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RE: Gov. Walker launches "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign
Stasi, official name Ministerium für Staatsicherheit (German: “Ministry for State Security”), secret police agency of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The Stasi was one of the most hated and feared institutions of the East German communist government.
The Stasi developed out of the internal security and police apparatus established in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany after World War II. The law establishing the ministry, whose forerunner was the Kommissariat 5 (modeled along the lines of the Soviet KGB), was passed by the East German legislature on February 8, 1950, four months after the establishment of the German Democratic Republic. The Stasi, whose formal role was not defined in the legislation, was responsible for both domestic political surveillance and foreign espionage, and it was overseen by the ruling Socialist Unity Party. Its staff was at first quite small, and its chief responsibilities were counterintelligence against Western agents and the suppression of the last vestiges of Nazism. Soon, however, the Stasi became known for kidnapping former East German officials who had fled the country; many of those who were forcibly returned were executed.
Under Erich Mielke, its director from 1957 to 1989, the Stasi became a highly effective secret police organization. Within East Germany it sought to infiltrate every institution of society and every aspect of daily life, including even intimate personal and familial relationships. It accomplished this goal both through its official apparatus and through a vast network of informants and unofficial collaborators (inoffizielle Mitarbeiter), who spied on and denounced colleagues, friends, neighbours, and even family members. By 1989 the Stasi relied on 500,000 to 2,000,000 collaborators as well as 100,000 regular employees, and it maintained files on approximately 6,000,000 East German citizens—more than one-third of the population.
In addition to domestic surveillance, the Stasi was also responsible for foreign surveillance and intelligence gathering through its Main Administration for Foreign Intelligence (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung). Its foreign espionage activities were largely directed against the West German government and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Under Markus Wolf, its chief of foreign operations from 1958 to 1987, the Stasi extensively penetrated West Germany’s government and military and intelligence services, including the inner circle of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt (1969–74); indeed, the discovery in April 1974 that a top aid to Brandt, Günter Guillaume, was an East German spy led to Brandt’s resignation two weeks later.
The Stasi also had links to various terrorist groups, most notably the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany. During the 1970s and ’80s, the Stasi worked closely with the RAF and cooperated with Abū Niḍāl, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (commonly known as Carlos, or “the Jackal”), and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Stasi also allowed Libyan agents to use East Berlin as a base of operations for carrying out terrorist attacks in West Berlin. Following the bombing of a discotheque in West Berlin (April 1986) that killed two U.S. servicemen, the Stasi continued to allow Libyan agents to use East Berlin as both a base of operations and a safe haven.
Soon after the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the East German legislature passed a law to reconstitute the Ministry of State Security as the Office for National Security (Amt für Nationale Sicherheit); however, because of public outcry, the office was never established, and the Stasi was formally disbanded in February 1990. Concerned that Stasi officials were destroying the organization’s files, East German citizens occupied its main headquarters in Berlin on January 15, 1990. In 1991, after considerable debate, the unified German parliament (Bundestag) passed the Stasi Records Law, which granted to Germans and foreigners the right to view their Stasi files. By the early 21st century, nearly two million people had done so.
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Oneida County's Health Department held an exercise Monday to test their response capabilities in the aftermath of an anthrax event.
As a apart of the County's Emergency Preparedness planning, SUNY IT was the scene of a Point of Distribution or POD Drill this afternoon.
Volunteers played the roles of victims, undergoing "decontamination" while responders provided medical treatment.
"We haven't had an incident since shortly after September 11th where there were some anthrax incidents in the country. Our goal today is to treat as many as 200 people in 1 hour... but in this case 50 people in fifteen minutes," said Ken Fanelli of OCHD.
The Health Department says these exercises give the county a better understanding to identify critical resources needed in a real-life event.
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Welcome to another edition of the HSLDA Homeschoooling Thru High School email newsletter. It's hard to believe this issue begins the third year of the high school newsletter. To those of you who have been receiving the newsletter since the beginning, we are blessed by your readership. We love hearing from our readers, and we enjoyed meeting many of you as we traveled during this past homeschool conference season.
September is a month of new beginnings--the start of a new school year, new books, and perhaps a new baby or a new high schooler! The beginning of a school year is a great time to be reminded of the precious blessings our children represent. They are all different; they are created in the image of God, and they have each been given specific talents.
We promised you last month we would be on the hunt for average homeschoolers. Of course, average means different things to different people. We define average as those students who generally score in the mean when taking tests or those students who...
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Tony Fletcher has a winner with his fine nonfiction analysis of the music of New York, and he does an excellent job of catching the sounds of this great city from 1927 - 1977 as seen and heard through the many composers and musicians. His details are intimate, accurate, and full of new information. Much of the information will surprise readers.
In this fifty year look at the New York music scene, Tony Fletcher commences with Harlem at the very height of the Jazz Age in 1927, an era that would become famous in American literature by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Jazz in the 1920s is caught in all of its glory and glimmer!
Fletcher successfully strolls across the decades. He covers jazz, pop, be-bop. rock, folk, swing, Latin, disco, hip-hop, and punk. One of the authors skills is the memorable manner in which he captures the essence of each decade of music and the people who made the music and lived it. There is never a dull moment in this fast-paced book. There is a look at the city of New York that is hard to find elsewhere.
The list is long and detailed but some of the numerous names covered include Tito Puente Bob Dylan Dizzy Gillespie Leadbelly Clyde McPhatter Janis Ian George Gershwin Charlie Parker Woody Guthrie Duke Ellington Kiss Jerry Lee Lewis Neil Sedaka Teddy Wilson and Frankie Lymon.
The author of three music biographies and one novel Tony Fletcher is the founder of the music magazine Jamming! and maintains an active web site www.ijamming.net. He currently lives in Mt. Tremper New York.
This book will become an important reference work with the passage of years for it covers so much in detail and is an ideal tool for enjoyable reading and research. If you want to read something out of the ordinary take a look at this fine nonfiction work. The book contains photographs notes bibliography and index.
This is a fine book entry into the world of nonfiction jazz writing by an individual who knows and loves his jazz. Splendid reading! The publisher is W. W. Norton and other titles from this publisher are found at www.wwnorton.com.
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Manatee County Public Schools students show mostly gains in writing, according to the 2009 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test Writing Plus results released by the Florida Department of Education Thursday.
The FCAT Writing Plus is scored on a range of 1-6, with 6 being the top level of achievement. A score of 3.5 is the state of Florida’s designated level of proficiency.
In expository writing, 82% of Manatee fourth-graders scored 3.5 or above, a 7% increase over 2008. In narrative writing, 76% scored 3.5 or higher, 12% higher than 2008. In addition, 26 district elementary schools increased their combined writing results this year over the 2008 results.
Eighty-eight percent of Manatee eighth-graders scored at 3.5 or above in expository writing, a 4% increase from 2008. In persuasive writing, 85% of scored 3.5 or better, a 1% decrease from 2008.
Seventy percent of Manatee 10th-graders scored 3.5 or above in persuasive writing, a 4% decrease from 2008.
To view the results, visit the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test Web site.
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22 Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance May Morning Express Networking Social - SCF "How SCF Supports Local Business"
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28 Braden River Soccer Club Try-outs
Ranch rallies against cancer
East County residents will rally to fight cancer Saturday, May 18, as the American Cancer Society hosts its annual Lakewood Ranch Relay for Life event at the Lakewood Ranch YMCA.
Barista pours on fun for daughters
State Road 70 Starbucks barista and East County resident Cyndee Vanderford showed her daughters the world of lattes and mochas for Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day April 25.
Troop plants Freedom's courtyard
Girls in Girl Scouts Junior Troop 181, at Freedom Elementary School, recently earned their Bronze Award by researching and planting the back of the school’s courtyard.
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Successful paintball teams and players have been sizing their barrels to match their paint size for a number of years. By obtaining a correct paint to barrel match a player will not only add accuracy but also efficiency. The biggest obstacle with bore sizing paint is that balls are being manufactured progressively smaller and the bore sizes DO NOT EXIST. Because of these issues, we present the new iFIT Precision Barrel Boring Kit.
Over the past decade, players have found that correctly boring their paintballs leads to increases in both accuracy and effciency. Two issues have arisen concerning the ability to properly bore paint. First off, paintball boring systems that have previously been available are expensive due to the fact that they consist of multiple backs, tips, and inserts. Prices for these kits can easily cost hundreds of dollars. The typical barrel system or kit becomes very expensive when adding multiple threads and or bore sizes... not the case with the iFit Kit. Another problem players are encountering is that paintballs have become progressively smaller over the last few years. The bore sizes needed to size this smaller paint have simply not even been available...until now. The iFit Kit offers the most comprehensive selection of bore sizes and threads to date, while still being the most economical option.
We have found that by adding only 1.75 inches of compression length to the majority of barrels and barrel systems, via the iFit Kit, we can obtain significant increases in accuracy and efficiency. What does this mean for you? It means that with nothing more than the barrels you already have in your gear bag, you can start sizing your paintballs correctly and obtaining those increases. It works with any barrel, on any gun. The iFit Kit allows for optimal compression of any paintball to maximize the potential gains from your barrel. It makes any barrel- every bore!
iFIT is a totally modular system that accommodates all the paintballs and re-balls that are being sold today. After buying several brands and grades of paintballs, and sizing them all, we have found that many paintball manufactures have started manufacturing paint smaller than .679 (smallest industry standard bore available). In many cases this change to a smaller bore paintball means that your current set of barrels is too big for the paint you are forced to buy. Using a barrel that is too big means that you will have less accuracy & efficiency.
Rather than having to buy several expensive full barrel backs, complete barrels of various bores, or trying to find barrel inserts that don't exist, one can save time and money with the iFIT. No other manufactures offer the range in bore sizes that we do. The iFIT Kit ranges in size from .692 down to .667. This is the largest range in bore sizes you will find from any manufacture. iFIT also will save you money by only having one adapter per marker thread as oppose to purchasing several backs with individual bore sizes. Simply put, the iFIT Kit is the most comprehensive kit available today.
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The announcement is getting mixed reaction from the oil industry.
"It's good news," President of the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association Chris John said. "Good news is we're having a lease sale."
He says it shows the Obama administration is moving forward with development in the Gulf after the oil disaster. He takes issue, however, with the extent the White House says it is moving forward.
"The Obama Administration is fully committed to developing our domestic energy resources to create jobs, foster economic opportunities, and reduce America's dependence on foreign oil," Energy Secretary Ken Salazar said in a news release. "Exploration and development of the Gulf of Mexico's vital energy resources will continue to help power our nation and drive our economy."
John has a problem with Salazar saying he is "fully committed to... domestic energy."
"Being fully committed to me is opening up all areas," he insisted. "Fully might not be the proper word."
He says they want to see additional drilling in the eastern portions of the Gulf, parts of the Atlantic and parts of the Pacific.
"The dark side of it is that this five year leasing plan does not include any acreage in any new areas," John explained.
The White House insists, however that under the President's leadership, domestic oil and gas production has grown each year he has been in office, with domestic oil production currently higher than any time in nearly a decade and natural gas production at its highest level ever.
The news release says, "Foreign oil imports now account for less than 50 percent of the oil consumed in America - the lowest level since 1995."
The Obama administration says the Central Gulf lease sale could lead to the production of nearly one billion barrels of oil and almost 4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
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In Arizona, the CFS measured $69 billion of goods weighing 84 million tons. Arizona accounted for approximately 1 percent of the value and weight of total U.S. shipments. See attached table. The CFS data cover shipments by establishments in mining, manufacturing, wholesale, and selected retail and service industries. The data exclude most shipments of crude oil; therefore, the totals and percentages do not fully reflect the contribution of pipeline shipments.
The major commodities shipped by establishments in Arizona vary when measured by value and by weight of the shipments. The major commodities by value were: apparel or other textile products; food and kindred products; electrical machinery and equipment; transportation equipment; and primary metal products. The major commodities by weight were: clay, concrete, glass or stone; nonmetallic minerals; petroleum or coal products; food and kindred products; and metallic ores.
Local transportation of freight is important to Arizona's commerce. The distribution of commodities by domestic destination and distance of shipments reflects the importance of local transport. The CFS shows that in 1993, about 43 percent of the value and 77 percent of the weight of total shipments from Arizona were shipped to destinations within the state. About 29 percent of the value and about 53 percent of the weight of all shipments were between places less than 50 miles apart. In comparison, about 30 percent of the value and 56 percent of the weight of total U.S. shipments were between places less than 50 miles apart. In Arizona, over one-third (37 percent) of the value of shipments and over two-thirds (71 percent) of the weight of shipments were between places less than 100 miles apart.
Over half (57 percent) of the value and less than one-quarter (23 percent) of the weight of all shipments from Arizona went to other states. The top destination by value of shipments was California. Other important destination states were: Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, and New York. Important destinations states by weight of shipments were: Nevada, California, New Mexico, Texas, and Indiana.
Most commodities (72 percent of the value and 65 percent of the weight) were moved by trucks. Rail accounted for about 5 percent of the value and 23 percent of the weight of shipments. The CFS data confirm the rising importance of parcel, U.S. postal, and courier services that have emerged in recent years. In 1993, this mode of transport was used to move 168 thousand tons of goods worth about $5 billion or 7 percent of the value of all shipments in Arizona. In comparison, about 9 percent of the value of total U.S. shipments were moved by this mode.
The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is a comprehensive effort to learn where and how goods are shipped in the U.S. The CFS measures shipments of commodities by establishments with paid employees and engaged in manufacturing, mining, wholesale trade, or selected retail and services industries. Prior commodity surveys covered shipments only by manufacturing firms. Commodity flows are estimated for a universe of approximately 900,000 establishments.
Data collected on individual shipments include total value, total weight, commodity type, modes of transport, domestic origin and destination; data for export shipments include the city and country of destination, mode and port of exit. Information is also be obtained on whether shipments are containerized or a hazardous material. Some firms provided data concerning on-site shipping facilities and access to shipping facilities, plus data on ownership and leasing of transportation equipment.
The CFS is conducted by the Bureau of the Census as part of the Economic Census. Funding and technical guidance is provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Initiated for 1993, the CFS is scheduled for 1997 and every 5 years thereafter for years ending in 2 and 7. Commodity surveys were conducted between 1963 and 1982, but data for 1982 were not published. No data were collected for 1987. Participants will report for a sample of shipments during a 2-week period each quarter during the reporting year.
The CFS is a mail-out/mail-back survey of 200,000 sampled employer establishments in selected industries. Establishments were selected by stratified sample, with strata based on geographic location and industry. Geographic strata are the 89 National Transportation Analysis Regions(NTARs), which provide nationwide coverage and are aggregations of Bureau of Economic Analysis economic areas. Within the strata, all establishments with annualized employment above a specified cutoff were selected with certainty, and the remaining smaller establishments were sampled with probability proportional to annualized payroll.
For 1993, each sampled establishment reported on a sample of individual shipments during a 2 week period in each calendar quarter. In addition, about 20,000 establishments will provide information on transportation facilities and arrangements in their final reporting period.
For further information about survey design and printed products, contact the Commodity Flow Survey Branch, Services Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC 20233, or by calling 301/457-2805 or 2114. For information on related data programs and studies, contact the Bureau of Transportation Statistics at 202/366-DATA for voice, 202/366-3640 for fax, or CFS@BTS.GOV for e-mail.
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Submitted to: Avian Diseases
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: September 1, 2002
Publication Date: October 12, 2002
Citation: Zhou, H., Lillehoj, H.S., Lamont, S.J. 2003. Association of chicken interferon-y genotype and protein level with antibody response kinetics. Avian Diseases. 46:869-876.
Interpretive Summary: Interferon (IFN)-gamma is a soluble substance which is secreted by T lymphocytes after these cells encounter foreign antigens. Since T lymphocytes are important effect cells mediating cell-mediated immune responses, the assessment of IFN-gamma production during infection has been used as a major indicator of host immunity. In this study, scientists at Iowa State University and ARS scientists collaborated to develop an enzyme-based immunoassay to measure chicken IFN-gamma production and used this assay to demonstrate the role of chicken IFN-gamma in antibody production in different genetic lines of chickens. The results provide important information on the role of host genetic background in controlling host immune responses.
Although previous studies have demonstrated an association between interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) promoter genotype and antibody response in chickens, the protein levels that may mediate such a gene-trait association have not been determined. The objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation of circulating IFN-gamma levels with both the IFN-gamma promoter polymorphisms and with antibody response, in order to evaluate the role of IFN-gamma protein in mediating genetic control of antibody response in chickens. Serum IFN-gamma protein level and antibody response to sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) and Brucella abortus antigens, and Salmonella enteritidis (SE) vaccine were measured in an intercrossed F2 population derived from inbred lines. Single nucleotide polymorphism in the IFN-gamma promoter region was associated with IFN-gamma protein expression after both primary and secondary immunizations. Higher IFN-gamma protein level was associated with increased maximum level and decreased time to reach maximum secondary antibody response to SRBC and also with higher antibody level to SE. These results suggest that one of the mechanisms by which promoter polymorphism of IFN-gamma affects antibody production in chickens may involve IFN-gamma protein secretion in the circulation.
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That opportunity presented itself in 2011 when I met Dan Pardi, a researcher whose work focuses on sleep and food intake, and the CEO of a company called Dan's Plan. I was immediately impressed by Dan because he stood out as someone with a high level of expertise in sleep and physical activity, as well as someone who has successfully lost a substantial amount of fat and kept it off for several years.
Dan and his team had developed a set of unique and engaging tools for tracking weight, sleep, and physical activity to help people maintain daily mindfulness over the simple fundamentals of health. These tools are 100 percent free and incredibly easy to use, particularly if you sync them with an electronic scale and step counter. When synced with these devices, the Dan's Plan website automatically uploads and displays your weight, sleep, and physical activity score, as well as integrating them all into a single user-friendly Health Zone Score that lets you know your overall performance at a glance. Even if you have no interest in fat loss, I highly recommend using the free tracking tools on the Dan's Plan site-- I do.
In early 2012, Dan approached me about creating a fat loss program for Dan's Plan that incorporates their unique tracking tools. This struck me as an excellent opportunity to create a diet and lifestyle program that combines sound science with exciting new technology. Dan and I both brought science to the table, and Dan also brought the perspective gained from working with others to help them lose fat, as well as his own successful fat loss experience. Dan and I have been working hard on this project, and we're finally ready to launch.
I'm happy to announce the Ideal Weight Program, an effective new system for fat loss and maintenance.
What is the Ideal Weight Program?
The Ideal Weight Program is a unique system for fat loss and maintenance that draws from the latest science on diet, physical activity, sleep, and behavior modification, and pairs it with engaging tools that help you define your goals and meet them. It keeps you consistently focused on the everyday factors that really matter for fat loss, and gives you the skills you need to make sustainable diet and lifestyle changes. Based on your own goals and priorities, you can choose one of two diet strategies for the initial fat loss phase:
- The Fat Loss and Sustainable Health (FLASH) diet, an intensive high-protein diet for rapid fat loss.
- The Simple Food Diet, a more flexible diet based on whole, natural foods specifically selected for fat loss. One important goal of this diet is to teach healthy cooking skills, using recipes and tips provided.
These diets are designed to naturally promote a lower calorie intake and fat loss, without requiring calorie counting. The Ideal Weight Program also includes important physical activity and sleep components, and explains why these are so critical for fat loss and health. Dan and I discussed some of the principles underlying the Ideal Weight Program on Chris Kresser's podcast recently.
Here's what you get when you sign up:
- Detailed documents that walk you through the program
- Weight, sleep, and physical activity tracking tools tailored for fat loss
- Simple recipes and cooking tips that work with almost anything in your fridge
- Videos that explain the key concepts behind fat loss and maintenance
- An e-book explaining the scientific rationale behind the program
Ideal Weight Program
Financial disclosure: I will receive a portion of the revenue from the sale of the Ideal Weight Program. I do not receive revenue from the sale of other products associated with Dan's Plan or the Ideal Weight Program (such as the Fitbit, cooking tools, and other programs).
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Posted in 2010s, Articles, Interface Design
D’Silva, Pasquale, “Transitional Interfaces” (2013)
Folks keep throwing around the word “delight” when referring to animation and cute interactions. Cool and great for those guys. Guess what though? Animation can be used functionally too. It’s not just an embellished detail.
Animation leverages an overlooked dimension — time! An invisible fabric which stitches space together.
Posted in 2000s, Articles, Cogniton, Theory
Klemmer, Scott, Hartmann, Bjorn, and Takayama, Leila, “How Bodies Matter: Five Themes for Interaction Design,” 2006.
This paper presents five themes that we believe are particularly salient for designing and evaluating interactive systems. The first, thinking through doing, describes how thought (mind) and action (body) are deeply integrated and how they co-produce learning and reasoning. The second, performance, describes the rich actions our bodies are capable of, and how physical action can be both faster and more nuanced than symbolic cognition. The first two themes primarily address individual corporeality; the next two are primarily concerned with the social affordances. Visibility describes the role of artifacts in collaboration and cooperation. Risk explores how the uncertainty and risk of physical co-presence shapes interpersonal and human-computer interactions. The final theme, thickness of practice, suggests that because the pursuit of digital verisimilitude is more difficult than it might seem, embodied interaction is a more prudent path.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Interface Design, Theory
Arnall, Timo, “No to NoUI,” 2013.
Invisible design propogates the myth that technology will ‘disappear’ or ‘just get out of the way’ rather than addressing the qualities of interface technologies that can make them difficult or delightful.
Intentionally hiding the phenomena and materiality of interfaces, smoothing over the natural edges, seams and transitions that constitute all technical systems, entails a loss of understanding and agency for both designers and users of computing. Lack of understanding leads to uncertainty and folk-theories that hinder our ability to use technical systems, and clouds the critique of technological developments.
As systems increasingly record our personal activity and data, invisibility is exactly the wrong model.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Inspirational, Theory
Krishna, Golden, “The best interface is no interface,” 2012.
It’s time for us to move beyond screen-based thinking. Because when we think in screens, we design based upon a model that is inherently unnatural, inhumane, and has diminishing returns. It requires a great deal of talent, money and time to make these systems somewhat usable, and after all that effort, the software can sadly, only truly improve with a major overhaul.
There is a better path: No UI. A design methodology that aims to produce a radically simple technological future without digital interfaces. Following three simple principles, we can design smarter, more useful systems that make our lives better.
Posted in 1990s, Articles, Inspirational
Tognazzini, Bruce, “Magic and Software Design,” 1993.
Perhaps no field other than magic is tied so closely to the field of graphical interface design: The people working at Xerox PARC in the 1960’s and early 1970’s were aware of the principles of theatrical magic when creating the first graphical interfaces, to the extent that David Smith named the interface itself the “user illusion” (Kay). We are designing interfaces for an interface system based on magic, yet there is almost nothing written about it in our literature. (An exception is a single page by Heckel.) Magicians have been struggling with the principles, techniques, and ethics of illusion for at least 5000 years (Burger). There’s a lot we can learn from them.
Posted in 1980s, Articles, Cogniton
Carroll, John M. and Thomas, John C., “Metaphor and the Cognitive Representation of Computing Systems”, 1980.
Our starting point is the simple observation (dating at least to the time of William James, 1890) that people tend to try to learn about new things by making use of their past learning. New concepts are typically thought of in terms of old concepts-at least initially. We focus on a specific variety of this, the metaphorical extension from one structured domain into another. In particular we consider the role that metaphorical learning plays in the mastery of computing systems at various levels of “competence.” Professional programmers might learn a new system X by metaphorizing at least initially from what they already know about system Y. More casual or naive end-users might rely on metaphors drawn from more distant knowledge domains, e.g.. on what they have already learned about electric typewriters.
Posted in 1990s, Articles, Basics, Cogniton, Usability
Davidson, Mary Jo, Dove, Laura, and Weltz, Julie, “Mental Models and Usability,” 1999
An inaccurate mental model of what is happening in a system leads to errors. Many systems place too many demands on the humans that use them. Users are often required to adjust the way they work to accommodate the computer. Sometimes the result is a minor frustration or inconvenience, such as changes not being saved to a file. Inaccurate mental models of more complex systems, such as an airplane or nuclear reactor, can lead to disastrous accidents.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Inspirational
Bret Victor, A Brief Rant on The Future of Interaction Design, 2011
Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It’s a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it’s the star player in every Vision Of The Future.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Basics
Chad Vavra, The Ten Principles of Interaction Design, 2011
To steal a metaphor from E.L. Doctorow, “[Interaction Design] is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you can still get to your destination”. When a task seems too big, start by picking two things, like a page and a button. Establish their relationship and interaction. Once that is done, pick something else that relates and keep going. Everything will come together thanks to the brain’s natural ability to spatially model the world.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Inspirational, Interface Design, Mobile
Mike Kruzeniski, How Print Design is the Future of Interaction, 2011
The literal analog affordance is no longer necessary, and yet, it’s the default path that so many interactive experiences follow. We don’t need to make an eBook look like a book for people to understand how to use it. The book isn’t the cover and binding, it’s the images and the text that make the story. Similarly, a movie doesn’t need to look like a DVD on a shelf to understand that it belongs to a collection, and an audio mixer doesn’t require cables and knobs to be capable as a tool, and a Notebook does not require leather and a spiral bind to be familiar. In the early days of interaction design when software concepts were best explained through heavy handed metaphors, the familiarity of these objects and textures was appropriate. However, the rendering of artifacts has outlived its usefulness as the definitive approach to UI design. As Designers we should be critiquing it for what it often is: shallow, meaningless, and often distracting from the information it surrounds.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Inspirational, Robotics, Theory
Matt Jones, The Robot-readable World, 2011
Computer vision is a deep, dark specialism with strange opportunities and constraints. The signals that we design towards robots might be both simpler and more sophisticated than QR codes or other 2d barcodes.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Hardware, Mobile
Dan Hill, Portable Cathedrals, 2011
Each mobile phone handset is not a mere product, perhaps like the other products that have traditionally adorned the pages of this magazine—as a chair is, or a lighting fixture is. Instead, each handset is a play in a wider global contest, a node in logistics networks of immense scale and complexity, a platform for an ecosystem of applications, an exemplar of the internet of things, a window onto the daily interactions of billions of users, of their ever-changing personalities and cultures, a product that consumers traditionally consider the most important in their possession, after the keys to their home.
The phone is an intimate device, not simply through its ubiquity and connectivity, its relationship with the body. While objects have long been cultural choices and symbolic goods, the mobile phone, being the most personal connection to the internet, is a device for generating symbolic goods, a vehicle for culture, a proxy for the owner’s identities. It is vast business and cultural phenomenon, all at once.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, History, Inspirational
Stefan Boublil, What The Telephone’s Unbeatable Functionality Teaches Us About Innovation, 2011
Design has become almost useless to mankind since so few people pursue single-mindedness as a foundational purpose, but would rather purposelessly chase multi-functionalism down a dark and long tunnel that may well lead to magazine covers, but to little else.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Inspirational
Tom Armitage, Blessed are the Toymakers, 2011
The best toys have hidden depths. The best toys are all super-simple on the surface; super-obvious. They let you know exactly what you ought to try doing with them. But as you explore them, you discover they have hidden depths. And: hidden affordances. Spaces for imagination to rush in. Toys allow you to play games, inventing rules that make the toy more fun, not less. Toys allow you to tell the stories you imagine, not that are baked into them.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Robotics, Ubicomp, Visionary
Matt Jones, Gardens and Zoos, 2012
This is near-future where the things around us start to display behaviour – acquiring motive and agency as they act and react to the context around them according to the software they have inside them, and increasingly the information they get from (and publish back to) the network.
In this near-future, it’s very hard to identify the ‘U’ in UI’ – that is, the User in User-Interface. It’s not so clear anymore what these things are. Tools… or something more.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Interface Design
Mark Cossey, Mission Transition, 2012
A transition that has been designed to be slow can feel awful. When designing an application, an interface or any type of structured content, we must ensure that users understand where they have come from as they arrive at the new page or state. The transition from one screen or group of content to another should feel natural and should be tested on devices of varying power and speed to get a wider view of how the transition feels. Too fast, and it may appear broken or jumpy; too slow, and it will be frustrating to use.
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Cogniton
Jason Gross, Redefining Hicks’s Law, 2012
The human mind has trouble choosing between several options unless one clearly stands out as the best. When you water down a design with widgets and secondary content, you reduce the value of the primary content and force a harder decision on the user. The process of eliminating distracting options has to start here and should be carried on throughout the design process. The more choices we eliminate, the more enjoyable the experience will be.
Posted in 2010s, Basics, Non-Fiction Books
Lukas Mathis, Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web, 2011
“Weaving together hands-on techniques and fundamental concepts, you’ll learn how to make usability the cornerstone of your design process. Each technique chapter explains a specific approach you can use during the design process to make your product more user friendly, such as storyboarding, usability tests, and paper prototyping. Idea chapters are concept-based: how to write usable text, how realistic your designs should look, when to use animations.”
Posted in 2010s, Articles, Process, Project Management
Fred Beecher, Requirements-Driven Software Development Must Die, 2011
The process by which most enterprise software is developed is fatally flawed. There are flaws in any software development process, but in the past 13 years I’ve seen one approach produce more bad software and blow more budgets than any other: requirements-driven software development. Thankfully, I’ve also had the opportunity to see the success of an alternative type of process, a process in which user experience design drives what gets developed. This type of process helps teams deliver good software on time and within their budgets.
Requirements-driven software development fails mainly due to communication issues. Huge spreadsheets of detailed requirements, by themselves, are simply not an effective way to convey what an interactive system needs to do and how users need it to work. What does work, however, is validating those requirements with an interactive prototype.
Posted in 2000s, Articles, Process, Programming
Michael Mateas, “Procedural Literacy: Educating the New Media Practitioner” (2007)
Procedural literacy, of which programming is a part, is critically important for new media scholars and practitioners, that its opposite, procedurally illiteracy, leaves one fundamentally unable to grapple with the essence of computational media. In fact, one can argue that procedural literacy is a fundamental competence for everyone, required full participation in contemporary society, that believing only programmers (people who make a living at it) should be procedurally literate is like believing only published authors need to learn how to read and write; here I will restrict myself to the case of new media scholars and practitioners.
By procedural literacy I mean the ability to read and write processes, to engage procedural representation and aesthetics, to understand the interplay between the culturally-embedded practices of human meaning-making and technically-mediated processes. With appropriate programming, a computer can embody any conceivable process; code is the most versatile, general process language ever created. Hence, the craft skill of programming is a fundamental component of procedural literacy, though it is not the details of any particular programming language that matters, but rather the more general tropes and structures that cut across all languages.
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Philippe Starck is one of the most versatile and acclaimed designers of the late 20th century - and he shows no sign of slackening his pace. He was born in Paris in January of 1949. His father, an aircraft designer, trained him to create uncluttered lines - since then he claims to have learned nothing, except by leading the life of "an adventurer and explorer."
From catalogue design to architecture, with stops to launch the punk movement in France, create luggage, spectacle frames, noodles and boats as well as execute commissions for the French President, Starck seems to be everywhere. More than forty of his furniture and lamp designs are in production all over the world, bearing out his motto: "beautiful things for everyone." He is honored here for his lamp designs, but his hand has shaped objects of every size and description in the modern landscape.
From the mid-sixties, Starck attended the Ecole Nissim de Camondo in Paris, and he set up his first company in 1968 to produce inflatable objects. In the 1970s he fitted out the Paris night-clubs La Main Bleue (1976) and Les Bains-Douches (1978). In 1979 he founded the "Starck Product" company. As an interior designer, he was responsible in 1982 for refurnishing the private apartments in the Elysee Palace in Paris for President Mitterrand of France. He went on in 1984 to design the interior of the Cafe Costes in Paris, along with those of other establishments, such as the Manin in Tokyo (1985) and Teatriz in Madrid (1990).
In New York, he was responsible for the interior design of the Royalton and Paramount hotels (1988 and 1990), and played a leading part in the design of the Groningen Museum in the Netherlands in 1991. In Japan, Starck was responsible for the La Flamme building commissioned by the Asahi brewery, the Nani Nani office building for Rikugo (both in Tokyo, 1989/90), as well as for the green baron office block (1991) commissioned by Meisei in Osaka. He has also designed a number of private dwelling houses and apartment blocks, including Lemoult in Paris (1987), The Angle in Antwerp (1991), 18 rental apartment buildings in Los Angeles (1991) and a private house in Madrid (1991).
Starck designed commercial premises for the French cutlery company Laguiole (1989) as well as for an organic products manufacturer near Bordeaux (1991). In Paris a whole street block, La Rue Starck, is going up under his design (1991). In addition to all this, during the 1980s, Starck designed numerous collections and individual items of furniture for manufacture by firms in France, Italy, Spain, Japan and Switzerland.
In addition to his line of lamps for the FLOS company, he has designed noodles for Panzani, boats for Beneteau, mineral-water bottles for Glacier, kitchen appliances for Alessi, toothbrushes for Fluocaril, luggage for Vuitton, "Urban Fittings" for Decaux, office furniture for Vitra, as well as vehicles, computers, door-knobs, spectacle frames, etc. Starck's work has brought him numerous prizes and awards. His objects can be seen in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, and the Museum of Design in London, among other venues. Exhibitions of his work have been held in Paris, Marseille, Rome, Munich, Dusseldorf, Kyoto, Tokyo, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. He lives and works in Paris.
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Using the Kidzmet Personal Playbook for Learning Kit to Help an Emerging Independent Learner Embrace Their Learning Styles for Success
Does Learning Style Matter?
Yes! Those of you who know me know that I take learning style very much into consideration when choosing what and how to homeschool my children. That’s why I ordered an audio cd WITH the textbook for Princess, and why I give Little Prince pipe cleaners to play with while he listens. I’m also fascinated by personality types and how that plays into the way my kids learn and grow.
My kids’ learning styles and personality types affect the curriculum I choose, the approach I take, and the projects we do. Princess is older now, though, doing 7th and 8th grade work, and starting to do more work independently on her own. I feel this increasing awareness to make sure that I’m teaching her how to learn and study on her own, how to make use of her strengths, and how to overcome her weaknesses.
Personalized Learning Style Playbook from Kidzmet
Kidzmet’s Personal Playbook for Learning is a customized handbook for how our kids learn and think. After taking a (super easy) learning and personality assessment on their site – that part is FREE, go try that out! – Kidzmet made a playbook for Princess that has her name on the front and throughout, and is tailored for her learning and personality style combination.
The Personal Playbook for Learning addresses things like how to organize, take notes, learn new concepts, prepare for tests, learn in a group, and motivate Princess for success. It’s colorful and divided into tabbed sections and easy to use. As soon as it arrived in the mail, Princess grabbed it up and hopped into a chair to gobble up every word. The playbook also comes with a disk of printable templates for your child to use to organize and plan.
Using your Kidzmet Playbook
The first thing I did with our Playbook for Learning was to let Princess read it herself. Not only was she curious but I thought it would be best if we were both on the same page. Then I read through it myself, noting things that immediately stood out to me that are true of Princess, that I already do but can increase, or that I saw as existing problem areas with tips for improvement.
For example, Princess is a J, a Judger and I’m a P, a Perceiver. Judgers delight in the destination, Perceivers enjoy the journey. Judgers are purposeful and systematic while Perceivers are more flexible and open ended. Reading through Princess’ personality type and her needs for learning, I was immediately able to key in on these differences between us and how that may affect our school day. I had already been wondering if one of the reasons Princess has been a little resistant with her history notebooking was how open ended and vague the assignment was: “Write whatever you want about something from the lesson.” I changed tactics and asked for something more specific instead, “Write 3 things that happened in today’s history lesson” and guess what I got? Three things about the history lesson! Quickly and without whining. SUCCESS.
Something else that Princess recently began doing on her own, which we now see supported in her Learning Playbook, is retreating to her room to work on her math. Math is done after the group subjects are over and I have no reason to prevent her from retreating so I’ve been letting her do it. After reading through the book, she also told me how she goes through a process when she gets in there, smoothing out the blankets on her bed, creating a clean and tidy space to sit in, put her book on this side and the laptop on that side, just so. We could see these as a part of her learning style and personality type as outlined in her Playbook for Learning so I’ve decided to keep doing that and let her do other individual work in her room as well.
We will continue working through the ideas and suggestions that we found but I will also have the Learning Playbook to refer to in the future when some kind of conflict or stumbling block arises. I’m definitely interested in the section on motivating Princess when she underachieves and applying these suggestions (with some of the printouts and suggestions from other sections) to help her succeed in writing assignments, which is something of a struggle for us.
101 Learning Activities
Our Kidzmet Learning Styles Playbook also came with a small book called “101 Learning Activities to Stretch & Strengthen Your Child’s Multiple Intelligences.” This is a book that I can use with all three of the kids at the same time because it doesn’t matter if the chosen activities plays to a strength or a weakness, by participating in a variety of activities they will all grow their multiple intelligences at the same time.
To get started with it, I chose to have the kids participate in activity one which is called “Yay, Learning” – a “body smart” exercise where you create a cheer for school with accompanying stretching type movements to get the body going for those who need to activate their bodies in order to activate their brains. I involved the girls and asked them to help me write a “chant” for our homeschool and motions to go with it. Our school name is “Faith Family Home School” so we used that as our inspiration.
We put our FAITH in God, He’s the biggest and the best.
We love and care and serve, our FAMILY comes next.
We take care of our stuff, and make our HOME our nest.
We study hard and LEARN, and give God all our best!
Okay, we cheated on that last line. The kids had fun and it’s a good way to get the blood flowing to our brains before trying to use them. ;0)
To pick our next activities, I asked Princess to pick three that she wanted to do. To give you an idea of the kinds of things found in this booklet, I’ll share her choices here:
- Font Formation – Create/draw your own font style, import it into a font generator to create your own font, and import it into your word processor. Use it! (Fine motor skills.)
- Kine-Simon – Play this physical version of My Simon by choosing 4 actions (hop, clap, jump, spin, etc.) and have the leader lead the others through a series of actions to remember and repeat, adding another action each time. (Muscle memory.)
- Melodramatic Mime – Have your child act out a favorite story while playing all the parts, encourage overly dramatic movements.
These are all body smart activities, and only 3 of the 101 ideas in the book. You’ll have to read the book to find the suggestions for music, nature, number, people, picture, self and word smart activities.
Kidzmet Playbook on Your Kindle
Raise your hand if you have a Kindle or some other kind of eReader! For those of you who are not like me (that is, overly excited about the color coordinated tabs and divided sections in the physical binder)– if you don’t need all that visual appeal then the digital edition is right up your alley! The digital edition has the same content as the physical edition, without all the frills and colors that make someone like me smile at the beautiful organization. It’s the same content, in the same order, easily navigable with a linked Table of Contents. It’s perfect for you “just the facts, ma’am” types. (That would be my husband.)
The only thing you don’t get with the digital version that does come with the physical version is the cd of printable templates and the 101 Learning Activities book. On the other hand, if you have more than one child, you may not want to order the full kit for all of them – you don’t need 3 or 4 copies of the same 101 activities, right? The Kindle editions are great supplements for additional children if you already have a full kit.
Kidzmet, “Kid Approved”
As I said, Princess was just as excited as I was when our kit arrived. I think she’s as interested in learning styles and personality types as I am! She’s also at that age where she’s ready to become more independent and take her education a little more into her own hands. She won’t be doing group science with us this year but will be doing her own 8th grade science, and that mostly independently, too. She is looking forward to this and both of us are looking for tips in the playbook to help her stay motivated and work on her own. I imagine the Personal Learning Playbook will come in handy this year as we break this new ground. It will be nice to have it all at our fingertips!
Going, Going, Gone Soon
The Learning Playbook like I have (in a half sized binder with colored dividers, etc.) is going limited edition and will only be available for special promotions, etc. In it’s place a NEW, paperback version of the playbook is going to be available! Along with a new set of options for ordering.
Effective October 1, you’ll be able to find:
- Paperback Playbook @ $14.99
- Playbook KIT (paperback Playbook, 101 Learning Activities book, CD) @ $19.99
- Teacher’s KIT (All 8 paperback Playbooks, Learning Activities book, CD, and 1 full year of a Kidzmet classroom account–where teachers can profile ALL of their students, send student snapshots to parents, use our student segmenter app, and find out how they “fit” with each of their students) @ $99.99 (<– So if you have 5 or more kids you probably want this one!)
- eBooks for on Kindle, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords and iTunes @ $9.99.
Win a Personalized Kidzmet Binder of Your Own
Kidzmet has provided a Playbook for Learning kit for one of my readers! Before they’re gone, you have a chance to win a Personal Playbook for Learning (binder), for your child! You’ll also receive the CD and the 101 Learning Activities book. (US and military bases only – sorry!)
Snag one of these now limited editions by entering in this giveaway; follow the directions in the Rafflecopter app for more entries.
Don’t Want to Wait? Find Kidzmet Here:
- Kidzmet.com (Buy the Learning Playbook here.)
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Cyclo Aerators drive the Aquaculture IndustryDave Haskew, Sumitomo Sales
When oxygen gets low, fish may die unless some method is used to oxygenate the water. Paddlewheels beat the water, breaking it into droplets that absorb oxygen from the air. An area of higher oxygen is created around the paddlewheel, which attracts the suffocating fish. Aerway Manufacturing Company (www.genaer.com) manufactures aeration equipment, such as electric paddlewheels, that provide high oxygen transfer rates and strong horizontal mixing for catfish farms.
Aerway’s floating electric paddlewheel features a direct drive Sumitomo Cyclo® reducer gearbox, Quik-Flex QF series gearbox to rotor coupling, and an aluminum hood. UHMW (Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene) water bearings support each end of the rotor. Its all welded steel frame is either hot dip galvanized, or painted with Carboline 890 Epoxy. All bolts and hardware are stainless steel.
“We have used various gearboxes and nothing compares with the durability and longevity of Sumitomo drives. Our customers now demand Sumitomo drives”, says Robert Schmidt of Aerway. Typical power requirements are about 1 to 1½ HP per surface acre. Aerators are usually 30 to 50 feet apart. How many Sumitomo Cyclo Drives would be used in an entire catfish farm? A lot.
Sumitomo Drive Technologies (www.smcyclo.com) has been recognized as a premium supplier of drive solutions for decades, notably for heavy-duty applications used in industries such as mining, steel mills and sawmills. Backed by experience, and a reputation for offering one of the most tough and rugged speed reducers in the market today, Sumitomo now offers that same dependability to the catfish farming industry.
For more information on Cyclo Drives, please contact Sumitomo Drive Technologies at 1-800-SM-CYCLO or email us at email@example.com.
To download PDF file of this case study, click here.
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(a) Food additives that cause similar or related pharmacological effects will be regarded as a class, and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, as having additive toxic effects and will be considered as related food additives.
(b) Tolerances established for such related food additives may limit the amount of a common component that may be present, or may limit the amount of biological activity (such as cholinesterase inhibition) that may be present or may limit the total amount of related food additives that may be present.
(c) Where food additives from two or more chemicals in the same class are present in or on a food, the tolerance for the total of such additives shall be the same as that for the additive having the lowest numerical tolerance in this class, unless there are available methods that permit quantitative determination of the amount of each food additive present or unless it is shown that a higher tolerance is reasonably required for the combined additives to accomplish the physical or technical effect for which such combined additives are intended and that the higher tolerance will be safe.
(d) Where residues from two or more additives in the same class are present in or on a food and there are available methods that permit quantitative determination of each residue, the quantity of combined residues that are within the tolerance may be determined as follows:
(1) Determine the quantity of each residue present.
(2) Divide the quantity of each residue by the tolerance that would apply if it occurred alone, and multiply by 100 to determine the percentage of the permitted amount of residue present.
(3) Add the percentages so obtained for all residues present.
(4) The sum of the percentage shall not exceed 100 percent.
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This is a list of United States Code sections, Statutes at Large, Public Laws, and Presidential Documents, which provide rulemaking authority for this CFR Part.
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Put Your Painful Past Behind You (Where It Belongs!)
Key Lesson: There lives nothing real in our past -- regardless of how disappointing or painful it may have been -- that can grab us and make us its captive, any more than a dark shadow has the power to keep us from walking into the sunlight.
Claim the Higher Vantage Point of Conscious Presence
A father once took his young daughter to a nearby old growth forest. He knew that the stillness and beauty of the massive trees would work their enchantment on her, as it had always done upon him. And he was right; her little heart was at home in the quiet depths of these ancient trees. All was well for the first several moments, but then something broke into the peace of the place.
As they walked farther into the forest, he could see that his daughter was becoming overwhelmed. She would be looking at a particular tree when the sun would pass behind a cloud, giving rise to a great shadow that would move through the woods. Everywhere dark shapes stretched out, as if to touch her, and then the light would shift, creating motion somewhere else. On and off went this shadow show, so that one minute she would be absolutely captured with enthusiasm for the beauty of the light, and the next minute she would be scared by the encroaching shadows.
As her emotional state escalated, her father realized that her limited understanding was not enough to correct the developing negative condition within her. And so, taking action before she became any more frightened, he took his little girl by the hand.
"Come on, sweetheart," he said, and they walked back out of the forest and headed for the place where he knew a special lesson awaited her.
They walked hand-in-hand for twenty minutes or so, got outside the trees, and climbed a gentle hill to its crest where they could get a panoramic view of the forest. They sat down on the edge of the little bluff together and quietly looked down on the woods spread out beneath them. What a magical sight!
The little girl saw dozens of shadows caused by the clouds as they moved beneath the sun, even as she saw that the sunlight passing over the crown of the forest would create tree shadows within the woods that reached out and then raced back into nothingness.
She saw the whole of the forest and its invisible relationship with the world around it. Wordlessly, she realized that no event happened by itself. And most importantly, from her new vantage point, none of the things that had troubled her within the forest troubled her now. She grew very still. Peace returned to her. Her new view of reality had granted her this gift. From that day on, whenever they went to the woods, she was no longer afraid.
We, too, have within us a new, higher vantage point -- a very special part of ourselves within which we may be at peace regardless of what goes on around us. This yet-to-be realized state of ourselves may be called conscious self-awareness. Through its power, instead of being pulled down into painful identification with the passing shadows of life, we can discover a life in a peace far above the reach of any fear.
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Numeric passwords are ubiquitous. Most of you use one nearly every day, whether it be on your smartphone, your debit card, your voicemail system, or a secure token. But how secure are those passwords? How likely is an attacker to be able to misuse it?
Recently the press reported on a break-in at Lockheed Martin, an intrusion deemed serious enough to have made President Obama’s daily briefing. After much speculation, RSA soon revealed that this was related to an earlier break-in at RSA security, which may have resulted in leakage of sensitive data about their two-factor authentication tokens, SecurID. Although they issued a FAQ at the time of the break-in, and have a best practice guide, they issued a subsequent apology to their customers.
Two-factor authentication works as an additional level of authentication, following the principle of using “something you know and something you have” to strengthen login procedures. The idea is that instead of just a password, you also have to enter an ever-changing code, that is provided to you by something you have, usually either a key fob or a software program running on your computer. These codes typically change every 30 seconds or so, and cannot be re-used, thus preventing a password-sniffing or -guessing attack from easily succeeding. They can mitigate the tendency of humans to choose bad passwords (abc123, qwerty, etc.) or leave their passwords unchanged for years.
One interesting datapoint in that article is that Lockheed Martin is planning, as a result of the incident, to increase their two-factor authentication codes from 4 digits to 8 digits, among other security measures. This may imply that they feel that the SecurID tokens may have been a weak point in their security perimeter.
What was stolen in the RSA attack was not the codes themselves, but the keys (also called seeds) used to generate the codes. Knowledge of a seed combined with knowledge of the algorithm can allow you to predict all the outputs that a SecurID key will generate. So, in effect, it allowed attackers to predict the codes, and perform an end-run around them without having to guess them. If you can predict it, the length of the code becomes irrelevant, so it is still unclear what prompted Lockheed Martin’s desire to increase from 4 to 8 digits. Perhaps it was just a security best practice unrelated to the actual intrusion method.
Even when data isn’t disclosed, two-factor systems aren’t foolproof. If there are no mechanisms for detecting password guessing attempts, or for locking out accounts with many password failures, an attacker can still use automated programs to guess both the password and the code digits at the same time. With 4 digits, it just takes an attacker 10,000 times longer. 8 digits would take 100 million times longer. An attack like this is known as a brute force attack. We don’t know the details of the Lockheed Martin break-in, or why the attackers were successful, but password and code guessing is one possibility.
Smartphone passwords are another place we commonly see 4-digit passwords. These are usually designed to prevent casual users from picking up someone’s smartphone and finding personal information or sending embarrassing data with them. But if the smartphone is stolen, an attacker might have a lot more time to try to guess these passwords. It is unlikely that an attacker will manually try to type all 10,000 combinations, but as these are chosen by the user, they are much more likely to contain patterns. I have observed friends type “1234,” “2684″, “4565″ or similar numberpad patterns as their smartphone “passwords.” These may give them a sense of security, but people have been guessing 4 digit passwords since the dawn of voicemail, and there are lists of commonly used passwords. One study indicated that the top 10 passwords could get you into 15% of lock screens. Apple does mitigate guessing by introducing increasing timeouts for incorrect password guesses on an iPhone. There is also a setting to delete all data after 10 incorrect password guesses, but users may disable this if they fear losing data in the event they forget their own password or their toddler finds the phone and taps passwords over and over again. You can also turn off “Simple Passcode” and then use numbers and letters to create a stronger password. Android and Blackberry phones also allow you to choose various password methods to secure your phone.
If you lose your device and it falls into the hands of professional adversaries (be they an unfriendly government or a criminal), they may be able to use software to guess your password. A Russian company, ElcomSoft has developed a forensic program that can copy the encrypted filesystem from an Apple iOS device and do brute force attacks on the password. If successful, it then enables the attacker to decrypt all the files. They claim that with the standard 4-digit password, this takes an average of 20 minutes, and a maximum of 40. An 8-digit password would lengthen this to an average of 4.5 months, and a maximum of 9 months, a significantly longer time. If you use letters, numbers, and special digits, this could lengthen the cracking time to many years, and make it an infeasible attack. Even just switching to 7 random lower case letters can lengthen the average to 32 years, probably long after the data becomes unusable. Of course, this has to be balanced with the usability of having to enter a longer password every time you use your device.
Credit and debit cards have three codes associated with them for security, all based on digits. These are a PIN, the CVV, and the CVV2. The first is a customer Personal Identification Number (PIN), used for withdrawing money or for using the debit function of the card. Some banks allow you to choose these, while others assign them automatically.
ATM cards commonly have 4-digit PINs, but as the lockout mechanism for these is to impound the card in an ATM after a small number of guessing attempts, the risk is generally deemed small. It is unclear what the policy is on unsuccessfully using a debit card at a cash register, but presumably a certain number of incorrect guesses will result in some type of fraud warning. Physical possession of a debit card, however, usually allows someone to use it as a credit card without knowledge of the PIN, so the PIN is generally only important if a thief attempts to withdraw cash.
The Card Verification Value (CVV) is an invisible 3 digit code stored on the magnetic stripe that the customer doesn’t know. Its purpose is to require the card to be present in an in-person transaction. The CVV2 is a printed 3- or 4-digit code that the customer can read, and is designed to prove ownership of the card in online or phone transactions. 3 digits doesn’t withstand guessing very long (1,000 guesses guarantees success), so attempting to guess these values in automated transactions ought to trigger a fraud alert. Attackers do attempt brute force guessing attacks. However, Visa indicates in a best practices guide for card issuers that a mismatch alone shouldn’t necessarily be a reason for declining a transaction:
Do not decline authorizations solely for CVV mismatch. Incorporate CVV mismatches as an additional risk indicator in fraud detection strategies…Limit declines of CVV2 mismatches to transactions with other characteristics that, combined, represent higher risk
Conversely, this best practices guide for Credit Unions that issue cards indicates that failed CVV matches should trigger blocking and reissuing of cards:
Verify card is blocked & re-issued when CVV/CVC/CVI fails -- Helps prevent counterfeit caused by “brute force” attacks
In either case, the credit card companies apparently do not see the need for a longer code, for it would be very easy to implement one. Perhaps this indicates that even though an individual transaction shouldn’t be denied for CVV or CVV2 mismatch, excessive mismatches might trigger a card lock or fraud alert via the credit card company (Visa, Master Card, etc.).
Choosing a Code
So, if you have to use a system that has numeric codes, how do you protect yourself? Don’t use an easily guessable code, consisting of sequences, repetitions, or cute patterns across the number pad. If you have a choice, such as on a smartphone, use a code that includes numbers and letters. If you need to write down your PIN (perhaps because it is system-generated) keep it someplace separate from your phone or your card. Don’t choose the same PIN for everything, especially not for protecting financial accounts. If an attacker guesses your favorite PIN by automated guessing against your voicemail account, that may also let him into your bank account.
If you are a systems administrator, you can follow some of RSA’s recommendations:
- Require 8, not 4-digit PINs
- If you must use a short PIN, allow alphanumerics
- Use random PINs, not user-selected PINs
- Configure lockouts after 3 failures. Require manual intervention to unlock.
So, in conclusion, while 4-digit PINs are not very resistant to automated or concerted guessing, they can provide decent security in certain circumstances. Guessing attempts must be limited by lockouts. If they are a second factor combined with a password, they can add additional security. Finally, they are much more secure if used in an application in which they are random and not chosen by the user.
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It’s the age of technology in which we are alive every day comes with lots of new devices for the ease and of people. If we talk about technology Android is the part and parcel of technology because this mobile phone is through Google. Android is a software stack going to mobile devices that include an operating system, middleware, and key applications People must have desire to catch News and Reviews about this mobile phone. Especially those persons who are the regular user of this mobile must want to know about every new activity about Android and its related things like Android apps, Android Market, Android Games, Android Applications, Android Tips and Tricks, Google, Google Apps, Chrome OS, How-To's, Android News, Android OS, Android Mobiles, and other content. In this regard androidegis.com brings you a complete info about it.
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Relevant to palaeontology and included in this blog as it features pictures and stuff GrrlScientist, who has an excellent blog over at The Guardian website, has recently featured two videos featuring the Top ten creationist arguments which are worth a look (this makes twenty arguments in all - the OU is paying off already!). Familiar territory to those who ever tried to point out that creationism is not science but superstition, but good fun for a Sunday.
Part one is here:
. . . and part two is here:
Loved the bit about what caused the big bang; I bet Stephen Hawking has an equation proving the existence of Ted somewhere. Or perhaps not.
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Duncan Marsh, international climate policy director from The Nature Conservancy, considers forest carbon and disaster preparedness in a recent interview from Bonn, Germany on Climate Change TV. He explains how rich and poor countries are facing different challenges in the forest sector and how insurance is taking on added importance for us all as we [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Germany’
Ifitweremyhome.com offers some surprising insights into how the United States uses energy and consumes oil in comparison to the rest of the world.
While bickering over what to do about climate change in the U.S. may be confusing the matter for people, a new global survey released this week shows the topic at an equal level of concern as the economy and terrorism.
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The Longwood University Honor System is comprised of:
- the Academic Pledge of Honor
- the Honor Creed
- the Honor Code of Conduct Standards and Regulations
The three basic provisions of the Honor Code of Conduct, which strictly forbids lying, cheating, or stealing, represent the standards of integrity and moral responsibility that all students, groups, and organizations are expected to exemplify.
The Honor Code is one of Longwood's proudest traditions. Established by the student body in 1910, for 100 years the student-elected Honor Board has protected the basic values of honor and academic integrity. The Honor Creed is prominently displayed in the University Library, and each classroom contains a copy of the Academic Honor Pledge
As one of the most respected traditions at Longwood University, the Honor System promotes an atmosphere of trust, where students are presumed honorable unless their actions prove them otherwise. It also serves as a higher-order set of moral standards and principles for all members of the community to follow and take with them wherever their lives may lead.
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,
and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
The Honor Board
- Board members are students elected each year by the student body. Open positions after elections are filled by nominations and interviews.
- The Honor Board meets every Monday at 7:00 PM while classes are in session.
- The Honor board hears alleged violations of lying, cheating, stealing, and plagiarism.
- The Board may issue sanctions up to Permanent Dismissal.
- Incidents which include alleged violations of both the Conduct Code and the Honor Code are heard by the Honor Board, which will made decisions for both Codes.
- Specific information about Honor Code violations and hearing procedures is in the Student Handbook.
2012-2013 Honor Board Chair: Whitney Beale
Vice-Chair: Blake Andrews
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None of Richard Wagner’s operas surpass the drama of his actual family story.
Who was Richard Wagner, really? A brilliant composer who reshaped modern music? A wildly incoherent thinker whose muddled ideas contributed to the Holocaust? Or an insecure eccentric, a celebrity who slobbered over patrons, abused friends, and sometimes screamed if his guests talked to one another instead of to him?
The correct answer may be all of the above and that’s just part of what makes Jonathan Carr’s The Wagner Clan so intriguing a read. The rest of the allure derives from the Wagner family themselves. The book’s subtitle is “The Saga of Germany’s Most Illustrious and Famous Family” and saga is indeed the mot juste.
Take a backdrop of intergenerational intrigue, adultery, and betrayal. Toss in a spoiled orphan, a handful of opportunists, some Nazis, and a glamorous family business and you’ve got the Wagner epic.
But Carr, a British journalist and music biographer (“Mahler: A Biography”) now living in Germany, prevents this story from sinking into the merely sensational. His nuanced account seeks to bring a fair balance to some of the wild charges associated with the Wagner story and at the same time offers a compelling account of Germany itself from the early 1800s on up.
Richard Wagner, was born in Leipzig in 1813. The Europe of that time was a turbulent place and he, it seems, never met a revolution he didn’t like. Between supporting unsuccessful insurgents and racking up debt Wagner was often on the run.
“A scoundrel and a charmer he must have been such as one rarely meets,” wrote American composer Virgil Thomson, and so it would seem. When stability finally arrived in Wagner’s life it came by the grace of two somewhat dubious connections. One was his adulterous relationship with Lizst’s illegitimate daughter Cosima. This (once both had jettisoned their first spouses) turned into a lasting marriage, resulting in three children and Cosima’s lifelong devotion to Wagner’s legacy.
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CHANNEL 4 AND BARCLAYS ASK YOUNG PEOPLE TO DECIDE HOW TO SPEND £100,000 TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE
On Friday 11 November 2011, Channel 4 Education, in partnership with high street bank Barclays, launched ‘The Stake’ – a competition that provides young people in the UK with the chance to decide how £100k of real money is spent. The Stake will inspire young people to use their business and enterprising skills to win a slice of £100,000 prize pot to support community or business ideas that will make a difference.
The Stake aims to show the UK’s young people that business and social enterprise can be creative, fun, challenging and that good ideas and passion can be rewarded.
Anyone aged between 16 and 21 years of age can submit ideas about how they would spend a share of the money, be it a start up business, a new school skate ramp, one-off event – or anything in between. To increase their chances of winning, entrants will need to carry out a series of online challenges including winning public support and setting out financial plans, which show their idea can be a success.
There are two ways that young people can take part: they can submit an idea themselves or by registering as a stakeholder they can have a say in whose idea wins. Stakeholders can increase their voting power by completing fun money challenges, which are based on the Barclays Money Skills programme and designed to build their financial knowledge and skills.
Expert advice will be given throughout the competition from mentors including Barclays CEO of Retail and Business Banking Antony Jenkins, the UK’s digital champion Martha Lane Fox, The Apprentice winner Tim Campbell, SBTV founder Jamal Edwards and MP Esther McVey. The top 20 ideas with the most stakes by 11:59pm on the 23 December will be shortlisted and judged by a panel from Channel 4 Education and Barclays.
Up to six winners will be announced in January 2012. Each winner will be given up to £20,000, along with support from top financial experts, to make their ideas a reality. A film crew will follow their stories as the fledgling community and business entrepreneurs go through their first challenges of bringing their ideas to life.
Jo Twist, Commissioning Editor of Education at Channel 4 said: “Being enterprising and knowing how to turn your passion into a satisfying reality is such an important skill for young people to experience. But often you need to know how to manage money to make that happen. In what is a bit like a cross between Kickstarter and strategic gameplay, we hope The Stake will inspire thousands of young people to be more financially savvy and show them that anything is possible.”
Antony Jenkins, Chief Executive of Barclays Retail and Business Banking said: “It’s crucial that young people have the opportunity to build their financial skills and confidence and actively participate in the future growth of the economy.
“Barclays is excited to be supporting The Stake which is a great way for young people to turn their ideas into reality. This innovative competition will identify some of the business leaders of tomorrow and provide many more young people with valuable financial knowledge.”
The Stake concept was created and is being delivered by youth engagement agency Livity.
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Ground beef and chicken are the “riskiest” meats and poultry products related to foodborne illness and hospitalization, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
A New Zealand firm has come up with technology that reportedly gives processing firms real-time results when testing meat for contamination.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is reporting that while levels of reported food-related illnesses are steady or declining, others are on an uptick.
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) representative has laid out the approximately $296 million in its FY 2014 budget request tied to the Food Safety Modernization Act.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has agreed to an external review in response to the adulteration of processed beef products with horse and pig meat and DNA.
Baker, LA-based Manda Packing Co. is recalling 468,000 lbs. of roast beef, ham, turkey breast, head cheese, and other products meats due to Listeria monocytogenes concerns.
The horse meat scandal is set to cost European contract manufacturers tens of millions of euros as brand owners pass costs and losses up the supply chain.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is considering commissioning an external review of its response to the horse meat crisis at a board meeting today (Wednesday).
The first outbreak of ciguatoxin poisoning from fish in Germany has been confirmed, with scientists claiming the problem is on the rise as more exotic fish species are consumed around the...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said it is looking for experts to join two food safety risk assessment panels.
Marshfield Food Safety, a Wisconsin-based testing laboratory, has implemented the Atlas System at two of its 11 locations.
Eriez has launched an x-ray inspection system designed to meet the demands of harsh wash down environments in industries such as meat and poultry.
Potato varieties, blanching times and frying temperatures can all affect acrylamide levels in potato chips, according to a study just published in the Journal of the Science of Food &...
Thorntons has recalled three varieties of chocolates after they were found to be contaminated with glass while fake Wonka bars have been found on sale in the UK.
The US Food and Drug Administration has requested a $4.7 million dollar budget for fiscal year 2014, an increase of $821 million, or 21%, over FY 2012. The biggest chunk...
Light curtains could help address food factory accidents involving lack of appropriate safety guards on equipment, although they are not a foolproof solution, according to Dr Martin Kidman, Sick machinery...
Numbers of EU consumers contracting Campylobacter and E.coli food poisoning are increasing, with the data on E.coli particularly worrying, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
The French Health Authority’s report that Bisphenol A (BPA) poses health risks for pregnant women and unborn children is “in contrast with the most recent global scientific consensus”, according to...
UK retail giant Asda has recalled a range of its ‘smart price’ corned beef after it was found to contain phenylbutazone (or bute).
Alcoa will clean-up a US river at an estimated cost of $243m after chemicals from one of its sites were found to have contaminated river sediment.
Anheuser-Busch InBev $20.1bn takeover target Grupo Modelo has confirmed that seven of its staff have died in an accident at its Mexico City brewery.
Lack of time is the greatest barrier to providing effective food safety training, according to more than seven in 10 food and drink processors globally surveyed by Campden BRI.
A group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have called for third party participation in the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances (REACH) process.
Authorities must adopt a more robust salmonella surveillance system and a more aggressive response to outbreaks, according to a Pew Charitable Trust Report, in response to a 2011 outbreak from Cargill...
The Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) need to re-evaluate its E.coli testing relating to the downstream processing of boxed beef products, according to the results of an audit from the...
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The main reason to prefer one technology over the other is usability. Regardless of the tools you use, email security will depend mostly on how well the users cooperate -- most of the confidentiality of their emails rests on their ability not to do anything stupid with their data, and to react appropriately in unusual conditions. You will get decent security only if the tools they use are available, easy to use and reliable. Therefore, it is difficult to compare S/MIME and OpenPGP in abstracto.
However, we can still make some distinctions on the PKI model. S/MIME relies on X.509, a behemoth of a standard which is meant to support a hierarchical PKI with controlled trust delegation from a limited set of trust anchors and down short paths. OpenPGP uses a Web of Trust which is decentralized. Your expression "blindly trust a CA" says a lot on your own preferences, but is quite subjective.
If you look at how X.509 and OpenPGP operate, you will see that in the Web of Trust, everybody is a CA; hence, while in X.509 you put your trust into a handful of CA, in the Web of Trust you put your trust in... everybody ? That's because most people forget half of the WoT system. In a true WoT, the graph of certification (i.e. who signs the key of who) should be overconnected.
When you want to validate the public key of someone (let's call him Bob), then you need to find certification paths which lead from you to Bob; such a path begins by your public key (which you know "absolutely") and each step is a signature computed over the public key of the next individual in the path. Security in the WoT model comes from the verification of many paths which all begin by you and end on Bob, but with no other individual being common to any two paths. When everybody can act as a CA, any single path is "potentially suspect": when people sign other people's keys late at night and under the auspices of heavy alcohol drinking, you cannot expect all paths to be 100% reliable. An attacker intent on forging a fake key for Bob will just have to find a few gullible or intoxicated individuals. The WoT credo is that "the crowd is right": an attacker may subvert some people, but not most of them. Thus, if you can find many valid paths which lead to Bob, then Bob's key is probably genuine, because bribing or deceiving that many people would have been "probably too hard".
Bottom-line is that the Web of Trust is hard. The description above uses the fuzzy terms "few", "many", "most" and "probably". We do not know how to estimate the number of paths which must be built in order to achieve a given level of security; in fact, we do not know how to quantify a "security level". It is unclear whether WoT can work at all. OpenPGP implementations tend to use a "reliability percentage" which is a totally unsubstantiated guesswork. Of course, in practice, nobody spends time to rebuild many chains; you are already lucky if you find one chain.
When I must exchange confidential data with customers, I use OpenPGP -- but not the Web of Trust. I use OpenPGP because the usual implementations have the ability to bind keys to indentity permanently: if I can make sure once that the key is genuine, then my software will remember it and things will be safe thereafter. So the customer and I exchange the key fingerprints when we meet in person, or over a phone call (which we assume to be safe from impersonations -- eavesdropping is not an issue here).
Such binding is not supported by S/MIME implementations. They could do it (although certificate expiry makes it slightly more difficult) but they do not. It is not intrinsic to X.509 (the X.509 model makes it possible to change your certificate every five minutes, but it does not make it mandatory); but deployed implementations work that way. Usability trumps the PKI model, as I said above, so that's OpenPGP for me.
(Note: in another context, HTTPS relies on the X.509 hierarchical PKI with a few dozens of hardcoded trust anchors, and the same issues arise there too; e.g., see Convergence, which is a proposal to, indeed, bind keys to servers in a semi-permanent way, and which relies on the same "crowd is right" mantra as the WoT. And yet they do that with X.509 certificates, which shows that the actual format for certificates is not that important.)
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Twitter today released the newest version of its application programming interface (API)—the specifications third-party developers have to adhere to when building applications that run on the Twitter network—and the tech community had a communal aneurysm. Twitter's API v1.1 limits what those aforementioned third-party developers are allowed to do. You should care because it means some of your favorite Twitter apps are going to go through a pretty drastic change.
One of the most contientous points deals with the aesthetics of third-party apps:
"To ensure that Twitter users have a consistent experience wherever they see and interact with Tweets, in v1.1 of the Twitter API we will shift from providing Display Guidelines to Display Requirements, which we will also introduce for mobile applications. We will require all applications that display Tweets to adhere to these. Among them: linking @usernames to the appropriate Twitter profile, displaying appropriate Tweet actions (e.g. Retweet, reply and favorite) and scaling display of Tweets appropriately based on the device. If your application displays Tweets to users, and it doesn't adhere to our Display Requirements, we reserve the right to revoke your application key."
In short: if an app doesn't display tweets the way Twitter wants, they will get shut down. Another interesting—and by interesting I mean wholly f'd up—part of the new API guidelines deals with the amount of users a third-party app can accumulate Twitter is not allowing third-party apps to exponentially grow. Going forward, popular apps with more than 100,000 users will only be able to double its user-ship.
"If your application already has more than 100,000 individual user tokens, you'll be able to maintain and add new users to your application until you reach 200% of your current user token count (as of today) — as long as you comply with our Rules of the Road," Twitter wrote today on its blog.
As you can imagine, the news of these changes sent shockwaves through the tech world, prompting people to release their vitriol (and sensible opinions) on—where else?—Twitter.
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Awareness of Smell: Sensing the Aroma of Now
By: Debbie Rosas, Maria Skinner, Kelly Atkins, Megan MacArthur and Linda Casto | June 24, 2011Nia Education
For this month's continuing education focus, Awareness of Smell, we're excited to feature the following masterful voices from the worldwide Nia community. Here's what they have to say about developing body literacy and self-knowing, by exploring and using our sense of smell in The Body's Way.
Debbie Rosas, Nia Co-Creator, says:
The nose is an amazing part of the human body. It is designed to bring you pleasure, warn you of danger, help you select mates and find food. Odors can be classified into one of seven primary types: musky, putrid, pungent, camphoraceous, ethereal, floral and pepperminty. We often associate smells with specific events, places and people in our lives; scents have a special ability to conjure up memories and trigger emotions. Our sense of smell is inherently linked to taste and deeply impacts the way we act and experience the world.
Maria Skinner, Black Belt Certified Nia Teacher and NGT, says:
"Smell the moment." This is one of my favorite Debbie Rosas phrases. In a Nia class, this invitation is one of the ways to guarantee that students will take deeper breaths and use their whole body to do it.
Just for fun, I sometimes ask students in my Nia classes to smell the moment at the very end of the “Get Moving” cycle when we are all sweaty. Usually people laugh and take a big whiff! Yeah, we're often pretty stinky by then, but what better way to build community than to take in and celebrate each other’s scents at the height of joyful expression?
My sense of smell reminds me, more than my other senses, that I am an animal. Unlike my eyes or ears, my nose takes me to a primal, instinctive place and bypasses my mental realm. The way something smells is always more important to me than the way it looks. I once had a crush on a guy who smelled so good I would get light-headed around him. Turns out it was not his manly scent but his laundry detergent that was appealing. However, I still can't smell that detergent without thinking of him. There was another guy that I really liked until I got up close to him. He smelled like bologna and I had to hold my breath. That was the end of that.
Scents can be used to encourage deeper breathing and to cultivate more prana, more life. Things that smell good make me feel more alive. If I am really loving a smell and wanting to inhale the moment, I will fill my body with breath again and again and again. Even imagining things that smell good will produce the same effect. I sometimes invite students in my Nia classes to imagine they're smelling roses, freshly baked cookies, wet grass or city streets. These olfactory images can be more powerful that visual ones in terms of bringing movements to life since they invite the whole body to fill.
I find that when I do not like the way something smells, I hold my breath or take shallow breaths. This creates contraction in my body. So I go about my life adjusting the scents in my environment using flowers, essential oils and fresh air as my tools. What I choose to bask in may not be what my dogs love (dead snakes, for instance), but we are different animals.
Maria’s tips on smell:
• Make a list of your favorite smells, and imagine smelling them.
• Surround yourself with your favorite smelling items, and note what kind of emotions or feelings arise.
• Identify what smells you do not respond well to, and see if you can shift your routine or living style to eliminate them.
Kelly Atkins, Black Belt Certified Nia Teacher and NGT, says:
I remember as a new mother, shortly after my son was born, saying to my husband in a state of awe, “He smells like candy!” My husband’s reply at that time was, “Well don’t eat him!” This sense of smell in a pregnant woman is enhanced through hormone changes, a biological function designed to ensure the safety and bonding of the baby and mother.
When we smell something, we are moving molecules up into an area of the brain that is in the deep center, near the hypothalamus, hippocampus, and pituitary gland. The molecules trigger the olfactory nerve, and then the body reacts by sending messages. I recall coming home once and smelling melting plastic. The smell got stronger, so we called the fire department and left the house. Smoke wasn’t visual until much later after the fire fighters were there and discovered an electrical fire was starting in the kitchen lights.
Smell is the most animal-like of all the senses, as it’s used in the animal world proficiently. I watch my cat sense other felines outside our house with his nose, and his first instinct is to twitch his tail and spray to let the other cats know this is his territory. Male pigs secrete scents in their saliva that cause female pigs in heat to assume an accommodating position for breeding. Both of these instances have to do with pheromones, which are – as you may have guessed – secreted or excreted chemical factors that trigger a social response in members of the same species (Wikipedia).
Human pheromones are the scents we give out naturally that are affected by our hormones, emotions, diet, state of our health and other factors. One study proves that through pheromones called MHC (the name of the gene scent bearing your “scent signature” recognizable by your kin), we pick mates that have the best biological compatibility to our own for procreation of our species. If our partner’s MHC is opposite our own, then the combination is optimal for procreating.
As Lawrence D. Rosenblum explains in his book See What I'm Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses, “Tests have found that women on birth control pills actually have less ability to pick [mates who are] MHC dissimilar and more often pick the less compatible [partner]!” What this means is that our natural sense of smell may be connected to the healthy evolution of our species.
There are many studies and debates about smell and the olfactory nerve. Some believe smell is very deeply connected to emotion and extremely primal in nature. Others insist humans are “beyond” instinctual, animal-like responses, and argue that the theory saying pheromones induce either reflexive changes in behavior or longer-term physiology changes is too limiting – for both mankind and animals (Rosenblum). I maintain this resistance to the animalistic nature of our bodies is another example of a mind-body disconnect.
“Smelling the moment” is a way to connect more deeply with our primal selves and to awaken a deeper awareness of our body’s natural messaging system. If our responses to life come from an understanding of both our natural body and logical mind, we have more of an opportunity to make healthy choices.
Kelly’s tips on smell:
• Allow your breath to travel deep into your body. Notice sensations, memories or emotions that arise.
• Try using a variety of essential oils, lotions, shampoos, candles and foods to significantly increase pleasure and support mood shifts.
• Notice the difference between a natural, authentic smell as opposed to an artificial smell. For example, smell a manufactured perfume and then take a walk through the forest and inhale deeply by the trunk of a tree. Does your body respond differently? If so, how?
Megan MacArthur, Black Belt Certified Nia Teacher and NGT, says:
Ever since I watched The Ice Storm about 14 years ago, I’ve thought about the act of smelling in a completely different way. In one part of the film, smelling is described as a process of consuming the molecules that have come off whatever object or living creature you are sensing.
In other words, when you smell something, you invite the outside world into the body – one of the most intimate experiences of moment-to-moment living. Molecules are granted unlimited access to your inner world, the textures and fluids of your existence.
Scent has a direct route to the brain. In fact, it has the fastest path to the brain. The olfactory centers touch the deepest part of the limbic brain (often referred to as the “emotional brain”), an area associated with memory, feeling and pleasure. Aroma sends direct signals to this “emotional brain” and almost immediately conjures intense responses in the body.
Breathing is our most intimate connection to receiving scents. Through an increased awareness, we can become more alert to fragrance and begin to connect to not only what is here in this moment but also to past experiences.
Through my relationship with the sensation of smell, I have hurt others emotionally, because I’ve had visceral, negative responses to their scent and blurted out my feelings from a reactionary place. I have also overcome physical fears thanks to aromatherapy, which has offered scents to my nose that have shifted my response from one of panic to one of ease. Through my relationship with scent I have recalled traumas and memories. I have fallen in love; the scent of my partner stirs sensuality and comfort. I’ve learned to appreciate the subtleties and severity of nature and my surroundings – brush fires, volcanic sulfur banks, flowers and fruits, sea breeze, mulch, grasses and so much more.
For me, stopping to breathe and truly sense the aroma of the now creates a calm wave of cool light up the front of my face over the crown of my head. It trickles and coats my neck with warm support. My whole body relaxes and my mind is available and expansive. My emotional realm arrives into the present moment. And I am here now, smelling this moment and allowing it to run through my body and become part of me.
Megan’s tips on smell:
• Turn breathing into the act of smelling and lengthen your breath cycle.
• Smell life and make smell a part of every experience.
• Try writing down one word per scent that comes to mind as you smell five of your favorite things. What role do these scents play in your life?
Linda Casto, Blue Belt Certified Nia Teacher / West Coast Ambassador to Johns Hopkins SOE Center for the Study of Creativity and Neuro-Education, says:
Since humans no longer depend on smell to meet their basic needs, our olfactory sense has become underutilized and even under-appreciated. As explained in Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th Edition, “Humans can distinguish more than 10,000 different smells (odorants), which are detected by specialized olfactory receptor neurons lining the nose….”
I know first-hand how those 10,000 odorants influence us! I am burning a candle as I write. If I take a deep sniff of its scent, I smell my happiest day – my wedding day. It’s the mix of the same fragrant candles we used in the space, and they are forever associated with anticipation and joy.
Imagine the smell of just-baked cinnamon buns, a just-bathed baby or a fragrant rose. You will probably agree that your sense of smell offers immediate delights, and you might remember something from your past that triggers a physical, mental or emotional response. This makes sense, since olfaction is handled by the same part of the brain (the limbic system) that handles memories and emotions (SenseOfSmell.org).
I have learned to work with scent to stimulate my healing and creative endeavors. After I sit down to write, I apply a few drops of the essential oil blends developed by my teacher, David Elliott, to my third eye, throat and heart chakras.
As Next Generation Trainer Laurie Bass told me after I applied David’s Ascension Blend with the intention of opening her crown, “I had an immediate energetic response to the oil, and experienced a strong pulsing sensation and mental and energetic clearing. I don't recall the actual scent, but I remember really liking it!” Many essential oils contain medicinal properties that trigger these types of physical sensations.
Diego Restrepo, co-director of the University of Colorado School of Medicine Center for NeuroScience, recently had a study published in the scientific journal Neuron. In this study, titled New Secret to How Smells Are Detected Uncovered, he writes, “We know very little about olfaction and we tend to think that it is not very important in humans compared to the other creatures. But much of what goes on is subtle and we are only beginning to understand it."
Scientists in Israel recently found that when men merely sniffed negative-emotion-related odorless tears of female participants, they experienced reduced levels of testosterone and a reduction in sexual attraction when looking at pictures of women’s faces (Human Tears Contain a Chemosignal).
Clearly, our sense of smell is just beginning to be understood. I invite you to play with the tips below to deepen your relationship with this practical and magical gift.
Linda's tips on smell:
- For the next 24 hours, smell your food before you taste it. Imagine your nose is 50 times its size and fully explore your food by sniffing it. Does the smell of your food match its taste? It may not. In those cases do you taste with your nose or your taste buds?
- Move through the Nia 5 Stages with the focus of smell. As you rise further from the floor in each stage notice what you smell and how that smell influences your movement.
- Experiment with David Elliott’s sprays and oils.
"Scents and Scentuality: Aromatherapy & Essential Oils for Romance, Love, and Sex" by Valerie Ann Worwood
"The Fragrant Mind: Aromatherapy for Personality, Mind, Mood and Emotion" by Valerie Ann Worwood
"Advanced Aromatherapy: The Science of Essential Oil Therapy" by Kurt Schnaubelt Ph.D.
"The Spell of the Sensuous" by David Abram
"A Natural History of the Senses" by Diane Ackerman
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Per Wes’s election post, not voting because you don’t like the available options fails to grasp the reality of our situation. There are plenty of principled rationales for ruling out both candidates, and you may think that not voting, or voting for a third-party candidate, will send some kind of message that the system is too flawed for you to dirty your hands with. There are plenty of online versions of this, though since one of our listeners sent me one from Aladsair MacIntyre from eight years ago, I’ll refer you to that as one example.
The ethical tussle here is as old as principled Kantianism vs. calculating utilitarianism, where followers of the latter ridicule the former for their naïveté and/or their stubbornness. Certainly in our episode about the American founding I was in despair about a system that seems to have failed to live up to Madison’s hope to reign in factionalism.
To balance my attitude there, I feel the need to point out that today’s political parties are not factions, but are already coalitions between factions. It’s often been commented that the alliance between social conservatives and economic conservatives seems strange and unstable, and the same can be argued for the partnership between union workers and the liberal intelligentsia. In trying to motivate voters, the candidates have often attempted a positive vision, but in trying to come up with something truly unobjectionable to all their actual and desired supporters, these have been strange: along with the expected and ambiguous advocacy of liberty (what kind?) and prosperity (how?), we see candidates more picking out large groups than issues: “I’m fighting for the middle class!”, “I’m fighting for small business!” (Both of them say both of these things.) It’s seen as a failure (by some pundits) that these guys can’t rally us all around some vivid, coherent utopian vision.
If you listen to Madison, though, you shouldn’t expect this. People are motivated largely by their factional interests, by what profession and social class they’re in, what religion, what part of the country. Putting aside the fact that people are often duped into voting directly against some of these factional interests, we would expect on Madison’s view that the desired futures of these various and disparate groups would be too at odds with each other to allow them all to support any particular vision. We philosophy types can argue for some utopia based on ideas about human nature itself, but folks that can’t or don’t see the point in abstracting from their concrete situation to think like this just want policies that will benefit them and their causes. (The relation between one’s sense of self and ones values, where the things we value are in fact ascribed to be part of the self, is again, of some importance here, but needs to be set aside for brevity’s sake.) Madison was correct in thinking that this fact about our desires makes it unlikely that we’ll actually have a pernicious majority faction that can run roughshod over the minority. If every group would ultimately like everyone else’s wealth and power handed over to them in particular, then the competition between groups means no one group will pull this off.
However, while we may not be able en masse to agree on what we want done, we can achieve a great deal of agreement between many different factions on what we don’t want done. Liberals don’t want corporations and the rich taking advantage of us. Conservatives don’t want the needy ganging up on the rich and distributing all their stuff, and/or don’t want “experts” denying religion it’s proper place in setting social policy. If one of these is your primary concern, then you are fully justified in voting against the the one most likely to promulgate this evil you’ve identified. It would be nice if the guy you actually vote for has a vision you want to sign on to, but what unifies the coalition–and thus is needed to win the election–is the drive to prevent the evil schemes of the other side.
Participating in this process is thus not dirtying your hands, not betraying your principles, not giving a big mandate to the person/party you vote for, but just trying to make things less bad. So let’s everybody (international readers excluded) get out and vote for the least bad candidate! Woo woo!
(The image is a reference to the South Park episode on the 2004 election, “Douche and Turd.” I must say that I actually don’t share the harsh dismissal of both candidates that many routinely display, and though I’m pretty horrified about the whole drones and kill lists thing, I would likely vote for Obama even given plenty of other choices, and did so in the 2008 primary. At least neither candidate is an idiot man-child this time.)
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On several occasions I’ve taught the principles and practices of effective data visualization to people whose job it is to sell business intelligence software—sometimes for the entire sales team of a business intelligence vendor, but more often for mixed audiences that included a few salespeople among others. In such situations, I can always count on a particular issue to arise: “Yes, we know that much of what our products do and many of the features that we promote don’t work (silly eye candy and the like), but we include and promote them because they sell. We have no choice.” When I’m in the room with these folks whose livelihood is affected by this dilemma, empathy prompts me to explain how they can educate customers during the sales process to recognize the silly stuff for what it really is and thereby nudge customers in the direction of their own best interests. I’m beginning to realize, however, that this effort rarely, if ever, makes a difference. Some businesses are built on a model that will always favor immediate sales revenues over effective products, and nothing that I say to salespeople will change this.
Any business that measures its success by current sales revenues or profits without regard for the effectiveness of their products will go for the silly stuff every time. I could argue that this is a poor business model because it’s short-sighted and doomed to fail, eventually resulting in declining revenues, but what’s the point? Businesses built on this model lack the foresight to appreciate the greater intelligence of long-term planning around products and services that effectively address the real needs of people. I believe the root problem that belies such business practices is not strategic short-sightedness or a myopic focus on sales—these are symptoms of a deeper, more fundamental problem. I believe that it’s wrong to build a business on self-interest alone.
In the midst of the current presidential campaign, we’re reminded daily of how willingly and shamelessly politicians do whatever it takes to get elected. I’m embarrassed to live in a country that puts up with this. Yes, it’s true that most other countries are just as bad and many are worse, but that’s no excuse. We could be so much better. Our country could function so much more intelligently and morally. How did we come to expect so little of ourselves?
At least when politicians twist the truth and manipulate voters to get into office, however, they probably believe they’re doing it for the good of the country. Sarah Palin can say that she wasn’t really clueless when Katie Couric asked those questions that she couldn’t answer, she was just being “flippant.” Despite being a good Christian who was taught to value the truth, she probably believes that God makes exceptions when the stakes are this high—the ends trump the means. (Yeah, I know that Palin isn’t the only candidate twisting the truth, but her acts are so transparent, they’re especially insulting.) Whereas politicians rationalize their behavior based on the genuine belief that they’re better for the country, businesses that sell bad products are simply out for themselves. When I step back and think about those discussions that I’ve had with salespeople who promote software features that don’t work because that’s what it takes to sell their products, I’m affronted by the fundamental absurdity of this exchange. How did we come to find it acceptable to convince people to pay money for things that we know don’t work? How does “because this is what it takes to sell our product” excuse the fundamental wrongness of this end?
I’m in the business of helping people use information effectively. I don’t tolerate anything that undermines this end. I believe that business intelligence software vendors owe it to their customers to do business in this way as well. When I evaluate a a product as ineffective, I respect vendors that defend their software by making an honest attempt to show that it actually works. I don’t respect vendors that defend their efforts to sell software when they know it doesn’t work. Things that don’t work should not be sold—period. That’s good business.
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By Eleni from New York, NY
You can hold down your control key and and use your scroll on the mouse and it will grow or shrink the size.
If you're wanting to manually "stretch" the open window, there are little knobs at the bottom of your actual monitor. One adjusts the vertical size, another the horizontal size. Since I use keystroke combinations rather than mouse clicks, I just use the F11 key to have the active window fill the entire screen. Hope this helps.
It depends on which operating system you have. But as a starter as to where to look you can right click on your desktop (anywhere) and on the menu that opens up pick either properties or Graphic Properties if you have Vista. Look around for the word Resolution and you should see a screen measurement like (number X number), i.e. 1440 X 90. On a vista machine the measurement area is in the Display Area selection or the right side of the window.
Everything on my computer screen is large, even the web pages I get on. How do I make it back to the smaller size?
Using your mouse, press Ctrl plus scroll up for a larger view. For a smaller view, press Ctrl and scroll down.
How do I make my laptop screen larger? I can barely read it.
Most operating systems, including Windows and the various Linuxes, should have and "Accessibility" set of controls, usually under "Accessories". You can find things like screen magnifiers, which enlarge sections of the screen for you.
How do I make a page fit the computer screen: they are too big?
dwmoar, making the print bigger is not what Steven is asking, nor I. It is the whole page that is too large for the screen, not the print. I already knew how to make the print larger, I think I posted something about it once. I have found out that to make it fit, you have to change your screen resolution. Here is a link to tell you how to do that:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/ ... ange_screen_resolution.mspx?mfr=true
I recently bought a 17 inch Toshiba satellite laptop and I was hoping websites would appear bigger. But they don't! They are the same size as my 15 inch computer, it has two white BLANK columns on either side of the website so that it is the same size as my other computer! Why buy a 17 inch if it is only going to be bigger for movies that you watch? Am I doing something wrong? Is there something I can adjust? I really don't want to call customer service because it will be someone who can't speak English.
Paula from GA
By Paula from Ga.
The picture on our laptop is too large to fit the screen. How can I make it smaller? I am not very computer savvy. Thanks.
By drmeidl from Springfield, MN
If you can't get this to work, you might want to tell us what operating system and laptop you are using so someone could send you specific instructions. Good luck. (09/18/2009)
I need help with changing the screen size on my computer.
By Lakisha from Whitescreek, TN
If you're not computer savy, I'd recommend that you go to a good book store and ask for "Teach Yourself Visually" book on your operating system (WinXP, Vista, or Win7) Excellent pictures to accomplish the majority of issues with your computer. Bon Chance! (03/30/2010)
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The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracyby William J Dobson
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In this riveting portrait of authoritarianism in peril, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the relentless battle between dictators and the people challenging their rule.
We are witnessing an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy—waves of protests are sweeping Syria and Yemen, and despots have fallen in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. But the Arab Spring is only the latest front in a worldwide battle between freedom and repression, a battle that also rages in a dozen other countries from Venezuela to China, Russia to Malaysia. It is a struggle that, until recently, dictators have been winning hands-down. The reason is that today’s authoritarian regimes are nothing like the frozen-in-time government of North Korea. They are ever-morphing, technologically savvy, and internationally connected, and they have replaced more brutal forms of intimidation with seemingly “free” elections and talk of human rights. Facing off against modern dictators is an unlikely army of democracy advocates—students, bloggers, environmentalists, lawyers, activists, and millionaires—who are growing increasingly savvy themselves. The result is a global game of cat-and-mouse, where the future of freedom hangs in the balance. Dobson takes us behind the scenes in both camps, and reveals how each side is honing its strategies for the war that will define our age.
"Totalitarian dictatorships are as obsolete as North Korean propaganda posters, but authoritarian regimes remain plentiful and powerful. In this deft, incisive book, Dobson, the politics and foreign editor for Slate, shows how the rulers of Russia, China, and Venezuela 'have gone to great lengths to turn disinterest in political life into a public virtue' by promoting economic prosperity and relying on widespread political apathy. This battle is being joined by highly adaptable and technologically savvy democracy activists, many of them taking their cues from the political philosopher Gene Sharp (author of the nonviolent activist treatise From Dictatorship to Democracy) and veterans of Otpor, the Serbian youth movement that toppled Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. In one colorful passage, Dobson describes visiting a jailed opponent of President Hugo Chávez, then being tailed by Venezuelan security forces, a comic and chilling incident that encapsulates that regime's nominal openness and its relentless paranoia, fueled 'by a siege mentality that saw enemies lurking everywhere.' Dobson also examines the techniques used by dictatorships to hang on to power, from the mix of sanctioned dissent and centralized control of state television in Putin's Russia to former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak's brutal methods. The mix of perspectives results in an impressive overview of the global struggle between authoritarian power and determined advocates of political freedom. Agent: Lippincott Massie McQuilkin. (June)" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
In this riveting anatomy of authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the stubborn battle between dictators and those who would challenge their rule.
We are witnessing an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy—waves of protests are sweeping Syria and Yemen and despots have fallen in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. But the Arab Spring is only the latest front in a global battle between freedom and repression, a battle that, until recently, dictators have been winning hands-down. The problem is that today's authoritarians are not like the frozen-in-time, ready-to-crack regimes of Burma and North Korea. They are ever-morphing, technologically savvy, and internationally connected, and have replaced more brutal forms of intimidation with subtle coercion. They run "free" elections and allow opposition parties. Their speeches make reference to human rights. They concede ground in order to maintain it. And even as a growing global army of democracy advocates have challenged their power, the dictators have honed new strategies to preserve it. The Dictator's Learning Curve explains this historic moment and provides crucial insight into the fight for democracy.
About the Author
WILLIAM J. DOBSON is politics and foreign affairs editor for Slate. He has been an editor at Foreign Affairs, Newsweek International, and Foreign Policy. During his tenure at Foreign Policy, the magazine was nominated for the coveted National Magazine Award for General Excellence each year and won top honors in 2007 and 2009. His articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, and he has provided analysis for ABC, CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and NPR. He lives in Washington, DC.
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CBC Literary Prizes
Visit the CBC Literary Prizes website to submit a text.
The CBC Literary Prizes have existed since 1979. In 2001, the award was given new energy and higher profile, with the addition of enRoute magazine to the existing partnership between CBC / Radio Canada and Canada Council for the Arts. These awards give writers high visibility with Canadian readers from coast to coast. The competition is “blind”, meaning that the jury members do not know the writers’ names until after the adjudication process is complete.
The awards are given annually in Canada’s two official languages in each of three categories: Short Story, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry. First Prize is $6,000; non-winning finalists in each category receive $1,000. The long list of winners represents a Who’s Who of Canadian writers over the past two decades.
Canada Council provides the funding for the prizes; CBC/SRC broadcasts the announcement of the winners as well as readings of excerpts of the winning works; enRoute publishes the winning texts in a number of issues and the Grand Prize winner receives a two-week writing residency at The Banff Centre.
- Creative Nonfiction Prize: 1 February
- Poetry Prize: 1 May
- Short Story Prize: 1 November
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Dietrich WegnerBack to Artists
Every society accumulates contradictions amidst their ideals. Dietrich Wegner employs those contradictions, situating opposites together in sculpture and photography that feed on the friction between two conflicting ideas. When an image stands in limbo, between associations, it occupies a flexible place in our mind. Wegner creates images that are safe and unsettling, abject and beautiful. Some of his work shows us how a mushroom cloud can resemble a tree house, an anus a vortex, a suicide bomber a vulnerable human being, all in an effort to explore our varied states of contentment and security. In other works, such as in Cumulous Brand, babies are covered in multicolored tattoos in a meditation on how our identities evolve and how we declare them.
Often Wegner chooses materials that contradict an aspect of an image while striving towards a realistic depiction of the image. A mushroom cloud is fluffy like synthetic cotton, yet a Poly-fil mushroom cloud becomes fun and cozy. A blood splat (such as in Red Field) is shiny and exciting, yet perhaps signifying something not so fun. Both a Poly-fil playhouse and a urethane blood splat are examples of material reflecting what an image looks like and contradicting the tone of what a subject feels like or “means”. Sometimes the material choice does not both challenge and support an image; the material may simply do one or the other. In these cases, when the material does little contradicting, the image(s) itself must create the limbo.
The ephemeral beauty of a mushroom cloud is frightening, how it floats for a minute, delicate and blooming, yet remains chaotic and utterly destructive. We experience a contradiction between what our eyes enjoy and what our mind knows. It is this conflicted experience Dietrich Wegner’s work strives to evoke in a viewer in order that we will have a sparked curiosity and unstable assumptions.
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My two cats, Pip and Squeak, are both rescued orphans. Pip, at nearly 6 years old, has matured into this calm, cool personality who is content to sit by me, whatever I am doing, and just be there. Squeak, at just 7 months old, is an explosive burst of energy fascinated by the law of gravity.
Squeak never tires of testing gravity. Anything sitting on a ledge is fair game. A glass on the coffee table? A tap of her paw and it's on the floor. Change on the nightstand – ditto. Music books on the piano – a cascade of falling paper. Candle holders on the fire place – I came home to find shards of glass in the carpet.
Sometimes she conspires with Peanut, the miniature pinscher. She knocks stuff off and he carries it away to his bat cave under the bed.
Squeak recently discovered the dangling cords of the blinds, which means I've had to tie them up out of her reach. Out of reach is not out of mind, however.
Squeak was sitting in the windowsill, eyeing the blind cords high above, oblivious to the turtle's tank of water on the floor below. She stretched her full length up the glass, paw reaching upward, and then jumped a little. She missed the landing.
Squeak splashed into the turtle tank. She barely touched the water when she shot straight up 3 feet into the air, claws out, her agile body flipping 360 degrees in an acrobatic performance that would make a gymnast proud. She landed on all four paws, a dripping mass of feline indignity.
The turtle didn't poke his head out of his shell for two hours.
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German filmmaker. The collection charts the
nature of visual perception in modern European culture at a time when
pre-cinema objects evolved from instruments of natural magic to devices for
entertainment. Most of the items date from the mid-18th century to the early
Already a collector in his early childhood, Werner Nekes turned his
interest to film and cinema history when he reached his twenties. While he was
a student of linguistic philology and psychology in Freiburg and Bonn in the
mid-1960s he worked on his first film. Between 1969 and 1972 he taught at the
Academy of Visual Arts in Hamburg.
45 linear feet
(75 boxes, 1 flat file folder)
Contact Library Rights and Reproductions
Open for use by qualified researchers.
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Statement of Principles
The Planners Network is an association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in our political and economic systems.
We believe that planning should be a tool for allocating resources and developing the environment to eliminate the great inequalities of wealth and power in our society, rather than to maintain and justify the status quo. We are committed to opposing racial, economic, and environmental injustice and discrimination by gender and sexual orientation. We believe that planning should be used to assure adequate food, clothing, housing, medical care, jobs, safe working conditions, and a healthful environment. We advocate public responsibility for meeting these needs, because the private market has proven incapable of doing so.
We seek to be an effective political and social force, working with other progressive organizations to inform public opinion and public policy and to provide assistance to those seeking to understand, control, and change the forces which affect their lives.
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I am a student at Concord Carlisle High School in Massachusetts, and in December of last year, my school put on a production of musical "Falsettos" which, if you are unfamiliar with the play, is about a Jewish family in New York experiencing troubles because of sexuality. There is a woman my town who believes that this play "
Here is my response:
I wrote the letter. Jews are referred to in the bible as a nation of priests & holy people. we are told" be holy because i your God am holy." this " play" is pure smut & antithetical to bi blical values for which jews died in inquisitions holocaust etc. frankly i believe that devout moslem s & christians both of whom base major parts of their religions on our values & our torah would feel equally offended if their religion where debased in the play. i assume if this exact play would be about you , your parents , grandparents siblings, etc. & whatever religious or moral values you 'subscribe' to you or they [certainly your grandparents] would be outraged. nice of you to write ,but saying im sorry as if that is a magic wand which somehow erases the insult & the pain... it does not ,at all. furthermore to add insult to injury ,you act as judge & rule that unless we stand with the petition & mass resistance [we proudly do!] there's nothing else offensive about this , debased , debauched smut.this attitude reflects your obvious lack of elemental values which your own antecedents going back millennia adhered to.its quite immature& frankly very self centered in not being able to understand another group's pain or values. how sad.
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New Research on Rural Gays and Lesbians from Gender & Society
By Mel Fabrikant Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 04:08 PM EST
It’s Not Just City Folk: Gays and Lesbians Experience Striking Gains in Acceptance in All Regions and Subgroups of America. New study examines diversity of gays and lesbians living in rural areas
At a time of dramatic change in attitudes towards gays and lesbians in America, a new study released this month in Gender & Society highlights the diversity of gay and lesbian experiences in America. “Midwest or Lesbian? Gender, Rurality, and Sexuality,” by University of Nebraska sociologist Emily Kazyak, puts the lives of rural gays and lesbians under the microscope. Almost 10 percent of gays and more than 15 percent of lesbians in the United States live in rural areas. While 25 percent of same-sex couples are raising children, same-sex couples in rural areas are even more likely than their urban counterparts to have children.
As University of Massachusetts sociologist Joya Misra, editor of Gender & Society, puts it, “the rapidity of changes in attitudes toward gays and lesbians has been stunning. Kazyak’s article helps bring into focus how greater acceptance of gays and lesbians is not simply a phenomenon of big cities – but reflects changes and opportunities in rural communities as well.”
How much change? Researchers at Sociologists for Women in Society and the Council on Contemporary Families recently surveyed how much and how rapidly gays and lesbians have been integrated into mainstream life. Consider these changes in the past year alone:
• In November, for the first time, three U.S. states approved same-sex marriage by popular vote. Just three years ago, Maine voters defeated same-sex marriage by a margin of 53 to 47 percent. This year they reversed themselves, approving it by 53 to 47 percent. Maine joins a growing list of rural states including Iowa and Vermont that recognize same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, Minnesota defeated the same kind of anti same-sex marriage measure that had passed everywhere it was introduced in the previous 15 years.
• While California defeated same-sex marriage in 2008, a February 29, 2012, Field poll shows that if the measure were submitted again, it would win. Today a record 59 percent of registered voters in California approve same-sex marriage.
• In numerous public opinion surveys, including one from November 2012, the past decade’s rise in approval for same-sex marriage in all regions of the country is evident: even the Midwest and the South, where gay and lesbian rights are less popular, have seen a 14 percent increase in approval for same-sex marriage.
• In 2009 Hispanics opposed same-sex marriage by a large margin. In 2012 exit polls, 59 percent of Hispanics supported it. In just the four months between July and October 2012, the number of African Americans opposing same-sex marriage fell from 51 percent to just 39 percent.
• White evangelical Christians are seeing a dramatic generational shift, with 40 percent of those under 30 supporting same-sex marriage, compared to only 18 percent of those over 30.
• And on December 6, a new poll by USA Today found that almost three-quarters of Americans 18 to 29 years old now support same-sex marriage, while more than a third of Americans say their views about same-sex marriage have changed significantly over the last several years, with approval rising in every age group.
Are these changes significant for gays and lesbians living in rural areas? Dr. Kazyak’s Gender & Society study, published by Sage Publications, offers answers, based on her examination of the experiences of gays and lesbians who live in rural areas (with populations as small as 2500 people). The University of Nebraska-based researcher focused on rural areas in the Midwest. She finds that rural gays and lesbians enjoy more acceptance than stereotypes about rural life would suggest. In fact, Dr. Kazyak reports that lesbians in rural areas can pick and choose from a wider range of gender behaviors than their urban counterparts. Largely because of the tradition of shared labor in farm families, behaviors and activities that would be considered unfeminine or “butch” among urban women are more widespread and meet greater approval in rural areas.
Dr. Kazyak describes how rural lesbians reported the gender flexibility available to them. One lesbian described the kind of upbringing that is common in rural areas: “I helped my dad a lot on the farm, raising…livestock…I really enjoyed driving the farm machinery! It just empowered me, driving a tractor or truck.” Another woman stated, “Tomboyishness was somewhat more acceptable than it might be somewhere else.” A third pointed out that “farm girls might dress up for the prom, but they also could slaughter a hog.” This flexibility allows lesbians who are drawn to masculine activities or who dress in masculine ways to find more acceptance than they might in an urban or suburban setting.
On the other hand, Dr. Kazyak discovered that gay men felt required to appear more macho than their urban counterparts. One man she interviewed commented on how few rural gay men display the mannerisms that are sometimes associated with gay life in metropolitan areas. He noted how surprised he initially was by “getting flirted with what I thought were straight men….[T]hey weren't straight men, they were gay men, but they looked very straight, they acted very masculine…. It was, like, this wasn't what I thought of as a gay man. So being in this town really changed how I thought of myself and the gay community.” Both rural gays and lesbians thought their lives and identities were much different than their urban counterparts.
Dr. Kazyak noted, “My research on rural gays and lesbians shows us that the lives, behaviors, and self-presentations of gays and lesbians are more varied and complex than portrayed on TV, even in shows such as ‘Modern Family,’ where one of the gay characters grew up on a farm. The rural Midwest is not a place we typically associate with gay and lesbian life, but my research shows us how gays and lesbians are increasingly out and accepted in small towns across the country.”
Dr. Kazyak adds, “Times have changed for gays and lesbians throughout the United States; but there are still many challenges, from the fact that employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation remains legal at the federal level and in many states, to the alarmingly high rate of homelessness among gay and lesbian youth.”
Article: Kazyak, Emily. 2012. “Midwest or Lesbian? Gender, Rurality, and Sexuality.”
Gender & Society 26 (6): 825-848. (.pdf available upon request.)
Gender & Society is a peer-reviewed journal, focused on the study of gender. It is the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, and was founded in 1987 as an outlet for feminist social science. Currently, it is a top-ranked journal in both sociology and women's studies. Gender & Society, a journal of Sage Publications, publishes less than 10 percent of all papers submitted to it. For more information, contact Gender & Society editor Joya Misra, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts. Misra is also affiliated with Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies and Labor Studies. Her research and teaching focus primarily on inequality. She can be reached at email@example.com.
Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), currently headquartered at Southern Connecticut State University, works to improve women’s lives through advancing and supporting feminist sociological research, activism and scholars. Founded in 1969, SWS is a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization with more than 1,000 members in the United States and overseas. For more information, contact Dr. Shirley Jackson, Professor of Sociology at Southern Connecticut State University and SWS Executive Officer, at firstname.lastname@example.org.
The Council on Contemporary Families is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of family researchers, mental health and social practitioners, and clinicians, dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best practice findings about American families. For more information on CCF researchers, contact Stephanie Coontz, Director of Research and Public Education, email@example.com.
Emily Kazyak is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research addresses the variations in identities and family relationships of sexual minorities across cultural and legal contexts. In one of her current projects, she examines legal decision making in LGBTQ families and how the lack of legal protection these families often face impacts their well-being. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org or 402-937-9057.
MORE STORY IDEAS ON GAY AND LESBIAN DIVERSITY:
On gay athletes coming out experiences and the change over the past decade, Eric Anderson, University of Winchester (England), can discuss his research on "Updating the Outcome: Gay Athletes, Straight Teams, and Coming Out in Educationally Based Sport Teams" in Gender & Society (2011) that compares gay athletes who came out in 2000-2002 and those who came out in 2008-2010. Dr. Anderson is an American sociologist whose work shows an increasingly positive relationship between gay male athletes and sport, as well as a growing movement of young heterosexual men’s masculinity becoming softer and more inclusive. Dr. Anderson is at EricAndersonPhD@aol.com . UK cel: 07896791954 and US: 949 528-3875
For research on young people, Lindsey Wilkinson, Portland State University, and Jennifer Pearson, Wichita State University, can discuss research on "School Culture and the Well Being of Same-Sex Attracted Youth" in Gender & Society (2009) that highlights the impact of rural communities on psychological well-being of gay and lesbian high school students. Current projects include the impact of high school religious context on same-sex sexuality and the family relationships of sexual minority youth. Dr. Wilkinson is at email@example.com or 503.725.3975.
For variations within African American lesbian families, contact Mignon Moore, University of California Los Angeles, author of Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood among Black Women. Among her recent projects is an in-depth examination of the relationships African-American lesbians and gay men have with their racial and religious communities. Dr. Moore is at firstname.lastname@example.org or 646-345-7822.
For research on lesbian, bisexual and queer Latinas, Katie Acosta, Tulane University, can discuss her work. Her book entitled Amigas y Amantes: Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family will be released in Fall 2013. Dr. Acosta can be reached at email@example.com or 504-862-3002.
For more information on sexuality among Latinas contact Lorena Garcia, University of Illinois-Chicago. Garcia, author of Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity, can address coming out for Latina youth. Dr. Garcia is at firstname.lastname@example.org or 312-413-3759
Amy Brainer, University of Illinois-Chicago, researches gay and lesbian families in Taiwan, focusing on parent-child, sibling and other family-of-origin relationships. She can speak about gays and lesbians in East Asia; transnational and immigrant same-sex couples issues; and relationships among gay and straight family members in Asian and Asian American communities. She is at email@example.com.
For research on the diversity of gender patterns and sexual practices, Mimi Schippers, Tulane University, can discuss her recent studies of gay and lesbian communities in Paris, Chicago, and New Orleans and her current work on open and polyamorous relationships. Dr. Schippers is at firstname.lastname@example.org .
C.J. Pascoe, Colorado College, can discuss gay and lesbian family issues, homophobia, and her research on boys in high school and on media portrayals of gender and sexuality. Dr. Pascoe is at C.J.Pascoe@ColoradoCollege.edu .
For updates on research on changing attitudes towards same-sex families and same-sex marriage, contact Brian Powell (Indiana University), co-author of Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of Family (Russell Sage Foundation, 2010), (Catherine Bolzendahl, Claudia Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman). Dr. Powell can be reached at email@example.com or 812-360-0474.
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Still, many of us, myself included, continue to spend more than we need to on energy. And given that energy expenses are rather steep these days, that makes even less sense than it used to. So, submitted for your consideration, are some ways you might cut down on your energy costs:Replace old windows. If you've got old-fashioned single-pane windows, you could save up to 25% of your heating bill by replacing them with modern, energy-efficient models.
I'll concede that many of the above ideas will take a little effort on your part. (They're probably well worth it.) But there are additional things you can do that take much less effort. Here are some ideas, many from the National Resources Defense Council:
Unplug electrical items that you don't use too often, such as a refrigerator in the basement or a dehumidifier in the winter. Unplug chargers for phones, cameras, cordless tools, etc., when you're not using them. Similarly, unplugging or using power strips to turn off TVs and stereos stops them from using significant amounts of electricity in their "standby" modes.
Set up your computers so that they enter "sleep" or "hibernate" mode when not in use.
Employ smart curtain management. In the summer, keep shades drawn during the day, to keep warming sunlight out -- especially in rooms you seldom use. In the winter, keep these shades and curtains open during the day. Close them at night to prevent heat loss through windows.
Don't set the temperature on your water heater too high. In fact, set it as low as you can. With a little trial and error, you might find that your hot water needs are met just fine when the heater is set close to its lowest setting. That can save you a lot of money by not making the heater work harder than necessary. (It might prevent some scalding, too.)
Clean your dryer's lint filter after every use. Use cold water whenever possible in your washing machine. When possible, dry your clothes on a line outside.
© 2007 Universal Press Syndicate.
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Do you want to give a gift that impacts someone's life? We are raising funds for 2 major projects.
First is a Cocoa Study Center in Cameroon. You can donate money by going to: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/cocoa-study-center-in-ebolowa-cameroon/ you will receive a nice card and a delicous bar of chocolate!
The second project we are fundraising for is to provide electricity for the women in Broguhe, Cameroon. They love to sew and really need the juice! Go to: www.projecthopeandfairness.org to donate and help the sewing women of Broguhe!!
Chocolate That's Better for the Earth
Consuming chocolate made from organically grown cocoa is one giant step toward reducing our dependence on petroleum-based agricultural inputs while supporting small growers who intercrop growing as many 6 crops on one small plot. This is a stark contrast with plantation-style growing, where the rainforest is cut down to permit mono-cropping and petroleum-based
agricultural chemicals are commonly used. We believe that the environment has been damaged enough by these POPs (persistant organic pollutants) that kill our lakes and streams.
By selling organic chocolate, we are encouraging cocoa growers to find other ways to combat plant diseases. We're not talking about living in the past - but we need to live lighter on the earth in order to have a brighter future.
Chocolate That's Better for the People
Fair Trade certification is a guarantee to processors, handlers, retailers and consumers, that the cocoa beans used in this chocolate were produced in a way that does no social harm.
The U.S. State Department estimates that over 15,000 child-slaves work on plantations in the Ivory Coast. They have been kidnapped or sold by their parents to work from age 8 on cutting cocoa pods from trees and processing them, often at the end of a whip. In other countries of West Africa, children work with deadly chemicals, applying pesticides and fungicides to trees without wearing protective garments and without proper training. Amazingly, some of the cocoa used in popular confections - the chocolate you eat every day is grown and harvested under such conditions.
Fair Trade certification guarantees that you are not an unwitting participant in this very inhumane situation. Fair Trade-certified cocoa only comes from certified farmers' cooperatives, organized to strengthen their farmer-members economically so they can provide for their families and educate their children.
Our Promise to You
Like the Hippocratic oath, First, do no harm. You can feel secure that eating our Fair-Trade-certified chocolate does no harm, either to the earth or the people who depend on it.
Currently, our beans come from either the Dominican Republic, Peru or Costa Rica, the only countries in the world where there are farmers' cooperatives that are certified organic and Fair Trade. In the meantime, a portion of our profits from our chocolate bars will go to support West African cooperatives in their efforts to become organic.
Organic and Fair Trade are like two soybeans in the pod of sustainability. Organic supports the soil and human health, protecting us from chemical pollutants. Fair Trade promotes community health by paying the farmer a higher price. Support the future by purchasing our delicious, high-quality products made from fair trade and organic chocolate.
Project Hope and Fairness
We would like to invite you to help support Project Hope and Fairness, a 501(3c) charitable organization. Its main goal is to help the cocoa farmer. Right now, they are focusing efforts in Ivory Coast, the source of 75% of America's chocolate. There are over 600,000 cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, most of them dirt-poor. Their goal is to redress the negative effects of large chocolate corporations, which have done little to improve the lives of the farmers whose products we enjoy. Visit www.projecthopeandfairness.org to find out more!
We believe that capitalism comes in different flavors--not just the survival-of-the-fittest sort, but a softer, kinder, and more sustainable way of doing business that considers the needs of our planet and its people. Chocolate that's better for the environment.
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Norma J. Livo, Troubadour's Storybag (Fulcrum Publishing, 1996)
This is a wonderful resource book for the storyteller, teacher, musician, or folklorist. Packed with 39 folktales about musicians, musical instruments, or the way music impacts the world, this volume could rapidly become one of the most well-worn on any storyteller's bookshelf. The tales span the globe, from Russia to the United States, from New Zealand to Nigeria. There are tales about drums, about songs, about harps, about pipes. There's a story in here for every taste that includes an interest in music.
I consider myself to be quite knowledgeable when it comes to folktales, folklore, and stories about musical instruments. I was quite familiar with standards such as "The Nightingale," "The Singing Bone," and "The Ladies from Hell." However, I discovered material in this book that I had never heard before. Have you heard the tale from New Zealand about the young chief who falls in love with a lovely maiden from a neighboring tribe, and woos her with love songs on his flute from across the water? How about the Mexican tale about how music first came to be? Have you read the original folk tale that inspired the libretto for Mozart's opera, "The Magic Flute?" Have you heard the story about a drum, styled like a Kipling "Just So" story, of how the turtle got his shell? If the answer to any of these is no, you need this book!
Norma Livo has done an excellent job of collecting and retelling these tales. She has not presented them in the oral tradition, as is common in many folklore books of this nature. Instead, she has taken the source information and smoothed it over so that it makes easy reading. The tales remain simple and elegant, without unnecessary decoration or details. However, they read much more fluidly, and tend to make more internal sense than many written down solely from the oral tradition. Folklore purists will not appreciate this, but those with a fondness for literary elegance will.
Another wonderful element to this book is the "suggestions for extending experiences" at the end of each section. This list is obviously designed for teachers, as it suggests projects students of all ages and levels can pursue to learn more about various aspects of the tales, or about music. There are instructions for making a simple "African Rainstick," which I learned from this book originated in Chile, not Africa. There are suggestions for doing further research on some of the common themes of these folktales. There are suggestions for putting on plays. The ideas are stated simply, without much elaboration, but are enough to spark ideas in a teacher's mind which will lead to new and creative projects for every class or student. These lists would also be useful for music group leaders, or even individuals with an interest in further study.
All in all, this is a terrific book. I would have liked to have seen a list of suggested resources for further study, and a list of sources for each tale, rather than attributions for only some of the stories. Overall, however, the collection is well-constructed and well-told. A must-have for the bookshelves of every storyteller and musician.
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ZTE has launched the Magic range of RRUs (remote radio units) based on ZTE’s SDR (software defined radio) series base stations, offering smaller size, lower power consumption, multi-mode and multi-sector performance.
The Magic series includes 3 RRU modules which have been developed in response to operator requirements for reduced power consumption, fast site construction, small space occupation, and multi-mode coexistence.
The smallest RRU in the Magic series, the 80W module, has a size/weight of 9.9L/12kg, a new record in the industry. This is 58 percent smaller than the average RRU. The small but high-performance Magic RRUs can be installed in just five minutes.
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Another module is equipped with highly integrated 3T RF modules, which is suitable for deployment on three-sector sites, providing coverage over three sectors and reducing equipment purchase costs. The 3T module also has low power consumption – as much as 14 percent less than traditional solutions, keeping operation costs low.
“The new range of Magic RRUs maintains ZTE’s lead in providing mobile networks that are designed for today’s and tomorrow’s network need – lowering TCO and improving network capabilities across the board,” said ZTE VP, Pu Yingchun.
The ZTE’s Magic series RRUs therefore feature compact size, full bandwidth, high power output, high integration, low power consumption, and smooth evolution from one mobile standard to the next, meeting the requirements of a wide range of application scenarios, and helping operators to flexibly build low-cost but high-performance GSM/UMTS/LTE networks.
In recent years, ZTE has maintained its position as a leader in the telecommunications industry by increasing investment in the development of telecommunications technology, and continuing to commit 10 percent of revenues to telecommunications technology R&D and innovation. By the end of 2012, ZTE’s GSM/UMTS products were in commercial use in more than 110 countries with more than 140 operators, and ZTE had won 45 LTE commercial contracts, and collaborated with more than 110 operators to deploy trial LTE networks in Europe, America, the Asian-Pacific region, and the Middle East.
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A stress test is used to record the heartbeat during exercise. This helps a doctor determine how well your heart can handle work. This test can be used to diagnose and monitor a number of heart problems. (Read about "Stress Test"
and "The Heart & Cardiovascular System
Thallium Stress Test (nuclear stress test)
A thallium stress test (or nuclear stress test) shows the working of the heart muscle. A small amount of radioactive material is injected into a vein and a camera shows how well blood flows to the heart muscle. It's usually done in conjunction with an exercise stress test on a treadmill or bicycle. (Read about "Stress Test"
A Holter monitor is a type of EKG that continuously records your heart's rhythms. The monitor is worn for a period of time, such as 24 hours, while you go about your normal activities.
At the start of the testing time period, electrodes attached to the monitor are connected to your chest. The monitor records your heart's electrical activity during the period of time. Meanwhile, you should be keeping a log of the things you're doing while wearing the monitor. After the period of time is up, you go back to your doctor, who will look at the records and see if there have been any irregular heart rhythms.
A Holter monitor can be used to monitor a patient after a heart attack (Read about "Heart Attack"
), to monitor the effectiveness of heart medications or to check for irregularities in heart rhythm (Read about "Arrhythmia"
30-Day Event Monitor
Event monitors can be similar to Holter monitors, but they are used by patients over a longer period of weeks or months. Electrodes attached to the monitor can be connected to your chest. The monitor is always on but it will record your heart rhythm only when it is activated. The monitor stores the rhythm for review by your doctor. An event monitor can be used to check for irregularities in heart rhythm while you're having symptoms (Read about "Arrhythmia"
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Christine Todd Whitman, co-chair of CASEnergy and former governor of New Jersey, talks about the organization CASEnergy.
Read the full transcript »
Learn About the CASEnergy Organization CASEnergy stands for the Clean and Safe Energy. It’s a coalition of over 1,700 organizations and individuals now who are trying to get the message out about the truth about nuclear energy. I co-chair it with Dr. Patrick Moore who was one of the co-founders of Greenpeace. Our mission really is to give people the facts so they can make an informed decision. As I said before, nuclear is 20% of our power today. It does not produce any of the regulated emissions that cause either greenhouse gases or health impacts such as particulate matter that is a real problem with asthma and health and breathing. It’s something that we believe is important and the interesting thing is the closer you live to a nuclear reactor the more support you find for nuclear reactors. That’s where people have the information. So, CASE is about getting that information out about the fact that we need to have more nuclear reactors if we’re going to have and continue to keep nuclear at 20% of our energy as it is today. And that process is going to have to start now. And we need to understand the safety record, which is very good. We need to understand that we have solutions. There are on site solutions now for the storage of the waste, not optimum, but with recycling and reprocessing, the amount of waste that’s going to have to be stored anywhere can be vastly reduced. There’s an opportunity for an enormous number of jobs through the construction of nuclear reactors, not just during construction but then for the operation and maintenance. And I also believe that we have a huge opportunity to bring more jobs in the manufacturing of the parts that go into a nuclear reactor, something that we have not seen for a long time. Certain parts of nuclear reactors are only produced now in one or two facilities in Japan and maybe one other country. We cannot wait in line for those behind everybody else who wants to go nuclear. We need to do these ourselves. One of the important things about the nuclear industry is the opportunity it does give for jobs and well paying jobs. They’re probably, at construction, at the peak, it’s anywhere from 2,800 to 3,000 workers needed on site and hundreds who are needed there to maintain and operate once they are up and running. And they pay usually around 30% more than the average salary in the area in which the reactor is located, so these are good jobs. They’re highly skilled jobs. There’s a whole spectrum of skilled labor that’s going to be needed. And today, when you see a non-employment rate of 6.1%, it is the highest in five years. By the rest of the world standard, it’s not that bad, but for us, here, we expect better and we’d like better. And so, this is one way to start bringing more jobs and more opportunity back to this country. If people are interested, they can find out more about the job opportunities from the job report by going to CASE website which is cleansafeenergy.org.
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The food and the fun that define summer
(BPT) - When the weather warms, there are plenty of fun outdoor activities to enjoy, which means there’s also a bounty of summer fare to eat. From the traditional to the intriguing, you never know what interesting food choices you may find while out and about. What better way to kick off summer than with a few fun activ...
Cycling into spring [Infographic]
Check your tire pressure and strap on your helmet! It’s time to get bikes out of storage and head out for a ride in the warm, fresh air – shaking off winter for good. Master Lock recently surveyed consumers to find out their safety and security habits – can you believe almost half of bike riders have either had their bike stolen or know someone who has? Check out the company’s survey results, safety information and fun facts below. Pedal on!
The skinny on lighter fare for summer
(BPT) - Summer is a time to switch out our wardrobes, exchange coats for swimsuits and boots for flip-flops. But if the winter months took a toll on your waistline you may not want to shed those extra layers. Lighten up for warmer summer days by making simple swaps and conscious diet decisions. It’s possible to enjoy ...
What happens to a business when the power goes out?
(BPT) - Losing power leads to instant anxiety: when will it return? Aside from the absence of everyday luxuries like turning on the TV or connecting to the Internet, you may worry about the food in the fridge spoiling, and wonder when you’ll be able to take a hot shower. While these types of events present real problems...
Prevention, detection tips for the most common type of cancer
(BPT) - One in five Americans will get skin cancer in their lifetime, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Melanoma, the most lethal form of skin cancer, has steadily increased over the past three decades – to the rate of one American dying an hour from it, according to the...
Four fun, easy ways to spend more time on the water this summer
(BPT) - Whether it’s the wind in your hair, the whine of a reel or the thrill of watersports, every summer the water invites us to jump in and have some fun. Many might be surprised to learn that boating is an accessible and active hobby close to home, making it easy to plan a day on the water. More than 60 percent of ...
Tips and tools to prepare for power outages
(BPT) - Storms have been packing big punches in recent years. While the debate about the cause might rage on, so do the natural elements that wreak havoc on private homes and public infrastructure. As has been seen in recent years, the aging of the American power grid has resulted in extended power outages – and that in...
Cleaning the right way to remove allergens
(BPT) - When you’re done with spring cleaning, you may assume you’ve eliminated any allergy triggers that were lurking in your home. But the truth is, if you don’t clean the right way, you might be making the problem worse. More than 40 million Americans suffer from allergy problems, and 25 million have asthma. If your...
Spring into action for a lush summer lawn
(BPT) - There’s little as inviting on a hot summer day as a lush, green lawn. To make sure your yard is ready for summertime fun, invest a little time and attention into it this spring. “As seasonal temperatures rise across the country, we’re entering prime lawn growing season and the perfect time to so some basic main...
No backyard? No problem - the new trend of yardless gardening
(BPT) - Backyard or back patio, it’s time to get planting, no matter where you live. The number of American households engaging in do-it-yourself lawn and garden activities rose by more than 3 million in recent years, the National Gardening Association’s National Garden 2012 Survey found. That can include you, even if y...
Add economical living space with an outdoor room
(BPT) - Adding living space to your home can be an expensive prospect. However, creating an outdoor room is a budget-friendly option that gives you more square footage, as well as additional opportunities to enjoy the season. As an extension of the home, outdoor rooms with decks or pergolas can be personalized to truly ...
Ease travel worries with three simple tips
(BPT) - Traveling has its fair share of challenges, from never-ending lines to unexpected layovers and uncomfortable flights. Fortunately, by incorporating just a few expert tips, traveling can be less stressful whether you are jetting off for business or pleasure. New York City lifestyle expert, Justine Santaniello, ...
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Predicting NCLEX success with the HESI Exit Exam: fourth annual validity study.
ABSTRACT The fourth annual validity study of the Health Education Systems, Inc. (HESI) Exit Exam was designed to examine not only the accuracy of the examination in predicting NCLEX success but also the degree of risk for failure of the licensure examination associated with specific scoring intervals. A descriptive comparative design was used to examine the data provided by schools of nursing regarding students' NCLEX outcomes in the 1999-2000 academic year. As in the 3 previous studies, the examination was found to be a highly accurate predictor of NCLEX success (98.46%). Each scoring interval was significantly different from each of the other scoring intervals (P = .001). In fact, for the combined group of registered nurse and practical nurse students, the percentage of students who failed the NCLEX more than doubled with each successively lower scoring interval. These findings provide the information faculties needed to make evidence-based decisions regarding students' risks for NCLEX failure. Additionally, frequency data were obtained from this survey regarding the use of the examination as a benchmark for progression and remediation, and these findings may also be useful to faculties that are considering establishing such programs.
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Filing fees at the Office of Patents and Trademarks are subject to change every October, so the exact amount of fees may vary from year to year. There are numerous different application forms and fees for different types of patents. If you crossbreed two flowers to create a new hybrid, that involves different fees than for a new manufacturing process or design for furniture. The fee structure for each is similar, however. The basic filing fee allows you to file up to 20 claims for your product, so something that performs multiple actions can make a claim for each. If your invention slices, dices, and shreds, performing these three actions could be considered separately. Once the patent is actually granted, there's another fee for being issued the patent. Again, this differs among utility, design, and plant patents. In order to protect your patent as long as possible, there's a separate fee structure for renewing your patent at different intervals. The Patent and Trademark Office also charges a number of other fees for special circumstances. For individual inventors or small companies, the fees are generally half as large as those charged to large corporations.
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In August 1995 Dr. Joseph Leo Haining of Madison, Mississippi, donated to MDAH a photograph album his maternal aunt, Mrs. Louise Hamel Leist (1902-1976), had given him. The album appears to have been hand-made of plaid fabric and paper grocery bags stitched together. It contains 129 black-and-white photographs of levee construction, boats, fields, and unidentified people in the Greenville, Mississippi, area ca. 1935-1947. Haining speculated that his Aunt Louise's husband, Robert Austin Leist (1899-1974), a World War I veteran who worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, had taken the photographs during the course of his work, and four of the photographs do have U.S. Army Corps of Engineers captions.
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Tiger Leaping Gorge | Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour
Lying on the way to Shangri-La from Lijiang Old Town, Tiger Leaping Gorge is the longest, deepest, and narrowest gorge in the world. Around 18 km(11.23 miles) in length, it is located at the upper reach of the Golden Sands River; 60km (37.45 miles) from Lijiang Old Town. Flowing through Shigu Town (Chigu means Stone Drum in Chinese) which is known as the First Bend of the Yangtze River, the Golden Sand River turns around up north in the crack between Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain from which a gorge is formed. The narrowest part is where Tiger Leaping Gorge located. The whole scape is divided into three sections with curving road of 25 km (15.6 miles); they are the Upper Section, the Middle section and the Lower section. With Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to its east and Haba Snow Mountain to the west, the gorge has a drop of 3790 meters (2.35 miles); which is higher than the famous Hells Canyon (2400 meters; 1.5miles) in USA. The narrowest part of the gorge is only 30 meters wide. There is a legend that a tiger once jumped across the gorge by clearing the rock from which the name Tiger Leaping Gorge comes. The gorge is dangerous with standing reefs, 21 dangerous shoals, 7 drop-ridge of 10 meters (32.8 ft) high and 10 waterfalls. The fall from the Upper Gorge to the Lower reaches 210 meters (689 ft) with an average of 14 meters per Kilometer. The river is in various states; sometimes it gallops with random stones and flying waves; sometimes it becomes misty with flying waterfalls; which forms a peculiar landscape.
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(35 ILCS 200/30-31)
Fiscal Responsibility Report Card; State Comptroller.
Comptroller, within 180 days of the conclusion of the fiscal year of the State,
shall submit to the General Assembly and the clerk of each county a Fiscal
Responsibility Report Card in the form prescribed by the State Comptroller
after consultation with other State Constitutional officers selected by the
State Comptroller. The Fiscal Responsibility Report Card shall inform the
General Assembly and the county clerks about the amounts, sources, and uses of
tax revenues received and expended by each taxing district, other than a school
district, that imposes ad valorem taxes.
(Source: Incorporates P.A. 88-280; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
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Skavids are an elusive race of small, clawed humanoid creatures that dwell in the Feldip Hills in small caves. They are forced to serve as slaves to the Ogre race around the city of Gu'Tanoth. Skavids can be found in their dark Skavid caves, where the player must explore in the Watchtower quest, though they need maps to find their way around the caves.
Skavids, in addition to speaking the human language, also speak in their native tongue (known simply as Skavid) for safety, so their cruel Ogre masters can't understand what they are saying. During the Watchtower quest players must learn to speak a small amount of Skavid words and phrases in order to get the Skavids to help them.
Once the basics are understood the player may start to understand what is said by some Skavids and the correct thing to reply to it, thus putting the Skavids at ease and making them more likely to aid the player.
There are only 15 currently known Skavids in the world.
Skavids were the indigenous race of Feldip Hills, but they were forced almost to extinction in the Third Age by Bandos and his army. The Ogres now inhabit the area that originally housed peaceful Skavids, on the premise that Bandos wanted them to live there rather than other places.
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Participation in Exercise, Recreation and Sports in Regional SA
Ofice for Recreation and Sport, Government of South Australia
Government of South Australia
The Exercise, Recreation and Sport Survey (ERASS) has been undertaken annually across Australia since 2001, providing detailed information on the nature and level of participation in exercise, recreation and sport by persons aged 15 years and over. Results reported in this fact sheet are based on 1,700 interviews conducted in South Australia as part of the standard national ERASS sampling, in addition to 2,690 interviews that comprised the `boosted' sample, giving a total of sample size of 4,3901.
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Today, I read a few chapters from this book called, Boy vesus Girls, How gender shapes who we are, what we want, and how we get along, by George Abrahams, Ph.D., and Sheila Ahlbrand. George Abrahams is a psychologist that specialized in working with children, adolescents, and families for over twenty years (pg. 194). Sheila Ahlbrand is the Director of Children, Youth, and Families at a downtown church in Saint Paul, MN and also a freelance writer (pg.194). George worked with a lot school, hospital, and other program on gender-roles issues and promoting school-based programs for teenagers. Sheila, who is also an actress that take tours of Midwest, spend her time presenting program on sexual-abuse prevention to elementary and junior high audiences. These two authors wrote this book focusing on childrenís reaction to gender stereotypes and show how children should go about solving it.
In this book, George and Sheila started chapter one (what in the world is gender, anyway?) by asking others students what is their definition of gender. Some of the common answers that middle class students gave was that gender is being a female or male, gender means a separation of boys and girls, it is all about the opposite sex, gender means human, gender mean who you are, what youíve done, how you feel about yourself, not if you are a boy or a girl, it goes much deeper than that and etc (pg.5). After that, genders was questions about rather it equal sex, where do gender roles and gender stereotypes come from. In this book, sex was defined as biology and body parts such as the sets of body parts that are used to tell rather a person is a boy or girl (pg.6). While gender is being defined as what you or others think, feel, and expect of people based on what sex they are (pg.6). The authors believe that this definition of gender is what causes the idea of gender roles, which come mostly from the society. It goes the same for gender stereotypes. The rest of the book talks about what influence gender roles and what boys and girls should do about the gender roles that they are being assigned.
What is most interesting about this book is that some of the things these authors talk about is very similar in a way to the recent articles by Linda and Susan that I read. For example, in chapter three through chapter six in this book, George and Sheila also emphasized about how the gender roles of boys and girls are being influence by the family, teacher, fairy tales, role models and the media like Linda and Susan. These two authors also think that parents used gender stereotypes on their children by assigning their boys and girls different play activates and toys. For example, the girls was given dolls, fancy dress-up clothes, tea party sets, miniature stove for as their toys, and boys was given trucks, racing cars, bulldozers, and toy guns toys (pg. 36). Parents think of their children playing as the childrenís jobs. They think that these plays will teach their children about the things they will do when they grow up. For instance, a girl playing with a baby doll will teaches her how to care for a baby when she is have one when she grow up. And a boy playing with a toy workbench will teach him about tools and fixing things when he grows up. These authors always points out that teachers give more attentions to boys than girls and that role model influence boys and girls to act according to the roles being portrayed.
The assigning of different chores for boys and girls, the different sets of rules for boys and girls, the equality of gender role for the boys and girls were three topics mentions by George and Sheila that was different from the other two authors. These two authors believe that parents assigned their boys and girls different chores based on their sex difference. When students was asked whether chores in the house was the same for girls and boys, a lot of the boys felt that they got to do the hard chores and the girls got to do easier ones. While a lot girl also felt that they got to do the hard work while the boy got off easy. For instance, boys get to do more of the hard physical work such as meat cutting, wood cutting, fixing thing around the house, lawn mowing, shoveling and helping out the father. While, girls mostly do housework, cleaning the bathroom, cooking, doing the laundry, and baby-sitting.
Rules are set differently for boys and girls. Parents are stricter with their daughters because they worry their safety(pg.47). Parents feel that their boys can take care of themselves while girls need protecting(pg.48). Girls have to be well behaved and responsible, while boys can be foolishly and irresponsible. Girls are not allows to say things if they are not going to say it right. Boys are not to suppose to fight, but they can stick up for themselves if they have too. These two authors think that boy and girls should be given the equal roles in a family because every child should have the right to choose what they want to do in their family. There are boys that might want to do house chores, while there are girls that might want to do hard works like the boys.
I really like how they wrote this book because they donít just provide us with the information about children reactions to gender roles in the society, but they also provide a lot of interesting survey questions that was answers by other children. It is good to see from the boys and girls point of views about the gender stereotypes that they faced from their family, teachers, role models, and the media. Their answers made me think back a lot about how I would answer the questions the same ways too. So I wasnít surprised at some of the answers that I saw in these surveys and I feel that some of these answers are true, looking from a childrenís perspective.
This book isnít just like a knowledge book, but a book that walks children or teenagers through gender problems that they had faced during childhoods by giving them possible solutions and advises. I liked it how these two authors provide it readers the information and then also add some questions for the readers. I think that this caught the readerís attentions a lot because as I was reading this book and run upon those questions, I have to stop reading and answer those questions. For example, as I was reading chapter four (making the grade: gender issues in the classroom) and came upon the questions about whether teachers should always treat boys and girls the same, what some of the ways teachers treats girls and boy equally or what are some of the ways that they donít and etc. I stop reading and made about a list of answers to these questions and most of them are like what other students think in the books such as the teachers treating boys more important than girls, even though the girl try harder at everything. And there are some teachers that try to give equal attentions to both the gender.
Another reason that I liked reading this book is how the authors argued that every children should have the choice to choose what gender roles they want to take on and donít go along with what the society expected of them, which is different from what Linda and Susan agrued. I agree with George and Shelia about how children should have the right to choice what gender roles they wanted to take in their family, school, and media. George and Sheila think that gender shouldnít be think of it a complicated problem because it is very simple, no matter what sex people are, they are all human being. They should be treated equally and the parents, teachers, and media should consider the happiness of these children more by letting them figures what their true selves and what roles they liked instead of forcing the children to be what they expected. I think that George and Sheila meant to argued that these children should be able to made their own choices in their life, and that is not weird if boys want to do things that girls do, or if girls want to do things that boys want to do. I will go into more detail about that topic when I read up to that chapter in the book.
Reference for the book:
Abrahams, George. and Ahlbrand, Sheila. Boy versus Girls, How gender shapes who we are, what we want, and how we get along. Free Spirit Publishing Inc. Minnesota, 1951.
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Encrypting and Decrypting a Single File or Folder with Symantec Endpoint Encryption
If your computer has SEE installed, you can use it to encrypt individual files or folders that can then be saved to an external USB key or drive, or burned on CD or DVD.
In all of these instances, you will tell Symantec Endpoint Encryption what password must be used to decrypt and view the file or folder.
Symantec Endpoint Encryption does not have to be installed on the Windows computer where the file will be opened or decrypted. Macintosh computers will not be able to open the SEE encrypted file.
Anyone who attempts to open the encrypted information will be prompted to enter the password you select, and will not be able to view it otherwise.
IMPORTANT: Once it has been successfully opened it will be saved as an unencrypted file on the receiving computer or drive, and should be deleted or encrypted again if necessary.
Encrypting and Selecting a Password
On the computer running Symantec Endpoint Encryption, browse to the file or folder you would like to encrypt.
In the screenshot below, a file called report has been selected, however you can encrypt any type of file or folder.
Right click on the item and select Symantec, then Encrypt to self-extracting archive from the menu that appears.
The Symantec Endpoint Encryption Removable Storage Self-Extracting Archive window will appear. In the Archive Name field, SEE will have automatically generated a random name for with an .exe extension.
If you don't want the actual file name to be visible by those who may see the encrypted file, you can leave it as is.
If you'd like the file to show a more descriptive name you can type in something else, but be sure to leave the .exe extension at the end.
In the Encrypt to field SEE displays the location on your computer where it will save the file. If desired you can change the default location by selecting items listed under the next field titled Folders/Drives:. You may need to use the scroll bar to the right of this field to view more available locations.
Select the check box to the left of the Password option, then type in your desired strong password in both the Password and Confirm fields.
Keep in mind that this password must be given to any desired recipient; do not use one that must be not be shared such as the password used when logging into your computer.
Per CUMC policy, do not send a password or decryption key in the same medium as the encrypted file(s). This is insecure and can allow anyone who may accidentally or maliciously intercept the message to view the information you intended to protect. Sanctioned methods of sending a password to encrypted file attachments are by phone call or text message.
There is an option to Use Removable Storage default password, which can be chosen in the main SEE Client screen. If you will be the only person accessing the file/folder, it is ok to select this option.
Click the Encrypt button to encrypt the file or folder. You may see a message that encryption is in progress; if the size of the file or folder is large it may take a few moments to finish.
When encryption is complete, the Symantec Endpoint Encryption success window will appear. Click OK.
The encrypted file will have been created at the location specified in step 3 above. Once encrypted by SEE, it is recognized as an Archive file and will have an .exe extension. You can now copy or move it to a USB drive, CD or DVD.
Opening and reading the Archive file requires that it be decrypted using the instructions below.
Decrypting an Encrypted File or Folder
If you have received a file or folder that was encrypted using SEE it can be decrypted and opened or read by completing the following steps.
You must know the password that was set when it was encrypted.
Please note this cannot be done on Macintosh computers; any Windows computer can be used whether or not SEE is installed.
Save the SEE file to the desired location on your computer, then double-click it to start decrypting.
The Symantec Endpoint Encryption Self-Extractor Password window will appear. Type in the decryption password that was given to you and click OK. NOTE: If you see a window prompting for the Extract to location please click here for instructions.
Computers without SEE installed may see the full Removable Storage Extractor window, with a password field at the bottom.
BEFORE entering the password in the field at the bottom of this window, select the desired location to save the decrypted file by selecting it in the Folders/Drives section in the middle of the window.
Once the location is selected, type in the decryption password, click the Extract button, and skip to step 5 below.
NOTE: SEE allows you four attempts to type in the correct password. If it is not entered correctly, you will have to wait for one minute before being able to try again.
When the correct password is entered, the Symantec Endpoint Encryption Removable Storage Package Modifier window will appear and display the original file or folder name. Select the Extract To button near the bottom of the window.
The Removable Storage Extractor window will appear. You can decrypt the file in the default Extract to location, or select a different location under the Folders/Drives area. Click the Extract button at the bottom of the window when you are ready.
When decryption is done a success message will be displayed. Click OK.
The decrypted file will appear in the location specified in step 4 above, with the original name it had before it was encrypted. Double-click on the file to open.
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Definition of Cancer, larynx
Cancer, larynx: Cancer of the voice box (the larynx) which is located at the top of the windpipe (trachea). Also called laryngeal cancer or laryngeal carcinoma.
Cancer of the larynx occurs most often in people over the age of 55 years. A clear association has been made between smoking, excess alcohol ingestion, and laryngeal cancer. If a patient with laryngeal cancer continues to smoke and drink alcoholic beverages, the likelihood of a cure is diminished, and the risk of developing a second tumor is enhanced. People who stop smoking and drinking can greatly reduce their risk of cancer of the larynx.
The larynx is divided into 3 anatomical regions. From top to bottom, they are the supraglottis, the glottis (which contains the vocal cords), and the subglottis. The supraglottic area is rich in lymphatic drainage so up to half of people with supraglottic tumors already have metastases (spread of the tumor) to lymph nodes at the time of diagnosis. The vocal cords are largely devoid of lymphatic vessels so that cancer confined to the vocal cords rarely, if ever, presents with involved lymph nodes. Subglottic tumors are quite rare but may metastasize.
Painless hoarseness can be a symptom of cancer of the larynx. The larynx can be examined with a viewing tube called a laryngoscope. Cancer of the larynx is usually treated with radiation therapy or surgery. Chemotherapy can also be used for cancers that have spread.
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Ventura County is seeking to appoint a committed "no-kill" advocate as its new director of animal regulation and services.
It's the latest in a series of measures undertaken to reduce the number of unwanted cats and dogs euthanized at the county animal shelter in Camarillo.
The goal of "no kill" was set by the Ventura County Board of Supervisors in June in response to demands from animal rescue groups critical of the way the county's animal-services agency operated.
The job posted Dec. 19 on the county's website on makes it clear that officials are seeking applicants "firmly committed to the 'No Kill' philosophy."
"No kill" refers to not euthanizing healthy adoptable animals and not euthanizing for space," said Public Health Director Barry Fisher, whose department now oversees Ventura County Animal Services.
Fisher says that several steps have already been taken as part of the new strategy.
"We've started group housing smaller dogs with two to five together in a large cage so that helps free up space," he said.
The county's east county facility in Simi Valley is now open for adoptions.
Shelter staff and volunteers are being trained in dog handling and behavior assessment and are using social media more to get the word out about adoptable animals.
There are also plans to begin a foster program to move animals out of the shelter and into temporary homes.
But Fisher is clear about the hurdles the county faces.
"The county shelter is open admission and we can't refuse anything," he said. "It's the numbers of animals that come to the shelter every, single day that's the big problem."
It's a dilemma that nonprofit rescuers are experiencing for themselves in Santa Paula after convincing the city to stop sending its unwanted pets to the county shelter in Camarillo and contract with them to operate a "no kill" shelter instead. The city ended its contract with the county in June and partnered with Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center.
After six months of operation, the folks at the Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center acknowledge they have been somewhat blindsided by the number of animals being brought to them and the cost of taking care of them.
"It's really, really different than the numbers that were given to us — astronomically more," said Regina Wilcox, director of veterinary services for at the Santa Paula facility.
The Santa Paula rescue opened it doors on June 1 at 705 E. Santa Barbara Street in Santa Paula with a budget of $60,000 from the city, the equivalent of $5,000 a month.
According to Wilcox, in the past three months, the shelter took in 172 cats and dogs. She said seven animals had been euthanized for medical reasons since the shelter opened.
"Some months, we're spending more than $30,000 in medical bills," Wilcox said. "We're really relying on people to come forward and help us out."
"Realistically, the city probably needs to be looking at between $10,000 and $20,000 a month for this number of animals."
County statistics show the Camarillo shelter has continued to receive animals from Santa Paula, taking in 20 dogs and eight cats, most of them relinquished by their owners or found wandering as strays.
The rescue denies it has turned any animal away. The group is, though, expanding efforts to free up space.
On Dec. 21, it shipped five cats to a rescue on Victoria Island, B.C., as part of an animal airlift by the charity Wings of Rescue that flies adoptable animals to other states and to Canada.
"The transports are a critical component in keeping our population down. We plan to work with these partners on a monthly basis so we can continue to take in the many homeless pets in Santa Paula," Santa Paula Director Janeen Anderson said in an email.
Joy Nadel, founder and CEO of Rescue Me Inc., said she's been working to take in animals from Ventura County Animal Services for 22 years, setting up a registered nonprofit rescue 12 years ago.
Nadel focuses on rescuing older dogs and those with medical issues.
"Right now I depend on fosters so it limits the number of animals I can take out of the Camarillo shelter," she said. "My biggest expense is vet bills and I rely on individual donations."
Anderson, who currently has 82 dogs on her books, dreams of establishing an animal sanctuary and rehabilitation center at a 22-acre ranch in Somis that has the right zoning and is currently up for sale. That is, if she can find investors to donate the $3.3 million asking price.
For Donna Gillesby, the interim director of Ventura County Animal Services, getting additional money from donors to help with the costs of keeping more animals is not an option. In fact, she says, it's a battle to keep the money already being received from local government."We don't have people donating money hand over fist. The county is not giving us any more money and the cities we contract with want to give less money," she said.
Gillesby said the county has made huge inroads in reducing the numbers of unwanted animals it has to put down, but managing a larger population at the shelter is stretching resources to the limit.
"I don't have an isolation area to hold sick animals," she said. "The majority of what I have in my kennel right now are pit bulls and not everyone wants a pit bull so what are we supposed to do, keep them forever?"
"We can't just choose not to euthanize," she said.
Gillesby applauds the work of rescue groups in helping to find options other than euthanasia.
On the day she spoke with The Star, she was ecstatic at finding a foster home for five kittens that had been brought to the shelter.
She says everyone needs to work together if they want local government-run shelters to operate the same way as not-for-profit rescues.
Everyone agrees that ultimately it is up to those who own pets to be responsible for their welfare and to make sure their animals are properly vaccinated against disease and aren't allowed to breed.
Fisher said the reality is that transitioning to a "no kill" county shelter will be a marathon and not a sprint.
Until people spay/neuter their pets and stop relinquishing animals and adopt more from shelters, it's unlikely that the numbers of unwanted animals will decrease anytime soon.
"It's a community effort. It's not just a shelter effort," Fisher said. "We have to work together."
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There are so many gadgets are available on the internet which is essential for all. We can buy all types of gadgets like usb gadgets, cool gadgets girl gadgets and many more gadgets are on internet.
The USB drive is a very popular gadget that nearly everybody has. Due to numerous USB manufacturing technologies and mass
There are so many things we rely on that need to be powered up to operate, from MP3 players to laptops to phones, hair straightness, cameras, game boys, ad infinitum. Usually a bit of a charge at home can see these techy beasts operating until we get back to our homely hub of power to plug it all back in again; but sometimes us kids of today like to stay out a while.
Investing in a portable charger can make all the difference between getting a good shot on the digital camera and being able to take a career changing phone call to missing a shot worthy of Nat Geo and joining the dole cue. Harsh and extreme maybe, but a point never the less.
The Solio Magnesium Edition rechargeable power pack is a dual fuel portable battery. It can be charged via mains adaptor whenever you are near one, or by solar power if you aren’t. This also makes sit an interesting option for eco bods out there who do not want to stamp their carbon footprint all over the planet. Although the Solio takes a while to charge due to it’s Li-ion cell, it will happily keep mobile phones, MP3 players and Blackberry’s charged from a full battery over a number of days. The range of connectors that come with the device cover all types of connection with the exception of mini usb, a problem we are sure Solio will rectify.
Next up is the Phillips SCE7640 Power2Go rechargeable power pack is charged by mains power, but it’s large storage capacity means that it is suitable for taking away and keeping your tech topped up. The range of connectors charge PDA’s notebooks, laptops, music players etc. but it is recommended that you check the Power2Go website to ensure right adaptor cable is available for the devices you want to charge.
Finally let’s take a look at the UniRoss USB charger. Although, not strictly a portable rechargeable power pack, it is a portable battery charger, and mightily useful addition to one of the above for any devices that require AA or AAA battery power, for example beard trimmers, lady shaves, and even ‘old school’ CD players and MP3 players. It works by plugging into a USB port on a computer to recharge the batteries 2 batteries at a time. This could be used while using a laptop that is being charged by one of the major portable power packs, or whilst using an internet cafe computer on your travels. However, the charging times are incredibly long, requiring being hooked up for at least 3 hours.
Our advice is that if you are going on a hike that will be taking you well off the beaten path, go for the solar powered Solio. You can give it a good charge when you stumble across a power supply, or else keep your juice topped up in the desert if not. The Power2Go is preferred choice if you need more hefty charging capabilities and will be near a mains power every few days. As for the battery charger; best invest in a gadget.
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I wanted to take a moment to share some important training advice with you. You see, back when I started training in BJJ over 16 years ago there were no instructional DVD’s, Youtube, Online training sites, and hardly any books on the subject to learn from. Fast forward to present day and there are an overabundant amount of instructional resources at the hands of the modern day BJJ student. In my opinion this can be both good and bad for the beginner who is looking to improve, yet doesn’t really have that much direction. Here are some tips to get the most out of your extracurricular training:
- Focus on the fundamentals! Always strive to build a strong foundation for your techniques to be based upon. Your number 1 priority should be to learn escapes from side control, mount, back mount, etc. From there you can move on to counters to the basic submissions such as the arm bar and triangle choke, as well as how to open and pass the guard.
- Drill a single technique for a month or more before moving on to something else! Avoid the urge to jump from one technique to the next. Once you are having a high success rate with a single technique (both in drilling and live sparring) move on to the next.
- Avoid trying a new technique during sparring if you are working with someone several belt levels above you. In other words, if you are a white belt, try to develop a high success rate of using the technique on other white belts, or lower ranking white belts then yourself, before trying the technique on blue belts. Too many times have I seen a student get frustrated because they were trying to add a new technique to their game, but were trying to implement in on someone 2-3 belt levels higher then them. This will just lead to frustration and the student will move on to another technique before truly mastering the one at hand.
- Lastly, make sure that your extracurricular instruction is coming from the right source. By this I mean, seek out videos/instructional materials that are taught be certified Black or Brown Belt instructors with a good reputation in the sport. Avoid watching technique videos taught by other white, blue, and purple belts early in your BJJ development. As a beginner you will have trouble discerning whether the person is showing the technique correctly or not, which can lead to bad habits!
I hope this helps you in your pursuit of BJJ knowledge. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email if you have any questions regarding what I’ve covered in this message. See you on the mats!
Yours in Jiu-Jitsu,
Coach James Foster
Owner and Head Instructor
Foster Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
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Kids' diet counseling tied to better cholesterol
New York: Kids who got regular diet counseling starting very early on ended up eating slightly less saturated fat and had lower "bad" cholesterol levels as teens, in a new study from Finland.
High cholesterol in kids and teens has been linked to build-up in the arteries in adulthood, a known risk for heart disease. But whether intervening in childhood helps prevent heart attacks and other cardiovascular ailments down the line isn`t clear.
"In general, we know that lower ("bad" cholesterol) is better," said Dr. Stephen Daniels, a pediatric cardiologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children`s Hospital Colorado in Aurora.
"If you look at it that way, I think you would have to suggest that these are beneficial changes," Daniels, who wasn`t involved in the new study, told Reuters Health. "But quantifying the effect that they might have on actual outcomes I think is hard to do."
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed panel, says there isn`t enough evidence to recommend for or against regular diet counseling in kids and adults -- or routine cholesterol testing in youth.
Other groups, including the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, say that diet counseling can help kids and families stick to nutrition guidelines and reduce cardiovascular risks.
For the current study, researchers led by Dr. Harri Niinikoski from the University of Turku recruited more than 1,000 parents at well-baby clinics in their city. Starting when infants were seven months old, half of the kids and their parents had diet counseling with a nutritionist during routine visits every three to six months.
From age seven through 19, kids had more counseling sessions without their parents. Nutritionists used kids` food records, kept for a few days twice a year, to make recommendations with a goal of lowering saturated fat and cholesterol in their diets.
The other participants, serving as a comparison, were given basic health education once or twice a year.
By the time they were teenagers, both boys and girls who had the nutrition sessions reported getting fewer of their calories from saturated fat than those in the comparison group.
The individual differences were small: at age 19, for example, saturated fat accounted for 11.8 percent of calories consumed by boys in the counseling group, compared to 12.7 percent in the non-counseling group. For girls, those numbers were 11.4 percent and 12.0 percent of calories from saturated fat, respectively, Niinikoski`s team reported in Pediatrics on Monday.
Kids who were counseled also had lower levels of LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, on blood tests in their teens -- again a small but consistent difference. At age 19, average LDL cholesterol levels in both groups were in the range considered ideal or near-ideal for adults.
There was no difference in teens` body mass index, a measure of weight in relation to height, based on whether they had gotten diet counseling.
"One way of looking at this is, we need to do a better job across the whole population of improving diet," including lowering saturated fat intake, Daniels said.
While one option is focusing on those kids that already have a family risk of high cholesterol or have especially poor diet and lifestyle, Daniels said the real goal is to prevent problems before they start. He said that even if it might take up extra time, nutrition counseling should be part of every well-child visit -- and that any extra costs are likely to pay off with fewer health problems over the long run.
Those costs would depend on whether counseling would also help when done only once a year, and by a kid`s pediatrician.
"Getting lifestyle right early and keeping it right over the lifespan I think is a really important idea," Daniels concluded.
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Author’s Note: This post was revised on 6/23/08. The nature of computing is under going a revolution and rather than fully remove this post, I elected to refresh it so as to provide a better framework for readers.
There seems to be a lot of debate around different types of Computing Terms being used to describe server and hosting solutions. In fact, in the past, the blogosphere seemed to throw around terms like Grid, Cloud, Utility, Distributed and Cluster computing almost interchangeably. But, as of this revision, one term is rising to the top: Cloud Computing. (See recent trend analysis here.)
The definitions vary from source to source, author to author. While I cannot (and will not) attempt to articulate the end-all definition, I can write about how I view these terms and how they apply to the products that we offer, namely GoGrid. But before I dive into MY interpretation, providing what others view on these subjects may shed some light on our framework.
Terms as defined by Wikipedia
Many people view Wikipedia as an authoritative source of information but that is always subject to debate. Wikipedia defines some of these terms as follows (not the end-all definitions though) and I have taken some liberties of removing non-relevant information for argument’s sake:
- Grid Computing – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing
- Multiple independent computing clusters which act like a “grid” because they are composed of resource nodes not located within a single administrative domain. (formal)
- Offering online computation or storage as a metered commercial service, known as utility computing, computing on demand, or cloud computing.
- The creation of a “virtual supercomputer” by using spare computing resources within an organization.
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Free Range Learning describes an important individual and cultural shift in education that’s already well underway. It advocates for the child’s right to learn naturally and demonstrates how to enfold this approach into daily life. It incorporates ancient knowledge as well as current research, highlighting wisdom shared by over 100 families from around the world.
In this useful book readers will discover a wealth of inspiring ideas for connecting with nature, reinvigorating their communities, and sustaining the love of learning. If you need one volume about educating the whole child, Free Range Learning is that book.
Published by Hohm Press. Order HERE
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“Mr. Murdoch has faced scrutiny from lawmakers in the U.K. over his handling of the phone-hacking scandal, which has led to the closure of the News of the World tabloid and three ongoing criminal investigations into the paper's news-gathering tactics.”
“Revelations that News of the World journalists were illegally intercepting mobile-phone voice-mail messages in pursuit of stories, a practice known as phone hacking, have kicked off a number of criminal investigations and public inquiries into the media's news-gathering tactics in the U.K. In addition to phone hacking, police also are investigating allegations of computer hacking and of journalists bribing police officers for information.”
“So out went news-gathering boss Jon Williams to Libya last week, his bag filled with pens, mugs and Top Gear DVDs featuring Jeremy Clarkson.”
“The assignment fit with the tabloid's hard-charging tradition of news-gathering.”
“News Corp. said its U.K. newspaper unit ordered surveillance of two lawyers representing victims of a now-closed tabloid's illegal news-gathering tactics, and called the surveillance "deeply inappropriate.”
“News Corp . said its U.K. newspaper unit ordered surveillance of two lawyers representing victims of a now-closed tabloid's illegal news-gathering tactics, and called the surveillance "deeply inappropriate.”
“Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.”
“I definitely do that too – first thing in the morning, last thing before bed, news-gathering before the work of the day begins or ends.”
“He took matters into his own hands, visiting a country pub owned by a former News of the World journalist and secretly recording their conversation about the paper's dubious news-gathering tactics.”
“Applying this standard to British tabloids could turn payments made as part of traditional news-gathering into criminal acts.”
Looking for tweets for news-gathering.
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University of Alberta researcher Andrew Leach likes the way Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal thinks.
A new paper by Leach, an associate professor in the Alberta School of Business, and fellow University of Alberta economics researcher Ujjayant Chakravorty, posits scenarios that parallel a statement Alwaleed made in May declaring that it is in the best interests of Saudi oil producers to keep oil around the $70 mark to prevent the West from developing alternative energy sources. Their paper, co-written with a colleague from the Toulouse School of Economics , hypothesizes scenarios wherein a narrowing of the gap between developing renewable energy resources and fossil fuel resources might mean a rush to drain the oil from its source.
But . . . will we need oil for 100 years?
Leach is quick to point out that the paper is not attempting to forecast oil futures or costs. Rather, he notes, they model results of possible outcomes if an alternative energy sources could replace oil quicker than producers expect it to. Citing resource economist Harold Hotelling's notion that "oil in the ground is like money in the bank," Leach notes that, if a bank adversely changed its paid interest rates, the investors would be quick to withdraw their money. In the case of producers, he says the response would be to curb the cost of oil per barrel and increase current production rates to maximize current profits.
"What we tried to do with the paper was get in to some of the climate-modeling results and say, 'what happens if you go back and look at how oil owners should behave if an alternative energy source is emerging and funded and how technology is improving,'" said Leach. "The answer is that you shorten your timeframe and you start thinking, 'well, I better get the value out of this asset now because it's not going to be worth anything in 30 years.'"
Oil producers: for your consideration
Leach notes that dropping prices might mean less market interest in developing and investing in new energy alternatives. However, he says that if other factors, such as increased production costs or carbon taxes, come in to play, oil prices would rise. And if there is an alternative resource that becomes more economically attractive, oil producers may have to adjust to make sure they don't hasten their own obsolescence. Leach says that, like Alwaleed, oil companies should be looking at these types of possible scenarios as they value reserves and make strategic decisions.
"From an oil company's perspective or an oil state's perspective, they're not going to sit back and price themselves out of the market. A lot of models that look at alternative energy deployment are quite dependent on this continued increase in oil price," said Leach. "If you just put that in your model, you're ignoring the story that says that, if oil is irrelevant in 30 years, then there's going to be a lot of incentive to get it out of the ground today."
No requiem for the electric car, please
Leach suppressed the notion of a worldwide conspiracy that states that oil companies are attempting to keep alternative technologies at bay. The conspiracy would have to be well-planned, he says, if it worked when an alternative technology was less than half the cost of a barrel of oil. He says even now, consumers have the ability to affect market decisions even when prices rise. Boycotting gas stations on Monday only to fill up on Tuesday carries no real message to producers and retailers, he says. However, changing long-term behaviours towards alternatives in the face of a gas hike would be a significant move—and one that would force producers and retailers to adjust behaviours and reduce profit margins.
"Right now they don't have to eat any oil-price increase because they know that whatever price gets posted on the sign, people grumble and complain and pay," says Leach. "If, in Edmonton, when gas prices went above $1.20 per litre- and suddenly 50 per cent of the market dropped out of the gasoline market, you could expect refiner margins, retail margins, everything, to go through the floor.
"The retailers would know that, 'if I increase my margin by $.10, I'm going to lose 50 per cent of my customers because they're all going to be on the LRT, on their bikes or they're going to be walking.' Even in the short term, it's going to force the producers to eat that world oil price increase."
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Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished.
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread."
Jesus answered him, "It is written, "One does not live by bread alone.' "
Then the devil a led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
And the devil b said to him, "To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please.
If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours."
Jesus answered him, "It is written, "Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.' "
Then the devil c took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,
for it is written, "He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,'
and "On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.' "
Jesus answered him, "It is said, "Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' "
When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
I'm standing in line at the photo center, waiting to pay for the dozen 8x10 photos of noted entomologist Richard Bohart that I’d ordered for his UC Davis memorial.
“Doc,” as he was called, died Feb. 1, 2007 in
He was a giant of a man. He towered over his fellow linebackers on the UC Berkeley football team in the mid-1930s, and he towered over his entomology colleagues.
During his career, Doc identified more than a million mosquitoes and wasps, named more than 300 new species of insects, authored 230 separate publications and wrote six books on mosquitoes and wasps, including three editions of Mosquitoes of California. An entire family of insects bears his name: Bohartillidae (twisted wing parasites), genus Bohartilla.
Doc founded the Bohart Museum of Entomology in 1946, the same year he joined the UC Davis faculty. Today the museum, a tribute to much of his lifelong work, houses more than 7 million specimens.
So, here I am, standing in line, thinking of his accomplishments and the passion that drove him and the insects that possessed him.
The photo center line shortens and it’s my turn. I pay for the photos. “Thanks!" I say. "Nice job! These are of the life of Dr. Bohart, a world-renowned entomologist.”
The clerk, probably in her 30s, looks at me, puzzled. “What,” she asks, “is en-to-mol-ogy?”
She quickly apologizes, saying she ought to know that.
“Study of insects,” I say.
Her question is not unusual. Many folks have no idea what entomology is, which is probably why it should be called “insect science.”
Nancy Dullum, administrative assistant in the UC Davis Department of Entomology, says she’s often asked what entomology means and how it’s spelled. A UC Davis employee since 1977 (25 years in entomology, including 13 years with the UC Mosquito Research Program, and five years in the dean’s office in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences), she’s even opened mail addressed to “Department of Antomology.”
Antomology! Now that’s creative!
I think “Doc” would have liked that.
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Roswell, GA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/06/2013 -- Homeschooling is increasing in popularity in the United States, with the total figure jumping from 1.1 to 1.5 million students between 2003 and 2007. The number continues to rise, and the practice is most popular in states like Alabama and Mississippi, where the Alabama Homeschool Expo is about to launch in Montgomery for 2013, having announced their guest speakers and a range of exciting new exhibitors.
For those wishing to homeschool in Alabama, the guest speakers will give fascinating insights. Debbie Strayer, Randi St. Denis, Kathy Lee, Lesli Richards, Ann Haney, and Tracee Wood are all experienced home schoolers giving talks at the Expo on a range of topics and techniques.
The expo also includes a lot of features for homeschooled children, including for the first time this year the Teen Film camp. Responding to demand from homeschoolers for more activities for teens to engage with, the film camp will help the young people to understand the theological foundation of Christian art, the rapidly changing mainstream marketplace for film, and technical aspects and application of filmmaking techniques. For younger children, there is a remote control helicopter obstacle course, LEGO BuildZone, and game area.
Exhibitors will be displaying curriculum resources for homeschoolers at all levels of education in a huge variety of subject areas. The Expo is not just for those homeschooling in Alabama alone however, and a hotel deal has been established for homeschoolers from all over Alabama and neighboring Mississippi as well.
A spokesperson for the Expo explained, “From gifted children all the way to the struggling learners – you’ll find great encouragement at the Homeschool Expo. Helpful parents and other experts are willing to spend the time to demonstrate exactly how to homeschool in a way that fits your family’s lifestyle -from a wide variety of perspectives of course!- and specifically how to make your family’s homeschool journey enjoyable and satisfying.”
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The Homeschool Expo is a “don’t miss” whole family three-day event with exhibitors and thousands of products where parents can review and purchase the latest curriculum, hear great speakers who give practical encouragement, and receive personalized help and answers to any questions. Their workshops especially emphasize the practical aspects of working with children in ways that will promote their educational, social and emotional growth. For more information, please visit: http://www.alabamahomeschoolexpo.com
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Lessons and Signs of Hope Amidst the Carnage in Libya
The civil insurrection in Libya has been far more violent, and forces loyal to the dictator far more violent still, than the recent successful unarmed revolutions against the dictatorships in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt. Still, there are signs of hope and important lessons to be learned in the ongoing struggle against the 42-year regime of Muammar Gaddafi, whose days appear to be numbered.
Gaddafi’s leadership style has always been repressive, impulsive, and unpredictable. Yet his nationalism, anti-imperialism, and professed socialism led many educated Libyans who formed the backbone of the government to stay loyal despite their misgivings, in large part in reaction to what was seen as punitive and hypocritical sanctions imposed by Western nations and the constant threat of renewed U.S. air and missile strikes against the country, as took place back in the 1980s. It was only when the sanctions and the threats of war subsided back in 2004 that there began to be a dramatic increase in resignations and defections by prominent Libyans who had been members and supporters of the government. In short, the U.S.-led efforts to isolate, punish, and threaten the regime likely contributed to Gaddafi’s longevity as dictator. Once relations were normalized and the isolation and threats subsided, Gaddafi was seen less as a strong leader defending his nation against Western imperialism and more as the mercurial and brutal tyrant that he is.
As of this writing, virtually all of the cities in the eastern half of the country and a number of cities elsewhere have been liberated by pro-democracy forces, which launched their rebellion just a few weeks ago and are now clashing with security forces in Tripoli, Libya's capital. In these liberated cities, popular democratic committees have been set up to serve as interim local governments. For example, Benghazi—a city of over a million people—is now being run by a improvised organizing committee of judges, lawyers, and other professionals who have been largely successful at restoring order to the country’s second largest city, dispatching young people to coordinate traffic at intersections and assist in other basic services.
There have been resignations of cabinet members and other important aides of Gaddafi, Libyan ambassadors in foreign capitals, and top military officers, many of whom have actively joined the opposition. Pilots have deliberately crashed their planes, flown into exile, or otherwise refused orders to bomb and strafe protesters. Thousands of soldiers have defected or refused to fire on crowds, despite threats of execution. This has forced Gaddafi to rely on African mercenaries, which has only further angered the population against a dictator willing to bring in foreigners to murder his own citizens.
Libya and Beyond: What's Next for Democracy?
Phyllis Bennis on why Libya differs from other pro-democracy uprisings in the region.
These serious challenges to Gaddafi’s power comes despite the fact that, compared with the recent successful civil insurrections against dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, the challenges faced by the pro-democracy forces in Libya have been far greater. Under the recently-overthrown dictators, the Egyptian and Tunisian regimes routinely rigged elections and marginalized opposition parties, but at least there were elections and opposition parties. Not in Libya, however. Similarly, Egypt and Tunisia had trade unions, popular organizations, and active civil society groups whose activities were severely restricted and at times brutally suppressed, but at least they existed. Again, not in Libya.
Despite all this, pro-democracy forces are on the offensive, demonstrating that if enough people are willing to risk everything for their freedom, the regime has few options left but brute force—exactly what Gaddafi has been turning to. However, the use of such extraordinary violence usually ends up backfiring in favor of the opposition, which is exactly what appears to be happening in Libya.
Gaddafi joined the Libyan armed forces as a young man, not because of an interest in a military career per se, but because he wanted to become the country’s ruler. In the Middle East in those days, if you weren’t part of a royal family, the key to political power was through the military. What Tunisia and Egypt have demonstrated, however—along with other successful nonviolent civil insurrections from the Philippines to Poland and from Chile to Serbia—is that political power ultimately comes from the acquiescence of the people. And if a people no longer recognize the leader’s authority and refuse to obey the leader’s orders, he will no longer be the leader. This is the kind of power the United States and other Western nations must recognize: for democracy to come to the Middle East, it must come from the people themselves.
Stephen Zunes wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Stephen is a professor of Politics and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. He chairs the academic advisory committee for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and is the author of Nonviolent Social Movements and Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism.
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December, 2007 we submitted a request for the Selective Service Classification
Records for Senator Saxby Chambliss, Rep Tom Tancredo and Senator Mitch
McConnell. When we received the Selective Service Classification Records from
the Selective Service System all of the records were included with the exception
of Senator Mitch McConnell's and his was an extract put together by Richard
Flahavan, Associate Director for Intergovernmental Affairs. When Richard
Flahavan was questioned about sending us an extract of Senator Mitch McConnell's
Selective Service Classification Record, he responded in writing that
Selective Service no longer has access to Selective Service records for men born
prior to 1960." Knowing that we had already received the full Selective
Service Classification Records for Senator Saxby Chambliss, Rep Tom Tancredo
born in 1943 and 1945 respectively we felt that Richard Flahavan was possibly
covering for Senator Mitch McConnell. In Richard Flahavan's extract he writes
U.S. Army ordered him to undergo an Armed Forces Physical Examination which he
did July 9, 1967. Apparently, he did not pass because he was released from the
U.S. Army Reserve August 15, 1967." I just love that word apparently!
Several correspondences later we decided to request the information we needed from the National Archives Southeast Region in Atlanta and they sent us Mitch McConnell's complete Selective Service Classification Records and when we looked under column 7 Armed Forces Physical Examination it was blank, indicating that Mitch McConnell did not receive a Armed Forces Physical Examination as stated by Richard Flahavan, in his extract. If the Selective Service Classification Record is correct and Mitch McConnell didn't receive Armed Forces Physical Examination, then how could he flunk the Armed Forces Physical Examination he didn't take and what is the real reason Mitch McConnell didn't serve his country during the Vietnam war?
Senator Mitch McConnell has an obligation to clear this up and I'm suggesting he publish his military discharge papers for all of us to see and until that time we have good reason to believe he has something to hide.
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Archaeological discoveries around the ailing Neversink Bridge will delay its replacement for a year, according to DPW director Vince Lopez.
"We were dealt another blow by the new study they want," Lopez said.
Previous delays resulted from challenges to building demolitions planned by CHA Associates, the engineers who will build the bridge. CHA was also required to do archaeological testing before construction, and the archaeologist they hired found Native American arrowheads, Lopez said.
"To me, they look like rocks," he said. "Now DOT requires another study to see if there's more. If we locate more artifacts, we must contact the two Indian nations that lived there and ask if they want the artifacts or reports. I have mailing addresses in the Midwest."
Unspectacular as the artifacts might be, they could portend further finds, according to Peter Osborne, author and former executive director of the Minisink Valley Historical Society.
Because the bridge is near the convergence of two rivers, the Minisink and the Delaware, the area would have appealed to Native Americans, he said.
Osborne witnessed the delays necessitated by archaeological excavations before the Shohola Bridge could be built several years ago when "shovel tests" revealed artifacts around the site.
"Archaeological digs are very precise," Osbourne said. "The contract determines the number of sites for shovel tests."
At the Shohola Bridge site, he said, square holes were dug at six-inch intervals and mapped. The dug-up material is put through a screen.
"It was a big, deep excavation. They had to use a ladder and pump fresh air into the hole. It took two excavation seasons to complete. Finally they did get down to sterile soil. What they found was continuous summer occupations by Native Americans for centuries. The mitigation was donation of the artifacts to a museum."
Top layers in Shohola contained "modern garbage," but farther down were ceramics and spearheads.
Elsewhere in the area, surprises also lurked, Osborne said. Behind Deerpark Town Hall, a whole village was uncovered. And behind Fort Decker, three feet below 19th-century garbage, was a 3,000-year-old spear. But nearby, when the city replaced pavement on West Main Street, excavation encountered only sand.
"Artifacts could have been just a foot away," Osbourne said.
At the Port Jervis bridge site, Osborne said the top layers are likely to contain flood wash and railroad fill used to build up the riverbank. The riverbank has also been disturbed by previous bridges, whose abutments are still there.
"What they found could be wash from upstream or an overnight campsite," Osborne said. "But deeper they may find other layers. If what they found is just from a campsite, it's not a problem. But if it's a burial ground, it could get sticky. You never know what you'll find until you hit sterile soil. A cultural site won't stop the bridge, though."
CHA representatives will hold a public information meeting on the bridge construction delay at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Common Council Chambers at Port Jervis City Hall, 20 Hammond St.
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Cuban economy grew in 2007 by 7.5 percent, figure below the expected 10 percent, but higher by 5.6 percent to the Latin American average rate.
Cuban Economy Grows 7.5 Per Cent With the presence of Cuban first Vice President Raul Castro, Minister of Economy and Planning Jose Luis Rodriguez rendered the report on economic and social results for the ending year and the guidelines for 2008.
Rodriguez explained that adverse weather conditions affected construction and agriculture, sectors that fell short of their planned growth rates, together with delays in goods imports that reduced the monetary circulation.
In spite of that, Cuba ranks fifth among the 33 countries analyzed by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Those results confirm the gradual consolidation of the Cuban economy which accumulates a rise of 42.5 percent in its Gross Domestic Product since 2004.
Rodriguez recalled the rise was obtained amid a hike in imported food and oil prices, increasing financial tensions and the recrudescing of the US blockade on Cuba.
After recognizing the effort, resistance and unity of the people, the Minister explained that work productivity grew by five per cent, investments by 16.8 percent and also key sectors like agriculture, industry, transport and services.
Such advances had a direct impact on the population due to an increase in production and distribution of milk and pork meat, blackout reduction, a modest improvement in passenger transport and conclusion of 300 social works.
In response to the call made by Raul Castro last July 26th of giving timely solution to many of the country"s problems, Rodr¡guez said that in 2008 plans will correspond to the financial, material and human resources available.
It is decisive, he said, that the increase in work productivity, more efficient planning and management, an adequate investment policy for agricultural, industrial production and services, as well as housing.
Rodr¡guez stressed saving, specially of energy products, as an immediate source of resources, cost reduction and the need to prioritize food production, inputs for exports and the substitution of imports.
The parliament"s plenary session continues with the presentation of reports on the execution of the 2007 budget and the budget project for 2008. (PL)
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Calling cards evolved in England and were an essential part of introductions, invitations, and visits. During the 1800s, Americans followed this Victorian tradition of using calling cards. They used them in calling upon their friends and relatives. This was proper etiquette for men and women of middle and upper classes and a method for screening those who were socially undesirable.
Every gentleman and woman kept a ready supply of calling cards with them to distribute upon visits. Men and women's calling cards were generally simple in design. They gave the caller's name and often included the name of his gentleman's club, or fraternal organization. Masonic calling cards are a wonderful example of this and, like the ones seen here, demonstrate how some fraternal calling cards used more elaborate designs by incorporating emblems and symbols of Masonic organizations that the bearer was affiliated with.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Roadhouse, of Monmouth, Illinois, carried cards (above) to a Knights Templar event. Levi Roadhouse was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows as well as various Masonic organizations. These affiliations are all printed on his calling card. Mrs. Roadhouse's card also bears the Knights Templar emblems so that everyone would know that she was associated with this fraternal group.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman Osborn Wolfe (m.1880) carried cards from Milledgeville, Illinois all the way to Boston, Massachusetts for the 1895 Knights Templar Triennial Conclave (see images at right). They would have exchanged the cards at various Knights Templar events and while calling on acquaintances at their homes. Mrs. Wolfe was a member of Order of the Eastern Star as well as "accompanying Sterling Commandery, No. 57" to Boston in 1895. Her card bears the Eastern Star symbol of the five pointed star in gold. The five points symbolize characters from the Bible. Mr. Wolfe's card bears the emblems of his Commandery, Consistory, and Temple so that new acquaintances would know that he belonged to York Rite and Scottish Rite Freemasonry as well as the Shrine.
At some Masonic events, entire families carried calling cards. This was the case with at least one family who traveled to the 1895 Knights Templar Triennial Conclave. The Holmes family travelled from Galesburg, Illinois to Boston. The father, Hugh W. Holmes (1859-1936) was an officer of the Galesburg Commandery, No. 8, holding the position of Senior Warden. His wife, Jennie Ann (1864-1965), carried a card letting people know she was "accompanying the Galesburg Commandery." Two of Hugh W. Holmes' nine children accompanied him, Bertha Mae Holmes (b. 1883) and Urcel Lulu Holmes (b. 1892). Both daughters had their own calling cards indicating they were "with the Galesburg Commandery" (below left).
In a certain way, the calling card served to brand one's social identity. In the late 1800s, affiliation with a Masonic lodge, or a Knights Templar Commandery was socially important. And for wives and other family members, a Masonic association was definitely a desirable one.
Collection of Masonic Calling Cards, 1895-1900. Museum purchase, A2010/30/1-463 (MA 056).
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Home :: Differentiated Accountability
The U.S. Department of Education selected Florida to participate in the "Differentiated Accountability Pilot" initiative in 2008.
Through Differentiated Accountability, or DA, the state is allowed greater flexibility in providing the needed technical assistance and
interventions to the schools with greatest need. Florida's DA plan streamlines the federal and state accountability systems and directs increasing
schoolwide interventions and school and district accountability based on school grade. This program allows FDOE
to operate a tiered approach to working directly with schools to increase student achievement. The support and assistance provided to each
school is individualized depending on the needs of that school. Through DA, the lowest performing schools receive the most support and are required to
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Regional Support System
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professional development. Click on the link above to learn more about the Regional Teams.
2012-2013 Differentiated Accountability Documents
2012-2013 DA Checklists of Compliance
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2011-2012 DA Checklists of Compliance
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2010-2011 DA Checklists of Compliance
Regular Schools: DA Checklists of Compliance
Alternative Schools: DA Checklists of Compliance
Charter Schools: DA Checklists of Compliance
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(NaturalNews) In Chicago, Mexican Sinaloa drug-cartel member, Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, sits in prison.
He's waiting for his October trial to begin, after three years of delays. DEA agents arrested him in Mexico City in 2009, on drug-trafficking charges.
Why all the postponements? US national security issues are involved.
Niebla wants to introduce evidence he says will show he, and the entire Sinaloa cartel, the most power drug-trafficking organization in Mexico, were given immunity from prosecution by the US government.
In return, Sinaloa has been providing US officials with intelligence on lesser drug cartels in Mexico, so they can be taken down.
If this sounds like a deal to permit Sinaloa to bring huge quantities of drugs into the US, that's exactly what defendant Niebla is implying.
Federal prosecutors admit there are national-security issues in the Niebla trial. They deny Niebla or Sinaloa were ever granted immunity by the US government. However, they have made motions to keep unspecified classified information out of court proceedings.
Bill Conroy, who has been writing groundbreaking articles for The Narco News Bulletin, quotes Niebla's lawyers: "The United States government considered the arrangement with the Sinaloa cartel an acceptable price to pay, because the principal objective was the destruction and dismantling of rival cartels by using the assistance of the Sinaloa Cartel---without regard for the fact that tons of illicit drugs continued to be smuggled [by Sinaloa] into Chicago and other parts of the United States and corruption continued unabated."http://www.narconews.com/Issue67/article4621.html
this in part explain the rising tide of violence in Chicago? Are we looking at an exact parallel to what the late journalist Gary Webb described, in his explosive Dark Alliance, about US officials opening the door to massive drug-trafficking in South Central Los Angeles?
Journalist Conroy goes on to reveal a number of relevant emails captured by Wikileaks from Stratfor, a private intelligence company based in Austin, Texas. Stratfor refuses to comment on the emails. The company indicates that, in general, this type of email may be factual or may be intentionally fictitious.
The emails are the observations of a Mexican diplomat code-named MX1. Noting his probable identity has already been published online, Conroy writes, "[Fernando de la Mora Salcedo is] a Mexican foreign service officer who...served in the Mexican Consulate in El Paso, Texas, and is currently stationed [or has recently been recalled] in the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix."
Here are choice excerpts from Salcedo's emails, allegedly sent to Stratfor between 2008 and 2011. They bolster the idea that the US government is supporting the Sinaloa Cartel.
April 19, 2010: "...I think the US sent a signal that might be construed as follows: 'To the VCF [Vicente Carrillo Fuentes] and Sinaloa cartels: Thank you for providing our market with drugs
over the years...please know that Sinaloa is bigger and better than VCF...let's all get back to business [and stop the violence.]'"
June 3, 2010: "They [the US and Mexican governments] want the CARTELS to negotiate with EACH OTHER...if they can do this, violence will drop and the [US and Mexican] governments will allow controlled [drug] trades...The major routes and methods for bulk shipping [of drugs] have already been negotiated with US authorities. In this sense, the message that Sinaloa was winning was, in my view, intended to tell SEDENA [the Mexican military] to stop taking down large trucks full of dope as they made their way into the US. These large shipments were Sinaloa's, and they are OK with the Americans."
The explosive nature of the upcoming Niebla trial in Chicago could shed light on Operation Fast&Furious. After all the reasons that have been given for walking guns into Mexico, suppose the true explanation is the most simple? The US government supports Sinaloa, the biggest drug
cartel in the world. Therefore, they gave Sinaloa guns.
The author of an explosive collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.www.nomorefakenews.comAbout the author:
The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon
was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of
California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an
investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics,
medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine,
Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon
has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic,
and creative power to audiences around the world.www.nomorefakenews.com
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Virtual Camera is a virtual software camera that can be installed on Windows 98 ME 2000 and XP. It needs no hardware. It can use your former medias, including pictures, video clips etc. as its sources.
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The city of Berkeley is implementing initiatives that would alter the city’s streets to make them safer for bicyclists.
According to the city’s bike plan, officials want the city to model a bike-friendly city where riding a bike is safe, a convenient form of transportation and a recreation for people of all ages.
Plans include modifications in bicycle boulevards and roadways. Hearst Avenue has one of the highest bike collision rates in the city, according to Dave Campbell, program director of the East Bay Bicycle Coalition.
Campbell attended a meeting of the Berkeley Transportation Commission’s Bike Subcommittee on June 25 to help plan a redesign to make Hearst more bike friendly. Campbell said bike safety advocates discussed a “road-diet” for Hearst at the meeting, meaning it would go from being a four-lane avenue to a two-lane avenue to make room for bikes lanes on the sides.
“By far the most exciting (aspect of the meeting was) green paint on the bikeways to remind motorists to look for bikers on the roadway,” Campbell said.
According to city spokesperson Mary Kay Clunies-Ross, the city has made a long-standing commitment to cyclists since the bicycle has become a more common mode of transportation.
UC Berkeley students who use their bikes to travel around campus and the city say they are glad Berkeley is implementing these projects.
“I feel like people don’t know about bike safety when riding,” said Clara Mathews, a member of BicyCAL, the UC Berkeley bike cooperative. “I think (the bike-friendly initiatives) will be helpful.”
BicyCAL is a student co-op that aims to empower UC Berkeley students to integrate the bicycle into their lives, according to its Facebook fan page.
Berkeley’s bike plan also includes modifications in bicycle pathways popularly used by bikers, roller skaters and pedestrians.
The transportation division of the city Public Works Department also initiated a plan last fall to complete the West Street Pathway in North Berkeley between Cedar-Rose and Strawberry Creek parks.
This pathway is also meant to improve bicyclist and pedestrian safety, according to the city transportation division web page. The city plans for the pathway also show that yield and advanced crosswalk warning signs will be installed in order to make drivers aware of the pathway.
According to the city website, this action is being partially funded by Measure B, a half-cent transportation sales tax administered by the Alameda County Transportation Commission.
Although the city has not decided on a start date for this project, the construction of the West Street Pathway will take nine to 10 weeks of work, according to
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FDA Halts Corn Syrup's Plans to Become 'Corn Sugar'
Will this corn syrup health debate end now?
Good news to all anti-high-fructose corn syrup groups; the FDA has officially denied the petition to change corn syrup's name to "corn sugar."
In a letter to the president of the Corn Refiners Association (CRA), Michael M. Landa, of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, says the petition doesn't provide sufficient grounds for the name change.
According to FDA standards, "sugar is a solid, dried, and crystallized food; whereas syrup is an aqueous solution or liquid food."
Furthermore, while the CRA says that "corn sugar" is rarely used in food labeling, the FDA counters and says that a specifc sugar name, "dextrose," and "corn sugar" are used interchangeably.
The slap in the face, however, would be FDA's admission that high-fructose corn syrup is not necessarily as healthy as the CRA wants people to think. "Because such individuals have associated 'corn sugar' to be an acceptable ingredient to their health when 'high-fructose corn syrup' is not, changing the name for HFCS to 'corn sugar' could put these individuals at risk and pose a public health concern," Landa writes.
The CRA, meanwhile, argues that "[the FDA] did not address or question the overwhelming scientific evidence that high-fructose corn syrup is a form of sugar and is nutritionally the same as other sugars." Nice try CRA.
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I followed up with a google search: One December evening in 2004,
Wildlife Officer Amy Snyder heard shots
after legal shooting hours in a popular duck-hunting area in Madison County, Tenn. She put on hip boots and set out into the marsh. But when she arrived at the blind where she thought the shooting had occurred, she found it unoccupied.
Then Officer Snyder noticed a chemical odor in the air. She shined her light around and in the grass saw a large glass mason jar filled with what looked like corn hominy. She kicked over the jar, saw rubber hoses coming out of the top and panicked.
"It was a meth lab, actively cooking," Snyder recalls. "What I'd done was extremely dangerous. The stuff could have exploded, not to mention what might have happened if I'd surprised the cookers at work."............A Rural Scourge
These incidents are not isolated. Law enforcement and conservation officials we contacted across the country describe a wave of methamphetamine manufacturing activity that has crashed across the rural countryside in the last five years, causing a dramatic change in the way game wardens operate and in the way hunters, anglers and other recreationists should conduct themselves afield.........This super-meth took off in Hawaii and Southern California first, manufactured by Mexican drug cartels. But soon the drug was being manufactured by mom-and-pop cookers, and within 20 years it spread eastward thugh the Rocky Mountains, into the Midwest and onto the East Coast. An urban phenomenon at first, it turned rural as the rank odors associated with its production caused cookers to set up in less
populated areas to avoid detection. That practice has placed some meth labs in the same woods and waterways as hunters, anglers and other outdoorsmen......
Consider that in 2003 the greatest number of reported meth lab seizures on Department of Interior lands occurred on those managed by the Fish & Wildlife Service (38 laboratories), followed by the Bureau of Land Management (31
laboratories), National Park Service (8 laboratories) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (6 laboratories). That same year, the National Forest Service discovered 56 working labs on its land.
Hunters and Meth
But those numbers are believed to be only a fraction of the activity on federal land, not to mention state and private property. And anecdotal evidence of meth invading the outdoors is easy to come by.
In November 2004, for example, deer hunters on state land near Reelsville, Ind., came upon a duffel bag containing an actively cooking meth lab. They wisely backed away from the potentially explosive situation and notified the local police, who quickly dismantled and removed it.
Twelve months earlier in Ashley County, Ark., deer hunters tipped sheriff's investigators to the fact that methamphetamine manufacturers had taken over remote deer blinds and were using them as labs. Narcotics detectives ended up finding four
cooking operations set up in Ashley County deer blinds.
In Wright County, Minn., four years before, cookers decided to use ice-
fishing shanties to manufacture meth on Waverly Lake. Game wardens notified Sheriff's Sergeant Todd Hoffman of the activity. When Hoffman arrived to investigate, he noticed a solvent smell seeping from one of the shacks......Indiana conservation officer Gregg agrees: "Meth has changed my job. It's gotten to the point where as a conservation officer these days you're better off going into a
situation thinking you may be dealing with meth rather than a game violation." Have I made my point? Kellory.
The only real difference between a good tracker and a bad tracker is observation. All the same data is present for both. The rest is understanding what you are seeing.
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Companion Planting at Eat & Live Green
Spend some time learning the importance of companion planting at Eat & Live Green!
Many who are new to gardening do not realize just how much work there really is. Aside from planning what it is you want to plant, you have to prepare your area and get things ready for growing. This is what my family and I have been doing over here at Eat & Live Green.
We want to keep our Square Foot Gardens as organic as possible. To do this, we’ll be composting yard and kitchen waste, planting plants specifically for enriching our compost, and companion planting.
We want to ensure that we naturally protect and benefit our garden in every organic way possible. Companion planting is just that! By planting certain plants in close proximity to others, certain insects can be either deterred or attracted to your garden. Certain plants are also beneficial when grown to enhance your soil. Golden Harvest Organics.com has the most comprehensive list of companion plants that I have been able to find on the internet so far. I was able to find herbs, fruits, vegetables, and flowers as companions to plants that I never thought about growing before.
Examples of Companion Plants
Lettuce: beets, broccoli, carrots, cucumbers, dill, pole beans, onion, radish, strawberries, sunflowers
Corn: beans, cucumber, melons, peanuts, pumpkin, squash, sunflowers
The reasons for companion planting are very simple: to keep the bad bugs out, bring the good bugs in, and enhance the flavor and smell of what you’re planting. It really is possible to grow a garden without having to use pesticides, fungicides, or chemical plant fertilizers or stimulants. Certain plants, such as comfrey, are beneficial to the soil, as it is nutrient-rich and perfect for composting. Knowing what plants to plant together, which plants to keep apart, and which ones are good for the soil, means a bountiful, flavorful harvest.
Eat & Live Green has just finished laying out the plans for its first Square Foot Garden. We took companion planting into full consideration when choosing what to buy. Filled with herbs & vegetables we cook with the most, our first SFG will consist of: basil, pole beans, summer cabbage, carrots, cilantro, garlic, head lettuce, leaf lettuce, onion, green onions, hot peppers, spinach, and tomatoes. As you can see, we’ve made sure to place the plants in our plan according to companion planting. When you’re ready to plant, make sure you take your time to plan your planting wisely.
– Golden Harvest Organics – Companion Planting
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Are you exercising your brain? Tips to help you improve your cognitive health
By Phyllis Picklesimer
Media/Communications Specialist, University of Illinois College of ACES News and Public Affairs
URBANA, Ill. — When someone asks you to think about health, wellness and fitness, you usually think about physical health, exercise or nutrition. But, as you age, you should also work on your cognitive or brain health, said a University of Illinois Extension family life educator.
“Our cognitive health can be described as the ability to think, reason and remember,” said Cheri Burcham. “As we age, like the rest of our bodies, our brains slow down and become less flexible and accurate.”
According to Burcham, there are a few things you can do to maintain a healthy brain. Getting enough good, high-quality sleep is important, along with eating a heart-healthy diet and exercising regularly.
“I have heard the phrase ‘What’s good for the heart is good for the brain’ more than once while working with this topic,” she said. “Lowering stress levels and keeping solid social connections and support also contribute to achieving good brain health.”
Researchers agree that challenging your brain daily is also beneficial and necessary to maintain brain health and delay cognitive decline as we get older, she said.
“Brain fitness is a very hot topic right now,” she said. “I recently entered this term in the search engine Bing and found 191 million results!”
Experts agree we need to challenge our brains with many different activities. It is essential to reach beyond what is comfortable and try new exercises and activities that are interesting, varied and make us think a little more, she said.
“If an activity becomes too easy, we aren’t really exercising anymore,” she said. “Adjust the level of difficulty until you feel challenged again. If you enjoy seek-a-word puzzles and have done so many that they are becoming very easy to do, try doing a different variety of the puzzle, like finding the words spelled backwards, or switch to finding number sequences instead.”
You may want to switch to something totally new like Sudoku or crossword puzzles, she added.
“Variety is also key because the brain has many different areas to keep fit,” Burcham said. “Just as we wouldn’t be considered physically fit if we exercised only our legs, we can’t achieve total brain health if we focus only on one area, such as short-term memory. We also have to exercise critical thinking, spatial reasoning and long-term memory.”
Do you have to take a class to practice brain fitness? Absolutely not, she said. According to the expert, there are many ways to practice brain fitness, including board games or cards, crossword or number puzzles, dancing, jigsaw puzzles, reading, traveling, journaling, woodworking or other hobbies, and conversing.
“You’re never too old to get started, but the earlier you begin, the better. What are you waiting for? Start your brain workout right away!” she said.
For more about this topic or other family life-related topics, contact Burcham at University of Illinois Extension at (217) 543-3755 or at firstname.lastname@example.org.
From the Nov. 14-20, 2012, issue
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Quality Ladders and Product Cycles
We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these two processes. Firms in the North race to bring out the next generation of a set of technology-intensive products. Each product potentially can be improved a countably infinite number of times, but quality improvements require the investment of resources and entail uncertain prospects of success. In the South, entrepreneurs invest resources in order to learn the production processes that have been developed in the North. All R&D investment decisions are made by forward looking, profit maximizing entrepreneurs. The steady-state equilibrium is characterized by constant aggregate rates of innovation and imitation. We study how these rates respond to changes in the sizes of the two regions and to policies in each region to promote learning.
Published: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106(2), May 1991, pp. 557-586
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This article describes the results of a recent Gallup Poll on death penalty support in the United States and reviews the history of the death penalty in America. International statistics are also provided, including a list of those countries that continue to use the death penalty as well as those that have abolished this form of punishment.
Recent Poll on Support for the Death Penalty in America
A recent Gallup Poll shows that support for the death penalty amongst Americans has reached a new low—the lowest it has been in the last 40 years. More than one-third of Americans (35%) now oppose the death penalty. This is the highest level of opposition that has been seen since March 1972—the year that the Supreme Court ruled the death penalty to be unconstitutional unless it was applied fairly.
Evolution of the Death Penalty in the United States
Execution was an inherited part of American culture beginning before settlement of the colonies. The first recorded execution of an American settler took place in Virginia in 1608 when George Kendall was executed by firing squad for spying. Since that time, between 14,489 and 18,000 people have been executed in the United States under government authority.
In times before the formalization of the country under a single constitution, execution was a fairly common practice. Although crimes for which capital punishment was an option varied by locale, all colonies allowed for the death penalty at some point. For example, persons were given death sentences for suspected witchcraft activities, bestiality, “man stealing,” idolatry, and “cursing a parent” in the Massachusetts settlement. As the colonists fought for independence, execution was used a threat for desertion or treason. Finally, under the official government of the United States, allowance of the death penalty became a national standard. The Constitution set guidelines that permitted both federal and state executions.
Since 1776, the country has vacillated considerably in terms of consensus on death penalty policy. The ratification of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution in 1791 did not halt executions, but has since given rise to numerous challenges including current questions about execution methods. States such as Michigan have held as death penalty abolitionists since 1852, while others, such as Texas, execute more people in one year than other states have ever executed.
Execution in the Twentieth Century
By the twentieth century, execution was an accepted practice of the American criminal justice system. In fact, 1935 saw a greater number of capital sentences than any other year to date. In the mid-1900s, executions for crimes other than murder still occurred, but with infrequency. By the 1960s, views about the death penalty had changed, and the number of condemned persons had declined. In 1968, the Supreme Court ordered a moratorium so as to review death penalty issues.
Furman v. Georgia
The decision in the landmark case of Furman v. Georgia, consolidated with two other cases, briefly halted capital punishment in the United States. Setting the political landscape for this decision, public opinion with regard to the death penalty had shifted significantly since its inception. In 1966, support for the death penalty reached its lowest point in America. A Gallup poll taken months before the Furman ruling found death penalty supporters only marginally outnumbering opponents. William Henry Furman, a relatively uneducated African American man, shot and killed the resident of the dwelling he was attempting to burglarize. After being convicted of murder and sentenced to death, Furman appealed, citing conflicts between his sentence and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution; his appeal eventually being granted review by the Supreme Court. Rather than being a question of simple technicality, the appeal raised questions about the constitutionality of nationwide death penalty practices. On June 29, 1972, the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice Warren Burger, ruled five to four that the death penalty was unconstitutional. It was opined that sentencing was often random, and juries were empowered with too much discretion. Each justice seemed to have different reasons for his opinion, and all issued separate opinions, resulting in the longest ever decision. Under the decision, all currently condemned persons were required to be re-sentenced to a noncapital punishment with no possibility of reinstating previous death sentences.
Rather than providing an ultimate answer to the question of capital punishment, the Furman ruling seemed to energize and further entrench activists on both sides of the issue. Within a day of the ruling, five states had declared intention to draft death penalty legislation that qualified under the new guidelines. Legislators worked quickly to reenact capital punishment and, in 1975, more people were sentenced to death in the United States than in any previously recorded year.
Gregg v. Georgia
One of many states to engage in a reworking of sentencing standards related to the death penalty following Furman, Georgia developed a bifurcated system. Specifically, to avoid the randomness cited as unconstitutional, Georgia’s revised procedures required a guilt or innocence phase of the trial for potential capital cases followed by a second phase wherein aggravating conditions must be proved and mitigating factors presented to jurors and/or judges. Under these guidelines, Troy Gregg was convicted of two counts of murder with the aggravating factor of armed robbery. He appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court and ultimately to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Gregg v. Georgia (1976) (and two other cases handed down simultaneously) the Supreme Court held that the death penalty was not, in and of itself, unconstitutional nor in conflict with evolving standards of decency, but rather an embedded part of the American justice system. So long as practices were not arbitrary, but instead were part of set criteria for determining sentencing, the court determined death penalty practices to be constitutional. In addition, it was required that potential capital crimes be narrowly defined, that a Supreme Court appeal be provided, and that mitigation be allowed. In sum, this decision clearly allowed for the sentencing and carrying out of executions.
Within six months of death penalty reinstatement, Gary Gilmore was legally executed in Utah. Since that time, additional challenges have been raised that have provided more guidance regarding capital punishment. For example, Coker v. Georgia (1977) determined that the crime of raping an adult could not be sanctioned with the death penalty.
Modern Day Methods
Following the pattern of the Supreme Court, some states have examined fairness issues and temporarily halted capital sentencing, only to have execution reinstated following a change in leadership. Currently, 38 states, the federal government, and the U.S. Military have some form of capital punishment. Modern-day methods of execution include lethal injection, electrocution, hanging, the firing squad, and the gas chamber. In addition to reinstating the practice of execution, the Gregg decision appears to have allowed for more frequent legal dialogue on the topic of capital punishment. Future dangerousness, race, and definition of aggravating factors, among other issues, have been addressed by the courts.
The Issue of Age
One area in which the courts have set limits on the death penalty is with regard to age. In Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988) and Stanford v. Kentucky (1989), both of which were ultimately heard by the Supreme Court, age at the time of the offense was considered in determining whether the death penalty could be imposed. In Stanford, the appellate was over age 17 at the time of the crime, and the court affirmed imposition of the death penalty. Thompson on the other hand, was only 15 when his crime was committed, and the court deter- mined that his execution would violate the Eighth Amendment. Until 2005 the death penalty was not pursued when defendants were under 16 years of age at the time of the offense.
Relatively recently, the Supreme Court increased the age at which a person can be sanctioned with capital punishment. At the age of 17, Christopher Simmons plotted with two younger friends to kidnap and murder a female victim. He and another person broke into her home, bound her, and threw her from a bridge, resulting in her death. He was found guilty and sentenced to death, and the case was eventually heard by the Supreme Court. In Roper v. Simmons (2005) the court cited behavioral science literature finding that adolescents do not have the same level of maturity as adults and are more likely to behave impulsively. More importantly, the court considered a “national consensus” argument that involved the fact that only three states had executed an offender who was a juvenile at the time of the crime within the last decade. Finally, the court reviewed the positions of the international community, a minority of whom allow for the execution of minors. As such, the court set the standard for consideration of capital punishment at the age of 18 at the time of the offense.
The Issue of Mental Retardation or Developmental Disability
In addition to exploring the question of age, courts and legislators have reviewed mental status issues and their relevance to criminal sanctions. In Penry v. Lynaugh (1989) the Supreme Court determined that the execution of mentally retarded offenders was not specifically banned. More recently, in Atkins v. Virginia (2002), the court reversed its earlier decision. In this case, Darryl Atkins and an accomplice were convicted of abducting, robbing, and killing a male victim. Despite Atkins’ documented IQ of 59, he was sentenced to death. Again, the Supreme Court cited the “national consensus” position, noting that the execution of mentally retarded individuals was not supported by state statutes and practices. In addition, it was held that the purported purposes of the death penalty, retribution and deterrence, were not satisfied by executing mentally retarded persons. As such, execution of these individuals was found to be in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The court allowed for further review of this question as criteria for the determination of mental retardation were not specified.
The Issue of Mental Illness
Related to the issue of executing mentally retarded individuals is the issue of executing mentally ill individuals. Accepted standards of practice exist to ensure mentally ill persons are competent to stand trial and to determine whether an individual should be held criminally responsible for a given behavior. In Ford v. Wainwright (1986), the Supreme Court addressed whether mentally ill persons who have been sentenced to death should be executed. The court held that, under the Eighth Amendment, it was not acceptable to carry out a death sentence against a person so “insane” as not to understand the nature or purpose of the punishment (e.g., the punishment of death or its link to the commission of the crime). This ruling falls far short of exempting mentally ill individuals from execution. It appears likely, however, that further legal discourse on the topic is on the horizon.
Capital Punishment in the International Community
International developments within the last 20 years or so have produced a clear, strong trend away from capital punishment. The number of countries that have abolished the death penalty is at an all-time high and the international community has called upon those countries that still use the death penalty to sharply curtail its use. In addition, international agreements have expressed a strong preference for an end to all executions.
As of December, 2000, the number of countries that had abolished the death penalty for all crimes, whether in peacetime or wartime, totaled 76 with an additional 11 countries abolishing the death penalty for ordinary crimes in peacetime, and an additional 36 countries being considered de facto abolitionist as they had not executed anyone within the last 10 years. Thus, 37 percent (71 countries) of the international community had retained the death penalty as of the end of 2000, a significant decrease from the 56 percent that had retained the death penalty as of 1988 and the 47 percent that had retained it as of the end of 1995.
With respect to the number of executions that take place, China leads the world in overall number of executions. For the period 1994–1998, China executed a total of 12, 338 people (although some Chinese scholars estimate that the true number may be a lot higher); Iran executed the second highest number, with 505 executions; Saudi Arabia executed 465 people; Ukraine and Turkmenistan executed 389 and 373 people, respectively, although executions ceased during 1997 for both countries. The United States was sixth highest for that same period with 274 individuals being executed (93 of these in Texas). When the estimated annual rate per million population is examined for this same time period, Turkmenistan leads the international community with 14.92 people per million being executed annually, followed closely by Singapore with 13.93 people per million being executed annually; Saudi Arabia executed 4.65 people per million annually; and Belarus executed 3.20 people per million annually. China, although having the highest number of executions, executed 2.01 people per million annually and the United States was far lower at 0.20 people per million executed annually during that time period.
Recently, China has taken steps to respond to domestic and international criticism regarding its extensive use of capital punishment in an effort to reduce the high rate of executions. On October 30, 2006, China adopted new rules requiring that, as of January 1, 2007, all death sentences be reviewed by the Supreme People’s Court. The National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, approved this amendment, which restores a power that was stripped from the Supreme Court in 1983, in an effort to reduce the widespread and arbitrary use of the death penalty. China had been facing increasing criticism over the last few years after a number of executed individuals had later been proved innocent.
Countries that have Abolished the Death Penalty for All Crimes (n = 76)
Andorra, Angola, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d”Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marion, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Slo- vak Republic, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela
Countries that have Abolished the Death Penalty for Ordinary Crimes in Peacetime (n = 11)
Albania, Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Cyprus, El Salvador, Fiji, Israel, Latvia, Mexico, Peru
Countries Considered to be de facto Abolishionist with no Executions in 10 Years or More (n = 36)
Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chile, Congo (Republic), Dominica, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Grenada, Guinea, Jamaica, Laos, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Myanmar, Nauru, Niger, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Togo, Tonga, Turkey, Samoa, Yugoslavia
Countries that still use the Death Penalty (n = 71)
Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, China, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Cuba, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kazakstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Rwan- da, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Portions of this article were excerpted from: McLearen, A. M., & Zapf, P. A. (2007). The death penalty: A brief review of historical roots and current practices relevant to the mental health practitioner (pp. 295-319). In R. K. Ax & T. J. Fagan (Eds.), Corrections, mental health, and social policy. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
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WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) newly created Science Advisory Board convened its first meeting today in Washington, D.C. Created last year, the board is charged with providing OJP with guidance and recommendations for research, statistics and grant programs, ensuring the programs and activities are scientifically sound and pertinent to policymakers and practitioners.
Today’s meeting provided the board’s newly appointed members with information about OJP’s mission and goals, and how their participation will enhance the overall impact and performance of OJP’s activities in criminal and juvenile justice. In Fiscal Year 2010, OJP awarded nearly 5,000 grants totaling $2.6 billion to the criminal and juvenile justice field. This funding will be used for research and evaluation programs designed to encourage innovative approaches to prevent and control crime, to assist victims, and to increase the capacity of state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies.
“The Science Advisory Board will play a critical role in institutionalizing the protection of science at the Department of Justice,” said Laurie O. Robinson, OJP’s Assistant Attorney General. “The board’s members will provide valuable input and guidance to ensure adherence to the highest levels of scientific rigor, while serving as a bridge between research and practice in the criminal justice fields.”
In November 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the 18 board’s members – experts and scholars in criminology, statistics, sociology and practitioners in the criminal and juvenile justice fields. The members are:
Chair: Alfred Blumstein, Ph.D., The H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Blumstein is a previous winner of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology and serves as the J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon Heinz College.
William J. Bratton, Chairman, Altegrity Risk International. Mr. Bratton most recently served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Andrea J. Cabral, Sheriff, Suffolk County, Mass. Sheriff Cabral was elected as the 30th Sheriff of Suffolk County and she is the first female in the commonwealth’s history to hold the position.
Frank Cullen, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati. Dr. Cullen is the past editor of Justice Quarterly and Journal of Crime and Justice and was president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Tony Fabelo, Ph.D., Director of Research, Council of State Governments Justice Center. Dr. Fabelo was a member of the National Research Council panel of the National Academy of Sciences that issued two national reports in 2000 and 2001 on juvenile crime and juvenile justice.
James M. Lepkowski, Ph.D., Chair, Program in Survey Methodology, University of Michigan. Dr. Lepkowski is Senior Research Scientist at the Survey Research Center and Associate Professor of Bio-statistics at the University of Michigan.
Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Leshner has been the chief executive officer of the AAAS and Executive Publisher of the journal, Science, since December 2001.
Mark Lipsey, Ph.D., Director, Peabody Research Institute, Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Lipsey is the director of the Peabody Research Institute and his research and teaching interests include public policy, program evaluation and social intervention with an emphasis on programs for children and youth.
Colin Loftin, Ph.D., School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York. Dr. Loftin is co-director of the Violence Research Group, a research collaboration with colleagues at the University at Albany and the University of Maryland that conducts research on the causes and consequences of interpersonal violence.
The Honorable Theodore A. McKee, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge McKee served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney where he prosecuted cases of public corruption, police brutality and civil rights violations.
Tracey L. Meares, J.D., Deputy Dean and Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale University. Professor Meares’ research and teaching interests center on criminal procedure and criminal law policy, with a particular emphasis on empirical investigation of these subjects.
Edward P. Mulvey, Ph.D., Director, Law & Psychiatry Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Mulvey is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.
Joan Petersilia, Ph.D., Faculty Co-director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
Dr. Petersilia is the author of 11 books about crime and public policy and has conducted research about parole reform, prisoner reintegration, and sentencing policy.
Joycelyn Pollock, Ph.D., Department of Criminal Justice, Texas State University. Dr. Pollock began her career in criminal justice as a probation and parole officer in the state of Washington. Her primary research areas include prisons, women in the system (as professionals, offenders and victims) and legal topics.
Richard Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri. Dr. Rosenfeld is the Curators Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He recently served as the President of the American Society of Criminology. Dr. Rosenfeld is the co-author with Steven Messner of Crime and the American Dream, now in its fourth edition.
Elizabeth A. Stasny, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies in Statistics and Bio-Statistics, Ohio State University . Dr. Stasny has served on the editor boards of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Survey Methodology. She is a recognized expert in dealing with missing data and other response errors in surveys.
Robert J. Sampson, Ph.D., Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Harvard University . Dr. Sampson is the 2011 co-recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. He and Dr. John H. Laub, Director of the National Institute of Justice, are joint winners for their work on understanding how and why criminals stop committing crime. Dr. Sampson currently is on a one-year research sabbatical from Harvard University to the Russell Sage Foundation. His research interests center on crime and violence, the life course, neighborhood effects and the sociology of the modern city.
David Weisburd, Ph.D., Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, Hebrew University and George Mason University. Dr. Weisburd is the 2010 winner of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology and one of the early proponents of place-based experimental research in criminology.
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Most elementary and even preschool teachers have poetry centers or do a poetry unit with their students. They can help with word play, rhyming words, introduction and reinforcement of different poem styles, similes, word comparisons and more. Because poetry centers are usually set up as a bunch of poems for students to read quietly, it’s not very interactive or fun – especially for your kinesthetic learners. An easy way to make your poetry center more interactive and fun is to incorporate some American Sign Language signs.
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Integrating ASL With Poetry Is Easy and Fun!
Here are a few tips for integrating ASL with your poetry unit.
- Choose a poem that goes along with and supports your curriculum, to make the content more meaningful.
- Choose one or more words on each line for the students to sign. Be sure to pick out the keywords (or the most important words in the poem) as your signing words.
- If you don’t already know how to sign the words, look up the signs in an American Sign Language Dictionary. I highly recommend Michigan State University’s ASL Web Browser.
- Teach your class how to read and sign the poem. You may want to explain to your class that you aren’t really signing the whole poem, just the keywords or the most important words. (This could make for a great keyword lesson as well.)
Then during poetry center time, your students can practice reading the poem again, but they can also practice the signs that go along with the poem as they read. They will then, in a sense, be storytelling or acting out the poem with their hands. You can even make cards with pictures of the signs on them and they could match the words in the poems with the sign cards. This strategy will also help your struggling readers as many signs are iconic in nature, that is they look like the actual object, so give a great visual representation of new words they are trying to learn/read.
If your students are good at their dictionary skills and at finding keywords, you could put an American Sign Language Dictionary in the poetry center with a new poem and see if the children can find and figure out how to do the signs for the keywords in the poem on their own. If correct, they could even teach and/or show the rest of the class how to sign the poem they worked on.
By integrating American Sign Language signs into your poetry center or your poetry unit, you can create a new, fun, and interactive way for your students to learn about the joy of poetry.
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Welcome to Utah County History and Genealogy!
My name is Mary Ann Hetrick, I am the Coordinator for Utah County. I don't live in Utah County, but I do have many paternal roots in the county. I will do my best to add what we can to help you find your ancestors. I can't do research for you, or answer queries, what I know will be posted on these pages.
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In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index. In June, as the Kentucky Project was coming to completion, it was decided to create this page for all states. Volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of county pages for each state page.
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Facts About Utah County
- County Seat: Provo
- Year Organized: 1849
- Square Miles: 2,003.45
- Originally Named: Cedar
- Became Utah County, Utah: 3 Mar 1852
- Cedar County: created; 5 Jan 1856-17 desolved;Jan 1862,
Land was divided between Tooele County and Utah County, the records were transferred to Utah County. The Cedar County records were
then transferred from Utah County to the Utah State Archives in March 2003.
Per Laws of Utah;1855-56, p. 7; 1861-62, p. 51
- Named for: Yuta, the Spanish name for the Ute tribe
Before the valley was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1840s and 1850s it was the home of the Ute Indians. They lived along the eastern shore of the lake and used fish from the lake as their main food source. These Indians were described as peaceful and kind by the Spanish Catholic priests Dominguez and Escalante, who observed them in 1776. Dominguez and Escalante were trying to find a route between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and what is now southern California. When they came down Spanish Fork Canyon in the summer of 1776 they were the first non-Indians to enter Utah Valley~Roger Roper
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R-word | Spread the Word to End the Word
Words can hurt. While unacceptable to make racially charged statements, negative and demeaning comments towards those with special needs are often commonly heard.
Let's pledge together to end the use of such words and terms. Focus on inclusion. Those with intellectual disabilities deserve just as much respect and compassion as everyone else.
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10 Years Later: Victims of Terror Attack Remembered
Wednesday marked ten years since the terror attack in Wadi Haramiya in March of 2002.
Ten Israelis were killed in the sniper attack, when 22-year-old Tha’ir Kayid Hamad, an Arab from the village of Silwad, ambushed an IDF checkpoint near Ofra. He killed both soldiers and civilians who stopped at the checkpoint.
Hamad was arrested two years after the attack and was sentenced to 11 life sentences.
A special memorial ceremony for the attack victims was held and was attended by the victims’ families, Binyamin Regional Council Chairman Avi Roeh and the commander of the IDF’s Binyamin Brigade, Sa’ar Tzur.
One of the victims of the terror attack was David Demlin, the commander of the platoon that came under attack. After the terrorist shot and killed some of the members of the platoon, Demlin and the unit's medic, Yochai Porat, emerged from a barracks building in which they were staying to locate the shooter and assist the casualties. Both were shot to death.
Since the attack, the checkpoint has been turned into a memorial for those who were killed. For David’s brother, Eran, however, the place “still feels like a battlefield.”
“I can appreciate what they did here, and I’d rather that someone remembers and sees what the futilities of war are like,” he said.
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600 couples say ‘I do’ every week in Scotland
THE number of couples tying the knot in Scotland has increased for the third year in a row, with marriage numbers reaching their highest level since 2005.
There were 30,534 marriages in Scotland last year, a 4.8 per cent increase on 2011, according to the provisional statistics from National Records of Scotland.
The figures also showed a “not unexpected” increase in the number of deaths, up from a record low in 2011.
The number of deaths in Scotland rose by 2.4 per cent last year to a total of 54,937, although the figure was the fourth lowest recorded in more than 150 years.
Scotland’s death toll registered in 2011 – at 53,661 – was the lowest annual total since records began in 1855.
More people died of cancer last year, up 2.3 per cent to 15,808, but deaths from heart disease fell, by 2 per cent to 7,481, and deaths from stroke were down by 2.6 per cent to 4,474.
The National Records of Scotland handles statistics on births, deaths and adoptions, as well as marriages.
Tim Ellis, the new chief executive of National Records of Scotland whose job combines the role of registrar general and keeper of the records, said a key finding was the increase in marriage in recent years.
The former head of the cabinet, parliament and governance division at the Scottish Government highlighted an increase in weddings since the late 2000s.
“In historic terms, the number of marriages in 2012 was relatively low,” he said. “However, the total number of marriages has been rising since 2009 and in 2012 reached 30,534, an increase of 4.8 per cent on the 2011 figure.
“Although deaths rose in 2012, they are not high in historical terms.
“From the mid-1940s to the mid-1990s, there tended to be between 60,000 and 65,000 deaths per year, and larger numbers before then; far more than in recent years when the annual totals have been below 55,000.”
He added: “There is usually some year-to-year fluctuation in the number of deaths and in 2011 Scotland recorded its lowest-ever annual total, so an increase in the number registered in 2012 was not unexpected.”
Meanwhile, the number of births dropped to 58,027, down 1 per cent on the previous year and the lowest since 2007, according to the figures.
The proportion of babies born to unmarried couples was the highest yet, at 51.3 per cent and up slightly from the 51 per cent recorded in 2011.
As well as more marriages, more same-sex couples entered civil partnerships, up from 554 in 2011 to 574 last year, the National Records of Scotland showed.
Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie suggested that moves by Holyrood to legalise same-sex weddings would impact upon the marriage figures the years ahead.
Mr Harvie said: “I’d like to see every couple be able to choose whether they get married or have a civil partnership.
“It will be interesting to see how many would choose marriage and how this would impact upon these figures.”
However, Conservative MSP Alex Johnstone called on the Westminster and Scottish governments to do more to promote marriage as he welcomed the sharp rise in weddings last year.
The MSP for the North-East and shadow minister for communities and housing said that it was important to encourage the positive role a family can play in a child’s upbringing.
He said: “I’m delighted to hear that marriage is more popular and believe that it is the best foundation to establish family life.
“The increase in marriages in Scotland vindicates those who believe that marriage is the best way provide for children in a domestic situation. This trend also defies the interpretation of family life of those who would wish to see it changed.”
Mr Johnstone went on to call upon the Scottish Government to launch a cancer drugs fund, after the figures showed that the number of deaths from the disease had increased last year.
He said that the fund would set aside money to provide treatments for cancer sufferers which are not available on the NHS.
He said: “With more than 15,000 Scots dying from cancer last year, these figures show the terrible scale of the problem we are facing.
“There is a need for a fund to deal with very specific cases where a certain type of drug and therapy is needed.”
Meanwhile, the latest National Records of Scotland figures did not include the numbers of divorces and dissolutions of civil partnerships.
The Scottish Government is now the only publisher of statistics of divorces and dissolutions for Scotland, with the latest statistics set to be published towards the end of this year.
Divorces hit a 30-year low at 9,814 in 2011, according to the last set of figures released in 2012.
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While Catholics have been watching the selection of the pope closely, so too have believers in other religions.
WISN 12 News spoke to some of them Wednesday, who told 12 News reporter Abe Lubetkin they hope the new pope brings a message of unity.
As Catholics around the world watched smoke rise from the Vatican, Milwaukee Jewish Federation President Hanna Rosenthal was watching with them.
"I think all religions are looking at: What will the future look like? And how do we adapt to the future and keep the faith with our values?" Rosenthal said.
Rosenthal said Jews will watch to see how the new pope handles one particular trend in Europe.
"In Europe today, anti-Semitism is rising at alarming numbers, and there's a role and responsibility for Catholic leaders to deal with it, to speak out, to condemn it," Rosenthal said.
At the Sikh Religious Society of Wisconsin in Brookfield, the president told WISN 12 News he would like to see the pope preach tolerance for all religions.
"At the end of our prayer was always say (something that means): We pray for the whole entire humanity not just for the Sikh people, and I'm expecting the pope to convey the same message," Dr. Gurcharan Singh Grewal said.
He told WISN 12 News that Sikh temple members will work to learn about the new pope.
"I think we've got to be broadminded," Grewal said.
Open-mindedness is what Muhammad Sabir, with Milwaukee's Ahmadiyya Muslim community is hoping for.
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Jada Wiiliams of Rochester N.Y., never imagined when she wrote an essay comparing the racist oppression faced by Frederick Douglas to her current lived experiences as a Black student, that it would end with her teacher claiming offense or in Jada having to leave the school. “Most White teachers that I have come into contact with over the last several years of my life, have failed to instruct us – even today,” she wrote. Her parents were forced to pull her out of school when they noticed that her grades suddenly began to drop in several of her classes. In tears, she told ABC News, “I did feel overwhelmed because I didn’t know that it would become this huge.”
The fact that her grades declined after handing in this essay adds validity to the charges of racism that Williams bravely made in her essay. RCSD Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas, who is clearly on the defensive, stated that, “Teachers, regardless of their color, are able to teach us.” Most of the teachers in the Rochester district are white. Although teachers are forced to take sensitivity classes, regardless of their intent, the fact remains that they have been raised in a culture steeped in white supremacy.
This incident will serve as a very harsh teaching lesson to young Jada. Though Whiteness has attempted to claim that we are post-racial, or that we have at least reached the point where the kind of virulent racism experienced by Blacks during slavery and Jim Crow has so severely declined as to make it negligible, ongoing attacks against racial minorities continue to be pervasive in almost every social institution – the exception, of course, being inside (some) Black families. This means that charges of racism are often reduced to the minority in question being too sensitive or playing the so-called “race card” to invoke sympathy.
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research reported in 2006 that the graduation rate for the year 2003 was seventy percent. When the numbers are divided by race and gender however, the success rate drops drastically.
- Nationally, the graduation rate for white students was 78 percent, compared with 72 percent for Asian students, 55 percent for African-American students, and 53 percent for Hispanic students.
- The gender gap in graduation rates is particularly large for minority students. Nationally, about 5 percentage points fewer white male students and 3 percentage points fewer Asian male students graduate than their respective female students. While 59 percent of African-American females graduated, only 48 percent of African-American males earned a diploma (a difference of 11 percentage points). Further, the graduation rate was 58 percent for Hispanic females, compared with 49 percent for Hispanic males (a difference of 9 percentage points).
This suggests that though Jada’s paper was completely experiential, clearly some sort of race bias must be in place. Black children arrive at school as eager to learn as their White counterparts, and yet by the third grade, many have either fallen behind, or else they are routinely labeled as “problem children.” The only true universal subjects are math and science because they are not open to interpretation; the answers are either right or the wrong. All other subjects are graded based on the teachers’ evaluation of performance, which leaves much room for racism.
A teacher need not evaluate unfairly to added racial bias to the classroom. All he or she has to do is to spend less time instructing minority students in their class or fail to encourage them to excel in the same manner as they do white students. In The Biography of Malcolm X, one of the most memorable scenes for me was that of the white teacher telling Malcolm to seek a manual labor job, even though he was clearly intelligent and desired to go to law school.
The Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision brought an end to segregation in schools, and for the first time, Black students were exposed to White teachers. This has not necessarily been positive for Black children. The history that is taught in schools is framed through a lens of White supremacy, with additives like Black History Month being thrown to mask enormous inequalities in education. Today’s students are forced to learn the oppressor’s truth by a white supremacist educational system that presents heavy-handed biases into history, language, and even the arts.
Jada’s teacher was only able to personalize her essay because it has become the common belief that living with racism is less harmful then being accused of being a racist. The teacher’s reaction, while not surprising, is disappointing. Instead of leading to persecution, Jada’s essay should have been an impetus to create change that ensures all students are performing to their best abilities and receiving equal treatment.
Though Jada faced persecution for speaking her truth, The Frederick Douglas Foundation of New York presented her with the first Spirit of Freedom award. It is my hope that this award will serve to encourage her to keep speaking her truth in the face of resistance and empower her to continue to seek excellence.
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Four of city’s streets on most polluted list
ABERDEEN’S Union Street has become one of the most polluted in Scotland.
Three other city routes – Wellington Road, Market Street, and King Street – also failed to meet EU and UK air pollution targets according to environmental campaigners.
Delays in building the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route – and failure to pedestrianise parts of the city centre – are being blamed for the dirty air.
For the full story, pick up a copy of today’s Press and Journal or read our digital edition now
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Novartis announced that the European Commission (EC) granted a Marketing Authorization for Menveo® (Meningococcal Group A, C, W135 and Y conjugate vaccine) in all 27 European member states. Menveo is indicated for the active immunization of adolescents (from 11 years of age) and adults at risk of exposure to Neisseria meningitidis groups A, C, W135 and Y, to prevent invasive disease. Menveo is the first conjugate vaccine commercially available in Europe that helps protect against four major groups of meningococcal disease.
Novartis intends to submit additional data to the European Medicines Agency to support the use of Menveo in other age groups.
Meningococcal infection is a leading cause of bacterial meningitis - an infection of the membrane around the brain and spinal cord - and sepsis - a bloodstream infection,. Meningococcal disease progresses rapidly and can lead to death within 24-48 hours of the first symptoms. Of those who survive, as many as one in five will suffer life-long complications such as brain damage, learning disabilities, hearing loss and limb loss.
"Marketing approval for Menveo for people ages 11 and older is the culmination of 10 years of dedicated effort by Novartis Vaccines to provide a vaccine that can help protect against meningococcal disease," said Andrin Oswald, Division Head of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics. "Our priority is to advance the fight against meningitis through innovative vaccines that help save lives."
The majority of all meningococcal disease cases around the world can be attributed to five main groups - called serogroups - of the bacteria that cause meningococcal disease, Neisseria meningitidis. Importantly, dominant groups of meningococcal disease can vary by country and region, and change over time, making it an even more unpredictable disease. The most effective way to prevent this deadly disease is through the use of a vaccine that offers protection against as many bacterial groups as possible.
Adolescents and young adults are at increased risk of contracting meningococcal disease, often because they start to encounter new situations and undergo changes in their lifestyles,. Other groups at increased risk of contracting meningococcal disease include travelers, military personnel and Muslim pilgrims traveling to the Hajj or Umrah.
Menveo was developed using conjugate technology, which was pioneered by Novartis Vaccines in the development of its meningococcal group C conjugate vaccine, Menjugate®. A conjugate vaccine is developed by attaching a polysaccharide antigen - the key component of a vaccine that prompts the body to respond to infection - to a carrier protein in order to enhance the body's immune response to the vaccine.
When utilized in a national immunization program, conjugate vaccines (such as those designed to help protect against Hib, pneumococcal and meningococcal group C disease) have reduced the number of people (both vaccinated and unvaccinated) who carry the bacteria that cause the disease. Novartis is currently studying the long-term safety and immunogenicity of Menveo, and is considering clinical studies on carriage.
Menveo has been administered to more than 18,500 people and is currently in multiple Phase III clinical studies in infants and toddlers worldwide. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Menveo for use in 11-55 year olds.
Marketing Authorization was based on data from a pivotal Phase III clinical trial and a non-inferiority study. In the non-inferiority study, immune response was assessed among adolescents 11-17 years of age. Menveo was shown to be non-inferior to a quadrivalent meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine (ACWY-PS) for all four meningococcal groups contained in the vaccine. At one year after vaccination, a higher proportion of adolescents who received Menveo had maintained a protective immune response against three of the four meningococcal groups (groups C, W135 and Y) than those who received ACWY-PS. Further, when evaluated in adults 56-65 years of age, Menveo was shown to be non-inferior to ACWY-PS in all four meningococcal groups contained in the vaccine and statistically superior for groups A and Y. The clinical significance of these findings is unknown.
Achieving and maintaining an immune response in adolescents is considered important because they are particularly susceptible to meningococcal disease and are more likely to carry the bacteria than other age groups. In addition, adolescents and young adults have relatively high death rates from meningococcal infection. A study in the United States found that nearly a quarter of meningococcal infections in 15- through 24-year-olds were fatal.
"Meningitis often develops without warning, and progresses rapidly, making it a particularly dangerous disease,," said Chris Head, Chief Executive of the Meningitis Research Foundation, UK. "Awareness of symptoms, understanding treatment and, above all, prevention with a vaccine that helps to protect against multiple groups of bacteria will help save lives and prevent devastating, lifelong after-effects."
About meningococcal disease
Most cases of meningococcal disease occur in previously healthy people without any warning. Even small changes in lifestyle - such as going out to clubs, travelling, smoking, going to college or military duty - can increase the likelihood to become a carrier of meningococcal bacteria and the chance of a person contracting meningococcal disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) and several national governments recommend the use of meningococcal vaccination for people considered to be at increased risk for developing meningococcal disease, such as adolescents, travelers to areas known for outbreaks, military personnel and Muslim pilgrims travelling to the Hajj or Umrah,.
Because the initial symptoms of meningococcal disease can be non-specific and flu-like, it can be difficult for health care professionals to diagnose early. Classic symptoms, such as neck stiffness and petechial rash, do not appear until relatively late in the illness - 13 to 22 hours after the first symptoms appear.
According to the WHO, approximately 5-10 percent of those who contract meningococcal disease will die, even if they are diagnosed and receive treatment. Of those who survive meningococcal disease, as many as one in five will suffer life-long complications, such as brain damage, learning disabilities, hearing loss and limb loss.
Infants are the most vulnerable population and represent the greatest unmet need. About 6-10 percent of children under 12 months of age who contract meningococcal disease will die.
About Novartis Vaccines' global meningococcal franchise
Menveo vaccine is based on the same proprietary technology Novartis Vaccines pioneered to produce Menjugate®, a meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine approved outside the U.S. since 2000 for use in individuals from 2 months of age through adulthood. The company has already distributed more than 41 million doses of Menjugate around the world. Novartis also produced MenZB®, a vaccine against a strain of meningococcus B specific to an outbreak in New Zealand.
Novartis Vaccines is a global leader in providing vaccines to protect against deadly meningococcal disease. Through industry-leading scientific expertise, the company is focused on extending critical meningococcal vaccines research. In addition to developing Menveo vaccine, Novartis Vaccines is developing a recombinant protein vaccine for its potential to provide broad coverage against multiple strains of serogroup B, for which no vaccine is currently available.
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics is a division of Novartis, focused on the development of preventive treatments. The division has two businesses: Novartis Vaccines and Novartis Diagnostics. Novartis Vaccines is the world's fifth-largest vaccines manufacturer and second-largest supplier of flu vaccines in the US. The division's products also include meningococcal, pediatric and travel vaccines. Novartis Diagnostics, the blood testing and molecular diagnostics business, is dedicated to preventing the spread of infectious diseases through the development of novel blood-screening tools that protect the world's blood supply.
Novartis provides healthcare solutions that address the evolving needs of patients and societies. Focused solely on healthcare, Novartis offers a diversified portfolio to best meet these needs: innovative medicines, cost-saving generic pharmaceuticals, preventive vaccines, diagnostic tools and consumer health products. Novartis is the only company with leading positions in these areas. In 2009, the Group's continuing operations achieved net sales of USD 44.3 billion, while approximately USD 7.5 billion was invested in R&D activities throughout the Group. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Novartis Group companies employ approximately 100,000 full-time-equivalent associates and operate in more than 140 countries around the world. For more information, please visit http://www.novartis.com.
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2. Schaffner, W. et al. The Changing Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease Among US Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults. National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. November 2004. Available at: http://www.nfid.org/pdf/meningitis/FINALChanging_Epidemiology_of_Meningococcal_Disease.pdf. Accessed on January 19, 2010.
3. Jackson, L. et al. (2009). A randomized trial to determine the tolerability and immunogenicity of a quadrivalent meningococcal glycoconjugate vaccine in healthy adolescents. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2009: 28(2), 86-91.
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (The Pink Book: Course Textbook). 10th Edition, 2nd printing. February 2008 update. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/default.htm. Accessed on January 19, 2010.
5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meningitis: Questions & Answers. June 2009 update. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/about/faq.html. Accessed on January 19, 2010.
6. World Health Organization. Meningococcal Meningitis Fact Sheet. May 2003. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs141/en/print.html. Accessed on January 19, 2010.
7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease - Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. MMWR 2005; 54 (RR07): 1-21. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5407a1.htm. Accessed on January 19, 2010.
8. Novartis Data on File.
9. National Advisory Committee on Immunization. (2009). Update on the invasive meningococcal disease and meningococcal vaccine conjugate recommendations. Canada Communicable Disease Report, April 2009, Vol. 36. Available at: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/ccdr-rmtc/09pdf/acs-dcc-3.pdf. Accessed on January 19, 2010.
10. Harrison, L. et al. (2001). Invasive meningococcal disease in adolescents and young adults. Journal of the American Medical Association 2001: 286(6), 694-699. Available at: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/286/6/694. Accessed on January 19, 2010.
11. Pollard, A. J. and Maiden, C.J. (Eds.) (2001). Meningococcal Disease: Methods and Protocols. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, Inc.
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13. Thompson, M.J. et al. (2006). Clinical recognition of meningococcal disease in children and adolescents. Lancet, 367(9508), 397-403. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16458763. Accessed on January 19, 2010.
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Call for national laws to tackle workplace bullying
Maurice Blackburn is calling on the Federal Government to introduce for the first time national legislation to make workplace bullying illegal and give victims quicker access to the legal system.
“The Productivity Commission estimates bullying and harassment costs the Australian economy between $6 billion and $36 billion a year.”
Maurice Blackburn Employment and Industrial Law Principal Josh Bornstein said workplace bullying was endemic across all professions but was not explicitly addressed by any federal law.
“Workplace bullying involves degrading, belittling, humiliating and threatening behaviour; in some cases it spills over into violence,” Mr Bornstein said.
“It is devastating for victims and their families and has an immense economic impact. The Productivity Commission estimates bullying and harassment costs the Australian economy between $6 billion and $36 billion a year.
“It is astounding that Australia lacks national legislation to enable victims to take action to stop bullying in its tracks.
“Currently, victims of workplace bullying rely on occupational health and safety or personal injury laws.
“Invariably these cases proceed well after employees suffer irreparable harm to their health and career. The time for
legislation permitting employees to seek a remedy proactively before such damage is done is now.
“I have seen too many employees destroyed by sociopathic workplace bullies; their careers ruined along with their health.”
Mr Bornstein said the Federal Government must consider:
introducing new legislation, giving victims the ability to quickly access a court or tribunal to expose bullying at work
enabling victims to seek court orders or injunctions for proven cases of bullying
a national educational campaign to reveal the true costs of workplace bulling, and
- work with Australia’s mental health sector to work with employers and employees to take action to pre-empt the health, economic and other damage wrought by this problem.
Mr Bornstein said workplace bullying corrodes a person’s dignity, self-esteem, job satisfaction, motivation and ultimately mental and physical health.
“Workplace bullying is above all, a matter of how we treat each other as human beings. It is illegitimate. It is toxic. It should be explicitly addressed in our statutes,” he said.
“A national law that enables employees to seek urgent orders stopping the bullying conduct, and before the real damage is done, is well overdue. Once a light is shone on a bullying culture, it tends to wither and die.
“That’s why Maurice Blackburn is calling on the Federal Government to introduce new laws to better protect workers.
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Grassroots Natives Meet EPA, Highlight Keystone XL Concerns
American Indian citizens are ramping up efforts to inform various federal agencies about the potential harmful effects on tribal communities if the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline is granted permission to run through large portions of Indian country.
At least 100 grassroots tribal citizens participated in a thousands-strong February 17 rally in Washington, D.C., as they had at a similar White House peaceful protest in fall 2011. Their message was consistent: The federal government has done a poor job of consulting with tribes about the possible health and cultural impacts of the pipeline if it were allowed to carry oil through their homelands. Many of them fervently believe that such development could adversely affect health, have cultural ramifications and destroy sacred sites.
New messages were shared as well, said Kandi Mosset, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota.
“This protest was meant to show that our concerns have not faded—they have grown stronger,” she said, noting that with a new Secretary of State, John Kerry, there is also new opportunity to educate him and his staff on tribal positions. “This is a moment for John Kerry and the Obama administration to truly put their words into action in the protection of our Earth now and for future generations.”
Richard Ray Whitman, a citizen of the Yuchi/Muskogee Creek Tribes, said many Indians want to show their support for Canadian First Nations people who have already been affected by pipeline development on their homelands.
“Our concerns also go far beyond what might happen here,” he said in an IEN action alert. “Because of the extraction of the tar sands, we are currently witnessing the devastation of lands considered sacred by indigenous people in Canada. Opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline means standing in solidarity with all our Native brothers and sisters in the Northern U.S. and Canada.”
President Barack Obama famously delayed a decision on the pipeline’s development in the U.S. in November 2011, but the federal government has continued to study it, and its Canadian developer, TransCanada, has been working hard to find routes that would be acceptable to the U.S. government. The Obama administration has said to expect a decision sometime in 2013; many protesters were expecting to hear news in June. Obama chose to fast-track a southern portion of the pipeline in May 2012, but this is no guarantee that a northern pipeline will be approved. Hence, the protests continue.
On February 19 the Indian outreach expanded beyond the State Department and White House as a coalition of Indians secured a two-hour meeting with officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an effort to highlight the human rights impacts of the proposed pipeline on indigenous people.
“The meeting was a little disappointing,” Mosset said afterward, adding that the EPA officials “tended to deflect responsibility, saying that State is in total charge. They totally passed the buck.”
But tribal attendees pointed out to the EPA officials that they have a responsibility to consult on possible environmental and health impacts with State, and the agency’s own environmental justice initiatives appear to align with the concerns of Indians who are protesting the pipeline.
“They can be proactive if they want to be,” Mosset concluded. “We just have to keep pushing.”
In the end, the EPA officials, all from the Office of International and Tribal Affairs, said they most appreciated an anti-pipeline National Congress of American Indians resolution from June 2011 that the tribal attendees shared with them, as well as letters from the IEN explaining Native concerns in detail. The officials also suggested that the Indian coalition meets with Jodi Gillette, White House Senior Advisor on Native American Affairs, to highlight their concerns—a meeting that Mosset said is on the horizon.
At the same time, the anti-pipeline Indians are working overtime to get their messages out over the voices of some tribal leaders who they believe have offered approval of the development with the idea that it will offer tribal economic benefits, but without much forethought regarding long-term consequences.
“It’s unfortunate that we have to take on that fight, too,” Mosset said. “But we are ready, willing and able.”
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No breakwater plans for IR Inlet
INDIAN RIVER INLET -- Despite rumors to the contrary, officials from the state Department of NaturalResources and Environmental Control said there are no plans to install a breakwater near Indian River Inlet.
A breakwater is a structure built to reduce the intensity of wave action, intended to reduce erosion and provide a safe harbor for boaters. One side of a breakwater is subject to a buildup of sediment while the other experiences water with little to no waves.
The idea of installing a breakwater in a popular surfing area troubled surfers, many of whom learned the sport at the inlet.
"It would be devastating to this area because there's just not that many places to surf anymore," said Rich Donofrio, who has been surfing at the inlet since the 1970s. "Surfers would be so upset."
Tony Pratt, the shoreline administrator for DNREC, said surfers' concerns about the potential for a breakwater are unfounded. He said he had heard the rumors, but they are false.
"No one's discussed it with me," he said. "We're not doing anything on that. It's not a plan we're involved in."
Pratt said DNREC has no plans to build a breakwater anywhere on the Delaware coast, and if any other agency intended to build one, it would need to apply for permits through the department. DNREC has received no such application, he said.
The breakwater rumors swirled on the heels of a minor flap about changes to inlet parking that have come with the construction of the new bridge and remodeling of the park. Those issues appeared on their way to being resolved after DNREC and Department of Transportation officials met with fishermen and surfers recently to discuss potential changes.
No breakwater plans for the inlet should be a relief to surfers who have already been dismayed by beach replenishment up and down the Delaware coast that have affected surfing areas.
"The beach replenishment, I understand why they have to pump the beach, but I'm just wondering if there's a better way to do it," Donofrio said.
"I love this place, and I love the fact that people come here -- that's how I make my money. But the state park is a place that everybody uses."
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If Andy Warhol were alive today he would be totally digital. After all, Warhol embraced all forms of media in his day — recording lunchtime conversations and turning them into articles for his Interview magazine; directing avant-garde films, music videos, and SNL shorts; shooting Polaroids of the rich and famous for his portrait paintings; and using point-and-shoot cameras to document even the most mundane moments of his colorful life. Two current New York exhibitions explore Warhol as a man with a camera, that’s nearly always in hand.
Andy Warhol: Photographer at Danziger Gallery offers a slew of color Polaroids of celebrity pals — ranging from Debbie Harry, Liza Minnelli, and Sylvester Stallone to Ted Kennedy and downtown drag queens — along with photo-booth pictures of stylish New Yorkers and black-and-white snapshots of hotel dining carts, naked guys on a Montauk beach, and supermarket shelves full of cat food. Meanwhile, Warhol: Confections & Confessions at Affirmation Arts presents 8 x 10 B+W photographs from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh of subjects for paintings — including scattered eggs, a hammer and sickle, and various shadows — as well as such offbeat pictures as breast-feeding moms, still lives that feature a bug sprayer, and candid shots of Warhol posing with nuns and getting frisky on roller skates. Click through to view a selection of our favorites.
Andy Warhol, Banana, 1982, unique vintage gelatin silver print. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © 2012 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Black President, Double Standard: Why White Liberals Are Abandoning Obama
Electoral racism in its most naked, egregious and aggressive form is the unwillingness of white Americans to vote for a black candidate regardless of the candidate’s qualifications, ideology or party. This form of racism was a standard feature of American politics for much of the twentieth century. So far, Barack Obama has been involved in two elections that suggest that such racism is no longer operative. His re-election bid, however, may indicate that a more insidious form of racism has come to replace it.
The 2004 Illinois Senate race between Obama and Alan Keyes, two African-Americans, was a unique test of the persistence of old-fashioned electoral racism. For a truly committed electoral racist, neither Obama nor Keyes would have been acceptable—regardless of policy positions, biography or qualification—because both were black.
One way to determine how many people felt this way is to measure the “roll-off.” In presidential election years, a small percentage vote for the president, but then “roll off” by not casting ballots for state and local offices. A substantial increase in roll-off—larger than usual numbers of voters who picked John Kerry or George Bush but declined to choose between Obama and Keyes—would have been a measure of the unwillingness of some to vote for any black candidate. I tested this in 2004 and found no increase, statistical or substantive, in roll-off in Illinois. Faced with two black candidates, white voters were willing to choose one of them.
The 2008 general election was another referendum on old-fashioned electoral racism—this time among Democratic voters. The long primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Obama had the important effect of registering hundreds of thousands of Democrats. By October 2008, it was clear that Obama could lose the general election only if a substantial portion of registered Democrats in key states failed to turn out or chose to cross party lines. For Democrats to abandon their nominee after eight years of Bush could be interpreted only as an act of electoral racism.
Not only did white Democratic voters prove willing to support a black candidate; they overperformed in their repudiation of naked electoral racism, electing Obama with a higher percentage of white votes than either Kerry or Gore earned. No amount of birther backlash can diminish the importance of these two election results. We have not landed on the shores of postracial utopia, but we have solid empirical evidence of a profound and important shift in America’s electoral politics.
Still, electoral racism cannot be reduced solely to its most egregious, explicit form. It has proved more enduring and baffling than these results can capture. The 2012 election may be a test of another form of electoral racism: the tendency of white liberals to hold African-American leaders to a higher standard than their white counterparts. If old-fashioned electoral racism is the absolute unwillingness to vote for a black candidate, then liberal electoral racism is the willingness to abandon a black candidate when he is just as competent as his white predecessors.
The relevant comparison here is with the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton. Today many progressives complain that Obama’s healthcare reform was inadequate because it did not include a public option; but Clinton failed to pass any kind of meaningful healthcare reform whatsoever. Others argue that Obama has been slow to push for equal rights for gay Americans; but it was Clinton who established the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy Obama helped repeal. Still others are angry about appalling unemployment rates for black Americans; but while overall unemployment was lower under Clinton, black unemployment was double that of whites during his term, as it is now. And, of course, Clinton supported and signed welfare “reform,” cutting off America’s neediest despite the nation’s economic growth.
Today, America’s continuing entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan provoke anger, but while Clinton reduced defense spending, covert military operations were standard practice during his administration. In terms of criminal justice, Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which decreased judicial disparities in punishment; by contrast, federal incarceration grew exponentially under Clinton. Many argue that Obama is an ineffective leader, but the legislative record for his first two years outpaces Clinton’s first two years. Both men came into power with a Democratically controlled Congress, but both saw a sharp decline in their ability to pass their own legislative agendas once GOP majorities took over one or both chambers.
These comparisons are neither an attack on the Clinton administration nor an apology for the Obama administration. They are comparisons of two centrist Democratic presidents who faced hostile Republican majorities in the second half of their first terms, forcing a number of political compromises. One president is white. The other is black.
In 1996 President Clinton was re-elected with a coalition more robust and a general election result more favorable than his first win. His vote share among women increased from 46 to 53 percent, among blacks from 83 to 84 percent, among independents from 38 to 42 percent, and among whites from 39 to 43 percent.
President Obama has experienced a swift and steep decline in support among white Americans—from 61 percent in 2009 to 33 percent now. I believe much of that decline can be attributed to their disappointment that choosing a black man for president did not prove to be salvific for them or the nation. His record is, at the very least, comparable to that of President Clinton, who was enthusiastically re-elected. The 2012 election is a test of whether Obama will be held to standards never before imposed on an incumbent. If he is, it may be possible to read that result as the triumph of a more subtle form of racism.
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New research from the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics found that women in low-paying jobs are nearly six times more likely to die from alcohol abuse than women in better-paying positions.
The report found that female cleaners, sewing machinists, and bar staff are 5.7 times more likely to face liver disease, mental disorders, and alcohol poisoning than lawyers and doctors, despite the fact that wealthier women drink almost twice as much alcohol. The study also found that men who work as laborers or drivers are about three and a half times more likely to die from alcohol abuse then those in higher-paying roles.
This report is the first analysis of the social inequalities in alcohol-related deaths in England and Wales over the past ten years. Last year, an Office for National Statistics report found that higher-paid women drink almost twice as much alcohol as lower-paid women.
Although this seems to be a contradiction, statistician Myer Glickman, whose team performed the study, said that there are other factors that could affect lower-income women's health, such as poor diet and smoking, which could make them more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol. Drinking patterns can also differ, such as binge drinking or drinking similar or greater amounts over a longer period of time. In addition, higher-paid women usually have better health care than lower-paid women.
The most alcohol-related deaths occurred in males between the ages of 50 and 54 with routine, lower-paid jobs and in women between the ages of 45 and 49 with routine jobs. For the less-advantaged groups, alcohol-related deaths peaked in middle age and then declined, whereas the risk of alcohol-related deaths increased steadily with age for managers and professionals.
This suggests that alcohol-related deaths among the less-advantaged tend to be more common, and that the less-advantaged tend to be younger when they suffer alcohol-related mortality.
The study also found that the number of alcohol-related deaths in England and Wales doubled between 1991 and 1998, increasing from 3,415 in 1991 to 7,344 in 2008. The most recent data from 2009 showed a 3.3 percent decrease in alcohol-related deaths.
Men in all classes of work had the highest mortality rate in the North West of England, followed by the North East, the West Midlands, and London. The mortality rate was significantly higher for all classes combined than England and Wales as a whole.
The East of England had the lowest mortality rate, about half of that in the North West. The second lowest was the South West, followed by the East Midlands and the South East. Similar patterns were seen for women, but with overall lower death rates.
Source: Daily Mail Reporter, Women in low-paid jobs 'six times more likely to die from alcohol abuse', May 25, 2011
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Jerusalem — To almost every country in the world, all of Israel’s settlements on the occupied West Bank are officially illegal. Israel rejects this view but does consider one group of settlements illegal under its own laws. Yet, less than a handful of these unauthorized outposts have been evacuated since June 2004, when then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised President George W. Bush to remove them. Of those that were evacuated, most were repopulated within days.
Now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet has decided to ignore Sharon’s promise for at least another three years. On March 11, the cabinet reached an agreement with Migron — the oldest of the unauthorized settlements, located near Ramallah — to allow residents to stay put until 2015. In the meantime, an authorized settlement will be built nearby, and that is where they will move in three years.
To Dov Weissglass, a senior aide to Sharon who was deeply involved in the commitments his boss made to Bush, the reason is simple: “My impression is that the present government does not feel it is bound by previous obligations,” he told the Forward. “They simply leave it as it is while all sorts of initiatives to legalize [the illegal outposts] pop up.”
Sharon’s commitments to Bush were based on, but independent from, the Middle East Road Map for Peace, a U.S.-brokered agreement accepted in June 2003 by Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Weissglass said he believed this agreement was now “obsolete.”
Mark Regev, Netanyahu’s spokesman, denied that Israel is failing to act against outposts, citing the Migron arrangement and the government’s plan to evacuate another community, Givat Assaf, this summer. “I don’t accept there is non-evacuation of outposts,” he said. “Illegal construction will be coming down.”
It will not, however, be coming down by March 31, the date by which Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the government to complete Migron’s demolition.
In the last 15 years Israel’s unauthorized outposts have become a bone of contention in the Middle East peace process. The term “outposts” encompasses approximately 100 Jewish communities in the West Bank that were built without government permits or planning approval. Despite this, many receive substantial government support. The international community has said that even if Israel does not evacuate approved settlements until a peace deal is achieved, it should evacuate the outposts immediately.
But outposts have become the issue that slips through the net. In his 2004 letter to Bush, Sharon said, “We are fully aware of the responsibilities facing the State of Israel. These include limitations on the growth of settlements [and] removal of unauthorized outposts.” In an accompanying letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Weissglass, his top aide, pledged to submit to the United States “within 30 days … a list of unauthorized outposts with indicative dates of their removal,” followed by “continuous action to remove those outposts in the targeted dates.”
Israel never submitted the list. U.S. and Israeli officials involved at that time offer varying reasons why.
Sharon, Weissglass said, “had a clear intention to keep his word and dismantle the [outposts]. But afterwards we got started with the disengagement from Gaza, which was very complicated and a heavy load in terms of public relations. So we did not feel it was the right time.” Later, Sharon was felled by a stroke.
Weissglass said also that America supported putting the matter on hold. And at least one former U.S. government official partially agrees.
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GEDLA ADAM: The Combat of Adam Against Satan; The Book of Adam & Eve translated by Rev. S.C. Malan, D.D.
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GEDLA ADAM: The Combat of Adam Against Satan; The [Ethiopic] Book of Adam and Eve, is also known as
The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan is a Christian pseudepigraphical work found in Ge'ez. It was first translated from the Ge'ez Ethiopic version into German by August Dillmann. It was first translated into English by S. C. Malan from the German of Ernest Trumpp. The first half of Malan's translation is included as the "First Book of Adam and Eve" and the "Second Book of Adam and Eve" in The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden. The Books mentioned below were added by Malan to his English translation; the Ethiopic is divided into sections of varying length, each dealing with a different subject. Books 1 and 2 begin immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and end with the testament and translation of Enoch. Great emphasis is placed in Book 1 on Adam's sorrow and helplessness in the world outside the garden.
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