expecting to reduce the demand due to the intensive efforts for improving efficiency.”
Awaji added that in 2022, SEC needed to have an installed capacity of 120 gigawatt but that depends on whether growth rates remain the same.
Saudi Electricity’s executive director for generation operations at SEC in the Eastern Region, Ayesh al-Shemari, said at the same conference that the power load is expected to reach 87,000 MW by 2021 while installed capacity is seen at 100,000 MW.
Last week, the body responsible for planning the Saudi energy mix said Saudi Arabia should install around 41 gigawatts of solar power over the next 20 years, more than any country has managed so far, as well as around 17 GW of nuclear capacity. The oil producer wants a more diversified energy mix to cut heavy domestic consumption.
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Boosting your retirement plan contributions
By Jason Alderman
For the first time since 2009, the IRS has increased the amount people can contribute to their 401(k) and other defined contribution plans. Effective January 1, 2012, the maximum annual contribution grows by $500 to $17,000, thanks to an increase in the Department of Labor's Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U), a common measure of inflation the IRS uses to determine whether or not to increase dozens of tax-related numbers from year to year.
That's good news for people who want to boost their tax-advantaged retirement savings. Here's an overview of what will and won't change in 2012 with the more common retirement savings plans:
Defined contribution plans. In addition to increasing the maximum allowable annual contribution to 401(k), 403(b), 457(b) and federal Thrift Savings plans to $17,000, these additional factors apply:
- People over 50 can also make an additional $5,500 in catch-up contributions (unchanged from 2011).
- The annual limit for combined employee and employer contributions increased by $1,000 to $50,000.
- Because your plan may limit the percentage of pay you can contribute, your maximum contribution may actually be less. (For example, if the maximum contribution is 10 percent of pay and you earn $50,000, you could only contribute $5,000.)
- Company-matching contributions do not count toward your maximum contribution.
Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). The maximum annual contribution to IRAs remains unchanged at $5,000 (plus an additional $1,000 if 50 or older). Maximum contributions to traditional IRAs are not impacted by personal income, but if your modified adjusted gross income (AGI) exceeds certain limits, the maximum you can contribute to a Roth IRA gradually phases out:
- For singles/heads of households the phase-out range is $110,000 to $125,000 (up from $107,000 to $122,000 in 2011). Above $125,000, you cannot contribute to a Roth.
- For married couples filing jointly, it's $173,000 to $183,000 (up from $169,000 to $179,000 in 2011).
Keep in mind these rules for deducting IRA contributions on your federal tax return:
- If you're single, a head of household, a qualifying widow(er) or married and neither spouse is covered by an employer-provided retirement plan you can deduct the full IRA contribution, regardless of income.
- If you are covered by an employer plan and are single or a head of household, the tax deduction phases out for AGI between $58,000 and $68,000 (up from $56,000 to $66,000 in 2011); if married and filing jointly, the phase-out range is $92,000 to $112,000 (up from $90,000 to $110,000 in 2011).
- If you're married and aren't covered by an employer plan but your spouse is, the IRA deduction is phased out if your combined AGI is between $173,000 and $183,000 (up from $169,000 to $179,000 in 2011).
- For more details, read IRS Publication 590 at www.irs.gov.
Retirement Saver' Tax Credit: As an incentive to help low- and moderate-income workers save for retirement through an IRA or company-sponsored plan, many are eligible for a Retirement Savers' Tax Credit of up to $1,000 ($2,000 if filing jointly). This credit lowers your tax bill, dollar for dollar, in addition to any other tax deduction you already receive for your contribution.
Qualifying income ceiling limits for the Retirement Savers' Tax Credit increased in 2011 to $57,500 for joint filers, $43,125 for heads of household, and $28,750 for singles or married persons filing separately. Consult IRS Form 8880 for more information.
This article is intended to provide general information and should not be considered legal, tax or financial advice. It's always a good idea to consult a tax or financial advisor for specific information on how certain laws apply to your situation and about your individual financial situation.<< Back to Practical Money Matters
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ISAF Data Show Night Raids Killed over 1,500 Afghan Civilians
U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) killed well over 1,500 civilians in night raids in less than 10 months in 2010 and early 2011, analysis of official statistics on the raids released by the U.S.-NATO command reveals.
That number would make U.S. night raids by far the largest cause of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan. The report by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on civilian casualties in 2010 had said the use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) by insurgents was the leading cause of civilian deaths, with 904.
Except for a relatively few women and children killed by accident, the civilians who died in the raids were all adult males who were counted as insurgents in press releases and official data released by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
The data on night raids, which were given to selected news media, cover three distinct 90-day night raid campaigns from May through July 2010, early August to early November, and mid-November to mid- February. The combined totals for the three periods indicate that a minimum of 2,599 rank and file insurgents were killed and an additional 723 "leaders" killed or captured in raids. [See Sidebar].
Assuming conservatively that one-third of the alleged leaders were killed, the total number of alleged insurgents killed in the raids was 2,844.
SOF night raids during the 10-month period totaled 6,282, according to the same ISAF data.
A third crucial statistic, repeated frequently by U.S and NATO officials in 2010 and 2011, is that shots were fired by SOF units in only 20 percent of night raids.
A U.S. military source who has been briefed on SOF operation confirmed to IPS what has been generally known among outside observers – that anytime shots are fired by SOF troops in a night raid, someone is killed.
If shots were fired in 20 percent of the 6,282 raids, it means that 2,844 were killed in 1,256 raids.
With very rare exceptions, night raids target only individuals rather than groups. They are carried out at night because they are aimed at catching the individual at home asleep and therefore taken completely by surprise.
Therefore, a minimum of 1,588 people (2,844 total killed minus the 1,256 targets in the lethal raids) were killed in the raids even though they weren't targeted.
Not every one of the untargeted individuals killed in night raids was a noncombatant civilian. But the socio-cultural and physical setting of the raids guarantees that the percentage of civilians in that total is extremely high.
Within the Afghan compounds that are the physical targets of U.S. night raids live extended family households that normally include not only the male head of family and his wife, but his brothers, sons and cousins and their families.
In Afghanistan, every adult Pashtun male has a weapon in his home, and is obliged by the ancient code of conduct called "Pashtunwali" to defend his home, his family and his friends against armed intruders. In a typical extended family compound, several males have weapons.
As a result, the non-targeted civilians killed in night raids have invariably been either close relatives or neighbours who have come out to assist against an armed assault.
SOF commanders and the command and staff of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have essentially denied all civilian deaths in night raids, except for women and children, by counting all adult males killed in raids as insurgents.
That ISAF policy has been confirmed to IPS by a U.S. military source briefed on the operational aspects of the raids.
ISAF has counted adult dead in raids as insurgents even when the victims held prominent positions in the Afghan government, as was the case in the Gardez night raid of Feb. 12, 2010.
In that raid, two men who were shot dead in the targeted compound by an SOF unit when they came out of their dwellings with Kalashnikov rifles turned out to have been a district prosecutor and a local police chief. Nevertheless, ISAF reported in its press release on the raid that two insurgents had been killed.
The killing of family members and neighbours who responded to night raids with weapons was already a major issue within the U.S. mission to Afghanistan as early as 2008, according to Matthew Hoh, who was the senior U.S. civilian official in Zabul province in 2009.
"Pashtunwali was causing serious problems for us in the context of night raids," Hoh told IPS. "It was raised as a key issue in our training even before I went to Afghanistan."
The problem had become so prevalent by early 2010 that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal referred to it explicitly in his early 2010 directive on night raids, parts of which were released to the public by ISAF Mar. 5, 2010.
McChrystal noted that the Afghan adult male had been "conditioned to respond aggressively in defense of his home and his guests whenever he perceives his home or honor threatened. In a similar situation most of us would do the same."
McChrystal expressed regret that these "[i]nstinctive responses by an Afghan man to defend his home and family are sometimes interpreted as insurgent acts, with tragic results."
Although a large proportion of those targeted in the estimated 1,256 lethal raids were undoubtedly Taliban insurgents, a very substantial proportion were civilians.
Some were targeted after malicious tips by tribal and personal enemies. Others fell victim to a targeting system that is overwhelmingly dependent on electronic intelligence. Phone calls to a known insurgent are regarded as a basis for adding a cell phone number to the "kill/capture list".
One detainee picked up in a night raid earlier this year was told by his interrogator that it was because he had made phone calls to an insurgent, IPS learned from a friend of the detainee's family.
Hoh, who was briefed on the list, called the Joint Priority Effects List (JPEL) in 2009, told this writer that a large proportion of the targets on the list were not identifiable individuals at all, but mobile phone numbers.
But in the Pashtun zones of Afghanistan, contacts with Taliban commanders and other Taliban figures are nearly universal, according to Michael Semple, former deputy EU representative in Afghanistan and a leading specialist on the Afghan insurgency.
In addition, SOF commanders have begun consciously targeting individuals who were not believed to be insurgents but who were believed to have provided moral or material support, or to have intelligence information about them.
That targeting shift, acknowledged by military officials to the authors of a recent study by the Open Society Foundations and The Liaison Office, was reflected in an 82-percent increase in the number of people seized in raids and detained briefly during the August- November campaign, compared with the May-July campaign.
Those detainees were also counted as insurgents in the data released to the news media, despite the fact that up to 90 percent of them were released as civilians within days or months, as IPS reported last June.
Some of those targeted civilians were killed in raids when they appeared to challenge the SOF intruders, adding to the 1,588 non-targeted individuals killed in the raids. However, estimating the additional toll of civilians is impossible.
The ISAF Public Affairs Officer for SOF issues and officials responsible for civilian casualties monitoring at the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan did not respond to requests for comment on this article.
Afghan human rights officials and foreign observers have suggested that fewer civilian deaths have occurred in night raids with the increasing use of the so-called "soft knock", in which Afghan personnel are used to announce the presence of the raiding party with a loudspeaker before entry into the house.
The toll of civilians in more recent 90-day periods may well have been reduced in 2011 compared with a year earlier, as suggested by smaller numbers of alleged insurgents said to have been killed over the course of the three campaigns.
But night raids clearly remain the overwhelmingly primary – though still unacknowledged – cause of civilian deaths in the war.
Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest book, "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam", was published in 2006.
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Before you begin to monitor your blood pressure at home, it's important to know that differences between left-arm and right-arm (interarm) blood pressure are common. Several studies have been done to determine what is a ‘normal’ variation between right and left arm. In general, any difference of 10 mm Hg or less is considered normal and not a cause for concern.
Since some studies showed that the average interarm systolic blood pressure difference was significantly greater in patients with known coronary artery disease, it’s a good idea to discuss differences higher than 10 mm Hg with your doctor.
When you have your blood pressure taken at the doctor’s office for the first time, it’s recommended that it be taken in both arms. But if you’re measuring your blood pressure at home, readings are often more easily taken in the non-dominant arm. If your home blood pressure readings are different from those taken in the doctor’s office, be sure to discuss this with your healthcare professional.
Many factors affect blood pressure. The fact that there are differences in right and left arm readings emphasizes the importance of measuring blood pressure in both arms initially to prevent the misdiagnosis of high blood pressure. If one arm consistently has higher blood pressure than the other, that arm should be used to measure your blood pressure.
- Make sure the cuff fits.
Measure around your upper arm and choose a monitor that comes with the correct size cuff.
- Be still.
Don't smoke, drink caffeinated beverages or exercise within the 30 minutes before measuring your blood pressure.
- Sit correctly.
Sit with your back straight and supported (on a dining chair, for example, rather than a sofa). Your feet should be flat on the floor; don't cross your legs. Your arm should be supported on a flat surface (such as a table) with the upper arm at heart level. Make sure the middle of the cuff is placed directly above the eye of the elbow. Check your monitor's instructions for an illustration or have your healthcare provider show you how.
- Take multiple readings.
Each time you measure, take two or three readings one minute apart and record all the results.
- Measure at the same time daily.
It's important to take the readings at the same time each day, such as morning and evening, or as your healthcare professional recommends.
- Accurately record all your results.
Record all of your readings, including the date and time taken. Share your blood pressure records with your healthcare team. Some monitors have built-in memory to store your readings; if yours does, take it with you to your appointments. Some monitors may also allow you to upload your readings to a secure Web site after you register your profile.
- Understand the readings.
Optimal blood pressure is less than 120/80 mm Hg (systolic pressure is 120 AND diastolic pressure is less than 80). Read Understanding Blood Pressure Readings to learn more about what the numbers mean.
- Consult your healthcare professional if you get several high readings.
A single high reading of blood pressure is not an immediate cause for alarm. However, if you get a high reading, take your blood pressure several more times and consult your healthcare professional to make sure you (or your monitor) don't have a problem. When blood pressure reaches a systolic (top number) of 180 or higher OR diastolic (bottom number) of 110 or higher, emergency medical treatment is required for hypertensive crisis.
- Watch the Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Video for more helpful information.
- Print the ABCDs of Blood Pressure Measurement as a helpful reminder.
Heart360 allows you to track your blood pressure and the steps you're taking to manage it online. You can print your readings to take or fax to your doctor. This online tool also works on Microsoft's Health Vault personal health record storage system, which allows you to share your data with your doctor electronically. Or, if you prefer to record your BP readings on paper, download and print our Blood Pressure Tracker.
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Jennifer Velásquez, Coordinator of Teen Services for the San Antonio Public Library System (TX), will offer practical strategies for giving teens the lead in developing high-appeal collections and services.
The Indianapolis Public Library has developed a hands on technology lab for early learners to develop literacy skills in a technology based environment. The Digital Littles lab contains technology tools such as cameras, video cameras, and laptops that assist librarians in developing storytimes and other activities. The mobile lab is designed to travel mostly to library locations, but can also be transported to schools, day cares, and other organizations. The lab is the library’s way of reaching out to the community and making technology more accessible.
Using the Personal Digital Archiving Day Kit to Connect with Your Community
For more than thirty years, hundreds of libraries across the country have engaged their communities by offering “Let’s Talk About It” reading and discussion programs. Find out how from an LTAI state-level coordinator and twenty-four-year veteran! Webinar attendees will be offered an overview of the model, tips for recruiting and working with a scholar, and access to an archive of ready-to-present program content on more than thirty themes. This session will also provide application information for an upcoming round of cash programming grants.
Learn how to plan engaging programs about Islamic culture and submit a successful proposal for the ALA/NEH collection development grant, the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys.
“Passing the Community Engagement Baton: A Conversation with ALA President Molly Raphael and ALA President-elect Maureen Sullivan,” hosted by ALA 2013-2014 ALA President Barbara Stripling, features an unprecedented conversation among ALA leadership, focusing on the transition of presidential initiatives and a continued focus on civic engagement. It takes place on Friday, June 8 at 11:30 a.m. Central time.
Learn how to become more comfortable providing readers' advisory (RA) services. Through practice sessions, learn how to use RA tools, craft annotations, read in genres, articulate appeal, and experiment with methods to offer RA services. Readers' Advisory 101 is tailored for support staff, library technicians, newly hired reference librarians, and those librarians who want to brush up on their skills. The topics covered are introductory in nature. Class segments are geared to cover issues of interest to staff in all types of libraries.
Tumblr is a free, micro-blog hosting platform that allows users to easily interact with each other by sharing different types of multimedia. In this webinar, Erin Shea, Head of Adult Programming at Darien (Conn.) Library, will demonstrate how to use tumblr to network with publishers, bookstores, other library professionals, and authors to put your library on the map and share and collaborate with like-minded tumblr users.
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Pikes Peak SkyCam Information
Looking for the SkyCam?
The Pikes Peak SkyCam is here. This page explains the purpose of the SkyCam and how it works.
There are a lot of Cams out there and quite a few Pikes Peak Cams. One of the things that inspires me the most about Pikes Peak is its
cloud formations and the light shows that often accompany them. Because some of the other Peak Cams do such an excellent job of viewing the Peak
itself the SkyCam uses a wider angled lens so that more of the sky surrounding the Peak can be seen. This is where the Sky in SkyCam comes from!
Setting up a Cam is a very simple process. However since the SkyCam is about 80 feet away from the computer a typical USB
Cam could not be used since they do not allow for very long cable runs. The WinCam
can be up to 200 feet away using inexpensive cat 5 cable and much farther away with a relatively inexpensive adapter. Although outdoor enclosures
are sold for the WinCam I opted to build an enclosure out of a small garbage can. It was simply turned upside down and silicon was used to affix
an inexpensive UV filter over the small hole cut into the can for the Cam lens. The sunshield was made out of aluminum dryer duct. Except for a few weeks out of the year it keeps sunrays from directly reaching the lens which causes bad reflections. Nothing can be done to save the image when the sun is in direct view of the Cam however.
Uploading the Images
This is the easy part:-) The WinCam comes with software that allows you to set your FTP schedule. As you can see from the screen shot there are a lot of options.
The software was set to upload the photos 2 minutes before the page would be refreshing. 2 minutes was used because that is enough time for
the WinCam to take the picture, process the image, and FTP it to the website. I added a 2 to the Time Offset field so that the timestamp reads correcly.
Displaying the images
All that was left was addressing a display issue that seems common on many Cam pages which is that they refresh based on a timer
that has nothing to do with when the image is actually updated. That is no big deal if the image is updated often. However many outdoor Cams, including
the SkyCam, update only after 10 to 30 minutes or even longer. If the timer for the refresh starts when you first visit the
page the page may refresh a long time before or after the image is updated. This also makes figuring out when the
next real image update will occur very hard, especially if the incorrect timer is displayed as it often is. In fact, they are usually displayed
as a countdown to next image timer but after waiting out the countdown it is often a bummer to find out that it was really just a countdown
to a refresh that displays the same image:-(
What time is it? Part 1
To address the timer issue the time that the page is being viewed is needed so it can then be calculated when to do a refresh. I started with this
var now = new Date();
This returns the time on the users computer. Another line of code is used to account for when people look at the SkyCam while in another
var PcOffset = now.getTimezoneOffset()/60;
From there it is pretty straight forward to check the zone adjusted PC time against the SkyCam schedule.
If the adjusted time is before or after the SkyCam is running a slide show gets started. Otherwise the most current photo
is displayed until it is time to refresh the page 2 minutes after a new photo is uploaded. Done! Why do so many Cam pages refresh
at the wrong time?
What time is it? Part 2
Too simple! It turns out that very few people keep track of their PCs clocks let alone keep them accurate to within the 2 minute window
that the upload schedule calls for. As such, all those with PCs with clocks 2 or more minutes faster than mine would see a page refresh before
a new photo was uploaded which left them just as bad off as they were on the Cam pages that did not even try! When the SkyCam page was first put up a
note about setting the computers time to the correct time was displayed. Of course that was not very user-friendly:-(
The solution was to change the page from an HTML page to an ASP Active Server Page. That is why this HTML page is no longer
the SkyCam page. Although the SkyCam had been up for only 2 days this page was turned into the about page just in case some people had already
added it to their favorites folder.
At any rate, in the ASP resides this line of code:
ServerTime = time()
zone issues! Not much else had to change. There, now I can sleep at night:-)
What time is it? Part 3
Well, not quite. It turns out that the web host does not keep their PCs clocks very accurate either. However, that is just one computer so
it is just a simple matter of adjusting the time that it gives with the following line of code:
ServerTime = dateadd("s", 416,time())
This simply adds 416 seconds to the servers time which was the difference between the servers time and the official US time
for my time zone when the SkyCam page code was written. Once in a while a little piece of code I wrote is run
to check to see if the adjustment number needs updated. The page I use has an extra line of code that writes the adjustment number to an ASP
file that gets included by the SkyCam ASP making manual updates to the code unnecessary:-) The number the code writes for my computer works
for the SkyCam page because it is the computer that uploads the images to the server so it is the only one that needs to
be concerned about the 2 minute window. Also my PC is kept synchronized using the built in Network Time Sync option built into the
WinCam software see screen shot above. For those that dont have a WinCam you can download a free Atomic Clock Sync utility off of the web:-)
In the closet
After a couple of months of running the SkyCam on my main PC I transferred the WinCam software over to an old
Pentium 90 and stuck it in the closet. With the closet doors closed you cant even
hear it and I keep the monitor turned off about 99% of the time:-)
That is where things are as of now. Feel free to ask questions.
SkyCam Pseudo Code
adjusting the time as it does all of its calculations.
ASP - run when page written
Store server adjusted time in Pikes Peak time form
HTML - written as page loaded
Display last photo and all the information
Get pre load UserTime
Declare vars like cam start/finish, slide info etc.
Get post load UserTime
Calc load time
Add load time to ServerTime (important for slow connections)
Calc difference between UserTime and ServerTime*
Call Timer Function
Adjust UserTime with difference to ServerTime
Write Pikes Peak time
Calc time to next photo
Write time to next photo
If time for new photo then reload page
If time to next photo greater than CamInterval set Cam to off
If Cam off start slide show
If delay count not reached add 1
else next slide
Timer Function calls itself every second
*You will note in the actual code I check to see if I am seeing ASP code
or not. This is because I look at the SkyCam while offline to see what is
getting posted for the users and ASP does not run offline.
Return to the Pikes Peak SkyCam Page
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May 11, 2005
"A new brain database and atlas developed by the International Consortium for Brain Mapping may answer some of the most vexing questions about how the brain works."
Based on the brain images of 7,000 demographically diverse individuals, the atlas uses image warping techniques to capture the variability in a population of brains. Led by John C. Mazziotta, head of the neurology department at the University of California, Los Angeles, teams of investigators can compare individual brains with populations of healthy or diseased brains and can chart normal development, aging, disease progression, or changes that occur more rapidly such as tumor growth or recovery from injuries.
For the full story, go to http://www.nibib1.nih.gov/eAdvances/042905.htm.
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Summertime can be such a boring time for kids if they are left with nothing to do. Some kids end up staring at their computer screen or playing video games the whole day. While this can be fun and kids are supposed to have fun during the summer, this could also lead them to become inactive, suffering from a bad case of eyestrain, with your air conditioning bills soaring as they stay indoors the whole day. The good news is that the kids will still be able to cool down and add some activity during the summer with the help of waterslides and inflatable pools. Water slides are ideal for bigger yards, while inflatable pools are best for smaller outdoor spaces.
Inflatable swimming pools cost nowhere near as much as regular swimming pools and they are also convenient in that can easily be deflated when the space they are taking up is needed for whatever purpose. The best ones to get for small children that are just learning how to swim are inflatable kids pools for paddling. Compact in size, most of these are available with really fun designs like colorful, whimsical patterns or cartoon characters such as Sponge Bob SquarePants. There are also pools that have some additions such as water sprayers. You could further boost the enjoyment of your kids by getting some inflatable items like balls and swimming pool float toys in the shape of animals. There are also some pools that are sold with shades that are sure to keep your kids protected from harsh UVA and UVB rays. Allowing your kids to swim in a pool is a great means of educating them about safety in water, but do remember that they will be needing adult supervision the whole time they are in the pool.
Inflatable swimming pools are also available for adults and children that are older. Varieties of these pools range from adult size to ones that have sturdy inflatable slides, otherwise known as inflatable above ground pools. Most of these pools are big enough for the entire family. Of course, those that have a lot of outdoor space also have the option to use an inflatable water slide instead, otherwise known as a blow up water slide.
In buying your inflatable pool, remember to first consider the size of your outdoor space, as there is no sense in buying an inflatable pool or slide that will end up to be too big for your backyard or garden. Also check the quality of the pool and make sure that it will last your family many uses. Check for quality fabric and fortified layers. Better yet, make sure that the inflatable pool comes with a good warranty and a repair kit so you will be able to repair the pool if it gets punctured or damaged in some way.
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No News Is Good News Story Detail
When the school journalism class goes away on a field trip, Fat Albert and the Cosby kids are asked to take its place and create the school newspaper.
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The Insecticide led anti-malaria awareness and sensitisation initiative spearheaded by Reckitt Benckiser, makers of Mortein brand of insecticide has received accolades for health safety and all-inclusive proactive step to stem the high prevalence of malaria in Nigeria.
Malaria remains the most worrisome cause of maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria accounting for about 11 per cent of maternal deaths, especially in first-time mothers; about 25 per cent of deaths in infants and 30 per cent of deaths in young children.
Stakeholders at the just-concluded 6th Biennial/5th Quadrennial Conference of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, the Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriaki Dickson, who unveiled the Mortein product as the sponsor brand for the conference, said the partnership between NANNM and the leading insecticide brand would go along way in the fight against malaria in the country.
Represented by a member of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Emelah Gentle added that complementary efforts of such would certainly go a long way in ensuring that "our children and mothers are free from the scourge of malaria." National President of the NANNM, Mr. Lawal Dutsinma noted that malaria being the most common cause of maternal and infant mortality, it was imperative to involve all relevant stakeholders in the ongoing effort to stem the trend.
He described the Reckitt Benckiser's Mortein-inspired initiative on malaria as a step in the right direction, stating that NANNM was delighted to associate with the programme that targets the most vulnerable groups. Dutsinma also expressed optimism that the malaria challenge would become history as more Nigerians become well informed about the steps they need to take so that they are protected against malaria parasite carrier-mosquitoes.
He advocated for constant adoption of simple protection habits by Nigerians which include maintaining clean environment, keeping the surrounding free of stagnant water, sleeping under Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets and spraying of the rooms with insecticides recommended by the World Health Organisation, WHO. Reckitt Benckiser's Mortein insecticide has been certified to be safe, meeting WHO recommendation.
Brand Manager, Mortein, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Yusuf, said it was important to intensify awareness on the promotion of cleaner and healthier environment in order to win the fight against malaria in the riverine communities.
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From my preschooler:
What's an Achashvei?
I know that a rosh is a head. I want to know what kind of head Achashveirosh was.
Can you help me come up with a satisfying answer? I'd prefer not to have to rely on some sort of academic cop-out like saying the word is actually Ugaratic (whatever that is) or one of these other non-Lashon-Hakodesh languages that, they say, somehow snuck into Tanach, chas veshalom.
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Not good adding medication to a tank unless you know exactly what the problem is. Corys are sensitive to any chemicals and medication, and could be worse. One thing is fairly certain to me, whatever it is was probably the result of not maintaining the tank. Corys especially are sensitive to water quality and parameters. Neglecting weekly partial water changes allows nitrates to build up (and several corydoras experts have commented that nitrates appear to affect corys) and that is food for the algae as you've seen. Not to mention that the fish are swimming around in their own waste (urine and solid broken down). The first order of business is to rectify the water quality.
However, some caution is needed or this too can turn out even worse. What is the pH of your (his) tap water, and what is the pH of the tank water now? The latter has probably lowered. If it is below 7.0 it is acidic, which is not bad in itself but it means that the ammonia in the tank is actually ammonium. Ammonium is basically non-toxic to fish (unlike ammonia). If the tap water pH is above 7.0 (basic, or alkaline), adding new tap water during a partial water change will cause the pH in the tank to rise and if it rises above 7.0 the ammonium immediately converts back into ammonia. This can result in dead fish either because the shock is too great or the ammonia is too much, depending.
If the pH of the tank water is reasonably close to the tap water, and both are either above or below neutral (7.0) a partial water change of 50% of the tank will do no harm; use a good water conditioner. Scrape the algae off the glass before syphoning out the existing water, and vacuum the substrate at the same time. In the event the pH is far apart and crosses the neutral line, do very small partial water changes over time, and use a water conditioner that detoxifies ammonia (Prime does, there are a couple of others, some do not). Ammonia is very toxic, it burns the fish gills. Which sort of brings us back to the cory, this could be its problem, or any number of other things, but the first thing is to rectify the tank's messed-up biology.
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Minnesota Water Science Center
Bemidji Crude-Oil Project
USGS IN YOUR STATE
USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state.
Bemidji Crude-Oil Research Project
Barbara Bekins presenting on a recently collected subsurface core during the 2012 Field Session - Site Tour.
The objective of the project is to improve the understanding of the mobilization, transport, and fate of crude oil in the shallow subsurface. The U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program began an interdisciplinary research project in 1983 at the site of a crude-oil spill near Bemidji, Minnesota. Research is conducted within four broad disciplines by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and from several academic institutions. Currently, about 10 research projects are active. A fact sheet describing results from the Bemidji Toxics project is available.
The spill occurred in 1979 when a pipeline transporting crude oil broke. After cleanup efforts were completed in 1980, about 400,000 liters of oil remained in the unsaturated zone and near the water table. This continues to be a source of contaminants to a shallow outwash aquifer. The oil is moving as a separate fluid phase, as dissolved petroleum constituents in ground water, and as vapors in the unsaturated zone. Native microbes are converting the petroleum derivatives into carbon dioxide, methane, and other biodegradation products.
2013 Request for Proposals
The U.S. Geological Survey Minnesota Water Science Center, in collaboration with Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership, Beltrami County, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, is soliciting proposals for projects to be conducted after June 1, 2013, at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site (Site), located northeast of Bemidji in Beltrami County, Minnesota. Research proposals that have a short or long term potential for matching funds are especially encouraged from academic institutions and private industry.
Funding available for 2013 is $15,000. Proposals may be for projects 1 to 2 years in duration, or for longer term projects that can leverage the available equipment and resources at the site. Proposals are due by midnight (Central Time) on January 14, 2012. For complete proposal instructions, refer to the Request for Proposals. Contact Mindy Erickson with questions regarding the RFP.
Monday, June 11, 2012, was the date of a symposium titled "Terrestrial crude oil spills: decades of science from the Bemidji, Minnesota Research Site." The symposium focused on sharing research results from the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Site, Bemidji, Minnesota, and was held at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul campus. The symposium was followed by a site tour on June 12. The symposium hosts were the U.S. Geological Survey, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership, and Beltrami County, with financial sponsorship from the American Petroleum Institute.
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Schiel took the students through an evening lesson, tasting seasonal and regional beers paired with food to complement each sip. With local Oktoberfest celebrations being held now, he gave the students some background on the harvest festival, originating in Germany in 1810, and told the students that they would sample some beer and food pairings customary at Oktoberfest celebrations around the world.
With home brewing books displayed on a table and raw hops he'd grown in a greenhouse exhibited nearby, plus barley and other grains on display, Schiel talked about how brew masters dedicate themselves to maintaining the integrity of fine gold lager.
As the evening continued, students enjoyed Pilsner Urquell paired with a soft pretzel and spicy horseradish mustard; Samuel Adams Oktoberfest paired with spare ribs, sauerkraut, and mashed potatoes and Sierra Nevada Porter paired with a dark berry tort glazed in dark chocolate. Schiel was thorough in helping the students enjoy how the beer tasted alone, and then how it changed when combined with certain flavors and spices. Food for the night had been prepared by the Plainsman Grill for this specific class.
Schiel gave out a list of beers to look for in the fall that provide some great tasting opportunities, talked about which ones should be drank at what temperatures and gave overall instructions on how to best enjoy lager. Many beers, he noted, should not be drunk really cold as this has a negative impact on the flavor when it crosses the tongue.
Warren Sica, who attended the class, said he had learned quite a bit about beer and was especially intrigued by how much the right food pairing can do to enhance the flavor of the beverage. "When you mix these beers with the foods we've been given tonight, it totally changes the taste -- really makes it much better," Sica said. Most students agreed that the beers featured in the class were good choices to start with, but said they now look forward to enjoying them even more with the right kind of food for an even better experience.
Northeastern's Extended Studies is offering a number of food-related classes this fall. Gerry Torres, a family studies (formerly home economics) teacher at Sterling High School, regularly teaches classes for NJC. He will offer a Mexican Made Easy class from 6 to 8 p.m Oct. 29. Registration for this class closes on Oct. 25. In all of these classes, students get to enjoy learning about making food and also eating food while learning. Watch for other classes related to food and beverage coming up as the holidays approach.
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It may be radical, and I wouldn't say I'm advocating it, however, the United States was formed based on John Locke's Social Contract Theory. In layman's terms, Locke states that if a government violates the rights given to it by the people, the people have a right to abolish it and start a new government.
I think that may be extreme at this point, however, I think the only way to stop us from spinning out of control is to STOP CAREER POLITICIANS. When your main goal is to be reelected, you aren't doing your job. If we could put term limits on Senate and House seats, we could make politicians concentrate on governing, not reelection.
Of course, the people that would need to make this decision are the same ones who are making political careers.
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Some occasionally collided in their hurry to sort the donated cans, while others literally shot-putted cans into their appropriate barrels.
Its fun to sort the cans, 7-year-old Zadoria Robinson said as she participated in the annual Can-A-Thon. But were here to help the people who are poor and hungry.
The Can-A-Thon, a communitywide collection of canned and dry goods to help feed the needy, gathered 215,000 food items Friday, far surpassing the goal of 200,000 and last years total of 185,000, said Salvation Army Capt. Joe Anderson.
The goods are used by the Salvation Army to make food boxes that are delivered to hungry families throughout the year, though the holiday season is especially busy. More than 850 boxes were given to families during the holidays last year, Anderson said.
Though the Can-A-Thon began in Rome, three other sites in the Atlanta area also participate.
Elm Streets second-graders donated more than 2,000 cans. Their teacher Joyce Gaston said most of them gave food they had taken out of their families kitchen pantries.
We bring the children here to understand the nature of giving and the impact it can have on the community, Gaston said.
Later in the morning, a busload of Pepperell High School students arrived with more than 10,000 cans, about one-fifth of which were collected by senior Johnna Lindsey.
I used my paychecks from working in my dads shop to buy the food, and my dad would match it, she said. It just helps me enjoy Christmas knowing I helped other people enjoy their Christmas.
Pepperell Middle School, well known for its prodigious Can-A-Thon donations, broke its own record by contributing more than 46,000 cans of food.
A caravan of four buses containing 240 students, each of whom had collected more than 100 cans, delivered the food items.
In total the Pepperell schools donated more than 88,000 cans.
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William Spottiswoode's father was Andrew Spottiswoode, a member of the printing firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode, the Queen's printers, and he was related to John Spottiswoode who was archbishop of St Andrews. A year after William was born Andrew Spottiswoode became member of parliament for Saltash and four years later member of parliament for Colchester. William's mother, Mary Longman, was the daughter of the publisher Thomas Longman. William attended school in Laleham, then went to Eton College, one of the most prestigious schools in England situated on the Thames near London. However :-
... he was expelled for letting off fireworks in the town, thus offending against a decree by the headmaster.
From Eton he went to Harrow School, another prestigious school in Greater London. Certainly this episode proved an advantage to Spottiswoode, who received better teaching in his favourite subject of mathematics in Harrow. From Harrow, Spottiswoode was awarded a Lyon Scholarship to attend Balliol College, Oxford, which he entered in 1842. Three years later he graduated with a First Class degree in mathematics. He later wrote:-
[M]y interest in mathematics began at Oxford, and was due mainly to the energy and encouragement of my tutor Dr Temple (Bishop of Exeter).
While at Oxford he rowed for the university in the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race in both 1845 and 1846. In 1846 and 1847 he was awarded mathematics scholarships at Balliol College where he became a lecturer in mathematics.
In 1846 his father had financial problems and Spottiswoode took over the firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode so becoming Queen's Printer. The firm prospered under his leadership and he created a model company with the interests of his employees at heart. In the following year his first mathematical publication appeared; Meditationes Analyticae. Herbert Rix, writing in , describes Spottiswoode's mathematical contributions:-
His mathematical work was described as 'the incarnation of symmetry'. Besides supplying new proofs by elegant methods of known theorems, he did abundance of important original work. His series of memoirs on the contact of curves and surfaces, contributed to the 'Philosophical Transactions' of 1862 and subsequent years, mainly gave him his high rank as a mathematician. He was also the author in 1851 of the first elementary treatise on determinants, and to his treatise much of the rapid development of that subject is attributable.
The importance of his textbook Elementary Theorems Relating to Determinants (1851), referred to in this quote, can be seen from the fact that he was asked by Crelle's Journal to submit a paper to the journal developing his approach to determinants further; this he did in 1856. On 2 June 1853 Spottiswoode was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was appointed president of the mathematical section of the British Association in 1865 and was treasurer of the Association from 1861 to 1874. He also served on the council of the Royal geographical Society from 1962 to 1864.
Spottiswoode married Eliza Taylor Arbuthnot on 27 April 1861. Eliza was the eldest daughter of William Urquhart Arbuthnot, a member of the Council for India, and she had been born in Madras, India :-
Their at-homes in Grosvenor Place, held at the height of the London season, attracted the cream of Victorian science and cabinet ministers alike. During these events the latest news in science would invariably be demonstrated in the laboratory which occupied part of the house.
Their son, William Spottiswoode, was born in 1864. He became a partner, and later a director, of his father's publishing firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode.
Certainly Spottiswoode was always a keen traveller and he visited a number of countries which were certainly somewhat unusual for the period. In 1856 he visited eastern Russia and took the opportunity to use his literary skills by publishing in 1857 a fascinating account in A Tarantasse Journey through Eastern Russia in the Autumn of 1856. In 1860 he visited Croatia and Hungary. In 1861, the year of his marriage, Spottiswoode published On typical mountain ranges: an application of the calculus of probabilities to physical geography, which attempted to use statistical methods to determine whether the mountain ranges of Asia had been formed by one or several causes. Francis Galton said that this paper had been his inspiration to apply statistics to the social sciences.
Around 1870 there were major changes to the direction of Spottiswoode's research. This was a time when he received high office in a number of societies, being president of the London Mathematical Society from 1870 to 1872 and, from 1871 to 1878, being treasurer of the Royal Society. He was also treasurer of the Royal Institution from 1865 to 1873. In 1878 Spottiswoode was elected president of the Royal Society and remained president until his death in 1883. Also in the year 1878 he was president of the British Association for its Dublin meeting. At the Dublin meeting he gave his presidential address on the growth of mechanised invention applied to mathematics.
We mentioned the change in direction of Spottiswoode's research which turned to physical topics. From 1871 he studied the polarisation of light and later he studied electrical discharge in rarefied gases. Spottiswoode published over 100 papers and several books including, in addition to the one on determinants mentioned above: The Polarisation of Light (1874), Polarised Light (1879), and A Lecture on the Electrical Discharge, its Form and Functions (1881). The papers :-
... were published principally in the Philosophical Transactions, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society and Crelle, and one or two in the Comptes rendus of the Paris Academy; a list of them, arranged according to the several journals in which they originally appeared, with short notes upon the less familiar memoirs, is given in .
His interests however were not confined to mathematics and physics since he was also a leading expert on European languages and on oriental languages. He combined these different skills by undertaking research on the history of mathematics and astronomy in India. He was able to read the original Indian sources and his important contributions were published by the Royal Asiatic Society. His article in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1860) discussed the fact that that most of the principles of the differential calculus were known in ancient Indian mathematics before the period of Bhaskara II in the 12th century.
Kempe, in , summarises his mathematical contributions:-
The interesting series of communications on the contact of curves and surfaces which are contained in the Philosophical Transactions of 1862 and subsequent years would alone account for the high rank he obtained as a mathematician. ... The mastery which he had obtained over the mathematical symbols was so complete that he never shrank from the use of expressions, however complicated nay, the more complicated they were the more he seemed to revel in them provided they did not sin against the ruling spirit of all his work symmetry. To a mind imbued with the love of mathematical symmetry the study of determinants had naturally every attraction.
It is remarkable that Spottiswoode was able to undertake the amount of work that he did, both scientific and administrative. However it took its toll on his health and, at least indirectly, contributed to his death :-
He went to Italy on a short holiday to recuperate from overwork and the after-effects of a tricycle accident but after returning home contracted typhoid, and three weeks later died, on 27 June 1883, at his home, 41 Grosvenor Place. He was fifty-eight years old and his death was regarded as a national loss. In recognition of his position as president of the Royal Society and his contribution to science he was buried on 5 July in Westminster Abbey in the presence of civic dignitaries and the whole scientific establishment.
We have mentioned above many honours which Spottiswoode received in election to learned societies and particularly to high office in these societies. We should also mention his election to the Academy of Sciences in Paris and the award of honorary degrees by the universities of Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Oxford.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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Aug. 20, 1997 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A revolutionary handheld laser device that in a few moments can detect and then track disorders of the blood has been patented in prototype by scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the National Institutes of Health. The scanner, which makes blood samples part of the laser generation process, immediately detects sickle-cell anemia as well as nanometer-scale changes in cell structure like those imposed by the AIDS virus.
The device, called a biocavity laser, also is better able to distinguish between cancerous and non-cancerous cells than pap smear tests, which analyze visually only relatively small numbers of cervical cells. The biocavity device also should allow observers to monitor unrestricted cell growth -- cancer -- and cell death (apoptosis) as these processes take place. (Apoptosis -- cell suicide -- is thought to eliminate unwanted human tissue and to aid proper growth of organs, limbs, and neurons.)
For victims of terrorist biological or chemical attacks, the transportable unit is expected to greatly reduce the time needed to analyze dangerous materials invading the blood stream. Diagnosis could be made on the spot, thus facilitating treatment when speed is crucial. Widespread adoption of the device would end delays for patients in obtaining results from blood tests, when blood taken by a nurse is shipped to a lab for analysis.
Princeton University physicist Robert Austin in Science described the biocavity laser as "really an innovative technology."
Using it, says Paul Gourley, device project manager at Sandia, "It's possible to take a blood sample containing millions of cells and extract information about each cell in a few minutes. The results are quantifiable. If no cell is cancerous, we get a standard light signal. A cancerous cell gives a bright flash at different wavelengths."
The work is funded by Sandia's Laboratory-Directed Research and Development program, which funds speculative defense-related projects, and by the US Department of Energy. Preliminary interest has been expressed by blood and cell analyses companies, and by pharmaceutical companies, says Gourley.
Lab-on-a-chip combines semiconductor and biological material
The device combines semiconductor and biological material to function as a kind of lab-on-a-chip, bringing fluids into a microlaboratory and reading results on the spot. Gourley originated it with his brother, physician Mark Gourley at the National Institutes of Health, with assistance from Anthony McDonald, a Sandia technician. (Note: Mark Gourley is now at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.)
It employs a laser device called a VCSEL -- a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser-- that originates millions of tiny laser beams from an area roughly the size of a postage stamp. VCSELS were pioneered by Sandia's Gourley, together with his Labs' colleague Tim Drummond, in the mid 1980s.
How the device works
Instead of creating beams that pass through blood cells and then yield data, researchers insert blood samples into the laser itself to become part of the generation process of the VCSEL laser beams, altering them as they are formed. Above a specialized semiconductor, a coated glass mirror forms one end of the laser generating area. In the glass, through etched microgrooves each 1/10 the width of a human hair, a blood sample is pumped.
The unique design allows blood components -- red or white blood cells, or invading particulates -- to become part of the lasing process. The components of the blood in effect modify the lasing light as it is created in the tiny laser cavity, thus permitting output light to be analyzed in a spectrometer to detect changes in cell sizes and shapes.
Because the light reflects many times through a given sample -- a consequence of the lasing process -- the deviation in image created by the blood particle is magnified, greatly increasing the chances of positive, errorless identification. What it sees A sickle-shaped red blood cell is clearly distinguishable from a normal, more spherical cell. The components of a white blood cell, held inside the cavity, can be analyzed to see how it reacted to organisms or drugs in the blood, thus aiding in the design of new drugs.
"After microsurgery to cut a white cell open and let out its proteins, we can see the extent of the material in a cell. Activated lymphocytes will show a larger volume and index of refraction change," says Gourley.
Because the readout relies on light-emitting semiconductors, in most usages the cells do not have to be killed and stained -- the most typical laboratory procedure. Instead, researchers can watch changes in cells as they occur -- in "realtime."
"The microcavity laser is basically a tool to study cell structure changes," says Gourley, "and could even be used for sequencing DNA."
Present methods of analyzing living cells involve flow cytometers, which merely shine a laser light through one cell at a time.
Power and cost
In wafer form, the device is activated by a laser microscope about the size of a telephone receiver that acts as an energy source and reads output from the biocavity laser like a supermarket scanner reads bar codes.
To make a commercial biochip, quarter-sized electrical power sources already exist and bulky optical components would be replaced by an optical fiber, says Gourley. A small, no-frills system can distinguish between cells in a sample and offer a spectral analysis (without image) on a laptop computer for a cost between $5,000 to $15,000, Gourley estimates. A more complete setup for laboratory research to scan a laser over a surface or pump materials such as large quantities of blood through it would cost about $70,000.
A comparison of biocavities with more conventional lasers
A brief note here comparing bioocavity lasers, VCSELs and ordinary lasers: Conventional lasers require mirrors set opposite each other to reflect light back into the generating substance -- a crystal or gas -- placed between them, to create still more light. Lasers made from semiconductors use their sharply cleaved ends as mirrors -- light reflects because of the difference in speed of light in silicon and air, just as a glass window reflects images though it lets other light pass through.
In the VCSEL, the semiconductor is not cleaved to provide a reflective surface. Rather, it is made by depositing alternating layers of tailored alloys. The layers are formed at exactly the distance from each other needed to reflect "in-phase" light, so the beam's efficiency is very high. (In-phase means that the maximums and minimums of the created light occur at the same time, creating a powerful effect.)
The beams also are created in a far smaller generating volume than the typical semiconductor laser, and many more beams can thus be created to light an area. In the medical device, the top layer of gallium aluminum arsenide and aluminum arsenide are replaced with the glass slide whose microgrooves carry blood. The lasing beams are varied by the quality and components of the blood through which they pass, and by the glass from which they are reflected.
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It is extraordinary that a gullible world now regards Israel as rejectionist, yet it is Arab leaders who have rejected everything over the decades—rejected a partition of the land proposed by the Peel Commission in 1936; rejected the United Nations partition plan of 1947; rejected the Israeli offer after the 1967 Six Day War to return all the territories; rejected the major opportunity for peace after the Oslo agreement of 1993; rejected Ehud Barak's proposal for a Palestinian state and President Clinton's compromise proposals; rejected Ehud Olmert's even more generous proposal for a Palestinian state. Sadly, President Obama seems to have drawn a moral equivalent between those who have been prepared to live in peace and those who have chosen war in 1948, 1956, 1973, and 1982, with follow-on campaigns of terrorism after every loss.
Instead of embracing peace, Arab leaders converted the West Bank territory they came to control into a launching pad for suicide bombing, an Intifada that killed more than 1,000 Israelis and ultimately forced Israel to return to the West Bank at great cost and build a security fence against terrorist infiltration. This conduct turned upside down the priorities of the road map for peace, which stated that prior to Israeli concessions the Palestinians would be obliged to demonstrate a commitment to curbing terrorism, eschewing violence and its incitement. No chance, not least because one generation poisons the next.
The hatred of Jews is cultivated throughout the Arab Muslim world without drawing any rebuke from the moral arbiters who are so ready to condemn Israel for the smallest infraction. Hate permeates all points of Palestinian public communications—newspapers, videocassettes, sermons, books, the Internet, television, radio, and, most insidiously, the schoolrooms. The anti-Jewish campaign is so dishonest, so vicious, so persistent that it surpasses that of Nazi Germany in its heyday. New media cable networks like al Jazeera, al Manar, and al Arabiya make the campaign all-pervasive. And the United Nations? It has become a forum not for peace but for fomenting and focusing anti-Israeli propaganda, not for independent inquiry but for the indictment of Israel whenever it seeks to eliminate a terrorist sanctuary, not for enforcing agreements but providing a smokescreen for their violation.
Now comes President Obama to undermine a commitment made by the United States. To appreciate what is at stake, we have to look at the record. Israel of its own volition withdrew settlers and settlements from Gaza, though this evacuation was not required by the road map. The Bush administration acknowledged in return that settlement construction in the West Bank would be permitted within the existing construction line—not new settlement but building to cope with the growth of families. This understanding was confirmed by senior members of the National Security Council and in letters from the office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Condoleezza Rice, who was then national security adviser. Among other things, the letters said, "In the framework of the agreed principles on settlement activity, we will shortly make an effort to better delineate the settlement construction line in Judea and Samaria." Former Sharon aide Dov Weisglass wrote recently reaffirming "that the administration recognized Israel's right under the road map to development from within the existing construction line."
For years, Israel has relied on these understandings for developments of homes within the guidelines set down, without objection from the U.S. government and without denials when this policy was reported in the New York Times and in the Washington Post.
Repudiating these understandings is an extraordinary breach of the normal behavior of governments and stands in juxtaposition to U.S. demands that the Israeli government adhere to commitments made by its predecessors. Surely there could have been a much more constructive way in which the two governments could have reached an understanding rather than through a public confrontation after a speech in Cairo, of all places. Is it not understood that, far from advancing peace, these hard-line statements will serve only to harden the determination of the Palestinians not to make any compromises, as both sides must do? Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has already stated he will not even negotiate with the Israelis.
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Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has joined the list of government officials charging that the geographic details provided by Google Earth's satellite imaging program pose a security risk.
"Developing countries, which are already in danger of terrorist attacks, have been singularly chosen," Kalam said.
Kalam, who is also the supreme commander of India's armed forces, made the comment over the weekend while addressing the nation's top police officers at the Vallabhabhai Patel National Police Academy at Hyderabad. Google has an engineering center in Hyderabad and another in Bangalore.
Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Government officials in other countries, including South Korea and the Netherlands, have made similar complaints about the Google Earth application.
High-resolution pictures are freely available on the Internet and are provided by many sites in addition to Google Earth, Kalam said. He cautioned officers during his speech to be aware of emerging "open-source intelligence." He also showed the audience aerial pictures of some of the sensitive locations in India.
"When you look deeper into it, you would realize that the specific laws in some countries, regarding spatial observations over their territory and UN recommendations about the display of spatial observations, are inadequate," he noted.
An intelligent mining of the data available on the Internet, according to Kalam, could give "indicators of preformation activities of terrorists groups and their origins and their supporters."
Kalam has been a vocal supporter of open-source software and has not refrained from criticizing Microsoft.
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Just northwest of the St Mary's Abbey building is the 40m Yellow Steeple, once the bell tower of the abbey, dating from 1368 but damaged by Cromwell's soldiers in 1649. It takes its name from the colour of the stonework at dusk.
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