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Yarrabah, a former Aboriginal mission settlement, is a community governed by an Aboriginal Council, 15 km east of Cairns at Cape Grafton.
The mission was founded by John Gribble in 1892. Gribble, formerly a minister in the Methodist and Congregational Churches in Victoria had prior experience with Aboriginal missions both there and in Western Australia. In 1883 Gribble had been ordained an Anglican priest, and mostly on his own initiative journeyed to Cairns and obtained approval from the colonial government to set up a mission on land eventually proclaimed as a reserve. Few Aborigines sought sanctuary there for the first two years, by then Gribble departed because of ill health, and the management of the mission passed to his son Edward, who became an Anglican minister in 1898, the year that St Albans church at Yarrabah was dedicated. The settlement was under Anglican Church management until 1960 when the Department of Native Affairs assumed control.
In 1904 the Fraser Island people were moved to Yarrabah, over 1000 km away. The population probably numbered several hundred, as in 1902 there were 93 pupils at the Yarrabah school. In 1915 mission records showed 322 'native population', whereas census figures were half this number. Anglican authorities encouraged marriages and settlement at the mission, and forbade the marriage of so-called full-blood women to whites or aliens. In 1903 Yarrabah, known as Cape Grafton, was described in the Australian Handbook:
Wages were limited, and as late as the 1950s were described as 'nominal' for spending at 'a well stocked store'. Employment was found in pineapple farming and sawmilling.
In 1987 the Queensland Government handed Deeds of Grant in Trust for all the land to the Yarrabah Council.
The Yarrabah Community Council runs aged, youth and day-care facilities, a canteen, library and museum. There are also a hospital, substance-abuse and medical facilities, a general store and a State primary school (1892) with a secondary department. Yarrabah's census populations have been:
Judy Thomson, ed, Reaching back: Queensland Aboriginal people recall early days at Yarrabah mission, Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1989
A pictorial history of the Mulgrave Shire 1880-1980, Cairns, Mulgrave Shire Council, 1980
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Warning: New SimCity Will Take Over Your Life
If you're one of those who found the old SimCity video game addictive, brace yourself: the latest version of everyone's favorite city-building simulation game, set to hit in February of 2013, is likely to take over your life. That's because it's now a multiplayer game that will challenge you to take on serious urban planning challenges like pollution, renewable energy, regional cooperation and even sewage. (But don't worry -- you can still destroy your beloved metropolis with an asteroid.)
As per the old SimCity, you can still lay down roads, adjust zoning and taxation and install nuclear power plants, among other things. But according to Fast Co.Exist's Ariel Scwhartz, who had a chance to play a demo of the new multi-platform game by Maxis, the new SimCity allows players to share resources with their friends’ cities, and do some damage to them as well. Say you sell coal to your friend's city, which lacks industry -- should your friend neglect to install proper sewage systems, coal-dirtied water will travel downstream, making residents of your city sick.
Of course, if your own city goes for the cheaper sewage outflow pipe, sewage will collect in a single spot, eventually enveloping the surrounding area in brown. Which, you know, probably won't do much for local real estate prices.
From renewable energy NIMBYism to mass transit, environmental degradation to education, the new SimCity has a whole lot going on that the residents of your former simulated cities couldn't even begin to imagine. And with the new version of the game, the hypothetical residents of your hypothetical city will feel a whole lot more real, as individuals even have names, and can be viewed going about their business via the street view function.
Don't say we didn't warn you.
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Computer database wizard Jim Gray woke up Jan. 28, 2007, at his home on Telegraph Hill, surveyed the calm, sunny skies, and decided it was the perfect day to scatter his mother's ashes at sea.
Gray, 63, embarked from Gashouse Cove in San Francisco in his 40-foot sailboat, named Tenacious, and headed solo for the Farallon Islands.
He hasn't been seen since.
The mystery surrounding Gray's disappearance has never been solved, but almost 1,000 of his friends and colleagues - including some titans in the technology world - gathered in Berkeley Saturday to keep his memory alive and forge ahead with his research.
"He was a mountain of a person, and our community misses him immeasurably," said Michael Stonebreaker, professor emeritus of computer science at UC Berkeley, at a tribute to Gray held on the Cal campus Saturday. "He was a giant, interested in everything. He epitomized what it means to be a scholar."
Gray pioneered database technology in the 1970s, and was among the first to develop the technology used in computerized transactions. He discovered ways to ensure transactions, such as moving money from one account to another, would complete even if a computer crashed, and that transactions could happen sequentially, for example allowing a husband and wife to each deposit money into a joint account from separate computers.
His work is now used in nearly all Internet retail sales, by banks and credit card companies and for airline reservations. His later work on database technology has been used by oceanographers, geologists, astronomers and the general public to map the Earth via Google Earth and TerraServer.
"No matter who I asked, everyone always thought Jim Gray was smarter than they were," said David Vaskevitch, a vice president at Microsoft who spoke at Gray's tribute. "That's saying a lot in a field that has a whole lot of smart people."
Gray's greatest contribution was not his research, but his warm, open-hearted personality, his friends said. Gray was a mentor to hundreds of computer scientists and brought together researchers from dozens of competing companies and fields.
Gray was an experienced sailor and often took his colleagues for spins around San Francisco Bay. On the Sunday he vanished, he made a few calls on his cell phone and checked his e-mail before sailing out of cell phone range, somewhere between the Golden Gate and the Farallons.
When he didn't return that evening, his wife called the U.S. Coast Guard, and his extensive network of friends, who used their technological expertise to comb the waters for their colleague.
"If you're going to go missing, you want to be Jim Gray," said Michael Olson, a former vice president at Oracle who led the volunteer search efforts. "He knew everybody. But the ocean is enormous and unforgiving."
Gray's friends at NASA moved several satellites over the Golden Gate to scan the ocean for signs of his boat. Volunteers scattered along the coast putting up posters and looking for telltale debris. The U.S. Coast Guard searched 132,000 square miles of the Pacific.
But after three weeks, nothing was found. No boat, no wreckage, no sign of Gray. One theory is that a shipping container, floating just below the surface, ripped a hole in the boat's fiberglass hull and the boat sank.
In autumn, Gray's wife, Donna Carnes, and a few of their friends decided to hold a tribute to Gray, careful not to use the words "memorial" or "funeral." After a few speeches on Gray's contributions to technology, the crowd gathered for a six-hour conference advancing his research.
UC Berkeley also announced that Google, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and other technology giants chipped in to endow a chair in Gray's honor in the computer science department, where Gray received his undergraduate and graduate degrees.
"Everyone's sad about the reason we're here, but it's actually wonderful to see everyone," Olson said. "Jim brought us all together."
Donations in honor of Jim Gray can be made to UC Berkeley's Jim Gray Chair, care of Rita d'Escoto, Donor Stewardship Manager, College of Engineering, 201 McLaughlin Hall, No. 1722, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720; or the U.S. Coast Guard, San Francisco sector, 1 Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, CA 94130.
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The first thing you notice is the smell. Distinctive, acrid smoke hits your nostrils, knocking your senses back a bit. Then the sounds - the violent cracking noises, the whoosh of wind as flames consume the structure.
The shouting of orders between firefighters catches your ear, as do the cries of anguish from the residents who can only stand by and watch their home go up in the scorching hell. Bells begin to ring, indicating an air tank is running low on a firefighter's back. And when it's over, the quiet is just as deafening as you realize someone has perished in the blaze.
It could have been any of us. Fire does not discriminate, however it does take advantage of those less fortunate who will do anything to keep their families warm in winter. I've seen it too many times.
Over the past 34 years in this news business, I have seen and reported on many fire stories. Some had quick and happy endings. Too many have caused me sleepness nights thinking about both the victims who could not be saved and firefighters who lament the loss of life. It's not a job you can leave in a locker at the end of the day.
I've witnessed unimaginable efforts to pull five children from a burning structure and free a driver trapped in a smashed truck dangling over an interstate. I've seen police officers jump in to help firefighters as they wait for paramedics to arrive and aid a bleeding shooting victim.
It was at a Warwood house fire years ago that claimed the lives of a mother and her children that I watched as a fire chief struggled to fight back tears and a fireman dropped to his knees, overcome by the futility of their efforts to save the family. I listened as a burly firefighter comforted the grandfather who had tried in vain to save his family.
Firefighters call each other "brother" for a good reason. They live and work as closely together as most families. When a new firefighter was injured at a fire scene, I watched a towering giant of a firefighter sweep him up and carry him to safety because that's what brothers do for one another.
Maybe they will squabble over who ate the last piece of pie - like brothers often do - but they will drop everything when the bell sounds and they will focus on the job at hand.
We are lucky in the Ohio Valley to have safety forces who do answer our cries for help no matter the day or hour. They will miss out on holiday celebrations, birthday parties and anniversaries for you and me.
This week Wheeling firefighters had their hands full with a terrible fire that resulted in a woman's death on Wheeling Island. It was snowing hard, and it was difficult to walk - let alone climb ladders. Smoke and flames overtook the building.
I cringed at hearing the "armchair quarterbacks" in the crowd questioning the actions of the firefighters at that fire scene, but I was afraid I would wind up in handcuffs if I confronted them. All I can say is, walk in their boots for 24 hours.
Heather Ziegler can be reached via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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-- A World-Renowned Conductor, the Leading Klezmer Fiddler and an Editor at NPR Music Are Among the Panelists --
FLUSHING, NY, March 3, 2011 –Diane Wittry, internationally acclaimed as a “visionary musician” who conducts with “passion and strength” and “gets to the heart and soul of the music” (quoted from recent reviews of her performances), is considered a role model for women conductors throughout the United States. Her book Beyond the Baton, which was nominated for a 2007 Pulitzer Prize, is the focus of a yearly National Conducting Workshop that helps young conductors become more effective music directors. As the music director of the Allentown Symphony and Norwalk Symphony orchestras, she has helped expand the size of each organization’s concert seasons. Known for her innovative and creative concert programming style, the award-winning maestro and composer has also guest-conducted with several of the finest symphony orchestras in the U.S. and abroad.
On Monday, March 14, from 9 am –12:15 pm on the 4th floor of Queens College’s Student Union, Wittry will join a panel of five other women who have gained prominence in their individual areas of specialization in the music field. Free and open to the public, the annual Virginia Frese Palmer conference celebrating Women’s History Month will focus this year on “Women in the Music World.” Each panelist will discuss her career experiences, accomplishments and any obstacles she may have encountered when climbing up her professional ladder. A question and answer session will follow the discussion.
The panelists include:
Alicia Svigals: Considered the world’s leading klezmer fiddler, Svigals is a founder of the Grammy-winning band the Klezmatics. She has played with and composed for violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, the Led Zeppelin rock band, and the late Allen Ginsberg. Svigals has also appeared with the Klezmatics on Late Night with David Letterman, MTV News, Good Morning America, Nickelodeon and NPR Radio.
Frannie Kelley is an editor at NPR Music, working on music news and issues projects. Last year she produced “Hey Ladies,” a series of stories for radio and the web, based on a questionnaire filled out by nearly 800 working female musicians. The series included a writers’ roundtable, a slideshow of classical music CD art and a story about pop stars.
Marisa Meltzer: The author of Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music (2010), which examines the role of women in rock music since the riot grrrl (underground feminist punk) movement of the early 1990s. She is also co-author of How Sassy Changed My Life about the rise and fall of the revolutionary teen magazine. Meltzer has written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Elle, and Teen Vogue.
Gwendolyn Pough: A Women’s and Gender Studies, Writing and Rhetoric professor at Syracuse University and the author of Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere, as well as numerous articles on black feminism, hip-hop, and black culture. She edited Home Girls Make Some Noise: A Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology. Pough also writes fiction under the pen name Gwyneth Bolton.
Raquel Rivera is an author, editor and singer-songwriter, having written the scholarly book New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone and articles on Caribbean/Latino popular music and culture. Her debut CD is Las 7 salves de La Magdalena (7 Songs of Praise for Mary Magdalene).
The Virginia Frese Palmer Conference, named for one of Queens College’s supporters of the Women’s Studies program, was established in 2002 as an annual conference to address some of the key issues and problems facing today’s women. Previous conference topics have included “Women and Economics: The Global Picture”; “Is Gender Still a Sexy Topic?”; “Women and Violence”; “Feminism and Multiculturalism”; “Women and the Iraq War”; “Female Image Makers”; “Women and Sports”; “Women and Civil Rights”, and “Gender in the Workplace.”
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This iReport is part of an assignment:
George Clooney arrested at Sudanese protest
- Jareen, CNN iReport producer
Clooney, Co-founder of the Enough Project John Prendergast, NAACP President Ben Jealous, Martin Luther King III, actor and comedian Dick Gregory, U.S. Congressmen Jim Moran and Jim McGovern, and the Advancement of Colored People President Ben Jealous gave brief speeches about the on-going humanitarian crisis taking place in Sudan; they demanded that the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir stop the blockade that is preventing the people in Sudan from getting food and humanitarian aid.
Following the brief speeches, all were arrested for crossing a police line and were transported to the Metropolitan police department second district, according to Secret Service spokesman George Oglivie.
Clooney’s rep released this statement after his arrest: “They were protesting the violence committed by the government of Sudan on its own innocent men, women and children. They were demanding they allow humanitarian aid into the country before it becomes the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.”
Clooney has been in Washington this week, where he met President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. He also testified before Congress, calling the acts in Sudan "a campaign of murder."
Video of the arrest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltkxU-UFsRY&feature=youtu.be (Courtesy of Joseph McGuinness)
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Area-based management frameworks in the U.S. coastal zone
Over the past three decades, the use of special area-based approaches for coastal management has increased in the United States. Geographic area designations, whether on land or offshore, can be classified as resource-based areas, special overlay zones, and planning areas, and can be further classified according to geographic scope and content. The classifications enabled cross-state comparisons of the various “special management area” policies and programs across state and territory coastal programs, and were important in undertaking a systematic approach to the study of U.S. coastal management. ^ Substantial diversity and complexity existed in the area-based approaches within and between coastal states and territories; in some cases this diversity was related to the varying institutional frameworks adopted by state and territory coastal programs. In general, there is a need to reduce complexity and improve coordination between area-based management approaches in the coastal zone. Early signs of this are evident in Executive Order 13158 concerning Marine Protected Areas. Additional systematic reforms should be directed to improve regional initiatives that integrate land and water use planning in the coastal zone. ^
Political Science, General|Urban and Regional Planning
"Area-based management frameworks in the U.S. coastal zone"
Dissertations and Master's Theses (Campus Access).
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Part 2 touches on the hidden costs of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) and drivers for improving quality of patient care.
The largest investment in Healthcare technology goes beyond installation and to the training and use of these systems. Training is often a hidden cost which impacts perspective on Total Cost of Ownership that may, in fact, be one of the largest costs.
Keep in mind that from a clinical perspective, one of the most important benefits of HIT is to reduce inefficiencies and improve the quality of care. So, there are some costs savings to be realized when the technology is used accurately.
Improving the quality of patient care is a major goal for healthcare, across all disciplines, driven by the National Quality Strategy (among others) for adoption of quality and compliance measures to monitor quality of care. Compliance with these aims can be monitored in the aggregate or at a patient level in most CDS systems.
The National Quality Strategy is driving change in healthcare to improve quality. The 3 aims of the National Quality Strategy are:
Better Care: Improve the overall quality, by making health care more patient-centered, reliable, accessible, and safe.
Healthy People and Communities: Improve the health of the U.S. population by supporting proven interventions to address behavioral, social, and environmental determinants of health in addition to delivering higher-quality care.
Affordable Care: Reduce the cost of quality health care for individuals, families, employers, and government.
But a new twist on the value of Clinical Data available for "mining" and "drilling" are "databases of clinical information" that can be used for medical research.
Given this opportunity, some costs associated with traditional Clinical Trials may be mitigated by using information obtained from an EMR and Clinical Decision Support system (CDS).
Using this technology, data can be massaged and analyzed in a manner that provides retrospective views of medical data for research. These technologies become enablers for Medical Research and Clinical Decision Support Analysis.
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As reported in previous articles in this series, a survey of over 1000 patients with FMS and CFS showed that prior to their illness fewer than 1% had disturbed sleep, whereas during their illness this rose to over 90 %.1
Sleep disturbance is a key feature of both CFS(ME) and FMS with hormonal influences which have wide repercussions. Consultant psychiatrist Dr Peter White, of London’s St Bartholomews’s Hospital, states "We know that two thirds of CFS patients have sleep disorders".2
Is This Sleep Disturbance Due to Disturbed Emotions?
A pioneer FMS researcher Dr. Muhammad Yunus has looked at the link between anxiety, stress and sleep disorders and found that while they influence the degree of this symptom they are not the cause in people with FMS (about 20 to 30% of whom he believes do have anxiety/stress influences in their conditions).3
Dr.Yunus has stated, "The central features of FMS are independent of the psychological status and are more likely related to (i.e.resulting from) the FMS itself, although pain severity may be influenced by psychological factors".
He does not however believe that psychological factors should be ignored in people with FMS because they can be aggravating factors where pain is concerned, precisely as they can in any other painful condition such as rheumatoid arthritis or some forms of cancer. In an attempt to get the focus of physicians corrected Dr.Yunus speaks of the ‘disturbed physician syndrome’ (DPS).
He says, "DPS (that is doctors treating people with FMS) people are troubled because of their preoccupation that FMS patients are psychologically disturbed. It is not the FMS patients who are disturbed it is the physicians who are psychologically disturbed because they ignore the data and whatever data there is they manipulate to say what they want."
Anxiety can stem from being permanently in pain, chronically tired and with a list of associated symptoms. It can also act as an aggravating factor and therefore deserves consideration in any treatment plan.
What has emerged from research into people affected by FMS is that their muscular aches and pains are frequently the result of the same processes which disturb their sleep, that biochemical imbalances related to poor sleep help to create muscular symptoms, so that the poorer the sleep the more pain and fatigue. Whatever disturbs the sleep causes a chain reaction of other problems and is usually unrelated to the person’s psychological status.
Understanding the Sleep Process
In normal sleep we pass, every 90 minutes or so, through alpha brain-wave patterns (stage 1 light sleep) through progressively deeper stages (stage 2,3,4 or beta, gamma, delta - the deepest stage of sleep). These last three stages are also known as non-REM sleep since the rapid eye movement (REM) which occurs during dreaming is absent in them.
Sleep laboratories have found that nearly half of all people with fibromyalgia have disturbed (by intrusive alpha wave periods) delta stages, and wake up feeling as, or more, tired than when they went to bed.
Many of the remainder of FMS patients suffer from other forms of sleep disturbance (see below).
The Growth Hormone Connection
Delta stage sleep is when growth hormone is released by the pituitary gland, as well as immune system repair functions being more active.
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Some Fung Wah buses pulled from road
BOSTON -- State inspectors say they have found serious safety problems buses used by a popular discount bus service operating between Boston and New York City.
Department of Public Utilities Chairwoman Ann Berwick said inspectors looked at nine buses used by Fung Wah Bus and found serious problems in eight, including cracks to the frames.
That prompted state regulators to ask federal officials to "immediately declare Fung Wah an 'imminent hazard' and order it to cease operations."
The state cited, "Fung Wah's blatant disregard for federal regulations and putting the company's own drivers, passengers and the motoring public at risk."
Berwick said the state negotiated an agreement with the company to take all 21 of their older buses off the road.
Passengers continued to board the Fung Wah buses Monday night, but many were reluctant to do so after 7News told them the state wants the feds to shut Fung Wah down.
“It does worry me. I don’t even think I want to be on it. So right now, I have no choice,” said Kathy Waldron, a reluctant rider.
Fung Wah has had a history of troubles including buses that have broken down and even caught fire on the frequent trips between Boston and New York.
The bus line agreed to send away 21 of its 28 buses for inspections and repair if needed.
Fung Wah is renting buses to keep up its busy schedule.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law (of Leuven University) is organising an intensive course on Ethics of Reproductive Technologies. The objective of this course is to focus at some of the most challenging ethical issues in reproductive medicine, as well on the level of fundamental notions as applied clinical questions.
During the course experts will give presentations on various topics in the domain of reproductive medicine. There will be time for intensive discussions. The language of instruction will be English. The course is of interest to participants from diverse professional backgrounds, such as medicine, philosophy and theology, health care administration, and PhD students undertaking courses of study in these areas.
Course Coordinator: Kris Dierickx
Keynote Speaker: Paul Devroey
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Rotary International District 1080
Home | Membership Committee | Mentoring
(For an in depth RI perspective, see the RI publication 'New Member Orientation')
More than one in four new Rotarians with less than two years service in Rotary leave.
Mentoring new members into clubs might help to prevent this large loss.
A mentor and a sponsor are not necessarily the same thing.
What might a mentor look like?
A mentor should be a volunteer it is an important and challenging role nobody should be forced into it.
A mentor should be a good listener the mentor must be ready to respond to the need of the mentee. Don't tell them what you think they need to know.
A mentor must be approachable the mentee must be able to approach the mentor at any time not only at a club meeting
A mentor should have experience of Rotary.
A mentor should have knowledge of Rotary, not only within the club.
At the same time, recent recruits will have fresh memories of the challenges they faced.
A mentor must be empathetic to the new mentee.
Role of the mentor
Help a new Rotarian integrate into the club.
Introduce your mentee to 'Rotary ways' the people and the things they do.
Be available to your Mentee Be there.
Meet, support, motivate, inform and guide your Mentee. Above all, educate, do not train, your Mentee.
Plan a programme with your Mentee reflect, review and adjust as necessary.
- Establish rapport
- Build trust
- Ask Questions
- Keep confidences
- Be there
- Explore issues
- Share information
- Help to set goals and make a plan for action
- Reflect on outcomes
- Adjust the plan or the goal
- Continue the cycle reflect, plan, do
Above all else
How about listening to what the new member has to say?
How about trying to fit the mentoring to meet the needs of the new member?
Can the Mentor offer an opportunity for the new member to see themselves as a vital, active, engaged member of the club?
There could be four stages in the Mentor-Mentee relationship
(Week 0 is the week of induction so week -3 is three weeks before the induction)
Stage 1 Set up the relationship
Starts at Week -3. The Mentor meets the Mentee, explains his/her supportive role in helping the new Rotarian integrate fully into Rotary and supports the Sponsor and the Mentee as the Mentee prepares for induction
Stage 2 Develop the relationship
Starts at Week 0. The Mentor and the Mentee jointly plan and implement their programme
Stage 3 Review Success
On-going from Week 0. The Mentor and Mentee review every activity undertaken jointly or by the Mentee alone, identify positive and negative learning, and adjust their programme as necessary
Stage 4 End the relationship and celebrate
Eventually the Mentor has to 'let go' but only when both agree that the Mentee is fully integrated into Rotary ways, or confident enough to manage his/her own learning. When that happens celebrate!
However, allow for the relationship to be revived months, or even years, later. When the Mentee has become experienced in his/her own right s/he may want to discuss the possibility of seeking election as Club President, and who better to talk to than his/her former Mentor?
As Mentor, ask 'open' questions throughout, and listen actively to what your Mentee tells you. Everything you do must be planned, agreed and recorded (only brief notes are necessary), reviewed and reflected on in readiness for the next activity. The Mentor and Mentee must be clear why they are about to engage in a particular activity, and to assess its contribution to the development of the Mentee on completion. If it was not productive, then both must look for an alternative means of achieving the required outcome. Pay particular attention to the views and feelings expressed by your mentee to ensure that s/he is getting the advice, guidance and support s/he wants, and is able to make good use of it.
There is no complete list of joint activities that will benefit a particular Mentor-Mentee relationship but the following examples illustrate what is possible:
Meet and talk to all members before, during and after the meal, and at social events. Try and sit with as many different members as you can. Don't forget to include the Mentee's family.
Meet and talk to Club officers. Ask them what they do, and why
Meet and talk to Committee Chairs and Project leaders. Ask them what they do, and why
Check how many members are actively involved in the club's programme. Are there some 'diners only'?
Encourage the Mentee to give a 'Job Talk', and assist in the preparation
Encourage the Mentee to plan their role as a member of a Committee or Project Team
Visit neighbouring clubs. What do they do differently, what do they do the same? Are their methods better or worse?
Attend Club Council. Who are the key people and how do they influence the club's programme?
Attend District Council. Who are the key people and how do they influence the club's programme? Does the District have its own identifiable programme?
Attend District Conference. Does the club attend en masse? What is the purpose of Conference, and does it achieve it?
As you complete these activities what other activities are you led on to?
If the Mentor needs to give feedback to the Mentee, the most important thing to remember about feedback is: make it constructive
These guidelines might be useful when giving feedback to someone
- Focus feedback on what you have seen, not what you believe
- Focus on behaviour - not personality
- Keep it neutral - don't make a judgement
- Use feedback to inform, not advise - Let others decide on their own actions and so take ownership of them
- Make sure feedback is supportive, not threatening - Focus on the good things first, be respectful and understanding
- Keep it simple and do not overdo it - You do not have to give feedback on all aspects at once
Choose your time
You can communicate your feedback in the most exemplary way ever and yet if you choose the
wrong time or place it will not have any effect on the recipient. Bear the following in mind when
Keep it private - you wouldn't want others listening while someone detailed your development
Choose a 'good day' - we all have bad days sometimes when everything seems to go wrong. Do
not add to someone's stress levels by adding your feedback. When we are in a downcast mood
we are much more likely to take feedback as negative criticism rather than constructive
A 'safe' place - where might be the most convenient place to meet Choose a mutually
comfortable place to meet
Make time - you may not think you have much to say but the recipient may want to discuss the
issues you have raised. Make sure you are not going to be interrupted and that you both have
time for this kind of discussion
'I never teach my pupils: I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.'
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The transition to meteorological summer in the Northwest.
Often, as in this year, it happens right after July 4th, and almost certainly by mid-July, resulting in the oft-noted statement by the meteorological cognoscenti that summer starts on July 12th in western Washington. The effect is so profound, repeatable, and abrupt that we see it clearly in the climatological data. For example, here is the climatological daily probability of precipitation for Sea-Tac airport. On July 1st, the probability of at least .01 inches is still around 30%---but then the bottom drops out, and by mid-month it is in the low teens and around August 1st below 10%. Folks, this golden time, between July 15th and August 15th, is when you should plan your outdoor weddings, barbecues, and other rain-sensitive activities. Few areas are as dry as we are during that period.
But what about this year? Today and tomorrow there will still be come showers and clouds around. Wednesday, July 4th, will be the transition day, but one that should be dry--particularly around fireworks time. And then we transition to meteorological nirvana, as the persistent trough over the NW moves offshore and ridging develops over western North America.
Let me show you.
Here are two upper level (500 hPa--roughly 18,000 ft) charts. The first is for the afternoon of July 4th and the other for Sunday afternoon. You can see a large transition from a trough off the the west coast to ridging (higher heights) over western North America and strong troughing far out in the Gulf of Alaska.
This transition in atmosphere flow is supported by most major international model systems, such as the gold-standard ECMWF forecast... as shown below.
For longer-term forecasts meteorologists depend more heavily on ensemble-forecast systems in which many forecasts are run, with the ensemble mean (average) having more skill than any particular forecast. And the variability of the ensembles gives us information about probabilities. Here are the differences between the forecast ensemble means for today versus Saturday (actually the differences of the forecast means from normal..the anomalies) for the upper level (500 hPa) flow. Blue indicates anomalous troughing, green-ridging. The ensembles concur with the transition to improved conditions.
So, get our your summer clothers, buy that sunscreen, be prepared to water your garden...summer is coming.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Games A horseshoe or quoit thrown so that it encircles the peg.
- n. One that rings, especially one that sounds a bell or chime.
- n. Slang A contestant entered dishonestly into a competition.
- n. Slang One who bears a striking resemblance to another: a ringer for his father.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In quoits, a throw by which the quoit is cast so as to encircle the pin.
- n. One who rings; specifically, a bell-ringer.
- n. Any apparatus for ringing chimes, or a bell of any kind.
- n. In mining, a crowbar.
- n. In athletics, one who competes in some way under deception, concealing his identity, ability, or standing.
- n. In racing, a horse entered in a race with intent to deceive.
- n. In sheep-shearing, one who rings or tops the score. See ring.
- n. In general, one who excels others, as if able to run rings around his competitors and still keep ahead. See ring.
- n. A supplementary enthusiastic cheer.
- n. In telephony, an electric call-ben.
- n. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- n. games In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
- n. uncountable, games A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
- n. horse racing A horse fraudently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
- n. sports A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
- n. A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; now usually in the phrase dead ringer.
- n. UK, dialect A top performer.
- n. Australia The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
- n. Australia A stockman, a cowboy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
- n. (Mining) A crowbar.
- n. (Horse Racing) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.
- n. (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
- n. a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
- n. a person who is almost identical to another
- n. a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
- Unknown. (Wiktionary)
“That's what the term ringer implies, among other things such as not belonging.”
“My ringer on both phones types here are off at night, even the fax ringer is off!”
“We can get in ringer guys from Syria, but the Iraqis are all caught up in 'Oh, I want to survive to see a free Iraq.”
“Good to have when your phone's ringer is switched off.”
“A ringer from the time he was a foal – and he's only improved since I first handled him, four year ago.”
“FL: Broward County - Rep. Rivera had tough time against 'ringer' - even after she quit LINK”
“« Rep. Rivera had tough time against 'ringer' - even after she quit”
“My phone’s ringer is turned off, and my cell phone sits in my purse.”
“There’s a slate table to my left that holds my drink, the phone (whose ringer is off,) an Italian pottery catch all for pens, and a basket below for “stuff.””
“I have my bags packed too and I’m anxiously awaiting “the call,” continually checking my phone to make sure the ringer is turned on and [...]”
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ringer’.
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
A list of games and sports played with a ball, including names of the courts, fields and pitches in which they are played.
I'll start the list with Basque pelota, which is played in Id...
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...
Stuff that's dead.
Words as I learn them.
Words and phrase from Scott Lynch's book, Red Seas Under Red Skies.
One of the best movies ever
Looking for tweets for ringer.
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The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies: Thousands of Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Everyday Health Problems by the Editors of Prevention Magazine is a wonderful book on classic, inexpensive home remedies covering some of the most difficult and elusive medical problems to treat successfully.
For instance, the editors cite numerous ways to handle allergies. Examples include air conditioning the house, the use of a dehumidifier, wiping down humid areas with Clorox, isolating pets from the bedroom, sealing the bedding with plastic, using throw rugs, washing mattress pads in hot water, and using synthetic pillows.
The editors cite numerous home remedies to alleviate angina, although you should consult with the cardiologist often on this matter. The editors recommend taking an aspirin a day, tilting the head of the bed up three to four inches, smoking cessation, eating a diet with 10% of calories from fat and finally taking a stress test by the cardiologist in order to determine the types of exercises most suitable to oxygenate the body and reduce angina pain. In actuality, exercise trained muscles can pull more oxygen out of arterial blood helping to alleviate the grossest symptoms.
The editors cite numerous ways to combat sinusitis including the use of steam, bathing the nostrils daily in a saline solution with baking soda, sipping herbal teas like fenugreek, anise, and sage, as well as utilizing garlic, horseradish and Cajun spice on foods.
The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies is an excellent resource when used in conjunction with your professional medical providers. Each chapter contains an exhaustive list of medical advisers from prestigious colleges, universities, and noted private medical practitioners.
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Ghost rail raceraises funds for conservation
Thursday, October 14, 2010
For runners looking for a challenge, a 15-mile scenic run through Milford and Brookline is on tap for the second annual Ghost Train Rail Trail Race on Oct. 24.
Although there is no ghost story behind the title of the 15-mile run, organized by Steve Latour, it is named so because its spans a section along the original rail bed of abandoned train tracks that were built back in the 1880s.
“It’s a nice little trail off in the woods,” said Buddy Dougherty, of Brookline, member of the Brookline Conservation Commission. “It’s pretty tranquil, fairly flat.”
Last year it began in Brookline, so to switch it up slightly it will begin at the Milford DPW this year.
“It was pretty well attended for the first try,” Dougherty said.
With a $20 entry fee, all proceeds go to the Milford and Brookline conservation commissions and last year they raised about $600 for each group. The money is used to maintain the trails.
Running on trails rather than tracks and roads has benefits and pitfalls. There’s the lack of cars, animals and concrete paired with the scenic atmosphere that bolster the race. But the trails pose the risk of natural crevices and other footing obstacles to which one might not be accustomed.
“I’m not going to say it’s not challenging,” Dougherty said. “You have to be in pretty good shape to do it.”
During the race there will be three aid stations. At the start/finish line there will be water, Gatorade and snacks for after the race. At miles 4 and 11, at Four Corners, and at Lake Potanipo, located at mile 7.5 and the turnaround point of the race there will be water and Gatorade.
“If the weather’s great, it makes it better,” said Chris Constantino, of Milford, alternate member of the Milford Conservation Commission.
The trail will be marked with ribbons and everyone running should be aware of all the roots, rocks and old railroad ties while they are running.
The race can always use more volunteers at stations and to hand out awards at the end of the race. If interested in helping, go to the Milford DPW Sunday, Oct. 24, at 7 a.m. The race begins at 8.
“It’s just a lot of fun,” Constantino said. “It’s a great spot to run.”
To register to run in the race visit www.runreg.com. For more information on the Ghost Train Rail Trail Race visit sites.google.com/site/ghosttrainrailtrailrace/.
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A chronic cough is a cough that lasts for 8 weeks or more. It’s usually caused by an underlying condition, such as allergies or heartburn, and usually goes away after the underlying condition is treated.
The following are some questions to help you decide whether you should see your doctor about your cough:
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, call your doctor. He or she will want to find out if you have an illness that is causing the cough. If you answered "no" to all of these questions, one of the causes listed below may be causing your cough.
Smoking can cause a cough that doesn't go away.
Postnasal drip caused by allergies can make you cough. Postnasal drip is mucus that runs down your throat from the back of your nose.
Certain medicines, such as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for high blood pressure, can cause chronic cough. If you are taking medicines, ask your doctor if any of the medicines you use could cause you to cough.
Coughing can be a sign of asthma. In some people who have mild asthma, a cough may be the only symptom. Your doctor may perform breathing tests to find out if you have asthma. He or she may also ask you to try taking some asthma medicine to see if your cough goes away.
Acid from your stomach may back up into your throat. This is called "acid reflux." It can cause heartburn or a cough. Acid reflux is more common when you're lying down.
If you smoke, you should stop. Talk to your doctor about using a nicotine replacement product, a prescription medicine or another method to help you stop smoking.
If you have postnasal drip from allergies, try to avoid the things you are allergic to (allergens). Common allergens include the following:
An over-the-counter (OTC) medicine may help relieve your allergy symptoms, including a cough. Ask your doctor or pharmacist to help you choose one.
If you are taking a medicine that can cause you to cough, your doctor might be able to prescribe another medicine for you. Don't stop taking a prescribed medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
If you have asthma, your doctor will help you decide on the right treatment for your symptoms.
If you have acid reflux, try raising the head of your bed about 4 inches. It might also help to avoid eating or drinking for a few hours before you lie down. Ask your doctor about OTC or prescription medicines that can help relieve the symptoms of acid reflux by reducing or neutralizing the acid in your stomach.
Written by familydoctor.org editorial staff
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Goat’s rue (Galega officinalis) is back. This federal noxious weed is also an Oregon “A” (worst) weed. Goat’s rue was first found here near Grant’s Pass in 2007. That site (an intentionally planted field) was eradicated, but recently it was found again, this time in the Portland area at three different locations. The first new goat’s rue infestation was discovered on Metro property by an employee of the Portland Water Bureau, who rents the property and noted the plants unusual tenacity for spread. That prompted her to identify the plant and inform the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) to its location.
ODA took plant samples to Oregon State University’s Plant Herbarium for verification. While at the herbarium, it was learned that the sample stored there originated from an infestation in the Tualatin area. This set off the alarms. Further networking with the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services indicated that they had identified goat’s rue on Portland Parks and Recreation Department property. Within two weeks, three infestations had been discovered.
Adult Goat’s rue in December with seed pods still attached
ODA and cooperators are now working on a statewide management plan that will focus on expanded survey and early detection rapid response (EDRR) protocols that will hopefully stop the spread of this plant and achieve eradication.
Goat’s rue has a long and interesting history in North America. There are lessons for all of us in this story. Native to the Middle East, goat’s rue is now found throughout much of Europe and western Asia. It was introduced to Utah in 1891 as a potential forage crop. That didn’t work out. It turns out goat’s rue grown in North America contains alkaloid levels that make it unpalatable and even potentially toxic, especially to sheep.
Though goat’s rue bombed as a crop, the plant was very happy and escaped cultivation. One hundred and twenty years later, 60 square miles of Cache County, Utah, are infested. A half dozen other states have also reported infestations. This weed gets around because people continue to experiment with it. It is reputed to have medicinal properties.
Seedlings under litter
Goat’s rue has been used since the Middle Ages to decrease blood sugar and relieve the symptoms of diabetes. According to Wikipedia, there have been clinical trials with compounds derived from the plant, but they were too toxic for human use. That hasn’t stopped people from buying remedies derived from the plant, or from buying seeds and growing their own.
Out of morbid curiosity, I Googled “goat’s rue seeds for sale” and got 415,000 hits! Many of them were for another plant with the same common name, so I tried “Galega officinalis seeds for sale” -- that cut the hit list back to only 19,400! Clearly the fact that this is a federal noxious weed, and it is illegal to sell anywhere in this country, makes little difference in a global, internet-connected world.
That got me thinking about Internet sales of other weeds important to Oregon. Using Latin names to avoid confusion, and only scanning the first page of the hit lists, I searched for Scotch broom (107,000 hits, many clearly offering seeds or plants), yellow starthistle (832 hits, most related to its being a weed, but one offering C. solstitialis seeds for sale at 1 gram for 6 Euros, worldwide shipping), and Patterson’s curse (57,700 hits, including “in stock,” “worldwide shipping”).
Importing any of these plants into Oregon is illegal. Our regulations prohibit importation, propagation, and sale of both “A” and “B” noxious weeds. There are similar regulations related to bullfrogs, carp, and invasive animals. However, it is unreasonable to expect suppliers around the globe to be aware of Oregon’s regulations. Some of their customers want these plants and animals, and they are not problems in all parts of the world. Suppliers are in the business of making money, and they don’t break any laws when they accept an order from Oregon and put a package in the mail.
The person breaking the law is the importer, i.e., the recipient. That means we need to focus on educating our fellow citizens.
Lessons from the goat’s rue story for all Oregonians:
1.) Goat’s rue could be in your neighborhood. The sites in Portland have been there for years and gone unreported. It wouldn’t surprise us if there are other undiscovered sites. Keep your eyes open for a perennial plant that regrows from a taproot each year and reaches two to six feet with hollow stems and pea-like flowers and pods: http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/PLANT/WEEDS/profile_goatsrue.shtml
If you see this plant, report it to: oregoninvasiveshotline.org or the invasive species hotline : 1-866-INVADER.
2.) Plant and animals sometimes behave differently when introduced to new environments.
3.) The Internet greatly facilitates sales and movement of plants and animals around the world.
4.) Check for applicable regulations before ordering or importing live plants or animals, including seeds. The Internet makes it somewhat easier to check regulations, but I recommend the telephone. Direct questions to either: Oregon Department of Agriculture (plants/insects), or Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (animals) – or just call the invasive species hotline, and we’ll point you in the right direction.
If we learn these lessons, we’re less likely to rue this rue and lots of other doodoo, too.
Dan Hilburn and Alex Park
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Young people from Oldham and Rochdale pen chapter in CBBC book
The group travelled to the BBC studios in Manchester, where they collaborated with one of the show’s writers on penning and illustrating a collaborative book chapter -- they wrote chapter five of Tracy Beaker Returns -- about the show’s characters.
'A feeling of pride, importance, and of being valued and listened to'
Like the children in the TV programme, the workshop’s attendants have faced difficulties.
Donna Chadwich, Oldham Programme Manager said: 'It was great seeing them work together as a team to create a story about children just like them. Our programme was very pleased to support this project and be able to offer this great opportunity to the vulnerable children and young people we work with.
'Participation, voice and influence are very important to us at The Children's Society and being able to write a chapter of the Tracy Beaker book based on "real life experiences" not only helped break down barriers and build self-confidence but also created a feeling of pride, importance, of being valued and listened to in our children and young people.'
Read the young people's chapter
The young people wrote chapter five of Tracy Beaker Returns, which can be accessed on the Tracy Beaker Storyteller webpage.
(On the page, click the book titled 'Tracy Beaker Story Event'. You can either read the entire story or jump to chapter five -- the young people's chapter -- by using the blue 'Next chapter' tab at the top of the book.)
Thanks to the CBBC and their writing instructor Jonathan Evans, the group of youngsters will can add ‘published authors’ to their already long list of accomplishments.
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With the number of pages on the Internet ever increasing, identifying profitable niches is becoming a harder process.
The amount of poor quality and duplicate content continues to muddy the waters.
Any niche can look like a high-competition market.
But while a niche may appear to have a large amount of competition, in truth some of the pages that make up the competition count (SEOC) may not be real threats.
Open up Market Samurai’s Keyword Research module and add the keyword “how to use notepad”, then analyse it.
As you can see, the SEOC for this keyword would normally send you running for the hills!
But when you click through to view the pages in Google, you start to notice a trend. Almost none of the pages appearing for the keyword are trying to be there.
A large number of them are forum comments, single pages which include the keyword, but aren’t engineered to rank.
Now if you were to look into the search page results for every keyword, it would make Keyword Research a very tiring, inefficient process.
So how do we find the real competition for a niche?
This is where a new feature in Market Samurai’s Keyword Research module comes in.
SEOUC performs a Google search using the INURL function, so the result will tell you how many pages in Google’s index contain the keyword in their URL.
Pages which have a keyword in their URL are much more likely to be actively competing in a niche, rather than only being there by accident.
This makes SEOUC a very useful indicator of active competition for a niche.
By setting a filter between 500 and 1000 for SEOUC you will be able to quickly and easily analyse your list of keywords to find which have the most active competition.
If you already own Market Samurai or Domain Samurai then this new feature is already available to you. It’s part of our free Keyword Research module.
You will need to update to the latest version to gain access to this new feature.
If you are yet to get your copy of Market Samurai, you can get it here.
This new feature is part of our free keyword research module, so you don’t need to be a paid user to gain access to this powerful new indicator of competition.
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Transect sampling of surface and 5-10cm depth of the soils in the vicinity of seal carcases in the Miers Valley was carried out. Samples were analysed to assess the impact of local carbon/nitrogen sources on microbial diversity and biomass. It was proposed that microbial diversity is influenced by the known C and N limitations in Dry Valley mineral soils. In situ ATP analysis of transect samples ... was conducted. In the 04/05 season, a site was located and mapped that had the highest concentration of mummified seal in one area (50). Peripheral soils associated with the seals were sampled in an effort to resolve more clearly the effect on microbial metabolism and the extent of the impact. Transect sampling was conducted on surface soils in the vicinity of 7 selected seal carcasses. An additional 8 were spot sampled only where the seal actually contacts the soil surface.
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Boosting the Next Wave of Accelerators
New Technique Speeds Simulations by up to a Million-fold
March 17, 2011
Simulations of a laser-plasma wakefield are shown in a standard “laboratory frame,” stationary observer and moving beam. The laser pulse is represented in blue and red; the wakefields are colored pale blue and yellow. The shining dot represents the electron beam. (Images and animations by Jean Luc-Vay using a visualization package developed at Berkeley Lab by David Grote and Vay based on the open-source Opendx package)
Albert Einstein’s most famous thought experiment is proving its worth once again as researchers use it to help speed up the modeling (and thus design) of so-called “tabletop” accelerators.
Particle accelerators, such as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), help physicists unlock the fundamental secrets of matter and the beginnings of our universe. But conventional accelerators are large and expensive. An emerging new class of compact accelerators is being designed to cost less and pack more power into much smaller spaces than today’s machines.
However, generating computer models of tabletop accelerators has proven difficult, slow, and costly. To solve this problem, a team of scientists computing at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has perfected a new method that generates models anywhere from 10,000 to a million times faster than before.
This “boosted frame” approach uses a feature of special relativity to calculate in a just a few hours models that once took days, or even weeks, to complete. The method even allows researchers to execute models that weren’t previously within the realm of possibility.
“For the first time we can vary parameters and get results in a matter of days at full physics, at full scale. This was totally unthinkable before,” says Jean-Luc Vay of the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division (AFRD) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Vay, who led the team, first proposed the boosted-frame approach in 2007. He and colleagues Cameron Geddes of the LOASIS Program in AFRD, Estelle Cormier-Michel of the Tech-X Corporation in Denver, and David Grote of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory published their findings in the March 2011 issue of the journal Physics of Plasma Letters.
New Kind of Accelerator, New Kind of Model
The LHC uses giant, supercooled magnets to sling atomic particles, such as electrons, around a 27 km underground tunnel. When the particle beams reach nearly the speed of light they are steered into head-on collisions. Scientists study the wreckage or “decay” of these smash-ups to learn more about the nature of matter.
However, to reach higher speeds (or “energies” as scientists term it), conventional magnetic accelerators, such as the LHC, must grow ever larger. The best hope for the high-energy machines of the future may lie in smaller, more powerful and less expensive laser-plasma accelerators. BELLA (the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator) is one of them.
Now being built by the LOASIS program at Berkeley Lab, BELLA is remarkably compact. In just one meter, BELLA will accelerate an electron beam to 10 billion electron volts, one-fifth the energy achieved by the long linear accelerator at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Laser-plasma accelerators like BELLA work by sending a very short laser pulse through a plasma measuring a few centimeters or more. In its wake, like a speedboat on water, the laser pulse creates waves in the plasma. These alternating waves of positively and negatively charged particles set up intense electric fields. Bunches of free electrons “surf” this wakefield and are accelerated to high energies.
But realizing the promise of laser-plasma accelerators crucially depends on being able to simulate their operation in three-dimensional detail. Until now such simulations have challenged or exceeded even the capabilities of supercomputers.
“The most common way to model a laser-plasma accelerator in a computer is by representing the electromagnetic fields as values on a grid, and the plasma as particles that interact with the fields,” explains Geddes, a member of the LOASIS scientific staff who has long worked on laser-plasma acceleration. “Since you have to resolve the finest structures — the laser wavelength, the electron bunch — over the relatively enormous length of the plasma, you need a grid with hundreds of millions of cells and time steps.”
As a result, while much of the important physics of BELLA is three-dimensional, direct 3-D simulation was initially impractical. Just a one-dimensional simulation of BELLA required 5,000 hours of supercomputer processor time on NERSC’s Franklin supercomputer.
Using their boosted-frame method, Vay’s team has achieved full 3-D simulations of a BELLA “stage” (one length of plasma) in just a few hours of supercomputer time, calculations that would have been beyond the state of the art just two years ago.
Not only are the recent BELLA calculations tens of thousands of times faster than conventional methods, but they also overcome problems that plagued previous attempts to implement the boosted-frame idea.
A 'Boosted' Point of View
|This image shows the “boosted frame,” in which the observer moves at near light speed. The laser pulse is represented in blue and red; the wakefields are colored pale blue and yellow. In this frame, the plasma (yellow box) has contracted and the wave fronts are fewer and farther apart, resulting in far fewer calculations and faster results.|
When Albert Einstein was 16 years old he imagined riding on a beam of light — a thought experiment that, 10 years later, led to his Theory of Special Relativity. For someone moving at the speed of light, time slows and space contracts, compared to the experience of a stationary observer. Yet calculations made from either point of view will garner the same result, Einstein found.
If the team could figure out how to boost their observation point to near light speed, the length of the plasma would dramatically shorten, the wave would lengthen, and the time it takes to cross the plasma would shorten. That would mean far fewer calculations and less computer time to achieve the same results.
Sounds simple, but boosting the simulation’s viewpoint turned out to be fraught with difficulties. Early attempts to apply the boosted-frame method to laser-plasma wakefield simulations were limited by numerical instabilities, small errors that are magnified the longer a calculation runs. Calculations could still be speeded up tens or even hundreds of times, but that was only a tiny fraction of the full promise of the method.
Vay’s team showed that using a particular boosted frame, that of the wakefield itself, gave them near-optimal calculation speeds. Also, calculating fewer oscillations made it easier to deal with numerical instabilities. Combining these advantages with special techniques for interpreting the data between frames, Vay and team were able to exploit the full potential of the boosted-frame principle.
“We produced the first full multidimensional simulation of the 10 billion-electron-volt design for BELLA,” says Vay. “We even ran simulations all the way up to a trillion electron volts, which establishes our ability to model the behavior of laser-plasma accelerator stages at varying energies. With this calculation we achieved the theoretical maximum speed-up of the boosted-frame method for such systems — a million times faster than similar calculations in the laboratory [stationary observer] frame.”
Speedier calculations will allow scientists to simulate the detailed physics they need in order to develop laser plasma accelerators not only for future particle colliders, but for other applications, as well.
Vay used 240,000 processor hours on NERSC’s Franklin, a Cray XT4 with 38,000 processor cores, for the team’s initial simulations. The team plans to take advantage of their new boosted-frame method together with new supercomputers like NERSC’s Hopper, a 150,000-core Cray XE6, to produce high-resolution simulations that can accurately resolve very high quality beams.
For more information about computing sciences at Berkeley Lab, please visit: www.lbl.gov/cs
J.-L. Vay, C. G. R. Geddes, E. Cormier-Michel, and D. P. Grote, “Effects of hyperbolic rotation in Minkowski space on the modeling of plasma accelerators in a Lorentz boosted frame,” Phys. Plasmas 18, 030701 (2011), DOI:10.1063/1.3559483
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“They are well aware of the problems of viruses, hackers, paedophiles and online scams, and most claim that threatening text messages are no different to any other form of bullying and admit to being victims and perpetrators.
The older children get lighter supervision from their parents. But they recognise that parents are right to supervise them and only 12-14 year-old girls get angry when Mum wants to read what they’ve said in an email.
Children worry about damaging the family computer with a virus, running out of credit on their mobiles, becoming internet addicts and damaging their eyesight or losing sleep if they stay online too long.
They know not to give out their email address or mobile number to strangers and never to agree to a meeting with a stranger, although some admit to breaking these rules or know of friends or apocryphal friends of friends who have.”
The study covered children (age groups 9-10 and 12-14) in 29 countries (the 27 member states plus Iceland and Norway) and was based on group discussions.
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"And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? " (Matthew 12:25-26).
Today, there are many "men of God" who perform miracles, including healing. (Healing here means those that have been scientifically and physically proven). Where I come from, women are more fond of these and often demand outright healings and miracles, and they do get what they want from these people who sometimes say and do things that seem questionable from a biblical respective.. Children are also healed of leprosy, blindness, name it.
Others also call themselves as spiritualists (not from God) who also interpret dreams and heal people. Please I know that these are not much heard of in the west although they may exist in different forms.
Question is, how do we apply the quotation above today as these "men of God" healers often cite it to buttress their claims?
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It wasn’t of course: Stand Grammar School – and yes, it did have Headmaster-driven pretensions of public schoolness – was in many ways a model of how to teach self-respect – from which would come high self-esteem, and thus the confidence to challenge shibboleths. And although the school had some quite appalling sadists among its teaching staff, the vast majority of the ‘screws’ (as we came to call them) had that thing so obviously missing from social professions today: a Calling.
Failing to think for yourself was, looking back, the thing most severely punished. The ‘beak’ Austin Williamson cracked down hard on ‘drainpipe’ trousers, long hair and crowd indiscipline because his goal was to create leaders, not collaborators and followers. Seen from the perspective of 2010, it is curious that while the rebellious students he helped create would have earned his disapproval, he would I suspect have disapproved of – and been horrified by – the unwise crowd consensus that has dominated our culture since the start of the 1980s.
The weekend Hippies we all became rebelled against discipline….only later to discover that those reserves of self-discipline upon which we had to call had been created by school lessons – many of which took place outside the formality of the classroom. As the 1970s progressed, the desire to do something original in the advertising profession led me away from the more conformist JWT Establishment agency, and towards the rule-breakers at CDP. By the beginning of the 1990s, the ability to think beyond peer-pressure had enabled me to reject both distributionist socialism and naively greedy Thatcherism.
Myself and millions of others refused to sign up, in turn, for most or all of Foot, Thatcher, Blair, Brown or Clegg. As time has gone on (and on and on and on) we also look on horrified at the mob madness of everything from pc to Britain’s Got Talent. Does this make us cynics? I think not: it makes us people capable of thinking for ourselves.
Over the last thirty years, kids have had to get this capability from their parents and wider family, from the odd exceptional teacher – or from the genetically-wired individual will that seeks always to observe, “No amount of pressure will convince me that this turd is putty – and thus good for the stability of my windows”. But as parenting too has become either clueless or itself infected by crowd correctness, the positive values of self-formed opinion and discernment of character have been increasingly watered down. Without this process, if I’m being honest here, Lord Mandelson would never have got beyond a backroom job at Labour HQ.
The crushing pressure of tightly-packed crowds, plus an inability to spot phoneys and false conclusions, are the two base requirements for the ultimate success of fascism. At present, the UK shows symptoms of it that are relatively benign: the odd process of being beguiled by a twister like Blair, the bizarre belief that an obese faker might be bulimic, misplaced sympathy for a disabled gargoyle, and the inability to say to a talent-show contestant, “You can’t sing – go away now and get a proper job”.
But in the economic sphere for one, the signs are rather more worrying: the inability to interrogate drivel, the constant driving need to believe good news, and the neurotic daily changes of opinion by commentators and consumers…..these are doomed to lead to misfortune for rather more people than should be the case.
In the media for another, credence is given to tramline thinking and dangerously censorious ideas about debate. A whole programme, Question Time, is taken over by clones and drones lacking all the necessary skills to unmask Nick Griffiths in a democratically convincing manner. The BBC’s business news slavishly follows Downing Street fantasies about bank stability and economic growth. A documentary about the formation of the current Coalition allows half a dozen provably mendacious statements to stand unopposed on the grounds of ‘objectivity’. And the attempts of both myself and many others to draw attention to the takeover of a once great newspaper by the Goon dragoons of Balls, Hamas and Harman fall on very stony ground.
Superficial and narrowly administered education is by far the biggest culprit in this creeping progress of acquiescence in the face of polemic bullying. Some on the Right see this as conspiracy, but I don’t: as usual for me, it’s simply a clear case of fluffy incompetence. Some kids rise above it, but most don’t. The teacher-quality fudge remains the Slog’s biggest criticism of Gove’s education proposals, but it may well be that some toning down has been required in the light of LibDem sensibilities. Either way, if we are to survive as a creative nation, this must change – and change quickly. Without that, our survival must be severely in doubt.
What do I mean by ‘survival’? Just this: the retention of enough liberties to ensure that any and all Sun-round-the-Earth dogma is opposed by enough individuals to stop it dead; and willingness to accept radical econo-fiscal change in the face of controlling criticism right across the spectrum from academic rigidity to free-market self interest.
Thinking for yourself rather than of yourself is the only way the Briton will get back to genuine tolerance, breakthrough creativity, and crystal-clear reality. We need these qualities now more than at any time since 1940. And to get it, we need an education system that encourages those who stand out from the crowd.
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I define the worth of a person as the value attached by society to the enhancement of the interests and opportunities of that person relative to the interests and opportunities of other persons. One important form of enhancement of interest is the protection of the person’s life. If society regards two persons as being of equal worth, it means, among other things, that it is willing to do equally much to protect their lives.
This only follows on the false assumption that all life extensions are equal. If some people have a greater interest in continued living than others, then assigning equal value to the "enhancement of [their] interests" should fairly straightforwardly entail a greater willingness to "protect" the life of the person who would thereby gain more from it. We would still be "willing to do equally much" to equally benefit either person. But there's no reason to think that everyone benefits equally from the protection of their (respective) lives.
Nord thus seems to be repeating Harris' mistake of conflating the worth of a person (i.e. what weight we should give their interests) with the worth of a particular life-extension to the person. Recognizing that people have "equal worth" in the first sense -- that we should count their interests equally -- in no way entails that we should treat all life-extensions as having equal priority. Quite the opposite, in fact, if some life extensions are more beneficial to their subjects than others. Valuing their interests equally means preferring a great enhancement to one person's interests over a merely mild enhancement to another's.
Update: Erik Nord clarifies that by "interests" here he is talking about the psychological notion of feeling "interested" in an outcome, rather than the normative concept of one's welfare interests.
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Imagine cruising the harbor in this
The Boston Fire Department reports it's just signed a contract for a wicked fast new fireboat. The $4.2-million aluminum John S. Damrell (named after the fire department's chief engineer during the Great Fire of 1872) will be able to pump 12,000 gallons of water per minute - when it's not racing somewhere at speeds of up to 35 knots (40 m.p.h.).
The 69-foot Damrell is also designed to respond to biological, chemical and even radioactive attacks, according to the department. It's being built by Metalcraft Marine, Inc. of Kingston, Ont., and is expected in Boston Harbor in August, 2011.
About half the money for the boat comes from federal stimulus funds; the rest from the city. The Damrell will replace a boat in service since 1972.
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DETROIT (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder on Monday praised a partnership between a Detroit-based social and economic services agency and a manufacturing assembly company, saying it would be a role model for the jobs plan he plans to announce in November.
Snyder spoke at the nonprofit group Focus: HOPE, which has teamed up with Auburn Hills-based Android Industries to assemble parts for the Chevrolet Volt, a rechargeable electric car with a small gas engine.
"The power of partnerships — that's what is truly exciting here," the Republican governor said from a stage set up near workers assembling headliners and front-end suspension models. The equipment will be shipped to a nearby General Motors Co. plant for final assembly.
"It's by marrying those together that we see increased power," Snyder added. "That's what we need to focus on."
Snyder said the din of machines behind him was "a noise we need to hear more often in the state."
About 50 workers, mostly from Detroit, have been hired by Focus: HOPE for manufacturing positions at Android Industries, which leases the employees and manufacturing space at the nonprofit. Company officials said they hope to hire a total of 150 Focus: HOPE employees in Detroit and another Android facility in the neighboring suburb of Warren by early 2013 as demand for the Volt increases and the number of shifts grow.
"This is about a 10 percent footprint of what we're going to be doing (at Focus: HOPE)," Android Chief Executive Gerald Elson said.
Elson said the manufacturing line at Focus: HOPE has been running for a little more than two months, and he described the operation as "flawless." He also said the workers trained by the nonprofit are as good as those Android hires through its normal process.
He said working with Focus: HOPE was "the right thing to do" for the workers, the company, the city and the state.
Snyder said it's an example of the kind of workforce development that's crucial to pulling Michigan out of its economic struggles. He's expected to introduce his jobs development plan next month as one of his "messages" to the state Legislature.
Manufacturing tie-ups aren't new for Focus: HOPE, which was founded in 1968 after the Detroit riots and worked for years with the Detroit Three automakers and major suppliers. The agency was forced to discontinue those contracts several years ago as the auto industry retrenched in the face of price pressure and tough competition — a precursor to the bankruptcy reorganizations of GM and Chrysler.
Cassandra Davis was among those to benefit early on, coming to Focus: HOPE in 1994 and working her way up through its educational training programs to work as a shipping and receiving data analyst.
The 40-year-old from Detroit said she lost her job in 2005 when Focus: HOPE stopped making auto parts. She moved to Columbus, Ohio, for temporary automotive work, but returned to Michigan last year when she heard about the Focus: Hope-Android partnership.
Davis said Focus: HOPE provided her a "first chance," now her job with the partnership is offering a second.
"It's fabulous I could do it in Detroit," said Davis, one of the first people hired to work on the Android line at Focus: HOPE. "I only left Detroit because I didn't have work."
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|A detail from Sandro Botticelli's "Birth of Venus."|
July 12, 2010. Rome, Italy. This past July 2, Catholic
speaker, author, and media consultant Teresa Tomeo interviewed Fr Mark
Haydu, LC, the international director of the Patrons of the
Arts in the Vatican Museums. The interview is in the third
segment of her July 2 talk show, which can be
heard at this link.
As Fr Mark explains, the Patrons
of the Arts is an international network of benefactors who
support the Vatican Museums’ art restoration projects. Both he and
Teresa make the point that art is a medium by
which Catholics can engage the culture, expressing the faith and
touching hearts in a different—and sometimes more powerful—way than words.
The show also promotes a Christmastime pilgrimage on the
theme of “Feminine Beauty in the Arts,” which she
and Fr Mark Haydu are co-hosting with Brenda Sharman of
Pure Fashion. Liz Lev, an expert guide on Catholic
art in the Vatican museums, will also be giving talks
on the pilgrimage, which begins on December 27 and ends
on January 3.
The tour, which is intended for mothers and
daughters but is open to all (an independently themed segment
is available for fathers and sons), will look at the
collections of the Vatican Museums under the perspective of what
makes for real feminine beauty.
The visits will also go
outside of the Vatican to other sites, such as the
Galleria Borghese Museum, the St Agnes Catacombs, the Coliseum, the
Roman Forum, the Trevi Fountain, and a selection of churches
and basilicas in Rome. Outside of Rome, the pilgrims will
spend a day in Siena and another day by the
sea in Nettuno, where St Maria Goretti was martyred.
Rome, the pilgrims will stay at a 4-star hotel, attend
a papal audience, and enjoy a farewell dinner at the
Vatican. Costs cover lodging, all museum entrance fees, transportation by
bus once in Italy, and some meals.
More practical information
about the pilgrimage, including regular and early booking prices and
a complete itinerary (see second page), is available in the
flyer at this link.
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Do you know somebody or do you have a family member that is afflicted with autism? If you don't know what autism is, autism is a physical condition that affects the brain's normal development of a child. It affects the social and communication skills of a child and this development disorder appears in the first three years of a child. If you need help with autism and you want to be abreast of its symptoms and treatments or you want to know further how autism is asociated with other development disorders like Aspergers or Fragile X, well you will know about all these at Autism Support Network. This is an online site that you will not only learn the symptoms, treatments and other informations about autism but you can connect with other families and individuals who are going through the same dilemma. Currently, there is no medicine that treats the underlying problem of autism. There are emerging treatments for autism however, all of these do not have scientific support. If your or your friends child has autism, it will be so helpful to stay in touch with other parents of children with autism and autism specialists and together follow the progress of research being conducted in this area. Join Autism Support Network at www.autismsupportnetwork.com to be a member of the community of people helping one another, fostering an exchange of ideas and knowledge as a resource guide for treatments , strategies and therapies for autism.
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Most people believe negotiations begin the moment they decide to ask for something such as an increase in a fee, a bonus, raise or promotion, or, the purchase or sale of a product or service.
The negotiation begins before you know what you want. It begins the moment you meet another.
Your Klout Score
I was explaining my new Klout score to my assistant this morning.
“What does it mean?” she asked.
I must admit I stumbled around a bit, both because I’ve never been quite certain what it means and partially because it seems pretty lame to care what Klout has to say about my supposed online influence.
Since I was asked, I looked. Here’s what Klout says Klout means.
Klout measures people’s online influence
based on your ability to drive action in social networks. We process this data on a daily basis to give you an updated Klout Score each morning.Here are a few of the actions we use to measure influence:
Facebook: Mentions, Likes, Comments, Subscribers, Wall Posts, Friends
Twitter: Retweets, Mentions, List Memberships, Followers, Replies
Google+: Comments, Reshares, +1
LinkedIn: Title, Connections, Recommenders, Comments
Klout: +K Received
What I’m doing on Klout is pretty much what I’m doing on all my other social networking platforms – building relationships and doing favors. I’m negotiating positive, value-creating, reciprocity-driving relationships with people I don’t even yet know.
We do the same thing “on the ground” in our communities, with our families and in the workplace.
Today, the Harvard Program on Negotiation suggests that one of the best ways to build trust and goodwill in workplace relationships is to ask for advice.
“Advice seeking,” says the PON blog,
inherently employs multiple self-presentation tactics (including ingratiation, self-promotion, and supplication), [that] allows us to improve both our competence and our likability. Think about the last time someone asked you for advice. How did you respond? You probably had at least one of these reactions:
You offered thoughtful ideas to help solve the problem.
You were flattered to be asked for your opinion.
You tried to put yourself in the other person’s shoes.
You felt invested in the person’s success.
These reactions generate goodwill and make advice seeking an effective negotiation strategy. Read on here.
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From an article by Christopher Beam in Salon, March 16
Our view of Japanese culture is as follows:
The Japanese are honest and disciplined. They are a collective society. They value the group over the individual. Of course they’re not going to steal anything after the most devastating natural disaster of their lifetimes – unlike those undisciplined thieves in post-Katrina New Orleans and post-earthquake Haiti. Even if they are desperate for food, the Japanese will still wait in line for groceries.
Mark D. West, professor at University of Michigan Law School, believes that there is a circularity to these cultural explanations, “Why don’t Japanese loot? Because it’s not in their culture. How is that culture defined? An absence of looting.” A better explanation, he believes, is structural factors: a robust system of laws that reinforce honesty, a strong police presence, and, ironically, active crime organizations.
Japanese people may well be more honest than most. But the Japanese legal structure rewards honesty more than most. In a 2003 study of Japan’s famous policy for recovering lost property, West argues that the high rates of recovery have less to do with altruism than with the system of carrots and sticks that creates incentives for people to return property they find rather than keep it.
For example, if you find an umbrella and turn it in to the cops, you get a finder’s fee of 5 to 20 percent of its value if the owner picks it up. If they don’t pick it up within six months, the finder gets to keep the umbrella. Japanese learn about this system from a young age, and a child’s first trip to the nearest police station after finding a small coin, say, is a rite of passage that both children and police officers take seriously.
At the same time, police enforce small crimes like petty theft, which contributes to an overall sense of security and order, along the lines of the “broken windows” policy implemented in New York City in the 1990s. Failure to return a found wallet can result in hours of interrogation at best, and up to 10 years in prison at worst.
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by Howard Rheingold — posted at 2006-09-04 13:53 last modified 2006-09-04 13:53
Aaron Swartz heard Jimmy Wales speak at our Stanford class on Literacy of Cooperation (here's and wondered about his claims that more than half the edits were done by fewer than one percent of the contributors. Swartz rented some computer cluster time, downloaded a sample of the 60 billion Wikipedia edits, and :
When you put it all together, the story become clear: an outsider makes one edit to add a chunk of information, then insiders make several edits tweaking and reformatting it. In addition, insiders rack up thousands of edits doing things like changing the name of a category across the entire site -- the kind of thing only insiders deeply care about. As a result, insiders account for the vast majority of the edits. But it's the outsiders who provide nearly all of the content.
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This is something that has been on my mind for months now. Essentially, it comes down to the argument of PC gaming vs console gaming. I am a PS3 gamer predominantly, but as I have been doing more and more work lately on my PC I have been considering throwing some cash into it and be able to play PC games again.
However, I am not sure which is more of a power drain. While I'm sure neither is exorbitant, there must certainly be a difference. So, Gaming rig with 2 monitors and a healthy sound system, or a PS3 and a big 44in Panasonic TV?
While in all honesty I will likely continue to use both, I like to think of the environment. I don't have a car and I bike everywhere. Right there, my carbon footprint is going to be significantly less than many. However my obsession with technology certainly raises that level. I am sure there are studies that investigate such things, and maybe I will have to go in search of them!
What are other ways to be an environmentally conscious gamer?
My PC is close to 6 years old, and surely not the most energy efficient. Are newer rigs considerably more green?
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The Sepolok Orangutan Sanctuary is located in northern Sabah, a province of Malaysia on the island of Borneo. The center is a well-maintained and environmentally-friendly place for people to see these notoriously shy and endangered apes. The orangutans are viewed at feedings twice a day.
Visitors walk through the rainforest and watch the feeding on elevated wooden platforms so that they don’t have any impact on the ecosystem.
The orangutans move between trees and platforms in the feeding area on cables.
Two feeders bring buckets of bananas to the orangutans. The orangutans pay them no mind, and the feeders appear to be bored with their jobs.
During the rain orangutans prefer to stay in the dense jungle. However, despite the rain during our vistit several orangutans showed up for the feeding.
One of the orangutans was particularly mischievous
They ornagutans are not supposed to come into contact with the visitors
Each year one or two lone women are accosted on the trail and stripped of their clothes by a curious young orangutan
Although the orangutans mean no harm, it is usually very frightening (and embarrassing) for the victim. Handlers do their best to make sure orangutans do not become too accustomed to people
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Cancer patients need to be especially vigilant when it comes to adequate hydration. Drinking enough fluids helps the body excrete toxins such as those produced by chemotherapy. The health care provider needs to express the importance of drinking plenty of fluids when it comes to cancer treatment. When patients become dehydrated, either due to the gastrointestinal effects of chemotherapy or because they are not taking in enough fluids, they can become excessively fatigued and lack energy. Sometimes dehydration can prompt a trip to the hospital, as patients can become extremely sleepy and even lethargic. When this happens, intravenous fluids are often started and then the patient becomes more responsive.
Being adequately hydrated means that the urinary tract system can function at it’s best, while eliminating toxins and bacteria, via the urine. If toxins and bacteria are not allowed to be eliminated, infection can take hold. With the cancer patient’s already compromised immune system, any infection, no matter how small can be dangerous.
Patients can also enjoy renewed energy and relief of oral irritation when they consume enough fluids. Treatments and medications can cause dry mouth and oral ulcers. Lack of oral moisture can exacerbate symptoms and cause an infection. Not taking in enough fluids can also cause difficulty when eating, causing the patient to reduce their intake of food. This can promote fatigue and weakness, while discouraging healing. Although many people do not enjoy drinking plain water, it is important they are told that they can drink fruit juices, teas and eat Popsicles as well, providing that these are not contraindicated with their treatment plan. Although many patients enjoy their morning cup of coffee, it is important to note that coffee has caffeine in it, and if taken excessively, can even cause dehydration. Patients will find that when they are adequately hydrated they will not only feel better, they will look better – an important factor for raising self-esteem.
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Sydney Harbour Bridge
Preserving an icon
The refurbishment of the Sydney Harbour Bridge represented complex challenges to the systems and products which were used for the waterproofing works. Due to fast-curing Sika products works could be done in just two weekends, so greater inconvenience for the traffic could be prevented.
Largest steel bridge worldwide
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's best known and most photographed landmarks. It is the world's largest steel arch bridge, with the top of the bridge standing 134 meters above the harbour. Construction started in 1924, and it took 1,400 men eight years to build at a cost of £4.2 million. Six million hand-driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel were used in its construction. Lately the bridge underwent its largest refurbishment since construction. Works included resurfacing and replacement of its original and now 80-year-old waterproofing with a unique waterproofing system from Sika Australia under very challenging weather conditions.
Waterproofing made fast
Maintenance work had been carried out from time to time in the past, but by around 2009 it was recognized that the 80-year-old concrete slab was no longer watertight. Owing to the ingress of water, the steel deck and the steel structure underneath it had started corroding, and considerable movement of the approach spans was noticed. The waterproofing system selected had to meet stringent performance criteria specified by New South Wales Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) with regard to adhesion, tensile and flexural testing as well as cyclic performance. Due to the impact of bridge closure on traffic congestion within the Sydney CBD (the bridge is used by approx. 160,000 vehicles a day), application and curing of the waterproofing system had to be very fast.
From laboratory to bridge
After a rigorous series of laboratory and field tests, the fast-curing Sikalastic® bridge deck waterproofing system was selected. The system consisted of a Sika® Concrete Primer, a fast-curing polyurea/polyurethane primer broadcast with quartz sand and Sikalastic®-841 ST – a pure polyurea sprayed onto waterproofing membranes. Furthermore, the accelerated epoxy resin Sikafloor®-161 was used as an adhesive for Sikalastic®-827 HT as its hot melt pellets were applied to ensure proper bonding between the asphalt concrete overlay and the waterproofing membrane.
Stronger than weather conditions
As initially planned, it was possible to cover a surface of approximately 5,000 m² of exposed concrete with the advanced and fast-curing waterproofing system during a single weekend. The total surface of 10,000m² was refurbished within two weekends. Because of the fast-curing primer and membrane, even rain showers during the execution of the work did not cause any difficulties.
Rejuvenation of an Australian symbol
“Our team is proud to have its products chosen for the rejuvenation and protection of this Sydney icon,” adds Jamie Byrne, Technical Sales Representative of Sika Australia. Sika Australia has been involved in a large number of major works and remedial repairs on public structures, both locally and internationally, with its core competency in sealing, bonding, damping, reinforcing and protecting. This has included joint sealing of the Sydney Opera House, the Victorian and Kurnell Desalination Plants and commercial properties such as the Coca-Cola offices.
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Nursing Home Assaults
Many of us are aware that seniors can face dangers in nursing homes. Residents can receive poor medical care, be given the wrong medications or simply be neglected. Recent data however shows a rise in new and unexpected promises including assaults, rape and even murder.
In 2000, there were 5,000 cases of patient-on-patient assaults on nursing homes; by 2003 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), this number has risen to 5,515. During the same period, the number of rapes increased by 51%.
Individuals whose loved ones reside in nursing homes should be aware of the potential for violent assaults. There are a number of reasons for this increase in attacks on the elderly. As the population ages, nursing homes have become more crowded. More people suffer from dementia or mental illness, which sometimes can cause them to lash out violently. Some nursing homes house younger, mentally ill patients with older, defenseless elderly residents. Finally, some nursing home residents are criminals, sex offenders, murderers and or they hire individuals with criminal backgrounds.
Usually, its' the criminal that commits the act. In many cases however, these assaults lead to civil suits against the nursing homes, based on the claim that the nursing home was negligent for not keeping a dangerous resident away from the victim, not taking the time to determine which residents are potentially dangerous, failure to adequately perform criminal background checks on its employees and or supervise them properly. The lawsuits argue that a nursing home should be aware of these things and that it should take steps to protect residents from assaults once it knows that a particular person presents some kind of danger to others.
Nursing homes often try to hide behind health-care privacy laws by claiming that they prevent them from issuing warnings about other dangerous residents. Sometimes these companies cite inconsistent state laws or that the costs of background checks are too high for them to bear. Advocates for the elderly are more likely to cite under staffing, incompetence, and an unwillingness to admit that there are even problems. Whatever the causes, individuals whose loved ones reside in nursing homes should be aware of the potential for violent assaults and not be afraid to ask hard questions of the nursing home's management and its staff.
The information disseminated at this website is generalized. It does not constitute legal advice. Moreover, no formal Attorney-Client relationship exists. For questions about your specific legal problem, contact us immediately! The hiring of a lawyer is an important decision that should not be based solely on an advertisement. Before you decide, ask us to send you free written information about our qualifications and experience.
Copyright © 2013 by The Law Offices of Staum and Ostfeld, P.A. All rights reserved.
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RE: ICMP attacks against TCP: Conclusions
From: Fernando Gont (fernando_at_gont.com.ar)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:36:02 -0300 To: "Craig Wright" <firstname.lastname@example.org>, "Fernando Gont" <email@example.com>, <firstname.lastname@example.org>
At 07:20 p.m. 26/07/2005, Craig Wright wrote:
No. The attacks are against TCP. You DoS the service by triggering an
action on TCP, based on TCP's reaction to the corresponding ICMP messages.
How did you perform your tests?
>I will assume that you mean ICMP attacks against IP or the host as you
>are attacking the stack even if you are attempting to DoS the service
>I tested this hypothesis last night and the service was not slowed
>enough to be a successful attack
>From: Fernando Gont [mailto:email@example.com]
>Sent: 23 July 2005 11:53
>Subject: ICMP attacks against TCP: Conclusions
>My posts to this list have tried to show how easy it is to perform ICMP
>attacks against TCP.
>The attacks are blind, so the attacker does not need to be a "man in the
>middle" to perform then. The typical number of packets required to
>perform any of these attacks is about 16000 (in many cases, the attacker
>requires fewer packets). This means that even when a 128kbps link, it
>will take the attacker much less than a minute to perform them.
>What are the affected applications?
>Well, the first one that may come to your mind is BGP, but there are
>others. For example:
>* Proxies (either transparent, or not)
>Let's say I don't want my users to access the web site at 192.168.0.1.
>the proxy address is 10.0.0.1, I can run any of the tools as:
>icmp-xxxx -c 10.0.0.1:1024-65535 -s 192.168.0.1:80 -t server
>With this attack, I would be messing with all the clients that are using
>the proxy 10.0.0.1 to access the webserver at 192.168.0.1
>Think about two major e-mail providers. Let's say one is 10.0.0.1, and
>other one is 192.168.0.1. Let's DoS the mail transfers from 10.0.0.1 to
>icmp-xxxx -c 10.0.0.1:1024-65535 -s 192.168.0.1:25 -t client
>Let's also DoS the mail transfers from 192.168.0.1 to 10.0.0.1:
>icmp-xxxx -c 192.168.0.1:1024-65535 -s 10.0.0.1:25 -t client
>NATs will usually make all the hosts in your network use one (or a few)
>address(es) for their TCP connections. By performing the attack against
>IP address of the NAT box trying all the possible port number
>you would be attacking the TCP connections of all the clients behind the
>And the list could continue....
>Even only one attacker with broadband access can perform these attacks,
>Not to mention what could happen if someone had the idea to include
>attack tools in an Internet worm.
>Wasn't this simple? Isn't this something that should be fixed?
>Otherwise, read the draft at
>http://www.gont.com.ar/drafts/icmp-attacks-against-tcp.html , send it to
>your vendor, explain it to them, and ask them to fix their OS.
>Some readers have argued why I try to "sell" my internet-draft again and
>again. The answer is simple: 8 people out of 10 of every discussion I
>had on these issues have misunderstood the problem, and how it should be
>Let's name a few:
>* The TCP MD5 option does not protect you from these attacks
>* IPSec does not protect you from these attacks
>* You cannot filter all ICMP messages
>* Relying on fragmenttion has many potential problems (read Mogul's
>"Fragmentation considered harmful" classic, or the recen Matthis'
>"Fragmentation considered very harmful")
>* The minimum IPv4 MTU is 68. If you ignore ICMP messages that claim
>lower than X (where X>68), then there's a high chance your TCP
>Big vendors' employees making misleading claims to the press have
>not helped to make people patch their systems, or push their vendors to
>Those guys that have started nonsensical discussions about whether this
>new or not have not helped, either. And have not realized that the
>discussion should be whether "this is current", rather than whether
>I have received almost no feedback from "vendors". Unfortunately, they
>don't realize that ICMP is a core protocol, and that discussion on the
>counter-measures is needed for the benefit of us all.
>Last, but not least, the IETF specifications need to address these
>If vendors patch their systems, but the IETF specifications are not
>updated, there's a high chance that there will be brand-new vulnerable
>implementations in the near term.
>Get involved. Discuss the counter-measures. Get your vendor fix the
>problems. And ask *how* they are fixing them (what if they just didn't
>understand, and are not really protecting you, or causing more harm than
>And have the specs address these issues. That's the real and final fix
>(Unless you think you'd enjoy having Darren Reed claim "I heard about
>counter-measures years ago. This is old news" in a few years. :-) )
>e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org || email@example.com
-- Fernando Gont e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org || email@example.com
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GeneaNet: 'Friend' And 'Wizard' Access Rights
'Wizard' access rights allow to edit a GeneaNet online family tree (only in expert mode, i.e. GeneWeb). 'Friend' access rights allow to view private data in a GeneaNet online family tree.
When registering on GeneaNet, your password is automatically assigned to your 'Friend' and 'Wizard' accounts but they can be changed later.
Every GeneaNet user can create as many 'Wizard' and 'Friend' accounts as they want.
You can log in as 'Wizard' or 'Friend' from your online family tree sidebar...
...and from any individual page of your online family tree.
Then, you can log out by clicking the link on the top right of your online family tree homepage. You will not being logged out from your GeneaNet account!
CREATE 'WIZARD' AND 'FRIEND' ACCESS RIGHTS
'Friend' And 'Wizard' access rights can be created/modified/deleted only by the family tree owner.
Select the 'Online Family Tree > Manage > Access Rights" option.
You can create as many access rights as you want.
Access rights are very useful for free collaborative family tree and private network for families to share.
To learn how to use GeneaNet, please read the "GeneaNet First Steps" pages.First Steps
To ask for help on any topic related to the GeneaNet website, to report a bug and to make a suggestion, please go to our forum.Forum
Questions not related to blog notes will not be answered here. Many thanks for your comprehension.
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Under recent federal laws, buyers of pre-1978 homes must receive a pamphlet which identifies the risks of lead contamination. The pamphlet states that it is assumed that paint in pre-1978 houses is lead based. Buyers are instructed that they have the right to test for lead in the paint, usually at their own expense.
If lead is found, a buyer has the right to cancel the contract. There are two other options as well: (1) the seller may pay for lead paint removal or (2) the buyer may purchase the house "as is."
In addition, landlords are now required to advise tenants of the presence of lead paint once it is detected. If lead is found, a landlord must properly remove the lead containing paint. Landlords must also provide their tenants with information pamphlets concerning lead exposure.
If you are renting a house that is built before 1978, you should:
Answer all notices sent by the landlord.
Tell the landlord when a child under age 6 resides or moves into an apartment.
Let the landlord into the apartment to inspect and make repairs.
If you see peeling paint: (1) Immediately notify the landlord in writing. (2) Have children tested for lead poisoning regularly.
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The delay in implementing 4G mobile services in the UK is a “blessing in disguise” because more time is needed to upgrade Britain’s unprepared network infrastructure, says Brocade’s Marcus Jewell.
While acknowledging that the delay is extremely frustrating for consumers and businesses, Jewell warns that 4G services would completely swamp the UK’s outdated networks, and that a faster introduction of 4G would repeat the mistakes of 3G’s implementation in this country.
“With 4G rollout scheduled for 2015, the UK is lagging far behind our economic rivals,” says Jewell, Brocade UK country manager. “Three years is a long time to wait for high speed mobile Internet, especially when countries like the US and Germany will enjoy the benefits of 4G this year.
“But although it is estimated to cost the UK economy £1.5bn in total, this delay is actually a blessing in disguise. Much of our creaking network infrastructure is already having difficulty coping with the number of Internet-connected devices and the inexorable rise of bandwidth-intensive traffic, such as video and unified communications.
“It’s important to remember that the UK has never been a true 3G nation, with universal coverage and availability,” continues Jewell. “The move to 4G will be an even bigger step up for all concerned, yet telcos are having a hard enough time responding to the increasing strain on their networks. When 4G finally brings fixed-line speeds to the millions of mobile devices in the UK it will increase bandwidth by a factor of four; datacentres will see an eightfold increase in data; while storage requirements will be 16 times greater.
“What happens in datacentres and networks over the next three years will determine whether 4G is a success in this country,” said Jewell. “Thanks to regulatory delays, we now have a period of grace.
“Everyone connected with mobile data delivery – including datacentre operators, telcos and enterprises – need to be working out their 4G strategy right now, as well as planning the necessary infrastructure upgrades. If they do so, we can all look forward to robust and reliable high-speed mobile Internet, albeit in 2015. If they do not, the UK will be the sick man of European communications, with disastrous results for our economy and competitiveness in the world.”
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- Front Page
Canada's quest for security of demand
July 7, 2012
EDITOR’S NOTE: A recent study released by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the Canada West Foundation argues that Canada’s approach to energy should be more clearly based on its national interest, not a collection of private interests. It therefore calls for the establishment of a framework that will bring into play the interest of not only the private sector and federal and provincial governments, but also First Nations governments, communities and environmental interests. This backgrounder was written by Yuen Pau Woo, from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and Roger Gibbins, with the Canada West Foundation.
The energy industry is vitally important to Canada’s current and future prosperity. In its 2010 Energy Overview, the Government of Canada attributed 6.7 per cent of our GDP and 23.2 per cent of export sales to the energy industry, which employs more than 350,000 Canadians.
In 2011, crude oil was Canada’s most valuable export commodity with sales of $50 billion. Government revenues generated from the industry – close to $22 billion in 2011 – provide indispensable support for the social programs Canadians value.
Oil and natural gas development will also play a role in generating government revenues well into the future. According to the Canadian Energy Research Institute, the GDP impact of the natural gas industry is expected to be $1.3 trillion over a 25 year period, while oil sands and conventional oil developments are expected to make a combined contribution of $3.2 trillion. In significant ways, therefore, Canada is an energy powerhouse, and our prospects for sustained economic growth depend very much on growing energy trade.
For an energy exporting country with abundant natural resources, our biggest challenge is security of international demand for our resources. This sets us apart from other G7 countries and emerging economies which are more concerned with security of supply.
Historically, Canadian total export trade has been concentrated in relatively few markets – first European, and then American. Over the past century the American market has become the destination of choice for most Canadian exports, with close to 75 per cent of Canada’s total 2010 exports going to the United States. Nowhere is our trade dependency on the United States more evident than with respect to energy, particularly oil and natural gas and electricity.
While Canadian coal exports have long gone to Asia, and Canadian firms have built effective supply chains in the region, the situation is dramatically different for oil and natural gas. As Figure 1 shows, Canada’s natural gas and crude oil exports go almost exclusively to the U.S., as do almost all hydro-power exports.
Not surprisingly, Canada’s energy commodity destination of choice, and up to now of necessity, is our closest neighbour. Despite the occasional storm that rocks the boat, Canada’s trade relationship with the U.S. has been amicable, resulting in an integrated North American energy system where Canada plays an important role in American energy security as its largest supplier of crude oil and natural gas.
This almost total reliance on a single customer for our oil and natural gas exports, albeit still the largest economy and energy consumer in the world, is not without risk to a trading economy. As the old cliche goes, when the American economy sneezes, Canada catches a cold.
Economic downturns in the U.S. reduce demand for Canadian products, including energy, and certainly the American economy has been sneezing a lot lately. More fundamentally, basic economics suggest you seldom maximize the value of what you are selling when there is only one buyer for your products.
The trade risks, however, go well beyond sporadic economic downturns and our demonstrated capacity to weather cyclical variation. American energy forecasts show flat demand over the next 25 years. The most recent projections of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, for example, predict little to no growth in oil and natural gas consumption (see Figure 2).
The picture grows even more discouraging for Canadian producers if we look beyond aggregate demand to projections for American imports. Not only is the American energy demand pie staying the same size, its share of the global pie is shrinking. Both crude oil and natural gas imports are expected to decline over the next two decades as demand is tempered and domestic supply increases (see Figure 3).
Unconventional gas and oil discoveries in the United States have increased the prospects for energy independence, and the Keystone XL pipeline dispute illustrates growing market access issues for Canadian producers.
Canada, therefore, is locked into a market that is slow growing, intensely competitive and fraught with political pressures. If the future of Canada’s energy sector is dependent on security of demand, then market diversification is imperative.
American markets will always remain an important part of Canada’s energy future. However, our traditional reliance on those markets will not provide adequate security in light of projected future declines in U.S. import demand for oil and natural gas, and public resistance to the importation of Canadian oil.
Without security of demand, the Canadian industry will not be able to make investment decisions for the long-term projects that create jobs and generate wealth. And, as discussed below, the Canadian oil and gas industry will continue to suffer from a price discount relative to world prices if it does not have the ability to sell into other markets.
The evidence above strongly suggests that growth in the Canadian energy economy will depend on market diversification – on finding growing international markets where Canadian security of supply is an asset.
The U.S. will remain a large, albeit slow growing market for Canadian energy firms, and for the foreseeable future it will continue to be our number one energy partner. The imperative for diversification comes from changing global realities; the primary opportunities for market diversification are to be found in Asia; the primary beneficiaries of that diversification are Canadians.
Yuen Pau Woo is the President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and Roger Gibbins is the President and CEO of the Canada West Foundation. To download a complete copy of their report click here.
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In the wake of KH 1.5 and all the 358/2 Days related glory that came with it, I have decided to talk about something I have been meaning to talk about for a while - Xion’s name.
Now, “Neni,” you might say “Hasn’t the topic of the symbolism behind this name already been talked about again and again, over and over?”
Well, yes, it is true, that meanings like “Shion”, the flower of remembrance and “Shio”, tide (And also, just so you know it “Salt”) have been covered over and over. However, one meaning has, interestingly, never been touched by any analysis I have read yet. The fact that, in japanese, Xion’s name is spelt and pronounced identically to “Zion”.
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22 February, 2005
Asian American Hotel Owner Association's (AAHOA) has created a storm
in US by inviting a militant,anti-minority Indian politician to its
annual convention. AAHOA will be honoring Narendra Modi, the Chief executive
of the Indian state of Gujarat who is accused of sharing responsibility
in the massacres, sexual mutilations and rapes of Muslims and persecution
of Christians, indigenous tribes and moderate Hindus.
Narendra Modi has been indicted by various Indian and International
human rights organizations for his role in the pogroms directed at the
Muslim community in Gujarat in 2002. He was criticized by the Supreme
Court of India as a modern day Nero for his actions during the 2002
massacres and has two cases lodged against him in the State of Gujarat.
The AAHOAs membership predominantly consists of immigrants from
Modi's home state. Its decision to honor Modi in its convention and
trade fair on March 24 - 26 has been controversial in the organization
itself. AAHOAs decision to invite Modi raises the speculation
that Indian American Professional Organizations are being infiltrated
by sectarian ultra-nationalists and have become conduits for their fundraising
and political support in US.
In response to these disturbing developments, a wide spectrum of organizations
based in US have come together to form a coalition - Coalition Against
Genocide (CAG). The member organizations in CAG have diverse backgrounds
including community-based groups, developmental groups, human rights
groups and academic experts that have been coordinating their efforts
against the spread of religious hatred in India. CAG asserts that its
stand is a just and moral stand and is in the best interest of the US
society, the Indian Diaspora and India.
CAG will adopt a multi pronged strategy to expose and marginalize the
extremists and will work towards safeguarding the pluralist ethos of
India and the economic well being of the Indian Diaspora in US.
The Coalition has demanded that AAHOA rescind its invitation to Narendra
Modi. CAG has brought to attention the fact that Modi's party has been
glorifying Hitler and his genocidal policies in the state run schools.
Modi is in close alliance with and promotes the extreme right-wing Hindutva
movement that is supremacist and anti-minority and whose members were
responsible for the assassination of Gandhi. This movement was formed
on the model of Mussolini's Fascist party in the 1920s and has been
glorifying Hitler since the 1930s.
CAG is hopeful that AAHOA members will take these facts into account
and force its Board to rescind the invitation given to Mr. Modi.
Copy of CAG's letter
To: The President and Board
Asian American Hotel Owners Association
66 Lenox Pointe N.E, Atlanta Georgia 30324.
February 19, 2005
We represent a coalition
of national and local organizations in the U.S. and are writing to express
our moral outrage at your invitation to Narendra Modi to speak at your
convention in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on March 24-26, 2005.
As you must know, Mr.Modi has been indicted by all reputable Indian
and International human rights organizations for his role in the ethnic
cleansing and pogroms against the Muslim community in Gujarat, India
in 2002, in addition to having two cases lodged against him in the state
In the state-sponsored pogrom in Gujarat, thousands of people were killed
and made refugees, hundreds of women and young girls were brutally raped
and tortured, religious places of worship were defiled and destroyed,
and property loss and damage ran to millions of dollars. These heinous
crimes were not only committed under Gujarat Chief Minister Modi's watch,
but also condoned by him. The Supreme Court of India has rebuked the
State Government of Gujarat for its faulty and discriminatory handling
of more than 2000 cases that were never even properly investigated let
alone tried. The Gujarat State government under Mr. Modi continues to
discriminate against Muslim and Christian minorities to this day.
By honoring Mr. Modi at the AAHOA Meeting, you dishonor the victims
of the Gujarat pogrom, and insult the moral dignity of all Indians and
world citizens. Your decision to invite Mr. Modi brings shame to the
Indian-American community, which takes pride in upholding secular principles.
Apart from the fact that your decision to invite Mr. Modi is morally
repugnant, it is also economically unwise as it will negatively influence
the patronage of AAHOA member hotels by a vast majority of peace loving
(Indian and non-Indian alike) residents of the US.
We are perturbed that a service-based industry such as the hotel industry
would put its reputation and financial well-being on the line by endorsing
a man like Mr. Modi who is being tried for his complicity in crimes
against humanity in India.
We demand that you rescind your invitation to Mr. Modi so as to repair
the damage done by your association. If the invitation is not rescinded
by 5PM Monday, February 21st we will be forced to launch a public campaign
on this issue.
Sincerely, on behalf
of Coalition Against Genocide
Mr. George Abraham
Dr. Angana Chatterji
Ms. Sapna Gupta
Dr. Ashwini Rao
Dr. Shaik Ubaid
Coalition Against Genocide, 8480 Baltimore National Pike #286,Ellicott
City, MD 21043
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A judge will rule in the next two weeks on whether or not a moratorium can be placed on PG&E's Smart Meter program. San Francisco filed a petition with the California Public Utilities Commission back in June requesting a moratorium on the installation of the wireless meters. Judge Tim Sullivan has so far declined to place a moratorium on the meters, but will make a final judgment, he said, in the next two weeks.
Whether or not that ruling will affect a Fairfax ordinance that bans the Smart Meters in town remains to be seen.
PG&E has long maintained that Fairfax has no jurisdiction to impose such an ordinance. If a judge ruled against a delay on installation – per the San Francisco petition – would that negate the legality of the Fairfax ordinance?
"It's hard to say in the abstract, but, generally, no," said Town Attorney Jim Karpiak.
"I think we should, at a minimum, have a 10 year moratorium where we can have studies done and see how people are affected," said resident Diane Hoffman at that meeting.
The PG&E Smart Meter program aims to install 10 million wireless gas and electric meters in California by 2012 at a cost of $2.2 billion. Eight-thousand meters will be installed in Fairfax. The meters use a combination of cellular and radio networks to transmit individual usage data back to PG&E. Read how the meters work here.
Concerns have been raised over the privacy, security, accuracy and health issues surrounding the meters. Read about the background of the Smart Meter program here.
Nowhere have residents raised more concerns about the meters than in Fairfax.
Despite repeated insistence by PG&E that they would not implement any type of moratorium, the utility has voluntarily delayed the installation of the program in Fairfax.
PG&E will hold a number of community meetings about the meters in the coming weeks. According to Town Manager Michael Rock, those meetings are being planned and have almost been finalized. When the dates are set, they will be publicized on the town website.
Because the temporary delay is voluntarily on PG&E's part, the judge's ruling in the coming weeks will have no effect on the plan to hold community educational meetings.
However, along with PG&E's voluntary moratorium, the town also implemented their own ordinance placing a moratorium on the meters. That ordinance may come under closer scrutiny following a ruling on the San Francisco petition with the California Public Utilities Commission.
PG&E has argued repeatedly that only the commission, itself, can impose a forced moratorium and that the town lacks the legal basis to do so. But Fairfax doesn't agree.
"That exact boundary line," said Karpiak is what will be the question in a court case.
The ordinance the town passed argued that the town has the right to impose regulations on PG&E per the California Public Utilities Code and per a franchise agreement Fairfax has with PG&E. It also has enforcement provisions.
But Rock admitted enforcement is difficult.
No matter what the judge rules, it is unlikely that residents will suddenly feel all their concerns have been addressed. In a town where some residents have locked their gates or meters and put up signs telling PG&E not to install a new Smart Meter, it may take some time and conversation before the utility and the town can come to an agreement.
"This is not a democratically deployed system. It's a system that's being forced on us," said Councilman Larry Bragman at the August Town Council meeting.
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NRA calls for armed guards in schools
The National Rifle Association announces its proposal for protecting our country's children from tragedies like the one in Connecticut. YNN's Beth Croughan has more.
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UNITED STATES -- "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
What if last Friday, Adam Lanza was confronted by "qualified, armed security?"
That's a question the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre posed during a press conference one week after Lanza, police said, took the lives of 26 children and adults at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Executive Vice President suggested every school be staffed with a police officer and urged Congress to find a way to fund it.
"As Wayne said, many aspects in our society are being protected by people with guns. And the only part of society that's not are children in gun free zones, and movie theaters and malls," said Tom King, the President of the NYS Rifle and Pistol Association.
But, putting police with guns in schools the Executive Director of the New York State School Board Association said, can't be a one-size-fits-all answer.
"A police officer would be something that would be good in a school, if that's what the school needed but not every school is gonna need that," said NYSSBA Executive Director Tim Kremer.
Kremer said they've recently polled school board members and 70 percent support federal funding for School Resource Officers. A resource he said has been cut from many districts.
"Sometimes these were armed, sometimes they were not, but they had we had a great report with them. They were really good at developing relationships with staff and students, being that kind of go-to resource for school safety issues," he said.
In addition to school safety audits, Kremer said the NYSSBA has suggested school boards put their safety plans on their next meeting agenda.
"Sit down with the communities, share with them what's in that plan and talk to them about the fact that we have done everything we can to make sure this environment is safe, your kids are safe," he said.
And, in a statement released today, the State Education Commissioner called the NRA's statements a distraction. And says the events call for "common sense gun control and a more thoughtful response to the mental health needs of our citizens."
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You can't look very far at news sites online without coming across an image of Sahar Gul, 15, an Afghani teen who was tortured by her husband and his family for refusing to prostitute herself to support them.
The story unfolded this month after her rescue from the bathroom where she was imprisoned and, even many days later, you could still see bald patches where her hair was yanked out and scabs where her fingernails used to be. Bruises and scars linger around her eyes and a trail of cigarette burns is clearly visible.
Criminal mistreatment of women occurs in all countries, including ours. But for millions of women and girls worldwide, that's just business as usual. And we should be furious.
Ask Americans whether it's right as a country to try to "police" the world and you're apt to hear different views, depending on what the driver is: politics, oil prices, human rights, terrorism, whatever.
America should take a hard line when it comes to providing any kind of aid or support to countries that allow and even institutionalize the abuse of women and girls.
The issue is way more fundamental than whether women should have political clout or access to jobs or pay equality. It's about forcing women who are victims of rape to marry their attackers or stoning them to death because they are no longer morally chaste. The heart of the matter is allowing little girls and teens to be given as toys to sexual predators or traded like cattle to settle a debt. It's all about ignoring domestic violence and handing women and girls who have escaped hideous abuse back to their torturers.
Those practices all occur with regularity in some parts of the world. And our national foreign policy should be inflexible on the issue, the pressure we place to stop it unrelenting.
In Gul's Afghanistan, about half of all girls are ramrodded into marriage before they are 15, according to international studies. To get justice in such cases requires a robust and prolonged international outcry.
Just such an outraged response led Afghanistan's president to pardon a young woman who had been imprisoned for being raped. Still, she was urged to marry her attacker so her honor could be restored.
TrustLaw has published a list of "the world's most dangerous countries for women," based on a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll. Afghanistan tops the list, followed by Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia. The countries were selected, it noted, for treatment of women that ranged from violence and rape to what TrustLaw, the foundation's newswire, calls "honor killings."
Hundreds of thousands of women are raped in the Congo each year with no attempt to bring the attackers to justice. In Pakistan, domestic violence is institutionalized, with more than 1,000 of the so-called "honor killings" each year. Husbands, fathers, even male siblings can kill a female for shaming the family name.
Of India, it notes that aborting female fetuses, "child marriage and high levels of trafficking and domestic servitude make the world's largest democracy" dangerous to females of all ages. Somalia's dangers include rape, female genital mutilation and child marriage.
I recognize that it's not just political pressure that brings change. My own profession, journalism, sometimes fails these females, too. We don't put enough pressure on the topic. And we have short attention spans, so we don't follow through to document change in each case we do report. We don't always tell the outcome and we should. A column in the Daily Beast recently noted this trend, as well. If governments knew we were there to tell the story's conclusion, they'd likely be more apt to present a just conclusion.
Deseret News staff writer Lois M. Collins may be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow her on Twitter at loisco.
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Engro is the first company to have setup urea production facility in Pakistan, a landmark event in agricultural sector of the country. This together with the fact that urea is the most widely used fertilizer in the country, gives Engro Urea a special standing in the domestic fertilizer market. Engro Fertilizers Limited started annual production of 173,000 tons in 1968. Through various debottlenecking and expansion steps, the capacity has been increased to 975,000 tons per year. Recently, the company has setup world’s largest single train urea plant of 1,300,000 ton capacity. The new facility is not operating on capacity due on going energy crises in the country. Once operational fully, it will increase Engro’s production share from 19% to over 30% in Pakistan.
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Reaching consensus on measuring and reporting carbon footprint, reducing carbon emissions while maintaining or improving cost efficiencies, as well as dealing with legal imperatives to reduce emissions and understanding consumer attitudes to sustainability are just some of the challenges that the food and drinks industry must face if it is to meet future demand for carbon reduction effectively.
Features and benefits
- Understand the commercial, legal, and consumer imperatives which drive the need for carbon reduction and reporting in the food and drink industry.
- Gain an insight into the significant sources of carbon emissions in the food and drink supply chain – and measures being taken to reduce them.
- Assess the different issues surrounding carbon footprint measuring and reporting, including the complexities of carbon footprint labeling.
- Understand how carbon emissions reduction can take place at the same time as maintaining or improving productivity and efficiency.
- Gain an insight into how carbon emissions reduction and carbon footprint labeling will need to develop if it is to make progress in the long term.
Given consumer, commercial, and legal imperatives for action on carbon emissions reduction, carbon footprinting will remain a permanent part of the food and drink landscape. What is less certain is whether carbon footprint reduction will drive consumer purchasing decisions, or whether reporting carbon footprint drives meaningful carbon reduction.
The term carbon footprint is ubiquitous in the public sphere but agreement on how to measure it is not clear: should it include indirect emissions or simply direct emissions? In many cases the ability to take the more comprehensive approach by including indirect emissions is limited by data quality and the ability to procure it from suppliers.
Overcoming the lack of consumer engagement and understanding of what carbon footprint measurement and reduction means in real terms is one of the first and most significant challenges that food and drinks manufacturers will have to overcome. Reaching a critical mass of carbon footprint labeling will be a key driver of this.
Your key questions answered
- What do consumers think about sustainability and why should the industry act when consumer buying behavior doesn’t match up to their attitudes?
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While designed specifically for MacBook Air, the technology behind the low-volt processor could see its way to other notebooks.
A small Intel processor is proving to be a big part of Apple's new lightweight laptop.
At the start of the 2008 Macworld Expo in
on Jan. 15, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced what he called the world's thinnest notebook, dubbed the MacBook Air. During the introduction, Intel CEO Paul Otellini joined Jobs on stage to talk about his company's contribution to the new notebook--a low-volt Core 2 Duo processor specifically designed for Apple.
The processor, which does not have an official model number or designation just yet, is part of Intel's Core 2 Duo family and offers a clock speed of between 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz and 4MB of L2 cache. An Intel spokesperson told eWEEK that while the chip maker designed the processor specifically for Apple, the technology behind the processor could make it way into other notebooks in the future.
"Apple approached Intel about the need for aggressive packaging solutions for this new product, and we were happy to collaborate on a solution," Claudine Mangano, the Intel spokesperson, wrote in an e-mail. "If other companies develop products with a similar size, power and performance specs than Intel would offer this or a similar product to those companies."
Mangano added that the new processor is not Silverthorne, a special processor Intel is developing for what it calls MIDs (mobile Internet devices) that require small, low-power chips. The first of these processors are expected to hit the market later this year.
In 2005, Apple announced that it would switch its entire product line from the IBM and Freescale-manufactured PowerPC processors to Intel chips. Apple has fully completed that transition and the two companies remain close due to the exclusive relationship Intel maintains with Apple.
Intel already makes a number of low-volt and ultra-low volt processors for notebooks and UMPCs (ultramobile PCs). For example, Intel introduced the Core 2 Duo U7600 and U7500 in 2007, which were designed with a TDP (thermal design power) of just 10 watts. TDP is an Intel term that refers to the heat a chip dissipates.
The processors designed for Apple's MacBook Air have a TDP of 20 watts. However, Intel designed the chips as part of a small form factor package. This chip is still manufactured on Intel's 65-nanometer manufacturing process, but Mangano wrote that the technology will also appear on the company's new line of 45-nanometer processors, called Penryn, later this year.
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Solutions to modern problems sometimes can be found in a distinctly classical place. The Magnolia Special was built to recapture the grace and romance of 1930s European roadsters — internal combustion and all — yet it emits 40 percent less CO2 than an equally powerful gas-burning automobile. And it does this using technology as old as internal combustion itself.
The Magnolia Special is the first bespoke, hand-built car built specifically to run on compressed natural gas. If nothing else, it proves eco-friendly need not mean boring.
“I really don’t think that environmentalists are worth a damn as car designers,” says J.T. Nesbitt, who designed and built the Magnolia Special. “They just lack passion. If the problem of global warming is left only to them, our cars are really going to suck.”
Nesbitt is a talented and passionate motorcycle designer strongly influenced by his adopted home of New Orleans. You may have seen his work ridden by Ewan McGregor in The Island. His representation of the arc of a whip, realized in a carbon fiber frame and fuel tank, created a motorcycle that perfectly fit into a high-tech future despite its old-school aesthetic.
Nesbitt is doing so again, this time for real, by capturing the beauty of the past in a vehicle relevant to the future.
Nesbitt started sketching the car in 2008. It’s his first take on an art-deco roadster theme. Think vintage Alfa Romeo or Jaguar and you won’t be far off. In fact, the car uses an engine based on Jaguar’s fabled 4.2-liter inline-six, the same one that powered the original E-Type. Nesbitt chose the engine because its torquey nature and strong internals work well with CNG. It also helps that the long, narrow engine looks great beneath the car’s louvered aluminum hood. It’s only making 200 horsepower, but with 300 pound-feet of torque, the performance won’t disappoint, particularly in a car that weighs just 2,700 pounds. That torque-to-weight ratio beats the Porsche 911.
“The Jaguar six only won Le Mans like what, five times?” Nesbitt says of the engine. “The 4.2 is such a great torque motor and CNG is really a torque fuel, so it’s a great pairing.”
Nesbitt says the octane rating equivalent for natural gas is 130, so the engine required specially forged high-compression 12.5:1 pistons and high-lift, short-duration camshafts.
“That setup allows the highly stable fuel to achieve complete combustion,” he says.
CNG is a popular conversion for fleet vehicles. But the gaseous fuel requires bulkier tanks than those designed for liquids. This presents a problem for automobiles, because the tank typically eats up a lot of space. By incorporating those tanks into Magnolia’s fundamental structure, Nesbitt made that drawback into an advantage: The tanks add torsional strength to the thin aluminum body. That’s a first in automobile design and construction, and a big part of what makes this vehicle so unique.
“The CNG storage tanks are really the only piece of high tech on this car,” Nesbitt says. “Everything else could have been made 100 years ago. They’re made from a carbon composite wrapped around an extruded aluminum core. The burst pressure is 4,800 PSI, but they’ll normally be filled to 3,600 PSI. They’re incredibly strong, yet very lightweight. I can actually pick one up and walk around the shop with it. That’s amazing.”
If CNG is cleaner than gasoline — the natural gas-burning Honda Civic GX is consistently ranked the greenest internal combustion car on the market — why isn’t CNG a more popular vehicle fuel? Nesbitt has a theory.
“In 1903, H. Nelson Jackson drove from coast to coast, cementing gasoline as the fuel that would power the automobile for the next century. You have to understand that back then there were gasoline cars, steam cars and electric cars, and no one was sure which would prove to be the standard. Jackson proved the viability of gasoline with his record-setting trek, and the rest is history.”
“I think that a true test of an alternative fuel now, just as then, must be endurance,” he adds.
With that in mind, Nesbitt and his friend Max Materne, who helped with the electrical engineering of the car, plan to drive the Magnolia Special from New Orleans to New York to Los Angeles this fall. He plans to prove the fuel’s viability and raise awareness of CNG along the way.
Magnolia’s 700-mile range — the equivalent of 30 gasoline gallons — will help, but finding CNG isn’t that hard. There are CNG filling stations coast-to-coast, and the average cost is 85 cents a gallon. If you have a natural-gas line at home, such as for your stove, you can even buy a converter to make your own CNG.
“Kinda cool to have your vehicle’s fuel bill show up every month on your utilities bill,” says Nesbitt, who fills up the car in his French Quarter studio.
So what’s a motorcycle designer, land-speed record racer and gasoline-fueled hedonist doing worrying about the environment? Hurricane Katrina awakened him to the need to address the causes of global warming.
“Magnolia stems from that concern, but satisfies my passion for real cars, too,” he says.
And make no mistake, this is a real car. Nesbitt built the boxed steel chassis himself. Then he called in Tim George, a renowned Porsche race engine builder, scooter racer and furniture builder from Denver, to help hand-form the aluminum body.
Despite the classic design, Magnolia benefits from thoroughly modern suspension. Up front you’ll find pushrod-actuated inboard coil-over shocks and rack-and-pinion steering. At the rear is a four-link suspension with adjustable shocks. Disc brakes are used on all four wheels.
A steel cage encases the passenger compartment for safety and the underside is sheathed in aluminum to increase aerodynamic efficiency. All the bodywork is easily removed via brass fasteners, making repairs a snap.
No detail has been left untouched. Just look at the steering wheel, sheathed in hand-tooled leather, and the gorgeous hand-turned aluminum dashboard. Another feature you don’t typically find in environmentally friendly cars: a five-speed transmission and posi-traction rear differential.
“Just think about how many custom cars get built in this country every year,” Nesbitt says. “All of that talent, effort and money. What if some of that were harnessed to solve greater problems? It seems like the guys who build cars are inherent problem-solvers and a truly underutilized resource in this country. Simply put, no one’s ever asked them to sit down and work on something like this.”
“We’ve all been sold this idea that to be green we have to be high-tech,” he adds. “I reject that notion. Now, I am not a technophobe, but you’ve got to concede that the future is not going to be a videogame. Things will still be mechanical, people will still work with their hands. There will always be room for craftsmen. I know that a digital wristwatch keeps better time than a wind-up equivalent, but there’s very little romantic connection to them. Electric cars may represent a piece of the environmental puzzle, but I have a hard time getting excited about electrons flowing through circuit boards. I like camshafts and pistons and valves. I like things that make a wonderful noise. CNG satisfies my love for that animation without the guilt of damaging the environment to such a significant degree.”
Nesbitt isn’t driven by profit, but passion. He has no plans to commercialize Magnolia.
“For now, the object is to have fun,” he explains. “I just want to be a part of the solution and make beautiful things in the process.”
Photos: Amy Jett Photography, New Orleans
The CNG tanks provide additional rigidity to the hand-formed aluminum body.
The Magnolia Special is replete with gorgeous details.
Via Wired Autopia: http://www.wired.com/autopia/
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Alto + Soprano at the same time?
I'm a newbie in Alto (around 10 months). I'm interested to play Soprano together with my Alto. I saw a lot of threads here mentioning to add the other horn after several years of playing one horn. Since I'm a bit quite old, I think...(27 years old now...) So:
1. Is it "appropriate" for me to learn Alto and Soprano at the same time?
2. Are the mechanisms (fingering...etc) similar between Alto and Soprano?
3. If the above question is true, can I apply the same concept on Alto to Soprano?
4. Is there anything that I should aware of?
Thank you so much for all your advice.
Originally Posted by chengccs
not really, the soprano will take more control and most likely seem more difficult to you at first
Thanks a lot, dshook.
Then I better ask my teacher to see if I'm able to control the soprano in current stage.
Distinguished SOTW Member
I agree - no real biggee in playing both horns. True, the soprano requires a bit more embouchure-tightness, but that should only improve your alto tone, once you develop it.
One thing, though - if you are only reading music, you'll need written music in both horns' keys. If you are improvising, the switching between a Bb and an Eb horn may prove confusing at times. Even after all these years, when I switch horns in the middle of a tune, it causes me to give a brief thought to playing in a different key for the same tune. DAVE
yeah ive only been playing sax for about a year and i play alto, bari, and soprano at the same time (and no not physically) ive had not trouble at all just a little on improving
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I played alto for roughly 2 years before moving to Soprano. With me, I balanced out my practice time and I've worked out all the problems on the soprano. In my opinion, intonation is the hardest on soprano and since you are usually the only one playing one..it's real easy to hear if you're off. It took me a good few months with sitting down with a tuner and getting comfortable with pitch tendancies, but now it's really worth it. My ears are well trained when I play soprano and I am pretty much always in tune.
I think some people could argue to start now or to wait. Some people will say it's better to learn now while you are less experienced so you grow with them than playing say alto very well then trying to switch to tenor. Others could argue the differences in embouchure could possibly mess with your alto embouchure. I have not found this to be the case, but I guess everyone is different. Are you taking private lessons? If so, I would recommend asking your teacher, as he/she is most likely to know you the best and can give you better advice than any of us can.
I took my first soprano lesson last Saturday!!!
Yes, I agree with all your opinions.
I also found out that doubling in Alto and Soprano really beneficial to each other, well....for myself. For example, I realized that my fingering is jumping to hard while playing Alto and this cause my out of tune in playing Sop. Meanwhile, after I played "softly" for my fingerings in Sop, my Alto fingering would become "soft" and helped me to maintain "clearer" sound...
Anyway, thank you so much for all your opinions. Hopefully can share other issues on playing Sax with you.
Alto: Weril A932, Selmer Metal Jazz (F) MPC, Vandoren zz 2.5
Sop: Jupiter 747, Yamaha 7CM, BG L51 ligature, Hemke 3
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probably heard of Carbon-14, also written C14.
C14 is a radioactive form of carbon produced in the
outer atmosphere when cosmic rays transform atoms of regular nitrogen. Being
radioactive and thus unstable, C14 "decays" at
a certain predictable rate. Its decay rate is such that half of any given quantity of it
will convert back to nitrogen in about 5,730 years. Then half of the remainder will be
gone in the next 5,568 years, etc. The fancy way of saying this is that C14's half life is 5,568 years. There's a good site on the
Web for finding more detailed
information on C14 dating.
C14's remarkable behavior is very useful to us because of two further fabulous facts: First, despite its strange manner of having a half life, it behaves just like regular carbon as it cycles through the ecosystem, sometimes as a constituent of the gas carbon dioxide, or CO2, sometimes as a carbohydrate inside a plant's body, or whatever.
The second fabulous fact about C14 is that since it both appears and disappears at given rates, and surely has been doing so ever since Earth had an atmosphere with nitrogen in it, it can be assumed that the ratio between regular carbon and C14 in the atmosphere has long remained the same.
Therefore, imagine this: A typical green plant spends its day "photosynthesizing" -- using energy from sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into its "food," which later becomes part of the plant's own body. The vast majority of the carbon comprising the carbon dioxide used during photosynthesis is regular carbon, but a certain small percentage is C14. This means that, ultimately, the carbon in the plant's body itself will be composed of a certain predictable quantity of C14.
Now imagine that the plant dies, decays into a kind of compost, and a snail eats the compost. The result will be that the snail's body will ultimately be composed of essentially the same ratio of C14 to regular carbon as the plant.
Then the snail dies and is buried beneath... loess, let's say. Now, after a certain time we dig up the fossil snail's shell, analyze the shell's C14 content, and find that it is exactly half of the C14 found in a living snail's body. Therefore...
Since C14's half life is 5,568 years, we can estimate that our fossil snail lived approximately that many years ago. If the C14 content had been exactly one-quarter of that found in a living snail, we'd estimate an age of about 11,100 years.
Unfortunately, after about 30,000 years the concentration of C14 in fossil specimens becomes so small that it becomes chancy to estimate times from the small concentrations. However, for something that lived 20,000-years ago, C14 dating works great!
It's good to have this confidence in C14 dating up to the 20,000-year mark because during the mid 1960s our much-mentioned team of investigators from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, headed by J.O Snowden, Jr. and Richard R. Priddy, pulled up to a considerable-size road cut on the U.S. Highway 61 Bypass at Vicksburg, Mississippi -- a road cut through unmistakably classic loess -- scraped away part of the road cut's weathered face, and found some white, thumbnail-size fossil snails, just like the ones that once caused B. Shimek's heart to flutter in our "Snails were telling us" section.
In this road-cut loess at Vicksburg, fossil snail shells lay embedded at various levels, some at the top, some at the bottom, and some in between. The investigators gingerly pried shells from various levels, and lovingly stored them out of harm's way. Eventually the shells were checked for their C14 content both at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Sedimentation Laboratory in Oxford, Mississippi, and by a company called Isotopes, Inc., of Westwood, New Jersey.
When the reports on estimated dates-of-snail-death came back, the numbers harmonized with previous estimates with the loess's age, they confirmed aspects of a magnificent story, they were simply glorious to see.
The snail-shell samples had been taken at five different levels. The topmost sample taken were judged as 17,850 years old, give or take 380 years. The middle sample was placed at 19,250 years old, give or take 350 years. The lowest sample registered at 25,300 years old, give or take 1,000 years.
In short, the snails tell us that our loess was deposited during a long period between about 25,000 and 18,000 years ago, which is toward the end of the last Ice Age.
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Angelenos marking St. Patrick's Day today can also celebrate the gall of Irish American Douglas `Wrong Way' Corrigan, whose explanation for ending up in Ireland on what should have been a flight to Long Beach may be one of history's most brazen displays of blarney.
Corrigan, a Southland resident, flew from Long Beach to New York in July 1938, then famously claimed he got his bearings crossed on his return trip. He ended up 27 hours later outside Dublin in Ireland – after having his request to fly there denied by American authorities who said his 1929 Curtiss Robin monoplane was unsafe.
Until he died in 1995, Corrigan claimed his transatlantic flight had been a mistake resulting from cloud cover and a broken compass. But some of his acquaintances told journalists that Corrigan had always wanted to emulate Charles Lindbergh.
Corrigan was born in Texas in 1907, son of a railroad engineer and a school teacher. His parents divorced and his mother brought him to Los Angeles in 1922.
Five years later he was working as an aircraft mechanic at Ryan Airlines in San Diego, where he helped put together Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis."
The mechanic and the pilot became friends, and when Lindbergh made the world's first New York-to-Paris flight in 1927, Corrigan determined to try his own transatlantic first.
Eleven years later came the stunt that made him instantly famous in Ireland and around the world.
"Honest, I meant to go to California," Corrigan said in a radio interview in Ireland.
He sailed back to New York and a tickertape parade. He also was greeted by thousands when he flew back to Long Beach, and a parade in his honor was staged in Los Angeles as well.
A year later, Corrigan starred as himself in the 1939 film "Flying Irishman," but the movie tanked and so did his acting career, according to the Los Angeles Times.
He eventually settled on a 20-acre orange grove in Santa Ana, where he and his wife reared three sons and he kept his old plane "Sunshine" in the garage.
In 1988, an Irish airline flew him back to Ireland to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his "wrong way" flight.
Though he reveled in his Irish-American ancestry, it's open to debate whether Corrigan would approve of alcohol-fueled St. Patrick's Day celebrations. According to The Times, Corrigan was a teetotaler who ran on a Prohibition Party ticket in 1946 with the platform slogan "Soak the Drunks With Higher Taxes."
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Longtime classical music radio announcer in L.A.
Thomas Cassidy, 95, an announcer who was the longtime host of classical music programs on the now-defunct KFAC radio station, died Nov. 5 at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, his daughter Peggy Friedman said. The cause was not given.
From December 1943 until January 1987, Cassidy was the host of KFAC's "Evening Concert" series. He also hosted the station's "Musical Masterpieces" and "Luncheon at the Music Center" shows for many years.
In the 1950s and '60s he was the intermission announcer at the Hollywood Bowl.
Cassidy was born Nov. 4, 1917, in Valparaiso, Ind., and, aspiring to become an opera singer, studied at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. He met his future wife, Dorothy, there and the couple married in 1942.
Encouraged by his wife, Cassidy began auditioning for radio networks to help pay the bills and landed a job with NBC. The network sent him to Boise, Idaho, to learn the trade, then several months later he returned to Los Angeles. He was hired by KFAC, the first commercial classical radio station in Los Angeles.
He served as the host and programmer for the "Evening Concert," which was broadcast Monday through Saturday nights and was sponsored by Southern California Gas Co. He retired soon after the station was sold in late 1986.
In a 1957 profile of Cassidy in The Times, he contrasted his assignments for KFAC with his announcing duties at the Hollywood Bowl. "In stage work you get an immediate response, but in radio you are remote from your audience," he said. "You put your heart and soul into it and maybe a week later you get one letter."
Poet T.S. Eliot's widow nurtured his legacy
Valerie Eliot, 86, the widow of T.S. Eliot and a zealous guardian of the poet's literary legacy for almost half a century, died Friday at her London home, the Eliot estate said in a statement. The cause was not disclosed.
Born Valerie Fletcher in Leeds, northern England, on Aug. 17, 1926, Eliot was the second wife of the U.S.-born Nobel literature laureate. She met him at London publisher Faber & Faber, where he was a director and she a star-struck secretary who had been a fan of his work since her teenage years.
"I felt I knew him as a person" from his poems, she told the Independent newspaper in 1994, "and evidently I did."
The poet's first marriage, to the mercurial Vivienne Haigh-Wood, had been unhappy; she died in a mental institution in 1947.
He and Valerie wed in 1957, and friends described the marriage as a happy one despite the almost 40-year gap in their ages.
After T.S. Eliot's death in 1965, Valerie became his executor, editing his poems and letters for publication and steadfastly refusing to cooperate with would-be biographers, in keeping with the poet's last wishes.
She did, however, welcome the unlikely idea of a stage musical based on a volume of Eliot's whimsical verses, "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats." It became the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Cats," a global hit that brought in huge sums for the Eliot estate.
Valerie Eliot used some of the windfall to set up a literary charity, Old Possum's Practical Trust. She also funded the T.S. Eliot Prize, an annual award for poetry.
She oversaw publication of a much-praised facsimile edition of T.S. Eliot's 1922 modernist masterpiece "The Waste Land" and edited multiple volumes of letters that gave scholars new insights into the intensely private poet.
-- Los Angeles Times staff and wire reports
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Comparison Worksheet - More
Help kids practice recognizing the concept of more. This worksheet shows two groups of balls and turtles and asks the children to circle the group that contains more. Just click on the image of the more worksheet below to view and print your copy.
This more comparison worksheet and the others on this site are all free to print and use.
Use as many copies as you like at home or in a class room, but don't reproduce them on another website
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This growing emphasis on short manufacturing campaigns calls for a highly flexible manufacturing regime, characterized by
the ability to make continual fast changeovers between individual product runs that may be as low as only 2 to 3 batches per
campaign. This creates very real pressures in terms of cleaning efficiency and ultimate asset utilization, where 24/7 manufacturing
may no longer be a realistic business goal.
The scale-up and manufacturing challenges of the changing product mix notably apply to the contract manufacturing sector,
which is taking a significant and growing share of a rapidly diversifying customer base. However, if it is to truly deliver
the promise of helping the biotechnology industry bring effective, safe and affordable medicines to market — and deliver profitable
activity in the process — this sector must meet a further challenge.
Many aspects of our manufacturing processes are crying out for more innovation and with CMOs growing as the recognized leaders
in biomanufacturing, they must drive delivery, working with the regulators to help the industry through a discernable reluctance
to adopt new technologies and operating strategies.
CMOs should take the lead in creating streamlined methods for process development, building flexibility into processes to
enable effective operations across a range of scales, intensifying stages such as protein re-folding and developing innovative
procedures for fast facility turn-around between campaigns and products. Disposables technology will certainly have a place,
but with its associated high consumables, cost may not always be the best solution. Continued innovation at the interface
of science and engineering is needed and the CMO sector must rise to the leadership challenge.
While 'stainless steel' capacity issues will, periodically, re-occupy center stage in response to market forces and everyone
will seek the top talent and the right people balance, it is in process technologies that the healthcare biotech production
leaders will most likely compete for differentiation and supremacy.
It's not hard to see technology as the focus for the next real arms race in biomanufacturing. Meanwhile, we must not forget
that the ultimate aim of this strategic contest is to speed up development and contain and reduce the cost of goods because,
in the final analysis, making more and better drugs and treatments affordable for, and beneficial to, patients is the real
driver for what we do every day.
This article was first published in Contract Services Europe (November 2004, 14-17) and is reproduced with kind permission.
Dr. Stephen Taylor is the general manager at Avecia Biotechnology, P.O. Box 2, Belasis Avenue, Billingham TS23 1YN, UK, 44.1642.363.511, fax 44.1642.364.463, firstname.lastname@example.org
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I would like to do something similar to what Susan requested, but we are now using Bb Learn, and morgan16's reply is several years old.
Is there a way to either (a) create multiple assignments at once, by uploading a data file, for example, or (b) clone assignments--i.e. create an assignment to be just like another one except for a few changes?
My problem is that I require each student to turn in a reading summary three times a week before class, and I have to do this for two sections of the course. I'm willing to go through the tedious work of creating 35 or 40 assignments for each section, but I need to put in three date/time pairs for each assignment, as well as fill in other data to create the assignment, and this process is very error-prone. I'm sure that there are others who have and will want to be able to do something like this, and it seems as if it would be an important feature. I'm wondering whether some way to systematically create multiple assignments is available yet.
(There is probably a way to do it for someone who is able to work with the underlying databases that drive Bb Learn. Maybe only Blackboard programmers are allowed to do that sort of thing, but it seems as if it would be possible, in theory, to provide the ability to instructors.)
You might get more response posting over in the Blackboard Learn areas rather than the CE/Vista areas. However, there isn't currently a way in Blackboard Learn to "batch" create multiple assignments at once, or to clone assignments.
Once you get the assignments set up in one class the first time, it's fairly straightforward to copy them to another class if you copy both the content area and the grade center settings. However, you'll still have to fix all the dates in the new class, and that will be pretty tedious. In an upcoming version of Blackboard, I believe you will be able to copy materials from one class to another and reset all the dates as needed relative to the start date for the class, but I'm not sure when that would be available at your school.
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Annals of Internal Medicine
2 October 2012, Vol. 157. No. 7
What Primary Care Providers Need to Know About Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention: A Narrative Review
Douglas Krakower, MD; and Kenneth H. Mayer, MD
Abstract [Free full-text]
As HIV prevalence climbs globally, including more than 50,000 new infections per year in the United States, we need more effective HIV prevention strategies. The use of antiretrovirals for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among high-risk persons without HIV is emerging as one such strategy. Randomized, controlled trials have demonstrated that once-daily oral PrEP decreased HIV incidence among at-risk men who have sex with men and African heterosexuals, including serodiscordant couples. An additional randomized, controlled trial of a topical pericoital antiretroviral microbicide gel decreased HIV incidence among at-risk heterosexual South African women. Two other studies in African women did not demonstrate the efficacy of oral or topical PrEP, raising concerns about adherence patterns and efficacy in this population.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee reviewed these studies and additional data in May 2012 and voted to advise the approval of oral tenofovir–emtricitabine for PrEP in high-risk populations. On 16 July 2012, the FDA recommended that this combination medication be approved for use as PrEP in high-risk persons without HIV. Patients may seek PrEP from their primary care providers, and those receiving PrEP require monitoring. Thus, primary care providers should become familiar with PrEP. This review outlines current knowledge about PrEP as it pertains to primary care, including identifying persons likely to benefit from PrEP; counseling to maximize adherence and reduce potential increases in risky behavior; and monitoring for potential drug toxicities, HIV acquisition, and antiretroviral drug resistance. Issues related to cost and insurance coverage are also discussed. Recent data suggest that PrEP, combined with other prevention strategies, holds promise in helping to curtail the HIV epidemic.
Human immunodeficiency virus continues to spread, with more than 2 million new infections globally (1) and 50,000 new infections in the United States per year (2). Thus, more effective HIV prevention strategies are urgently needed. Administration of antiretroviral medications to uninfected persons at high risk to protect against HIV acquisition, known as preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), has recently emerged as a promising prevention strategy.
Over the past 2 years, randomized, controlled trials have demonstrated that PrEP can decrease HIV incidence in high-risk populations (3 - 6). With the FDA’s approval of oral tenofovir–emtricitabine for PrEP in high-risk populations (7), clinicians can now prescribe PrEP to prevent HIV acquisition in their at-risk patients. Thus, it is important that practicing physicians understand this new evidence and its implications.
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These images illustrate the typical spatial resolution used in state-of-the-art climate models around the times of each of the four IPCC Assessment Reports. Around the time of the First Assessment Report (FAR) in 1990, many climate models used a grid with cells of about 500 km (311 miles) on a side (upper left image). By the time of the the Second Assessment Report (SAR) in 1996, resolution had improved by a factor of two, producing grid cells 250 km (155 miles) on a side. Models references in the Third Assessment Report (TAR) in 2001 generally had reduced grid cells sizes to about 180 km (112 miles), while Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) models typically used a 110 km (68 mile) wide grid cell, further improving resolution. Vertical resolution is not depicted in these images, but has also improved over the years. Typical FAR models had a single-layer "slab ocean" and 10 atmospheric layers; AR4 models often include 30 layers in the oceans and another 30 in the atmosphere. Notice how elements of topography, such as the Alps Mountains, are shown in much greater detail in higher-resolution models. This allows such models to begin to make reasonable forecasts of regional climate in the future, a currently emerging capability.
Image courtesy of the IPCC (AR4 WG 1 Chapter 1 page 113 Fig. 1.4).
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
Early Life and Work
At 11 he was apprenticed to Francisco de Herrera the elder, whom he soon left for the studio of Francisco Pacheco, where he remained for five years, learning the technique of painting and being introduced to the history and theory of art. There he also came into contact with the most intellectual society of Seville and with the work of the Spanish naturalist painters and the great Italian masters. His earliest paintings, such as Christ and the Pilgrims of Emmaus (Metropolitan Mus.), show great vigor and a strong naturalistic point of view. In 1618 Velázquez married Pacheco's daughter Juana, and five years later moved to Madrid.
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Human ecologist Bill Durham discusses his career trajectory including his work in the Galapagos Islands, issues surrounding the new field of eco-tourism, and how a mishap with a lawn mower started his life’s work.
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Bill Durham is Bing Professor in Human Biology, Yang and Yamazaki University Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. While highly regarded among students for his true dedication to teaching and engaging undergraduates, Durham is also internationally renowned for his work in human ecology. His research interests range from biological anthropology to cultural evolution to the causes of scarcity and environmental degradation in Latin America. His current research is on generating sustainable development in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, investigating ecotourism as a means to poverty alleviation and self-determination in Central and South America, and understanding the environmental causes of emerging infectious tropical diseases. For his work on the theory of co-evolution in human populations and the trade-offs between conservation and community development, Durham has been honored with the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim, Danforth, and National Science Foundations. He currently serves as Stanford Director of the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, and he has established a well-loved series of Field Seminars for students and alumni through the Stanford Alumni Travel/Study Program.
Jenny Rempel is a senior Earth Systems major and Human Biology minor with a love of good food, good travel and the great outdoors. Her interest in the Anthropocene stems from these very pleasures: from exploring the injustices of current food systems to studying the potential for ecotourism in Galapagos to analyzing national land conservation trends, Jenny is determined to help shape this new geological era for the better. Having grown up in Fresno, California, Jenny is particularly fond of issues at the confluence of conservation biology and sustainable agriculture. She spent the summer of 2009 at a high-elevation field site in Colorado studying the population dynamics of a montane butterfly species, and last summer she worked with Prof. Tad Fukami to investigate the effects of removing invasive species from forest fragments. As a NOAA Hollings Scholar, Jenny is currently working with the Northwest Fisheries Science Center to study the effects of ocean acidification on marine crustaceans. While on campus, Jenny enjoys growing, cooking and eating food at the Stanford Community Farm. She serves as a co-founder and leader of the Stanford Farm Project and she organizes the Environmental Faculty Dinner Series. In the past year, Jenny has backpacked, swam, skied, snowshoed, hiked or camped in ten different national parks. She can’t wait to get back outside – where her thoughts on the Anthropocene were first formed!
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An Overview of The Rancho
“…were we only to have the story of Rancho Los Alamitos at hand,
we might still be able to reconstruct the outlines and successive phases of this region’s history…”
-Kevin Starr, historian and author of the California Dream series
Rancho Los Alamitos is a microcosm of the regional story. In the intersecting lives of native people, owners and workers who once called this place home and transformed its land is the richness, drama and complexity of California’s legacy.
Change and continuity reverberate throughout the history of The Rancho. Sacred ground; water; land for farming, ranching, and real estate; oil; historic open space; as well as people from around the world—all have emerged at the right time to renew and sustain natural and cultural communities, and reshape and renew The Rancho over generations. The continual remix of diversity is the mark of a resilient landscape and accounts for the long, ongoing, beneficial evolution of Rancho Los Alamitos.
Today Rancho Los Alamitos is 7.5-acres, a rare vestige of the original 300,000-acre Los Coyotes land concession given to Manuel Nieto in 1790 for his service on the Gaspar de Portolá expedition to California under the Spanish Crown. However, the story of Rancho Los Alamitos precedes these first newcomers, for the historic site is also part of the ancestral village of Povuu’ngna, the traditional place of origin of the native Gabrielino-Tongva people of the Los Angeles Basin, and still a sacred place.
Nieto’s vast land holdings included 25,500 acres which in 1833 became Rancho Los Alamitos—Ranch of the Little Cottonwoods. The name suggested its most valuable asset since cottonwoods grow near water, and grew plentifully near the natural springs of Povuu’ngna below the hill. For Nieto, the land was a ranching gem and reward from the Spanish Crown. Subsequent owners Governor José Figueroa and Yankee Don Abel Stearns saw the site as a smart investment and perhaps a haven away from rough Los Angeles. To generations of the Bixby family, the ranch’s last private owners, and the workers, tenant and lease farmers who worked there, Rancho Los Alamitos was an enterprising ranch that would endure for almost a century through the rise of modern-day Long Beach.
From the time of ancestral Povuu’ngna through the Spanish-Mexican era of land concessions and grants native workers fueled the Alta California economy. In turn, the early American era owners of Alamitos, like other Yankee dons throughout the state, relied on successive workers from the U.S., Europe, China, and Japan to cultivate fields and raise livestock, and in the twentieth century, depended on labor from Mexico as well as Belgian tenant and Japanese lease farmers. During the 1880’s booming real estate, 5,000 acres of Alamitos land were developed, and by the early twentieth century, Alamitos oil subsidized the remaining 3,600-acre ranch, but the black gold flowed over open space into rampant urban growth.
In 1968, the children of Fred and Florence Bixby, the last private owners, donated the family ranch to the City of Long Beach, transforming what had been a working ranch to a public oasis and setting the stage for what Rancho Los Alamitos is today—a place for all time.
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Most families are smart enough to not spray poison on their garden for fear that it will harm the small harvest they will consume. What most people do not realize is that genetically modified crops do exactly what we wish to avoid at home: genetically modified agricultural products are designed to grow in RoundUp. While the food industry argues that this is harmless, there is new evidence that this slowly poisons consumers. The food industry likes these modified crops because they no longer have to weed, they can simply dump a herbicide to destroy all competing plants. What is good for the food industry is bad for consumers.
A paper published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences (Abstract PDF) links genetically modified corn to liver and kidney poisoning (the organs that detoxify the body). This study comes to the reasonable conclusion that food grown in RoundUp may be bad for those who consume it. This food is currently legal and common in the U.S. An Australian news agency reports that the multinational enterprise seeking to advance this product used fraudulent research in its attempt to get this food approved.
This is the first of several posts that will examine the use of carcinogens in commonly consumed American products. This post concerned the long-term dangers in consuming non-organic (or genetically modified) corn.
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Blending three diverse dance styles in one performance may seem a jumble, but the South Asian artists of Chicago have pulled it off. Ninety-five Chicago dancers and musicians from three international communities--Thai, Indonesian and Indian--joined in an unprecedented celebration of their common heritage: the story of Lord Rama, told and retold in each country's unique style even centuries after Hindu influence waned. The synergy is spectacular, especially enhanced by the unique costumes of each tradition. This year's performance was scheduled for April 3, 1999 at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Yoga Goes to the Temple
Yogi Balakrishnan has a complaint, but he also has a solution. "Yoga was lost from our temple practice 2,500 years ago." He says it's essential for temples to cultivate all four steps to perfection, known as charya, kriya, yoga and jnana--service, worship, self-inquiry and transcendental knowledge, and he has convinced four of Singapore's major temples to incorporate his programs. Balakrishnan, 50, attracted wide attention in 1996 when he had a car drive over his stomach while he lay on a bed of nails. "It hurt," he privately admitted to Hinduism Today, but he was uninjured. He asks, "Do I have to set up a separate ashram to teach yoga when there are 17,000 temples in Malaysia and Singapore? What are the temples for? Many of us think yoga is only for a saint or that it is just exercise--neither are true. In the 20th century, yoga is compulsory in an environment where people live in unhealthy offices while eating unhealthy food and living an unhealthy lifestyle." Balakrishnan has thousands of students, including hundreds in Singapore. They include children, housewives, executives and athletes. A determined man with limited resources, Balakrishnan is an example of how one man can make a difference. He teaches: "A yoga practitioner does not cringe and crawl through life. Yoga makes one lean on one's own spine and self. His lustrous form enjoys the vitality of youth."
The Indian caste system, specifically its tradition of marrying within one's social strata, has been around so long, genetic analysis can identify its impact. An international team of researchers led by Michael J. Bamshad of the University of Utah recorded the genetic patterns of 300 Hindus of different castes living in South India. By careful tracking, the study showed that women are "upwardly mobile" in the caste system. That is, they sometimes marry into castes just above theirs--a pattern approved in the ancient shastras (Hindu law texts). But men traditionally do not marry above their caste, and their genetic makeup shows they have remained within their respective castes for centuries. The researchers also stated that the upper castes were genetically closer to European caucasian gene patterns than those of the lower castes.
The Hindu Students Council, US, didn't spend winter break hanging out on the streets of Fort Lauderdale with their party-minded fellow students. No. They devoted part of the vacation to their "most successful coordination council meeting yet," according the HSC's Chandan Bandopadhyay. The late December meeting dealt with acceptance of non-Indian Hindus, a new women's forum, law scholarships for students pledged to combat discrimination against Hindus and much more. A related conference, "Feel the Shakti, 1999," covered the "Top 10 Misconceptions of Hinduism," marriage and being a Hindu in America.
Vegetarianism, long practiced in Asia, is now under threat as never before, with traditional staples like lentils and rice rapidly being replaced by fatty fast food. The result is a sight on the streets of Thailand not even imagined a generation ago: overweight youngsters stuffing themselves with hamburgers and chicken legs from American fast-food franchises. Even in veggie superpower, India, "Young Indians are taking their cue from Western media--not real Western people. So they've come to think that to smoke, drink and eat non-veg is modern and fashionable," said Jashu Shah of The Vegetarian Society in Bombay during the recent congress of the 110-year-old International Vegetarian Union. While Indian gurus once went West to convert carnivores, Shah and others say committed vegetarians should now come East to set examples. Other places in Asia are having the same problem. In China, where bean curd was first produced some 2,000 years ago, McDonald's outlets now outnumber vegetarian restaurants in Beijing. In Japan, meat generally went untouched a century ago. Now, meat is steadily being chosen over the traditional diet of vegetables, rice and fish, according to the Japanese Vegetarian Society.
Kepler Did Horoscopes
One of the greatest astronomers who ever lived, Johannes Kepler, was also an astrologer--to the chagrin of modern scientists who count Kepler among the first of the great rationalists. But Kepler, a practical man, wrote, "God provides for every animal his means of sustenance--for an astronomer, he has provided astrology." Kepler, with his laws of planetary motion, laid the foundation for modern astronomy. In ancient times, astrology and astronomy were a one science. They had yet to part company in Kepler's time, as shown by his chart prepared in 1586 for an Austrian nobleman. The six-by-eight-inch framed paper was found in the archives of the University of California at Santa Cruz by Anthony Misch, an astronomer at Lick Observatory.
Vedic Astrology in Paradise
It wasn't your normal opening speech, but then again, this wasn't your normal conference either. In the main ballroom of the Kauai Coconut Beach Resort the hundred attendees sat in meditative silence as six Hindu monks led by Acharya Ceyonswami opened the Third Annual Vedic Astrology conference with a planetary puja and Sanskrit chanting. The early March conference took place on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, just a few miles from Hinduism Today's offices. Those attending ranged from curious amateurs in the ancient art of Hindu astrology to full-time professionals. They listened to lectures from experts including Nalini Kantha Das, Dennis Harness, David Frawley, Edith Hathaway and Christina Collins Hill. Hinduism Today publisher Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami spoke on "Mitigating Wrongs Through Vedic Rights," showing the value of jyotisha in dealing with karma. Indian aficionados of astrology would be delighted with the knowledge and dedication of their Western kin. Wait for a good nakshatra to visit them on the Web at www.vedicastrology.org.
From the foothills of the Himalayas to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains comes Acharya Kailash Chandra Upadhyay Ji, priest of the new Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of the Rockies. A converted Christian church, the temple was consecrated in October, 1998, to serve the greater Denver community.
Hindu Temple, PO Box 621202,
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Once a year in Khaka, a virgin girl is worshiped in a sacred Kumari Puja. Kumari, which means "virgin," is one name for the Goddess. Six-year-old Barsha Chakraborty was selected for the honor this time. She, like other recent kumaris, is a brahmin, though ancient scripture says a girl from any caste may be chosen, explains Hinduism Today correspondent Bashudeb Dhar. The Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, organizes the worship in conjunction with the annual Durga Puja, one of the country's most popular festivals. Thousands gathered for the puja as the maiden was worshiped with deep reverence, devotion and beautiful offerings normally reserved for the Goddess. During the puja, the girl is Kumari, the Divine Mother. In this way, people renew their respect and reverence for women. Similar puja on a grander scale is performed by the RK Mission in Calcutta, India.
It's been over two years since D.V. Beeharry, pujari of the small Kaliamen Kovil in Albion Mauritius, woke to find more than a dozen of his temple's Deities smashed and scattered around the open courtyard. The Kalimaye Shrine in Phoenix was similarly desecrated. Neither crime has been solved by the police. The Deities in these family temples are often nothing more than a few crude images, handcrafted by ancestors and worshiped devoutly for generations. Shortly after the September 9, 1997, destruction, Mr. Christian Bertrand came forward to the police and named fellow Christian Jean-Claude Raimbert, a Pentecostal, as the perpetrator. Since then a running debate between the men has aired in the local French newspaper, 5-Plus. Raimbert said, "I deny everything. My friend didn't do it, either. I forgive my accusers. The devil is behind all of this. I only remove statues when someone asks me to." The last public admission is significant. Christian ministers are known in Mauritius for converting one or two members of a household, then assisting them in destroying all the Deities in the home. Dismayed relatives have watched their shrines burn in the street.
Beyond the senses is the mind, beyond the mind, pure intellect, beyond the intellect, the great Atman, beyond the great, the Unmanifest.
Krishna Yajur Veda, katha upanishad 6.7
Now the teaching concerning the Atman: the Atman is below, it is above, it is behind, it is before, it is in the South, it is in the North. The Atman indeed is all that is. He who sees, reflects and knows this--he has joy in the Atman.
Sama Veda, chandogya Upanishad 7.25.2
Verily, he is pure, steadfast and unswerving, stainless, unagitated, desireless, fixed like a spectator, and self-abiding. As an enjoyer of righteousness, he covers himself (atmanam) with a veil made of qualities; but he remains fixed--yea, he remains fixed!
Krishna Yajur Veda, maitri upanishad 2.7
The Inspired Self is not born, nor does He die; He springs from nothing and becomes nothing. Unborn, permanent, unchanging, primordial, He is not destroyed when the body is destroyed.
Krishna Yajur Veda, katha upanishad 2.18
The Vedas are the divinely revealed and most revered scriptures, sruti, of Hinduism, likened to the Torah (1,200 bce), Bible New Testament (100 ce), Koran (630 ce) or Zend Avesta (600 bce). Four in number, Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva, the Vedas include over 100,000 verses. Oldest portions may date back as far as 6,000 bce.
"Acceptance of the Vedas with reverence; recognition of the fact that the means or ways to salvation are diverse; and the realization of the truth that the number of gods to be worshiped is large, that indeed is the distinguishing feature of the Hindu religion." B.G. Tilak's definition of what makes one a basic Hindu, as quoted by India's Supreme Court. On July 2, 1995, the Court referred to it as an "adequate and satisfactory formula."
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The National Assembly has voted to adopt a wide-ranging law on higher education that aims to move Vietnam toward a knowledge-based economy. The law states that national and regional universities will receive more investment and be given more autonomy. In addition, the law removes the government cap on tuition fees, although some conditions may be attached to fee levels for public institutions.
The new law was expected to be in place one year ago, but controversy over details caused delays. Criticism continues over certain issues, including classification of universities, regulation of foreign investment, and autonomy versus quality assurance.
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Have a written lesson plan for each training session or practice. You cannot have a good practice if you do not have an idea of what you want to accomplish during that practice. The plan may be written out in detail on a practice planning form (see sample Lesson Plan Form). Writing down your plan will help you think through the equipment and setup you will need for the topics to be covered.
Below are sample lesson plans written by Kentucky Youth Soccer. No commercial reproduction, adaptation, distribution or transmission of any part or parts of lesson plan or any information contained, herein by any means whatsoever is permitted without the prior written permission of Kentucky Youth Soccer.
If you have questions about any of these lesson plans, please contact Adrian Parrish.
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The TUC has relationships with all the Iraqi and Kurdish trade union centres, three of which unified in 2005 to form a new General Federation of Iraqi Workers, there are two workers federations in Iraqi Kurdistan which are also planning a merger
Apart from the massive economic and social devastation resulting from the war and the consequent lack of decent employment and basic services, Iraqi unions are under attack from the current Iraqi Government, which recently issued a decree taking state control of all union assets and finances. The TUC supports workers’ efforts to rebuild free trade unionism in Iraq with ILO-compliant labour laws.
In Britain, practical support for the Iraqi trade unions is channelled largely through the TUC's Iraq Solidarity Committee and the TUC’s Aid for Iraq Appeal raises funds to support Iraqi trade unionists in practical ways.
The most recent documents available on this subject are:Drop charges against Iraqi oil union leader, says TUC
TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady has urged the Iraqi government to desist from persecuting and harassing trade unionists in the oil industry. Union leaders from the sector globally - IndustriALL - and UNITE in the UK have also called for the cas...PDF version available for download
Thugs from the Sadrist movement stormed the offices of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers in Baghdad last week, assaulting union members and damaging property. TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber wrote to the Iraqi Charges D'Affaires Dr Muhi...
The Iraqi government has stepped up its harassment of trade unionists in the oil sector. Sign the labour start petition calling on the Iraqi government to end these attacks.
The Iraqi Minister for Education has placed a ban on two leaders of the Iraqi Teacher's Union from coming to the UK next week to attend the NASUWT's annual conference. TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has written to the Iraqi Charge D'Affaires in...
One year after the Egyptian revolution toppled Mubarak, Diana Holland, Unite Assistant General Secretary addressed Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa "demonstration for a human rights revolution" in Trafalgar Square, on 11 February ...
The TUC is supporting a Labour Start appeal to defend the President of the Kirkuk Oil and Gas Workers Union, Jamal Abdul-Jabbar who has been forcibly relocated by his employers. International union protests have prevented this sort of management hara...PDF version available for download
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The following data is extracted from Illustrated History of the State of Idaho.
The career of Mr. Damas has been a very eventful and interesting one, and now, at the age of sixty-four, he is the possessor of a handsome competence, the fitting reward of his well spent life. For twenty-six years he has been prominently connected with the mercantile interests of Lewiston and his efforts have been an important element in the progress and advancement of this section of the state. He was born far from his present home, being a native of Brussels, Belgium, where his birth occurred on the i8th of July, 1835. He attended school in his native country until nine years of age and then became a cadet in the celebrated naval academy at Antwerp, where he remained for several years, spending a part of the time on a school-ship at sea. During that period they sailed in every sea and visited all of the principal ports of the world, and later Mr. Damas was graduated as a second-class midshipman.
In 1848 his father sent him to Salem, Massachusetts, to learn the English language, and there, as an apprentice, he went aboard the vessel Thomas Perkins, under command of Captain William Rogers, sailing for San Francisco, California, the vessel dropping anchor in that harbor in the summer of 1849. Gold had but recently been discovered and the great excitement there caused every man to desert the ship save Mr. Damas and the captain, who had to do the common sailor's work. Early in the spring of 1850 they secured a small crew of men and boys and sailed to the Sandwich islands, where a good crew was employed, and from there they continued the voyage around the world. They remained at Calcutta, India, for some time and returned by way of the Cape of Good Hope, visiting St. Helena and the place where one of the greatest military heroes of the world. Napoleon Bonaparte, was laid to rest. They reached Boston, Massachusetts, just before Christmas of 1851, and found Captain Rogers' father ready to launch the Witchcraft, a very fast sailing clipper ship, making a record of eighteen miles an hour. Mr. Damas was sent aboard this ship under his former captain and was given the confidential position of secretary. They took on a cargo for San Francisco and started on a second voyage around the world. In the China Sea the vessel was totally dismantled in a severe typhoon, in which several ships were lost, but after great effort the Witchcraft managed to reach Hong Kong, where she remained four months undergoing repairs. Notwithstanding all this she made better time to San Francisco than any other vessel had previously done. From Rio Janeiro they took on four hundred Chinamen for San Francisco, arid during the voyage the Celestials mutinied, and almost succeeded in gaining control of the ship, but finally they were subdued and the Witchcraft reached San Francisco in safety. There they proceeded to prepare for another trip to Calcutta, but Mr. Damas came to the conclusion that it was advisable to seek to better his condition on land, as he saw no prospect of ever becoming owner of a vessel and probably would never be more than a third officer, or at most a second officer. The relations between himself and Captain Rogers had always been most harmonious and agreeable, and the Captain gave a very reluctant consent to Mr. Damas' withdrawal, yet acceded the justice of his wishes to better his lot in life. He was, however, asked to remain until the ship was ready to start. While the preparations for sailing were being made the crew made considerable fun of him, assuring him that he would not be allowed to leave the ship, and he had some fears himself that such might be the case, but he packed his trunk and had all in readiness to disembark. The pilot came on board, the ship set sail, and it was not until the pilot left the Witchcraft that Mr. Damas received orders to go ashore. His trunk was then lowered into the pilot's boat, and the Captain bade him an affectionate goodbye, placing in his hand a sealed envelope, which on opening he found to contain a letter of recommendation and a check for one thousand dollars, certainly a high tribute to the fidelity and ability of Mr. Damas!
After some time our subject went to Sierra County, California, where he engaged in mining with good success. In 1853 he took out as high as one hundred dollars per day, but he loaned his money and did not have much at the end of the year. He was one of the discoverers of the Howland Flats, a rich mining district, but before he knew the real value he sold out for a small sum and went to the Feather River, where he became interested in the building of a large flume near Oroville. He was also interested in the Spanish Flatwater ditch. From there he went to Siskiyou County, and arrived at Scott's Bar just in time to take a part in the Indian war on the Klamath River. In 1861 the Oro Fino gold discoveries attracted him to Idaho. As the snow melted and they progressed farther into the state, they endured many hardships. In 1862 Mr. Damas arrived at Lewiston, and at Oro Fino accepted a clerkship in the store of A. P. Aukeny, remaining in that position until 1866, when, on his own account, he began packing goods to Montana. He sold out at Beartown making ten thousand dollars on the transaction. He then returned to Oro Fino and succeeded A. P. Aukeny & Company in the mercantile business. After successfully conducting a large trade there for about six years, he was taken ill and by his physician was advised to go to a lower altitude. This led to his removal to Lewiston, where he has made his home since 1872, engaged in the general merchandise business.
In that year Mr. Damas went to San Francisco, purchased a stock of general merchandise and opened the store which he thereafter carried on with eminent success. He had a large and well appointed store, carried a fine line of goods, and enjoyed a very liberal patronage from the beginning, so that he is now the possessor of a handsome competence acquired through his own well directed efforts. He sold out his business in May 1899.
In 1869 Mr. Damas was united in marriage to Miss Maria Frances Sperling, a native of New York city, who was brought to Idaho in her early girlhood, and is now one of the honored pioneer women of the state. They have one daughter. Amy D., now the wife of Frank W. Kettenbach, of Lewiston. She was born in Pierce City, in 1870, and is now one of the esteemed residents of Lewiston.
Mr. Damas has held several positions of public honor and trust. He was the first treasurer of Shoshone County, to which position he was elected in 1862. He was its first district deputy clerk and also filled the offices of justice of the peace and probate judge, but he is probably best known in connection with the Masonic fraternity, of which he is an exemplary member, his life standing in evidence of the humane, benevolent and ennobling principles of the order. He became a Master Mason in Mount Idaho Lodge, No. 9, in 1864, and since then has taken all the degrees of the York rite, and has attained the thirty-third degree of the Scottish rite, and been proclaimed a Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret. He became a Royal Arch Mason in Lewiston Chapter, No. 4, has filled all of its offices, and was its high priest for four consecutive terms. He is a charter member of Lewiston Commandery, No. 2, was knighted in 1892, and has filled the office of generalissimo. Having been a close student of the teachings and tenets of Masonry, and becoming more and more impressed with its beautiful teachings, he advanced to the thirty-second degree of the Scottish rite, and has been instrumental in founding the four bodies in Lewiston. He established the Lewiston Lodge of Perfection, No. 1. fourteenth degree; Lewiston Rose Croix Chapter, No. 1, eighteenth degree; Lewiston Consistory of Knights of Kodash, thirtieth degree; and Idaho Consistory, No. 1, thirty-second degree. He now has the honor of being inspector general of the state of Idaho, and has the great honor of legally wearing the Masonic cross of honor, voted him by the supreme council of the southern jurisdiction in 1897, and in October, 1899, he was elected a thirty-third degree Mason. He is a very enthusiastic Mason, taking great delight in the work of the order, and his wife is connected with the ladies' branch of Masonry, being a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. As pioneers of Idaho they have a wide acquaintance and many friends, and none are more worthy the high regard of their fellow townsmen.
Source: Illustrated History of the State of Idaho
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Different search engines generate a wide range of results for certain health care-related searches, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, American Medical News reports (Lewis Dolan, American Medical News, 6/4).
For the study, researchers from the University of Missouri evaluated four search engines -- Ask.com, Bing, Google and Yahoo! -- on their usability for obtaining certain medical information.
Researchers asked volunteers to search for information on breast cancer and compared the results that the different search engines generated (Durben Hirsch, FierceHealthIT, 5/17). They then grouped the search results into four categories, based on whether the websites were:
- For the general population;
- For researchers and professionals;
- From not-for-profit organizations; or
- From corporations (American Medical News, 6/4).
Researchers found that:
- Bing received the highest scores for the usefulness of its search results; and
- Google had the best "search validity," or the highest percentage of websites that could be opened (FierceHealthIT, 5/17).
The study also found that search results from:
- Ask.com primarily included websites from not-for-profit organizations;
- Bing primarily included websites for the general population and those for professionals and researchers;
- Google primarily included websites for the general population and those from not-for-profit organizations; and
- Yahoo! primarily included websites for the general population.
Corporate websites were the least common search result from all four search engines.
According to the researchers, the findings indicate that each search engine has its own method for deciding which sites are shown and how they are ranked.
Doug Xu -- professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Missouri -- said he was surprised to see significant differences among the results generated by each site (American Medical News, 6/4).
The authors wrote, "We suggest that search engine users explore multiple search engines to search different types of health information and medical knowledge for their own needs and get a professional consultation if necessary" (FierceHealthIT, 5/17).
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A few Sundays ago, I formed one of the congregation assembled in the chapel of a large metropolitan Workhouse. With the exception of the clergyman and clerk, and a very few officials, there were none but paupers present. The children sat in the galleries; the women in the body of the chapel, and in one of the side aisles; the men in the remaining aisle. The service was decorously performed, though the sermon might have been much better adapted to the comprehension and to the circumstances of the hearers. The usual supplications were offered, with more than the usual significancy in such a place, for the fatherless children and widows, for all sick persons and young children, for all that were desolate and oppressed, for the comforting and helping of the weak-hearted, for the raising-up of them that had fallen; for all that were in danger, necessity, and tribulation. The prayers of the congregation were desired "for several persons in the various wards dangerously ill"; and others who were recovering returned their thanks to Heaven.
Among this congregation were some evil-looking young women, and beetle-browed young men; but not many - perhaps that kind of characters kept away. Generally, the faces (those of the children excepted) were depressed and subdued, and wanted colour. Aged people were there, in every variety.
Mumbling, blear-eyed, spectacled, stupid, deaf, lame; vacantly winking in the gleams of sun that now and then crept in through the open doors, from the paved yard; shading their listening ears or blinking eyes with their withered hands; poring over their books, leering at nothing, going to sleep, crouching and drooping in corners. There were weird old women, all skeleton within, all bonnet and cloak without, continually wiping their eyes with dirty dusters of pocket-handkerchiefs; and there were ugly old crones, both male and female, with a ghastly kind of contentment upon them which was not at all comforting to see. Upon the whole, it was the dragon, Pauperism, in a very weak and impotent condition; toothless, fangless, drawing his breath heavily enough, and hardly worth chaining up.
When the service was over, I walked with the humane and conscientious gentleman whose duty it was to take that walk, that Sunday morning, through the little world of poverty enclosed within the workhouse walls. It was inhabited by a population of some fifteen hundred or two thousand paupers, ranging from the infant newly born or not yet come into the pauper world to the old man dying on his bed.
In a room opening from a squalid yard, where a number of listless women were lounging to and fro, trying to get warm in the ineffectual sunshine of the tardy May morning, - in the "Itch-Ward," [for those suffering from veneral disease] not to compromise the truth, - a woman, such as HOGARTH has often drawn [as in the Harlot's Progress], was hurriedly getting on her gown before a dusty fire. She was the nurse, or wardswoman, of that insalubrious department - herself a pauper - flabby, raw-boned, untidy - unpromising and coarse of aspect as need be. But on being spoken to about the patients whom she had in charge, she turned round, with her shabby gown half on, half off, and fell a-crying with all her might. Not for show, not querulously, not in any mawkish sentiment, but in the deep grief and affliction of her heart; turning away her dishevelled head; sobbing most bitterly, wringing her hands, and letting fall abundance of great tears, that choked her utterance. What was the matter with the nurse of the itch-ward? Oh, "the dropped child" was dead! Oh, the child that was found in the street, and she had brought up ever since, had died an hour ago, and see where the little creature lay, beneath this cloth! The dear, the pretty dear!
The dropped child seemed too small and poor a thing for Death to be in earnest with, but Death had taken it; and already its diminutive form was neatly washed, composed, and stretched as if in sleep upon a box. I thought I heard a voice from Heaven saying, It shall be well for thee, O nurse of the itch-ward, when some less gentle pauper does those offices to thy cold form, that such as the dropped child are the angels who behold my Father's face!
In another room were several ugly old women crouching, witch-like, round a hearth, and chattering and nodding, after the manner of the monkeys. "All well here? And enough to eat?" A general chattering and chuckling; at last an answer from a volunteer. "Oh, yes, gentleman! Bless you gentleman! Lord bless the parish of St. So-and-So! It feed the hungry, sir, and give drink to the thusty, and it warm them which is cold, so it do, and good luck to the parish of St. So-and-So, and thankee gentleman!" Elsewhere, a party of pauper nurses were at dinner. "How do you get on?" "Oh, pretty well, sir! We works hard, and we lives hard - like the sodgers!"
In another room, a kind of purgatory or place of transition, six or eight noisy madwomen were gathered together, under the superintendence of one sane attendant. Among them was a girl of two or three and twenty, very prettily dressed, of most respectable appearance, and good manners, who had been brought in from the house where she had lived as domestic servant (having, I suppose, no friends), on account of being subject to epileptic fits, and requiring to be removed under the influence of a very bad one. She was by no means of the same stuff, or the same breeding, or the same experience, or in the same state of mind, as those by whom she was surrounded; and she pathetically complained that the daily association and the nightly noise made her worse, and was driving her mad - which was perfectly evident. The case was noted for enquiry and redress, but she said she had already been there for some weeks.
If this girl had stolen her mistress's watch, I do not hesitate to say she would, in all probability, have been infinitely better off.... We have come to this absurd, this dangerous, this monstrous pass, that the dishonest felon is, in respect of cleanliness, order, diet, and accommodation, better provided for, and taken care of, than the honest pauper.
And this conveys no special imputation on the workhouse of the parish of St. So-and-So, where, on the contrary, I saw many things to commend. It was very agreeable, recollecting that most infamous and atrocious enormity committed at Tooting, - an enormity which, a hundred years hence, will still be vividly remembered in the byways of English life, and which has done more to engender a gloomy discontent and suspicion among many thousands of the people than all the Chartist leaders could have done in all their lives, - to find the pauper children in this workhouse looking robust and well, and apparently the objects of very great care. In the Infant School - a large, light, airy room at the top of the building - the little creatures, being at dinner, and eating their potatoes heartily, were not cowed by the presence of strange visitors, but stretched out their small hands to be shaken, with a very pleasant confidence. And it was comfortable to see two mangy pauper rocking-horses rampant in a corner. In the girls' school, where the dinner was also in progress, everything bore a cheerful and healthy aspect. The meal was over in the boys' school, by the time of our arrival there, and the room was not yet quite rearranged; but the boys were roaming unrestrained about a large and airy yard, as any other schoolboys might have done. Some of them had been drawing large ships upon the schoolroom wall; and if they had a mast with shrouds and stays set up for practice (as they have in the Middlesex House of Correction), it would be so much the better. At present, if a boy should feel a strong impulse upon him to learn the art of going aloft, he could only gratify it, I presume, as the men and women paupers gratify their aspirations after better board and lodging, by smashing as many workhouse windows as possible, and being promoted to prison.
In one place, the Newgate of the Workhouse, a company of boys and youths were locked up in a yard alone; their day-room being a kind of kennel where the casual poor used formerly to be littered down at night. Divers of them had been there some long time. "Are they never going away?" was the natural enquiry. "Most of them are crippled, in some form or other," said the wardsman, "and not fit for anything." They slunk about, like dispirited wolves or hyaenas; and made a pounce at their food when it was served out, much as those animals do. The big-headed idiot shuffling his feet along the pavement, in the sunlight outside, was a more agreeable object every way.
Groves of babies in arms; groves of mothers and other sick women in bed; groves of lunatics; jungles of men in stone-paved down-stairs day-rooms, waiting for their dinners; longer and longer groves of old people, in up-stairs Infirmary wards, wearing out life, God knows how - this was the scenery through which the walk lay, for two hours. In some of these latter chambers there were pictures stuck against the wall, and a neat display of crockery and pewter on a kind of sideboard; now and then it was a treat to see a plant or two; in almost every ward there was a cat.
In all of these Long Walks of aged and infirm, some old people were bedridden, and had been for a long time; some were sitting on their beds half naked; some dying in their beds; some out of bed, and sitting at a table near the fire. A sullen or lethargic indifference to what was asked, a blunted sensibility to everything but warmth and food, a moody absence of complaint as being of no use, a dogged silence and resentful desire to be left alone again, I thought were generally apparent. On our walking into the midst of one of these dreary perspectives of old men, nearly the following little dialogue took place, the nurse not being immediately at hand: -
"All well here?"
No answer. An old man in a Scotch cap sitting among others on a form at the table, eating out of a tin porringer, pushes back his cap a little to look at us, claps it down on his forehead again with the palm of his hand, and goes on eating.
"All well here?" (repeated).
No answer. Another old man sitting on his bed, paralytically peeling a boiled potato, lifts his head and stares.
"Enough to eat?"
No answer. Another old man, in bed, turns himself and coughs.
"How are you to-day? To the last old man.
That old man says nothing; but another old man, a tall old man of very good address, speaking with perfect correctness, comes forward from somewhere, and volunteers an answer. The reply almost always proceeds from a volunteer, and not from the person looked at or spoken to.
"We are very old, sir," in a mild, distinct voice. "We can't expect to be well, most of us."
"Are you comfortable?"
"I have no complaint to make, sir." With a half shake of his head, a half shrug of his shoulders, and a kind of apologetic smile.
"Enough to eat?"
"Why, sir, I have but a poor appetite," with the same air as before; "and yet I get through my allowance very easily."
"But," showing a porringer with a Sunday dinner in it, "here is a portion of mutton and three potatoes. You can't starve on that?"
"Oh, dear, no, sir," with the same apologetic air. "Not starve."
"What do you want?"
"We have very little bread, sir. It's an exceedingly small quantity of bread."
The nurse, who is now rubbing her hands at the questioner's elbow, interferes with, "It ain't much raly [really], sir. You see they've only six ounces a day, and when they've took their breakfast, there can only be a little left for night, sir."
Another old man, hitherto invisible, rises out of his bedclothes, as out of a grave, and looks on.
"You have tea at night?" The questioner is still addressing the well-spoken old man.
"Yes, sir, we have tea at night."
"And you save what bread you can from the morning, to eat with it?"
"Yes, sir - if we can save any."
"And you want more to eat with it?"
"Yes, sir." With a very anxious face.
The questioner, in the kindness of his heart, appears a little discomposed, and changes the subject.
"What has become of the old man who used to lie in that bed in the corner?"
The nurse don't remember what old man is referred to. There has been such a many old men. The well-spoken old man is doubtful. The spectral old man who has come to life in bed says, "Billy Stevens." Another old man who has previously had his head in the fireplace pipes out: -
Something like a feeble interest is awakened. I suppose Charley Walters had conversation in him.
"He's dead," says the piping old man.
Another old man, with one eye screwed up, hastily displaces the piping old man, and says: -
"Yes! Charley Walters died in that bed, and - and -
"Billy Stevens," persists the spectral old man.
"No, no! and Johnny Rogers died in that bed, and - and - they're both on 'em dead - and Sam'l Bowyer" (this seems very extraordinary to him), "he went out!"
With this he subsides, and all the old men (having had quite enough of it) subside, and the spectral old man goes into his grave again, and takes the shade of Billy Stevens with him.
As we turn to go out at the door, another previously invisible old man, a hoarse old man in a flannel gown, is standing there, as if he had just come up through the floor.
"I beg your pardon, sir, could I take the liberty of saying a word?"
"Yes; what is it?"
"I am greatly better in my health, sir; but what I want to get me quite round," with his hand on his throat, "is a little fresh air, sir. It has always done my complaint so much good, sir. The regular leave for going out comes round so seldom, that if the gentlemen, next Friday, would give me leave to go out walking, now and then - for only an hour or so, sir! - "
Who could wonder, looking through those weary vistas of bed and infirmity, that it should do him good to meet with some other scenes, and assure himself that there was something else on earth? Who could help wondering why the old men lived on as they did; what grasp they had on life; what crumbs of interest or occupation they could pick up from its bare board; whether Charley Walters had ever described to them the days when he kept company with some old pauper woman in the bud, or Billy Stevens ever told them of the time when he was a dweller in the far-off foreign land called Home!
The morsel of burnt child, lying in another room, so patiently, in bed, wrapped in lint, and looking steadfastly at us with his bright quiet eyes when we spoke to him kindly, looked as if the knowledge of these things, and of all the tender things there are to think about, might have been in his mind - as if he thought, with us, that there was a fellow-feeling in the pauper nurses which appeared to make them more kind to their charges than the race of common nurses in the hospitals - as if he mused upon the Future of some older children lying around him in the same place, and thought it best, perhaps, all things considered, that he should die - as if he knew, without fear, of those many coffins, made and unmade, piled up in the store below, and of his unknown friend, "the dropped child," calm upon the box-lid covered with a cloth. But there was something wistful and appealing, too, in his tiny face, as if, in the midst of all the hard necessities and incongruities he pondered on, he pleaded, in behalf of the helpless and the aged poor, for a little more liberty - and a little more bread.
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Although not all scientists agree on the origin of the cacao plant, the consensus is that it is a native of the rainforests of Venezuela and the Amazon and was brought to Central America millennia ago by traders. The earliest evidence of human consumption of cacao in Guatemala comes from a site in the northeast section of the country, where a 3,500-year-old pottery vessel tested positive for remnants of theobroma cacao. Exactly how the Olmec were consuming cacao has not been determined, but they might have been mixing it with native wild honey and chili.Sometime around 1,000 B.C. the Maya, whose civilization flourished from the Yucatán Peninsula to the Pacific coast of Guatemala, are believed to have cultivated the cacao tree for the very first time. The Maya so highly valued cacao, they used cocoa beans as currency and to pay taxes.
Spanish conquistador Cortez was fascinated by native cocoa-drinking customs. Chronicler Bernal Díaz del Castillo observed that royalty drank cocoa from vessels of gold, and that ground cocoa was kept by the wealthy in gold containers. The Aztecs made a drink of finely ground cocoa beans, mixed in water and beaten to a froth with a wooden molinet. They spiced the cocoa with native vanilla and chili peppers, and some added honey to the mix.
The name “chocolate” comes from the Nahuatl word atte, which in the Mexican Spanish language means water, and from the sound that the water and cacao blend makes as it is whipped up by the cook: choco, choco, choco, until it is bubbly and rises into a froth.
Today cacao is cultivated all over the equatorial tropics, from Vanuatu to West Papua and from Sri Lanka to Sierra Leon. In Guatemala the largest commercial plantations are in Retalhuleu, but the true heartland of cacao remains in the region of Alta Verapaz. Here hundreds of small, local producers in Lanquín, Cahabón and Chisec continue to produce some of the world’s finest chocolate in much the same manner as did their ancestors thousands of years ago.
Chocolate has its roots in Guatemala and is the traditional cup offered for hospitality as well as the communal brew distributed at all Mayan sacred and ceremonial events. We can be certain that on Dec. 21 Maya everywhere will be toasting the arrival of the new era with a gourd full of frothy, aromatic, slightly bitter, slightly sweet chocolate.
A new study reveals that chocolate produces heart-healthy benefits. The research found that epicatechin, one of a group of chemicals known as flavanols, is directly linked to improved circulation and other hallmarks of cardiovascular health. The discovery was detailed in the Jan. 16 online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Chocolate is a divine, celestial drink, the sweat of the stars, the vital seed, divine nectar, the drink of the gods, panacea and universal medicine.” —Geronimo Piperni, quoted by Antonio Lavedán, Spanish Army surgeon, 1796
“Although previous studies strongly indicated that some flavanol-rich foods, such as wine, tea and cocoa, can offer cardiovascular health benefits, we have been able to demonstrate a direct relationship between the intake of certain flavanols present in cocoa, their absorption into the circulation and their effects on cardiovascular function in humans,” said biochemist Hagen Schroeter of the University of California, Davis.
The study relied on volunteers from the Kuna Indians, who live on the San Blas islands off the coast of Panama. High-blood pressure and other signs of cardiovascular disease are rare among the Kuna. And they are known to consume large amounts of flavanol-rich cocoa—three to four cups a day. Previous studies found that Kuna who migrated to the suburbs of Panama City on the mainland drink only about four cups of cocoa per week and do not enjoy the same level of cardiovascular health.
The islanders have twice the level of urinary nitric oxide, a chemical associated with healthy flow of blood through the arteries. And those who drank cocoa with more flavanols had higher levels of nitric oxide. Also, higher levels of epicatechin in the bloodstream were accompanied by improved blood flow. Lab tests showed that flavanols allow vascular tissue to relax. Finally, tests showed that pure epicatechin had much the same effect as flavanol-rich cocoa.
“The results of this study provide direct proof that epicatechin is, at least in part, responsible for the beneficial vascular effects that are observed after the consumption of certain flavanol-rich cocoas,” Schroeter said.
The hub of traditional chocolate production is in the little town of San Juan del Obispo, located just up the hill from La Antigua Guatemala on the slope of volcano Agua. Here numerous small family factories have been producing homemade drinking chocolate for generations. One of the best known local producers is Doña Josefa, who welcomes visitors to her small operation where they can see how cacao beans are selected, toasted, ground and, after being mixed with sugar and a variety of special additives such as cinnamon, almonds or rice, are formed into the round tablets, which are available for purchase all around Antigua. To arrange for a tour of her facilities (Chocolate San Juan, 1a avenida norte #10, San Juan del Obispo), contact Doña Josefa at 7830-6690.
“After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily replace a number of psychiatric drugs, plus it produces the same chemistry in the brain that occurs when we fall in love.” —Chris Kilham, consultant for the Dr. Oz show
For those interested in getting organic, pure and unadulterated chocolate visit Tony Ryals at his shop Tostaduría Antigua on the corner of 7a avenida and 6a calle poniente. Nothing fancy here, just 100 percent pure ingredients produced and packaged on site. Tony offers a variety of rustic chocolate concoctions and features his 50-50 chocolate candy that is made from 50 percent pure roasted cacao mixed with 50 percent pure organic honey. My favorite is Tony’s Cinnamon-Chili Zinger!
Ixcacao Chocolates (Cerro Candelaria #10, La Antigua Guatemala, www.ixcacao.com) – the “Willie Wonka” of Guatemala — is run by Chocolate Bob, who has been producing chocolate for many years, first at a factory in Panajachel and now in Antigua. Bob’s factory, soon to be open for tours, is an immaculate facility fulfilling all the requirements for producing export-quality chocolate candies. Bob’s goal is not only to meet the needs of local markets but to see Guatemalan chocolates reach gourmets over the world. Bob is a philanthropist at heart, a percentage of profits go to Ak’ Tenamit Association, a grassroots Mayan organization dedicated to improving health, education and family incomes in eastern Guatemala. Ak’ Tenamit provides basic healthcare to 6,000 people in 35 Q’eqchi Maya villages. [www.aktenamit.org]
New to Antigua is the Choco Museum on 4a calle oriente #14, next door to Doña Luisa Xicotencatl bakery and cafeteria. The ChocoMuseo takes visitors through the chocolate process; it also offers workshops where you’ll make your own chocolate, right from the cacao beans! The museum includes installations and displays to educate the public on all things chocolate. It also sells upscale chocolate candies in many flavors and varieties to suit just about every chocolate lover’s craving. And what could be better than to crave something that is actually good for you, too?
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Private Sector & Trade: Exports: Merchandise exports to developing economies in South Asia are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to developing economies in the South Asia region according to World Bank classification of economies. Data are as a percentage of total merchandise exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data.
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Traditionally, people purchase sunscreen based on SPF ratings. However, SPF only protects against the UVB rays of the sun. While the UVB rays are dangerous, so are the sun's UVA rays. Thankfully, more and more sunscreen now offers UVA protection. Dr. Schultz explains how to find sunscreen with UVA protection and how to understand how much protection each provides.
Dr. Neal Schultz: Hello I'm Dr. Neal Schultz and welcome to DermTV. When we buy sunscreens, we usually buy them based on the SPF rating. That rating tells you the relative protection that that sunscreen can offer you against the burning UVB rays of the sun. But it doesn't tell you anything about how much protection you have from UVA rays, and the UVA rays are very important because they're the ones that cause cancer and that cause premature aging of the skin. In the United States, if a sunscreen does afford you some UVA protection all that label is going to say is either with broad-spectrum protection or with UVA protection, so how can we learn how to find sunscreens that give us the maximum amount of UVA protection? First of all, the UVA rays, those are the bad ones that cause cancer and premature aging of the skin penetrate much more deeply into the skin than do the shorter wavelength UVB rays. As a matter of fact, because they get into the second compartment of the skin, where the collagen and where the elastic tissue is, that's how they cause premature aging of the skin because they destroy your collagen and your elastic tissue, these nasty UVA rays are present all year long it doesn't matter what season and they are just as strong all day long. They go through window glass and they even go through clouds. Ninety-five percent of the ultraviolet rays that your skin is going to be hit by in the course of your life are the UVA rays. In the United States, there is no consistent method of indicating how much protection against UVA a sunscreen gives you. However, in Japan, they have started using a system called the PA system which means protection against UVA and that system has been adopted by most of the Asian countries. This is a sunscreen that says SPF 50, UVA/UVB protection and PA+30. Obviously, you can't see this. So I've blown up that part of the package, and here you can see SPF 50. Well that, we know, means about 99% protection against UVB rays, but they tell us it has UVA protection, and then it says, PA+++, that's the highest rating in the Japanese system for protection against UVA. That system goes from + to +++, and because we have no consistent system in the United States for identifying UVA protection, many of the manufacturers of sunscreens in the United States have started adopting this Japanese system and have started labeling their sunscreens with PA+ to PA+++. So when you buy your sunscreen, if you want a sunscreen that gives you maximum protection against the cancer-causing and wrinkling effects of the sun, make sure that you buy a sunscreen that says PA+++. Please join me again at drmtv.com. If you have a question please send me by visiting dermtv.com/question. I'm Dr. Neal Schultz and thank you for watching today.
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Rod graduated from the Don Bosco Technical College with a certificate in architectural drafting and got a degree in advertising art from University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila. He worked for seven years in various companies in the fields of advertising, software entertainment and film before deciding to pursue a career in the comic book industry. He came to San Antonio, Texas in 2001 to work full-time as a comic book editor and illustrator.
“I like being an illustrator because I get to keep my own hours,” said Rod. “Actually, I work more hours than normal, but I get to decide when and where, which is a good trade-off. That’s probably the nice thing about being a comic book artist. I can get my projects done early if I work extra hours during the week. It also makes me feel like I’m not part of the rat race. I count myself lucky I don’t have the daily commute or the clockwork hours some people have,” he explained.
As both writer and artist, Rod has also authored theNeotopia series which was published in graphic novel form. In 2006, Novotopia, the German edition of Neotopia, got a nomination for the Max und Moritz Prize in the category ‘Bester Comic für Kinder’ (best comic book for younger audience). Rod’s comic books include the Battle Girlz series, a Alice in Wonderland, The Alamo, DinoWars, and Metadocs.
He has also written and conceptualized popular Antarctic Press titles such as Hunt Monsters, and Herc and Thor.
Aside from comic books, Espinosa has also written and illustrated non-fiction works such as a series of American History comic books dealing with the subjects of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Lewis and Clark, The Boston Tea Party, The Alamo, Jackie Robinson, The Underground Railroad, Abraham Lincoln, Patrick Henry, Cesar Chavez, The American Revolution, the Transcontinental Railroad, and Clara Barton.
He has also created graphic classic novels such as: Around the World in Eighty Days, Moby-Dick, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Writing and illustrating non-fiction books has been a new experience for Rod. He described it as ” outside the usual realm of the direct market”. Rod said,” Writing and drawing non-fiction has trained me further in doing realistic people. I have learned a lot. Artistically, I’m glad I improved. I am having fun drawing the characters as I based their likenesses on people I know.”
Espinosa takes great pride in his newest work, the Prince of Heroes, which is an online graphic novel. “It has scenes never before seen in any other format. You get new excitement and entertainment! A treat for online readers,” said Rod. Readers can enjoy Espinosa’s newest work at http://www.princeofheroes.com.
Like any accomplished man will tell you, it takes a lot of hard work to be successful. Rod Espinosa has worked hard to be where he is right now, and all his labor has paid off well. “My work does require a lot of discipline as we are our own task managers, but in the end, it’s worth it,” admitted the “Prince of comic heroes”. (www.asianjournal.com)
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A spacecraft is an artifical device designed to operate in space. The first known spacecraft was Sputnik 1, which was launched on October 4, 1957 by the Soviet Union. The first spacecraft to carry a human into space was Vostok-1, launched on April 12, 1961.
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By Daniel Williams
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, June 25, 2005
BELGRADE -- Human rights sleuth Natasa Kandic, a wisp of a woman with a boyish haircut, spent hours in the cafes of Sid, a town in northern Serbia, listening to whispered tales of Balkan war killings. Then one day, she heard about the videotape.
It showed the summary executions in 1995 of six Muslim men and boys from the Bosnian city of Srebrenica. It had been passed around as a war souvenir among members of a shadowy Serb military unit called the Scorpions. Its commander had ordered copies destroyed, but one, she was told, still existed, held by a dissident member of the unit.
Since that day in 2003, she searched until she found the video. She gave it to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is on trial, and to television stations in Serbia, where it triggered a sudden self-examination in a society that viewed itself as the prime victim of the Balkan war atrocities of the 1990s.
On the tape, burly Serbs dressed in camouflage, with cigarettes dangling from their lips, order bound prisoners into a small meadow, then shoot four of them in the back, at a time. The remaining two are ordered to carry the corpses into a wrecked white house. "You're the winners," one Scorpion barks at the body bearers, who are then also gunned down.
The broadcasts on June 2 ripped away the veil of secrecy and denial of Serbian military operations in Bosnia during the 1992-95 war, particularly the massacre of as many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys in and around Srebrenica. No longer was it possible to label atrocity tales as Bosnian Muslim propaganda amplified by inventive foreign correspondents, as many Serbs had done for a decade. The cold, relaxed pace of the executions undermined the common opinion that whatever happened in the Balkans was done in the chaos of war.
For Kandic, the video was a vindication. For almost 15 years, she labored to uncover atrocities committed by all sides in the Balkan wars, but most notably, crimes committed by her own people. During the 1990s, when Serbs fought wars in Croatia, Bosnia and the Serbian province of Kosovo, newspapers and officials variously labeled her as a prostitute, spy, traitor and lunatic.
These days, she gets phone calls from strangers praising her work. Police rounded up eight Scorpion suspects a day after the video was broadcast. A ninth was later detained in Croatia. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica called the executions a "brutal, callous and disgraceful crime against civilians."
Speaking last week in Washington, the chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor for the Balkans, Carla del Ponte, said that during her recent visit to Serbia, she "could feel the impact of this video on all elements of Serbian society."
Kandic exudes little joy. A debate in parliament over a war crimes resolution last week degenerated into a dispute over whether Serbs were the main victims of atrocities, she noted. Moreover, the broadcast of the video has yet to result in the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Serb general directly in charge of the Srebrenica operation. U.N. officials have repeatedly charged that he is hiding in Serbia.
"This government refuses to break with Milosevic's criminal state," Kandic said.
Kandic spoke on the balcony of a small Belgrade restaurant, chain-smoking and answering frequent calls on her cell phone. She travels around the city without bodyguards, though she acknowledges that someone might want to take revenge for the Scorpion arrests. Her activism is nothing new.
Before the wars, she was a sociologist. After hostilities began in 1991, she decided to research human rights abuses connected with the fighting. She founded the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade, organized candlelight antiwar vigils and mounted petition drives to protest the use of Serbian troops in the conflict with Croatia. "I documented abuses against Croats and was called a traitor," she said. "Then against Muslims. The same reaction. When I documented abuses against Serbs, there was silence."
During the conflict in Kosovo in 1999, she said, she traveled by taxi to the provincial capital, Pristina. Ethnic Albanians were being expelled or fleeing in fear from towns and villages. Serbian police looted and burned their homes. At police checkpoints, Kandic convinced guards that she was on her way to rescue Serb relatives, and they let her pass.
Kandic dodged NATO bombs as she traveled from town to town. She collected testimony on expulsions and mass killings. Once, security agents detained her for eight hours on the way to the southern city of Prizren. "First, they said: 'We know who you are. You could be disappeared.' But they let me go," she recalled. "Look at me. I'm little. I'm a woman. I'm not a scary person."
Kandic, 59, considers the waning years of Milosevic's rule, which ended in 2000, the most dangerous period of her career. It was a time of assassinations and roundups of journalists, opposition activists and student protesters. "Until then, Milosevic ignored us," she said. "We were few and served one purpose. He could point to us as proof of democracy."
In 2000, Col. Svetozar Radisic, then the Yugoslav army spokesman, told reporters that Kandic "should be sentenced for what she is doing. A person who puts forth such allegations might be a psychiatric case." She remained free even as she organized legal defenses for Kosovo Albanians held in Serbian jails.
In Sid, she was looking into a mass killing during the Kosovo war when she heard about the Srebrenica tape. Originally, 20 copies were made, she said. Later the Scorpions' commander realized the images could be used against him and ordered them destroyed. However, one Scorpion, who was at odds with his comrades and was not present at the executions, made an extra copy for himself. Fearful, he hid the tape with confidants in Bosnia, Kandic said. She set out to find it.
Other Scorpions, who had learned she was looking for a copy, began to scour Sid for it and harassed anyone they thought might have it. Finally, Kandic found the tape in Bosnia. She agreed to publicize it only when the owner and other informants were out of Serbia. That was accomplished on May 20.
The Scorpion tale provides a key to proving high-level Serbian responsibility for war crimes, Kandic said. "The Scorpions just didn't wander around on their own. They were ordered from place to place. . . . They were integrated into the war machine."
The Scorpions were first dispatched to guard oil fields in Croatia and to fight. They later took part in the siege of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. When Mladic launched an assault on Srebrenica in July 1995, he used Scorpions to evacuate and kill Bosnian prisoners, Kandic said.
The Scorpions also appeared in the Kosovo town of Podujevo on March 28, 1999, and massacred a group of 14 women and children in the walled garden of a small house. The local commander of the Scorpions unit in Podujevo, Sasa Cvjetan, stood trial in Serbia last year for the killings. He was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison -- a sentence imposed again last week after a retrial. Kandic was deeply involved in bringing the Podujevo case to trial and was on its trail in Sid when the story of the Srebrenica tape surfaced.
The video begins with the Scorpions taking blessings from a Serbian Orthodox priest in Sid, then traveling through the Balkan countryside and sleeping in a wood. Six bound prisoners are shown being transported in a truck. Later the Scorpions force them to lie face down on the roadside. The captors taunt them.
"Did you ever have sex?" asks one commando. "Never?"
"You're innocent?" asks another. "I'd be innocent, too."
There is discussion about whether the video camera has sufficient battery power to record the whole scene and whether the tape needs changing. When all the bodies are in the house, one Scorpion demands permission to fire three more bullets at the corpses.
The tape ends with a pig roast.
Kandic wrapped up the interview after a caller told her the Serbian government was willing to open a war crimes investigation in another case she had worked on. A Serb paramilitary commander named Nebojsa Minic, who allegedly killed numerous civilians in western Kosovo when he ran a unit called Lightning, was under arrest in Argentina. She had fingered him as a culprit.
"All these cases are important," Kandic said and rushed off.
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Glowbug is fascinated with light bulbs. But when he tries to add them to his hoard they don’t light up anymore, and he’s getting frustrated.
“What makes it light up?” He really wants to know!
Glowbug is about 7” tall, and 9” by 11” wide. His body was created around a devil’s claw seed pod. His arms and legs are wire, his wings are made of gauze, and he has faceted glass eyes. His shape and coloring were created with fabric paint. He is sitting on a dome light (batteries not included), and holds a small light bulb. You can see more of Glowbug at http://www.etsy.com/listing/94514863/devils-claw-dragon-art-doll-glowbug-what
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Posted: May 20, 2012 6:41 AM by Kate Richards
CHICAGO (AP) - When leaders at the NATO summit eventually turn their discussion to Afghanistan and the alliance pullout in a little less than two years, they are likely to be confronted by a bleak reality.
The insurgents remain active, corruption runs rife and the peace process is stuck in the sand after 11 years of a war President Barack Obama has said was thrust upon America by the 9/11 attacks.
Leaders of about 60 countries and organizations meet in Chicago today and tomorrow to map their way out of the unpopular war.
The only viable option is to leave behind an Afghan army and police force capable of defending the country.
That would require some $4.1 billion a year from economically stressed foreign coffers but without big handouts, Afghanistan simply cannot pay for its own defense.
The challenge facing world leaders will be to convince their own people.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A University of California, Davis, researcher who was injured in an explosion at his campus apartment early Thursday has been arrested, police said.
David Snyder, 32, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of possessing an explosive, possessing materials with the intent to make a destructive device and possessing firearms on campus, said UC Davis Police Chief Matt Carmichael.
The 1 a.m. blast caused only minor damage to Snyder's apartment in the university's Russell Park housing complex but forced the evacuation of about 100 people while the materials were removed and officials investigated, police said.
"While we have no information to suggest that Mr. Snyder was plotting some broader crime on the campus, in today's environment the potential safety risk to the community must be taken extremely seriously," Carmichael said.
"We are relieved that the explosion was not worse and that no members of our community other than Snyder were injured," Carmichael said.
Snyder suffered hand injuries after the explosion and went to a local hospital for treatment, with hospital officials later notifying police, The Sacramento Bee reported Sunday.
For nearly 20 hours after the blast, bomb squads from the Yolo, Placer and El Dorado sheriff's departments, Sacramento police and the California Highway Patrol worked on removing chemicals from the apartment.
The FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Authorities have not revealed what the explosive materials were and have not identified the type of firearms they say they found in Snyder's apartment.
University officials would not release details about the injuries Snyder suffered, but they said he was released from the hospital Sunday afternoon and booked into the Yolo County Jail. Bail was set at $2 million.
Snyder -- who was working in a temporary position as a junior researcher in a campus chemistry lab -- was placed on investigatory leave while the incident was being investigated, university spokeswoman Claudia Morain said Sunday.
Snyder previously received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from UC Davis in 2004 and a Ph.D. in chemistry in December 2011.
After earning his doctorate, he held a temporary one-year research appointment through UCSF that allowed him to work at UC Davis. That position ended in November. His current temporary job with UC Davis began in December was due to expire Jan. 31, Morain said.
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Child Care Information Services (CCIS)
Our mission is
Helping families in the Lehigh Valley to obtain and sustain child care.
Child Care Information Services (CCIS) is a private,
non-profit agency, incorporated in 1993. Our mission is to assist families
in obtaining and sustaining quality child care.
Our primary activity is the management of the state subsidized child care program for low-income residents of Northampton County through a contract with Northampton County Human Services. The purpose of the program is to provide subsidized child care funding for children of eligible families at the child care provider of the parent's choice. Approximately 2,000 Northampton County children, enrolled with more than 350 child care providers, benefit from the program each day.
CCIS originated and operates the Unconditional Child Care program. This unique program provides support services for troubled young children in danger of losing their child care placement due to difficult behavior problems. Any child enrolled in child care in the Lehigh Valley is eligible for services. Services are provided in the child’s child care program and in the home. Most of the children receiving services are under the age of five, and most are referred because of angry, aggressive and violent behavior that can cause harm to others or even to themselves. Approximately 160 children receive Unconditional Child Care services each year. Other programs offered by CCIS include provision of child care information and referral for families of all income levels and the purchase of child care for families working with County child protective services and the Easton Housing Authority.
A Board of Directors of community volunteers governs the organization. The Board meets each month. Directors are expected to attend monthly Board meetings, make annual financial contributions as they are able, and participate in Board committees. CCIS employs full and part-time staff that include people from diverse backgrounds and ages.
The staff and Board of CCIS believe that the experiences that children have during their early years will affect them throughout their lives. Because of this, CCIS works hard to ensure that families are given the resources and opportunities that they need to obtain and maintain quality child care so that the children can grow up to have successful futures.
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Iraj Erfanian of Woodbridge, Va., writes:
Marilyn: Do dogs and cats have different blood types, like humans?
Yes, though not the same ones. Blood types are genetic markers on red blood cells. The markers are both unique to every species (dogs, cats, horses, sheep, etc.) and antigenic, which means that different immune systems in the same species will react against the foreign material.
Dogs rarely have an immediate bad reaction—though they may react later—to their first nonmatching transfusion, but cats nearly always do. On the other hand, few dogs can be universal donors, but most cats have the same blood type, so matching donors are easier to find. Not that it’s easy to get a cat to donate blood!
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The Woman Who Wasn't There
The True Story Of The Woman Who Fooled America
FISHER ROBIN GABY & GUGLIELMO ANGELO J
Allen & Unwin, Biography & Autobiography
Paperback, Ed: 01, 9781743311882
AUD $27.26 ex, AUD $29.99 inc
Out of stock at: 17 Jun 2013 19:00
It was a tale of loss and recovery, of courage and sorrow, of horror and inspiration. Tania Head's astonishing account of her experience on September 11, 2001 - from crawling through the carnage and chaos to escaping the seventy-eighth-floor sky lobby of the burning south tower to losing her fiance in the collapsed north tower - transformed her into one of the great victims and heroes of that tragic day. Tania told her story to schools, politicians, newspapers and to local support groups and women's organisations, eventually becoming a symbol of survival. Tania selflessly took on the responsibility of giving a voice and a direction to the burgeoning World Trade Center Survivors' Network, helping save the 'Survivor Stairway' and leading tours at Ground Zero, including taking then-governor Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg, and former mayor Giuliani on the inaugural tour of the WTC site. She even used her own assets to fund charitable events to help survivors heal. Tania Head represented the most intense hope to have broken into their lives since that crystal clear September morning in 2001. If Tania could transcend the ruin that the terrorist attack had brought upon her, how could they not step out of their own torment? But there was a problem that would emerge, much later, with Tania's story. None of it was true. Told with the unique insider perspective and authority of Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr., a filmmaker shooting a documentary on the efforts of the Survivors' Network, and previously one of Tania's closest friends,The Woman Who Wasn't There is the story of one of the most audacious and bewildering quests for acclaim in recent memory-one that poses fascinating questions about the essence of morality and the human need for connection at any cost.
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Roland Gumpert, an engineer who played a major role in Audi’s motorsport campaigns, envisions creating a car that is so aerodynamically efficiently that it can drive on the roof of a tunnel. In 2004, he founded his own company, Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH. Based in Germany; it released its first car, the Gumpert Apollo, in 2006. And wow, that car was just special.
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The engine used for this car is a 4.2 liter V8 sourced from Audi. Armed with fuel injection, dry sump lubrication, and 2 turbochargers, it is capable of producing 640 horsepower. This engine is further strengthened in Sport trim (690HP), and produces even more in Race trim (790HP). This is enough to produce unbelievable acceleration numbers: zero-to-100 kilometers per hour comes in 3.0 seconds (some even attain times in the 2 second range) and zero-to-200 kilometers per hour comes in a mind boggling 8.9 seconds.
Top speed is recorded at 225 miles per hour. To prove its capability, it made records in various tracks: 7 minutes and 11 seconds is what the Apollo took to finish 1 lap of the Nurburgring, and was for some time the record holder in the TV show Top Gear, notching a lap time of 1 minute and 17.1 seconds.
Exterior & Interior
The Gumpert Apollo is a distinctively shaped vehicle that takes no compromise in its pursuit of performance. One of the more elegant and unique looking vehicles on the planet, it has an extremely aerodynamic design that is more than capable of holding its own even on insane speeds. Various inlets located on the front and side of the car ensure that the turbocharged engine and brakes receive sufficient cooling, a crucial element for the high stress nature of racing. A huge roof scoop provides air for the engine that is located just in front of the rear axle.
Diffusers provide additional down-force and additional vents aid in cooling, while providing some additional eye candy for onlookers. One of the things that Gumpert has prioritized in this car is that it has to be lightweight. They were able to do this by using a generous amount of carbon fiber. This light and strong material can be found on the monocoque and the instrument panel, to name just 2. Overall, it weighs between 2400 and 2600 pounds.
However, despite these dizzying numbers, creature comforts are not sacrificed. It is constructed to be drivable in everyday conditions. The seats are customized according to the owner’s specifications, decked with leather and Alcantara trim, and equipped with amenities such as air conditioning, navigation, DVD player, a sound system, and a rear facing camera. And to cap it all off, this car passed all safety regulations.
Depending on the trim and optional equipment installed, the Gumpert Apollo costs in between $288,000 dollars to $438,000 dollars. A high price for sure, but only a few cars can compete against it, no matter what the price tag. It is one of the absolute fastest cars in the world, and will continue to be for years to come.
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Santa Ana winds are expected to blow into Ventura County this morning, bringing high temperatures of 85 to 90 degrees today and Saturday, according to the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
Along with higher temperatures, the dry northeast winds will greatly increase the fire danger.
"We're advising the public to use extreme caution," Bill Nash, spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department, said Thursday.
More firefighters will be on duty starting today because of the higher risk.
The Santa Anas are expected to be here through Sunday.
Although the county received a fair amount of rain about two weeks ago, it wasn't enough to turn the dry landscape green.
"There's still a lot of very dry brush out there," Nash said.
The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning because of the greater chance of fire.
Winds could reach 20 to 30 mph in many parts of the county.
Temperature records could be broken this weekend, although meteorologists don't expect many new records.
The record high for Ojai today was 88 degrees, set in 2007. Camarillo and Oxnard had a record high of 94, set in 1949.
Overnight temperatures are expected to dip into the 40s and 30s in the mountains. It will be balmier along the coast, with temperatures from the high 60s to low 70s.
A wind advisory will be in effect through 2 p.m. Saturday, Bonnie Bartling, a weather specialist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, said Thursday. Bartling said the advisory could be extended.
Meanwhile, residents are urged to clear any combustible material around their homes. This includes cleaning rain gutters, many of which are full of dry leaves and other flammable material.
"You can't be too prepared for a disaster," Nash said.
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By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Interior Department will review Royal Dutch Shell's
The announcement on Tuesday follows the grounding of one of Shell's rigs off the coast of Alaska last week, the latest mishap the company has encountered as it undertakes an ambitious Arctic exploration effort.
"Exploration allows us to better comprehend the true scope of our resources in the Arctic ... but we also recognize that the unique challenges posed by the Arctic environment demand an even higher level of scrutiny," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a statement.
Any changes in permitting requirements or delays due to the review could threaten Shell's drilling plans for 2013. The company faces a limited window during the summer when weather conditions and regulators will allow drilling.
Interior said it hopes to complete its "high-level" assessment within 60 days.
Also on Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska ordered a special investigation into the causes of last week's grounding of Shell's Kulluk drill ship, a probe that the Coast Guard said was expected to take several months.
Known as a formal marine casualty investigation, it is convened when a shipping accident has considerable regional significance or may indicate vessel class problems, or if such an investigation is the best way to assess technical issues that may have contributed to the problem, the Coast Guard said.
Shell has spent $4.5 billion since 2005 to develop the Arctic's vast oil reserves, but the company has faced intense opposition from environmentalists and native groups, as well as regulatory and technical hurdles.
The oil company made some strides last year, actually beginning preparatory drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. But the work was far short of completing up to three wells in the Chukchi and up to two in the Beaufort, as Shell planned.
Instead, its 2012 drilling season was beset by delays due to lingering ice in the water and problems with getting a mandatory oil spill containment vessel certified by the Coast Guard.
Shell welcomed the department's review, conceding that it had experienced some challenges.
"We have already been in dialogue with the DOI on lessons learned from this season, and a high level review will help strengthen our Alaska exploration program going forward," Shell spokeswoman Kelly op de Weegh said in a statement.
Interior said it would examine the issues with Shell's containment vessel, as well as issues with Shell's two Arctic drilling rigs, the Kulluk and Noble Corp's
It was the Kulluk that broke away from tow boats and ran aground on New Year's Eve in what were described as near hurricane conditions before being towed to safety on Monday.
U.S. Senator Mark Begich, an Alaska Democrat and strong supporter of offshore Arctic drilling, called on Tuesday for a hearing to examine the Kulluk situation.
"While this incident notably involves marine transportation and not oil exploration or drilling, we must quickly answer the many questions surrounding the Kulluk grounding and improve any regulatory or operational standards as needed to ensure this type of maritime accident does not occur again," Begich said in a letter to Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Robert Papp and to Shell.
Environmentalists see the Kulluk accident as new evidence that oil companies are not ready for Arctic drilling, calling on the government to put permitting there on hold.
One group calling for a pause in permitting, conservation group Oceana, said Interior's review was a step in the right direction, but it must be "more than a paper exercise."
"The Department of the Interior, after all, is complicit in Shell's failures because it granted the approvals that allowed Shell to operate," said Michael LeVine, Pacific senior counsel at the ocean conservation group.
As for the Kulluk itself, the unified command for the accident response said it remained anchored in its bay of refuge and still showed no signs of leaks or spills. Later on Tuesday, remote operated vehicles are expected to examine the hull and divers will be called in if necessary, the statement said.
(Additional reporting by Yereth Rosen in Anchorage and Braden Reddall in San Francisco; Editing by Ros Krasny, Gary Hill, Jim Marshall and Andre Grenon)
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Joos Hardware Store, Beulah, N.D.
People; City & Town Life;
Five individuals stand in front of the hardware store on the sidewalk. The building behind them was constructed from wood and large windows are visable in the front. The door to the hardware store is open....
William H. Rettke's homestead, south of Beulah, N.D.
This photograph features William Rettke's shack south of Beulah, N.D at right. A piece of farm machinery is sitting near the shack. At center, another wooden building is visable with a buggy near it. Several...
July 4th parade, Beulah, N.D.
A July 4th parade is pictured here. A street of Beulah, N.D. is visible as the location of the parade. Many businesses up and down the unpaved street are visible. At right, Charles Bradford Murray leads...
Roads garage moved to White Shield, N.D.
At center, the garage is being moved from one location to another. The building is wooden and has three windows. At right, an electric pole as well as building are visable. At left, two automobiles and...
Bird's eye view, Garrison, N.D.
City & Town Life; Aerials;
Postcard features a view of Garrison, N.D. In bottom of photograph a lumber yard is visible. Various other buildings and residences are visable in the background. Electrical poles are in sight too.
Turtle Creek Gravel Pit, McLean County, N.D.
The main focus of the photograph is the trestle. It was constructed out of wooden beams. A road runs through the center of the photograph under the trestle. At right a small shed is visable. View the top...
Beaver dam on Turtle Creek, McLean County, N.D.
At center a beaver dam stretches across the photograph. A man stands on the beaver dam and his reflection can be seen in the river water below. In the background the river bank is visable.
Cable ferry, McLean County, N.D.
People; Pioneer Era; Water; Transportation;
View of cable ferry on Missouri River near Washburn, N.D. Long cables extend into the far right of the post card. A team of horses pulling a wagon ride on the ferry waiting to cross the river. In the far...
Man on stalled freight train, McLean County, N.D.
People; Weather; Transportation;
Unidentified man standing on the top of a freight train. The train is stalled due to a large snowfall. The train runs through the center of the photograph. View either side of the train cars, where the...
Memorial Day parade, Washburn, N.D.
People; Military; Awards and ceremonies; Bands, clubs and societies
Men in military uniform walk in parade on an unpaved road. At right the men hold instruments. At left an automobile and men carrying two flags can be viewed in the parade as well. In the background grain...
Coal miners, Washburn, N.D.
Mine workers stand near the entrance to the mine. Behind the workers a building can be viewed at left. At right, rubble above the opening to the mine is visable. A small rail car is situated near the men....
Sawmill, Washburn, N.D.
People; Business & Industry; Work Life;
A view of a sawmill at Washburn, N.D. At center is the mill. Several individuals and horses stand around to participate in the operation. At left is a large pile of lumber. In the background, bare trees...
Native American camp near Washburn, N.D.
Pioneer Era; Water; People;
This photograph displays a view of the bend in the Missouri River near Washburn, N.D. View the right side of the photograph where several tepees are located. Wagons and horses are visable as well.
Boats at Washburn Landing, Washburn, N.D.
People; Water; Transportation;
Photograph displays river boats Benton, Frayne, and Washburn on Missouri River near Washburn, N.D. Debris is visable on river bank. In the center of the photograph, men standing on Benton can be viewed....
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham today announced that Department of Energy-funded researchers have won 26 of the 100 awards given this year by R&D Magazine for the most outstanding technology developments with commercial potential.Examples of their work include: a tough, sprayed-on metal coating with extreme wear and abrasion resistance; a heat pump water heater that uses one-third the electricity of a conventional water heater; a way to recharge lead-acid batteries that extends their life by 3-4 times; and a method for processing computer chips using supercritical carbon dioxide with the potential of saving the semiconductor manufacturing industry tens of millions of gallons of water per day.
"I'm proud of the award-winning work done at DOE national laboratories and facilities," said Secretary Abraham. "These accomplishments clearly demonstrate the value of government-funded research to our nation."
The researchers winning the R&D 100 Awards work at 13 of the department's laboratories and facilities across the country. Additionally, one company whose research was funded by the department will also receive an award. Eleven of the awards are joint awards with companies or universities. Descriptions of the technologies are available on the Office of Science web site and R&D Magazine. The winning technologies were selected by an independent panel of some 70 experts and the editors of R&D Magazine. The awards will be presented at a ceremony tonight at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. The DOE laboratories and facilities whose researchers are receiving awards are:
Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne Ill.
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y.
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, Mo.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colo.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash.
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M. and Livermore, Calif.
Savannah River Technology Corp., Aiken, S.C.
Media Contact: Jeff Sherwood, 202/586-5806
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Ode to Self: Whimsical Plaster figures inspired by figure drawings and Niki de St. Phalle
A primary focus for my 8th grade curriculum is self. I like to give my students opportunities to explore a variety of materials and to create two and three dimensional work in the process of self discovery. This project meets all the criteria.
We begin the project with figure drawing. Students who feel comfortable posing for the class hold a 1, 2 or 5 minute pose. We also do some drawing in small groups with one group member posing while the other group members draw. With the short drawing time frames the students focus on gestures.
Next, I share images of sculptures by artist Niki de St. Phalle. Her large scale figures are fun and flamboyant. My students enjoy seeing her whimsical forms.
Next, the students use wire to create armatures which are inspired by their favorite gestures. They consider favorite activities and other important aspects of self which they may choose to incorporate into their sculptures. Then the students add tin foil to give volume and form to the figures. When the figures are structurally sound the students cover the figures with plaster wrap and paint them.
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February 26, 2012
Motivating students to read for pleasure is the core aim of the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge.
It is not a competition, but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. To uncover some of the history behind the government initiative, now in its eighth year, former Victorian premier and unabashed bookworm Steve Bracks is your go-to man.
Explaining the motivation behind establishing the challenge in 2005, Mr Bracks says: “I was really keen in engaging young people in the joy of reading. It grew out of a partnership with The Age – I think it was The Sunday Age at that time. I was thrilled to support it.”
The response to the inaugural Premiers’ Reading Challenge surprised even the organisers, as Mr Bracks explains: “It was five or six times more than expected.” Support for the program across the board from teachers and parents made it quite clear that the challenge was to become a permanent fixture. “It’s one of those things that worked almost immediately,” says Mr Bracks.
Last year, more than 220,000 students between prep and year 10 participated in the Premiers’ Reading Challenge, reading 4 million books between them. This brings the total number of books consumed since 2005 to 22.3 million – a figure that, it is hoped, will be added to significantly in 2012. “From a very strong early adoption, it’s growing further, and has become a feature on the calendar each year,” says Mr Bracks.
He is keen to stress that the program would not have achieved anywhere near the level of success that it has without the involvement of the parents and families of the students away from school. “They’re a key part of it. I had so many responses from parents as I moved around Victoria after I launched the Premiers’ Reading Challenge telling me it was one of the best features the child had at that point in time in their life.
“It couldn’t have happened without the parents’ involvement and that’s a key ingredient for the future as well.”
Along with Mr Bracks, previous premiers Jeff Kennett, Joan Kirner, John Cain and John Brumby have joined current Premier Ted Baillieu in their support of the initiative, which underwent a small but significant name-change last year by moving the apostrophe in Premier’s one letter to the right. As for active involvement in this year’s challenge, Mr Bracks explains: “Just having our presence there and a show of support in reading and engagement with families is what I’ll be trying to do this year.”
At the launch of the challenge along with that of the National Year of Reading 2012, Mr Baillieu spoke of the important role literature plays in Victoria’s culture. “Melbourne is not only the world’s most liveable city, it is also the birthplace of many influential Australian writers and we have a strong, creative and vibrant publishing industry,” he says.
Of the challenge, the Premier says: “It’s about that great tradition of storytelling to an enthralled audience and promoting a reading culture in every home.”
Establishing reading habits at an early age is one of the main aims of the challenge, but the habit won’t stick unless you make it fun. As Mr Bracks puts it: “Making it joyful for young people, it’s important if you can do that at a time when their interests are starting. If you engage at that early period of education, it’s going to be better for the lifelong learning of the students.”
While ereaders, online books and their like have their fair share of detractors, Mr Bracks has an open mind. “I think it’s a good development. It doesn’t matter what medium you’re reading from, it’s legitimate – it’s reading. Books will not go out of existence, but the adjunct will be ereaders at times if you’re travelling, or in areas where you can’t get access to a book.
“It’s horses for courses, but I don’t think we have anything to fear from new methods of presenting a text and reading a document.”
When the subject of books versus films comes up, Mr Bracks has a stronger opinion: “It can be more fun than watching TV or a screen because it’s your imagination. Your imagination can never be replaced by an audio-visual presentation. It is your imagination at work interpreting what you’re reading, expressing that in a way that only you can do. I think that’s really the joy we’re trying to engender with young people.”
Mr Bracks, who grew up in Ballarat, has fond memories of reading Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s tale, The Wind in the Willows. “It was one of the first books I read and absorbed, and talk about your imagination running wild. Conjuring up your image of Badger and Toad of Toad Hall, it was magnificent. I didn’t really see it depicted until I saw it in a play in Ballarat years later, but nothing replaced my imagination in the reading of that book, which was great.”
Though he keeps himself more than busy with various projects, Mr Bracks always has a book on the go. “At the moment, I’m just about to finish a book by Nicholas Shakespeare called In Tasmania, a great book where he discovers a namesake. He tells the story of the history of Tasmania through the prism of that family. It’s really interesting; I recommend it.”
So the scene is set for another record- breaking year from the Premiers’ Reading Challenge, which burst out of the starting gates in 2005 and has gone from strength to strength ever since. However impressive the statistics are, Mr Bracks remains focused on the original aim of the challenge. “Generally, we see this as an important foundation for life-long learning for the young people of Victoria.”
He is excited for the program this year and has these words of advice for any students who are about to embark upon it for the first time.
“Give it a go, start off. Once you do, you’ll find that it’s one of the best experiences you’ll ever have.”
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To provide morale and entertainment to military personnel during World War II, FDR created the USO [wiki] (United Service Organizations).
In the past, the USO had put together performances featuring famous entertainers of the day (like Bob Hope).
Today, however, the military had trouble sending big name entertainers to Iraq, so they turned to smaller bands. Here's a video from ABC News interviewing one such band called Edison.
Link - Thanks Natalie!
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Objective To examine the effect of a comprehensive warm-up programme designed to reduce the risk of injuries in female youth football.
Design Cluster randomised controlled trial with clubs as the unit of randomisation.
Setting 125 football clubs from the south, east, and middle of Norway (65 clusters in the intervention group; 60 in the control group) followed for one league season (eight months).
Participants 1892 female players aged 13-17 (1055 players in the intervention group; 837 players in the control group).
Intervention A comprehensive warm-up programme to improve strength, awareness, and neuromuscular control during static and dynamic movements.
Main outcome measure Injuries to the lower extremity (foot, ankle, lower leg, knee, thigh, groin, and hip).
Results During one season, 264 players had relevant injuries: 121 players in the intervention group and 143 in the control group (rate ratio 0.71, 95% confidence interval 0.49 to 1.03). In the intervention group there was a significantly lower risk of injuries overall (0.68, 0.48 to 0.98), overuse injuries (0.47, 0.26 to 0.85), and severe injuries (0.55, 0.36 to 0.83).
Conclusion Though the primary outcome of reduction in lower extremity injury did not reach significance, the risk of severe injuries, overuse injuries, and injuries overall was reduced. This indicates that a structured warm-up programme can prevent injuries in young female football players.
Trial registration ISRCTN10306290.
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“Around the World” At Millburn Library — Bring Your Own Popcorn!
“Around the World”, a six week film series, debuts on January 20 at the library.
Millburn Library presents family film series, “Around the World”, a six week film series, premiering Jan. 20 at 1 p.m on the second floor.
The library invites families to enjoy these films that celebrate the beauty of film and story telling. Spanning the globe are six films that are truly captivating.
Best yet — all screenings are free. Don't forger to bring your own popcorn!
Check out the schedule below:
- Sunday, January 20, 2013: “My Neighbor Totoro”, Hiyako Miyzaki, dir. Our first stop in the series will be Japan, with Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro”. In this animated film, two sisters discover a world of mysterious creatures - only seen by children - when they move to a new house. Gorgeous animation and a reverence for nature are highlights of this film.
- Saturday, January 26, 2013: “Babies”, Thomas Balmes, dir. Next up are stops in Namibia, Mongolia, the United States and Japan in this stunning documentary filled with beauty and comedy. Following 4 babies from birth to age one, the audience is given a window into both the similarities and differences in the first year of these children.
- Sunday, February 10, 2013: Wallace and Gromit shorts: “A Grand Day Out”, “The Wrong Trousers”, and “A Close Shave”, Nick Park, dir. British claymation genius Nick Park’s three shorts - “A Grand Day Out”, “The Wrong Trousers” and “A Close Shave” - feature a series of misadventures with a man and his dog. These Oscar winning short films are brimming with comedy and personality.
- Sunday, March 3, 2013: “Children of Heaven”, Maji Majidi, dir. In this Iranian film, when a brother loses his sister’s pair of shoes, the siblings work together by sharing one pair of shoes until they can get hers back. A heartwarming perspective on the bonds of family and life in this part of Iran.
- Saturday, March 9, 2013: “Whale Rider”, Niko Caro, dir. A 12 year old girl fights for the right to carry on Maori conventions in this New Zealand film. As she clashes with her grandfather over learning the clan’s rituals, we see the pulls of tradition, nature and the modern world at play. Keisha Castle-Hughes, as the lead character Pai, is one of the youngest persons ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.
- Sunday, April 21, 2013: “Kirikou and the Sorceress”, Michael Ocelot, dir. In this animated film set in West Africa, a special little boy named Kirikou saves his village from an evil witch. This bright and humorous film is based on a classic African folk tale.
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I ran out of vitamins so I went to my stock pile to get another bottle and noticed something dramatic. The bottle of Vitamins I got at Meijers, was $7.49. The same bottle, I purchased at Rite Aid was $11.99. Wow, what a price difference! I know I didn’t pay $11.99, but it is a good lesson to point out.
If you are just starting out couponing, you will find that drugstores have higher prices on their items. They also don’t carry a log stock of every item either (and why you will notice that they are out of items that are on sale quickly). They may only have what is on the shelf and nothing more until the next delivery truck comes. Drug stores also limit quantities of purchase because of their lower stock as well.
Grocery stores and big box stores will have more items than drugstores. You can price match at Walmart. It is usually easier to do this, rather than go to multiple stores, and will save you gas. When I go to Walmart, I will let the cashier know up front that I have some items I want to price match (and will have them at the end of my order). I have my order all written down what the price match cost is and the store that we are matching with to help with the checkout (and if it’s a great deal, I’ll take my ad should they dispute it).
To make things easier on you as you coupon, look at the items you regularly purchase and write down the prices from the store. Then compare the price at the other local stores. This will help you know when an item goes on sale, where your best deal to get them from will be to get the greatest savings.
Soup may be on sale at a store for .80 a can, but regular price at the grocery store may be .50, so not much of a sale or savings.
Be a savy shopper and don’t get sucked into the word SALE!
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Update From the Medical Journals: August 2010
August 31, 2010
By Mary Pickett, M.D.
What's the latest news in the medical journals this month? Find out what your doctor is reading.
In 2007, studies from Japan and Sweden showed that chest compressions can improve a person's chance of surviving a heart attack outside of the hospital, with or without rescue breathing (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation). These were observational studies. They were not designed to compare one type of rescue with the other.
Two randomized studies published by the New England Journal of Medicine on July 29 did just that. In the largest study, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructions were provided over the phone by emergency dispatchers. Half of the callers who needed to start CPR were told to use chest compressions and rescue breathing. The others were told to do chest compressions only. People did just as well with either method. In fact, results were slightly better without rescue breathing when heart-related problems such as an abnormal rhythm caused the heart to stop.
In a cardiac arrest, the most critical time for chest compressions is the first few minutes after the heart stops pumping. That's when there is plenty of oxygen in the blood, but the blood is not moving. Chest compressions by a bystander can be lifesaving because rapid and forceful pushes on the chest can squeeze the blood forward out of the heart. This keeps oxygen flowing to the brain. It can also refresh the blood that is flowing into the coronary arteries on the surface of the heart. If the heart is receiving oxygen because a bystander is doing chest compressions, it is much more likely that the heart can restart its previously normal rhythm.
In situations involving choking or drowning, however, rescue breaths are necessary as a part of CPR. Suffocation causes the blood oxygen to drop low first, and the heart stops as a side effect of too little oxygen. There is no oxygen "reserve" remaining in the blood. Rescue breaths are needed for a successful rescue.
For adults who have a sudden heart attack, it's likely that CPR recommendations for rescue workers, as well as bystanders, will change so rescuers can focus on giving fast and forceful chest compressions.
A blood clot in a leg vein (deep venous thrombosis or "DVT") can be life-threatening. The clot can break away from its starting place and block circulation in the lungs. To prevent this, most patients with a DVT take a blood-thinning medicine (anticoagulant). An anticoagulant causes the clot to stop growing. This makes it less likely to break apart and travel throughout the body. Some patients can't safely take a blood thinning medicine. For these patients doctors recommend inserting a filter in the vena cava, your largest vein. This device works like a strainer to filter out clot fragments as blood passes through. Doctors place it inside the vein using a catheter. Once it's inside the vein, it opens like an umbrella.
On August 9, the Archives of Internal Medicine published a report about safety concerns involving these devices. The study focused on 80 patients at one hospital. About 16% of the filters broke or drifted forwards within the bloodstream. In some cases, this caused injury to the heart. The break rate was 25% among people who had an older model. The older filters had been implanted an average of four years. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warnings about vein filters on August 9, stating that it has recorded 900 reports of problems or complications during the past five years.
Although a vein filter can cause a serious complication, so can a DVT. For some patients, it is a challenge to know which is greater the risks or the benefits from using a filter. So far, the FDA has not placed limits on their use or removed them from the market. Recent versions of the filters can be removed from the vein after the immediate danger from the clot has passed. However, this requires an additional procedure and can only occur safely if it is done within the first several months after the filter has been placed.
It is standard to test cholesterol after an overnight fast, because cholesterol numbers vary after a meal. But factors other than food can affect cholesterol, including the amount of estrogen that is circulating in the bloodstream.
Researchers decided to see if women's cholesterol levels varied with their menstrual cycles, as estrogen levels shift within each cycle. They found that the total cholesterol shifted by almost 20% in a typical cycle. The LDL and triglycerides were lowest (best) immediately prior to the start of menstruation. Cholesterol levels were worst during the two weeks that followed the start of menstrual bleeding. The study included 259 women who had cholesterol measured every several days for two months.
It is possible that this understanding will lead to new recommendations to test cholesterol during the third or fourth week of the menstrual cycle, especially before making treatment decisions. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism reported these findings August 10.
Mary Pickett, M.D. is an Associate professor at Oregon Health & Science University where she is a primary care doctor for adults. She supervises and educates residents in the field of Internal Medicine, for outpatient and hospital care. She is a Lecturer for Harvard Medical School and a Senior Medical Editor for Harvard Health Publications.
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"I'm a little concerned Doctors Pass is getting shortchanged."
So says Naples City Council member Doug Finlay.
A little concerned?
That is an understatement.
Finlay's comment comes in the context of the pass drifting almost shut due to winds and tides from tropical weather this summer. A survey shows that the inlet is less than half of the standard, safe depth of 7 feet at low tide.
With all the boat traffic coming in and out of there, especially now that peak season is upon us, that is dangerous — and there is no money in the Collier County tourist tax fund to get the $800,000 job done quickly.
Finlay goes further in arguing that dredged sand should be allowed to be placed at a nearby eroded spot, where it is needed, but the focus now belongs on the dredging itself.
Neighbors of Moorings Bay concur that the shoaling is an accident — or accidents — waiting to happen.
The situation brings up the need to be careful about how the limited tourist tax money is spent. Beaches and inlets are supposed to be at the top of the list. Recipients ought to be as publicly accessible as possible, to deliver the highest return on investment.
Collier County's latest, nearly $1 million allocation to bolster essentially private Hideaway Beach on Marco Island gets harder to justify as time goes on.
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GR Reads 2013
Summer Reading All Grown Up
June 1 – August 31, 2013 | All Library Locations
Summer is here and it is time to take another journey down the road of great books. Our smart librarians have picked ten books that will take you to unexpected places and have planned unique events that will have you exploring our exceptional community. So pack your library bag full of books and grab a friend, we are setting off down the road together and getting there is half the fun.
The Grand Rapids Public Library has once again partnered with area organizations to present the fourth annual GR Reads, a summer reading program designed for adults. Come discover the ten interesting books that our smart staff have selected, or join your neighbors for fun, informative programs that are inspired by the books.
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Mom always said don't talk to strangers. But what if mom was wrong?
That's what Eustis artist and photographer Kristen Wheeler is about to find out when she embarks on a trip to West Africa with a movement called I Talk to Strangers. It's a concept that provokes lots of questions.
"Well, talking to people I don't know, in Ghana of all places," Wheeler replies.
Wheeler was shocked to find out she had won a contest spearheaded by Titusville entrepreneur Robbie Stokes Jr., the brainchild behind I Talk to Strangers. The movement seeks to inspire people to talk to each other face to face. The prize is an all expense paid trip to Ghana with Stokes.
"I saw the name of his movement and his website 'I Talk to Strangers' and I thought how interesting." said Wheeler. "And from the very beginning I kind of knew that that's what I was supposed to do."
Wheeler, who traveled to Burkina Faso in 2009 on a mission, knew a second trip to Africa could be life changing. Her first trip left a deep impression. From a missionary's grandson to a little girl with a cleft palate.
The girl has been shunned by the community, but befriended by Wheeler's group. They gave her a lollipop. She was cautious at first.
"But then she had this huge smile on her face even with the cleft palate and all her teeth showing," Wheeler recalled. "That really impacted me because it was her that I started drawing again. I took that back to the mission house and I drew her off of my camera. I drew her picture."
These strangers inspired Wheeler to enter Stokes' contest at the very last minute, expressing how strangers have changed her life in a documentary style video. She explained how it affected her business and her art. Stokes chose Wheeler's video from dozens submitted worldwide because, he said, it struck a nerve with him.
"Kristen submitted her video and I was completely moved by both her artistic vision and her genuine curiosity of wanting not to just be a part of the movement but wanting to go to Ghana and experience and really take back all the beauties and the treasures of the country, said Stokes.
Stokes said that people are so impressed with his mission, they give donations and buy his T-shirts to help support him. The trip to Ghana is sponsored by a landowner who is putting the pair up, free of charge.
"He's trying to change the focus from judging people when you first meet them or when you first see them from 'Oh he is a stranger to me, I don't want to talk to them. I don't want to have anything to do with them,' to changing that and finding common ground," Wheeler said.
The two, who have never met, will embark on the trip of a lifetime in March and be strangers no more.
On the web: http://www.italktostrangers.com
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