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Protect yourself from a slow economy
Gerri Willis tells you how to keep your money safe and growing in the middle of an economic slowdown.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- You've been hearing about how bad the economy is recently. But no matter how bad the news may get, there are some things you can do to insulate yourself from the slowing economy.
Uncle Sam is going to be mailing out rebate checks in May.
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are in the lower digits, you'll be getting your check sooner. And retailers are salivating.
Some states like Illinois, Missouri and New York City are considering sales-tax holidays for the spring. But don't be swayed.
While the government may encourage you to spend that check, your best move is to pay off your credit card bills. You may also want to make an extra mortgage or car payment.
While it may not sound like much fun, you can also put it toward your emergency fund.
Start with the fees you can avoid - like bank fees.
Find out if you are eligible to join a credit union where the fees and surcharges may be lower. Go to the National Credit Union Association Web site at NCUA.gov.
Congress is turning a spotlight on some of those 401(k) fees. If you're not sure what fees you're being charged, talk to your plans' administrator or someone in the HR department.
If you want to avoid balance transfer fees on your credit card, look at your credit card agreement. Look for a reference to a maximum balance transfer fee. If you don't see any dollar amount, call the credit card issuer and get the details. Balance transfer fees can add up to hundreds of dollars.
Knowing where to go to get cash in an emergency is half the battle already. If you have enough equity in your home - and that's a big IF nowadays - you may be able to take out a home equity line of credit.
With a home equity line, you will be approved for a specific amount of credit - depending on the equity you have in your home. And you can borrow from this line of credit when you need it. You may be allowed to deduct the interest because the debt is secured by your home.
You may also want to reach out to friends and family. You probably won't be taken advantage of and if you can keep current on payments, it could be a good solution for you.
You really don't want to tap into your 401(k) too early. You'll be taxed twice since you have to pay back the loan - with interest - and you'll be missing out on your money's ability to compound interest.
Remember, all economies have their ups and downs. And a recession is just part of a cycle.
A recent CNN Opinion Research Corp. poll finds that that 60% of respondents think economic conditions will be "good" next year. Plus, 90% of people had confidence they would be able to meet their monthly mortgage payments for the duration of the mortgage.
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Read the full article from the PSU Vanguard.
Urban planning graduate students conduct research on PSU transportation
Transport PSU—a group of five graduate students from the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning—are researching potential solutions to Portland State’s future transportation issues. Through student surveys and collaborations with PSU Transportation and Parking Services, TriMet and the Associated Students of Portland State University, the group hopes to better inform students about the increasingly complicated transportation matters that affect them.
The group, composed of Derek Abe, Derek Dauphin, Ryan Farncomb, Brooke Jordan and Zef Wagner, believe that the single biggest problem concerning PSU student transportation is cost. As TriMet continues to restructure its fare system, PSU’s transit program for students will be subject to major changes as well.
“One of the biggest problems is that the cost of transit for students is already expensive and it’s likely to become a lot more expensive in the very near future. That’s in addition to service cuts and the elimination of the Free Rail Zone,” Abe said.
Dauphin was surprised at the state of the student transit program when he began his master’s program at PSU. “I was surprised that a city that’s so well known for transportation, and has a university that’s so central to the city, really has very little to offer students in terms of reasonable ways to use the system,” he said.
Transport PSU, which receives its funding through the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, has primarily focused its research on PSU’s FlexPass student transit program. The FlexPass allows a student unlimited access to all TriMet lines and currently costs $190 per term. The group examined transit pass programs at several comparable universities and found that PSU’s FlexPass is among the most expensive and complicated programs.
Wagner explained that the high cost of the PSU FlexPass makes the purchase only worth it to students who ride public transit every day. This simply doesn’t apply to a lot of PSU students, especially those who don’t have class five days a week and those who use a variety of methods: walking, biking and ride-sharing to get to and from campus.
One of the reasons that the FlexPass is and will continue to be more expensive than other schools’ passes is because of the funding mechanism used to subsidize it, according to Transport PSU.
“Right now the FlexPass is cheaper than a normal transit pass because the university subsidizes it, but there’s no plan or mechanism for it to grow over time, so the fare is increasing, but the subsidy is staying the same. That means the FlexPass is going to get more and more expensive,” Wagner said.
Currently, the FlexPass subsidy is funded through revenue diverted from the parking program. Transportation Options Manager Ian Stude claimed that PSU would spend about $600,000 subsidizing the FlexPass this year. He said that as more people buy the pass, the subsidy must be spread over a larger group of people. As the pass becomes more popular, the costs increase.
If TriMet goes ahead with its proposed changes to the fare system, Transport PSU estimates that the FlexPass will cost approximately $230 next year. However, Stude claimed that the university is currently in negotiations with TriMet to make the FlexPass’s cost increase happen more gradually.
“We’re working to make an agreement with TriMet that allows the price of the FlexPass to go up at a more even rate over the next three years rather than having a really large jump that happens next year,” Stude said. “It doesn’t solve the problem—transit is getting more expensive, but we’re softening the blow and spreading it out over a longer period of time.”
The other serious issue identified by Transport PSU is the finite amount of campus parking combined with a growing university. Farncomb claimed that PSU is fast approaching a breaking point where driving will no longer be an option but public transit won’t be affordable, and something has to give.
“I think the biggest associated issue with transit is the big projected increase in student enrollment in coming years, and no increase in parking. Driving a car is not going to be an option,” Farncomb said.
Farncomb is right. Stude claimed that PSU has no plans to increase the amount of parking on campus because the cost is not manageable. According to Stude, current estimates for building a campus parking structure boil down to $40,000 per parking space.
“Our goal is to make sure that as the university grows, we do whatever we can to limit the growth of the parking supply because parking is very expensive,” Stude said.
The most integral component of Transport PSU’s research is its online survey. The survey can still be accessed on the group’s website, and students are encouraged to take it not only because it betters the group’s research but also because it’s also very informative.
“The survey is also helping to inform the student body about these issues. There’s a lot of information in there that I don’t think is widely known about the transit pass program and the potential cost increases,” Farncomb said.
The group is using the data collected by the survey to determine student opinion about the current transit pass system. The end result will be a series of recommendations compiled in a yet-to-be-created final study report.
“The point of all this was to eventually generate some options and alternatives for ways that we may begin to think about restructuring our own transit pass program at PSU,” Abe said.
Alternative options thought up by the group are based on amending the current FlexPass system. One possibility, the most commonly used among similar universities, is the universal pass. In a universal pass program, every student is issued a fully or partially subsidized transit pass, usually bundled in with student fees. Because everyone is given the pass, the overall cost is lower. It’s analogous to buying transit in bulk.
Another possible new transit pass program is the opt-out. In this structure, every student is initially issued a transit pass but, unlike the universal program, students have the ability to return the pass and get a refund of their money.
This option is more expensive than the universal system because some students will choose to return the pass, spreading the cost among fewer students. Wagner claimed that the University of Washington used to employ the opt-out program and found that about 80 percent of students decided to keep the pass.
“We just wanted to get a sense of what students feel about these options, and ultimately student government would have to decide to take this on and carry it forward,” Wagner said.
The group met with ASPSU earlier this month to discuss its concerns and allow senators to ask questions. One issue brought up at that meeting was the fact that TriMet’s transit pass programs are identical for both large employers and students. Wagner said that one thing students could advocate for would be a differentiation between these two groups.
“Students could ask for a different formula. Students are not the same as people who work at Intel,” Wagner said.
The group also broached the notion of creating a formal transportation committee within ASPSU. Dauphin said that a permanent transportation committee is needed because this issue is ever-evolving.
“It’s just going to keep changing. TriMet is going to change fares or throw in more light rail lines. These issues need to be regularly evaluated and that’s something that a student government is better set to do that a little old research group,” Dauphin said.
To take Transport PSU’s survey, visit transportpsu.com.
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CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh branch of the military tribunal on Friday ruled that all disabled soldiers, irrespective of the fact their career was cut short or they continued in the defence service, will be eligible for the disability pension.
The benefits of disability pension as per the orders would be applicable on all those who became physically challenged on or after January 1, 1996.
Disabled soldiers who retired prior to 1996 would also get the pension but their benefits would be counted only from January 1, 1996.
Delivering the landmark verdict, division bench of the tribunal comprising judicial member Justice N P Gupta and administrative member Lt Gen NS Brar held that every person who retires or is discharged in 'low medical category', will get disability pension.
As of now, only those were eligible for this pension whose service was cut short due to disability and those disabled, who continued their service till mandatory period of retirement, were not eligible.
The orders have been passed by the bench after disposing of a number of petitions filed by various disabled soldiers.
The decision came on Friday after two days of arguments on the matter.
During the hearing, counsel for the central government Captain Sandeep Bansal has taken the stand that disability pension should not be applicable in cases where the defence personnel had completed his terms of engagement and there has been no loss of employment.
However, the petitioners seeking uniformity in applicability of the policy argued that disabled soldiers, who continued in services, could not be deprived of disability pension.
While disposing of the petition, bench of the military tribunal relied on a judgment given by Supreme Court in a case titled Capt K J S Buttar vs Union of India in which the apex court had decided a similar issue.
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Oregon Library Continuing Education Project Jefferson County Forum
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 9:00am
Jefferson County Library
241 SE 7th Street
Madras, OR 97741
About the Event
This is one of many library continuing education meetings happening across Oregon in the spring of 2010.. The purpose of the meeting is to hear from library personnel about their continuing education needs. This input is very important because it will help shape the design of a sustainable model for continuing education in Oregon. All Jefferson County library personnel are invited.
An e-survey will also be administered throughout the state in the summer. The study is expected to document continuing education needs and to analyze the feasibility of a sustainable CE delivery model in Oregon. The project report is expected to be complete and delivered to the client (Portland Community College Library) in late summer.
Presented by: Timothy R Smith
Open to library workers in Jefferson County. Please RSVP Timothy Smith @ Tende7@hotmail.com.
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Your Ultra-Training Bag of Tricks: Recovery
Common complaints include: ruptured muscle fiber, inflammation and soreness, stress hormone elevation and disruption, a suppressed immune system, connective tissue wear and tear, fatigue, irritability, loss of appetite, weight loss, fever, headache, diarrhea, dizziness, increased resting heart rate, loss of sleep and sex drive, and leaden legs. All of these are symptoms of an improper recovery from a heavy training cycle or race. Left untreated, these negative side effects can lead to an athlete’s undoing.
Musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems will only adapt and grow stronger if they receive the proper recovery between tough workouts and races. In essence, recovery is more important than the workout. Sage Rountree, a Team USA Triathlon World Championship team member and ultrarunning coach, agrees, “Recovery is where the gains in your training actually occur, and valuing your recovery is the key to both short-term and long-term success. …”
Left to its own devices, the body does an amazing job of healing itself, yet there are practices you can implement on a daily basis to speed up and refine the process. Here’s a list of what will hopefully become some of your own effective recovery tricks:
1) Active recovery – No matter how stressful an event or workout, don’t stop upon finishing. At the very least, walk or jog for several minutes. Allow your body to cool down by slowly returning to its resting state and clearing metabolic wastes. Very easy jogging or cross training can be used during the hours and days following a hard run to assist with blood flow to recovering muscles and allow for relief from the tedium of successive hard training efforts.
2) Nutrition & Hydration – Carbohydrates replenish glycogen stores for energy production, proteins repair and build muscle, and fluids hydrate and replenish electrolytes. McMillan Running’s Nutrition Coach Kelly Liljeblad states the guidelines for post-race or workout nutrition simply, “Amino acids (the building blocks of protein) have been proven to speed the recovery process. For training sessions over an hour, consume 0.4-0.5 grams of carbohydrate per pound of body weight immediately after training and again 2 hours later. Consume 10-20 grams of protein immediately after exercise, with amino acids.” Greg McMillan’s The Runners Ultimate Nutritional Recovery Routine (RUNRR) article has a more in depth discussion on post-run recovery.
3) Sleep – My personal favorite. Athletes who don’t get enough do not perform as well as those who do. Period. Proper sleep reinforces proper neuromuscular patterns, reaction times, glycogen storage, and better moods. If your night’s sleep is compromised or you’re carrying a heavy workload, naps can help you stay refreshed.
4) Manual Therapy – The full benefits of massage are not fully understood. It’s been linked to managing muscle inflammation, increasing blood circulation as well as releasing muscle tension, cramping, and trigger points. Don’t have deep tissue work done three to four days before a hard workout or race and keep the touch light for the several days following an ultra event. If you don’t have the time or money to seek a specialist, learn the tricks of self-massage. You can recreate the professional touch at home with a foam roller and lacrosse ball. Other methods of manual therapy such as chiropractic medicine, Rolfing, Active Release Technique, Graston, and myofacial release have also proven successful in alleviating pain, increasing range of motion, and reducing inflammation.
5) Icing – Cooling the muscles immediately after a hard run reduces inflammation and removes waste products. Recent debate has arisen due to research indicating that icing may compromise the training effect. Though there may be merit to the studies, remember that icing is not hazardous to your health. Icing would be appropriate after completing an ultra or during multi-stage events where you must be at the top of your game for several days. Cool baths (≈60°F) may be just as beneficial as icy ones. Icing acute injuries for 10-15 minutes will prevent inflammation from interfering with the healing process.
6) Heat – Added warmth, either by pads, saunas, or whirlpools, can treat stiff muscles or prep muscles for massage. However, heat should not be used when muscles are inflamed, as it will promote unwanted swelling.
7) Yoga & Stretching – These should be done gently when stiff and sore. Stick to basic yoga poses and use bolsters. Active isolated stretching, the act of contracting one muscle to allow the opposing muscle to relax and lengthen, increases range of motion and, like other active recovery activities, promotes circulation.
8) Supplements – Antioxidants added to the diet can help negate exercise-produced cellular damaging free radicals. Multivitamins and mineral supplements can maintain good health in athletes with a history of anemia or those with a limited diet. The use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to deaden pain in order to continue training spells trouble. Prolonged usage or large single dosages inhibit recovery and can cause secondary physical problems. If a pain is present that inhibits your ability to train, then it’s time to discover the root of the problem. Try a homeopathic recovery remedy like arnica montana or an Epsom salt bath instead.
9) Strengthening – Running-specific strengthening exercises can retrain lazy muscles to work more efficiently and quickly fatigued muscles to act with more power. Core exercises (planks, crunches, side-lying single leg lifts), squats, and lunges, for example, can also prevent injuries.
Is it an injury?
How do we differentiate between good pain and bad pain? Soreness is a by-product of good training, but some aches can be a sign of impending injury. Signs of pain to be on the lookout for include some of those listed in Sage Rountree’s The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery:
- Affects only one side of the body
- Is focused around a joint
- Gets worse when you run on it
- Reappears each day no matter the intensity
- Affects your running form
- Keeps you awake at night
If you experience one or more of these on a consistent basis, take some time off, seek professional help, or develop a cross-training plan that doesn’t irritate the injury while healing takes place.
Overtraining & Illness
The Tipping Point – Overtraining is the ruin of many athletes. Once pushed over the edge, it may take months to recover. The signs of overtraining can look like, but aren’t limited to, the list in the opening paragraph of this piece. Track your need for recovery over a season by observing downward spirals in your mood, sleep patterns, performance, and your overall enjoyment of running. It’s also important to note that other underlying medical conditions may be causing the issues. Training through is unwise. Less is definitely more.
The Neck Line – In general, when the signs and symptoms of an illness are “above the neck,” you can continue with light training, but anything “below the neck” calls for complete rest until the symptoms subside.
The duration, intensity, and structure of a recovery phase will vary according to the runner’s experience, training schedule, and individual response to tough workouts. Typical recovery scheduling might look like this:
- Each day make it a priority to spend time working on several of the nine recovery practices listed above.
- Each week to ten days schedule one or two days of light “jogging,” non-impact cross training, or take the entire day(s) off. Insert these easier sessions in between tough workouts.
- Each month schedule a seven-day block consisting of lower mileage and intensity than the surrounding weeks.
- Each year schedule a month or two where you take a vacation from your normal training routine and, perhaps, temporarily take up a new sport.
- After a competitive event take a break from demanding workouts.
- When returning from injury or illness institute the reverse taper method discussed in last month’s peaking article.
A proper recovery requires as much effort, discipline, and focus as training. Develop a strategy now. Investing a few minutes today will prevent long periods of injury downtime tomorrow.
- Liljeblad, Kelly. Nutrition Plan for Runners. Flagstaff: McMillan Running, 2012. Print.
- Logan, Linzay. The Four Best Strength Training Exercises For Runners. Competitor.com. N.p., 27 Oct. 2011. Web. 19 Sept. 2012.
- McMillan, Greg. The Runner’s Ultimate Nutritional Recovery Routine (RUNRR) You’ll Be Amazed at How Good You Feel the Next Day. McMillan Running Company. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Sept. 2012.
- Rountree, Sage Hamilton. The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery: Rest, Relax, and Restore for Peak Performance. Boulder, CO: VeloPress, 2011. Print.
- Stevenson, Roy. “Your Complete Guide to Recovering From a Marathon.” Marathon and Beyond 15.1 (2011): 56-68. Print.
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Health care for vulnerable migrants in the UK was thrown into disarray last week when the Court of Appeal ruled that failed asylum seekers are not entitled to free secondary care in the National Health Service (NHS). Under the new law, hospitals do have the discretion to provide treatment when there is no prospect of payment.
The changes are complex. On April 2, the Department of Health issued a letter about the ruling to chief executives at NHS Trusts. It states that if a doctor deems their patient's treatment to be “immediately necessary” it must be provided, irrespective of a patient's status and ability to pay. However, if treatment is categorised as “urgent”, care can be provided depending on when the patient is likely to return home but should not be cancelled or delayed based on a patient's ability to pay. If treatment is “non-urgent” and can wait until the patient returns home, it should not be started. But if the patient is unlikely to return home for some time and the need for care remains non-urgent, treatment should be initiated after payment is received. Doctors can move patients to “urgent treatment” or “immediately necessary treatment” if their medical condition changes.
Communicating the implications of the ruling will be a challenge. The Department of Health needs to clarify that the law only applies to secondary care; general practitioners are still able to register irregular migrants. The Department must also issue clear guidance to front-line hospital staff about what these rules mean in practice. For example, which patients are exempt? How do they expect clinicians to decide the status of their patients on a day-to-day basis?
Crucially, it is clinicians who should make decisions about the urgency of their patients' treatment, not hospital administrators. Care must be provided when needed and doctors must not be encouraged to abandon patients. Failed asylum seekers are an extremely vulnerable group of individuals; many of them are destitute and homeless. Their care must be determined on the basis of clinical need alone.
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It’s a wonderful example of how minimalist living can make even the smallest spaces seem open, airy, and serene.
I love studying such photos to see what design and decluttering principles I can apply to my own space. Here’s what I’ve learned from Victor and Soeun:
1. White, white, and more white. White and light colored walls make all the difference in making a small space appear larger. Uniformity is important as well–when the eye can’t easily pick out transitions between walls, corners, and rooms (because, for example, they’re all painted the same color), the brain receives an impression of expansiveness.
2. Purely functional spaces. The living area consists of a couch and small table. The dining area is defined by a simple table. The “bedroom” is a bed–nothing else. Furnishings are reduced to the bare minimum–no need for nightstands, console tables, curio cabinets and other miscellaneous pieces that serve little purpose than to hold additional clutter.
3. Absence of clutter. The surfaces are clear, and free of knickknacks and other assorted items. Although the books are exposed, the uniformity with which they are lined up suggest “storage” rather than “clutter.” And they even add a bit of interest to the space!
4. Natural texture. The wood floors, wood dining table, and wood countertops add enough warmth to keep the white palette from feeling sterile. Ditto for the four pillows on the window seat.
5. Translucent materials. What a wonderful way to enclose a space without solid walls! They’re a great solution to hiding clutter or creating privacy, while still creating the impression of one continuous space–plus, I love how they “glow” from the light within!
The minimalist houses in design magazines can often seem cold, staged, and far removed from our daily lives (in terms of both practicality and expense). Victor and Soeun’s apartment, on the other hand, is a fantastic example of “livable minimalism”–a well-designed, decluttered space, whose principles we can actually replicate in our own homes.
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THE tight labour market continued to lift workers' wages in 2011 despite the slower economic growth, says the "Report on Wages in Singapore, 2011".
The report, released by the Ministry of Manpower's Research and Statistics Department today, presents the main findings of surveys on annual wage changes and wages of common occupations in Singapore in 2011.
It covers information on the change in total wages (with breakdown into basic wages and bonuses), wage restructuring as well as wages of over 300 occupations.
According to the report, total wages (including employer Central Provident Fund (CPF) contributions) in the private sector rose by 6.1 per cent in 2011, higher than the growth of 5.7 per cent in 2010.
Taking into account the rise in Consumer Price Index (CPI), the increase in real terms was 0.9 per cent in 2011, lower than the gain of 2.9 per cent in 2010.
The corresponding figures, when adjusted using CPI and excluding imputed rentals on owner-occupied accommodation, were 1.9 per cent and 2.4 per cent respectively.
Over the long term, real wage increases have been broadly in line with labour productivity growth.
From 2000 to 2011, real total wages (including employer CPF contributions) increased by 1.6 per cent per annum while labour productivity grew by 1.7 per cent per annum.
A large majority, or 86 per cent, of employees in the private sector were under some form of flexible wage system in December 2011, though this eased from 89 per cent a year ago, after rising from 85 per cent in 2009.
Managers remained the highest paid occupational group, with median monthly gross wages at $6,630 in June 2011.
The financial services and professional services were among the top three highest-paying industries across many occupational groups, while the accommodation & food services and construction were among the lower-paying industries.
The ministry has also published the "Singapore Yearbook of Manpower Statistics, 2012", which provides a wide range of statistics on the labour market.
These include key data on the labour force, job vacancy, wages, redundancy, labour turnover, hours worked, conditions of employment, labour relations, workplace injuries and occupational diseases, higher education and skills training.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
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Islamists destroy Timbuktu heritage sites
A resident said the Islamists began attacking saints' tombs with shovels. He says they said they were responding to UNESCO's request on Thursday that the sites be put on the organization's "in danger" list.
The Associated Press
BAMAKO, Mali — Islamist fighters with ties to al-Qaida have destroyed tombs classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu, a resident and U.N. officials said Saturday.
Irina Bokova, who heads the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, cited in a statement Saturday the reports that the centuries-old Muslim mausoleums of Sidi Mahmoud, Sidi, Moctar and Alpha Moya have been destroyed.
Resident Ali Yattara said Saturday the Islamists began attacking the saints' tombs with shovels. He says they said they were responding to UNESCO's request on Thursday that the sites be put on the organization's "in danger" list.
Yattara said locals planned to fight back.
"The youth of Timbuktu is preparing to retaliate against the desecration of the graves of our saint," he said Saturday. "Against the Islamists' weapons, we will fight with sticks and stones."
He said the Islamists don't approve of residents' high regard for the saints' tombs.
The U.N. cultural agency called for an immediate halt to the destruction of the three sacred Muslim tombs.
Bokova called on "all parties engaged in the conflict to stop these terrible and irreversible acts."
On Thursday, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, placed the mausoleums of Muslim saints on its list of sites in danger at the request of Mali's government.
Timbuktu was a center of Islamic learning as far back as the 12th century.
Islamist fighters from the Ansar Dine group have declared they now control the northern half of Mali after driving out an ethnic Tuareg separatist group. The rebel groups took advantage of a power vacuum created by a March coup in the capital to seize ground in the north.
The Islamists' growing reach is more worrying news for the landlocked West African nation of 15.4 million, which was plunged into chaos after the coup.
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Thursday said all important policies are being framed while keeping in mind the interests of elite which are less than one per cent while over ninety nine per cent masses are facing worst type of exploitation.
Government’s policies are helping rich amass more wealth while underprivileged are becoming poorer by the passage of every day which has left majority desperate, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal, President PEW.
He said divide between haves and have-nots is widening pushing poor to choose between feeding families and providing education to children. Hence, they have been deprived of a tool that can lift their less advantaged children to success.
Such policies have helped Pakistan earn honour of highest school dropout rate in the world; these children enter into cruel labour market to save families from starvation and endue worst forms of abuse.
Dr. Murtaza Mughal said that regulators are dancing on the tune of the regulated while important institutions are serving the interests of moneyed class beyond their expectations.
Politicians, generals, landed aristocracy and urban elite are multiplying their fortunes at an amazing speed which our financial wizards define as economic progress, he said.
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FISHERIES RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT
TODAY, BRISTOL BAY is widely known as having the world's most plentiful stocks of wild sockeye (red) salmon, and the Naknek River system that flows out of Katmai National Park has long been known as one of the primary contributors to the bay's salmon stocks. The many streams that flow eastward from the park into Shelikof Strait, and the upper reaches of the Alagnak River drainage system, also boast healthy salmon populations, though not to the extent of the Naknek River system. Commercial fisheries interests, not surprisingly, were quick to respond to the area's abundant salmon populations, and in order to preserve the salmon's long-term abundance, government scientists and regulators have had a long-term management presence in the Naknek drainage. These activities are manifested in the Lake Brooks Field Laboratory, the Brooks River fish ladder, and other cabins and structures that have been related to fisheries research and management.
As noted in the Chapter 7, the first area canneries were located on Kodiak Island (east of the present-day park) and along the Nushagak River (northwest of the park) during the early 1880s. By the mid-1880s, the remarkable Bristol Bay salmon resource was becoming widely recognized, and in the 1890s salteries and canneries were located along the Naknek River, just west of the present park boundaries.
Shortly after World War I, fisheries managers began to enter the Katmai area. The U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, a predecessor agency to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, decided to undertake a predatory fish destruction program in the various major Bristol Bay tributaries. The agency undertook such a program because salmon, at that time, was the only fish desired by local canneries. Therefore, any species that preyed on salmon was considered undesirable, and trout were specifically identified for destruction. As part of that survey, the Bureau sponsored a broad survey of fish populations; the agency studied the Naknek River system as well as other major Bristol Bay drainages. In early June of 1920, a four-man party headed by A. T. Looff of the College of Fisheries, University of Washington, began its Naknek Lake investigations.
Looff and his crew quickly surveyed the margins of the lake and found that "practically all the fish entering [upstream into] Naknek Lake either pass up Kidawik Creek [Brooks River] or Simenoffsky [Savonoski] River." Kidawik Creek, in particular, was judged to be "an ideal salmon stream with fine spawning bottom ... where good numbers of lake trout and some Dolly Vardens were taken." The party camped at the creek mouth, then ascended to "a waterfall from 5 to 8 feet high, over which it would be impossible for fish to ascend during low-water stage." In an attempt to improve its spawning possibilities, the crew proceeded to modify the north side of the falls. By using "several stone-cutting gads, a steel bar, top maul, hammer and pick," they made a cut "10 feet in width, sloping back about 15 feet, through which the fish could easily pass." The following year, a better-equipped crew returned to the site and used dynamite to widen the slot. Brooks River, at this time, was not part of Katmai National Monument.
Fisheries crews returned to Naknek Lake and the Brooks River each year from 1920 through 1925; in 1924 and 1925, they also included Lake Coville and Lake Grosvenor in their investigation. During that time, they killed more than 13,000 sport fish, primarily rainbow trout, lake trout, and Dolly Varden. The Bureau of Fisheries ignored Naknek Lake for the next decade. Below the lake, however, the Bureau remained active. In 1928, it established a fisheries station five miles upriver from Naknek, and maintained a salmon-counting weir at the site until 1932.
In 1936, biologists showed renewed interest in the Lake Brooks area, which had been added to Katmai National Monument five years earlier. They noticed that Brooks Falls was not a block to red salmon under normal conditions. During seasons of low water, however, they observed that many died unspawned below the falls, presumably because of injury caused in attempting to negotiate them. Based on that overview, they made plans for "blasting steps in the falls" in the spring of 1937. Those plans, however, were put on hold for the time being.
In 1938, concern about Japanese offshore fishing in the Bristol Bay area brought about a renewal of interest in Katmai's fisheries resource. Congress directed an investigation of the salmon fisheries of Bristol Bay. The plan, conceived in 1938, was to have one team of investigators in the bay tagging and marking fish, while land-based teams would set up operations along the five major bay drainages. The following year the Naknek River received a three-man team, which made a survey of the river system's major spawning grounds. In 1940, the Bureau of Fisheries decided to concentrate their Naknek basin research efforts along the mile-long Brooks River. Fisheries personnel were well aware of the stream's abundant fish runs and felt that the stream was representative of others draining into Bristol Bay.
Because of the agency's decision to concentrate on the Brooks River fish runs, the first government building was constructed in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve. As has been described in more detail below, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in 1941, began building a field laboratory at the eastern end of Lake Brooks. (That same year, F&WS personnel also built and began operating a second station just below the Naknek River rapids, a few miles southwest of Lake Camp.) Construction on the center section of the log Lake Brooks field laboratory was completed by the close of the 1943 field season. In addition, the agency constructed a salmon-counting weir and a rough road connecting Brooks and Naknek lakes. Based on those improvements, the agency carried on a successful fish research and management program, one that was to last at that location for more than thirty years.
Fisheries research in the Naknek drainage continued during World War II. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel at the Brooks River weir counted escapements into Lake Brooks of 97,496 sockeye salmon in 1940, 125,948 in 1941, 360,899 in 1942, 272,929 in 1944, and 184,319 in 1945. Construction of a wooden weir each year allowed fisheries personnel to make an exact fish count; the weir was set up and removed each season.
At war's end, F&WS biologists began tagging studies on Brooks River and aerial spawning ground surveys on the entire Bristol Bay watershed. "Index areas" were identified on each of the main river systems and photographed each year. Researchers then counted fish in the photographs and, as before, developed annual statistics. Throughout this period, the National Park Service had only the vaguest idea of what Fish and Wildlife Service personnel were doing along the Brooks River and elsewhere in the monument.
No sooner had the F&WS become involved in managing the Naknek River drainage's fish runs than they also became active managers of the salmon resources along the monument's eastern shoreline. The U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, the F&WS's predecessor agency, had established a Kodiak office in 1924, and ever since, the agency had made intermittent studies of the salmon spawning areas along the monument's eastern shore. In 1941, the Alaska Game Commission agent at Kodiak noted that the Bureau of Fisheries (which had become part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service the year before) had two watchman's cabins on the south side of Kaflia Bay. Why they were located there is uncertain; because there were no fish traps in the area, the cabins were probably associated with a salmon research study. As noted above, salmon (and clams) had been processed at nearby Kukak Bay from 1924 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1936; thus agency management activities were probably related to that commerce.
The Fish and Wildlife Service made no overt moves to manage the fishery along the monument's eastern shoreline for the remainder of the 1940s. The agency, instead, focused its management activities at its Lake Brooks field laboratory and at other sites within the salmon-rich Naknek River drainage. Recognizing the value of the Brooks River salmon run, agency personnel made repeated attempts to construct a fish ladder to circumvent eight-foot-high Brooks Falls. As noted above, the Bureau of Fisheries had initially proposed a fish ladder in 1937, and in the early 1940s new plans emerged for the project. But the latter attempt was foiled due to a reduction in personnel caused by the onset of World War II.
In 1947, engineers and biologists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Montlake Laboratory at Seattle unveiled a new proposal for a Brooks River fish ladder. Unencumbered by financial or personnel difficulties, the agency's proposal was quickly put into action. The following year, a four-man crew arrived at the site and began constructing a ladder on the south side of the falls; the ladder had seven pools, each one foot above the other. Construction took more than two years, and the ladder opened on August 7, 1950. Willie Nancarrow, who was serving as Katmai's NPS ranger that summer, reported that "in the next week a marked increase in the number of fish going through the weir could be seen." Some NPS officials were chagrined that the F&WS had built the facility without the NPS's permission; Regional Director Owen Tomlinson, for example, protested that "this structure hardly complies with Park Service principles relating to the preservation of natural structures." But the F&WS insisted upon the right to continue using the structure. The fish ladder remained in operation for more than twenty years.
For the remainder of the 1950s, the agency vacillated from year to year in the interest it showed toward Bristol Bay research efforts. Funding during some years allowed tagging programs, foot and photograph surveys, and similar research efforts. But during other years, the F&WS decided to focus its Alaskan research efforts away from Bristol Bay. The Brooks River weir counts continued, but most other western Alaskan investigations were placed on hold. Regardless of funding levels, the agency continued to staff the Lake Brooks field laboratory and maintain the adjacent weir.
The first scientific look at the sport fishing potential of and assessment of sport fishing pressures in the area came in 1954. At the request of the NPS, John Greenbank of the F&WS did a sport fish survey of Katmai National Monument. Greenbank and assistant Ronald Lopp worked through the summer of 1954 and described monument waters, examined fish distribution and abundance, sampled fish populations, and conducted creel censuses in various locations. Overall, the survey found fish populations high and fishing pressure light. Most fishing within the monument occurred in Brooks River. In retrospect, the work was particularly significant because neither the NPS nor the F&WS conducted significant research into Katmai's sport fish populations in the two decades following Greenbank's survey work.
In 1960, commercial fisheries research in the monument underwent a major change when the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries decided to expand its fisheries research from Brooks River to the entire Naknek drainage system. The Lake Brooks field laboratory became a coordinating center, and to provide for its expansion, new housing was needed. Just south of the field laboratory, the BCF constructed two 28' x 36' four-room log cottages along with a 12' x 20' log garage.
By 1962, studies were being conducted at remote sites within the monument, and to support those studies, the agency built several remote cabins in the monument. By 1965, the agency had built one at the east end of Lake Coville, just west of NCA's Grosvenor Camp, and it had occupied another cabin located two miles above the mouth of American Creek. A third BCF cabin, located at the southeastern end of Lake Grosvenor, was built in the late 1960s. In 1969, it was described as a plywood one-room tent frame type cabin with two adjacent storage sheds which was being used for anadromous fish research. All three temporary camps were still active in 1971. The BCF, during the 1960s and early 70s, also had fish weirs and counting fences on Hardscrabble Creek and at the outlet of lower Kaflia Bay. Therefore, the agency probably erected rude shelters of some sort at those locations. By 1971, each of these shelters had probably been abandoned. Meanwhile, the salmon counting activities along the Brooks River were discontinued after the 1967 season, and the fish weir was removed for the last time; those activities had been the mainstay of the BCF's work for more than 25 years.
A continuing sore point that marred relations between the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service throughout the 1950s and 1960s was the Brooks River fish ladder. Throughout the 1950s, for example, the NPS wanted to get rid of it, while the F&WS defended it. In the mid-1960s, the NPS formalized its principles of aquatic management, which led to an immediate push to do something about the Brooks River fish ladder. The F&WS fought the prospect. Park Service field personnel, however, continued to raise the issue, noting in 1970 that when the ladder was open it greatly reduced the number of salmon that could be seen trying to leap the falls. In 1973, they blocked the ladder's upstream exit with wood planks. It remained blocked for years afterward. But some water now passes through the ladder, and intermittent fish passage occurs.
In 1970, the Fish and Wildlife Service split into two parts: the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). The work at Katmai, which had been administered by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, was transferred to NMFS. The new agency continued the work of the old. In 1973, NMFS conducted the second year of a Naknek Lake salmon incubator project and also conducted limnological and biological sampling of the lake system. The following winter, however, the incubators froze and the project was abandoned. NMFS did not staff the Lake Brooks field laboratory in 1974 or thereafter.
To a large extent, NMFS ignored the monument during the mid-1970s. In 1976, the agency began allowing NPS personnel to use the Lake Brooks cabins. The following spring, it decided to transfer its facilities to the Park Service. In 1979 the NPS, under the direction of interim superintendent Roy Sanborn, rehabilitated the two Lake Brooks cottages, and the Lake Brooks field laboratorythen known as the Lake Brooks National Marine Fisheries Research Stationwas converted into a residence. That summer, and each summer since, NPS personnel have used the buildings.
The various remote NMFS structures have not fared as well. The primitive cabin at the east end of Lake Coville remained active as part of a salmon fisheries research project until 1972. By the following year, however, it was "not fit for habitation without minimal repairs" and was abandoned. In 1985, NPS rangers lived in the cabin, which by then was dilapidated. The cabin was torn down the following year. Along American Creek, the former BCF cabin remained active from 1963 through 1970 but was afterward abandoned. The cabin at the southeast end of Lake Grosvenor was also used for only a short time. It was abandoned in the early to mid-1970s.
Although most of Fish and Wildlife's facilities in Katmai were established on the Bristol Bay side of the monument, the bureau was also concerned with the Shelikof Strait fishery. Prior to statehood, it claimed jurisdiction of all areas below the mean high tide line. (It also, as noted above, claimed jurisdiction over commercial fish throughout the monument.) It carried out occasional patrols in the strait during the 1950s. In addition, the F&WS made scattered attempts to monitor the fisheries resources on the monument's eastern shore. The agency still maintained its watchman's cabins on Kaflia Bay, and in the summer of 1953 the agency stationed a salmon-stream guard in a tent about one mile south of the Kaguyak Village site. Both improvements may have been erected in conjunction with a nearby fish trap. The agency, during the 1950s, may also have been active on other portions of the coastline.
After statehood, much of the fisheries management along the Shelikof Strait was transferred to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The ADF&G sought a site from which it could manage, survey, and patrol the salmon and clam fisheries along the monument's eastern coastline, and in March 1962 it obtained a ten year Special Use Permit from the NPS for a site on Kashvik Bay, up to three acres in extent, in which to erect one or more field structures. By June, the ADF&G had decided to erect a weir, cabin, and storage shed at the site. Agency personnel used the cabin for the next several years as a base camp for monitoring and patrolling the area.
At Amalik Bay, twenty miles northeast of Kashvik, the state erected a small fueling station in 1962. That may have been the same structure as a 16' x 16' cabin that the ADF&G built during this period in the bay's northwestern cove. Supervisory fish biologist Jack Lechner, then stationed at Chignik, used the cabin to establish a field headquarters for the studying of salmon smolt each spring. Ever since that time, Kodiak-based fisheries agents have used the cabin each March to perform pre-emergent salmon smolt counts. Its continuing utility was reinforced by the decision, in 1985, to replace the cabin's roof, reinforce several walls and to perform other cabin rehabilitation activities.
Since the mid-1970s, both the National Park Service and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game have undertaken a wide range of fisheries management projects within Katmai's boundaries, and additional research into the area's offshore fisheries resources has been undertaken by both the NPS and the Fish and Wildlife Service. Most of those studies, however, required nothing more than temporary tent camps by agency field personnel, and no permanent buildings have been constructed in recent years to support fisheries research or management activities.
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American Girl follows in Barbie's footsteps with bald doll to help children with cancer cope with their hair loss
21:06 GMT, 4 July 2012
15:35 GMT, 11 July 2012
Following the footsteps of Mattel's bald Barbie, American Girl is now releasing its own dolls aimed at children suffering from hair loss.
Earlier this year, parents took to Facebook and Change.org to put pressure on Mattel to create a special Barbie, in the hope that children suffering from hair-loss would feel better about themselves.
American girl took notice and announced the new dolls in a post on the American Girl Facebook page.
Doll diversity: Following the footsteps of Mattel's bald Barbie, American Girl is now releasing its own dolls aimed at children suffering from hair loss
The post read: 'For more than a year, American Girl has been hard at work developing a doll without hair option for girls affected by cancer, alopecia, or any medical condition causing hair loss.
'Debuting today as part of the My American Girl line, the new dolls provide even more possibilities for a girl to create a friend that’s as unique as she is.'
According to the company's online store, the dolls are available in five skin tones, and eye colours.
For children who already have original American Girl doll, the company is also offering to switch the doll's head for a hairless one.
While some may view this as strange, many girls who suffer from hair loss would like dolls that look like them, rather than perfectly put-together mini-figures, according to The Stir.
Following suit: Mattel is to distribute a new Barbie doll exclusively to hospitals treating children with cancer throughout the U.S. and Canada
Customised: For children who already have original American Girl doll, the company is also offering to switch the doll's head for a hairless one
A 13-year-old girl from Tennessee may have helped to nudge the company along using a fierce social media campaign.
Kayla Brooks told WKRN she spent months gathering
2,000 signatures, made phone calls and started a letter based petition to American Girl in support of the bald doll.
Despite not knowing anyone personally who does not have hair, Miss Brooks made it her mission to help others.
She said: 'It doesn't matter if they think I played a role or not. I know I worked
hard on it and got the word out. Maybe I gave the idea to someone who
American Girl announced the company also plans to donate many of the dolls to the Children's Hospital Association.
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On this week’s Moyers & Company (check local listings), James Balog, one of the world’s premier cinemaphotographers, explains how “the earth is having a fever.” At tremendous risk to his own safety, Balog has been documenting the erosion of glaciers in Switzerland, Greenland, Iceland, and Alaska. He joins Bill to share his photos and discoveries, describing his process and transformation from climate change skeptic to true believer. Balog’s soon-to-be-released film, Chasing Ice, is a breathtaking account of climate change in action.
Afterward, Bill explores a judicial system under partisan attack. Thirty-eight states now elect their high court judges. Over the last decade, $200 million — much of it secret and tied to partisan agendas — has poured into these judicial campaigns. In Florida, Pennsylvania, and Iowa, for example, justices are being targeted by radical groups that abhor judicial independence and want the courts to reflect their own political biases.
In Iowa, a state whose judicial system has been praised for its fairness and impartiality, the political and religious Right ousted three justices in 2010 over marriage equality, and is now trying to take down a fourth over the same issue. But this time a bipartisan coalition called Justice Not Politics is fighting back. Its co-founders – Democrat Sally Pederson and Republican Joy Corning, each of whom served Iowa for eight years as lieutenant governor – talk with Bill about what’s at stake when justices are at the mercy of partisan passions and money in politics.
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Allison Barrie Archive
Published March 21, 2013
The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, the world’s only bionic eyes, keep getting better. A new study suggests they can help blind patients locate and identify objects and people -- and even read.
Published March 20, 2013
Reports suggest that the first chemical weapon has been unleashed in Syria. Chemical weapons like anthrax, sarin, mustard and ricin often make headlines, but some security experts believe the threat from cyanide is real too -- and a new antidote holds promise.
Published March 19, 2013
Independent drones that don’t need bases could give the U.S. military quicker and more flexible reaction to hotspots.
Published March 18, 2013
This one’s no laughing matter: Humor and encryption may not seem obvious partners, but new research advocates using jokes to hide your secret information in plain sight.
Published March 15, 2013
The National Nuclear Security Administration and Temple University recently announced that they had secured a device containing cesium 137 that could be used to build a radiological dirty bomb.
Published March 14, 2013
In a face-to-face final cyberbattle, one unlikely Brit proved the ultimate weapon against an attack on a Formula One Team.
Published March 13, 2013
Wearable computers integrated into a soldier’s standard uniform or a civilian’s clothing could remove the need to type in the future -- letting them skip the keys and simply write on the air.
Published March 11, 2013
Cockroach research may provide engineers with the key to search-and-rescue robots that will be more capable of operating in challenging uneven or rocky terrain.
Published March 07, 2013
Using space-based satellite sensors orbiting the Earth, the Navy’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System -- the first line of defense against incoming missiles -- recently achieved its first live-fire intercept.
Published March 05, 2013
Infrared holography can reveal details hidden behind smoke and flames, potentially life-saving information to help firefighters and emergency responders.
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Biodiversity & Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS)
Announcement of Opportunity for BESS workshops
The BESS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Sustainability) programme is a 6-year, £13m research programme addressing NERC strategic challenges and societal needs and the UK Government's strategic priorities with respect to biodiversity, ecosystems and their services. The science plan for BESS can be found on the BESS website.
This funding call is for workshops which contribute to the goals of the BESS programme, with an indicative cost of up to £8,000 per workshop or series of workshops. Workshops should provide a platform to bring together researchers and their relevant stakeholder community to explore particular issues or ideas. Bringing together people with different skills, experiences and viewpoints can generate new ideas and approaches to scientific challenges, helping to advance scientific progress on topics that that might otherwise represent significant stumbling blocks.
An application pro-forma and further details are available at the BESS website.
Informal enquiries should be directed to the BESS Director David Raffaelli.
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runner bean 'Scarlet Emperor'
- Position: full sun
- Soil: deep and fertile with reliable moisture
Introduced in 1633, sometimes the old ones are the best – and that's certainly true with this heritage variety, grown for generations and still one of the most popular runners around. The big, beefy plants scramble enthusiastically up beanpoles to produce a very heavy crop of classic long, straight beans with a flavour that's just the way beans ought to taste. The flowers are edible too and make a colourful garnish.
- Growing Instructions:Choose a spot in full sun with the richest soil you can provide: dig in plenty of well-rotted organic matter before planting. From late spring sow seeds direct 5cm deep and about 20cm apart and support with sturdy hazel bean poles. Protect seedlings from slugs and squash blackfly as soon as they appear on shoot tips. When sowing, pop one or two extra seeds in at the end of the row to act as insurance: then if you lose any of your seedlings you'll have replacements waiting in the wings.
- Sow: April-June
- Harvest: July-October
- Approximate quantity: 45 seeds.
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Given that male factor infertility is present in nearly half of all infertile couples, semen analysis is one of the most important laboratory tests to determine a man’s ability to have a child. Even men who have fathered children in the past may develop fertility problems which are detected by semen analysis.
Before a semen analysis is performed, a patient should abstain from sexual activity for two to seven days. A sample is collected by masturbation into a sterile specimen container.
The analysis results provide a variety of information about the man’s reproductive health, including the motility or movement of the sperm, the morphology or shape of the sperm, the volume of the sperm sample, the number of sperm in the sample, the viscosity or thickness of the sperm sample, and any signs of illness or infection.
Contact Us for a Semen Analysis
At the request of a referring physician, Colorado Reproductive Endocrinology can perform a standard semen analysis. To schedule your patient for semen analysis, either call us at (303) 321-7115 or fill out the referral form on the right side of this page. Patients are also welcome to call us and schedule themselves for semen analysis, as long as we receive a doctor’s referral. Any needed medical forms may be faxed to (303) 321-9519 prior to the procedure or can be brought to the office at the time of the first appointment.
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Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United Statesmore than car accidents, muggings, and rape combined. A woman is more likely to be assaulted, injured, raped, or killed by a male partner than by any other type of assailant. If you are a victim of domestic violence, please know that you are not alone.
Domestic violence occurs in all economic, ethnic, and social backgrounds. The abuse is not your fault; no one deserves to be physically or emotionally abused. Many victims of domestic violence have changed their lives and escaped the abuse. Talking with someone is the first and most crucial step in getting the help you deserve. There are people in your community willing and able to help you.
We at the Commonwealths Attorneys Office can offer that help and will do all that we can to make sure you get the support you need.
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Zippo Success Still Burns Bright 80 Years Later
On June 5, 2012, Zippo produced its 500 millionth lighter in its Bradford, Pa., factory.
Although Zippo has reached a level of success that most companies can only dream about, that success was far from assured when, in 1932, George Blaisdell opened in the midst of the Great Depression. However, Zippo was able to overcome that challenge and become an iconic American brand by following a simple formula.
"I think that the fact that we make a very high quality product in the United States is very meaningful and it means a lot to our success," said Greg Booth, current president and CEO of Zippo . "The fact that we make a quality product that is efficient and we can service our customers quickly is important. The other thing that in my opinion that is critically important is that we manufacture and market a product that is relevant to our target audience. Marketing is key."
Those marketing efforts have included a mixture of savvy business tactics, licensing and a bit of good fortune along the way. While those licensing deals have grown to include other iconic brands such as Harley Davidson and Playboy, it all started with the company's famous windproof lighter.
"Blaisdell through a chance meeting at a country club saw a lighter that he thought was intriguing and interesting, but he thought he could improve it," Booth said.
Blaisdell did this by adding a hinge to the lighter and re-engineering the traditional lighter so it would work in any condition. Despite the redesign, the company initially struggled as they attempted to grow during the Depression. Blaisdell, however, soon had an opportunity that would change the company's future.
"When World War II came around, Blaisdell made a commitment to sell lighters to the military," Booth said. "That is when the business began to blossom and grow. It got a lift from the GIs in a very challenging environment. Their Zippos were reliable, rugged and durable and soldiers started to talk to their friends about them and look for them once they came home."
After more than a decade promoting the product, Zippo lighters were becoming a popular item. That popularity continued to grow after the lighters began to be featured in many movies, starting in the 1940s.
"When people ask why it has been in so many movies, I tell them it is something that works on the first take," Booth said. "Whenever a producer or director is looking for a great actor, they want someone who can do it on the first take."
To date, Zippos have been featured in more than 1,500 movies. While movies and the war were both large catalysts to their growth, the company owes its continued success to the fact that the company did not rest on their laurels. Instead, the company has bolstered its bottom line by focusing on selling the American-made product in other countries.
"Our business has grown to the point that we now do business in about 160 countries around the world," Booth said. "They want to buy this iconic brand not only because it is iconic, but because it is fashionable and it resonated with customers."
The appeal of the American-made lighters has grown to the point that sales in the United States and overseas are split nearly evenly. Despite the success of the product in other markets, Zippo has no interest in moving their company and the nearly 800 Zippo employees outside of the United States.
"George Duke, the owner of the company and grandson of the founder, just like his mother, aunt and grandfather has said they are making lighters in Bradford," Booth said. "He has said these Zippo lighters are going to be made here and we are not going to move offshore; they have made a commitment to stay here."
Staying in the United States has not come without challenges for the company that produces 60,000 lighters a day and sells 12 million lighters a year. Notably, Zippo faces competition from cheaper lighters that are produced overseas. Zippo competes with the competition using a simple formula.
"It is quality, quality, quality," Booth said. "People pick up a Zippo and people pick up brand X and you see the difference in quality and consumers are willing to pay more for it because of the brand. I'm sure our cost per unit is more than those in China, but we can charge more because of our quality. It is a combination of efficiency and effectiveness, marketing and a strong brand. Not everyone has all those things, but if you do and you execute correctly, you are going to be successful."
Part of that quality includes the fact that Zippo owners pay nothing for repairs to their lighters. Since 1932 the company has repaired more than 8 million lighters. Even with superior quality, Zippo has still faced other challenges, including pressure from the anti-smoking movement.
"Pressure on tobacco-related products has been challenging," Booth said. "We are obviously tied to the tobacco industry because we sell lighters so we have had to work with that. We can't do anything to change the legislation or pressure, so we just have to continue to market as effectively as we can and go where the opportunities are. The fact that we do business in 160 countries gives us those opportunities."
Taking advantage of those opportunities though would not be possible if not for the company's ability to position themselves in the right position to be able to. That, in the opinion of Booth, is the greatest lesson other businesses can take away from the story of Zippo.
"I think that proactive innovation is what makes a company kick," Booth said. "If you are not innovating and you are simply reacting, you are probably not going to survive. We are constantly looking to innovate."
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Women walking on Minneapolis sidewalk during Armistice Day blizzard. (11-11-1940) via Minnesota Historical Society
The Armistice Day Blizzard Ranks #2 on the Minnesota State Climatology Office Top five weather events of the 20th century. Ask any Minnesotan born before 1940 and they can tell you where they were during the Armistice Day Blizzard. The weather was relatively benign the morning of the November 11, 1940. Many people were outdoors, taking advantage of the mild holiday weather. The weather forecast that morning was for colder temperatures and a few flurries. Few people were prepared for what was to come. The storm started with rain, however the rain quickly turned to snow. By the time the blizzard tapered off on the 12th, the Twin Cities had received 16.7 inches of snow, Collegeville 26.6 inches, and 20-foot drifts were reported near Willmar. In all 49 Minnesotans lost their lives in this storm, many of them hunters trapped by the sudden turn of events.
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Eritrea, a country in northeastern Africa. It is bounded by Sudan, the Red Sea, Djibouti, and Ethiopia. Eritrea has an area of 48,263 square miles (125,000 km 2), about the same as that of Mississippi.
Highlands stretch from the south-central part of the country northwest toward the border with Sudan. Elevations here average about 6,500 feet (2,000 m). To the west are plains, which are crossed by lowland river valleys. Along Eritrea's coast is a narrow strip of scrubland and desert. The climate is temperate in the higher elevations and hot in the lowlands: Droughts occur often.
Eritrea's economy, which is based mainly on agriculture, suffered as a result of civil war during 1961–91. About 80 per cent of the people are engaged in agriculture, most of them living at the subsistence level. The chief crops include lentils, wheat, and corn. The raising of livestock is important, especially in the highland areas. There is some coastal fishing. Manufacturing is concentrated largely in Asmara and Massawa. Products include textiles, cement, beverages, and processed foods. Salt and limestone are the chief minerals produced.
Many of Eritrea's roads were destroyed or badly damaged during the civil war. A railway links Asmara to the country's chief port at Massawa. Asmara has Eritrea's main airport.
|Facts in brief about Eritrea|
|Principal language: Tigrinya.|
|Area: 45,406 mi2 (117,600 km2). Greatest distances—northwest-southeast, 510 mi (821 km); northeast-southwest, 290 mi (467 km). Coastline—620 mi (1,000 km).|
|Elevation: Highest—Mount Soira, 9,885 ft (3,013 m) above sea level. Lowest—Denakil Depression, about 360 ft (110 m) below sea level.|
|Population: Current estimate—4,886,000; density, 108 per mi2 (42 per km2); distribution, 81 percent rural, 19 percent urban. 1984 census—2,748,304.|
|Chief products: Agriculture—barley, dairy products, lentils, millet, sorghum, teff, wheat. Manufacturing—construction materials, leather goods, processed foods, salt.|
|Flag: Eritrea's flag, adopted in 1993, has a red triangle across the middle, bearing a yellow wreath and olive branch; a green triangle at the top; and a light blue triangle at the bottom.|
|Money: Basic unit—nakfa. One hundred cents equal one nakfa.|
The population of Eritrea is about 3,500,000; of Asmara, the capital, 358,100. Tigreans, a Semitic-speaking people, make up Eritrea's principal ethnic group. There are also various Cushitic-speaking peoples, mainly the Saho and the Afars. Most Eritreans are Muslims. Primary schooling begins at age six and lasts seven years; secondary schooling lasts six years. The leading institution of higher learning is the University of Eritrea at Asmara.
Pending adoption of a constitution, Eritrea is ruled by a provisional government. Executive authority is exercised by the Advisory Council, headed by a secretary-general. The legislative body is the Central Committee of the ruling party, Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF).
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St. Louis, Oct. 1, 2004 -- When bright light shines in the eye, the pupil constricts. In dim light, it dilates. Now investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have demonstrated in chickens that a protein called cryptochrome plays a key role in that reflex.
Visual function in vertebrates tends to be regulated by proteins called opsins, and these are the first experiments to suggest that a non-opsin protein plays a dominant role in a visual pathway.
Working with embryonic chicken eyes, Washington University ophthalmology researchers found that cryptochrome allows the pupil to react independently from light-sensitive photoreceptor cells at the back of the eye. The findings are reported in the Oct. 1 issue of the journal Science.
"Light had an effect on the eye without involving the visual pathway," says principal investigator Russell N. Van Gelder, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and of molecular biology and pharmacology. "Like a light meter in a camera that measures light levels but doesn't produce a photo, a nonvisual system in the eye responds to light but doesn't produce a visual image."
This new study complements earlier work that had demonstrated the pupils of blind mice still respond to light. Both cryptochrome and another key protein, melanopsin, play important roles in this response. In that nonvisual pathway, melanopsin is thought to play the dominant role in synchronizing the mouse's internal circadian clock to external light and dark cycles.
In these experiments, however, Van Gelder, and his research team demonstrated that the constriction of the pupil in the chick eye seems to be regulated by cryptochrome rather than melanopsin, Melanopsin is part of the family of proteins, called opsins, that mediate normal visual function. Most opsin proteins are located in the rods and cones of the eye's retina. But the dissected chick eye had no rods or cones, and its response to light was different than a normal visual response.
In a series of experiments led by first author Daniel C. Tu, a graduate student in Van Gelder's lab, the researchers looked at the chick eye under various kinds of light and treated it with drugs that disrupt normal, opsin-mediated visual pathways in insects and mammals. None of those experiments disrupted the pupil's ability to constrict in response to light. But the researchers did get a response when they genetically manipulated the chick eye to reduce production of the cryptochrome protein.
When cryptochrome protein production was blocked by 50 percent, the researchers observed a corresponding 50 percent loss of sensitivity to light. Blocking production of melanopsin had no effect.
"This is still indirect evidence for the involvement of cryptochromes because in the chicken we can't knock out or overexpress genes like we can in the mouse," Van Gelder says. "But it does suggest cryptochrome proteins are involved."
In both mice and chickens, Van Gelder says, it is as if the light meter of the eye is controlling the pupil without vision being involved. In the mouse, the meter is located in the retina and primarily uses melanopsin to do its work with cryptochrome proteins amplifying the signal. In the chick, it is as if the light meter is contained in the pupil itself.
It is not known if the nonvisual pathway seen in the embryonic chick eye is present in mammals. But even if human eyes do not use this particular light-mediated pathway, it still could have broader applications for human health.
"Our hope is to figure out what the building blocks are that make this tissue respond to light in this way and to put them into other cell types," says Van Gelder. "If we could learn how cryptochrome is making the pupil respond to light, we might be able to make other cells respond to light, even in systems that are not visual. That's the next phase of our work."
Source: Eurekalert & othersLast reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009
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View Full Version : Can food help skin problems?
6th September 2006, 12:00 PM
My 6 year old Robble has had bad skin for ages.
I met a vet called Joe Inglis (apparently he's been on TV) at the Wag & Bone show in Windsor.
Inglis has done a range of natural dog food and told me that it could help Bobble's skin problems.
I bought some and apart from my boys loving it Robble's skin does seem to ahve started getting beter in the last couple of weeks.
Is this the food or just the weather?
If you want ot have a look at the food the website is www.petskitchen.co.uk
I order it on-line so don't even have to carry it about with my shopping.
6th September 2006, 12:22 PM
I recently bought the Quistel shampoo, conditioner and lotion for Twinkle because she was very scratchy all over and it has really made a difference for her. The literature supplied with it stated that food plays a big part in skin condition but also allergies and stress.
6th September 2006, 03:50 PM
When I (stupidly) had King on Beneful i noticed his fur was kinda flat and his skin was dry not like when he was on Solid Gold, so after switching him to Innova:Evo I noticed his fur was very fluffy and skin wasn't dry anymore
6th September 2006, 06:27 PM
i've heard people say that food makes a big difference. I don't know what kind of skin problem you're talking about, what kind of symptoms he has, but food can at least help with certain kinds of symptoms. Sometimes dogs are allergic to certain ingredients in some foods. Sometimes there aren't enough of certain nutrients a dog needs in certain foods. there's a product called Missing Link that is a high nutrient powder that you sprinkle on their food. I got some but i never tried it because i was trying to simplify things. I still have it in the fridge but am not sure if it's still good.
that's great that bobble is improving. skin can be a sign of general health condition.
i wasn't able to view the link you posted about the food.
6th September 2006, 08:42 PM
I'm sorry to hear about Robbie's skin problems.
I am convinced diet makes a huge difference to coat and skin...the skin is the largest "organ" of the body and generally the first one to show signs of dis-ease looking at it holistically.
I had a look at this website...the food seems very expensive, but the recipes look good!!
Other foods to maybe try are
http://www.naturaldogfoodcompany.com/ - mine are currently on this, it's the most "natural" dry food currently available. Although it looks expensive - on a par with the other two below, because you only feed about 10g per kg of body weight, it doesn't work out that expensive. And this one delivers free!!
Have a read through the websites...
6th September 2006, 08:59 PM
My Merry started itching at 3 months old and I don't think hers is SM. It is mostly around her hind legs.
I had tried all sorts of foods and couldn't find what she was allergic too. She scratched so much she would wake me up in the morning because she was shaking the bed. Her nails were shaving off the ends of her fur, so her hair remained short, even as an adult.
I finally admitted that my hit or miss approach wasn't working. So next I
talked to a vet who told me last November to give her 1 tablespoon of children's benedryl twice a day and that helped. She didn't scratch, but I didn't like the long term health implications. So next, I took her to a dermatology veterinarian this past May and she started her on an IVD dry dog food diet of rabbit and potato food and the scratching stopped.
Merry is now 2 years old and her hair is growing into a full coat for the first time ever. Now Merry is on a very strict food diet.
7th September 2006, 11:16 AM
Hell yeah food can make a massive difference to the skin be it natural commercial or other ??
One of my babies started with skin irritation/constant scratching at 6 months old and I have been on a 3 year plus journey to perfect his condition, I have now mastered it with a massive amount of commitment, cost, trial and error. His drugs however are very costly and I don't know if most could or would fund them ?
Anyway way back at the begining both the vet, holistic vet and dermatologist (consulted these all at different stages) all put Harry on an elimination diet which consisted of a noval source of protien and carbs only, Nothing else at all, no treats, no veg, fruit, nothing but these two foods he had never been exposed to before for a 12 week period, during this period if you see an improvement in the skin you have a indication that the cause or some of it could be food allergy.
In our case ours was/is not food allergy its atopic dermatitis which is much harder to treat (but there is hope with this costly wonder drug Harry is on) but the next process after this if there are some indications that certain foods are the cause is to gradually introduce one at a time new foods, so maybe give carrot for a week and see what happens then beef the next week and so on and it takes beepin ages and a lot of coomitment but well worth it if you can eliminate the source of your doggies bad skin thus making them a happier healthier mate.
Now if its found that in this time there is no change to the skin condition you can assume there is another cause and investigate this appropriately with your vet or dermatologist. Usually the next best step is intradermal testing.
Now without sounding like a bitch and a nag if your dog has had bad skin as you say for ages get it sorted properly. Obviously it depends on your defintion of bad and how much it bothers him and I do not wish to sound like I am having a go at you or assuming that you are not attempting to get it sorted but... it hurts so much to have bad skin and he can't tell you that and it can literally drive you insane to not feel comfy in your own skin because your itchy and or sore etc etc.
Please take this info with the love its intended and if I'm barking up the wrong tree disregard my dribble but I am trying to help. :)
Good luck with it all.
7th September 2006, 11:24 AM
Sorry I am back already, another thing I forgot to mention with regrads to diet and skin problems is fatty acid supplements such as fish oil are a massive help in the treatment and can be as easy as giving a few capsules a day (consult vet for quantity everyone is defferent).
7th September 2006, 01:27 PM
I concure - I give Merry one DermCap per day with her food.
7th September 2006, 06:15 PM
On slightly different note yet food related. When Molly was around 8 months old, her tear staining was attrocious. The vet didn't seem concerned but after doing some research online I read that there was a theory red dye may increase tear stains. I eliminated all treats that had red dye in them. I've always bought the premium dog foods, but on occassion bought the grocery store type treats because they looked so yummy. While her eyes still tend to tear somewhat, I don't have the problem of the terrible red/brown stains anymore.
The only treats she gets now are greenies, greenie biscuits (she loves them) and nutro treats, none of which have the red dye in them.
8th September 2006, 11:10 AM
When Charlie came to us his fur was awful and he smelled revolting, no matter how often I bathed him or what with :yuk:
He was diagnosed with multiple allergies a few months ago and since then he's been on Burns dried food and natural organic pro/prebiotic yogurt. He's also on expensive medication but I'm sure that the change in diet has a lot to do with his improvement too. Maxx's condition has also improved since he's been on Burns and he now wants to play, his zest for life has also returned and I don't seem to have to have his anal glands emptied half as often either.
Yup, I definitely think that there's something good about a healthy diet. You've only got to look at humans to see that healthy diets are better for you. Some dog foods are no better than eating McD's Big Macs every day!
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Since most of you don't know that I am from Guatemala, I thought I'd share some pictures of this beautiful country in celebration of it's Independence Day! :)
I grew up and lived in Guatemala for 18 years, half of my family is American from Texas, and the other half is from Guatemala. I 1st went down there to live when I was 2 1/2 years old and had to learn to speak Spanish right away because no one down there spoke English like they do now! It is amazing how much this country has changed!! Life was pretty different in Guatemala but I wouldn't change it for the world! Growing up in a foreign country that was a 3rd world country was very interesting but also very eye-opening. It was an experience and I am proud to be half- Guatemalan! I may not look like it but I can certainly speak, read, and write the language! Believe it or not people assume you can maybe speak the language but not be able to read or write it! One of the funniest things I had to deal with when I would come visit my family in the States was, when I got asked where I was from or where I lived, and once people heard where I lived, I immediately got asked, "Do you live in trees with the monkeys?!" And my response to them was always " Yeah, I live on the 4th branch and we sit and eat bananas all day" Seriously?? If it wasn't that question, it was always, "Where are you from?" "Guatemala", "Where's that?" In Central America, the 1st country below Mexico" and I kid you not, people would still even ask me " and where's Mexico?!" Geography was obviously not taught or something! So, it was quite interesting growing up down there! All I can say is that it was a great experience and got to see and go through things that most kids here don't have to worry about or deal with. Freedom was and still is precious to me. Guatemala is a beautiful country but it is very dangerous unfortunately. I was fortunate to be exposed to many great things! So, to not bore with my life in Guatemala, as a celebration to it's Independence day, I am showing you all of Guatemala's great beauty it has to offer and how lucky I was to have lived there!
ONE OF GUATEMALA'S BEAUTIFUL RAIN FORESTS
TUCANS LIKE THIS BEAUTIFUL ONE LIVE IN THE RAIN FORESTS
GUATEMALA'S VERSION OF STREET FOOD AND A HOT DOG STAND!
COLOR GUATEMALAN FRUITS
COTTON CANDY IS SOLD ON THE STREETS AND FARES BY THE DOZENS!
ISN'T THIS INCREDIBLE?? GUATEMALA IS KNOWN FOR THEIR KITES!
OVER LOOKING GUATEMALA CITY
BEAUTIFUL SUNSET OVER LOOKING GUATEMALA CITY!
FELIZ DIA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA GUATEMALA! :)
Have a Fancy Day!
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Batrachoseps nigriventris, Black-bellied Slender Salamander
This little salamander lives under rotten boards, or logs and in the cracks in the soil.
Diet includes small bugs, larva, earthworms, slugs, aphids and other small prey.
You'll seldom see this little animal in the open unless it's a rainy day as they need cool moist conditions that rotting wood or decaying leaves afford. So you might find it as you're cleaning out a drainage pipe that was clogged with leaves and debris.
Eggs are commonly laid under rocks, boards or logs in moist shady spots. As adults they rarely move more than 1-2 meter(5 ft.) from where they were born.
They are eaten by skunks, raccoons, foxes, snakes, moles and numerous other animals.
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Raising Pigs -
5 Tips on the Needed Conditions to House and Breed Pigs For a
Apart from raising
cows, sheep, and goats, raising pigs is also a profitable business
and a meaningful hobby to do. Many farmers nowadays have realized
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In one of my many jobs I had to look over thousands upon thousands of staff records. I learnt many things. Among them was that plenty of those staff who had had significant time off for stress or other mental problems not only returned to their old jobs and performed satisfactorily but went on to success and promotion. Before this I had believed in my heart of hearts that a month off for stress was about the limit. Anything more than that and the person was a write-off in terms of doing any useful work ever again, although it might not be politic to admit it.
Perhaps not by coincidence a month off for stress was about the limit of what had befallen anyone I knew well enough to be told about it. Since I began to think more deeply about this issue I have twigged that other people I know have almost certainly had bouts of mental illness they did not make public. My impression is that the libertarian and intellectual types likely to be reading this are more likely than average to have experienced mental illness.
There is a lot to agree with in what the Mental Health Foundation says about mental illness – it is common, most people who experience it either get better or can manage it, it need not be a barrier to success in many fields, public fear of the mentally ill is out of all proportion to the risk they actually present.
I just wish they wouldn’t over-egg the pudding. These words from the Mental Health Foundation article I linked to above are typically evasive:
Many people believe that people with mental ill health are violent and dangerous, when in fact they are more at risk of being attacked or harming themselves than harming other people.
Pardon me, but the fact that the mentally ill are more at risk of being attacked or harming themselves than of harming other people says nothing whatsoever about the absolute level of risk that they will harm other people.
Annoyingly, the Mental Health Foundation didn’t have to raise my hackles by indulging in this common evasion. The absolute risk that a mentally ill person will attack you is very low. It is higher than the risk that a non-mentally ill person will attack you, but only slightly. I don’t have the numbers to hand, but I have seen them and that is the position. Why the Mental Health Foundation cannot just show some confidence in their own position and give the numbers I do not know, unless it is that to acknowledge the obvious truth that, yes, a very small minority of mentally ill people really can be dangerous would mess up their nice simple victimhood and “anti-discrimination” agenda.
As a libertarian, I think all forms of discrimination should be legal, including those I find irrational or even morally abhorrent, but put that aside. The link correctly says,
The Equality Act 2010 makes it illegal to discriminate directly or indirectly against people with mental health problems in public services and functions, access to premises, work, education, associations and transport.
It is not illegal to discriminate against people with mental health problems when appointing someone to a job, promoting them, or firing them. There is a movement afoot that it ought to be. Many compassionate people, correctly perceiving that discrimination against those who are suffering or have suffered mental illness is often irrational and hard-hearted, are being edged towards supporting a move to make it a crime.
That movement had a setback the other day. A JetBlue pilot suffered a meltdown and had to be restrained by passengers at the request of the co-pilot, who had locked him out of the cabin. Scary. Also memorable and quotable in debate.
Wishing the pilot well for the future is not incompatible with a firm belief that it would be irresponsible to allow him back at the controls of an airliner. There are also a good many less dramatic situations in which an employee being mentally ill ought justly to be grounds for reassignment or dismissal. A pretence this is not so harms the interests of mentally ill people. There is little an organisation fears more than taking on an employee who turns out to be “trouble” and there are good reasons for this fear. That was another thing I learnt from my thousands upon thousands of personnel records. One came to dread the thick files; the ones trailing stapled-on appendices and confidential notes directing you to yet other files; files that bulged with long, messy, sad stories of warnings and final warnings and appeals and getting the union involved and even the union giving up and offloading the troublemaker onto some other department only for it all to start up again.
If ever discrimination on the grounds of mental illness does become illegal, or even publicly unacceptable, be sure it will continue to be practised in secret – and the secrecy will make it more unfair. Instead of basing their assessment of suitability on the plain answers to plain questions in application forms, they will go by code words, or a quiet (and often slanderous) word in confidence at the canteen.
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Patrick Stevenson has been awarded the DAAD Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize
03 November 2009 — 03 November 2009
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
This year's Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) goes to the internationally renowned British Germanist Professor Patrick Stevenson. The prize includes €10,000 and a four-week research visit to a German university. The DAAD's president, Professor Stefan Hormuth, will hand over the prize in Bonn on 3 November 2009, in the presence of the rector of the university of Bonn, Professor Jürgen Fohrmann, and distinguished honorary guests. Patrick Stevenson is the Professor of German and Linguistic Studies at the University of Southampton and is its Head of Research in Modern Languages. He is one of the most prominent and versatile German linguists throughout the non-German-speaking regions of Europe.
He gained international recognition through the standard-setting publication "Variation in German: A Critical Approach to German Sociolinguistics" (1990, German Edition 1998) which he co-authored with Stephen Barbour. His book "Language and German Disunity: A Sociolinguistic History of East and West in Germany, 1945-2000" (2002) contains an extensive and critical treatise of the linguistic aspects of the division and unity of Germany. The main focus of his research is on the politics of language in Germany and issues relating to the role of the German language in preserving and promoting national and ethnic identities in ‘post-national' Europe. Patrick Stevenson has acquired a high standing in the British professional community and beyond. He has made valuable contributions to profiling and networking German linguistic research in the fields of international sociolinguistics and general linguistics.
The annual Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize of the DAAD is awarded to non-German scientists, academics and researchers for their outstanding contributions to German literature and language studies, German as a foreign language, and German cultural studies. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the prize, which is awarded to honour those who have made particular contributions to international academic cooperation and cultural understanding through their teaching and research activities outside Germany.
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Republican senators want to spend less on education next year than their House counterparts, a development that has Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue spitting mad.
Senate Republicans on Tuesday began public discussions of the changes they want to make to the $19.3 billion budget the House passed last week.
Senators responsible for working on the detailed education budget released a target for spending that is lower than the House plan. The Senate is looking to spend about $10.62 billion on K-12 public schools, community colleges and the UNC system, or about $40 million less than the House approved. The UNC system would get $87 million more out of the Senate, but community colleges and K-12 public schools would get less.
The community college budget target is about $21 million below the House budget, and the K-12 target is about $106 million lower than the House plan.
Senate leader Phil Berger said the Senate's budget total would be somewhat smaller than the House proposal. The goal is to have the state live within its means, he said, by keeping spending in line with revenues and eliminating the temporary 1-cent sales tax increase.
"Our goal is to do what we told the voters we were going to do," he said.
Republican legislators are trying to deal with a budget shortfall estimated at $1.9 billion to $2.5 billion. They have vowed to let expire a temporary sales tax increase and an income tax surcharge.
The Senate spending goals did not go over well with Democrats, most of whom thought the House budget was bad.
Perdue spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson described Perdue's reaction as "shocked, disappointed, disgusted."
"It clearly moves North Carolina backward," she said. "It would put us close to if not dead last in the country in our education investment. And that is not a place the Tar Heel state can afford to be in and still expect to lead the South in being one of the most progressive, one of the most innovative, one of the best states in which to live and work."
Senate Minority Leader Martin Nesbitt said the education cuts, on top of cuts in previous years and the loss of federal stimulus money is "just a death blow."
Republicans are making changes to a "state that's fundamentally progressive and they're trying to take us to one that's cheap," Nesbitt said.
Perdue proposed a budget that would keep part of the sales tax increase. Nesbitt said the state could avoid deep cuts by extending the 1-cent increase another year.
North Carolina is 46th in the nation in per pupil spending on public education, according to the National Education Association, a teachers union.
"We are destroying the public school system of this state," he said. "Period."
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Texas woman dies after drinking from contaminated can
A North Texas woman died after drinking from a soda can. The bacteria, known as Leptosira, stuck to the tin can. Test results showed that dried rat urine, containing Leptospirosis, was the cause of death.
“It comes from different animals that are infected with this bacteria, such as mice, raccoons and skunks,” said Florida A&M University professor Dr. Patty Ghazvini. “Be aware of signs and the symptoms that can occur with this illness. They are very similar to flu-like symptoms such as chills, high fever and muscles aches.”
Cans are usually stored in warehouses and delivered directly to retail stores without cleaning. This disease can lead to kidney damage, meningitis and eventually death. Officials highly recommended rinsing all over a can before drinking it.
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I have written about using icebreakers before in a blog entry entitled Using Icebreakers Purposefully in Sunday School/Small Groups. Icebreakers serve some of the same purposes that "hooks" do with Bible study groups. My blog entry entitled Hooks: Launching Powerful Sunday School Lessons lists three from Glenn Brooke:
- Get their attention and interest.
- Generate expectations.
- Set up the key elements of the lesson to be relevant to the individual.
- HELPING A NEW GROUP GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER. Until there are trusting relationships, there is very little indepth sharing. Icebreakers can help them talk about lighter, fun topics which make them more comfortable to begin getting to know one another. In fact, early in the group the icebreakers will likely be directed more toward fun, personal sharing.
- HELPING NEW MEMBERS TO INTEGRATE INTO A GROUP. The same applies when a guest or new member joins the group. Until they get to know the group and vice versa, discussion will tend to be more superficial. Icebreakers can help the guest/new member to know and trust those already attending and vice versa.
- HELPING PEOPLE FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE. In general, icebreakers help most people laugh, share, and feel at home with the group. When they feel more comfortable, they are more likely to ask questions and share concerns. They are more likely to learn and to change as a result of the experience.
- ENCOURAGING COOPERATION. Icebreakers are intended to be sharing experiences between individuals and the group or pairs, triads, or small groups. Some icebreakers lead participants to work together, to listen to one another, and/or report about the other(s) in the experience. This interaction, again, leads to greater relationships and trust.
- ENCOURAGING LISTENING TO OTHERS. Whether sharing something funny or personal, icebreakers pique interest and listening. Listening is a skill that can be learned and pays dividends in small groups and ensuing relationships.
- ENCOURAGING WORKING TOGETHER. Icebreakers require working together whether simply in listening, or listening to report about what the partner said, or working together to accomplish some simple task. This reinforces the cooperation, trust, and interaction.
- ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO BREAK OUT OF THEIR CLIQUES. Cliques form quickly. Icebreakers can help people to get to know new or other people in new ways. It can help people to branch out beyond those they know best. It can open up relationships in class and beyond.
- BUILDING RAPPORT WITH LEADERS. It is important that leaders participate in ic ebreakers as well. The group needs to trust the leader in order to follow the leader. In addition, the example of the leader in sharing and being transparent goes miles toward helping the group to be willing to do the same.
- CREATING A GOOD ATMOSPHERE FOR LEARNING AND PARTICIPATION. One of the great benefits of icebreakers is that everyone participates and shares. When everyone talks early in the group time, they are more likely to freely share later in the session, even on deeper subjects.
The blog entry by Knox offers some suggestions for icebreakers which could work with adult groups as well. He has written a second edition entitled Breaking More Ice -- 10 More Icebreakers for Small Groups. Consider using them during Bible study sessions as well as during fellowship times. Don Bromley has listed thirty icebreakers in a helpful resource simply entitled Getting to Know You. Check it out. Consider how you can use icebreakers in your group. Be revolutionary!
For more ideas about teaching and icebreakers, check out these blog posts:
- Five Suggestions for Using Icebreakers Well in Sunday School/Small Groups
- Creating a Safe Zone for Discussion in Sunday School/Small Groups, Part 1 and Creating a Safe Zone for Discussion in Sunday School/Small Groups, Part 2
- Dealing with a Sunday School Dominator, Part 2
- The Big Four to Be a Sticky Sunday School Class, Part 2
- Keys to Increasing Verbal Participation in Sunday School
- Sunday School at Work During the Other 167 Hours, Part 1
- Sunday School/Small Groups: Where Everybody Knows Your Name, Part 1
- Revolutionary Teachers Capture Attention and Refuse to Let It Go!
- Benchmarks for Excellence in Sunday School Teaching, Part 2
- Shifting from Boring to Exciting in Sunday School
- Generating Excitement about Learning in Sunday School, Part 1
- Blessings and Dangers from Coteaching Sunday School
- Sunday School Teacher, You Are in Charge of Keeping Your Learners’ Attention!< /li>
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Americans Losing Sleep Over the Economy
March 1, 2009
One-third of Americans are losing sleep over the state of the U.S. economy and other personal financial concerns, according to the National Sleep Foundation's 2009 Sleep in America™ poll. The poll, which surveyed a random sample of 1,000 adults at least 18 years of age, also found that those in good health who are getting enough sleep are two times as likely to work efficiently, exercise or eat healthy as those in poor health. “It’s easy to understand why so many people are concerned over the economy and jobs, but sacrificing sleep is the wrong solution,” said David Cloud, CEO of the National Sleep Foundation. “Sleep is essential for productivity and alertness and is a vital sign for one’s overall health.” As experts predict that the U.S. economic situation may get worse in 2009, the National Sleep Foundation encourages Americans to maintain good sleep, exercise and diet routines to help combat anxiety and improve health and productivity. People should speak with their doctor if they are experiencing sleep problems.
- Read the full press release.
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Five Various Exceptional Conduct to Look at India’s Uncultivated Far East
India can be a country of extreme diversities; a boiling point of various religions, ethnicity and natural landscapes. It can be hard for your traveler to obtain a grip about India in just one trip. Instead, you need numerous years of be in the land to fully comprehend the phenomenon that’s India. But the web has created the folks of the universe smarter, and from now on, all kinds of things is obtainable with the click of your mouse.
But, Mother Nature is really so vast and amazing, that it’s always a pleasure to get a writer to write down about something exotic or unusual. Coming back to India, this special post offers understanding of India’s little secret, a land of virgin rain-forests, remote mountain passes and delightful indigenous people. This could be the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, situated for the far northeast of the United States, and guarded by forces of natural elements and proximity to international borders with three countries. Point about this region remains unexplored, which makes it a wanted destination for naturalists and adventurous explorers. For the offbeat traveler, a number of the thrills of Arunchal Pradesh are Illustrator Certification:
1. Extreme white water rafting and kayaking – Blessed with numerous mountain rivers that possess within them thunderous rapids that happen to be regarded as among the list of deadliest on the planet, rafting here has changed into a much wanted ambition for any pros of the world.
2. Tribal Culture – Areas has essentially the most diverse cultural habitation perfectly located at the world. A residence to about fifteen major tribal groups and many sub-tribes who live animistic lifestyles, meeting and getting this done these tribal people is a expertise in forever which connects you to nature and supplies you a better understanding concerning the world we are in. One can possibly expect colorful ceremonies and interesting folk tales ACE Certification.
3. Biodiversity Hotspot – Arunachal lies right on the center of Eastern Himalayan Biodiversity Hot-spot as well as Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot that makes it a really significant ecological region around the globe. A lot of the forests remain unexplored and undocumented, and news of recent species being found occur every couple of years. Many species are endemic to the region and occur nowhere else on earth. Some tour operators organize exploratory tours for researches and biologists, a “must do” for the people searching for extreme escapes.
4. Trekking – Arunachal is actually a delight for hikers as it offers a number of landscapes. One can experience high mountain hikes, or fight over the hard terrains of tropical rain-forests. Someone can also follow the tribal routes and find they becoming friends while using local tribesmen.5. Angling – The Mountain Rivers aren’t only an origin of entertainment for that die-hard rafter, but will also a delight for your anglers on the planet, who flock the region every winter, to hook the much prized, preferred, and extremely tricky to catch fish, named the Himalayan Golden Masher Premiere Certification.
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White House Rolls Out the Welcome Mat for the Religious Right
To say that the Religious Right has been opposed to Barack Obama’s presidency from the moment he was elected would be something of an understatement.
Since taking office, the Right has opposed just about every aspect of his agenda, from his choice of nominees to the economic stimulus legislation. But nothing has outraged them more than reversals of President Bush’s stem cell and “Mexico City” policies.
When Obama reversed the Mexico City policy, the Family Research Council lashed out, saying that while he was for “banning the torture of terrorists” he was signing “an order that exports the torture of unborn children around the world” and that because of his action “U.S. taxpayers will be forced to take part in exporting a culture of death.” Concerned Women for America likewise claimed that the moved “offends the morality of millions of Americans, funds abortion efforts in countries where abortion is illegal, and breaks a campaign promise to reduce abortions” and also asked why he was “concerned about the higher moral ground with the terrorists who murder for ‘Allah,’ and yet you won’t honor and obey Christ and defend the defenseless unborn baby.”
When Obama reversed the stem cell policy, CWA’s Wendy Wright called it “politics at its worst,” saying it was “driven by hype" and "fuels the desperation of the suffering, and financially benefits those seeking to strip morality from science” while FRC said it was “yet another deadly executive order” and “a slap in the face to Americans who believe in the dignity of all human life.”
Given that FRC’s and CWA’s stance regarding life issues is to vehemently oppose anything that does not move the country toward curtailing, and eventually outlawing, of reproductive choice, what is the Obama administration’s best option for dealing with such groups?
Why, inviting them to White House for a discussion on how to reduce the need for abortion, of course:
The Brody File has learned that conservative Evangelical groups will meet with the head of the White House Faith-Based Office on Tuesday.
Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council will meet with Joshua DuBois, the man who leads the administration’s office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Wendy Wright, the president of CWA reached out to the Obama administration and they responded by inviting CWA and some of these other conservative Evangelical groups to The White House. The meeting plans to focus on the need to reduce abortions in the country and on responsible fatherhood programs. Also present at the meeting will be Tom McClusky, Senior Vice-President of the Family Research Council as well as representatives from the Christian Medical Association and Care Net, a pro-life Evangelical pregnancy crisis group.
Wendy Wright from CWA sends the following via email to The Brody File:
“The Obama administration says they want to be inclusive and represent all Americans. The White House faith-based office is now tasked with reducing the number of abortions – something that pro-life groups have very good experience in accomplishing. Pregnancy resource centers and regulations on abortion have a terrific track record in helping women choose alternatives to abortion. Funding abortion or abortion providers is one of the worst things that could be done. What the government funds, we get more of. We hope to begin a dialogue that results in policies which actually work, not just financially benefit certain interest groups like abortion providers.”
If the Obama administration thinks that it is going to win support for anything that it does on this issue from groups like CWA and FRC, it is sorely mistaken … which is something they will presumably learn once this meeting takes place.
These are not moderate, open-minded groups looking for common ground – they are militant, anti-choice groups committed to, above all, making abortion illegal everywhere and for everyone, with no exceptions.
It is hard to understand what the administration expects to gain by meeting with such groups to discuss efforts to reduce abortion considering that the only option such groups support is to outlaw them entirely.
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Far be it from me to gross you out over your Wheaties. But there may be bedbugs in your library books.
Denver Public Library has banned one of its most avid users for spreading the tiny insects in volumes of obscure literature that he borrows each week.
Three times since Sept. 3, the city has quarantined and fumigated four areas of its main branch. Thirty-one books have been destroyed in efforts to contain the infestation of bugs and their larvae and droppings.
The problem threatens books not only in Denver's system, but those in libraries throughout Colorado.
"It's everybody's collections and everybody's homes at risk," says Tom Scott, manager of security and safety.
"This is one hot mess," adds library spokeswoman Celeste Jackson. "Our biggest concern is that people understand how seriously we're taking this. We're hopeful that we've contained it. But this guy isn't exactly our ideal customer."
That customer is Roger Goffeney, 69, who happens to have made it his life's mission to preserve books. He's a zealous participant in the Gutenberg Project, a worldwide effort to archive printed books online.
Goffeney borrows tomes of classic literature from the library — as well as from libraries at universities and in other counties using Denver's system as an intermediary. Then he "reviews" the books — not actually reading them but comparing hard copies to online versions to ensure that his fellow Gutenberg volunteers have scanned them completely.
The retired poet and minister lives at Cathedral Plaza, a downtown apartment complex owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver. He says the building is infested.
"They skip, hop and jump," he says of insects that swarmed the borrowed books he stacks on the floor next to his bed.
"I deal only with classic literature. I don't deal with stuff recommended by Oprah Winfrey," he notes with an arrogance that's striking for a guy scourged with winged pests that feed on the blood of humans.
Library officials canceled Goffeney's privileges when they discovered bugs and their residue inside books he borrowed. They asked him to bag his outstanding books and hand them back outside the library rather than through the drop slot.
"He flat-out refuses to cooperate and has recontaminated the facility. At this point, it's an intentional act," says Scott, who notes this is the first known bedbug infestation in his 34 years working library security.
Crews have resprayed twice and will continue to fumigate for newly hatched nymphs at a cost that's expected to rise to $6,000.
"We're trying to understand the extent of the problem to keep this from spreading exponentially," Jackson says.
Replacing the 31 rare books that so far have been destroyed could cost as much as $12,000 for a city agency already facing serious budget cuts.
The thin man with the gray beard showed up in The Denver Post lobby Monday to complain about his criminal charge for trespassing at the library. He's also indignant that the system has "unfairly" banned him, fined him and, even worse, dared to destroy books.
"It's horrific," he says.
Goffeney takes no responsibility for the blight, nor for fines he says should be paid by his lousy landlord. He sees little irony in the fact that his efforts to save world literature have resulted in book burning.
"Huh . . .," he says. "I guess I've never thought of it like that."
Susan Greene writes Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Reach her at 303-954-1989 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Pope John Paul II has awarded control of an important Catholic cultural center in Jerusalem to a controversial, right-wing priestly order whose founder has been accused of sexual abuse.
The order, the Legionaries of Christ, received the administrative keys to the Jerusalem landmark, the Notre Dame Center, in a festive ceremony at the Vatican on November 30. The ceremony was part of a weeklong Vatican celebration marking the 60th anniversary of the entry into the priesthood of the order's Mexican-born founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, 84.
In an unusual twist, a church legal official disclosed less than a week later that a Vatican canon-law prosecutor was reopening the dormant investigation into abuse charges against Maciel. He had been accused in 1976 of sexually abusing seminarians in Mexico and in Spain in the 1950s and '60s.
Eight former members of the order filed formal charges against him in the Vatican in 1998, but the investigation was put on hold a year later by the Vatican's top theologian, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
Maciel and his order have denied the charges repeatedly.
The Notre Dame Center in Jerusalem, a palatial structure at the foot of Jaffa Road, facing the walls of the Old City just outside Jaffa Gate, was built by a French order a century ago as a pilgrims' hostel. Taken over by the Vatican in 1970, it now houses a conference center, a school of tourism and hotel management, the public library of the Pontifical Mission for Palestine and a 150-bed hotel. It also houses administrative offices of several institutions linked to the local Catholic church, the so-called Latin Patriarchate, which represents mainly Arabic-speaking Catholics in Israel and the territories.
The center frequently hosts conferences exploring religious aspects of the Middle East conflict as well as Christian ties to Jerusalem, and is regarded as a key link between the Vatican and the Palestinians. The center has been "an important employer of Palestinians and a symbol of the Holy See's support of the local church," said Sister Elaine Kelley, an American nun active in a support organization for Palestinian Christians that held a conference there last April. Kelley said she was "surprised" by the transfer of the center to the Legionaries of Christ.
In November, during the weeklong ceremonies in Rome celebrating Maciel and granting him the Notre Dame keys, the pope praised the Mexican priest's "constant concern for an integral promotion of the person" and his "spiritual and missionary fruitfulness" over the years in promoting "family and human values." The ceremonies also saw the ordination of 59 new legionary priests.
Maciel founded the Legionaries of Christ in Mexico in 1941, promoting a militant spirituality that appealed to a generation of beleaguered Catholics that had witnessed bloody anti-clerical persecutions of the sort that Graham Greene wrote about in his novel "The Power and the Glory."
In 1946 Maciel traveled to Spain and Italy, winning support from the government of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and reportedly receiving a personal blessing from Pope Pius XII.
Maciel called for re-evangelizing the Catholic Church, to restore orthodoxy as a bulwark against Communism. With help from the Spanish foreign ministry and unusual skill at private fund raising from wealthy benefactors, he opened seminaries, several universities and elite prep schools in Mexico, Chile, Europe and America.
The order today is relatively small, claiming some 500 priests and 2,500 seminarians in some 20 countries. Its annual budget, however, is some $60 million, roughly a quarter that of the Holy See itself.
In 1949 Maciel founded a lay group, Regnum Christi ("Christ's Kingdom), as a "companion movement" to his legion. The movement claims 65,000 members around the world.
Like older orders such as the Jesuits and Franciscans, Maciel's legionaries take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Unlike the others, the legion demands a special vow never to speak ill of Maciel or of other superiors, and to inform on those who do.
Several former members of the order have spoken of Maciel's attraction to the authoritarian doctrines of Franco, the Spanish fascist leader.
"Franco was held out to us as a hero, and we were to be like soldiers following Maciel," said Jose Barba, who left the legion in 1962 and helped spearhead the 1998 Vatican abuse suit. "We were told he was a living saint. We were taught to call him Nuestro Padre" ("our father").
Juan Vaca, a professor of psychology at Mercy College and one of the complainants in the Vatican suit, said that Maciel "admired Hitler as a military man. He admired Francisco Franco. He told us to salute each other, saying 'Heil, Jesus.'"
Vaca entered the legion at age 10 in Mexico, but left in 1976 to become a diocesan priest on Long Island. That year, with the help of a local bishop, he sent his first letter to the Vatican, accusing Maciel of abusing him and other men.
The Vatican took no action on the charges in 1976, nor in 1989 when Vaca sent another petition as he left the priesthood to marry. The formal complaint in 1998 led to the opening of an inquiry, but it was tabled a year later without formal explanation.
Ratzinger, head of the Vatican office that monitors theologians and judges complaints against priests, reportedly told a Mexican bishop in 2001 that the charges created a "delicate" situation because Maciel had done much good for the church.
The legion has been banned by local bishops from operating in several American cities because of its allegedly cultlike methods. This past December, Archbishop Harry Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis banned the legion in a letter to the order's national director, the Rev. Anthony Bannon. "Our pastors continue to sense that a 'parallel church' is being encouraged," Flynn wrote, "one that separates persons from the local parish and archdiocese and creates competing structures." The letter was posted on the archdiocese Web site.
"As a result," Flynn wrote, "I have decided that Legionary priests are not to be active in any way in the archdiocese."
A legion spokesman told Catholic News Service that the order planned to "listen to [Flynn] and continue to dialogue."
Two years earlier, in 2002, the legion was banned from the diocese of Columbus, Ohio, by Bishop James Malone, who investigated the order and Regnum Christi after receiving complaints from parishioners about secret meetings and divisive tactics.
The legion's 25 American schools are mostly in affluent suburbs. Discipline is strict. At the legion's Donnellan school in Atlanta, the principal and three staffers were fired in 2000 and escorted off the grounds by police after questioning the direction of school policy. Among other things, the guidance counselor reportedly had refused to tell a legion priest what children were sharing in therapy.
The four who were dismissed sued and settled for $375,000. A number of families withdrew their children afterward.
"The legion has the classic symptoms of a cult," said Sue Youngerman, who withdrew her child. "They separate themselves from other people and consider it okay to be dishonest because they think they have a higher purpose."
Youngerman said her daughter "went to a girls club meeting and was told not to tell her parents about it."
Despite the controversies, Maciel and his legion continue to enjoy support from influential Catholics, including former Reagan aide William Bennett, Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and the editor of the conservative First Things magazine, Rev. Richard John Neuhaus.
Mel Gibson held a special screening of "The Passion of the Christ" at the legion seminary in Rome, and had legionaries as advisers on the film.
In Los Angeles, a parents group led by Steve McEveety, who produced Gibson's "Passion," is reportedly searching for property to build a new legion school.
The legion's most important support, however, continues to come from the Vatican. Since winning a blessing from Pius XII in 1946, Maciel's legion has gone on to receive a papal Decree of Praise, equivalent to formal recognition as an order, from Pope Paul VI in 1965 and further validation from John Paul II in 1983 and again this past November. Maciel himself has accompanied John Paul II during each of his visits to Mexico in 1979, 1990 and 1993, and has been appointed to numerous papal commissions.
Maciel stepped down last week as leader of the legion, citing his age, according to the Catholic news agency Zenit.
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A plan to change the way Florida trains teachers could force education majors to spend an extra semester in school to get a degree and drive students away from the profession at a time when teachers are scarce, higher education officials warned on Friday.
The change means that as of fall 2001, all new education students must take 45 credits -- compared to the 36 required now -- in subjects like math, science and English..
The new state rule, approved earlier this week by the Cabinet acting as the state Board of Education, also specifies how many credits must be taken in each area.
A task force on teacher preparation recommended the new rules, which are aimed at turning out teachers better able to handle the challenges of the classroom.
But with the state facing a critical shortage of teachers and enrollment in education programs falling, the move could backfire, University System Chancellor Adam Herbert said on Friday.
"The bottom line is that the program is so prescriptive now there's very little room for students to have any flexibility at all," Herbert said. Coupled with low teacher salaries in Florida, "we may face a major challenge recruiting new teachers," Herbert said.
The change affects state-approved teacher education programs at 29 public and private colleges in Florida. It would not apply to students who get education degrees in other states.
Several regents said they want the board to consider filing an administrative challenge to the new rule. Normally, the regents approve policy changes, which must be approved by the state Board of Education. In this case, the regents never considered the change.
By law, no state university program should require more than 120 credit hours for a degree.
There are some majors, including engineering and music education, that have special permission to require more, but Herbert warned a change could require all education majors to take up to 10 more credits, nearly an extra semester, to get degrees.
Welcom Watson, a regent from Fort Lauderdale, said the state should help students pay for the extra credits.
"We ought to somehow have scholarships for these extra hours," Watson said.
Susan Timmons, assistant director of instructional development for Broward County schools, said new teachers often say they don't feel prepared for the rigors of the classroom, especially in big-city school districts.
"I'm concerned about the impact on recruitment, but I want to make sure teachers are qualified, too," Timmons said.
But focusing on specific courses is not necessarily the best way to prepare teachers, said Robert Clark, dean of the College of Education at Florida State University.
By making the requirements more rigid and adding extra credits, Clark said, "you're making [teaching] almost like a religion where you have to be called to it to want to get over all these hurdles."
Karla Schuster can be reached at email@example.com or 954-356-4515.
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Marc Basnight, president pro tempore of the North Carolina state Senate and “one of the most powerful political figures in the state” has circulated a letter opposing the proposed changes to the state’s U.S. history standards.
The current standards draft eliminates American history prior to 1877 from the history course taken by North Carolina 11th graders. Basnight is “absolutely opposed to any change that would limit the study to the years proposed….[N]o one should graduate from high school without a thorough understanding of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers, the writing of the Constitution, and the personalities involved. Furthermore, it is my belief that only high school students have the capacity to understand complex and awful parts of our nation’s history such as slavery and the Civil War.”
A relevant bit of North Carolina history: in 2006, the Fordham Institute concluded that North Carolina’s U.S. history standards “[do] not [constitute] a U.S. history education in any sense” and gave the standards an F. Now they’re trying to make them even worse!
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WSI Grant | VideoAlex Hagan | 1/8/2013
Chris Key owns Keys Crane Service and has helped builders put up houses for 10 years. He has never witnessed a serious workplace injury, but in the construction business, he knows it could happen at any time, especially in a booming community. "Brings newer contractors in town which increases the risk."
Workforce Safety and Insurance reported just under 25,000 claims in the 2012 fiscal year, which was a 25 percent increase from the year before. And WSI expects more in the coming years.
"We`re projected for this year, 2013 fiscal year which ends in June, to be up over 26,000 claims," said Director Bryan Klipfel.
The majority of the claims have come from workers who don`t have much experience in that specific field. Nearly half of all injured workers between 2007 and 2011 were on the job for less than a year.
"They might not also be acquainted with the actual facilities, the type of heavy equipment used, anything down to the use of personal protective equipment," said Kari Cutting with the North Dakota Petroleum Council.
There will be $148,000 given for a safety and training program.
"We worked with these associations to try to enforce safety and a lot of times we can provide dollars to them," Klipfel said.
WSI employees say that 29 people were killed on the job in the last fiscal that ended in July, but North Dakota Petroleum Council employees say whether it`s in construction or in the energy sector, this new grant could bring down that number.
"These transfer knowledge transfer trainings could lead to as much as a 10 percent reduction in the type of by those hired," Cutting said.
Key is already taking some steps to ensure worker safety. "I just do a short tailgate, maybe when we arrive, talk about the lifts we`re going to take and where they are going to be made."
This new grant may be a step in the right direction to help bring down workplace injuries.
The goal of the grant is provide a program to train 480 participants on safety awareness.
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Sport Fish Restoration Program
Autumn is gaining on us…and no self-respecting Texan would ever allow an entire summer to go by without spending time in or on the water. Fortunately, state parks provide many opportunities for both.
Inks Lakes State Park near Burnet offers first-time boaters a chance to take part in their basic canoe skills clinic, which prepares participants for the Devil’s Waterhole Canoe Tour at the same site.
Already a skilled paddler? Then make tracks – or is that waves – to any Texas inland or coastal paddling trail. These trails provide well-mapped accessible day trips in a variety of settings, for all levels of paddling experience.
Anglers will gain a new perspective on their sport by casting a line from a kayak or canoe. It’s simple to do.
And, what’s better than being neck-deep in cool water on a hot summer’s day? No matter where you live in Texas, there’s a state park with a lake, river or creek, or ocean just waiting for you to dive in.
Find links to information about the opportunities I mentioned today when you log onto passporttotexas.org.
That’s our show…with support from the Sport Fish Restoration Program…working to increase fishing and boating opportunities in Texas.
For Texas parks and wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.
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Many media outlets have done interviews with members of the clergy regarding the cultural issues of the day. It is truly amazing how they attempt to label the many crises we are facing today without looking in the mirror: it’s the unemployment rate, the welfare system, the education system, yadda yadda yadda.
Let me be clear, I have a great amount of respect for many members of the clergy. However, there are a great many who should be doing all within their power to heal the soul of America and instead they seem to be striking the final blows.
Barack Obama isn’t a member of the clergy, but he has astonishingly failed the Black community. With a 14.2% soaring unemployment rate that eclipses the rate for other demographic groups in the country, and a message that capitalizes on division rather than healing, I just can’t understand why so many continue to rally around him. Worse, where are the clergy? Where are the men and women of God who are supposed to be preaching love instead of hate? Healing instead of crucifixion?
Sure, I understand that by writing this article I am opening myself up to all kinds of criticism, but some things just need to be said. Here’s the skinny from my point of view:
Constitutional compromise didn’t work out: slavery
The history of slavery in America is a terrible scar upon an otherwise noble nation. I acknowledge that and never would minimize it in any way, shape or form. I’ll go a bit further, it’s hard for me to understand how our Founders who loved liberty could justify enslaving others. I don’t want to hear the argument that it was part of the cultural environment. It was wrong and it was hypocritical. Some of the same men who wrote “all men are created equal” owned slaves. It’s indefensible. They compromised when they wrote the Constitution and had the opportunity to end slavery in America. They didn’t do it. A wise friend once said that the road to hell is paved with compromise. I believe he was right. However, I also acknowledge that there were thousands upon thousands who laid down their lives in the Civil War so others could be free – a point that is often overlooked in Black theology.
Are the clergy misplacing their hope?
A cross, a Bible, and an ancient symbol from a time when Christians met literally underground. Graphic art courtesy Microsoft Corporation. Used to illustrate a faith that some clergy might have forgotten.
Here’s the point. Hope being placed in a human being – any human being – even a president, is hope misplaced. As a Christian I can state with affirmation that hope exists in the person of Jesus Christ. It’s a message the church has neglected to preach – and it’s a message that is needed as much today as it was back in 1860. The clergy is supposed to understand that message. But when asked about how to solve the problems the black community is facing, I’ve never heard any preacher say that the power to change and the power to clean one’s proverbial slate is possible. It’s the message of redemption that only Christ offers – it’s the “good news” or the gospel. You can be a new creature in Christ. Where hope exists, hate can be overcome.
The Bible also teaches that there should be no division between us. And it teaches that we are to forgive those who wrong us. It doesn’t teach that we are supposed to hold a grudge against one generation for the sins of another. There can be no healing in this country unless we acknowledge our national sins and forgiveness is preached. Then and only then can people rise up against poor circumstances and be all God would have them be.
So that’s my preaching for the day. Too bad you had to hear it from a housewife living in the hills of New Jersey instead of from the pulpit.
By the way, my ancestors didn’t live in America at the time slavery was accepted. They came here at the beginning of the 20th century. So, although I am repenting of the sins of this nation, my hands are clean of this particular atrocity. Healing has to start somewhere – let it start here and let it start now.
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With his pencil-thin mustache, the suave, gallant George Brent was one of Hollywood's most dependable leading men. A handsome, but never very exciting or dynamic lead, he played opposite all of Warner's greatest actresses, including Barbara Stanwyck and Olivia de Havilland he is best known for his work with Bette Davis, with whom (according to some sources) he had a lasting but secret off-screen romance. He began his career playing small roles as a child in Abbey Theater (Ireland) plays. During the Irish Rebellion he participated in subversive activities and had to be smuggled out of the country to Canada where he eventually toured with a stock company for two years, before moving on to New York. There he continued to appear with several stock companies, three of which he formed on his own. Brent then found work on Broadway in the late '20s, before heading for Hollywood to begin a career that spanned two decades. Brent was typically cast as a gentlemanly, romantic leading man (after briefly being cast in tough hero roles). He debuted in Under Suspicion (1930). He retired from the big screen in 1953, going on to star in the TV series Wire Service (1956-59). He made his final screen appearance in 1978, playing a judge in Born Again. His six wives included actresses Ruth Chatterton (with whom he co-starred in The Rich Are Always With Us, ), Constance Worth, and Ann Sheridan (with whom he appeared in Honeymoon for Three, ).
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Fort Verde State Historic Park
Five Day Schedule: This park is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The park will be open from 9 am to 5 pm on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, & Mondays. Read Press Release about this Park's five day schedule.
Fort Verde SHP is grateful for our partnership with the Town of Camp Verde and the volunteers that have continued to put forth the effort to keep Fort Verde up and running.
AmericCorps Works at Park Photo Wrap-Up Gallery
An AmeriCorps group worked at Fort Verde SHP between November 12 - 17. They worked tirelessly with our volunteers George Dvorak and Jim Worthington. We'd like to publically thank them for the great job they did! See the photos
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About the Park
Experience life through the eyes of a frontier soldier at Fort Verde State Historic Park. The fort was a base for General Crook’s U.S. Army scouts and soldiers in the 1870s and 1880s. From 1865 – 1891 Camp Lincoln, Camp Verde and Fort Verde were home to officers, doctors, families, enlisted men, and scouts. The park is the best-preserved example of an Indian Wars period fort in Arizona. Several of the original buildings still stand and living history programs are scheduled periodically, giving visitors a glimpse into Arizona’s history.
Today visitors can experience three historic house museums, all furnished in the 1880s period, that are listed on the National and State Register of Historic Places. The former Administration building houses the Visitor Center with interpretive exhibits, period artifacts from military life, and history on the Indian Scouts and Indian Wars era. The park offers picnic tables, restrooms, RV and tour bus parking, and is ADA Accessible.
The "Free 4th Friday at 5" event (January 27th, 2012) was sponsored by the Town of Camp Verde and Hold the Fort (a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to keeping Fort Verde open to the public). Nearly 160 people enjoyed Fort Verde this evening, which offered guided candlelit tours, living history presentations and instruction on historic firearms. The next 4th Friday event will be Feb. 24, 2012.
The New Territory
In 1863 the New Mexico territory was divided, creating the Arizona Territory. The new territorial Capitol was established at Prescott in 1864.
As Anglo settlers entered the rich bottom lands near the Verde River at West Clear Creek, they came into conflict with the Tonto-Apache and Yavapai Indians who were already established in the area. Farms were raided by the Indians for crops and livestock. The settlers fought back bringing about an escalation of hostilities. In May 1865, the settlers demanded military protection.
The Army Arrives
The early volunteer military units were composed of almost entirely Mexican recruits. Often marching barefoot and on half rations, they were known as fierce fighters.
In August 1865 they established a tent camp overlooking the farms at West Clear Creek. Regular U.S. Army troops relieved the Arizona Volunteers in September 1866. Camp Lincoln, the next post, was established December 1865, and was located one mile north of the present site and was used from 1866 to 1871. In 1868 the name was changed to Camp Verde.
Malaria plagued the camp so much that in 1870, the Army made the decision to move again. Construction started at the present post in 1871. All the buildings were completed by 1873. There were twenty-two buildings arranged around a parade ground. Designed to house two companies of cavalry and two of infantry, it averaged only one company of each.
Camp Verde served as a staging base for military operations in the surrounding countryside. Infantry troops built a wagon road west to Fort Whipple near Prescott and east to Fort Apache. With its construction the movement of troops and supplies improved along the Mogollon Rim (pronounced muggy-own). Later it came to be called the Crook Road after General George Crook.
Fort Verde Days, held annually, gives visitors a chance to experience life at the historic fort in the 1890s.
The Rio Verde Reservation
Federal Indian Policy centered on creating reservations as a way of controlling the Indians. The Rio Verde Reservation was established in 1873 with headquarters near present day Cottonwood. Between 1873 and 1875, nearly 1500 Indians from various bands were placed on the 800 square mile reservation. With the Army's help, Indians built an irrigation ditch and had 56 acres under cultivation in 1874.
In 1875, Congress, acting on demands from businessmen in Tucson, ordered the entire population uprooted and moved to the San Carlos Agency near modern day Globe. In cold late February, the 180-mile ten-day trek to the reservation began. It resulted in the death or disappearance of about 100 Indians, from exposure, insufficient food, and a factional fight. The former reservation was opened to miners and settlers in 1877.
Containment on Reservations
After 1875, the Army's main duty was to put and keep Indians on the San Carlos and Fort Apache reservations. The bands were spread out and mobile, and each group had their own chief making it difficult to negotiate peace. The bands were forced together on the reservation, despite tribal rivalries. Renegades frequently left the reservation. They were hunted down by patrols relying on Indian scouts led by Al Sieber.
Cibicue and Big Dry Wash
In August 1881, a nervous Indian Agent ordered the Army to arrest Nakai de Klinni, a prominent Apache medicine man. During a tense confrontation at Cibicue on the White Mountain Reservation someone fired a shot. A firefight erupted leaving six soldiers and the Apache medicine man dead. Through the winter both sides tried to preserve a shaky peace. Finally on July 6, 1882 a band of some 50 warriors jumped the reservation and began raiding throughout the Rim country. The Army, in a textbook example of concentration of force, located the renegades at Big Dry Wash, 37 miles east of Fort Verde. The resulting battle on July 17, 1882 was the last major action of the northern Apache Wars. The Big Dry Wash fight resulted in the death or return to reservations of all the renegades involved.
The Final Days
Camp Verde had been renamed Fort Verde in 1879 to signify permanence, but with the end of raids by 1882, the Post became less important. It was abandoned in 1891 to the Department of the Interior, which sold it at public auction in 1899.
The quality of Army doctors varied, some had almost no formal training, others were medical school graduates. With few effective medicines their job was a difficult one. All together, 27 doctors served at Ft.Verde. Among the more notable were Dr. Edward Palmer, Dr. Elliot Coues, and Dr. Edgar Mearns.
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Director V K Prakash is presenting an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet in his latest film Karmayogi.
'Karmayogi has been established in the feudal era and shot amidst the picturesque landscape of Kerala [ Images ]. The story revolves around traditions, relationships, wealth and combat. The movie encapsulates the loss and turmoil in a man's life, depicting heart-wrenching emotions like jealousy, suspicion, betrayal, hatred, vengeance and greed,' says the director.
Kelipathram, a traditional art form of Kerala is the backdrop for the story.
Indrajith, Thalaivasal Vijay, Padmini Kolhapure [ Images ], Nithya Menon and Saiju Kurup constitute the cast of the film.
Riza Bawa, (who won the award for the best dubbing artiste in the recently announced Kerala State film awards for Thalaivasal Vijay), is also a part of the film.
The film is scripted by Balram Mattannoor who had earlier written the script of Kaliyattam, directed by Jayaraj. Balram also intends to write scripts based on Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear.
Cinematography is done R D Rajasekhar, Ouseppachan has given the music for the film.
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|Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law|
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Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law (also known as Penn State Law) is the law school of Pennsylvania State University. Penn State Law, one of the professional graduate schools of Penn State, offers J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. degrees in law and hosts visiting scholars. The school offers a joint MBA/J.D. with the top ranked Smeal School of Business, as well as joint degrees with dozens of other Penn State University programs including the School of International Affairs. The law school operates as a unified two-location operation with facilities in both University Park, Pennsylvania and Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The two campuses operate meaningfully as a single enterprise, with a single identity, single reputation and single stature. The University Park Campus is Penn State's main campus, and it maintains over 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Carlisle, approximately 80 miles (130 km) southeast of University Park, is the original home of the law school.
The law school was opened by Judge John Reed in 1834, making it the seventh oldest law school in the United States and the oldest law school in Pennsylvania. Having merged with Penn State in 2000, it is home to over 600 law students, most of whom are earning the degrees of Juris Doctor (J.D.) or Master of Laws (LLM). Penn State Dickinson has a faculty and staff of over 100.
In June 2007 Penn State established the School of International Affairs that is intimately linked with the law school. The School of International Affairs, which offers a professional master's degree in International Affairs with several specialty concentrations, is housed administratively within the law school. The two schools share similar educational objectives and outstanding faculty including Randall Robinson.
In the most recent Pennsylvania Bar Examination, 95.83% of Penn State's first time test takers passed; graduates took the bar in 25 states and achieved an average first time pass rate of 91%; 21.43% of second time test takes passed and the overall passage rate for the school of law was 86.36%.
An independent law school since its creation in 1834, the Dickinson School of Law completed a merger with the Pennsylvania State University in 2000. By 2005, a dispute over whether to move the Dickinson School of Law to Penn State's University Park campus in State College, Pennsylvania led to a dual-campus proposal. Under this proposal, Penn State has invested over $130 million in a law school that operates out of both locations. The proposal was approved by the law school's board of trustees before the 2005-2006 academic year.
The law school has now fully merged with Penn State, and has been integrated into the University's system. Starting in the fall of 2006, the law school began offering classes at its University Park location. Ground was broken for the Lewis Katz Building on January 18, 2007. The building opened for classes in January 2009.
In January 2010, students in the Carlisle location began attending classes in the new Lewis Katz Hall and the renovated Trickett Hall. The new facilities are the designs of Polshek Partnership Architects.
Lewis Katz Building
The Lewis Katz Building in University Park, Pennsylvania, opened for classes on January 9, 2009. The $60 million, 114,000-square-foot (10,600 m2) building is the first academic facility to be built on the west side of Park Avenue, opposite from Penn State's main campus. It is adjacent to the Penn State Arboretum.
The Lewis Katz Building is LEED certified and equipped with advanced high definition digital audiovisual telecommunications capacity that enables the real-time delivery of classes and programs between the law school's Carlisle and University Park campuses and other collaborative projects and programs with schools and institutions worldwide. The second floor includes the glass-enclosed library, with a two-story information commons, four group study rooms and 11 offices among the features. Library spaces comprise about 50 percent of the building.
In 2009, Judge D. Brooks Smith used the Lewis Katz Building's courtroom to hear an oral argument to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. In addition to the courtroom, the Katz Building includes a 250-seat auditorium, four specially designed 75-person classrooms, several seminar rooms, and a highly advanced "board room" permitting electronic "face-to-face" contact with meeting participants worldwide.
Lewis Katz Hall
The centerpiece of the Carlisle building project is the addition of a new, signature Lewis Katz Hall, named in honor of the principal donor to the project, philanthropist and businessman, Lewis Katz, for his $15 million gift to the Law School. Completed in January 2010, the transition marks the end of a two-year, $52 million construction project which included the addition of the elegant, new Lewis Katz Hall which is completely interconnected with the University Park campus via the most advanced high-definition, digital audiovisual telecommunications system available.
The project included an extensive renovation of historic Trickett Hall, the Law School's home since 1918, which houses the Law School's library, named in honor of H. Laddie Montague, Jr., a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and trial attorney who has committed $4 million to the school. As a design companion to the Lewis Katz Building the Carlisle campus is renovated and rebuilt to comply with LEED standards, the facilities feature state-of-the-art classrooms, a new courtroom/auditorium, an exterior courtyard, and an environmentally friendly vegetated green roof.
Like many law schools, the first year program consists of required courses that include two semesters of research and writing. During their first year, 1Ls must complete courses in Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Criminal Procedure and Torts. Only two courses are required after completion of the first year: Professional Responsibility and a Seminar. Students' remaining credits are to be filled with electives.
The law school is nationally recognized for its Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program.
The 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile GPAs and LSAT scores of the 185 students entering the school in Fall 2012 were 3.23/3.56/3.75 and 156/159/160 respectively. They came from 3,458 applicants. There were 92 male and 72 female matriculants from 119 different colleges, 40 majors, 27 states plus District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, and four foreign countries. Their average age was 24 years, with a range of 20 to 44, and 18% were minorities.
Institutes, centers and programs
Center for the Study of Mergers & Acquisitions
Headed by Samuel C. Thompson Jr., former director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions, the center examines corporate, securities, tax, antitrust, and other legal and economic issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions. An important part of the Center's mission is to sponsor continuing legal education programs addressing these issues.
Penn State Law and the New York City Bar co-sponsor the Institute on Corporate, Securities, and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions. The Institute, which has been co-chaired by Professor Thompson and H. Rodgin Cohen of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP for a number of years, is held at the Bar's facility in New York City. Sessions provide penetrating analyses of recent developments in this very dynamic area; speakers at the Institute included some of the world's leading M&A attorneys, investment bankers, and governmental officials.
Institute for Sports Law, Policy & Research
Directed by Professor Stephen Ross, one of the nation's leading sports law scholars, the Penn State Institute for Sports Law Policy and Research is designed to:
- promote dialogue between students of sport and major industry participants
- aid scholars in policy-oriented research and facilitate the dissemination of this research to policy makers and industry participants, and
- serve as resource for journalists, lawyers and others connected about sports and public policy
The Institute is aided by an advisory board of prominent industry leaders, sports scholars from around the world, and Penn State faculty and alumni, all dedicated to advancing the study of sports. The Institute works closely with a faculty and staff from another of other disciplines on the Penn State campus, including the John Curley Center for Sports and Journalism, the Center for Sports Business Research in the Smeal College of Business, and the Departments of Kinesiology and Statistics. In addition, the Institute facilitates inter-disciplinary work with a variety of sports-interested faculty on the Penn State campus, sponsoring faculty colloquia and faculty/student reading groups. The Institute intends to feature programs that are of utmost importance to the field, including a speaker series featuring prominent industry leaders, private conferences to explore consensus approaches to difficult sports policy issues, and ongoing lectures to faculty and students.
Institute of Arbitration Law & Practice
The Penn State Institute of Arbitration Law and Practice was established in August 2005 to promote the study and scholarship of arbitration law and practice. Professor Thomas E. Carbonneau, the Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor of Law, serves as faculty director and is widely considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on international and domestic arbitration.
The Institute's publications include the World Arbitration and Mediation Review, the Smit-Carbonneau-Mistelis Guides to International Commercial Arbitration and the student publication Beyond Litigation. The Institute also sponsors student participation in moot court competitions, including the prestigious annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria, and hosts the Montreal Summer Study Program in Arbitration at the McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Affiliated Penn State faculty include William E. Butler, John Edward Fowler Professor of Law and member of the Russia International Court of Commercial Arbitration; Tiyanjana Maluwa, H. Laddie and Linda P. Montague Professor of Law; Philip J. McConnaughay, dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law; Panagiotis Takis Tridimas, professor of law and Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law at Queen Mary College, University of London.
Other Penn State law programs
The Law School also features three scholarly journals, including the Penn State Law Review, formerly the Dickinson Law Review. The Law Review was founded in 1897, and is one of the oldest continually published law school journals in the country.
The Law School maintains an extensive roster of student organizations, including:
The school also participates in a number of moot court competitions including the prestigious Willem C. Vis Moot Commercial Arbitration Moot Court, held each year in Vienna, Austria and the National Environmental Law Moot Court held at Pace University in White Plains, New York.
Students at Penn State Law are active in intramural sports program. Current intramural sports include floor hockey, indoor soccer, flag football, volleyball, basketball and bowling.
Several students are also members of rugby and softball teams. Each spring, the school sends a softball team to participate in the University of Virginia Law School Softball Tournament.
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Last night in his address, President Obama vowed to take action to not only heal the community of Newtown, but also fix a nation that has some serious shortcoming. While politics is not an excuse for not grappling with the issues of gun control, safety measures and mental health, they are hard problems to solve. And at the end of the day, we will have to turn to one another and strive as a nation to make a better and safer future.
President Obama went on to say, “You know, all the world’s religions, so many of them represented here today, start with a simple question. Why are we here? What gives our life meaning? What gives our acts purpose? … There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have for our children, for our families, for each other. “
And that is exact what we must do. Parenting magazine posted on their website a
list of various ways to help the families and community of Newtown, CT. “In the
wake of the unfathomable tragedy at Sandy Hook School Friday, people all over
the world have been aching to do something, anything to help. The following are
a few organizations that are accepting donations for the community:
1. The United Way:
“United Way extends our most sincere condolences and prayers to all those families affected by the devastating events in Newtown/Sandy Hook, Connecticut. While the eyes of the world may be on Newtown/Sandy Hook, to several staff, volunteers and contributors, Newtown is home. We will stand with the community and everyone affected directly and indirectly by this tragic event as we face the days and weeks ahead,” the United Way of Western Connecticut’s Web site says. Click here for more information or to donate online. Check donations may be mailed to: Sandy Hook School Support Fund, c/o Newtown Savings Bank, 39 Main Street, Newtown CT 06470.
2. The American Red Cross
The American Red Cross of Connecticut provided more than 50 units of blood platelets and plasma to the Danbury Hospital, where some of the victims were transported, spokesperson Melanie Pipkin told the Huffington Post. The organization has also distributed food and water to first responders and is setting up a family reception center that will provide initial grief counseling, but they do not anticipate needing any more blood donations going forward. Click here fore more information.
3. Newtown Youth and Family Services
Newtown Youth & Family Services, Inc., a nonprofit mental health clinic, will be open this weekend from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to provide emergency counseling to families, community members or staff. All donations made to the organization will benefit those affected. Find out how you can help here.
4. Newtown Parent Connection
The Newtown Parent Connection, a nonprofit that addresses issues of substance abuse, also offers bereavement group counseling and will to try to bring in additional counselors to accommodate the needs of those affected by the shooting. Click here fore more information.
New York Times "Your Money" Columnist Ron Lieber posted the following suggestion on his Facebook page this morning:
Buy the community of Newtown, CT some breakfast, lunch or dinner. You can call King's Breakfast & Lunch at 203-426-6881 or call My Place Pizza at 203-270-7061. I told them to send pizzas and give meals to whoever needs it. I just called Kings and they were unbelievably grateful. Or look on Yelp.
Once again, as President Obama commented, the best way to honor the legacy of the victims is through love. “We know we’re always doing right when we’re taking care of them, when we’re teaching them well, when we’re showing acts of kindness. We don’t go wrong when we do that.”
“Charlotte, Daniel, Olivia, Josephine, Ana, Dylan, Madeline, Catherine, Chase, Jesse, James, Grace, Emilie, Jack, Noah, Caroline, Jessica, Benjamin, Avielle, Allison, God has called them all home. For those of us who remain, let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory. “
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TRUCKEE, Calif. and#8212; Last fall, the sixth grade students of Sierra Expeditionary Learning School produced their own film, which is now receiving praise both locally and internationally.
The documentary, and#8220;Geology of California, 4,500,000,000 years in the making,and#8221; looks at the history of California's geology, as well as demonstrating how certain forces, such as tectonic plates, work to shape the state. Students spent months researching information, interviewing experts, and completing field work, along with filming and editing, to produce the short film.
The 24 students in Reenie McMains' class were challenged to produce a professional film by her husband, Doug McMains, of DougMcmains.com.
and#8220;My husband and I talked about it before the school year started. We asked and#8216;Do you think at that age they can produce a professional production?' I've been teaching sixth grade for 11 years, and have kept up with the technology a lot, and I can see what the kids can do these days and it's phenomenal,and#8221; Reenie explained. and#8220;We had (Doug) come in and talk and ask (the students) if they thought they could do it.and#8221;
and#8220;Of course we said yes,and#8221; said Cole Bumen, a member of the class.
With little-to-no prior experience producing films, the students spent the whole fall of 2011 behind the lens. They set up interviews with experts and traveled to locations to perform field work, including a three-night camping trip to Lassen Volcanic National Park.
The film, at 25 minutes long, includes interviews with geologists, experiments and digital artwork, all to explain how California has changed in the past 4.5 billion years.
and#8220;Geology of Californiaand#8221; begins with footage from the 4.8 magnitude earthquake that rolled out of south Plumas County shortly before midnight on Oct. 27, 2011, followed with members of the class recalling where they were and how it felt to experience an earthquake.
Continuing, the students meet and ask experts, such a Bill Hammond, a research professor from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, to further explain topics such as earthquakes and plate tectonics.
Using graphics, the film explains natural phenomena such as the San Andreas Fault. Through various experiments, the students show how different facets of nature work. One example of this, is when students use a hard boiled egg to demonstrate how mountains are made, when plates sway and move together, as well as when the plates move apart, creating deep canyons.
Every member of the class had a role in producing the film, whether they were involved in script writing or camera work. Bumen explained that at the beginning of the project, the class outlined everything that would go into the three production stages: pre-production, production and post production.
They then put all the steps on a white board in the classroom, and referenced that throughout the project. Students had the opportunity to sign up for whatever aspect of the film interested them the most, and then were able to participate in those areas.
and#8220;Everyone got to do what aspect of the film they wanted to,and#8221; Reenie McMains added.
The students used professional cameras and editing software to make the film. When asked what their favorite part of production was, the three students interviewed all responded that editing was the best part. The students worked over their winter break to edit the film.
and#8220;I was cool with it,and#8221; Blair Hammond said of getting his break cut into for additional school work.
and#8220;The editing took a very long time,and#8221; said Taylor Pruski, another member of the class.
and#8220;It definitely wasn't your average middle school day,and#8221; Bumen added about their time spent in the editing studio.
The film premiered this past June in Squaw Valley to an overflow crowd. Since, the film has been accepted into two film festivals: the Sacramento Music and Film Festival, 2012 Summerfest; and the Worldkids International Film Festival in Mumbai, India.
and#8220;I'll remember everything (about making the film), but the premiere stands out a lot,and#8221; Taylor said. and#8220;So many people (were there) and you feel so proud to actually accomplish something so big and have so many people see it and be wowed.and#8221;
McMains added that while the students produced the film themselves, it could not have been done with out support from their families and the community.
and#8220;We're fortunate that we had so many people in the community that were willing to give their time and expertise,and#8221; she said. and#8220;It was just phenomenal, and every piece of that was done by the kids.and#8221;
To learn more about the film and the class, contact Reenie McMains at Sierra Expeditionary Learning School at email@example.com.
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- We calculate open charm and charmonium production in Au + Au reac- tions at ps = 200 GeV within the hadron-string dynamics (HSD) transport approach employing open charm cross sections from pN and N reactions that are fitted to results from PYTHIA and scaled in magnitude to the available experimental data. Charmonium dissociation with nucleons and formed mesons to open charm (D + ¯D pairs) is included dynamically. The comover dissociation cross sections are described by a simple phase-space model including a single free parameter, i.e. an interaction strength M2 0 , that is fitted to the J/ suppression data for Pb + Pb collisions at SPS energies. As a novel feature we implement the backward channels for char- monium reproduction by D ¯D channels employing detailed balance. From our dynamical calculations we find that the charmonium recreation is com- parable to the dissociation by comoving mesons. This leads to the final result that the total J/ suppression at ps = 200 GeV as a function of centrality is slightly less than the suppression seen at SPS energies by the NA50 Collaboration, where the comover dissociation is substantial and the backward channels play no role. Furthermore, even in case that all di- rectly produced J/ mesons dissociate immediately (or are not formed as a mesonic state), a sizeable amount of charmonia is found asymptotically due to the D + ! J/ + meson channels in central collisions of Au + Au at ps = 200 GeV which, however, is lower than the J/ yield expected from f pp collis ns.
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Bacardi sells Miami Tower and Museum to YoungArts for discounted rate
In a generous gesture of philanthropy, the wine and spirit producer Bacardi has sold its Miami Bacardi Tower and Museum to the non-profit National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) at a knocked-down rate so that the organisation can set up its first national headquarters.
The complex is comprised of an eight-storey tower designed by Enrique Gutierrez and tiled with 28,000 blue and white panels by Brazilian artist Francisco Brennand, and an annex building designed by Ignacio Carrer-Justiz with glass mosaic walls created from designs by Johannes Dietz.
The pair of structures was given historic recognition by the City of Miami Preservation Board in 2009 and in recognition of the importance of its new home, YoungArts has added a new discipline of Architecture and Design to its existing discipline list.
Renowned architect Frank Gehry has been brought on by the foundation to help reimagine a new masterplan for the campus, respectful of the landmark architecture already in place. Gehry will offer a mentorship opportunity for the Architecture and Design Department at YoungArts in Miami. Gehry will work on the project with artistic advisors Placido Domingo.
Speaking on the news, Gehry declared: “I have been a mentor to some of the YoungArts students and know what a tremendous impact this organisation has on them. It’s a privilege to help make a new home for YoungArts so it can do even more for these wonderful young people.”
This sentiment was echoed by Chairman of the Board of Bacardi Limited, Facundo L. Bacardi, who said: “For nearly 50 years, these buildings have symbolised the pride of both the Bacardi family and company, reflective of their passion for producing fine premium spirits while being engaged with the very best of art and life in Miami and in helping that culture to flourish.
"I have seen the tremendous benefit in promoting the arts and Miami as a cultural hub and couldn’t be more proud to have this organisation continue the legacy of community dedication that started inside these buildings in 1963.”
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Sports brings out the best and the worst in many people. For some reason, it seems that the relevance of a sport is lost and the desire to win prevails at all costs.
Last week, I wrote an article regarding the junior high football programs in the county. The article focused mainly on the Helper Junior High team because they had just competed in their final game of the year. Mont Harmon whom Helper played did win the game and this point was brought up in the article, but because the main focus of the piece was not directed toward the winning team, we were flooded with complaints.
Since Mont Harmon had one more game on their roster, I felt that I could focus on this team specifically this week and focus on what an outstanding season the team has had. But after being bombarded with complaints for last week's article, I feel a little awkward doing so.
In the previous article, I emphasized just what a class act the Mont Harmon football team is by inviting Helper to compete on the Pirate team during their final game of the season. This offer was made to allow students to join forces just as they will when the reach Carbon High.
I have heard several different stories on how this offer was accepted. Regardless, the gesture was honorable and I believe that acts such as these go beyond the realm of sports. Acts like this makes a team a winner, not a final score or region standing. Many in the community seem to disagree however.
The majority of complaints we received were about the newspaper not shining the light on the Mont Harmon teams winning record. Yes these kids have accomplished a lot and deserve recognition. That is exactly what we are going to give them this week. For many however, one article was not acceptable because it focused more on an admirable gesture than a winning record.
There are two junior high teams in the county. The newspaper staff regrets not covering the teams as well as we should have this year, but we recognize the need for improvements and intend to do so.
Helper Junior High's football team had not had any press all season until last week. Because we covered the team, it seems that the county is divided. The Sun Advocate wants to do the opposite, we want to unite a community and if we can do so by sports, then we will. In order for us to accomplish this we must also have the support of the community, including athletes, coaches and parents who represent one team or another.
In the end, we are all Carbonites and we will all cheer for the same athletes once they get to high school.
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The Unwritten Rule Behind Apple's App Store Rejections
Tim Nash - 2008.10.02
If you want to work with someone, don't attack or try to take over part of what they think of as theirs. This is a lesson many learn at school.
If you want to have and keep a partner, you make sure that you have their agreement before moving into their area, and anyone signing the SDK and submitting an app to the store is looking for a working relationship with Apple.
The iPhone is the key product for Apple's future. It is the first really successful new computing platform since the Internet. For many, mobile computers like the iPhone will replace PCs.
If someone is given the fart app and embarrassed by it, how does that make them feel about the iPhone?
If they are embarrassed in a professional gathering, the consequences will be even worse. At the very least it will lead to even stronger corporate monitoring of the App Store and what is allowed. At the worst it will lead to sexual harassment lawsuits, with the iPhone as a highly publicised part of the evidence. IT departments, many of which don't want to support the iPhone, will then use "problem apps" like this as a further reason for delay.
Netshare from Null River, the tethering app, looks to have been rejected because of the limitations of AT&T's 3G network. The combination of large iPhone sales, an immature network (even in major urban areas), and well publicised connection problems has doomed tethering for the short term. Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal recently said that in the Washington, DC, metro area, AT&T promised to have some 800 towers ready at launch; it delivered 80.
Although it makes business sense for Apple and AT&T to support tethering when more bandwidth is available, clearly selling more iPhones and customer plans makes more business sense now.
Apple wants iTunes to be the distribution system for apps, podcasts, music, and video sales. Clearly Apple has few issues with internet music radio as Pandora, Last.fm, Virgin Radio, etc. all have apps in the store, but as these are run by businessmen, they may well have checked with Apple before writing the apps.
Podcaster provides an alternative download mechanism to iTunes for podcasts. If Apple lets Podcaster on the App Store, then companies with deep pockets and interests in music and video distribution will submit apps that access their stores. When Apple rejects them, a lawsuit will quickly follow, and allowing Podcaster risks weakening Apple's defense. Even if Apple successfully defends the rejection, the court may impose restrictions on what Apple can reject. Far better (and cheaper) for Apple to reject Podcaster.
At the end, let's remember this is business. Apple decided not to promote Podcaster through the App Store because it already offered a way of downloading podcasts. The author decided he had more to gain from the publicity surrounding the rejection than by reworking Podcaster. He then used iPhone certificates designed for beta testing to distribute hundreds of copies of Podcaster while asking for $9.99 per copy.
Apple issuing a set of rules for developers could only help those developers unwilling to apply the unwritten law. That is, help until a developer either decides the rules are unreasonable or that the rejection was not covered by the rules.
America is a litigious society. Nearly every quarter Apple has to defend an increasing number of lawsuits despite others being settled. This is a consequence of lawyers going where the money is - and Apple has over $20 billion in cash and short term investments.
A published set of rules would give lawyers another way of trying to get their hooks into that cash mountain. If they succeed, Apple could look at reducing the 70% developers receive from the App Store to cover settlement costs.
For Apple, the App Store is only a means to the end of selling more iPhones. Like the iTunes music business, it may grow to be usefully profitable.
However, what drives Apple now are the profits from hardware.
Tim Nash is a Director of WattWenn which has a new approach to scheduling the production of TV and movies to make the most of budgets. The views in this article are his own and are prejudiced from spending more years working for computer companies than he cares to remember.
Tim lives with his wife, her website on the area ariege.com, two daughters, a cat, and a dog in the French Pyrenees. He lapsed for a while after the Apple II, but became a Mac fan when his wife introduced him to the Macintosh IIsi. If you find his articles helpful, please consider making a donation to his tip jar.
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A Critique of The Pew Study on Payday Loans
There is an important lesson to be gleaned from the recent report on payday lending (PDL) from the Pew Charitable Trust, the second in its series on the short-term credit product: a study is not a substitute for reality and, unlike reality, is subject to multiple forms of bias. The media and policymakers should be cautious about relying too much on Pew’s results as being reflective of reality. As I’ve always said, studies should be used as a windsock, and not as a weather report. The dangers of academia and think-tanks is that they are not actually in the trenches of the world they study, and consequently, truth can be lost – truth evident in granular form that can be overlooked by a study.
I believe Pew’s PDL Survey suffers from some major inaccuracies. In addition, there is a degree of loaded language within the report that suggests an overarching bias. I feel I am on solid foundations in charging the study is biased, and that its authors do not have a clear understanding of the industry or the product.
The bias is evident from the outset. Pew’s entire project is called the “safe small-dollar loan research projectâ€, and presupposes that there are “unsafe†loans. Yet there is no definition provided for “safe†or “unsafeâ€. Pew’s website’s language parrots the same criticisms heard from PDL opponents, citing “triple-digit rates of interest and significant renewal fees, which can put consumers into harmful cycles of debt. This practice of predatory lending has stifled access to more transparent and safer forms of borrowing.†This assertion is made despite logical and factual counterarguments presented by this author and other sources over the past several years. Indeed, a rigorous unbiased study, “Defining and Detecting Predatory Lending†has provided robust evidence that PDLs are not predatory. Apparently, Pew didn’t get the memo.
In fact, it seems odd Pew thinks there are more transparent forms of borrowing. PDLs provide the simplest amount of paperwork one might imagine for a loan. In many states, the disclosures are written so an eight-grader can understand them. Pew’s own survey reports that six in seven borrowers say terms and conditions are clear.
Pew seems to enter this issue with its mind already made up.
Pew claims that, “The Pew Safe Small Dollar Loans Research Project, a two-year initiative, develops research-based, federal policy recommendations to protect consumers from dangerous forms of short-term loans.†Regrettably, the solution Pew defaults to is one of government intervention, rather than other solutions that would more likely to address the real issues of short-term credit. Government intervention in the payday loan arena has always resulted in consumers and businesses being harmed, and jobs being lost.
So it seems apparent that Pew begins with bias. It is reasonable to expect its study would reflect that bias, and as such, does not disappoint.
While Pew appears to have randomly dialed and obtained short-survey answers from over 35,000 participants, it only selected 451 storefront payday borrowers for its full-length survey. This is an exceedingly small sample from a group of 12 million. Readers are not provided with the reasons why these individuals were chosen for the longer survey.
Pew itself does not provide the entire list of questions either, telling readers they are “being held for future releaseâ€. Why not release everything right now? It is essential for proper interpretation of the results to know about every last aspect of the study. This harms the study’s credibility.
There is a significant possibility for non-response bias. PDLs carry a significant societal stigma. Having personally spent weeks in storefronts and interviewing borrowers, I can report that borrowers are embarrassed to enter a PDL store. They are ashamed to have to ask for help. Thus, when the survey comes around to asking about PDLs, respondents are more likely to lie and deny PDL usage. This may result in many positive experiences with PDL going unreported in the survey. In addition, the psychological bias of the respondents themselves is likely to be skewed towards speaking about the product negatively. People do not like to admit they’ve used a PDL, and as such would be more likely to criticize the product – “Oh, I just used it because I was desperate†– than report a positive experience.
Non-response bias is evident in Pew’s report. On page 54, Pew states that respondents for the full survey were paid $20 if they’d used a storefront lender, and, “Because of their relative scarcity, online payday loan borrowers were given an incentive of $35â€. Both Stephens, Inc – the investment bank whose PDL analyst reports are the most comprehensive – and my own experience in online PDL, suggest that 20% of PDLs are done online. Twenty percent is hardly what anyone would call “relative scarcity†in a PDL study. That’s a fifth of all respondents. That suggests that Pew missed a huge swath of online borrowers in its study.
Pew asks a biased question during the interview: “Which of these statements comes closer to your point of view? 1. Payday loan should be more regulated. 2. Payday loans should not be more regulatedâ€. People will be more likely to want to feel safe than unsafe. In this context, the connotation associated with the word “regulated†is one of safety. Consequently, people would be more likely to answer, “more regulatedâ€.
One of Pew’s conclusions is that, even though borrowers may have the option to convert to an installment plan if they cannot repay in full on the due date, they choose not to. Pew relies strictly on data from Washington State, which is not representative of the entire country. CFSA, the industry’s trade association group, requires its members to offer an installment plan if a client renews four times. Pew did not survey CFSA to enquire how many times this option is chosen. Why not?
Pew also held focus groups of ten people in 3 cities, including New York City. First, New York seems an odd choice considering PDLs have been banned there for many years. Indeed, PDL is virtually non-existent in northeastern states. This raises questions as to who these participants were and where they came from. Pew does not reveal how any focus group member was chosen, thus exposing it to credibility issues regarding that selection process. In addition, given the aforementioned stigma, it is more likely that both the group moderator and fellow borrowers would influence respondent comments. Given Pew’s bias, one might expect subtle or even overt verbal and body language cues from the focus group moderator to suggest his or her own bias. People want to please, and they want to feel important, so the likelihood of truthful statements in these focus groups is questionable. After all, if they were being paid to perform, they would feel an even greater obligation to provide the moderator with the desired result.
There are other anomalies. Pew assumed that if a survey respondent answered with a cel phone that they did not have a landline, and that therefore two people may not be living in that household. In fact, many families that reside in the payday loan demographic are more likely to have jettisoned landline usage to save money. Research guru Nate Silver has examined the significant statistical errors in polling with cel phone respondents. By assigning a cel phone respondent a weight of 1, instead of it possibly being 0.5, there may be a significant weighting error in the results.
Finally, a careful read of the report shows frequent use of loaded language intended to influence the reader. Pew only publishes quotes that criticize the product or, at best, offer backhanded or weak praise. Are we to believe these were the only quotes? How about a transcript of the session so readers can verify these claims?
Even a casual reader of the study cannot miss that the authors seem to delight in mentioning (over and over and over again) that the average borrower “stays indebted for five months on a two week loanâ€. This goes to the oft-cited, alleged “cycle of debtâ€. Yet Pew’s data runs contrary to data collected by Texas, Washington and Oklahoma. Indeed, in Texas, the OCCC reported that the mode (most frequent data point) for renewals was 1, not the 7-10 renewals Pew wants readers to infer.
Pew’s math just doesn’t add up, either. Advance America’s loan loss rates are 3%, yet Pew suggests the reason for this is that borrowers pay off an Advance America loan by borrowing from another lender. What this doesn’t account for is that if this borrower continued that process for five months, one of two things would happen: 1) principal default, or 2) principal repayment.
With default, some lender somewhere would eventually be left holding the empty bag. In that case, the loan loss rate across the entire industry would be much greater than 3%. Yet, it isn’t, as far as public company reporting (it’s 405%). Indeed, a rate much greater than 9% would kill the entire industry!
With eventual principal repayment, it seems highly unlikely that a person would willingly put themselves back into debt repeatedly for five months each and every time they faced another financial shortfall. Pew’s own results say most people use a method they previously rejected in order to pay off the loan in full, yet Pew expects us to believe that the next time a financial difficulty arose, people would go back to payday loans instead of using the method that eventually solved their problem the first time? This strains credulity. People simply do not repeat significant financial mistakes, and those respondents who had bad experiences took personal responsibility for their choices, as quoted in the study. They would not repeat that same mistake given their self-awareness.
In the most transparent attempt to smear the product, Pew claims “lenders depend on repeat borrowing in order to be profitableâ€. Can anyone name a business that does not rely on repeat business to be profitable? I think if everyone in the world went to McDonald’s just once, Ronald McDonald would not be the icon he is today.
I could further discredit Pew’s study, but instead permit me to turn the tables. What if I’m completely wrong, and this is the most scientifically rigorous study ever conducted? It doesn’t change what story the media should report, and what policymakers must take note of.
• There is a need for short-term credit in this country.
• Payday lenders are innovating. Many are moving to installment loan products, removing the necessity to repay a loan in full in two weeks.
• If borrowers actually do not take advantage of installment restructuring, PDLs need to better advertise that option.
• Legislative solutions that restrict credit access have historically harmed consumers, not helped them.
• If any legislation is undertaken, it should focus on mandating personal finance classes for high school seniors and/or college students in every state.
• To the extent that borrowers use the product irresponsibly, it is unfair to those who use it properly (and the lenders) to remove the option.
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London - 9 May 2012 - A monumental discovery that provides the promise of a cure not only for leukaemia, but cancer at large was announced this morning in London during GIL 2012: Europe. Steve Shor, the founder of the National Children's Leukemia Foundation, a leading non-profit organisation in the United States, unveiled a ground-breaking therapy his research teams in the United States and Israel have discovered. Mr Shor and National Program Director, Dr. Sara Gardin, presented this new non-embryonic stem cell treatment for cancer and leukaemia, referred to as the "Stem cell cocktail" which delivers a combination of therapies including core stem cells and various compounds to tackle cell metastasization.
Just a few weeks ago, this unique approach to tackling one of the most prominent forms of cancer of our time received initial patent approval with full patents expected in the coming months.
Steve Shor delivered an emotional appeal and address that captured the undivided attention of some two hundred plus senior level business executives representing this global network of visionaries, innovators and leaders gathered in London for Frost & Sullivan's GIL 2012: Europe - Journey to Visionary Innovation. Mr Shor, a construction business owner from Brooklyn, New York, who had given up his successful career in 1992 to search out a bone marrow donor, when he discovered that his 17-year old son had been diagnosed with leukaemia. His son unfortunately never received a bone marrow transplant and lost his fight with leukaemia. Steve has continued to dedicate his life to cancer research founding the National Children's Leukemia Foundation and working with scientists in hopes to find "The Cure."
"I always thought the cure for cancer had to come from core stem cells," Steve said. "We started from a very different point. We asked: what are the mechanisms that make cancer cells grow?"
First time trial left them sceptical but upon continuous trials with positive outcomes, the team at the NCLF research institute in Israel knew they have uncovered a ground breaking monumental discovery with not only finding promise in a cure and treatment for leukaemia, but all cancers as well.
"A cure not only for leukaemia but cancer at large is within reach. We will see a cure for cancer within our generation", concluded Mr Shor.
Steve Shor was recognised for his visionary leadership in finding a cure for leukaemia by the Frost & Sullivan community of visionaries, innovators and leaders - GIL Global with the presentation of Frost & Sullivan's 2012 Growth, Innovation and Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award by Vice President & Global Head of GIL, Brian Denker.
“One year ago, I stood here in London and posed a question to our GIL Europe delegation -- What is a world without cancer? Today, a year later, I return back to this side of the Atlantic with a promise of hope by way of an individual who has successfully found visionary innovation in his own journey in the wake of tragedy and struggle.” Denker concluded by asking each member of the GIL Global community to go forward, continually revisiting three profound questions we all must continue to ask ourselves. Firstly, what does it mean to truly innovate; second, what does it mean to inspire; and lastly, how can we ourselves bridge innovation and inspiration?
To interview Mr Denker and Mr Shor and to know more about Frost & Sullivan's journey to visionary innovation, please contact Chiara Carella, Corporate Communications, at email@example.com.
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Made in the USA: Inside the Viper Factory
In a world where countless Toyotas and BMWs are built in the U.S.A. but a seemingly equal number of Fords and Chevys are manufactured in Mexico and Canada, this New York Times interactive feature offers a refreshing focus on the SRT Viper Conner Avenue Assembly Plant in Detroit-- one of only two car factories within Motown city limits.
Equally unusual is the amount of handwork that goes into assembling the twelve Vipers produced daily, not to mention the fact that, according to the piece, "... with almost no automation in place, the loudest sounds are the roars of a Viper's engine."
Sounds like a pretty sweet place for 150 muscle car fanatics to work, in our book.
Photo © Brett Beyer for the New York Times
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How to Create a Flexible Race Plan to Adapt When Things Go Wrong During a Race
No matter how hard you train, how much you pray to the weather gods, or how thoroughly you prepare, if you race frequently, you’re going to experience a day when nothing goes right.
It’s easy to plan the perfect race strategy, but many runners forget to also include contingency plans for when things go wrong. Sometimes, these events are within your control, like training mistakes or not properly testing your pre-race breakfast. However, more often than not, when things go wrong they are out of your control – like weather, crowds, or a rolled ankle. Regardless of why something goes wrong, you can take steps to prepare for them in your training and have a plan in place for how to adjust mid-race.
In this article, I’ll outline the steps you can take in your training, during the race, and after you’re finished to develop a flexible race plan that can help you get through any situation you may encounter.
Preparations you can do in training
The most important thing you can do is prepare for things to go wrong in training. Not only is this a critical strategy for race day, but it also helps you bounce back from bad workouts.
When athletes I coach have bad training days (which will happen to every runner – for example, 2:14 marathoner Nate Jenkins admits that he’s “never had a marathon cycle where I didn’t have one or two bad workouts.”) I tell them to look for the things they did wrong and work on fixing them for next time. This mental approach to having bad training days not only helps you prepare for when things go wrong in races, but it also helps you bounce back faster in training.
Getting prepared physically
One mantra I preach to my athletes is that you can’t expect to do things on race day that you haven’t done in training. For example, if you haven’t practiced proper pacing, you can’t expect to perfectly pace yourself during you race. Along the same lines, I recommend preparing yourself for some of the more common issues that plague runners during races. Here are some of the more unconventional tricks I’ve tried:
- When training for my first marathon, I was nervous about running with a full stomach. So, before some of my short, easy training days, I drank lots of water before I hit the roads. This taught me not only how to be more comfortable running with a sloshing stomach, but some unique and odd ways to get rid of cramps by changing my breathing patterns. I even went so far as to scarf down two donuts and a glass of milk, just to be sure (and because I have a weakness for donuts)
- If you’re worried about running in the heat, especially if you have a spring race and you live in a cold climate, consider running most of your workouts with more clothes than you need. Wear a hat, even when it’s a beautiful 65 degree day.
- If you’re concerned about weaving through the crowds at a big race like NYC or Chicago, run a very low-key tune-up race as a long run and start in the back of the field. Practice working your way up through the field patiently and wasting as little energy as possible.
These are just a few ways you can prepare yourself to handle missteps on race day. Write down some of the fears you have (or issues that have plagued you or your running friends) and devise unique strategies to practice them during your training segment.
Getting mentally prepared
The best way to prepare mentally for something going wrong in a race is to use visualization techniques in the weeks leading up to the race.
When visualizing your race, be as specific and detailed as possible. Imagine yourself at the starting line, surrounded by thousands of other high strung runners – is it hot, is it cold, what are you wearing? When the gun sounds, envision the acceleration in your heart rate and the claustrophobic feeling as the stampede begins. By conjuring up these emotions, sights, and sounds, you can prepare yourself to remain calm, collected, and execute your race plan in a chaotic environment. The more specific you can be with the sites, sounds, and emotions, the more calm and confident you’ll be on race day.
More importantly, visualize positive and negative scenarios. Create a specific plan and visualize what you’ll do and how you will feel should something go wrong. What if your shoe comes untied or you have to go the bathroom? By visualizing these scenarios, you’ll have a specific plan in place and instead of panicking, you’ll be calm, cool, and collected.
How to adjust during a race
Now that you’ve prepared in your training for things to go wrong, it’s time to execute on race day. Here are some helpful tips to deal with unexpected issues in the moment.
Adjust expectations and have a backup plan in place
As mentioned above, you should have already created and visualized a backup plan during your training. When things go wrong, adjust your expectations and fall back to your backup race plan.
For example, if you went out too slow because you got caught in the crowds, begin to execute your backup plan and slowly start making up the time. I advise runners to have three target splits at ten miles of a marathon (fast, perfect, slow) and a specific plan in place for the second two-thirds of the race should they hit either one. Likewise, if it’s hot, try using a temperature calculator to help you adjust your pace to account for the heat and humidity.
Turn off your watch
In 2007, I ran in the very hot and infamous Twin Cities Marathon (the same year they closed Chicago because of the heat). The biggest mistake I made in that race was getting frustrated by looking at my watch and not having a backup plan. I was running slower and slower every mile because of the heat, but I was actually gaining on the entire field (which is a good reference point for your performance when time is out the window).
However, because I was so stuck on my watch and my paces, I defeated myself mentally and forgot to just compete and run to the best of my ability. I got so frustrated, I ended up dropping out of the race, thinking I was running poorly. What I didn’t know at the time was that I was 5th place overall and the first American. Had I finished the race in that position, I would have earned close to $10,000 – BIG mistake.
Be patient and don’t freak out
The most important thing you can do when something goes wrong during a race is be patient and don’t over compensate. If you have to stop and go to the bathroom, your shoe comes untied, or you have to stop to take extra fluids, don’t try to make up all the time you lost in one mile. Spread out the time you need to make up over the course of the remaining distance. By sprinting and trying to make up all the time (or more than 10-15 seconds a mile) at once, you run the risk of changing your energy system (for the marathon) or burning yourself out so you fad badly over the last 3-4 miles.
How to cope with bad weather
- If it’s raining take a trash bag, cut a whole for your head, and wear it while you wait at the starting line. DO NOT RUN with the trash bag on for any distance; use it to keep yourself dry at the start. More than likely, you’ll be standing in the starting corral for a long period of time before the race with little shelter.
- If you have friends/family on the course, give them a dry shirt or socks that you can swap at 16 or 20 miles to get a nice fresh feeling and to get rid of any soggy clothing or shoes that are holding you back.
- If it’s a very cold rain, using Vaseline on exposed body portions will help keep you warm. Vaseline is waterproof, which will help keep your hands and lower legs from getting too cold. One caution, Vaseline does not allow your body to sweat efficiently, so don’t put in on your head and neck. You want excess heat (yes, there will be some even in such cold temperatures) to dissipate as needed.
- If it’s cold, find that ratty sweatshirt/pair of gloves/hat/sweatpants you’ve been meaning to throw out for years. If you don’t have any clothing items ready to be ditched, head to Wal-Mart or a cheap clothing store and buy some warm weather clothes you could run in for a mile or two. You can wear these warm items in the corral when you’re standing in the cold and have nowhere to move to stay warm. Once you get running past the first mile or two, your body will begin to warm up and you can shed them. Most marathons pick up discarded clothing at the start and donate to charity.
- Likewise, layers are key while actually running. Remember, you’re bound to heat up as the race progresses, so having layers that are easy to remove will allow you to stay cool.
- There are a lot of strategies you can use when running in the heat. In the interest of brevity, here is a link to a very detailed post of tactics you can implement for running a marathon in the heat.
What you can do after a race goes wrong
The most important thing you can do after a frustrating race is conduct a post mortem. Start by making a list of all the possible factors that lead to your disappointing race. For the time being, it doesn’t matter if these factors were within your control or not – if you think it may have affected your performance, write it down.
Next, write as many possible solutions or tactics you can implement in your training to prevent these possible hindrances from happening again. For example, if it was hot, you can try training with more layers or if you had bathroom problems you might want to experiment with a different nutrition strategy in training.
When you’re finished, you’ll have an extensive list of training tips you can implement during your next training segment and marathon race. You may notice that you have a few factors that you couldn’t find ways to improve. These are the factors you can’t control (rolled an ankle or the crowds were too large) and sometimes these are just bad luck.
The important thing with this task is you’ve taken your mind off the unknown and turned your focus to actionable tips you can implement for next time. Keep this list with you and make sure you look it over before starting your next training cycle. You’ll eliminate the same mistakes and increase your chances of having a great race.
While I sincerely hope everything goes perfect for you on race day, experience tells me it probably won’t. Hopefully, this article gets you mentally and physically prepared for those unintended hiccups and helps you stay on track.Jeff Gaudette on Google+
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Ton Vallen Award 2012
The first Ton Vallen Award attracted seven submissions. The published papers covered a broad range of topics in the field of multilingualism and education, all of outstanding quality, rendering the jury’s work quite difficult. A set of criteria applied to all papers yielded a clear winner, however:
Shaylih Muehlmann, assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, submitted an essay entitled Von Humboldt’s parrot and the countdown of last speakers in the Colorado Delta (Language & Communication 32: 160-168, 2012 (e-published 2011)). In this essay, which draws on rich fieldwork experiences in the Colorado River Delta of Northern Mexico, Muehlmann discusses the effects of ‘language counting’ practices on a community of speakers of a minority language, including what she calls the “enumerative malaise” among elderly (and thus ‘soon to die’) speakers of an endangered language.
This sweepingly and wittily written paper provides a fresh and critical look at the discourses of language endangerment, and brings these issues ‘home’ to the shrinking community of speakers, turning a powerful sociolinguistic discourse into a source of annoyance and frustration. The paper is of significant relevance for issues regarding language revitalization and mother-tongue education in contexts of language endangerment.
The jury appreciated the boldness and sharpness of the argument in this essay, as well as the ‘smile’ with which it is nonetheless presented to the readership. The sensitivity to fieldwork experience, and the solidarity between the researcher and her interlocutors in the field was equally noted. The innovative and creative argument developed by Muehlmann should draw the attention of a broad community of sociolinguists, educational linguists and linguistic anthropologists.
The jury congratulates all candidates on the quality of their work. Several of the other papers submitted for the Ton Vallen Award contained observations and arguments of great importance for the field of multilingualism and education. Judging from the overall quality of the submissions, this field is very much alive and junior scholars are making a difference.
The jury congratulates Shaylih Muehlmann and encourages her to continue and extend the work she is doing. It is more than promising – it is excellent.
Shaylih Muehlmann will receive a book voucher from Multilingual Matters, whose support we gratefully acknowledge.
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Chloe and Daisy's Story
For some children, being taken into care is the start of a disruptive and difficult journey, as they are moved between care settings and foster carers while a permanent, loving home is found for them. Coram is committed to protecting children from being left to drift in the care system., which is why we pioneer concurrent planning.
Twins Chloe and Daisy were adopted when they were 15 months old.
Their birth mother and her previous partner were misusing alcohol and there had been serious domestic violence in the household. Their older children had been severely neglected and moved into care a year earlier.
Because of this, Chloe and Daisy were immediately placed with ‘concurrent carers’ Millie and Jack when they left hospital after birth. Having undergone preparation with Coram, Millie and Jack would provide a loving foster home in the short-term while a decision was made about the twins’ long-term future. However, if adoption was found to be the best option for the twins, they would become permanent, adoptive parents.
Meanwhile, the girls’ birth mother, who had suffered serious neglect herself as a child, received support from Coram which helped her to make some positive changes to her life. However it was decided, with her agreement, that she couldn’t give the twins the right care, and Millie and Jack formally adopted Chloe and Daisy at the age of 15 months.
This process, known as concurrent planning, ensured that without unnecessary disruption or delay, Chloe and Daisy were found a loving family who could provide the life-long security that every child deserves.
Find out more about Concurrent Planning by clicking here.
*Photographs do not depict real case studies
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|NATIONAL PARKS QUICKLINKS|
Backpacker Magazine – April 2003
Can a place that sees 9 million visitors a year really have any surprises? You bet. We found three hikes full of unexpected history, scenery, and solitude.
Yeah, right. How can a place that sees 9 million visitors a year still have secrets? We didn't believe it either, until we checked out a few little-known gems recommended by locals who've hiked every inch of America's most popular national park. Turns out these ancient, green mountains that rise and roll through Tennessee and western North Carolina hold plenty of surprises. Like pockets of virgin forest untouched since the days when Davy Crockett lived here, with trees so tall you'll want to check your map to see if you're really in the Southeast. Like sheer cliffs dropping 2,000 feet into misty valleys. Like 4,000 kinds of plants, trees, and wildflowers, many that don't exist anywhere else this far south, plus black bears, bobcats, and wild boar. Even the remains of the Parton settlement--that's right, Dolly's ancestors. The park has all this and nearly 900 miles of trail. Here are three quiet hikes where surprises still abound.
Welch Ridge Loop
This 31-mile route begins at a park hot spot, 6,643-foot Clingmans Dome, the highest point along the entire Appalachian Trail. Fight the crowds to the top of the firetower for a view that's classic Smokies: ridge after ridge rising in the hazy blue distance as if there were no end to these mountains. Then enjoy more sublime scenery as you ramble down 4 miles of open ridgeline, following the AT south to its junction with the Welch Ridge Trail. Named for a family that settled here in the early 1800s, Welch Ridge separates two major drainages, Hazel and Forney Creeks. Your trail descends the long spine through stands of yellow birch, American beech, and blackberry tangles, amid evidence of a mountain culture that once thrived here. Look for cabin ruins and mining prospects. Just below its connection with the Bear Creek Trail, the route reaches High Rocks, a 5,188-foot bluff with sweeping views and a lookout cabin. Stay for sunset, and you'll also see the cabin's current residents, little brown bats, as they emerge for their nightly feeding.
From High Rocks, backtrack to the Bear Creek Trail and follow it 3.8 miles to campsite 75. Continue to the junction with Forney Creek Trail, where you can detour (turn right) to 29-mile-long Fontana Lake and another campsite. Complete the loop by taking the Forney Creek Trail 11.4 miles back to Clingmans. Cascades and creek crossings are plentiful and can be hazardous after heavy rain. For the most solitude, avoid campsites 70 and 71, which are used heavily as horse camps.
Mt. Sterling/Big Creek
The lumber companies that logged the Smokies in the 19th century hated the steep slopes and boulder fields that line the eastern edge of the park, so they left the area alone. The result? Sterling Ridge holds some of the last virgin forest in the park, not to mention some of the best views from its rocky bluffs.
For a 22-mile loop, start up the Baxter Creek Trail from Big Creek Campground toward Mt. Sterling. You'll climb through thick rhododendron tunnels and by rock slabs with pink and green lichens, sweet-smelling sassafras, and putty-root orchids with light-purple flowers as you ascend a boulder-strewn cliff toward the 5,842-foot summit. This bald is known for being one of the coldest places in the park. Climb the firetower for sweeping views of Mt. Cammerer, Clingmans Dome, Max Patch, Mt. Pisgah, and 6,684-foot Mt. Mitchell, the tallest peak in North Carolina. The summit is also home to a reservation-required campsite. Then pick up the Mt. Sterling Ridge Trail, one of the best high-level treks in the Smokies. More rare trees, including red spruce, which was used to build World War I airplanes, grow here. To complete the loop, follow the Balsam Mountain Trail, Gunter Fork Trail (hazardous in wet weather), and Big Creek Trail back to your starting point.
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Date of birth unknown; enthroned on 1 Oct., 965; d. 6 Sept., 972. After the death of John XII in 964 Benedictus Grammaticus was elected his successor as Benedict V. But Otto I brought back to Rome the antipope Leo VIII, whom he had set up in 963, and banished Benedict to Hamburg. Leo VIII died in March, 965, whereupon the Romans requested the emperor to send Benedict back to them as pope. But Otto refused, and Benedict died shortly after in July, 965. In presence of the imperial envoys, Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, and Otgar, Bishop of Speyer, the emperor's candidate, John, Bishop of Narni, was elected pope, and crowned on 1 October, 965, as John XIII. He belonged to the family of the elder Theodora, who by her marriage with the senator Theophylactus had, besides Marozia, another daughter, the younger Theodora, who married the consul John. This John later entered the ecclesiastical state and became a bishop. From his union with Theodora sprang two daughters and three sons, among the latter one called John, who, while still in his youth, entered the priesthood at Rome, and later became Bishop of Narni. It was on this scion of the Roman nobility that the choice of the electors fell. Some of the nobles were hostile to the new pope, because he was the imperial candidate, and, when he endeavoured to repress their encroachments, they plotted against him, and in December, 965, succeeded in getting possession of his person. They shut him up in the Castle of Sant' Angelo, and subsequently removed him to a fortified place in Campagna. John succeeded, however, in escaping from his prison, and found welcome and protection with Prince Pandulf of Capua. At Rome a reaction set in towards the exiled pope, and, when in 966 Emperor Otto undertook another expedition to Italy, the Romans were terrified and permitted John to return to the city on 14 November. In December the emperor arrived and dispensed stern justice to the conspirators, some of whom were hanged and others banished.
The pope now allied himself closely with the emperor. On 11 January, 967, a synod was held in St. Peter's, concerning the results of which nothing is known. John travelled with Otto to Ravenna, where in April, 967, he held another synod in which the elevation of Magdeburg to metropolitan dignity was confirmed, disputes were decided, privileges conferred upon churches and convents, and Ravenna with its territory restored to the pope as part of the Ecclesiastical States. Relations between John and the emperor continued cordial. On Christmas Day, 967, the latter's thirteen-year-old son, Otto II, came to Rome, and was crowned joint emperor with his father. Shortly after, at one of the synods held in Rome, the monastery which the emperor had founded at Meissen in Saxony was made a see. John also favoured the negotiations held with the Byzantines for a matrimonial alliance between Otto II and the Princess Theophano. The marriage took place at Rome, and was blessed by the pope himself on 14 April, 972. After the death of Archbishop William of Mainz and Bishop Bernard of Halberstadt in 968, the new metropolitan see at Magdeburg in Slavic territory, for which the emperor had worked zealously and which had been confirmed by the pope, was finally realized. On Christmas Day, 968, Abbot Adalbert was consecrated first Archbishop of Magdeburg, and in turn consecrated the first Bishops of Merseburg, Meissen, and Zeitz. The pope was also active in extending the hierarchy in other countries. Early in his pontificate he had raised Capua to metropolitan rank in gratitude for the shelter which Prince Pandulf had afforded him. At a Roman synod in 969 Benevento received the same dignity. He confirmed the decrees of synods held in England and France. Privileges were granted to churches and convents, especially to Cluny, and the pope decided numerous questions of ecclesiastical law, referred to him from various countries. The plan of the Bohemian Duke Boleslaus II for the foundation of a see at Prague, though approved by the pope, had to be deferred to a later date. John XIII was succeeded by Benedict VI.
Liber Pontificalis, ed. DUCHESNE, II, 252-4; JAFFE, Regesta Rom. Pont., I (2nd ed.), 470 sqq.; LANGEN, Gesch. der römischen Kirche, III, 356-64: FLOSS, Die Papstwahl unter den Ottonen (Freiburg im Br., 1858); HEFELE, Konziliengesch., IV (2nd ed.), 628-32; DUEMMLER, Otto der Grosse (Leipzig, 1876); UHLIRZ, Jahrbucher des deutschen Reiches unter Otto Il und Otto III, I (Leipzig, 1902); HAUCK, Kirchengesch. Deutschlands, III, 124 sqq.; REUMONT, Gesch. der Stadt Rom.; GREGOROVIUS, Gesch. der Stadt Rom.
APA citation. (1910). Pope John XIII. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08427a.htm
MLA citation. "Pope John XIII." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08427a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by John Fobian. In memory of John Crowley, S.J.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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by Amy Keller
Updated 11 months ago
For Bradley Krohn, a businessman who's a former scientist for Monsanto, that fact represents a "tremendous market opportunity." Along with several associates, Krohn aims to eventually build three to five refineries in and around southwest Florida to produce ethanol.
KEY INGREDIENT: Bradley Krohn says his Port Manatee refinery would create approximately 40 jobs paying an average salary of about $52,500.In August, the Manatee County Port Authority approved a lease option that will allow Krohn's Tampa-based US EnviroFuels to build an ethanol refinery at Port Manatee. Krohn is hoping to produce an estimated 40 million gallons of ethanol annually there. The company is also considering building a plant at the Port of Tampa.
Krohn says the Gulf Coast is attractive because 100% of Florida's gasoline comes in through its port system; the gateway would be convenient for petroleum companies, which purchase ethanol and blend it with gasoline at their storage terminals. The resulting mix -- a blend of 10% ethanol and 90% gasoline called E10 -- is then sold on the retail market as "oxygenated fuel" or "octane-enhanced" gasoline for use in automobiles.
Krohn is counting on getting a big boost from a federal energy bill recently signed into law. The law contains a "Renewable Fuels Standard" that the American Coalition for Ethanol predicts will double U.S. demand for ethanol to 7.5 billion gallons
annually by 2012.
Under the new law, the Environmental Protection Agency will issue rules requiring refineries, blenders, distributors and importers to integrate certain levels of ethanol and biodiesel into the nation's fuel supply by certain dates. Ethanol is also proving to be a more popular alternative to another widely used fuel oxygenate, methyl tertiary-butyl ether, or MTBE, which has been shown to cause cancer. Many states are moving to ban MTBE.
Not everyone is sold on ethanol. The environmental group ManaSota-88 has raised questions about the impact that U.S. EnviroFuels' proposed refinery would have on local water supplies and air quality. The group has also pointed to a controversial 2003 study by Cornell University professor David Pimentel, which concludes that ethanol production does not provide a net energy balance. "Ethanol has only two-thirds the energy that a gallon of gasoline has, and it takes more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than you get," Pimentel says. He also quarrels with government support for ethanol makers: "We're subsidizing it to the tune of $3 billion," Pimentel says.
Those subsidies are growing. The new energy law redefines who qualifies as a "small ethanol producer," making a federal tax credit more widely available.
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Prelude FLNG: Shell Gas Plant To Be Biggest Floating Object Ever (VIDEO)
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC will construct the biggest floating man-made object ever, a natural gas processing plant longer than four football fields and more massive than any aircraft carrier.
The "Prelude FLNG" facility, to be anchored off the Australian coast, will be made of 260,000 tons of steel – five times more than Sydney's famed Harbour Bridge, Shell said Friday.
It is designed to take in the equivalent of 110,000 barrels per day in gas from undersea fields 200 kilometers (125 miles) off Australia's Northwest coast and cool it into liquefied natural gas, known as LNG.
Australia is awash in natural gas, and is eager to sell it to the booming economies of Asia.
In order for natural gas to be shipped overseas, it must be cooled to -260 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature the gas becomes a liquid that takes up just 0.2 percent of the volume of the gas, allowing more gas to be packed onto a ship.
The Australian oil and gas company Woodside is set to begin production at a giant onshore liquid natural gas facility in Western Australia this year and is considering doubling its size.
Shell claimed the plant will be able to withstand category 5 cyclones, the worst type of storms, and is planned to remain moored above the Prelude gas field for 25 years after completion.
Shell said the plant will be built in a South Korean shipyard but did not say how much it would cost.
A company spokeswoman declined to set a date for the plant's completion date, but noted the Prelude gas field is scheduled to start production around 2017.
"We don't give specific guidance on project level spend, but we are making a substantial investment in Australia LNG," said spokeswoman Kirsten Smart in an email.
Shell plans $30 billion in various investments in Australia over the coming five years, the company has said.
"This project is certainly competitive with more traditional Australian LNG developments on a cost and economics basis," Smart wrote.
Financial newswire Dow Jones cited Australia's Resources Minister Martin Ferguson as saying the project will benefit the country's economy by creating around 1,000 jobs and contributing A$12 billion ($12.8 billion) in tax revenues over 25 years.
Reporter Jonathan Fahey in New York contributed to this story.
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The plug-and-play technology will close large capability gaps in the field.
The U.S. Army is developing the first airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform fully enabled to connect analysts with the Distributed Common Ground System-Army. That system will help remedy problems currently hindering soldiers from having all data feed into a single repository. With the new aircraft, the process will be streamlined from the flying support, so information reaches ground commanders faster to facilitate more timely decision making.
Units will begin enjoying these connected benefits of the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) aircraft in 2014, with the Army accepting deliveries from Boeing beginning later this year. In the past, all airborne intelligence platforms employed their own unique processing, exploitation and dissemination procedures that transmitted to specific ground stations. Personnel then had to find workarounds to share it with the troops who needed it. Through the Distributed Command Ground System-Army (DCGS-A), analysts can query the single system and retrieve the sensor data remotely.
Soldiers have used the DCGS-A extensively throughout their operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the Defense Acquisition Executive only approved the system for full deployment across the force in mid-December of last year.
The Army’s Guardrail platform is also DCGS-A capable, but it does not have operators of the system on board nor does it have imagery intelligence (IMINT) capability. Guardrail is designed to support only signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the DCGS-A, while EMARSS will bring in the imagery piece at the secret Internet router protocol network level. In addition, EMARSS will be the first platform that can provide data from secret to top secret immediately into the Army's distributed system.
Lt. Col. Dean Hoffman, USA, product manager, Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems at Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S), says recent evidence demonstrates that the military is falling short in its ability to collect necessary data in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) world. “One thing, we’ve done a lot of studies recently that show there’s a great need, and we’re not meeting all the requirements for the ISR approach. ... ” Col. Hoffman explains. “... I think EMARSS has a key role in meeting these requirements.” The three defining ISR missions sets, according to the colonel, are persistent area assessment; situational development, in which forces identify a problem area where attention is necessary; and mission overwatch wherein the aircraft is used to scout the ground during an operation.
To combat the ISR challenges, the Army needs to find ways to employ additional relevant platforms while remaining prudent with funds in the current environment of limited military budgets. Remaining responsible in a tight fiscal situation involves not only examining requirements and capabilities, but also sustainment issues. Col. Hoffman says solutions involve going to a single base infrastructure, the ability to take sensors on and off without major modifications and using only one means for processing, exploitation and dissemination. “That whole philosophy is what is needed to handle these budget constraints, and that’s what EMARSS is built to do,” he explains.
Col. Hoffman illustrates the problem of having multiple intelligence catalogues instead of the one enterprise the DCGS-A offers by comparing the two options to regular Internet search engines. The previous methods employed by the Army are similar to if people had to go to Bing, Ask and Google to find all of their data rather than querying through only one website. With EMARSS and DCGS-A, information is fed directly into the Army’s chosen intelligence enterprise, allowing users to take full advantage of collected data.
As part of the fielding, the Army has developed a training package to educate users to control sensors via the DCGS-A laptops. Maintenance and sustainment training also will be provided.
Current funding supports production of four EMARSSs, but program officials are awaiting word about possibly financing up to 12 new aircraft modeled on the B350ER platform. Later, the Army is looking at ways it can capitalize on the B350ER aircraft already in the fleet to support EMARSS requirements. “We’re just trying to recapitalize on the investment already made during the war,” Col. Hoffman explains. The B350ER has a long life expectancy—beyond 20,000 flight hours.
The decision to base EMARSS on a manned aircraft instead of an unmanned aerial vehicle could have benefits for ground commanders. Col. Hoffman says remotely operated platforms may be limited to fewer sensors. The altitude and relatively small size also enable the B350ER to support operations in more constricted spaces.
Where the aircraft will go first as they roll out depends on commanders' requirements. The Army will use a complete forward operating assessment to determine if they should deploy to Afghanistan or another theater. Regardless of where the aircraft head initially, Col. Hoffman believes the connectivity they offer will have a serious impact for battle leaders by providing direct support through various intelligence fields, including imagery and signals. These commanders will receive immediate feedback on intelligence requests. Col. Hoffman says that in the past, tasking a specific asset was an option only for division-type levels or higher. Recent conflicts demonstrated the need to give intelligence to field operators more quickly.
Though much of the focus in recent years necessarily has been on the U.S. Central Command’s area of operations, different challenges in other regions are emerging as priorities for the U.S. military. EMARSS is not focused on any specific theater, but built to support commanders regardless of location or threat.
Because ground forces will receive real-time information from the tasked EMARSS aircraft, they can react quickly as situations progress instead of hours or even days later. Col. Hoffman calls it intelligence at the area of operations. Examples of information ground operators could receive include how many people are around an objective, where they are walking, what they are wearing and what communications channels they are using. “Those are several key intelligence factors that we didn’t have the capability to provide in the past,” Col. Hoffman states.
EMARSS also will include plug-and-play capabilities that enable it to support different missions—another lesson learned from more than a decade of active war. “Often we were building aircraft around sensors rather than sensors around aircraft,” Col. Hoffman says. Soldiers found that when a new sensor deployed downrange, they had no way to install it on platforms. Now the Army wants to develop a single, sustainable platform that can accommodate different sensors as missions dictate.
Sensors that could ride on the aircraft include those for wide-area surveillance, short-wave infrared and Light Detection and Ranging, or LIDAR. Col. Hoffman says service officials will release information to industry stating the type of sensors they need so companies can develop solutions that fit the right specifications. Then, soldiers in the field can plug in the relevant pieces as necessary without having to modify the aircraft.
The focus for PEO IEW&S at this point is to equip EMARSS with SIGINT and IMINT capabilities as well as precision geolocation. Other future capabilities already under consideration include wide-area surveillance synthesis, aperture radar, ground movement tracking indicators, dismounted target movement indicators and hyperspectral sensors. Part of the development process includes ensuring that the information is collected through the right data process and goes to the correct file so it can be ingested into the DCGS-A enterprise. The executive office is working with the Joint Interoperability Test Command, the Intelligence Information and Warfare Directorate and the Software Engineering Directorate, as well as with industry, to begin integrating the sensors.
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What we’re going to here is go back. Way back. A long time ago, I made a brief comment on Mr Angry’s blog article about project managment disasters where I suggested a reason for the difference between a high level management view of IT projects vs. a lower level IT “Engineer” view of those projects. Mr Angry spun my comment into an entire article and made quite a few good points about how people at different levels look at these kinds of projects. Still true and well worth a read today.
Which brings me to another friend’s post – the nubby sysadmin posted about a culture of “failure is not an option” that he’s seen happen in various projects. If you read the Mr Angry posts I mentioned above, this might sound familiar.
I think this is a perfect example of IT religion at a high level that tries to trample over IT science principles held by the team actually delivering the project – the executive can’t contemplate failure because the project is important to the company, so they refuse to even discuss the risks the project might face. It might also be a result of an executive who wants to lend support to a project without the technical knowledge to understand how it works, and who thinks that maintaining an ‘aggressively positive’ outlook will inspire people. It won’t.
The IT workers actually carrying out the work know that they must be aware of the risks and must be able to discuss them frankly with project stakeholders in order to maximise the chances of the project succeeding. Avoiding potholes in the road is much easier when you can see them.
The ironic thing of course is that you both probably believe in the project, yet someone who holds the “failure is not an option” point of view tends to treat any discussion of risks, fallback positions or even merely breaking a large project down into seperate smaller projects that can be implemented and tested in turn as ‘defeatist’… which is fine until the project does hit a rock.
This applies to day-to-day coding or sysadmin tasks too – if you’re working to a standard (e.g. complete a code update to the website by $date or achieve x% uptime on the production network) then it’s helpful to know what areas to concentrate on.
Is it better to roll out a website update with 90% of the features 100% complete, or 100% of the features 90% complete, or to delay the release entirely until you can deliver 100% of both?
If there is a major power issue in the datacentre that means the operations team have to power off half the server infrastructure then would the business prefer to lose email entirely? Or lose telephone support? or keep those available and have the website perform slowly because half the load balancers are off?
Those are all lousy alternatives of course, but it’s much better for the business if management realise that failure sometimes is an option, and discuss these kinds of things in advance rather than waiting until a disaster hits without any idea of what to do about it.
So what can you do if you’re that executive?
Understand that problems can happen and enourage people to talk about them. Encourage realistic discussion of past problems that have happened and future problems that might happen and create a culture of fixing what went wrong rather than who screwed up. Oh yes – and if you view a project as truly mission critical then please fund it as such, both in terms of money and time you allow for it.
What can you do if you’re an engineer on that project.
Manage upwards. Try to understand what the executives think the benefits of the project are, and try to bring them solutions to their concerns rather than just problems. And while it might be difficult without executive support, try to continue to do things the right way if you can. We both know it’s still the best way to get things done in the end, even if your managers don’t agree.
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Gestalt Principles of Perception - 2:Similarity
January 26, 2009 | By Andy Rutledge
As Gestalt principles go, the principle of similarity would seem to be one of the simplest to grasp. It states things that are similar are perceived to be more related than things that are dissimilar. Simple enough, right? As a web designer, however, you’ll need to be familiar with all of the ways that elements can be similar so that you can in any given situation choose the right one to exploit. This is because the different modes of similarity are not created equal. Some are strongly communicative while others are comparatively weak …and there is context to consider. It seems that the principle of similarity is not quite so simple as we might imagine.
Similarity is a powerful mechanism for communication. Its power comes from the fact that it is the counterpart to the most fundamental element of meaning: contrast. Here in part 2 of the Gestalt principles series, let’s examine this principle of similarity and how it can be exploited as a communicative mechanism in our web design work.
There are all sorts of ways that elements can be perceived as being similar, and thus, related. These include similarity of color, size, shape, texture, dimension, and orientation, to name just a few. In order to illustrate some of these similarity modes, let’s do some fundamental evaluations:
Do the elements shown above seem related to one another or not?
As there are very few consistencies among the elements above, it is unlikely that anyone would perceive any significant similarity. As a result, the elements are not perceived as being related to one another in any way.
Let’s make it a bit easier to perceive some similarity:
Which elements above seem related? How?
There are differences between the many elements above, but there are also similarities. If asked to categorize the elements above, almost anyone would say that the strongest communication toward categorization is dependent upon shape. Based on shape, it seems that the squares are related to one another and the circles are related to one another. It is important to note that in this example shape, not proximity or size, provides the strongest communication.
Let’s change things a bit and see how our perception is led.
Which of the elements above seem related? How?
In all likelihood, you’ve decided that the large squares are related to one another and the small squares are related to one another. Size is a way to provide contrast, therefore consistency of size can be exploited to suggest relationships.
Glance quickly at the image below and then read the question that follows…
Which of the elements above seem related to one another? How?
Similarity of color (or consistent contrast) is the strongest way to suggest relationships. It is also the characteristic that registers first in our perception when our brain is working to make sense of our surroundings. Patterns and chaos can camouflage size and shapes and these characteristics might have only minor variations, but color penetrates these factors efficiently. Because of this fact (or possibly as the reason for this fact) color is often used in nature as a powerful communication tool for danger. Throughout history, a clear perception of color’s communication has been vital to the survival of humans and other organisms.
Okay, let’s move beyond mere survival and get into more practical matters of web design effectiveness with this principle.
The power of similarity in web design
In designing web pages and applications, part of any designer’s job is to provide visual clues as to which interface elements are related to one another. This is done so that the end user or viewer of these pages or applications can quickly perceive organization and make sense of what the designer has created so that they know how to use or interact with it.
Links allow for some of the fundamental interactions inherent to web pages and applications. As such they must be distinguished from other elements around them and they must be somewhat conspicuous—highly or mildly conspicuous, according to the relevant context. But since links share a common function, they generally need to be similar to one another (again, according to context).
In the example above, Douglas Bowman has styled the links in the copy of his Stopdesign site to be blue, contrasting with the overall gray of his body copy. By the principle of similarity, those of us who can distinguish blue from gray automatically recognize that all text styled in this manner is link text.
But it is not necessary that all links be similarly styled in order for there to be clarity. The principle of similarity is quite contextual in our perception. For example, the AIGA website uses a variety of link styles and colors and link text styles—all toward a specific purpose:
Here (above) we can see several different kinds of similarity among text links. The differences in styling communicate differences in context, category, or purpose. Links in the sidebar are underlined and are blue to provide color contrast (and a warm/cool difference for even more contrast) between the sidebar and the main body. In the primary content, there are links of 4 colors; with and without underlines, normal and italic, serif and sans-serif font, emboldened and normal weight, all-caps and mixed-case words.
What is important in this example, however, is that despite the many variations in link color and style we can rather quickly perceive the categorical indications:
- Orange, non-underlined, bold, serif font links are article titles
- Light gray, all-caps, underlined sans-serif font links refer to information category
- Maroon, underlined links refer to people or comments
- Dark gray, underlined, mixed-case links inside of a light gray field refer to actions within a site category (defined in the field)
It is all complex and fussy, but there is some measure of clarity of communication despite the complexity. With a bit of extrapolation and consideration, I’m sure you can think of all sorts of permutations of the principle of similarity as applied to links …and other things.
When designing and styling web page content, one of the most important jobs we have is to show content relationships—how some content components are related to one another and less related to other content elements. This can be done to reinforce content hierarchies, replace visual structure with implied structure, and generally communicate context.
In the example above, the web applications that 37signals offers are shown here using a consistent visual motif. Most conspicuous is the distinct shape and color palette used for the icons, so we immediately perceive that the four bits of information about their web apps are related in some way. If we then read one of the examples, say the top one for Basecamp, we can then immediately assume (correctly) that all of the other entries that are styled and configured in this manner are also web apps offered by 37signals. Here, consistency of styling and presentation indicates consistency of category or context.
Note that this similarity is reinforced by how the apps’ information contrasts strongly with the surrounding content. Because of this contrast and similarity there is no need to structurally “wall-off” these four elements from the surrounding content in order to show their relatedness.
In the example above, the main page for (the now defunct??) UX Magazine uses the principle of similarity to communicate that all of the bits of content that appear inside square, gray-bordered boxes are references (links) to articles. This impression is then reinforced by the user experience: all of these elements have a consistent behavior when a cursor hovers over them (image below).
Perceiving similarities not only helps us to assume what elements in a layout are related to one another, it also then implies structure based on the patterns that emerge, as demonstrated by the following examples:
The above example shows a grid of elements where no divisional structure is evident. All of the elements seem to be equally related.
This example above clearly shows that the structure is columnar. Since the shapes are consistent, color is the communicative feature here.
In this example above, it is clear that the elements are arranged into horizontal rows.
The example above shows that the elements are split into two categories, where all of the gray squares are related and all of the brown squares are related (similar to the AIGA example above). The two sections are clearly distinct, even though this example—and all of the previous ones in this section—have exactly the same physical structure.
In these examples, color (or more fundamentally, contrast) has been used to imply relationships and create structure. These examples offer clear lessons for web designers. Among those lessons is the fact that physical structure is not necessary for describing page structure and content relationships. Instead, one might clearly imply structure based solely on the consistency or contrast of styling and dimension of the content. I’m sure you can extrapolate many lessons from these simple examples.
More simple complexity
Like all fundamental ideas or principles, this is dead-simple stuff; and yet this simple principle has nearly unfathomable depths. In this fact we find one of the dangers of simple concepts: if we imagine only simple extrapolations from simple ideas or fundamental principles, our efforts will forever be relegated to heavy-handed mechanisms and trite results.
If you follow my articles regularly you are aware that I spend lots of time dwelling on fundamentals. Do not, however, mistake an interest in fundamentals for a suggestion that design must be kept fundamental or simplistic. It is the purpose of fundamentals to open wide doors to conceptual depths, and to the subtleties that lay beyond. Without a keen understanding of the (many) fundamentals, designers will be forever barred from those depths. Study hard.
The next installment in this series will touch on some principles that define how the physical page structures we design create direct and indirect communication.
- Universal Principles of Design, by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
Gestalt Principles Series:
- Gestalt Principles 1: Figure/Ground
- Gestalt Principles 2: Similarity
- Gestalt Principles 3: Proximity, Uniform Connectedness, and Good Continuation
- Gestalt Principles 4: Common Fate
- Gestalt Principles 5: Closure
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Background photo by Eddie Van 3000.
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Petrin Hill is visible from just about anywhere in Prague. It is the large area of grass and trees that rises up on a hill to the west of the River Vltava, just south of the Castle.
There are two options for getting to the top: hiking up one of the many trails, or taking the funicular railway up. Both options involve some steep climbing. Hiking up, one can meander amidst the trees and be treated to an increasingly breathtaking view of the city of Prague to the east. It's about a 20 or 30 minute walk up to the top, and is only mildly strenuous for someone in good health. The funicular railway goes directly up to the top, working on an ancient pulley-like system in which the car coming down the hill pulls the car coming up, and the two balance each other out. At least, this is what I was told. If you're afraid of not being in control on a steep incline, don't opt for this route up. But it's worthwhile to do it once at least. The trip up takes about 4 minutes and the ticket costs 12 Crowns, or about fifty cents US.
Once at the top, there are a couple of attractions that are worth visiting. The main attraction is the Petrin Hill tower, built in the late 1800s and modelled after the Eiffel Tower. This tower is smaller than the Paris version, but still allows for one of the most complete panoramic views of Prague and its surroundings. Admission is about US$4 and the winding stairs going up take about ten minutes to climb. There is a lift available, but I believe this is only for those unable to make the walk up. There are two levels from which to stand and look outward, the most interesting being at the top. It's a nice place to go up and spend a half hour gazing at the architecture and the setting of the city. Try to go on a weekday so that you don't have to fight for space at one of the windows that opens and allows a nice breeze to come through.
At the bottom of the tower, you can sit at a picnic table or on the grass and get the usual assortment of beer, soft drinks, sausages, etc.
Nearby, there's a mirror maze, which, although only asking about US$1 for admission, is not really what it's cracked up to be. Initially, it's quite fun, until one realizes that it's the shortest mirror maze ever created.
To take an alternate route back to where there are buildings, walk west along the "Hunger Wall" named that because it was commisioned to be built largely to give starving citizens paid work. Walking downhill through the trees, you'll eventually come to the Monastery area near the Castle, and from there you can make your way down towards the river through the steep and narrow streets leading down the hill.
Petrin Hill is a great place to spend a few hours and be away from the city. And, for those who are Milan Kundera fans, to get a sense of the location of Tereza's planned execution against a tree.
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CB is an educational project dedicated to demonstrating how political borders have changed over time.
Unlike the textbook approach of presenting a mass of text describing details about history focusing
on a given area, we have created visual aids showing the actual change taking place. After all, how
can a student apply "why" information when they don't know "how" the world was affected?
We, the creators of the CB project were two students who asked the above question. All we wanted was
the ability to put all of the information together and see how global events
actually changed the face of the world. Now we are proud to present the product of our labor.
Jonathan Lee researched history to create the GIS data available from this site. He is currently
a junior at W G Enloe High School in Raleigh, NC. He's proud to be able to attatch his name to
such a significant web project.
Tre Jones studied HTML publishing and arrived with the format for this site. He is also a junior
at W G Enloe High School. He has searched extensively on and off the internet for the information
provided on this page. He wishes you all an educational visit.
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The celiac plexus
(also known as the solar plexus
) is a complex network of nerves (a plexus
) located in the abdomen.
The celiac plexus is located near where the celiac trunk, superior mesenteric artery, and renal arteries branch from the abdominal aorta. It is behind the stomach and the omental bursa and in front of the crura of the diaphragm, on the level of the first lumbar vertebra, L1.
The plexus is formed (in part) by the greater and lesser splanchnic nerves of both sides, and also parts of the right vagus nerve.
The celiac plexus proper consists of the celiac ganglia with a network of interconnecting fibers. The aorticorenal ganglia are often considered to be part of the celiac ganglia, and thus, part of the plexus.
The celiac plexus includes a number of smaller plexuses:
Other plexuses that are derived from the celiac plexus:
Significance in Martial Arts
In Dim Mak
, the solar plexus is referred to as Conceptor Vessel 14 (or cv 14), being the most forbidden point in acupuncture. It is considered an extreme death point due to heart stoppage and is a common strike due to its relative ease to reach, being on the front of the chest.
The celiac plexus is often popularly referred to as the solar plexus
, generally in the context of a blow to the stomach. In many of these cases, it is not the celiac plexus itself being referred to, but rather the region where it is located. A blow to the stomach can upset this region. This can cause the diaphragm to spasm, resulting in difficulty in breathing — a sensation commonly known as "getting the wind knocked out of you
". A blow to this region can also affect the celiac plexus itself, possibly interfering with the functioning of the viscera, as well as causing great pain
A celiac plexus block by means of fluoroscopically guided injection is sometimes used to treat intractable pain from cancers such as pancreatic cancer.
The solar plexus in religion and mysticism
According to Hindu
beliefs, the solar plexus chakra
is "the center of etheric-psychic intuition: a vague or non-specific, sensual sense of knowing; a vague sense of size, shape, and intent of being. As such, some psychics recommend "listening" to it since it may help out in making better decisions in one's life on many different levels.
- - "Posterior Abdominal Wall: The Celiac Plexus"
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Source Newsroom: University of Colorado Cancer Center
Newswise — What cancerous conditions lead to what kinds of bacterial infections? If doctors knew, they could predict which patients would likely benefit from pre-treatment with certain kinds of antibiotics. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in this month’s issue of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases shows the answer: E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae are especially prevalent in patients with lung and GI cancers, more so for Klebsiella if these patients have been treated previously with aminopenicillins.
“These are really dangerous infections. You think about Klebsiella – it can develop resistance really quickly. And these patients have generally been in and out of hospitals. If you can’t treat the infection early, it can quickly become a serious and life threatening condition,” says Andrés Felipe Henao-Martínez, MD, clinical fellow in infectious diseases at the CU Cancer Center and University of Colorado Hospital.
His study looked at 462 patients with bacterial blood stream infections who were admitted to hospitals for treatment. Of these patients, 203 had cancer and 259 did not, allowing Henao-Martínez and colleagues to explore the clinical and microbiological differences between these populations. Interestingly, Henao-Martínez could show that most infections existing in cancer patients were acquired in hospital settings and not in the community, while non-cancer patients typically had community-acquired infections.
“Normally every hospital has a spreadsheet, an antibiogram, listing the bacteria and their rate of antibiotic resistance they’ve found in their patient population. But if you can predict ahead of time what bacteria you’re likely to encounter, you can prescribe more targeted antibiotic therapy before infections create complications,” Henao-Martínez says.
For example, previous treatment with aminopenicillins, like amoxicillin, and the presence of cancer seemed to significantly increase the likelihood of Klebsiella infection .
“Klebsiella pneumoniae is largely resistant to amoxicillin – with the immune system compromised by the cancer and by chemotherapy, and with other bacteria largely wiped away by the amoxicillin class of antibiotics it appears that Klebsiella is left to flourish with little competition in patients with cancer” Henao-Martínez says.
The group recently submitted a paper detailing genetic differences in outcomes in this population of bacterially infected patients admitted for treatment.
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In the Bible, where שׁ stands as the second letter of the word, one doesn't write a second dot for the holam (= 'o' sound). The shin dot implies the holam dot: both merge into one.
But, of course, the waw must be written down in the writing hasar haniqud.
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In modern Hebrew: the right pattern of this verb, even for the niqud, is N-t004.G.3.c
Do you want to make any comments on this pattern?
Copyright © 2009 Oham. All rights reserved.
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by Sandra Levy Ceren, Ph.D.
A woman worried about falling asleep had taken a highly advertised sleep medication after embarking on an overseas business trip. Seated in first class, she had awakened shocked and embarrassed to find herself sprawled, clutching hands with a sleeping stranger—a male passenger reclining next to her. Her clothes were in disarray—panties on the floor, bra open. She had no memory of anything that happened after she had swallowed the medication.
Such reported situations should raise alarm. However, the drug continues to be marketed, despite many reports of anecdotal negative experiences.
Many patients consult psychologists and other mental health professionals after having tried a variety of prescription drugs to combat depression without success.
The first line of defense to counter depression should be cognitive or behavioral psychotherapy. This method has proven success in the treatment of depression without any negative side effects such as that of medicine.
Sharing a waiting room with several doctors, I became aware of the manner in which pharmaceutical companies seduce physicians to prescribe their wonder drugs.
Young, attractive, cheery, drug company representatives, hair neatly coiffed, clad in expensive business suits, often graced our waiting room. I would see them roll in their drug cases containing drug samples, invitations to free cruises, resorts, dinners, and other goodies. Later in the day at the reception desk, memo pads and pens brazenly embossed with the name of latest drug magically appeared. Cute objects bearing the name of the newest drug may save the physician’s time when prescribing medicine.
Although I was not a prescribing physician, I was occasionally invited to share in the free stationery supplies and delicious free lunch.
No wonder drugs are so expensive.
Having treated several pharmaceutical representatives, I was aware that their high salaries were inconsistent with their education and experience. None had taken courses in science, statistics, or research, but they were good marketers, perhaps naturally born.
Obviously, what mattered most to the drug company was the ability to make a successful sales pitch to busy physicians—too busy to explain to the patient how to use and what to expect from the medication, and the possible side effects, interactions with other medications, food and alcohol.
How many physicians trust the literature supplied by the representatives to be reliable and valid?
Newspapers report inconsistencies in the research of many pharmaceuticals.
Frequent reports in medical journals reveal flaws in research.
Some highly respected professors have lost their jobs for fabricating the results of their research.
Scientific research is crucial to all drugs. It is a vital and legitimate cost. It must be scrupulous and free from prejudice. Unfortunately despite the reported scientific findings, certain drugs have caused more harm than good.
Before taking any drug, it is important to consult with a pharmacist who has a record of all the drugs you are taking and your allergies. Pharmacists should be able to spot a potential problem for you.
Recently, a Texas court has ruled that doctors must be held liable for prescribing bad drugs. At this moment, it is not known how many states will follow suit.
Widespread ads by malpractice attorneys abound on TV advising the viewer to consult them if they have taken medicine that caused serious consequences.
The consumer assumes he will win a large settlement, but the lawyers must be paid, so your settlement may be a fraction of the award.
Because the pharmaceutical company must defend itself against these claims, they must have a large budget for defense attorneys and experts. Such costs drive up the price of pharmaceuticals in the United States.
Obviously not all drugs are bad. Some are life-saving.
Because there is no federal agency that protects the consumer against obscenely high priced drugs, the same drug, made in the same place but purchased overseas is a mere fraction of that drug purchased in the U.S.
Some time ago, my son needed an expensive eye medicine. He researched all local pharmacies, but couldn’t find it cheaper than $150. He called his friend in Spain. She sent it to him for a few dollars!!!!
A few years later an article in the London Examiner sparked my interest and concern. According to the article, soon, we may be able to pop a pill to help us remember a phone number, or an upcoming exam question.
A report by Foresight, the U.K’s science-based think tank led by scientists in psychology and neuroscience states that advances could usher in a new era of drug use.
The government’s chief scientific adviser said that brain-enhancing drugs developed to treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s were likely to find increased use among healthy people hoping to improve their perception, memory, planning or judgment.
The report also warned that the widespread adoption of new brain-enhancing drugs had risks and would raise significant ethical, social and practical issues.
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A look at the tests conducted on the Automated Transfer Vehicle's critical automated rendezvous and docking system, in Val de Reuil, France.
The Automated Transfer Vehicle, 20 tonnes and the size of a London double-decker bus, is the largest spacecraft ever built in Europe. The unmanned vehicle will be used to ferry cargo to the International Space Station and to raise its orbit.
The first flight model, 'Jules Verne', due to be launched next year, is currently undergoing final integration and space environmental tests at ESA's test facilities in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Jules Verne's crucial navigation systems are simultaneously being qualified at an exceptional test centre in France. The facility 100 km west of Paris, the only one of its kind in the world, belongs to the country's defence procurement agency, DGA.
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Spell check is notorious for being viewed as dumbing down your spelling abilities. Throughout my years in the teaching profession I have heard rants from many teachers about the evils of spell check and how it makes students lazy and unable to learn how to spell correctly. The naysayers who view this way use the argument that using spell check makes students rely too heavily on it and therefore makes them pay less attention to learning how to spell correctly.
I flat-out find the above argument weak and contrary to the truth. I get so tired of hearing educators say spell check is an enabler for you. I understand the logic to the argument. However, my own experiences with spell check prove the above argument invalid (at least in my opinion).
I’m a Generation Xer who grew up in a school environment in which computers were the “new” craze. I remember when computers were first introduced into my elementary school. I remember a computer lab being created for the first time and a new teacher with a strange name, “Tech Ed”, teacher running it.
Word processing became a huge thing as computers flooded their way into our schools. With word processing, came spell check. I remember my teachers insistently objecting to the use of spell check for quite some time. They insisted in having us students use dictionaries, the traditional way of looking up words to learn how to spell. Nonetheless, my classmates and I found the dictionary method absurd. In our opinions, using the dictionary to learn how to spell, seemed pointless. Our logic, “How can we look up a word in the dictionary and learn how to spell it, if we don’t even know how to spell it?” I remember sitting there in elementary school using dictionaries with no avail, trying to figure out the location of a word so that I could learn how to spell it. If I asked a teacher how to spell the word, they would tell me, “Look it up in the dictionary/” I thought, “Really?! Yeah, that really works!”
Using spell check to figure out how to spell seemed logical, easy and actually worthwhile to my classmates and I. We could quickly figure out how to spell a word, study the correct spelling and then fix the word. Cha-ching! We hit the jackpot on this one! No more roaming through dictionaries endlessly for hours with no outcome.
As I progressed into high school, spell check became increasingly important. As I learned more advanced vocabulary and had no idea how to spell words, spell check and I became best friends. I know it must sound like I relied on spell check too much and therefore mustn’t have learned how to spell well. Not true! Truth is, for years I had been terrible at spelling. The traditional dictionary and rote memorization method did nothing much for me. Spell check worked for me. It made me better at spelling. I did not rely on it just to correct words. When I used spell check I actually would study the correct spelling of words. Before fixing a word, I would look at my awful spelling, look at the correct spelling in spell check, look at my spelling again to compare what mistakes I might have made, look back at the correct spelling, memorize the correct spelling and then click to apply changes with the correct spelling.
Spell check worked for me because I studied the words. I did not do what most of my teachers had argued that students would do. I can’t recall anyone I knew that just clicked to change the spelling without studying the correct spelling first.
Students, the honest truth is that spell check will help you become a better speller like it did for me. Don’t let anyone else bring you down or make you think otherwise. I am living proof that spell check does not dumb down students. Don’t listen to naysayers. Instead actively use spell check in a productive way that will help you continue to succeed in your academic studies.
Teacher (as my ESL students call me)
P.S. This is from the experiences and viewpoints of…a teacher who was once a student…a Generation Xer who remembers when spell check was introduced in school…a former student who remembers the old pointless dictionary method…a teacher who became a teacher due to the lack of belief in me from some of my former teachers and who wanted to show students like you that someone believes in you…a teacher who “yes” as a student was once a bad speller…a student who used spell check to learn correct spelling and who later went on to become a teacher…a 21st Century teacher who is avid about using technological advances that help you learn more fluidly…and a teacher who sometimes breaks traditional ways of thinking by believing in and applying outside the box strategies that help you succeed.
Has spell check helped you become a better speller?
- Auto-Correct Is Not Ruining Spelling (theatlanticwire.com)
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Brian Harker: Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
Softcover; 186 pages
Oxford University Press
In 1925, Louis Armstrong was 24 years old. He had just returned to Chicago from New York City at the behest of his second wife, pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong, who wanted Armstrong back in the Windy City to play with her band. Armstrong had already appeared on numerous recordings, but now he was asked to cut his own sides with OKeh Records. Backed by a varying group of stellar musicians, Armstrong proceeded to make over seventy recordings between 1925-28, a now-legendary output known collectively as the Hot Fives.
It's a truism to say that the Hot Fives constitute the foundation of jazz, but in Brian Harker's excellent book, he shows exactly why this is so. Harker approaches these recordings by focusing on seven exceptional songs, each one representing a specific stylistic or technical advance. For example, in his analysis of the 1926 masterpiece "Cornet Chop Suey," Harker firmly places Armstrong in the context of the vaudeville tradition: in order to survive, vaudeville performers had to provide novelty, and even a great musician like Armstrong's mentor, cornetist Joe Oliver, used to make baby cries and farm animal noises with his horn. Unlike other musicians, however, Armstrong's eccentric playing was based on difficulty; he invented his own elite brand of novelty through playing the cornet like a clarinet, which created a sound previously unheard. Harker also makes an important connection between Armstrong's playing and tap dancers, particularly Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Through accompanying the dancers' complex footwork, Armstrong developed a new rhythmic vocabulary, which eventually became the foundation for swing music.
Subsequent chapters delve into "Big Butter and Egg Man," "Potato Head Blues," "S.O.L. Blues," "Gully Low Blues," "Savoy Blues" and "West End Blues," with discussions on Armstrong's innovations as a soloist, his harmonic approach to improvisation, his creation of the modern trumpet voice, his consolidation of sweet and hot jazz, and his stylistic versatility. In addition to these breakthroughs, Harker makes it clear that the Hot Fives are not an endless string of masterpieces; the sides show Armstrong experimenting and not reaching his goals, and then finally making one of his paradigm-shifting leaps. Perhaps one of the most disturbing stereotypes about Armstrong is that he was some sort of unschooled genius who made music effortlessly; Harker makes it clear that all Armstrong's innovations were grounded in hard work, including relentless practice, lengthy rehearsals, countless gigs, and lessons with Lil (a dynamic woman way ahead of her time), not to mention healthy doses of courage, imagination, and ambition.
Armstrong's journey through the Hot Fives turns out to be a great adventure story, a narrative buoyed by Harker's love for his subject matter. The book's unique blend of biography, scholarship, oral history and musical analysis allows the author to come at the recordings from several interesting angles, and altogether Harker provides an enjoyable and thought-provoking entry into the music. There is a fair bit of musical notation and analysis, but Harker always provides narrative summaries of his musical scrutiny, so no reader is left behind. And for those who want to learn more about Armstrong and his times, the bibliography provides a comprehensive jumping-off point, including essential works such as Terry Teachout's superb Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) and Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff's classic Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It (Rinehart, 1955).
When the musicians on the Hot Fives stepped into the recording studio, they had no sense that history was about to be made. Armstrong later said, "When we made the Hot Five and Hot Seven records, it was just pick up those cats and do it . . . Got $50 each for each session, just a gig to us and glad to do it so we could go up town and have a ball with the money." The jazz world of the 1920s did not understand what was afoot either, and in fact the revolution that Armstrong initiated went undetected for a very long time. Now almost 100 years later, that revolution is bright as the sun; and as Armstrong's legacy continues to unfold, a book such as this helps illuminate the tremendous gifts we were given.
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Born in Tilden, Nebraska on 13 March 1911, L.Ron Hubbard was a curious, cavalier from an early age.
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, was the first comprehensive text ever written on the subject of the human mind and life. The 1950 publication remains a best seller today.
Discover what Scientology really is, L. Ron Hubbard's research and the technology he developed through this provide workable solutions to many different social and human problems.
L. Ron Hubbard Site Map
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LESLEA MOSHER JONES
lesjones at INK.ORG
Sun Jun 11 20:42:57 EST 1995
Hello! I had written before, and in the midst of classwork, research
for several papers, and my husband's hospitalization, I managed to mislay
the information you provided to me.
I had written asking about sources of information on the Vietnam/Agent
issue, the D-storm illnesses (particularly as described in the "Is Military
Research Hazardous to Veteran's Health?" report from the Senate last Dec.
I am also interested in the possible link between illnesses resulting from
such experimentation (as in the vet's and civilians exposed to radiation,
mustard gas, lewesite, those involved in the CIA/DOD's experiments with
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Agents Pink, Blue, Green, Purple, White and Pink Rose, on top of the arsnic
other organophosphate & carbanmate compounds, and finally the impact of
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increases in illnesses that do not respond to traditional treatments any
more...I believe they are viruses?
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During the 1930s while working for the government's Works Progress Administration Federal Arts Project, Eliseo Rodriguez learned the rapidly disappearing tradition of straw appliqué. Sometimes referred to as "poor man's gilding" this was a Spanish colonial art form found in the villages of northern New Mexico that uses straw to emulate gold leaf in the decoration of crosses and retablos (religious screens) found in the churches. By the 1950s Eliseo and his wife Paula, who he also taught, were the last remaining practitioners of straw appliqué in New Mexico. However, in the 1970s a conservator at the Museum of International Folk Art discovered their work and encouraged them to show their pieces in the Spanish Colonial Arts Society's Spanish Market. Due to this exposure and publicity and their willingness to teach others, including members of their own family, straw appliqué is once again a thriving tradition in northern New Mexico. One writer has said of the inspired work of Eliseo Rodriguez, "...true spirit doesn't give figurative speeches. It sings in golden figures."
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What to do if iPhone freezes on apple screen
With the iPhone, we have the power of a full-fledged computer at our fingertips. However, a smarter phone means it is more vulnerable to glitches than a dumb phone. One of the problems an iPhone user may encounter is the iPhone becoming unresponsive during a reboot. So, here are several tips on what to do if your iPhone freezes on the Apple screen.
In fact, there may be various reasons for an iPhone to freeze on the Apple screen. The solutions for this problem may differ depending on the version of iOS that you have installed. For jailbroken iPhones, there may be alternative solutions to the same problem.
A standard solution for a malfunctioning iPhone is to restore it. Restoring it basically mean that iTunes will re-setup your iPhone by rolling it back to your previously saved iTunes sync. A standard restore procedure is not complicated.
● First, you need to turn off your frozen iPhone. You do that by simultaneously pressing the "Sleep" and "Home" buttons until the iPhone turns off. This is called a hard power-off.
● Then, turn on your computer and launch iTunes on it.
● Hold the "Home" and "Power" buttons while plugging your phone into your computer. On the screen, you will see iTunes, arrow, and cable icons.
● Check the iTunes window. A window with the following information will pop up: “iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode. You must restore this iPhone before it can be used with iTunes." Click “OK”
● In the main iTunes window, choose "Restore." Then just wait. In several minutes, your iPhone will be up and running with all of your contact data, bookmarks and settings intact.
● Re-download the music to your iPhone since it is not restored during this procedure.
The restore feature removes any settings that do not belong to the "default factory settings" — those that are preloaded with the iPhone when it goes on sale. After restoring your iPhone to those safe settings that will surely work, iTunes will begin loading your phone with your previously backed up data.
We hope that this piece of advice will save you from that annoying "iPhone's Apple screen of death" and some minor hang-ups and glitches.
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In a letter to Gandhi, Co-ordinators of the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy including SP Udhayakumar and M Pushparayan said several "million" people in Tamil Nadu and Kerala had been waging a 'non-violent' struggle, intensified since August 2011, against KNPP on safety concerns.
Police had registered more than 325 cases, including for alleged sedition, against 5,296 named and 2,21,483 unnamed accused at the Koodankulam police station alone, they said.
If Congress, heading the UPA Government, did not respect people’s power, democracy and peaceful struggles, and tried to mow down democratic dissent and commissioned KKNPP, that would be undermining people’s trust in democracy, human rights and the very idea of Republic of India, they said.
It would prompt the voters to shun Congress at least in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, they claimed.
The first of the two reactors of KNPP is slated to be commissioned this month.=
Madurai: Knocking at the doors of Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, anti-nuclear activists, opposing the Kudankulam Nulcear Power Project on Tuesday asked him to seek a moratorium on atomic energy plans and projects until next general elections and make them a poll issue in affected states.
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The classic survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present. This anthology offers the work of over 260 writers--34 newly included--representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature. Among the 36 major works included in their entirety are Franklin's "Autobiography"; Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"; Thoreau's "Walden"; Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave"; Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"; Chopin's "The Awakening"; Cather's "My Antonia"; Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying"; Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire"; Larsen's "Quicksand"; Ginsberg's "Howl"; and Mamet's "Glengarry, Glen Ross." The Seventh Edition pays increased attention to cultural contexts through the inclusion of 45 color plates, 12 contextual clusters, updated maps and timelines, and through extensively revised section introductions, headnotes, footnotes, and bibliographies.
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Nina Baym (Ph.D. Harvard) is Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Shape of Hawthorne's Career; Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820-1870; Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America; American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860; American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences and most recently, Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927. Some of her essays are collected in Feminism and American Literary History; she has also edited and introduced many reissues of work by earlier American women writers, from Judith Sargent Murray through Kate Chopin. In 2000 she received the MLA's Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American literary studies.Wayne Franklin (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) is Professor and Head of English, University of Connecticut. He is the author of James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years (the first volume of his definitive biography, from Yale University Press), The New World of James Fenimore Cooper, and Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America. He is the editor of American Voices, American Lives: A Documentary Reader and The Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, A Norton Critical Edition, and co-editor, with Michael Steiner, of Mapping American Culture. Philip F. Gura (Ph.D. Harvard) is William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of many books, including The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New England Renaissance; A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New England, 1620-1660; Jonathan Edwards, America's Evangelical; and American Transcendentalism: A History. For ten years he was editor of the journal Early American Literature. He is an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.Arnold Krupat (Ph.D. Columbia) is Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of, among other books, Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature; Red Matters: Native American Studies; and, most recently, All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression (2009). He is the editor of a number of anthologies, including Native American Autobiography: An Anthology and New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism. With Brian Swann, he edited Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, which won the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award for best book of nonfiction prose in 2001.Robert S. Levine (Ph.D. Stanford) is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; and Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism. He has edited a number of books, including The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville; Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader; Hemispheric American Studies; and a Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables.
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Uncle Remus is a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books.
Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States African-Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's Fables and the stories of Jean de La Fontaine. Uncle Remus is a kindly old former slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him.
The stories are written in an eye dialect devised by Harris to represent a Deep South Gullah dialect. The genre of stories is the trickster tale. At the time of Harris' publication, his work was praised for its ability to capture plantation negro dialect.
Br'er Rabbit ("Brother Rabbit") is the main character of the stories, a likable character, prone to tricks and trouble-making who is often opposed by Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. In one tale, Br'er Fox constructs a lump of tar and puts clothing on it. When Br'er Rabbit comes along he addresses the "tar baby" amiably, but receives no response. Br'er Rabbit becomes offended by what he perceives as Tar Baby's lack of manners, punches it, and becomes stuck.
Controversy and legacy
The animal stories were conveyed in such a manner that they were not seen as racist by many among the audiences of the time. By the mid-20th century, however, the dialect and the "old Uncle" stereotype of the narrator, was considered demeaning by many African-American people, on account of what they considered to be racist and patronizing attitudes toward African-Americans. Providing additional controversy is the story's context in the Antebellum south on a slave owning plantation, a setting that is portrayed in a passive and even docile manner. Nevertheless, Harris' work was, according to himself, an accurate account of the stories he heard from the slaves when he worked on a plantation as a young man. He claimed to have listened to, and memorized, the African American animal stories told by Uncle George Terrell, Old Harbert, and Aunt Crissy at the plantation; he wrote them down some years later. He acknowledged his debt to these storytellers in his fictionalized autobiography, 'On the Plantation' (1892). Many of the stories that he recorded have direct equivalents in the African oral tradition, and it is thanks to Harris that their African-American form is preserved.
Harris himself said, in the introduction to Uncle Remus, that he hoped his book would be considered:
...a sympathetic supplement to Mrs. Stowe's [author of Uncle Tom's Cabin] wonderful defense of slavery as it existed in the South. Mrs. Stowe, let me hasten to say, attacked the possibilities of slavery with all the eloquence of genius; but the same genius painted the portrait of the Southern slave-owner, and defended him.
Mark Twain read the Uncle Remus stories to his children, who were awed to meet Harris himself. In his Autobiography Twain describes him thus:
He was the bashfulest grown person I have ever met. When there were people about he stayed silent, and seemed to suffer until they were gone. But he was lovely, nevertheless; for the sweetness and benignity of the immortal Remus looked out from his eyes, and the graces and sincerities of his character shone in his face.
Twain wrote that "It may be that Jim Wolf was as bashful as Harris. It hardly seems possible...." Jim Wolf being a person from the first humorous story Twain ever told—the story recorded in "Jim Wolf and the Cats".
Adaptations in film and other media
The stories have inspired at least three feature films. The first and best known is Walt Disney's Song of the South, released in 1946. The film was a combination of live action and animation. Disney hired vaudeville and radio actor James Baskett to portray Remus, saying: "We want [the audience] to see 'Uncle Remus' and not some actor whose personality is already known to them through other screen roles." Baskett's appearance, a large African-American man with a round face, contrasts with the appearance of Uncle Remus in earlier book illustrations by Frederick S. Church, A. B. Frost, and E. W. Kemble. Ralph Bakshi's 1975 film Coonskin is a satire of the Disney film that adapts the Uncle Remus stories to a contemporary Harlem setting. The Adventures of Brer Rabbit is a 2006 direct-to video production which has hip-hop influences.
An Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit newspaper strip ran from October 14, 1945, through December 31, 1972.
- Life on the Mississippi, c.1883, Samuel L. Clemens, Ch. XLVII "Uncle Remus" and Mr. Cable
- "Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings". www.gutenburg.org. 2000-08-01. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- For more on the relationship between Uncle Remus and Uncle Tom's Cabin, see Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, (New York: New York University Press, 2011), pp. 133-141.
- Brasch, Walter M. (2000). Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus and the "Cornfield Journalist": The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris. Mercer University Press. P. 275.
- "Child's Play". www.washingtonpost.com. 2006-04-09. Retrieved 2008-08-29.
- "Disney’s “Uncle Remus” strips," Hogan's Alley #16, 2009
- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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- Full text of books by Uncle Remus from Project Gutenberg
- Theodore Roosevelt autobiography on Brer Rabbit and his Uncle
- Short biography of Joel Chandler Harris with photograph (article by the Eatonton Literary Festival, Eatonon, Georgia)
- Official Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton, GA
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|Africa -is the world’s second largest continent with more than 900 million people, making it the second most populated continent after Asia. There are 53 independent and sovereign countries including Madagascar and the island groups, with over 850 native languages. Climates in Africa range from tropical to sub arctic, with desert and arid regions in the northern half, to the savanna plains and very dense jungle (rainforest) regions in the central and southern areas. One of the richest and most dynamic art forms of Africa is the indigenous musical and dance traditions, maintained over the centuries through oral tradition. Today, much of the musical styles “in” Africa, include a mixture and blend of the highly traditional complex dance rhythms and choral singing with modern popularization trends. Throughout history, a wide variety of musical instruments have supported the culturally rich mosaic music of Africa.|
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at the WTO and leaders of several governments have
launched what is said to be a ''last ditch effort''
to save the Doha Development Round of trade negotiations
from what is seen as imminent collapse. Will it collapse?
And does it matter if it does? Or in other words,
what is the likelihood of such a deal, and how much
would it benefit developing countries?
The brief answers are: low and
The finger-pointing for the failure so far has been
directed either at the US (in which domestic politics
suggests very little appetite for external trade negotiations)
or the newly significant large emerging economies
like China, Brazil and India (that are less willing
to accept what are seen as unequal terms) or the overall
impact of the Great Recession (which has made more
countries wary of trade openness that could undermine
domestic production and employment).
One aspect that is less talked about is the impact
of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture on agriculture
and food security in the developing world. The apathy
or even downright cynicism in such quarters towards
a new trade deal can be understood if we examine this.
Basically, many developing countries are now more
food-insecure than they ever were, and at least some
part of that can be related to recent trade patterns.
Global food prices have been very volatile over the
past four years. They rose rapidly from early 2007,
reached a peak in June 2008, then declined only to
increase again from early 2009. In December 2010 the
food price index crossed its previous peak. In
March 2011 food prices were on average around 37 per
cent higher than a year earlier, while cereal prices
were 60 per cent higher. Similar patterns are evident
in global fuel markets, which have been furthered
roiled by the unrest in the Middle East.
It is true that this rapid increase cannot be explained
entirely by real demand and supply. Speculative financial
activity in commodity futures markets continues to
play a role, as commodity investment seems like
an attractive option in a period of low interest rates,
and the moral hazard created by recent bailouts allows
investors to downplay the risks. Obviously, regulating
such activity is a necessary component in any international
strategy to stabilise the prices of these essential
But that is clearly not going to be enough. The possibility
of future financial regulation is small comfort to
countries that are currently buffeted by these huge
food price increases, which have already generated
massive unrest and even contributed to unseating governments
in different parts of the developing world. Countries
that rely on food imports are of course hugely affected,
but even economies that import relatively little food
have seen their domestic food prices shoot up in response
to global prices.
This relates more to food trade and production than
just finance. An unfortunate legacy of the WTO regime
is that many developing countries find that they are
now much more exposed and vulnerable to even short-term
price fluctuations that create domestic food insecurity.
This is contrary to the promise of the Uruguay Round
that developing countries would increase their incomes
through net agricultural exports, enabled by the reduction
or elimination of subsidies and restrictions on market
access in the developed countries. The reality turned
out to be quite different, as developed countries
used the small print in the Agreement on Agriculture
to continue with high subsidies and various form of
denial of market access. Meanwhile, developing countries
opened up their agricultural trade, and found that
their farmers had to compete with massively subsidised
competition from Northern agribusinesses. Trade openness
caused farmers to shifts from traditional food crops
that were often better suited to ecological conditions,
to cash crops that increasingly relied on purchased
inputs and were subject to market volatility.
As it happens, cultivators in the developing world
have found it difficult to benefit from cash crop
production even in periods of rising prices. Both
public provision of different inputs for cultivation
and government regulation of private input provision
were progressively reduced, so costs of seeds, fertilisers
and pesticides increased quite sharply. Financial
liberalisation made it more difficult for farmers
to access institutional credit. Insufficient public
investment in agricultural research and extension
was associated with cultivation practices that reduce
soil productivity and therefore yields.
So the facile ideas underpinning the Agreement on
Agriculture - that farmers could simply shift to cash
crop cultivation to increase their incomes and that
developing countries could simply choose to export
cash crops and import food whenever required without
implications for food security - have been a recipe
for disaster in many countries.
Now that global food prices are at record highs, it
is not surprising that more governments are sceptical
of the much-vaunted benefits of supposedly more open
trade, especially when it has increased the food insecurity
of their populations. They naturally want more safeguards
against predatory imports and more freedom to support
domestic food production. Yet the
current negotiations in the Doha Round contain
few such proposals.
Is it any wonder that so many developing countries
have ceased to believe in any possibility of real
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By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
By now, it’s well known that almost anyone you meet — from a potential employer to a prospective date — might be searching for information about you online. But would you feel strange knowing that your doctor was Googling you?
The practice appears to be widespread, according to an essay in the latest edition of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, and it raises some thorny ethical questions for doctors, particularly those dealing with mental health.
In some cases, what the authors call “patient-targeted Googling” is clearly beneficial — for example, when a patient is blogging about her suicidal thinking, or when an unconscious person comes into an emergency room with scant identification. But in other cases, the authors write, doctors are motivated by “curiosity, voyeurism and habit.”
“Most patients would probably be shocked that their doctor had the time or the interest to conduct a search like this,” one of the authors, David Brendel, said in an interview. “A good number of people would feel like their privacy had been breached, although a number might be happy the doctor was thinking about them outside of the 15 minutes or 30 minutes they were actually spending together.”
Dr. Brendel said he had seen no formal data on how often doctors conduct such searches but that the authors had done it themselves, had witnessed other physicians conducting searches and had discussed it with dozens in their field, psychiatry. He said doctors such as psychiatrists and psychologists who have long-term doctor-patient relationships might be more inclined to search for patients’ information online.
In the paper, the authors — Dr. Brendel and fellow doctors Benjamin Silverman and Brian Clinton — outline a framework that doctors, psychiatrists in particular, can use to help decide whether to conduct an Internet search on a patient. They recommend that doctors ask themselves honestly about their intent in conducting the search and whether the outcome might compromise the trust and relationship between the doctor and patient. Doctors, they say, should consider asking the patient for consent. And if doctors find compromising information — such as evidence that a patient has been smoking or taking drugs without acknowledging it — they then face the question of whether to put the results of the search into the patient’s medical record, where it could affect the patient’s insurance status.
As of now, there are no clear ethical guidelines for doctors. “Some people say absolutely it should never be done; it’s a breach of privacy … ” Dr. Brendel said. “But then many say it should be done as a matter of routine. It’s information that is in the public domain, and it may be information that is clinically relevant.”
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Stanley Gibson, a disabled Gulf War veteran, was murdered in a Las Vegas parking lot last December 12. He was shot seven times in the back of the head, without provocation, by a stranger wielding an AR-15 rifle. The killer, 34-year-old Jesus Arevalo, remains at large and is easy to find: He’s an officer with the Las Vegas Metro Police.
Gibson was unarmed. He was not a criminal suspect and posed no threat to anybody. His killing was a clear and unmistakable case of criminal homicide. Yet Arevalo has not been charged with a crime. He is on an extended vacation called “administrative leave,” during which he continues to collect his taxpayer-funded salary and benefits.
Meanwhile, Gibson’s widow, Rhonda, has been left all but penniless. Her husband was a fully disabled combat veteran of the first Gulf War who suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and cancer – the latter affliction most likely a result of prolonged exposure to depleted uranium. Over the past several years, Gibson’s disability benefits were consistently reduced and cut off entirely shortly before he was murdered by Arevalo.
The day before he was shot, Gibson – whose anti-anxiety medication had been cut off two weeks earlier by the Veterans Administration -- suffered a breakdown. According to Rhonda, “He didn’t know where he was and didn’t know what he was doing.”
The police were called after Stanley wound up in the front yard screaming at cars and “causing a scene.” Claiming that Stanley had taken a “fighting stance,” the officers arrested him for “resisting arrest” and booked him at the Las Vegas Detention Center. Although they informed Rhonda that Stanley would be placed on a 72-hour psychiatric hold, he was released within eight hours.
The following morning, Gibson called 911 twice to ask for medical help. He eventually drove to a nearby hospital, but left without receiving treatment. At about 9:30 that evening he called Rhonda to tell her he was parked outside their apartment complex – but he was nowhere to be seen.
Stanley had actually pulled into the parking lot of a condominium next door. She wouldn't learn about what happened to her husband until seeing a news report of the shooting -- and recognizing his white Cadillac.
Eyewitnesses recalled that Gibson drove slowly through the lot as if he was lost and confused. At the time, Arevalo and three other officers were at the condo responding to a call from a resident regarding a suspected break-in. Although they had no reason to consider Gibson as a suspect, they surrounded the vehicle and penned it in between several squad cars. Disoriented and frightened, Gibson gunned his engine and spun his wheels—but there was nowhere he could go.
For about a half hour, the officers tried to get Gibson to leave the car. During that period they should have been able to run his license plate and identify the driver. They should have recognized that they were dealing with a sick and confused man, and contacted a crisis intervention team. They should have gotten in touch with his wife, who lived less than a block away. They should have simply waited for Gibson to calm down.
The officers did none of those things. Instead, they chose to escalate the encounter by devising a plan to force him from his car: One officer would shoot out a window with a beanbag round, and another would incapacitate him with pepper spray. After the window was shattered, Officer Jesus Arevalo modified the plan by shooting Gibson seven times in the back of head with his AR-15 rifle.
Arevalo, who has a lengthy history of citizen complaints and official reprimands, was given the customary 72 hours to work out his story with the help of a police union attorney. He was then placed on paid vacation. Clark County Sheriff Douglas Gillespie, who supervises the Metro Police, initially claimed that the shooting was justified because Gibson supposedly threatened the officers by using his car as a “battering ram” – a claim that disintegrated after the emergence of a private video documenting that Gibson’s car was stationary when Arevalo murdered him.
There is some unbearably sinister symmetry in the way Stanley Gibson was murdered by agents of the Government. As a U.S. Army cook in Kuwait, Gibson was assigned to clear away what remained of the tens of thousands of Iraqis slaughtered in the “Highway of Death.”
During the First Gulf War, shortly after Saddam Hussein announced the complete withdrawal of his forces from Kuwait, U.S. and allied forces attacked a convoy headed back into Iraq.
Following airstrikes that disabled vehicles at the front and rear of the column, a prolonged assault with incendiary weapons and depleted uranium rounds was undertaken. A sixty-mile stretch of highway was left littered with the hulls of about 2,000 vehicles and the charred remnants of tens of thousands of human beings -- helpless, retreating soldiers, as well as civilians who had been caught in the traffic jam.
Gibson spent several days picking through the reeking rubble and disposing of the dead. In one of the ruined vehicles he found the mortal residue of a mother and child who had been melted together when their car was struck by an incendiary bomb.
The exposure to depleted uranium rounds quite likely was responsible for the cancer that forced Gibson to undergo a half-dozen operations and left his face partially paralyzed. Immersion in the horrific aftermath of that atrocity irreparably wounded Gibson’s mind and soul. He had no way of knowing that a little more than twenty years later, armed agents of the same Government that had penned in and slaughtered the helpless Iraqis would do exactly the same thing to him in a Las Vegas parking lot.
Rhonda Gibson blames the VA for the death of her husband. Originally classified as 100 percent disabled, Gibson had seen the VA arbitrarily re-classify him, alter his diagnosis, and change his treatment regimen. Last October 24, during an appointment at the local VA office, Gibson “aggressively confronted” an agency doctor about the capricious cutbacks in his cancer treatment. He was arrested by security officers and eventually pleaded guilty to “assaulting a federal employee” – by raising his voice in frustration over the fact that the government he had served was killing him through malicious neglect.
The couple’s financial situation worsened with each of the agency’s reductions in benefits. In November 2011, the couple lost their home and moved into an apartment next to the condominium where Gibson was killed. Now that Stanley is gone, Rhonda is both emotionally devastated and financially destitute.
Righteously furious over this state of affairs, Steven Sanson, retired Marine and president of Veterans in Politics International, seeks to organize a charity fundraiser: He has challenged Arevalo – who is a former competitive amateur fighter -- to a refereed mixed martial arts match, with most of the proceeds going to Gibson’s widow. Sanson hopes to hold the event on 12-12-12 – the anniversary of Stanley Gibson’s murder.
Arevalo, who was as bold as Hector when drawing a bead on the back of an unarmed man’s head, has no appetite for throwing down with someone who can actually fight back. There is no such thing as “qualified immunity” in the Octagon; Arevalo wouldn’t be able to call for backup, nor would he be able to press charges for “obstruction,” “disorderly conduct,” or “resisting arrest.” The referee wouldn't give Arevalo special advantages, and impose restrictions on his opponent, in the name of "officer safety." If the bout went the distance, the police union wouldn't be able to influence the decision rendered by the judges.
Not surprisingly, Arevalo has made himself scarce.
“There are many reasons why I’m trying to organize this event,” Sanson told Pro Libertate. “First of all, there’s a grieving wife who has been left without income of any kind and who is literally wasting away. Rhonda approves of the idea – in fact, she’d love to get in the ring with Arevalo herself, even though she’s down to less than one hundred pounds.”
“Secondly, I think this would help promote awareness of the desperate need for policy and personnel changes at the Metro Police Department,” Sanson continues. “It would also help focus attention on the problems suffered by many returning veterans, some of whom may appear physically healthy but who have psychological problems and deserve much better treatment than they’re getting. I also want to build public support for revamping the current policies regarding officer-involved shootings. Las Vegas has seen far too many shootings of this kind in recent years, yet the official inquiries always exonerate the shooter, no matter how absurd his story or obvious it is that it was a bad shoot.”
Until two years ago, officer-involved shootings were investigated through a County Coroner Inquest, a non-adversarial procedure described by former Nevada District Court Judge Don Chairez as “a search for justification of an officer’s actions.” Attorney Adam Lagomarsino refers to the County Coroner Inquest procedure as "a kangaroo court and a dog and pony show."
Lagomarsino filed a lawsuit against the Las Vegas Metro Police on behalf of the family of Lavon Cole – an unarmed man who was gunned down in his bathroom by a uniformed serial killer named Detective Bryan Yant. Cole, who had been targeted for a narcotics sting by the Metro Police, was trying to dispose of roughly an ounce of marijuana – a quantity insufficient to sustain a misdemeanor possession charge in Nevada.
The raid on Cole’s home was staged for a film crew employed by Langley Productions – the loathsome outfit responsible for the police-porn series “COPS.” Playing to the camera, Yant had brought along his AR-15 rifle, which was unnecessary for an operation targeting a mild-mannered non-violent offender. After bursting into the bathroom, Yant shot Cole in the back while his pregnant girlfriend was pinned to the floor in the next room with a gun to her head.
In addition to a previous shooting under very similar circumstances, Yant had compiled a record of corruption, dishonesty, and criminal misconduct. His version of the Cole shooting -- in which the victim supposedly made a “furtive” movement that left the heroic detective in “fear for my life” – was impossible to reconcile with the forensic evidence. Naturally, he was exonerated by the Coroner’s Inquest.
The inquest procedure was introduced in 1969. Between 1976 and 2010, more than two hundred lethal force incidents were examined by a seven-member jury. Only one of them was ruled "negligent" -- and that decision was overturned on appeal. This isn't a surprising result, given that the inquest procedure was a collegial exercise: The D.A.'s office literally choreographed the questioning with the police department prior to the hearing.
Attorney Lagomarsino points out that no cross-examination of police officers was permitted during the inquest. "We were allowed to submit written questions, one at a time, to the prosecutor, but we couldn't cross-examine Yant" or even ask follow-up questions, he told Pro Libertate in an August 2010 interview. The prosecutors didn’t even bother to present a summation for the jury. At the conclusion of the inquest into the Trevon Cole shooting, notes former District Judge Chairez, it appeared that the judge "was almost asking for a directed verdict."
Five days before Stanley Gibson was murdered, the Clark County Commission passed an ordinance to reform the Coroner’s Inquest process by including a representative of the victim’s family and making key evidence available to the public. This prompted a protest by the city’s largest criminal lobby – the Las Vegas Police Protective Association, which instructed its members to stop cooperating with the inquests altogether. On June 21, the police union filed a petition for a writ of prohibition against the revised inquest – the most recent of several legal challenges it has filed to prevent the system from being implemented.
“This process is no longer fair to our officers,” sniveled union spokesperson Chris Collins, whining that the revamped arrangement wasn’t a “fair and level playing field.” Bear in mind that police officers were still immune to cross-examination, and the inquest jury was still prohibited from handing down an indictment.
The DA’s Office remains disinclined to pursue grand jury investigations of police homicides. Accordingly, the only “accountability” for Metro officers who kill while on the clock is that provided by the department’s “Force Investigation Team.”
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Although he is on congenial terms with Sheriff Gillespie and other key officials, Steve Sannon isn’t willing to countenance their self-serving corruption – and he says that he knows more than a few police officers who share his opinions.
“There are law enforcement officers who have expressed concerns to me about bad leadership at Metro,” Sannon told Pro Libertate. “I’ve even had a few of them call me and tell me they’d love to see me in the ring with Arevalo, who’s considered a cocky jerk.”
Sannon says that sponsors are lining up to promote the event. There is no institutional or legal impediment to the proposed fight. In fact, an active-duty police officer participated in the June 11 Rogue Warrior Cage Fighting Championships at the Cannery Casino, which raised money for the Stars and Stripes Foundation.
“There’s no reason why Arevalo, who was a fighter before becoming a cop, couldn’t take part in this event,” Sannon observes. That is to say, there’s no reason apart from cowardice and (what’s much the same thing) a bad conscience. In any case, Sannon isn’t going to relent in his efforts to impose hands-on accountability for the murder of Stanley Gibson by calling out a police officer who is protected by a system permitting him to kill without consequences.
Dum spiro, pugno!
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The Children's Advocacy Center of Collier County and The Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida offer free specialized group parenting classes to teach parents how to focus on their strengths and set appropriate expectations for their children.
The focus of the Partners in Parenting program is to strengthen family relationships and promote positive behaviors and lifestyles. The curriculum, Nurturing Parenting Program, authored by Dr. Stephen J. Bavolek, Ph.D. has proven to be an effective and successful parenting course. We are dedicated to being a resource and a partner to all individuals and groups who are concerned with supporting families in our community. We offer classes at the CAC and in locations throughout Collier County such as schools and daycare facilities. If you would like assistance developing a parenting program in your agency, school or community, please contact us.
Whether you’re the parent of an infant, toddler, or older child you’ll learn how to do the following:
- Manage your child’s behavior without spanking or yelling
- Learn effective communication skills
- Establish nurturing routines for meal times, bath times, bedtimes, chores, and homework
- Reduce sibling rivalry
- Gain a sense of personal power and feel good about yourself
- Enjoy your family and have fun together
- Classes meet once a week for 2 ˝ hours for 8 weeks
- Classes are currently offered in English and Spanish
- Parents and older children attend together, but meet separately with a trained facilitator
- Free child care is available for infants and toddlers
- At the conclusion of each session, a parent – child activity takes place to encourage positive interactions
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As students pack their backpacks and get ready for the school year that will kick off next week, parents and education advocates are gearing up to fight the continuing battle for quality public school education in New York City.
While downtown, which includes Community Education Council District 2 (CEC2), enjoys many top-notch public schools, overcrowding and budget tightening are constantly threatening the balance.
The biggest concern in the district is the lack of school space for future classes.
“The inclusion of new school spaces will certainly help, but it does not eliminate the challenges that we have today,” said Council Member Dan Garodnick on the problems of overcrowding.
CEC2 recently won a long-fought battle in gaining a new elementary school at the Our Lady of Good Counsel building on East 91st Street. Over the summer, DOE Chancellor Dennis Walcott joined U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Assembly Member Dan Quart at the official announcement of the DOE’s deal with the Catholic Archdiocese to lease the space for 15 years. The building had been the temporary home to P.S. 151, the Yorkville Community School, before it moved into its permanent location on East 88th Street, and then P.S. 51, which had relocated from Chelsea while its building was under construction. The DOE’s lease on the building had been set to expire this fall, and parents in the community pushed hard to renew the lease for a longer term. Now the building will be home to P.S. 527, helping alleviate some of the area’s elementary school crowding.
“School overcrowding remains a critical problem on the Upper East Side,” Quart said at the ceremony. “As enrollment rates continue to increase, it is crucial that school construction keep pace with this growth.” Quart had a real-life prop to back up his claim—his 5-year-old son, Sam, who will be attending the school as a kindergartener this fall—standing at the podium with him.
Shino Tanikawa, the president of the District 2 Community Education Council (CEC), said in a letter addressing this year’s upcoming challenges in the district that overcrowding continues to be a major concern.
“District 2 schools continue to be overcrowded even with new schools that have started in the last four years,” Tanikawa said. “This coming year, we will be rezoning the east side of Midtown for a new school located on First Avenue at 35th Street. Plans are under way for a new school in Chelsea and another in the Financial District, and negotiations to acquire 75 Morton St. are ongoing.”
Most new school plans are for elementary schools, which is what the DOE says the district needs. Some parents and elected officials, however, say that the numbers don’t indicate the real picture of what the district needs, since it encompasses many different neighborhoods—the Upper East Side as well as most of Lower Manhattan.
Assembly Member Micah Kellner has been leading the charge to ask the DOE for a new middle school, petitioning local parents to get on board. He said that many parents with middle school-aged kids feel that they face a choice between private school and moving out to the suburbs instead of relying on public middle schools.
“In September the DOE is expected to release Educational Impact Statements from co-location [of charter schools],” said Tanikawa. “While it seems the elementary and middle schools in District 2 are spared of co-location, we still need to voice our concern for having elementary students with high school students in the same building, and for potential overcrowding that could result from co-location.”
One small victory that parents around the city are celebrating is the reinstatement of a program that was recently cut—Wellness in the Schools, which pairs professional chefs with public-school cafeterias to create healthy, scratch-made menus for the kids. Earlier this week, DOE officials said that they would have to cut the program to ensure that all schools would be able to meet more stringent federal school lunch regulations or risk losing federal money. Thanks to an immediate outcry from parents and elected officials, including Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the DOE announced that it would keep the program and work with the schools and chefs on keeping the menus within guidelines.
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As reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Shenyang Normal University and Yunnan University have been able to reconstruct around 10,000 square feet of the forest. Full of plant species that have long been extinct, the preserved ecosystem gives them an unusually detailed look into the flora that existed in the region.
At the time the forest was preserved, today’s continents did not exist, and Earth’s land still formed the single large mass that scientists have called Pangaea. The scientists believe the ancient forest sat on the edge of a large tropical island off Pangaea’s eastern shore. It was swampy, with a layer of peat and a few inches of standing water covering the ground. Above a canopy of ferns, taller trees resembling feather dusters stood some 25 meters high. The group has identified six different species of trees, including the tall Sigillaria and Cordaites and the smaller spore-bearing Noeggerathiales, believed to be close relatives of the earliest ferns.
The scientists found no evidence of animal life, such as insects or ancient amphibians. Most peat forests like this one died out millions of years earlier, drying out as the supercontinent formed and ending up further inland. According to U. Penn paleobiologist Hermann Pfefferkorn, the forest discovered in Wuda is “like Pompeii….It’s a time capsule and therefore it allows us now to interpret what happened before or after much better.”
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This infection manifests as a collection of pus and is often a complication of tonsillitis that may require referral to a specialist or hospitalization.
There is a direct correlation between testosterone and metabolic syndrome, mental function, libido, erectile dysfunction, bone density, and overall energy.
Often at increased risk for disease transmission, many teens and preteens do not receive the recommended immunizations in a timely manner.
A number of potential causes of vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy must be considered when deciding what type of management is required.
Societal changes and pharmaceutical advances have led to a rise in sexual activity in this population, and clinicians must adapt to a new reality.
To reduce the mortality and incidence of this disease, clinicians must be aware of the most recent vaccination and screening guidelines.
Primarily used in food and drink packaging, ingestion of bisphenol A has recently been linked to obesity, diabetes, and reproductive disorders.
To ensure that therapeutic interventions begin in time, providers must be able to recognize the clinical presentation of an acute ischemic stroke.
To slow the progression to end-stage renal disease, primary-care clinicians must be able to identify, screen, treat, and educate at-risk individuals.
Urinalysis and physical exam determine if the infection is complicated or uncomplicated, primary or recurrent and guide treatment strategy.
Exercise caution when a patient presents with acute chest pain. The ability to explain the situation as clearly as possible is essential.
The ability to differentiate between the allergic and nonallergic form of these conditions is crucial when determining treatment.
This chronic autoimmune disorder is caused by antibodies that block muscle cells from receiving neurotransmitters from the nerve cell.
Long-acting ADHD medications improve adherence and demonstrate efficacy similar to that of immediate-release dose formulations.
Experienced by up to one in five mothers, postpartum depression often goes untreated. Learn what risk factors to be alert for.
Improved pulse-oximetry standards translate into more sensitive critical congenital heart disease screening.
As LDL goals become more aggressive, therapeutic lifestyle changes are increasingly important in achieving recommended lipid levels.
This article highlights the differences in the pathophysiology and diagnostic criteria for OA and RA, and also describes current and potentially new treatment options for these conditions.
The symptoms of this common lung infection usually dissipate after a week, but some cases can become severe and require hospitalization.
Taking the pulse of neonatal screening for critical congenital heart disease.
If the treatment goal of viral eradicatication cannot be met, strive to slow disease progression, lower risk of liver cancer, and improve quality of life.
Early diagnosis is essential to providing treatment in infants with critical congenital heart disease.
Vitamin D promotes absorption of calcium in the intestine and maintains adequate serum phosphate and calcium concentrations.
A lump, enlarging scrotum or pain can conjure up images of testicular cancer, but other conditions involving the scrotal content are possible.
The need to educate patients and help them make difficult lifestyle changes requires clinicians to think differently and offer novel treatment approaches.
An approach involving primary-care clinicians, and specialists — including allergists, gastroenterologists, nutritionists and counselors — is crucial.
Patients often consider supplements and herbs harmless, but combining them with other drugs can have devastating consequences.
Oral manifestations are often an early signal of systemic disease, so recognizing them can point the way to a prompt diagnosis.
Most clinicians have dealt with a dissatisfied or noncompliant patient. But how do you end the relationship without putting yourself at risk?
Patients infected with HIV are living longer, which means they have more age-related comorbidities that require other medications as well.
Find out how your income compares with the more than 9,000 nurse practitioners and physician assistants who completed our 2012 salary survey.
Advancements in diabetes care abound, but busy practice schedules make staying current difficult.
Ongoing research and new developments hold promise for altering osteoarthritis and go beyond simply treating the symptoms.
When choosing among the available treatment options, consideration must be given to local prevalence and antibiotic resistance.
Treating patients before they develop a disease is tempting, but the old adage still applies: First, do no harm.
With obesity on the rise, more patients are at risk for metabolic syndrome, a diagnosis given to a set of simultaneous disorders.
An understanding of the liver and its functions will provide the tools to perform a basic workup of patients suspected of having hepatic disease.
Thanks to new prevention strategies and safer treatments, patients are surviving almost as long as their counterparts without lupus.
A young cancer survivor prompts consideration of best practice in prescribing estrogen replacement therapy for herself and for others.
Despite what clinicians and patients think, accurate evaluation and targeted interventions can relieve symptoms and improve quality of life.
Anywhere from 10% to 30% of individuals taking a single antidepressant face obstacles to successful treatment, including undiagnosed illness.
The number of hospital-acquired MRSA infections is down; however, community-acquired MRSA infections continue to rise.
When developing a plan of care for individuals in diabetic ketoacidosis — an acute complication of diabetes — search for the inciting stressor.
Insulin is the only agent recommended to lower glucose levels in pregnant women, but a second-generation sulfonylurea may provide another option.
An evidence-based guideline is available to help primary-care clinicians lower the burden of coronary deaths in this adult population
There are guidelines for the management of each as a separate condition, but how do you evaluate and treat them when they appear together?
When diagnosing, consider the location and duration of the lesion, patient age, underlying systemic disorders and clinical appearance.
In an update of its 2001 guidelines, the American Cancer Society stresses the importance of sharing the screening decision with the patient.
Type 2 diabetes in this population is increasing, but type1 diabetes is more prevalent. The ability to differentiate between these conditions is crucial.
Assessment of functional impairments in an aging population is one of the most daunting challenges facing primary-care clinicians.
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Did You Know?
Facts, Figures & Folklore
About Fall / Autumn
Sept 22 : 01 day to Fall
Did you know that pumpkins can grow to be over 1,000 pounds?
The harvesting of pumpkins — which, along with winter squash, are a variety of gourds — is a true harbinger of Autumn.
Many families carve pumpkins as part of their celebrations for Halloween, which falls in the middle of Fall on October 31.
Do you feel that? The crisp morning air is a sure sign that the Fall season is right around the corner. As the days get shorter and the temperatures fall, Autumn heralds its coming with fiery red leaves and bright orange pumpkins. Get yourself ready to fall back into Fall with Holidays on the Net’s fun-filled Autumn trivia. Join us for a new “Did You Know?” fact each day as we countdown to Autumn (Sept 23 @ 05:04 AM EDT)! So stop by again tomorrow.
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Taylor was linked in the past to two groups which the Southern Poverty Law Center associates with "academic racism."
- Taylor was on the board of directors of the National Policy Institute, whose self-described mission is "to elevate the consciousness of whites, ensure our biological and cultural continuity, and protect our civil rights." Regnery founded the conservative think tank in 2005.
- Taylor runs America's PAC and was its executive director in 2004 when the PAC contributed $5,000 to the Charles Martel Society. The society, founded in 2001 by Regnery, publishes The Occidental Quarterly.
The Occidental Quarterly is devoted to the idea that the civilization which whites have created will be jeopardized as whites become a minority, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Its editors and advisory board members constitute a Who's Who of the radical right.
"I thought the Charles Martel Society was too militant," Taylor said. "If I gave it (a donation), it was to start up the NPI. You've got the NAACP and B'nai B'rith. Why not something for white people?"
The grant to the Charles Martel Society is one of the PAC's largest single contributions in the past decade. Only Pat Toomey received a larger amount, $6,000 in the 2010.
In 2004, the PAC's most successful year at fundraising, five U.S.
Taylor said he had agreed to help his friend, Regnery, to raise money to start a "respectable, academic" organization that would review the effect of public policy on whites.
Two early NPI studies reported that immigration was affecting employment among both whites and blacks, and that illegal immigrants could be physically deported.
"I haven't been involved in years," Taylor said. "I wouldn't be involved now considering what they have on the website now."
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes itself as "dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society."
"They call everybody a white supremacist organization," Taylor said. "They called the Minutemen a white supremacist organization."
Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, said she was unable to comment about candidates for political office beyond the information that appears on the center's website "because that would threaten our tax-exempt status."
The center in 2004 identified Regnery as "a prime mover and shaker in white nationalism."
"Who I am is far more defined by my association with the Lincoln Institute than with NPI," Taylor said.
Taylor is a director with an organization that re-evaluates public policy issues that impact the lives of black middle America. Taylor said he helped raise money for the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education when it was founded in 1978 by Jay Parker.
Parker, a conservative black and international consultant, served on Ronald Reagan's transition team. Taylor said he and Parker are from Philadelphia and have known each other since college.
Jim Hook can be reached at 262-4759 and firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Giant Magellan Telescope Information
|The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) — the product of more than a century of astronomical research and telescope-building by some of the world’s leading research institutions — will open a new window on the universe for the 21st century. Scheduled for completion around 2018, the GMT will have the resolving power of a 24.5-meter (80 foot) primary mirror — far larger than any other telescope ever built. It will answer many of the questions at the forefront of astrophysics today and will pose new and unanticipated riddles for future generations of astronomers.|
The GMT will produce images up to 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope. A conceptual preview of the telescope and some images of the manufacture of the first of its seven mirrors can be seen here. In April 2006, the Australian National University joined the elite group of research and teaching institutions that are undertaking a detailed design of the telescope including the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Arizona, the University of Michigan, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas A&M University. The ANU contribution to the telescope design and future instrumentation projects will take place at the Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC) atop Mt. Stromlo, in Canberra. Specifically designed with the technologies for Extemely Large Telescopes in mind, this facility is now open. Significant and early participation in an Extremely Large Telescope project like the GMT is one of the key priorities identified by the Australian astronomical community in its 2006-2015 Decadal Plan, New Horizons. An important step toward the realisation of this pillar of future Australian strength was taken in November 2006, when then Science Minister Bishop announced the first tranche of NCRIS funding for the GMT.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why is this project important?
It is important to improve fish passage, public safety, and reduce costs.
Why does the current fish ladder not work very well?
Fish ladders in general are not always effective at passing fish. Compared to a river that may be 100 feet wide, a fish ladder entrance is only 3 feet wide and often the water going though it is too fast for most fish. The ladder on the Bloede dam is the longest and tallest ladder in the State, so these issues are magnified. In addition, the flashy nature of the Patapsco means increased storm damage to the ladder compared to other fish ladders in the State.
What will the river look like if the dam is removed?
We get asked this question at every dam removal we do. In most cases, once the dam is gone, the river will look very similar to what it currently looks like just below the dam.
How will removal affect fishing downstream?
Following dam removal, we can expect to see 1 or 2 years of decreased fishing success while popular fishing areas are temporarily filled with sand and gravel. After this period, fishing will return to normal and in most cases – better then before.
Are the sediments behind the dam polluted?
No. Many core samples were taken and analyzed by MGS to test for contaminates.
Does the State plan to also remove Daniels Dam?
Not at this time. However, fish passage, safety, and maintenance issues at Daniels could result in a feasibility study sometime in the future.
Historical Outline of Bloede Dam
- In 1900 Victor Bloede developed the Patapsco Electric Manufacturing Company to provide electric power to Catonsville and Ellicott City.
- The dam was built in 1907 by the Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Company.
- One of the first dams to incorporate submerged internal turbines.
- Hydro generation discontinued in 1932 due to clogged intakes by sediment.
- In 1938, the dam and surrounding property were sold to the State Board of Forestry and later incorporated into the Patapsco Valley State Park.
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Many wives are outearning their husbands
Men can make a living by marrying rich.
Here’s one way for out-of-work men to make a living — marry rich. Turns out a number of guys are doing just that, wedding older, wealthier women.
A Pew Research Center study revealed that 22% of wives make more money than their husbands, while 28% are more educated. That’s a big shift from 1970, when just 4% of women brought home more bacon than their spouse.
Vera Cohn, co-author of the study says marrying a higher income earner is giving many men a stable economic future. “Now with so many women working and achieving higher income, it’s increasingly a way for men to achieve economic security,” she says. “In that way, the genders are a little more similar than they were a few decades ago.”
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Nepal: Gay Marriage Law Working Through Parliament
22 Apr 2010
Nepal is set to become the first Asian nation to allow same-sex marriages. The country, which as recently as 2007 classified homosexuality as a crime, is even promoting gay weddings on Mount Everest in a bid to become the continent's premier gay tourism destination.
The government hopes its plans will help attract one million tourists next year, more than double the number that travelled to Nepal in 2009.
Sharat Singh Bhandari, Nepal's tourism minister, also hopes to hold elephant safaris for homosexual honeymooners. "We're completely changing this country," he told The Times "It's a newborn republic - and we want to showcase this change. We also want to re-establish tourism as a major industry."
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Short Summaries of Articles about Mathematics
in the Popular Press
"Lofty Lingo Boils Down to Dissection of Traffic," by Carl T. Hall. SanFrancisco Chronicle, 8 January 2001.
"The Physics of Gridlock," by Stephen Budiansky. The Atlantic Monthly,December 2000, pages 20-24.
These two articles discuss the perplexing problem of constructing mathematicalmodels of traffic flow. The article by Hall describes research by H. MichaelZhang, a civil engineer at the University of California, Davis. Most modelsview traffic as a kind of plumbing system in which the cars move as if in aflowing liquid. Other models stress the individual behavior of drivers.Zhang's work is significant because it "represents an attempt to tie severalelements together in a single computer model," the article says.
The article by Budiansky reports on recent work by a group of theoretical physicistsin Germany. Their models, based on well-established equations describing themovement of gas molecules, resulted in some unexpected conclusions, such as thenotion that traffic congestion can arise spontaneously with no apparent cause.The research has caused some controversy among traffic engineers.
--- Allyn Jackson
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HOBART | Potential new city regulations regarding vicious animals would put responsibility on pet owners, but it wouldn't single out specific breeds.
In front of residents who packed City Hall during Wednesday's Ordinance Committee meeting, Hobart leaders discussed several options to strengthen city ordinances, including imposing hefty fines, to prevent pet owners from teaching their animals violent behaviors.
City Attorney Anthony DeBonis said he created a draft of an ordinance that would charge a $2,500 fine if a pet attacks a person. A $500 fine would be charged if a pet attacks a domestic animal.
Discussion about new regulations started after concerns were expressed about pit bulls.
Resident Sherryl Doerr has told city officials she wants the breed singled out because her daughter, Melissa Blake, watched helplessly a few months ago while their pet dog was killed by a pit bull in their backyard.
DeBonis said breed-specific legislation doesn't work. He said any dog breed can be trained to be a vicious pet.
Other city leaders agreed that singling out a specific breed wouldn't be effective.
Councilman Jerry Herzog suggested changes to dangerous pet ordinances could require pet owners to pay for a special tag and receive a fine following a pet attack. The second offense would involve an increased fine and the pet would be euthanized, he proposed.
Councilman Pete Mendez also thinks a pet owner with multiple animals should have the remaining animals removed after a second offense. He thinks if an owner can't take care of one animal, the person wouldn't be able to handle multiple pets.
Residents proposed other action, including behavioral testing and mandatory training after a first offense in an effort to prevent future attacks.
One resident said if a pet owner has multiple animals, all of the animals should have behavioral testing if there is an attack involving one of the pets.
Councilmen haven't yet taken action about possible new regulations. They will continue to review the suggestions from city officials and hundreds of pages of comments Hobart has received from residents regarding the issue.
The matter will be discussed again during an Aug. 1 Ordinance Committee meeting.
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What a departure from your usual wise, insightful Editorial on Sept 4 (p 815).1
You repeat the mantra of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry—that without animal testing there will be no new drugs—without question, even though many scientists have been saying otherwise for years. How do you explain away the protease inhibitors, which came to market with no animal testing?
You quote a poll that is the subject of an official complaint to the Market Research Society for breaching polling industry guidelines, in which the “sea-change in opinion” you observe was achieved by misrepresenting the facts to the point of blackmail. Meanwhile, you ignore a poll of family doctors, the results of which reveal that 82% are concerned that animal data are misleading when applied to people and 83% would like to see an independent scientific assessment of the clinical relevance of animal experimentation.
You repeat the fallacy that thalidomide was not tested on animals, despite the fact that the drug would still be passed as safe by animal tests today. Furthermore, you say you are not naive, while believing the pharmaceutical industry's dishonest claim that animal tests predict 70% of the side-effects of drugs, which is nonsense.
You assert that all animal experiments must be fully justified scientifically—but where is that justification? Surely The Lancet should now entertain a debate on the scientific justification for animal testing, or your Editorial will be fairly regarded as a piece of corporate propaganda, unbecoming of such a respected journal.
Europeans For Medical Advancement (EFMA) exists to promote the safety of patients, who are the most serious casualty of animal testing. Another casualty is the integrity of science itself.
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Fear of the 13th is called -- are you ready for this? --paraskavedekatriaphobia. It prompts millions of people to avoid travel, surgery and important business. Henry Ford, Napoleon and FDR had it, the Associated Press says.
"FDR would not depart on a (train) trip on the 13th," said Thomas Fernsler, a University of Delaware mathematician who has studied the number enough to earn the moniker "Dr. 13." The former president would order the train to leave the station before midnight on the 12th or after midnight on the morning of the 14th.
The phobia around the 13th is a cousin to triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13. The supposedly unlucky number, triskaidekaphobes say, is the reason behind the explosion of Apollo 13, which took off at exactly 1:13 p.m. (1313 military time) on 4/11/70 (digits that add up to 13).
The origin of these phobias? No one knows for sure. Some trace it to Jesus, who was crucified on a Friday after a Last Supper attended by 13 people. Or to Norse mythology when the mischievous Loki crashed a party of 12 gods at Valhalla. Or maybe it's just because it comes after 12 -- a good number. Think 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel and 12 apostles of Jesus.
There's one place where Friday the 13th may actually be lucky: Wall Street. Stocks have risen by an average of 0.04 % on each of the past 185 Friday the 13ths, according to the Bespoke Investment Group, a Harrison, N.Y.-based investment research firm. That's double the average 0.02% daily gain, but a little worse than other Fridays.
(Posted by Anne Willette)
Doug is an unrepentant news junkie who loves breaking news and has been known to watch C-SPAN even on vacation. He has covered a wide range of domestic and international news stories, from prison riots in Oklahoma to the Moscow coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Doug previously served as foreign editor at USA TODAY. More about Doug
Michael Winter has been a daily contributor to On Deadline since its debut in January 2006. His journalism career began in the prehistoric Ink Era, and he was an early adapter at the dawn of the Digital Age. His varied experience includes editing at the San Jose Mercury News and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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