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"To me what’s different and innovative about the NCI approach is its talk show approach. This approach consists of integrated videos featuring three expert guests talking on a single topic; a seasoned talk show moderator; a mini-documentary based on one of Brian’s visits and directed towards the audience of interest; and a closing video by Brian summing up the implications of what has been said.
Under the rubric of “Taking an honest look at healthcare,” these videos are presented to health care conference audiences on subjects like comprehensive cancer care, proactive pay for performance programs, quality management, greater efficiencies, and rationalizing supply chain costs.
The Medium is the Message
NCI with Brian as its executive video producer is on the right track. To use John Naisbitt’s words, “a visual culture is taking over the world.” In a culture dominated by video games, TV, Internet images, cell phone and Blackberry pictures, and YouTube, this visual approach has profound and broad implications beyond health care. Naisbitt lists eight manifestations of a visually dominated world.
- The slow death of the newspaper culture
- Advertising – back to a “picture is worth thousands of words”
- Upscale design of common goods.
- Architecture as visual art
- Fashion, architecture, and art
- Music, video, and film
- The changing role of photography
- the democratization of the American art museum
In health care, visual forms of communication – animation and voice-guided online interactive programs featuring illustrations and simple language- may soon replace or at least supplement powerpoint presentations. Everyday Americans listen to 25 million powerpoint talks, and many, including myself, are growing weary of bullet points. Subconsciously, whether we’re aware of it or not, many of us now may be wearing bullet-point protective vests. Many will welcome straight talk, clear pictures, and moving images to tell the story."
Dr. Reece implies that, by substituting visual images for text, our transition to secondary orality (although he doesn't use this term) will help us understand and resolve many of the problems hospitals face today concerning funding and operational procedures. I'm not sure how well this would work, but I agree that using some of McLuhan's intellectual tools might help us better frame the nature of the health care crisis. We can apply McLuhan's tetrad to the medium of the hospital to shed some light on the question:
Enhance healthcare efficiency by concentrating health care providers and resources in one location.
Obsolesce personal care skills. Medical students must take special courses in "bedside manner" and other "cultural competencies" in order to compensate for their intense technical training. In earlier times, the family doctor would have developed these interpersonal skills along with his/her medical skills.
Retrieve the "witch doctor." Complex diagnostic technologies, procedures and treatments make medicine seem like magic. This encourages "secondary orality" thinking and the view of the doctor as savior.
Reverse into ineffective healthcare institutions due to the over application of medical diagnostic technologies, fiscal starvation, bureaucratic inefficiencies, insurance and lawsuit pressures and medical professional "diagnostic blinders" caused by over-specialization and the pursuit of profit.
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but I'm not sure why visual forms of communication will be superior to Powerpoint bullets in and of themselves. Should we be encouraged that secondary orality modes of thought will influence discussions concerning the delivery of healthcare services? Without an exploration of the hospital institution as a medium, the discovery of solutions to the current health care crisis may be elusive.
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Today in hockey history, we have a player that extended his career through 5 decades in the NHL, a crazy trade, and a few records.
January 2, 1980 – While playing for the Hartford Whalers, Gordie Howe became the first player in league history to appear in an NHL game in FIVE different decades. Yes, FIVE different decades, meaning he played in the 1940s AND in the 1980s (and in between). He played in 1,767 NHL games in addition to 419 World Hockey Association (WHL) games through his career. He also played one game for the Detroit Vipers (International Hockey League) at the young age of 69, also making him the only player ever to have played hockey at the professional level in six decades.
January 2, 1988 – Washington Capital’s goaltender Clint Malarchuk recorded the team’s first shutout in 22 months, beating the Edmonton Oilers 2-0. That’s right, 22 months, which, in non-lockout times, is essentially a season and a half. The streak lasted 138 games and spanned across three seasons. To be fair, though, they were shutout just twice themselves in that span.
January 2, 1992- One of the craziest trades in league history occurred: Toronto sent Gary Leeman, Michel Petit, Craig Berube, Jeff Reese, and Alexander Godynyuk to Calgary in exchange for Doug Gilmour, Ric Nattress, Jamie Macoun, Rick Wamsley, and Kent Manderville. For those keeping score at home, that’s a 10-player trade.
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When the current HMS Ark Royal (R07) leaves Portsmouth early next year for a Turkish scrapyard, it mark only the second time in 99 years that there will not be an aircraft carrier bearing the name in service, construction or reserve*.
Ships bearing the name Ark Royal have been among the most famous, successful and powerful ships in the Navy. And yet the first association between the name of the famous Elizabethan flagship and naval aviation was a distinctly unglamorous converted collier. In fact, this overlooked ship provided valuable service for thirty years, outlasting her far more famous successor.
In retrospect it is surprising that such a famous name should have been applied to so unprepossessing a ship. The first Ark Royal since Howard of Effingham’s 1587 galleon was a merchant ship bought while under construction – seemingly the antithesis to the rakish ‘race-built’ galleon of legend.
HMS Ark Royal after modification to a catapult ship (www.naval-history.net)
The reason such an illustrious history should be invoked for a pedestrian lay in the changing nature of warfare. The Ark Royal was created to oppose an ‘Armada’ not of the sea but of the air. According to Richard Humble:
“In August 1914 the ‘German Armada’ giving most worries to the British Admiralty was the Imperial German Navy’s fleet of Zeppelin airships, not the warships of the High Seas Fleet… the British Admiralty at the outset of the war… feared that the German battle fleet would be better served in the air than the British.”
Indeed, after the failure of the airship HMA No1 ‘Mayfly’ in 1911, the Royal Navy’s rigid airship programme had not recovered, while the German Imperial Navy had a large number of advanced Zeppelins to call upon for reconnaissance and bombing.
In 1912-13, an armoured cruiser HMS Hermes had been modified with a launching ramp on her bow. This development was relatively short-lived, but persuaded the RN that there was merit in ships that could carry fixed-wing aircraft. A collier, under construction at the Blyth Shipbuilding Company was selected. The hull had largely been completed, but its typical sweeping merchantman sheerline was levelled at the bow to create a clear working foredeck for handling aircraft and running up engines. Machinery and superstructure were moved to the stern to ensure a clear forward space for aircraft handling.
The ship’s hold space was constructed as hangars capable of accommodating up to ten seaplanes. Two steam cranes were added to lift aircraft on and off the deck. Unlike the Hermes, seaplanes could not be launched from Ark Royal using trolleys on the deck.
When construction finished in 1914, the Ark Royal became the first ship in the world to be completed as an aircraft-carrying ship. It was also the largest seaplane carrier of the war, at 7,020 tons displacement. The Ark Royal’s most potent weapon was the Short S.184 seaplane capable of dropping a 14-inch torpedo.
By the time Ark Royal commissioned in 1915, the value of ship-bourne seaplanes had been proven. The daring raid on Cuxhaven had done little damage to the dockyards, but it had panicked German authorities and caused the High Seas Fleet to withdraw ships to more distant anchorages.
Rather than operating with the Home Fleet, Ark Royal was dispatched to Mediterranean with eight seaplanes. When the Dardanelles campaign began, Ark Royal was quickly on hand. The ship reached Tenedos, 15 miles from from the Dardanelles, on 17 February. Within two hours of its arrival, one of Ark Royal’s seaplanes was flying a combat reconnaissance, piloted by Wing-Commander Samson.
The Ark Royal’s aircraft took part in reconnaissance and gunnery spotting for British ships during the campaign and the subsequent landings at Gallipoli. The seaplanes were not suitable for offensive missions over land, and these duties were taken on by land-based aircraft flying from Tenedos.
HMS Ark Royal later in life as HMS Pegasus, after the addition of a tripod mast and Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns (Imperial War Museum) – see this post for more information about naval AA weaponry
However, the arrival of German and Austro-Hungarian U-Boats in the area meant it was no longer safe for the slow converted merchantman. According to Richard Humble:
“Ark Royal could only make 10 knots and it would have been suicide to keep her forward during a submarine scare.”
She was withdrawn from the forward area in July 1915. Most of the front line air-support work was therefore taken on by the smaller but much faster converted cross-Channel ferry Ben-My-Chree, whose seaplanes scored the first ever sinkings of enemy vessels by air-dropped torpedo. Ark Royal transferred to the Macedonian front before returning to the Mediterranean as a ‘mother’ ship for all the other seaplane carriers.
Ark Royal was back in action for the final seaplane carrier mission in Mediterranean, which took place in early 1918. On 20 January, Ark Royal and the converted ferry Manxman despatched their aircraft to attack the Turkish battle cruiser Yavuz, formerly the German Goeben, the ship that had brought Turkey into the war on the side of the Central powers. When the Yavuz ran aground at Nagara Point near the Dardanelles, after a sortie into the Mediterranean, several attempts were made to destroy or damage the ship by gunfire and with aircraft. The Ark Royal’s seaplanes scored several hits on the battle cruiser, but the small 65 lb and 112 lb bombs were insufficient to cause significant damage. This was “World War I’s heaviest sustained air attack on a warship,” according to Norman Polmar. Altogether, around 15 tons of bombs were directed at the ship.
After the war, Ark Royal saw service at trouble spots in the Black Sea, Somaliland, Basra, the Sea of Marmara and Smyrna, mainly by ferrying aircraft to RAF units on location.
Later, Ark Royal was taken out of front line service, but still had a vital role to play. The ship had been overtaken by the development of true aircraft carriers, of which the Royal Navy had five in service by 1930. Ark Royal’s uninterrupted foredeck made her ideal for trialling the catapults and accelerators being developed to launch aircraft directly from ships.
Between 1930 and 1939, Virtually every type of design for a ship-based catapult was mounted on Ark Royal’s forward deck and subjected to proof trials. Some 15 different marks of catapult underwent trials on the former seaplane carrier. These included compressed-air, hydraulic, hydro-pneumatic and cordite powered catapults.
During this period, Ark Royal would lose her famous name. A brand new aircraft carrier was laid down in 1935, and it was decided that she would be called Ark Royal. This might appear to be a snub on the old workhorse that had served since 1914, but this was not necessarily the case. After all, the work she had done in the First World War and beyond had created an unbreakable association between the famous name and naval aviation. The existence of the new, state of the art carrier was proof of the earlier Ark Royal’s success.
A Supermarine Walrus overflies HMS Pegasus while in service as a catapult training ship (www.seawings.co.uk)
Fittingly, the older ship, now named HMS Pegasus, was equipped with a section of mock flight-deck fitted over a track and compressed-air launching gear as part of trials for aircraft carriers including the one that would later take its original name.
At least 140 launchings were carried out using this rig, using both dead loads and five different types of manned aircraft. This system, was developed into the BH.I accelerator fitted to the carriers Glorious, Courageous, Argus and Ark Royal itself, and later the BH.III that was fitted to most WWII British aircraft carriers.
When war came again in 1939, Pegasus was needed once again. Her hangar space made her a useful for transporting aircraft to the remoter parts of the British Isles such as Orkney and Shetland. A more pressing need would see her restored to the front line.
The threat to Atlantic convoys from long-range land-based aircraft meant that a method was needed to operate fighters at sea. The RN did not have nearly enough aircraft carriers, and the first small carriers based on merchantman hulls were still over a year away from commissioning.
A plan was developed to fit catapults to merchant ships, so fighter aircraft fitted with catapult spools could be launched. Even this would take time to implement. Pegasus, however, could be rapidly fitted with the necessary apparatus, and moreover had internal space to carry up to five fighters.
In 1940 she was equipped to carry five Fairey Fulmar ship fighters and fitted with a P.II (‘pyrotechnic’ or ‘projectile’) catapult. This was made up of a trolley running on a simple track, powered by a battery of rocket motors of the type used in the RAF’s 3in rocket projectiles.
Pegasus was ready for this role rapidly, and joined convoy OG47, outward bound for Gibraltar, on December 3, 1940. She bore a Fulmar sitting on her catapult “like a great gaunt sea bird”, according to Kenneth Poolman. If an enemy aircraft was sighted, the Fulmar would launch, and intercept the contact. This done, the pilot was instructed to land at ‘the nearest airfield in Northern Ireland, if there happens to be one convenient, or in the sea if circumstances justify it’. Pegasus carried no means of communication with her aircraft and no radar for fighter direction – it was a relatively rudimentary solution.
In April the following year, Pegasus was joined by three further RN Fighter Catapult Ships, Maplin, Ariguani and Springbank, which were armed merchantmen equipped with P.II catapults athwart the hull. Pegasus was in fact the only fully Royal Navy ship used for these duties – the three other Fighter Catapult Ships retained their mainly-Merchant Navy crew and RN Reserve commanders. Aircrew and maintenance personnel were drawn from the Fleet Air Arm.
Once a sufficient number of Catapult-Armed Merchantmen (CAM Ships) had been introduced, Pegasus was once more withdrawn from the front line. For the second time she began her modest but essential career as a training ship. Seaplane training was conducted from the vessel until 1944, when she became a barracks ship.
After the war, Pegasus was sold off without ceremony and it appeared that her remarkable, if workaday career might continue. She was sold to a company that renamed her Anita I and intended to operate her as a merchant ship. The process of conversion began in Antwerp in 1947, but ceased the following year when the operator went out of business. She returned to Britain after having been bought by a UK scrap company, and after thirty years sterling but uncelebrated service, the first aircraft carrier Ark Royal was broken up at Grays, Essex.
*There was a two year period after the sinking of HMS Ark Royal (Pennant Number 91) before the keel was laid on the ship that would become HMS Ark Royal (R09). This ship was initially known as HMS Irresistible - however, during this entire period the seaplane carrier Pegasus, formerly HMS Ark Royal, was in service, so in certain respects there has been an ‘Ark Royal’ in the RN from 1914 to the present.
Richard Humble, Aircraft Carriers, Winchmore 1982
Norman Polmar, Aircraft Carriers, Potomac Books 2006
Kenneth Poolman, The Catafighters, Kimber 1970
Kenneth Poolman, Escort Carrier, Ian Allen 1972
Geoffrey Cooper, Farnborough and the Fleet Air Arm, Midland 2008
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Reality is a funny thing. Sometimes I hear people talk and they might say something that sounds like this, “She’s a funny one that one. She lives in her own world.” It makes me chuckle every time I hear something similar being said. The truth is, we all live in our own worlds. We just think that other people do too.
Many of us assume that how we experience life, how we see the world and how we operate in it is the same way other people do. The reality is, reality only exists in an individual’s mind. There is no universal reality—only individual ones. There are universal laws, but no universal reality.
In my reality, I can do anything I put my mind to.
When I was 15, I believed I could write in another language that is not my native tongue and be excellent in it. In other people’s reality, they think it wasn’t possible—until I proved them wrong. I won my first award writing short fiction in Malay—a language that is not my own—when I was 16 and went on to win two more awards after that, all before I was 23. My stories got published in five anthologies, one of which was translated into English for international publication. This proves my point that it doesn’t matter what other people’s realities are, what matters is your own.
300 years ago, mankind’s reality did not involve defying the law of gravity. Now, we don’t even think twice about it when we enter an elevator and push a button that takes us to the 30th floor of a building.
100 years ago, going to outer space was considered a ridiculous idea. Now space travelling is being commercialized for civilians like you and I.
Reality is a fickle thing. It really is. It can change at any time and it often does.
Almost two weeks ago, a friend of mine had a party for her daughter’s third birthday. I found out about it after the fact through some pictures posted on Facebook. It was on a farm and the birthday girl seemed suitably happy during the occasion. It didn’t bother me that I wasn’t invited. What really made me think was how they had gone to great lengths to conceal it from me.
I remember having a phone conversation to another friend on the little girl’s birthday during the week, reminding her that the little one was turning three that day. Her response was, “Oh, is it?” And then on the day of the party itself, I had texted her to ask if she had time to go for a coffee. She replied saying that she couldn’t, she was at a kiddies’ party. When I realized after the fact that it was this little girl’s party, I was baffled. Why she had to hide it from me was beyond my comprehension. The only explanation I could come up with was that in her reality, that was probably what she would prefer someone else do. She would probably feel offended for not being invited to a party and it was just best if she didn’t know about it. What she didn’t know wouldn’t affect her. So based on her reality, she had assumed that I was the same, so she acted accordingly.
In my reality, what that all meant was she had a significant lack of faith in me being understanding about the situation. It made me realize that I had made some false assumptions about her. In my reality, I thought the fact that we have known each other for twelve years meant that she knew me better than that. Obviously, a correction of that assumption was necessary. It made me realize that we don’t often see people for who they really are, we see them based on a certain set of expectations and also our assumptions of who they are. Often those expectations and assumptions are influenced by how we ourselves would behave in certain situations. In our personal rule books, we have our own ideas about how people ‘should’ or ‘should not’ behave, and somehow we think that other people operate based on those same rules. I’m guilty of that on occasion but I do catch myself before a further lapse of judgment occurs.
That incident was something that made me think about what reality really meant. To me, it was only a party after all. The girl can invite whoever she wants. It was not a life and death situation in which I was sacrificed. If I had to feel offended for not being invited to every dinner, every movie or every celebration of some sort that all my friends have, I would be the most offended person in the world. I tried to consider different angles on why people would sweat small stuff like this. I couldn’t come up with any so I put it aside and thought nothing more about it. I corrected my own expectations and assumptions about the two women and went on with my life.
Here’s the thing about reality—perception is reality and the only reality we know is the one we are in, and this varies from one individual to the next. When we change our perception, our reality changes, and what we see changes with us. If we feel any dissident about anything—if we are frustrated, disappointed or angry that something isn’t going our way, it’s because there is a gap between our expectations of what it should be versus what it actually is. Only a truly enlightened person sees something for what it is, the rest of us see it for what we think it is. That’s just my perception of reality. What’s yours?
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The growing presence of Islamic fundamentalist fighters is among the "most alarming" trends in Syria's civil war, a United Nations investigator said Monday.
"Some of them can be classified as jihadis," said Paulo Pinheiro, who chairs an independent international committee charged with investigating the situation in Syria. "Sometimes they fight together with some armed groups of the opposition. Other times they go by themselves. They have their own agenda."
Hours after presenting a new report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Pinheiro told CNN that the fundamentalist fighters were "one of the most alarming elements in the present stage of the civil war in Syria."
The commission also believes both sides of the conflict have committed war crimes, according to the report Pinheiro presented Monday.
"The commission found reasonable grounds to believe that government forces and the (Shabiha) had committed the crimes against humanity of murder and of torture, war crimes and gross violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, including unlawful killing, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, sexual violence, indiscriminate attack, pillaging and destruction of property," a summary of the report states. Shabiha are pro-government militia.
In addition, "The commission found reasonable grounds to believe that war crimes, including murder, extrajudicial execution and torture, had been perpetrated by organized anti-government armed groups."
Pinheiro told the council that "gross violations of human rights have grown in number, in pace and in scale."
At the meeting, Syria's representative said the commission's report "was neither accurate nor objective," according to a summary from the United Nations.
Speaking to reporters later Monday, a spokesman for France's Foreign Ministry said the report was "damning for the Damascus regime."
"We are looking at ways to ensure that the matter is referred to the International Criminal Court by the Security Council," spokesman Philippe Lalliot said.
In another report released Monday, Human Rights Watch said that armed opposition groups have "subjected detainees to ill-treatment and torture and committed extrajudicial or summary executions."
In other developments:
Many Syrian children can't go to school
The school year officially starts this week in Syria, but the reality of war prevents thousands of children from learning.
More than 2,000 of the country's 22,000 schools have been damaged or destroyed, according to the Syrian Ministry of Education.
The education crisis extends beyond Syria's borders.
The Lebanese government was working to place an estimated 32,000 refugee children in public schools, the United Nations Children's Fund said.
At the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, UNICEF was registering school-age children while working to build a school that can accommodate up to 5,000 students, the agency said.
For some children inside Syria who can't go to school, UNICEF provided "recreational kits because these children had nothing to do."
At least 142 people were killed in violence across Syria on Monday, the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said. The toll included 50 dead in Damascus and its suburbs and 31 more in Aleppo, the country's commercial capital.
CNN could not independently confirm those figures, which do not include deaths of government forces.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported Monday that operations "against terrorists" were continuing throughout the country.
Dozens were killed in clashes in Aleppo, the government news agency said Monday. Authorities also "inflicted heavy losses" in fighting with gunmen who tried to attack a security checkpoint in Homs, the news agency said.
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It has long been my personal thesis that at its true heart, Doctor Who is not a science fiction show, it’s a horror show designed for family viewing. Yes, there are scientific things that happen, and yes they’re fictional, but the most effective, most cherished episodes are the ones where astonishingly creepy things happen too, usually somewhere a little bit dark and dingy, and more often than not, involving something that looks incredibly unpleasant. That’s why all the monsters are monsters, in fact.
And most monstrous of all, according to recent polls, are the Weeping Angels, the scariest creatures since the show began, as this adorable clip from Comic Con serves to underline:
The thing with the Angels is they’re very very scary, but not just because of the level of threat they pose to the Doctor or anyone foolish enough to get in their way, or because of how they look (almost all of the Whovian aliens are menacing and grotesque to some extent), the really terrifying terror comes from a combination of very simple factors that I shall attempt to ennumerate below:
Factor 1: Everyone, at some point, has looked at a statue, with it’s glassy, unpupilled eyes, and felt a little chilled by the experience. The older the statue, or the more solemn the face, the more the stomach lurches. It’s as if they mournfully carry the weight of countless passing years on their shoulders, and they are trapped. The Weeping Angels are an ancient race, they actually DO carry that weight, and they’re modelled on the kind of statues you see in graveyards, so they’re doubly creepy. The only thing creepier would be gargoyles or cherubs, and of course, there’s no reason why they can’t be Angels too.
Factor 2: According to the Doctor in Blink, the Weeping Angels evolved in such a way that they are “quantum-locked” within their own stone forms, only being able to move if they are not observed. They evolved like that. It wasn’t a conscious choice, simply a matter of biological expediency. All they’ve got is their hunger, their instinct and their curse, and if they don’t feed, they corrode, just like actual statues do. Again, you can feel the vertiginous depth of eternity under your feet even considering such a fate. It’s not for nothing the Doctor calls them the loneliest creatures in the universe.
The fact that they look sad is just a coincidence, however. Put an unblinking Angel in front of an unblinking Angel and they’re frozen forever, or until something is placed between them, so they have to put their hands in front of their eyes to protect themselves. Which looks mournful. Actually, thinking about it, it IS mournful.
Factor 3: When you’re looking at them, they’re unable to move, but they are still there. This means you’re facing a foe which is single-minded AND unstoppable and whose hunting technique depends on your human body doing what it needs to do, at the expense of keeping you alive. It wouldn’t matter if they looked like the Adipose, all of the fear is based in your inability to stop yourself from doing certain things. You make it possible for them to get you.
By which I mean: Don’t blink? Don’t blink? What, ever? And don’t sleep? But I have to! And you say they move swiftly when I blink and I can’t turn my back to run away? But what chance does that give me? And now they’ve suddenly got fangs? Help!
Factor 4: Even the way the Angels feed is unsettling. They send their victims back to a point in time before they were born, and harvest the potential energy created by their sudden eradication from their own lives. What a lonely fate that must be, being out of time in your own, recogniseable world, before anyone knows who you are. It’s like you have become tainted by the burden of the Angels themselves (and if that’s not an Evenescence song title, it should be).
Factor 5: They have the ability to communicate using speech, but only if they capture someone, kill them, and invade their brain. That’s right, they use people as meat cellphones!
Factor 6: Don’t assume you’re safe watching an Angel through a video camera either. Blink while watching, turn your back, and you’re in trouble, because, as Amy Pond found out in The Time of Angels, “that which holds the image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel.” Which must logically include your TV set at home. Sweet dreams!
Factor 7: They can invade your eyes. They can INVADE, your EYES.
AND, on top of ALL of this, they STILL look really creepy, even when they’re not snarling.
The horror. The horror (but for a family audience).
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By Steve Graham, Networx
It's a simple theory: Spread predator animals' scents to scare away prey animals. In reality, predator urine is only sometimes effective in keeping deer, rabbits and other pests out of the yard. If used properly, it may be an effective part of a garden pest control strategy, but it is not guaranteed to work.
Shake-Away and other companies sell concentrated coyote and fox urine granules, and offer long lists of testimonials from customers whose flowers and vegetables were saved by the power of pee. On the other hand, plenty of other frustrated gardeners swear urine granules have done nothing to reduce animal annoyances.
We've looked past the anecdotes to find the truth about urine granules as garden protection.
Do they work?
No long-term, definitive studies have been completed on urine granules, but smaller studies have shown them to be moderately effective. Colorado State University Cooperative Extension compared coyote urine to other commercial products and home remedies in repelling hungry, captive mule deer and elk. The study found concentrated urine to be more effective against deer than three other commercial products (Ro-Pel, Hinder and Thiram), as well as home concoctions of habanero peppers, Tabasco sauce, human hair and soap. The study suggests, "home-remedy repellents are questionable at best," and notes that deer were seen eating bars of soap hung as repellents.
Coyote urine has roughly equal power in repelling deer to concentrated Hot Sauce-brand repellent and Deer Away, an organic spray that contains about 5 percent fermented egg solids. Concentrated Hot Sauce-brand repellent was the only product that outperformed urine on elk. However, the study notes that no solution is as effective as a good fence, and a hungry deer (or other animal) might ignore all other repellents.
Other studies found similar results. A 1991 study in the Journal of Wildlife Management found highly concentrated coyote urine effectively repels mule deer, but only if alternate food is available. Another study from the Journal of Chemical Ecology found that urine granules are only really effective around plants that deer do not prefer to eat. For example, the study found the urine kept deer away from eastern hemlock, but not the apparently delectable Japanese yew. As suggested in the studies, urine granules and other repellents should be used in conjunction with strategic plant selection.
Both these findings make sense. If a deer smells the corvine equivalent of a hot fudge sundae and doesn't see any other options, it is going to take its chances on outrunning a coyote with bladder issues.
How to use them
The studies don't offer a definitive endorsement of urine granules, but the granules are worth a try in a yard with animal problems. Be sure to use them according to package directions, and choose specific products for specific pests. Shake-Away sells 15 different formulations. Each deters a different animal, including a sprinkled mix of fox and coyote urine granules that keeps cats out of flower beds, and coyote urine granule packs that can be hung from trees at deer browsing height.
Experts also offer some other recommendations. Utah Cooperative Extension recommends reapplying the urine granules regularly, and rotating between a variety of repellents to keep out deer or whatever other animal is ravaging the garden. Its research suggests that deer and other animals can get used to any repellent and may start to ignore it.
Urine granules should also be used early in the growing season, when your blooming, well-fertilized, carefully watered plants are a more attractive option than most struggling wild plants. This is also when animals start to develop feeding patterns.
Again, the only surefire protection against most animals is a physical barrier. For deer, this means an 8-foot fence. For rabbits, voles and other animals, it might also include an underground barrier. Also keep in mind that coyote urine might attract coyotes looking for a mate.
And though humans may be predators, there is no evidence that urinating in the garden will deter any animals. The concentrations and pheromone levels are not high enough to be an effective repellent.
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I found some formulas based on height only (like Devine, Robinson, Miller), but I want to calculate the ideal weight based on gender, age and height. Is it possible? If so, which formulas are there ...
When I weight myself often, I realize that I fluctuate a couple pounds here and there. I can never seem to get an accurate reading that I can compare to another. Is there a time of day which you are ...
Of course, your weight varies throughout the day. Your weight is different morning/evening, before/after eating, and so on. Naturally if you are tracking your weight, you should measure your weight at ...
If you look at charts they will all say that I'm obese or worse. I'm 6'1" ~250 (dropping to 240) but I'm not "fat". These charts seem to base it on the fact that my weight vs my height is not in ...
Given the fact that it doesn’t distinguish between lean body weight and fat weight, why is body mass index so widely used to determine ideal body weight? When I started seriously exercising a number ...
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Beast of Barclay's Bank
Many years ago a strange organism appeared outside a branch of Barclays Bank north of London. The first member of the public to encounter it in the wild was an actor from a TV series. We know how old it is from documentary evidence, but if we didn't we could still carbon date it. Carbon dating uses a weakly radioactive isotope of carbon, carbon-14. If we know the proportion of C-14 in the organism when it was born, we could use the known rate of decay of C-14 to determine the organism's age.
The organism in question apparently had a strong survival advantage and has since proliferated to an unimagined degree. It has now colonized every continent and in some areas can be found almost everywhere, especially densely populated urban areas. It is usually known by an acronym, ATM, but its full name (non-Linneaen) is Automated Teller Machine. It has evolved considerably since its first appearance on earth and now carbon dating is no longer possible. Since ATM's are made out of inanimate materials, you may wonder how it was ever possible. To explain that we have to go back to its birth, 40 years ago. The ATM's father was inventor John Shepherd-Barron, now 82 years old. Like Archimedes, his eureka moment occurred in the bath:
"It struck me there must be a way I could get my own money, anywhere in the world or the UK. I hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar dispenser, but replacing chocolate with cash."
Barclays was convinced immediately. Over a pink gin, the then chief executive signed a hurried contract with Mr Shepherd-Barron, who at the time worked for the printing firm De La Rue.
Plastic cards had not been invented, so Mr Shepherd-Barron's machine used cheques that were impregnated with carbon 14, a mildly radioactive substance.
The machine detected it, then matched the cheque against a PIN number. (BBC)
C-14 emits very weak beta particles, so Shepherd-Barron wasn't concerned about the radiation exposure. It wasn't the only thing that wasn't very powerful. The machine only dispensed £10 at a time. Of course £10 went a bit further then. One consequence of the ATM that went beyond the cash availability is very much with us today: the PIN number.
Mr Shepherd-Barron came up with the idea when he realised that he could remember his six-figure army number. But he decided to check that with his wife, Caroline.
"Over the kitchen table, she said she could only remember four figures, so because of her, four figures became the world standard," he laughs.
Of course now we have much longer PINs and my security codes are so complex -- ten digits, upper case and lower case and at least one number and one special character -- the only way I can remember them is to write them on the blackboard in my office.
That's the price of good security, I guess.
Cross-posted at Effect Measure
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By their own admission, it is an "extraordinary" group of leaders from across business, NGOs, trade unions and science that have come together to find a new path towards sustainable development. But then again, these are extraordinary times.
Several powerful CEOs, including Unilever, Alcatel Lucent, Coca Cola and Anglo American, have joined forces with trade unions, NGOs and scientific institutes, to define a new multi-dimensional approach to solving the world's sustainability challenges.
Their message to governments at the Rio +20 conference is very clear. While politicians can set goals, move toward common standards, seek free and fair trade flows, and mobilise finance, they cannot save the world on their own.
The group, calling itself the Friends of Rio, go further by saying in coded language that governments actually need all the help they can get and would be foolish to turn down the support of emerging coalitions of business and civil society.
Friends of Rio, state: "Multi stakeholder efforts can often achieve, through collaboration, what governments working alone cannot, especially for those in developing countries. Such co-operative efforts can be transparent, participative and accountable.
"They can share costs and risks. They can be economically viable and at the same time they can demonstrate clear social and environmental benefits. They can be based on sound scientific knowledge and produce practical outcomes at scale, in a specific timeframe. And they are doing so now.
"Our proposition is clear: by tapping our combined capabilities, experience and insight, and our worldwide members, customers and value-chains, we can be a valuable informal civil society, business and science network to help government marshal specific multi stakeholder action on sustainable development across regions, issues and economic sectors, quickly and at scale.
"Working together, we can produce practical results to support wider government efforts. We can get things done. We invite government leaders gathered in Rio to engage us, and others of like mind, to help do so. There is no time for waiting."
The signatories, who also include the heads of WWF, the International Trade Union Confederation, the Red Cross and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, also make it clear they expect to be partners with government rather than being seen as a sideshow.
"Governments must mainstream their recognition of, and support for, such activities, making them part of their 'official' discussions on sustainable development," the group says.
While the Friends of Rio has started out with 26 members, it suggests that it can expand quickly as others join the informal campaign.
It points out that while there are many ideas about how to deal with the social, environmental and economic challenges of our age, the advantage of its approach is that it is already working in many parts of the world and across several sectors.
In fact the group showcases 30 practical examples of how innovative coalitions are already working.
"There is now substantial evidence that clearly-defined coalitions of willing and able actors from across government, business, science and civil society can mobilise their combined skills, innovation and resources to make clear progress at scale, against specific sustainable development goals," it says.
"Such practical collaborations cut across traditional boundaries of interest, expertise and nationality. They can be participative, transparent and accountable. They can be designed to meet combined social, economic and environmental objectives, relevant to each particular sustainable development goal. And they can and do deliver practical results, fast."
In its statement, the Friends of Rio expresses strong support for the development of a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but state they need to have clear targets, timelines and indicators, and be integrated with the existing post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) review process.
"These SDGs should integrate together the three dimensions of sustainable development, and be universally applicable and equitable," it says. "In Rio, governments should also agree on the key thematic areas for the SDGs, including food, water and energy security for all.
"Significant improvements in scientific research since 1992 allow us to better understand and predict how our environment is changing, and must also be used to help design these goals."
The development of the Friends of Rio has itself been a collaborative effort supported by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Dominic Waughray, head of environmental initiatives at WEF, says that what had become clear in recent years is that there is an enormous amount of expertise emerging from new areas such as cities, networks of provinces, scientific communities and think tanks, which are working in collaboration and showing strong progress.
"We are witnessing a transformation," he says. "We know we are experiencing a re-balancing of the global economy to a new growth paradign. We are experiencing the change process and that is creating uncertainty within international institutions. If we are in a transition, this creates an opportunity in a structural sense to have a vanguard set of scaled examples that can show you how to utilise new multi-dimensional sets of stakeholders. I do believe there is enough evidence and energy to show it is possible to make rapid progress. Human inclination is to think that if we are still having this conversation in five to ten years time, then we will have lost a golden opportunity."
Article originally appeared in The Guardian.
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Hola amigos: Many people believe, myself included, that in order to know yourself and achieve what you want, you must know your roots. People who don’t look back to where they came from don’t know themselves and can’t reach their full potential or their true destination.
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Life is more enriched if you know who you really are, if you know your roots that tells you where you do come from. Ancestry and genealogy are not just about names, is your family’s blood line passed on to many generations. That’s the reason why millions of individuals are trying to trace their family’s roots through genealogy.
When you’re making your own family tree, you will need genealogy forms that would make your task much easier. Two basic forms genealogists use to record all their ancestral information are family group sheets and pedigree charts. These forms help people keep track of all information they find regarding their family’s history in a standard format that can be easily read and understood. These forms are recognized by all genealogists around the globe and the software programs of genealogy forms are all standard.
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Most people use a pedigree chart. This form starts with you and then branches out back to display your direct ancestral line. Most of the pedigree charts cover about four generations with spaces included so that you can enter important dates, marriage, place or birth, and death and even photos.
The standard format of a pedigree chart is only eight and a half by eleven inches. If you want larger forms is also possible to obtain them, these are called ancestral charts where you can enter more than four generations.
You can still make use of the standard form even if you want to do more than four generations ; just make sure that you put reference numbers so that it will be easier for you to follow your family tree.
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Another genealogy form is the family group sheet form that focuses more on the family as a single unit. The sheet also has spaces for the name of the couple, their children (if any), and fields to write down the birth, marriage, death, and even burial places of the family members. Lines are included for the children’s spouses if they get married, along with sections for sources and comments.
This form is one of the most important tools in genealogy because there is room for your ancestor’s children and their spouses. The collateral lines are very important when you’re tracing a family tree.
These forms will work best if they are used together. Once you include a marriage on the pedigree chart, you must enter it on the family sheet. The pedigree chart form offers a quick glance-look of your tree, but the family group sheet offers further details for each generation of ancestors.
Tracing your roots has never been as easy as it is now. If you want to start with your own family adventure, get both the forms of the pedigree chart and the family group sheet and start your journey. These forms are necessary to make your family tree easier and more specific. Get a copy of the forms on the Internet and happy tracing the roots that made you! Enjoy the trip. ES
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Russian President Vladamir Putin said today that he will "do everything" in order to support Kofi Annan's peace plan for Syria.
AFP and Al Arabiya News quoted the Russian president as saying that "from the very start, from the first steps, we supported and continue to support your efforts aimed at restoring civil peace." He also assured Mr. Annan that his country will "do everything that depends on us to support your efforts."
This meeting comes just a day before western powers plan to have a vote at the UN Security Council over a resolution that will place sanctions on the Assad regime. Russia has consistently vetoed any such resolution that will place sanctions on Assad or force a transitional plan on his regime. Russia has also recently accused the western powers of attempting to 'blackmail' it into agreeing to such resolutions against Syria.
Moscow has proposed an alternative draft to extend the U.N. observer mission in Syria (whose mandate is scheduled to expire on Friday unless its mission is renewed) for another three months. However it does not want to take any action that will put pressure on Assad if he does not withdraw his heavy weaponry from Syrian cities.
The U.N. observer force was supposed to oversee the implementation of Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan last April. But it failed to come into any effect and violence has intensified since then. Annan's visit to Moscow seems to be a last ditch effort to get Russian support to help implement his plan.
Russia has stated it is not supporting Assad, however it continues to supply him with arms. Since NATO's aid to rebels in Libya last year that overthrew Colonel Gaddafi Russia has been adamant in ensuring that western powers do not intervene in the affairs of the Syria state. President Putin was quoted as saying that "the manner in which the Syrian crisis is resolved will largely determine the model the world community uses to respond to future internal conflicts of nations."
Russia's stance is essentially one of calling upon both sides of the civil war in Syria to immediately implement Annan's peace plan and follow the guidelines for political transition that were outlined in the meeting hosted by Mr. Annan at Geneva last month. Russia however opposes the resolution which ties all of this to Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter, which would authorize the use of force by the U.N. allowing it to militarily intervene in Syria in order to bring the conflict to an end.
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Take advantage of the years before your child starts school to set the stage for success.
Research shows that children’s brains are nearly 75 percent developed before they enter kindergarten. To ensure that children arrive at school ready to succeed, it’s important to realize that parents and caregivers truly are a child’s first and most important teachers. Children are born learning and early childhood experiences set the stage for school and life success.
Eye contact helps you and your child develop a strong relationship, a key factor in creating the type of nurturing environment that’s ideal for brain development.
In order to enhance brain development, parents and caregivers should be present, supportive, and nurturing. When you have children sit on your lap, listen to them at their eye level, and respond to their needs, you are developing the kind of dependable relationships that provide the ideal environment for brain development. A recent study from Washington University’s School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO linked nurturing experiences in the early years to a larger hippocampus, the part of the brain used to learn, memorize, and respond to stress. This new research validates what we’ve always expected: Nurturing relationships in the early years is essential.
Take a fisheye view.
Modeling is a terrific way to make the most out of being your child’s first teacher. Caring for a child is similar to living in a fishbowl. Children carefully and continuously watch, observe, and listen to their caregivers behavior and interactions with others, then imitate them. Children will pick up good manners—and bad ones—not only from you telling them to say "please" and "thank you," but also from observing what you do and when. For example, when you or someone else holds the door for another person, children learn that’s expected courtesy. As hard as it can be, parents and caregivers should try to be on their best behavior. Actions often speak louder than words when it comes to teaching young children. If at all possible, model who you would like your child to be when she grows up.
Angela Lee Duckworth, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, has made a career out of studying achievement. Through this research, she has identified a non-cognitive trait called "grit." She defines grit as perseverance and passion for long-term goals. The notion of fostering grit in our children has recently been discussed by Paul Tough, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and author of the book How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character. Tough states that while parents innately wish to protect their children, true character, or grit, is fostered and built when children fail, try again, and succeed.
Allowing children to be curious, make choices, and fail helps them develop and grow into successful, optimistic, conscientious, and persistent adults. As your child’s first teacher, it is important to provide your children with safe environments where they can explore, investigate, attempt, and fail.
Be screen savvy.
Children also pick up on what parents and caregivers enjoy doing. If parents watch television or use their iPad or smartphone for leisure time, children will want screen time. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time for children younger than 2 and limited screen time for those older than 2. Parents should model appropriate use of technology.
The Early Years Institute and the Long Island Nature Collaborative for Kids recommend replacing screen time with time spent outside. Research shows that time outdoors can help your child learn, calm them, and improve their overall health and well-being. The trick is to make screen time the default activity, not the first and only choice for how children should spend their time.
Read, read, read.
As your child’s first teacher, it’s important to give context and meaning to the world your child lives in. The best ways to do this are through rhyming, singing, and reading to your child. Jacqueline Kennedy said, "There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all."
By reading aloud to your child, you can promote healthy attachment, encourage a love of reading, foster curiosity, and increase your child's exposure to vocabulary. Books are an excellent way to give meaning to the world around your child while also expanding their day-to-day experiences.
Marilyn Jager Adams, former literacy adviser to Sesame Street, said, "Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read." As your child’s first teacher, the sound of your voice can soothe your child while also laying the foundation for early literacy.
The early years of children’s lives set the stage for their future. The brain development that occurs in those early years determines school and life success. Raising a successful child can be done the old-fashioned way. The things that mattered decades ago still matter today. We may know more about how the brain develops, but some of the things that parents instinctively did turned out to be the best for their development. While fascinating and enjoyable, TV, video games, and apps just aren’t necessary and may even be detrimental to your children’s development, particularly their acquisition of language.
Successful children are the result of responsive, nurturing, and engaged parents. Foster your child’s development through nurturing experiences, teachable moments, and time spent together. After all, you are your child’s first and most important teacher.
Colleen D. Multari, LMSW, is director of early learning at The Early Years Institute in Plainview. The Early Years Institute educates parents, professionals, and the public about the importance of children’s early years on their development, bringing together community leaders to make bold investments in young children to give them the best start in life.
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The debate in Washington about extending the payroll tax holiday has been remarkable. It has managed to put Republicans and Democrats alike in opposition to things they support, and in support of things they oppose. All at little actual benefit to them — or the rest of us.
OK, let’s make that “remarkably bad.”
Here are the basic facts: Last December, as part of a broader deal, the president and the Congress agreed to a one-year reduction of 2 percentage points in employees’ portion of payroll taxes, which are supposed to fund Social Security and Medicare. Leaders of both parties propose extending the holiday through next year. Both have tacked onto their proposal an unrelated extension of unemployment benefits. They have competing plans to offset the extension, which is projected to reduce revenues by $120 billion.
After that, there’s little agreement about anything.
Republicans don’t share President Obama’s obsession with raising taxes on “millionaires and billionaires” (no matter what the problem is, he says taxing “the rich” is part of the answer). Thus, he charged last week, the GOP will “barely lift a finger to prevent taxes going up for 160 million Americans who really need the help.”
And what qualifies as “barely lift[ing] a finger”? Why, proposing to do exactly what was done last year and exactly what Senate Democrats now propose, but with different offsets.
When Obama finally acknowledged Senate Republicans had proposed extending the tax holiday, he said he wouldn’t agree to a plan whose offsets — spending cuts — “hurt the economy.” Which requires him to ignore the fact that the tax cuts come today but, as usual, the spending cuts don’t kick in until a few years have passed, if ever.
This is the standard pattern by which Washington kicks the can down the road, in another of the president’s favorite tsk-tsk phrases.
But what’s really odd is how the debate has put Republicans and Democrats in one another’s shoes. Suddenly, Democrats profess belief that tax cuts create jobs.
Meanwhile, it’s left to Republicans to argue that lowering the payroll tax will destabilize Social Security. You know, the program the GOP supposedly wants to gut, right before pushing your wheelchair-bound grandma off a cliff.
To their credit, there are some Democrats who recognize that cutting the link between payroll taxes and Social Security only further weakens the notion that working Americans pay for the benefits they eventually receive. In fact, working Americans pay for current retirees, with nothing but a promise from Congress that future generations will do likewise decades hence.
Similarly, there are principled Republicans willing to make the case, an unpopular one in this instance, that not all tax cuts are created equal. A temporary tax cut with unpredictable effects on demand for business owners will have far less economic impact than a tax cut that is long-term and produces clear incentives.
Yet, for the most part, this debate features Democrats acting to weaken a cornerstone of the New Deal, while Republicans thumb their noses at a key underpinning of supply-side economics.
A lack of bipartisanship sets hands a-wringing, but at least partisan gridlock usually has the benefit of contrasting coherent, divergent philosophies. Voters then face a clear distinction and can opt for whichever viewpoint seems to fit the nation’s contemporary problems best.
I find it much more worrying for the parties to forsake those coherent, divergent philosophies in favor of political pandering.
That’s hardly an unprecedented occurrence, and the parties still will present stark contrasts next year in their visions for the size, scope and role of the federal government, as Obama observed in an interview broadcast Sunday on “60 Minutes.”
Yet, few contemporary problems are more pressing, more in need of clear choices for voters to evaluate, than the big three federal expenses of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and how we pay for them. Fail to offer that choice, and it’ll cost the average person a lot more than $20 a week in his paycheck.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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ASTM D3513: Standard Test Method for Overlength Fiber Content of Manufactured Staple Fiber
SDO: ASTM: ASTM International
DOD Adopted ANSI Approved Approved
This test method covers the determination of the percent by number of overlength or multiple length fibers in a sample of manufactured cut staple. The method is applicable to fiber taken immediately after manufacturing, from the bale, or from partially processed stock.
NOTE 1—For measurement of length and length distribution of manufactured staple fibers, refer to Test Method D5103.
This test method covers procedures using the Fibrosampler Model 335A (inch-pound units), the Fibrosampler Model 335B (SI units), and Fibrosampler combs Model 336.
The Fibrosampler Model 335A is equipped with a sample plate that has 15.8-mm (5/8-in.) diameter sample holes and is recommended for use on blended staple taken from the fiber blender or from a carding machine.
The Fibrosampler Model 335B is equipped with a sample plate that has 10-mm (0.4-in.) diameter sample holes and is recommended for use on unblended staple as may be taken from the fiber cutter or from a bale of staple fiber.
The values stated in either SI units or inch-pound units are to be regarded separately as the standard. The values stated in each unit are not exact equivalents; therefore, each unit must be used independently of the other.
This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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California Proposition 50, Bonds for Water Projects (2002)
Proposition 50 approved issuing $3.4 billion in general obligation bonds for water projects.
Text of measure
The ballot title was:
Proposition 50 asked the question:
- "Should the state borrow three billion four hundred forty million dollars ($3,440,000,000) through the sale of general obligation bonds for a variety of water projects including coastal protection, the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, integrated regional water management, safe drinking water, and water quality?"
The ballot summary said:
- "Authorizes $3,440,000,000 general obligation bonds, to be repaid from state's General Fund, to fund a variety of water projects including: specified CALFED Bay-Delta Program projects including urban and agricultural water use efficiency projects; grants and loans to reduce Colorado River water use; purchasing, protecting and restoring coastal wetlands near urban areas; competitive grants for water management and water quality improvement projects; development of river parkways; improved security for state, local and regional water systems; and grants for desalination and drinking water disinfecting projects."
- See also: Fiscal impact statement
The fiscal estimate provided by the California Legislative Analyst's Office said:
- State costs to repay the bonds, which, if the bonds were issued with a maturity of 25 years, would equal approximately $5.7 billion to pay principal ($3.44 billion) and interest ($2.24 billion), with payments of approximately $227 million per year.
- Reduction in local property tax revenues, ranging from a few million dollars to roughly $10 million annually, about one-half of which would be offset by state payments to schools to make up their revenue loss.
- Unknown costs to state and local governments to operate or maintain properties or projects purchased or developed with these bond funds.
- Official Voter Guide to the November 5 ballot propositions
- Analysis of Proposition 50 by the LAO
- Smart Voter information about Prop 50
- Official declaration of the November 5, 2002 vote
- Top Ten Donors to Proposition 50
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Also the idea that Pennsylvania's business taxation is 'uncompetitive' would appear to be belied by Yuengling's success
Owner of Yuengling brewery blackmail’s State: “give me a lot of free money or I won’t brew anymore beer here”
Also the idea that Pennsylvania’s business taxation is “uncompetitive” would appear to be belied by Yuengling’s success
Hat-tip to http://twitter.com/MarkAdomanis.
You have to love it when he claims the state of Pennsylvania, which is fostering a business climate that helped along his business success is now a hinderance to him.
See Pennsylvania is only good for D.G. Yuengling & Son’s first 2½ million barrels record production. After that where is the love, PA? Cut some teacher’s salaries……
Yuengling, now the largest American-owned brewer, says it likely won’t build its next brewery in Pennsylvania for business reasons
Published: Saturday, October 06, 2012, 3:33 PM Updated: Monday, October 08, 2012, 9:02 AM
Last year, America’s oldest brewery became the nation’s largest American-owned brewer. With a move into Ohio last year, D.G. Yuengling & Son’s sales rose to about 2½ million barrels — enough to eclipse Boston Beer Co.’s Samuel Adams brands.
The once-foundering, family-owned company turned out just 137,000 barrels in the first year following Dick Yuengling’s 1985 purchase of the brewery from his father.
Unfortunately, Yuengling said he doubts he will build the brewery in Pennsylvania, even though a western Pennsylvania location would be perfect for the brand’s continued westward expansion.
The decision comes down to taxes, incentives and the state’s business climate, Yuengling said.
In the interview, Yuengling hinted that there are far more business-friendly states.
And while he didn’t directly criticize any Pennsylvania administration, past or present, he said he can never be certain which way the state is leaning in terms of its tax and business policies.
By contrast, he said enticing incentives offered by other states might be too good to pass up. However, he declined to cite any states he might be considering for the brewery.
‘Some states are very economically friendly,’ Yuengling said. ‘We don’t necessarily base business decisions on incentives like that. But if they are going to give them to somebody, we would stand there and take them.’
As for the Keystone State, which remains home to Yuengling’s original, historic Pottsville brewery as well as a second, much larger facility opened nearby in 2002, he said:
‘Pennsylvania is a great location. But it’s not very business-friendly. You look for fair tax breaks, fair taxation. And the bottom line is more jobs. That’s what it’s all about.’
A new brewery would solve a familiar and recurring problem for the company. Namely, too much demand and too little beer.
Yuengling’s rapid growth created severe beer shortages in the 1990s.
The company remedied the situation, if only temporarily, by building the brewery near Pottsville and purchasing a former Stroh’s brewery in Tampa, Fla., around the same time. ——>Continued
PS: It’s not easy posting form a smartphone (fingers used to Qerty) but I am making it my goal in life to leave the PC behind and go totally smartphone for all my internet needs.
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BHP Billiton Ltd. is out of the diamond business, fed up with prolonged dull prices for gemstones and few opportunities to improve profit margins.
The world’s largest diversified miner said on Tuesday it sold its controlling stake in Ekati, Canada’s first ever diamond mine, to diamond retailer Harry Winston Diamond Corp. for $500-million (U.S.), well below what analysts expected. Billiton’s diamond-marketing operations are also included in the sale.
The deal follows an 18-month lull in diamond prices that began after a darkening global economic outlook left speculators holding gems collected in anticipation of a stronger recovery after the 2008-09 financial crisis. Harry Winston itself, which owns a 40-per-cent stake in the Diavik mine near Ekati, saw average diamond prices drop 10 per cent in the latest fiscal quarter, when profit was cut in half. Rio Tinto PLC owns the remainder of Diavik, and has said it may also seek a buyer for its share in the mine.
More than just a sale, the Ekati transaction marks the end of an era for Canadian diamond mining, ushered in when BHP completed the mine in 1998 just as consumer backlash grew against so-called blood diamonds produced in war zones in Africa where much of the world’s diamond wealth originates.
Ore grades at Ekati have fallen in recent years, as it entered the home stretch of its mine life, an estimated seven years. The mine is seen as having further potential, however, if diamond prices rise and more exploration leads to new reserves.
BHP – a $180 billion international resources company focused on bulk commodities from coal to iron ore to copper – last year signalled it was looking for an exit from diamonds. The company said the industry did not fit with its strategy to invest in large, long-life and expandable assets. To be sure, the diamond business is minute beside its multibillion-dollar commodity units.
Ekati was discovered by lifelong friends Stewart Blusson and Charles Fipke, a prospecting duo who still own 20 per cent of the mine between them.
The sale also coincides with an effort by BHP to streamline its massive spending program and rein in industry-wide cost inflation.
BHP announced what amounts to a one-year sabbatical on new capital spending plans in August, when it reported its first annual loss in three years as global commodity prices retreated across many of its industrial minerals.
Among others plans, BHP shelved the $20-billion (U.S.) open-pit expansion of Olympic Dam, a huge copper and uranium project in southern Australia.
“The divestment of Ekati is consistent with our focus on large, long-life, low-cost, expandable, upstream assets,” Andrew Mackenzie, the chief executive officer for BHP Billiton’s non-ferrous division, said in a statement.
But one man’s castoff is another man’s treasure.
For Harry Winston, the acquisition consolidates its leadership in the Canadian mining industry and helps it to mitigate lower prices by owning a greater supply of gemstones to sell into its stores.
“It just gives Harry Winston more of an established presence as a diamond producer,” said BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. analyst Edward Sterck. pointing out that diamond retailers have noticed gemstone prices stabilizing in the most recent quarter.
He said Harry Winston got quite a deal with the Ekati buy, which he would have valued closer to $1-billion. “I’ve got a positive outlook over the next 10 years of diamond prices growing at 5 per cent per annum on average. … So on that basis, and if you are buying something at a discount, it appears quite smart.”
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Is my daughter's sore eye something serious?
Two-and-a-half years ago my daughter
developed a blood clot in her right leg, which then travelled to one of
She was only 37 and was put on the blood thinner warfarin.
She’s since suffered from severe chest and leg pains. A recent scan revealed slight damage to one of her lungs, but everything else was in order. She’s also developed iritis four times.
Blood tests revealed ‘elevated ESR
levels’, but the doctor’s secretary had no idea what this was.
Can you shed any light on these conditions?
Mrs K. Palmer, by email.
Iritis is a severe and painful inflammation of the coloured tissue in the eye (the iris)
Your anxiety is understandable — there
is uncertainty here, and you have a sense all is not well.
Yet, so far, a diagnosis giving a rational explanation that ties together these events is lacking.
Without that, there can be no treatment to prevent future ill-health.
A deep vein thrombosis leading to a
pulmonary embolism (blood clot on the lung) must have an identifiable
Iritis, a severe and painful inflammation of the coloured tissue in the eye (the iris), must also have an underlying cause. The question is: are they connected.
In the case of your daughter, some thought and investigation is needed to unearth this.
I do not know enough of her full medical
history, but there must be other factors that her doctor must consider
when reaching a diagnosis.
The first question they should ask is whether she has ever suffered a miscarriage.
This may seem an odd question, but one
possibility is that she has Hughes Syndrome, also known as sticky blood
syndrome (it also carries the medical name anti-phospholipid syndrome).
It’s thought to affect up to 1 per cent of the population, though may
be more common in women.
This causes the blood to become sticky and clot
more than it should.
What triggers Hughes Syndrome is
unclear, but one possibility is that it’s an autoimmune condition — the
immune system mistakenly attacks components of the blood, resulting in
CONTACT DR SCURR
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Always consult your own GP with any health worries.
Another consequence is recurrent
miscarriages (due to blood clotting in the vessels of the placenta), and
systemic lupus erythematosus (where the immune system starts attacking
various parts of the body such as the eye, skin, joints, kidneys and
The latter could possibly explain your daughter’s iritis.
attack triggers widespread inflammation, which causes an increase in a
type of compound called ESR — and it was this that was detected in your
daughter’s blood test.
However, reaching a firm diagnosis is the province of a rheumatologist who takes an interest in this area.
I am only theorising, and there may be
other important features in your daughter’s history, which is why her
case needs investigation.
If Hughes Syndrome is found to be the
cause, this condition is treatable with medication, her symptoms may
settle and further problems prevented.
Do encourage her to talk to her GP in this context and seek referral.
For more than 12 years I have been
taking the drug alendronic acid after being diagnosed with the brittle
bone disease osteoporosis (I believe I am one of the small number of men
who have this condition).
Recently my GP advised me there were
some question marks hanging over alendronic acid and stopped the
treatment in favour of calcium tablets.
I should be most grateful if you
could advise me as to the current thinking about the continued use of
Gordon Stead, by email.
I last wrote about osteoporosis only two
weeks ago, but it is clearly a subject that concerns many readers, to
judge by the large number of follow-up letters I’ve since received.
Your particular letter highlights a
common worry — the long-term use of alendronic acid, one of a group of
medicines called bisphosphonates.
Before I address the issues, let me just recap one or two of the details about osteoporosis.
This condition causes the bones to lose
density and, hence, become weaker. Fractures can occur, even from minor
trauma, and these may especially affect the spine, wrist or hip.
The condition is six times more common
in women than men, as the hormonal changes around the time of the
menopause are thought to play a role.
It is diagnosed with a type of X-ray
called a Dexa scanning; this technology is also used to monitor how well
the bones are responding to treatment, the aim of which is to preserve
bone mass and prevent fractures and pain.
This can be achieved with some medicines, the mainstay being bisphosphonates as you were prescribed.
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Lifestyle changes are also important.
These include increasing the amount of weight-bearing exercise (such as
walking), minimising caffeine and alcohol, and stopping smoking.
Taking at least 1,000mg of calcium daily helps maintain bone density, and this is usually taken with vitamin D, as it boosts absorption.
As your GP has pointed out, concerns have now emerged over the long-term use of bisphosphonates.
There is evidence to suggest that taken for more than five years, the drugs seem to affect the way body maintains bone, and this can lead to fracture.
So we face a contradiction: although these drugs help preserve bone mass and decrease hip and spine fractures by 50 per cent, taking them for more than this time can increase the risk of fracture.
So what are we to do?
The overall balance of risk versus benefit remains in favour of treatment with the alendronic acid or similar, as the number of these fractures caused by bisphosphonates is outweighed by the number of fractures that the drug prevents.
However, treatment with a bisphosphonate should stop at five years.
But the good news is that the drugs have a lasting protective effect: research has shown the benefits of the treatment will persist long after the drug has been stopped.
By the way . . .
The key to good care is seeing just one GP
Thirty years or more ago I had a book on my shelf that detailed more than 100 different modes of psychotherapy.
In that era, much as now, people with emotional, psychological or personality problems would come to me as their GP to seek advice on what type of therapy would be best for them, and then ask for a referral.
The book itself was a detailed appraisal by Anthony Clare of the numerous possibilities for treatment.
Forming a trusting and warm relationship with a patient is a pivotal event, without which not much good can happen
Back then, the focus of psychotherapy was still the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and a few others, and was fundamentally about the unconscious sexual motives for behaviour.
Our state of knowledge has moved on.
Now the thinking is that people seek therapy because they want to communicate better with others and want a different perspective on their problems.
A seminal lecture last week given by Peter Fonagy, one of our leading psychoanalysts and clinical psychologists, explained why we now have so many different kinds of psychotherapy — 1,284. Or was it 1,285 or 1,286?
No matter, for the core of all good psychotherapies is the same: the formation of a bond of trust between the therapist and patient — and this applies whatever the mode of psychotherapy.
This connects the old school analysts (those still in the Freud mode of thinking, who analyse your childhood for hope of an explanation to current problems) and today’s cognitive therapists (who deal with the here and now and discuss coping strategies for your problems).
That the sense of trust itself is the start of the healing process is what unites both modes of thinking.
When we heard this, another very senior GP and I agreed that this is also the feature that leads to success in general practice.
Forming a trusting and warm relationship with a patient is a pivotal event, without which not much good can happen.
And what that takes is time . . . and the establishment of something I keep banging on about: continuity of care under one doctor.
There are no shortcuts in good and effective medicine.
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25 engineering students research, design, and build the boats made of only cardboard and duct tape. The project is not just fun -- it lets students test their math and science skills.
Tech Coordinator Chuck Pierce explains, "They're learning teamworking skills because they have to agree on what they're doing and they're learning how to learn math skills designing it."
Students have to row their boat two lengths of the pool for a grade.
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Black box holds answers to derailment: Beattie
A black box recorder will help determine the cause of a high speed passenger train crash in southern Queensland, Premier Peter Beattie said today.
A Tilt Train travelling from Brisbane to Cairns came off the tracks and overturned at 12.06am (AEST, 1.06am AEDT) about 400km north of Brisbane near the Queensland coastal city of Bundaberg.
Police said seven of the nine carriages overturned and about 128 people were injured "to some degree".
Seventeen people, including the two train drivers, were taken to Bundaberg Hospital with serious or moderate injuries.
Mr Beattie said the Tilt Train, introduced in 1998 and capable of speeds of 160kph, was fitted with a black box recorder.
"This is a relatively new system, the Tilt Train system, and it's one of the best in the world so there would have had to have been a good reason for it (the crash), particularly with that many carriages (overturning)," Mr Beattie told Nine Network's Today Show.
"Hopefully, the drivers will be okay and we will ascertain what happened in the long term, but at this point we don't know what happened.
"There is a black box recorder on the train and that will be a key part of any investigation.
"These Tilt Trains are very fast, they're the fastest Tilt Trains in the world on a narrow gauge. So, that's why they have a black box attached to them."
Mr Beattie said he would travel to the crash site, along with Queensland Transport Minister Paul Lucas.
The diesel powered train which crashed was named City of Townsville and is one of three Tilt Trains in service.
The trip to Cairns takes about 20 hours - 12 hours less than the previous rail service between Brisbane and Cairns.
The Tilt Train in 1999 set a national rail speed record of 210kph near Bundaberg.
Electric powered Tilt Trains travel the 620km Brisbane to Rockhampton journey in about seven hours.
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Two factors — lower than expected enrollment and lack of available funding — are contributing to the shortfall, according to charter officials.
The concerns come at a time when a constitutional amendment to allow the state to create charter schools is making its way through the state Legislature.
Governance Council members George Lopos, Heather Blevins and Larry Blase held the monthly meeting at the local charter academy to get an update on where the school stands financially. Members of the Georgia Charter Educational Foundation Board of Directors and Charter Schools USA, a professional education management organization, attended the meeting in person or via teleconference call. Local board members Quentin Thomas and Vince Baker were absent.
Governing board member Lyn Carden and Charter Schools USA representative Sandy Castro attended the meeting, while Charter Schools USA representatives Judith Brown and Hillary Daigle as well as governing board member Danny Dukes were on the phone via teleconference.
Daigle pointed out the school’s revenue is short of projections by about $1.3 million.
“There’s two factors there — lower enrollment and the second factor being actual funding itself and how it’s coming in,” Daigle said.
In the financial summary for fiscal year 2012, the school budgeted for 995 students, but the school anticipates only having 822 students enrolled. Right now 825 students are enrolled at the charter school.
The average Quality Basic Education revenue per student from the state is budgeted at $5,781, but the summary forecasts receiving $6,667 per student. The financial summary also forecasts a net school deficit of $77,023 for the fiscal year.
Brown presented the budget variances and said that she expected total revenue for the year at $388,000 less than budgeted.
Charter Principal Vanessa Suarez said total school enrollment, determined in January, is at 825 students with 95 percent in attendance. Twenty-two students withdrew from the school in January and there was one student suspended, she said.
“Since this is our first year, we will not receive funding for ESOL, special education and Title I students until mid-year,” Suarez said.
The school has 74 employees, Suarez said.
Suarez said almost all students have recommitted to attend the school in the fall but she had not confirmed the exact number. She said 17 have officially enrolled for the next school year and there are 85 students on the waitlist.
Suarez said 193 students have applied for the inaugural kindergarten class this fall with 120 slots available. There are 37 applicants for first grade but the school is over capacity for the grade level.
There will not be any more parent information sessions during this school year because there are already more applicants than slots available, Suarez said.
Both Thomas and council member George Lopos’ terms ended effective Wednesday, and both will not continue on with the board.
Council Member Heather Blevins said the two positions should be filled by local business professionals and the board will seek out interested parties and report back at the next meeting held March 28.
Blevins also commended Cherokee Charter Academy parents for their strong support of House Bill 1162, which would provide the state the ability to authorize charter schools.
The board also discussed benchmark data from student testing, which was added to the agenda. For reading and math categories, all grades included maintained above 80 percent in benchmark requirements, they reported.
Students will take the CRCT test in April and the statewide fifth-grade writing test, Suarez said.
The board also discussed a parent survey taken about 90 days into the school year. About 55 percent of all parents with enrolled children responded and 95 percent of responders said they were satisfied with the school, they said.
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Editor's note: Alex Castellanos is founder of Purple Strategies, a CNN political contributor and a Republican media consultant who worked for Mitt Romney in 2008.
(CNN) -- Conventional wisdom has it that President Barack Obama's campaign four years ago was a political masterpiece. Yes, the Republican brand was in the toilet; the economy had cratered; his real opponent, George Bush, was a political pariah; and the country despaired for a new direction. Still, we recall the Obama campaign as a crushing force, brilliantly harnessed, riding the tide of history.
So why is his re-election campaign such a mess?
Team Obama has turned the candidate of hope and change into a ferociously political animal. They've discarded their most valuable asset, his stature. The outsider who flew above the hated, polarized politics of red and blue now does nothing but campaign and polarize. The Obama who was "one of us," apart from Washington, is increasingly and, to his detriment, "one of them."
We first picked up this change in sentiment a few weeks ago in our Purple Poll of 12 key swing states when we asked independent voters who "is just another politician?" Obama edged out Romney by 4 points. The candidate of soaring ideals has tumbled to Earth, muddied and mired in politics. Yet Team Obama has proved it can still effect change: Consistently, they make their situation worse.
This past week, the Obama who supported gay marriage when running for Illinois legislature, then flipped against it as candidate for president, flopped once more to serve his re-election. The president's reversal did not just evolve. Its politics became transparent.
Though same-sex marriage was not "right" earlier, it suddenly became a matter of conviction. With the Democratic Convention approaching, the president needed to energize his base and defuse the likelihood of a platform war over same-sex marriage. Miraculously, at that moment, he found the courage to do the most politically useful thing.
Many of us who support the president's new position still found the politics as subtle as neon. The maneuvering became the message. The latest CBS/New York Times Poll reveals 67% of those interviewed said the president made his decision "for political reasons." Less than a quarter of voters believe he acted on principle.
Americans have started to connect a swarm of dots, revealing politics as the pattern. Even when this president crosses oceans, Americans see him putting politics first.
Recently, in perhaps the most damning YouTube moment yet in a presidential race, Barack Obama was captured putting domestic politics ahead of foreign policy. He was caught on an open microphone, telling outgoing Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that he would be more amenable to Russian interests on the issue of missile defense if he survived the November elections. "This is my last election," Obama said. "After my election, I have more flexibility."
The president's mask slipped. The politician beneath was revealed. Voters, including the president's core female supporters, got to see what they had only suspected: Obama's priorities aren't necessarily theirs.
While our economy was melting down, Obama spent his first two years compulsively advocating a health care plan. While moms struggle to stretch their family budget and fill the gas tank, Obama's crusading for birth control and same-sex marriage. And now, as storm clouds from Europe's exhaustion and California's failure begin to roll into our heartland, trapping our economy without exit, the president offers tacit acknowledgment that this is the best he can do: His campaign is about everything but what will save us.
The latest CBS/New York Times Poll says 50% of voters believe the president is doing a good job. The problem? They don't think it is the job he should be doing. Only 43% of Americans are voting for him.
Republicans have never been able to paint Obama as a flip-flopper, despite a litany of evidence.
Candidate Obama supported "pay as you go budgeting," but the economic meltdown excused him from his commitment, allowing him to propose a decade of trillion-dollar deficits. He spent a trillion dollars on health care, but explained it was a practical strategy to save money. In the same moment, he has urged both expensive stimulus and deficit reduction. Still he has been excused, as a practical man, with long and short-range fiscal tools on his workbench.
He reviled the Bush tax cuts and the "tired and cynical philosophy," behind them. Then he pragmatically extended them, calling his pirouette a "substantial victory for middle class families" who would otherwise have suffered a tax increase.
The Obama running for re-election is for everything and nothing at once, a creature of calculation. His oratorical skills are seen not as gifts that elevate him above the elite political class, but tools that enshrine him as its leader. Obama has become what he came to Washington to change: He is politics.
There is a good chance the Obama campaign is about to disintegrate, if only briefly. Obama is about to walk through "the valley of death," where candidates lose their way and are tested on an arid march. In this familiar story, the campaign that could do no wrong can do no right: Pundits who have predicted an Obama victory reverse course and insist Romney is a sure bet.
Republicans should restrain their exuberance. The race will certainly tighten again if this president fixes a fundamental and possibly fatal political mistake:
Obama is asking America to be a polarized, angry country, where we are at war with each other, tearing at our own throats. Romney is asking us to be a country at peace with itself.
Unless Obama changes course, he will not make it through the valley. This is a race Romney wins.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Alex Castellanos.
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Information for children and young people
How we can help
An educational psychologist is trained to help find solutions to problems about learning, development and behaviour. At some time or other, children and young people may have problems in their lives. Sometimes the problem lasts a day or two and goes away, but sometimes it can go on and on.
What we do
Every school has one or two psychologists who visit the school. We work with your parents or carers, teachers and other people who know you, to look at what kind of help you need. We only do this when we have your parents’ or carers’ permission, or your permission, where appropriate.
We work to help you find your own solutions to difficulties. This might be at a meeting with you and your parents/carers. Teachers and other professionals might also be at the meeting. They will share ideas and find ways to help you.
Sometimes we will arrange to talk with you or do some individual work together. We also might come into your class for a bit. This will help us to find out more about you and how to help you.
At times we work with a group of pupils or a whole class about things like friendships.
Your pupil support teacher will be able to arrange for you to speak with the psychologist.
The psychologist usually meets to talk to the other people who are working with you and will check with you or your parent/carer, that it’s okay to do that. However, you have a right to tell the psychologist if there is something you do not wish to be shared.
The only time the psychologist is not able to keep something confidential is if it is something very serious that adults need to know about to keep you or someone else safe.
A file containing information about you will be kept by the Educational Psychology Service. You and your parents/carers have the right to see this but most of it will already have been shared with you.
Your opinions and ideas matter
You have a right to say what you think and to be listened to at meetings when decisions are being made. Your views and questions are very important. It will be easier for us to help you and the people who work with you if we know what you think. The psychologist may write a letter or a report about their work with you and you can ask to see this. If you are not happy with the service you are receiving:
- tell your psychologist
- speak to your parents or carers
- speak to a teacher
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One of the most popular pastimes for American women is discussing how men think and feel and then assigning those assumed thoughts and feelings (which are typically detrimental to women) to “all” or “most” men, whether they are real or not.
In fact, this activity is so popular that when those assumed thoughts and feelings are presented to men who recognize them to be false, the women who participate in this grand old American pursuit will argue, rage and attempt to intimidate.
Weak little Nancy boys will simply accept the assumed thoughts and feelings and try hard to act accordingly.
But men who are still men stand up to the assuming women, even in the face of being told that they hate women and/or that they must be gay, which are the only two responses in the absence of any real basis for argument.
One goofy woman emailed me claiming that most men cheat and that women rarely do. When I pressed her for the basis of her claim, she danced around it, giving me the result of four men and a small group of friends, but finally railing against my request for a basis by claiming that she doesn’t have to have one because she’s not a journalist.
Of course, intelligent people want to have a basis for views that they spread to others, but when it comes to relationship issues, the goal for many people, is to spread whatever feels good.
And, of course, as a journalist, I research issues before presenting my position, but most of the foundations I use are readily available to anyone. Yet, many people prefer to argue and spread their unfounded views as though they are valid, simply because they have thoughts.
Instead of acknowledging the difference between what they believe and what is actually in existence, these people want to assert their opinion over anyone’s well-founded position.
For them, the axiom “I think, therefore, I am” becomes “I think therefore it is,” or “I believe, therefore, it’s the truth.”
One of the best responses I’ve ever given to one of the most popular questions occurred at a relationship seminar I conducted. Several of the female audience members wanted to know why men cheat. My response, simple and plain was this: “The same reasons why women cheat.”
My focus is to get more people to deal with the fact that not only do both sides cheat, but even when men cheat, they cheat with a woman. If that woman knows that the man is committed to someone else, then she is also cheating.
Being unfaithful is not and has never been a male phenomenon. Yet, the focus is always on men who cheat, and typically, the speakers are women claiming to know how men think.
Thank God there are still some American women who realize that men know better how men think and feel and that if a woman wants to understand, she would do better to ask men.
And thank God that there are still American women who understand that not everything is a man’s fault.
Like cheating, for example.
American women who pretend that they understand men better than men, also pretend that anytime a man cheats, it is only because all or most men are dogs and cheating is simply what dogs do.
Of course, they come up with various and sundry reasons why women cheat, because, after all, women have “reasons” for bad behavior and men only have “excuses.”
Giving her view of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s call-girl crisis, syndicated radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger asserted that when men cheat, the girlfriends and wives have to take part of the responsibility.
“When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs,” the popular psychologist and radio personality said on a panel for NBC’s The Today show.
Other panelists (including an anthropologist, no less) and viewers began to dog Dr. Laura for being a traitor to the gender and daring to speak in contradiction to what many women “know” about men. The one male panelist who almost spoke up tried to remain as neutral as possible.
Now, to be fair, Dr. Laura made it clear that Governor Spitzer took the cheating action on his own.
“The cheating was his decision to repair what’s damaged and to feed himself where he’s starving,” she said.
Yet, she was still attacked.
And none of the attackers could present any foundation for their detractions, even though Dr. Laura is a psychologist who was clearly trained to understand interpersonal relationships.
Not only is it silly for unqualified women to argue about why men cheat, but even worse, the detractors are speaking on relationships they were not privy to. Some of these stupid people were actually trying to determine whether the wives of men who cheat were right or wrong for staying by the man’s side.
An outrage was displayed and directed at Governor Spitzer’s wife for choosing to stay by his side through the public debacle.
Funny, but two things stick out brazenly.
1.)If Dr. Laura were saying the same thing to MEN about cheating WOMEN, there would be no outcry.
2.)Why the F are women so outraged? Really, what married women do is none of any other woman’s business. If the wife who was cheated on decides to stay, no one has a right to comment. This kind of “entitlement” to comment on other people’s relationships, without any kind of qualified basis is why relationships are so difficult to maintain. Dr. Laura is a psychologist, but lay people want to argue with her.
Let’s deal with some realities. Many humans decide to step outside of a committed relationship to find what they are not getting inside of it. That is not new. However, what is new is that many American women think it is horribly sinful for a man to cheat, but try to paint a cheating woman as a victim.
Cheating is cheating-by a man or a woman.
Further, too many American women (mostly over 30) have gone far, far overboard with expecting the world from men, but giving nothing. Even in simple dating, many women over thirty are quick to list the things they want, but recoil when a man speaks of his desires or needs.
One response to this has been for fewer women over thirty to get married.
However, when men do marry women who demand everything and give little in return, the relationship runs a short course to disaster.
Men in relationships with these women may find themselves at some point, seeking “everything I miss at home,” to quote an Alexander O’Neal song.
Ask men fresh out of relationships what their chief complaint is and outside of the primary difficulties, the chief complaint is that the woman was unforgiving and was not understanding.
Dr. Laura gets it though: “Yes, I hold women responsible for tossing out perfectly good men by not treating them with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need.”
Of course her position isn’t popular, but it is based in reality.
There is simply too much propaganda spread about how men should treat women, and too little attention paid to how women should treat men.
But the bottom line is that both sides have to focus on treating each other with dignity and respect. And, if one party can not meet the other party’s needs, of course, the end result may be infidelity or abandonment of the relationship, which is not at all gender-based.
Men cheat and so do women. There are myriad reasons, but each individual has his or her own.
As long as American women continue to pretend that cheating is a “man thing,” there will be less understanding and possibly more cheating.
Darryl James n is an award-winning author who is now a filmmaker. He released his first mini-movie, “Crack,” and in Spring of this year, will release his first full-length documentary. James’ latest book, “Bridging The Black Gender Gap,” is the basis of his lectures and seminars. Previous installments of this column can now be viewed at www.bridgecolumn.com. James can be reached at
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Glaxo Will Further Cut Prices of AIDS Drugs to Poor Nations
April 28, 2003
GlaxoSmithKline plans to announce today that it is further cutting the prices of its AIDS drugs by as much as half in poor countries. The price of Combivir, the company's popular AIDS therapy that combines the AIDS drugs Epivir and Retrovir in a single pill, has been cut to 90 cents a day from $1.70, a reduction of 47 percent, the company said. The reduction makes the price of Combivir in developing countries roughly equivalent to some generic versions of AIDS drugs, Glaxo said. The price of Combivir in the United States is about $18 a day.
GlaxoSmithKline also said it was reducing the price of its other drugs to treat HIV/AIDS, including AZT, which would be available for 75 cents a day. The prices are available to qualified customers in 63 countries, including all of sub-Saharan Africa.
In cutting these prices, Glaxo CEO Jean-Pierre Garnier said the company is making good on a two-year-old commitment to provide AIDS drugs to impoverished countries at no profit. Last September, the company reduced prices to poor countries by as much as a third. Last year, Glaxo supplied nearly 6 million tablets of Combivir to developing countries, the company said, up from about 2 million tablets in 2001.
Glaxo said it is able to reduce the drugs' prices because it is making them less expensively, the result of improved manufacturing techniques and deals it has struck with some of the suppliers of raw materials that go into the medicines. Drug companies have come under intense pressure to lower the cost of these drugs so patients in poor countries can get them, and Glaxo has come under particular criticism because of its size in the market.
New York Times
04.28.03; Reed Abelson
This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. Visit the CDC's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
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Now that's a Skyfall: The waterfall which looks like it starts off on the Milky Way
By Sara Malm
Now we know how the Skyfall team came up with the title. The waterfall, located near the picturesque Hardangerfjord in Norway, appears to be flowing straight from the stars above.
This particular twinkling cluster across the dark sky is nothing other than the Milky Way, and its reflection in the waterfall below makes the water appear bright white.
The picture was taken by Tore Heggelund who captured the mythical scene on a night-time drive in August this year.
Skyfall: The cluster of stars above appears to turn into water as they meet the horizon atop the waterfall before cascading down the mountain
Although it appears doctored, the photograph has not been tampered with and is in fact the result of the stars' reflection in the water below the clear summer-night sky.
Tore said: "I was driving back from Bergen on a clear night at the end of August, when I thought I'd stop to take some photos.
'It was a clear night with no moon, and conditions were ideal for taking pictures like this.
'The waterfall is really beautiful, and certainly worth a visit.'
Milky way: The cluster of stars above the waterfall in Hardangerfjord, Norway
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Many people say that music can definitely influence our daily lives. You could have known an individual who listen to music anytime he or she feel sad, specially those exactly who merely had their heart ruined. There are also individuals who just are not able to live without their particular headsets and audio players. Whichever variety of songs you listen to, it is really an incontrovertible fact that music and songs really can relate with our unique circumstances, which explains why some people have a favored song.Read More...
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U.S. aid, Israel and wishful thinking
In June 1980, when an American president, Jimmy Carter, objected to Jewish settlements in Israeli-occupied territories, the Israeli government responded by announcing plans for new settlements. At the time, settlers numbered fewer than 50,000.
In 2010, another American president, Barack Obama, is calling for an end to settlements he considers obstacles to peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Israeli authorities responded by announcing new ones, illegal under international law. Settlers now number close to half a million.
In the three decades between 1980 and 2010, there have been multiple U.S.-Israeli spats over the issue and they often fell into something of a pattern, spelt out in 1991 by James Baker, President George H W Bush’s secretary of state: “Every time I have gone to Israel in connection with the peace process … I have been met with an announcement of new settlement activities. It substantially weakens our hand in trying to bring about a peace process.” That is as true now as it was then.
Also part of the routine: suggestions from critics of Israeli policy that the United States uses its vast aid program to Israel as a lever to change its behavior. “Cut off the Cash and Israel Might Behave” said a headline at the height of the latest U.S.-Israeli spat over settlements. The headline ran over an essay in a British newspaper, The Independent, by Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at the University of Oxford who served in the Israeli army.
The folder in which to file that idea might be labeled Wishful Thinking.
Since the end of the Second World War, Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid, according to the Congressional Research Service, the research arm of Congress. Since 1985, aid to Israel has run at around $3 billion a year, a sizable sum for a country with a population roughly equal to that of New York City.
Attempts to use aid as a lever have been few and far between. In 1991, the elder Bush asked Congress to delay $10 billion in loan guarantees to get Israel to stop building new settlements. This sparked a determined lobbying effort by the American Israeli Political Action Committee, the biggest pro-Israel advocacy group, and prompted Bush to describe himself as “one lonely guy” facing powerful political forces in the shape of “a thousand lobbyists on the Hill.”
The quip illustrated both the limits of presidential power and solid congressional support for Israel. It runs across partisan divides and was highlighted once again during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington in March, when President Barack Obama made known his displeasure over yet more settlements by dispensing with standard protocol. No joint declaration, no dinner, no photo opportunity, exit through the back door.
NO SPACE BETWEEN U.S. AND ISRAEL
That contrasted markedly with warm remarks from the Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the leader of the House Republicans, John Boehner. “We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel,” said Pelosi. “We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world,” said Boehner.
Vice President Joseph Biden, a staunch defender of Israel in his 36 years in the Senate, even after he was blindsided during a Jerusalem visit by an announcement of 1,600 new Jewish settlements, said “there is no space absolutely no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to security, none. No space.”
Such joined-at-the-hip thinking is the reason why U.S. military aid to Israel has been designed to give the recipient a “qualitative military edge” (QME) over its potential adversaries. The QME dates back to President Lyndon Johnson and is not connected to the ups and downs of the relationship – a day after Netanyahu’s tense meeting with Obama, the Pentagon announced an agreement to supply Israel with three new tactical transport aircraft, part of an order worth up to $1.9 billion.
Providing Israel with generous economic and military aid made sense, from an American point of view, during the Cold War when the Soviet Union was propping up its client states in the Middle East and the United States needed a reliably pro-American outpost. As the late Secretary of State Alexander Haig once put it: “Israel is the largest, most battle-tested and cost-effective U.S. aircraft carrier that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one U.S. soldier, and is located in a most critical region for U.S. national security. ” In short, a strategic asset.
Is it still? Or is lack of progress on making peace with the Palestinians turning Israel into a liability for its long-term benefactor. In March, in written testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Central Command chief General David Petraeus, listed “insufficient progress towards a comprehensive Middle East peace” as number five on a list of 15 threats to U.S. national security.
Petraeus, whose Central Command covers 20 countries in the Middle East and South and Central Asia, assigned no blame for the lack of progress but said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fomented anti-American sentiment “due to a perception of U.S. favoritism to Israel. ” Al Qaeda and other militant groups, he said, exploited Arab anger over the Palestinian issue to mobilize support.
That places Israel and foot-dragging over settlements in the liability column of the ledger. But that won’t affect continued U.S. military aid. Under a ten-year agreement signed in 2007, military aid will reach $3.15 billion a year by 2013 and will stay at that level until 2018. Progress towards peace or not.
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Republicans and Catholic bishops were on solid ground in arguing that forcing Catholic nonprofits to provide contraceptive coverage in their health insurance packages infringed on freedom of religion. They won a significant concession from President Obama on that. But they seem determined to overplay their hand.
Bishop Thomas Wenski of Miami said, "By what authority does the president of the United States seek to impose this immoral policy? This is America, not North Korea." Rev. Robert Bubel of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York called birth control "a poison." Cardinal Francis George of Chicago vowed to defy the law. Republicans generally seem eager to go wherever the bishops want to go.
That would be a mistake, both as policy and as politics. Religious freedom does not include the right to be free of any disagreeable laws. Obama's compromise pays due respect to the legitimate concerns of Catholic institutions. But now Republicans are moving the goal posts, supporting changes to let any employer with religious qualms -- not just church-affiliated entities -- opt out.
By prolonging the fight, the critics make it look like the issue is not religious liberty but sexual liberty. Most Americans use and support the use of contraceptives. They don't want to have to live according to the dictates of a religious hierarchy unless they choose to.
Obama's critics may have been winning the battle for public favor last week. But they are on their way to losing it.
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Speaker at MSUM says zombies could possibly happen somedayMoorhead, MN (WDAY TV) -- There's a large group around the world that believe zombies could one day walk the earth.
By: WDAY Staff Reports, WDAY
Moorhead, MN (WDAY TV) -- There's a large group around the world that believe zombies could one day walk the earth.
Founder of the Zombie Research Society, Matt Mogk gave a speech on all things zombie tonight at MSUM. The speech is filled with laughs and he speaks lightly about it, but he says there is science that points to zombies being a possibility, things like mad-cow disease progressing out of control,
or after effects of biological war.
Mogk says, "I'm afraid of zombies that's why I got into this stuff, zombies freak me out and the funny thing is people say face your fears right like face what you're afraid of and you'll overcome it that's why I got into zombie research and the more I got into it the more realistic it seems and it freaks me out."
Mogk has a book out entitled "everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Zombies."
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on July 25, 2012 at 8:01 PM
FLINT, MI -- Visitors to the University of Michigan-Flint campus have more places to get clean water.
Three more filtered water drinking fountains have recently been added on campus, according to the university.
The University of Michigan-Flint.
The fountains are located at the first floor William S. White Building (WSW), the first floor Murchie Science Building and the second floor Recreation Center.
Last fall, the campus got its first of the fountains, one on the first floor University Pavilion and another on the third floor of the University Center.
Along with working like traditional drinking fountains, these are also designed to fill refillable water bottles, encouraging a push toward using less disposable plastic.
UM-Flint officials said they would like to install two more of the fountains this year, one in the Thompson Library and another in the Recreation Building.
Blake Thorne covers K-12 schools and higher education for The Flint Journal. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org or 810-347-8194. Follow him on Twitter or Facebook.
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Download or listen to the Third Sunday after Pentecost: “Cedars and Weeds” (Mark 4:26-34; Ezekiel 17)
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
The whole thing strikes me as a joke…that Jesus is telling. He’s talking about a mustard plant in this parable, about how it will spread out its branches and birds can nest in their shadow, but He’s using the same words that Ezekiel uses about cedar trees in the part of chapter 17 we heard this morning. Now I’m no botanist, but I think there’s a pretty big difference between mustard plants and cedar trees. Cedars grow up large, strong, and impressive. People take cedar trees and build houses, like Solomon did for his own house, and then for the Temple, the House of God. Any bird would be happy to build its nest in the branches of a cedar tree. But no one’s going to build a house out of mustard plants. They are not particularly large, strong, or impressive. And birds might hide in the branches, but I doubt they’re going to build nests there, especially if there’s a nice big cedar tree next door. Actually, mustard plants seem to be more of a weed than anything desirable in the garden, unless you want a plant to take over everything. In fact, a guy named Pliny wrote a book about 40 years after Jesus’ death, where he talks about mustard plants. He says they mostly grow wild, but they’re a little better if transplanted. But watch out, because once they’re sown, you can hardly get the place free of them. Because the seeds, when they fall, germinate at once. The seeds, when they fall, germinate at once.
So why is Jesus talking about mustard plants when He should be talking about cedars? To get a hint at the answer, we have to go back to Ezekiel 17. See, Ezekiel is telling a parable, also. A parable God told him to tell the people of Israel. It’s a parable about two eagles and a vine. One eagle, which represents Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, plucks the top off a cedar tree; that is, he takes the leaders of Israel, including the king Jehoiachin, back to Babylon. And then he plants a vine, that is, a new king, in a fertile place: Israel. The new king is Zedekiah, who happens to be Jehoiachin’s uncle. And everything seems to be looking good for Zedekiah. He’s king in Israel, second only to Nebuchadnezzar, and all he has to do is submit and pay tribute to Babylon, and everything will go well for him. But that’s the one thing he doesn’t want to do, so, as the parable says, the vine reaches out toward another eagle: Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Zedekiah tries to get Egypt to back him when he rebels against Babylon. But Egypt doesn’t quite come through, and so Nebuchadnezzar brings his armies to Israel, breaks down the walls and takes the people into exile in Babylon. Zedekiah has to watch his sons killed in front of him and then they put his eyes out and he has to live blind in Babylon until the end of his life. Zediakiah was not rebelling only against Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon, he was rebelling against God. It was God who brought Nebuchadnezzar to Israel, and God was in control, not Zediakiah.
And then, finally, we come to verses 22-24, which we heard earlier. Now, God says, it won’t be Nebuchadnezzar taking the top of a cedar tree away and planting a vine instead. God says, I will pluck the tenderest sprig off the top of a great cedar, and plant it on the high mountain of Israel, Mount Zion, where God chooses to dwell. And that little shoot will grow into a large cedar and spread out its branches so far that all the birds will have room to build nests in its shade. And God will do this so that all the trees of the field, that is, all the kings and kingdoms of the earth, will know that it is Yahweh who raises up lowly kings and kingdoms, and puts down exalted ones. God dries up fresh, green kingdoms, and God refreshes dry kingdoms. I am Yahweh: I have spoken and I will do it. And He does. So that Mary, the mother of God, sings in her little song after being visited by the angel: God puts down the mighty from their thrones, and lifts up the lowly (Luke 1:52). God takes a little shoot and plants it in the womb of a virgin. The problem was, everyone who was waiting for the Messiah was looking for a cedar. Looking for the reign of God to come with impressive power and strength. But then Jesus starts talking about God reigning like a mustard plant, not a cedar. And everyone thought it was a joke. No, God doesn’t come like this. And they killed Him. The world still thinks it’s a joke, this Reign of God. The world can only see cedar-like power and prestige. They want to know what the Church has ever done for anyone. Does the Church have anything to say about which candidate to elect? Does the Church have anything to say about how to reform health care? Does the Church have anything to say about Israel and Palestine? No? Well, then it’s all a joke. You’re just here playing church. It’s worthless. And Christians—you and me—we often think it’s a joke, too. This Gospel: what has it ever produced? People just go on being the same sinners they were before. Nothing ever seems to change. Better to tell people what to do, how to have a better marriage, be better parents, better citizens, and on and on and on. As if people don’t know that they ought to love their husbands and wives and children, and do for them what they need. It’s not as if they don’t tell us what they need. We just don’t want to do that. Actually, try hammering your children with what they should do, what they should do, what they should do, and not do, and see if that works. It might seem like it, for a while at least. But they’re still the same on the inside, just like us; we just try not to do what we really want to do. But if the Church doesn’t tell people what to do, it must be a joke. The Gospel, the Reign of God in Jesus Christ, must not be enough. Or did we forget we walk by faith and not by sight?
Jesus is dead serious about how God reigns in this creation, and it’s mustard plant, not cedar. By the way, did you know that the (alternate) Family name for mustard is Cruciferae? Like “crucified.” It comes from the fact that mustard, like some other plants, has four flowers in the shape of a cross. That may be a coincidence. Or maybe not. Maybe what’s at the center of the whole reign of God in this creation is the crucified One. Maybe that’s the best result we could hope for in this world: to die. To die in ourselves, or to die in Jesus; that’s pretty much it as far as options go. Maybe, then, there’s something to this whole mustard plant thing after all: when it’s sown, you can hardly get the place free of it. When the seeds fall, they germinate at once. So maybe all there is to do in a dying world is to scatter some seeds. For me to keep throwing Christ out on this ground, and hope He takes root. So: I, a called and ordained servant of Christ, forgive you all your sins, in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. You’re forgiven for thinking God’s means are foolish. Jesus planted you in Himself at baptism, and He keeps feeding and watering you with Himself, the only soil there is in which you can grow. I keep scattering the seed, in the form of bread and wine, which we insist is Christ’s Body and Blood, because He said it was. And I go to sleep, and wake up, and maybe something grows. After all, to those who have, more will be given.
And you: you go out and scatter some seeds. You fathers and mothers scatter Jesus to your children, planted firmly in Him at baptism. You forgive their sins, and each other’s sins. And when someone wants to know what the big deal is, why you have to be here on Sunday morning, you tell them because Jesus is here, and He’s giving His forgiveness away like it costs nothing, though it cost Him everything. You scatter the seeds, you go to sleep, you wake up, and maybe something grows.
And we have absolutely no control over it whatsoever! That’s a frustrating thing, especially for sinful preachers like me. But it’s actually good news: because it means that God is in control, that He’s making seeds grow whether we see anything happening or not. And that’s a promise. And when God makes a promise, He does it. And when the harvest comes, and we see this mustard plant of the Church for the resurrected cedar it is, then all the birds, of every tribe, and people, and language, and nation, will gather under the branches of the crucified One, safe and secure. Thus says Yahweh: I have spoken, and I will do it.
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:7, ESV). Amen.
– Pr. Timothy Winterstein, 6/16/12
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City reaches into bag of tricks to get word out about upcoming ban
By RICHARD D. OXLEY
Bainbridge Island Review Staff Writer
August 20, 2012 · 2:41 PM
With a plastic bag ban on the horizon, Bainbridge Island city officials are preparing a communication strategy to help islanders adjust to the coming change.
A shopping bag-design contest is just one of a few ideas city officials will present to the city council at its meeting this week.
On Wednesday, the city council will be briefed on the city's public outreach plans for the plastic bag ban that starts Nov. 1.
The initial informational push will come in the form of fliers that answer common questions about the ban. The fliers will be distributed around town and in mailers throughout September and October. The city will also coordinate with Bainbridge Disposal to distribute the flier with customers' garbage bills.
The two main island business organizations, the chamber of commerce and the downtown association, will also be briefed on the coming ban so they can spread the word about the new rules with their members through emails and newsletters.
In addition, the city's website will host a new page packed with information about the prohibition.
But city officials have also gotten a bit creative in their approach to educate shoppers about the upcoming ban. One idea is to start a shopping bag design contest aimed at local artists.
Adults and children could enter the competition, and the design submissions would be posted at city hall for a public vote.
The winning design, or designs, would then be produced in limited quantity and the art-emblazoned bags would be handed out to islanders.
Another idea that the council will consider is having Mayor Debbi Lester write a letter about the ban that would be posted on the city's website.
In April, the Bainbridge Island City Council approved a ban on all thin-film plastic bags that are given out at island stores.
The ban does not include the thicker-style plastic bags provided by many of the city's boutique shops, and does also not restrict bags that are used for produce, prescriptions and bulk items.
A pass-through charge of 5 cents will also be placed on all paper bags used by customers.Contact Bainbridge Island Review Staff Writer Richard D. Oxley at firstname.lastname@example.org or (206) 842-6613.
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January 12, 2011
One year after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake, more than a million people remain homeless in Haiti. People are living under plastic tarps or sheets in concrete parks, up to the edge of major streets, in the side streets, on the sides of hills, literally everywhere. One year later, it is critically important for the international community to assist Haitians to secure real housing. The million homeless Haitians are our sisters and brothers and still need our solidarity and help.
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Parents: Tips to Share With Your Kids For a Safe Spring Break
For students Spring Break is one of the most exciting times of the year. For parents it means worrying about what your kids are up to. If your kids are heading off for vacation, whether it's their Senior Trip, a college Spring Break or on a trip with family friends, here are a few things you can remind them do to protect them while they're away.
- Get the address and contact information for the place where your kid will be staying. You may even wish to contact the place in advance to verify reservations or accommodation details.
- Become Familiar with the Destination: Spend some time online learning about the area, potential hazards, and specific places to avoid and share your findings with your kid before they go.
- If your child is traveling with a group of friends, request the contact info of the other parents and create a phone list and share it so parents can get in touch with each other in case of an emergency.
- Stick to the buddy system. Yes, you've been telling them this since they were little, but remind them not to go out alone, regardless of the time of day. They're on Spring Break to spend time with their friends so this is not a tall order.
- Before they go make sure they have all their emergency contact info programmed into their phone or safely placed in their wallet or purse. Also, go online and find contact info for emergency services in the immediate area for where they will be staying.
- To put your mind at ease set a time everyday, while they're gone, that they will call or text to check in with you. If nothing else, this will make you sleep better while they're gone knowing what they are .
- Talk to your kids about the dangers of alcohol. In addition to reminding them of the obvious health hazards of alcohol abuse, take the opportunity to discuss how alcohol can impair judgment and potentially put them in dangerous situations. If they are going to be drinking, instruct them to never leave their drink unattended around people they are not familiar with. Bars and environments where your child is exposed to strangers are common places where predators may have the opportunity to slip harmful substances into their drink.
- Encourage your kids to use debit or credit cards instead of carrying around large amounts of cash. Not only will they get the best exchange rate if they happen to be visiting a foreign country, but they could also avoid potentially dangerous situations that may arise if bystanders observe your son or daughter's wallet or purse full of cash. If it is necessary to carry cash, instruct them to only carry what they need and keep the rest in a safe place.
As a parent you will never stop worrying but at a certain point reminding your kids to be responsible and aware of their surroundings is important. So relax a little more this Spring Break and give them the guidance and tools they need to stay safe.
Do you have any tips you'd like to share about keeping safe this Spring Break?
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I have been approaching this argument from a slightly different direction and thought I might run it past everyone here for comment.
Essentially, the anthropic arguments are an attempt to explain constants, attributes, and qualities the universe seems to adheres to (ignoring for a moment that these mathematical representations are simple models to describe reality). Theists conjure a deity to explain these constants, attributes, and qualities, but they also grant their god with qualities and attributes which also should require explanation. The most often retort to this question I have come across is "we do not have to explain the explanation" to which my response has been "then we do not need to explain the mathematical explanations of reality. Check mate."
I am not sure that inventing an entity to explain some unknown, which itself has a laundry list of unknowns (which almost by definition can never be known) helps in solving the central issue. Once again Occam's razor slices away god.
- This point is directly (if briefly) covered in the Natural-law argument. However, The anthropic principle itself is really just a subset of the argument from design with a particular emphasis on the importance of human life, perspective or purpose.
- I think the best example of this kind of unnecessary assertion of God is still Richard Dawkins response to fred hoyles 747 junkyard argument in the god delusion, Which points out that if you try to solve the problem of complexity in nature by asserting an infinitely intelligent, infinitely powerful, infinitely knowing and thus infinitely complex god, really only makes the problem worse not better.--Murphy 03:21, 16 December 2009 (CST)
- Thanks Murphy. I have been slowly making my way through this web site (it has been on my list for quite sometime) and have just read the natural law argument. I agree with your assessment.
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I think the article has ascribed the use of the Weak Anthropic Principle to the wrong side in the debate between atheisms and theism...and I am afraid it is in bad need of a reworking. As someone brand new here, I think it would be rather rude to just go edit the article without first trying to discuss them here.
Briefly, the theists have of coarse presented Teleological arguments for positive proof of a designed universe, to which atheists counter with an application of the Weak Anthropic Principle. For myself, I find the defense to be logically fallacious; for example should a dealer in a poker game deal himself 100 royal flushes, one would reasonably think it likely he was cheating without the Weak Anthropic Principle being involved. But if the dealer is clever and somewhat glib he might use a tautological variant to obfuscate what is plain to common sense. He would correctly point out that 100 royal flushes of the particular suits he received them in were just as likely as any other random sequence of cards. Then that it was already an established fact that he and the other players were observers who had just witnessed 100 royal flushes in a row. Finally he could narrow the argument's definition of "intelligent life" to include only those beings who happen to have played poker and witnessed such a sequence. Of coarse the sneaky part is that he slipped in his conclusion along with his assumptions. He is subtlety insisting the other players first assume it was a random event, and he did not cheat....and lo and behold, after much hand waving he is able to conclude it was a random event.
The naturalist should be surprised that he exists as an observer at all...and should suspect the deck was stacked or else he would not exist in any universe anywhere. Just as the poker player who assumes as a matter of blind faith that the dealer did not stack the deck should be surprised at the 100 royal flushes in a row. Or if he allows for the possibility of cheating, he should weigh his estimate on how unlikely cheating would be against how unlikely a 100 royal flushes sequence would be.
The tautology in symbolic logic:
Premise: The apparently unlikely thing was random. Argument: It would only occur where it would occur. Conclusion: Therefore it was random.
Now either the Weak Anthropic Principle argument employed by atheists follows this tautology or it doesn't. Albeit its seems a distinction obfuscated by irrelevant deductions. Sometimes while trying to express their objections atheists seem to veer into a variant that does, and sometimes they tend to veer away into unrealized assumptions that observers are something that exist outside of space and time and, unlike other phenomena, were waiting to occur at any given place or time where the conditions were right. The first way they are assuming their own conclusion without realizing it. The other way they are assuming the transcendence of the human soul without realizing it. But they can not be nailed down either way, so the distinction as to whether an observer is a phenomena of physics that seems remarkable but is not fundamentally different then other phenomena (such as 100 royal flushes) or if the observer was something fated to simply show up where conditions were right seems lost on them (such as a soul waiting outside of space and time to be born) seems lost on them. Their invalid defense seems to demand that it be both and neither at different points of their rhetoric.
As a reference here is a seemingly pro-theist web site examining the fallacy from another angle: http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/teleological-argument-and-the-anthropic-principle-faq.htm
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Photo: Michael PriceKen Lebersfeld (left) is CEO of the family's Capitol Lighting. Brother Eric runs sales and marketing.
Florida Small Business
A lighting company has survived by restructuring and changing its business plan.
Keeping the lights on at any business is a challenge. The Lebersfeld family has managed it since 1924, through five generations, the Great Depression and the Great Recession.
Eric Lebersfeld, 47, a fourth-generation member in charge of sales and marketing at Capitol Lighting in Boca Raton, attributes the sustainability to the values passed on by his father, Herman, and uncle, Max, “the way they treated each other with respect and fairness and love.” And some business smarts.
Lebersfeld’s great-grandfather, an immigrant from Austria-Hungary, started the company while working as an electrician converting homes from gas to electric. His wife, Ethel, seeing all the conversions going on, had the idea of opening a store in New Jersey to sell electric light lamps and fixtures to plug into all that new wiring.
The business grew through the decades, but surviving the recent recession took some doing. Several hundred lighting companies closed in the last three years as the downturn swallowed up plenty of players in what’s still a mom-and-pop industry. “We’ve seen the carnage at the side of the road of what can go wrong in a family business,” Eric Lebersfeld says.
Beginning six years ago, the family began what was for it a drastic modernizing of the company’s structure and personnel, focusing on business goals and accountability.
The company, a “Family Business of the Year” in New Jersey in 2002, officially moved to Boca Raton in 2009. The title of “store manager” was replaced with “sales manager” to signify that success would be measured by sales. They cut the workforce. They decided to make new showrooms less overwhelming by making them smaller and displaying fewer products. They use technology to showcase a digital products catalog. W. Lawrence Lauck, spokesman for the American Lighting Association, says Capitol has done “an outstanding job strategically using technology to expand its consumer outreach.”
The company was preserved and has prospered. From 185 employees it fell to 140 but now is back to 175 — 55 of them in Florida — and has $31 million in annual revenue. It opened a Palm Beach Gardens showroom last year, its eighth, replacing one with a larger floor plan in Lake Park. It has one new showroom planned for 2013 and four for 2014, all in its home markets of New Jersey and Florida, and is hungry for the right workers.
Eight family members work in the business, with Ken, 51, as CEO. Maintaining a family business, Eric Lebersfeld says, is “just like a marriage; it’s always going to be a work in progress.”
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
How Much Was Your Kindergarten Teacher Worth?
How much is a good kindergarten teacher worth? A lot more than you might think, at least according to this article in the New York Times, which suggests that we should be paying good teachers $320,000 a year.
Perhaps this provides an interesting commentary on our market system. At its core, capitalism is based on value. People value goods, entertainment, or whatever else, and are willing to pay a certain amount for it. As it turns out, they’re willing to pay Jay-Z more than they are the aforementioned quality kindergarten teacher.
Is the mere fact that people happen to value something enough to justify how much certain occupations make on a philosophical level? Maybe not. It certainly isn’t logic we apply consistently. Take drug dealers. Lots of people (too many) value the utility they get from crack and heroine. Yet, we don’t celebrate successful drug dealers or condone paying them large salaries. Just the opposite. We do everything we can to put them in jail. You might say that we do all this because objectively, having lots of drugs on the streets ultimately hurts society in myriad ways. But to embrace an objective measure of value is to dispute one of the cornerstones of our capitalist system, namely that the best economic system is one in which decentralized consumers make millions of decisions about what they value.
But then again, maybe the relatively low salaries for the kindergarten teacher stem from a failure of our market system to function as designed instead of a problem with the system in theory. If nothing else, the current financial crisis has raised the question of how rational consumers and investors really are. People make irrational, overly exuberant decisions over the time frame of just a year or two. It only stands to reason that they can do so over a 20 or 30 year time span. To value a teacher properly, we have to think about how much money a good teacher will bring in.
But kindergarten students don’t make money a year after they have that teacher; they make money 20 years later when they get a profession. As the study showed, the kindergarten teacher can have a dramatic effect on earnings (as much as $1,000 a year by age 27). To properly value a teacher, people need to be able to make a reasonable guess at how much a good teacher can bring into society in the form of increased productivity, as well as lower costs for welfare and policing because more kids from poor backgrounds have a shot at a decent living. That process will always be fraught with difficulty. Do we rely on test scores? Parent evaluations? A special formula which combines several factors?
Before we render any judgments on our compensation system more such studies must be done. I look forward to seeing them.
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"Thank you, thank you, thank you! I know it isn't rocket science...but understanding why someone my be an emotional eater...that it is linked chemically in releasing neurotransmitters...well it is freeing. I don't mean to be dramatic...but...
Be sure your meals include some lean high-protein foods with plenty of whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Such foods take longer to digest, keep you satisfied longer and are more likely to keep you feeling energized and productive. Overall, protein should make up 15 percent of your calories, fat should make up 30 percent or less and grains about 55 percent.
It’s especially important to get some protein at lunch to avoid that afternoon slump since protein contains amino acids, such as tyrosine, the building block for alertness-boosting neurotransmitters (brain chemicals that relay signals between nerve cells).
Include plenty of high-quality carbohydrates, such as vegetables, fruit, beans, brown rice and whole-grain bread or pasta. Be sure to choose wisely, especially if you’re running on overdrive: stress often leads to a craving for carbohydrates because they boost serotonin, which has a calming effect. When you’re in that state it’s easy to succumb to chips, cookies, pretzels or other highly refined carbohydrate snacks.
If you’re craving carbs, reach for so-called “good carbs” like whole grains and fruits, which give you a nutritional boost in the bargain. Good snacks to have on hand are whole-grain granola bars, fresh or dried fruits and whole-grain crackers. Choosing the right carbohydrates can help increase the nutritional content of your meals and snacks.
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I inherited a glass bowl, which in my grandmother's inventory was described as a "Swedish Green Glass Bowl". It is emerald green, about six inches tall and six inches wide, smooth, globular, thick, with a hexagonal opening on the top. The edges of the hexagonal opening (three and a half inches from point to point) are convex into the opening. The smooth glass is slightly "paneled" in that the sides of the bowl are slightly thicker under the sides of the hexagonal opening, and slightly thinner under the points of the opening, giving a beautiful variation in the green color It has a hand-engraved signature on the bottom, from left to right: the letters O F, then the letters L U (with a tail) and the model number 1531. My grandmother would have probably bought it in the US in the 1930's or 40's. I have attached two pictures, one of the overall bowl, and one of the signature.
Could someone help me identify this piece, and the significance of the markings. Is it a standard piece from a manufacturer's catalogue? Thanks for your help.
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Revision as of 13:26, 19 June 2011 by Mith
Events that occurred on 16 January.
- 1937 - Artist Klaus Ensikat is born.
- 1938' - The Observer newspaper publishes a letter asking about the The Hobbits links to Beowulf, as well as the origins of Tolkien's Hobbits.
- 1965 - The fifteenth and last episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
- 2005 - The final day of the first The One Ring Celebration.
- T.A. 3019:
The text mentions that Frodo sees the "sickle Moon". According to astronomy, this moon should really be exactly half-full in 3019, rather than sickle, eight days after the full moon.
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To say that Commodore 64 aficionados are a dedicated group would be quite the understatement. There are still quite a few individuals that spend all sorts of time building and programming for the C64 in order to make using them enjoyable, and to keep up to date with current technologies.
[Luigi] is one of these people. He wanted a way to easily transfer files between his PC and his C64 that was fast but cheap. To [Luigi], this meant USB file transfers, which would take quite a bit of work to implement. He started out by rolling his own BASIC interpreter which could eventually be extended to support USB. Using his BASIC-Plus interpreter, he was able to implement a USB Kernel, which could transfer files at 1.2 KB/s via a USB to serial adapter. Wanting faster file transfers, he built a USB to parallel adapter, which resulted in a nearly 8-fold increase in speed.
So, if you have been dying to have USB capabilities on your C64, look no further, [Luigi] has just what you need!
Continue reading to see a quick video of USB-64 in action.
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Non-gonococcal Urethritis (NGU) is an infection of the urethra usually due to Chlamydia trachomatis, a sexually transmitted bacteria that infects some 3 million Americans each year.
It is described as "Non-gonoccocal" because it is not associated with the organism that causes gonorrhea. NGU is more common among men than women. The most common symptoms are burning during or after urination and, sometimes, a discharge seen at the tip of the penis. Women are less likely to develop symptoms, but when they do, the most common are a vaginal discharge AND burning or pain when urinating. More severe symptoms such as abdominal pain or abnormal vaginal bleeding may indicate that the infection has progressed to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which can threaten fertility by scarring the fallopian tubes. Up to 40 percent of women with Chlamydia can eventually develop PID.
Untreated, NGU among men can also lead to infertility if it causes an inflammation of the epididymis, the tube that carries sperm from the testis.
I can't tell you how long NGU takes to affect fertility - each case is different, so with luck, the underlying infection won't progress that far. Symptoms typically develop within three to 21 days after exposure to the infectious bacteria. They may not last long - sometimes only a few hours or days - but their disappearance doesn't mean that you're no longer infected. If you've had symptoms, you need to be tested for both gonorrhea and chlamydia . NGU is treated with the antibiotics doxycycline or azithromycin. If you're infected, be sure to notify anyone with whom you've had sex for the past 60 days. Until you've completed the entire course of antibiotics prescribed, you must abstain from all sexual contact. If your partner was diagnosed after you were, abstain from sex until both of you complete treatment.
Andrew Weil, M.D.
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Democracy in Action: Legal and Regulatory Reform
In many countries, poorly designed, duplicative, or unnecessary laws and regulations create roadblocks for entrepreneurs trying to establish or expand their businesses. Such regulations create opportunities for corruption and deter businesses from registering, forcing them into the informal sector where they do not have access to legal protections or the finance they need to grow. CIPE's unique approach to legal and regulatory reform helps private sector associations become a voice of business in public policy debate, so that entrepreneurs can jointly identify problem areas and work with governments toward concrete solutions.
Public-private dialogue strengthens policymaking by incorporating valuable private input and creating momentum for reform. For dialogue to be most productive, the private sector must take initiative to advocate for its priorities in a participatory policy process. This toolkit aids business leaders who seek to improve their participation in dialogue for better policy results. Download the toolkit.
By Dr. Veaceslav Ionita
In April 2009, flawed elections in Moldova triggered the so-called “Twitter revolution,” a wave of public protests made up primarily of young people that put Moldova in the global spotlight. As in the recent uprisings across the Middle East, the sources of Moldova’s widespread discontent were both political and economic in nature. Read the rest of this article.
By Jon Custer
One year after the Arab Spring, where emerging technologies like Twitter, Facebook, and blogs are thought to have played a crucial role, many organizations are asking themselves how social media can best be used to shape debates and organize for advocacy in developing and emerging market countries. Read the rest of this article.
By Jon Custer
The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is a rough road. But it also serves as a vital economic lifeline between the two countries, whose trade is valued at some $3 billion annually — equal to about 15% of Afghanistan’s GDP. However, many legitimate businesses still find it difficult to navigate the complex web of regulations, bureaucracy, and corruption which hamper legal trading across a frontier best known as a conduit for smuggling drugs and weapons. Read the rest of this story.
- Democratic Governance
- Access to Information
- Combating Corruption
- Business Association Development
- Corporate Governance
- Legal & Regulatory Reform
- Informal Sector & Property Rights
- Corporate Citizenship (CSR)
- South Asia
- Southeast Europe
- Middle East & North Africa
- Latin America & the Caribbean
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Just as office managers look for the most efficient way to store files, shop managers must look for efficient ways to store heavy, expensive dies. Many offices have file cabinets with an index system for locating files quickly. The shop equivalent for storing and retrieving dies may be air-powered rollout shelf units.
These units typically are used in conjunction with overhead cranes, roller arms, and powered conveyors located at the press. The operator pushes a button that rolls out a shelf, picks up the dies with an overhead crane, and takes them directly to the press.
Rollout shelves can be manual or air-powered, and they usually have capacities from 400 to 40,000 pounds per shelf, lengths up to 40 feet, and depths up to 8 ft. Some systems have lock-in and lock-out devices while others have safety interlocks that lock the other shelves when one is rolled out.
Some shelves have pans that catch oil before it drips on the floor to help keep the shop clean. Dies also can be stored on inverted angles welded to the pans, and the oil is removed from the pan through a drain plug or a vacuum.
Numbering each shelf and designating a location on the shelf for each die helps to eliminate downtime associated with searching for dies.
Before you can reach this point, however, it is important to understand your company's operations thoroughly. You'll need to take an inventory of all dies, recording information on their width, depth, height, weight, and die name or number. Many companies have some or all of this information already available. However, many shops don't realize that taking the time to inventory and organize their dies will save money in the long run.
If a company doesn't have any recorded die information, it can take two to 20 minutes to measure, calculate weight, and assign a unique number to each die. For example, a company with an inventory of 50 dies would need about eight hours to catalog them.
The best person to catalog the dies usually is the foreman or someone who can determine how often each die is used, what presses it is used in, and whether it is obsolete or needs repair. After taking an inventory, many shops discover that about 25 percent of their dies are obsolete.
When your die inventory list is complete, make a list of all die handling problems you have with your current system. Be specific, and make sure the new system addresses and solves your die handling problems.
If a crane will be used with a shelf rollout system, its capacity will determine if it can lift the largest die, and the shop's floor print will establish the best location for the die handling system. The crane's hook height must be known to determine the maximum height of the new unit. Because the shelves roll out, the system can be placed in previously unused space, such as under the crane's rails.
Generally, 90 percent of the solution to any problem is to understand the problem thoroughly. In die handling and storage, a complete inventory of dies will solve most of the problem. Many shops have no idea how many dies they have or a designated location for them. Die chaos results in time lost searching for dies that are stored "somewhere" or being repaired.
The remaining 10 percent of the die handling solution is understanding die storage options and determining which one best suits your requirements.
Once you have an accurate die inventory list and have identified current storage problems, you are ready to have a new system designed. Some companies design their own system and some hire a consultant that specializes in material handling. On average, it takes about 40 labor-hours to create a CAD layout drawing with locations for 200 dies. Some vendors offer this as a free service to their customers.
Once a storage system is chosen, evaluate it for your shop's future as well as current needs. For example, all shops have combinations of dies, such as 2-ft.-sq. dies, 4-ft.-sq. dies, and 8- by 4-ft. dies. A shelf designed to store the largest die also should be able to accommodate any combination of existing or new dies.
Although air-powered rollout shelves in conjunction with an overhead crane may be an efficient and safe way to handle and store dies, this method takes the most time to design because all the units are custom-made to suit each application. Time is needed to plan the proper place for every die.
Custom systems can include not only air-powered rollout shelf units but also cranes, lifting devices, powered conveyors for inserting the dies into presses, and other items needed for a turnkey operation.
If the best die storage system is too expensive for your current budget, look for systems that can be phased in in stages. This may involve purchasing and setting up several units at a time and adding units as the budget allows.
Although floor space and changeover time are important, the main emphasis should be on safety. All employees should be trained in the proper use of the new system and have a step-by-step procedure manual for reference.
Any prospective die storage and handling system generally should take 50 percent less floor space than the current one, cut die handling time in half, and improve safety. An organized die storage and retrieval system will reduce the amount of time spent searching for needed dies and therefore increase press uptime.
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Mekong River Jeopardized By Xayaburi Dam Construction, WWF Says
By Marla Lise | Top News
December 1, 2011
The Mekong River’s future hangs in the balance as its four surrounding countries decide whether to construct a dam on it.
AsianScientist (Dec. 1, 2011) – The Mekong River’s future hangs in the balance as its four surrounding countries decide whether to construct a dam on it.
The Mekong River stretches 4,800 km down to the South China Sea, making it the longest river in Southeast Asia. It is home to over 700 species of freshwater fish including four of the world’s largest fish species, notably the endangered Mekong catfish. The Lower Mekong supports almost 60 million people who depend on it for their livelihood.
Earlier this year, the Joint Committee of the Mekong River Commission (MRC), an inter-governmental agency made up of representatives from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, met to discuss whether or not the controversial Xayaburi dam in Northern Laos should be built.
Vietnam’s Minister of Environment and Natural Resources officially asked for a 10-year delay of mainstream dams, which was also supported by Cambodia’s Minister for Water Resources.
All four countries decided to defer the final decision and leave it in the hands of their environment and water resource ministers, who will meet in Siem Reap, Cambodia next week.
Separately, the Lao government also commissioned a Finnish consulting firm, Pöyry, to provide a review of the Xayaburi dam’s impact on biodiversity and fisheries, and the effectiveness of mitigation measures.
The review by Pöyry concluded that additional baseline data on biology, ecology, and livelihood restoration was needed as well as improved knowledge concerning migratory fish. Despite these gaps, Pöyry stated that the Xayaburi project met the requirements of the MRC’s design guidelines.
“It is astounding that Pöyry affirms there are serious data gaps and weaknesses with the project and still gives it the all clear. Pöyry recommends dealing with the critical knowledge gaps during the construction phase. Playing roulette with the livelihoods of over 60 million people would not be acceptable in Europe so why is it different in Asia?” said Dr. Jian-hua Meng, WWF’s Sustainable Hydropower Specialist.
According to the WWF, the Pöyry review failed to fully understand the impacts of the dam to fisheries and sediment flows. The Mekong’s rich sediment is a crucial factor in maintaining the balance in the Mekong ecosystem and building up the delta.
“A failure to address the uncertainties with this project could have dire consequences for the livelihoods of millions of people living in the Mekong river basin,” said Dr. Meng.
WWF recommends that the 10-year delay be carried out in order to gather the essential data needed using sound science and analysis. They also recommend that hydropower projects prioritize dams on Mekong tributaries instead which will have a lower impact and risk.
Source: World Wildlife Fund for Nature.
Disclaimer: This article does not necessarily reflect the views of AsianScientist or its staff.
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There are a quarter of a million Amish living in the United States; in this one-hour documentary, a BBC team films one family close up in defiance of the strict Amish code against photography and filming.
The Amish are well known in both the United States and throughout the world; there are websites dedicated to them, which of course they don't run themselves.
Generally though, they are not seen up close, but in this programme, the BBC has been granted rare perhaps even unique access to an Amish household. David and Miriam Lapp are Old Order Amish, the most orthodox of the religion; their house has no electricity, they have no telephone, and they dress extremely plainly.
Although they are not totally cut off from the modern world, they don't appear to read newspapers either; Miriam thought the Prime Minister of England was Tony Blair, obviously confusing him with the indicted war criminal of that name.
According to Miriam, the Bible tells women to be keepers at home and submissive to their husbands, and to look well to the ways of their households, a thoroughly progressive idea that is unfortunately entertained by very few modern women outside of strictly orthodox Moslem and Jewish families.
The Lapps have four young 'uns, the two youngest of whom run around their small holding barefoot, and this, coupled with both a lack of electricity and Miriam's candid admission that she does not spare the rod would be considered by many self-styled liberals to be tantamount to child abuse.
David and Miriam allowed in the cameras because they want Amish culture to be understood; the team did not expect to be given access to anything more than the family home, and even that meant David and Miriam were risking excommunication, but remarkably they were able to film an Amish women's meeting too.
The following week there was another meeting, of men as well as women, and some of them were driving cars. One man present had a full beard - normally, Amish men wear beards without moustaches.
It is clear there is an enormous schism within the Amish religion, and its entire way of life, a schism that has been caused mostly, but not entirely, by that thing we call progress.
Five months later, the BBC team was back in Amish country, by which time the Lapps were moving to another, larger house, David having managed to afford a farm. Later, David is shown using a telephone, though not in the family home, but could that have been a refrigerator in Miriam's kitchen?
Amish: A Secret Life is currently on iplayer for those who can receive it.
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By Jueseppi B.
George Zimmerman (C) sits during his bond hearing with his attorney Mark O’Mara (L) in a Seminole County courtroom on June 29, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman is charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. (Photo by Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel-Pool/Getty Images)
More dirty tricks with no regard for justice from Killer George Zimmerman and his shyster legal team headed by Mark O’Mara:
By Ms. Joy Reid of The Grio
Lawyers for George Zimmerman, accused of second degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, will seek a “stand your ground” hearing.
A statement on the website for Zimmerman’s legal defense confirms that Mark O’Mara is preparing for a hearing, which the website describes as a “mini-trial.” There will be no jury, however, and the judge alone will decide whether Zimmerman has proved that he was in reasonable fear for his life when he fatally shot Martin February 26th.
“Now that the State has released the majority of their discovery, the defense asserts that there is clear support for a strong claim of self-defense. Consistent with this claim of self-defense, there will be a “Stand Your Ground” hearing,” the statement on the GZLegalCase website read.
The statement continued:
There are significant differences between a “Stand Your Ground” hearing and a trial. In a “Stand Your Ground” hearing, there is no jury; the decision is made by the judge alone. In a criminal trial, the prosecution must prove the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but in a “Stand Your Ground” hearing, the burden is on the defense to prove that the evidence fits the conditions of the “Stand Your Ground” law. If the Court rules in favor of the defendant in a “Stand Your Ground” hearing, not only are criminal charges dismissed, the defendant is also immune from civil actions related to the shooting. The primary focus of a “Stand Your Ground” hearing is whether George Zimmerman reasonably believed that his use of his weapon was necessary to prevent great bodily harm to himself at the hands of Trayvon Martin.
Zimmerman maintains he shot Martin after the 17-year-old attacked him. Zimmerman spotted the teen inside the gated community where he and his wife rented a townhome, and where Martin was visiting with his father from Miami.
O’Mara said preparing for the “stand your ground” hearing will take time.
The law has become controversial in the wake of the Martin shooting, and a Florida task force led by the state’s lieutenant governor is reviewing its application.
UPDATE: Lawyers for the family of Trayvon Martin released the following statement in response to the O’Mara “stand your ground” hearing announcement:
Let it be clear on the record, that we feel confident that the unjustified killing of Trayvon Benjamin Martin should and will be decided by a jury. Many of the legal architects of the Stand Your Ground law have already opined that it does not apply in this case. A grown man cannot profile and pursue an unarmed child, shoot him in the heart, and then claim stand your ground. We believe that the killer’s motion will be denied during the Stand Your Ground Hearing, and as justice requires a jury will ultimately decide the fate of a man that killed an innocent child.
There is only one version of this story that represents that Zimmerman was attacked by Trayvon Martin, and that’s Zimmerman’s self-serving version. Everyone will agree that the killer’s credibility is clearly questionable.
Trayvon’s parents do not feel that this is a man that feared for his life the night he shot and killed their child, this is a man whose only fear is spending his life in prison.
Zimmerman’s attorneys seek ‘stand your ground’ hearing, say evidence supports self-defense
MIAMI (AP) — George Zimmerman will seek to have second-degree murder charges dismissed under Florida’s “stand your ground” law in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, his attorney said Thursday.
The hearing, which likely won’t take place for several months, will amount to a mini-trial involving much of the evidence collected by prosecutors as well as expert testimony from both sides. Although the posting did not say so, legal experts say it’s likely that Zimmerman himself would testify since he is the sole survivor of the Feb. 26 confrontation.
“Most of the arguments, witnesses, experts and evidence that the defense would muster in a criminal trial will be presented in the ‘stand your ground’ hearing,” said the statement posted on Zimmerman’s official defense website.
Under the law, Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester can dismiss the charges if Zimmerman conclusively shows he fatally shot Martin because he “reasonably believed” he might be killed or suffer “great bodily harm” at the hands of the unarmed teenager. The law also says a person has no duty to retreat in the face of such a threat.
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot Martin after a confrontation in Zimmerman’s gated community in the central Florida town of Sanford, where Martin was visiting. The case drew local and nationwide protests because Zimmerman was not arrested for weeks after the shooting.
Evidence released by prosecutors, the Zimmerman statement said, shows “clear support for a strong claim of self-defense.” The statement added that Zimmerman attorney Mark O’Mara “urges everyone to be patient during this process and to reserve judgment until the evidence is presented in the ‘stand your ground’ hearing.”
Martin’s parents have contended that Zimmerman singled out their son as he was returning from a convenience store because he was black and that it was Zimmerman’s aggression that led to his death. Zimmerman, who is free on $1 million bail, faces a possible life prison sentence if convicted of second-degree murder.
If his “stand your ground” claim succeeds, however, the criminal charges would be dismissed and Zimmerman could not be held liable in any civil action such as a wrongful death lawsuit. Prosecutors would likely appeal a successful self-defense claim.
A spokeswoman for special prosecutor Angela Corey declined comment Thursday. An attorney for Martin’s parents did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
Legal experts have said that Zimmerman’s credibility is a key to his claim and that he undermined his own cause by deceiving the judge about his finances during an April bond hearing. That alleged deception led to perjury charges against Zimmerman’s wife, Shellie. She has pleaded not guilty.
Lester, who will also decide the self-defense claim, said Zimmerman “flaunted the system” by making misleading statements about how much money the couple had raised through online contributions from supporters. The judge revoked Zimmerman’s initial $150,000 bond and had him returned to jail, then allowed him to be released on the higher $1 million figure with additional restrictions.
This case has had numerous extensions and prolonged new hearings, it’s time for this killing racist caucasian coward to go to trial.
Justice 4 Trayvon.
Filed under: Bad News, Causes, Court Room/Legal, Crime, Gun Control, Gun Violence, News, Racism, Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman, World News Tagged: | Angela Corey, CURT ANDERSON, Florida, George Zimmerman, mark o'mara, Martin Family, Murder, Racism, Saford, Sanford Florida, Stand Your Ground Defense, Trayvon Martin
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On September 28th of this year, Rezwan Ferdaus was arrested for providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations by actively planning to utilize “small drone airplanes” with high explosives to bomb the Pentagon and other important structures within our nation's capital. Thirteen months earlier Blake Cornell, an independent security researcher and consultant, had outlined the threats of Unmanned Aerial Improvised Explosive Devices (UAIEDs) and other airborne threats during his ICCS 2010 presentation. He had detailed the threat landscape and provided means to detect, prevent and immobilize UAIEDs while outlining unique investigative difficulties to mitigate this new class of threat.
Blake Cornell will be presenting at ICCS 2012. His presentation will outline SCADA vulnerabilities, the threats posed by government funded cyber attacks and their potential to impact on our lives from the present and the future.
Security threats and their respective landscapes have increasingly been evolving over time. AT ICCS 2012 many of these trending threats will be discussed in detail while providing methods to detect, deter and prevent catastrophic situations.
Join us at ICCS 2012 for more from Blake Cornell, on threats, solutions and the current state of cyber security.
Register now for ICCS 2012 and receive the standard rate of $695.00. Registrations are handled on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information on confirmed speakers, registration, accommodations, schedules and presentations, we invite you to visit the official ICCS 2012 website at: http://www.iccs.fordham.edu.
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This pottery whistle is in the form of a bird standing on two legs and a tail. It is a double whistle, with two internal and separate sounding chambers. The lower chamber, located in the body of the bird, is sounded through a mouthpiece located in the tail. This chamber has a single finger hole on the front of the bird's belly allowing for two pitches to be produced. A second, smaller, chamber is found in the head of the bird and is activated through a mouthpiece protruding from behind the ears.
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Where is Bergen located on the map? Find Bergen now!
There is so much to see and explore in Bergen - take a look at our suggestions. Bergen in Norway is an attractive destination for holidays and weekend trips. When speaking about Norway, never forget to mention Bergen. This city is worth a short trip as well as a longer stay. Surely you already have heard about Bergen in the news. Can you imagine, how near or far away that is? Maybe some of your friends were already there and told you about this city.If you are planning your next weekend trip, why not choose this location?
No hint for finding Bergen on the map, but maybe some sightseeing or holiday tipps for you, if you ever want to travel to Bergen: Bergen op Zoom, Bergens Tidende, Bergen Line, Bergen Record, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Airport, Flesland, Bergenfield, Sentrum, Engen, Bergenhus, Sydnes
Where is Bergen located on this blind map? Just click on the map right at
the position where you think Bergen is located. The map can be zoomed and shifted - as you are used to do with Google Maps - to ensure you can find Bergen.
You can drag and drop the red marker or just click anywhere else
to change the location of Bergen.
When you are done, confirm your choice by clicking just on the red marker. You then will see, how far you missed Bergen on the map: the yellow marker will show you the correct position of Bergen.
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Yesterday the ABS released the latest of its surveys of the winner and losers of Australia’s taxing and spending, covering the 2003-04 period.
And the winners are…unemployed single parents with children under 5, taking in on average $878 more a week in income transfers and welfare services than they pay in tax, most of which is indirect tax (it has a statistical caution on the number, but despite low overall tax this group scores the highest payment on ‘tobacco products’, consistent with previous research showing the poor pay a disproportionate share of ‘sin’ taxes).
And the losers are…the top 20% of households by income, who pay on average $571 a week more in tax than they receive back in benefits and services.
As with previous surveys, this one finds that the bottom 60% of households are net beneficiaries of the tax and welfare system, ie they receive more in income transfers and welfare services than they pay in tax. The Australian gave this aspect its lead story, with the heading ‘Tax take helping Howard battlers’. The poorest 20% get more than 40% of all social assistance, and the richest 20% only 9%.
But the redistributive aspect of policy is driven by income transfers rather than government services. Read the rest of this entry »
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E. Lynn Harris, who introduced millions of readers to the “down low” lifestyle of black gay men, died Thursday night in Los Angeles while on a tour to promote his eleventh novel, Basketball Jones. His health had declined, but details of the cause of death are unavailable. Harris wrote novels that exposed readers to “black, affluent gay men who were masculine, complex and, sometimes, tormented” characters who had rarely been depicted in black literature. He encouraged the black community to talk frankly and candidly about homosexuality in books like Invisible Life, A Love of My Own, and his New York Times best-selling memoir, What Becomes of the Brokenhearted. He pretty much invented a new literary genre about black gay men living double lives. Although he wrote primarily about black homosexual men, some of Harris’ biggest fans were black women. In 1991, the former IBM executive began selling his first book out of the trunk of his car to black beauty salons and bookstores. Harris went on to become a very popular writer, selling an estimated four million of his books in print.
His work didn’t lack for criticism, however. Some said he had discovered a winning literary formula, but was just a mediocre writer. To which he would respond, “‘I’m not a James Baldwin,’” said a friend. But most of his criticism came from within the black community. Some black gay men thought he wasn’t providing an accurate portrayal of their lifestyle, whereas others thought he was exposing too much. Another friend and fellow author Tananarive Due said Harris took away some of the pain regarding homosexuality in the black community with his novels and life. He resisted becoming a gay rights advocate, saying that his homosexuality was only a small part of who he was. “It’s what I do when I’m with my partner that puts this label on me,” he told the Detroit Free Press in 2003. “Most of my friends are straight. I tend to have a regular life, if you will.” [CNN, Black Voices]
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This is a summary and commentary on a debate between William Lane Craig and Bart Ehrman on the evidence for the resurrection.
William Lane Craig's opening statement
Craig opened with his standard resurrection apologetic, almost exactly the same argument he used in his debates with J. D. Crossan and Gerd Ludemann: We can prove that Jesus was buried by Joseph of Arimathea, that the tomb was found empty, that people experience resurrection appearances, that they believed in the resurrection in spite of having all kinds of reasons not to. After supporting each of these points, he attacked what he understood to be Ehrman's reasons for doubting that the resurrection can be established on historical grounds. This part isn't worth describing in depth, because one of the first things Ehrman said in his presentation was this argument wouldn't exactly be what Craig said he would argue.
Bart Ehrman's opening statement
Ehrman began by explaining that the gospels are not ideal historical sources. They were written decades after the fact by noneyewitnesses. Ehrman describes in some detail how oral traditions were circulated, emphasizing just how many hands a story might have passed through before finally getting written down. At that point, he would have basically refuted Craig if he had simply said, as Richard Carrier has done, "Would it be even remotely reasonable to believe such a thing on so feeble a proof? Well--no." Ehrman couldn't quite do this, though, because he didn't really want to argue against the resurrection so much as that it couldn't be established on historical grounds. He's consistently said that one may believe it on faith or historical grounds. Still, his presentation would have been stronger if he had found some way to hit home the reliability of the gospels. He might have said something like, "Does it make sense to take such evidence and say tell people the have to believe it as rational persons? No." Still, with his blow-by-blow account of a hypothetical chain of oral transmission, my guess is many audience members got the point.
Then he argued that historians cannot establish miracles:
The problem with historians is they can't repeat an experiment. Today, if we want proof for something, it's very simple to get proof for many things in the natural sciences; in the experimental sciences we have proof. If I wanted to prove to you that bars of ivory soap float, but bars of iron sink, all I need to do is get 50 tubs of lukewarm water and start chucking in the bars. The ivory soap will always float, the iron will always sink, and after a while we'll have a level of what you might call predicted probability, that if I do it again, the iron is going to sink again, and the soap is going to float again. We can repeat the experiments doing experimental science. But we can't repeat the experiments in history because once history happens, it's over.Ehrman goes on to give a scenario explaining the empty tomb which he thinks not terribly probable, but more probable than a miracle. He finishes up by saying that miracles are theological questions, and trying to apply historical research to them is like trying to apply mathematics to literature.
What are miracles? Miracles are not impossible. I won't say they're impossible... I'm just going to say hat miracles are so highly improbable that they're the least possible occurrence in any given instance... No one on the face of this Earth can walk on lukewarm water. What are the chances that one of us could do it? Well, none of us can, so let's say the chances are one in ten billion.
Craig's first rebuttal
For his first rebuttal, Craig launched into a Power Point presentation citing a book called "Hume's Abject Failure," and which included slide titled "Ehrman's Egrigious Error" and "Bart's Blunder." His main point was that in assessing the probability of an event, one has to take into account background probability and specific evidence. This is almost completely irrelevant to Ehrman's presentation, because Ehrman argued that even explanations of the evidence that don't sound terribly plausible are more plausible than the resurrection. A large section of Craig's presentation was then wasted. He briefly made a claim that the resurrection is only improbable if the existence of God is improbable. This, though, fails address Ehrman's argument. Craig also attacked Ehrman's description of an ideal historical by saying "The only purpose it serves is a psychological purpose of setting the bar so unrealisticly high that the Gospels appear to fall short by comparison."
When I first read this section of the debate, I was puzzled by how weak it was. I feel I could have done a better job of arguing Craig's case than Craig himself, i.e. by seriously addressing the contention that miracles are improbable. This is not the first time I've felt I could have done a better job defending Christianity than one Christian apologist, but Craig has such a reputation as a debater I wondered how he could foul up so badly. Then I realized the key was in the Power Point slides: Craig had them prepared, and didn't want to waste them. He hinted at this in the first round when he'd said he'd wait on rebutting Ehrman's argument until Ehrman had presented it. He thought he knew exactly what Ehrman would say, and when Ehrman presented some slightly different arguments, Craig failed to adapt. On the other hand, Ehrman's presentation wasn't that different from things he's said elsewhere, so perhaps Craig's problem was he took one look at Ehrman's writings and pigeon-holed him as a defender of Hume.
At any rate, Craig fouled up on a massive scale.
Ehrman's first rebuttal
Ehrman began by reiterating that he respects Craig's personal beliefs about Jesus. This was just one of many examples of how he tried to be fairly polite throughout the debate, in spite of Craig giving him reason to do otherwise: the obnoxious alliterations, baseless accusations of ulterior motive, etc. After I had finished reading the debate, I was curious to get an audio to see if Ehrman showed signs of being annoyed at any point in the debate. When I raised this question on Internet Infidels, a moderator said "I've heard Ehrman on TV and other audio versions, and he comes across as relatively academic and unemotional." This has been my impression as well from seeing a video clip of him talking about the Gospel of Judas. Craig might have caused him to lose his usual composure, though.
Immediately after saying he respects Craig's personal beliefs, he said the claim that the resurrection can be proven is dead wrong and took Craig to task on many dubious points in his argument. His first major area is Craig's repeated use of appeals to authority. He points out that New Testament scholars tend to be believers, but also that most scholars don't think that we can prove Jesus rose from the dead. He goes on to attack other dubious claims, the worst of which is probably the claim that Paul provides evidence for the empty tomb, when Paul makes no mention of the tomb. A fairly solid rebuttal, all in all.
He reiterates points made previously, that the gospel stories were in circulation for a long time. Again, didn't quite knock it home as hard as he should have, but it was good to bring up. He also reiterates the point that historians can't make statements about God. His one mistake was failing to specifically bring up the "one in ten billion" point, and point out that, contra Craig, it would stand even if God existed.
He wrapped up by asking Craig to address three points: does he believe the Bible is inerrant? will he address competing miracle claims? and how is it that the religion he adopted as a teenager just happens to be the one that's historically well-supported?
Craig's second rebuttal
Craig, I think, made a temporary recovery from the charge of appeals to authority, by saying that he wasn't just appealing to authority, he was also giving the arguments, which must be refuted. He repeated the assertion about Paul, which just isn't a defensible claim, but by responding to specific claims of Ehrman he did somewhat better than the first rebuttal. He also repeated his irrelevant point about probability calculus. How well Craig did on the question of miracles is a bit debatable here--he didn't deal with it so well, but Ehrman had failed to restate his best point in the immediately preceding segment.
He only had enough time to address one of Ehrman's three questions, the one about other miracle workers. He argued that the evidence is late, and made some appeals to authority. With these, though, he can plausibly claim that he's not just making appeals to authority, but also giving arguments.
Ehrman's second rebuttal
Ehrman starts out with a defense of a neutral view of historical research as a neutral endevor, listing different groups of people that all have to be able to take part. He continues something he began at the end of his first rebuttal, using Craig's personal testimony against him. The resurrection makes sense to Craig because he's a Christian and only because he's a Christian.
Ehrman does get one major thing wrong in this rebuttal: he says Hume said miracles can't happen and disagrees with this point. This is a common mistake, made by some of Hume's critics. Hume was arguing against the implausibility of belief in miracles. If his argument wasn't similar to Ehrman's, it was closer than Ehrman allows. Hume even said that we may believe miracles on faith, just as Ehrman does, even if Ehrman isn't being as sarcastic as Hume.
Ehrman continued to press Craig on inerrancy. This is probably not the best press point; a better one would be Craig's declarations that evidence isn't going to change his views. Ehrman very likely hasn't seen these, though, and it was nice to see Craig pressed on one of the things that his hears generally don't see brought up.
Ehrman finishes by asking Craig to get to his questions, and stressing that miracles are a matter of faith.
Craig's statement was basically a summary, but at the end was further personal testimony that ended with "I believe [Christianity] can change your life in the same way it has changed mine."
Ehrman took that testimony and called Craig what he is: "An evangelist who wants people to come to share his belief in Jesus... trying to disguise himself as a historian as a means to that end." He got in some other good points, in particular his best guess as to what really happened, but identifying Craig for what he is was the decisive move which makes it safe to say that Ehrman won.
Question and Answer
This section provides further confirmation that Ehrman won. The first couple questioners for him thanked him, while the ones for Craig were somewhat hostile, challenging him on Ehrman's questions and the use of probability. This surprised me at first, given that the debate was held at a religious college, though it's a Jesuit one, so we're not talking too hard-line.
I'm not going to do this in detail since I've been writing this commentary all morning. I will say that Ehrman got in his two main points, including the argument for improbability which had been somewhat neglected. Craig got in some nonsense that Ehrman didn't answer: another appeal to authority, along with the claim that Hume required people in the tropics to reject the existence of ice. This is nonsense, Hume said it made sense to reject the first relations of ice, just as it makes sense to reject the first reports of flying snakes and giant ants that travelers used to tell when travel was slower and mass communication nonexistent. Anyway, I don't think it matters in the end. The great William Lane Craig lost.
The above was written yesterday, and accidentally saved when I meant to post it. The below is an "update" of sorts
I started a discussion on this over at Christian Forums. Here's the comment of one Christian poster: "Clearly Craig won the debate. Erhman was back pedaling the entire time"
What to make of this? All I can think of is the fact that Ehrman ignored Craig's irrelevant counterpoints, which Craig wasted half of his time on. Given that Craig benefited from it in the minds of one person who read the transcript, might Craig have been spouting nonsense intentionally? I wouldn't put it beyond him. His standard strategy for debates on the existence of God is to throw out five arguments, complain if his opponents don't rebut every last one of them, and also insist that they provide arguments against the existence of God. Clearly, this is absurd: given a 70 minute debate, there would only be 7 minutes apiece per argument, and that's if the opponent failed to meet Craig's demand to provide arguments against the existence of God. He has to know that this makes serious discussion impossible. He may very well have intentionally avoided Ehrman's points and attacked straw men as a debating tactic.
John W. Loftus is commenting as well:
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Gift of Mrs. Joseph Tuckerman Tower, 1934 (34.79a,b)
From the house of Dr. Stephen Thorn of New Hackensack in Dutchess County, New York, this "Dutch" door is typical of the exterior doors found in pre-Revolutionary houses from the Dutch cultural areas of New York and New Jersey. Two-part split doors of this type are indigenous to the Netherlands and appear frequently in seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings depicting interiors. The fact that the upper section could be opened independently of the lower one afforded the homeowner the advantage of letting air and light into the interior while keeping children safely inside and animals and vermin out. Early houses in the Dutch cultural areas of New York and New Jersey were typically of two rooms arranged end to end under a steeply pitched roof, and lacked a center hall. To allow for privacy and heat retention, each of these rooms had an exterior "Dutch" door. Even after the adoption of the gambrel-roofed English style center hall house in the Hudson River valley in the 1750s, people of Dutch descent retained this earlier door type. This pattern of retaining certain traditional forms was typical of the New York Dutch and can be seen as well in their extended use of that quintessential Dutch furniture form, the kast. The door features eight fielded panels, the topmost pair pierced by oval lights of green "bull's-eye" glass. The front of the door is made of gumwood. The back is made of oak and the boards run diagonally, constructed with tongue-and-groove joints. The brass hardware and iron strap hinges are thought to be original.
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US blues musician David "Honey-Boy" Edwards has died at his home in Chicago at the age of 96, his manager has said.
Known for his far-ranging travels, Edwards was still playing about 70 shows a year in his 90s.
He won a 2008 Grammy for traditional blues and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2010.
Among his most famous songs were Just Like Jesse James, Long Tall Woman Blues and Gamblin' Man.
The BBC's Peter Bowes, in Los Angeles, says Edwards' guitar-playing style was gritty and edgy.
Born in 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi, Edwards learned to play as a child and left home at the age of 14 to travel with some of the great Delta Blues musicians of the 1930s and 40s, including Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter. He started playing professionally, at age 17, in Memphis.
His manager said he had a photographic memory of every detail of his life and told legendary stories. Edwards, he has recounted, described witnessing the moment when bluesman Robert Johnson drank the glass of poisoned whisky that killed him at the age of 27.
"Blues ain't never going anywhere," Edwards told AP in 2008.
"It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere. You play a lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be blues.
"You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock 'n roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere."
Edwards earned his nickname "Honey-Boy" from his sister, who told his mother to "look at honey boy" when he stumbled as he learned to walk as a toddler.
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Look on positive sideDuring this season of peace and understanding for the world, we all might reflect on making the global, more local.
By: Dennis R. Davis and Julie VanEtten, Hudson, Hudson Star-Observer
During this season of peace and understanding for the world, we all might reflect on making the global, more local.
Reading “Letters to the Editor” in this paper, residents understandably might assume that this town is filled with negativism and fear. A glance at the “usual suspect” contributors shows just about anti-everything: anti-government, anti-Harry Potter, anti-abortion, anti-wine tasting, anti-immigration, anti-evolution, anti-gay, anti-vaccination, anti-education, and “anti-anything that threatens a narrow-minded view of the world.”
Experience is the enemy of bigotry. The more individuals in the area with varied experiences in life and complex world-views to share, the more vibrant and healthy our community will become. In this spirit and during this time, we welcome the celebrations of all traditions of positive outlook and hope, whether the Winter Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or others. Our community, our families, and ourselves are better for it.
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Small Scale Enterprise; Payment Systems & Infrastructure; Economic Theory & Research; Banks & Banking Reform; Microfinance; Small and Medium Size Enterprises; Private Participation in Infrastructure
Summary: There is currently a large interest in understanding firms' access to finance, particularly in the financing of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). But the financing patterns of SMEs across countries is not well understood. For example, little is known about the relative importance of equity, debt, and inter-firm financing for SMEs across countries. The authors use the Amadeus database, which includes financial information on over 97,000 private and publicly traded firms in 15 Eastern and Central European countries. The Amadeus database allows the authors the opportunity to provide a new analysis of the general financing patterns of private firms across a large sample of Eastern European countries. The summary statistics show that the size of the SME sector (as measured by the percentage of total employment) in Eastern European countries is smaller than in most developed economies. Although the authors find in almost every country in the sample a large number of SMEs as a percentage of total firms, the SMEs in Eastern Europe are generally small and hire few employees. However, SMEs seem to constitute the most dynamic sector of the Eastern European economies, relative to large firms. In general, the SME sector comprises relatively younger, more highly leveraged, and more profitable and faster growing firms. This suggests that a new type of firm is emerging in transition economies that is more market- and profit-oriented. But at the same time, these firms appear to have financial constraints that impede their access to long-term financing and ability to grow.
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“The third big idea is hard fun. We learn best and we work best if we enjoy what we are doing. But fun and enjoying doesn’t mean “easy.” The best fun is hard fun. Our sports heroes work very hard at getting better at their sports. The most successful carpenter enjoys doing carpentry. The successful businessman enjoys working hard at making deals.”
Papert, S. (1999) “The Eight Big Ideas Behind the Constructionist Learning Laboratory.” In Stager, G. An Investigation of Constructionism in the Maine Youth Center. Doctoral dissertation. The University of Melbourne. 2006.
In 1999, Seymour Papert embarked on his last ambitious institutional research project when he created the constructionist, technology-rich, project-based, multi-aged Constructionist Learning Laboratory inside of Maine’s troubled prison for teens, The Maine Youth Center. Shortly after the start of the three year project, Papert outlined the Eight Big Ideas behind the Constructionist Learning Laboratory. Although non-exhaustive, this list does a good job of explaining constructionism to the general population.
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Author: Mark Brown (Volunteer)
Date: March 23, 2012
We must act now to protect our oceans – or be prepared pay a heavy economic price for many generations.
That’s the view of the Stockholm Environment Institute, whose new report ‘Valuing the Oceans’ warns that failure to address the combined effects pollution, overfishing and climate change could cost the world an eye-watering $2 trillion per year by 2100.
What do you think? Will this information have an impact on the skeptics?
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AAP program that makes early literacy promotion a
standard part of pediatric primary care.
The clinic operates, is funded by, or participates in several programs for pregnant women and their children, including First Five for no-cost prenatal oral care; California's Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program that combines prenatal and perinatal care with health education, oral care and psychosocial care and includes referrals for comprehensive ultrasound and consults for fetal echo, amniocentesis and other genetic testing; Sweet Success for patients who have developed or at high risk for developing gestational diabetes or diabetes mellitus during pregnancy; the San Diego County Perinatal Care Network that helps pregnant women apply for Medi-Cal in order to receive early prenatal care; and Vaccines for Children, which helps families by providing free vaccines to doctors who serve eligible children 0 to 18 years of age. La Maestra also provides Geriatric healthcare.
Family and Internal Medicine Women's Health and Reproductive Care (Pre and Post Natal)
Childhood Health Care Services (Pediatric) Senior Health (Geriatric Medicine)
Teen Health Services and Education
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State, feds strike deal on water pollution limits
Published: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 6:07 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 6:07 p.m.
TALLAHASSEE — State and federal environmental authorities agreed Friday on rules to reduce water pollution, but environmentalists slammed the deal, saying it wasn't tough enough on how much fertilizer and other pollutants should be allowed in Florida waters.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the agreement, which attempts to head off contamination that leads to toxic algae blooms. They can kill fish and wildlife and make people sick.
DEP Secretary Herschel T. Vinyard Jr. said the new limits are adequate to protect water quality.
"We can now move forward to implementing nutrient reduction criteria, rather than delaying environmental improvements due to endless litigation," he said in a statement.
When fertilizer and animal manure from farms and ranches run into waterways, they bring nitrogen and phosphorus. Those act as nutrients to algae.
The algae essentially have a feeding frenzy, resulting in the blooms that cause red tides and other slimy, smelly outbreaks.
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Florida Farm Bureau Federation and the Florida League of Cities released statements lauding the deal. But a lawyer for Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law firm, called the compromise a "sell out."
"This bogus plan gives deep-pocketed polluters even more loopholes," said Earthjustice attorney David Guest, whose group wanted stricter federal standards. "And what do we, the public, get? More gross, slimy algae in the water."
In November, the EPA allowed the state's numeric nutrient criteria to cover "all lakes, rivers, streams and springs, as well as estuaries from Clearwater Harbor to Biscayne Bay," DEP's statement said.
The idea is to let Florida eventually enforce water pollution rules without the federal government. The DEP said it now will begin to write more detailed rules for protecting Florida's waterways.
Guest wants the plan reviewed in federal court to see if it squares with the Clean Water Act. He also said more than 18,000 people wrote the EPA this year, supporting the stricter federal standards.
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- About MCC
- What we do
- Get involved
- Stories and resources
- Ways to give
As followers of Jesus, we are called to an ethic of loving our enemies (Matthew 5:43-48) and to a ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:16-20). MCC U.S. restorative justice work builds capacity to respond in healthy ways to harm and conflict, respond to and prevent violence and sexual abuse in our families and communities, and support healing and promote mutuality through biblical reflection and practices which create life-giving spaces in communities.
Emerging out of MCC’s history and experience in Mennonite Conciliation Services and the Office on Crime and Justice, our purpose is to equip people to live in community and to respond redemptively to interpersonal and systemic conflict, harm and injustice within families, communities and congregations. Responding to the biblical mandate as stated in Micah 6:8 to "do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God," MCC U.S. restorative justice work promotes fair and inclusive processes in times of conflict, crime and injustice. These processes are guided by principles of restorative justice. We are committed to anti-racist and anti-sexist conflict transformation.
The Return to the Earth project supports Native Americans in burying culturally unidentifiable ancestral remains currently held in museums and universities across the United States and enables a process of education and reconciliation between Native and non-Native peoples.
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The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) is Canada's national hazard communication standard. The key elements of the system are cautionary labelling of containers of WHMIS "controlled products", the provision of material safety data sheets (MSDSs) and worker education and training programs.
In this topic...
WHMIS represents an excellent example of synchronization and cooperation amongst the federal, provincial and territorial governments. This coordinated approach avoided duplication, inefficiency through loss of scale and the interprovincial trade barriers that would have been created had each province and territory established its own hazard communication system. The federal Hazardous Products Act established the national standard for chemical classification and hazard communication in Canada and is the foundation for the workers' "right-to-know" legislation enacted in every province and territory. A single national system for a mobile labour force also minimized confusion and facilitated implementation of the system.
Consistent with this synchronized approach, the WHMIS initiative also represents an excellent example of consensus-building public engagement. Industry, organized labour and all governments actively participated in the development of WHMIS, and this national program represents a consensus amongst stakeholders. The program, a shared responsibility, continues to evolve through consensus.
WHMIS is implemented through coordinated federal, provincial and territorial legislation. Supplier labelling and MSDS requirements are set out under the federal Hazardous Products Act and associated Controlled Products Regulations. All of the provincial, territorial and federal agencies responsible for occupational safety and health have established WHMIS employer requirements within their respective jurisdictions. These requirements obligate employers to ensure that controlled products used, stored, handled or disposed of in the workplace are properly labelled, that MSDSs are made available to workers, and that workers receive education and training to ensure the safe storage, handling, use and disposal of controlled products in the workplace.
The National Office of the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System operates through Health Canada. The Office serves as the national coordinator for the panoptic governance and administration of the WHMIS program in Canada. Also, the Office is the national secretariat for this federal, provincial and territorial government partnership program.
Pursuant to a formal agreement with the government of each province and territory and with the Minister responsible for the Labour Program at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, this site is developed and maintained by the National WHMIS Office in consultation with and on behalf of all federal, provincial and territorial government WHMIS regulatory authorities. It provides a single-window for all national policies and information related to this program in Canada:
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y depos'd, whose cowardice
Hath made us bywords to our enemies.
Then leave me not, my lords; be resolute.
I mean to take possession of my right.
Neither the king, nor he that loves him best,
The proudest he that holds up Lancaster,
Dares stir a wing if Warwick shake his bells.
I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares.--
Resolve thee, Richard; claim the English crown.
[Warwick leads York to the throne, who seats himself.]
[Flourish. Enter KING HENRY, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND,
WESTMORELAND, EXETER, and the rest.]
My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits,
Even in the chair of state! belike he means,
Back'd by the power of Warwick, that false peer,
To aspire unto the crown and reign as king.--
Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father;
And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vow'd revenge
On him, his sons, his favourites, and h
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And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law
The son of Isaac, and the grandson of Abraham, to whom it was renewed and confirmed, ( Genesis 28:13 Genesis 28:14 ) . It is true of his posterity that go by his name, and even of all the spiritual Israel of God, to whom this covenant is confirmed and made sure: or "caused to stand" F2, as the word is; by the faithfulness of God by his oath annexed to his word, and by the death of his Son: when this is said to be "for a law", the meaning is, not as if this covenant had the nature of a law, as the covenant of works had; indeed one of the articles of it is, that the law of God should be put into the inward part, and written on the heart; but this refers here not to men, but to God; and the sense is, that this covenant has the force of a law with respect to God, who of his condescending grace and goodness has hereby laid himself under obligation to do such and such things; which is marvellous grace indeed.
And to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
for being remembered, commanded, repeated, and confirmed by the Lord, it can never be broken; and being well ordered, remains sure, and is as immovable as rocks and mountains, and more so: as it was made with Christ from everlasting, it will continue to be made good to his people to everlasting; and is a just reason for praise; it being the basis of faith and hope; the ground of joy, peace, and comfort here, and of eternal happiness hereafter.
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Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is a measure of how much your body burns at rest. Another way to think of it is your base metabolic rate. A note of caution about the BMR calculators: they will only give you an average estimate. It's OK to use if you are sedentary with average muscle mass, but if you have been inactive for a long time and have a protein deficient diet it will estimate high. On the other hand if you are very active and have higher than average muscle mass the calculator will estimate low. The best way to know for sure is to be tested (which can be done at most gyms or your doctor's office).
How much an exercise burns is also a factor of your VO2 and heart rate at the moment. In general the higher the heart rate the more sugar you burn while the lower your heart rate the more fat you burn. Your calories burned reported by your treadmills and such are based on people with average muscle mass and cardiovascular health. Your actual values may be slightly higher or lower. For fun you can use a calculator like this one which uses your weight to figure out the calories burned. While not completely accurate, you will get close enough to plan your dietary needs.
5-7 pounds really isn't that much. In fact your body can fluctuate that much weight easily based on water retention, how much food is still in your stomach undigested, and whether you are constipated or not. Drinking lots of water will help with excess water retention, and cutting the salt intake down will also help in that area (you need some salt, but probably not as much as you are consuming now). Food digests when it digests, but many times people freak out after a large meal and swear they've gained 2-3 pounds. If gaining one pound of fat is 3500 calories, to gain 2 pounds of fat you need to eat 7000 calories more than your BMR--most people can't eat that much if they tried. It's probably the combination of the items listed above.
If you cut the carbs to only breakfast and/or dinner (none at lunch or a night snack) you'll probably shed those pounds pretty quickly. That's without calorie counting.
For me, walking 4 mph burns about 411 calories per hour. If you walked at the same pace daily for one hour without changing your diet at all, you would be able to lose a pound every 8.5 days. Adjusting the diet will make that quicker.
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North needed for shechitah fight
Shechita UK has said it cannot succeed without northern Jewish communities joining the fight against proposed EU labelling regulations which could spell the end to kosher meat in Britain.
Launching its northern public campaign in Manchester on Monday night, Shechita UK's campaign director, Shimon Cohen, urged the entire community to "be on the ball" in lobbying MEPs. Earlier, a meeting of 25 Orthodox Manchester rabbis agreed to mobilise their communities to the cause. Special information packs have also been sent to kosher butchers and synagogues in Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle.
Mr Cohen, speaking to 150 people representing a broad cross-section of Manchester's community at Stenecourt Synagogue, said: "The more of these letters that get to MEPs, the more they will understand the serious issue that we have here."
An amendment to a food labelling bill, due to be ratified by the Council of the European Parliament on December 7, will mean that meat slaughtered by shechitah will be labelled that the animal died from "non-stun" killing.
Another nail in the coffin for kashrut
In fact, Mr Cohen said: "We believe shechitah does stun. It renders the animal insensible to pain within two seconds. The idea that we [Jews] brutalise animals while theirs fall asleep in a field and end up on a plate is ridiculous and needs to be exposed as such."
Mr Cohen highlighted RSPCA figures that three million animals were painfully mis-stunned in the non-kosher market by gassing, electrocution and shooting, compared with a total of 90,000 animals which are annually slaughtered through shechitah.
The effect of indirectly labelling shechitah as cruel would result in a backlash from meat wholesalers who
normally buy the hindquarters of kosher animals, and would lead to a economic catastrophe for the kosher market, he said.
Chairing Manchester's meeting, Whitefield Synagogue's Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag said the Manchester community must find a way of "paying its fair share" of the campaign, which is currently entirely funded by London's kosher meat industry. Manchester Jewish Representative Council's Frank Baigel reported that UKIP's north west MEP, Paul Nuttall, had pledged to speak to other MEPS over the issue.
Richard Hyman, of Titanics, which controls a third of the kosher meat market across the north, said after the meeting that there was concern that meat could double in price.
In Leeds, the Kosherie's Malcolm Sorkin said that the labelling was "another nail in the coffin" for the kosher market.
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A dramatic reading on Bethlehem's Civil War general, William E. Doster, will be presented by Dr. Robert Stinson, chairman of the Moravian College history department, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Moravian Archives, 41 W. Locust St., Bethlehem.
"Doster" is based on a talk originally presented by Doster on Sept. 23, 1915, entitled "Glimpses of Old Bethlehem."
The talk contains some of Doster's earliest recollections, including his impressions of the schools in Bethlehem when he was growing up, floods along the Lehigh River, local humorists and a wide variety of subjects relating to Bethlehem in the mid-19th Century. The talk is illustrated with his humorous anecdotes, including some jokes in German.
Doster was born Jan. 8, 1837, and died on July 2, 1919, at the age of 82. He was the most prominent lawyer in Bethlehem in his day. He studied at Yale and Harvard and in Heidelberg and Paris.
Doster was active as an officer during the Civil War. In 1865, he was appointed to defend two of the men involved in the conspiracy trial following Lincoln's assassination. He was a close associate of John Fritz,the steelmaker, and other prominent Bethlehemites.
Doster's wife, Ruth Porter Doster, was an accomplished musician and one of the organizers of the Bethlehem Bach Choir. She was the first secretary of the organization and sang second alto in the choir's first performance of the Mass in B Minor in 1900.
The Rev. Vernon Nelson, archivist, said, "Gen. Doster had an excellent memory and proves to be accurate in most of his recollections. Obviously, he exaggerates in order to make his talk interesting. In fact, this talk alone will demonstrate that the old Moravians had a good sense of humor."
Participating with Dr. Stinson in the presentation will be Rev. Nelson, who prepared the piece for performance, and Rebecca J. Nelson. The program is open to the public.
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Don't get computer bugs when doing your online holiday shopping
Tens of millions of shoppers were clicking on their computers trying to find the best deals on Cyber Monday. With more people going online to stuff the stocking, crooks and scammers are surfing the net as well. Our Katie Husband has advice to make sure your holiday, is a jolly one.
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ELMIRA, N.Y. -- It's become another one of the big shopping days.
"Cyber Monday almost has become a holiday, I guess, in a way," said Dave Baranyk, owner of CyberDark Computing.
And, it's a wonderful time of the year for computer repair stores as well. Many see people coming through their doors with unwanted viruses.
"We're going to go there and shop, these virus writers know we're going to go there and shop. Again, the issue would be more on Walmart's end or Target's end, their security," said Baranyk.
Running your anti-virus two times a week will help fight unwanted hackers.
"A lot of times you don't know you're infected until things start popping up or maybe an infection has been in there for a couple of days so, one of the biggest things is run your security on your PC routinely," said Baranyk.
If you're an online shopper out there, the best thing you can do to protect your information is to logout of every account you have.
"To do business at a Walmart website you have to establish your username and password. Always, always I don't care who it's with even your email, always log out afterwards," said Baranyk.
Baranyk owns CyberDark Computing in the Twin Tiers. He recommends never scanning social security cards or bank account information onto your computer.
"If you live too far out, than sure you have to use the mail order stuff, just again be cautious with it, be familiar with who you're doing business with and hopefully things will be safe," said Baranyk.
Making sure there are no bugs...in your holiday plans.
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National Organization of Women (NOW) President Terry O'Neill (C) participates in a rally in support of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) on Capitol Hill June 26. NOW, the National Task Force to End Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Against Women, and other groups rallied for the reauthorization of VAWA.
The House and Senate have passed competing versions of the Violence Against Women Act and are now at an impasse. Women rights' activists who support the more comprehensive, bipartisan Senate version sought to bring the issue back into the spotlight with a rally in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.
House Republicans originally disagreed with the Senate's added protections for groups not previously specifically covered by this legislation, first passed in 1994: groups like same-sex couples, illegal immigrants, and Native Americans. Now House leadership says the problem they have with the Senate version is actually related to a technical issue in the language.
From The Hill:
House Republicans say the Senate must fix a provision that renders its bill unconstitutional because it raises revenue. Legislation that raises revenue must originate in the lower chamber...
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the House had passed a bipartisan reauthorization of the law and stood ready to work with the Senate "once the Senate eliminates the unconstitutional provision" in its bill. Six House Democrats signed on to that version, while 23 Republicans voted against it.
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As Arming Mother Nature goes to press, I’m deeply involved in my next project. This one’s on the promotion of nuclear technology in the developing world. The tentative title is Nuclear Outposts. I will soon be in Mexico City presenting at a colloquium at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) with a few other scholars working on the production and distribution of isotopes–and peaceful atomic research generally–in various places around the world.
It’s exciting to be connecting with other scholars working on this topic, and I couldn’t resist sharing the poster, which draws on the images from the 1956 Disney short Our Friend the Atom. It was an episode of the series Disneyland. The episode touches on many of the scientific applications that the scholars at the meeting this month are writing about, including the use of radioactive material to study crops, irradiate food, or induce mutations. The film is fascinating, entertaining, and is guaranteed to make you smile. Who doesn’t love seeing Walt Disney talk about nuclear physics?
The meeting is being organized by Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez, and it will include also Ana Barahona, Angela Creager, María Jesús Santesmases, Karin Zachmann, and myself. Please enjoy the poster!
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At Roswell United Methodist Church in Georgia, Monday nights offer a different kind of ministry -- career ministry.
Recruiters, corporate executives and volunteers from other churches come to Roswell's Career Services with a mission: to help people tossed out of work and running out of hope.
While unemployment in the United States is 9.5 percent, Georgia's unemployment rate has hovered at 10 percent for 2.5 years, according to Michael Thurmond, the state's commissioner of labor.
The U.S. Labor Department said today that new claims for unemployment insurance had risen by 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 479,000. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned early in the week that the unemployment rate may rise for a couple of months before it falls again.
"[The volunteers] do this all day long and then they come at night and they spend several hours with job seekers giving their time and expertise to them," said Roswell volunteer Katherine Simons. "They just feel so good about the fact that they can make a difference. It's really loving your neighbor."
One recent Monday night, more than 300 people attended the networking meeting looking for help, from writing resumes to interviews. For many in the group, it was the first time in their career to be without a job.
"Most of us haven't been in a job search in years," said Jo Burkhardt, an executive recruiter who lost her job in the apparel industry. "For me, it has been over 20 years."
Burkhardt said career ministry helped her persevere to the new job she now treasures.
"Faith-based groups not only teach you the fundamentals of the job search and all of the different tools that you use and how to network, but they teach you, they provide the support along the way, that emotional support," she said.
Wally Anderson, a sales executive for more than 30 years, worked for a national software company. He said unemployment takes its toll on a soul.
"I think once you're in that position, you'll never look at an unemployed person in the same way," he said. "Many times we're too busy. We don't get involved, but this is an epidemic."
He called the career ministry "a safe haven." Anderson recently found a job. "It took me approximately 90 days and that's not normally the case for someone my age. I love my job. It's a great company," he said.
Thurmond, the state's commissioner of labor, said programs like Roswell's Career Services fill a void that the government can't.
"Government is limited," he said. "We are being negatively impacted by budget cuts. ... There's only so much we can do. We're here from 8 to 5, Monday through Friday. But obviously there's a need for service and intervention on the weekends and in the evening."
Thurmond said career ministry has helped thousands of Georgians who have been out of work for or years.
"What Roswell does is provide them with the information and support, but more importantly with the spiritual support that allows people to go back out in a very difficult job market and continue to search," Thurmond said.
"It's the networking. ... It's the faith. My affiliation with this ministry inspires me to come back," he said.
Valeria Farris was out of work for almost a year. "I never would have imagined it ever. I was always able to rebound, find other work, find some industries to work in. This time it was just totally different," she said.
Now she works from home, designing instructor-led training for companies around the world. She credits Roswell's Career Services program.
"I never would have thought of going out and looking for opportunities outside the United States if I had not lost my job," she said. "It's going great. I absolutely love it."
ABC News' Erin Hayes contributed to this article.
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Tag: "sorter" at biology news
Map of genes in plant root yields new tool for exploring tissue development
...te the cells to the time they come out of the cell sorter
is only about an hour and a half." He added, "The cells are intimately connected to one another and constantly signaling to one another, and if you wait much longer, they begin to change their gene expression." Once the researchers had separated a gi...
New technique for sorting sperm could improve fertility treatment
... take the remaining sample and send it through the sorter
another time. But men with low motility aren't the only potential benefactors of this new technique. Smith sees broader implications for a whole new method of treating infertility a practice that hasn't changed much since the initial "test tube babi...
Researchers describe atomic-size 'sorter' that performs vital cellular function
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for cells. Without it, many important life functio... by the protein. The selectivity filter works as a sorter
that chemically senses the ions as they go through the channel. When it senses an ion that should no...
Enzyme-based method to isolate stem cells from umbilical cord blood shows promise
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can analyze 3,000 cells per second. Aldehyde dehydrogenase's normal role in stem cells isn't known, but it mightplay an important role in embryo development and hence cell differentiation,Colvin says. Exactly how it works awaits further investigatio...
Major Clinical Findings By California AIDS Team: HIV Does More Than Kill Off T Cells
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by David Safier
In one sense, the push for charter schools was a necessary middle step by the conservative "education reform" movement in the push for private school vouchers. First privatize a bit with charter schools to get people used to the idea of using taxpayer dollars to fund privately run schools (It was hoped the charters would show how much better they can educate children than district schools, but that didn't pan out). Then move to the next logical step, which is to send taxpayer money to private schools which are totally out of the public sector.
But if the "education reform" conservatives were thinking ahead, they must have realized that charter schools would cause pain to private schools by drawing away some of their customers, and vouchers would be essential to saving the schools. According to an article in Ed Week (subscription only), Study Examines Charters' Drain on Private Schools.
At the elementary school level, for instance, about 32 percent of students entering charter schools in "highly urban" areas at the elementary level come from private schools, according to the study.
That number is higher than the average for all areas, which is closer to 8%. But it's easy to understand why parents of children at expensive urban private schools might decide to move to a charter school which happens to be located in a high income neighborhood and caters to the local clientele, saving themselves some very big bucks. Without vouchers to replace the lost students, those private schools could find themselves in serious financial difficulties.
Another interesting stat from the article. It's estimated that in 2008, transfers from private to charter schools cost the country about $1.8 billion in extra costs to taxpayers. That number is likely higher now, given the growth of charters. It's a soft figure, of course, because there's no way of knowing how many of those students would have transfered to district schools anyway. But since the study was done by the Cato Institute, these can't be said to be numbers cooked up by some lefty think tank. At a time when conservatives are gleefully cutting school budgets, they're also burdening the system with more students.
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|'Fortune Cookie' is a miniature rose which produces double Apricot blend flowers with creamy outer petalssingly or in clusters. Foliage is semi-glossy, mid-green. Great for mass planting or as a container plant because of it's tidy growth.
In general, roses are a large group of flowering shrubs, most with showy flowers that are single-petalled to fully double-petalled. Leaves are typically medium to dark green, glossy and ovate, with finely toothed edges. Vary in size from 1/2 inch to 6 inches, five petals to more than 30, and in nearly every color. Often the flowers are very fragrant.
Most varieties grow on long canes that sometimes climb. Unfortunately, this favorite plant is quite susceptible to a variety of diseases and pests, many of which can be controlled with good cultural practices.
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Skin after the manner of cattle, and stretch the hide on a hoop-spreader. Page 275.
These creatures are natives of the entire range of the Rocky Mountains, and are especially prized on account of the superior quality of their flesh as food. They are much larger and more powerful than the domestic sheep, and the ram is provided with enormous curved horns. The wool of the animal is intermixed with coarse grey hairs, and the general appearance of the fur is russet grey, with the exception of the rump and under parts, which are of a dirty white color. The animal is generally very wary and retiring, and inhabits the most secluded and inaccessible mountain regions and rocky cliffs.
They are easily captured by the steel trap (No. 5) set in their haunts. The dead-fall is also used in some instances. Remove the skin as described for the deer.
The Buffaloes or Bison of the Western plains is too well known to need description. They travel in migrating herds of thousands, and are found from Texas to British America. Their food [Page 221] consists chiefly of grass, of which the “Buffalo grass” is their great delight. They graze and travel through the day and rest by night. They are more the game of the hunter than the trapper, although the largest side Newhouse would effectually secure one of the animals. The Buffalo is generally hunted on horseback, the usual method being that of stealing into the drove while grazing, always moving against the wind in order to avoid being scented. The flesh is palatable and by many much relished. The Buffalo skins of commerce are furnished by the cows. The bull skins are almost devoid of fur on the hinder parts, the hair being confined to the huge heavy mass on the hump and mane. Skin the animal as described for the Moose.
This sole American representative of the Antelope tribe we believe is seldom trapped; but as it is a well-known animal on the Western plains, a short mention of it is required here. In general shape this creature bears considerable resemblance to the deer, the form of the horn being its chief peculiarity, each one of which is provided with a single prong, from which the animal takes its name, of Prong Horn. The color of the body is brownish-yellow, with the exception of the rump and belly which are almost white. The Antelopes generally travel in herds, and are much hunted by the Indians who surround them and destroy them with heavy clubs. Like the deer, their sense of smell is especially keen and the same caution is required in hunting them. In size they are about the same as the Virginian Deer. They are wonderfully graceful in all their movements, and are even more fleet of foot than the deer. These Antelopes inhabit the Western Prairies and wooded borders from New Mexico northward, and their flesh is much esteemed as an article of diet. They may be caught in their feeding places, as recommended for the deer, using the same sized trap.
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Use Your Imagination To Grow Your Brand
These days many of you have global competition vying for your customers’ attention and wallets. As well, there is an abundance of marketing tactics that you can action to attract and retain your customers. While it is easy to copy what others do, it can be a trap especially if you copy your competitors.
This article is about using your imagination to differentiate your brand. It includes two examples that show what a little imagination can do as a foundation for a successful business.
This is one thing that you have control over that can separate your brand and make a difference with customers. No competitor can control what you think and how you use your imagination to grow your brand and business.
Two companies come to mind that shows from the imagination of one person an outstanding business can be developed. They saw or dreamed things and gave life to their ideas through their imagination.
- Look at Disney World – it came from the imagination of Walt Disney. A theme park that was in line with what his cartoons did. Bring joy and happiness to others. He could have rationalised the idea away as there were hurdles to overcome. Instead, he built life into it and it has developed over the years into a destination for families and those young at heart.
- The other example is Coca Cola – it was invented by a pharmacist Dr John Pemberton as syrup that was mixed with carbonated water. It is said he never fully realised the potential of the drink as sales were at the time quite low. A couple of years later he sold it to Asa G. Candler who used his imagination as well as business acumen to grow the drink well beyond what had occurred before.
It is easy to follow what others do when marketing your products or services. The only problem is it can restrict your opportunities to grow. Today there is information from around the world, in all different mediums and you have in your hands the opportunity to get inspired and use your imagination.
Be A Child
Remember your childhood and your imagination ran wild? You had adventures and ideas and it was fun. Why not go back to that stage and let your imagination loose. You can use your customer insights or just look at one aspect of your brand as a starting point.
It doesn’t have to be a big idea, instead it can be one that develops over time as with Coca Cola. Have you used your imagination to grow your brand?
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||August 14, 2004
GSA Release No. 04-25
Virtual Student Expo Initiated by AAPG, GSA, SEG and SPE
RICHARDSON, Texas, U.S.A. (14 August 2004) — The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Geological Society of America (GSA), the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) announce the Virtual Student Expo, a joint venture designed to connect students with prospective employers.
"The Virtual Student Expo was created to fill the need for young professionals in the industry," said Robbie Gries, President, Priority Oil & Gas LLC, and chair of the project. "For years now, the average age of professionals in the oil and gas industry has been rising. Young people entering the industry are in short supply and in high demand. The Virtual Student Expo will put these young professionals in contact with the companies that so desperately need them."
The Virtual Student Expo is a Web-enabled tool that matches student members of the four societies with potential employers for internships and full-time entry-level positions. The Expo allows students to post resumes, along with examples of their work, including academic assignments, technical papers and portfolios from internships. They also may post a short video to virtually present themselves to prospective employers.
"The program also allows recruiters and companies to diversify their hiring programs more efficiently and effectively," said C. Susan Howes, P.E., Engineering Recruitment & Development Supervisor, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. "By visiting the online Virtual Student Expo, employers can find candidates in remote locations or in distant countries. All pre-screening activities can be easily done at a global level through the Web site—saving time and money for employers."
Students who are members of the sponsoring professional societies utilize the Virtual Student Expo free of charge. Employers pay a small fee to access the student postings and to post job openings.
For more information, visit the Web sites of any of the four societies at www.aapg.org, www.geosociety.org, www.seg.org and www.spe.org.
Since its founding in 1917, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists has been a pillar of the world-wide scientific community. The original purpose of AAPG, to foster scientific research, to advance the science of geology, to promote technology, and to inspire high professional conduct, still guides the Association today. Currently the world's largest professional geological society with over 30,000 members, AAPG provides publications, conferences, and educational opportunities to geoscientists and disseminates the most current geological information available to the general public. Web site: www.aapg.org.
The mission of the Geological Society of America (GSA) is to advance the geosciences, to enhance the professional growth of its 17,000 members, and to promote the geosciences in the service of humanity. GSA provides geoscientists from all sectors — academic, government and industry — with a vehicle for expressing core professional values of science, stewardship, and service. The Society also is a venue for establishing and maintaining professional relationships that span a lifetime.
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists promotes the science of geophysics and the education of exploration geophysicists. The Society, founded in 1930, fosters the expert and ethical practice of geophysics in the exploration and development of natural resources, in characterizing the near-surface, and in mitigating earth hazards. Key to the promotion of applied geophysics are the publications, conferences, forums, and educational opportunities offered by the Society. SEG has more than 20,000 members working in 110 countries. Web site: www.seg.org.
SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) is a not-for-profit professional association whose members are engaged in energy resources development and production. SPE serves 60,000-plus members from more than 100 countries worldwide. SPE is a key resource for technical knowledge related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry and provides services through its publications, conferences, workshops, forums, and Web site at www.spe.org.
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The Four Hills of Life
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- By: Thomas Peacock and Marlene Wisuri
- Format: Paperback book, 128 pp, 10x9, 100 color and b&w illustrations
- Publisher: MHS Press (March 2011)
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- Product ##: 978-0-87351-828-4
Each hill of life has its own challenges and opportunities. Written by an Ojibwe elder, this learning and activity book describes the journey taken through life by previous generations of Ojibwe living on Madeline Island, and the relevance today of these life lessons for young readers and adults.
The first hill of life is from birth to infancy, when babies are dependent upon their parents. the second hill is youth, when Ojibwe young people are taught moral values and life skills. The third hill is no less difficult to climb; adults follow their life paths and raise their families. the fourth hill leads to becoming an elder and having the wisdom to guide younger members of the band.
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Can you spot a Brahma at 50 paces or do you know where the Araucana chicken comes from? You can learn about a wonderful selection of chickens with our comprehensive breed directory.
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There are hundreds of breeds of guinea pigs, but in our concise guinea pig directory you can read and see pictures of the most popular breeds - including the fabulously hairy Peruvian to the glossy coated Self.
Bees are endless fascinating and colourful insects with lots of breeds and sub breeds to discover. You can also find bees for sale in your local area including Nucleus Colonies, Full Colonies and Queens.
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From: The eUpdate, 8.28.2012
Consumer Reports Receives $2 Million Grant for Food Safety Study
Publication vows to focus on pathogens, carcinogens, and heavy metals in food
Consumer Reports, the arbiter of safety and quality in consumer products ranging from cars to washing machines to baby cribs, will take a more prominent role in assessing food safety, using a new $2 million grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Announced on August 12, the grant will allow the magazine to invest much more in food safety testing. Consumer Reports has conducted previous investigations on BPA, pesticide contamination in vegetables, and arsenic in juices, but Pew’s support allows the publication to be much more ambitious. “We’ll be focusing mostly on pathogens, heavy metals, and carcinogens in food,” Jennifer Shecter, a senior policy analyst at the magazine, told the New York Times.
For some people who may be skeptical of the government’s ability to independently assess the safety of the food supply, results published by Consumer Reports might carry more weight. “Consumer Reports has made its reputation as an independent tester of a variety of products,” said Purnendu C. Vasavada, PhD, professor of food safety at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. “They must be thinking that they can bring something to the table in terms of that independence—a third party in the food safety picture.”
Dr. Vasavada also commended the Pew Charitable Trusts for its growing interest in food safety. “It’s good that this kind of effort is being put forth and private funding is coming to the fore, so that we don’t have to rely solely on government funding for food safety programs.”
But there’s more to food safety than just testing, he cautioned. “Testing is good for verification and getting a thumbnail impression of how good or bad a problem is and whether it’s improving or worsening. But the more testing you do, the more problems you will find. Unless you have a remedy for managing, controlling, and mitigating, testing per se doesn’t help the situation.”
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Refuse and Recycling Program Guidelines (pdf format)
Set bins out curbside by 7:00 a.m. the day of your regular City trash pickup, but no sooner than 6:00 a.m.
Call 618-457-3275 to request recycle bins.
Blue Bins: Bottles & Cans
Green Bins: Paper Products
Clean Items only
Please flatten all boxes and secure loose papers to prevent them from blowing.
No waxed paper/waxed cardboard ex: juice boxes & milk cartons; please try to keep paper dry.
Large Boxes may be tied into bundles or used to contain other flattened boxes and set next to green bin.
Set bins out at the curside no later than 7:00 a.m. on the day of your regular City trash pickup (no sooner than 6:00 p.m. the evening before scheduled collection)
In an effort to reduce contamination from materials that pose environmental and health risks and to encourage recycling, a new state law will go into effect on January 1, 2012 that prohibits certain electronic devices from landfills. City of Carbondale Solid Waste Collectors will be prohibited from knowingly collecting the banned electronic devices with other refuse on this date. The electronic items banned include the following:
To assist residents that have these items to recycle, the Jackson County Health Department is sponsoring a free household electronics recycling drop-off service at Southern Recycling Center located at 300 W. Chestnut Street in Carbondale. Hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
In addition to the normal hours, the City of Carbondale will partner with Southern Recycling Center and the Jackson County Health Department to help provide extended hours for residents to drop off discarded household electronics for recycling. On Saturday January 28th, February 25th and March 24th, electronics may be dropped off from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. at Southern Recycling Center located at 300 W. Chestnut Street.
For more information about electronics recycling, about the state’s electronics landfill ban, or the City of Carbondale’s recycling services visit the website at www.CarbondaleRecycles.com or call the City’s Maintenance and Environmental Services Office at 457-3275.
Recycling Drop-off Guidelines (pdf format)
In addition to City's Curbside Recycling Collection Program, the City of Carbondale provides three recycling drop-off locations for residents to use at their convenience. These locations are also available for residents of apartments or other buildings that are not eligible for the City's Curbside Recycling Collection Program. Drop-off locations are available 24 hours a day and accept the following items:
Separate all recyclable materials to the appropriately label receptacles
known as Igloos:
Please rinse all containers and remove all lids, caps or
Clean paper only, no food residues, please.
Please no waxed paper or paperboard (i.e. milk cartons)
Accepted items at the drop-off locations included clean mixed paper, glass bottles and jars, cans, plastic bottles and jugs, and cardboard. Drop-off locations are available 24 hours a day. Please refer to the following information for details.
RECYCLING DROP OFF GUIDELINES
1. Please place items to be recycled into the designated "igloo" receptacles loose, not in bags or other containers.
2. The University Baptist Church, and the Boys and Girls Club locations contain trailers designated for Cardboard only. These locations are recommended for oversized boxes and larger quanities of cardboard.
3. Please do not leave boxes, bags, or other materials outside of the igloos or trailer.
4. Please take all items that cannot be recycled back home with you to dispose of as trash.
5. The dumpsters at the Boy's and Girl's Club location are NOT for public use.
6. Recycling bins for apartment residents or other buildings are served by the City's Curbside Recycling Collection Program are available from the Jackson County Health Department; please call (618) 684-3143 ext. 136 for information.
About 15% of the total recyclable material collected by the City comes from three drop-off locations. Drop Off locations are located at University Baptist Church parking lot on South Oakland Avenue, The Boys & Girls Club, and the parking lot across from Carbondale Police Station on East College Street.
Bins for apartment residents provided by the Jackson County Health Department
Call 618-684-3143 ext. 136
1. Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale
(250 N. Springer Street)
2. 705 E. College Street
(Parking lot next to Stor-N-Lok Mini Warehouse)
3. University Baptist Church
(700 South Oakland Avenue)
For more information about the City of Carbondale Refuse and Recyclign programs, please call the Maintenance and Environmental Services office at (618) 457-3275 or visit us on the web at www.carbondalerecycles.com
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Serving as an officer of an organization can also teach a variety of skills. Leadership and management responsibilities can be gained through serving as President. Recorders or Secretaries gain experience in writing and journalism. Treasurers gain bookkeeping and money handling experience. Each office holds valuable skills that can be used in the future.
Many students who ran for Student Body President of their school have gone on to become Chief Executive Officer of an organization or President of their own company. Running for office also gives students experience in campaign management, advertisement and people skills.
Some students may choose to get to know an organization better before becoming an officer. They will still have opportunities to serve on committees or volunteer for projects throughout the year. Teamwork, communication and organization skills are all gained by serving on a committee or working on a club project.
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Students benefit from Oyster Festival Education
|Chuck Epes of Chesapeake Bay Foundation shows a young visitor a “jimmy” crab at the Urbanna Oyster Festival waterfront on Nov. 7. The waterfront exhibits emphasized the heritage and conservation of the bay. (Photo by Vera England)|
by Vera England
Were you among the Urbanna residents who have had questions about the Chesapeake Bay Foundation deadrise full of students poking around the creek recently?
Cold, rain and wind did not dampen the high spirits of students from Middlesex County and Christchurch School who investigated the river with Yancey Powell and Jimmy Sollner of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s “Bea Hayman Clark,” no matter what the day’s weather brought.
During the hustle and bustle of the community’s Oyster Festival preparations, teachers in the local schools were preparing their students to participate in the Festival Waterfront’s Education Program, which culminated two weeks of on-the-water activities with Education Day on the day before the festival.
Thanks to the individuals, businesses and agencies that donated their time and materials, and the volunteers who helped make the event run smoothly, this year’s Education Program was a wonderful success! But unless you tried to go to the waterfront on Thursday, November 6, you may not even realize it happened.
The Urbanna Oyster Festival Marine Science Legacy Program and the Festival Waterfront coordinators would like to thank the following for their assistance in making our festival education program unique in the state: Pam Simon for her unending patience; Lewis Filling for safety and road arrangements; Dianne Franck and Walt Simon of the Town Marina for making our waterfront welcoming and taking care of every detail; Bonnie and Jim Vautrot for allowing us to park at Liberty; Suzanne and Lee Chewning for providing accommodations for our CBF educators; JD and Moo Dodd and their employees for providing exhibitor lunches, even in the aftermath of disaster; and our stalwart volunteers, Don Lowrey and Lynn and Jim Vajda, who have returned year after year.
For assistance in organizing this year’s program, thanks go to Cynthia Rowles of Middlesex County Extension Office 4-H Program. Kris Jarvis Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Project WET provided educational materials to all of the schools. Middlesex County Public Library compiled lists of resources for students and teachers.
Thanks to Jimmy and Yancey of CBF for their two weeks of tireless enthusiasm on the water, and to Jill Bieri of Chesapeake Bay Experience for her kayak trips with Middlesex High School. We are grateful for the wholehearted support of Middlesex County Public School Superintendent Rusty Fairheart; assistant superintendent Rashard Wright; principal James Lane of St. Clare Walker Middle School; and principal Chris Valdrighi of Middlesex High School.
Special thanks go to the local high schools, which became exhibitors instead of onlookers; to John Porter of Middlesex High School and his enthusiastic environmental science students; who teamed with other exhibitors and with younger students to help teach what they have learned (They were invaluable!); to Sarah Beam of Chesapeake Bay Governor’s School and her students, who explained water quality testing; and to Dave Cola and Dean Goodwin of Christchurch School and their students, who introduced sea life by means of a touch tank of river creatures.
Many of our Education Day presenters were individuals or businesses who came to the festival a day early, at their own expense, to be a part of Education Day. Thanks to: Greg and Laura Lohse and crew of the schooner “Alliance”; the pirates of Hysterically Correct Productions; Colonial Seaport Foundation that taught about our maritime history; Doug McMinn of Chesapeake Bay Oyster Company; Rufus Ruark of Shores and Ruark Seafood and Richard Shores of the Middlesex County Museum, who explained modern oyster farming: Lacey and Hannah England of Townes Site Engineering with wetlands identification; Joey Williams, Kenneth Smith and crew of Virginia Waterman’s Association who demonstrated crab pot making; and Jimmy Meredith and Carol Marder of Hammer Time Marine who discussed problems with bay shorelines.
Environmental groups were well represented by Chan Chandler and Jim Renner of Tidewater Oyster Gardeners, who explained oyster filtration; Sara Stamp and Frank Herrin of Middle Peninsula Planning District and Friends of Dragon Run explaining the Dragon’s watershed and species; LaVerne Calhoun and others from Tidewater Soil and Conservation District and Natural Resources Conservation Services who discussed water conservation and erosion; Paula Jasinski and crew of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration John Smith Water Trail, who helped children build a buoy; and John Scott of Yorktown-Jamestown Foundation, who explained the cultures of Jamestown.
Not the least of the thanks goes to the hard-working teachers who brought the St. Clare Walker 6th grade, Middlesex Elementary 4th grade, and Chesapeake Academy 4th, 5th, and 6th grades to participate, despite the drizzle and wind at the waterfront. Their dedication helps to provide students with “a meaningful watershed experience,” a goal of the state for every student before graduation.
Thanks to the contributions of all the participants, over 500 students of all ages were able to work cooperatively to learn about the bay and its heritage. Many children returned with their parents to the waterfront exhibits over the weekend to show them what they learned: to touch a fish, to sing with a pirate, to investigate a wetland, and to climb aboard a schooner.
Thanks to the Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation for sponsoring the Marine Science Legacy Program and the Waterfront Education Program, and for making our festival a celebration of our children and our heritage as well as the oyster! We welcome your support in the future to keep all this happening at the waterfront.
Vera England is the Marine Science Legacy Coordinator of the Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation.
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Latino Traditions for Celebrating Easter with Babies and Toddlers
Celebrating Easter with your baby or toddler can be lots of fun. There are so many pretty colors, beautiful spring flowers, and tons of cute animals to learn about! Plus, the meaning and history of Easter is one you can share with your baby through stories, books, and traditions. Throughout much of Latin America, Easter is celebrated in various ways, many of which are slightly different than how Easter is celebrated here in the United States. However, the theme of family togetherness and Easter fun persist! Check out these traditions for celebrating Easter that many Latinos continue to embrace, regardless of whether they are first- or third-generation Latinos living in the U.S.
Latino Traditions for Celebrating Easter with Babies & Toddlers
- Cascarones: This tradition of decorating egg shells and filling them with confetti is great for kids! Though babies won’t be able to help you make them, they’ll have fun crushing them with their feet! Toddlers can get in on the fun from making them through crushing them. See these tutorials for how to make cascarones(confetti-filled Easter eggs):
- Easter Sunday Celebrations: Many Latinos attend mass or other church services on Easter Sunday morning, followed by a big family lunch and get-together at their house or a relative’s house. This is a wonderful way to teach your baby early-on about family traditions! Even if you don’t attend church service, you can still celebrate Easter with your baby or toddler with an Easter Sunday luncheon!
- Easter Egg Hunt: Though known to be an American tradition, Easter egg hunts can be found in many Latino households, especially with the blending of cultures that’s happening more these days. It’s easy to embrace this tradition, especially since it’s such a fun one! Babies and toddlers will love searching for and finding eggs – even if you do have to help them out a little!
What Easter traditions will you be celebrating with your baby this year?
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Antecedents to new public management reforms in the UK
Robson, N. (2010) Antecedents to new public management reforms in the UK. In: Accounting Business and Financial History Conference, Cardiff, UK, 14th-15th September, 2009.
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This paper examines cost and management accounting reforms in the UK central government. It provides a historical context to the subsequent reform fervour associated with New Public Management (NPM) (Hood, 1995) and offers some explanations for the underdeveloped state of accounting up to the mid 1970s. It suggests that the perceived ‘failure’ of the Army Costing Experiment restrained the development of cost accounting, both before, and after, the Second World War and it was, instead, the Treasury inspired Organisation and Method techniques that became dominant (Walkland and Hicks, NAUK, T316/2; Agar, 2003). This continued into the early 1950s with the influential Crick report on government accounting promoting the status quo rather than accounting change. The marked change in political, economic and social forces in the late 1950s (Theakston, 1995: p.84), coupled with the introduction of Programme Planning Budgeting Systems (PPBS) in the United States fuelled a renewed interest in the measurement of outputs and management accounting information (Cook, 1986). This was followed by limited institutional change, with the introduction of a Management Accounting Unit at the Treasury. But the failure of PPBS in the USA, together with reservations within the civil service and the Fulton Report’s (1968) call for responsible management, all contributed to the rejection of government accounting along programme lines and led instead to the selective investigation of government expenditure (Gray and Jenkins, 1982; Heclo and Wildavsky, 1981). These investigations owed more to Organisation and Methods than accounting, but it would be the dormant accounting technologies, debated in the 1960s, that would eventually reappear as NPM. Key words: civil service, accounting change, PPBS, accounting history, NPM
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Apple's iPhone is unlike other smartphones and feature phones. Instead of having to remove the back and the battery to insert the SIM card, the iPhone features a small SIM card tray located in the top edge of the device. This must be removed using a dedicated small pin (or a bent paper clip if you can't lay your hands on the pin) for the SIM card to be inserted. Here's how to put a SIM in an iPhone.
Ensure you can get service on your Apple smartphone
Contained within the manual for your iPhone (3G and above) is a small pin designed for use in removing the SIM. However, if you're not in possession of this, a bent paper clip will do the same job. Insert this in the tiny whole located on the top edge of the handset to remove the SIM tray.
Insert the SIM, contact side down into the tray and then push it back into the handset. Now switch the phone on and wait for it to boot-up.
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Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible, by Matthew Henry, at sacred-texts.com
The design of the epistle appears to be, that Timothy having been left at Ephesus, St. Paul wrote to instruct him in the choice of proper officers in the church, as well as in the exercise of a regular ministry. Also, to caution against the influence of false teachers, who by subtle distinctions and endless disputes, corrupted the purity and simplicity of the gospel. He presses upon him constant regard to the greatest diligence, faithfulness, and zeal. These subjects occupy the first four chapters; the fifth chapter instructs respecting particular classes; in the latter part, controversies and disputes are condemned, the love of money blamed, and the rich exhorted to good works.
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The Purpose of Advertising
Maximum exposure to buyers that are out there looking is critical, every home seller likes to be assured that their listing agent is marketing their property in the most effective way. It has been shown that print advertising is not as effective as it once was, with more buyers going to the internet to begin their home search, your agents top priority should be getting your home exposed out on the world wide web.
In a study from the National Association of Realtors, it was shown that 90% of home buyers are now going to the internet first when looking for a home. This tells us that one thing you need to make sure of is that your real estate professional is placing your listing in as many real estate related sites as they can. With the way technology has evolved in real estate there is no reason for an agent not to have a specific marketing plan regarding the internet. If they don’t you need to find one that does because you are missing the mark on getting your home seen by a large percentage of today's “internet savvy” buyers.
When you first list your home many agents send "announcements" to the other houses in your neighborhood. This is usually done in the form of postcards or a door hanger. These are important because your neighbors might have friends who are looking to buy a house.
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March 9, 2013
Women's Political Rights Around the World
In honor of the International Women's Day, check out this interactive map of the world which depicts women's poltical rights in various countries, such as when women received the right to vote, when women gained the right to stand for an election and when the first woman was elected to public office.
The map can be found here.
March 8, 2013
Program for Global Legal Skills Conference in Costa Rica
The 8th Global Legal Skills Conference is being held next week at the Holiday Inn Aurola in Downtown San José, Costa Rica (Central America). Participants are expected from Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and from across the United States. The conference is organized through The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, where it first originated.
This year's Global Legal Skills conference (the second to be held in Costa Rica) includes a "legal field trip" with visits to:
- the Supreme Court of Costa Rica (Corte Suprema de Justicia de Costa Rica),
- the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and
- the U.S. Embassy in Costa RIca.
Other special features of this year's conference include a plenary session to introduce law and legal education in Costa Rica and Central America and two contract negotiations workshops (one in Spanish for English speakers and one in English for Spanish speakers). The conference is being held during the week of the Central American Games, so it will be an especially exciting time to be in Costa Rica.
Click here to Download the latest version of the Conference Program. Download GLS-8 Program Version 2.2
The 2014 Global Legal Skills Conference will be held in Verona, Italy.
Mark E. Wojcik
March 7, 2013
Happy International Women's DayWe wish all of our blog readers a happy International Women's Day!
Guantanamo Bay Symposium Examines Future for Detainees
On February 22, the Southern Illinois University School of Law was privileged to host a distinguished panel of scholars and attorneys who considered the continuing legal issues surrounding Guantanamo Bay. Professor Cindy Buys of Southern Illinois University School of Law began the symposium with a discussion of the case of Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian who has been held at Guantanamo for over 11 years without formal charges or a trial. She considered the potential impact of his petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on U.S. detention policies. Professor Michael Strauss of the Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies in Paris, France spoke next. He provided a history of the lease agreement between the United States and Cuba for Guantanamo Bay and raised questions regarding Cuba's responsibility under international law for U.S. activities at Guantanamo in light of Cuba's ultimate sovereignty over the land. Professor Eric Jenson of Brigham Young University rounded out the first panel with a discussion of the impact of President Obama's State of the Union speech in which he declared that the conflict in Aghanistan would be over in 2014. Given that internaiotnal law allows detainees to be held for the duration of hostilities, Professor Jenson questioned what the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan would mean for detainees who were captured as part of that conflict.
Professor Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law led off the second panel with a discussion of his impressions as an offical Department of Defense Observer of the military commission trials at Guantanamo Bay. He raised questions regarding the legitimacy of those processes. He was followed by Professor David Frakt, Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburg School of Law. Professor Frakt highlighted separation of powers issues connected to Congressional attempts to tie the President's hands with respect to what he may do to close down Guantanamo Bay.
William Lietzau, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law and Detainee Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense was the keynote speaker. Assistant Secretary Lietzau (pictured here) described the view of the U.S. government regarding the dichotomy between international humanitarian law, which applies to armed conflict, and international human rights law, which applies in time of peace.
The third and final panel began with Capt. Edward White, U.S. Navy JAGC, who is head of the Motions and Appeals Section of the Chief Prosecutor, Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions. Capt. White provided a brief historical perspective on military commission trials and reviewed some of evidentiary and procedural rules governing the current trials at Guantanamo Bay. Professor Christopher Behan of Southern Illinois University spoke next and also addressed some of the evidentiary rules and their impact on the conduct of the military commission trials. Finally, Professor David Glazier of Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, concluded the symposium with critiques regarding the failings of the military commission trials.
For those interested in learning more, the speakers' papers will be published in an upcoming issue of the Southern Illinios University Law Journal. Many thanks to the speakers, moderators, students and staff who made this important and timely event possible.
Grants for Law Librarians
The Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2013 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians. The application deadline for the 2013 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians has been extended to March 15, 2013.
The FCIL Schaffer Grant for the AALL Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington (July 13-16, 2013) provides a waiver of the AALL Annual Meeting full registration fee and a grant of a minimum $2,000 to assist with accommodations and travel costs. Applicants must be law librarians or other professionals working in the legal information field, currently employed in countries other than the United States, and with significant responsibility for the organization, preservation, or provision of legal information. The new application deadline is March 15, 2013. The Grant Committee will not consider late or incomplete applications.
Details regarding the FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians as well as the application form can be found by clicking here.
Hat tip to Gabriela Femenia.
March 6, 2013
Latvia Submits Request to Join Euro in 2014
The Latvian government has formally requested the European Union (EU) Commission to assess its readiness to join the euro as of January 1, 2014. Latvia's economy suffered badly during the recent recession, but it has now recovered to the point where it has the highest GDP growth rate (5.5% in 2012) and the second highest export rate in the EU. Its budget deficit was 1.5 percent of its gross domestic product in 2012 and is predicted to fall further. If Latvia is accepted into the eurozone, it will become the 18th member state.
The economic picture is not entirely rosy, however. Latvia's GDP shrank by approximately 20% between 2008 and 2010 and still has not recovered to pre-recession levels. While the unemployment rate has fallen from a high of 20% during the recession, it remains high at 14%. There is significant internal opposition to joining the Euro as well. According to news reports, as much as two-thirds of the population is opposed to adopting the euro due to concerns about higher prices and less local control over the economy. While Latvia is not required to hold a public referendum on the issue, the level of public support is a factor taken into consideration in assessing the bid.
The EU Commission and the European Central Bank are expected to publish a report on Latvia's readiness to join the euro in June. A decision could come as early as July.
March 5, 2013
Amann Speaks on International Criminal Law
Diane Marie Amann, the Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia, spoke today at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago on the topic of international criminal law. She compared judgements from various criminal trials focusing on the different verdicts, opinions, and evidentiary standards. The program was well attended, particularly considering that Chicago is being hit right now by a major snow storm.
Diane Marie Amann teaches Public International Law, International Criminal Law and the Laws of War at the University of Georgia. She also serves as the International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s Special Adviser on Children in Armed Conflict. The author of more than four dozen publications in English, French and Italian, Amann focuses her scholarship on the ways that national, regional and international legal regimes interact as they endeavor to combat atrocity and cross-border crime. She joined the Georgia Law faculty in 2011 from the University of California-Davis, where she was a professor of law, the founding director of the California International Law Center and a Martin Luther King Jr. Hall Research Scholar, and from which she received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Homer Angelo Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Law. She has also served as a visiting professor at the University of California-Berkeley, at the University of California-Los Angeles and at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland-Galway, and as a professeur invitée at the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
In 2010, Professor Amann received the prestigious Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law, an award presented by the American Bar Association Section of International Law. She also previously chaired the Association of American Law Schools Section on International Law.
Professor Amann is pictured here with me (Mark Wojcik), Professor Shahram Dana, and Associate Dean Ralph Ruebner of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Mark E Wojcik (mew)
St. Petersburg (Russia) International Legal Forum
The third St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (being held from May 15-18, 2013) will explore the role of law in ensuring the development of society, the state and the economy. More than 40 discussion sessions, politicians, lawyers, and economists from around the world will debate key questions in the domains of law, business, politics and culture. And they'll probably have a pretty good time doing all of that. Click here for more details.
March 4, 2013
ASIL Reports on International OrganizationsThe International Organizations Interest Group (IOIG) of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) announced the release of the ASIL Reports on International Organizations (RIO) for 2012. These 11 new reports provide insights into significant recent developments in international organizations. Click here to have a look.
Hat tips to Tania Voon, Richard Burchill, Djurdja Lazic, Devon Whittle, Konstaninos Magliveras, Diego German Mejía-Lemos, Claudia Nannini, Martin Aquilina, Bridie McAsey, Sharifah Sekalala, Jillian Blake, Kathleen Clausen, and John Carey.
March 3, 2013
Free Legal Research on the Internet
The Blog for the Law Library of Congress ("In Custodia Legis") has a useful post on "How to Locate Free Caselaw on the Internet." Click here.
Mark E. Wojcik (mew)
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The National Museum of Korea (Director Kim Youngna) presents a special exhibition commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jeong Yak-yong, pen name “Dasan.” The event displays 142 relics related to the renowned scholar, including his collection of poems, Dasansagyeongcheop (Treasure #1683). Visitors will gain a renewed appreciation for the academic achievements, philosophy, and personality of this great thinker, who constantly pondered how to improve his country and the lives of its people, even during times of personal trouble.
The exhibition is divided into several themes, highlighting Jeong’s life, academic achievements, and books. The first section, “His Hometown and New Influences in Hanyang (Seoul),” introduces Jeong’s hometown of Majae Village, Neungnae-ri, Joan-myeon, Namyangju-si. After getting married, Jeong left Majae for Hanyang, where he encountered new influences such as Seohak (Western learning) and the work of Yi Ik (pen name “Seongho”). The display includes pictures of places near Jeong’s birthplace and books about Catholic teachings that were used during his time.
The section “King Jeongjo and Jeong Yak-yong” focuses on the period when Jeong became a trusted advisor of King Jeongjo. At the age of 28, Jeong passed the state exam to become a high-ranking official, and he was chosen to design Hwaseong Fortress in Suwon. This section features a picture of Gyujanggak (Royal Library), a silver-inlaid steel ruler that the king gave Jeongjo, Hwaseong seongyeok uigwe (Record of the Construction of Hwaseong Fortress), and Magwa hoetong (Jeong’s book about how to treat measles).
Jeong was exiled to Gangjin for helping to spread Catholicism, but even in exile he continued his research and writing. The sections “His Path to Academic Learning” and “His Will for Innovation” examine this troubled period of Jeong’s life, through items such as Juyeoksajeon (a book explaining the I Ching), Gyeongse yupyo (National Management Book), Mongmin simseo (Admonitions on Governing the People), and letters he wrote concerning these books.
The section “His Life in Exile in Gangjin” offers more information about Jeong’s daily life in exile and the people who remained close to him. The displayed items include Dasan’s Straw-Roofed House, a painting by Priest Choeui; Dasansagyeongcheop, a collection of poems Jeong wrote about the beautiful scenery near his house; Dongguk Yeojijido (Travel Map of Korea, Treasure #481-3), made by Yun Du-seo, Jeong’s great grandfather-in-law; a letter of concern about the health of Jeong’s older brother Yak-jeon; Jeong’s letters to Buddhist monks and his disciples; Maejodo, Jeong’s painting and poem of birds in a plum blossom tree, rendered on a skirt that his wife sent him on their 30th anniversary; and his portrait.
The section “His Return Home to Majae” details the books Jeong wrote and the academic exchanges he made in his later years, after returning home from his 18-year exile. Displayed items include Heumheum sinseo (Toward a New Jurisprudence), On Meishishangshu (a book on the study of Confucian classics), a landscape painting and a fish painting featuring Jeong’s poem, and his letters.
Finally, the section “Re-Appraising Jeong Yak-yong” examines how Jeong’s legacy was revitalized during the period when campaigns were carried out to inspire patriotism in the general populace. The displays include relevant articles from Hwangseong sinmun (Capital Gazette); Yunyeon pildok seogui (Required Children’s Reader Commentary); Yeoyudang jeonseo, a collection of Jeong’s literary works published on the 100th anniversary of his death with funds that had been raised nationwide; a receipt issued by the publisher; and an article praising Jeong in Dong-A Ilbo.
The exhibition will let visitors re-examine the life and personality of this innovative Confucian scholar who constantly worked to reform and improve the governing systems of Joseon and the lives of the citizens, even during his 18-year exile.
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Here speaketh the mighty LBTEPA!
1. There is no justification for being rude, especially to people who are working for low or no wages. Making the excuse "they were rude to me so they deserve me to be rude back" is
b) based on the assumption that nothing should ever happen to you that you don't like
c) illogical: you think their behaviour is unacceptable so you then deliberately engage in it yourself
d) not setting a good example. This is something to which we should all aspire
Everyone is rude sometimes - we are tired, stressed, hungover, whatever; we over-react. We do or say things our best selves wouldn't. What happens next is the important part. Don't smother your remorse with anger (= blaming the other person). Be sorry, and if you can, say sorry. If you can't, then learn from it, resolve to respond more appropriately next time, and move on.
2. If you don't want to look after your health by exercising regularly, participating in an event, or watching your diet, that's ok. Same if your circumstances are currently such that you genuinely can't. But don't bullshit about it. Don't say "I could never do that" or "my knees won't take it" or "I don't have time". Plenty of super-busy people fit exercise into their lives. Plenty of people with dodgy joints exercise and do endurance sports. They are patient and careful and do their core work and physio and stretching. They do what they have to do to get what they want.
That's the point. They want it. You don't have to want what other people want. But please, do your soul a favour and be truthful. Say "I don't like exercising, it gets me all sweaty and I've had all my health checks", or "with all the other stuff I'm doing, I just don't have any spare energy to think about losing weight right now", or even "I admire what you're doing but it's not my cup of tea". Have your own life. Be deliberate in your choices. Try and let go of that evil word "should".
Here endeth the lecture.
More anon, great sages!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Here speaketh the mighty LBTEPA!
Monday, November 22, 2010
I'm baaaaaaack! This is not me. This is my beautiful circus assistant
How have you been? Oh my but I've been having fun since last we talked! When I'm on top of my game (when my iron and thyroid levels are behaving themselves), I looove that surfing-the-wave, can-I-pull-it-off?-I-bet-I-can! feeling. I love planning great things and getting them done by the skin of my teeth. I love kismet delivering the missing piece to make the good the greatest, and I love charming everyone into believing in the vision so they'll help me and make it even better.It was Noddie's circus birthday party on the weekend, and that was how it went. This is me, and my other beautiful circus assistant
In other news:
I've managed to survive a visit from the inlaws, Noddie's birthday, including a long-wished for and well-hidden DSi, two uni placement reports, three-colour jelly, two birthday cakes, remembering how to work my sewing machine (to make my ringmaster's costume), an emergency trip to the vet with our old dog (she's fine) and a circus party for nine seven year olds including juggling, hula-hoops, a death-defying trampoline, a terrifying high wire (made of the a-frame and a couple of bits of wood). Next day my sister's dog tried to bite my Mum's elderly jack russel, and I spent a couple of hours in casualty getting cleaned up and a tetanus shot to remind me that little dogs have extremely sharp teeth. I couldn't ditch the usual wife/mum/work gig, alas (joking!) and I've been slowly, gradually, impatiently building up the daily workouts to a level where they're not a leaden slog - and, one hopes, some of the Lard O' Distracted Over-Indulgence starts to shift. Apart from the Small Bitey Dog Incident, it's all been ever so ace. I've fallen into a (temporary) pleasantly satisfied heap now it's all finished.
Which brings us to the present. I have a Chart! Oooh it's a lovely chart. Lots of Smartening-Up and Doing Stuff Properly stuff (see: shifting Lard O'Distracted Over-Indulgence). Lots of pacing myself, lots of rest. Blogging twice a week to keep myself honest and keep in touch with the outside world. It has many other splendidly tickable boxes designed to rebuild the fun life of healthy habits, self-discipline and fitness that I accidentally lost in the move last summer. I can't find the old one - I've looked everywhere! -so I'm making a new one.
More anon, manic grinners!
I'm sure the sugar high will wear off soon....
Friday, November 12, 2010
I would just like to say THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU IRON TABLETS.
I'm alive again. I'm tired again, not joy-crushingly weary.
The sun is shining in my head again.
I can unclench my jaw. I can make a list. I can be happy, imperfect and fallible at the same time.
I can smile all the way through.
It feels good.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
I have to get through this 'didn't get up to swim + still no lard gone (after Four Whole Days, can you believe it?) = feeling (at 7 a.m.) of my life is an EPIC FAIL, why do I bother I'm such a loser yuckiness.
No. I will get through it. I will make my lunch, pack my gym gear, wipe the kitchen so my Mum isn't too traumatised by the squalor when she brings Noddie home from swimming this afternoon, take Noddie to school, drive to work through the lovely countryside and HAVE A GOOD DAY. I will.
You have a good day too.
More anon, travellers
Thursday, November 04, 2010
You know those action movies where the hero jumps off a boat or a wharf into deeeeeeeeeeeep water, usually in a hail of hot lead or massive fireball and you think Oh no! but then you think, he's the hero, this isn't a Cohen brothers movie is it? no, we'll be right then....s/he'll be ok.... and then there's a cutaway shot to the villain going bwahahaha! or the empty silent night sky.... and you think, is this one of those movies? oh I do hope not....and then - if you're watching it on tv - there's an ad break during which you maintain a faint sense of anxiety intermingled with confidence in your understanding of this genre ..... and then.....WHOOOSH!!! up from the dark dark scary water pops the hero, gasping and puffing and looking ever so relieved to be back in the lovely lovely real air and real life and if not quite safety at least not certain disaster....and of course the villain has got bored and wandered off to plot further nefariousness and doesn't notice this miraculous escape ... and serves him/her right I say, the bounder.
You know those movies?
I think I've been in one of those these last few weeks, without actually realising. Just this last few days, though, I feel as though I've made it back up through the murky water to the surface at last, back into reality and light.
Learn from my mistakes, young grasshoppers.
I seriously thought that (in the space of three weeks) I'd be able to manage
- a marathon - did I tell you I did a marathon not long ago? And smacked down a 20 min PB? Oh, I did? Would you like me to tell you about it again?
- fairly comprehensive surgery (the surgeon's phrase) on the inside of my face eww in Melbourne five days later
- my job, which is pretty intense at the best of times, let alone when I'm a bit had it
- my final exams for the year, again in Melbourne
- and my inlaws selling their house and buying one about 15 minutes from here aarrgghh.
This has not been a doddle. It really hasn't. I don't know why I imagined it would be - the downside of being an optimist I suppose! I'm in a bit of pain a fair bit of the time, which is unpleasant, and I've been feeling generally flat and dismal. I saw the surgeon today and apparently everything is normal normal normal = good good good. It's time to get stuff back in my life that I've been missing. Like exercise, and not smothering tiredness and sadness and pain with food. Gotta stop that. I might still give the 'stress sherbies' a hammering from time to time, but I'm already feeling better now I've stopped giving the 'stress bikkies and dip' and the 'stress second helpings and desserts' a pasting. I will have the life I want. I will reverse this slide.
what we did on Cup Day
More anon, fascinators!
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Adoption tug of love
In the past month, a controversial French charity has hit the headlines over its bid to bring 103 children out of Chad to France for adoption. Whether it was a well-meaning intention by the workers at Zoe's Ark, the charity, to provide what they regarded as a better life for children they took to be orphans from the war zone in Darfur, in neighbouring Sudan, or an adoption scam, is yet to be revealed. It appears the children were not orphans as claimed and some of the potential parents in France, each of whom paid US$3,000, are looking to sue the charity.
This is an extreme example of international adoption gone awry. International adoption involves thousands of children each year in many countries, China being one of the main contributors. The countries are often signatories to the 1993 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption, which protects the interests of the children who are sent to warm and friendly families for a hopefully sunny future.
But around the world, there are still plenty of children who are unprotected. According to statistics from Save the Children, 1.2 million children and babies are trafficked every year, including into Western Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, and the number is increasing. Gangs involved in child and people trafficking reap an estimated US$32 billion per year.
Among many other regulations, the convention stipulates that international adoptions must be overseen by a central - read government - authority. The introduction of the convention was a bid in part to cut out unscrupulous private operators and make the issue more transparent. Both China and Hong Kong have central authorities. On the mainland, it is the China Centre of Adoption Affairs (CCAA), here the Social Welfare Department.
That regulation has led to the United States recently cutting off adoptions - at least temporarily - from Guatemala, a key area for adoptive parents from the US. Guatemala lacks a central authority.
Elizabeth Bartholet, faculty director of the Child Advocacy Programme at Harvard Law School, who has written extensively on the issue of international adoption and law for the past 20 years, feels the convention is all right in itself but that it is creating barriers to the adoption of needy street children because of its interpretation by international organisations and the US government.
'I'm mostly concerned about how it is being falsely portrayed,' she says, adding that the US usually takes 4,000 to 5,000 children from Guatemala a year. 'Last year, 4,135 children came to the US. Guatemala was the second largest country after China, where 6,493 children went to the US.'
The reason potential parents focused on Guatemala, she says, was because they released children at just six months to a year - before they became institutionalised. 'By the time they are three to four years old they are significantly destroyed' by being in an institution. She says there are good private agencies, and all the adoption work would be undone if the state took over. Guatemala is among several Latin American countries, she feels, that do not have the infrastructure for a central authority. Ensuring adoptions are legal and preventing trafficking is down to stringent local law enforcement in any country, she says.
International organisations, including Unicef, the UN's children's rights wing, are also keen that a child should stay in its own country because of issues of heritage and contact with its cultural background. While Professor Bartholet does not argue with this in theory - she has two children adopted from Peru who she has taken back for visits when they were teenagers - she feels the issue of heritage is overdone.
'Let's not over-emphasise the heritage issue,' she says, 'if that means that they stay on the streets of Guatemala or in a Guatemalan orphanage.' A loving home is far more important, she argues.
While for the adoptive family, an international adoption can be very positive, it is still very difficult for parents to track exactly where their child came from. Another issue is that once the child is moved to a foreign country, how important is it for the adoptive family - often racially and ethnically different from their new offspring - to provide a cultural and ethnic context for their children?
American Brian Stuy has three adopted daughters from China. He runs Research-China, a website which helps adoptive families track back to when their children were first found in China, sometimes helping them to find where their children were left at institutions, or the first 'finding photo' issued in local newspapers.
'I started the research in 2001, doing it basically for my daughters,' he says, so that when they were older and starting to ask questions about their origins he could hopefully provide answers. This grew to providing a service for other families. His view is that providing his daughters and others with a sense of who they are could be important to them, so it is vital to obtain as much of that initial data as possible.
Briton Chris Atkins, founder member of the London-based Transnational and Transracial Adoption Group, says it is important that adoptees have a connection to where they came from. Ms Atkins was born in Hong Kong, probably the daughter of mainland migrants, in the early 1960s.
She was adopted and taken to Britain. While her adoptive parents have been incredibly loving, she says, it was difficult growing up being noticeably different; she encountered racism at school, and Hong Kong was just two words to her.
She did not even know where it was on a map. It is only in two recent trips here that she has been able to track where she came from.
Tracking exactly where your baby came from in mainland China is exceptionally difficult, says Mr Stuy.
Professor Bartholet argues that parents can consult a plethora of adoption organisations in the US to seek out the more ethical agencies and orphanages. They can quiz the orphanage management on trips to China, she says. But even then, says Mr Stuy, parents often have to trust the word of the orphanages.
He classes some of the orphanage administrators among his friends on the many trips he has made back to China for his research with his Chinese wife, but there are of course others that are less ethical. 'Unless the family goes to the city and directly interviews the people who found the child, it is very difficult for an adoptive family to check that the information is accurate.'
The CCAA, he claims, has become less free with information. 'When we adopted our oldest daughter, [now aged 10], we visited the finding location and the orphanage. Now parents meet the kids in the provincial capitals.'
For many parents a question mark over the origins of their child will always remain.
In May, China introduced a swathe of new regulations implementing more stringent health conditions on prospective parents - no obese parents, no one who is sight-impaired, and no one with facial deformities were among some of the stipulations. 'China has also locked out single parents,' says Professor Bartholet.
This was met by negativity in the US - a key adopter of Chinese children. In the view of many American prospective parents, agencies and other organisations, says Mr Stuy, there are still thousands of abandoned girls languishing in China's orphanages.
Not so, says China, and Mr Stuy tends to believe it. Also more families within China want to adopt. With fewer children available, some unethical orphanages have made the price unaffordable for local parents, who have to wait two to five years to adopt a healthy baby.
'Every month you can read about another baby trafficking scandal,' he says, because the demand is not being met domestically.
Mr Stuy's advice to foreign parents? Adopt a special needs child, because that's the direction he feels China will be moving in within two years. 'The ratio of special needs to healthy children is changing.'
David Youtz agrees. He is the father of four girls adopted from China - one 12-year-old and three-year-old triplets - as well as being the chief executive of Mother's Choice, a non-profit organisation that helps pregnant teenaged women in Hong Kong. The reasons for the reduced number of healthy babies on the mainland, he says, is unclear and could be for a number of reasons.
'Selective termination, widespread use of ultrasound' are two reasons but not the complete picture, Mr Youtz says.
'But there are many children with special needs. Hopefully one of the outcomes [of the tightened regulations] will be that more special needs children are placed [abroad] and that there is also some domestic adoption of children with special needs.'
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Prior to the advent of the Internet, most campers found places to go camping by mailing away for brochures or campground guides or by word-of-mouth from family and friends. One could usually trust the opinions of others, but the brochures and guides could misrepresent a campground as being more than it is in actuality. Remember, advertisements aren't always what they claim to be. This fact holds true for many ads on the Internet too.
The Internet has grown into a huge billboard sign where anyone anywhere can sell or advertise whatever they want. The amount of information on the Internet is growing at such a rate that it is impossible to keep up with all of it, let alone decipher the good information from the bad. So how does one use the Internet to find reliable campground information? Simple, do your searching on appropriate Web sites. The purpose of this article is to guide you to these Web sites, explain what you can expect to find at each of them, and help you to use them to find campgrounds that meet your criteria.
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