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Phoenix Zoo celebrates birth of Andean bear
PHOENIX -- A new baby is always a good thing, but when it's a rare Andean bear cub, it's even better.
The cub was born in early January to 17-year-old mother Rio. Both seem to be doing well.
Rio and her cub are currently being kept in an out-of-view maternity den to allow them time to bond. It could be several weeks or months before zoo staffers see the cub for the first time.
Rio has given birth to three cubs in the past, but none made it past seven days old. Andean bears have about a 40 percent mortality rate for cubs.
The cub is one of just a few Andean bears born in North American captivity, as only Rio and a bear in Washington, D.C. have given birth.
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These pages do not apply outside Great Britain.
This is where the discrimination is not based on an actual disability, as defined in the Equality Act. Rather the employer etc mistakenly perceives there to be a disability. Direct discrimination and harassment in relation to 'perceived disability' may be covered by the Equality Act. However, the position has not yet been confirmed by court decisions.
"EqA" or "Equality Act" means the Equality Act 2010 (link to legislation.gov.uk)
The "Employment Code" means the 2011 Equality Act Code of Practice on employment (pdf, link to EHRC website).
The "Services Code" means the 2011 Equality Act Code of Practice on services, public functions and assocations (pdf, link to EHRC website).
Perceived disability is where the person does not actually have the disability, but the discrimininator mistakenly thinks they do.
'Perceived' disability is not itself a legal term. The idea is that discrimination can be 'because of disability' (and thus direct discrimination) if the discriminator thinks the person has a disability, even he does not actually have a disability as defined. In the same way, harassment can be 'related to disability' even if the victim is not actually disabled.
The intention of the Government is that perceived disability should be covered by the Equality Act. However, the position has not yet been confirmed by court decisions.
At least in the case of harassment, it seems that protection can go beyond this - in the sense that there need be no 'actual' or 'perceived' disability at all. See further below Where there is no disability, actual or percieved.
Other types of claim, such as 'discrimination arising from disability' and the duty to make reasonable adjustments, have different wording which means the claimant must actually have (or have had) the disability as defined in the Equality Act.
For direct discrimination and harassment, it may well become (or be) standard to claim 'perceived disability' as an alternative, in addition to arguing that one does actually a disability as legally defined.
Perceived disability may be relevant if a stammer does not actually have a substantial (i.e. more than minor or trivial) effect on normal day-to-day activities, so as not to meet the legal definition of disability.
What is likely in practice is that the person who stammers will be arguing that the stammer meets the legal definition of disability, but also saying (by way of backup argument) that in any event the claim falls within the legislation as a perceived disability even if the stammer does not actually meet the definition.
Does the employer need to have a perception that there is a long term impairment which has a substantial effect on normal day-to-day disabilities? Does the employer's perception need to be this 'sophisticated', this thought-out, in order for there to be discrimination because of perceived disability? If yes, this could be quite a tough test for a claimant to meet, at least for some disabilities.
How far is this really a problem, looking particularly at stammering? (I assume here that, as is likely, perceived disability is in principle covered by the Equality Act.)
Accordingly, even if the effects of an impairment do need to be perceived by the employer etc as substantial and long-term, it may not be difficult to show that a perceived stammer meets these conditions.
Note that, for harassment at least, there may be a claim even if there is no 'perceived' disability (so there need not be anything perceived to meet the legal conditions of being a disability. See below Where there is no disability, actual or perceived. However the harassment may need to 'relate to' an (invented) disability which meets the legal definition.
As a person who stammers, it is not unusual to find people thinking that because of one's speech one has slower mental processes, or that one will have difficulty understanding what the other person says unless they speak r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y.
Accordingly, if an employer disputes that the stammer itself is a disability, there may in any event be direct discrimination or harassment related to a perceived mental disability.
It is very possible that under the European Framework Employment Directive direct discrimination and harassment based on perceived disability are illegal. The Coleman case focussed on discrimination based on association, but it can be strongly argued that the same wording of the Directive also covers perceived disability. This is on the basis that the discrimination or harassment is "on grounds of" or "related to" disability even if claimant does not actually have a disability (the argument that perceived disability falls within the Equality Act wording is very similar).
So far, cases have looked at the law as it stood before Equality Act 2010, and are inconclusive. They consider whether perceived disability falls within the European Framework Directive. If it does, the further question arises whether even before Equality Act 2010 (despite the wording of the preceeding DDA), tribunals must give effect to that European law. See Perceived disability - pre October 2010: Cases before the UK tribunals.
At least in the case of harassment, there can be a claim without there being any disability, actual or perceived. The harassment just needs to be 'related' to disability.
From the Employment Code, para 7.10
A worker is subjected to homophobic banter and name calling, even though his colleagues know he is not gay. Because the form of the abuse relates to sexual orientation, this could amount to harassment related to sexual orientation.
A pupil who is extremely shy is teased by a teacher about not being confident enough to answer questions in class. The teacher mimics him in front of the class by speaking with a stutter. Although the teacher knows the pupil does not have a speech or language disability, this conduct could still amount to disability related harassment under the Act
Para 8.14 draft Codes of Practice on Schools.
In the Equality Bill debates, the Government said the broad wording on harassment/direct discrimination "is also intended and does cover a case in which someone is treated as if they had a protected characteristic that they neither have nor are perceived to have at the time." (col 254, Public Bill Cttee, 16th June 2009 (link to UK Paliament website))
This may mean that a person who stammers (or indeed who doesn't) who is teased in relation to stammering - e.g. mimicking a stammer or calling someone names related to stammering - can have a claim for harassment without showing their stammer meets the legal definition of disability. (In practice, the stammer will likely meet the legal defintion anyway).
The same could apply for direct discrimination, but it is more difficult to see how that would arise in practice.
The Equality Bill proposals in this area were originally announced by Harriet Harman on 3rd April 2009:
"The Equality Bill will ... prohibit direct discrimination and harassment based on association and perception in respect of race, sex, gender reassignment, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief and age and in relation to both employment and areas beyond this, such as goods, facilities and services.
"This extension will implement the Coleman judgment in Great Britain and the extension to other protected characteristics is in keeping with the aims of the Equality Bill to simplify and strengthen the law." Full written statement by Harriet Harman (link to Hansard).
Extending the right beyond employment, e.g. to provision services, goes beyond the requirements of European law and the Coleman case.
The Equality Act 2010 wording intended to cover discrimination by (association or) perception is actually in much more general terms - it talks of discrimination or harassment 'because of' or 'related to' disability. There were calls, from the Equality and Human Rights Commission and others, for the legislation to be clearer in expressly mentioning discrimination by association and perception. The Government rejected an amendment to this effect in the House of Commons Committee (col 251-256, Public Bill Cttee, 16th June 2009 (link to UK Parliament website)). In doing so, the Solicitor General gave examples of instances, going beyond association and perception, that the Government intended the wider wording to cover. See for example above Where there is no disability, actual or perceived.
Under the Equality Act wording, it is possible that the claimant must show he was perceived to meet the legal definition of disability, i.e. perceived to have an impairment with the required substantial and long-term effect. In the debates on the Equality Bill it was said that in the United States the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (see US comparison below) specifically provides that a person is regarded as being perceived to be disabled if they are discriminated against based on that belief, whether or not the effects of the perceived disability meet the definition of disability under that Act. An amendment to achieve a similar effect was proposed for the Equality Act.
However, the Government opposed this. The Solicitor General said:
Amendment 166 would provide that a person perceived as having a disability would not have to meet the requirement that their perceived impairment must have "a substantial and long-term adverse effect" on their ability to carry out day-to-day activities in order to be protected by the Bill. However, somebody who had a disability would continue to have to prove that. It would be most inequitable for somebody who did not have a disability to have a lighter test to gain protection than somebody who did, and that is the logical fault in the proposal.'
Also, an issue raised by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in J v DLA Piper (June 2010), which considered the pre-Equality Act (DDA) position, is this problem of deciding whether the employer perceives the employee to have a disability which meets the DDA definition of disability. The EAT commented that the manager may simply not think whether the perceived impairment is likely to last more or less than twelve months, so as to be 'long-term' within the definition.
A Minister commented in the House of Lords debates that extending protection to perception will mean a person with a depressive condition who does not satisfy the Equality Act's definition of a disabled person will be protected if, for example, their employer discriminates against them because he considered mistakenly that the impairment is likely to recur (my emphasis). Col 1338 HL Hansard 2/3/10 (link to UK Parliament website).
Apparently the United States already has a 'perceived disability' concept in the Americans with Disabilities Act. For example: "Therefore, if your stuttering does not actually substantially limit your ability to speak, you still may be protected, if your employer discriminates against you because he or she believes your stuttering is a physical or mental impairment" (ADA article on stutteringtreatment.org blog). Also further US links.
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Frank Duveneck was a favorite in Cincinnati because he was born in Covington, Kentucky which is right across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, and then painted in Cincinnati before studying abroad. He is one of the great American painters of his time. I wish you could see this in real life, up close. This is also why book learning never can replace seeing the real thing.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
portraits and cultural history
Yesterday when I was drawing my self-portrait, and really looking and drawing my nose... I kept thinking of this painting "The Whistling Boy" by Frank Duveneck. It is at the Cincinnati Art Museum and I grew up looking at it up close. It's hard to see here, but the way he painted the shape of the nose, with the red... I kept seeing that yesterday in my head. I didn't even recognize that fact until later but it was clearly this painting. I think that's why I think exposing young children to good art is so important... these aesthetics stay with you, whether you realize it or not. Like good music... the Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven. It's all in there and provides a springboard for thought.
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The number of single men between the ages of 35 and 49 in Seoul has increased 10-fold over the last two decades, and they now account for 20.1 percent of all men in this age group.
The figures come from a report on men in the capital released by the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday.
The number of single men in this age bracket increased from 24,239 in 1990 to 242,590 in 2010, while the number of single women in the same age group jumped 6.4 times to 145,218 over the same period.
Seong Jae-min at the Korea Labor Institute said, "As more and more people believe that they have little chance of getting married without money, men now tend to postpone marriage until they feel they have saved up enough."
But since the economic crisis in the late 1990s, the labor market has become increasingly flexible, and many people are on short-term contracts, which makes saving up more difficult. Seong added that the rise in property prices in Seoul also added to the cost of marriage.
Experts predict the trend will continue for some time. Prof. Kim Moon-jo at Korea University, said, "An increasing number of highly educated women are applying for good jobs that were long monopolized by men, so the number of men who can satisfy the expectations of educated women is dwindling and this means more men struggle to get married."
Men's perspective on marriage has also changed greatly. In 2006, 28.1 percent of men said marriage is a must, but the figure dropped to 20.7 percent in 2010. Some 30 percent now say marriage is optional.
The education gap also casts a dark cloud over the situation. While 52.4 percent of unmarried men only had a high-school diploma, 61 percent of unmarried women were college graduates.
The trend is likely to boost the percentage of people who never marry at all, which currently stands at 2.2 percent. If people have not married by the age of 50, they are presumed to be single for life.
The high rate of singles could put serious burden on society because it is apt to lead to increasing poverty and solitary death in later life.
Park Young-sub at the Seoul Metropolitan Government said, "Unmarried people with low income and low educational background have a great chance of facing poverty in later life."
The total number of singles between 25 and 49 rose 2.3 times from two decades ago to 1.59 million in 2010.
There were also 35,000 full-time househusbands in 2011, up 2.2 times from six years ago. Lee Bok-sil at the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said, "As more and more women are involved in economic activities, there has been a hike in the number of full-time househusbands who stay at home and support their breadwinning wives."
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A participatory approach to the design of a child-health community-based information system for the care of vulnerable children.
The existing District Health Information System in South Africa can be described as a facility based Information System, focusing on the clinics and hospitals and not on the community. Consequently, only those who access health services through these facilities are included in the system. Many children do not have access to basic health and social services and consequently, are denied their right to good health. Additionally, they are excluded from the routine Health Information System. Policy and resource decisions made by the District Managers, based on the current health facility information, reinforces the exclusion of these already marginalised children. The premise behind this research is that vulnerability of children can be tackled using two interconnected strategies. The first is through the creation of awareness of the situation of children and the second through mobilising the commitment and action of government and society to address this situation. These strategies can be supported by designing an Information System for action
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About the Boulder Energy Future Project
For most cities (and many people), the future is simply what occurs as a result of the past and present. Current reality extends into the months and years ahead without much impetus for change. When it comes how we get our energy, however, the Boulder community has recognized that the status quo may not be good enough -- either today or for future generations.
2013: A Fork in the Road
We’re at a critical point in our efforts. Steps we take over the next several months will build on more than a decade of hard work to address climate change and make our community’s way of life more sustainable. Boulder has seen some significant success in these goals, but the current focus -- to offer cleaner and greener electric supply with rates and reliability that are comparable to Xcel Energy’s – could make a critical difference in affecting real change.
This work is a continuation of more than a decade of leadership by the Boulder community:
The findings of a third-party review and a deeper analysis of what the utility would look like will be presented at the July 23 Council study session. This presentation leads to a decision by Council in August where next steps to move forward will be determined.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “It is always the right time to do the right thing.”
We feel the same way about our energy future.
Boulder currently receives electric service from Xcel Energy, a regulated monopoly that serves many communities in several states. The city’s 20-year franchise agreement with Xcel Energy ended in 2010. The city and Xcel Energy were not able to agree to a plan where Boulder residents and businesses would receive a greater amount of renewable energy. Rather than renew a long-term franchise agreement with Xcel Energy, the City Council decided, instead, to investigate possible alternatives.
After thousands of hours of work by staff, members of the community and outside experts since 2005, staff discussed its preliminary findings at a City Council Study Session on Feb. 26, 2013. Specifically, it shared its modeling of 6 specific Energy Future options and discussed creating "The Electric Utility of the Future." On April 16, the city council voted to move onto phase 2 of the exploration study.
The Utility of the Future would be a provider of energy services, not just energy commodities. Specifically, the Utility of the Future would be the unifying entity that connects the needs and wants of its users with the core values of the community in the most efficient and sustainable way possible.
If the city continues to explore this vision, there will be risks and rewards, as is always the case with any endeavor that is bold and exciting. Staff and outside experts are working to quantify both using the latest information and analytic tools available.
Creating the Future Takes Time and Effort
The Boulder Energy Future project is a commitment to ourselves and to our children to change a system that was built around 19th century needs, goals and technology. It is an effort to think creatively and prudently “outside the box,” either with our current electric provider’s collaboration or without it. It’s about:
Boulder's Energy Future. It's not too late to help us create it - would you like to help?
History buff? Want more detail?
Last Updated on Monday, 22 April 2013 14:46
Boulder Tomorrow presents -
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What is "Untouchability"?
Untouchability is a direct product of the caste system. It is not merely the inability to touch a human being of a certain caste or sub-caste. It is an attitude on the part of a whole group of people that relates to a deeper psychological process of thought and belief, invisible to the naked eye, translated into various physical acts and behaviours, norms and practices.
Untouchability is prompted by the spirit of social aggression and the belief in purity and pollution that characterises casteism. It is generally taken for granted that Dalits are considered polluted people at the lowest end of the caste order. The jobs considered polluting and impure are reserved for Dalits, and in many cases Dalits are prevented from engaging in any other work. These jobs include removing human waste (known as “manual scavenging”), dragging away and skinning animal carcasses, tanning leather, making and fixing shoes, and washing clothes. They are supposed to reside outside the village so that their physical presence does not pollute the “real” village. Not only are they restricted in terms of space, but their houses are also supposed to be inferior in quality and devoid of any facilities like water and electricity.
Untouchability is present in nearly every sphere of life and practiced in an infinite number of forms. At the village level Dalits are barred from using wells used by non-Dalits, forbidden from going to the barber shop and entering temples, while at the level of job recruitment and employment Dalits are systematically paid less, ordered to do the most menial work, and rarely promoted. Even at school, Dalit children may be asked to clean toilets and to eat separately.
As an instrument of casteism, Untouchability also serves to instill caste status to Dalit children from the moment they are born. Kachro (filth), Melo (dirty), Dhudiyo (dusty), Gandy (mad), Ghelo (stupid), Punjo (waste) are just some of the names given to Dalit boys in Gujarat. Of course, names with similar meanings are given to Dalit girls too. This shows the debilitating effect of Untouchability, as it becomes a conscious act of cooperation between two individuals of distinct caste or sub-caste identity. The person treated as untouchable submits himself or herself to untouchability practices because of a generational integrated belief that it is right, justified, religious and natural. Untouchability is in this sense a corollary of the caste system, and the only way to get rid of it seems to be to get rid of the caste system itself. Focusing on Untouchability ignores the root cause of the problem, all the more so as Article 17 of the Indian Constitution, which bans Untouchability, confines its definition to individual discrimination against certain classes of persons not easily identifiable.
The 1950 national constitution of India legally abolishes the practice of "untouchability," and there are constitutional reservations in both educational institutions and public services for Dalits. Unfortunately, these measures have not changed the reality of daily life for most Dalits, as the Indian government frequently tolerates oppression and open discrimination aimed at this group. As the former Indian President K.R. Narayanan, himself a Dalit, noted in his public address to the nation on the eve of Republic Day, January 25, 2000, "these [Constitutional] provisions remain unfulfilled through bureaucratic and administrative deformation or by narrow interpretations of these special provisions." Dalits usually live in separate areas away from the caste Hindu communities, and they are often forbidden to access public wells. In many areas, when Dalits eat in public restaurants or patronize street vendors, they must use a special glass for drinking tea or coffee to prevent sharing between Dalits and caste Hindus. Dalits in different parts of India cannot enter Hindu temples or Christian churches, and many religious and caste leaders forbid inter-caste marriages.
Should a Dalit break one of these rules, frequently the entire Dalit community will be punished for the perceived individual transgression. Punishment often takes the form of denial of access to land or employment, physical attacks on Dalit women, and the burning down of Dalit homes. Despite a clear record of violence against the Dalits, there are numerous reports that police officials have refused to register complaints about violations of the law or to prosecute those responsible for the abuses. With little knowledge of their rights, limited access to attorneys, and no money for hearings or bail, Dalits are easy targets for human rights violations.
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Not many realize how vital it is to purchase American Made products for the sustainability of our country’s current economic turmoil.
For those who know, but are deterred by the daunting look at the price tags of products made in America compared to cheaper items made elsewhere it can be a challenging task to commit to the domestic common good.
We understand that here at Manchester Wood, and we’re proud to say the affordability of our products is evident, competitively priced with box stores selling items at lesser quality with a lifetime nowhere near the heirloom longevity we provide with our solid wood furniture.
In a recent study on ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer, they found that if every person in America spent $3.33 a year on American made products it would produce more than 10,000 jobs.
That’s a small amount for such a dramatic return in investment for your fellow man.
Flag toting and patriotism aside, in America we follow strict guidelines to protect our natural resources, environment, and civil liberties. Unfortunately, much of what you purchase from overseas does not follow such principle. With a dramatically failing eco-system in China, political turmoil, and civil injustice, (Please watch: WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price) I think you’ll quickly make a moral decision to step outside the mass produced realm, and take a look at what we still make here at home.
Manchester Wood, an American made Vermont corporation that makes solid wood furniture at affordable prices with a manufacturing plant in the foothills of the Adirondacks in New York. Please view our online catalog now at www.manchesterwood.com.
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The Pentagon confirmed Thursday two Iranian fighter jets fired upon, but did not hit, an unarmed U.S. drone flying Nov. 1 in international airspace over the Persian Gulf.
Pentagon spokesman George Little said the U.S. Air Force Predator was performing "routine surveillance" about 16 miles off the Iranian coast when two Iranian SU-25 jets intercepted it and opened fire. He said it was the first time Iranians had fired on an unmanned U.S. aircraft over the Gulf.
U.S. officials contacted the Iranians and informed them the U.S. would continue to conduct such surveillance flights in international airspace. The Predator was located east of Kuwait and west of Iran.
According to the Pentagon's account, the Predator was on a routine surveillance mission at about 4:50 a.m. EST over the Gulf on Nov. 1 and was operating at a distance of about 16 miles off the Iranian coastline when two of Iran's aging, Soviet- made Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot attack planes approached.
At least one of the single-seat Sukhois fired "multiple rounds" at the Predator from its wing-mounted, twin-barrel 30-mm mini-gun, but missed its target. The slow-moving Predator moved further off the coastline but the Sukhois pursued and one of them fired and missed again, Pentagon officials said.
CNN first reported the engagement quoting two intelligence sources who said the Predator's onboard cameras recorded the Su-25 Frogfoots approaching the Predator and then firing upon it with the jet's onboard guns.
Little disclosed the incident Thursday during a press conference. The Obama administration chose not to make the attack public five days before the election. Little said the sources who leaked the report illegally disclosed classified information.
The U.S. military buildup in the Gulf and efforts to curb Tehran's nuclear program were topics of fierce debate between President Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) in the runup to the election but the Pentagon chose to keep the incident secret until information was about to be leaked.
"We don't typically comment on classified surveillance missions," said chief Pentagon spokesman George Little. "Someone apparently disclosed this," Little said, which was why the Pentagon was now choosing to comment.
Little did not comment on where the drone was operating from, but it has been widely reported that the U.S. maintains major facilities at the Al Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates. The CIA is also known to operate drones from Al Dhafra.
It's unclear if the Iranian pilots meant to hit the Predator and simply missed or intentionally fired a warning shot. However, a Predator is a slow moving and relatively easy target to hit making it hard to believe the pilots meant to destroy the drone, said a U.S. Air Force official.
The Su-25 Frogfoots who shot at the Predator belonged to the Iranian Revolutionary Corps force, according to the CNN report. IRGC forces are typically more aggressive toward U.S. forces compared to Iran's conventional military. IRGC troops helped Iraqi insurgents build improvised explosive devices and target U.S. troops in Iraq.
Iranian officials claimed to shoot down a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone in December 2011 showing off pictures of what looks like the Air Force's highly classified stealth aircraft. However, Pentagon officials never confirmed the event.
Collecting intelligence on the Iranian's nuclear program is a high priority for U.S. intelligence agencies as tensions rise between Iran, Israel and the U.S. However, it's unlikely the Predator could collect any valuable intelligence on an Iranian nuclear site over the Persian Gulf. Iran's nuclear reactors are located much farther inland.
While this is the first time Iran has shot at U.S. drone over the Gulf, Iranian fast-attack boats have recently harassed U.S. warships in the Gulf's oil shipping lanes.
-- AP contributed to this report.
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Low Carbon Country Studies: India
Initiated in 2005, this study was requested by the government of India to: (a) develop the analytical capacity required to help identify low carbon growth opportunities, up to the end of the 15th Five Year Plan (March 2032), in major sectors of the economy; and (b) facilitate informed decision-making by improving the knowledge base and raising national and international awareness of India’s efforts to address global climate change. India is at a unique juncture in its development. It focuses on five sectors and areas of the economy that together represent 75% of GHG emissions from energy use in India in 2007, as follows:
- Power generation, transmission and distribution
- Electricity consumption by households
- Non-residential buildings
- Energy consumption in six energy intensive industries (iron and steel, aluminum, cement, fertilizers, refining, and pulp and paper)
- Fuel use in road transport
While multiple scenarios were investigated, the report’s findings are based on three scenarios and accompanying sensitivity analysis.
This project is part of ESMAP’s support for low carbon development.
Energy Intensive Sectors of the Indian Economy
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Andy Walton looks at whether there is a "Religious Right" emerging in Britain
Nick Spencer reviews Steve Jones' "The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold at Science"
Why swear on a Bible?
20th May 2012
I just read an article by a barrister arguing that it was an anachronism to swear oaths in court, and unjustly privileged the religious. Instead, he claimed, everyone should solemnly affirm by whatever they most highly value, which is all that an oath comes down to, anyway.
I take it he does not practice at the criminal bar.
His speciality in ethics seems too high-minded for that. Because it's obvious that the great majority of people who perjure themselves in court, or who lie under affirmation, do so precisely to protect something that they value greatly. There must be the occasional psychopath who lies in court just out of habit, or for the sheer hell of it, but most lying witnesses and perhaps all lying defendants have much more practical motives.
Now, it's no use whatever to say that people ought to value other things – let's call them values, for short – rather than their own self-interest. Perhaps they ought to, but they often don't. If all the courts had to deal with were honest misunderstandings there would be very little need of law. Nor is it clear where this binding "ought" comes from in the first place. (For the avoidance of predictable comments, I am not claiming that the "ought" must come from religion; just that it doesn't come from reason). It's hard to see how you could persuade a dedicated follower of Ayn Rand, for example, that it is wrong to lie in court even when telling the truth would have unpleasant consequences.
Andrew Brown | The Guardian
To read this article in full, click here.
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The patella, commonly referred to as the "knee cap", and its tendon transmit power from the quadriceps to the lower leg. Normally, as the knee bends, the patella slides smoothly along a groove in the thigh bone. However, under certain conditions the patella may experience forces which push it against the sides of the groove, causing pain. Additionally, inflammation and roughening of the smooth underside of the patella may occur. Collectively, this process is referred to as patellofemoral syndrome (PFS). Some of you may be familiar with the older term, chondromalacia patella.
PFS is one of the most common causes of knee pain in runners. The pain is usually located in the front part of the knee, but may be on the inside, outside, or vaguely located. The pain can feel either sharp or dull, and is often made worse by squatting or walking down stairs. Sometimes there is grinding or clicking. Predisposing factors include,
Treatment involves rest, ice, anti-inflammatory medications, and taping. Taping can supply immediate pain relief and helps correct abnormal positioning of the patella. It is continued until stretching and strengthening exercises re-balance the patella. Soft tissue therapy and stretching help loosen tight structures. The exact stretch depends upon which muscles are tight. Once pain has resolved then strengthening exercises can be started to prevent the condition from returning.
A frequent finding in runners with PFS is a weak VMO muscle. Isolating and strengthening this muscle will help keep the patella in its groove and there are several useful exercises that accomplish this. All should be done without pain.
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Is 42, the age I turn today, and I am taking that milestone to share my wisdom from this journey so far. I’ve come to learn that I don’t have an answer for the Why of life, but I’m coming ever closer to the How to live it. Lately I’ve come to realize that saying four specific things has the power to change the nature of your closest relationships, and in that, the way you experience your life.
This word turns a demand into a request. It also validates our reliance on others and a need to be treated with respect. Saying, “Could you please do the dishes?” gives the person being asked a chance to do something for the asker, and respect for that person’s time and energy have been conveyed. It’s become a rote word, but upon reflection it conveys so much more.
This phrase is the simplest expression of gratitude. Used frequently, it rewards and uplifts not only the people being thanked, but those doing the thanking, who must acknowledge their own gratitude. Whether it is expressed for washing the dishes, listening to a rant, or accepting a gift, we create harmony in our relationships and ourselves in our gratitude.
This phrase isn’t uttered enough. Its power is in acknowledging our own imperfections as human beings and forgiving that imperfection in ourselves and others. It shouldn’t be saved for big things, but used instead to remind our loved ones and ourselves of our desire to do better. “I’m sorry I snapped at you. It was a bad day,” gives both parties a chance to move on — and when conveyed to a child, gives them the tools to understand and reciprocate.
This incomplete phrase captures the order from childhood to “say something nice.” It gives us the power to express passion, caring, and joy. To compliment, encourage, or uplift. It goes from the simple yet powerful, “I love you,” to the seemingly mundane, “I love brownies.” In telling others what we love, we remind ourselves how much there is to love.
The dynamics of my household, with four artistic personalities and two tween/teen girls, has been saved by the power of these words. Practically used, without any other agenda, they will change the way you interact with the ones closest to you. But as you dig deeper, you find that they reflect greater truths of relationships, humanity, and personal growth. Take it from someone who knows. Or at least, someone who has arrived at the answer to life, the universe and everything.1
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Here is a great way to get to know your community and to get involved in a meaningful way.
The Evanston Community Foundation sponsors an annual training program for community members.
Leadership Evanston’s signature program goals are to:
- Train participants in community leadership skills. Key skills include creative problem-solving, collaboration, conflict resolution, consensus building, public policy analysis, effective advocacy and visioning.
- Broaden participants’ understanding of Evanston and the issues it faces.
- Create opportunities for participants to build a network enabling them to work together to strengthen the community.
To reach these goals, participants undertake a ten-month experiential program from September to June. During all-day monthly sessions, they use Evanston as a learning laboratory as they learn and practice leadership skills. They meet and work with Evanston leaders who are making a difference to learn first-hand how they tackle challenges and work with others in the community. Participants also engage in small group projects.
Leadership Evanston participants represent Evanston’s strengths. Each year, a diverse group of up to 30 participants who live and/or work in Evanston and have displayed the capacity for leadership are selected. Participants include staff of local institutions and companies, educators, clergy, small business owners, and volunteers involved in area non-profits, schools, sports organizations and faith communities. Above all, Leadership Evanston seeks people who will become stewards of the community and take increased responsibility for Evanston’s future.
Click here to view our 2009/2010 Leadership Evanston graduates!
Total signature program cost for 2010 – 2011 is $1,000, including a $100 registration fee. Tuition covers all materials and meals for the program. Tuition may be paid by participants or by their employers or sponsoring organizations. Payment plans and limited scholarship funds are available. Interested? Learn more about program highlights and the 2010/2011 program calendar.
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Distance Training Articles
Here you'll learn the most effective methods for training endurance athletes.
For our purposes, this section will cover all races from 800m through the marathon, including cross country.
Distance Training Articles:
Audio Interview w/ Lance Harter - Lance Harter, University of Arkansas Head Coach
Coach Harter's athletes have claimed 80 cross country and 282 track and field all-America certificates. He was named the SEC’s cross country coach of the year 10 times. Harter’s teams have earned 22 NCAA team trophies for cross country, indoor and outdoor track, most of them national championship or national runner-up trophies
Turbo Techno Training Week 2 - Rick Karboviak, CSCS
Coach Karboviak covers his second week of his Turbo Techno Training Series (GPS technology to track your speed & distance for an outdoor workout). Discover more tips on training with GPS Speed & Distance Monitors.
Turbo Techno Training Week 1 - Rick Karboviak, CSCS
Tips on Training with GPS Speed & Distance Monitors. What is Turbo Techno Training? Turbo Techno Training is a catchy name for using GPS technology to track your speed & distance for an outdoor workout.
Training Progressions for the 3k-10k - Ali Husain MSed, MAT, CSCS, USATF Lv. 2 Endurance
The first thing to look at in any training progression is the peaking date. Once you establish the peak date, then you can look backward and see how much time you have to develop your athletes.
Basic Philosophies on Distance Running - Jeff Stiles, Head Cross Country & Head Distance Coach Washington University in St Louis
I believe that more harm than good can be done in the last 2 weeks of the season. It is essential to not rid training of all aerobic training. One of the quickest ways to run poorly at the end of the season is to cut back too much volume.
How to Develop The 800m Specialist - Liam Cain
Understanding how to apply strength training and create structured training workouts will unlock the potential for fast 800m running performances.
Ohio State University Track - Matt Taylor, www.ChasingTradition.com
A Day in the life at Ohio State (OSU) track with Coach Gary
Distance Training Tips - Eric Blake
Distance training is a life long process with the goal of getting stronger year after year. With this is mind it is important for the athlete to believe in what they are doing, stay healthy, train hard and probably the most important but overlooked component is have fun in what they are doing.
Recommended Track and Field Product
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Today Conesus appear to be that directories are yesterdays tool. However there are those who still hold very strongly that directory submissions can be an excellent tool.
There are some causes to make directory submissions suspect in terms of gaining traffic for SEO. Top most is that Google is able to detect duplicate content much more effectively than before. If there is any suspicion by Google that repetitive submissions are paid linkages they will automatically be downgraded by Google, reducing the links ability to decent PR and gain traffic. Interactive media such as video’s, placing of comments and linking with blogs are certainly a further reason for the diminishing popularity of directories.
Good directories take great care on the content they would allow; such directories will even reject content, which is paid for if the quality is insufficient. The best of directories will be selective and therefore it is vital to adhere to submission instructions before you add links. There are directories, which can be classified as, General, Regional, Niche, Article, Blog or podcast. Familiarizing them and choosing the category which suites you best would be prudent for directory submissions to work positively.
Dmoz, Yahoo, Dir journal, Best of web, wow directory, Joeant, and Gimpsy are some recommended directories for submissions. When directories are willing to accommodate your site they could account for increased acceptance and a bigger traffic load. When the suitable directory has been identified, the next step is to determine the text, which will anchor it and the description. To do this process with multiple directories has to be noted. The goal has to be to do this while making it look organic, or repeat content will be treated as spam. The anchor text should give your link a brand and the description should be short for it to work as intended.
If these concerns are taken into account directory submission is still a cool tool for SEO.
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Implementing the short-range wireless technology Bluetooth in cars seems like a no-brainer.
It distinguishes great companies from the mediocre.
Bill Fluharty, vice president of Industrial Design at Johnson Controls, not surprisingly thinks that the focus on automotive interiors is well overdue. Some of the drivers for this change of perspective may be surprising.
A few thousand vehicles were displayed at the 2000 Mondial de l’Automobile (or Paris Auto Show as it’s known in a more popular parlance), but only a few stood out: those that did predicted a very fashionable—albeit gridlocked—future.
Here's a look at a trend in interiors: providing complete, tested, in-sequence cockpits rather than just instrument panels. And Johnson Controls is building them just-in-time for the Jeep Liberty.
Tom Gould talks about lifecycle analysis, engineers are important for designers, and why materials need to be authentic in interiors.
By rethinking designs and working toward more efficient solutions, seats will be major contributors to vehicle downsizing and lightweighting.
JCI's mannequin allows determination of seating positions for seat and interior developments.
Johnson Controls' (JCI's) Port Street facility (Plymouth, MI) assembles seats for, among other vehicles, the Lincoln LS.
At Johnson Controls’ annual Team Rally, acting skills are nearly as important as the ability to explain Six Sigma.
Be true to your attributes. Embrace conflict. Be authentic. No, these are not chapter headings for the latest self-help book, but some of the guidelines Johnson Controls, Inc. is using to frame the future of automotive interiors.
The mid-size 2005 Pathfinder, Nissan's largest design and development program to date, involved three technical centers, and took 36 months and countless trans-Pacific trips to complete. Though it borrows major components from the full-size Titan pickup and Armada SUV, it's not just a downsized clone.
Here’s a look at how Johnson Controls creates leading interiors as well as cool ideas for clever products.
Designing, Engineering & Making The Drop-Top
What do you get paid for?” John Waraniak, director of E-Business Speed, Johnson Controls, asks rhetorically.
The people at Johnson Controls Automotive Systems Group have pushed the limits of the vehicle interior envelope by creating a lab that allows optimization by design. Here's a look inside.
At this year’s SAE 2000 Congress & Exposition there was plenty of buzz and noise inside Cobo Center (including a Visteon-draped People Mover that rolled above the record-setting crowd). Here’s some of the audio, filtered.
Please visit: Johnson Controls
PO Box 8010
49200 Halyard Dr.
Plymouth, MI 48170 US
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Richard Van Duyne
"For his trail blazing contributions in the fields of Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering and Nanoparticle Optics."Background:
Van Duyne received his BS in chemistry from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and his Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1970. He then joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. In 1986, he was named the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry. Among his other awards are the 1996 Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation Excellence in Surface Science Award, the 1991 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, the 1981 Phi Lambda Upsilon Fresenius Award, the 1980 Coblentz Memorial Prize in Molecular Spectroscopy, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award (1974-1978). Van Duyne is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Van Duyne is best known for his discovery of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) and the developer of nanosphere lithography (NSL). His current research interests include nanoparticle optics and its application to ultrasensitive chemical sensing and biological sensing, nanoparticle based photonic devices, scanning probe microscopy, Raman spectroscopy of mass-selected clusters, and the application of SERS to ultrahigh vacuum surface science and studies of the structure and function of biomolecules adsorbed on surfaces.
Mostafa El-Sayed (Chair), Mitchio Okumura (12/03), Giacinto Scoles ('03 Rcpnt) (12/03), Donald Levy (Vice Chair) (12/04), Takeshi Oka (12/04)
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Constitution Amendment Act, 1988
|Constitution Amendment Act, 1988
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993.
Act No. 50 of 1988. First published on 5 May 1988 in Government Gazette No. 11297, and came into force upon publication. Repealed on 27 April 1994 by the |
Note that [words in bold type in square brackets] indicate omissions from existing enactments, while words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.
To amend the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983, so as to provide for joint business and proceedings and uniform rules of procedure of the Houses of Parliament and for matters connected therewith.
(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 3 May 1988.)
Be it enacted by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:―
Amendment of section 61 of Act 110 of 1983
1. Section 61 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended by the substitution for the words preceding paragraph (a) of the following words:
“To constitute a meeting of a House for the [exercise of its powers] determination of a question, the presence shall be necessary of―”.
Amendment of section 64 of Act 110 of 1983, as amended by section 8 of Act 105 of 1984
2. Section 64 of the principal Act is hereby amended―
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|(b)||by the insertion in subsection (1) after paragraph (b) of the following paragraph:
Amendment of section 67 of Act 119 of 1983, as amended by section 10 of Act 105 of 1984
3. Section 67 of the principal Act is hereby amended―
|(a)||by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:
“(1) This section applies to joint sittings called thereunder, but does not otherwise derogate from the power of Parliament to regulate its business and proceedings.”; and
|(b)||by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection:
“(2) The State President may call [such] a joint sitting of the Houses by message to them whenever he deems it desirable, and shall call such a joint sitting if requested to do so by all three Houses.”.
4. This Act shall be called the Constitution Amendment Act, 1988.
|This work is in the public domain because it was created and first published in South Africa and it is an official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, or an official translation of such a text.
According to the Copyright Act, 1978, § 12 (8) (a), "No copyright shall subsist in official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, or in official translations of such texts."
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Generator Muffler | Silencer | Extension Kit
Generators are essential evils in houses. They give you good service when a power failure occurs but they serve you with lot of noise also. The more powerful is the generator the noisier it is. Generally the generator muffler is designed to bring the noise level down but despite all that, these little monsters make lots of noise. Many people change and modify generator mufflers in order to bring the noise level down but it is not easy to find a quiet generator muffler.
One remedy for the problem is to buy and install a matching silent muffler for generator but it is not easy to install such mufflers. Therefore, it is a good idea to go for a silent generator when you buy one. Especially if you buy a portable generator, always go for a more silent generator. When you buy a generator, you must remember that the noise level a generator produces has no relationship to its size. There are some big generators with less noise levels than some smaller generators. It is the generator muffler that decides its noise level to a great extent.
A generator muffler works on the principal that the sound doesn’t go through bends. Though the smoke has no interruption due to bends, the sound when reflected through a number of turns, dies down. Due to this reason, there are lots of sound reflecting surfaces inside a muffler. Due to this reason, when both sound and smoke enters a silencer generator muffler, only smoke comes out without any change and the sound is reduced to a very much lower level.
If your permanently fixed home generator muffler makes a lot of noise, you have the option to surround it with sand bags to prevent noise from coming out but you must provide for air circulation because your generator could over heat and burn. In case you are looking for a generator, look for one that is able to provide a lesser noise level than 72 decibels. Such a generator will have an efficient generator muffler which will be able to contain noise.
Even if you happen to buy a noisy generator, you have the option to buy a generator muffler in order to make your generator silent. The best generators on sound will not make any more noise than a silent air conditioner or a washing machine. A generator muffler for this purpose could be bought in the market for a very low sum of around $20.
While the generator muffler is used to bring the exhaust noise level down the generator manufacturers make an effort to bring down the noise generated though vibration also. They use various other modifications such as running the generator at lower speeds and employing over head camshafts in addition to having the generator muffler to reduce exhaust noise. However, you must make sure that the camping generator you buy has to be lower in weight to make it easily mobile. A heavy generator though good for home, will create transport problems when you try to take it to your camping site.
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The Peace Operations Training Institute provides globally accessible and affordable distance-learning courses on peace support, humanitarian relief, and security operations. We are committed to bringing essential, practical knowledge to military personnel, police, and civilians working toward peace worldwide.
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Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University today announced the launch of a new firm, Carnegie Robotics LLC, which will develop, manufacture and service robotic components and systems in partnership with the university’s highly successful National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC).
Carnegie Robotics will create products based upon technology licensed from the NREC, an arm of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute that performs applied research and prototype development for industrial and government organizations. John Bares, director of the NREC since 1997, has taken a leave of absence from the university to lead the startup company. Anthony Stentz, who has served as associate director since 1997, will take over leadership of the NREC.
“NREC is a tremendous success story; it has experienced robust growth for more than a decade,” said Mark S. Kamlet, Carnegie Mellon executive vice president and provost. “By turning NREC’s innovations into commercial products, Carnegie Robotics will further strengthen NREC while expanding the robotics industry in western Pennsylvania.”
Bares said Carnegie Robotics will initially concentrate on producing extremely reliable components that other manufacturers can use to automate machines used in such fields as mining, agriculture, petroleum production and defense. But as the company develops its own production expertise, plans call for manufacturing and servicing entire robotic systems. Both the company and NREC might also benefit from jointly marketing their services, he added.
“NREC has become the ‘go to’ organization for performing applied research and prototype development for field robots,” Stentz said. “But now when we deliver a prototype, NREC customers increasingly want to know who can convert the prototype to a manufacturable product, as well as support and service the product over its lifetime. By addressing this production need, NREC will occupy a more competitive position and realize continued growth.”
The company has leased space within the NREC facility, a renovated foundry in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh about three miles from the Carnegie Mellon campus.
“Carnegie is a storied industrial name, particularly here in western Pennsylvania,” said Matt Mason, director of the Robotics Institute. “I know John and his team will work hard to build a company that lives up to the Carnegie name and that will help this region retain more of the talented roboticists and engineers who are trained here.”
The NREC opened in 1996 as an operating unit within the Robotics Institute. The brainchild of William “Red” Whittaker, the Fredkin University Professor of Robotics and director of the Field Robotics Center, the NREC has focused on developing commercial applications of mobile robots for such companies as John Deere, Shell Oil, Caterpillar and Consol Energy.
The NREC has developed a number of unmanned ground vehicles and autonomous systems for the Defense Department, ranging from a virtual 3D video system for enhanced teleoperation of vehicles to advanced large robotic vehicles, such as Crusher and the Autonomous Platform Demonstrator. NREC researchers are developing robots for sorting strawberry plants and, in a U.S. Department of Agriculture project, applying robotic technology to the operation of orange groves. A commercially sustainable branch of the NREC develops research-based K-12 educational content used by millions of students in formal and informal educational settings across the world. The NREC continues to push into new markets and recently began work on SensaBot, an inspection robot for offshore petroleum production facilities.
Sponsored research at the NREC increased from $16.9 million in fiscal year 2005 to $24.8 million in fiscal year 2010; during the same five-year period, industry-sponsored research increased from $853,000 to $8.7 million. The center, which now employs 120 people, is in the process of expanding its Lawrenceville facility.
“As NREC director it was clear to me that for many mobile robot applications, the technology is now matured enough to sustain a robust products business,” Bares said. “We believe NREC, Carnegie Robotics and western Pennsylvania are uniquely positioned to capitalize on this opportunity.”
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.03.45
François Cadiou, Hibera in terra miles: les armées romaines et la conquête de l'Hispanie sous la république (218-45 av. J.C.). Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez 38. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2007. Pp. 700. ISBN 9788496820074. €56.00.
Reviewed by Benedict Lowe, Western Oregon University (email@example.com)
François Cadiou's book reconsiders the view that the citizen army of the Republic was unable to deal with extended campaigning overseas, prompting a military crisis culminating in the events of the civil war--a thesis shaped in no small part by the excavations of Adolf Shulten at Numantia in North-Eastern Spain between 1905 and 1912.
There has been a growing interest in the Republican army in the Peninsula since G. Ulbert's reinvestigation of the Late Republican encampment at Cáceres el Viejo in 1984, and continues to the present. In 2007, the 20th International Conference of Roman Frontier Studies was celebrated in León and accompanied by Ángel Morillo's synthesis El Ejército Romano en Hispania (Universidad de León, 2007).
The book is divided into three sections. The first ('Armées et Guerre' pp. 27-276) reconsiders the perception that the difficulties of the Spanish campaigns prompted crises in the organization and tactics of the Roman army. Instead, Cadiou stresses the conventionality of the wars, their limited scope and duration, and an underlying continuity both in policy and administration. The scale of the conflicts is difficult to determine due to the use of generalized ethnic terms in the literary sources that obscure the ethnography of the Peninsula. Roman military endeavours were reinforced by diplomatic measures particularly post-179 BC of which the treatment of the Celtiberian ambassadors in 152 BC (Polybius 35.2.3-4) is an important example.
The second section ('Armées et Territoires' pp. 279-473) explores the ways in which the Roman army was able to exercise control and to exploit territory. Whilst more than twenty toponyms have been identified as military bases dating to the Republic, the evidence for many of these is scanty and Cadiou argues that only three (Castra Caecilia, Castra Servilia and Castra Postumiana) can be identified with any certitude. In the absence of literary evidence, Cadiou discusses the archaeological evidence drawing upon his earlier discussion 'Garnisons et camps permanents: un réseau défensif des territoires provinciaux dans l'Hispanie républicaine' in Á. Morillo Cerdán, F. Cadiou and D. Hourcade (eds) Defensa y Territorio en Hispania de los Escipiones a Augusto (Universidad de León / Casa de Velázquez, 2003) 81-100. Archaeological investigation is hampered, however, by the indiscriminate identification of sites as military on the basis of literary references, location, layout and finds of weapons or imported Italian pottery. Emblematic is the site of Lomba do Canho (Arganil) that may have been situated to exploit the gold resources of the río Alva.
Roman control is normally associated with the establishment of garrisons in urban areas -- in particular at Tarraco and Emporion. Cadiou finds little evidence to support 'praesidia' at either location. The evidence for garrisons elsewhere is scanty and Cadiou suggests that the towns referred to in the literary sources--for example, Gracchuris, Pompaelo, Valentia, Carteia, Iliturgi and Corduba--were not military or strategic but intended to restructure the settlement hierarchy along Roman lines--reinforced by the creation of a road network that integrated regions and promoted a Roman settlement hierarchy. Where garrisons were established, they were located to protect supply routes and facilitate the provisioning of the armies in the field. Logistical support was reinforced by the use of intelligence gathering to gain knowledge of the terrain and deployment of enemy forces--reiterating Polybius' assertion of the importance of preparation (9.12.6).
The third section ('Armées et Provinces' pp. 477-684) examines the role of the army in the exploitation of the provinces to provide financial support through taxation, provisions and recruits. Cadiou argues that the provinces remained financially dependant upon Rome receiving regular supplies of funds and lacking any fiscal structure in the provinces--'l'absence de mise en place d'un système fiscal spécifiquement destiné aux besoins militaires' (p. 484). As late as August 51 BC Cicero refers to the senate deciding the dispatch of funds to the Pompeian forces in Spain (Ad familiares 8.4). The maintenance of senatorial control over the 'stipendium' helped preserve the sovereignty of the senate over generals holding 'imperium'. The function of indigenous coinage has long been particularly contentious: Cadiou suggests that the coins were issued to pay Spanish auxiliaries in the same way that Italian allied troops were paid by their home cities (p. 539).
The final chapter (pp. 611-684) reconsiders the evidence for the recruitment of provincials into the army. Cadiou argues that the evidence for immigration to the Peninsula is scarce. Where the literary sources refer to the foundation of towns: Italica in 206 BC, Gracchuris in 178 BC, Corduba in 169/8 or 152/1 BC, Valentia in 138 BC and Palma and Pollentia in 122 BC; the evidence for their character and the composition of their inhabitants is lacking. It was only during the period of the civil wars that there was widespread recruitment of Spaniards into the Roman army--perhaps fuelled by an influx of refugees from the conflicts in Italy. The Spanish communities did, however, contribute large numbers of 'auxilia' to the Roman war effort, perhaps through similar treaty arrangements to the Italian 'socii'--in 152 BC the inhabitants of Nertobriga provided 100 cavalry under the terms of their treaty with Claudius Marcellus (Appian, Iberica 48).
Cadiou's book originated as a Ph.D. at the Université de Rennes in 2001. In common with many such books, Cadiou's use of the primary sources is exhaustive. The result is an authoritative reassessment of the role of the army in the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula that deftly combines both literary and archaeological evidence to revaluate many traditional assumptions about the role of the conquest. Cadiou's picture is not a reassuring one, exposing the weaknesses in the evidence behind many of the scholarly assumptions about the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Much of our perception is shaped by the lack of knowledge of the geography and politics on the part of our sources. The ethnocentricity of our sources has led to a denigration of the indigenous population through derogative terminology (for example Livy's description of the 'native savageness' the Lacetani (34.20.2)) and a portrayal that better reflects Roman ideology than native reality.
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The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, , at sacred-texts.com
1. 'This woman, strewing grains, prays thus, "May I bring bliss to my relations; may my husband live long. Svâhâ!"'while the husband murmurs (this) text, she sacrifices standing.
2 2. (All the ceremonies,) beginning from the treading
upon the stone, (are repeated) in the same way for a second time,
3. And in the same way a third time.
4. Silently, if they like, a fourth time.
5 5. (The Âkârya?) makes (them) step forward in a north-eastern direction seven steps (with the words),
6. 'For sap with one step, for juice with two steps, for the prospering of wealth with three steps, for comfort with four steps, for cattle with five steps, for the seasons with six steps. Friend be with seven steps.'
7. (The Âkârya?) 'appeases' those (foot-steps) with water.
8 8. With the three Âpohishthîyâ verses (Rig-veda X, 9, 1-3) he wipes (them) with the Stheyâ water,
9 9. And sprinkles it on their heads.
10. (The bridegroom then) says, 'I give you a cow.'
11. Let him give something to the Brâhmanas each time at the Sthâlîpâkas and other rites;
12 12. To him who knows the Sûryâ hymn the bride's shift.
13 13-15. A cow is the optional gift to be given by a Brâhmana,
14. A village by a Râganya,
15. A horse by a Vaisya.
16 16. A hundred (cows) with a chariot (he gives to a father) who has only daughters.
17. To those versed in the sacrificial rites he gives a horse.
37:2 14, 2. The treading on the stone is prescribed in chap. 13, 12.
38:5 5, 7. According to Nârâyana it is the teacher who makes them walk the seven steps; the Paddhati says that the bridegroom or the Âkârya causes her to do so. Comp. Pâraskara I, 8, 1; Âsvalâyana I, 7, 19, &c.
38:8 Comp. chap. 13, 9.
38:9 Probably we should read mûrdhanî (acc. dual.), not mûrdhani. Âsvalâyana has sirasî. Of course the heads of both the bridegroom and the bride were sprinkled with water; comp. Âsvalâyana I, 7, 20, &c.
38:12 The Sûryâ hymn is Rig-veda X, 85. Comp. the note above on chap. 13, 4.
39:13-15 These Sûtras, treating of the fee for the sacrifice, are identical with Pâraskara I, 8, 15-18. Apparently they are taken from the same lost original from which several identical passages in the Sûtras of Pâraskara and Sâṅkhâyana seem to be derived (see the notes on chap. 5, 1; 13, 7). They stand rather out of place here, for they return to the same subject which had already been treated of in Sûtra 10, though in that Sûtra, as very frequently is the case in our text and in similar ones, only the case of the bridegroom being a Brâhmana has been taken notice of.
39:16 Comp. the passages quoted by Professor Stenzler on Pâraskara I, 8, 18. Nârâyana has the following note: 'To a duhitrimat, i.e. to the father of a girl who has no brother, he shall give a hundred cows and besides a chariot, in order to destroy the guilt brought about by marrying a girl who has no brother.' Possibly we should here emancipate ourselves from the authority of the commentators, and explain duhitrimat 'he who gives his daughter in marriage,' the bride's father. Comp. Âpastamba II, 11, 18; II, 13, 12; Weber, Indische Studien, V, 343, note 2.
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(Resolution adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 10, 2003)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the report of the General Secretariat on the implementation of the resolutions on mine-clearing (CP/doc.3742/03);
Its resolutions AG/RES. 1411 (XXVI-O/96), AG/RES. 1496 (XXVII-O/97), AG/RES. 1569 (XXVIII-O/98), AG/RES. 1745 (XXX-O/00), AG/RES. 1792 (XXXI-O/01) and AG/RES. 1875 (XXXII-O/02); and
Its resolution AG/RES. 1644 (XXIX-O/99), operative paragraph 12, in which it urges member states and permanent observers to lend assistance to the national mine-clearing programs being carried out by Ecuador and Peru in their territories;
AWARE that the presence of land mines in the vicinity of borders and power grids constitutes a serious threat to civilian populations and stands in the way of economic development in rural and urban areas;
The major progress achieved by the Governments of Ecuador and Peru in mine-clearing, the destruction of stockpiles, and transparency measures, which have been acknowledged by governments and international organizations committed to the OAS goal of making the Western Hemisphere an anti-personnel-landmine-free zone;
The complete elimination of antipersonnel mine stockpiles in Ecuador and Peru through assistance under the "Managua Challenge" Fund, pursuant to the mandates of the Ottawa Convention;
The valuable cooperation being provided by both member states, such as Brazil, Canada, and the United States, and permanent observers, such as Austria, Japan, and Spain, to national efforts in Ecuador and Peru to carry forward their mine-clearing programs; and
The efficient technical assistance activities being conducted by the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy and the Inter-American Defense Board with respect to mine-clearing programs in Ecuador and Peru; and
CONSIDERING the need to continue to support the efforts of the Governments of Ecuador and Peru to expand the scope of international cooperation to mine-clearing in other areas of the two countries as may be required,
1. To acknowledge the work accomplished by the Governments of Ecuador and Peru in destroying their stockpiles and in mine-clearing on the common borders and in other areas of their respective territories.
2. To request member states, permanent observers, and the international community at large to continue lending technical and financial support to the Governments of Ecuador and Peru in implementing the mine-clearing programs and integral action programs against antipersonnel mines conducted in their respective territories.
3. To instruct the General Secretariat to continue to offer its full cooperation to the assistance programs for integral action against antipersonnel mines in Ecuador and Peru, as well as the demining centers that have started to operate in the two countries.
4. To urge the General Secretariat to continue to lend, within the resources allocated in the program-budget of the Organization and other resources, the necessary support required by the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (UPD) in order to continue its work on mine-clearing programs and on programs aimed at preventive education of the population, the rehabilitation of victims and their reintegration into the work force, and the reclamation of affected areas.
5. To instruct the General Secretariat to continue to work, through the UPD, on identifying and raising voluntary contributions from member states, permanent observers, and other states, as well as other organizations, to the Specific Fund intended to continue to finance mine-clearing and integral action programs against antipersonnel mines carried out by Ecuador and Peru in their respective territories.
6. To instruct the Permanent Council to continue to consider this topic with a view to pursuing its work toward the objective of making the Western Hemisphere an antipersonnel-land-mine-free zone.
7. To instruct the General Secretariat to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth regular session on the implementation of this resolution.
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LIFE With Woody Guthrie: Photos of an American Treasure
In 1943, Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie was about to publish his now-classic, semi-fictionalized autobiography, Bound for Glory, in which he wrote vibrantly about his childhood, his love of American folk songs and his epic travels as a freight car-hopping itinerant poet during the Depression.
While Bound for Glory would introduce Guthrie to a broader audience than the relatively few who, at the time, knew him only through his music, Woody was already something of an underground hero to other musicians — folk and protest singers who soon, in the late Fifties and early Sixties, would be shaking America from its post-war somnolence. A politically engaged (albeit rarely enraged) artist, Guthrie crafted wrenching tales of loss and struggle, as well as paeans to romantic love and heartfelt, platitude-free patriotism, into some of the most enduring music America has ever produced.
In fact, at the time the photographs in this gallery were made, Guthrie had written and performed, but not yet published, the simple, celebratory song that millions of Americans consider their true national anthem: “This Land Is Your Land.”
Here, in tribute to an utterly singular American life, LIFE.com presents photographs from 1943 — none of which appeared in the pages of LIFE magazine — chronicling the guitar-strumming Oklahoma native’s rambles through wartime New York City.
“The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution,” Guthrie once asserted, in one of his countless philosophically tinged writings, “because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine…. There’s a feeling in music and it carries you back down the road you have traveled and makes you travel it again. Sometimes when I hear music I think back over my days — and a feeling that is fifty-fifty joy and pain swells like clouds taking all kinds of shapes in my mind.”
A self-taught visual artist (accomplished sketches, cartoons, caricatures and line drawings fill many, many notebooks) as well as an inveterate, almost obsessive journal-keeper, Guthrie had a relationship with music, especially, that brings to mind the grit and very occasional glamor not only of the open road, but of the troubadour’s wandering life. Of Bound for Glory, New York Times reviewer Clifton Fadiman wrote: “Some day people are going to wake up to the fact that Woody Guthrie and the ten thousand songs that leap and tumble off the strings of his music box are a national possession like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and part of the best stuff this country has to show the world.”
Guthrie had a strong connection to New York City, too, living on Mermaid Avenue in Brooklyn in the 1940s — an evocative address made famous to a new generation of fans by Billy Bragg and Wilco, who put unpublished Guthrie lyrics to music in scores of wonderful songs, collected and released by Nonesuch records as Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (2012).
New York City was where Woody Guthrie made his first professional recordings; where he wrote “This Land Is Your Land”; where he befriended and collaborated with other politically minded artists like Pete Seeger; and where his devotees — including the likes of Bob Dylan and the great Phil Ochs — later ignited their own Guthrie-inspired folk scene in downtown coffee houses and dives. “You could listen to his songs and learn how to live,” Dylan once said of his hero’s life and work.
On assignment for LIFE in 1943, photographer Eric Schaal followed Guthrie as he gave impromptu performances around New York — in bars, on the stoops of brownstones, on the subway. Engaging and at ease, the Woody Guthrie of these photos is exactly where he liked to be: among working people, and the children of working people, guitar in hand, sharing his own lyrics and the lyrics of countless other folk musicians with the very men and women those lyrics were always written for, and about.
“I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world,” Guthrie once said, “no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built. I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.”
“Woody is just Woody,” another American artist, John Steinbeck, once wrote. “Thousands of people do not know he has any other name. He is just a voice and a guitar. He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that people. Harsh voiced and nasal … there is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there is something more important for those who still listen. There is the will of a people to endure and fight against oppression. I think we call this the American spirit.”
Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967, from complications brought on by Huntington’s disease. He was just 55 years old.
— Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com
NOTE: This story and some of the images in the gallery originally appeared in different form on an earlier incarnation of LIFE.com.
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Like it or not, the drones are coming to American skies.
Congress already directed the Federal Aviation Administration to find a safe way for drones to fly for commercial purposes by 2015. Ensuring the skies—already crowded with piloted aircraft—will remain safe is not an easy task for the agency. Now Congress itself has an equally difficult mission: Finding a way to protect Americans’ right to privacy and civil liberties once the unmanned planes are flying overhead.
The Senate Judiciary Committee took its first stab at tackling some of these issues Wednesday, hearing from a range of experts. Michael Toscano, CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, appeared alongside an outspoken privacy advocate, a law professor, and a representative from a Colorado sheriff’s office that already uses drones in its operations.
“With the [FAA] estimating as many as 30,000 drones like this operating in the national airspace by the end of this decade, Congress must carefully consider the policy implications of this fast-emerging technology,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said.
“While there may be many valuable uses for this new technology, the use of unmanned aircraft raises serious concerns about the impact on the constitutional and privacy rights of American citizens.”
For instance, ranking member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, hailed drones’ potential to benefit agriculture, where they can be used to provide farmers a “bird’s-eye view” to survey crops more quickly. “But no one wants drone technology to end up in the hands of a harassing neighbor, child predator, drug dealer,” Grassley said.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., had all kinds of questions: “How do you monitor their use? How do you certify the equipment, because all kinds of things can be added? It may not be legal to carry munitions on a drone—but what can be done illegally, and how can the government prevent that from happening? At what altitude can they fly, what kind of facial recognition are they capable of? Can they take pictures of an individual through a window inside their home? Drones are hard to spot for the untrained eye, so your ability to protect yourself is not great.”
Witnesses, for their part, did not present conclusive or unified answers to such questions, showcasing even further the lack of any overarching policy.
Despite their concerns, no senators on the panel questioned the economic potential of drones. Some 10,000 commercial drones—think news outlets and private businesses—are expected to fly by 2017, and all 18,000 state and local law-enforcement agencies are potential customers. Toscano’s group released a study that estimates the unmanned aircraft industry will create more than 70,000 new American jobs in the first three years after the airspace is open to drones.
But that potential boom could be stymied if Congress or the states do not address Americans’ concerns about their civil liberties. In his 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor to delay the nomination of John Brennan as CIA director, Republican firebrand Rand Paul of Kentucky raised the specter of drones being armed in the U.S. to take out suspected terrorists on American soil. Privacy groups are mobilizing, calling on police to obtain warrants before the drones can be used in investigations.
“We have to make sure we can handle [citizens’ concerns] through the law so that we can [enjoy] the positive uses of this technology,” Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., said.
But no single federal agency has been designated to deal with privacy matters. “There is disagreement on whether that responsibility should be centralized in one body, and if so, which agency can do it the most effectively to protect American civil liberties or privacy when it comes to unmanned aircraft systems,” Franken said.
Already, some bills have been introduced in the House and Senate to regulate the use of drones. Just this week, Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., who is a candidate to fill the Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry, introduced legislation to “prevent flying robots from becoming spying robots.”
Not all members, however, were eager for Congress to assume the responsibility. Concerned lawmakers in 30 states are trying to regulate the use of drones for surveillance for fear they will spy on Americans. “Sometimes states are much better equipped to deal with these kinds of questions,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said.
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Imagine a tax so exclusive that only disabled veterans pay. These disabled veterans who actively served the military from 15 years to 19 years, 11 months, and 30 days. These disabled veterans who lost their careers before serving 20 years of military service because of legal government discrimination against the greater service-connected disabled service-members. These disabled veterans who were placed into early financial hardship because of their forced early medical retirement, with a loss of retirement benefits and classified as Chapter 61 retirees. These disabled veterans who are the only group to pay a "Disabled Veterans Tax" called "Concurrent Receipt."
The Disabled Veterans Tax is a tax, so exclusive, that it's paid only by the disabled veterans medically separated from the military before they can serve 20 years of active service. This tax is equal up to the disabled veterans' entire retirement pay because of Concurrent Receipt laws. The greater percentage of disability of the disabled veteran, the greater the retirement that is lost due to the Disabled Veterans Tax.
The American with Disabilities Act protects against these types of discrimination, except when it is conducted by the federal government. The military takes advantage of this by forcibly separating the medically disabled, separate them from service, and then offer early retirement to non-disabled service-members who served more than 15 years. These service-members offered early retirement can receive a retirement pay, even if they receive disability pay from the Department of Veterans Affairs, UNLESS they are ongoing Chapter 61 forced medical retirement.
Please end this discrimination targeting only disabled veterans. Write your congressmen to end this discrimination. Write to the president, who promised to end this Concurrent Receipt on his first term in office. Help stop the military and Congress from treating these disabled veterans as second-class, disabled military rejects. I served 19 years, 4 months and 26 days, and my career and all my retirement pay is lost, solely due to my service-connected disabilities. There are another 120,000 veterans just like me, treated as second-class, disabled veteran rejects. Please write to our federal government leaders.
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Posted on September 30th, 2009
I spoke with a friend of mine who saw combat in Gaza this past January. He told me about having to kill a seventy year old man.
These are the kind of stories that the media love.
The United Nations Human Rights Commission just published the report of Judge Goldstone accusing Israel of war crimes. The report is five hundred pages long, much of it devoted to tales of Israeli atrocities — based almost entirely on Palestinian accounts.
Now, put yourself in my friend’s position and decide if he is a “war criminal.”
Tell me what you would have done:
His unit was in a Palestinian village near the border that separates Gaza from Israel. They had been ordered to take over a house being used by Hamas to fire rockets into Israel. It was a large house with a commanding view of the area. They got into position in front of the house.
Even though, the Air Force had dropped leaflets in Arabic telling the residents to leave the vicinity of the house, there was still concern that innocent civilians might be inside.
Following standard procedure, the soldiers shouted in Arabic for anyone inside to come out of the house. Just to make sure they were heard, the soldiers repeated the command three times.
No one answered.
Next, the soldiers were given the order to shoot into the ground near the house. They did so to minimize the possibility of a bullet ricocheting off stone. Again, they yelled for anyone inside to come out.
No one answered.
At this point, one of the soldiers saw a person’s shadow in the window of the house. Since intelligence had identified this house as a Hamas base, and since the person inside had ignored repeated warnings to come out, the unit was given permission to open fire. Whomever was inside must be a terrorist.
But the commander was hesitant — what if the person inside was deaf? What if the person inside was handicapped and unable to communicate? Even if there was just a tiny chance that the person inside was innocent, shouldn’t they make sure?
At the risk of their own lives, the soldiers stormed the house and withheld their fire. Inside, they found….
Women and children. The men had fled much earlier because they knew the house would be targeted. They left their wives and children in the IDF’s way. Because of the actions of a nameless Israeli officer, the lives of these women and children were saved.
JUDGE GOLDSTONE, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE???
Later on, the soldiers were in position in the house when they saw a lone Palestinian male running toward another IDF position. This time, they could not take the risk. They shot and killed him. It turns out, the IDF position he was running toward had been booby-trapped, and he was trying to light the fuse.
In all likelihood, their quick thinking saved the lives of Israeli soldiers. Yet for folks like Goldstone, whose detailed “findings” were dictated by Hamas support organizations, the incident would read that Israeli soldiers randomly shot an elderly civilian who was unarmed.
At the beginning of this story, I asked you to put yourself in my friend’s position. What would you have done? Would you have risked your life to avoid harming a civilian? (A civilian who would be very happy to learn of your death by the way).
Now, do one more thing for me. Don’t imagine it was yourself in the IDF soldier’s position.
Imagine it was your child.
Imagine it was your child who might come home in a bag because he didn’t want to take any chance at hurting a civilian. Imagine your child risked his life to prevent harm to a Palestinian. Now read Judge Goldstone’s report saying that your child should be tried as a war criminal.
I am an Israeli who will one day have kids in the Army, and I would rather have a million Goldstone reports and UN condemnations than a single funeral of an Israeli soldier.
What about you Judge Goldstone? Before you submit your report to the representatives of Angola, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia why don’t you take a good look in the mirror and answer the question:
WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?
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We are asking every student at AMSA to help make our school a safe environment for everyone. Each student will be given the opportunity to sign our Bullying Pledge. We are asking students to take this pledge very seriously. Signing the pledge is optional, if a student doesn't feel as if they can honor this pledge, they should not sign.
“I will not watch or participate in bullying. I will report honestly and immediately all incidents of bullying to an AMSA adult.I will work hard to make our school safe and comfortable for everyone.”
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News about women leaders -- here and across the big pond
It is time to catch up again with stories about women in the news. Probably the biggest story is that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is at the ranch in Crawford, Texas, with our current president (OCP). The story has it that they will be talking about Iran. From the story it looks like Chancellor Merkel will not be buying the pitch of OCP, and will hang tough. Let us hope the bar-b-que is good. The International Herald Tribune headlined it: "Merkel meeting with Bush; Iran at center of talks." To quote:
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President George W. Bush were meeting this weekend at Bush's ranch in Texas, and German officials said Friday that Iran's nuclear ambitions were likely to dominate the talks.
Merkel, who is making her sixth visit to the United States since taking office two years ago, but her first to the Bush family home, made it clear this last week that any measures taken on Iran must be decided by the UN Security Council. "The international community must pursue its goal of preventing Iran from having nuclear arms with firmness," Merkel told the Berliner Zeitung. "This is a process we should take step by step."
. . . Seeking to win over Merkel to his position, Bush said on German television that "we definitely need Germany's help on issues like Iran," adding, "Germany is a crucial country in terms of building coalitions to deal with the threats we face."
What is our Secretary of State doing this weekend, while her boss is meeting with German Chancellor, Angela Merkel? The Secretary will be there, too, after having met with the editorial board of the Dallas Morning news to give them her views about things. Her overly simplistic, vanilla views reflect the general weakness of U.S. diplomatic efforts. The headline is, "From Pakistan to Russia, Condoleezza Rice shares her assessment of the United States' role." It is a fascinating article that gives important perspective to other elements of my post here today. For examples, a few quotes from the Q & A follow:
What is your read of the situation in Pakistan?
Obviously, it is very strained. We are concerned everyone acts in a way that doesn't lead to greater violence.
What kind of person are you dealing with in Gen. Musharraf?
You can talk and reason with him. He is someone who has tried to fight terrorism. This is a modern man, but this was a bad decision. It wasn't the first time we tried to talk him out of it.
This newspaper has supported the president's Mideast freedom agenda. But given how elections in Iraq and Palestine turned out, why is it in the interest of the U.S., or any Mideast nation, to embrace the freedom agenda?
I don't think the election of Hamas was a disaster for the freedom agenda. Finally, they have to show they don't know how to govern.
You try to give moderates more capacity. That's why launching peace negotiations is important.
Not long ago I blogged about Condoleezza Rice. With things in the Middle East and elsewhere pretty much in an uproar, a little digging revealed that yesterday Rice has sent a State Department diplomat to Georgia, the European nation currently in crisis. He went with a stern message, according to the International Herald Tribune. Evidently, Rice is "disappointed."To quote,
The diplomat, Matthew Bryza, deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, said by telephone that he would meet with Saakashvili and deliver a clear message from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "I plan to tell the government that it needs to lift the state of emergency immediately," he said. "It is a big disappointment."
On Monday Secretary of State Rice talked with Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf for twenty minutes. According to a Pakistani spokesman the call was "inconsequential."To quote the story from SoutheastAsiaNews.net,
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's phone call to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Monday lasted for 20 minutes, the State Department has confirmed.
Musharraf's spokesman, Major General (retired) Rashid Qureshi, told a foreign news agency that "nothing of any consequence" had been discussed.
By comparison Pakistan's opposition leader, Benazir Bhuto's role in Pakistan is far from inconsequential. "Defiant" is how her actions have been characterized by Aljazeera. Their headline read: "Defiant Bhuto vows more protests." To quote:
Benazir Bhutto has vowed to go ahead with a planned rally next week to protest against the emergency rule imposed by General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president.
In a show of defiance, the former prime minister on Saturday joined a small journalists' demonstration in the capital against media restrictions under the state of emergency.
"I have come here to express solidarity with you. I condemn these curbs," she said.
DailyIndia.com reports that the Palestinians have agreed to Israel's security demands as part of a renewed Middle East peace process. Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Tzipi Livni has been behind much of what has precipitated the decision. Secretary Rice may try to meet in the Middle East next week. As far as I know, however nothing has ever significantly changed as a result of United States diplomatic efforts between Palestine and Israel, so the local diplomats are still pretty much on their own. To quote from the story:
The Palestinian Authority announced its intention to comply with Israel's security demands as part of the first stage of the so-called road map to peace.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may meet with Palestinian and Israeli representatives as next week to develop a blueprint to talks, Ynetnews reported Friday.
Israeli negotiators confirmed Friday that their Palestinian counterparts agreed to disarming and disbanding terrorist groups operating within the Palestinian Authority, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The negotiators said the agreement came during a meeting between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Tzipi Livni and top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei.
All the while President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf chugs along in Liberia. She has been busy removing 17,000 names of "ghost workers" from her government's payroll. From allAfrica.com (9 November 2007) "Liberia: President Sirleaf Meets Forum of Political Parties Association." To quote:
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says she is committed to holding mayoral elections in Liberia in October 2008. She has assured that she will not violate the principle of elections.
The President gave the assurance today at the Foreign Ministry when she met with the Forum of Political Parties Association in Liberia. The meeting, which focused on issues of national concern, was characterized by a frank exchange of views.
The Liberian leader emphasized that it is her desire to have a constitutional change which would lead to the election of superintendents and expressed her concern about the proliferation of cities in Liberia. The President further revealed that the issue of ghost workers in Liberia's civil service remains a major challenge, stating that 17,000 ghost names were recently discovered on government's payroll.
"Women are making their marks in the Middle East," I wrote back on August 9 of this year. At that time I said,
Middle Eastern women are in the news recently. From voting in Lebanon and Jordan, to fighting to stay alive as Taliban hostages, women's stories are things we need to know about the situation in the region.
Womens' work is never done. It is good news that more and more of us are involved in leadership roles. And it is predictable news that we are having mixed successes. After all, we are only human. . . did that sound like Hillary?
(Cross-posted at South by Southwest.)
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As professional racing car drivers competing in Europe’s most prestigious motor race, teams are assigned a high- performance car and are asked to register their actions on an electronic device.
The device tabulates and records their every move. Every route holds hazards and challenges, so quick thinking, goal setting and using information at hand are instrumental to survival – not to mention winning.
Key Learning Points:
- Setting immediate, relevant and results-focussed goals
- Learning from previous experience
- Using short-term and long-term outlook to achieve success
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Also, if your face is going to be animatable (open the mouth, etc.) you'd also want to add an opening here. For the sake of the tutorial, I'll go ahead and do this as well.
Okay, if you didn't add detail to the lips, you'll need to add a little to the center for this. Select the innermost set of faces on the lips and click the Inset button. Now since we're using symmetry, it's going to create some extra faces in the middle but we'll deal with that. Adjust the inset slider so that it's about halfway into the faces you selected. Click Okay
Select all of the inner faces including the extra middle ones it made and Delete them
Select the verties on the top and bottom of the opening that aren't centered and move them to the center. (the left image) Next go to edge mode and select one of the edges of the new inner mouth. Click the loop button and it should select the entire inner edge.
When you have an edge selected and hold down SHIFT, you can move/rotate/scale that edge and instead of moving the selected edge, it'll actually create a new edge and do the adjustment to it. So with this ring of edges selected, hold down the shift key and move them back, into the head. It'll create a new set of faces going back into the mouth.
Pull it back, scale these edges taller, hold shift and pull back another row, etc. Do this several times. If it makes it easier, turn off the "show end result" toggle in the modifier stack. This will remove half of the head from view and you can look at a cross section of the head and plan the mouth cavity better
Don't forget to widen it but make sure that the inner mouth cavity never goes outside of the face. Also, make sure that the center of the mouth stays along the center of the rest of the head. If any of the end verties aren't along the center of the head, there will be a hold in the head when symmetry is turned back on
Smoothing Groups - Q.) Why do some parts of my face look all flat and faceted, while othe parts looks smoothed over? All the new stuff I add from inset and from creating new faces all look all flat. what's up with that? A.) The answer is smoothing groups! When doing high-poly modeling, you rarely bother with smoothing groups, but when you're doing lower-poly modeling, it's a nessecity! Go into Poly select mode and select your Entire Face. Now scroll way towards the bottom in the editable poly parameters area and find the thing that looks like the image below. Click on one of the numbers (any one, I usually start from 1 and work my way down as I add more groups). So click on 1. Now all of the faces are smoothed together. They're all in group 1
One thing I like to do is give the bottom of the upper lip it's own smooth group so deselect everything and just select the upper lip area. Now in the smoothing groups area, unclick #1 and click #2. Now there is a hard edge along the outer part of the lip, but the lip itself is smoothed. Smoothing groups can be very useful in lower poly modeling. It can create edges and give better definition to areas where there is little poly-information
Next we'll move onto the nose. A nose can be difficult to get the correct shape with, so it's not something you should just breeze through. Don't worry if you don't get it right the first few tries.
We'll have to cut in some edges, and probably extrude a couple faces to get the right shape here. Forst lets make sure that the existing geometry is shaped good so we can get started without too much trouble
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Those with a desk job, please stand up
Sunday, October 17, 2010; 11:07 AM
Some people can't stand working. Mark Ramirez works standing.
He is not a waiter or factory worker -- he is a team leader at AOL. Ramirez could, if he wanted, curl into the cushiest leather chair in the Staples catalog. No, thanks. He prefers to stand most of the day at a desk raised to above stomach level.
"I've got my knees bent, I feel totally alive," Ramirez said. "It feels more natural to stand. I wouldn't go back to sitting."
In the past few years, standing has become the new sitting for 10 percent of AOL employees at the firm's Dulles campus, part of a standing ovation among accountants, programmers, bureaucrats, telemarketers and other office workers across the nation. GeekDesk, a California company that sells $800 desks raised by electric motors, says sales will triple this year. It has sold standing desks to the Secret Service and the U.S. Geological Survey. Many firms and government agencies require standing setups in new contracts for office furniture.
Standers have various reasons for taking to their feet: it makes them feel more focused, prevents drowsiness, makes them feel like a general even if they just push paper. (Former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld works standing up. So does novelist Philip Roth.) But unknown to them, a debate is percolating among ergonomics experts and public health researchers about whether all office workers should be encouraged to stand - to save lives.
In academic papers with titles such as, "Your Chair: Comfortable but Deadly," physicians point to surprising new research showing higher rates of diabetes, obesity, heart disease and even mortality among people who sit for long stretches. A study earlier this year in the American Journal of Epidemiology showed that among 123,000 adults followed over 14 years, those who sat more than six hours a day were at least 18 percent more likely to die than those who sat less than three hours a day.
"Every rock we turn over when it comes to sitting is stunning," said Marc Hamilton, a leading researcher on inactivity physiology at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana. "Sitting is hazardous. It's dangerous. We are on the cusp of a major revolution about what we think of as healthy behavior in the workplace." He calls sitting "the new smoking."
Not so fast, other experts say. Standing too much at work will cause more long-term back injuries - ask factory workers, they say. Incidences of varicose veins among women will increase. The heart will have to pump more. Alan Hedge, a noted ergonomics scholar at Cornell University, went so far as to call standing at work "one of the stupidest things one would ever want to do. This is the high heels of the furniture industry."
What everyone can agree on, though, is that we were not exactly built to sit. "We were built to stand, to move, to walk," said James Levine, a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist who is so fanatical about not sitting at work that he walks at 1 mph all day on a treadmill at his desk.
He's the author of that "Comfortable but Deadly" paper, and in it, he provides a remarkable history of how we became a nation of sitters. The short version is that hunter-gatherers became agriculturists, the industrial revolution moved us into factories and the technological revolution moved us behind desks. And here we are, pecking away. Today's offices run on so much data that for many workers, two computer monitors are standard issue.
"With creativity, a person can eat, work, reproduce, play, shop and sleep without taking a step," Levine wrote. "Once enticed to the chair, we were stuck. Work and home alike: we do it sitting."
But when we sit, researchers say, important biological processes take a nap. An enzyme that vacuums dangerous fat out of the bloodstream only works properly when a body is upright. Standing also seems to ward off deadly heart disease, burn calories, increase how well insulin lowers glucose and produce the good brand of cholesterol. Most of these processes occur - or don't - regardless of whether someone exercises. Human beings need to stand.
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Drop serious pounds and sculpt sexy curves with Insanity, the DVD craze that lives up to the hype. The magic behind the routine comes from plyometrics : explosive, full-body exercises that rev your heart rate and ratchet up metabolism to torch megacalories and build lean muscle. We asked Insanity creator Shaun Thompson for his top multitasking moves to help you get an insane body in only 20 minutes. You'll need: Zilch.
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Everyone knows exercise plays an important role in our general health, but whether its a lack of motivation, the need to travel to the gym, the cost of equipment, or simply know-how, these supposed obstacles often stand in our way. In reality, all you need is yourself. Here's how you can get a full-body workout with nothing but your body.
Getting a six-pack requires just two things.
Burn calories before you jump in the shower with this bodyweight circuit from Craig Ballantyne, C.S.C.S. Perform this circuit without rest between exercises. Then rest 1 minute and repeat the circuit. Do as many circuits as you can in 10 minutes.
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From the recipe archive, don’t throw out your pumpkin seeds! ~Elise
Fall has arrived and with it, the pumpkin season. There are always plenty of pumpkins to carve up around Halloween time and a great way to make use of the pumpkin seeds is eat them, salted and toasted. Our preference is with the shells on – if they are toasted properly they are wonderfully crunchy and easy to eat. It helps if you are going to eat them with the shells on that you use seeds from sugar pumpkins, somewhat smaller than the mega-sized carving pumpkins (not really pumpkins but large squash). The trick? Boil the seeds in salted water first, and then toast them in the oven.
Toasted Pumpkin Seeds Recipe
- One medium sized pumpkin
- Olive oil
1 Cut open the pumpkin by cutting a circle around the stem end, and pulling off the top. Use a strong metal spoon to scrape the insides of the pumpkin and scoop out the seeds and strings. Place the mass of pumpkin seeds in a colander and run under water to rinse and separate the seeds from the everything else.
2 Measure the pumpkin seeds in a cup measure. Place the seeds in a medium saucepan. Add 2 cups of water and 1 tablespoon of salt to the pan for every half cup of pumpkin seeds. Add more salt if you would like your seeds to be saltier. Bring the salted water and pumpkin seeds to a boil. Let simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and drain.
3 Preheat the oven to 400°F. Coat the bottom of a roasting pan with olive oil, about a tablespoon. Spread the seeds out over the roasting pan in a single layer. Bake on the top rack until the seeds begin to brown, 5-20 minutes, depending on the size of the seeds. Small pumpkin seeds may toast in around 5 minutes or so, large pumpkin seeds may take up to 20 minutes. Keep an eye on the pumpkin seeds so they don't get over toasted. When nicely browned, remove the pan from the oven and let cool on a rack. Let the pumpkin seeds cool all the way down before eating.
Either crack to remove the inner seed (a lot of work and in my opinion, unnecessary) or eat whole.
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"My turn. My turn!" It's a frequent refrain from my toddlers--and maybe yours? Eager little minds watch older siblings "doing school" and want to have their time too. Teach
My Toddler Learning Tote ($49.99) was designed to capture this desire to learn in young children with materials specifically created for toddlers 18-months of age and older. As is the case with many brilliant products, Christy Cook created Teach
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My Toddler has 17 "coordinated teaching tools" that are stored in a handy tote box with sections for each topic. The set includes five puzzles, four sets of flash cards, four posters, and four board books. The materials cover the topics of the alphabet, colors, numbers, and shapes. There is also a Parent's Guide with many ideas to help you get started with the kit. (For children from 6 to 18 months, check out the Teach
My Baby Learning Tote.
After using the Teach My Toddler Learning Tote with my kids, I can see why this product has earned several awards, including being awarded 3 stars and Best Bet by The Canadian Toy Testing Council, Creative Child Magazine's "Educational Product of the Year," and Outstanding Product of 2009 by iParenting Media Awards. All of the materials are high quality and should withstand the rigors of exploration by little fingers. Each of the four topics has a large poster with pictures to show kids an overview, a foam puzzle for tactile and motor practice (two puzzles for the alphabet), flash cards for each concept, and a board book to review the concepts. We love how colorful and creative the items are, which makes them fun for kids to use. The alphabet topic was my favorite, with cute, colorful animals for each letter. The hands-on nature of this kit means that kids can approach the same topic through several different mediums to reinforce the concepts. It would be wonderful for toddlers who are ready for some "school-time" (or "mom-time") of their own. This is not a toy to give your child and then walk away; rather, it's a wonderful tool for interactive learning. My family would highly recommend Teach
My Toddler if you want a coordinated, high-quality, fun, and educational set of tools to start your toddler on the road to a lifetime of learning!
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GVSU Family Health Center
What is a Nurse-Managed Health Center?
A nurse-managed health center (NMHC) is an accessible service site that delivers family- and community-oriented primary healthcare. The majority of care is provided by nurse practitioners in collaboration with other nursing and healthcare providers, including social workers, physicians, and more.
At a nurse-managed health center the patient is at the center of care delivery, able to work collaboratively with a staff of advanced practice nurses (nurse practitioners) to address a wide spectrum of primary health concerns with an emphasis on continuity of care.
Across studies, the quality and safety of care provided in NMHCs is comparable to, and sometimes better than, care provided in other types of ambulatory care services.
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A Lifestyle Issue
By Asian Food and Information Centre
The term metabolic syndrome may be new to many, but it has almost certainly been around for thousands of years. It was only in 1988, when it was named “Syndrome X” by Dr Gerald Reaven, a professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, that we really began to hear about it and how lifestyle can work for or against individual risk of developing this syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome (also sometimes referred to as “insulin resistance syndrome”) is diagnosed when a person has three or more of the following conditions: abdominal obesity, high triglyceride levels, low high-density lipoprotein in (HDL) levels, high blood pressure, and high fasting blood glucose levels.
Together, the symptoms of metabolic syndrome place a person at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.1
Who is at risk?
Genetics: According to Dr Gerald Reaven, about 50% of a person’s degree of insulin resistance can be attributed to genetics and 50% can be attributed to lifestyle factors.1 A study conducted at the National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, found that metabolic syndrome is heritable in Chinese and Japanese hypertensive families.2 Interestingly, there appears to be some differences in the way men and women respond to heritable risk factors: a study conducted in 11 provinces in China found that the most significant risk factors of metabolic syndrome in men were waist circumference and a family history of diabetes mellitus; in women, primary risk factors were waist circumference and a family history of high blood pressure.3
Obesity: Obesity, especially abdominal obesity, is fundamental to metabolic syndrome. It is believed that free fatty acids and their metabolites from abdominal fat, play a role in triggering insulin resistance.2 Scientists still aren’t sure what gene gives rise to metabolic syndrome, but believe there is a link with those genes which predispose to obesity and overweight.
Physical inactivity: Physical inactivity goes hand in hand with obesity, and is an important risk factor for the development of metabolic syndrome. Physical in-activity not only increases the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, but further increases health risks associated with metabolic syndrome because of its negative effect on cardiovascular fitness.
Age: A study in the US has revealed that cases of metabolic syndrome increase significantly with age, from 6.7% in 20 to 29 year olds, to about 43.5% and 42.0% for those aged 60 to 69 years, respectively. The age adjusted prevalence was similar for men (24.0%) and women (23.4%).4
Prevention and treatment
As weight gain and sedentary lifestyles are both common factors in the development of metabolic syndrome, the American Heart Association recommends that treatment and prevention of metabolic syndrome should include achieving ideal body weight and increasing physical activity. Both are also time-tested
methods of improving insulin sensitivity, blood pressure and lipoprotein levels.
Overweight and obesity are always a direct result of calorie intake exceeding calorie output. It follows therefore, that weight loss can only be achieved by creating a calorie deficit. To achieve a calorie deficit, calorie intake from food must be reduced and/or calorie output in the form of physical activity must be increased. An obvious statement perhaps, but worth repeating given the clear difficulty many have in controlling body weight.
A moderately high carbohydrate (45-55% of the daily calories), low fat diet (10-15% of total daily calories) is the best option for weight loss and prevention of weight gain. Choosing complex, starchy carbohydrate foods such as wholegrain cereals and plenty of fruit and vegetables will help to keep hunger pangs at bay and brings other health benefits such as reduced bowel cancer risk.
Similarly, limiting fat intake is a sensible option to reduce daily calorie consumption (fat is the most energy dense food type, but is less satiating than protein and carbohydrates), and replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats will help to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, associated with metabolic syndrome.
Gradual weight loss, and small sustainable changes to diet are keys to long-term success in weight loss or prevention of weight gain. Finding ways to make healthy eating enjoyable and as easy as possible are essential ingredients in developing lifelong healthy lifestyle habits.
For example, learning to balance occasional energy-dense foods with lower calorie, nutrient-dense foods, adjusting portion sizes and enjoying occasional treats without feeling guilty can help to sustain motivation to adopt a balanced diet for life.
A study in Finland found that men who exercised more than three hours per week decreased their risk of developing metabolic syndrome by about 50%, compared with the men who exercised no more than 60 minutes per week.5 Regular physical activity has also been seen to reduce VLDL and LDL cholesterol, while raising HDL cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, and reducing insulin resistance.4
Current guidelines vary, but a reasonable goal, would seem to be at least 30 minutes per day of exercise which uses some or all major muscle groups, and increases heart and respiration rate significantly, but comfortably. Some individuals may prefer to complete 30 minutes of activity in one session, but two or three individual chunks lasting between 10 and 15 minutes each is also okay and may be more manageable for some people. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator, taking 10-minute activity breaks at work are examples of the varied ways in which activity can be incorporated into a daily regime.
A final word
Metabolic syndrome is predicted to become a major public health problem in many developed, as well as developing countries. Individual and community-wide efforts to change health behaviours are vital. Given the importance of establishing lifelong healthy lifestyle habits, and the emerging evidence that metabolic syndrome is at least partly hereditary, it is never too early for not only adults, but children too, to adopt healthy lifestyles habits.
1Reaven G. & Strom T.K. and Fox B. (2000) Syndrome X: Overcoming the Silent Killer That Can Give You a Heart Attack.
2Wu KD, Hsiao CF, Ho LT, Sheu WH, Pei D, Chuang LM, Curb D, Chen YD, Tsai HJ, Dzau VJ, Cox D, Tai TY. Clustering and heritability of insulin resistance in Chinese and Japanese hypertensive families: a Stanford-Asian Pacific Program in Hypertension and Insulin Resistance sibling study. Hypertens Res. 2002 Jul; 25(4):529-36.
3Wu G. Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in an 11 provinces cohort in China. Further Study of Risk Factors for Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease 2002 Sep; 36 (5):298-300.
4Ford ES, Giles WH, Dietz WH. Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among US adults: Findings from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. JAMA. 2002 Jan 16; 287(3):356-9.
5Diabetes in Control Dot Com: Diabetes Care 2002; 25:1612-1618.
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In 1888 this was once the Temple Theatre. A fire broke out a few years after being open. The fire was a mystery. Mr. Wolfe will fill you in with the rest of the story about this fire! Then it becomes Andersons was one of the biggest 19th century building on Main Street. It opened in 1908 and remained the Andersons until the mid 1980's. Then it was the Museum in 1990's and this is where we get our ghost experience! It is known to be haunted by a child ghost who loves the shadow room! The ghost of Mrs. Anderson is claimed to haunt the old dept store.There is a picture of her where it’s claimed that no Dog likes this picture! No one likes to be here at night because it has a feeling the past comes to life! Some even claim that past workers of the old dept store still can be heard on the top floor! This and many more stories about this place awaits you!
This place is a very haunted location with many personal experiences by the staff that works there!
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The City of Selah has approximately 29 miles of streets, the majority of which (28 miles) are paved with asphalt. The length and type of surfacing of all streets within the City are shown on the Capital Improvement Program - Streets Inventory table in the Appendix. The bridge crossing over the Yakima River on Harrison Road and the highway overpass south of Selah are located on state highways and, therefore, are inventoried and maintained by the Washington State Department of Transportation. South First Street (SR 823; 1.8 miles) is maintained by the Washington State Department of Transportation.
Included in the roadway system is the City's storm drainage system. The concrete curb and gutters or roadside ditches and culverts control surface drainage. When roadway improvements are made, the associated drainage facilities are evaluated and the necessary improvements are incorporated into the street project. Additional information related to the storm drainage system is provided later in this plan.
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Reagan administration officials played a role in helping U.S.-backed Nicaraguan insurgents to buy an anti-aircraft missile that downed a Nicaraguan helicopter in December, according to administration officials and congressional sources familiar with the case.
Senior officials, including Secretary of State George Shultz, have denied charges by the Sandinista government in Managua that the United States provided the rebels with the heat-seeking, surface-to-air SAM-7 missile that downed the Soviet-supplied Mi8 Sandinista helicopter on Dec. 2. Twelve Nicaraguan soldiers and two Cuban pilots were reported killed.
Knowledgeable sources, while confirming that the United States did not supply the Soviet-made SAM-7 missiles, said officials who monitor the rebels' activities passed information to the rebels through third parties on how to secure the weapons through foreign arms dealers.
In another instance of U.S. involvement, administration sources said that while the contras awaited delivery of the missiles, U.S. officials in Central America, acting on their own, described for the rebels the vulnerabilities of the Russian helicopters so they could use their new weapons effectively.
The rebels, or contras, reportedly purchased their first missiles from European arms dealers in February or March, took delivery in April at their Honduran camps and were trained in their use by private American arms experts.
"It wasn't a question of U.S. officials meeting secretly with guerrillas in the basement of the White House in the middle of the night and telling them 'Now boys, you gotta get surface- to-air missiles' and 'don't worry, we'll get them for you, ' " said one official aware of contra activities.'INDIRECT HINTS'
"But there were enough indirect hints from officials through third parties as to where they could go and get the weapons and training. The whole thing would have been impossible without some sort of U.S. participation."
The part American officials played was so discreet that it is unlikely that it could be conclusively established that they circumvented a congressional ban on assisting the contras, which was in place when the missiles were acquired in early 1985, the sources said.
"Those who helped covered their tracks so well that enough deniability was preserved, " said a congressional source who was briefed by U.S. intelligence officials. He said there is no evidence the administration had a policy of supplying missiles to the rebels.HOW CONTRAS GOT SAMS
To understand the context in which U.S. officials became involved, it is necessary to review chronologically how the contras came to acquire the SAM-7s.
The process began election night, Nov. 6, 1984, when American intelligence sources reported that a Soviet merchant ship, the Bakuriani, was en route to Nicaragua reportedly carrying crated MiG-21 combat jets.
The report was wrong, but the crates did contain a new weapon for the Sandinistas: the first of several sophisticated Mi24 helicopter gunships that the Soviets have used against rebels in Afghanistan.
Within days U.S. officials warned the contras that the Sandinistas planned to employ the Mi24s against the Nicaraguan guerrillas and suggested that they needed anti-aircraft weapons.
At the time, contra leaders Adolfo Calero and Enrique Bermudez raised the possibility of obtaining U.S.-made Redeye surface-to-air missiles but the effort failed because of the congressional ban against supplying the contras with weapons, the sources said.PRIVATE FUND-RAISERS
They added, however, that National Security Council staffers involved with the contras, particularly White House liaison Lt. Col. Oliver North, suggested to private contra fund- raisers the possibility of steering the guerrillas toward an arms market source.
North did not talk to the rebels about the missiles but discussed the issue in conversations with individuals who raise private funds for the insurgents.
Chief among them, the sources said, was retired Army Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub who, in 1985, became the contras' chief private fund-raiser and military adviser. Singlaub, 65, was removed as chief of staff of U.S. forces in South Korea in 1977 after publicly disagreeing with President Carter's decision to reduce the level of American troops there.
"I was instrumental in helping the freedom fighters get the missiles, " Singlaub acknowledged in a telephone conversation last week from Hawaii, where he was attending a military conference.'KEEP THEM INFORMED'
Singlaub denied that North or any other U.S. official guided him or the contras to arms dealers. But he admitted "discussing" the subject with North.
"I was not told by any official that this is what I had to do, " said Singlaub, "but I did advise them of the plans so as to keep them informed and so they wouldn't be surprised." North's office offered no comment and refused a request for an interview.
Singlaub said he recommended the SAM-7s because they are the only portable ground-to-air missiles "freely" available through arms dealers who obtain them from East bloc countries or from warring factions in Lebanon.
Singlaub said that while he raised "a lot of money" for the contras in the United States in 1984 and 1985, all of the funds used to purchase the SAM-7s came from contributors outside U.S. territory or from foreign bank accounts where American donors deposited money. The reason, he said, was to avoid violating the 188-year-old Neutrality Act. The act prohibits arming expeditions from U.S. soil against a country with which the United States is not at war.RICH U.S. DONOR
In January 1985, Calero said that a rich U.S. donor, whom he declined to identify, had deposited enough funds in a foreign bank account to purchase the first missiles.
Congressional sources said they were told by U.S. intelligence officials that in February or March of last year a contra representative traveled to Western Europe, either Portugal or Belgium, and met with an arms dealer for the missile transaction. Singlaub said the contras paid about $45,000 per missile, including about $5,000 per launcher.
Administration officials said the contras took delivery of the first four SAM-7s in April and began training on the weapons at their camps in Honduras. Singlaub said Americans taught the contras how to fire the missiles. He declined to identify the Americans and denied that U.S. government personnel were involved.
But a prominent contra fund-raiser, who requested anonymity, said some of the trainers were retired Pentagon and CIA officers who went to Central America perhaps with the discreet approval of their services.WOULDN'T FIRE
CIA spokeswoman Patti Volz declined comment but her counterpart at the Pentagon, Maj. Fred Lash, said "the possibility does exist, and would not be remote, that former military personnel have been involved or are currently involved in training or assisting the Nicaraguan anti-government forces." The contras, however, failed to make use of the first delivery of missiles because at least three of them would not fire, a U.S. official said. He said moisture had damaged the missile launcher's delicate trigger system that responds to electronic commands.
Additional missiles and launchers were bought during the summer, and by August the contras had an arsenal of 13, said a congressional source who visited the area at the time.
A U.S. official said last week that the contras may now have "more than 30" missiles. Contra leader Calero declined to provide a precise number, saying that he did not want to "give away" sensitive data to the Sandinistas.
Calero said in a recent interview with The Herald that the contras plan to buy additional missiles and disclosed that a "rich lady" outside the United States had provided the movement with $1 million for more such weapons. He refused to identify the woman by name or nationality.
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Late-Term Mare Care, Foaling, and Young Foal Care
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The ice went out on Christmas Lake last week, and soon a new gate will go up at its only public boat ramp, signaling the start of what may be the most contentious boating season yet in Minnesota's two-decade fight over zebra mussels and other invasive species.
The gate, installed in November, is more than a method to keep invasive species out of one of the most pristine and exclusive lakes in the metro area. Some see it as a challenge to individual privacy and a virtual Minnesota birthright -- unfettered access to any lake or river in the state.
Those two imperatives -- protecting the lakes and keeping them open to all -- are at the heart of a lawsuit filed last week by three west-metro lake associations against the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The associations claim the state has failed to devise a comprehensive plan against invasive species and has thwarted their efforts to protect the lakes they treasure.
"It's not clear to the general public that the battleground for zebra mussels in 2012 is Minnesota," said Joe Shneider, president of the Christmas Lake Homeowners Association, one of litigants. "Every state east of us has lost the war," he said.
But some say the lawsuit and the gates will only inflame the debate, not solve the problem.
"Those aren't their lakes," said Vern Wagner, executive director of Anglers for Habitat. "Those lakes belong to the citizens of Minnesota.''
DNR officials say they are doing more than ever to fight such invasive species as zebra mussels and milfoil. The Legislature has increased funding from $3.8 million in 2010 to an expected $8.6 million this year. And now the DNR is asking for laws that would require boat owner education, give the agency authority to conduct mandatory boat inspections, and allow it to delegate that same authority to counties and cities.
When critics complain about the lack of a statewide plan, what they really mean is that they want the state to inspect every boat before launch in any of the state's 13,000 lakes, said Luke Skinner, supervisor of the state's invasive species program.
Not only would that be breathtakingly expensive, officials said, but it raises profound questions about the reach of government into the privacy of the state's 800,000 boats.
"These are big issues that the DNR can't be the sole arbiter on," said Steve Hirsch, director of the DNR's division of water and ecological resources. "It gets into what level of government intrusion is appropriate."
There is no question that invasive species are a growing threat. Many lakes are choked with milfoil, and zebra mussels have been confirmed in nine rivers and 29 lakes, and might be in 30 more that are connected to them. The striped mollusks consume so much plankton that they can devastate entire food systems. However, despite their spread westward from the Great Lakes since the late 1980s, so far only Lake Erie has had been severely affected, say biologists.
Even more terrifying species could be on the way. The zebra's uglier cousin, the quagga mussel, has infested parts of the Great Lakes. Hydrilla, another milfoil-like plant, and Asian carp, which have crashed ecosystems in rivers in the South, are marching northward. And consider the snakehead carp, found in some lakes and rivers in the East -- a voracious carnivore that can live out of water for three days and wriggle across dry land.
The best protection against all of them are boats that are clean, drained and dry so they do not carry vegetation on their trailers or contaminated water in their bilges and wells.
Still, all it takes is one careless boat owner, and a Pandora's box is opened into Minnesota's greatest pride and joy.
"Aquatic invasive species in the land of 10,000 lakes are incompatible with our way of life," said Jeff Forester, executive director of the Minnesota Seasonal and Recreational Property Owners Association. "We have to do what we have to to stop them."
Zebra mussels were found two years ago in Lake Minnetonka, the most heavily used lake in the Twin Cities, and they have now spread into most of its bays. Last year, frustrations ramped up in Douglas and Otter Tail counties when two residents brought zebra mussels into uninfested lakes by moving boat lifts from infested lakes.
Then, last year, the Lake Minnewashta Preservation Association in Carver County persuaded the county board and the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District to jointly fund a $31,000 boat inspection program at Lake Minnewashta Regional Park. Three other lake associations -- Christmas, Lotus and Bavaria -- pushed for mandatory inspections at the Minnewashta site for boats entering all four lakes, and wanted to install gates to enforce it.
The DNR balked.
Gates "are inherently controversial," DNR officials said in a February letter to the watershed district. Combined with mandatory inspections, they would likely create a backlash against efforts to control invasive species. Most importantly, they argued, the DNR does not have the legal authority to require inspections, and neither do local governments.
The lawsuit filed last week argues that the DNR does have the authority. And, Shneider said, gates and restricted access are common at state, federal and county parks.
Mandatory boat inspections are feasible, he argues. Oregon, for instance, requires inspections of all boats that enter the state. And Lake Tahoe has a highly effective, sophisticated boat inspection and decontamination program with guards at every entry point, which Minnesota could emulate, he said. "The model is scalable," he said.
About $22 million to $28 million annually for boat inspection stations around the state -- about 10 times more than the state is spending now, according to a report the DNR commissioned earlier this year. If paid for by surcharges on boat licenses, the cost of a three-year license could jump by $35 or more.
Wagner, of Anglers for Habitat, said it's ironic that the lawsuit was filed now, when the Legislature is addressing the issue with new funding and laws that give the DNR more authority. He said he fears that it may spark many more suits. If they prevail in court, Minnesota's outdoor culture will never be the same, he said.
"Let's shut these lakes down," he said. "If you want to go fishing, you fish between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. and you do it after you've been through a checkpoint Charlie."
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Palau Sixteen States
The Palau Constitution designates sixteen traditional municipalities of Palau as states. Adoption of the Palau Constitution gave the sixteen states the authority to formulate their own constitutional conventions and elect their respective legislatures and heads of state. The state constitutions also defined the role of traditional leaders. Therefore, depending on the constitution of each of the sixteen states, they respectively have their own local government comprised of local legislators, governors, traditional chiefs, elders, and high ranking clans.
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Palau's traditional chiefs have advisory authority at the national level through the Council of Chiefs. This council is highly respected and works closely with the elected officials on a variety of local and regional issues. This ensures the preservation of traditional ways and the continued success of the democratic goverment.
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Franzen’s signature glasses were stolen right from over his nose at a literary event in London. During a Freedom book launch, two 20-somethings crashed the party, lifted the spectacles, left a $100,000 ransom note and ran. A (successful) police chase immediately ensued. Glasses thief James Fletcher later wrote in explanation, “I’d mentioned several times to my accomplice how much I admired Franzen’s frames and thought that they deserved to be the subject of a hostage-ransom situation” (GQ, October 2010).
Franzen guest-starred on an episode of The Simpsons along with other well-known authors Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal and Fanzen’s good friend (and Readings and Conversations 2009-2010 season author) Michael Chabon. While they appear together on a literary panel, at one point in the episode Chabon exclaims, “That’s it, Franzen! I think your nose needs some corrections!” After Chabon’s fighting words the two animated authors begin pummeling each other.
Franzen studied at Freie Universität in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar and speaks fluent German. In 1986 he was paid $50 by Swarthmore College’s theater department to write an English translation of Frank Wedekind’s play Spring Awakening. Twenty years later, after being deeply disappointed by a Broadway musical version of the play, Franzen published his long-shelved translation.
Thousands of copies of Franzen’s latest novel, Freedom, were distributed in the United Kingdom starting in October of last year. Unfortunately, those thousands of copies omitted more than 200 changes Franzen had made to the manuscript. Publisher HarperCollins tried to do a recall but many copies had already sold.
UK’s The Guardian asked Franzen to list ten indispensable rules for fiction writers (February 2010). The full article can be found here, with other author responses including a list by 2007-2008 season Readings and Conversations author Richard Ford. Here are Franzen’s suggestions:
- The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
- Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.
- Never use the word "then" as a conjunction – we have "and" for this purpose. Substituting "then" is the lazy or tone-deaf writer's non-solution to the problem of too many "ands" on the page.
- Write in the third person unless a really distinctive first-person voice offers itself irresistibly.
- When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it.
- The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than "The Metamorphosis".
- You see more sitting still than chasing after.
- It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
- Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
- You have to love before you can be relentless.
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Item title reads - Real eggs before and after.
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Pathe visits one of the searchlight posts operated by women.
Ministry of Information film urging people to enrol for the fruit picking jobs.
A look at how waste paper is recycled to help the war effort.
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"Dig for Victory" shows you when to plant seeds to have fresh vegetables all year round.
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5 Ways Companies Are Already Ruining the Holidays
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Depending on whom you ask, the holiday season is either a time for giving thanks for life’s many blessings and basking in family togetherness (your mom) or the period between September and December when retailers try to maximize their profits for the fiscal year (business owners).
Of course the holiday season is really both of things at once: a symbol of wholesomeness and greed, giving and getting, joy and emptiness. Just like grandma’s cooking, it is both good and bad. Always has been, probably always will be.
But it does seem like every year holiday consumerism ratchets up just a little bit more. Somewhat paradoxically, the recent downturn in the economy may have made things worse than ever in that regard; rather than just accepting that Americans have less money with which to buy Bratz dolls, retailers have responded by going to greater lengths to squeeze every precious dollar they can out of shoppers. The National Retail Federation predicts that consumers’ holiday spending will increase less this year than it has in recent years, causing shoppers to be conservative with their gift lists. That means retailers have to fight harder for every consumer dollar.
Of course businesses need money to survive and to maintain a workforce, but that doesn’t excuse them from pressuring consumers into lousy deals that could land them in debt and making all of our lives generally miserable for three-plus months out of the year. Likewise, scammers and even charities with dubious morals should be admonished for taking advantage of the season. Here is how retailers are trying their hardest to ruin our holidays.
1. “Christmas creep” sets in.
Christmas creep is the phenomenon of stores busting out their late-season holiday merchandise -- most notably, the Christmas crap -- earlier and earlier each year. The term also applies to annoying holiday advertisements, which we now have to suffer through for nearly a quarter of the calendar year.
Target is 2012’s worst offender, having unleashed its first Christmas ad in mid-October. Doesn’t it just seem wrong to be looking at Christmas lights on TV when you haven’t even picked a Halloween costume yet? Well it is wrong, for a couple of reasons. For one thing, as the Consumerist notes, the unspoken industry rule is that Christmas ads don’t hit airwaves until November 1 (or, this year, after the election). For another thing, it goes against Target’s own standards, which for years mercifully spared us from their Christmas ads until after Thanksgiving. “Guests really tire of these messages when they’re started too early in the season, and it doesn’t align with where they are in their lives,” said the company’s previous chief marketing officer. That’s a nice sentiment, but apparently it got tossed out the window when that guy left the company.
The website RetailMeNot has embraced the melding of all our holidays by renaming the season OctoNovemCember and giving it the semi-inclusive mascot Pumpkin-Headed Turkey Claus. It’s a cute enough campaign, but the reason for its existence -- our seemingly never-ending holiday shopping season -- is not.
2. Stores push layaway, which can be bad for consumers.
Like so many services marketed to lower income customers, layaway can be a bad deal. There was a time when layaway was more solidly pro-consumer: stores let you pay for items over a period of time without incurring interest charges, making layaway a much better deal than credit cards. But these days most major retailers that have continued or revived their layaway programs now charge fees. As Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court said in a radio interview last holiday season, “Depending on the price and the policy, you could be paying a lot more than if you'd put the purchase on a credit card.”
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It was the first opportunity to see what the physical structure might look like and themes which look like they might be found in the final design include water features and music halls, evocations of slave ships and the African past, and vistas acknowledging its important, monumental neighbors. The models of the museum, set to topout in 2015, are on display at the Castle Building for public comment until April 6 and mirrored elements of other familiar museums. Some of these are the circular paths of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the wetlands and water movement of the National Museum of the American Indian, the open floor of the National Museum of American History and light that cascades into interior and underground spaces, as at the Pyramid at the Louvre.
The museum will occupy a five-acre plot near the Washington Monument and the National Museum of American History. It is one of the last open spaces on the Mall, and the museum's founders have specified that the building must respect the history and visage of the monument. As part of their proposals, the architects were asked to acknowledge their own understanding of the importance of the African American experience.
Lonnie G. Bunch, the founding director of the museum and the chairman of the jury that will select the wining design among other things asked the teams for a clear expression of "the dark corners" of the African American experience in the United States. "We want a building that is worthy of a rich cultural heritage," Bunch said, "and we want it to work as a museum." The conceptual designs, he continued, were requested to "give us enough so I know you are the team I want to dance with."
Officials with the Smithsonian, which will oversee the details of construction and exhibition content, said they didn't expect the building to be very tall, but it would cover 300,000 to 350,000 square feet. The submissions are:
-- Devrouax & Purnell and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners envision a seven-story structure (with two of the floors below ground) that features a circular interior within a box shape. It would have a roof garden with landscaping inspired by a pattern on one of the architects' grandmother's quilt. Pei, a recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, designed the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. Devrouax & Purnell did Nationals Park.
-- Diller Scofidio and Renfro, in association with KlingStubbins, submitted a table-shaped building wrapped in glass. The renderings show a place featuring billboard-size photographs of famous black figures and moments, and where jazz musicians might perform. One image depicts slaves in a ship in a huge Middle Passage Gallery. The plans feature an amphitheater facing the Lincoln Memorial.
-- The Freelon Group, Adjaye Associates and Davis Brody Bond designed a museum with two of the above-ground stories shaped like wide baskets. The exterior is covered with copper screens that change color during the day. At various points inside the museum, there are stopping places that look to the Capitol and other landmarks.
-- Foster and Partners/URS foresee a circular building. Visitors enter a ramp and descend to a lower level to start the museum experience, which begins with slavery and winds through the stories of freedom, sports and the arts. At the top of the four stories, visitors enter an area of "celebration" and face a huge window, looking out at the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. As with the other architecture collaborations, this one includes African American partners. In this case it's Blackburn Architects and Harry Robinson, former dean of the Howard University architecture school. Foster designed the Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian's Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.
-- Moody Nolan, in association with Antoine Predock Architect, envisions a building made of natural materials, rising as of out of bedrock and muck. Along one side runs a wetlands scene, a nod to historic Tiber Creek that ran through part of Washington. Its glass roof features etchings echoing Yoruba ancestral arts, and it also has an outdoor amphitheater facing Constitution Avenue.
-- Moshe Safdie and Associates in association with Sulton Campbell Britt & Associates submitted a four-story concept that features a lot of natural light. A towering ship's hull marks the entrance. In a section labeled "The Door of No Return," the museum would have exhibition and contemplative areas dealing with slavery and segregation stories; a section called "Freedom Bridge," on the top level, would include exhibits on music and sports. The proposal features a web-like facade, behind which is a series of pedestrian walkways.
An 11-member jury will make its selection next month, but Bunch stressed this would be an independent decision arrived at without public comment. Final approval would come from the Smithsonian Board of Regents.
The 350,000 square foot, $500 million project is being funded 50-50 by private and congress.
Image obtained from: www.washingtonpost.com
Details obtained from: Jaqueline Trescott's "Black History Future"
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George R. Stephenson, a prominent and successful attorney of Yates Center, Kan., is a descendant on the paternal side of an old New York family, while his mother's people, the Nortons, originally came from England. Mr. Stephenson has a complete record of the direct line of his descent in that family back to 1500 A. D. He was born Jan. 26, 1851, in Geauga county, Ohio, a son of James E. Stephenson and Lavinia Norton. The father was born on Staten Island, N. Y., in 1819, and accompanied his parents to Ohio when a lad. Earlier in his career he was a clerk in a store and engaged in general merchandise business later, and was also engaged in farming some time, but later took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1864, when forty-five years of age. He devoted the remainder of his life to the legal profession. In earlier years he was a Whig, but upon the organization of the Republican party he joined its ranks and remained a stanch supporter of its policies. During the Civil war he was in the government service as an enlisting officer and as a drafting commissioner. He died in Ohio, in 1906, when eighty-seven years of age; his wife, who was born in Geauga county, Ohio, April 9, 1819, preceded him in death, her demise having occurred at Chardon, Ohio, April 27, 1891. Both were active and consistent members of the Baptist church and the father was frequently a representative in the Baptist associations. He was a personal friend of John D. Rockefeller. The grandparents of George R. Stephenson were Thomas B. and Hannah Stephenson, the former of whom was born on Staten Island, N. Y., and became one of the early settlers of Geauga county, Ohio. He was a Baptist minister and had been sent to Geauga county by his denomination as a missionary. He died in 1861. Lebbeus Norton, maternal grandfather of George Stephenson, was born in Killingworth, Middlesex county, Connecticut, Dec. 1, 1788, and died at Chester, Ohio, Dec. 3, 1873, at the age of eighty-five years. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and removed to Ohio in a very early day. He was a son of Aaron Norton, born July 5, 1751, and died at Hartwick, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1813, and from whom the ancestry of the Norton family can be traced back directly to 1500 A. D.
George R. Stephenson was reared in Ohio and received his elementary education in the common schools of that state. Later he attended the Geauga Seminary, the school where James A. Garfield, who later became President of the United States, began his education. Previous to taking up the profession he has made his life work Mr. Stephenson clerked in a store for some time and also taught school a few years. His preparation for law was made while he was a teacher, pursuing his legal studies during the summers and teaching school during the winters. He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1878 and began the practice of his profession as an associate of his father. In 1879, seeking a newer and broader field in which to carve a career, he came to Kansas and located in Yates Center, where he has been engaged in the practice of law continuously for thirty-two years, and is one of the best known member of the Woodson county bar. He was associated with W. E. Hogueland eight years, but since the dissolution of the firm he has practiced alone. He is admitted to practice in all the courts of the state and in the Federal courts.
In 1878 Mr. Stephenson wedded Miss Mariah L., daughter of Edward Peter of Guadenhutten, Ohio, a locksmith by trade and also a farmer, who died there. Of this union three children were born: Bertha S. married George R. Major and resides in Colorado; James E. is associated with the General Railway Signal Company and is located at Rochester, N. Y.; and Oliver H. resides in Duluth, Minn. The mother of these children died in 1887; she was a member of the Moravian church.
In 1888 Mr. Stephenson married Mrs. Laura A. Carpenter, widow of George D. Carpenter. Mr. Carpenter was a well known and prominent citizen of Woodson county, where he served six years as clerk of the court and was president of the Woodson National Bank. He died in 1885, leaving to his widow a large estate. Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson have a son, George E., who resides with his parents. Mrs. Stephenson is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Stephenson is a Republican in politics, he served as county attorney of Woodson county from 1885 to 1889, and was appointed a justice of the peace by Governor Glick. Thirty-two years of an upright and useful life have made Mr. Stephenson one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of Yates Center.Pages 541-543 from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at the Kansas State Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a two-part volume 3.
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Anterior cruciate ligament repair - discharge; ACL repair - discharge
You had surgery to repair your anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). In this procedure, your surgeon drilled holes in the bones of your knee and placed a new ligament through these holes. Then your surgeon attached the new ligament to the bone. If you needed it, you may have also had surgery to repair other tissue in your knee.
You may need help taking care of yourself when you first go home. Plan for a spouse, friend, or neighbor to help you. How soon you return to work will depend on the kind of work you do. It can be anywhere from a few days to a few months. A full return to activities and sports usually takes 4 to 6 months.
Your doctor will ask you to rest when you first go home. You will be told to:
Your doctor may ask you to wear special support stockings to help prevent blood clots from forming. You will also learn exercises to do that will keep blood moving in your foot, ankle, and leg. These exercises will also lower your risk of blood clots.
You will use crutches when you go home. You may be able to put your full weight on your repaired leg, without crutches, 2 weeks after surgery. But, it may be as long as 4 to 8 weeks if you had other work done on your knee besides ACL repair. Ask your surgeon how long you will need to be on crutches.
Your surgeon may also ask you to wear a special knee brace. The brace will be set so that your knee can move only a certain amount in any direction. Do not change the settings on the brace yourself.
You will need to learn how to go up and down stairs using crutches or with a knee brace on.
Physical therapy usually begins about 2 weeks after surgery. It may last 2 to 6 months. You will need to limit your activity and movement while your knee slowly mends. Your physical therapist will put you on an exercise program that will help you build strength and keep your knee safe from injury.
Staying active and building strength in the muscles of your legs will help speed your recovery.
Getting full range of motion in your leg soon after surgery is also important.
You will go home with a dressing and an ace bandage around your knee. Do not remove them until the doctor or nurse says it is okay. Until then, keep the dressing and bandage clean and dry.
You can shower again after your dressing is off.
If you need to change your dressing for any reason, put the ace bandage back on over the new dressing. Keep the ace bandage on until your doctor or nurse tells you it is okay to remove it. Wrap the ace bandage loosely around your knee. Start from the calf and wrap it around your leg and knee. Do NOT wrap it too tightly.
See also: Surgical wound care
Pain is normal after knee arthroscopy. It should ease up over time.
Your doctor will give you a prescription for pain medicine. Get it filled when you go home so that you have it when you need it. Take your pain medicine when you start having pain. Waiting too long to take it will allow your pain to get more severe than it should.
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Today in the New York Times' Opinionator blog there's a love letter of sorts from Ben Yagoda, author and professor of English at the University of Delaware, to the dash. Not the em-dash, in particular—we love you, sugar!—at least not at first, but an homage more generally to the plain old generic slice of punctuation that is oft combined barbarically as two to create a poor man's em-dash. Later in the piece, he acknowledges the superior form, but we'll get to that in a moment. He calls the dash—"the horizontal line formed by typing two hyphens in a row"—the most versatile piece of punctuation of all, unbound by the grammar rules that constrain the others. The em-dash is a special little thing of typographical beauty. It is a thing you will want to incorporate into your writing life. This marks a change of heart for the paper, or at least a diverging opinion from that of New York Times standards editor Philip Corbett, who wrote in 2011 reminding everyone to stop using so many dadgum em-dashes, for the love of God (we paraphrase).
So, how to use it, without seeming a fool? Yagoda advises on the few basic rules of the dash: don't put spaces before or after it (we agree); it's not the same thing as a hyphen (true); the dash can be used for a pause (one per sentence max, he says) or as a parenthetical (two per sentence, he suggests, though that as well as the aforementioned regularity would likely weary a reader, in our opinion). He adds that a dash might function in dialogue to indicate that a conversation drops off or perhaps is interrupted, but to indicate a change in any case. From the Elements of Style, "Use a dash only when a more common mark of punctuation seems inadequate."
Fans of the dash included Emily Dickinson, Yagoda mentions. We'd add R.L. Stine and Ben Zimmer to that list, two word aficionados we recently asked about their favorite punctuation marks. But as Zimmer, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, and language columnist for the Boston Globe, told us then, not everyone is such a lover of the em-dash: "When I revealed in a New York Times article last year that I'm overly attached to em-dashes, I was taken to task by the redoubtable John McIntyre, copy editor for the Baltimore Sun," he said. McIntyre told him, 'When you are tempted to use dashes, stop for a moment to consider whether you really want dashes there rather than commas or parentheses.'"
Like anything, you can overuse an em-dash, or use it (and its less popular cousin, the en-dash) incorrectly. It's debatable whether the versatility claims made by Yagoda are a point in the em-dash's favor—it's one of the marks most easily swapped for another mark; you could just as soon use a colon, an ellipses, parentheses, even a period followed by a new sentence in some cases of the em-dash. But that flexibility does make it popular. The more you see it, the more writers use it, the more, one would guess, others will be tempted to try their hand at this slightly off-the-standard form of punctuation. It's a little bit special, which means we're prone to like it more than we do a boring old question mark or the excessively employed exclamation point. Yagoda writes, "The Parenthetical Dash can stand in for a pair of commas or parentheses. The Pause Dash can take the place of a period, comma, semicolon — or nothing at all!" In short: The em-dash is making punctuation fun, and it's clearly having a moment. Just don't use it too much, because if you do, you will be held accountable and chastised for it—oh, you can count on that.
Yagoda also points out something key with the em-dash that's true with any kind of punctuation. It should be organic to the writing, or at least, to a sense of feel and flow of the writing, rather than simply scripted in because—oh, here, it's time to add an em-dash. He explains (and perhaps this is the biggest coup for the written cred of the em-dash, "Writers who deploy this mark comfortably and adeptly (rather than haphazardly) are conscious of the rhythm and dynamics of a sentence. A well-placed dash adds energy and voice." It's not about the mark, it's about the writers who use it. Maybe that's why we like it so much—or maybe that adoration is due to the em-dash's fantastic personality. And again, from The Elements of Style, "A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses." She's a lover—not a fighter.
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CLEVELAND -- Dr. Gregory Hall is a primary care physician who is tired of seeing what he calls "tattoo regret" of young people who put body art in a visible place.
He says almost four in ten people aged 18 to 29 have at least one tattoo. Men tend to be more extroverted with 23 percent placing their tattoos in general view, while thirteen percent of women allow their art to be seen. But while the trend is growing, many businesses do not want visible ink representing them.
But the numbers of young people getting visible tattoos are staggering and many are not getting them professionally done. Ramone Hardy had a scorpion tattooed on his stomach at a party when he was 17.
"It was kind of nasty where we were at it was like a party with a lot of alcohol and if I could do it all over again I just wouldn't," Hardy says.
He's lucky to avoid infection that time, but like many African Americans his skin is prone to keloid scars that often can't be removed.
Ray McGraw has more than twenty tattoos all over his body including his head, neck and forearms. He says they prevented him from getting a job.
"They didn't want me representing their company it didn't matter my experience or my ability," McGraw says.
Dr. Hall's website includes a contract that can be downloaded for parents to negotiate with their children. His main concern is medical.
"Why is Hepatitis C rising in 15 to 25 year olds? 50/50 among men and women and some people have said that maybe it's this increase rise in tattoos," Dr. Hall says.
Shanna Little and Trazsi Elmore made the classic mistake of getting their ex-boyfriends names in visible places.
"I thought I was doing it because I loved him and that's not how you show love," Little says.
Elmore adds, "Really think about where you're gonna get them because you can't be gainfully employed with having tattoos on your face or neck or hands."
Martin Kelly wanted tattoos all his life, but waited until he was sixty.
"I'm retired, a former air traffic controller, so I didn't have to worry about putting tattoos on areas where they'd have to be covered," Kelly says.
All of them have at least one tattoo regret. Their advice to young people is choose carefully because it may impact the life you want to lead.
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The company that rented out the 3D printer that was to be used in the testing and design phase of a group’s revolutionary gun manufacturing concept took their equipment back last week, however, a persistent Cody Wilson explains he and his organization aren’t deterred in their efforts to bring the idea to fruition.
Their idea is nothing short of a slap in the face to gun legislation everywhere: an open-source site where gun enthusiasts from around the world convene to share and download gun design blueprints and files.
When Stratasys Inc, the 3D printer manufacturing company that leased the printer, caught wind of what Cody Wilson and his organization Defense Distributed were planning to use their printer for, they issued an email last week stating they would need to confiscate their printer prior to it even being used.
“They came for it straight up…I didn’t even have it out of the box,” Wilson told Wired’s Danger Room.
Wilson, a 2nd year University of Texas law student, and his group raised $20,000 last month to fund an operation known as the Wiki Weapon Project. The project’s goal was to produce a firearm solely using a 3D printer to manufacture all parts. Once the plans are tested and finalized, the group would then upload the files to the Internet for literally anyone to download, print and ultimately assemble.
The email was addressed to Wilson himself and came on behalf of Stratasys’ Legal Counsel, stating:
“It is the policy of Stratasys not to knowingly allow its printers to be used for illegal purposes. Therefore, please be advised that your lease of the Stratasys uPrint SE is canceled at this time and Stratasys is making arrangements to pick up the printer.”
“The only protest I had, the only exchange back I had was, “Well, legal counsel, our opinion is if these weapons are title I weapons, we don’t need registration, we don’t need license, we don’t need anyone’s approval to do this. This is totally legal, this is America,” you know? Patriotism,” Wilson told Infowars.com. “That wasn’t good enough for them, and they emailed me back and they said “Look, we’re not gonna get into a legal debate about it. We want it back,” and so fine.”
Stratasys legal counsel may very well be in the wrong. As CNET’s Rick Brown explains, it matters what type of gun you’re planning to produce, and whether or not you’re planning on selling your services as a gunsmith or the manufactured weapons.
“If you aim to sell your services as a gunsmith (e.g., “I charge $50 an hour to make a gun”) or you intend to sell the weapon once you’ve made it (e.g., “I charge $500 for this particular gun”), you need to obtain a federal manufacturer’s license. If the weapon is for personal use, no manufacturing license is required.”
Since 3D printed firearms manufacture is still in its infancy, actually in its conception phase, it still falls into a sort of legal gray area, however, Wilson believes Stratasys has been disingenuous in their statements to other media. “So Stratasys is saying and suggesting to other people, “Well, they can follow the law like anyone else.” The suggestion is that we weren’t going to. They’re pretending and hiding behind the law, when really they just don’t want to associate with the project. That’s disingenuous and they mistreated us and fine, I’m not in some personal vendetta against them, it’s just…they’re pretending.”
Indeed, the idea that a company can overbearingly control what people do with their product is bordering on an old world manufacturer mentality in which industries would control what people did with their technologies to the point of managing channels of distribution and production. “No that’s not what this machine is. This machine’s about doing anything with the machine,” Wilson says.
The printer abduction was nothing to write home about. Wilson says Stratasys hired third party couriers to retrieve their equipment.
Previously, Defense Distributed ran into trouble when their first open donation site Indiegogo canceled their account and refunded all donations a mere 22 days after its open. Indiegogo sent Defense Distributed an email saying its funds had been frozen due to “unusual account activity,” and followed up with an explanation that it had violated Indiegogo’s terms of service, which don’t allow the sale of “ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories.”
Wilson contends he read the terms and doesn’t believe he violated them. “My reading of their terms is we didn’t give anyone the option to sell or buy firearms. The exchange was they give us money, we give them information. That’s the project. Not firearms, not ammunition.”
Ever the tenacious micro-entrepreneur, Wilson didn’t let the account cancellation thwart his group’s drive to succeed. They raised their $20,000 goal last month, circumventing Indiegogo by inserting Paypal and Bitcoin donation widgets on their original site.
Since Wilson kept running into dead ends, he figured he had nothing to lose by going to Austin’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) branch to once and for all absolve himself of any criminal wrongdoing. “And they were more than happy to talk to me, but they said, “Actually, it’s interesting you came because we were looking for you” and that’s not something you want to hear,” laughed Wilson.
“The ATF involvement was mostly at my direction. A lot of people say, “Why go to them?” but at this point I can’t get any answers from our lawyers. I’m not getting anywhere in reading the law myself. Everything’s intentionally kinda vague and ambiguous. And the technology’s really kind of outpaced the regulations…And so began a sort of quasi-interrogation. They were writing things down and asking me who I was. I told them who I was and what the project was. And I explained 3D printing to them, and so it went from imposing to really friendly.”
Ultimately, Wilson took away he’d have to do something he’d been avoiding; turn his company into a legal entity and get licensed.
“We’re gonna have to do the license because that’s the world we live in, apparently. And I think that’s unfortunate and I think it’s silly. Maybe it’s not so silly because this is firearms we’re talking about. But look, this speaks to the attitude toward micro-entrepreneurs and the attitude towards ideas in general in this country. You can’t do anything without somebody’s permission. I believe that. You interested in the natural world? You want to do something with chemicals? People are gonna look at you like you’re suspect. Like you’re some kind of drug dealer. You can’t do anything of any consequence with any curiosity in this country without being weighed, measured, forced into some institution or system that ties to register everything. I’ll be in every database from now until the end of time because I was simply curious.”
Wilson adds, “I want to be sure that people know that there are no right answers to this. Is it Title I is it Title II? Well that’s a test case, and I’m not gonna be that guy in front of some article III judge saying, “But I thought it was fine.”
Another hurdle that’s in the near future is the Undetectable Firearms Act which makes it unlawful to manufacture a firearm that is not detectable by a walk-through metal detector or x-ray machines, but Wilson isn’t giving up his secret on how he’s planning to bypass this piece of legislation: “We’ve been pretty public about telling people what we’re doing but I’m not sure I want to give away the legal strategy here. Let’s keep it a secret. Bottom line, we’re gonna follow the law.”
Getting another printer after the seizure won’t be a problem as various people have already contacted Wilson, but he says his top priority at this time will be to take care of the legal side of things as a preventative effort to any prosecutors who may choose to exercise too much discretion.
The precedent that would be established in offering open-source blueprints for 3D printable guns would definitely be detrimental to any effort geared towards disarming the population. Riding the wave of recent domestic terror incidents, the gun-grabbing lobby is in an all-out frenzy to portray gun owners and gun legislation as murderous and contradictory to the good of the people.
Largely ignored, however, is the fact that a population left helpless and dependent on the state and their police is exactly what the founding fathers were trying to prevent in crafting the Second Amendment.
It remains to be seen if a printed gun will actually work, and Wilson admits even he’s a little skeptical. “People say, well people didn’t know you could print guns with this technology. I don’t know if you can. That’s what this whole thing’s about. We’re willing to try, you know? How’s that so controversial? And it seems the closer I get, the further I am away from trying.”
One thing’s certain; if Defense Distributed succeeds in their efforts, as long as there’s a free Internet and someone has a 3D printer, all you’ll really need is ammo.
Below is the video Defense Distributed released in July:
This article was posted: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 10:12 am
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Muscle Tear in Dogs
There is no documented evidence to support a single best way to treat acute muscle injuries, or to prevent fibrous contracture (shortening of muscular or connective tissue) and adhesions. It is generally believed that immediate post injury care should involve rest and local cold application followed within hours by heat and passive physical therapy. An essential part of muscle repair is effective tension relief for the injured muscle so that healing can occur without disruption as function returns. Analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs should be used for several days to weeks to control inflammation and pain. Light or non-weight bearing activity is appropriate for an extended period of time (4-6 weeks).
Internal or external orthopedic devices may be necessary to provide effective tension relief. Scar-related problems can affect your dog’s gait in the long-term. It is inappropriate to hospitalize or cage a recently injured animal for muscle problems unless surgical repair is planned. Surgery may be performed within a few days of the injury to repair obvious, acute muscle rupture that results in a separation of the uninjured muscle segments.
Once the muscle injury becomes chronic and is associated with contracture or adhesions, treatment is aimed at function salvage of the muscle. Instantaneous symptomatic relief often accompanies surgical release of the adhesions or fibrous tissue bands. The prevention of re-adhesion and progressive contracture is much less rewarding.
Specific muscle injuries have widely disparate prognoses. Rotator cuff contracture responds well to surgical excision of the tendon of insertion. Gracilis (hamstring) contracture has a 100 percent recurrence rate after surgical resection. Quadriceps contracture has a similarly dismal failure rate after surgery.
Muscle injuries that have healed in an elongated state have a better prognosis for surgical improvement of function than contracted muscles. The most common elongation injury affects the muscles of the Achilles group. Hock hyperflexion can be surgically reconstructed to return affected dogs to relatively normal function. Shortening the Achilles tendon rather than surgically repairing the injured muscle usually accomplishes this.
Living and Management
Your veterinarian will want to monitor repetitive range of motion, along with taking steps to control inflammation. Non-weight bearing passive physical therapy may be beneficial for recovery.
Any type of pain or tenderness or lack of soundness in the feet or legs of animals
Anything that is created through a method of treatment
The area found between the muscles and the endings of the nerves
The prediction of a disease’s outcome in advance
Something that is related to the whole body and not just one particular part or organ
Extreme loss of blood
The study of the various causes of disease
The wasting away of certain tissues; a medical condition that occurs when tissues fail to grow.
Fibers that bond items together that would not normally be combined.
The process of removing tissue to examine it, usually for medical reasons.
The collection of fluid in the tissue
Term used to imply that a situation or condition is more severe than usual; also used to refer to a disease having run a short course or come on suddenly.
The term used to describe the movement of an animal
Torn Knee Ligament in Dogs
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Signs and Symptoms
- Emotional sadness
- Lack of interest in activities once enjoyed
- Feelings of guilt, worthlessness or restlessness
- Lack of energy or fatigue
- Changes in sleep patterns
- Irritability or anxiety
- Thoughts of death or suicide
Treatment for depression may include therapy, medicine or both. The medical therapy may include medicine for anxiety or sleep and/or antidepressants. These drugs may be used on a temporary basis or more permanent basis, depending on the patient and situation. Below are some other strategies to help you cope with the holiday season:
- Keep expectations manageable. Set realistic goals for activities, shopping, etc. Make lists and prioritize them.
- Learn to say “NO”. Accept only the invitations you really want to attend and let the others go.
- Try to leave “yesteryear” in the past and look forward to the future. Life brings changes. Each season can be enjoyed in a different way. Try not to compare now to “the good ol” days.
- Volunteer. Helping others makes you feel good about your self and provides self worth.
- Know your spending limits.
- Enjoy activities that are free such as driving around to look at holiday decorations, attending lighting ceremonies, caroling parties, etc.
- Limit your alcohol intake.
- If being around family or relatives is stressful for you, set limits on time spent with them.
- Keep a regular meal, sleep and exercise schedule.
- Get plenty of sunshine when possible. A lack of sunlight can cause you to feel “blue.”
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The oxygen reduction reaction is at the heart of many fuel cells and is usually catalyzed by platinum/carbon electrocatalysts. A team of researchers led by Chong-mok Lee and Sang-gi Lee, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, have attached imidazolium sulfonate zwitterions to multiwalled carbon nanotubes to make metal-free electrocatalysts that rival their commercial counterparts in activity and fuel selectivity.
The researchers first functionalized the carbon nanotubes with allyl imidazolium groups, which were then co-polymerized with vinyl imidazolium salts to give the electrocatalysts. Performance in the oxygen reduction reaction was evaluated using rotating disk electrode measurements and cyclic voltammetry. The results indicate that the imidazolium groups can polarize the nanotube π electrons, which leads to a positive charge on the nanotube surface. This polarization, along with the ability of the sulfonate group in the zwitterion to attract protons and keep them close to the electronically generated oxygen radical anion species, significantly increases the rate of the oxygen reduction reaction.
These findings show how the electronic structure of the imidazolium group influences the overall electrocatalytic performance of the system. Further optimization should lead to the development of a series of cost-effective metal-free catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction.
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This mountain has been, since pre-Hispanic times, the guardian of the region. Impressive and majestic, its image has become the symbol of Arequipa, the typical photo of the traveller visiting the White City, the noble and quiet city that stretches out beneath the domains of this sleeping giant. Sometimes the serene volcano wakes and spews some harmless spirals of smoke. On other occasions, snow can be seen on the summit and Misti (5,825 metres high) becomes even more beautiful and the inhabitants of Arequipa watch it with pride. It is safe to say that the city would not be the same without this great mountain.
In recent years it has become a tempting adventure to climb the summit of Misti, flanked by the gigantic volcanoes Pichu Pichu and Chachani. It can be done in a day, but it is more advisable to do it in two days and one night, camping.
Experience or knowledge of mountaineering is not required to conquer the volcano. All that is needed is good physical condition, basic mountaineering equipment, a guide who knows the route and, of course, a lot of enthusiasm. At the peak you will be delighted with spectacular views of the city, the valley of the river Chili and the volcanoes Pichu Pichu and Chachani.
The volcano can be found 20 kilometres from the centre of Arequipa.
This canyon is 3,200 metres deep and is located in the Caylloma province, 5 hours from the city of Arequipa. Colca Canyon, composed of 13 Andean towns, was formerly populated by the Collaguas and the Cabanas. The inhabitants of the area still conserve their old traditions and cultivate the pre-Inca terraces.
It is the perfect place for practicing adventure sports, as well as seeing the majestic flight of the condor.
Christened by the laureate writer Mario Vargas Llosa as the “Valley of Wonders”, the Colca impresses with its eye-catching terraces, its steaming volcanoes, magnificent condors, sleepy Andean towns and the deep canyons and the torrentuous river that runs through it, towards the Pacific.
Colca Canyon is located 42 kilometres from Chivay, the capital of the province of Caylloma. This colourful village is usually the starting point for many tourists who wish to visit the various attractions in the area, including the Cruz del Condor (Cross of the Condor) which is 60 miles away and an excellent vantage point to observe the flight of the world’s largest bird.
Chivay is located 142 kilometres from Arequipa.
National Reserve of Salinas and Aguada Blanca
This was created in August, 1979 with the aim of preserving and protecting the various flora and fauna in the area, promoting the use of renewable sources and the repopulation of vicuna, which is a South American camelid that remains in the wild.
In its 366,936 hectares – shared between the provinces of Arequipa and Caylloma (region of Arequipa) and General Sánchez Cerro (region of Moquegua) – the reserve offers visitors a myriad of beautiful scenery and geography such as the volcanoes Misti (5,825 metres) and Ubinas (5,440 metres and still active) and a salt lake which is the habitat of many different species of birds.
There, researchers have discovered 138 species of birds, 24 mammals, 3 reptiles, 4 amphibians and 3 species of fish.
Among the mammals are tarucas (Hippocamelus antisensis), the vicuna (Vicugna vicugna) and the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), all at risk of exctintion. Birds like the Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus), James’ Flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi) and the parihuana flamingo (Phoenipterus chilensis), are in the same condition.
The reserve is located 35 kilometres northwest of the city of Arequipa.
Caves of Sumbay
These caves contain stunning examples of rock art with over 500 figures of camels, rheas, cats and hunters. With an age of between 6 and 8 thousand years, the authors of the rock drawings would have been the first inhabitants of the region.
The caves (4,127 metres deep) are a part of the National Reserve of Salinas and Aguada Blanca and are on the right bank of the river Sumbay, just 97 miles from the centre of Arequipa.
Bosque de Piedra de Imata (Imata Stone Forest) is a strange set of stone columns formed by erosion by wind action. The result is a series of impressive and intriguing “sculptures” that, if they were works by human hands, would be described as splendid examples of surrealism.
Located 150 kilometres northwest of Arequipa, near the railway that goes to Puno.
Chachani is located 55 kilometres north of Arequipa (2 hours in a truck). One arrives at the base camp and then begins a hike of about 6 hours to the summit.
Considered one of the hardest mountains to climb in Peru, this snow-topped mountain reaches more than 6,075 metres above sea level. It is also a dormant volcano, but lava is still visible, as well as small ravines and glaciers. It takes about two days and one night to climb.
In September 1995 Johan Reinhard, an anthropologist, José Antonio Chávez, an archaeologist and Miguel Zárate, a Peruvian climber, discovered at the summit of this mountain (6,288 metres) a funerary bundle with the mummified Inca remains of a girl. She had been sacrificed and given to the powerful Apu (protective mountain god).
The Dama de Ampato, also known as Juanita, is the best preserved pre-hispanic mummy in the world. She is now located in the Museo Santuarios Andinos de la Universidad Católica de Santa María, in Arequipa. The discovery of Juanita demonstrated to the world the magnificance of this dormant volcano.
Its ascent presents an average degree of difficulty, requiring 3 to 4 days and nights to reach the summit and it is recommended to do it between April and November. The volcano is located south of the Colca valley, 173 kilometres north of Arequipa.
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Face Scanners Turn Lens on Selves
A leading maker of facial recognition software is calling for federal regulation of the controversial technology to avoid misuse.
The technology, which converts facial images into an easily compiled and searched numerical code, has been criticized by privacy advocates who say the scans amount to facial frisking.
"Like all powerful technologies, it should be used responsibly," said Frances Zelazny, a spokeswoman for Visionics Corporation. "We believe systemic oversight is the best way to ensure our principles are translated into responsible policies and uses of technologies."
The technology first gained public notoriety in January, when Tampa, Florida, police used it to scan the faces of unsuspecting football fans at the Super Bowl and compare their mugs with terrorists and other criminals.
Earlier this month, when Tampa installed Visionics' software to automatically scan the faces of people strolling through the nightlife district of Ybor City, protesters donned masks and flipped off security cameras.
But Zelazny said that the people who live and work in Ybor City "overwhelmingly" support using the system to reduce crime and that the protestors were just a vocal minority.
The "Privacy Protection Principles" outlined by Visionics suggest that the public be alerted when the technology is in use; that strict controls be placed on image databases; and that abuses be penalized.
The International Biometric Industry Association also advocates that clear legal standards be established to regulate biometric data.
"The industry is open and receptive to controls in the form of regulations," said Richard Norton, the association's executive director. "The last thing we need is for confidence to be undermined because of confusion on how biometrics work."
Norton criticized the Tampa Police Department for not posting signs at the Super Bowl stating that the technology was in use.
While advocates say face scanning is a valuable protection against identity theft and effective in identifying criminals, critics argue that it is an Orwellian invasion of privacy that could be used to intimidate government critics.
"There are many technologies that can violate privacy, but face recognition is at the top of my list," said Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. "It could be used to track dissidents expressing their First Amendment rights to demonstrate."
But a bill introduced in the California Legislature to establish strict controls over facial recognition systems was defeated in the Assembly Judiciary Committee after vehement opposition by the biometrics industry and law enforcement.
Police departments across the country are buying the software to create digital databases of suspects and criminals.
"If you have someone lying about their identity, you can do a search against the entire county database to find out who they really are," said sergeant Ed Fernandez of the Oakland Police Department, which started using the software in June.
Among other things, SB169 would have forced police to get a warrant before scanning suspects' faces.
"Setting up a biometric camera and recording everyone who walks by is a little like bugging everyone's phone on a city block and keeping all of the tapes on the off chance that someone may have committed a crime or may commit one in the future," the author of the bill, State Sen. Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach), said in a statement.
Bowen has since deleted the law enforcement restrictions from the bill, which is slated to be reconsidered by the committee next month.
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It is not always easy to prevent egalitarianism in political morality from infecting other values. If one is really uneasy about socio‐economic stratification, one can become uneasy about cultural, educational, and aesthetic stratification as well. Moral equality does not mean that people are equal in all respects. There are values, which are not just the values that things have for persons, and such values provide legitimate goals for a society. Nagel argues that some form of egalitarian impartiality should be the dominant value.
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
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What does "Family Life" mean to you?|
Family life means doing things together as a family such as eating meals, attending church, taking vacations and relaxing around the house. It means helping each other to accomplish personal goals and supporting each other through good and bad times. We encourage each other and express our love to each other through words and actions each day. Family life includes spending holidays with kids, brothers, sisters and parents.
Describe your childhood:
Adoptive Mom? I grew up in a typical family where my mom stayed home with us and my dad worked. My mom was head of a dance department until I was born, and then she taught part-time until my sister was born, and then she taught a dance class at the YMCA. I grew up taking dance lessons, doing Community Theater and keeping up with the dance world. We also spent a lot of time with my mom’s parents and relatives in Michigan where my mom grew up. We went there most holidays and summer breaks, and still take family vacations there to see a few of my cousins who still live in the area.
Adoptive Dad? I grew up in a family of four that included my dad, mom, older brother, and me. I grew up in the suburbs of a large city. My mother stayed home with us until we went to school full-time, then she went to work part-time. My father worked full-time. We always ate dinner together as a family. We went on family vacations once a year, and drove everywhere. My parents taught us how to take care of ourselves; my mom taught us how to cook and bake, and my dad taught us how to build and fix things around the house. I grew up in a neighborhood of kids my age. In the summer we played softball, during the fall we played football, and in the winter we played hockey. My mom would call me in for lunch, my dad would whistle for me to come home for dinner, and when it got dark outside, mom would call me to come into the house for the night. We never locked our house and the neighborhood mothers were always home looking out for us kids. We spent the holidays together with aunts, uncles and cousins.
Tell us about your home?
We live in 3-bedroom ranch-style home in the suburbs of a large city. The third bedroom is waiting for your darling baby girl to join our family. It has pink curtains, ballerinas dancing across the walls, dresses and tutus hanging in the closet and of course a tiara on the dresser just waiting for her. There is a playroom, a kitchen, family room, living room and a huge backyard with a swing set and trampoline.
When you have a 3-day weekend, what do you like to do?
If it is summertime, we like to take off for the beach or go downtown. Sometimes we hit an indoor water park during the wintertime or sometimes we just like to stay home and all hang out together doing things like watching movies and eating popcorn, baking, or working on home improvement projects.
Do you have pets? If so tell us about them?
We have one cat named Twix.
What is your favorite food?
Alisha loves strawberries and chocolate.
Chuck loves almost anything chocolate, cherry pie, apple pie, and peanut butter sandwiches.
What do you hope to teach your children?
We want to teach our children about love and enjoying family and friends. We want them to get a good education and learn to take care of themselves. We want them to experience the world, and to find their passions in life and nurture them. We want them to learn to give to others who are less fortunate than themselves because it does not cost a lot to satisfy your needs in life, it is all of your wants that cost a lot.
Do you play any musical instruments?
Alisha has played the piano, trumpet and clarinet. However, she has not kept up with them. Chuck never played an instrument, but always wanted to learn to play the piano.
Describe your neighborhood?
We live in the suburbs of a large city, which isn’t far from where both of us grew up. Alisha still gets together with her high school girl friends once a month. Our diverse community continues to expand and change as military housing is located in our town. Alisha teaches at the school across the street from our house where our sons attend school. We have many neighbors and friends in the community. We have a play set in our backyard and sidewalks throughout our community. We host many holidays at our home as well as informal get-togethers around the barbeque. Our parks, pools, sports and fine arts are all right in our surrounding areas. We benefit from being so close to the city and all it has to offer.
Share something about your spouse that only you know:
Adoptive Dad? If I did, I would no longer be the only one who knows it.
Describe the last romantic thing you did together?
We had a rendezvous at lunchtime when the boys were at school.
What will you tell your child about their birthmother?
She was someone who loved them so much that she did the hardest thing a mother can do and that is to sacrifice her own feelings to be able to provide them with a better life that she was not able to give them at that time in her life.
It's Daddy's day - what activity do you want to share with your child?
My boys like to hit golf balls, go to the pool, and make snowmen outside. With my daughter, it will be what she enjoys. Perhaps she will want me to twirl her around in her tutu or we will have a tea party and she will make me wear a funny hat. Someday it will be attending the father/daughter dances together and at the end of each Daddy’s day I will read bedtime stories to my little princess.
Do you plan on sharing with your child what their birth parents were like?
We do plan on sharing with our daughter the miracle of her adoption and how much her birthmother loved her so that she will grow up knowing who her birth parents were and where they came from and what they were like.
What kind of education are you hoping to provide for your child - Private or Public?
Our public schools are excellent where we live. We have some of the top rated schools in the country. Alisha is also a public school teacher in the district where our child would be attending.
How did you come to the decision of adoption?
When we weren’t physically able to have another child, we felt as though that shouldn’t stop us from adding to our family, so adoption was the next step to make that happen.
What faith will you raise your child?
Christian - Methodist
How will you help your child accomplish their dreams?
We would nurture what she is interested in and what she is good at. The best we can do for her is to support her in her interests. We want her to be happy with her life and the choices she makes so we would help her by guiding and supporting her.
What kind of a relationship do you hope to build with your birthmom through her pregnancy?
We hope to build a positive relationship with our birthmother knowing that everyone is different and has different needs. The important thing is to make our birthmother as comfortable as possible during this difficult time.
How did you meet?
We met on a blind date.
What was your relationship with your parents like?
Adoptive Mom? I am very close to my mom. We share a lot of the same interests and she is supportive of me in all areas. She was always supportive of what I wanted to do and would drive me into the city for events, auditions and shows (that I would arrange and then let her know about after the fact). She would stay up late with me to finish my English papers. My dad worked a lot but was there for the important times in my life and was home for dinner most nights. He was glad we had more opportunities in life than he and his sisters had while growing up. He was always supportive in my career choices and pushed us to do what we wanted to do in life.
Adoptive Dad? My mother stayed at home to care for me and my brother until we were in school full-time, then she went to work part-time. My father was an engineer and worked. We always ate dinner as a family. My father taught me how to work with my hands and how to build and fix things. We went on family vacations once a year. My mother was very protective of us and took me to church on Sundays. My parents instilled in me a good work ethic and made sure I received a good education by sending me to college so I could have a better life than they had growing up. I plan to do the same for my children.
What attracted you to each other?
Adoptive Mom? I was attracted to Chuck because he was truly a gentleman. He was also calm and had a cute face.
Adoptive Dad? At first I was attracted to her looks, but than, I loved her outgoing personality and she is always doing things for others.
Please describe your personalities:
Adoptive Mom? I am a type A personality - outgoing, active, creative, sensitive and dramatic.
Adoptive Dad? I am a laidback type of guy.
What are your hobbies (please share those you enjoy as individuals and those you enjoy as a couple):
Adoptive Mom? Dancing, water activities, sewing, reading, biking, baking, shopping, and scrapbooking.
Adoptive Dad? Biking, water activities, skiing, and basketball.
Together we like water activities, going on walks, bike riding, and working on home improvement projects.
When you close your eyes and see yourself holding your precious baby in your arms what are your thoughts regarding the birthmother?
I thank God for her, and for entrusting her child’s life to us.
How will a child enrich your life?
A child brings you joy that is hard to explain. A whole life now relies on you. I would lay down my life for my sons, (as with any future child). You meet people you might not have met and you learn and experience things you might not have done without them.
Why did you each choose the career path you decided on?
Adoptive Mom? Becoming a teacher just seemed like a natural fit. I have worked with kids since I was a teenager and always liked being around them. I also thought about having a family and being a teacher was a good fit with being able to raise a family.
Adoptive Dad? I am an engineer by education. I enjoy working with people and making things with my hands.
What makes a birthmom special?
I believe that a birthmother is special because of her ability to put the needs of her child above her own needs.
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This post summarizes two larger reports on the economic costs and benefits of a new National Park and Recreation Area for Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties, Maine.
Headwaters Economics created a series of reports on the economic performance of western communities near national monuments.
Headwaters Economics worked with the Clark Fork Coalition, U.S. Forest Service, and others to create an interactive tool that describes many of the stories behind the ongoing recovery of the Clark Fork River.
This report analyzes the Front’s land, people, and economy, how the region has changed in important ways during the past several decades, and the potential impact of the proposed Rocky Mountain Heritage Act on the Front.
This report summarizes Colorado’s economy and the role of federal protected lands, including how the state has performed, and Colorado’s ability to attract people, investment, and businesses.
An analysis of New Mexico’s economy and how federal protected lands impact economic performance.
This study reviews Montana’s economy and how protected lands play a positive role in attracting people, investment, and businesses to local communities.
More than 100 economists and academics urge President Obama to create and invest in new federal protected lands such as national parks, wilderness, and monuments.
Report on the economy of the Olympics Peninsula and impact of the Wild Olympics proposal.
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On this 7th day of August 1832 personally appeared before the County Court of Russell and State of Virginia, Bernard Reynolds, a resident in the County of Russell and State of Virginia, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832: - That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1779, with Lieutenant John Vaughan, and served in the State Regiment of the Virginia Line under the following named officers: The Regiment to which he was first attached was commanded by Major Waller, and the Company to which he belonged was commanded by Captain Upshaw, Lieutenant David Mann, and the name of the Ensign not recollected. That he left the service of the United States in the month of April, 1783, having obtained his regular discharge in writing, in the city of Richmond, Virginia, which said discharge had been since either lost or misplaced, so that he cannot now produce it. That the said Bernard Reynolds entered the service of the United States under his enlistment as aforesaid for the term and period of three years, and that after being in said service about six months in the same year, to wit 1779, he enlisted for "during the War", with one Captain Thomas H. Drin in the State Regiment of the Virginia Line, commanded by Colo. Charles Porterfield, and as well as he now recollects, by Major Upshaw. The company in which he enlisted the second time was commanded by Captain Thomas H. Drew, Lietenant David Mann and the name of the Ensign not recollected.
That at the time of his first entering the service of the United States he resided in the County of Caroline and State of Virginia, where he was born and raised. That he was in the battle of Gates' defeat near Camden, South Carolina, and at the taking and surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Little York in Virginia. That the said Bernard Reynolds, after enlisting in the County of Caroline, Virginia, marched to the city of Williamsburg, where he joined the Regiment commanded as before stated from which place his said Regiment was marched to the south in order to reinforce Charleston, South Carolina, That in this march he crossed Taylor's Ferry on the Roanoke river, passed through country lying between that point and Hillsborough in North Caolina; from thence he and his regiment marched to Salisbury in the same state, and, after having passed the last mentioned town and marched about twenty miles towards the point of destination, information was received that Charleston had fallen into the hands of the enemy. His Regiment then immediately retreated back to Salisbury, from which place they marched directly and joined General Gates' Army in the State of North Carolina. That the said Bernard Reynolds and the Regiment to which he belonged, continued attached to General Gates' Army until the defeat near Camden as aforesaid. - After Gates' defeat he the said Bernard Reynolds with the rest of his Regiment who had survived that engagement, rendezvoused at Hillsboro, North Carolina, from whence they were marched into Virginia, and continued in the service of the United States in the said State of Virginia until the proclamation of General Washington to rendezvous at Goochland Courthouse, Virginia, at which place his Regiment did rendezvous pursuant to the said proclamation, at which time and place Colonel Charles Dabney took command of the Regiment to which he the said Reynolds belonged. That the said Regiment immediately took up its line of march to Little York and participated in the glorious triumph obtained there in the capture of Cornwallis. That the said Bernard Reynolds, although nominally belonging to the State troops performed continental service in the Army of the United States until the close of the War for which he last enlisted. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension of an annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any Agency in any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
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Mark E. Grube
Walter W. Morrissey
At a Glance
To determine appropriate levels of care and access, while maximizing quality and capital resources, a service distribution plan fully defines:
- How the organization will serve the market
- How each of the system's operations will relate to other operations
- How clinical resources will be organized and deployed
- The financial impact of the service distribution plan on the overall organization
Two Indiana healthcare organizations joined forces to create a regional service delivery plan in south central Indiana.
The transformation of U.S. health care is under way as a new business model that incentivizes providers to deliver high-value services is replacing the fee-for-service care delivery and payment system model in place since the mid-1960s - one that offered incentives to deliver a high volume of services. As the pressures of the coming strategic and capital challenges drive community hospitals to join regional health systems, parent systems will need to integrate their hospitals, outpatient facilities, and physician networks to deliver a coordinated "system of care" and gain efficiencies of scale.
To drive the level of operating performance needed for success under the new model, these organizations also will need to aggressively address each dimension of value. Strategic cost management, focused on capital avoidance and cost reduction, and quality improvement will be key goals. For many organizations, structural work will likely be required to reshape the programs and services offered across their geographic markets.
This process, called service distribution planning, will be aimed at determining the appropriate level of care, access, and quality to achieve desired outcomes at a cost that considers the needs of patients and payers, while maximizing capital resources and ensuring the organization remains financially competitive. The end product is a plan that drives improved operating performance through the optimization of care delivery across a geographic area without compromising quality and outcomes.
Reducing organizational costs will continue to be critical into the future. Service optimization across an organization's delivery system will play a major role in ensuring that cost-reduction targets are met. Given the new environment, regional and super-regional systems will begin focusing beyond aggregation of providers to optimize delivery system resources.
Defining the Most Advantageous Position in the New Landscape
Health system executives are now working to define their roles in local communities, ensure that their organizations deliver value-based care, and manage the transition. Their boards and management teams are asking critical questions that require difficult decision making:
- What services should we be offering in each location (and to what scope and scale), with consideration to the care needs of the population and access, cost, and quality objectives?
- Are there services that we currently provide in multiple locations that should be concentrated at fewer sites (e.g., resource-intensive tertiary services)?
- Are there other services that require broader access (e.g., primary care) and services that should be covered in lower-cost-intensity settings?
- If we were able to start "fresh," what would be an optimal care delivery system across our inpatient and outpatient network?
- How can we migrate from our current situation toward this more optimal system?
These decisions might have been deferred in the volume-based environment but cannot be put off now. The considerable challenges include:
- Revamping executive/management incentives to focus on success at the system rather than local level
- Improving physician relationships
- Developing population health management expertise and value-based contracts
- Enhancing performance as measured through quality and cost-effectiveness indicators
- Addressing geographic barriers (e.g., roads,rail lines, rivers) that create the perception of market isolation
- Enhancing cultural characteristics such as leadership/management style, openness to change, and communication skills
- Addressing community stakeholder issues, such as expectations that all care must be provided locally
For example, a health system with six hospitals in different local markets will need to tie the incentives of local hospital CEOs and management teams to systemwide performance. As part of this process, local CEOs may need to "give up" higher-level or lower-level services for which quality or cost-effective indicators are lagging behind those of another hospital in the system.
Consider, for example, a market area that is "oversaturated" with a particular service offering. Perhaps the system's ambulatory facilities in the market don't require 10 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines; five may be the right number to avoid unnecessary duplication that reduces overall operational efficiency.
A multihospital system needs to stretch clinical, technological, and human resources through a regional approach to care delivery. But leadership should be willing to confront the inevitable pushback from physicians and others who are resistant to the necessary changes. Strong board support will be required to provide "the cover" necessary for executive management to work through obstacles.
As healthcare is transforming rapidly, a delay in addressing these issues increases the probability that markets will shift around organizations that are not optimizing their service distribution, as relationships among payers, physicians, hospitals/health systems, and other providers are secured in the new environment. Inefficient service distribution also stresses an organization's clinical, facility, technological, human, and capital resources, making the organization less viable as a value-based provider.
The following approach is used with hospitals and health systems to develop and implement a service distribution system that optimizes all of the required elements under a value-based model.
The Planning Process
Board, management, and physician education on the importance of restructuring the service delivery system is the starting point. All key constituents should be educated about the changes occurring in the environment and why the organization needs to address these changes and reposition itself for sustained success. A clear and concise objective statement should be crafted and reaffirmed continually throughout the planning effort.
A solid fact base that covers the organization's markets and strategic and financial positions, and describes the impact of current and possible future trends on markets and positions, provides the framework and context for understanding future barriers or challenging issues. Within the planning framework, key realities and assumptions must be defined related to payment mechanisms, the competitive environment, physician market characteristics, and core competencies required for provider success.
A comprehensive financial fact base is also essential, including capital position and requirement analyses, financial projections, and a debt capacity analysis. In the current uncertain environment, scenario modeling and sensitivity analyses are imperative to understand how changes in utilization, payment, capital, and other assumptions would impact future strategic and financial performance.
Most organizations will need to define/rescope core community service offerings and develop regional offerings to optimize overall capital, management, and clinical resources.
IU Health: A Regional Approach to Distribution of Services
To effectively deliver high-value patient care across a geographic area, Bloomington Hospital in Bloomington, Ind., and IU Health, formerly Clarian Health in Indianapolis, started service distribution planning in late 2008.
The organizations wanted a regional service delivery plan in place that would optimize the delivery of the combined entity's services in south central Indiana prior to their 2010 merger. "We wanted a guide map of regional synergies," says Mark Moore, CEO of Bloomington Hospital.
"Historically, when IU Health integrated new affiliates into the system, we focused on support services, including purchasing, payroll processing, and other services," says Scott M. Black, vice president of business development for IU Health. "For the south central region, our integration planning focused on the patient experience, with the goal of improving the overall health of the communities served."
Among other goals and benefits, a regional plan for south central Indiana would enable the newly combined organization to serve patients as close to their homes as possible, improve referral processes and physician support, improve care coordination, enhance the quality of services provided, and ensure a seamless care delivery system.
Bloomington Hospital and IU Health assessed a thoroughly developed strategic and financial fact base to better understand their markets and strategic and financial positions, and the impact of current and future trends on their markets.
With the fact base in hand, the organizations used a team-based approach to service distribution planning. Board members, executives, physicians, and staff served on committees and provided information and perspectives to help ensure success at the implementation stage.
A management steering committee, including systemwide leadership and executive management from each of the organization's hospitals or major facilities, provided oversight.
Clinical task forces, composed of key physician and administrative leaders in each service line and clinical site, served as the core planning groups for service lines. They developed preliminary plans for where services would be offered and to what scale, considering both existing and potential new locations. "The challenge was to make sure that care would be rendered in the appropriate place and to fill any identified care or service gaps in a collaborative, integrated fashion," Moore says.
A facility planning task force reviewed facility priorities and investment needs and provided direction on how investments should be prioritized. The team based its recommendations on the volume/capacity, operating impacts, and capital requirements of specific strategies or initiatives identified by the other teams.
Teams followed a tight schedule of activities to accomplish goals. The management steering committee identified roles for each of the system's major hospitals/medical centers:
- IU Health Bloomington (290 beds) would serve as the primary provider of most tertiary and inpatient care to the South Central Region.
- IU Health Paoli (25 beds), formerly Bloomington Hospital Orange County, would provide basic outpatient and low acuity inpatient care (including surgery) for patients in the southern portion of the region.
- IU Health Bedford (25 beds), which was owned by Indiana University Health prior to the merger, would provide routine inpatient and outpatient services for patients east and west of Bedford.
- IU Health-Indianapolis (2,000 beds) would provide sophisticated quaternary care throughout the region, including a dedicated Children's Hospital, telemedicine support, and sub-specialty physician outreach.
A service distribution plan outlines the strategic roles envisioned for entities within Bloomington Hospital and IU Health.
An analysis of the regional strategic plan's financial impact on the combined organization followed. With approval of financial goals, the service distribution plan was fully developed, with a fully defined service delivery system. The plan consisted of market, program/service, physician, operating, and other strategies to achieve the desired goals, projections of facility impacts, organizational structure and implementation considerations, and financial objectives.
By focusing and optimizing their geographic footprint, Bloomington Hospital and IU Health aimed to ensure appropriate coverage to serve their markets, without unnecessary saturation or overextension of clinical, human, or technological resources in ambulatory or inpatient settings. For example, Bloomington Hospital Orange County in Paoli would focus on basic outpatient and low-acuity inpatient care, while Bedford Regional Medical Center, 20 miles north of Paoli, would offer more complex treatments in a few selected areas. This approach would allow patients in surrounding counties to receive certain care locally, instead of driving another 20 miles north to Bloomington Hospital. By providing a more sophisticated level of selected services at one of its small hospitals, the system could avoid operating an underperforming program at each location.
The organizations' leaders made difficult decisions. For example, the hospital in rural Paoli would retain its obstetrical services, but those services would close in the Bedford hospital because patients could drive 30 minutes for services at Bloomington Hospital. "Paoli had lower service volume, but access for patients was critical," Moore says. "This shows the tradeoffs that must be made. Value-based metrics must drive decision making."
IU Health-Indianapolis and Bloomington Hospital complemented each other's services to avoid competing for patients. Bloomington Hospital retained its coronary artery bypass graft surgery program, in place since the mid-1990s, while the quaternary Indianapolis-based hospital assumed responsibility for the most complex, critical heart cases requiring the highest level of clinical and technological sophistication. The cardiovascular surgery group at IU Health-Indianapolis placed two full-time surgeons at Bloomington Hospital when needed. Exhibit 3 provides a sample of the depth of distribution planning by service line.
The completed service distribution plan has enabled the Indianapolis hospital to avoid "over-building" facilities to accommodate volume that actually required a lower level of sophistication. To make the best possible use of capital and clinical resources, the plan, in fact, reshaped how the organization looked at plans for major facility renovations in Bloomington and Bedford. The combined organization also benefitted from the transfer of service line planning and clinical knowledge from the large quaternary and tertiary hospitals to the smaller hospitals, which enhanced the quality of care provided in those smaller facilities.
A regional approach to care delivery also has helped providers rapidly improve quality and outcomes for patients experiencing Level 1 heart attacks (ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI). By working with ambulances across the region to install 12-lead electrocardiogram (EKG) machines, the organization received EKG interpretations earlier, allowing triage of all Level 1 patients to Bloomington Hospital. This collaborative, rather than competitive, approach among hospitals has significantly improved "door-to-balloon" time for patients and has yielded "immense synergies" in physician coverage and recruitment for the system, Moore says.
Moore urges other healthcare leaders to set expectations and structure for planning early, but allow time for relationship building. "With any key decisions about service distribution and integration, there is no substitute for trusting relationships," he says. "These take time to build. People have to understand the need for a regional approach and may have to transition from being direct competitors to being part of the same family."
A Balancing Act
Given the value proposition of the new business model-best possible quality and access at lowest possible price-leading multihospital systems are increasing their planning efforts to reshape their services. Whatever the size of a system, service distribution planning and optimization provide guidance and allow organizations to improve levels of operating performance across their geographic areas while meeting access, quality, and outcomes targets.
"This service distribution planning process is being considered for the entire system and should help us achieve our goal of providing the same preeminent level of patient care in the most cost-effective environment at all of our affiliated hospitals," says IU Health's Scott Black.
"Living in today's world and preparing for tomorrow is a balancing act," says Moore. "As a regional system, we believe our cost base four or five years from now will need to be 15 to 20 percent less than it is today. So we start working backwards from that number and effectuate structural efficiency changes on a year-by-year basis to get to the point we need to be."
By optimizing clinical services and technology, facilities, IT, physician integration, and other items, service distribution planning is capable of changing an organization's cost structure. By changing the cost structure, the organization shortens the time required to position itself for ongoing competitive financial performance.
Mark E. Grube is managing director, Kaufman, Hall & Associates, Inc., Skokie, Ill.,and a member of HFMA's First Illinois Chapter (firstname.lastname@example.org).
Walter W. Morrissey, MD, is vice president, Kaufman, Hall & Associates, Inc., Skokie, Ill., (email@example.com).
Service Distribution Planning and Optimization
Service distribution planning and optimization produces five essential take-aways:
- A recommended geographic footprint and distribution of access points, clinical services, and technology
- Physician and clinical integration required to support care delivery
- Facility needs and recommendations
- Recommended organizational partnerships and relationships across the care-delivery spectrum
- Strategic and financial projections for the optimized system
Key benefits include:
- Improved care management, quality, and outcomes achieved through the right physician access to support the level of specialization and volume of care in each setting
- Reduced costs through elimination of unnecessary/duplicative clinical programs, services, and technology
- Optimized ambulatory and hospital facilities and geographic footprint, offering the right mix in the right location to support access and quality/cost considerations
- Best possible use of capital and human resources
Source: Kaufman, Hall & Associates, Inc. Used with permission.
Publication Date: Tuesday, November 01, 2011
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Scientists Create Bacteria that Lights Up Around Landmines
Photo via Reisendame
A stunning 87 countries around the world are still littered with undetonated landmines, and their impact is devastating. Tens of thousands of people are killed or injured by mines every year, and they pose a grave threat to ecosystems and wildlife. But an unexpected solution may be on the way--scientists have developed a special kind of bacteria that actually begins to glow in the presence of landmines.
It seems like something straight out of a science fiction film, but this new bacteria is very real. According to the BBC, the "scientists produced the bacteria using a new technique called BioBricking, which manipulates packages of DNA." The bacteria is then mixed into a colorless solution, "which forms green patches when sprayed onto ground where mines are buried." The bacterial stew can also be dropped via airplane in extremely sensitive areas.
Then, only a few hours after it's sprayed or dropped, the bacteria begins to glow green if it's next to an undetonated explosive. This, of course, would be an invaluable asset in the ongoing quest to rid nations like Somalia, Bosnia, and Cambodia of their atrocious, deadly minefields.
While there's been much experimenting with new landmine detection techniques--genetically engineered mine-sniffing rats, color changing plants, and tobacco bio-sensors, to name a few--scientists are especially optimistic about the bacteria because the solution is cheap and easy to mass produce.
Landmines are one of the most horrible artifacts of war there are--they've killed and scarred millions during their tenure as the cheap, debilitating guerrilla weapon of choice. While human suffering is the first and foremost concern when it comes to landmines, it's often overlooked that landmines are severe threats to the ecosystems as well. Millions of animals have also been obliterated by landmines.
According to BNet, one environmental specialist
has compiled anecdotal reports of more than 1.6 million animals dying from land mines in 39 countries. In his collection are stories of as many as 20 elephants a year being killed by mines in Sri Lanka, of animals being "blown to pieces" in the Falkland Islands, and bears, deer and foxes triggering the devices in Croatia.Elephants wounded by mines in Thailand have been known to be given prosthetic legs to help them survive.
This elephant was the victim of a landmine. Photo via Antidictatorship
Landmines are a particular threat in areas rich with biodiversity. Countries like Myanmar (Burma), Colombia, Mozambique, Cambodia, and Angola are all teeming with wildlife--and have some of the largest minefields on the planet. While the specific numbers on animal fatalities remain inconclusive, researchers agree that mines are devastating in such environments.
Now, perhaps, this new glowing bacterial solution will help prevent both people and wildlife from meeting a fate nobody--and no animal--should ever have to suffer.
More on Land Mines and the Environment:
8 Worst Man-made Environmental Disasters of All Time
2007 According to Eva Jacobus: Re-Imagining "Futuristic" In Shades of Green
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I just finished off my first windsor chair course, a sack-back class.
This wasn't Dunbar's class, but rather a local up here in Canada who
has been through most (if not all) of Mike's classes, and now teaches
chairmaking here and in the U.S.
My overall impression: this isn't woodworking, it's sorcery.
Yup, black magic. And this from a galoot who doesn't follow plans
'measured drawings'. I usually just have a rough sketch on a scrap of
paper for reference, and simply cut each piece to fit with the rest.
There are dimensions for each part of the chair, and those who rely on
such fixed numbers can follow the measurments with a micrometer, but in
the end, when the chair is assembled, nothing needs to fit perfectly.
Look at my chair, for instance. When the undercarriage went together
badly (or so I thought, upon seeing that the last tenon missed its
socket by an inch and a quarter) John said "Perfect. Grab yer hammer and
the glue bottle". So we jammed everything together and bashed the legs
into the seat and it was done. And it looks fine.
I had to whittle an extra spindle due to a minor disagreement between
drawknife and a small grain reversal, and I made one more spare spindle
as a 'reference' for the next chair (I'll likely be making the shaved parts
on vacation so I wanted a sample to take with me). Most of my spindles
are crooked, mis-shapen monstrosities, but once they've been lined up in
the chair they actually look good.
Boring 40-odd holes at precise angles with spoon bits was also quite
challenging. Dang spoon bits don't always go where you would expect,
and until you get used to how they react on curved surfaces or when you
inadvertantly start boring with your brace canted a few degrees to one
side (all too easy for me, apparently) your holes will be placed some-
what randomly. Despite this, everything still fits together.
After watching John bore his holes and shape his chair parts I began
to realize that the stuff I've read about experienced chairmakers may
be wrong. I had been given to understand that the reason the experts
don't need to measure sizes and angles is because they've done it so
many times that they automatically know what the correct measurment is.
Not true. They don't measure because they know there is such a great
tolerance for error in a windsor chair. Close counts. In some cases
'anything even remotely like close' counts.
The scariest tool was the adze. It just looks way too fast and
way too easy to slip and completely mangle your seat blank. But we
did fine with the adze. It's a great tool for wasting the stock down
to size. The drawknife and spokeshave were familiar, but their cousins
the scorp & travisher required some practice before I could use them
well enough to actually shape the seat with any degree of confidence or
accuracy. The compass plane I built worked very nicely. My thanks to
you Galoots who provided me with dimensions and suggestions for my plane.
Of all the tools we used, the reamer was the most difficult to master.
Looks easy doesn't it? How difficult could it be? It just goes round
and round and makes a conical hole. In theory. In practice, the
reamer makes oval holes, that your tenons will not fit. The most
aggravating situation is when you've done your initial reaming and
you check your work only to find that your angle is spot-on. And
now you have to stick the reamer back into the hole to ream it out
'just a bit more' so the end of the tenon will come through the other
side. Without altering the angle you've got, or making the hole into
Making windsor chairs seems to be some kind of black magic.
I bored most of my holes a degree or two off the mark. Most of my spindles
aren't shaped correctly, and several had undersized tenons. Bent parts too
straight, straight parts too crooked, etc. Despite a myriad of little
errors my chair looks good. And, despite my familiarity with planing,
boring, and shaving, I learned a lot about using my tools. I watched
someone take what amounts to a piece of oak kindling, and convert it into
a chair spindle in about 60 seconds using a drawknife and spokeshave.
I am gonna get in a lot more practice with my drawknife this summer.
Maybe I won't be spittin out chair parts as fast as that but I want
to raise my skill level with this tool.
A week or so before I started the class I finally got my new
Veritas spokeshave. I honed it, and then complained to Lee valley
about that d*mn micro bevel they put on the cutter. Took me an
hour to get rid of their sharpening job. I put that shave through
a fairly tough test during my class, which included a fast trip
from my hands to the concrete floor. The steel in the cutter does
hold an edge quite well, and it's still sharp after a couple of
days work on green oak. The only problem I found was that the
iron was too short (in width) and too deep (front to back). A wider
iron (like my Hock Guntershave kit) allows you to make slicing cuts
on endgrain of thick stock. The very deep Veritas iron restricts
the size of inside curve you can get into, even with the shoe flipped
over for concave work. All in all the new Veritas shave works
quite well, and when I'm doing shave work, it'll be right there
next to my Hock. One other shave note: when all else failed my
trusty Stanley #64 (small common cheap iron shave Jeff) saved the
day. Tearout in the curly basswood sapwood on the seat? #64.
Some nasty grain reversals in a spindle? #64. I have heard lots
of Galoots casting asparagus on metal shaves (poor tactile feedback,
wide mouth, poor blade bedding, &cetera) but those little ones will
work wonders sometimes. The most I've spent on a #64 is $8 CAD, and
only because it had 100% japanning, factory grind on the iron, and
the yellow Stanley label on the handle.
Kathy didn't want windsor chairs in the house (would not go well
with our decor; nothing against the windsor style) so this chair
was going to be relegated to the porch. Turns out that the sack
back looks great in the front hall, looks great in the living room,
looks great in the kitchen and would be nice at the head of the
dining room table (but only if I also make a set of side chairs
to go with...). And I still have to make chairs for the porch too.
chairmaking... yet another slippery slope
FOYBIPO, Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
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When you invest money for a short term goal, taking extra risk is like playing with fire. The best short term investments will preserve your money.
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For those looking to earn boost yields on cash long-term, a CD can be helpful. However, locking up all of your cash assets for a long period of time can mean that you miss out when rates start to rise.
While it’s true that certificates of deposit can provide you with a safe place to park your cash, it’s important to realize that you need more than just CDs in your portfolio.
Sure, you can get CDs with the highest rates, but even the highest rates now are much lower than the yields you could see back before the 2008 financial crisis. Indeed, CD rates are much lower now, thanks to the economy — and the measures being taken to help stimulate the economy.
One of the ways you can shore up your financial future and prepare for setbacks is to build an income portfolio. With careful planning, CDs can be included in this portfolio.
If the yield on a CD is high enough, it can beat inflation, providing some (low) returns, while helping you preserve capital. But what happens if inflation arrives in full force, while you are still locked into today’s low interest yields?
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Friday, 18th July 2008 by James Turnbull
This is the Homomomomonument, er… we mean the Homomonument, in Amsterdam.
Unveiled in 1987, the humorously-named monument serves as a very serious memorial to the many thousands of gay men and women who were murdered during the Second World War.
Homomonument consists of three pink granite triangles, which each form the point of one much larger triangle.
The eastern triangle steps down into the canal, pointing to the National War Memorial at Dam Square. The northern triangle points to the Anne Frank House, and finally the south-western triangle points to the offices of the Center for Culture and Leisure – the world’s oldest continuously operating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual organisation.
Thanks to romulusnr.
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c stirling bartholomew
cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Fri Nov 23 14:22:35 EST 2001
on 11/23/01 7:24 AM, Nicholas A Bailey wrote:
> fundamental categories of information structure are 1) what is part of the
> common ground (presupposition) between the speaker and hearer, and 2)
> what is the new idea that the speaker wants the hearer to realize by
> making the utterance (assertion, or what is asserted). Most or perhaps
> all communication relies on a relationship between these two cognitive
> categories, by relating a new idea to some kind of background or knowledge
> presupposition. The terms topic/point of departure and focus, which
> Levinsohn uses, are subcategories of presupposition and assertion. Here
> are some general correlations:
Just a few preliminary remarks.
Having read and studied over the last decade most of the authors you mention
and a number that you did not mention, I was still having problems
understanding the big idea in the "topic/point of departure" model until
Heimerdinger, Jean-Marc. Topic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew
narratives, Sheffield Academic Press, c1999.
One thing that Heimerdinger's work (well worth reading) accomplished was
that he connected the general notions of presupposition and assertion to
the concept of "Frames" which was known to me from by dealings with the
world of Artificial Intelligence 20 years ago. Once he had made this
connection then a lot of things that were still fuzzy seemed to fall into
The difficulty I was having reading T. Givon and S. Dik was that they were
presenting so much new information that I didn't have any framework in which
to place it. I think a lot of b-greek people will have this same problem
with Levinsohn (2nd ed. 2000) as well.
As for S.E. Porter, J. Reed and all the other folks from Roehampton, their
use of a S-Functional model, in my mind, puts them "out of the mainstream."
Having read almost everything that has come out of Roehampton on DA, I find
that the S-Functional model is a liability, not an asset. This may be just a
matter of having tread a different path, but I tried to give the
S-Functional model a fair trial but after about five or six years I lost
patience with it.
Thanks for your post.
Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
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If a Karachi(Pakistan) police surgeon is to be believed, on an average 100 rapes take place in the port city of Karachi alone, and mostly working women are the victims.
He said because of the “lengthy medical process and delayed justice system in Pakistan”, only 0.5% of rape cases are reported to the police.
“On average, 100 women are raped every 24 hours in Karachi city alone, and a majority of them are working women. I am saying with full authority that such a large number of rape cases happen in the city. But very few rape survivors have the courage to come forward in search of justice,” Additional Police Surgeon Zulfiqar Siyal said on Monday.
He added that a majority of the victims working as domestic help.
If something like this is happening in a caity like karachi (which is the largest city in pakistan) , then think what is happening in other smaller cities.
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T Mobile could launch the first Android based smartphone this October. The “Dream” is expected to be announced Sept. 23 and in stores sometime late October. HTC will manufacture the device and will combine the best features available in Iphone and Blackberry. Analysts at WSJ are already predicting sales estimates of around 300,000 to 500,000 this year.
Sources such as Forbes and Infoworld have leaked some of the features like :
- Large touchscreen with haptic feedback
- Full QWERTY keypad
- 5 inches long and 3 inches wide
- Keypad that either slides or swivels for easy typing/texting
- Internet navigation controls below the touchscreen display
Will ” Dream” be the iphone Killer or is it a big hype?
GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was interviewed by Charles Gibson the other day. Here is an excerpt of her comments on how to deal with Russia in the future:
GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn’t we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?
PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help.
But NATO, I think, should include Ukraine, definitely, at this point and I think that we need to — especially with new leadership coming in on January 20, being sworn on, on either ticket, we have got to make sure that we strengthen our allies, our ties with each one of those NATO members.
We have got to make sure that that is the group that can be counted upon to defend one another in a very dangerous world today.
GIBSON: And you think it would be worth it to the United States, Georgia is worth it to the United States to go to war if Russia were to invade.
PALIN: What I think is that smaller democratic countries that are invaded by a larger power is something for us to be vigilant against. We have got to be cognizant of what the consequences are if a larger power is able to take over smaller democratic countries.
And we have got to be vigilant. We have got to show the support, in this case, for Georgia. The support that we can show is economic sanctions perhaps against Russia, if this is what it leads to.
Is she seriouslly thinking of going to war with Russia over Georgia? Would’nt going to war with Russia would make the world a more dangerous place? Which country was a larger power and which country was a smaller power when Iraq was invaded (on the pretext of finding WMD’s).
If the statement was made to gain political mileage then it is OK , but if she is seriously considering a conflict with Russia , then God help us all
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The specific context for the [[Puzey Act]], of course, is the murder of [[Kate Puzey]] by Peace Corps
The specific context for the [[Puzey Act]], of course, is the murder of [[Kate Puzey]] by Peace Corps because she blew the whistle on . The survey mandate is intended to give Volunteers a confidential opportunity to evaluate Peace Corps staff performance. The surveys mandated by the legislation will focus on specific Peace Corps staff (and programs). This is the means by which the Congress intends that the Peace Corps hold its staff accountable for their performance.
Revision as of 14:31, 27 December 2011
Puzey Act Volunteer Surveys: Empowering Volunteers and Applicants to Secure Peace Corps Reform
- November 2011
By Chuck Ludlam
The recently-enacted Kate Puzey Volunteer Protection Act has become law includes a mandate that the Peace Corps conduct annually a “confidential survey of volunteers regarding the effectiveness of Peace Corps programs and staff and the safety of volunteers.” (See Section 8E) It goes on to say, “Results from the annual volunteer survey shall be considered in reviewing the performance of Peace Corps representatives” under “goals, metrics, and monitoring and evaluation plans” set by the Peace Corps.
This provision originated in the 2007 Peace Corps Volunteer Empowerment Act (S. 732), introduced by Senator Chris Dodd on March 1, 2007. It was the principal focus of testimony that my wife Paula Hirschoff and I gave to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at its hearing on the bill on July 25, 2007. This proposal was analyzed in depth in our July 24, 2009 “Plan to Strengthen and Expand the Peace Corps: Priorities for President Obama's First Term.”
- Ludlam/Hirschoff testimony (2007)
- Text of S. 732:
- Ludlam/Hirschoff explanation of the Volunteer survey process from their 2009 reform report:
Taken together these documents explain the intent and content of this new mandate.
The specific context for the Puzey Act, of course, is the murder of Kate Puzey allegedly by a contractor working for the Peace Corps because she blew the whistle on him. The survey mandate is intended to give Volunteers a confidential opportunity to evaluate Peace Corps staff performance. The surveys mandated by the legislation will focus on specific Peace Corps staff (and programs). This is the means by which the Congress intends that the Peace Corps hold its staff accountable for their performance. Peace Corps has deployed a confidential survey to the Volunteers since 2008.
The Peace Corps has been conducting surveys of the Volunteers for many years. We obtained a copy of the 2008 survey from the Peace Corps, including the country-by-country breakouts of the survey. These were posted in a spread sheet on Wiki that enables applicants and others to rank the countries question-by-question.
Advice to Applicants
As we said in our “Advice to Applicants” applicants need to know whether they have been posted to a country that is well or poorly ranked.
As we said, Applicants should request the results of the most recent agency survey of the Volunteers for the country in which they are invited to serve. They should request the complete country-by-country results of the survey so that they may rank the countries. To be sure, the Peace Corps has thus far refused to release the results of these surveys in response to Freedom of Information requests. We obtained a copy of the 2008 Volunteer survey and the country-by-country results and published them in Peace Corps Wiki. PCW has publishes spread sheets that enable applicants to rank the countries with regard to various key questions. One of the most important questions in the survey is the one that focuses on the quality of the Country Director, the individual who sets the tone and standards for Peace Corps operations in each country. If the ratings for the Country Director are low, it is likely that the country program has problems. Applicants should also request to see the survey responses, including the responses to open-ended questions, for the Volunteers who serve in the specific program in which the applicant is invited to serve (i.e. health, education, agriculture). If the Peace Corps refuses to release the most recent survey results and the country-by-country and program-by-program results, or if the country or program are ranked in the bottom half or bottom quarter of the countries where Volunteers serve, the applicant should consider carefully whether or not to accept the invitation to serve.
Note: In addition to requesting the survey results – including a spread sheet enabling applicants to rank the countries against one another – we have recommended that applicants demand to see the Early Termination (early quit) rates for all of the countries. We have posted the most recent early-quit rates country-by-country on Wiki. *http://www.peacecorpswiki.org/ETrates
We emphasized these same points about the need for confidential surveys in our May 2011 testimony submitted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. *Ludlam_statement_House_Congressional_hearing_May_11_2011
FOIA and lawsuit
While the Peace Corps acknowledged that the 2008 survey country-by-country results was producible under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), when we requested under FOIA for production of the 2009 and 2010 survey country-by-country breakouts, the Peace Corps reversed its position and balked. Apparently it had found that our posting of the 2008 survey country-by-country results had created problems in its placing applicants in the worst-ranked countries. If this is true, we view it as an entirely positive result. If the Peace Corps cannot stuff applicants into the worst-ranked programs, it will have an incentive (finally) to clean up these programs! The Peace Corps obviously will go to great lengths to make sure applicants do not have the information they need to make choices, as applicants and consumers possess in virtually every other context (book and car ratings, college rankings, work place rankings, etc.)
As a result of the Peace Corps intransigence, we filed a lawsuit against the Peace Corps to compel it to divulge the country-by-country survey break outs. We will be reporting soon on the results of that lawsuit. And the results of this lawsuit will determine whether the new surveys, mandated by the legislation, will also be made public. Stay tuned.
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If you jump into the ocean with groups of sharks, your guaranteed to get ripped apart. Though beautiful sharks often mistake humans as seals in distress. Sharks have been part of the popular wild sea life scene since the creation of Jaws. I have always loved these animals because they are both powerful and beautiful. Sharks come in many different sizes and shapes, and they even come as small to fit in a home designed salt water fish tank. One of the more intriguing things about sharks are their teeth. Shark teeth or a sharks jaw are the most powerful jaws on the planet. What makes them so powerful you ask? Well maybe the fact that both their top and bottom jaws move making these creatures one of the most feared on the planet. When a shark bites, the animal uses it’s lower jaw first and then the upper jaw. When they grasp their prey in their mouths, sharks toss their heads back and forth to tear what they are about to eat. A shark will generally swallow their victims hole most of the time. I think you guys will like this tutorial on “how to draw a shark”. I guess you can say that one should have respect for these animals especially when you’re a scuba diver or oceanographer. Peace peeps, and have fun drawing one of the most feared creatures of the sea!
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HCDE registers adult learners for fall GED/ESL classes for 2012-2013
Rising number of students expected with new GED test on horizon
As registration for 2012-2013 GED classes gets underway, Harris County Department of Education Adult Education division urges GED students to prepare for and take tests prior to January 2014, when a more rigorous and costly GED assessment test is adopted.
HCDE Adult Education provides GED preparation and English as a second language classes to about 10,000 students yearly in 65 locations through the county. September is the busiest month for registration, said Eduardo Honold, HCDE Adult Education director. Classes are free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis.
“We expect to see registration climb as more and more students realize the test is changing in 2014,” Honold said.
The nationwide GED Testing Service® is a joint venture between Pearson and the American Council on Education. The new 2014 test aligns with emerging national and state standards. The goal is to assure colleges, universities and prospective employers that adults passing the test are prepared to compete and succeed in a global economy, according to the American Council on Education.
Currently the standard GED test is taken on paper in testing centers. The new test released in 2014 will be computer-based to meet needs of increased participants but will be offered on paper in special cases. In the Houston area, the five-section paper test currently costs $75-$100, depending on the local testing center. The computer-based test to be launched in 2014 will cost $120.
Prior to the new test being released in January 2014, individuals taking the paper-based test will need to pass all five content areas before that date. Otherwise, test scores will expire during the transition period; and test-takers will be required to retest. For example, a student who has passed writing, social studies, science and art-and-literature and failed math would be required to take all five parts again versus one as the new test is adopted.
“All our classes are led by highly qualified teachers who give students the extra academic support they need, as well as encouragement,” said Honold. “Many times our adult students find support, encouragement and camaraderie through fellow students as well.”
Locations for classes include inner-city locations and suburbs such as Katy, Alief, Baytown, Crosby, Deer Park, Galena Park, Huffman and Pasadena.
Classes offered by HCDE include GED, ESL, adult basic education, adult secondary education, English literacy/civics and workplace literacy. Career counseling is offered for enrolled students. For more information, access www.hcde-texas.org or call (713) 692-6216.
About HCDE: Harris County Department of Education provides education services to the general public and 26 school districts throughout Harris County and beyond. Services include adult education, programs to promote safe schools, after-school programs, therapy services, professional development for educators, special schools, alternative certification for principals and teachers, and Head Start programs. We offer purchasing procurement, grant development, program research and evaluation, records management, and school finance support. Since 1889, our services continue to evolve to meet the needs of our education public. Visit us at www.hcde-texas.org.
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Market segmentation is an accepted tool in strategic marketing. It helps to understand and serve the needs of homogeneous consumer sub-populations. Two approaches are recognized: a priori and data-driven (a posteriori, Mazanec, 2000; post-hoc, Wedel & Kamakura, 1998) segmentation. In tourism there is a long history of a priori segmentation studies both in industry and academia. These lead to the identification of tourist groups derived from dividing the population according to prior knowledge (“commonsense segmentation”). However, due to the wide use of this approach, there is not much room for competitive advantage to be gained by using a priori segmentation. This article (1) reviews segmentation studies in tourism, (2) proposes a systematics of segmentation approaches, and (3) illustrates the managerial usefulness of novel approaches emerging from this systematics. The main aim is to offer academics and practitioners a “menu” of exploratory techniques that can be used to increase market understanding.
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Weight training alone or with aerobic exercise may lower diabetes risk in men, Harvard University research showed, while a German study found that physical activity keeps those with the disease alive longer.
Lifting weights 30 minutes a day, five times a week, may reduce a man’s chance of developing Type 2 diabetes by as much as 34 percent, and when combined with aerobic exercise like brisk walking or running, cuts the risk as much as 59 percent, according to the Harvard research posted online today in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The German study showed that people with diabetes who were moderately active had a 38 percent lower risk of dying compared with those who didn’t exercise.
The Harvard study is the largest on the benefits of weight training and aerobic activity on diabetes, while the German research is the biggest to look at exercise and mortality in diabetics, the authors said. More studies are needed to find better ways to motivate people to exercise, said Mitchell Katz, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal.
“How to increase motivation to stay active is the $1 million question facing physicians and health care experts and not just because of diabetes,” Katz said in an Aug. 5 e-mail. “A number of diseases including cardiac disease, the most common cause of death in the U.S., and cancer, the second-most common,” are reduced through exercise, he said.
About 346 million people worldwide have Type 2 diabetes, and diabetes-related deaths may double between 2005 and 2030, according to the World Health Organization.
In the study from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Southern Denmark, the researchers looked at 32,002 men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study from 1990 to 2008. During that time 2,278 men developed diabetes.
Men who did weight training one to 59 minutes a week reduced their diabetes risk by 12 percent, those who engaged in weight training 60 to 149 minutes a week reduced their risk by 25 percent and those who weight trained for at least 150 minutes a week lowered it by 34 percent compared with those who did no weight training, the authors said. Combining 150 minutes a week of weight training with 150 minutes of aerobic exercise reduced diabetes risk by 59 percent.
“When we use our muscles as in weight training our body’s insulin resistance goes down meaning we more readily move blood sugar from the bloodstream into the cells and we require less insulin to do that so that the blood sugar levels stay lower and put less demand on the pancreas to produce insulin,” said Walter Willett, the author of the first study and chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
“The more we paint the full picture of the consequences of staying on the couch, the more people we are likely to motivate to put some activity into their lives,” Willett said in an Aug. 3 telephone interview. “This is looking at one part of the picture -- diabetes -- but more importantly to people, even a few minutes a day of strength training it can make an important difference. There are immediate benefits of feeling better.”
The second study, led by researchers from the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Nuthetal, looked prospectively at 5,859 patients with diabetes and found that those who engaged in moderate amounts of exercise were at a lower risk of death compared with those who were inactive. In an analysis of 12 studies, the researchers found that higher levels of total physical activity, leisure-time physical activity and walking were related to a lower risk of overall mortality and death from heart diseases.
“Compared with being inactive, being moderately active may already improve survival in persons with diabetes,” said Diewertje Sluik, the lead study author and a doctor of public health with the nutrition institute, in an e-mail today. “Unfortunately, not many diabetes patients engage in regular physical activity. Therefore, it is necessary to promote active lifestyles among persons with diabetes and future research should determine why persons do not adhere to this advice.”
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There are a myriad of medications available as treatment options for PTSD , many of which have numerous side effects. Your physician would be the resource for more information about this option. Medication treats the symptoms, but does not address the true cause of the disorder. Effects are typically short-term; thus, this type of treatment is often on-going, with mixed results. Many of our clients are looking for a treatment plan without medication. We will work with your doctor in reducing or eliminating medications.
Many health experts agree that improved nutrition often plays at least a limited role in relieving some symptoms in many disorders, including PTSD and should be included in treatment options for most people. Dallas Brain Changers can assist you in finding healthier nutritional choices and/or can guide you to an appropriate nutritional professional.
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The application of neurofeedback to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in returning veterans is described herein and is illustrated with two case histories. Initially, frequency-based electroencephalogram training was employed to promote functional recovery, in the manner of the traditional sensorimotor rhythm/beta approach. An optimization procedure was employed in which the reinforcement frequency is tailored to the client on the basis of symptom response, with particular regard for the regulation of arousal.
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Basser Research Center: Focusing on BRCA-Related Cancers
The recently opened Basser Research Center for BRCA has a unique mission. As the name suggests, the center focuses solely on BRCA-related cancers, from basic research to clinical treatment. Located at the NCI-designated Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in Philadelphia, the center was funded with an initial donation of $25 million from Mindy and Jon Gray in honor of Mindy’s sister, Faith Basser, who died of ovarian cancer at the age of 44.
People with BRCA gene mutations are at higher risk than the general population for developing several kinds of cancer, particularly breast and ovarian cancer. (See the box below.) Researchers at the Basser Center aim to develop ways to prevent BRCA-related cancers or detect them early. And investigators at the new center believe much of the research will have broader implications.
“What we will learn about BRCA1/2 in terms of risk, prevention, detection, and therapeutics can be applied not only to other forms of breast and ovarian cancers, but to other cancers as well,” said Dr. Susan Domchek, executive director of the center. “This is about understanding how cancers develop in these individuals, and, therefore, how we can target them.”
Breadth and Depth
One of the Basser Research Center’s strengths is that it draws on Penn’s clinical and research resources. For example, women with breast and gynecologic cancers receive treatment at facilities that specialize in those cancers and genetic counseling at a center that specializes in evaluating risk for women’s cancers. On the research side, the Basser Center draws on ovarian and breast cancer research programs, a translational research program, a center for personalized diagnostics, and a cell and vaccine production facility.
“The important thing is that this center has breadth and depth,” said Dr. Domchek. “The basic biology is as important as how a woman can talk to her 14-year-old about why she is having a bilateral mastectomy.”
By bringing together experts in immunotherapy, cancer genetics, molecular imaging, epidemiology, statistics, basic science, and clinical care, the Basser Research Center hopes to spur innovation, according to Dr. Chi Van Dang, director of the Abramson Cancer Center, which is funded in part by NCI.
“We have monthly meetings where all investigators present their work, and it really allows us to feed off each other,” explained Dr. Domchek. Especially valuable, she noted, is that clinicians and basic scientists interact regularly, allowing clinicians to bring their questions directly to the scientists.
Many of the researchers have worked together before, Dr. Dang noted, but the creation of the center is really a “superglue” that brings people together.
The funding infusion from the Gray family has allowed researchers to dive more deeply into existing research areas. For example, Penn has a tumor tissue and biospecimen bank, and the new funding will help establish a section of the biobank for serum and plasma specimens, which will be used to develop and test biomarkers.
—Dr. Susan Domchek
“Early detection aided by biomarkers or imaging is incredibly important for us,” stressed Dr. Domchek. Currently, no effective screening method exists for ovarian cancer, and the most common method of prevention is removal of the ovaries, sometimes at a relatively young age. And many women who have BRCA1/2 mutations also have a bilateral mastectomy to reduce their risk of developing breast cancer.
The funding has also enabled Basser researchers to delve into other new areas, such as new imaging capabilities and immune-based treatment strategies.
“Some of our researchers are studying specific molecular targets that will allow us to develop imaging agents [for] early detection of disease,” explained Dr. Dang. “On the flip side, the same [molecules] might be targeted directly with immune cells that we can engineer. Ultimately, we want to develop vaccines and imaging techniques that will allow women [to forgo] those surgeries in the future,” he said.
Although the proteins produced by BRCA1/2 are known to play a critical role in repairing damaged DNA, scientists do not yet fully understand how BRCA mutations can cause cancer or why mutations in certain regions of the genes appear to raise the risk of developing ovarian cancer rather than breast cancer, said Dr. Dang. Such an understanding would help researchers find ways to prevent and treat these cancers, noted Dr. Domchek.
When to Test?
The Basser Research Center is also using funds from the Gray's donation to improve outreach, education, and collaboration. This includes partnering with an organization called Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE), an advocacy and support group for people affected by hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. The center has also created a webpage where people can request clinical or research information about BRCA-related cancers and has hired more genetic counselors who can help people find local resources or join a clinical trial.
Just the process of testing for BRCA mutations is fraught with difficult questions, Dr. Dang noted.
“At what age do you test, when do you inform patients of the results, what is the impact of those results, and how might the results affect the individual’s psychological outcome,” he said. “This research is not molecularly based, but it’s extremely important for the mental and physical health of individuals.”
In part because the Basser Center is spurring collaboration and innovation, and allowing researchers to dig more deeply into their projects, he hopes the findings will come more quickly. “Instead of coming out in 3 to 5 years, we’ll be seeing information in a shorter timeframe,” he predicted.
The funding will allow Basser researchers to do many new things, but “the most important thing that I’ve seen to date is that [the new center] really brings hope to people with these mutations,” said Dr. Dang.
As an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, the Abramson Cancer Center is funded in part by a Cancer Center Support Grant (P30CA016520).
Further reading: “BRCA1 and BRCA2: Cancer Risk and Genetic Testing”
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A lot of parents worry video games are bad for their children because the television keeps the kids inside and away from much needed exercise. This week's Lone Star Adventure takes the video games outside and lets participants work up a real sweat. FOX 4's Richard Ray takes us to The Colony and Laser Tag-DFW.
Imagine video games taken out of the virtual world and played in the woods. Laser Tag-DFW has an agreement with The Colony that gives them 22 acres in a city park to book outings and run their games.
This kind of laser tag is wildly popular in Australia, where citizens are prohibited from using paintball guns. The laser guns don't actually shoot lasers but instead use an infrared light like a television remote control. Unlike paintball, the hits don't hurt.
Some folks are serious players, showing up to play in full camouflage but participants are most often part of corporate team building, birthday parties, family groups. Laser Tag-DFW runs games year around, though business slows down in the heat of the summer.
Enthusiasts say laser tag is all about team work and exercise. They get to run around and play the games they love while still getting the exercise Mom and Dad want them to have.
For more information please visit Laser Tag-DFW's website.
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My mom went through the same thing after her Chemo.. She said it was a nasty metalic taste she had mostly!
This is from This site:http://www.chemocare.com/managing/taste_changes.asp
There are 4 main types of taste: Sweet, sour, bitter, and salt. Sense of taste is primarily located on the tongue. Each type of taste is located within taste buds on different sections of the tongue. As you chew your food, it mixes with saliva and as it comes in contact with the taste buds, messages are sent to the brain regarding your sense of taste. The brain processes the messages and helps you identify different tastes.
What are taste changes?
* Taste changes are common during chemotherapy. The exact reason for taste changes is not clear, although it is thought that it is a result of the damage to the cells in the oral cavity, which are especially sensitive to chemotherapy.
* About 50% of patients getting chemotherapy experience taste changes.
* Drugs most commonly associated with taste changes include carboplatin, cisplatin, cyclophosphamide, dacarbazine, dactinomycin, doxorubicin, 5-fluorouracil, levamisole, mechlorethamine, methotrexate, paclitaxel, and vincristine.
* Most people report taste changes involving a lower threshold for bitter tastes and a higher threshold for sweet tastes.
* Some drugs also produce a metal taste during the actual intravenous infusion. These include nitrogen mustard, vincristine, cisplatin, and cyclophosphamide.
* In addition, the association between taste of food and chemotheraphy may lead to taste changes. Chemotherapy loss of sense of taste can occur purely from the association of an experience of nausea and vomiting with chemotherapy.
* Taste changes may occur during therapy and last for hours, days, weeks, or even months after chemotherapy.
* Taste changes are also common in people taking biologic therapies such as interleukin-2, and interferons. Most people report taste changes involving a decreased threshold for spicy foods, describing most food as bland, bitter, like chemicals or medicine. Both the cause and duration of taste changes associated with biologic therapy is unclear.
Things you can do to manage taste changes:
* Maintain good oral hygiene - brush your teeth before and after each meal.
* Choose and prepare foods that look and smell good to you.
* Eat small, frequent meals.
* Do not eat 1-2 hours before chemotherapy and up to 3 hours after therapy.
* Use plastic utensils if food tastes like metal.
* Eat mints (or sugar-free mints), chew gum (or sugar-free gum) or chew ice to mask the bitter or metallic taste.
* Substitute poultry, eggs, fish, peanut butter, beans and dairy products for red meats.
* Marinate meats in sweet fruit juices, wines, salad dressing, barbeque sauce, or sweet and sour sauces.
* Flavor foods with herbs, spices, sugar, lemon, and tasty sauces.
* Chilled or frozen food may be more acceptable than warm or hot food.
* Try tart foods such as oranges or lemonade (this may be painful if mouth sores are present).
* Avoid cigarette smoking.
* Eliminate bad odors.
* Eat in pleasant surroundings to better manage taste changes.
* Increase your fluid intake.
There is no one magic solution for taste changes that suits everyone. Finding foods that taste appealing may be a process of trial and error. Some people who experience taste changes avoid their favorite foods to prevent the possibility of spoiling them for the future.
There are no medications that address taste changes. However, some studies have suggested that deficiencies in zinc, copper, nickel, niacin and vitamin A may contribute to taste changes. Do not take more than 100% of the recommended daily allowance. Remember, you should discuss taking vitamins or any other "remedies" with your doctor before you begin.
When to call your health care provider about taste changes:
* If your taste changes have caused you to stop eating and you have lost 5 or more pounds, you should inform your health care provider.
Note: We strongly encourage you to talk with your health care professional about your specific medical condition and treatments. The information contained in this website about taste changes and other medical conditions is meant to be helpful and educational, but is not a substitute for medical advice.
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When regression tests fail, an engineer must decide which failing tests should be further analyzed and by whom - a process called triage. The challenge is the dearth of information about the bug and its creator at this early stage. This session outlines a novel method that addresses the issue by driving the testing to gather enough information to do fully automated triaging. This paper explains how this innovative approach solves the triage challenge, thus accelerating the bug fixing process by 30%.Introduction
Regression testing is performed regularly through-out a project in order to ensure that the quality never dips, regresses. Regression testing is normally automated in terms of kicking off the tests and putting together the test results. But the analysis of the test results is not automated. The first thing that needs to be done is to look at the test failures, decide which are real errors and which are just intermittent computer or network issues and then assign the bug to the appropriate engineer. This process is called triaging. As it is impossible to know the exact nature of a bug, before it has been thoroughly analyzed, triaging has to be done while having very little information available at this early stage. The methods used are ad hoc, based on experience, association or static assignment, where an engineer is assigned for each test to first look at the failure. The triaging process takes time as the test results needs to be translated into bug reports and if the results are sent to the wrong person(s) then it will take longer before the issues are fixed.
What is needed is a tool that provides automatic triage which immediately sends the bug reports to the person who committed the faulty revision in order to accelerate the bug fixing process. The earlier the correct engineer gets the bug report the sooner the bug will be fixed. In order for this to work, automatic triage needs to be very robust so that it always sends the bug reports the right way and must be fast to run and use limited amount of resources so that it is efficient to use in large systems. This paper looks at the technology behind a new tool called PinDown, which has a novel approach to automatic triage that addresses these issues.
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Sign Out by Josef Schulz, is described by the artist as follows:
In Northern America the railway lines symbolised mobility, settlement, the departure towards the West. Once the Pacific had been reached, the West, rather than remaining simply a direction on the compass, was transformed into a mythological, salutary location. The railway lost its importance and the highway took over. For the settlers in those days, the land was a promise; the dream of a happier future was inherent in a plot of land which one had to convert into a farm. Those not blessed with vision, without a plan, whose faith was weak were lost.
Today, long after the appropriation of the land came to an end, there is a particular magic to the highways, the magic of departure, like one of these mirages which shimmer above the road surface in the summer. What has been lost is the notion that one’s own existence has to be wrested from a plot of land and is, as such, the result of years of hard work. The giant billboards alongside the road announce the great (not just American) short circuit. They scream at the non-searcher: The gates of paradise lie just beyond the next exit. Redemption is available for every traveller who has money. Shopping malls, motels, restaurants, banks beckon and nobody has to revert back to being a settler in the suburban spaces hostile to man.
In Centres Commerciaux Josef Schulz, as early as the middle of the 1990s, dealt with the exorbitantly large shopping centres in the French suburbs. The individual photos, computer edited into long travelling shots, expose the resemblance to backdrops and the architectural inconsistencies. In the works created both then and at a later date (sachliches / Formen) lettering and traces of everyday life are removed digitally. The architecture of the factory buildings and logistic warehouses, the multi-storey car parks is reduced to their large dimensions. The landscape is cleared and flattened to function as a mere background. The buildings lack scale; only the horizon– lost in the blurred, bright distance – might give some clue as to the eyelevel of the observer.
In SIGN OUT this point of reference is also missing: Josef Schulz always photographs the billboards alongside US highways and in the shopping centres from below, in front of a uniform sky. What these boards refer to lies outside the sphere of the pictures; we can only speculate. In addition, the billboards were also stripped of their writing and logos during postprocessing. Deprived of their message and their function they are turned into empty speech bubbles. At first they seem to be merely surface and colour. The observer’s perception wanders and – eventually – discovers something three-dimensional: The billboards are anchored, in every weather, by scaffolding and rods. They have volume, black edges, they harbour electrical things. They are objects. But let us not be misled: They painfully bear the message they have lost like a shield. These are not simply new billboards yet to be imprinted, they are old and used. Therefore these boards raised to the sky tell the tale of shattered dreams. This comic-strip of empty speech bubbles is haunted by the spirit of the contemporary gold-miners, now buried out of town by the great economic crisis.
Sign Out means, to remove oneself from a list, to log off from a system, to stop participating. This refers quite specifically to the signposted shopping centres which are struggling with the impact of the economic crisis. Reduced turnover leads to the closure of businesses and branches. Employees are laid off. And since they no longer go shopping near their place of work, the turnover decreases further still. This is just the superficial result of a calculation which shows that costs are higher than income. An economical chain-reaction threatens: Firstly, because the system is dynamic, and only generates profits when it is in motion, that is when it grows. Secondly, because it presupposes trust in an economic sustainability which cannot always be guaranteed.
And precisely this is the uncertain foundation upon which the longing for a new departure thrives and prospers. Regardless of how big the international recession turns out to be, nowhere is it more precisely revealed than alongside an American highway. Somewhere behind the wordless warnings of Josef Schulz’ billboards the New West must start. Never have the praises of American pop been sung in a more matter of fact way.
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Kentucky Society of Healthcare Engineers
2013 UPCOMING EVENTS
CERTIFIED HEALTHCARE TECHNICIAN CLASS
CERTIFIED HEALTHCARE CONTRACTOR CLASS
ELECTRICAL CODE UPDATE
MANAGING HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION
What is the Kentucky Society of Healthcare Engineers?
The Kentucky Society of Healthcare Engineers (KSHE) is a professional society devoted exclusively to the education, development and expansion of skills and standards of the Environment of Care discipline as performed in healthcare facilities.
KSHE's members are those professionals who are interested in personal advancement and who engage in one or more of the following healthcare team responsibilities:
- Plant Operations
- Plant Engineering
- Safety Management
- Clinical Engineering
- Facility Manager
- Life Safety
- Risk Management
- Related Healthcare Fields
- Infection Control
What does KSHE do for its members?
Regularly scheduled educational meeting on such topics as engineering management, energy conservation, preventive maintenance, managing a medical equipment program, electrical safety and codes and standards updates. An annual statewide conference is held to learn the latest information on current issues from the experts and to exchange ideas with society members from across the state. Also, members are provided with an official list of all members, officers, committees and sponsors.
How does KSHE benefit the profession?
KSHE activities help members further develop their professional abilities and provides opportunities for members to exchange ideas and keep abreast of the discipline through its meetings and contact with members.
KSHE offers a Certified Healthcare Engineer program to provide recognition for members who excel, and sponsors programs designed to encourage its members to participate in industry professional certifications, such as Certified Healthcare Facilities Manager (CHFM) and Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator (CHPA).
Who is eligible for KSHE membership?
Membership in the society is available to those individuals who are active in the field of healthcare engineering, and related healthcare fields. Healthcare engineering disciplines include managing, operating and maintaining the physical plant facilities, communication and biomedical equipment and systems in healthcare facilities.
Membership in the society becomes effective upon recommendation of the secretary and approval by the KSHE Board of Trustees or a completed application form and receipt by the secretary of the specified dues.
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Dates for introduction of Planes in Catalogues and Price Lists
The following dates at which various patterns of planes were introduced have been obtained from the company catalogue, price lists, publicity leaflets and the various editions of the book Planecraft which C & J Hampton first published in 1934, second impression 1943, third impression 1945, fourth impression (revised and enlarged ) 1950, fifth impression 1953, sixth impression 1954, seventh impression (revised and enlarged) 1959. Planecraft was published to enhance the knowledge of the woodworker of the day about planes. Dates are accurate to within approximately one year. Record very often had new products in the shops before they appeared in their catalogues. In this respect publicity leaflets distributed to tool shops could inform prospective purchasers of a new tool which would be included in the next catalogue, when it was published.
Record chose to manufacture a well established range of iron planes which had already passed through most of the evolutionary process and had become accepted by the British woodworker of the time. The range was based on the Planes manufactured by Stanley in the U.S.A. which by 1930, had passed their expiry date for patent protection, thereby allowing any comperitor to copy their products without patent infringement.
Catalogue No. 10 of January 1931
Record introduced a range of woodworking planes which they marketed as an entirely new British product. Government import tariffs of the late 1920's assisted British manufacturers in combating the influx of foreign manufactured hand planes, mainly from the U.S.A, which at that time dominated the market. A "Buy British" campaign was launched to combat the depression in the United Kingdom during that period.
Hand Planes introduced in Catalogue No. 10
Bench Planes: 03, 04, 04½, 05, 05½, 06, 07, 08.
Block Planes: 0110, 0120, 0220.
Pages from Catalogue No. 10 1931 (click to enlarge)
Catalogue No. 11
Followed in September 1932 with new lines in hand drills and bolt clippers being introduced. New model numbers in hand planes and spoke-shaves also appeared.
Hand Tools introduced in Catalogue No. 11
Block Planes: 0120, 0130, 0230.
Rebate Planes: 010, 010½, 078, 075.
Plough Plane: 050.
Routers: 071, 071½.
Circular Planes: 020, 0133.
Scraper Planes: 070, 080.
Spoke-Shaves: 051, 051R, 053, 055,063, 064, 0151, 0151R.
Planes Introduced in Price List August 1933
Bench Plane: 02.
Rebate Planes: 072, 073, 074, 076, 077, 077A.
Spoke-Shaves: A51, A51R, A151, A151R.
Catalogues No. 12 of 1933 and 12A of 1934
Added more planes to the range and a new line in hand and breast drills.
Planes introduced in catalogue No. 12 and No. 12A.
Plough Planes: 050A, 405 and extra bases for the 405.
There was no catalogue No. 13
Small undated publicity catalogue issued between January 1934
Price list and November 1935 Catalogue No. 14
Block Planes: 09½, 015, 016, 017, 018,019.
Rebate Planes: 041, 042.
Plough Planes 043, 044.
Catalogue No. 14 Novenber 1935
25 additional patterns of planes were included spoke-shaves and a range of 9 different weights of brass plumb bob.
Planes introduced in catalogue No. 14
Block Plane: 0101.
Rebate Plane: 040.
Scrub Plane 400½.
Spoke-Shave: 052, 052R,0152, 0152R.
Small publicity catalogue December 1936
Record Planes List P11
Spoke-Shave: A63, A64.
Catalogue No. 15 February 1938
Probably represented the peak of pre-World War 2 production. By this time extra premises had been secured at Bernard Road, Sheffield, for a head office and branch factory. In 1939 a range of 11 carpenter's braces were introduced. Although these featured in several price lists and a publicity leaflet, they never appeared in any catalogue and were listed as "temporarily out of production" in 1944 due to pressures of the War effort. They did not make a re-appearance.
Introduction planes in catalogue No. 15
Model Makers Planes: 0100, 0100½.
Small Catalogue November 1938 Tools of Distinction
Record Planes List P12
Dated Publicity Leaflet - March 1939
Technical Jack Plane T5 equipped with a 2¼" Cutter.
Catalogue No. 16 1949
Contained the same tools as catalogue No. 15 but the accompanying price list showed that many tools appearing in the catalogue were out of production because of wartime or post-war manufacturing restrictions. Many of the suspended products never made it back into production. Throughout the 1950's and up to 1963 catalogue No. 16 was re-issued in pocket form frequently to keep post-war customers informed of the availability of old tools and new ones as and when they were introduced. To date I have found 15 issues of the Catalogue No. 16. Full size 1949, pocket size 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, September 1960, January 1961, July 1961, February 1962, July 1962, December 1962 and June 1963. Updated price lists were issued when necessary.
Pages from Catalogue No. 16. 1949 (click to enlarge)
Publicity Leaflet 1952
Re-introduction T5 Technical Jack with 2" cutter (iron)
Price list June 1954
Pocket Catalogue No. 16, 1955
Fiberboard Planes: 730, 725.
Price List January 1959
Rebate Plane: 778.
Pocket Catalogue 1959 list P59
Catalogue No. 17 1963
Catalogue No. 17 was issued in large format in 1963 when the C & J Hampton moved into a new factory at the Parkway Works. Catalogue No. 17 was re-issued in pocket size form until circa 1970.
Price List 1970
Plough planes: 044C, 050C.
Catalogue No. 18 1972
C & J Hampton Ltd merged with William Ridgway Ltd who manufactured wood boring tools, to become Record Ridgway tools Ltd. Subsequent catalogues were not numbered.
In March 1981 A.B.Bahco of Sweden bought the company and a new company emerged in 1985 called Record Holdings which purchased Record Ridgway Ltd. The name Record Marples (Woodworking Tools) Ltd applied from 1988. The last decade of the 20th century saw three more company name changes, Record Tools Ltd in 1991, Record Holdings plc in 1993 and Record Tools Ltd (a division of American Tool Companies Inc) 1998.
Catalogue October 1982
Block plane: 060½.
Plough Plane: 045C.
Catalogue October 1988
Bench Plane: CS88.
Catalogue January 1992
Bench Plane: SP4
Bench Plane: SP5.
In Production in 2001
Bench Planes: SP4, SP5, 04, 05, 07.
Block Planes: 060½, 09½.
Rebate Plane: 778.
Circular Plane: 020C.
Spoke-Shaves: A151, A151R.
The No. 04 smooth plane, No. 05 jack plane and the No. 07 jointer plane have the distinction of attaining the longest period of continuous production from the original plane line of 1931, a total of over 70 years.
Edward Preston Planes
Planes added to the range in catalogues No. 12 and No. 14 included models which were originally patented and produced by Edward Preston and Sons Ltd, the Birmingham rule and plane manufacturer. Preston had fallen into financial diffculties in the early 1930's which resulted in them being absorbed by John Rabone and Sons Ltd, their main competitor in Octoger 1932. Subsequent to the takeover John Rabone and Sons Ltd made an attempt to re-organise the iron plane making section at Preston's Whittall Works but after two years they arrived at the decision that certain products were found not to conform readily with the company's (Rabone) other interests.
John Rabone therefore felt it necessary to dispose of the manufacturing rights, which they eventually did to C & J. Hampton on the 10th October 1934. The products included iron planes and spoke-shaves, brass plumb bobs and beech mitre boxes. However an August 1933 price list of Records' includes the following planes which were previously manufactured by Edward Preston and Sons Ltd. Shoulder rebates (improved ): 072, 073, 074. Bullnose rebates: 076, 077, 077A. A further seven iron planes of Preston design were eventually included in the Record range to which the No. 1405 brass plumb bob and No. 568 beech mitre box were also added.
John Rabone inherited the stock of Preston planes which they catalogued in some editions of their 1934 catalogue No. 27. Sub-section pages 1A to 10A at the back of this catalogue are dedicated to Preston metal planes and other products. Rabone were left to dispose of this stock through their own outlets. Some Preston bench planes, produced under John Rabone management, have a Rabone transfer affixed to the handle spur.
All the Record Planes of Edward Preston design are listed below with the original Preston pattern number in brackets.
Shoulder Rebate: No 041 (1368)
Shoulder Rebate: No 042 (1368A)
Shoulder Rebate: No 072 (1368B)
Shoulder Rebate: No 073 (1368C)
Shoulder Rebate: No 074 (1368D)
Bullnose Rebate: No 076 )1363)
Bullnose Rebate: No 077 (1355)
Bullnose Rebate No 077A (2509)
3 in 1 Plane: No 311 (311)
Side Rebate: No 2506 (2506)
Side Rebate: No 2506S (2506S)
Router No 722 (22)
As can be seen the only planes to retain their original Edward Preston pattern numbers were 1366, 311, 2506 and 2506S.
Go to production periods of planes for more on Edward Preston pattern No. 041, 042, 072, 073, 074 , 076, 077, 077A, 311, 2506, 2506S and 722.
In production 2007 Bench Planes: No. 04, SP04, 05, SP 05, and 07. Block Planes: No 060½, and 09½.
Spokeshaves: No. 151 and 151R. They come under the banner of IRWIN Industrial Tools, IRWIN RECORD.
From left to right:
- Back row, catalogues No. 10, No. 12, No. 15 and No. 16.
- Front row, catalogues No. 11, No.14, No. 12A, Planes List P.11 and Planes List P.12.
From left to right:
- Back row, catalogue pocket edition No. 16 - editions 1950, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963 and Planes List P.59 (1959).
- Front row, Record Book of Tools No. 60, catalogues No. 17 - editions 1963, 1964, 1965.
From left to right:
- Planecraft, 1st edition (1934), 2nd edition (1943), 3rd edition (1945), 4th edition revised and enlarged (1950), 5th edition (1953), 6th edition (1954) and 7th edition revised and enlarged (1959).
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Today is Chinese New Year’s Eve, and if you are a faithful reader of this blog, you have probably already cleaned your home, bought new red clothes, and loaded a groaning table full of Chinese delicacies to eat with your gathered family, so that at midnight you can set off your firecrackers to blast out the Year of the Water Dragon and welcome in the Year of the Water Snake. Or maybe you haven’t…
Recent news articles discussing the Chinese New Year report that people in China and Hong Kong do not like the Year of the Snake because they think it comes with a poisonous bite. The last two times the Year of the Snake rolled around were in 1989 (Tiananmen Protests) and 2001 (9/11). But Chinese fortune-tellers in Hong Kong and Taiwan say that 2013 is the Year of the Water Snake, which will not be as poisonous. They say that the year will bring slow and steady improvement as we pull out of the global financial and economic doldrums. Street vendors, however, are less happy about the Year of the Snake because fewer people want to buy commemorative Year of the Snake figurines, like they did last year in the ever-popular Year of the Dragon. Instead of selling snakes, the vendors are selling monkey figurines because wearing a monkey necklace can bring good luck, especially to people born in the Year of the Snake, or so says the old wives’ tale.
My Chinese horoscope for this year says that the Year of the Snake is the yin year in the pair of Dragon-Snake; therefore, it will bring us restful energy. In this year, however, we should not settle for mediocrity but should push steadily forward. The Snake is a thinker, not a doer. So the Year of the Snake is good for developments in science and technology and for those in academia (Yay… this is the year I will start working on my PhD). Water strengthens this aspect of the Year of the Snake because it’s the element (of the Five Elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water) that is most closely associated with scholarship.
The Chinese astrologer I consulted online said that the Snake is a positive sign for advancing new ideas, great works of literature, art and philosophy. It is a sign for mysticism, reflection, and introspection. But, it is also the Chinese sign most attuned to picking up vibes, revealing scandals, and taking revenge. The fact that this is the Year of the Water Snake means that communication, networking, and interpersonal relationships will be enhanced, if you are careful to avoid offending others. I guess that is what the written blurb on my Chinese calendar means.
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The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection
John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. Almost 30 years later, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. The Act mandated that all assassination-related material be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
The resulting Collection consists of more than 5 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts (approximately 2,000 cubic feet of records). Most of the records are open for research.
There are several ways to research our collections online:
- Search the JFK Database.
This is an index to records that were open pursuant to the 1992 JFK Act. The database currently contains 268,116 records. See also the Database Search Hints.
- Review the JFK Collection Register.
These are general lists at the series level, with numbers of boxes for each item.
- Examine Folder Title Lists.
These finding aids describe all records in the Collection that are not included in the JFK Database.
- Search ARC for 194 Digitized Assassination Collection Documents and Images.
The digitized documents are from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Office of the Secretary of the Army, and relate primarily to Vietnam and Cuba. The digitized images are of well-known artifacts collected by the Warren Commission, such as:
- various bullet fragments
- Oswald's rifle, revolver and clothing
- the windshield of the President's limousine
- the camera belonging to Abraham Zapruder that produced the famous moving images of the assassinations
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I never intended to write a double-digit blog series, but I obviously crossed that line several blogs ago and it is hard to see when this might end. The reason I chose this particular approach is because it cuts to the core of why this blog exists.
The central premise of Climate of Change, when I first pitched it to Bruce Ross in the summer of 2009, was that scientific and political discourse are very different.
We can argue about gun rights, abortion rights, gay rights or whether Redding needs more shopping malls (the answer is no). And while scientific evidence can be helpful to those arguments, these issues are not really about science but instead are largely concerned with politics or economics.
Global climate change, however, can (and should) be understood purely from a scientific point-of-view. It clearly has political, economic and moral implications but understanding it means studying science. And communicating with others about climate change works a whole lot better if we primarily focus on the science, not the politics.
Once we frame an issue in political or economic terms, we tend to trigger strong passions and endless arguments. Science, on the other hand is cerebral, not emotional. We can argue about our opinions but not about facts, except with those who refuse to acknowledge reality.
Our jury of Spocks was chosen because they are logical, honest, moral and intelligent. They don't have any skin in this game. They arrive without any bias.
And our "trial" is held to examine four questions: Is climate change real, is it caused by humans, is it bad and do scientists agree.
In the 14 previous blogs, those who deny that humans are responsible for climate change consistently fail to support their claims with evidence from mainstream science sites. Instead, they must abandon real science papers and studies and go trolling in the dregs of the Internet as we will see shortly. When they have referenced legitimate science, we find strong and powerful support for, not against, the four questions.
The two best sources from Skeptic strongly agree with AGW and we appreciate these contributions.
If this were an actual trial, we would expect the two sides to refute or at least attempt to refute the arguments made by the other side. For example, I provided evidence from the National Academy of Sciences, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that all strongly affirm the four questions.
By not addressing or mentioning this data, the denying team appears to have conceded their validity. If I provide evidence that Professor Plum killed the victim with a wrench in the library and you do not provide any evidence to the contrary, the jury will assume the charge must be true.
When I provide evidence from three of the strongest scientific organizations on Earth in support of AGW and no one disputes it, what are we to think? What would we expect an unbiased jury to conclude?
In response, we find nothing that even approaches the credibility of these organizations. Instead, Skeptic provides us with a single paper that claims to find the opposite of what thousands of other papers have found. Imagine if you found single papers that claimed smoking is not associated with cancer and heart disease (it is) or that race and intelligence are linked (they are not) or that Eve was the first woman on Earth and was created from Adam's rib, thoroughly disproving evolution (we have no scientific proof of this). Would you believe they represented real science or would you doubt them?
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How important is UV/IR reduction in telephoto photography
3 months ago
BTW i typically use my 500mm F4.5 with its 1.4x TC 90% of the time.
This is the IR cut filter i'd consider in combination with the Hoya HD2 UV
Another question is since UV/IR all in one filters seem to have some compromises would it be stupid or smart to buy a UV filter and an IR-Cut filter remove the lock on the filter holding the glass in place, putting them flat against each other and re-locking them to act as 1 filter.
I think the most important thing to find out is will IR-Cut improve the images or should i not bother?
Basically i don't want to have to buy both to test them out and send one back. If you can give suggestions, or even possibly suggest something better that would be great
P.S. here is the data on the B+W filter, stronger UV cut-off but notably lower transmission 88-89% range vs. the hoya with 97-98%
I know the Hoya tested well on lenstips site, i don't have a review on the B+W, I'm wondering if i should worry about the IR cut part of the B+W filter. Is it necessary for everyday nature photography? since it will be internal will any IR blockage(maybe reflection) cause the internal chamber of the lens to heat up a little? is it blocking IR light or IR heat from getting to the sensor? it suggest its ideal for CCDs but i'm using a CMOS.
or the B+W 46mm UV/IR Cut (486M) MRC Filter
The Hoya 46mm HD2 UV filter
Now the 2 filters i'm looking at are...
The main article
If you didn't know already lenstip.com has done an article and supplement article on UV filters, very technical and well done IMO.
I have a K-5 and a Sigma 500mm F4.5 EX DG lens which is great. someone on our forum recently bought one and after replacing the Sigma MC Normal filter with a high quality UV filter suggest he noticed improved contrast. Now i suspect there is a little of the placebo affect and new purchase must work affect happening but i am willing to also bet that there may be some improvement. In the desire to get the best results possible out of my most expensive lens I am considering UV filters, the lens takes 46mm drop in filters and i've located 2 that might be ideal.
however i do respect that there are legitimate reasons for UV filters and have a situation where i may consider it.
Now first and foremost i typically don't care to use a UV filter, i consider them a waste of money and i expect most of the cheap ones to degrade image quality and on top of that if one can't keep their front element safe then they're clumsy...
wouldn't mind you're opinion here, I asked this same question in the Nature photography forum but i know UV and IR blocking is important in astro photography too. One of you might have the answers i'm looking for.
Mike from Canada
"I am not a great photographer! God is a great creator! All I do is capture His creation with the tools He has provided me."
'I like to think so far outside the box that it would require a telephoto lens just to see the box!' ~ 'My Quote :)'
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More than the centerpiece of Purim celebrations, Esther is unique in the biblical canon, and raises as many questions as it reveals answers. It is a rich source for text study, at Purim and throughout the year.
Gift of Prayer, A: The Spirituality of Jewish Women
What are the prayers that women pray, the meditations of their hearts? Women of Reform Judaism, The Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, has collected the writings of its members and of women rabbis to create this gift book of personal prayers, poetry, reflections and meditations for every occasion in a woman"s life. A Gift of Prayer speaks to women of all faiths, celebrating life"s joys and offering the comfort needed to endure the struggles and crises we all face.
In A Gift of Prayer, women share their hopes and doubts with us-and with God. They grope for understanding, rejoice at the birth of a grandchild, remember seeing a loved one for the last time, or say a blessing upon seeing a rainbow. Their writings are accompanied by the work of Jewish artists on the theme of prayer-prayer inspired by nature, by ritual or by awe of the Divine. The result is a gift of words and art for every woman.
Thirty-eight prayers, poems and meditations
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Gender Gap, The: A Congregational Guide for Beginning the Conversation about Men's Involvement in Synagogue Life
Studies report decreased involvement in Jewish communal life on the part of both men and boys. Anecdotal information backs up this trend. There are often more women than men at services, more girls than boys in youth groups, and more women than men on the synagogue boards. What is behind these numbers and why? This book presents ideas, reflective essays, and program ideas meant to start the conversation in the synagogue about this phenomenon. There are no definite answers here, rather a choice to test some ideas and begin a dialogue.
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Teach Me to Fish©, a special ongoing series of marketing insights Invoking the timeless wisdom, "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime." Sponsored by Immersion Active, a communications agency for the 21st century.
I read about a disturbing set of statistics last week.
The U.S. now ranks ninth among industrialized nations in the share of its population that has at least a high school degree. In the same age group, It ranks seventh in the share of people with a college degree who hold a college degree.
Ever since Abraham Lincoln pushed through the College Land Grant program in 1862 and up until recently, the U.S. educational system has been the envy of the world. And Americans have justifiably regarded education as investment made by the generation current in-power in the next generation that keeps America #1 in the world in science, medicine, technology – in nearly every other broad field of human endeavor.
But something has changed. It was vividly described by columnist Kathleen Parker http://tinyurl.com/3mkwhuv in yesterday’s Washington Post. Education is increasingly being regarded by the right of center as matter of elitism. The political message: "Keep your Ivy League paws out of my life. I'm quite self sufficient.".
Parker suggests that “smart money goes to the ‘stupid’ politicians, who are dumb as foxes and happy as clams when their opponents misunderestimate (sic) them.” In other words the populist politicians who play to America’s growing anti-intellectualism. They are smart enough to know how to play to the intellectual lowest common denominator in America.
So, unlike in previous generations a graduate degree from an Ivy League citadel of knowledge and learning no longer counts for much, especially in the trenches of political battles among the electorate.
There is no question that America has become intellectually a sluggard. Consider this set of stats: In the U.S. for the year 2003, 15-year-olds scored 29th in math, 12th in reading and 20th in science.
This morning I had a telephone interview with a reporter who asked the question, “What are the differences between younger and older consumers.” I answered, “What are the differences between male and female? If you have to ask the question then you won’t understand the answer. ”
She went on to ask another question, “Why is it that there are now so many older people with lots of discretionary income that marketers are ignoring?” followed by, “What can be done to correct that problem?” Innocent enough sounding questions, but questions that have been answered (either correctly or incorrectly) over the past two decades. They are questions that only a novice would ask. A modicum of research would quickly reveal that they have been knocked around since the early 1990s.
In response to the last question I told the reporter that to correct the problem you have to start with an overhaul of our education systems starting with kindergarten if not earlier. We must bring children through their learning experiences without extinguishing the natural curiosity they have that caused Carl Sagan to observe, “Every child is a scientist.”
We are no longer a nation that loves learning. We have lost sight of the connection between how we educate our young people and our standing in the world. We have relinquished our role as world leader on a growing number of fronts because we have lost our capacity for curiosity and the sense of wonder that we feel when some matter or event pulls us into its magnetic field.
Our human souls have become hostage to a tyranny imposed by undue dominance of the left brain in how we see the world, try to make sense of it and work through problems we come to face.
So, the answer to the reporter’s last question may not be satisfying because it does not lead to quick results. It requires a generation’s bundle of time with concrete results not apparent anytime soon. We must change how we see ourselves and deal with life in a far different way than we’ve become accustomed to.
All this is grist for the milling of thought that will carry us forward in this blog. By the way, I’m inviting readers to write their own posts in support of this new direction.
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Hulda Minthorn's family came from Canada, and settled in West Branch in 1859 when she was 11 years old. Hulda attended the University of Iowa for one semester before dropping out to help her mother cope with the death of Hulda's father. In 1867, Hulda taught school in Bloomington, Iowa. Hulda Minthorn married Jesse Hoover in 1870, and had 3 children: Theodore, Herbert, and Mary.
After Jesse died in 1880, Hulda supported the children by sewing and renting to boarders. She saved Jesse's insurance policy for the children's schooling. She also became a Quaker minister, traveling several times a year and preaching to Friends' Societies throughout the state. On one occasion she attended a regional conference in Kansas City. Each time Hulda left town, the children stayed with relatives. On one trip, Hulda fell ill and never recovered. She died from typhoid fever on February 9, 1884 at the age of 35.
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A web hosting server, although it serves a specialized function, is similar to a home PC or laptop in many respects. A PC and a web server have many of the same physical components, like a processor, memory, hard drives and cooling fans. Both PCs and servers connect to the internet with a network adapter card. Both require software and, of course, an operating system. Like a PC, a server can be split or partitioned to create independent systems on the same physical machine. This process, when applied to web servers, is known as virtualization. It is the basis for what is known as VPS, or Virtual Private Server hosting.
Servers and normal PCs also differ in several significant ways. Servers, especially those used by commercial hosting companies, are faster and more powerful than average PCs and Macs. Multiple web servers are housed in racks in server farms, with one monitor used to access multiple servers. Although both home PCs and web servers require an operating system, the most popular choices for operating systems in PCs and Macs are not necessarily the same for servers, where Linux is the predominant choice. There are numerous reasons that VPS and Linux are the most popular hosting choices, some of which we will explore below.
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The IRS dictates a few ways in which you can't use the money in your IRA, including lending money to yourself, using it as collateral for a loan and buying real estate for your personal use. Beyond those exceptions, you can invest in just about anything: mutual funds, individual stocks and bonds, annuities and even certain real estate.
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AdTruth, a division of 41st Parameter, has become a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). As a member of the organization’s Tracking Protection Working Group, it will help provide guidance for implementing and adhering to Do Not Track policies.
The W3C's mission is to create Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth of the Web.
41st Parameter's seven-year-old technology was developed for internet security, helping to prevent fraud by recognizing troublesome devices. Rebranded as AdTruth, the company now helps marketers track, target and retarget consumers.
The key to device recognition AdTruth-style is its patented technology called TDL, for time-differential linking. While in the billions of connected devices there may be thousands with the same configuration, no two will have their clocks set to the same time -- at least, not when you take it down to the millisecond.
Says Ori Eisen, founder of 41st Parameter and AdTruth, "We take these disparate time stamps and compare them to the server master clock. If there is any doubt, the TDL is the tie-breaker."
Because it IDs the device itself, AdTruth does not recognize a consumer who visits the same site from a different device.
AdTruth software resides in the memory of its clients' servers, reducing latency and the possibility that the company could inadvertently expose consumer information. Eisen says SteelHouse is a customer.
Competitor BlueCava has also extended its aspirations from security to marketing, releasing a new version of its device ID service. Both companies hope to take advantage of an update to the European Union's ePrivacy Directive that could make the common practice of dropping cookies on consumers' devices less attractive.
Momentum for do-not-track legislation is growing in the United States. The Federal Trade Commission proposed a do-not-track function in browsers in late 2010, and since then bills introduced in both houses of the U.S. Congress have included such a function.
When consumers opt out of tracking via the browser, AdTruth's technology honors the Do Not Track HTTP header and does not identify the device.
Companies that ID a consumer's device without leaving any code on it may be obeying the letter but not the directive. In fact, Eisen expects privacy codes to continue to tighten.
"We have worked with lawyers in Germany, where we did some early testing. They evaluated what we are doing and what is the letter of the law" he says. "Currently, we're clear. But I don't expect it to stay like this forever."
He thinks marketers need to stay moving as privacy requirements shift, rather than holding onto their cookies for as long as they can.
Privacy issues aside, Eisen says that his company's device identification technology, sometimes called digital fingerprinting, gives publishers and marketers a more accurate view of their audiences when used to augment cookies. When a consumer deletes local cookies or when the browser is set to automatically delete them at close of a session, device ID will help the website recognize a returning user.
He says, "You have to use something like us to salvage every impression you can in a world where cookies are disappearing."
Susan Kuchinskas has covered interactive advertising since its invention. The former staff writer for Adweek, Business 2.0, and M-Business covers technology, business and culture from Berkeley, CA.
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WINCHESTER有EE邑here can I get the 6 m/m Winchester- Lee rifle and is it powerful enough for big game?
The Winchester factory issue a special catalogue for this rifle and are manufacturing it today. The 6 mm Winchester-Lee rifle is extremely accurate up to 1000 yards and will kill any bull elk on earth today at 1000 if hit in a vital place, and is plenty heavy and powerful enough for any big game in North America, with the possible exception of moose and the large Kodiak and Alaska brown and grizzly bear, although they are very extensively used in Alaska for hunting moose and caribou, and almost every professional wolfer throughout the Western states who is hunting wolves for bounty is using the 6 mm. Winchester-Lee rifle. The 6mm gives a velocity of 2500 feet per second; muzzle energy, 1553 pounds; gives a flatter trajectory and carries up better than any other sporting rifle made.
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ANC: On the return of the political
By Richard Pithouse
‘The ANC has had its shameful moments but it has also had its glorious moments; and it has often been far closer to the best of the spirit of the age than any of the forces it opposed.’
When the African National Congress was founded in Bloemfontein in 1912 Sol Plaatje, then a newspaper editor, was elected as its first Secretary General. Plaatje, along with some other mission educated African intellectuals, had been optimistic about the new country that had come into being with the Union of South Africa in 1910. But within a year it was clear that segregation was going to be at the heart of the union, the white union, that followed the Boer war, its concentration camps and the English success in seizing control of the gold fields.
In 1913 the hammer fell, and fell hard, on African aspirations. The Land Act, which Plaatje called ‘the sickening procedure of extermination voluntary instituted by the South African parliament’, confined Africans to a tiny portion of the country and sought to force Africans into becoming cheap labourers for white farmers.
That winter people began to be forced off the land and Plaatje walked the back roads with the people who, he wrote, had been turned into ‘roving pariahs’. During what he called ‘a hideous night under a bitterly cold sky’ a family, the Kgobadi’s, lost their baby on the road and, no longer having a place of their own, had to bury the child ‘amid fear and trembling, as well as the throbs of torturing anguish, in a stolen grave.’
Between the end of the Cold War and the financial crash in 2008, capitalism had considerable success in marketing itself as the ennobling practice of economic freedom. But this is a fantasy that has no regard for historical reality. The fact is that capitalism began with forced labour, slavery and the violent enclosure of common land aimed not only at seizing wealth in private hands but also at forcing people to give up their autonomy and to accept that survival required working for a wage. The whip, the prison and the gallows were essential to the brutality that forced acceptance of its logic. In South Africa this was profoundly shaped by a racism that impoverished prosperous black people in the direct interests of white people, including poor white people.
Around the world peasants rebelled, as in the 1906 Bambatha Rebellion in what was then Natal, to defend their land and autonomy against a system bent on deriving them of both in order to turn them into workers. When people had been forced off their land, or their crafts rendered redundant, they often forged insurgent and cosmopolitan forms of autonomy from below to avoid the plantation, the mine, the kitchen or the factory. On the Atlantic Ocean press ganged sailors and slaves seized ships to become pirates. In the Klipsriversberg hills south of Johannesburg young men who had lost their right to the land and refused to work in the mines formed the Umkhosi Wezintaba, an organised band of highwaymen who had declared themselves ‘rebels against the government’s law’.
After the Great Depression of the 1930s it was taken as plain common sense in mainstream opinion in capitalist societies that while unregulated capitalism produced wealth, it was captured by the few and produced in a way that damaged society. It was assumed that society needed to organise to regulate capitalism and to ensure that a portion of its profits were returned to society as a whole through taxation and social spending. Working class men returning home after the Second World War often demanded an equal place in their societies and gave these processes real momentum. In the colonial world, returning soldiers often took a leading role in anti-colonial movements. Of course here in South Africa the turn towards imposing a greater degree of social logic over capital took the form of apartheid – social democracy for whites and even worse political and economic subordination for blacks.
In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, both firm supporters of apartheid, led the attack on social democracy. This was escalated after the Cold War and capital was able to shed more and more of its social obligations. Some people even went so far as to argue that capitalism and democracy are indivisible. Of course this argument simply ignored the fact that the United States, then the undisputed capitalist power, had long used violence and support for grossly authoritarian regimes to deny people around the world the right to govern their own societies freely. In recent years the surging power of Chinese capitalism under an entirely undemocratic regime, as well as the development of capitalism in places like India and Russia, which, while nominally democratic, are hardly models of democracy, has put that myth to rest.
As Thatcher and Reagan allowed capital to detach itself from society, a process that escalated massively after the end of the Cold War, it captured the political classes in the West rendering democracy a system that is increasingly more about legitimating the power of elites than offering a real opportunity to direct them from below. Growing Poverty, and an elite response to poverty that makes more use of the police and prisons than social solidarity, is corroding these societies from below. Millions are now poor in countries as rich as England and the United States. But the financial crisis of 2008 had put another myth to rest. The illusion that freeing capital from social obligation is in everyone’s interest because a rising tide floats all boats has been shattered. The profoundly anti-social consequences of finance capital being allowed to operate above the sphere of democratic regulation are plain for all to see. In many respects, from the manner in which protest is policed to the appearance of shacks, the third world is creeping into the first.
The global revolt that circulated between North Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the United States last year has three distinct thrusts. There is a rejection of brutal dictatorships that contained social aspirations, most often with Western backing. There is a rejection, also, of the way in which capital has diminished democracy in the West. There is also a rejection of an economic model that leaves the one percent unimaginably wealthy and a growing proportion of the rest facing lives considerably worse than their parents. This rebellion may be contained. But it may also develop into a significant challenge to the system that has allowed capital to steadily escape social obligation and it may open up possibilities to really rethink what we mean by democracy and the relation between the society and the economy. In some parts of the world the political imagination closed at the end of the Cold War but that moment is passing now. There is a scent of opportunity in this crisis.
Here in South Africa the ANC brought us, for the first time, a genuine political union. In 1994 we became one people under one law. No history of the ANC, whatever its critiques of the movement, can deny that it and it alone had the strength and vision to bring us into a genuine union and to open the possibility for the ongoing development of a free and just society in a manner that no longer requires blood, jail and all the rest. But the problem with national liberation movements is that because they are persecuted and become, to some degree anyway, the organised expression of the nation in exile and underground, they have an inherent tendency to paranoia and suspicion of open disputation.
And because every nation contains its own diversity – material, inherited and chosen – freedom after any long night of oppression requires not the continuation of a unity that is essentially martial but, on the contrary, the setting aside of the logic of militarism and paranoia and the resumption of open disputation. Karl Marx gives a wonderfully succinct account of the democratic ideal – ‘an association of free human beings who educate one another’. Of course this has to be in struggle as much as in debate but struggle within a framework that allows organisation, protest and, where necessary, disruption.
From Cairo to New York, Madrid, Athens, Damascus, Moscow and many other places around the world, people are, often at great personal risk, reconstituting the power of open mass assembly to demand democracy against outright dictatorship or its capture and hollowing out by the interface between money and politics. But in South Africa the ANC is trying, formally and informally, in parliament and on the streets, to curtail democracy. It’s leading figures no longer walk the back roads with the new pariahs – the unemployed, shack dwellers, sex workers, undocumented migrants, lesbians facing assault, learners in some schools. Outright state violence is being used to expel poor people from the cities and state and party violence is being used to repress the right of poor people to independent political organisation and expression.
Over the last hundred years the ANC has had its shameful moments but it has also had its glorious moments and it has often been far closer to the best of the spirit of the age than any of the range of forces it opposed. But a hundred years later, it’s clearly on the wrong side of the most bracing currents moving history forward. The time when the ANC could be counted as an emancipatory movement has passed. Today we have to look elsewhere for a resolute insistence that democracy must be for us all and that it must subordinate capital to society.
Richard Pithouse teaches politics at Rhodes University.
This article was first published by SACSIS.
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