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SOURCE: Kaminski Auctions
On January 26, 2013 Kaminski Auctions will offer a wide array of beautiful Asian antiques and works of art. Including everything from fine bronze, ivory, and jade, to twentieth century oil paintings, there will surely be items of interest for all Asian collectors.
Beverly, Massachusetts (PRWEB) January 13, 2013
Among the top lots of the auction are two jade pieces. The first is a Chinese jade brush washer, estimated to sell for between $1,000 and $1,500. A lotus flower forms the main body of the sculpted jade piece, which is further decorated with a pair of bats and a pair of peaches. The 1.5” x 5.75” piece rests on a wooden stand carved in the shape of roots. The second jade piece is similarly well sculpted. This white jade has been carefully crafted into the form of a crouching foo lion holding a coin.
In addition to the jade pieces, the auction will also offer a fine collection of twenty ivory and polychrome birds. The birds are Japanese in origin and most bear the signature of their maker. These impressive birds are estimated at $1,200 to $1,800.
A fine bronze Japanese urn of the Meiji period will also be offered for sale estimated at $2,500 to $3,000, it is signed on the base of the vessel. The body of the urn features a pair of dragons and a woman playing a musical instrument. Inlaid gold highlights the eyes of both dragons, as well as the surrounding flower petals. On the reverse is a phoenix amidst a landscape, topped by an eagle form cover that completes the urn.
The auction will also present another remarkable signed famille rose vase. Beautifully painted the vessel is in the characteristic warm color palette, depicting figures in a landscape. This distinctive signed piece is estimated to sell for $2,000 to $3,000. There is also a pair of 19th century Chinese famille verte vases, the square baluster form decorated with a pair of ribbon-tailed birds and a pair of cranes, the rest similarly decorated with birds, flowers and insects, from a New York collector at the same estimate. Also beautifully decorated is a cloisonné Chinese clock from the early twentieth century, this intricately enameled metal clock is estimated at $800 to $1,200.
Paintings will hold an important place in the sale as well. A twentieth century Chinese painting by Gao Yan, oil canvas, portrays a young woman delicately swathed in a white dress. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the work is the inspired knife work with which Gao Yan subtly mottled the ambiguous background. This skillfully rendered painting is entitled “The White Dew”. A Brian’s Coole work titled “Ships in the Hong Kong Harbor, looking towards Macao” is another noteworthy oil painting in the auction. The British painter’s work is estimated to fetch between $4,000 and $6,000.
These featured items will be joined by many other noteworthy pieces, including more famille rose works, fine chests, and ivory in Kaminski Auctions’ Asian Art and Antiques auction on Saturday, January 26, 2013 starting at 10:00 am at their auction gallery, 117 Elliot Street, Beverly, Massachusetts. Preview for this sale begins Wednesday, January 23rd and runs through Friday, January 25th, 10:00am-5:00pm, and at 8:00am day of sale. Bid online through Live Auctioneers.com and Artfact.com. For more information, go to http://www.kaminskiauctions.com or call 978-927-2223.
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To strive means to make a great effort; to struggle vigorously and relentlessly to achieve an aim. This kind of activity is common in external life; men strive to achieve political freedom, they strive to win the heart of a loved one. Perhaps above all, in the current age, men strive to gain wealth, almost always mistakenly conceived of as money.
Yet the idea of striving for something in an inner sense is, overall, a relative rarity. There's a vague idea about it, but money is more interesting. Even those who have apparently genuine religious strivings in today's world usually direct them outwardly; their idea of religious success absurdly consists of forcing other people to believe what they believe, rather than the development of a legitimate inner quality.
In the age of Ashiata Shiemash—in Gurdjieff's magnum opus, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, a near-mythical "golden" age of spirituality— men understood these questions in terms of the five obligolnian strivings. As we encounter them, embedded in a dense and apparently philosophical text, they appear to be a group of intellectual premises; ideas.
Yet these principles are not just ideas. They're meant to be experienced as motive forces for life, the very engine that drives us. All of what arises within the organism, all of the energies that cause it to manifest, ought to turn around this axis. So, in a certain sense, these strivings ought to become our chief feature, a chief feature which replaces our Nafs, the ordinary egoistic impulses that drive us.
How can that happen? These words appeared to just be ideas. They sound noble, to be sure; yet encountered as ideas, they simply carry the same weight as all the other religious or philosophical ideas one encounters, such as the idea that Joseph Smith found golden tablets in upstate New York. The five strivings need to become more than just ordinary ideas; they have to become active principles within us, and this is an alchemical process that takes many years of heat and refinement in order to occur. The five obligolnian strivings need to become organic within us; they need to become so deeply embedded in us that our utmost desire is invested in them.
A tall order, perhaps; yet the whole point of developing conscience, of a tactile and immediate relationship with feeling, is to become invested in a different feeling than that of ordinary life, a feeling that arises from contact with energy of a higher order.
That's the aim, the initial aim, of inner work; to experience feeling that arises from contact with energy of a higher order. This is in and of itself, at once, transformational; there's no need to conceive of what that transformation might consist of, because such contact transcends conception. It's the taste of oranges.
This kind of action is what turns societies upside down; in the allegory of Ashiata Shiemash, his ideas—which come from a higher level—do in fact turn his society upside down. The entire order is rearranged and turned towards God. This is exactly what needs to happen in us; yet an intellectual assessment of the situation, while useful, is essentially impotent. The invocation of feeling, of conscience, must take place; the arrival of life force with a higher level of vibration.
It's not enough to think about this; we need to feel it in the marrow of our bones.
I respectfully hope you will take good care.
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New Hanover CountyNew Hanover has five County Commissioners, elected for four year terms at staggered two year intervals, and seven members of the School Board, also elected for four year terms at staggered intervals. No African Americans sit on either body, although at 15% of the population, they arguably deserve a representative at county level, and definitely one on the school board. New Hanover County School Board was censured in 2003 for failing minority students. The school district has the second highest achievement gap between black and white students in the region. Cities and towns within New Hanover County elect councilmen and alderman at large, again at staggered intervals. The only city with a significant minority population, Wilmington, with 22% of its population African American ñ uses this system to elect five Council Members and a Mayor. Currently, there is only one African American Council Member.
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Rockboard’s Descender is an all-terrain skateboard that isn't a skateboard. This roughneck is meant for hills, grass and other rough terrain—even snow. Instead of wheels, the Descender has thickly grooved, nail-tough treads (like a tank) that can handle hills with ease. Riders steer snowboard-style, by leaning. This is NOT a regular skateboard. One of Parenting Magazine’s best new toys of the year. Ages 8 and up; 200 pounds max.
Top deck is black; choose red or blue on the deck underside.
Enjoy the video:
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More and more women realise that working from home, whether starting their own business or otherwise, can be the best option following maternity leave. With the ability to balance family and work – on her own terms – being so attractive, companies feel threatened by the loss of many of their best people. If an effort to combat this show of independence, some companies are resorting to ‘return to work bonuses’ to lure women back to the cubicles. Bonnie Kavoussi (The Huffington Post) highlights the situation for us:
One company is rewarding the new mothers on its staff for coming back to work after maternity leave.
Insurance Australia Group (IAG), one of Australia’s largest companies, announced on Monday that it will double the salaries of new mothers during their first six weeks back from maternity leave, according to several news outlets. That is on top of 14 weeks of paid maternity leave. The “welcome back to work” payment is meant to ‘incentivize new mothers to stay with the company.
The welcome-back bonus is rare in Australia but common in Europe, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
A mom bonus is virtually unheard of in the U.S., where federal law does give women and other caretakers at some companies 12 weeks unpaid leave through the Family Medical Leave Act. Paid leave is not required by law and is granted only by some employers. Young American women who have children earn 7 percent less than childless women largely because they end up accumulating less experience and seniority, according to the American Sociological Review.
“We were finding that some women after having a child were dropping out of the system, which is not want we want,” said Mike Wilkins, CEO of IAG, according to the Australian. “We found that women who were going on maternity leave were saying ‘It’s difficult for me to come back or if I do come back it’s quite difficult to be there’, and we want to make sure that we attract and retain the best people.”
Wilkins said that the bonus is cost-effective because it is cheaper than recruiting and training new staffers, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or Australia’s ABC News. IAG aims to have one-third of its senior managers be women by 2015, according to ABC.
More than half of IAG’s 10,000 employees are women, and 500 to 600 IAG employees go on maternity leave every year, according to the International Business Times.
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Today, we give up high-tech for something simpler.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering
presents this series about the machines that make
our civilization run, and the people whose
ingenuity created them.
Eighteen-year-old Mark Twain
visited Philadelphia's Fairmount Waterworks in
1853. He wrote his brother Orion about its lovely
park, its marble cupids and fountains, and the
reservoir on the hill. By then this remarkable
engineering feat was forty years old. It was the
first large-scale big-city water-supply system.
Philadelphia began claiming leadership in water
supply soon after the American Revolution. In 1800
Benjamin Latrobe built a set of steam-powered
pumps. It was right downtown, but it kept failing.
So he launched a vast improvement -- a larger
system on the Schuylkill River, just outside town.
It was powered by two, much better, engines.
The new system began delivering water in 1815. Its
main power-supply was a Watt engine -- huge and
impressive, but already dated. The other engine was
more compact. It was made by the American Oliver
Evans. The Watt engine was out of service more
often than not. Evans's smaller engine did the
lion's share of pumping.
It took 3600 cords of wood each year to generate
steam -- more than the city could afford. In 1822
Philadelphia finally put away what'd been the
cutting edge of power technology. They replaced the
engines with a set of eight water wheels.
Charles Dickens visited
the Works in 1840 and said,
Philadelphia is most bountifully provided with
fresh water. [It] is powered and jerked about, and
turned on, and poured off everywhere. The
Waterworks ... are no less ornamental than useful
... The river is dammed ... and forced by its own
power into ... reservoirs, whence the whole city
... is supplied at a ... trifling expense.
Water wheels were medieval machines. Yet
Philadelphia had built a great celebration of modern
technology upon them. Not until Mark Twain's visit
had the first water turbine been added to the system.
The Waterworks kept serving Philadelphia until the
Schuylkill river became polluted, around 1900.
Today, its lovely old buildings still line the
river. The City Art Museum now looms on the hilltop
were the reservoir once was.
It's a beautiful site -- lightly wooded and grassy
-- with the old neoclassical buildings and
sculpture. The dam is still there in the river. But
hidden behind this early American expression of
high technology lurks a message we should all
remember. It is that we must not be dazzled by the
latest and the hottest, when low-tech simplicity
can serve us better.
I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston,
where we're interested in the way inventive minds
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Lyrics: First verse The flowers are all budding, Each bird builds his nest, Our love is in its springtime, Let's build with the rest, For you are my sweetheart, And why should we wait? When love is in its springtime, Each heart seeks its mate. Refrain Sweetheart, Sweetheart, you are my dearest one Fairer, Fairer than springtime's flowers can be. Sweetheart, Sweetheart, you are my nearest one, Sweetheart, you are the world to me! Sweetheart. Second verse The white snow flakes are falling, Birds sing sweet no more, But love, it still is calling, Fondly as of yore, For you're still my sweetheart, My love still is true, In winter or in summer, My sweetheart that's you. (Refrain)
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The derogatory terms, images, and ideas that appear in some of this sheet music are not condoned by the University of Mississippi. They do represent the attitudes of a number of Americans at the times the songs were published. As such, it is hoped that the sheet music in this collection can aid students of music, history, and other disciplines to better understand popular American music and racial stereotypes from the 19th- and early 20th-centuries. Read the introduction for further information to use when contextualizing this item: http://220.127.116.11/cdm4/intro_harris.php
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Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Horrific images of dozens of mutilated children's corpses in the village of Houla prompted a rare moment of unity on Sunday from the United Nations Security Council.
Even Russia, the staunchest defender of the Syrian regime on the council, signed on to a statement that condemned the Syrian government for its "outrageous use of force against (the) civilian population."
But few Middle East watchers predict the atrocities in Houla will break the diplomatic deadlock that has cemented itself around Syria for the last 15 months.
"Nobody can see these images and not react," said Rami Khouri, a veteran analyst of the Arab world who lectures at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.
"The problem is no one has figured out an effective way to get involved and bring this conflict to an end."
As part of a ruthless campaign to crush what started out as a peaceful protest movement, President Bashar al-Assad's security forces shelled cities, carried out systematic torture in prisons, and opened fire on opposition demonstrations and funerals. The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner has repeatedly accused al-Assad's regime of carrying out crimes against humanity.
It did not take long for Western governments to call for al-Assad's ouster. But nearly 15 months after the uprising began, opponents have been unable to formulate a plan to dislodge the family that has ruled Syria for more than 40 years.
"We don't have any idea how to make these guys go away," conceded a high-ranking Western diplomat based in the region, who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity.
"Read between the lines," the diplomat added. "In the immediate future, there is not going to be a Western intervention in Syria."
As the body count in Syria mounted over the last year to more than 9,000 killed, many Syrian opposition members began calling for military intervention along the lines of the NATO bombing campaign against Libya's now-deceased strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
But analysts agree the American public has little appetite for involvement in another Middle Eastern conflict, as Washington has struggled to wind down lengthy wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Unlike Libya, where a number of high-level officials abandoned Gadhafi's regime, the Syrian government has succeeded in maintaining discipline at the highest government levels, even as it has been forced to cede entire towns and villages to the rebels.
"Partly it's Allawite solidarity," said Khouri, who was referring to al-Assad's Allawite minority sect, which holds a disproportionately large number of positions in the security forces and in government.
"Partly, these people all have blood on their hands and they sink or swim together. If they try to break away, their families will get killed or shot. It's a combination of terrorism and solidarity."
"The biggest problem is the regime in Syria is not that weak," argued Omer Taspinar, a Washington-based analyst with the Brookings Institution. "They still have a critical mass supporting them: the Sunni merchants, who see the world is not doing anything and that Bashar al-Assad can get away with murder."
While the rebellion has roiled through second-tier cities as well as broad swaths of countryside, Syria's economic powerhouse cities -- Aleppo and Damascus -- have largely remained under government control.
Also, unlike Gadhafi, al-Assad has powerful regional allies in his corner: Iran, Russia, and, to an extent, China.
"The Obama administration doesn't really want a clash with Russia, China, or Iran in Syria. That would negatively impact oil prices (in an election year)," said Taspinar.
"Overall, the strategy coming from the White House is procrastinate, try to emphasize the diplomatic initiative, talk about helping the opposition, but do not really ratchet up rhetoric into full confrontation with Russia and Iran."
After initially rejecting armed rebellion against the government, the Syrian opposition has morphed into a patchwork of loosely coordinated rebel groups determined to bring down the Syrian president.
But they have been woefully under-funded and poorly armed. For months, demonstrators across Syria have chanted, "Arm the Free Syrian army" at protests that are filmed and then distributed around the world via YouTube.
Over the past month, there have been signs that the rebels have gotten their hands on new sources of weapons, though no government will publicly admit to arming the fighters.
Recently, the leader of a rebel band called the Green Idlib Battalion in northern Syria confirmed to CNN that the prices for rifles and ammunition had dropped in half.
Early Monday morning, the Green Idlib Battalion's commander, who goes by the nom-de-guerre "Akil," claimed to have carried out an attack in coordination with other rebel groups against the town of Atareb near the northern city of Aleppo.
"We burned the town's police station and the city hall in order to force the security and armed forces out of this area," Akil said in a phone interview from the battlefield, as gunshots and explosions could be heard in the background.
But rebel fighters and residents said the government retaliated with armored vehicles, artillery and rocket fire from helicopter gunships.
As always, civilians paid the greatest price.
"As the regime's artillery was shelling our town, our home was destroyed and me and my brother were seriously injured," said Mohamed Haj Taha.
He spoke to CNN by telephone from a hospital in Turkey, where he fled with his brother and five other wounded Atareb residents early Monday morning.
Hours later, Haj Taha said doctors pronounced his brother Abdo dead.
"Now I'm in the hospital filling out paperwork after my brother's death," Haj Taha said.
The growing specter of a civil war in Syria clearly has policymakers worried.
"There's genuine concern about it turning into a huge-scale civil war with no way to influence the outcome or pick the winner," said the Western diplomat.
The Syrian government blames al Qaeda-linked groups for a series of devastating suicide bombings targeting the headquarters of security forces in Damascus and Aleppo.
Recently, even some of the secular activists who participated in the first waves of protests against Damascus expressed concern about Islamist elements cropping up within the armed opposition.
"Last week I was driving out of the city and two armed guys with long beards stopped me and asked me whether or not I pray," said Mamoon, a teacher from the southern city of Dera'a, who asked only to reveal his first name for security reasons. "We don't want our revolution to transform into armed gangs that are out of control."
"I'm scared of those who say they are rebels and then start to appear alongside the protesters, but then start dirty business like kidnapping people for ransom," a female student from Hama recently told CNN, on condition of anonymity.
Opposition groups are clearly concerned about damage to their international image.
At a recent weekly protest in the northern town of Binnish, demonstrators performed a choreographed demonstration holding up letters from the English alphabet that spelled out the sentence: "We are not terrorists."
One of the only measures that rival members of the U.N. Security Council have been able to come to agreement on was the deployment of hundreds of U.N.military observers to Syria.
The mission was denounced from the start by opposition groups. They accused U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan of brokering a cease-fire that gave the Syrian government diplomatic cover for more killing.
"The plan had a lot of deficiencies, but it was the only plan that the Syrians and the Russians would agree to," said Rami Khouri, of the American University of Beirut.
"The monitors are just monitors, they are not peacekeepers. They have been an easy but I think unfair target."
The much-maligned monitoring mission does not have the numbers or the weapons to force Syrian combatants to stop fighting. It did, however, play a vital role revealing the terrifying scale of the Houla massacre, which left at least 49 children under the age of 10 dead.
The Syrian government routinely prevents international news organizations like CNN from reporting in Syria and thereby being able to verify accounts of fighting and casualties.
And as the Syrian government and rebels accused each other of killing the children, the U.N. observers visited Houla and swiftly published a report that concluded the Syrian army fired artillery and tanks into the town.
Syria's ambassador to the U.N. later responded by accusing some Security Council members of launching a "tsunami of lies" against Damascus.
There appears to be no immediate end in sight for Syria's grinding war of attrition. Neither al-Assad nor his allies show any signs of backing down, and al-Assad's opponents are unwilling to risk direct intervention.
Some analysts argue the current bloody stalemate is better than allowing Syria to become the battleground in a regional proxy war.
"This idea that somehow if the West intervenes, it will stop things from getting worse seems naive," said Taspinar, the director of the Turkey project at the Brookings Institution.
"It's a bad situation, but its not as bad as it would be if you had a proxy war erupt between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Syria, or between Iran and Turkey in Syria. That would be a full-bore Sunni-Shia confrontation."
America's regional allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia are majority Sunni Muslim countries that increasingly find themselves at odds with Shiite Muslim Iran throughout the Middle East.
The Western diplomat was left hoping for what he called "a game-changer" -- a coup or an assassin's bullet that would bring down the Syrian president.
But, he conceded, "That's what we hoped would happen for more than 10 years to Saddam Hussein."
Journalist Omar al Muqdad contributed to this report.
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The Given Day
By Dennis Lehane
Read by Michael Boatman
20 CDs, 24 hours
In the beautifully detailed opening chapter, a young Babe Ruth happens on a pickup baseball game played by a group of black men. Just beginning to make a name for himself with the Boston Red Sox and filled with an irrepressible love of the game, he is wowed by the skill of the players and asks if he can play too. When his Red Sox teammates show up, the game becomes one of black vs. white, rich vs. poor, privileged vs. downtrodden.
Those are the underlying conflicts this historical novel addresses through one of the black players, Luther Laurence, and an Irish cop named Danny Coughlin. The tale builds up to the Boston Police Strike of 1919, with stops along the way that include Bolshevik terrorists, violent union-busting, immigration and racial identity. Appearances by famous characters, such as Calvin Coolidge, J. Edgar Hoover and Eugene O’Neill, actually take the listener out of the story. Ruth, a main character, feels particularly squeezed in. But the tales of Luther and Danny are compelling, especially as read by the talented Michael Boatman, and feel very contemporary.
A Member of the Family
By Cesar Millan
with Melissa Jo Peltier
Read by the Millan Family
5 CDs, 5.5 hours
Every week, fans tune into TV’s The Dog Whisperer to watch Cesar Millan turn harried canine owners into confident “pack leaders.” In his third book, A Member of the Family, Millan offers a thorough primer on how to stop bad-dog behavior before it starts, first by choosing a pup that suits your family’s lifestyle, and then by establishing the household hierarchy from Day One.
But Millan has always maintained that you can teach an old dog new tricks, and accordingly, these back-to-basics tips may be just as useful to those who already have dogs in their homes. A step-by-step description of how to walk your dog provides valuable detail, and he offers thoughtful advice to anyone concerned with the recent dog food recalls.
Millan’s accent is occasionally difficult to understand, but he enunciates clearly, and frequent viewers of the show will recognize his speech patterns. Besides, hearing his no-nonsense wisdom from anyone else’s lips just wouldn’t be the same.
Call Me Ted
By Ted Turner with Bill Burke
Read by Ted Turner
7 CDs, 8 Hours
Showbiz executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner has lived a remarkable — some might even say legendary — life.
From turning around an ailing Atlanta Braves to jump-starting CNN, international sailing competitions, failed marriages (including one to Jane Fonda), and earning
millions of dollars along the way, he’s packed a lot of adventure into his 71 years. Still, he has a lot of energy left and is determined to put it to good use.
Turner teamed up with former Turner Broadcasting employee Bill Burke to write Call Me Ted. “Ted Stories,” interviews from Turner’s children, colleagues and friends are woven throughout. The technique effectively breathes color into Turner’s story, unearthing facts (like his father’s abusive behavior) that he doesn’t articulate himself.
With his distinctive, matter-of-fact tone, Turner delivers a frank account of his life as one of the richest men in the world and the largest landowner in the U.S. He talks openly about his only sister’s death at age 17 and the shocking death of his father, who committed suicide when Turner was just 24. Reflecting on his own children and the demands of building a media empire, it’s obvious that he regrets his absence at home.
Turner wasn’t thrilled with the idea of telling his life’s story — but readers engrossed in his exploits will likely be glad he did.
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Provided is an example of using Jing by TechSmith to create a 5 minute (or shorter) video tutorial... Jing makes it incrediably easy to create a screen recording, upload it, and to share with others.
The recording can with just one click either be uploaded to ScreenCast.com (you get 2 GB free) or to your YouTube account. The entire video creation and sharing process can be accomplished in 5 - 10 minutes total.
I've used Jing to answer student questions, create short lecturettes, discuss documents with colleagues, and make fun videos to share with family. By using Jing to select the screen region that shows your webcam, you can create a video that includes you (and/or family and friends); by selecting a image application (e.g., MS Paint), you now have a whiteboard on which you can write even as you talk and walk you students through the steps to solve a particular problem. Visit www.techsmith.com to download Jing - which is free.
This tutorial was made by using a camera to record the computer screen.
The free edition allows you to save video as flash and upload to ScreenCast.com. For an additional $15, the pro version allows you to save as .mp4, and also upload to YouTube.
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Real time observation serial scan test architecture
||Real time observation serial scan test architecture
||Gibson, et al.
||March 7, 2000
||June 27, 1994
||Gibson; Walter E. (San Jose, CA)
Khakbaz; Javad (San Jose, CA)
Lipiansky; Eduardo M. (Danville, CA)
Manela; Philip R. (San Mateo, CA)
Plum; Michael A. (San Jose, CA)
Sprouse; Jeffery A. (Mountain View, CA)
Yamamoto; Ko (Campbell, CA)
||Tandem Computers Incorporated (Cupertino, CA)|
|Attorney Or Agent:
||Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
|Field Of Search:
||371/22.3; 371/22.1; 371/22.5; 371/29.1
|U.S Patent Documents:
||4827476; 4945536; 5210759; 5253255; 5293123; 5329471; 5384533; 5392296
|Foreign Patent Documents:
||Logic circuitry in the form of an integrated circuit includes a number of scannable registers located at various locations of the logic circuitry to continuously sample signal states thereat. In response to signalling from a maintenance diagnostic processor the scannable registers can be commanded to freeze their content for extraction and observation to determining the operating condition of the logic circuitry.
||What is claimed is:
1. An observable logic circuit formed on an integrated circuit chip, comprising:
internal logic circuitry operating to produce a plurality of data signals;
a number of scannable registers coupled to receive predetermined ones of the plurality of data signals, the number of scannable registers being responsive to a first test signal to sample first and second states of the predetermined ones of theplurality of data signals at first and second periods of time, respectively, and to a second test signal to form at least one serial shift register to shift out the sample first and second states; and
means for comparing the first and second states to one another to issue an indication of error when a mis-compare is not detected.
2. The observable logic circuit of claim 1, wherein the plurality of data signals includes a number of data output signals, and wherein the predetermined ones of the plurality of data signals includes selected ones of the number of data signals.
3. A method of performing real-time observation of a logic circuit having at least one output for providing data thereat, the method including the steps of:
sampling the output a first moment in time;
again sampling the output a subsequent moment in time;
comparing the sample of the first moment in time with the sample of the subsequent moment in time to determine if a change in state has occurred; and
providing an error indication if no change of state has occurred.
4. A method of performing real-time observation of a logic circuit operating to produce a number plurality of data signals, the method including the steps of:
sampling a first state of predetermined ones of the number of data signals at a first moment in time;
sampling a second state of the predetermined ones of the number of data signals at a successive moment in time;
comparing the first and second states; and
providing an error indication when predetermined ones of the first state match corresponding predetermined ones of the second state.
||BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to observation of logic circuitry, and in particular to use of serial scan techniques to perform a real-time observation of the logic circuitry without the need of interrupting normal logic operation.
There are available today are a number of techniques for testing digital logic circuitry, but many if not all require normal operation to be interrupted for the test to proceed. There are also fault-tolerant designs that incorporate errorchecking circuitry for ensuring proper operation, and to halt operation or take some other action if an error is detected. Often, however, there are times when a digital system may not encounter an error, may be in proper operating condition, but stuckin an operating (e.g., hardware) loop, or hung, unable to exit. It is this type of condition that needs detection.
Thus, there is a need, not necessarily for testing a digital system, but merely to provide real-time observation of the on-going operation of the system to ensure that the system is operating correctly without interrupting operation of thesystem.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention uses a scan technique to perform periodic observations, in real-time, of the continuing operation of a digital system or circuit without interrupting the normal on-going process of the system.
The invention employs scannable registers such as is employed by various scan test techniques, for example pseudo-random scan testing. A scannable register is one configured to selectively operate in one of two modes: a normal operating mode inwhich the register performs the function for which it was intended in the design of the digital system (e.g., as a stage in a counter, a multi-bit register, etc.); and, responsive to asserted test signals, in a test mode that causes the scannableregisters to be coupled to one another to form one or more shift registers which can receive serial data or, as used with the present invention, from which serial data can be extracted.
Broadly, then, the invention is directed to locating scannable registers within the design of the digital system to sample various signal states within the system. At periodic intervals scan signals are asserted to cause the scannable registersto assume their shift register configuration, and the signal states sampled just prior to the scan signal being asserted scanned out and saved. The scannable registers are returned to their normal state, and allowed to continue their sampling function,until the scan signal is again asserted, and new sampled states extracted. The two sampled states retrieved from the system can then be compared to ensure that the digital system's operation is continuing by noting that certain of them (sampled states)have changed state in the period between samples.
There are a number of advantages achieved by the present invention. First is the ability of the invention to perform real-time monitoring of the digital system. Operation of the digital system need not be terminated, or interrupted even for ashort period, to determine its continuing operability. Sampling of state is completely transparent to the ongoing operation of the digital system.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent, and more fully appreciated, by those skilled in this art upon a reading of the following detailed description of the invention, which should be taken inconjunction with the accompanying drawings identified below.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a block diagram representation of the invention used in connection with logic circuitry formed on an integrated circuit chip;
FIGS. 2A and 2B show two different scannable register designs that may be used in connection with the present invention; and
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram that illustrates control of the invention for sampling the operating state of the associated logic circuitry.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Referring now to the Figures, and for the moment FIG. 1, there is broadly and diagrammatically illustrated a digital system designated generally with the reference numeral 10. The digital system 10 is shown in the form of a single integratedcircuit 12 for ease of description and understanding of the invention. However, it will be evident to those skilled in this art that the invention can be used in association with a plurality of integrated circuits, or with discrete logic if so desired.
The digital system may either include, or have associated therewith, a maintenance diagnostic processor (MDP) 14 that is connected to internal logic 16 of the integrated circuit 12 by a test bus 18 that carries various test signals between theMDP 14 that the integrated circuit 12. Formed on the integrated circuit 12 are scannable registers 20 (20a, 20b, . . . , 20n) that are placed at strategic locations within the internal logic 16 to samples various signal states.
The integrated circuit 12 can form a part of a larger system, and for that purpose most likely will have assorted input/output (I/O) connections to that larger system. Such I/O connections are illustrated at 21 and 22 which represent bus orsignal line connections that in FIG. 1 the integrated circuit 12 to carry I/O signals between the internal logic 16 to locations outside or external to the integrated circuit 12. Thus, certain of the scannable registers 20 (20a, 20b, 20c) are connectedto sample the signals communicated on the I/O connections 21, 22. The scannable registers 20 are free-running in the sense that they operate in response to the clock signal (SYS.sub.-- CK) that is used by the internal logic 16 for synchronous operation;that is, the clock is not controlled when extracting data from the scannable registers. When in their normal mode of operation, i.e., no scan signals being asserted by the MDP 14, the scannable registers 20 operate to sample signal states with eachpulse of the SYS.sub.-- CK clock signal. Thus, the sample changes with each period of SYS.sub.-- CK when the scannable registers are operating in their normal mode.
As FIG. 1 indicates, while some scannable registers 20 sample the states of I/O signals, other. Other scannable registers 20 are located to sample states occurring in the internal logic 16, such as the continuing operation of various statemachines (not shown), counters (not shown), combinatorial logic outputs (not shown), and other synchronous devices. This is represented by the scannable registers 20m, . . . , 20n.
Two constructions of the scannable register 20 are illustrated in FIGS. 2A and 2B, although it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that other configurations can also be constructed. In FIG. 2a, a scannable register 20x is shown asincluding a D-type flip-flop 24 and a pair of multiplexers 26, 28. The multiplexers 26, 28 operate in response to test signals to select data from among three sources for application to the data (D) input of the flip-flop 24: scan data (S.sub.-- DATA),system data (SYS.sub.-- DATA), or the data output (Q) of the flip-flop 24 itself. FIG. 2B illustrates an alternate embodiment of the scannable register, designated with the reference numeral 20y, that also includes a D-type flip-flop 24'. In similarfashion as the flip-flop 24 of FIG. 2A, the data (D) input of the flip-flop 24' receives data selected from among the three sources of S.sub.-- DATA, SYS.sub.-- DATA, or the Q output of the flip-flop 24', via the combination of multiplexers 26', 28', anda negative input AND gate 30. Both implementations operate substantially in the same manner. The differences are primarily that the implementation shown in FIG. 2A may be constructed with less circuit components, whereas the implementation shown inFIG. 2b imposes less delay on the system data (SYS.sub.-- DATA). As mentioned, those skilled in this art will readily see that other configurations are available.
In the context of the present invention, the system data (SYS.sub.-- DATA) applied to the scannable register 20 (e.g., 20x or 20y of FIGS. 2A or 2B) is the state being sampled by the scannable register 20. The scan data (S.sub.-- DATA) is thatdata coupled from the output of another scannable register 20 when the scannable registers are in their shift register configuration as a result a scan enable signal (S.sub.-- EN) asserted by the MDP 14. The scannable register will be placed in a frozenstate, so to speak, when the MDP 14 asserts a HOLD signal. It can now be seen that it is only the system clock (SYS.sub.-- CK), together with the S.sub.-- EN and HOLD signals alone control the operation; no attempt is made by the MDP 14 to control theclock applied to the flip-flops 24 of the scannable registers 20.
The scan signals HOLD and S.sub.-- EN are communicated from the MDP 14 to the scannable registers 20 (FIG. 1) by the bus 18. The S.sub.-- EN signal connects the scannable registers 20 in scan string configuration so that their contents can beextracted by the MDP 14 for examination. When operating in their normal configuration, i.e., with the HOLD and S.sub.-- EN signals not asserted, certain of the scannable registers 20 (e.g., those shown as scannable registers 20a, 20b, 20c, and othersnot shown) of the integrated circuit 12 are connected to sample the signal states (SYS.sub.-- DATA) of input and/or output signals applied at the connections 21 and 22 each clock period of the SYS.sub.-- CK clock signal. The sampled state at any momentin time can be extracted by asserting the S.sub.-- EN test signal to cause the scannable registers 20 to form a one or more shift registers ("scan chains") so that the MDP 14 can scan out and extract the sampled states.
With the scannable registers 20 connected at various points in the integrated circuit in the manner described, real-time observation of the integrated circuit 12 can be made to determine its continuing operation in the following manner. Beforethey are called into play by the MDP 14, each of the scannable registers 20 are continuously sampling the states of the various input and output signals and internal states of the integrated circuit 12. Referring to the flow diagram of FIG. 3,illustrated is the operation of the real-time observation routine, beginning with step 38: the continuous sampling of states. (The S.sub.-- EN and HOLD signals are held in their non-asserted states.) To extract a sample for observation the routine firstmoves to step 40 where the MDP 14 asserts the HOLD signal to freeze the scannable registers 20 with a sample. So long as the HOLD signal is asserted the sample will be retained.
Next, at step 42, the MDP 14 asserts the scan enable (S.sub.-- EN) signal, the effect of which is to connect the scannable registers 20 in the one or more shift register configurations. Then, at step 44, the MDP 14 de-asserts (drops) the HOLDsignal and, at step 46, extracts the content of the scannable registers 20 by merely letting the SYS.sub.-- CK signal shift out that content for communication to the MDP 14 via the test bus 18. The extraction continues (step 46) until the content ofeach scannable register 20 has been retrieved.
In order to determine continuing operability of the integrated circuit 12, two such samples are needed, at different moments in time, and those two samples compared to see if state changes were made in the interim. If certain bits in one samplehave states different from what they have in the other sample, it is assumed that the integrated circuit 12 is continuing operation, receiving data from, providing data to, and otherwise communicating with the rest of the system in which it may beincluded. Similarly, observation of the sampled internal states can also provide information as to the operation of the integrated circuit 12. Alternatively, if such a comparison shows that the states of the sampled signals did not change betweensamples it may safely be assumed that the integrated circuit 12 has somehow gone into an operating loop, or some idle condition from which it cannot escape. Accordingly, a second sample must be taken and compared to the first: thus, step 48 determineswhether or not the scan completed in step 46 was the first sample or the second sample. If the second sample has not been obtained, the procedure returns to step 40, via step 50 where the MDP 14 deasserts the S.sub.-- EN to allow the scannable registers20 to assume their normal configuration to again continuously sample signals of the integrated circuit 12 for a period of time. Returning to step 40, the second sample of the states is captured by asserting the HOLD test signal. Steps 42, 44, and 46are repeated to withdraw the second sample, so that now when step 48 is reached, both samples have been obtained. Accordingly, at step 52 the comparison is made and, if as discussed above there is a change of state of any of the bits between the twosamples, it is assumed that the integrated circuit 12 is continuing operation.
This comparing of the two samples of digital states may be nothing more than displaying the two samples to a test person, who can then make the necessary observation, and draw the relevant conclusions therefrom. Alternatively, the entire processcan be automated, wherein the MDP 14 is configured to make the necessary comparison and provide an error indication when states of the two samples do match.
The present invention is advantageously used in connection with pseudo-random test techniques that also uses scannable registers such as used here. Thus, certain of the scannable registers may be used for both the pseudo-random tests, and later(or earlier) for the real-time observations of the present invention. This is mentioned because if that is the case, those scannable registers which do perform such dual functions will need to have special scan enable signals applied to them so thatthey can be included in the shift register(s) formed for the pseudo-random scan test environment, as well as the separate sampled observations of the present invention.
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A TEMPORARY school is emerging at Dunalley less than three weeks after a terrifying bushfire struck the town.
The buildings are basic and demountable but they mean a lot to the people of Dunalley.
For parents such as Amity Deans, whose five-year-old daughter Matilda starts prep this year, a functioning school is one of the most important signs of renewal.
"The school is the heart of our community," she said.
"Without it, we would lose families and it would cripple the town."
Contractors are still clearing the rubble of the old school building, destroyed in the fire on January 4, but on the oval the first three portable classrooms are in place and a new campus is taking shape.
The race is on to get the school open for the start of the school year in two weeks.
By the end of next week, the Ausco Modular building company plans to finish trucking five classrooms, a staff and administration building, a library building and toilet blocks to Dunalley on the back of 17 semi-trailers and assembling them on site.
Then they have to be fitted out and equipped.
School Association chairwoman Elizabeth Knox yesterday said it was a very tight deadline but many people were working hard to get it done.
"The spirit is extraordinary," she said.
"There is a total can-do attitude.
"The construction workers are just so positive. For them it is a challenge. One told me that he had never enjoyed working on any project so much."
Mrs Knox said she could not thank Education Minister Nick McKim and the Education Department enough for their commitment to reopen the primary school this year.
"It is a critical time for the community, now that the focus is off them, to see this being done," she said.
"This school is dear to their hearts."
Mrs Knox said almost all 130 students enrolled at the school would be returning.
"I think because there has been no loss of life it has led to an appreciation that all we've lost are material things and we've still got each other," she said.
Mr McKim inspected the site yesterday.
"To get to where we are today, just 18 days since the devastating fire that razed the original school building, is a credit to so many people," he said.
A fundraising trivia night and silent auction is planned at the Westend Pumphouse in Hobart on February 12.
The cost is $40, which includes nibbles and entertainment.
RSVP by February 6 at www.eventbrite.com.au/org/3158562242
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After seven straight years of decreases, the number of motor vehicles assembled in the U.S. finally increased in 2010. According to statistics compiled and reported by the Federal Reserve Board, 7.7 million motor vehicles were assembled here last year, a jump of 35% from the 5.7 million units assembled during the Great Recession of 2009. Our forecast is for this uptrend to continue throughout 2011, though the rate of growth will be less robust. We expect assemblies to rise to around 9 million units this year, a gain of 15% to 18%.
There may still be some pessimists among us who point out that two years of double-digit growth in auto assemblies is all well and good, but still not enough to get the industry back to pre-recession levels. And that is true, as the industry routinely cranked out 12 million units during the second half of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s.
But the trend is clearly rising, and more importantly, the industry is making money. The last year the motor-vehicle and parts industry posted any real profits was 1998, and the amount they made in those days pales in comparison with the losses they suffered during the next 11 years. The early estimates suggest that the profits total was a tidy $8 billion to $10 billion in 2010.
While the short-term prognosis is quite good, there are still some dark clouds over the distant horizon. One problem with which the automobile industry is just starting to contend is the rising price of materials. Voracious global demand is pushing the prices of plastics, steel, and most non-ferrous metals up at an alarming rate. This could hurt many plastics processors in the near-term.
Recent hikes in the price of many resins—especially PP—have been painful, and the end-market demand is still tenuous enough that it is difficult to pass these increases on by raising the price of plastics parts. But over the long-term, the sharp increases in the price of steel and other metals will be a boon to plastics processors as lighter-weight, more cost-efficient, and more technically advanced plastics parts continue to replace metals in motor vehicles.
But as we have learned from some very painful lessons, the key to making money in the auto sector is anticipating changes in future consumer trends. Most of the buzz in recent months has centered on products that are “green” and “sustainable.” Autos that are smaller, lightweight, more fuel-efficient, maybe even all-electric, are touted as the future.
So it is something of a surprise to see that demand for U.S.-made light trucks (pick-up trucks, SUVs, and mini-vans) remains stronger than the market for domestically produced autos. A closer look at the Fed data shows that assemblies of light trucks fell by almost 30% in 2009 from the previous year, but rebounded by more than 40% in 2010. In all, there were about 5 million light trucks produced in America last year. By comparison, car assemblies fell a sharper 40% in 2009, and the recovery in 2010 was a less-vigorous 25%. There were fewer than 3 million cars assembled in this country last year.
As I write this, the average price of a gallon of gas is well north of $3, and is sure to go higher. So smaller, greener, all-electric cars may prove to be the best bet for domestic auto manufacturers. But the recent data suggest that consumers have yet to be convinced.
WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU
•Costs of materials, fuel, food, and medical care are all rising. Employment levels and wages are not. The directions of these trends in 2011 will increasingly affect the market for autos.
•Infrastructure projects such as the construction and repair of roads and bridges and train tracks will receive increased media attention in the coming years. But federal, state, and local governments are broke. These conflicts and their resolutions will impact the market for autos in coming years.
•While rising resin costs are hurting processors in the short term, plastics in the long term will continue to be the material of choice as the industry continues to move toward lighter vehicles.
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These funky hemp cushions are produced by ethnic minority Hmong women in northern Vietnam. In the past all Hmong clothing was made from hemp and it is still considered an important part of Hmong culture. It is worn as a mark of respect at funerals and used in worship and family rituals. Handwoven hemp cloth is considered valuable and is often still given as a marriage gift. Craft Link are working with a number of groups to preserve traditional techniques and generate income by incorporating these techniques into high quality products.
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Get ready for Women’s Equality Day on August 26th
August 26th isn’t Women’s Equality Day in the UK because they didn’t have to amend the constitution like we did with the 19th amendment. But there’s an upcoming grandmother celebration in the UK that’s worth featuring for several reasons: 1) the family’s pride in sharing the archive of Grandmother Alice Hawkins’ suffrage memorabilia 2) public interest in the subject matter. Alice’s great grandson Peter Barratt has a variety of digital resources on the web site devoted to Alice Hawkins, family member, working woman, and suffrage activist. Peter speaks at community events about his great grandmother. In the U.S., events like this are increasing, but they’re by no means as developed as in the U.K. as with this news item from Edinburgh.
There’s a lot to celebrate on this side of the Atlantic. Special events for Women’s Equality Day (August 26th) are scheduled throughout the U.S., and in New Mexico, in particular with “Mujeres Presente: New Mexico Women Who Rocked the Vote.” And if you’re wondering about a special gift for someone for an upcoming birthday or holiday, check out the Alice Paul suffragist gold coin.
Subscribe to Suffrage Wagon News Channel.
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Courtesy of Marjorie Brinton
Courtesy of Marjorie Brinton
Last month, 26 international runners completed the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu Marathon, a unique running adventure in one of the most historically significant and archaeologically mystifying places in South America.
The nine-day trip, in its 17th year, is organized by Andes Adventures, a company started by ultra runner Devy Reinstein in 1996. It is a top-notch tour packed with adventure, history and culture gradually acclimating runners for marathon day and their first glimpse of famous Machu Picchu.
Our trip began in Cusco, which sits at 11,200 feet and boasts many ruins within the city and its environs. Some of us arrived early and were offered a tour of the pre-Incan city of Pikillacta and our first of many steep climbs on a segment of the Inca trail leading to the ruins of Tipon, a water-engineering masterpiece of the Inca Empire.
The next day, the rest of the runners arrived, and after introductions and a welcome lunch, we toured Cusco’s many historic sites, including the cathedral, Qorikancha, the most important temple of the Inca Empire, and the Santo Domingo Monastery.
After visiting Sacsayhuaman, an Incan fortress above Cusco at 12,136 feet, we embarked on our first acclimatization run, which took us through the village of Yuncaypata, the Temple of the Moon and San Blas before finishing at the Plaza de Armas in downtown Cusco.
The next day, we began making our way to the marathon start with a drive along the Urubamba River into the Sacred Valley of the Incas. We visited the ancient Inca town of Chinchero, where we were given a traditional weaving demonstration by the locals and a visit to the ruins above town. Our second acclimatization run took place along a trail leading to the Urubamba River and passing through the Salt Mines of Maras.
We toured more ancient sites the next day, then trekked six miles to the runners’ camp in the archaeological site of Llactapata within Machu Picchu Sanctuary National Park the day before the race.
The race began at 6 a.m. with a steady rolling four miles along the Cusichaca River leaving the Urubamba Valley and approaching the village of Wayllabamba, the last inhabited village on the Inca Trail. The trail then began a steep climb, rising from 9,100 feet to the highest point at Warmiwanusq’a Pass – “Pass of the Dead Woman” – at 13,779 feet. A steep, rocky descent followed, then another climb to Runkurakay Pass at 13,100 feet.
With the steepest ascents behind us, we descended rocky slopes and passed through an Inca tunnel of carved steps, then headed down a stone staircase leading to Phuyupatamarca – “Town in the Clouds” – dropping into the cloud forest.
As this lush forest of exotic plants and orchids surrounded us, the temperature rose noticeably. After three or four miles of dirt trail, we arrived at Intipunku – “Gateway of the Sun” – where we were treated to our first glimpse of Machu Picchu and the approaching finish.
Covering the distance from Llactapata to Machu Picchu in one day is a significant accomplishment as most people typically take three days to hike it. Sharing this experience with other runners was unique and inspiring.
The fastest marathon finisher with a time of 5 hours, 55 minutes was Apolo Esperanza Garcia from Valencia, Spain.
“I was happy to win the Machu Picchu Marathon, but I wanted to break the record,” Garcia said. “It was a really technical course made more for climbers and descenders.”
Garcia currently is involved with a geo-running project, running marathons in all the important environments in the world. Machu Picchu was his final marathon, the rain forest, of the eight.
“It has been a great experience, giving me the opportunity to know both spectacular places and wonderful people from all over the world,” he said.
Garcia will return to Spain and begin writing his next book, Eight Skills to Face, Eight Challenges, a self-help guide for people to make their dreams come true.
Laura Larkin of New Zealand was the first female finisher in a time of 7:02.
“I found this event in the book Extreme Running,” said Larkin. “I’m turning 30 next week, so I needed a big goal.”
This was Larkin’s first marathon-distance event. She loved the solitude and the vistas.
“The group was great; everyone does the same thing,” she said. “We’re all a bunch of crazies and so different from all over the world.”
Judy Adams of Montreal lauded the trip as being well organized with many cultural experiences and runs that showcased the back trails through the countryside.
“The Inca Trail marathon was life-altering,” she said. “It was a total spiritual, mental, physical and social immersion. All four elements played a part in completing this marathon.”
The day after the marathon, we toured Machu Picchu. The next day, we returned to Cusco by train and bus. Our final treat was a tour of Lima’s city center and a stay in the beautiful Miraflores area.
This was a one-of-a-kind experience that will be relived through our memories and pictures for a lifetime and one that will be hard to top.
Reach Marjorie Brinton at email@example.com.
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Learn something new every day More Info... by email
A balance board is a great, inexpensive way to improve not just your balance, but your level of physical fitness. A traditional balance board is a very simple and inexpensive piece of equipment that also travels well. Balance boards look similar to a skateboard, but they are a flat piece of wood on top of a single wheel-type roller in the middle -- like a see-saw. A balance board might also be a large plastic disc on top of a rubber ball. You might also see them referred to as wobble boards.
Balance boards all serve a similar purpose, but there are different heights of balance boards. A balance board with a lower height, and therefore a lower center of gravity, will be easier than a taller balance board. If you are just beginning, it is safer to purchase a lower board and to stand near something that can help you balance in case you should fall. The unstable nature of the board forces constant small corrections in the body, improving muscle strength.
Balance boards are used to improve balance, core strength, motor skills, and to prevent falls, improve skills in sports such as skiing or surfing, and for physical rehabilitation after an injury to the ankle or knee. There are other uses for balance boards as well, including to improve posture and concentration, and to help with yoga and ilates.
If you are using a balance board for rehabilitation under a doctor's supervision, you should always follow the doctor's instructions. Otherwise, to begin exercising with the board, the first step is, obviously, to try to keep the board balanced and to keep from falling off. Eventually, it will get easier to keep yourself on the board, and at that point, you can try jumping or other, more exaggerated movements on the board to make it more difficult and to challenge yourself.
Another type of balance board is the balance board released by Nintendo® for the Wii Fit™. This board does not actually rock back and forth -- it is instead completely flat on the floor. Instead, the board measures the natural shifts in your center of gravity while you are playing games on the Wii Fit™. Nintendo® claims that their balance board can improve balance and posture as well, through guided instruction and bringing your awareness to your body.
Obviously, a standard balance board is less expensive than that offered by Nintendo® and offers a different type of exercise, but both can work. Balance boards travel well and can be used for exercise in a small space. Improving your balance and coordination is a great way to prevent injury in other types of exercise as well.
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Hamas Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Netanya Passover Massacre
Hamas’ Palestine Times website has a glowing tribute to the Hamas terrorist who detonated the suitcase bomb at the Park Hotel in Netanya ten years ago.
Wikipedia describes the attack:
During the Jewish holiday of Passover in 2002, Park Hotel in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya held its traditional annual Passover seder (festive religious meal) for its 250 guests, in the hotel dining room located at the ground floor of the hotel. During this holiday the hotel consisted many elderly Jews who didn’t have family and relatives in Israel.
In the evening of 27 March 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber disguised as a woman approached the hotel carrying a suitcase which contained powerful explosives. The suicide bomber managed to pass the security guard at the entrance to a hotel, then he walked through the lobby passing the reception desk and entered the hotel’s crowded dining room. At 19:30 pm (GMT+2) the suicide bomber detonated the explosive device he was carrying. The force of the explosion instantly killed 28 civilians and injured about 140 people, of whom 20 were injured severely. Two of the injured later died from their wounds. Some of the victims were Holocaust survivors. Most of the victims were senior citizens (70 and over). The oldest victim was 90 and the youngest was 20 years old. A number of married couples were killed, as well as a father together with his daughter. One of the victims was a Jewish tourist from Sweden who was visiting Israel for Passover.
Hamas for some reason doesn’t note that 20 of the 30 victims were over 70 years old.
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BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE — Artists Deborah Mitchell and Deedra Ludwig are in the class of visionaries who are compelled to deeply explore and express the otherwise unheard, unseen, unfelt beauty, mystery and fragility of remote places like the Big Cypress Swamp in South Florida.
“The Preserve; Uniting Nature and Culture” art exhibit, open now at the Big Cypress National Preserve, is a provocative and scintillating collection of fine art creations by fifteen artists who, like Mitchell and Ludwig, have braved this diverse (both sultry and arid, breathtaking and sometimes dangerous) back country preserve situated against the Everglades and divided by Highway 41 between Naples and Miami. These creators are the Artists in Residence (AIR), who came and captured through their work this assorted wild land known for fire and water.
Seven of the 15 artists, all of whom have at one time or another lived in the preserve during their AIR tenure(s), gathered at the Big Cypress Swamp Welcome Center this past Saturday for a reception to add their personal touch to the exhibit for their fine art.
Also known as artists’ communities, retreats or colonies, AIR programs are not limited to national parks like Big Cypress. The Alliance of Artists Communities is a non-profit membership based organization that is a national leader in artists’ residency programs reports the existence of more than 250 residencies in the United States and 800 worldwide. AIR programs and beyond serve a diverse group of artists – visual artists, musicians, writers, dancers, dramatists, and more. The program first came to Big Cypress in 2003.
Deborah Mitchell of Miami is curator this year, and organized the exhibit. Mitchell is a photographer and painter, and sometimes mixes the mediums for stirring creations that might include newsprint embedded inconspicuously in the work, like her piece “Myakka River Hawk.”
In its beauty, the piece includes a border of typed words, some misspelled or grammatically inconsistent, which somehow blends with the photograph to draw the viewer in more deeply to a world of imperfect perfection. Mitchell did her residency in 2007.
“It’s not just what we are doing here, but it’s what we carry on in our work. We create a space for the public to engage in meaningful discourse about this precious land.”
A soft-spoken artist, Deedra Ludwig has done four artist in residence retreats at the Preserve, one that lasted three months. She said that ‘the gift of uninterrupted time’ allowed her the luxury of leaving behind the details of her life in New Orleans, and gave her the freedom and creativity that results in her multi-dimensional, entrancing images on canvas, created with nontraditional natural pigments, soil, pollen, botanical specimens, clay and even tiny skeletal insect wings she carefully retrieved from the land. Along with the array of other artists’ creations, four of Ludwig’s works are on exhibit at the Oasis Visitor Center and The Big Cypress Swamp Welcome Center in the Preserve.
The experience of the AIR programs is known to have a deep and lasting impact on the artists, as well as providing opportunities to engage visitors in deep and relevant ways, with measureable impact on the public.
Bob DeGross, the preserve’s chief of interpretation, said, “The whole experience gives everyone a chance to understand history through the artist’s eyes. As part of the program, each of our artists donates two pieces of art they create here, and they are available for public lectures during their stay. The public can engage in the area more effectively, and it helps inspire important conversation about the habitat and our ecosystem.” According to DeGross, some of the art is auctioned off to help support the preserve. Chris Derman, an employee with the National Park Service, opened the reception with a brief lecture and stated, “People who may never come to Big Cypress get to see the beauty. Then they are compelled to protect it.”
The exhibit features landscapes, layered photographs, paintings, poems, woodcuts and sculptures by the Artists in Residence, including current resident Tom Weinkle. Weinkle “senses the world through a metaphorical portal”, using pastels or charcoal to create his alluring images.
Other artists showing work in the exhibit are Ailyn Hoey, Hannah Ineson, Karen Glaser, Mark Goodenough, Myrna Massey, Mollie Doctrow, Jacqueline Roch, Patricia Cummins, Wendy Burk, Eric Magrane, Anne Sullivan and Laurel Egnew.
If you go
When: Through March 3
Where: Oasis Visitor Center
52105 Tamiami Trail East
Ochopee, FL 34141
Big Cypress Swamp Welcome Center
33000 Tamiami Trail East
Ochopee, FL 34141
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We co-founded the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper organization in 1994 because of our great love for the river that sustained us in our childhood and now sustains our own children, as well as more than 3.5 million Georgians.
Modeling the Chattahoochee program after New York's aggressive and successful Hudson Riverkeeper, we sought to create a focused environmental advocacy initiative led by professional staff and committed volunteers. With funding from the Turner Foundation and other local supporters, CRK officially opened its doors for business on March 1, 1994 in donated office space with a single canoe for river transportation. A year later, we were powered by a donated jet boat and full-time legal staff.
Since 1994, a dedicated and diverse Board of Directors has guided CRK in its transformation from a scrappy group of paddlers, scientists, anglers and environmental activists to a respected, but still scrappy, organization that has won many victories for the Chattahoochee River Basin.
While our legal actions have captured the headlines, CRK's school and community outreach programs and floating classroom serve as the foundation of our work, and we are particularly proud of the awards that CRK has received for these initiatives.
CRK's accomplishments will give you an idea of the breadth and complexity of the river issues that daily challenge our competent staff.
Despite our successes, CRK needs your support more than ever, as metro Atlanta's sprawling growth increasingly dominates and pollutes and the river system and our water supply is stressed by drought, waste and overuse. Join us in our effort to protect Georgia's greatest river!
Laura Turner Seydel and Rutherford Seydel
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It’s a common lament of the jaded among us: The only time they [the white establishment] put a Black person in charge of something really important is when the something-really-important is in such bad shape that its demise is almost a given. In that way, they can plaster blame all over the Black person in charge when the situation worsens, saddling the BPIC with all the wrong moves, all the bad decisions, all the mismanagement his or her predecessors were probably guilty of. It’s a setup for failure that bolsters the “I-told-you-so” of the anti-Black camp, the lament goes.
The notion of changing the status quo at the corporate top, or at least the talk about it, seems to have reached the teeth-gnashing point in some circles. In a pleasantly surprising cover story in its July 23-29 issue, The Economist, the British press’s standard-bearer of corporate and government rectitude, takes on the issue of “Helping Women Get to the Top.” There is progress of a sort, the magazine’s three-page report declares, “but of a glacially slow sort. The glass ceiling phenomenon is proving peculiarly persistent. The top of the corporate ladder remains stubbornly male, and the few women who reach it are paid significantly less than the men they join there.”
Addressing conditions on the same ladder for Black women, Katherine Giscombe, senior director of research at Catalyst, directed a groundbreaking study on the barriers women of color face in corporate management, says the study “found a very stubborn persistence of race-based stereotypes, especially around the areas of authority and credibility.” It found, she said at a recent Black Women on Wall Street gathering, that Black women believed there had been a decline in advancement opportunities in the recent past, that very senior Black women didn’t feel they were quite part of the inner circle of power. “They did their jobs, but they didn’t necessarily feel the sort of group think that can happen at very senior levels in organizations,” Giscombe said. However, “in spite of all the issues that African-American women face in the organizations around the race-based stereotypes, the exclusion, the authority and credibility issues, we actually found that within our sample they were the most likely to have mentors. So they really were able to navigate the organizational environment and find mentors and sponsors to support them,” she said.
In October, the National Council of Negro Women will publish a truly empowering work, Tomorrow Begins Today: African American Women As We Age. While the book addresses the challenges facing Black women between the ages of 35 and 59, it is a blueprint for getting to the top of yourself, from where you will be more effective at the professional, family and social “tops” to which we aspire or where we already may be. It is a must-read for the men in every Black woman’s life. I read the preview booklet and gave it to one of my sons. If you really want to be a Black person in charge, I told him, read this.
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Comedy, Tragedy….or Beckett?
The Challenge of The Cherry Orchard
Although it has been over a
century since Anton’s Chekhov’s The
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Since that infamous night, theatre artists around the world have continued the debate that sparked so much fury between Chekhov and Stanislavski by mounting productions that, in one way or another, try to answer the century old riddle: how do you stage The Cherry Orchard?
Internationally renowned experimental director Peter Brook answered this question head on with his 1988 production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, creating a setting that was as minimalist as Stanislavski’s was ornamented. Requiring only a few chairs, a screen, a bookcase, and a couple oriental rugs, his bare bones rendering of the play was more existentialist tragicomedy than brooding realism. His international cast—for which he is famous for working with—created stylized characterizations that owed more to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot than Stanislavski’s “Method”.
Lin Zhaohua, on the other hand, took the play in a completely different direction, setting his 2004 version—which was staged as part of the National Theatre Company of China’s 2004 centennial celebration of the playwright’s death—in a expressionistic grotto comprised of eight barren trees made of plastic and iron wires set against a stark yellow earth and limestone sky. Although he did emphasize, like Stanislavski, the personal tragedies of the characters, the parallel between the play’s theme—which dramatizes the socioeconomic shift from aristocratic to capitalist dominance—and the current economic changes taking place in China did not escape the attention of theatergoers.
Tina Landau’s recent production at
When Chekhov stormed out of the premiere of The Cherry Orchard in 1904, he was already deathly ill with tuberculosis. Crushed by Stanislavski’s interpretation, he was certain that come a year after his death, he would be completely forgotten as a writer. Yet, a hundred years after, as this sampling of productions testify, his dramatic vision remains as inspiring as ever. What he produced, in the end, was neither a comedy nor a tragedy, but a “problem play”, which, like Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, defies definition, allowing theatre artists to discover layers of meaning that neither Chekhov nor Stanislavski could have ever imagined. Perhaps it’s because of this versatility and elusiveness that many today consider The Cherry Orchard Chekhov’s greatest masterpiece.
Dan Tarker – Literary Associate
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There is something about the Netanyahu-Obama stand-off on settlements that seems beside the point. Had Ronald Reagan, following Jimmy Carter's lead, demanded a total freeze in 1980, the idea might have worked. Today the demand for a freeze reminds me of the joke about the implacable customer at a restaurant who, having waited too long for his dinner, says he can be appeased only by being served "15 minutes ago."
President Obama clearly wants to make a clean break with the past, and even make a show of force to Israeli extremists. But a total freeze is now out of the question. About 400,000 settlers live in crowded communities more or less contiguous with Israel (like Gush Etzion), or in Jerusalem suburbs (like Gilo and Ma'aleh Adumim). These urbanized areas are clearly not going to be moved or dismantled. And they cannot stop growing. Rather, a new border must be drawn around them and Palestine will have to be compensated in some way. Even the Geneva Initiative negotiators agreed on this.
The people who will be moved as part of any conceivable peace, who have turned Palestine into strangulated enclaves, are the 75,000-100,000 residents of settlements scattered around Hebron and between Ramallah and Nablus - vexingly, the very people who are most mobilized against any kind of deal and must be confronted by the international community and mainstream Israelis. (Salam Fayyad's offer of Palestinian citizenship to Jews who are more attached to the ancient land than the modern state will be scoffed at by most of these settlers.)
All of which raises a question. Clearly, the issue here is not a settlement freeze. The freeze has become a proxy for the larger question of where to locate an internationally recognized border between two states. Why, then, should Obama fight - with little chance of success - over a symbol and defer the fight over what is symbolized, which will eventually require a hard line from America and the world anyway?
Consider another approach, that taken in Geneva. The fact that large settlements are immovable means the June 4, 1967, border is not feasible, but the principle of defining a border on the basis of June 4 certainly is. America needs to offer support, and fast, for a 1:1 land swap to insure that territories allotted to Israel and Palestine are equivalent in area to what existed on June 4. It should appoint a Quartet commission, answerable to Senator Mitchell, to suggest a map. Palestine is not Israel's internal affair, nor will Palestinians ever accept the border envisioned by Netanyahu. Only a new "international" map will reconcile the Arab League peace initiative with the difficulties of moving settlers back into Israel.
Sketching a border will bring obvious immediate benefits, such as helping government officials, businesspeople and others on both sides to plan and invest. But it will also help prepare the ground to evacuate those who must ultimately be moved. This will take years, just like moderating Hamas by rehabilitating the Palestinian Authority will take years. The Israel Defense Forces and the police could never muster enough manpower to simply move these settlers by force - anyway, many IDF officers sympathize with settlement.
And to get these people out, you have to do four things: marginalize them politically, that is, create a conflict of interest between settlers living within an agreed-upon border and the more fanatic types outside; induce them to return to agreed settlements or to within the Green Line with time-limited financial compensation; threaten them with power and water cuts; and, should all else fail, remove them by siege or, if necessary, force. All that is going to be very hard. As it withdraws, the IDF should work with NATO forces to replace its own soldiers.
There is nothing fanciful about projecting a border. For most Israelis, the line between Israel and occupied territory is self-evident. Palestinian leaders have all but said they're willing to compromise on the 1967 line, and effectively demilitarize their state, so long as a way can be found to compensate Palestine with land that is as much and as good as land annexed to Israel, and compensate and resettle the original refugees of 1948 in a Palestinian state - or, as one Ramallah friend suggested, so long as the futures of Israel and Palestine are linked to larger federal arrangements. Nor do you need more than common sense to see where the contention will come. For example, Ariel (smack-dab between Ramallah and Nablus) could never be part of a future Israel. Olmert insisted that it must be, which is one reason his talks with Mahmoud Abbas went nowhere. Here is where America's view becomes crucial, so why not apprise the sides of it now?
In any case, Obama is right to try and keep new settlement projects from being added to the 160 that already exist - that is, to insist that Israel remove new outposts, and prevent construction that fills in the gaps between existing settlements; and to forestall projects that would further compromise the viability of East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. But we are beyond the talk of the road map's freeze now, or should be. What we need is a destination and a driver.
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I’ve written a lot over the years, and sometimes, the story gets you. Reading Tony Proudfoot’s piece this morning about his last days — writing his own eulogy, essentially, or a part of it — reminded me of my time with Tony at the 2008 Grey Cup, when ALS had sapped most of his speech, along with his ability to eat solid food.
Not his spirit, though. He was so goddamned brave, so strong, so determined to live out every second he had left. I’ve never been more emotional writing a column. That piece, which was published on Nov. 22, 2008, is reprinted below. What a great man, Tony Proudfoot. One of the best.
MONTREAL — Tony Proudfoot wants to talk. He wants to tell you what he feels, what he knows, what he believes. But it’s hard, and getting harder every day.
For some, Proudfoot’s story is well known. How he was a star defensive back with the Alouettes who played in the Ice Bowl, the 1977 Grey Cup in Montreal; how he was the one who came up with the idea of putting staples in the players’ shoes that day to gain traction, and Montreal romped.
How he taught physical education at Concordia and Dawson college for 30 years after that; how he ran into the street during the Dawson College shooting in 2006 with a first aid kit as the shots were still ringing out, applying pressure to the head of a kid with a bullet in him, a kid who lived.
“He was the first out the door,” says a former Alouettes teammate, Gary Chown.
“I was not surprised that Tony did that,” says another, Gordon Judges.
Most of all, people know how Proudfoot was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, in May, 2007. Proudfoot has often described it as a cruel irony: the former athlete and physical education teacher struck by a muscle-wasting disease, the radio broadcaster afflicted with a disease that saps your speech.
“I’m more and more excluded,” Proudfoot says, the words slurring, at a side table of the CFL legends breakfast during Grey Cup week. “I can’t enter into chit-chat.”
Proudfoot, who was 57 when he was diagnosed, has bulbar onset ALS, which first affects the motor neurons that control speech, swallowing and breathing. It kills you faster than the more common variant. Proudfoot is already having trouble breathing and swallowing. He has protein shakes for breakfast, now.
“Everybody knows about me,” he says. “I’m dying.”
And yet as he dies, he remains full of life. He can still walk, and use his hands. He is a beacon of positivity, smiling and warm, and you would never know he has ALS until he speaks. Then, he has to grind words out, a harsh sound that emerges out from under his bright, sparkling eyes. He carries around a keyboard in a case that attaches to a small monitor and, when he types, it can speak his words for him.
He laughs when he accidentally spells out ‘No whining” with two Ns, and the machine replies, “No winning.” Communicating is difficult either way.
But Proudfoot wants to talk. He wants you to know about ALS. He wants you to know that its gets $1.6-million in research funding per year. Cancer, a more prevalent disease, gets about $500-million. He wants you to know that there is no treatment, no cure, no explanation of why it affects one in 3,000 people in Canada, with an incidence rate that rises by about 5% every year.
He wants you to know that without a change in the funding paradigm — without a splash of money from the government or an altruistic individual — it won’t change. People will get ALS and they will die without a shred of hope, 150 years after the disease was first identified. He wants you to know that and more about what will kill him and others.
“To make a difference,” he says, “we need to change it.”
Since being diagnosed, Proudfoot has tried to change it — the Tony Proudfoot Fund has raised $350,000 in a year. He has tried to live, too. His daughter Lauren just graduated from Bishop’s and lives at home, while his son Michael moved back from Toronto, and his daughter Lindsay moved back from Halifax. He and his wife Vicki have travelled, when possible.
And the news has somehow been crushing to everybody but the man himself. He laughs, he smiles, always. There is no self-pity. “The way he’s handling it,” Judges says, “it’s incredible. His spirit is always up.” Chown simply says, “A strong, strong man.”
His teammates wonder if the way they were taught to hit in the 1970s, helmet first, was a factor. They wonder why Proudfoot’s roommate, Larry Uteck, contracted the disease, as have six other former CFL players.
But whatever the cause, Proudfoot is bearing his unimaginable fate — to be locked away inside a body that is becoming a cocoon — with unimaginable grace and courage. It is beautiful. It is heartbreaking.
“We have to find a goal in life,” says radio host and former Alouette Gabriel Gregoire, who gave an emotional speech at the breakfast that made even Proudfoot’s eyes well up. “I think Tony found a way to live, to give an example. I read about a father who lost his kid to the war, in Afghanistan or Iraq, and the dad says about his kid, ‘It’s not important how long you live. It’s important how you live.’ It’s like that.
“It’s not important to live to 70 years old and do nothing. He’s going to live the years he’s going to live. But he lives full. He was full with his family, with his book. He was dedicated with the game, with his students, with everybody. That is his life. He is something.”
Judges, speaking about him, looks away for a moment. “He’s a great man,” he says.
He is a giant, and everything but his spirit is slowly being pinned down. I ask how he is not angry, not depressed, not in a black hole. Proudfoot types one word: Pragmatic. Then he speaks, with difficulty.
“What are you going to do?” he says, each word a fight. “What else am I going to do? Like [Gregoire] said [in his speech]: Suck it up. I spend about 10 minutes a day feeling sorry for myself. I worry about the future for my wife, and [children]. But I only have so much time left. I want it to be special. I want to be out there. I’ll be down and depressed sometime later. But for now, I want to be out there, interacting with people. My retirement lasts for three years, not for 30 years. So I’m going to live it now.”
He looks around the room, his eyes bright. “I love these things. I love the people I’m seeing here. I’m loving the whole week. I’m just happy to be a part of this. You know the part about the glass half full? Well, my glass doesn’t have much left. And I want to savour it. There’s opportunity everywhere. That’s my credo now.”
This great man only has so many words left. He wants to make them count.
• To donate to the Tony Proudfoot Fund, go online at sla-quebec.ca and click on the link to the Tony Proudfoot Fund, or call 514-725-2653.
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THE following is a guide on the factional system within the Labor Party - how it works, why it exists and where you fit in.
What are factions? Why are they needed?
Factions are groupings within a party based on political beliefs. They help a major party organise their MPs and decide policy directions, choose candidates before each election and divide up ministries or shadow ministries afterwards. Without factions, parties could be paralysed by indecision as scores of individual MPs bickered among themselves on policies and jostled for promotions.
Factions are usually split according to left- and right-wings of the party, although there are also sometimes “centre” groupings. As the interactive above shows, at the moment the right-wing of the Labor Party is dominating – specifically the NSW Right, although its brand has been tarnished by the fate of the former Labor government in NSW.
What does “left” and “right” mean? Isn’t the Liberal Party the “right”?
Yes, the Liberal Party is the right-wing (or conservative) party in Australia, while Labor is left-wing (or progressive). So even a right-wing Labor MP would still be considered more progressive than a Liberal MP. Factions also exist among Liberal MPs, but in a less rigid way.
For more on the left-right political split and to see where you sit, see our What’s Your Politics interactive from the 2010 election campaign.
How do the factions relate to each other?
With suspicion, resentment and scorn. Each faction is convinced its values and policy positions are the true beliefs of the party and the best plan for the country. So a win for the other faction is a loss for them – and, they believe, a loss for the nation which hands the other side of politics a huge advantage.
But this is also about dividing up the spoils. The factions are fighting each other for Cabinet positions and to gain a stranglehold on the most powerful and prominent roles in government. So an MP might be competing against a factional rival for the same job. There are also only so many jobs open to each faction, which means even factional allies must compete ferociously against each other for the best ministries.
So the people running the country can’t stand each other?
It’s just like any workplace. Some people get along, some people don’t. Some people are trustworthy, some people are backstabbers. Some people are leaders, some people are followers. Some people are normal, some people are tools.
Actually, it’s worse than most workplaces, because in this case some of the people involved have known each other for decades – going all the way back to student politics at uni. That is a long time for betrayals and favours, bitterness and patronage to develop, even before they make the big time and have the top job within their grasps.
How powerful are the factions?
Ask Kevin Rudd. The factional bosses can make or break a career. It starts even before an MP is elected, when the factions are involved in preselecting candidates to run in each seat across the country. Then the bosses decide who advances through the ranks and onto the frontbench. The bosses can also decide to tap older MPs on the shoulder, convincing them they really would prefer to be “spending more time with family”, clearing the way for anointed successors to drop into safe seats. And so on.
Occasionally, the bosses lose – see Simon Crean’s bubble above. He faced down a plot from Victorian factional heavyweights, including Stephen Conroy, when they tried to boot him from his seat.
But many other careers have stalled or ended because MPs have found themselves on the wrong side of a factional fight, or a factional fighter.
So MPs have to do what their factions tell them to do?
Any ambitious backbenchers need to work out how to keep the factional heavyweights on side, while cultivating networks of colleagues and proving the requisite talent and intellect to earn promotion. MPs need to constantly assess and reassess where the power lies within each faction – and either spot the rising stars or be the rising stars.
And occasionally an MP’s personal profile and popularity allows a degree of freedom to speak out on some issues and break ranks from time to time.
Are there factional figures who are not in Cabinet?
Yes. Often they are senators, who take a high position on the party’s ticket to make the transition from backroom to backbench. They can use that position to skewer opponents at committee meetings and exert their influence from within the parliamentary party. And represent their states in the national parliament, of course.
Factional players who are relatively new to Canberra could be made parliamentary secretaries, which is usually the first step on the path to a ministry nod.
Union bosses are also key figures. They include right-wingers such as Paul Howes and Bill Ludwig (father of Labor minister Joe) and left-wingers Dean Mighell and Doug Cameron (now a senator). With the overall domination of the ALP’s right-wing, Howes and Ludwig exert considerable influence.
Is every MP in a faction?
No. Some candidates have been drafted in and remained clear of the factional system – see Peter Garrett’s bubble above. Others have been able to remain considered only loosely affiliated, such as Kevin Rudd. So it is possible to climb the ladder without heavy factional backing.
But as both of those examples show, it can be lonely if circumstances go awry, with no friendly networks to fall back on.
Do allegiances ever change?
Yes, all the time. Hatchets are buried and deals are done between long-time enemies if they both see a benefit. That’s happened in Victoria and South Australia in the last few years, when right- and left-wing factions stitched up deals to crush other sub-factions.
Individuals also switch between personalities, gravitating towards different powerbrokers or perhaps siding with cross-factional figures on certain issues.
But any MPs who do so had better hope that when the dust settles, they are on the winning team.
And when do we – the voters – factor in?
For about six weeks, every three years…
But that can be all we need. Any MPs with designs on a ministry need to stay in parliament long enough to get their shot. That means they must maintain a connection with voters to ensure re-election, so if they take the temperature of their electorate and find opposition to policy – even if it’s favoured by their faction – it’s in their immediate interest to make a fuss.
The catch is that if offend their bosses, they could lose preselection and their careers are shot anyway. So some deft juggling is required between party and public. But that’s politics.
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For nearly his entire life, Jay Kordich has been the Johnny Appleseed of juicing. Find out why he credits fruit and vegetable juices with saving his life and the real story behind the rise and fall of the Juiceman.
Healthy 100 Minute: Nutrition
Florida Hospital Executive Vice President Des Cummings Jr. is sharing the secrets of living to a Healthy 100 in a new series of videos called Healthy 100 Minutes. Find out -- in three words -- the perfect way to eat.
Food for thought
seems we all marvel with what has happened to and with technology. PCs,
laptops, the internet, cell phones, HD, TV, iPods - the list goes on and
on. For those over 60, at times it is
incomprehensible. Yet there is another revolution that has taken place, one it
seems we are much more comfortable with and accepting of - a revolution in food.
I think back to when I was in junior...
Dr. Neil Barnard
Can Alzheimer's be cured by the foods you eat (or don't eat)? Neal Barnard, M.D., a leading advocate for good nutrition and using nutritional intervention to cure whatever ails us, offers tips to boost your brain health with power foods.
Health and Beauty advancements
The war on aging has a new enemy, Jusuru. There's no other product that can compare to Jusuru Life Blend. As the only liquid nutraceutical containing patent-protected BioCell Collagen. Jusuru Life Blend contains a combination of thirteen fruits that supply a wide range of polyphenols, flavonoids and other powerful antioxidants in addition to resveratrol. The thirteen super fruits included...
Good Health Everyday
1. Brown Sugar's Better than White - FALSE. Not so, it's a weight management myth. Brown sugar from grocery stores is just white sugar with molasses added. Sure, brown sugar has some more minerals, but the difference is so minute it's relatively insignificant. Consider using honey as a healthful alternative.
2. Avoid Carbs to Lose Weight - FALSE. The key message that many low-carb diets convey is...
Looking for Fiber in All the Right Places
Do you consider yourself average? If so, you may not be consuming enough fiber on a daily basis. Dietitians recommend that adults consume 25 to 38 grams of fiber daily, but most Americans consume about half that amount. If you are missing the mark, you are also missing the impressive health benefits of fiber: a lower risk of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, diabetes and colon cancer. Fiber...
Fresh Air for Brain Health
Gardening has long been known as a great way to get
outdoors and enjoy fresh air and sunshine.
And gardening has hidden benefits that can boost your overall health
including better brain health.
You don’t need a big plot of land to enjoy
gardening. Use containers on a porch or
patio to grow a wide variety of fruits or vegetables. A five-gallon bucket with
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Snack Off the Weight!
Another great article from everydayhealth.comLINK: http://www.everydayhealth.com/weight/healthy-snacks.aspx?xid=nl_EverydayHealthDietandNutrition_20090504ARTICLE:
By Madeline Vann, MPH
Medically reviewed by Lindsey Marcellin, MD, MPH...
How to Eat a Healthy Diet
A very informative and important article from www.everydayhealth.com that outlines the types and quanities of food that maximizes wellness and promotes weight-loss.URL: http://www.everydayhealth.com/healthy-living/basics-of-healthy-living.aspx?xid=nl_EverydayHealthDietandNutrition_20090601ARTICLE:If you are what you eat, it follows that you want to stick to a healthy diet that's well balanced....
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It is ok, who needs more power while on trip or something.
But it is not healthy for the phone battery to be charged like this. The difference between battery and charger is battery has constant voltage, while charger has spikes (constantly adjusting voltage up and down) that "push" the charge into the battery. Those spikes can be heard as a whistle coming out of new smaller chargers. If a battery is charged with a constant voltage (with another battery) it is never fully charged and charging is slower.
So, you won't harm your battery if you use this device while its battery is full, because phone then stops charging the battery and uses outer supply. You also won't harm it if you use it rarely. But constant use on empty battery will for certainly damage it, shrinking its capacity and shortening its lifespan.
So if you use it, use it only when you have to, try minimizing the usage of the phone while it charges through this device, and after usage charge your phone regularly, via charger.
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A polite pet isn't one that keeps its elbows off the table (though what a fun party trick!). But trainers have started referring to the skills they teach to family pets as "manners" instead of obedience. Rather than learning how to walk circles in a show ring, pets are taught things that help them in everyday life.
"Manners teach them how to communicate with a completely different species -- humans," says Mychelle Blake, a certified dog behavior consultant. Repetition, consistency, and reinforcement are the keys to making good behavior stick.
Problem: Jumping on people
An excited dog often pounces with joy when someone walks in the door. Besides being obnoxious, the dog could easily hurt a child or an elderly person.
Solution: Positive reinforcement
Ignore the dog if it jumps; when it has all four feet on the floor, reward it with a treat and praise it profusely using its name --"Good Francesca!" --says Nicholas Dodman, a veterinary behaviorist at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine. Or use a command such as "sit," which gives the dog a specific action to maintain. Start by using a leash to practice with family several times each day, and then introduce visitors until the pet sits automatically for everyone.
Problem: Not coming
Dogs ignore you when frightened or distracted by something (such as a squirrel) that competes for their attention. They can get lost, or worse, injured by cars or other animals.
Solution: A short leash
Keep your dog on a short leash and say "Francesca, come!" Each time your pet listens, praise and reward it, Dodman says. Advance to a longer leash with intermittent treats, and then drop the treats and leash altogether. Blake suggests saying "come" every time your dog comes voluntarily --for food, walks, car rides --so the command is associated with all the great things in life.
Dogs love food and are likely to whine, jump, and look at you longingly whenever it's present. This behavior disrupts meals, and paws can knock over dinnerware and spread germs.
Never feed the dog from your plate, and ignore begging. Combine this with teaching the dog a "go to your place" command when you eat. Assign a spot, such as a dog bed or under the table, and move the dog there each time it approaches. Then reward it. You can also feed it when you eat or put the dog in another room until dinner is over.
Cats instinctively scratch in order to groom their claws, but it can destroy your furniture.
Solution: A scratching post
Cats gravitate to scratching posts if they're easy to see. Make sure they're at least two feet tall and that there are more posts than cats. Put one in front of the spot where the cat scratches, gently redirect it from the furniture to the post, and reward it with treats and affection. If scratching continues, try trimming your cat's nails regularly and protecting your furniture with a product such as Sticky Paws, which resembles doublesided tape and deters scratching (cats dislike the tacky feeling). Never declaw, since this painful amputation can cause other behavior issues.
Problem: Waking you in the wee hours
Cats are more active at dawn and dusk, but they will meow, pace, and rub against you at night if they're hungry or crave attention.
Solution: Don't respond
Dodman says the more you cater to cats that wake you, the more they will do it. Don't feed or play with a cat first thing in the morning (use an automatic feeder instead), and turn off all radios, televisions, and nightlights. "Keeping your bedroom very dark and quiet keeps the cat calm," Dodman says.
Problem: Jumping on counters
Cats are descended from wild animals that climbed trees to hunt and rest, so they love exploring high places. Aside from being unsanitary, cats can break valuables, burn themselves on a hot stove, or step in something toxic and then lick their paws.
Solution: A cat tree
Provide cats with something to climb besides the furniture. Cat trees allow the animals to follow their instincts safely. Rub the tree with catnip to make it more enticing. Play with the cat when it's in the tree, and then reward it with a treat.
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The Online Resource Center Headquarters to support program quality improvement through NAEYC Accreditation for Early Childhood Programs
- Resources to help you easily access and develop your understanding of the NAEYC Accreditation Criteria
- Tools and resources to support programs in all steps of the NAEYC Accreditation process
- A calendar indicating important NAEYC due dates
- A Help Desk through which you can submit questions to the NAEYC Accreditation Program Support Information Center
The resources within TORCH replace the resources on the CD-Rom that was previously included within the 2006 Self-Study Kit. Programs who received the 2006 edition of the Self-Study Kit upon Enrollment should utilize the resources in TORCH to supplement their Self-Study Kit.
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The amount of technology that can be packed into a mouse is rather amazing. For years now Iíve simply assumed that one mouse is as much as another, since they all poll at 125Hz and manage from about 1000 to 2000dpi. Alan can go on about his G7 mouse
all he wants, but other than being cordless it doesnít strike me as being all that superior to, well, whatever my old Logitech mouse with 2000dpi and two sensors is called. See? I canít even be bothered to remember them. Consequently I greeted the arrival of the Razer Copperhead with a fair bit of skepticism. After all, how different could it be?
For starters, it permits the owner to modify his sensitivity via dpi settings on the fly. There are four default settings of 400, 800, 1600 and 2000dpi that can be cycled through using two buttons on the mouse, or from the driver menu. As a nice touch, the mouse stores this information in itself rather than on your computer, so if you find yourself going to a LAN party and using someone elseís rig, at least your mouse settings will remain the same.
The driver menu is where you can also adjust the mouse polling rate Ė from the standard USB 125Hz (8ms), 500Hz (2ms) and up to 1000Hz (1ms). Most mice are, as mentioned earlier, using the default 125Hz of the USB bus. The G7 is at 500Hz. There are programs that can change the polling rate, but these require a reboot. Razerís changes on the fly. Whatís the point of a high polling rate? Smoothness. A high rate will check the position of the mouse more often, updating its path more correctly. To use an extreme example, imagine a low poll rate of only 1Hz Ė so that the computer would read mouse movement only once per second. All the other movements you make with your mouse in between seconds do not register, only the positions at the passing of every second.
Of course, that is absurd and no such mouse exists, but back in the days of PS2 connectors there were epic flame wars between PS2 and USB mouse lovers. On the one hand, USB had a higher default rate but was not adjustable at the time, while PS2 mouse fans could use the PS2Rate utility to change from the default 60 to as high as 200. The difference between 200Hz and 125Hz was noticeable, but of course meant the inconvenience of using PS2Rate. As for 500Hz? Itís a noticeable jump from 125Hz. You wonít feel the same jump from 500 to 1000, but presumably it will make a difference every now and then in a wild rail arena match if you end up wildly moving the mouse around.
The high DPI is useful because it provides a very sensitive mouse without sacrificing accuracy, as you might if you use a cheap mouse and compensate with a high software sensitivity setting. Combined with the 1000Hz polling, the Copperhead is at least theoretically the most accurate mouse on the market. My weeks of experience with it and head-to-head testing, though subjective, tend to support that supposition.
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“The science of snow” is an interactive exhibit that starts by illustrating how snowflakes form and ends with a unique snowflake postcard to take away. The snowflakes can then be used in arts and crafts projects.
The aim of the exhibit is to expose the beauty of nature, leads to greater appreciation and understanding. Everyone knows that snowflakes are unique – but why? By growing your own snowflake, manipulating the modelled environmental conditions; it becomes obvious that each snowflake is different because each travels through differing environmental conditions.
If you’re interested in having the exhibit at your school for a day, please get in contact with me at matt
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The rate at which customers, partners and employees are accessing our websites via handheld devices has grown explosively in the past few years. How are these users interacting with your Web content? Are you delivering an enjoyable and useful experience? If not, come to this class and learn what to do about it!
This class explores recent trends in the mobile Web and use live code examples to demonstrate how you can make Web pages more accessible to mobile devices by taking a CSS-based, minimally intrusive approach to page markup.
Starting with an off-the-shelf content management system theme, we will modify the layout for an optimized small screen, touch-based experience. You will learn practical strategies and methods for refactoring existing websites for mobile devices, leveraging HTML5 and CSS3 components that work well today.
6th–9th November 2011
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In this tutorial I will show you how to make this:
What you will need:
A window with 3 or more split sections depending on what you want it to be.
(I actually used a cupboard door)
you might have one lying around if your dad is wood hoarder, you could probably find one at the tip or have a look on free-cycle.
Cork board (I up-cycled an old cork board)
I found an old cupboard door in my dads garage and thought I could make something useful out of it.
You will first need to get the glass out - make sure you wear protective gloves and are careful about where you put the glass afterwards.
For the chalk board I used a picture that I took out of an old frame which was printed onto MDF.
The good thing about using an old window is that its easy for you to put things into the slots where the glass should have gone so you don't need to cut any holes.
I then painted 2 coats of chalk board paint onto it.
wait 2 hours between painting each coat.
For the cork board I already had one spare so I re-cut it using a Stanley knife and placed it in with the chalk board, after these were both in I stapled the edges with a staple gun.
Square chicken wire is really good for hanging jewellery of because it doesn't slip like it would with round chicken wire so you can stick more jewellery on, I moulded the edges to fit the frame exactly by pushing the edges of the wire in with a pair of pliers.
Excuse the very chipped nail varnish :)
I then used a staple gun to fix the wire in place.
I then flattened the staples with a hammer to make them hold the wire tighter.
I turned a kitchen door pull upside down and screwed it into the wood to act as a chalk holder for the chalk board.
First drill to holes in the wood making sure that they are level and that they will fit the drawer pull.
In the first pictures you can see that there was an old door knob on it, I took this off and replaced it with too brass hooks which I use to hang my rings.
A new shabby chic piece of useful furniture which would have otherwise been chucked on the fire, it's also made me have a sort through my jewellery!
Tip: Before you use your chalk board rub a piece of chalk across it to prime it before use.
Hopefully now I've completely finished my exams I will be able to do better posts like this more often!
Thanks, Rose xo
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By MICHAEL BUSHNELL
January 23, 2013
On Sunday, May 15, 1513, Spanish explorer Antonio de Herrera penned these words upon his discovery of the islands we now call the Florida Keys: “To all this line of islands and rock islets they gave the name of Los Martires [The Martyrs] because, seen from a distance, the rocks as they rose to view appeared like men who were suffering; and the name remained fitting because of the many that have been lost there since.” It was all in search of the elusive Fountain of Youth.
For almost 250 years after that, almost no records existed of anyone coming ashore on any of the Keys, leaving the island chain mostly to the pirates. In 1822, a small flotilla from an upstart United States Navy chased the pirates off and settlement was established. In the Lower Keys, pineapple farms flourished and a large pineapple factory was built which furnished canned pineapple to most of eastern North America.
During the Depression, the Keys seemed to face a bleak future; even the city of Key West went bankrupt. But, with federal aid, an overseas highway opened in 1938, and Keys officials decided their islands still had something to offer: sea, sun and a good year-round climate.
Following WWII, the economy in the Keys flourished, driven largely by tourism – well, tourism and being the winter White House of one Harry S. Truman. These days, more than 3 million visitors arrive each year, mostly via the hundreds of cruise ships that dock there every year. For most, the Florida Keys are the closest thing they will ever find to the Fountain of Youth.
This week’s Linen style postcard was published by the L.A. Vallandares & Son of Key West Florida. It was mailed on July 9, 1950, to Mrs. D. Lyle, Lot 88, Lake Lotawana, Mo. The Lyles were long-time Northeast residents, living for many years on 12th Terrace near Van Brunt Blvd. The personal message reads: “Having so much fun, don’t stop for much writing. Hope things at the lake are ok. Regards, The Williams.”
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Friday is the deadline for congressional committees to submit ideas to the deficit 'super committee.' But there's little indication that any of the ideas signal an openness to compromise.
The 12-member congressional "super committee" charged with reining in future federal deficits has been deluged with recommendations. But as of Friday, the deadline for committees of Congress to present their recommendations, there is little indication that any big, bipartisan deal is on the table.
Some proposals have already arrived, more are expected Friday. But many of the ideas have been rattling around the halls of Congress for years: raise taxes, invest in small businesses, cut wasteful spending, cut more deeply at the Pentagon, go after unneeded agricultural subsidies, and so on.
But early reports signal that lawmakers have mainly seen this as a partisan exercise that restates rather than reconsiders fixed party lines. For Republicans, it’s calls to cut spending and entitlements. For Democrats, it’s calls to raise taxes and avoid entitlement cuts.
With the 2012 election cycle looming, few committee chairs want to be seen volunteering cuts critical to key constituencies that could be key to retaking – or maintaining – their majority. Instead, some panels are using this input period to caution against cuts on their turf.
Specifically, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction is tasked with crafting a roadmap to cut at least $1.5 trillion from federal deficits during the next 10 years by Nov. 23.
Some GOP chairs are taking their proposals directly to the joint committee, without releasing formal proposals. Others are recycling proposals that have been fought to a standstill in previous legislative cycles, such as a longstanding GOP plan to cut costs by reining in medical malpractice suits.
For example, House Judiciary Committee chair Lamar Smith (R) of Texas proposes capping non-economic damages at $250,000 – a longstanding priority for doctors and hospitals. That, together with limits on how and when lawsuits can be filed, could cut federal deficits by $57 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Meanwhile, House Democrats directed the top Democrat on each committee to submit his or her own deficit reduction plans. That’s because, in most cases, GOP chairmen “declined to hold committee hearings or to develop recommendations with Democratic members,” said House minority leader Nancy Pelosi in an Oct. 13 letter to the super committee.
Letters from the top Democrats on 16 House panels urged the super committee to cut deficits by growing the economy – in other words, to take another look at the president’s jobs bill that died in the Senate this week – and by increasing tax revenues.
Some members are working out super committee proposals independently. Democratic Reps. Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Rob Andrews (D) of New Jersey are developing a plan that aims to rein in the 40 percent increase in Pentagon spending since 2001 that is not related to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“The Joint committee is sorting through a large stack of policy proposals that have been well vetted and well reasoned for years,” says Congressman Andrews.
And the process is not limited to Congress's permanent committees.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus is urging the panel to keep entitlement spending off the table for deficit cuts and, instead, to raise taxes on the rich. Conservative groups outside the Congress are also weighing in with sweeping budget-cutting plans that have yet to gain traction on Capitol Hill.
This proliferation of plans has set some panels, notably the Armed Services Committees, in defense mode. Congress has already agreed to cut defense spending by $450 billion during the next 10 years. In his first major policy speech this week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Congress to avoid further steps that could “hollow out” the military. To meet deficit targets, the Pentagon expects cuts to weapons systems and the size of the military, he said.
Should the joint committee fail to produce a plan that can win the support of at least 7 of the 12 members – or should the Congress fail to pass it – automatic spending cuts are mandated to kick in beginning 2013, including $600 billion to come from defense spending. Members of the armed services committees in both the House and Senate this week cautioned the joint committee to not look to defense for deeper cuts.
"Not all elements of the federal budget are equal," said Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon (R) of California, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, in a letter. "In particular, the budget function for National Defense has already experienced significant reductions since the discussion to reduce our national debt began this Congress."
“If there’s a failure on the part of the super committee, we will be among the first on the floor to nullify that provision,” he said. “Congress is not bound by this.”
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Some will tell you that wearing a helmet while riding a bicycle isn’t cool. It’s like turning your head into a giant mushroom, they’ll say. And it’s true. It’s also true that wearing your brain on your outside is bad: this kills the human. What if we told you that you could have your cake and eat it too? Well, two Swedish ladies have spent the last 7 years, and gone through several million dollars in funding developing Hövding, an invisible helmet. Ok, invisible is a bit of a stretch. What it really is, is an airbag that you wear in a collar around your neck. Carefully calibrated sensors detect when you’re in the middle of a crash, and in under 0.1 seconds a canister of Helium pierces and inflates a strong nylon hood that completely wraps around your noggin. This should keep the brains on the inside. What’s best is that when this happens, sensor data is stored in the device’s memory for the 10 seconds before and after impact, providing you with a “ride data recorder” of sorts. This could help authorities figure out what happened in case the helmet isn’t enough to keep you alive.
Sounds wonderful, but of course there are drawbacks. The same fold who think regular helmets are uncomfortable will likely balk at a thick collar around their necks. And then, there’s cost: $600 or so for this admittedly cool tech is a lot of dollars to spend when you can just buy a regular helmet for $30. Still, early adopters with lots of disposable income could dig it.
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California Department of Transportation
Caltrans (full name: California Department of Transportation) is a government agency in the U.S. state of California. Its mission is to maintain, repair, and improve highways and bridges throughout the state. Caltrans is also involved with the improvement of public transportation systems in California.
For administrative purposes, Caltrans has divided the state of California into districts supervised by district offices. Most districts cover multiple counties; Orange County is the only county with its own dedicated district office. The most important districts are District 4 (San Francisco Bay Area) and District 7 (Los Angeles and Ventura counties).
Caltrans has a reputation for being both innovative and stubbornly idiosyncratic. In 1950, it developed the typeface family now used nationwide on road signs (though not its 2004 replacement, Clearview). It pioneered Botts dots as a superior form of lane marking. It has frequently been criticized for proposing and often constructing ugly bridges and has several times been forced to redesign such structures in response to public outcry. It has long experimented with freeway-to-freeway stack interchanges of increasing height and complexity. It was the last state highway department in the United States to number its freeway exits (the Cal-NExUS program), and one of the last to switch from dark green "button copy" signs to bright green reflective signs. In the 1990s, Caltrans aggressively added carpool lanes on freeways to reduce traffic congestion.
Although state highways generally adhere to consistent minimum design standards throughout much of the state, there are some policy and construction differences between the northern and southern district offices. Northern California carpool lanes are always directly adjacent to mainline traffic lanes and are restricted to carpools only during rush hour, while Southern California carpool lanes are always separated from mainline lanes (except at designated entrance/exit areas) and are restricted at all times.
Over the last several decades Caltrans has supervised extensive seismic retrofitting of structures throughout California, in addition to creating far more stringent design criteria for new constrution.
Caltrans was originally the Division of Highways of the Department of Public Works. It was reorganized into a separate department in 1973.
- US Department of Transportation
- List of roads and highways
- List of California-related topics
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (for the eastern span replacement controversy)
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Nili N. Alai, MD, FAAD
Dr. Alai is an actively practicing medical and surgical dermatologist in south Orange County, California. She has been a professor of dermatology and family medicine at the University of California, Irvine since 2000. She is U.S. board-certified in dermatology, a 10-year-certified fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, and Fellow of the American Society of Mohs Surgery.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
- What is Weber-Christian disease? What are the risk factors for this disease?
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- What are other symptoms of Weber-Christian disease?
- What causes Weber-Christian disease?
- How is Weber-Christian disease diagnosed?
- What is the prognosis of Weber-Christian disease?
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What is Weber-Christian disease? What are the risk factors for this disease?
Weber-Christian disease is an uncommon inflammatory disease of the fatty tissues of the body. Weber-Christian disease is also referred to as idiopathic lobular panniculitis (ILP) and relapsing febrile nodular panniculitis syndrome.
The term Weber-Christian often refers to a group of diseases that involve the deep fat. These disorders first appear on the skin as reddish, tender, and raised (inflamed) areas. Mostly, Weber-Christian describes cases of recurring inflammation of special sections of fat called lobules. The exact cause of Weber-Christian panniculitis is unknown. The disorder is frequently associated with generalized symptoms such as fever and body aches.
Weber-Christian disease is most commonly seen in females 30-60 years of age. It can occur in both sexes, in all ages, and rarely in infants. There are no other known risk factors.
Usually, both sides of the body are affected, and the thighs and lower legs are the most frequent areas. The inflamed areas can lose their blood supply, the skin can actually die in the area, ooze yellowish drainage, and become infected. Scarring is common.
The appearance of the skin symptoms are usually accompanied by fever and overall malaise (feeling poorly). The skin lumps may vary in size but are usually small, the size of two to three fingertips or about 1-2 cm in size. The skin lumps may gradually flatten, soften, and start to decrease over several weeks. Frequently, the areas heal with a brownish or tan discoloration and leave a sunken scar from the underlying fat necrosis. Less commonly, the skin discoloration may take weeks to months to fade away completely and leave no scar.
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Idaho's First Wolf Hunt Wraps Up
April 1, 2010.
From Idaho Fish and Game:
At the end of the day Wednesday, March 31, Idaho's first regulated wolf season closed statewide.
As of March 29, hunters have taken 185 wolves. The harvest limit is 220.
"The season has succeeded in halting the growth of Idaho's wolf population," Fish and Game Director Cal Groen said. "It showed that Fish and Game is capable of monitoring and managing a well-regulated wolf hunt."
The hunt also showed that fears of wholesale slaughter of wolves were unfounded, Groen said. Hunters exhibited good compliance with the rules and with check-in and call-in requirements.
Idaho Fish and Game set wolf harvest limits for each of 12 management zones. The season closes in each zone when the limit for that zone is reached, or when the statewide limit of 220 wolves is reached.
Idaho Fish and Game sold 26,428 wolf tags in 2009 - 25,744 resident and 684 nonresident tags.
Harvested wolves ranged in size from 54 to 127 pounds - males averaged 100 pounds, and females averaged 79 pounds. Of the wolves taken, 58 percent were male, and 15 percent were juveniles less than one year old.
About 86 percent of the wolves harvested were taken by resident hunters. Twelve of the wolves checked in were wearing radio collars.
Most wolves were shot in October and the fewest in January. Two wolves were taken in the Southern Idaho zone, and 49 were taken in the Sawtooth zone.
At the end of 2009, Idaho had a minimum of 843 wolves in 94 packs, and 49 packs are considered breeding pairs. The average pack size was 7.8 wolves. A total of 142 wolves are radio-collared.
In addition to hunter harvest, 138 wolves were killed in livestock depredation control actions and from other causes.
For more information on the wolf hunt in Idaho, visit the Fish and Game wolf management Web page: http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/cms/hunt/wolf/.
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|It's not every day that a space shuttle lands at LAX. Although this was a first for the major Los Angeles airport hub, it was a last for the space shuttle Endeavour, as it completed its tour of California skies and landed, albeit atop a 747, for the last time. During its last flight the iconic shuttle and its chase planes were photographed near several of California's own icons including the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Hollywood Sign, and the skyline of Los Angeles. Previously, in May, the space shuttle Enterprise was captured passing behind several of New York City's icons on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air, & Space Museum. Pictured above, the piggybacking shuttle was snapped on approach last week to LAX as it crossed above and beyond a major Los Angeles street. Now retired, the space shuttles are all museum pieces, with the above shuttle scheduled to be towed along the streets of LA to the California Science Center.
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Let's begin with a piece of advice: Don't cast your compass to Neptune-it's not dead yet! Of all the navigational tools and instruments employed on boats, the compass is still the single most valuable. Its sole moving part is governed by a fundamental physical force of Earth itself. Electronic instruments communicating with each other and with artificial satellites may provide more information at any time, but the simple compass provides the crucial piece of information that no other device can: the direction the vessel is headed. With that knowledge, anyone aboard the vessel can orient the surroundings-be they sea, sky, land, or all three-relative to the boat and therefore relative to a chart.
Why, in this world of GPS and other networked marvels, is that so important? Isn't it enough to know where the boat's going, and isn't that the same thing?
Well, no. Where the boat's pointed and where it's going aren't always the same. In fact, they rarely are. A current will cause a boat to move over the ground in a direction different from that in which the boat is pointed. Even where no current exists, a boat under sail (and, to a lesser degree, a powerboat) carries leeway, which has a similar effect. Together, leeway and current can cause a boat's track to be very different from its heading, which can bring unwelcome surprises to a mariner unaware of what's happening.
|Steering by COG without a Compass
In this example, the boat is being steered to a course over the ground (COG) calculated by the GPS. The COG coincides very closely to the GPS' "Bearing to Waypoint," making the skipper assume that the boat is bow on to the bouy. On approaching the waypoint, the skipper searches ahead for the red mark, but it's hidden behind the sails. Without a compass to provide the actual heading, the skipper has been correcting for the current that's been setting him across his course.
Let's take our compass away for a moment and steer the boat toward a GPS waypoint by matching course over the ground (COG) to the bearing to the waypoint. We're doing well, and the track on the plotter shows our course as a straight line with the waypoint dead ahead. As we approach our waypoint, which happens to be a navigation aid, we begin looking for it to confirm how totally reliable our instruments are. Where should we look? Dead ahead, like the plotter says? Maybe not. We're on port tack, on a close reach, and making 10 degrees leeway, and a current is also setting us left to right (which we weren't aware of). The mark isn't dead ahead; it's 30 degrees to starboard, behind the genoa. Clang!
If we'd had our compass, we'd have known, from the bearing information provided by the GPS, where exactly to look for the mark, and we wouldn't now be facing a charge of damaging government property.
No matter what vehicle we're steering, a fixed reference of some kind is an essential aid to pointing it in the desired direction. A star can serve that purpose as well in life as it can in poetry, but in the absence of stars or distinguishable points on the horizon, the compass is our only option. In fact, it's a better option than a land-based or anchored reference.
While the compass can't tell us where we're going, it can tell us what direction we're steering, which makes it unique. And far from being made redundant by electronic devices, the compass adds to their value. For example, by comparing COG from our GPS to the course steered by the compass, we can detect the presence of a crosscurrent. A little math involving boat speed through the water (from the log), compass course, and COG (magnetic) and speed over the ground (SOG) from the GPS can provide the direction and velocity of that current. Knowing that, we can calculate the course to steer to offset the current, something our GPS can't do (although it can tell us if we're off track). The GPS can return the favor by providing a means to check the accuracy of our compass.
Adjusting the Compass
A magnetic compass, as long as it's in good physical order, will always point in accordance to the magnetic field surrounding it. If that field was the Earth's alone, it would be utterly reliable, but the compass isn't monogamous, and it's easily led astray. Onboard magnetic influences-such as those created in some electrical devices and by iron-cause a compass to point askew from magnetic north, an error called deviation. Deviation can vary depending on what direction the boat lies in relation to the Earth's magnetic field. An important step when commissioning a new or refitted boat, once its equipment has been installed or stowed in its permanent locations, is to determine what the compass's deviation is on all headings so that you can apply it to courses you lift off your chart.
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Battling Burnout in Nursing
Megan Malugani | Monster Contributing Writer
The odds are high that burnout will strike every healthcare professional at some point. Health workers – as well as teachers, ministers and others in the caring professions – are at increased risk for the stress syndrome because of the intensity of their work and the emotional bonds they form with the people they’re helping, experts say.
“Most people in the healthcare professions carry their jobs home with them,” says Sandy Ewing, an expert in burnout prevention and the owner of Sandy Ewing Communicates, in Preston, Connecticut. “It’s good to really care about your patients. But if you don’t know how to distance yourself at times, it will be a problem.”
Henry Pfifferling, PhD, director of the Center for Professional Well-Being, in Durham, North Carolina, urges healthcare workers to recognize and address their own needs. “Healthcare providers think, ‘I went into this for patients and now there is no time for me. I have nothing left to give,’” he says. Eventually, health professionals who constantly put their patients’ needs above their own will start to burn out.
Are You At Risk for Burnout?
What Is Burnout?
Generally, burnout is caused by a person’s inability to relieve the physical and mental symptoms associated with unrelenting stress, Ewing says. It can show up as poor job performance, an impersonality with patients and lack of motivation. Health problems such as high blood pressure, insomnia, depression or addiction can also be signs of burnout. The degree of burnout and the way the syndrome manifests itself vary widely from person to person. “First-degree burnout” may include nothing more than a negativity about the workplace, while “third-degree burnout” could be so bad that a health professional has no interest in ever going back to work in the field, Pfifferling says. Another way to define burnout is “emotional exhaustion,” he says.
Generally, burnout is a progressive phenomenon, signaled by subtle changes in mood, Pfifferling says. People who are on the verge of burnout take a long time regaining their energy and positive attitude about their work. For example, if it takes a week rather than a weekend away from the workplace to restore your energy, you may be burning out. A health professional’s burnout level can also be measured at the beginning and end of each day, Pfifferling says. If you’ve always awoken in the morning looking forward to the day and now you don’t, burnout may be the cause. And at the end of the day, “only recollecting the negative parts of the day is a serious sign,” Pfifferling adds.
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New annual World Bank civil society forum
News||6 February 2001|update 21|
A new World Bank-Civil Society Forum will be held each year. This results from a decision taken at the December NGO World Bank Committee meeting. The Committee, established in the 1980s as a channel for dialogue between NGOs and the Bank agreed that its annual meeting in Washington will be replaced by a larger annual Forum. This will convene about 100 representatives of NGOs, trade unions, community organizations, religious groups etc with expertise relevant to the topic chosen for that year. Each year's forum will be decided and organized by a "Joint Facilitation Committee" which will be formed in collaboration with the NGO World Bank Working Group (WBWG) and other networks between now and June. The first Forum will be held later in the year.
The changes in the WBWG's role are partly in recognition that ever more organizations are engaged in discussions with the World Bank on a wide range of topics making it unclear why Working Group members should obtain privileged access to top-ranking Bank officials. The WBWG will continue to work on participation and capacity-building with the Bank and to facilitate regional and country consultations with the Bank.
This text may be freely used providing the source is credited.
Published: 6 February 2001 , last edited: 27 May 2010
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Four Baltimore police officers who were among the first graduates of the Maryland Police Corps will travel to Worcester, Mass., to participate in a press conference today at which President Clinton will announce the expansion of the police-training program.
The Corps program offers students up to $30,000 to attend any four-year college in the nation in exchange for serving four years as a police officer. Five states, including Massachusetts, and one territory will be added to the Police Corps program, up from 17.
Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who developed the police training program, will not be able to attend because of other obligations, said Alan H. Fleischmann, her chief of staff. Her uncle, Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, will speak in her absence.
The four officers are Brian E. Pearson, 25, Todd F. Corriveau, 23, Daniel F. Edwards, 23, and Michael D. Jones, 23. Pearson, Corriveau and Edwards, rescued five people in July from a burning rowhouse in West Baltimore.
Clinton approved the Police Corps as part of the 1994 crime bill. The federally funded program has produced 220 officers, Fleischmann said. Students finish college, attend 16 weeks of training, then serve four years on the police force in a predetermined city.
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Court Cuts Samsung a Slice of Dutch Apple Pie
Today in international tech news: In the two companies' latest courtroom spat, Apple has been ordered to pay damages to Samsung for infringing on patents. Also: The Pirate Bay cofounders are seeking a hearing at a human rights court; ESPN ups the ante for Wimbledon coverage; British neo-Nazis tap into YouTube's revenue-sharing program and more.
A court in the Netherlands has ordered Apple to pay damages to Samsung for infringing on a Samsung patent, according to the BBC.
In an email to the BBC, South Korea-based Samsung said that the decision confirmed that Apple was again free-riding on Samsung technology. In this particular case, that technology related to connecting phones and tablets to the Internet.
It was not immediately known how much Apple would have to pay, but Samsung told the BBC that it would seek "adequate compensation."
Last month, a U.S. judge ordered the CEOs of both Apple and Samsung to meet in order to hash out their two sides' ongoing two-way legal battles.
It has been a litigious month for Apple, which on June 9 was hit with a US$2.3 million fine in Australia for erroneously labeling its most recent iPad "4G," even though they would not work on 4G networks in Australia.
Pirate Bay cofounders seek hearing at human rights court
Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, the Swedish cofounders of the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, will seek a hearing at the European Court of Human Rights, according to TorrentFreak.
Neij and Sunde have been given to 10-month and eight-month jail sentences, respectively. They are not in jail yet, however, and are trying to take their case to one of Europe's highest courts.
The appeal is based on Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, which guarantees freedom to both receive and distribute information, Neij's lawyer told TorrentFreak.
However, along with "information," The Pirate Bay also facilitates the transfer of pirated movies, music, television programs and software -- hence the pending jail terms for its founders.
ESPN Wall-to-Wall for Wimbledon
The move marks the fist time ever that U.S. consumers will be able to watch every match in real time, according to the article. In 2009, former rights-holder NBC employed live streaming, including the broadcast of simultaneous matches, but ESPN will lay that to waste.
ESPN's on-demand coverage, which will feature multi-screen viewing, will be aired on the outlet's online platform, ESPN3. This coverage will be available to the roughly 75 million people whose providers have deals to broadcast ESPN3, according to PaidContent.
ESPN's mobile-device coverage will include point-by-point updates and video highlights.
The BBC, too, is expanding its Wimbledon coverage to myriad platforms.
ACTA Dead in EU - Almost
Reports of ACTA's demise in Europe are nothing new. The website ZDNet, for instance, declared the proposal all but defeated in February, and again in May.
This time, though, it really looks like Europe may have pulled the plug on ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
The European Parliament trade committee on Thursday rejected ACTA by a 19-12 vote, according to ZDNet.
The move is significant because the trade committee has a "major influence" on the European Parliament, which will vote on ACTA on July 4.
Trade commission head Karel De Gucht said on Wednesday that he will implore the European Parliament to reconsider ACTA some time in the next few years, apparently signaling that the EP is all but certain to reject it this time around.
ACTA is designed to harmonize copyright enforcement around the globe but has run into both legal and social opposition since it was finalized. It has yet to be ratified by any of the countries that signed it.
Neo-Nazis Take to YouTube
Neo-Nazis have tapped into YouTube's advertising system to obtain money from British telecommunications companies, according to The Guardian.
Extremist groups have reportedly been uploading videos which are automatically supplemented with advertisements. Google's Adsense program, which employs a revenue-sharing agreement, then cuts off a slice of the ad revenue for the groups responsible for the videos.
Google, which owns YouTube, deleted the extremist videos when it was notified of the arrangement, according to The Guardian. However, the report adds that there are no safeguards in place to prevent this type of conduct.
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It’s GRILLING Season!
But there’s some controversy about grilling — is it TRULY healthy?
Is there truth to the thought that barbecuing and grilling can be unhealthy?
Well, yes and no.
We grill regularly — most days of the week from spring – fall.
Not just for the flavor, but it’s a healthy way to cook from a fat and calorie perspective too. You don’t have to add oil, butter, or other ingredients like you do if cooking indoors.
And there’s little to no cleanup, which might be one of the best reasons of all!
But there has been some talk and controversy — do barbecuing or grilling cause cancer?
Here’s the deal.
Barbecuing at higher temperatures can produce a couple cancer causing compounds. We’re not saying if barbecue on occasion you’re going to get cancer. But stick with me.
The two compounds that can be created by barbecuing are long words that have acronyms — heterocyclic amines (HA’s) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH’s.)
The first one, HA, is created when meat is overcooked or charboiled (burned). And it’s been shown to cause cancer in animals.
Then there’s the other — PAH — that comes from the smoke off a barbecue, like when fat drips from the meat onto the hot grill and smokes. The cancer causing compound, PAH, then can be absorbed back into the food.
Cancer experts suggest that occasional grilled food is safe, but not excessive intake. The other thing to consider is how you cook your foods on the grill, considering options to minimize any potential dangers of barbecuing or grilling.
Here are 5 Tips to Make your Grilling/Barbecuing Safer (but just as tasty!)
- Grill at lower temperatures to reduce the likelihood of charring meat. On a charcoal grill, wait until the flame dies on the charcoals. On a
- Trim the visible fat off meats before cooking to reduce drippings
- Try grilling veggies and fruit – using these as the bulk of your meal vs. meats. Using skewers is a great way to do this. Less charring, more nutrients is a true win win!
- Marinate meats. Some have suggested marinades with vinegar, in particular, may "protect" the meat in a way and produce less carcinogens.
- Clean your grill grates regularly – these removes any charring between uses.
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That’s the question our CEO, Laura Yecies, addresses in her latest Huffington Post blog. Laura writes, “Some have argued that Facebook was overhyped, hence the reason for its current stock troubles. Inversely, others argue that Facebook has become so embedded in our lives that it is still underestimated compared to its long-term impact.” Is the Cloud heading down the same path?
Laura explains the Cloud as somewhat of a new term used to describe the ability to access files, data, applications, etc via any Internet connection—things we normally did locally on our PCs. New technologies, such as SugarSync, are making it easier to the use the Cloud in your everyday life.
She goes on to say, “However, the power the Cloud brings to our daily life is actually quite understated. Yes, the excitement is great — but the reality is even greater. What we are seeing is the intersection and synergy of societal trends magnified by technological forces that, in a virtuous cycle, enhance those societal trends.”
Read Laura’s full story at Huffington Post.
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How To Draw Caricatures: Learn Step-By-Step
Author: Edith Ozera
The idea of drawing caricatures has attracted people since ancient times. A sharp stone and a smooth crave wall was enough for the ancient men to caricature things around them.
Caricature drawing is not a very complex, complicated and expensive thing; anyone can draw. The hard thing about drawing caricatures is to discover this ability, work patiently, and challenge. Anyone can learn how to draw caricatures with the ability to draw things, and has the patience to challenge!
For people who wants to learn how to draw caricatures, I'll give some detail about the drawing techniques and materials used by the professional caricaturists first and later give step by step instructions on how to draw caricatures so that you can follow the steps and start drawing caricatures.
You will need the following tools when drawing caricatures:
⢠good quality pencil; which should not be too hard or too soft, preferably H or HB pencil.
⢠good quality eraser; preferably waxed and soft to erase without trace.
⢠good quality drawing paper; should be good enough to resist the stroke impact of the pencil, and not to peel off. This paper is preferred by the professional cartoonists for its resistance against the ink when working over the caricature drawing drafts.
⢠good quality ink; black Chinese or Indian ink.
⢠good quality cartoon pen
Step 1 â" Cut the image paper in appropriate size. This size depends on your choice; it should be smaller than a poster and bigger than stamp. The size of A4 paper is generally accepted.
Step 2 â" Start setting your composition into the image paper with a pencil. According to the joke, draw the most important elements of your composition; the places of figures, the background, the detailed objects, in a easily understood composition.
The process of learning how to draw caricatures is a tough process full of a lot of trial and errors and thus requires a lot of patience.
Draw and erase the unwanted details until you are satisfied with the final composition. At this point, you can look to the appearances of the figures you have trouble to draw. You can look it up in internet and try to draw the things after seeing their pictures first.
Step 3 â" Once you complete drawing your caricature composition with the pencil and feel satisfied with it; the next step will be scanning over your drawing lines with ink. You will use the cartoon pen at this step. Go over all the lines with cartoon pen and ink the lines of your caricature drawing until you ink the whole composition.
Step 4 â" Wait until the ink dries and erase the traces of pencil which you have drawn previously before the ink.
Step 5 â"Start writing the balloons. It is better not to use cartoon pen for balloon writing purposes. Instead you can try any other pen with various 0.5, 0.7 or 1 point size markers. Of course in an easy to read and all in capital letters. These are all needed when learning how to draw caricatures. I tried to summarize the tools needed to start drawing caricatures. And the steps to go through for people who are interested to learn to draw caricatures.
All these tools and techniques are what is needed to draw caricatures; but the most important factor is you, the person who wants to learn how to draw caricatures. If you can combine work, care and aesthetics concerns with a talent backed up with the patience, then you can learn how to draw caricatures the right way.
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Dr. Herman Spilker - Mayo Summary
November 22nd, 2012 - Last month we visited the Mayo Clinic
. This group included administrators, nurses, and three cardiologists. I was interested in understanding how the Mayo functioned, and what our relationship was going to be like.
Most of us have functioned in a high level medical institution during our training. My training is long enough ago that I have largely forgotten that experience, and those memories are diluted by inner city and va rotations. So that the Mayo was an eye opening experience, sort of like the farmer going to the city.
The Mayo Clinic is absolutely committed to a patient centered culture, and you can see the vast resources they bring to bear to make that happen.
The Mayo has built hospitals to export their cultures to Fl and Ariz. They have purchased hospitals and clinics in the upper Midwest and transformed them to brand them with the Mayo name. Now we have purchased entrance into the next tier, and you can see it on every entrance to this hospital, the Mayo Health Care Network
. It seems clear that they are forming a pyramid, and we are joining the base.
Apart from being gracious hosts, it surprised us that there were abundant opportunities to make this relationship more than just PR. Even in this very short visit which was geared toward making us understand the Mayo way of doing things, we encountered patient testing protocols and physicians eager to share them, as well as funded research opportunities that we could easily contribute to.
What they wanted us to see was a cooperative structure where doctors, nurses, and administrators combined their efforts to achieve a goal of the best possible patient experience. There are collaborative cells at every level that include doctors to help solve even the smallest problems.
So the take home message was twofold. First, to embrace an administrative culture that folded in doctors and nurses at every level, so that particularly the involvement of doctors is invited by this institution and enjoyed and embraced by this staff.
And secondly that we actively mine the practices of the Mayo to find those that are best for our patients and our community, and that we actively seek to import them, rather than expect to benefit only from passive participation.
On a more personal level it was cold in the heartland, and I did not find bratwurst...
Learn more about the NCH Healthcare System affiliation with the Mayo Clinic
Dr. Herman Spilker graduated from SMU with an electrical engineering degree in 1975, and attended medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Tx.
Dr. Spilker spent two years in surgery at the University of Miami before completing an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Charlotte Memorial Hospital, now Carolinas Medical Center.
Dr. Spilker began his fellowship in Cardiology at Emory University, finishing in 1987.
He went directly into solo practice in Naples. After 12 years he joined the Southwest Florida Heart Group and remained until it dissolved in 2004. Dr. Spliker practiced in the Collier Heart Group until the group was acquired in the formation of the Naples Heart Institute.
Dr. Spilker is a noninvasive Cardiologist. He is engaged in the long term care of chronic cardiac conditions such as angina and heart failure. He is involved in the initial diagnosis of heart disease and hypertension. He provides risk factor adjustment for those with heart disease and for those concerned about acquiring heart disease.
Dr. Spilker has a special interest in echocardiography.
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Forrest is a suburb of south Canberra in the north of the Australian Capital Territory and has a population of around 1,200 (48.4% male, 51.6% female). Around 328 families live in the area and of those 34.8% have one or more children under the age of 15. 9.5% of families have only a single parent while 39.3% of couples have no children. Forrest covers an area of approximately 159 hectares (393 acres).
The most common income bracket for people living in Forrest is $2,000 or more per week (24.8% of people). 6.4% have no income.
Of the 415 private dwellings in Forrest 44% are owned outright by their occupiers, 27% are being purchased (eg. by mortgage) and 27% are being rented. On average there are around 2.9 people per private dwelling in the area. The composition of occupied private dwellings in Forrest is as follows: 69.3% separate houses, 10.4% semi-detached houses (eg. townhouses, row or terrace houses), 20.3% flats (including units and apartments).
In terms of people aged 15 years or more living in Forrest 58% are married, 5% are divorced, 2% are separated, 4% are widowed and 31% have never married.
Forrest varies in altitude/elevation from about 570 m (highlight point) to 628 m (highlight point) above sea level.
The postcode for Forrest is 2603.
Neighbouring suburbs/regional areas of Forrest include Barton, Deakin, Griffith, Parkes and Red Hill.
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If you do a lot of presentations, then you know it can be tiresome to lug a laptop and a projector around as you travel. Microvision and Motorola are looking to change that. Microvision has a technology called PicoP, which is a laser based projector that is small enough to be incorporated into a mobile device.
As part of the new partnership between the two companies, a prototype handset will be produced to demonstrate the technology. The projector will be capable of producing 854 x 480 resolution. Besides its small size, the PicoP technology also has low power consumption, which makes it perfect for mobile applications.
It may be only a few years before people can purchase a mobile handset with a built-in projector. Folks thought laser pointers were annoying at sporting events and concerts. Just imagine what can be done with a mobile phone with a built-in projector.
Read more from the joint press release.
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Attractions In Kaunolu, Hawaii
What are some sights you don't want to miss in Kaunolu, Hawaii? What makes them unique?
Kaunolu is a village sitting at the southwestern tip of the Hawaiian island of Lanai. It’s known for it’s fishing waters across the island. Over the years the natives of Lanai have used Kaunolu as a place to escape the day’s tribulations and go on a Kaunolu fishing expedition. But there is plenty else to see in this small town. Here is a list of the sights of Kaunlou that you won’t want to miss.
• Kahikili’s Leap. This is an area that includes Kaneapua Rock, a large rock that overlooks the sea. The Rock drops some 100 feet down to the water. The leap is named after a chief of Lanai. This is the spot where Kamehameha’s soldiers leapt into the water when they were told to do so for betraying Kamehameha or causing other problems. The water is shallow here.
• Halulu Heiau. This is one of the most gorgeous sights in all of Hawaii. If you are at the east bank of Kaunolu, climb somewhat inland to the remains of Halulu Heiau. The spot is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, that tower thousands of feet above sea level, and the ocean on the fourth. This is truly a breathtaking sight and one you won’t want to miss in Kaunolu.
• Petroglyphs. These are rocks that are shaped like figures. It’s truly a unique experience. If you walk inland from Kaneapua Rock, you’ll see a large pile of rocks that are stick figures. This is a sight that has a very masculine feel. You’re sure to feel some sort of emotion here.
• Kamehameha’s House. This is truly an important part of Hawaiian history. This is in downtown Kaunolu. All that’s there now is a pile of rocks. Kamehameha was not well liked, as he was said to be more of a dictator than a democratic leader. Natives say the house had been destroyed over time out of disrespect for Kamehameha.
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An estimated 275 million people across the globe can't hear clearly all the sounds they love. These people suffer from hearing loss, which the World Health Organization lists as the No. 1 sensory disability in the world.
Some people never had their hearing, as they were born deaf, but the majority had something happen along the way that took it from them. Infectious diseases like meningitis, measles, mumps and chronic ear infections, as well as head and ear injuries, and aging all can contribute to hearing loss.
But perhaps the most common cause is excessive noise. Whether it's a one-time exposure to an intense, "impulse" sound, like gunfire, or by repeated exposure to loud sounds over time, like machinery at work, noise has the potential to rob people of their hearing.
The effects of hearing loss extend well beyond having to turn up the television. It strains a person's ability to understand conversations, which can cause problems and misunderstandings at work and at home. Hearing loss also leads to isolation from family, friends and the environment.-
"The good news is noise-induced hearing loss is preventable," says Dr. Laurie Wells, audiologist in 3M's hearing protection business. "So many people could be spared from it, if they just took a few easy steps."
Step 1: Wear hearing protection
The most important step to preventing hearing loss is to wear hearing protection.
"There are many great hearing protection options, but sometimes it's a challenge to know which to choose and how and when to wear it correctly," says Wells. "Hearing protection is now available that is comfortable, fits well, and includes options to enhance communication - like microphones and two-way radio connections for people who need them."
Step 2: Be mindful around the clock
Sounds louder than 85 decibels (dBA) are more common than people might think. Prolonged exposure to these high-level sounds can permanently damage your hearing, and cause ringing in the ears, along with other symptoms. Most people don't carry decibel meters, so it's good to know where those sound levels can occur. Some examples include:
- Attending a football game (100 to 120 dBA)
- Using a leaf blower or chainsaw (95-120 dBA)
- Riding a motorcycle (80-110 dBA)
- Using a lawn mower (82-103 dBA)
- Attending a rock concert (90-120 dBA)
- Listening to a personal music player (75-114 dBA)
- Shooting firearms (140 to 165 dBA)
- Watching a movie at the theater (72-104 dBA)
Hearing these sounds occasionally, for a limited time, isn't a major threat to hearing. But repeated exposure to loud sounds can cause hearing damage over time. Many people - like mine workers, police officers, construction workers, farmers and others, work in noise that is 85 dBA or higher every day on the job. As a result, noise-induced hearing loss is one of the most common occupational diseases and the second most self-reported occupational illness, according to National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Step 3: Reduce the volume or increase distance
Work-related noise might be unavoidable, but many times, you can be in control of the noise around you. Whenever possible, select quieter vacuums, chain saws, leaf blowers, power tools, etc. Also, be aware that the volume controls on portable entertainment devices can exceed 110 dBA - levels that may be hazardous if you listen for many hours a day. Lower the volume and limit how long you listen to them. If you aren't able to turn down loud sounds you encounter, take a few steps back from the source of the loud sound. Even a few feet of distance between you and a loud sound can lower the decibel levels that hit you.
Step 4: Take the hearing pledge
Make a commitment to wear hearing protection so you can continue to enjoy all the sounds you love. 3M has launched the Hearing Pledge. Go to www.hearingpledge.com and commit to wearing your hearing protection. Those who pledge can enter a drawing to win a free iPod touch mobile digital device, equipped with audio-limiting headphones that keep the sound level at or below 82 dBA.
The company 23andme has announced it will now offer a service called Ancestry Composition, according to Medical News Today. Already a leading personal genetics company, customers can now have their DNA analyzed to learn where their ancestors lived up to 500 years ago.
The company can also detail what percentage of the DNA provided comes from each of their 22 reference populations. If the customer's parents also submit DNA, the company can show specific ancestry inherited from each parent. Users can also see a chromosome-by-chromosome analysis of their ancestral history.
With this service released just in time for the holidays, it's possible this service was intended as a gift for the hard-to-buy-for. A paper explaining the company's research and methodology for this new service is available on their website.
Winter workouts don't need to be relegated to the gym. Find an at-home fitness DVD (Pilates, yoga, cardio, etc.) or an on-demand television workout, and do your own in-house boot camp once a week to mix things up.
-- Family Features/Marathon Bar
Number to Know
76.9: Percentage of infants in the United States that are breast-fed at some point.
Children's Health: Traveling safely with your food-allergic child
More than 12 million Americans, including 6 million children, have food allergies, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Many of those children have allergies to foods and ingredients commonly thought of as "go-to" foods for trips and vacations, including milk, soy, eggs, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish. These allergies mean convenience foods, fast foods, restaurant and airline meals are often unsafe for food-allergic kids.
To ensure your family trip stays safe and is as enjoyable as possible, Mitchell suggests the following seven steps:
- Plan meals before you leave home. Prepare heat-and-serve or ready-to-eat snacks or meals for the road. Shop for items that you will need which may not be available for purchase elsewhere, such as allergen-free snacks.
- Carry a sizable cooler or even a portable refrigerator that plugs into the car or hotel outlet to keep perishables cold while you travel.
- Choose hotel rooms that offer microwaves and refrigerators - or even a full kitchenette. This will allow you to reheat your food and safely store it in the hotel room. Often, you can request a refrigerator in your room and many hotels will waive rental fees if you show them a letter of medical necessity from your doctor. Staying in a room with a kitchen also allows you to safely prepare your own meals.
- Purchase individually packaged foods as much as possible. Juice boxes, for example, take up much less refrigerator space than a large bottle of juice.
- Some safe foods, like fruits, will be readily available at any grocery store, so only take items that you might not be able to buy locally - such as peanut-free cookies.
- For extended visits, like holiday trips to a relative's house or a long family vacation, consider ordering food online and having the items shipped to your destination.
- Bring all your medicines, like epinephrine autoinjectors, and consider bringing extra medication in case of emergency.
- Whether you drive or fly, make sure your child's medications are in their original containers with the prescription labels on the package. Consider having your child wear medical identification jewelry on the trip, and carry a chef card that will alert restaurants about your child's food allergies.
To learn more about coping with food allergies, visit www.kidswithfoodallergies.org.
GateHouse News Service
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"We are absolutely overwhelmed at the Curie Institute by these requests for our opinion. It is exasperating," noted Dr. Sylvia Neuenschwander, head of imaging at the prestigious institute and French Radiology Society (SFR) president. "Please, let's have no more tele-expertise before we can think things through. We need to know the objectives, there needs to be well-founded goals, and we need not only the technical structures but also the functional organization. And then we need dedicated resources, especially the time and the people."
In a session devoted to "Télé-expertise en radiologie," held at the annual congress of SFR, les Journées Françaises de Radiologie (JFR), it was evident that more efficient systems and procedures are necessary to cope with rising demands.
Teleradiology providers promoted their services in the exhibition hall during JFR. Photo courtesy of Dr. Robert Lavayssière.
Time spent on teleconsultations long ago passed two hours per day and is approaching four hours, according to Dr. Hubert Ducou le Pointe, head of radiology at the University Hospital Armand Trousseau in Paris and an active member of G4, a nonprofit association gathering all the actors in French radiology, including SFR, the teaching universities, the national federation of independent radiologists, and the hospital radiology groups.
"The number of tools has exploded, along with the number of consultations demanded," he said. "People are getting lost in all the tools being installed and the confusion that comes with different systems for local, regional, national, and international requests for consultation. And there is always this constant pressure for speed," he said.
In the current calm before the next-generation high-speed networks are connected, Neuenschwander said the number of requests flooding her email inbox is already more than can be reasonably managed. There are still colleagues good enough to select images of concern, she said. "If they want me to look at 20 images, then I will find 20 emails in my box, each with an image attached."
Radiologists at the Curie Institute are overwhelmed with requests for a second opinion, said SFR President Dr. Sylvia Neuenschwander.
Ducou le Pointe agreed that the nonselection of images with indiscriminant downloading to a consulting radiologist is a recent source of frustration. Requests arrive with a deceptively simple link to a patient file, he said, and when opening it, radiologists find three sets of CT scans each with 3,000 slices.
Teleradiology networks are also introducing greater transparency into teleconsultations, breaking down a culture of collegial collaboration. SFR guidelines fail to address the rights of patients in teleconsultations, according to Dr. Liliane Ollivier, a radiologist at the Curie Institute. Yet French law clearly describes the rights of a patient to be informed of the results, told who the expert consultant is, and given a guarantee about the quality of the consultation. The records of the consultation and all responses must be stored in the patient's record, of which the patient is the custodian in France.
Opening new networks will increasingly bring a greater number of actors into the content of teleconsultations, she cautioned. And with consequences that cannot yet be appreciated for the patient, the radiologist, and the healthcare system, as she demonstrated in three cases of teleradiology that went wrong.
JFR: Imaging progresses in tracking acupuncture, November 2, 2011
JFR: Task force grapples with MR contrast safety, October 31, 2011
JFR: China turns to Europe to strengthen radiology education, October 28, 2011
JFR: Virtual autopsies move toward subspecialty status, October 26, 2011
JFR: GE seeks to regain initiative on dose reduction, October 24, 2011
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Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, our society has come to consume more and more fossil fuels. We started with coal, and then came oil, natural gas and others.
The growth in demand for these fossil fuels at the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century became exponential. In the first decade of this century, we are consuming those materials more than ever!
It’s easy to see the enormous benefits that the use of these fuels has brought to all humankind. Due to the growth of the world population, we could not have reached the standards of comfort and life expectancy we have today without the energy generated with the use of fossil fuels.
However, throughout the 1960s, man started to realize that the planet was signaling that something was not right. Some regions began to experience shorter periods of heavier rainfall while others were suffering severe droughts or freezing winters and an ongoing sequence of climatic anomalies.
Then scientists discovered an almost direct link between the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere through the use of fossil fuels for various purposes, and global warming. Since then, the world has been seeking ways to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.
Based on these concerns and heeding those of its clients, Braskem is now engaging more decisively in the pursuit of solutions to this global problem.
Since Brazil is a tropical country with vast areas of arable land and a sugarcane and ethanol production technology known to be the most competitive in the world, this set of factors has inspired Braskem teams to study solutions for the production of plastics that could help solve the problem of global warming and result in a more sustainable chemical industry.
Since the green ethylene unit in Triunfo, Rio Grande do Sul, began operations in September, using ethanol as a raw material, Braskem has become the world’s largest producer of sustainable plastic. It makes a variety of polyethylene with all the physical and chemical properties of the conventional kind, but because it is produced from sugarcane, it can fix up to 2.5 kg CO2 per kilo of product.
Clients have enthusiastically welcomed this news, and sent in orders for most of the plant’s production far in advance, indicating the high demand for eco-friendly products.
The technology developed so far is enabling us to produce more ethylene derivatives using renewable raw materials. But we do not want to stop there. We want to offer the best alternatives for sustainable chemicals.
Manoel Carnauba is the Braskem Vice President for the Basic Petrochemicals Unit
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The origin of this pack of cards is very obscure. Some authorities seek to put it back as far as the ancient Egyptian Mysteries; others try to bring it forward as late as the fifteenth or even the sixteenth century. But the Tarotcertainly existed, in what may be called the classical form, as early as the fourteenth century; for packs of that date are extant, and the form has not varied in any notable respect since that time.
THE THEORY OF THE CORRESPONDENCES OF THE TAROT
Unimportant to the present purpose are tradition and authority.Einstein’s Theory of Relativitydoes not rest on the fact that, when his theory was put to the test, it was confirmed. The only theory of ultimate interest about theTarotis that it is an admirable symbolic picture of the Universe, based on the data of theQabalah.
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In the video above you’ll see two of our favorite things combined, a quad-copter that is voice controlled. The robot responds to natural language so you can tell it to “take off and fly forward six feet”, rather than rely on a cryptic command set. The demonstration shows both an iPhone and a headset used as the input microphone. Language is parsed by a computer and the resulting commands sent to the four-rotor UAV.
This makes us think of the Y.T.’s robot-aided assault in Snow Crash. Perhaps our inventions strive to achieve the fiction that came before it.
[Via Bot Junkie]
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Anglachel was the sword forged by Eöl the Dark Elf from a meteorite. Its mate was Anguirel. The blade glowed and could easily slice through iron. Eöl gave Anglachel to his lord, King Thingol of Doriath, as payment for letting him dwell in the Forest of Nan Elmoth. Thingol would not bear it, declaring that there was malice in the blade.
In First Age 487 Beleg Strongbow took Anglachel from Thingol's armoury and went to rescue his friend Túrin Turambar. He tracked down the Orcs holding Túrin and in the dead of night slew them. But when he tried to cut Túrin's bonds, his friend thought the Orcs had returned to torture him, and during the struggle he slew Beleg with the blade. Anglachel broke during the fight, turned a dead black and would no longer glow.
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Sitting just 8 degrees south of the equator, Bali is mainly a tropical island. The variety of topography is quite surprising. Vast sweeping beaches- white sand, black sand, and stone beaches- grace Bali’s entire coastline along the ever-present ocean.
Tropical trees, bushes and flowers smother the island. Terraced rice fields on mountainsides and flat rice paddies along the coasts present more green rural beauty. Everywhere there are exquistely designed, lush gardens.
Several volcanos (considered sacred by the Balinese) peak their graceful heads out of the clouds randomly, adding an amazing backdrop to most coastal areas. In the far south, dramatic cliffs plunge into the sea, mashed by crashing waves. There are also extremely arid regions in the far northeast and cool, even chilly, areas up in the volcanic mountains. Please enjoy these 36 images of stuning Bali, ‘Island of Gods’. cheers, Lash
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The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has been saved from being dismantled after a climbdown from the universities and science minister, David Willetts, and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
The proposed merger with the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton would have irreparably damaged one of world's leading centres for polar research, according to many critics.
"BAS is a national and international asset that delivers world-class environmental science, and this country's strategic presence in Antarctica and the South Atlantic," Willetts said in a statement to parliament on Friday. "NERC agreed that it will not proceed with the proposal for merger."
"I am delighted that the right decision has been made," said John Dudeney, BAS deputy director until 2006. "But the devil is in the detail. What you don't want is want is to leave a husk of BAS that only provides logistics." He said ensuring science remained an integrated part of work at BAS – whose scientists discovered the ozone hole – was vital.
"BAS is outstanding and has always been so," he said, noting it was about to embark on a landmark experiment to drill into a lake hidden deep under the Antarctic ice, a feat he compared to landing spacecraft on Mars.
The announcement was also greeted as "fantastic news" by Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith and Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge Julian Huppert.
Vicky Wyatt, Greenpeace arctic campaigner, said: "The decision acknowledges the critical role that British science does and can play in protecting the polar regions. Right now, with the Arctic summer sea ice melting at a record rate, and growing uncertainty over the effect of climate change on the Antarctic, we need Britain's scientists more than ever."
The decision ends a period of turmoil at BAS, which has been without a permanent director since February. The interim director appointed was also the director of the National Oceanography Centre with which BAS was to have been merged to save costs. Dudeney said: "NERC needs to consider how they got into such a mess."
The proposed merger met with opposition from politicians, scientists and environmentalists in the UK and abroad. Former US vice-president Al Gore defended BAS as a "globally significant institution", while Prof Jonathan Shanklin, one of the scientists who discovered the ozone hole in 1985, said: "BAS is almost synonymous with the Antarctic ozone hole. Losing it would create a comparable hole in British science."
The House of Commons science and technology committee also condemned the merger in a report published on Wednesday, the day before NERC decided to abandon the plan. "We concluded that NERC have not made a proper case for it nor demonstrated political nous on the strong non science-related issues surrounding BAS," said committee chair Andrew Miller.
Four of the UK's biggest green NGOs – Greenpeace, the RSPB, WWF-UK and Friends of the Earth – had also signalled their strong opposition to the merger.
The plan attracted further controversy after the Guardian revealed the merger would require BAS to use its skills to help "de-risk" investment for UK oil companies exploring the polar regions.
Environmentalist Tony Juniper, who was a prominent critic of the merger plan, said: "It is a good day for polar science and very encouraging that argument has won out over dogma." He said NERC must appoint a new director for BAS as a matter of urgency in order to confirm that the institution was safe in its current form.
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New study reveals benefits to breastfeeding
It’s long been conventional wisdom that breastfeeding is the single most important thing that mothers can do for their infants, in terms of disease prevention and encouraging healthy growth—but that wisdom is fraught with anxiety and debate about how vital breastfeeding, how long it should be done and the magnitude of the promised health benefits. A new study from the journal Pediatrics quantifies those health benefits, finding that the lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90% of U.S. women fed their babies breast milk only for the first six months of life. The findings suggest that there are hundreds of deaths and many more costly illnesses each year from health problems that breastfeeding may help prevent. Only 12% of mothers follow government guidelines recommending that babies breast feed exclusively for the first six months—should breastfeeding become a national health policy priority?
Dr. Melissa Bartick, internist at Cambridge Health Alliance, instructor in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and lead author of the breastfeeding study published in the journal Pediatrics
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The Department of Defense has selected seven projects to receive fiscal 2000 out-of-cycle funding under the Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program. The program, authorized by Congress in 1989, is administered by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
The FCT Program responds to a growing awareness of the value of using non-developmental items to accelerate the acquisition process and cut rising development costs. The principal objective of the FCT Program is to support the U.S. warfighter by leveraging non-developmental items of allied and other friendly nations to satisfy U.S. defense requirements more quickly and economically. The FCT process is dependent on a world class foreign item, U.S. user interest in the item, a valid requirement, and good procurement potential. The goal is to reduce the acquisition cycle time and research, development, test and evaluation expenditures while enhancing standardization and interoperability, and improving international cooperation.
FCT projects are nominated annually by the Services and U.S. Special Operations Command to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Each proposed project is screened to ensure the item is non-developmental and addresses a valid requirement, a thorough market investigation has been conducted to identify all potential contenders, and the sponsoring organization has developed a viable strategy to purchase the foreign item if it tests successfully and offers best value.
Of the seven projects selected for fiscal 2000 out-of-cycle FCT funding,
two are sponsored by the Air Force, two by the Navy and Marine Corps,
and two by the Army. One additional project is sponsored jointly by the
Navy and the Air Force. A list
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Get answers to your GYN Cancer questions.
Biopsy - colposcopy - directed; Biopsy - cervix - colposcopy; Endocervical curettage; ECC; Cervical punch biopsy; Biopsy - cervical punch; Cervical biopsy
A colposcopy is a special way of looking at the cervix. It uses a light and a low-powered microscope to make the cervix appear much larger. This helps your health care provider find and then biopsy abnormal areas in your cervix.
You will lie on a table and place your feet in stirrups to position your pelvis for examination. The health care provider will insert an instrument (speculum) into your vagina to open the vaginal walls and examine the cervix.
The cervix and vagina are gently swabbed with dilute vinegar (acetic acid). This removes the mucus that covers the surface and highlights abnormal areas. Sometime an iodine-based solution (Lugol's) similar to solutions used for cleaning skin may also be swabbed on the cervix and vagina.
The health care provider will place the colposcope at the opening of the vagina and examine the area. Photographs may be taken. The colposcope does not touch you.
If any areas look abnormal, a small sample of the tissue will be removed (biopsy) using small biopsy forceps. Many samples may be taken, depending on the size and location of the area. Sometimes a tissue sample from inside the cervix is removed. This is called endocervical curettage (ECC).
There is no special preparation. You may be more comfortable if you empty your bladder and bowel before the procedure.
You should not douche, place any products into the vagina, or have sexual intercourse for 24 hours before the exam. You should not be menstruating heavily. However, if you are at the very end or beginning of your regular period or you are having abnormal bleeding, you should still keep your appointment.
You may be able to take ibuprofen or acetaminophen (Tylenol) before the colposcopy. Ask your doctor if this is okay, and when and how much you should take.
Tell your doctor before the test if you are pregnant or could be pregnant.
The placement of the instrument (speculum) to better see the cervix may be more uncomfortable than for a regular Pap smear.
Some women feel a slight sting from the vinegar or Lugol's solution.
The biopsy or curettage may feel like a pinch or cramp each time a tissue sample is taken. You may have some cramping or slight bleeding after the biopsy. Heavy bleeding is unusual; if you have bleeding that soaks a pad in an hour, call your doctor. Do not use tampons or put anything in the vagina for several days after a biopsy.
It is typical for women to hold their breath during pelvic procedures because they expect pain. Concentrating on slow, regular breathing will help you relax and relieve pain. Ask your doctor or nurse about bringing a support person with you if that will help.
Colposcopy is done to detect either cancer of the cervix or changes that may lead to cancer at an early stage.
This procedure is most often done when you have had an abnormal Pap smear. It may also be recommended if you have bleeding after sexual intercourse.
Colposcopy may also be done when your health care provider sees abnormal areas on your cervix during a pelvic exam. These may include:
The colposcopy may be used to keep track of HPV, and to look for abnormal changes that can come back after treatment.
Your doctor should be able to tell you about anything abnormal that was seen during a colposcopy. A smooth, pink surface of the cervix is normal.
A specialist called a pathologist will examine the tissue sample from the cervical biopsy and will report to your doctor whether the cells appear normal or abnormal. Results of a biopsy most often take 1 - 2 weeks. If the biopsy results are normal, it means that no cancer or precancerous changes were seen in the cells.
Abnormal findings that may be seen during the colposcopy include:
Abnormal biopsy results may include:
After the biopsy, you may have some bleeding for up to a week. You may have mild cramping, your vagina may feel sore, and you may have a dark discharge for 1 - 3 days.
A colposcopy and biopsy will not make it more difficult for you to become pregnant, or cause problems during pregnancy.
Call your health care provider if:
You may have some bleeding after the biopsy for up to 1 week.
You should not douche, place tampons or creams into the vagina, or have sex for up to a week afterward. Ask your doctor or nurse how long you should wait. You can use sanitary pads.
If the colposcopy or biopsy does not show why the Pap smear was abnormal, your health care provider may suggest that you have a more extensive biopsy.
See also: Cold knife cone biopsy
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 99: management of abnormal cervical cytology and histology. Obstet Gynecol. 2008;112:1419-1444.
Apgar BS, Kittendorf AL, Bettcher CM, Wong J, Kaufman AJ. Update on ASCCP consensus guidelines for abnormal cervical screening: tests and cervical histology. Am Fam Physician. 2009;80:147-155.
Noller KL. Intraepithelial neoplasia of the lower genital tract (cervix, vulva): Etiology, screening, diagnostic techniques, management. In: Katz VL, Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier;2007:chap 28.
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So this is how democracy dies. The good 'ol deniability factor. Interesting ...<br><br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>With the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and the appointment of William<br>Casey as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, covert actions were once<br>again in vogue--or, as a Newsweek cover phrased it, "The CIA Is Back in<br>Business."<br><br>Casey had been an Office of Special Services (OSS) officer during World War II<br>and harbored great enthusiasm for covert activities. Indeed, during 1980 to<br>1984, Reagan's first term, covert operations increased fivefold over 1979.<br>Reagan both continued and greatly expanded the war against the Soviets in<br>Afghanistan and selected new battlefields ranging from Libya to Nicaragua.<br>According to John Prados, a writer on intelligence affairs, more than 50 covert<br>operations were reportedly in progress by 1984, about half of them in Central<br>and South America.<br><br>One of the more unsavory actions was the aligning of the CIA with Bashir<br>Gemayel, a murderous warlord, former head of Lebanon's rightist Phalangist<br>party, and Lebanese president-elect until his assassination. At the urging of<br>Casey, President Reagan signed a top-secret authorization of $10 million in<br>covert aid to Gemayel's militia.<br><br>Under Casey there were serious breakdowns in planning covert operations,<br>evaluating risks, and complying with congressional oversight regulations. In<br>advocating covert operations against Nicaragua during 1983-84, Casey repeatedly<br>displayed disdain for Congress. As director of the CIA, he stopped various<br>kinds of reporting that had been routine under the Carter administration. After<br>the international controversy over the mining of Nicaraguan harbors, it was<br>revealed that the House Intelligence Committee had learned of the CIA's<br>direction of the mining only when two congressmen's persistent questioning<br>elicited Casey's admission. And Casey had been equally reticent with the<br>committee's Senate counterpart, which extracted a single 27-word sentence during<br>a March 8, 1984, briefing of more than two hours' duration and 84 pages of text.<br>This statement merely said that mines had been placed in Nicaraguan harbors by<br>U.S.- backed groups. In effect, the CIA cover story was given to the oversight<br>committee.<br><br>Casey's policies did nothing to improve relations between the executive and<br>legislative branches. In fact, during the confirmation hearings of John McMahon<br>as deputy director of the CIA, heightened distrust of Casey encouraged Sen.<br>Patrick Moynihan to ask McMahon, "If you ever learned that wrong information is<br>being given to this committee--that the committee is being misinformed or<br>misled--would you consider it a matter of personal honor and professional<br>responsibility to tell this committee that was happening?"<br><br>Dissatisfaction with the Reagan administration's performance was so great that<br>the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded in its 1984 report that<br>"there was a need for explicit, written procedures to ensure Executive Branch<br>compliance with the requirements for reporting covert action<br>activities." This statement probably had more to do with perceptions<br>about Casey's actions than with any concern about policies enacted on the part<br>of the Reagan administration. But such a distinction was naive. In reality,<br>under Reagan the CIA was fairly tightly controlled. John Ranelagh, a British<br>investigative reporter, comments:<br><br>Following through the one-amongst-equals philosophy of decision making in the<br>administration, the agency most interested in or affected by a covert operation<br>chaired the operational oversight group . . . . In Nicaragua, for example, the<br>agency became in effect an executive arm for a decision by the National Security<br>Council and overseen by the State Department.<br><br>Implications of the Iran-Contra Affair<br><br>The American public is still pondering the revelations about the Iran-contra<br>affair, and it seems likely that they will influence debate and policy for years<br>to come. A spate of books on that subject and on associated intelligence<br>activities has already been published.<br><br>Lost in the furor over the Iran-contra affair is the fact that it had<br>antecedents in earlier Reagan years. On November 19, 1986, at the beginning of<br>the controversy, Bob Woodward of the Washington Post wrote that the Reagan<br>administration's secret overtures and arms shipments to Iran were part of a<br>seven-year pattern of covert CIA operations designed both to curry favor with<br>Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime and to support the Iranian exiles seeking<br>to overthrow it.<br><br>From the viewpoint of evaluating covert operations, one of the most important<br>questions about the Iran-contra affair is why it happened. Some say that the<br>fundamental cause was a lack of oversight. The congressional report comments:<br><br>The confusion, deception, and privatization which marked the Iran-Contra<br>Affair were the inevitable products of an attempt to avoid accountability.<br>Congress, the Cabinet, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were denied information and<br>excluded from the decisionmaking process. Democratic procedures were<br>disregarded.<br><br>Officials who make public policy must be accountable to the public. But the<br>public cannot hold officials accountable for policies of which the public is<br>unaware. Policies that are known can be subjected to the test of reason, and<br>mistakes can be corrected after consultations with the Congress and<br>deliberations within the Executive branch itself. Policies that are secret<br>become the private preserve of the few, mistakes are inevitably perpetuated, and<br>the public loses control over Government. That is what happened in the<br>Iran-Contra Affair.<br><br>However, some critics find that rhetoric self-serving. Peter Kornbluh, an<br>information analyst at the National Security Archive, writes:<br><br>The report's main conclusion reflects its protection of the status quo. In its<br>identification of the roots of malfeasance, the Iran-contra report concludes<br>that the scandal "resulted from the failure of individuals to observe the law,<br>not from deficiencies in existing law or in our system of governance." This<br>assessment makes it easy to avoid the critical but logical questions that should<br>have been part of the inquiry--and part of a broad public debate over how to<br>prevent similar abuses of power.<br><br>Was the scandal really an aberration or was this "disdain for law" and<br>"pervasive deception" the natural outgrowth of a system of covert operations<br>that has become integral to U.S. foreign policy? What was Congress's<br>institutional role in the scandal? . . . To these questions the committees<br>provide no answers. . . . The need for covert operations is not challenged but<br>ratified. Thus, The Iran-Contra Affair fails to confront, let alone resolve,<br>the most critical problem that has plagued the American polity since World War<br>II--the incompatibility between a constitutional political system premised on<br>the active consent of the governed, and an antidemocratic, autonomous, national<br>security system predicated on secrecy, stealth, and nonaccountability.<br><br>In the wake of the controversy, Congress considered a number of bills pertaining<br>to congressional oversight of intelligence activities. The bill considered most<br>likely to pass required that at least the top congressional leadership be<br>notified of covert activities within 48 hours of their initiation. In contrast,<br>the current legislation requires that Congress be notified in a "timely<br>fashion." It is worth remembering that in November 1986, when asked to comment<br>on "the prolonged deception of Congress" about the Iran arms deal, President<br>Reagan said:<br><br>I was not breaking any law in doing that. It is provided for me to do that. I<br>have the right under law to defer reporting to Congress, to the proper<br>congressional committees, on an action, and defer it until such time as I<br>believe it can safely be done with no risk to others.<p><hr></blockquote><p> <br>Link<br><br><br>
Gee ya think with the election of W in 2000 and 9/11happening - "Central Intelligence Agency, covert actions were once again in vogue"<br>I have no pronblem with a response to 9/11- no choice. BUT Iraq was unnecessary, and our "get tough", "ignore the Geneva convention", and inhuman and denial of basic human rights with the detainees after the invasion has been a trumpet calling to recruit new terrorists. it has back-fired. <br><br>Hence Git-MO, Abu Ghrab, secret detention camps in Afghanistan, 100 prisoner deaths in our hands and 27 were homicide!<br>AI says our actions resemble a gulag- a little harsh, but some of the charges sticks.<br><br>Bush's policies Stink and furthermore they have put us at GREATER risk!<br><br>David (OFI)<br>
Just the very tip of the iceberg. Covert Ops have always been in vogue. Take School of the Americas for example. Masters of terror. Crisis is a means to power, 'ultimate power'.<br><br><br>I forgot to paste the url for the above article.<br><br>The Pitfalls of U.S. Covert Operations<br><br>http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/PA118.HTM<br><br><br>
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Deep Turns in Tohoku
This Hakkoda Mountains in northeastern Japan are a place of incredible beauty. Over the years locals have gained a healthy respect for these temperamental mountains, whose moods swing from gentle to terrifying on a whim. Paul Vanderheiden was drawn to the Hakkodas in search of the deep powder they are known for. He formed a deep connection with the mountains and the people in this far corner of Tohoku, never imagining life would take such a dramatic turn.
The following story is one part of a documentary series chronicling the lives of people in Tohoku affected by the events of March 11, 2011. The program will be aired on April 27 on JIBTV and NHK World.
“During winter, the weather in Hakkoda is merciless. Pretty much every day is a complete whiteout. When I was still learning how to be a guide on the mountain, my sempai (teachers) would aimlessly ride into the whiteness, or so it seemed to me. I wondered what was the matter with these people; how they knew the terrain so well was a mystery to me.
“It seemed liberating to be able to know the entire mountain in the back of your head. So I wanted to memorize the mountain as quickly as possible,” says Hiroshi Souma who runs the Hakkoda Sanso Lodge and is the Lead Guide at the Mt. Hakkoda Guide Club.
“When the sun comes out, my jaw drops at how beautiful is the scenery. But my sempai would say, 'Now is the time to study the mountain. Look and memorize.' They would always say the beautiful scenery should be appreciated, but these days are rare, so this is the time to study,” he adds.
The Hakkoda Mountains rise just south of Aomori City, the capital of Aomori Prefecture. The area is a natural playground for outdoor lovers throughout the year. Locals have gained a healthy respect for the Hakkodas, especially in winter when weather conditions can change in an instant.
Masamichi Kaimori knows these mountains better than just about anyone; he’s been a guide in the Hakkodas for more than four decades and has trained many of the guides on the mountain today, including Souma. He’s guided the Royal Family in these mountains for 28 years, and he and other earlier guides explored and discovered many of the trails.
“It wasn’t as difficult as you might think,” he says. “At night, while drinking, we would have a map out and draw a line with a red pencil where it looked like fun. If the weather was good, we’d go out.
“If customers we were guiding wanted to come along, we’d tell them, ‘Sorry in advance if we fail, but if we succeed you will be part of discovering a new trail.’ That’s how, day by day, we increased the number of trails. So it wasn’t actually all that tough,” he modestly states.
Back in the day most of the winter touring was done in spring, when the snow pack was more stable and there were more sunny days. In fact the Hakkoda Ropeway, which opened in 1968, didn’t start operating in winter until later. In mid-winter, day after day of seemingly bottomless snow falls on these mountains and there are few clear days. Giant trees, frozen in twisted shapes, watch over the pristine white slopes like guardians of the Hakkodas.
Certain mountains in Japan, however, carry weight within the community of skiers and snowboarders who love riding backcountry powder. Hakkoda’s location near the top of the Tohoku region, in northeastern Honshu, means you must be dedicated to travel to this relatively remote region of the country to get your powder fix.
Yet the sheer amount of snow is unrivaled, and when the skies break after a big storm, powder junkies come with beacons packed, powder boards and fat skis in hand, waiting for the first ropeway to claim fresh lines.
The weather here can change in the blink of an eye, so it’s wise to also carry a healthy respect for the mountain. It’s also prudent to go with a guide, unless you have a lot of experience in the backcountry and firsthand knowledge of the mountain.
“The main difference between Hakkoda and other mountains is the snow is not packed or groomed. There are many ski resorts in Japan, but Hakkoda is extreme. There is no mountain like it in Japan,” says Takanori Fukuchi, manager of the Hakkoda Ropeway.
“There are routes you can call proper courses but, unlike other resorts where they deforest the mountain and show you exactly where the course is, at Hakkoda there are only orange poles to help guide you to these relatively easier routes down the mountain.
The two basic courses are called Forest Course and Direct Course. Apart from these (basic courses), you can pretty much venture anywhere you want on the mountain. There are also regular touring routes but, if you are with a guide, the mountain can be limitless,” he notes.
“It seems like a ski resort, but it's not," says Souma. "No, it is not," agrees Kaimori. "If you are an avid skier at a resort, and you want to try this mountain and test the powder off the basic tour routes, the most important thing is to hire a qualified guide and follow his lead.
Unlike most resorts where they flatten the terrain, here there are naturally formed traps. There are huge tree wells you can easily fall into, the wind can create big cornices out of trees, and one can easily fall into a crevice. You don't get this kind of experience at a normal ski resort,” Kaimori adds.
The most famous example of just how merciless these mountains can be occurred on Jan. 23, 1902, when two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army set out to traverse Mt. Hakkoda. They soon became lost and disoriented in a blizzard as they desperately tried to find their way out of the mountains. This routine winter training exercise would later be known as the Hakkoda Death March claiming 199 lives with just 11 survivors.
“When the snow really gets deep, the mountain can play tricks on you. The more you try to climb, the more you are actually descending. Even if you try to cut diagonally across the mountain, the snow can be so deep you aren't able to. Instead, you gradually drop further down the valley,” Kaimori explains.
“You can only comprehend this after you have experienced it yourself. Otherwise, you will keep advancing in the wrong direction, getting more and more lost,” he states.
West Meets East
To the east of the Hakkodas lies a small, but significant town, Misawa. In 1938 Japan built an airfield in Misawa; however, since 1945 it has been in American hands and is the only joint service base in the western Pacific, home to U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force, as well as Japan’s Self-Defense Forces.
In March of 2009 an American, Paul Vanderheiden, found himself moving here with his wife Meghan, a dentist and captain in the U.S. Air Force. The young couple had Japan on their wish list for overseas assignments and, although they were heading to one of the coldest and most isolated regions of the country, they couldn’t wait to get there.
"We were super excited when we found out we were coming to Japan. We knew Japan had really good snow, but it was the culture that drew us here. They give you a 'dream sheet' so to speak, of places you’d like to go, and Misawa was on the top of our list,” says Paul.
“We've lived in the mountains and near the beach for the past 10 years, so for us, starting a family, we really wanted to live in the country, and we like small towns, so coming to Misawa was kind of the perfect fit for us.
“As soon as I found out we were coming to Misawa, I immediately got on the Internet and started doing some research. I checked out the area, ski resorts and backcountry (mountains) and the first thing that came up in Aomori was Hakkoda. It's kind of a legendary place as far as backcountry and really deep powder, and not many people go there," he remembers.
Once they were moved into their house off-base, Meghan settled into her new job, and Paul found a part-time job at a local elementary school. Misawa is a hybrid town where inaka meets Americana. You step off the base, and you’ve got great Tex-Mex, Italian and sports bars. Head a few blocks in another direction, and there are hot springs and traditional Japanese restaurants. Go deeper into the countryside, and there is no limit to the outdoor fun to be had.
Paul felt as if he had the best of both worlds; the convenience and support of the base, while experiencing the real Japan. He began exploring the area and discovered he could surf year-round (although it is cold in winter) and snowboard six months a year at Hakkoda.
Paul soon hooked up with a local snowboarder, Eisaku Mukai, and started making more frequent trips to the mountain. It didn't take long for him to have his first “Hakkoda Experience,” which he describes as “having to dig yourself out of a hole, tree well or some other natural trap Mother Nature throws at you.”
During his first two seasons at Hakkoda, he discovered a tight-knit local community of backcountry enthusiasts and knowledgeable guides. He also recognized the mountain was a formidable place for foreign visitors or people from the base who didn’t have a lot of experience skiing in the backcountry.
Paul had studied snow and avalanche safety back in Arizona and Colorado and wanted to use the skills he developed to help visitors ride the Hakkoda backcountry safely.
“I decided I wanted to start Japow Tours (www.japaowtours) because I felt there was a small niche for people coming from overseas to Hakkoda who wanted to ride a lot of powder in the least amount of time. At Hakkoda, you can get lost in two or three turns so, if you don’t go the right way, you can end up in a creek or a box canyon,” he points out.
Before he started guiding, Paul made a conscious effort to get to know and learn from the local guides at Hakkoda. Even now he usually checks in at Hakkoda Sanso Lodge before he goes on a tour to get some insight on the weather or conditions in certain areas from the guides who go out every day. He’ll also find out where the other groups are going that day, so he doesn’t take the same route.
“The other Japanese guides—such as Souma-san from the Hakkoda Guide Club—are legends; they know the mountain better than anybody, and I am basically a guest in their mountains, and I fully respect that,” he says.
“Paul comes to greet us every morning and night to say 'yoroshiku.' That’s the kind of guy he is. As a foreigner, an American, Paul is very modest. Almost Japanese-like. He has Japanese friends, and I feel like he really fits in here. I also think he respects his surroundings and the locals," says Souma.
March 11, 2011, was one of those amazing powder days at Hakkoda. Japow Tours was keeping Paul busy, but he would make a point not to schedule tours on certain days, so he could be with his friend Mukai just to ride. They rode hard all afternoon, tearing up the 30-40 cms. of fresh snow.
Paul headed to the parking lot to switch boards when things started shaking and people ran out of the ropeway station. He set his board against his car, but it fell over, then suddenly all the cars in the parking lot started jumping around in their spaces.
Driving back toward Misawa, they stopped at the first convenience store and saw the line was out the door; people were taking everything off the shelves. That’s when he knew something was really wrong. Power was out at their house for a while, so it wasn’t until two or three days later, when they were able to get some Internet access, when they realized the magnitude of the disaster.
While the Tohoku area they had grown to love was being broadcast into living rooms around the globe, Paul and Meghan faced some tough decisions. Their son Christian was just 20 days shy of his first birthday when the earthquake hit. He would take his first steps the day after. Meghan had to stay in Misawa for her job, but Paul and Christian had the option of being evacuated to the U.S. The family needed to decide whether to split up or stay together in Misawa.
“We chose to stay as a family. We really felt safe staying here, especially in the area of Tohoku where we were, and we wanted to help with the Japanese community as much as we could,” Paul says.
Meghan added, “We just decided as a family we wanted to stay together, we did feel safe, and we wanted to help with the humanitarian effort. There were a lot of places within a 15-minute drive really hard hit, and we wanted to help rebuild.”
“I felt 100 percent safe and a 100 percent comfortable with our decision,” she says. “We were very well connected. The base was constantly updating us; multiple times a day, on the status of the water testing they were doing. They were doing air testing, testing all the planes coming in and going out, and they would inform the community on what they found.
“But, I think one of the hardest things was watching people in the community struggle with resources; gas, kerosene…because we were provided al lot of that on the base.”
The base was organizing and running several missions a day. According to Meghan they would go as far south as Noda nearly every day.
“One time we went to the Hachinohe seaport where there were huge tankers overturned. The entire seaport section was just devastated. There was muck, huge mud piles waist-deep, fish parts, and the fishing wire and nets were all over everything, so you had to pull that out,” said Paul.
“On another outing to help with the cleanup in the tsunami-hit areas, we went to a town just 10 minutes from Misawa, called Oirase, right along the coast. They had a bunch of strawberry fields and strawberry farms.” He says.
“It was just a local farmer, and he didn’t have a very big plot of land, but what he had was completely leveled,” Meghan adds.
“Basically we tore down the green houses and ripped it up so they could replant the strawberries. It probably would have taken them two weeks of work that we did in eight hours. You know, I think there were 30,000-40,000 man-hours of volunteer work done within a 100-mile radius of Misawa.” Paul states.
A few months after the disaster, although rebuilding efforts were far from over, it was time to look to the future. People needed to go back to doing what they loved so they could move forward. For Paul that meant getting back to the mountain.
“We were like, we gotta move forward and do something for ourselves, because you just get so stressed out thinking about all the bad things that can happen, and not all the good things that you have right here on our doorstep.
“The first day I went snowboarding was so good for me. My morale after just one day snowboarding kept me going for another week after that.” Paul beams.
“Both the American military and the local Japanese community in Misawa really tried hard to return to normalcy. They went on with festivals as planned. I think it really was good for the morale of everyone.
“I think this last year, I mean, anytime a big tragedy happens, it makes life that much sweeter. It really makes you appreciate the good days, and makes the bad days seem not so bad.” Says Meghan
Nature is a real part of life in Japan. Typhoons and earthquakes, even volcanoes, occur regularly. The colorful seasons are celebrated vigorously and often. Nature in all its beautiful and terrifying forms has contributed to making the country and the people so strong.
This past winter has been one of the best snow years in recent memory. Paul’s overseas customers have left Tohoku satisfied, having gotten their fill of Hakkoda deep powder and the many refreshing hot springs in the area.
“Just being able to be up here and share this mountain with the Japanese locals, and show foreigners around has been a really cool experience. You know this is the real Japan, this is the countryside, the traditions, it’s a pretty special place.“ Paul affirms.
It’s been a year since the disaster and although winter stubbornly clings on, it’s a new spring in the Hakkodas. The relentless storms begin to subside, making way for more sunny days ahead.
“What I still love about Hakkoda is that the base of the mountain is very gentle.” Says Kaimori. “It feels like the mountain wraps around your body. I feel a sense of relief when I enter. When I am stressed I go into the bamboo forest where no one else would come and lay face down on the ground. I spend about an hour doing nothing and, before I know it, all the confusion in my head goes away. That’s what kind of mountain it is.”
JIBTV PRESENTS THE DOCUMENTARY SERIES ‘FORWARD’
The earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, caused tremendous damage across a wide area of eastern Japan. The nuclear power plant meltdown made the situation even worse. People around the world were horrified by the aftermath but also inspired by the survivors’ quiet courage.
The “FORWARD” documentary series, demonstrates the determination to recover from the devastation. “DEEP TURNS” was produced by Cipher Communications, SET Japan and Outdoor Japan Media. For program schedule and live streaming, please visit the JIBTV and NHK WORLD Web sites.
FORWARD: DEEP TURNS
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This is going to make two more posts than I originally planned to write this week, but the quality of the comments has been so good lately that I thought I’d try to do a little summing up before we all likely ditch blogs and blogging for the holidays.
Like V.I.M., I have labor-related political problems with all MOOC-related activities. However, as an educator, I’m willing to work against my own self-interest for education’s sake. As a result, I understand Jeremy’s wishes to create the best MOOC possible. The problem with that, as Mazel pointed out deep in the comments of my last MOOC report post, is that once you unleash a MOOC in the world, you have no idea how it’s ultimately going to be used. The process of delivering education over the Internet allows it to be commodified and when education becomes commodified then quality inevitably takes a backseat to profit.
You’ve heard the joke about herding cats? College presidents tell that as a kind of back-handed insult, but I think it’s one of the best things about academia. Students will get different perspectives on the same discipline, different perspectives on teaching across disciplines and different perspectives on the world (including conservative ones from their econ proffies) if they take a wide range of courses. I think MOOCs threaten that. In the name of educating everybody, we might actually just educate everybody badly.
Perhaps you can create an interactive experience that mimics what I keep calling “real learning.” But how much can you really learn from just your peers? Sure, you can learn some things from your fellow students, but to say you can learn everything you need to know from them is to say that a graduate school education is completely useless. While that may be true in a commercial sense for most humanities Ph.D.s, I think that to say that from the standpoint of knowledge makes you the worst kind of philistine.
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Wildlife souvenirs for sale: Laos has become a hub for tourists eager to sample wildlife dishes, or buy trinkets made from animal products. Photo: D.Starin
Tourism has a negative impact on Laos' wildlife
Tourists eager to try exotic meat and buy wildlife souvenirs in Laos are helping destroy the country's natural heritage. The consequences for both people and environment are worrying, reports Dawn Starin
Sandwiched between two wannabe titans — Vietnam and Thailand — landlocked, mountainous Lao People’s Democratic Republic is the poorest country in Southeast Asia. Louangphabang, an ancient Lao royal town of great historical, architectural, cultural, and religious significance, lies in the north-central part of Laos on the banks of the mighty, muddy Mekong and its tributary the Nam Khan river.
With a population of 58,641 and designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995, Louangphabang has often been described as a gentle backwater, an oasis of peace and tranquility, a real-life 'Shangri-la' lost in time and space. I have even heard tourists describe it as 'the most magical place in the most mysterious country on earth.'
Arriving late at night I am anxious to explore this sleepy settlement, and so I head for the night market. I have visions of local traders selling local goods to local residents. I hope to see home-grown fruits and vegetables vying for space with freshly caught fish and homemade baskets and brooms and well-crafted, locally produced, simple cloth. I was totally unprepared.
The night market — a market mentioned in every guidebook, frequently...
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Puerto Vallarta has a new weather website ! This new website features all relevant information regarding the climate in Puerto Vallarta. The visitor will see various tables and graphs on a yearly or monthly base, where he finds exact information on sun and rain, dry period and wet period, visibility as well as average and high sustained wind speed, air pressure, thunder storms, atmospheric humidity and more. Just try it and bookmark this great Puerto Vallarta weather resource.
Archive for the Daily News Category
The big pull—the bargain—behind Puerto Vallarta is that, although it’s only a few miles from Cancun, it’s seemingly a hundred. While the luxury all-inclusives are still plentiful, nowhere to be found are the disappointing beaches strewn with sun baking bodies. In Puerto Vallarta, the beaches are quiet, unspoiled and sprawling. No longer is there a need to hope that the beach in the brochure matches the one at the hotel.
What you see is what you get in Puerto Vallarta, and that’s what we like most about it. There is not photoshopping or photos at awkwardly flattering angles. If we saw the Eiffel tower in a photo of a Puerto Vallarta beach, well, we’d expect there to be one jutting out from the sand, come our next visit; that’s how stoic its beaches are.
Although Puerto Vallarta already flaunts some pretty spectacular sights, like any scenario with the potential for competition, there are some that outshine others.
Destiladeras – A wide, white beach situated between the town of La Crus and Punta Mita (near Rancho Banderas). Along the shore are 2 or 3 restaurants. The crowd never gets too large and the waves are ideal for surfing and skimboarding.
Punta Mita – Home of two beaches; the beach at El Ancolte and the one at Emiliano Zapata. The specialty here is abnormally clear-blue water; generally calm and inviting. Although they are popular with the tourists, the beach never gets uncomfortably crowded.
Sayulita – The best place to surf in Puerto Vallarta. Features a large number of restaurants and a bordering community.
San Pancho (San Francisco) – The most striking beach of Puerto Vallarta. Excellent for walking, or just observing. The town that neighbors it is set in something of a Walt Whitman poem; it is sleepy and quaint.
The beaches of Puerto Vallarta are unlike those of Cabo, Cancun, or Miami. They are not stuffed to the brim with tourists or tourism. They prefer to be enjoyed and experienced, rather than accommodated or tolerated.
23 01 2008
23 01 2008
ATM and Credit Card Fraud in Puerto Vallarta, Olas Altas Zone.
During the last weeks a growing number of card holders report fraudulent withdrawals from their accounts. This is not a Vallarta specific matter, credit card fraud is a problem everywhere in the world.
As reported a criminal group from the north, possibly professionals from Monterrey or the USA, uses stolen data including PIN numbers to withdraw funds from ATMs in Mexico and the USA.
You should make sure, that nobody has the possibility to observ You entering Your PIN number in local ATMs. This may prevent in some cases but isn´t a secure method, as criminals use electronical devices, which they connect between the ATMs datatransfer wires to spy Your PIN number, identity and so on.
The best thing You actually can do is to buy traveler cheques by American Express or Visa.
Hey, I was looking a long time for a nice and well build Puerto Vallarta Blog. Now I found this one, congrats to the nice work. I am not really sure which beach is shown in the header but seems to be a bit outside of Puerto Vallarta.
I will be back to Puerto Vallarta in october, when sun is back. Hehe !
Later I will write a complete article featuring my experiences in Puerto Vallarta.
Yes, it happened. Britney Spears visited Puerto Vallarta ! Ok, not EXACTLY Puerto Vallarta, but the famous Four Seasons hotel at Punta Mita. The north point of the Banderas Bay, 25 miles to Puerto Vallarta. The hotel is known as one of the best Puerto Vallarta offers. If You now ask around in the city, everbody has seen Britney Spears and everyone took some photos. Just, nobody has one !!! Corious not ?
At least we dont have, and if so, we wouldnt post them ! Why ?? Very easy, people come to relax and it doesnt matter who they are. Why a star isnt allowed to have some relaxing days ??
However, Puerto Vallarta is happy about Britney Spears visit, it is the best publicity for the area. We hope that she and her friend had some nice and relaxing hours, and that they forgot for a time all the trouble ! You are welcome when ever You want Mrs. Spears !!
Just 3 days ago the Puerto Vallarta News announced the foundation of a new and international University of Arts. Featured are Ballet, Contemporanean Dance, Music, Theater and various additional areas of studies. I believe this is one of the best decisions of the last years in P.V. Many tourists like myself had been asking for improved quality on touristical and cultural features. Thank You Vallarta !!
I love the opportunity to be part of a free Vallarta Blog !!!
Welcome to our new Puerto Vallarta site. Here we offer daily reviews and hope for Your posts. Dont hesitate to tell us what You liked during your vacation in Puerto Vallarta, but also what needs to be improved for a relaxed and nice travelers experience.
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"The French will never stand for it" they said when France brought in a smoking ban in 2007. This view echoed the "New Yorkers will never stand for it" and "the Irish will never stand for it" of previous years. It is a paradox often remarked upon that it was the very people who had the greatest reputation for being rebels, free spirits or plain stubborn who were also the first to embrace, or at least tolerate, total smoking bans.
If you'd have said the Croats, Germans or the Dutch wouldn't stand for it, you'd have been right. Smoking bans there were watered down or abandoned after public protests and lawsuits. Across most of the rest of Europe, smoking bans had enough exemptions to accommodate smokers in the first place. The comprehensive, zero exemption smoking ban is, as I have said before, almost uniquely associated with the English speaking world. The one notable exception is France.
I haven't been to France since they brought in their ban. I have witnessed at first hand the smoking ban being overtly flouted in England and America. I have heard that New York has many places where the ban is ignored. I believe many pubs in Ireland bring out the ash trays after hours. But I have heard that the French have complied willingly.
This compliance, it seems, is no more. The French may not have rebelled at first, but it was always in the post. Compare and contrast these reports from Time magazine. The first is from February 2007, the second from the current edition:
No (Revolutionary) Fire as France Curbs SmokeAnyone expecting a great national rebellion bringing millions of irascible Gauloise-puffing Gauls to the barricades in defiance of authority and good sense will have been disappointed: France's nearly 15 million smokers meekly complied with the Feb. 1 law obliging them to haul their (cigarette) butts outside if they want to light up, or risk a hefty fine should they continue smoking in enclosed spaces. In fact, that relatively docile compliance with a liberty-restricting measure represented as significant a revolution in French cultural attitudes as does the state's health-driven campaign against tobacco.
"It's a pain, but that's the law, and the bosses are applying it," says a 34 year-old supermarket employee named Christophe who declined to give his last name as he paced the sidewalk for his smoke. Before the ban, Christophe says he and fellow inhalers were allowed to smoke in the large storage room in the central-Paris supermarket. "Now we can't and we're out here," he says, shrugging between drags. "That's life."
Smoking Ban? The French Light Up Again in PublicWhen France outlawed smoking in public places three years ago, residents took the news remarkably — almost shockingly — well. Almost overnight, cigarettes vanished from offices, restaurants, cafés and train stations as the French dutifully took their glowing butts outside — the only place where smoking was still permitted. But this being France, a backlash was almost certainly inevitable. According to a report released on Dec. 17 by an anti-smoking group, the initial obeisance of French smokers has now given way to people increasingly flaunting the law by lighting up indoors.
Anecdotal evidence abounds that French smokers are pushing back in ways that they previously didn't dare. On some French train lines — all of which are officially non-smoking — smokers frequently take over certain cars, thus far escaping punishment. Butts are also turning up in greater numbers in Paris' Metro. "I'm not bothering anyone, and if I am, they can go to another part of the platform," says a man who identified himself only as Adel as he smoked in the Etienne Marcel station recently. "If I see a Metro official, cop or someone who looks like they'll be a real pain, I won't light up. But otherwise, why shouldn't I smoke in the Metro when I want to and can get away with it? Especially because there are far worse smells in here than smoke!"
Down the street from the station, the manager of a plastic-enclosed caféterrace similarly rationalized bending the rules. "This is outside, and it's the only place where smokers are allowed, so it's all legal," says the man, who, perhaps aware that his enclosed smoking terrace is not actually kosher, requested that neither his name nor the name of his establishment be identified. "We have to live together, and this is one compromise to make that happen. Do you see anyone complaining?"
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The institute produces television programmes for teachers and children of 6-14 years of age. These programmes are broadcasted on Doordarshan-DD1 and DD11 channels from Monday to Friday mornings from 10.00 to 10.30. These programmes include educational, enrichment and educative entertainment subjects. These programmes are prepared in the beta-cam format at present. Sufficient care is taken in sustaining both educational and technical quality. By and large the programmes are prepared with the help of the teachers. Subject experts are also consulted if required for the enrichment of content.
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Faculty approve open access for research articles
Posted: October 06, 2011
By Molly O'Brien-Foelsch
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Scholars and readers worldwide will now have free access to newly published peer-reviewed articles and other scholarship produced by Bucknell University faculty members. Bucknell's faculty overwhelmingly approved a policy establishing open access at their Oct. 4 faculty meeting.
Open access is a movement whose advocates believe research results and intellectual advances should be freely available worldwide through digital repositories.
"After considerable discussion and review of current approaches for broadening access to academic literature, Bucknell's Committee for Library and Information Resources and Committee on Instruction recommended that the faculty adopt open access as its default method for disseminating scholarly articles," said Param Bedi, vice president for Library and Information Technology. "Open Access is an important element of scholarly communications, and I am very pleased that a liberal arts institution like Bucknell is taking the lead on this worldwide initiative," said Bedi.
A 2010 survey by Library and Information Technology staff found that even Bucknell professors and students did not have access to a significant portion of articles authored by the University's own faculty. To provide open access, the University will publish scholarly articles online in Bucknell Digital Commons, an archive accessible to anyone with Internet access.
An increasingly democratic system
In its proposal, the Committee for Library and Information Resources cited ethics, research impact and economics as the three main arguments in support of open access. Proponents of open access say research is a public good that should be accessible regardless of their own or their institution's ability to pay subscription fees.
"We are pleased that our faculty and the University will continue to participate in and contribute to an increasingly democratic system for scholarly communication and the dissemination of knowledge," said Provost Mick Smyer. "The goal of open access is to remove barriers such as cost and restrictive licensing policies to disseminate scholarship as widely as possible."
Benefits to faculty
Through the policy, each faculty member grants Bucknell a nonexclusive, paid-up, worldwide license for each of his or her scholarly articles for the purpose of making these articles openly accessible in an institutional repository. The new policy will in no way interfere with the rights of the faculty member as author of the work.
"Bucknell authors will no longer be limited to subscriber-restricted audiences, increasing impact and influence. We look forward to a future of greater recognition and citation of our scholarly publications," said Heath Hansum, faculty member in the department of theatre and dance and chair of the Committee for Library and Information Resources at Bucknell.
For non-peer-reviewed publications and conference papers, professors may provide bibliographic information for placement in the repository. The University will grant waivers to faculty who want to opt out of the policy at any time and for any reason.
Contact: Division of Communications
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New Zealand is a country of rare seismic beauty: Glacial mountains, fast-flowing rivers, deep, clear lakes, hissing geysers and boiling mud. There are also abundant forest reserves, long, deserted beaches and a variety of fauna, such as the kiwi, endemic to its shores. Any number of vigorous outdoor activities - tramping (hiking), skiing, rafting and, of course, that perennial favorite, bungy jumping - await the adventurous. Swim with dolphins, hopping with newborn lambs, whale-watch or fish for fattened trout in many streams.
The people, bound in a culture that melds European with Maori ancestry, are resourceful, helpful and friendly overwhelming. The extraordinary place names - try Te Awamutu, Whangamomona or Paekakariki for heavy-trippers - are resonant and, with a little practice, easy to pronounce. Because it `s such a compact place, travel in New Zealand - whether by plane, bus, train, car or bicycle - is affordable and efficient. Housing is too cheap and varied. And the culinary promise of venison, fresh seafood, sublime ice cream and award-winning wines, more than stir up the appetite.
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Hop the back fence for a little neighborly advice for beginners
With beginner articles on grocery budgets, foraging free food, starting a garden, seed tape, hemming pants, chickens, turkeys, fruit trees, goat cheese, fermentation, kid’s activities and my favorite book sale, we are full of advice
…or, at least, full of… something.
You neighbors have a zillion tips. So, grab a cup of coffee and a fresh, warm Philadelphia Sticky Bun let’s see what everybody’s up to.
The biggest problem with being a creative, frugal, productive person is the clutter that accumulates. Personally, I’m a sucker for windows from the garbage heap. I think yo myself, “Ooo, that would make a lovely hot box.” Of course, as of yet there is nary a hot box to be found on this property. Although there are about 10 windows waiting for me.
I guess it’s time for…
Reorganization — At Long Last
Okay, enough of that for today. What smells so good?
In the Kitchen
Oh, it is Joel and Dana with another wonderful tutorial
How to Make Your Own Turkey Gravy
Mm! I can just feel my arteries clogging. Scrumptious! Well, how about we balance that out a bit with a great list from FitBuff. So, grab an apple and check out:
Top 10 Lower Cholesterol Foods
Our next article comes from Heather, whose site looks like what I imagined mine would look like when I first started. She is obviously a kindred spirit. She offers ” a reminder that coupons are not the only way to save money in your food budget.”
Tightwad Tuesday: Talking Grocery Budget
Pickles, sauerkraut and fermenting. Oh my!
Here’s a nice article with good resources on getting started with fermenting. I’ve got my crocks. I can’t wait to get started.
Homestead Critters on Your Countertop
More fermenting? Yup, ’cause it’s just so darn cost efficient.
Home Brewing to Save Money ( and have fun )
Confession: I absolutely ache to own dairy goats. You know, just two little Nigerian Dwarfs to provide milk, soap and, of course cheeeeese. Our next article shows just how simple the cheese making process can be.
Making Goat Cheese
Did you know it was that easy? Me neither.
My goodness! What is all that chatter going on…
In The Sewing Room
Oh, it’s a debate over sew and no-sew hemming methods. You’ll just have to check them all out and decide what will work for you.
How to Hem Pants — No Sew Method
How to Hem a Pair of Pants — Blind Hem Tutorial
How to Hem Pants into Shorts, Then Use the Pant Leg to Make a Hat
My those three just have such different ways for everything. I get a charge out of them.
Let’s head out to the back porch to see what Melissa is up to.
Oh dear, she has fallen asleep in the hammock with her knitting. Give me a moment here I just want to remove her project before she pokes an eye out.
(Neighbor Nancy covers Melissa with a warm blankey and giggles quietly as Melissa lets out a giant snore.)
We’d better tiptoe down the porch steps and see what’s growing…
In The Garden
Our first article was actually information I was try to dig up about this time last year. I guess I should have started the magazine sooner.
How to Make Your Own Seed Tape
Oh dear! You’re not even sure how to begin your garden? Have no fear. Go Green Thumb is here to walk you through the process.
Starting an Organic Vegetable Garden
And since I am crippled from working on our new orchard, I think everyone should know…
How to Plant a Fruit Tree
Just look at those silly chickens play in the freshly dug holes!
In The Backyard Barnyard
Nothin’ says frugality like some easy to care for backyard poultry. With two different authors, on two different topics, it should be easy peasy to get started.
Raising Turkeys for Fun and Profit: Basic Facts and Terminology
Raising Chickens for Meat and Eggs
What the heck is all that dad-blasted noise? Oh, it just all the kids…
Up In The Tree House
Well, it looks like they are up to some interesting project. Let’s take a peek.
Making a Backyard Weather Station
Every tree house should have its own little shelf full of wonderful books. Grab your binoculars or just pretend with your hands. Here are…
Three Bird Books For Spring
I like to test the structural soundness of my tree house by weighing it down with as many books as possible. So, since it’s that time of year again, I offer you advice on my favorite source of children’s books.
Your Local Scholastic Warehouse Book Sale
Let’s finish our visit by going for a walk. I think you should see one way we can find some free food…
In The Wild
I told my mom about the following article. She’s so excited she just may pop. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it, too. I know I did.
How to Forage for Pine Nuts
Well, that’s it for this week. I hope you found something to keep you frugally busy.
Climb over the fence and join your neighbors in a learning adventure.
Join the neighborly discussion Saturday night at 8pm. All you have to do is type in the Meebo box at the right so I can pull you into the chat room.
If you are a blogger with a beginner “how-to” article, please feel free to e-mail me the link. NeighborlyAdvice@gmail.com
Missed the other editions? Click below:
Neighborly Advice Vol 1 — pizza dough, making jam, using a pressure cooker, learning to knit, rescuing lost stitches, adding goats to your backyard
Neighborly Advice Vol 2 — kool-aid dye, spinning wool, kids’ activities, natural egg dyes, keeping chickens, line drying clothes, making applesauce, finding your sanity, pickling eggs, frugal groceries, growing peas, tomatoes and even worms
Neighborly Advice Vol 4 — making marshmallows, starting a garden, planting potatoes, herbs and onions, charming row markers, slow-roasted tomatoes, foraging free food, kids’ activity to-do list, 100 ways to cook eggs, tabletop gardening, and even starting an aquarium
What are you going to try?
Which was your favorite article?
Are you going to the book sale?
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Deborah Lytton's Jane in Bloom addressed another side of eating disorders-- how they affect the rest of the family. Jane's admired older sister Lizzie struggles with anorexia and dies suddenly of laxative and diuretic abuse. This completely unhinges Jane's mother, who spends the summer with her parents, and leaves Jane to try to recover from the death with the help of her father, a new puppy, and an older babysitter. There is also a sweet friendship/romance witha boy whose parents have been killed in a car accident. Like Vrettos' Skin, this addresses the children who are affected by eating disorders and pushed aside by their families. Nicely done.
Probably my favorite, though, was Erin Dionne's Models Don't Eat Cookies. Certainly, many girls suffer with anorexia, but FAR more suffer from being overweight. That's the case for Celeste, whose aunt has nominated her for a HuskyPeach spokesmodel fashion contest. Since Celeste gets endless grief about her weight from a popular bully at school (to whom she almost loses her best friend-- very true to life!), she does not want to be a part of that! In order to be ineligible, she tries to lose weight. I liked how healthy choices were discussed, although readers could probably use even more factual information about food choices and exercise. This was certainly not literary, and could have been a bit better written, but the message, characters and general plot were very good. My 5th grader, who adored The Melting of Maggie Bean, will like this one.
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From left, U.S. Cardinals Theodore McCarrick , Roger Mahoney, Francis George, Donald Wuerl and Daniel Di Nardo arrive for meetings in Vatican City. They have halted their daily press conferences. / Andrew Medichini, AP
American cardinals in Rome for the lead-up to voting for the next pope are shutting off interviews now that some cardinals have been blabbing too much about secret discussions in advance of the super-secret conclave.
The daily news conference by U.S. leaders prompted concerns that they were influencing the advisory meetings, now underway. Wednesday, the day after the Associated Press reported this, the briefings were canceled.
In describing the scene Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that more than 100 journalists from the U.S., Britain and European countries packed "an auditorium for what has become the daily 'American Show' at the North American College, the U.S. seminary just up the hill from the Vatican."
However, the quotable U.S. prelates may not have been the source of leaks. The Italian paper La Stampa has reported details of comments individual cardinals made in the closed-door meetings-- a violation of their oath of secrecy, according to the Associated Press.
Sister Mary Ann Walsh, spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in an e-mail to USA TODAY that, "concern was expressed" in the daily meetings of the College of Cardinals "about leaks of confidential proceedings reported in Italian newspapers. As a precaution, the cardinals have agreed not to do interviews."
Walsh later told the AP: "I don't think anyone was angry at the Americans, they were angry at La Stampa." And she said, "In true old-style Catholic school teacher fashion, someone talks and everybody stays after school."
Vatican spokesman Rev. Frederico Lombardi said the Vatican did not intervene but that U.S. cardinals made the decision to stop press conferences after talking among themselves.
He said, "The cardinals journey toward conclave is not a convention or synod. It is a journey, that is above all a time of reflection for the College of Cardinals. The College has decided to maintain reserve over proceedings. But we are trying to give as much information as possible."
No date has been set for the conclave, where 115 cardinal electors will be cut off from any communications with the outside world.
At the morning Vatican press conference, Lombardi said there's no hidden meaning in the delay. They are waiting for two more electors -- cardinals under the age of 80 -- to reach Rome and they are in a "journey" of prayer and discernment, he said.
Meanwhile, representatives from the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) called a news conference in Rome to announce a "dirty dozen" names of cardinals whose record on dealing with the abuse crisis should disqualify them for being elected to the papacy.
The list includes many of the names on media and betting sites' short lists for the next pope. David Clohessy, SNAP executive director, said they had the worst records "in terms of protecting kids, healing victims, and exposing corruption."
SNAP has also called for several cardinals to refrain from voting in the conclave.
Lombardi said the Vatican is "well aware" of the positions of SNAP, but added it is not up to SNAP to decide who should participate in the conclave.
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
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Sir Richard Branson ”Stakes his Claim” on The World
Sir Richard Branson has planted the Union Jack and ceremoniously “staked his claim” to Great Britain on The World, at an event celebrating the debut of Virgin Atlantic Airways’ direct flights between the United Kingdom and Dubai.
The island of Great Britain is one of 300 super luxury man-made island developments that collectively make up The World, a series of islands shaped to form the map of the world. The islands are being constructed by Nakheel, developer of more than $30 billion of real estate in Dubai.
Branson jumped out of a red London telephone box and surprised journalists today as they arrived for a private tour of the island.
The event coincided with an announcement that 90 percent of the islands of The World have been reclaimed, with only 10 percent remaining prior to completion.
“The World is one of the most innovative developments I have ever seen, and I admire the vision that is behind this project,” stated Branson. “The islands are truly spectacular, and who would have thought of owning your own piece of the world?”
Hamza Mustafa, GM of The World said, “Sir Richard Branson symbolizes the best of British and is the ideal person today to plant the Union Jack on Great Britain.”
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On April 6, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved vandetanib. It's the first drug approved for Medullary Thyroid Cancer. FDA approved vandetanib to treat adults with metastatic medullary thyroid cancer who are ineligible for surgery and have disease that's growing or causing symptoms.
Thank you to the more than 500 survivors and caregivers who wrote to the FDA in support of approval of this new drug, and to those who came from long distances to speak at the FDA meeting in December 2010. Articles in ThyCa’s November, December (www.thyca.org/news/newsnotes1210.htm), & January newsletters give background. ThyCa's web site has added further information here: www.thyca.org/news/Vandetanib040611.htm
Register on our website or onsite at the Workshop.
These four events are in addition to the workshops held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 9 and in St. Louis, Missouri,on April 16.
At these events, you’lllearn the latest information about treatment and research and get answers to your questions about thyroid cancer care, both short-term and over the long term. You’ll also have the opportunity for peer discussion roundtables with other thyroid cancer survivors and caregivers.
Thyroid cancer survivors, their families, caregivers, and friends are invited to attend. These six free educational events this spring are sponsored or co-sponsored by ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc. Thank you to everyone involved in these workshops, as well as all who organized and spoke at the workshops in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 9 and St. Louis, Missouri, on April 16.
These events are all free. Come for all or part of the day. You may register either through our web site on our Conferences/Workshops page or onsite at the workshops.
Visit ThyCa's web site for further details about the speakers, programs, and directions to the meetings.
Since early March, the news from Japan about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plants in the area have focused attention on many issues related to radiation, including radioactive iodine and the thyroid gland.
In addition, April 26, 2011, marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. In last month’s newsletter, we provided a link to an interview with ThyCa medical advisor Kenneth D. Burman, M.D.
To provide further education regarding radiation exposure and the thyroid gland, ThyCa has added links to statements by medical professional associations and an article by endocrinologist Glenn Braunstein, M.D., in the Radiation Exposure section of the web site:http://www.thyca.org/links.htm#RADIATION%20EXPOSURE.
This question comes up often in ThyCa’s face-to-face and electronic support group discussions. The answer:
“As many as a third of all patients will experience changes in taste after their first I-131 therapy,” notes Douglas Van Nostrand, M.D., Nuclear Medicine Physician at the Washington Hospital Center in DC, and ThyCa Medical Advisor, in the reference book “Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients” (Second Edition, 2010).
He continues, “Food may taste metallic or like cardboard, or it may not have any flavor at all. This side effect may begin a few days to weeks after the I-131 therapy and lasts typically for several weeks and rarely for several months. Permanent changes in taste after the first I-131 therapy are rare, but the risk increases with higher individual dosages or total accumulated dosages.”
Dr. Van Nostrand details the possible side effects of RAI, as well as ways to prevent or treat them, in Chapter 26 of “Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients.” For more information about the book, visit www.thyca.org/TCGuide.htm.
Face-to-face ThyCa Support Groups meet across the United States and in Canada, Costa Rica, and Philippines. These are wonderful places to meet others in your community who are coping with thyroid cancer.
Find out whether there is a ThyCa Support Group near you, and attend meetings if you can. If you’d like information about starting a group in your community, contact the Support Group Team coordinator.
Hello, folks. I was diagnosed with early stage thyroid cancer and got a full thyroidectomy in mid-December and radioactive iodine a month later. I am also a Type 1 diabetic, which made it especially difficult to stick to the low iodine diet. So I just want to thank you for your Low Iodine Cookbook. I cooked a few of the recipes. They were delicious. Without them, I would have muddled
through on a diet of almond butter, egg whites, rice cakes, matzo and unimaginative chicken cutlets and ground beef/pasta. With them, my wife and I had satisfying meals. Thanks!
At the recent Annual Meeting of the NCCN, held in Florida, three ThyCa volunteers handled ThyCa’s exhibit and met numerous physicians involved in treatment and research for all types of cancer. Thank you very much to Christine Ciletti, Lori Grossman, and Linda Leibovici for representing ThyCa at this important event for medical professionals involved in cancer care and research.
We’ll be happy to mail you free awareness and outreach materials for your community event or for giving and sending to your friends, relatives, and community networks? Just send your complete mailing address, with a note about what materials you’d like as well as quantities, to email@example.com. Thank you for your help in spreading the word about awareness.
It’s 6 months till the 14th International Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Conference, October 14-16, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. We’re excited to have already confirmed 29 distinguished medical professionals who will come from a wide range of leading medical centers to speak at the conference.
This unique weekend brings a tremendous opportunity to learn the latest about thyroid cancer treatment, long-term monitoring, and research advances from numerous outstanding leaders in thyroid cancer care. It’s also a place to see old friends and meet new friends in the world of thyroid cancer.
This unique event will take place at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel, with free transportation from the Los Angeles International Airport. We’ve arranged a special sleeping room rate of $99 plus tax per night.
Mark your calendars and plan to attend. We hope to see you there. Details and updates are continually being added to our website.
The annual Dinner/Auction Fundraiser for Thyroid Cancer will take place in Los Angeles on Saturday evening, October 15 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel. The funds raised help make possible ThyCa’s research grants, now in our 9th consecutive year.
Would you like to donate an auction item to this important event? Details and the donation form are now on the web site, in the Conference and Rally for Research pages.
The 5th International Hypoparathyroidism Conference will take place in Rockville, Maryland, on June 2-4, 2011. This informative event will have presentations by physicians and other specialists. For more information and registration, visit www.hpth.org.
Hypoparathyroidism can result from the removal of or damage to the parathyroid glands during thyroid surgery, and those affected need to take calcium daily for the rest of their lives. There are other causes of hypoparathyroidism as well. The nonprofit Hypoparathyroidism Association (HPTH) offers education and support services for people affected by hypoparathyroidism. ThyCa and HPTH are collaborating in an effort to reduce the incidence of this potential complication of thyroid surgery.
Free one-day conferences will take place in three cities (Chicago, IL, Washington, DC, and Ann Arbor, MI) during 2011, sponsored by the Cancer Legal Resource Center with ThyCa’s support in publicity. Visit our Calendar page for details www.thyca.org/calendar.htm.
On Friday, April 8, 2011, ThyCa exhibited at the Focus on Thyroid Cancer Meeting, sponsored by Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. ThyCa also received a special award for thyroid cancer advocacy at this event. The next newsletter will have details.
Thank you very much to:
Among the additions to the website are links to recent articles about treatment and research advances and about radiation exposure, additional workshops added to the Calendar page, the complete March newsletter, new local support groups, and more.
Our web site has more than 650 pages of content. More than 50 distinguished physicians plus numerous other specialists provide ongoing input and review of the medical information. We greatly appreciate the wonderful support of these medical specialists.
We update and expand the web site at least once a week. Thank you to our Web team, consisting of our webmasters: Betty Solbjor and Joel Amromin; our Publications Committee members; and our Medical Reviewers.
Visit www.thyca.org often for the latest information updates, the schedules of local support group meetings, and news about special events, or to get involved.
Let us know if you have suggestions for additional web site content, as well as additional questions to be answered by physicians. E-mail your ideas to firstname.lastname@example.org. This is our web site, and it benefits from everyone's contribution. It's also a great way to get involved!
3 ounces Natural Chicken Breast, cubed (no broth injected)
½ cup honey
Cook chicken in skillet in a small amount of oil (I use canola) until fully cooked.
Add in zucchini, mushroom and carrots and cook until vegetables begin to cook.
In a separate bowl, combine honey and squeeze the juice of one whole Clementine or about ½ an orange into the honey. Mix thoroughly. Stir the chopped unsalted cashews into the sauce. Add in cracked red pepper to taste, I like things spicy, so I added quite a bit.
Pour the sauce into pan with the chicken and veggies and simmer for several minutes.
I served over basmati rice – YUM!
Melissa writes, “I want to say thank you SO much for this WONDERFUL resource you provide to all of us living with and through Thyroid Cancer. I am very grateful for the time and effort it took to compile such a wonderful book of recipes and diet guidelines, and can tell you that it has been such a help for me!”
Editor’s Note: Thank you, Melissa, for contributing this recipe, as well as a second recipe. We will include them in the next edition of ThyCa’s FREE Downloadable Low-Iodine Cookbook.
Free and Downloadable
Download the 7th edition of the Low-Iodine Cookbook in English for free, with more than 340 favorite recipes from more than 150 generous volunteers.
Please remember, while you’re welcome to download and print the entire free low-iodine cookbook, you can also print just the pages you need.
This free cookbook is a wonderful help when you’re preparing to receive radioactive iodine for treatment or testing. All the recipes are favorites of some of our ThyCa volunteers, who are sharing them with everyone, to make the low-iodine diet easy and tasty. The recipes are also great for family meals and for potlucks, any time.
If you’d like to contribute your favorite recipe or tip, send it to email@example.com.
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Thanks to generous contributions and special fundraising events, ThyCa has awarded new thyroid cancer research grants every year starting in 2003. These grants support our goal of cures for all thyroid cancer and a future free of thyroid cancer. We will again award new research grants in 2011.
You’re invited to help support the Rally for Research. For details about the Rally for Research, donation opportunities, special events, Quarters for a Cure, and information about ThyCa’s past and future Research Grants, visit the Rally for Research page.
Help us sustain, strengthen, and extend our services. We invite you to become a member of ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc.
Your membership dues will support ThyCa's efforts to reach and serve other survivors and their families around the world. Members receive our quarterly Membership Messenger newsletter.
Membership is open to everyone worldwide. You may become a 1-year ThyCa member ($25), 2-year member ($45), or lifetime member ($225). For our online Membership Form and our mailed Membership Form, go to our Membership page.
Every day, thousands of people with thyroid cancer, and their families, receive support, education, and hope from ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc. Your generous support is what makes it possible to sustain, strengthen, and expand our services and outreach.
It only takes a minute to make a donation online in support of ThyCa's work (or you are welcome to donate by mail to ThyCa, P.O. Box 964, Chesterfield, MO 63006-0964), so click here to give.
Please share ThyCa News Notes with your family and friends. For permission to reprint in another electronic or print publication, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
The information in this newsletter is intended for educational purposes only. It is not intended, nor should it be interpreted, as medical advice or directions of any kind. Readers are advised to consult their own medical doctor(s) for all matters involving their health and medical care.
Your suggestions for articles are welcome. The deadline for articles and news items is the first day of each month.
Thank you to our writing, editing, and proofreading team for this issue: Leah Guljord, Melissa M., Pat Paillard, Barbara Status, Cherry Wunderlich, and Gary Bloom.
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I have a two year old pressure treated deck that was painted by the home builder before we bought the house and now the paint is peeling off the rails and posts.
I have pressure washed, scraped,and sanded as much of the loose paint as poss.
What primer should I use before I repaint?
Oil based or water?
Primer or primer/sealer?
I would use an exterior oil based primer.
A Primer is a coating that adheres well to the substrate and improves the adhesion of the subsequent top coat.
A Sealer is a coating that prevents fluid flow into or out of the substrate.
EVERY oil based or latex primer contains huge rocks that are almost large enough to see with the naked eye. It's those rocks that both make the primer dry to a rough surface which allows the subsequent top coat to stick better, and also it's those same rocks that try to flow into the porous surface of drywall, concrete, joint compound and even wood to plug up the surface porosity and therefore seal that surface so that most of the primer remains on the surface rather than being absorbed into it like pure clean water or mineral spirits would be.
So, every primer you're likely to see in a paint store will also be a sealer because them same huge rocks do both jobs. It's just that when you're painting a surface like vinyl siding or metal (or even glass), your Primer/Sealer will only work as a primer cuz there's no surface porosity to be sealed.
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Apr 04 2012
The Washington State Department of Health has released a statement stating that they are in the midst of a whooping cough epidemic, which will likely reach its highest levels in decades. So far this year there have been 640 cases, compared to 94 cases over the same time period last year. This is a dramatic increase. Whooping cough is a vaccine preventable disease, and so the resurgence of this infection raises questions about the efficacy of the vaccine program – specifically, to what extent is this increase due to vaccine refusal vs waning efficacy of the vaccine itself?
Whooping cough is caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacterium (a Gram-negative, aerobic coccobacillus, for those who are interested), which produce a toxin that paralyzes respiratory cells and causes inflammation. The result begins like an ordinary upper respiratory infection (a common cold) but then develops into a severe cough which can last for weeks. The name of the disease, whooping cough, comes from the sound made by the sudden inhalation after a sustained cough. The disease can be severe at any age, but is especially pernicious in infants, in whom it can cause apnea, or brief pauses in breathing. In infants less than 1 year of age half will need to be hospitalized and 1 in 100 will die.
The pertussis bacterium was first isolated in 1906 by Belgian scientists Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou. In 1939 researchers at the Michigan Department of Public Health demonstrated the efficacy of a vaccine against Bodetella pertussis. The vaccine reduced the incidence of whooping cough from 15.1 to 2.3% and reduced the severity of the illness in those who contracted it. In 1948 the whole cell pertussis vaccine was combined with vaccines for diptheria and tetanus to make the DTP vaccine.
In the 1990s the DTP vaccine was replaced with the DTaP vaccine, which is still used. The whole cell pertussis component was replaced with a acellular vaccine. In the whole cell version the entire Bodetella pertussis bacterium is included in the vaccine in an inactivated state. The acellular vaccine contains only components of the bacterium. The change was made because the acellular vaccine has fewer side effects. However there was also unsubstantiated concerns about the risks of the whole cell pertussis vaccine that may have contributed to the decision to change. Both versions of the vaccine are effective, but some studies suggest that the acellular version provides less immunity than the prior whole cell vaccine. Today there is also the Tdap vaccine, which is intended as a booster vaccine for adolescents and adults.
Historically the introduction of the pertussis vaccine resulted in a 92% decrease in morbidity and 93% decrease in mortality from whooping cough.
The Return of Pertussis
Up until a few years ago pertussis was under good control in developed countries with a vaccine program. Pertussis has not known host outside of humans so it is even possible to achieve eradication. But in the last decade pertussis has been making a comeback. There is likely no single cause for this, but several can be identified.
There is evidence that the bacterium is evolving new strains that are less well covered by the DTaP vaccine. A recent study, for example, found that a new strain is emerging in Australia that is not well covered by the vaccine and is therefore spreading, because the existing strains are being selected against by the vaccine. The study also found that the older whole cell version of the vaccine produced wider coverage (better coverage for different strains) than the newer acellular vaccine. So it is possible that the return of pertussis is partly due to the narrowing of coverage that is allowing for the spread of newer strains.
To the extent that this is true it implies that we need to update the vaccine to cover the newer strains. This, however, may be only a temporary fix and still more strains may develop. Therefore we either need to chase new strains as they emerge, or we need to develop a pertussis vaccine that has broader antigen coverage, more similar to the older whole cell vaccine, but without the increased side effects.
Another contributing factor is the waning immunity provided by either infection or vaccination. Antibodies against pertussis do not last a life time, so adults who were either infected or vaccinated as children may have lost their immunity. They then provide a vector for the infection of young infants who are not yet old enough to be vaccinated. For this reason the CDC is recommending booster vaccines for teens and adults, especially health care workers and those exposed to young children.
Finally there are serious concerns about vaccine refusal as a contributor to the resurgence of whooping cough. Thanks to the anti-vaccine movement there is unsubstantiated fear about the safety of vaccines. In particular there are pockets of vaccine refusal resulting in a loss of herd immunity. Herd immunity results when enough of the population is immune so that an infectious disease cannot spread, so cases become isolated and do not cause an epidemic. Without herd immunity pertussis infections can spread through a population.
The evidence indicates that unvaccinated children are at higher risk of developing whooping cough than vaccinated children. Existing herd immunity is not sufficient to protect the unvaccinated, even in areas of high vaccine compliance. Further there is early evidence that whooping cough is spreading the most in counties that have a high vaccine refusal rate. The correlation between whooping cough and vaccine refusal needs to be studied in more detail, but certainly vaccine refusal is not helping and is contrary to the goal of increasing coverage to achieve herd immunity.
Historically controlled infections, like whooping cough, have the potential to make a comeback. There is a certain amount of complacence today toward diseases that are thought to be largely a thing of the past. However we are now experiencing a resurgence of some of these diseases, like whooping cough, and while the causes are complex and need to be teased apart, they are worsened by vaccine refusal which in turn is spawned by an anti-vaccine movement that is spreading misinformation and unwarranted fears.
With regard to the current whooping cough epidemic, the CDC has many specific recommendations for the public and health care workers. In short – vaccinate your children and get a booster.
37 Responses to “Whooping Cough Epidemic”
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I tend to use RS232 for debug but given the choice between I2C and SPI for peripherals I generally prefer I2C as you dont have to use seperate slave select lines. I also find that I2C is more standardised between devices whereas I have run into incompatibilities with SPI.
@garysxt: To reduce the firmware complexity. Instead of having to meld in the MAL USB driver firmware, I only have to key relatively simple RS-232 TX/RX routines that get translated to USB and back by the FTDI part.
@FredEady Thanks. Our application communicates with a cellular modem just using the PIC's UART--don't even need to use RS232 level translation. I think the main issue is getting the modem into a mode to stream the hex data to a buffer, then programming the FLASH and dealing with any communication errors. I'm here as a first step on my journey to understanding and implementing this.
@JeffM the interface IS strange. You get used to it after a while and almost anything can be done from the keyboard. And you can setup whatever keyboard shortcuts you want in it's ini file. And the newest version stores the schematics and boards as xml files you can edit outside eagle. I've used that to easily globally change things like line sizes.
@aefelgate: I have seen this done. It all depends on the I/O capabilities of your cell modem. I would imagine you would have to interface to the cell modem's serial interface, which could be RS-232 or Ethernet. Depends on the modem. There were some participants discussing that yesterday on this blog I think...
@gberman: That's assuming the embedded device has an Ethernet port. I can see your idea of sending code to be loaded onto the remote microSD card via internet/ethernet as a way to avoid shipping delays and costs.
@JeffM actually there is a free version of EAGLE, limited to 1 schematic sheet, 2 layers, and 4" square max pcb. They also have a "for home use only" version for around $100 that removes all those limitations.
@FredEady We would like to take advantage of our existing cellular connection to our device to remotely update the firmware. Have you experience with this? Or, can you point us to some additional info?
@miket: Instead of showing up at a customer location to "reprogram" the micro for a version update or bug fix, you simply put the new code on a microSD card and drop it in the mail. They get the microSD card, plug it in, push a button and WHAMO the version is upgraded or the bug is squashed. If you're a Florida company and the customer is in Oregon, it's either an airplane ride or a UPS/USPS/FEDEX package.
@BrokenRotor: I like ExpressPCB. You get CAD and schematic capture free. Plus, you can order Gerber files of your projects from ExpressPCB. I use the Gerbers to have stencils made for large production projects.
I've tried those services in the past, like them, but felt there was too much of a premium involved. I was thinking about using Kicad, though I don't know much about it, except it's free and open-source. I've been a bit suspect of RS Design Spark, though maybe that's unwarrented.
@MazianLab: A bit of trivia.. National Semiconductor helped name my company. They mispelled my last name ED instead of EADY in their database. So, I was Eady Technical Publications until that little miscue. Lots of suppliers made that same mistake. So, I decided to make it easy for everyone and dropped Eady in the company name to become EDTP.
@Kentj I have to have it cranked up 450/Toast on the Bake setting. Only takes about 2 minutes to reflow. Don't use the wax markers; I just watch the board through the glass until the paste turns to quicksilver.
@Jeff M: I use Express PCB for schematic capture and board layout but you're limited to four layers. I think you get more layers with PCB123 but it's harder to create your parts library. Both are free. PCB123 you're restricted to only one board fab house though.
This could come in handy to build an interface for legacy PLC applications that only support RS232 especially since the manufacturers can't seem to built a reliable interface. Will need to look at this more in detail later.
The FT232RL part is very easy to use, we use it a lot (we'll use it as as debug port rather than put in RS232 interface). Typically, we opto isolate it from the microprocessor because of the current limitation of the USB port.
Boot loader interfacing dependes on what's avaiable. If you already have a communications mechanism (RS-232/RS485/CAN/Ethernet/RF) use it to avoid additional costs unless the driver for it makes the boot loader too big.
In general, the cost and board area for an SD card is actually above our threshold. 3.3V Serial with a 3 pin header is about what we can tolerate (may even drop the 3 pin header and only use test points for connectivity). SWD is typically only used for factory programming and many devices are reprogrammed or tossed if they don't work.
Did any one see link to the source code for this project ? When I go to the EDTP site (www.edtp.com) all I see is a shopping cart page for buying EDTP AirPlane card . What link navigates to schematics or source code?
It used to be that a simple RS-232 bootloader was the cheapest way to go. These days, the FTDI parts are just as cheap or cheaper than the RS-232 drivers. To really get down and dirty, eliminate the RS-232 IC and replace it with a couple of transistors and resistors. The LCD would also have to go.
@Kentj - John Fluke, Bill & Dave and Howard were a breed that appreciated customers and employees and used that to drive their decisions. Dahaner just look at their acquisitions as something to fuel their next acquisition (lean out the costs in an organization to get profits).
John Fluke wanted to support equipment for seven years after obsolesence. When Danaher took over they got rid of support parts so they couldn't be maintained. I intercepted the parts from the dumpster and brought them in whenever needed as long as I worked there.
@uWave Hunter - Leviton Manufacturing (Melville NY) started out making gas mantles for indoor lamps and when Edison came along tehy recognized the shift in market and started pursuing electrical. Flat prong plug and pull chain light sockets were Leviton's inventions.
There is also a branch of BBQ that comes out of South Carolina (I believe) that uses a vinigar &/or mustard based (not tomatoe based) sauce that doesn't have as much sugar. that might also be an option.
Lantronix Inc. has expanded its line of controllers for sensor networks with the release of a rugged controller that improves management of automation systems used in a number of industries, including manufacturing, oil and gas, and chemicals.
Inspired by the hooks a parasitic worm uses to penetrate its host's intestines, the Karp Lab has invented a flexible adhesive patch covered with microneedles that adheres well to wet, soft tissues, but doesn't cause damage when removed.
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is
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Inverary Castle, Argyll, Scotland. Inverary Castle - Argyll, Scotland - 20 Inch Canvas Print (51cm) by Ardea.
Inverary Castle is built of blue-green granite and the cones of its slated angle towers are stained a deeper green by the weather, giving the castle a strange colour combination which endows it with a mysterious air of unreality.
Inverary Castle. Photographic Print of Inveraray Castle from Robert Harding.
The present castle dates originally from about 1520 and was one of the earliest examples of Gothic revival. It was replanned in 1743 by Roger Morris and Robert Mylne, and completed in 1770. The old castle which stood 80 yards from the present front door was finally demolished in 1773, the new one having been built in 1760 and scarcely lived in by the third or fourth Dukes. It was the fifth Duke who, as Marquess of Lorne and heir to the Dukedom, commissioned the magnificent interior decoration and modernised the building; thus it now shows signs not only of neo-Gothic style but also of neo-Scottish baronial architecture in its square turreted shape with massive battlements and tower rising from its heart, totally unexpected and exotic to visitors approaching from the town and catching a glimpse of the pretty gothic windows through the wooded park.
The interior of Inverary Castle contains a wealth of 18th Century splendour and architectural curiosities. with great hall, armoury and state rooms open to view. In addition to the many historic relics the castle contains portraits by Gainsborough, Ramsay and Raeburn, fine furniture and plate and early Scottish armaments.
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Archive/File: people/i/irving.david/libel.suit/transcripts/day024.10 Last-Modified: 2000/07/24 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, perhaps you should in that case. A. I will only read the second -- well, I should read the whole passage: "In my life I have often been a prophet and was generally laughed at. During my struggle for power it was mostly the Jewish people who laughed at my prophecies that I would some day assume the leadership of the state and thereby of the entire folk, and then among many other things achieve a solution of the Jewish problem. I believe that in the meantime the then resounding laughter of Jewry in Germany is now choking in their throats. Today I will be a prophet again. If international Jewry within Europe and abroad should succeed once more in plunging the people's into a world war, then the consequence will be not the Bolshevization of the world and therewith a victory of Jewry, but on the contrary the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe." So "Jewry" is here in the German original Judentum, and the annihilation is the vernichtung, annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe. MR IRVING: Yes. The words "on the contrary" you just interpolated that. They are not in the original, are they. MR JUSTICE GRAY: "Sondern". MR IRVING: Sondern, it just means "but"? . P-84 A. But, yes. Q. It is the word "but" that comes in after a negative, is it not, as in French? I am going to draw your attention to the fact that this speech is on January 30th 1939? A. Yes. Q. Had not a few days earlier Adolf Hitler through Hermann Goring as head of the four-year plan, appointed Reinhardt Heydrich to set up an agency to speed the emigration of the Jews from Germany? A. Yes. That is true, yes. Q. Yes. That was just four our five days previously, was it not, or about two weeks previously, something like that? It was one of the consequences of the Kristallnacht? A. Yes. Shall I explain the context? Q. Was that genuine or was that camouflage? A. Sorry? Q. Was the setting up of the Heydrich agency genuine or camouflage? A. I think this was at this stage genuine, but I think I have to explain the background, if you do not mind. MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes. A. You know there were international negotiations going at this time between the so-called international government for refugees and the German Government represented by Hischaft. So the idea was that actually one could, you know, force world Jewry, as the Nazis perceived it, to pay . P-85 for the emigration of the Jews from Germany. In my interpretation I think they really thought this was a serious idea, a serious plan, that one could actually let them pay for the emigration of 400,000 Jews from Germany. So I think we have to look at Kristallnacht in this context, because I think the policy of the Nazis was to start a policy of terror against the Jews, to terrify them to leave the country, but also to force the Western powers actually to give in and to support this emigration programme. I think the speech has to be seen in this context. It is a threat, it a very violent threat: Look, if you don't agree and if we are getting in a kind of dispute again and if this dispute again will lead to another world war, then of course the life of the Jews in Europe is threatened, we are threatening the life of them. So if you look at the context they were, on the one hand, planning and preparing a programme for emigration, but on the other hand they were looking at the consequences if this programme would fail and if they would be involved in a military conflict with the Western powers again. So if you threaten somebody, you know, it is a possibility. The whole idea I think of, well, threatening people is that you, in a way, leave a kind of uncertainty what you actually will do with the people you are threatening. . P-86 MR IRVING: I am sorry, did you want to say anything else? No. Would you regard this speech by Adolf Hitler as being a further twist to the Jewish arm, saying: "Get out while you can"? A. I think the motive behind the speech, there are various motives behind the speech, and one motive is clearly to threaten German Jews to leave the country as soon as possible. This is one of the motives behind the speech. MR JUSTICE GRAY: On what matters, which is what "vernichtung" means in that context ---- A. Yes. Q. You say it does mean extermination or extirpation? A. I actually said here in the text "annihilation". You know, historians are debating this question. Some of my colleagues would say this is clear, Hitler actually at this stage had a clear programme to kill European Jews. I am not sure. I think the motives behind the speech are, there were different motives between the speech. It is a violent threat. It includes the possibility to kill the Jews in Europe, but I am not sure whether, you know, actually one can interpret this as a kind of programme which was already there. MR IRVING: What possible proof is there for the fact that Adolf Hitler had at this time, at the beginning of 1939, a programme or a plan or intent to liquidate the Jews of Europe or anywhere else? . P-87 A. The historians who would take this line would argue the events which followed to actually give us a kind of clue that Hitler probably had this plan at a very early stage. I do not agree with this view. I think he still, you know, was not sure whether he preferred emigration or whether he was going to the next step and actually envisaging, was actually trying to envisage what would happen in a case of a war. So I think it is a kind of a watershed here. Q. Is he effectively saying: "We will hold the Jews hostage"? A. I think this is the message. There are various motives behind the speech. The fact that he is referring here to a world war, not simply to a war, a war against Poland, let us say, but a world war, which implies the involvement of the Western powers. I think this is a threat against, the Western powers against Great Britain, in particular against the United States. But this speech is really open for interpretation. I cannot prove at this stage that Hitler had a programme, a blueprint to kill European Jews during the next years. I think it would go too far to draw this conclusion from this speech. It is definitely a very violent threat. It is three months after Kristallnacht, and actually I think one has to bear this in mind that, you know, it is saying we could actually repeat Kristallnacht on a much, much wider scale. I think . P-88 something like is implied here. MR JUSTICE GRAY: Mr Irving, I am conscious that time is passing and we are spending huge amounts of time on the meaning of these various words. In a way you have been rather pushed into doing it because of the form of the glossary, but it does not seem to me terribly helpful all this, because it all depends, and Dr Longerich's last answer reveals, that exploring what the context of a document is can be quite a complicated exercise. MR IRVING: I agree, my Lord, but I hope I am gradually bringing it home to your Lordship that when Adolf Hitler is concerned, which is the person I am largely concerned with, we are all at sea and anyone can draw whatever conclusion they want. MR JUSTICE GRAY: We are at sea in 1939. I am not so sure about 1941 and 1942. MR IRVING: Which I hope we will reach in the course ---- MR JUSTICE GRAY: Well, let us move on. MR IRVING: In that case I will not draw attention to what he said two days previously. MR JUSTICE GRAY: No, I think 41 and 42 is the time, when the shooting started on the Eastern Front, paragraph 5.7 maybe. MR IRVING: I was up to 5.8 already. MR JUSTICE GRAY: Good. MR IRVING: At 5.8 you refer to the Goebbels diary entry, Adolf . P-89 Hitler speech? A. Yes. Q. To the Gauleiters on December 12th 1941? A. Yes. Q. Here the reference is, well, actually the reference is not, the "vernichtung" does not come in a speech; it comes in the second part, in the Hans Frank diary four days later. A. According to the Goebbels diary he says "vernichtung" in this speech, and again the full reference is in, the translation is in the other report, in the first report which is in chronological order so we should find it. MR JUSTICE GRAY: 61? A. Yes. There is footnote 156, so if we look at the German text in the first report, page 61, then we have the translation I think in both. MR IRVING: That is in fact harking back to precisely that speech, is it not. MR JUSTICE GRAY: It is completely circular. A. Yes. MR IRVING: It is exactly the same. A. Yes, he did this a lot of times. He always came back to this speech. I think he have five or six or more examples where Hitler is actually referring to this prophecy, particularly at this time. It is not only on 12th December; it is also on 1st January, 30th January and 24th . P-90 February. He is always giving the same text. On 21st February he is actually replacing the word "vernichtung" by "ausrotten". So he is actually saying, he is indicating that things become actually more violent and more threatening. Q. You then look at what Hans Frank said on December 16th? A. Yes. So we are back in the glossary? Q. Yes, back in the glossary, paragraph 5.8. A. Yes. Q. Is it plain that the word "vernichtung" as used by Hans Frank is unambiguously referring to liquidation there? Immediately before the passage you quote, has not Frank told subordinates that a great Jewish emigration is about to begin, meaning the Jews of the German government are going to be deported and adopted by the Soviet Union? A. Yes, again I would prefer to see the text here. I do not know who has the full. MR RAMPTON: I think we probably need the new file. That is much the best way of doing it. MR JUSTICE GRAY: I am just wondering where we get with this. This is Frank putting a gloss on Hitler had said in 1939. We have looked at what Hitler said in 1939. MR RAMPTON: No, my Lord, I think the case is Frank is putting a gloss, if that be the right word, on what Hitler said on 12th December 1941. MR JUSTICE GRAY: Do we need to trouble with what Frank says? . P-91 MR RAMPTON: The witness makes the point, and indeed Mr Irving accepts, that the understanding which Frank had of what he had been told by Hitler in Berlin was quite unequivocal. It was about physical liquidation. A. Yes. He came back from Berlin -- it is four days after Hitler's speech -- saying he had discussions in Berlin and he is referring to this discussion. I think it is fair to assume, because Frank was as Reichsleiter present at the Reichs and Gauleiter meeting, so it is fair to assume that he is referring to this speech and may be other discussions they had. MR JUSTICE GRAY: I thought he was referring back to 1939. A. Yes, but if you look at the ---- MR RAMPTON: I think, my Lord, it would honestly be helpful because what we have done in this file is to put in fact a long translation provided by Professor Browning against the German text. Would you turn to 172, first of all? That is the English of Professor Browning. . A. Where will I find that? MR JUSTICE GRAY: It is called N1. It is also in another file but this is probably the best place. MR RAMPTON: Do not worry about the other file. N1 is the one you need. I hope this should be a long paragraph in English indented. My Lord, may I ask the witness whether that is what he has? A. Yes, I have got that. . P-92 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes. MR RAMPTON: If one turns to page 6 in a bold crayon, 178, one finds a third of the way down the page the words "mit den Juden". A. Yes. MR RAMPTON: That I think is the passage we are looking for. A. Yes. MR RAMPTON: I will leave it there. MR JUSTICE GRAY: Thank you very much, Mr Rampton. MR RAMPTON: I should add that it goes over the page to the end of a paragraph, the next paragraph beginning "Die ucheiner". A. Yes.
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(C) 2011 EUMETSAT
This picture of Earth was taken at 06:00 GMT on Dec. 21 by Eumetsat's Meteosat-9, a meteorological satellite that is stationed in geosynchronous orbit above a point close to Africa's west coast. The picture illustrates how Earth's tilt with respect to the sun creates the darkest night of the year for the Northern Hemisphere, and the longest stretch of daylight for the Southern Hemisphere.
Tonight is the longest night of the year for the Northern Hemisphere, due to the winter solstice. The season officially changes from autumn to winter at 12:30 a.m. ET Thursday ... unless you're south of the equator. In that case, spring is turning to summer.
You probably learned in school why the seasons (and the temperatures) change during the course of the year, but in case you need a refresher on how the 23.5-degree tilt of Earth's axis affects the weather, we have the full story for you. This picture, snapped by Eumetsat's Meteosat-9 weather satellite today, shows the situation graphically.
Meteosat-9 is camped out in a geosynchronous orbit that puts it precisely above an equatorial point on the west coast of Africa. Every day at around 6 a.m. local time, it has a great view of the terminator line between day and night, cutting straight across Earth's disk. The slant of that line changes from day to day, due to the changing orientation of Earth's tilted axis with respect to the sun.
On the day of the December solstice, the slant is at its most extreme angle, leaving the north pole in the dark while exposing the south pole to 24 hours of daylight. That's what you're seeing in the photo above. National borders and crosshairs have been added to help you get oriented properly.
This video, put together by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, shows you how the slant changes from one September equinox to the next:
A NASA compilation of Meteosat imagery shows how Earth's terminator line between day and night changes over the course of a year.
If you check out Eumetsat's near-real-time imagery from Meteosat-9 for 1 a.m. ET (06:00 GMT) Thursday, you can see the solstice effect pretty much at its peak. These pictures of the shifting seasons serve as tonight's offering from the Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar, which has been featuring daily images of Earth from space during the run-up to Christmas. Feel free to click through these previous images in the series, and check back on Thursday for another satellite image that will take the edge off winter.
- The full Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar
- Dec. 1: An ornament in outer space
- Dec. 2: The masses in Mecca
- Dec. 3: Santa's shrinking domain
- Dec. 4: The monster of Madagascar
- Dec. 5: Antarctica stripped naked
- Dec. 6: Streaking for home
- Dec. 7: Pearl Harbor from above, 1941-2011
- Dec. 8: The rise and fall of the Dead Sea
- Dec. 9: How an eclipse dims Earth
- Dec. 10: Psychedelic storm
- Dec. 11: Beauty of the Inland Sea
- Dec. 12: Drone-spotting stirs up debate
- Dec. 13: Light up your St. Lucy's Day
- Dec. 14: Satellite spots Chinese aircraft carrier
- Dec. 15: Hooray for Hollywood
- Dec. 16: Olympics under construction
- Dec. 17: Mystery in the Gobi Desert
- Dec. 18: Glow over Miami
- Dec. 19: North Korea's dark ages
- Dec. 20: Happy Hanukkah from space
- Hubble calendar, from The Atlantic's In Focus
- 2011 Zooniverse Advent calendar
Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.
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Arachne is also a the name of a small, fast, graphical
web browser made by Arachne Labs. It was originally
written as a fullscreen browser for MS-DOS, but has since
been ported to Linux using GGI. The MS-DOS
branch is currently at version 1.70, while the Linux port
is at version 1.66 alpha. The binaries of both
versions weigh in at less than two megabytes.
Arachne boasts full HTML 4.0 support, including
works. It supports different character encodings and
international fonts, as well as skins. It does an
exceptional job rendering all web pages - one of my
former web sites displayed correctly only in Internet
Exploder and Arachne.
The DOS version has an elegant packaging system, and
includes support for both PPP and Ethernet connections.
Unfortunately, WinSock support was scrapped before it was
ever implemented. It also supports many video
cards, and uses a custom EMS/XMS interface. It
supports multi-threaded content downloads, and will run
on chips as old as i386, at very acceptable speeds.
The Linux version does its graphics through GGI, so
it runs under svgalib, X, heck, theoretically even
aalib! Being an alpha realease, it doesn't yet support
many helper programs directly and crashes more than
one would like, but then that's why it's alpha.
Unfortunately, Arachne itself is semi-commercial
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under the GPL or similar. One needs only to pay the
registration key if one is using Arachne for commercial
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ORNAMENTAL CLOCK IN PRAGUE
Commentary in Czech. V.S. Of large decorated clock with moving statues when it strikes. Also large statues surrounding it. V.S. Man who makes these statues in his studio explaining S.O.F. about these models he creates. Beautifully carved...
Baby birds live in a nest built between the arms of a statue in a Berlin Park.
Modern Art exhibition at Oxford Street, London.
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Trainer with race horses, horses seen galloping.
Indian temple and golden idol.
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A statue of unidentified man is unveiled.
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Wives, husbands, babies and textbooks: Putting a ring on college life
Senior Safa Katbi, a communications major, may appear as any other college student, but her study habits are no doubt different. After classes, she has to take time for her two daughters, 2 1/2 and 4, and her husband — until all of them go to sleep. That’s when she manages to find time to study.
“It’s pretty exhausting. I don’t think I was completely aware of the responsibilities that come with marriage, let alone having children,” Katbi said. “Once you have a child, you can no longer be selfish. You have to sacrifice a few aspects of college life, but I am willing to make those sacrifices.”
Being a married student in college can be a stressful, but a wonderful journey according to some committed married students at Chapman University. According to the American Council of Education (ACE) in 2005 15 percent of undergraduate students were married with children and 8 percent were married with no children.
Katbi said she never planned to be a married student. She met her husband, Omar Aljazzar, in high school. He proposed in Laguna Beach five years ago and they got married her freshman year of college. Marriage has extended her original college plan by a year; she is graduating in six years instead of five, but she is proud of her accomplishments.
“I did not worry about the stress of school and married life because I viewed marriage as commitment to my best friend. I remember the only thing I was worried about was finding the right dress,” Katbi said. “The biggest adjustment was moving in together.”
Even though life can get stressful, depending on her husband makes it easier, Katbi said.
“My husband is very helpful, especially with the kids and finding time for schoolwork. It’s nice having someone to lean on who completely understands what I’m going through,” Katbi said. “Getting school work done on time can be difficult but I somehow have to find a way.”
Kenny Reid, a senior communications major, is also a married college student and met his wife, Jade, in high school in Huntington Beach.
“She is an amazing woman. I had many difficulties with my family and living arrangements in high school and she was one of my main support systems. We fell in love and have walked through life together ever since,” Reid said.
Reid worked in the construction market until he decided to go back to school a few years ago. He attends classes while his wife works. They also receive support from financial aid. When he finishes school, his wife plans to go to college and work towards a degree in traditional Chinese medicine.
“Being married in school has been beneficial in many ways. I always have someone to encourage me through the hard times–midterms and finals,” Reid said. “Also, she is a way better writer than I am.”
Alyssa Navarro, a junior English major, is about to tie the knot. She got engaged to her boyfriend of eight years, Jurrian Terpstra, in December 2011. They met in high school and he proposed when the couple moved into a home he inherited. Navarro said college is less stress because of her fiancé.
“It’s nice when you can go home to someone who will understand you and listen to you vent and will always figure out a way to make you feel better,” Navarro said. “No matter how stressful school is I know I have support.”
Navarro said she is looking for the same things in her committed relationship that single students do on campus.
“They are finding romance in casual sex, and I’m finding it with my fiancé,” Navarro said. “Instead of quick and dirty, mine is long-term.”
Navarro plans to get married shortly after graduation in hopes that family will be able to attend both the graduation and marriage ceremony. She has already begun planning the wedding.
“Most students might take a break from homework and play a video game or go on Facebook. I decide what colors I want for my wedding,” Navarro said.
She said she understands the reasoning behind students not wanting to get married in college because of the added pressure and stress of thinking about someone else’s needs and wants.
“Maybe I would’ve gotten done with school sooner or done something more extravagant if I wasn’t in a relationship, but maybe I would’ve quit because I wouldn’t have the support he’s given me,” Navarro said.
Karleen Smith, a senior athletic training major, said she doesn’t think students should get married or engaged during college.
“Don’t do it. It’s a bad idea. You’re not settled in life yet. Everything is always changing and because of that you can’t commit to anything,” Smith said. “I don’t think you know yourself well enough, or have enough time to know the other person, so it would end up being a rash decision with bad timing.”
Naveen Jonathan is an assistant professor of psychology and has a Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Marital and Family Therapy from Loma Linda University. He points out that getting married in college depends on the student and the spouse.
“For some, marriage can be helpful because you have a companion, someone to lean on and offer support. However, marriage can also be not so much harmful, but difficult to do as a student,” Jonathan said. “It might be hard to balance the relationship and school. Furthermore, if you are in school and not working, this may cause financial strain in the relationship. However, I’ve seen students manage this well.”
Reid supports the idea of college students getting married.
“It is not for the faint of heart as it takes the deepest commitment a person can give,” Reid said. “Life is always a journey, it will always have its high points and low points. When you are married, you are not alone in these times. Happiness is best when it is shared and dark times are made brighter when you have a beautiful woman to encourage you.”
Katbi agrees that marriage is all about commitment.
“A committed relationship can be great if both partners put their all in the relationship. As long as there is common understanding, a committed relationship can bring both fulfillment and comfort to both people involved,” Katbi said. “It’s amazing to know you have someone who will support and love you unconditionally.”
While being married and in college can make life busy, these students depend on their love to make it through life.
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In Haiti, the western hemisphere’s most underdeveloped nation, the north is one of the most neglected regions, snubbed for centuries by a political and economic elite entrenched mainly in the country’s southern capital, Port-au-Prince. But Haiti’s massive 2010 earthquake, which wrecked Port-au-Prince and killed more than 200,000 people, made domestic leaders and international donors alike realize that Haiti has to start developing away from its overpopulated, quake-vulnerable south and tap the potential of northern cities like Cap Haitien.
That strategy, part of a “build Haiti back better” vision, took a crowning if controversial step this week. On Monday, Haitian President Michel Martelly, joined by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a host of political and business luminaries that included her husband (and U.N. special envoy to Haiti) former U.S. President Bill Clinton, inaugurated the Caracol Industrial Park, a $300 million, 600-acre (246-hectare) facility near the country’s north coast, east of the seaport city of Cap Haitien. The Caracol inauguration was the first joint trip to Haiti by the Clintons since they visited the Caribbean nation shortly after they wed in the 1970s. Now they’re hoping Caracol will be the start of a more productive marriage between Haiti and the international donors and investors it so desperately needs just to build back, let alone build back better.
A mock Haitian village was erected for the occasion, as celebrities like British tycoon Richard Branson looked on beneath banners proclaiming “A New Day in Haiti.” Martelly, whom Hillary Clinton gushingly praised as the “chief dreamer and believer,” declared the modern plant and the 130,000 jobs it’s expected to create as proof that despite the usual “sad images of Haiti,” the country “is open for business, and that’s not just a slogan.”
Like Martelly, the U.S., which is leading the international effort to rebuild Haiti, has been eager to present an accomplishment of Caracol’s magnitude amidst what critics have called a slow reconstruction effort. Reassuring evidence of progress is crucial to getting the billions of dollars that international donors have pledged to Haiti—but half of which has yet to be delivered, largely because of the uncertainties on the ground—into the pipeline. “The people of this country have made real progress in a short time,” Hillary Clinton told investors after touring the park, “and we’ve reached a critical moment.”
The Caracol park had actually been in the works since 2008. But the earthquake gave the project—a joint effort by the Haitian government, the U.S. State Department and the International Development Bank, which committed an initial $55 million for construction—a more urgent impetus. What’s more, it has become a hub for broader development in the north. Cap Haitien’s airport is undergoing an expansion, funded by Venezuela and Cuba, which allowed it to receive its first large international carrier this month. A gleaming, $30 million campus of Roi Henri Christophe University, built by the Dominican Republic, is set to enroll its first students in two weeks. A new port is planned for nearby Fort-Liberte, though it is currently on hold due to environmental and political tensions.
Caracol’s founding private investor, South Korean textile company Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd., which planted $78 million into the park, has already begun production—and the 1,000 Haitians it has so far employed sent their first order, a batch of 76,000 T-shirts for Walmart, last week. “The easiest job to create is [in] textile garment manufacturing,” says George Sassine, general director of SONAPI, Haiti’s national governing body for industrial parks and one of Caracol’s earliest backers. “It’s a very light investment, but it influences a lot of people.” Caracol “is not the panacea for Haiti’s economy,” he adds. But “we want to show this as a showcase of what can be done.” Says Josepha Gauthier, Haiti’s Works and Social Affairs Minister, agrees: “I always believe that Haiti’s development will come through its countryside” and provinces, not Port-au-Prince.
But development rarely comes without disputes, and for many Haitians and foreigners alike, Caracol is also a reminder of the pitfalls to building Haiti back better. For starters, there is concern that while Sae-A has promised to create 20,000 jobs, it has had labor troubles in other developing countries and may not be the world’s most employee-friendly enterprise. Late Monday afternoon, after rain began to fall at Caracol and Hillary Clinton had stepped into her car to leave, many workers filed out of the Sae-A factory after a shift and complained that they make only Haiti’s daily minimum wage of 200 gourdes, just under $5. Sae-A says pay will rise after six months of training.
There are also tensions between industrial developments like Caracol and the just as urgent, if not more critical, need to foster agriculture in Haiti, which imports more than half its food. Gabriel Charles, 45, had employed as many as 30 people at a time to farm corn, sweet potatoes and beans on the fertile land around the town of Caracol. “I had a hectare [2.5 acres] and that hectare took care of my family,” says Charles, who had to give it up for the park but says the compensation he received for it was inadequate. “I agree with the industrial park,” he says. “But you [also] have to take care of the peasants.” Other displaced farmers, still awaiting alternate plots of land that were promised them, are protesting what they call the park’s adverse economic effects, including the recent doubling of the price of beans, due in part to reduced harvests.
Environmental issues loom large as well: experts fear increased industry could harm Haiti’s ecologically important yet fragile northern coastline, including coral reefs. So do concerns that while developing the north is a good thing in the long run, it doesn’t solve the more immediate post-quake suffering in the south—including the nagging tragedy of hundreds of thousands of homeless Haitians still living in squalid tent camps. Critics also point out that the lure of industrial jobs in the 20th century was a cause of Port-au-Prince’s overcrowding and the proliferation of its notorious slums. They warn Martelly and international donors to avoid the same phenomenon in northern urban areas like Cap Haitien, Haiti’s second largest city.
All of which has helped stoke recent anti-government protests in the north. “We say bravo to the investments,” says Garry Denis, spokesman for the Citizen’s Initiative. But he insists that “so far foreigners and people from Port-au-Prince are the ones who are benefitting.” His group also wants Martelly to address the high cost of living and overdue municipal elections. The unrest comes at a rocky time for Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, whose government faces corruption allegations (they deny them) and other political crises that have hampered reconstruction. Hillary Clinton hinted at Haiti’s dysfunction in her Caracol comments. “In addition to effective government,” she said, “Haiti needs a strong justice sector, free and fair elections, housing, energy, schools, health care.”
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Today, we use smartphones and tablet computers wherever we go. However, batteries life tends to be a constant issue. That’s why carrying a spare charger in your daypack or purse makes a lot of sense. In most cases, you just need a bit of spare power to make a call or access the internet.
Right now, I’m investigating a new travel technique, which I’m calling “Slow Daily Travel”. By going slow (traveling 1o to 100 miles per day), your journey can often become more intriguing and enjoyable. My technique involves traveling as far as you like each day, and then staying overnight in a hotel. The next day you… [Continue Reading]
What makes the “best” flashlight? There are specialty lights available for a wide range of applications, but the perfect all-purpose flashlight combines compact size, durability, and above all, a bright beam of light. All four of our favorites utilize LEDs (light emitting diodes) which are energy efficient for maximum battery life as well as extremely… [Continue Reading]
Cannonball! Jumping into a swimming pool is a classic way to beat the heat on a hot summer day. But clean pool water requires a combination of filtration, circulation, and sanitization. Chlorine has long been the most common tool for keeping pools free of bacteria and algae – but it has its drawbacks, and there… [Continue Reading]
April showers might bring May flowers – but they also bring an explosion of lawn growth. Traditional lawn care can rely on some pretty nasty chemicals and smoke-belching machines, but luckily there are alternatives. Read on to learn about some innovative products to keep your lawn beautiful and healthy, while keeping the environment healthy too.
Utilizing rainwater runoff is a double bonus for homeowners, both in environmental and financial terms. It reduces the amount of water consumed from the municipal system, and it lessens the strain on wastewater treatment facilities that must process water after it flows down the drain. A rain barrel is great for small-scale applications like a… [Continue Reading]
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From the perspective of most teachers, poverty explains education problems. A valid point. Reformers insist that school quality, especially effective teaching, can make a sizable dent in the learning inequities we see across the lines of race and income. Also a valid point.Andy Rotherham at Eduwonk adds,
Mostly, however, the two sides no longer engage about their differences. They just glare and shout. Abortion has nothing on education, except bumper stickers. And I can only assume those are in production.
Today about 8 percent of low-income kids can expect to earn a college degree by the time they’re 24 – a figure that is actually lower in some American cities. And high school dropout rates for black and Hispanic students are, on average, around 40 percent – and far worse in many urban and rural communities. That’s a catastrophic problem perpetuated by an incredibly powerful and durable set of political and stakeholder arrangements that are now under unprecedented scrutiny. So, given the history of social change in this country, it’s also worth asking if we’re going to see major changes without a lot of contention?
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As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama vowed to champion education and lift schools out of the Bush doldrums. As president, Obama has failed.
His administration and his news media support team place the blame on former President George W. Bush. The remedy, they say, is fast cash for public education of the nation’s children, including those who enter the country illegally.
Public education has cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $2 trillion since 1980 when President Jimmy Carter rewarded his supporters in the National Education Association (NEA), the teachers union, by creating the U.S. Department of Education.
In the intervening years, federal control over local school districts has lowered performance levels of public-school students. A recent study found that 47 percent of adults in Detroit, many of them high school graduates, are functional illiterates.
Detroit is spending $15, 945 for each public school student, yet 77 percent of 8th graders perform below skill levels. Nationwide, student performance in engineering, mathematics, and science has fallen to Third-World levels.
Part of the problem is illegal border crossers, whose families drain education resources. Legal immigrants are not the problem. Increasingly U.S. businesses look to legal immigrants to perform the 21st century work that many U.S. public school graduates are unprepared to do.
The Washington Post on June 25, 2011, reported the resignation of a young public school principal, who found the D.C. school system dysfunctional.
The Post followed with a report on June 28, 2011, that the Maryland version of the DREAM Act which awards college tuition benefits to illegal aliens was in peril of repeal due to the frustration of Marylanders with illegal immigration.
Major support for repeal is coming from Baltimore and Prince George’s counties, the bluest parts of a very blue (Democratic) state. As of July 6, 2011, required signatures to place repeal on the ballot had been surpassed.
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer on Sept. 20, 2010, black and Hispanic high school dropout rates track the national averages, 46 and 44 percent, respectively.
Liberals blame a too-strict discipline policy. Meanwhile the Chicago Urban League reported at its 2011 Summit meeting that “well-known deficiencies in the public education system play a role in the blocking of African-American access to the higher wage, fast growth job lane.” The League noted that black children are performing below basic skill levels. The same can be said of Hispanic students.
The Boston Globe reported on July 5, 2011, that Boston public schools are in turmoil, with the superintendent playing musical chairs in moving under-performing teachers and principals to better performing schools and vice versa. One under-performing teacher complained that much of her time was spent helping students to speak English.
In Georgia, where the illegal alien population is among the highest in the nation, a state investigation found rampant cheating on test scores in Atlanta’s “long troubled schools.” The cheating was not by students but by teachers and principals.
In California, low graduation rates and school dropouts occur among students who speak little or no English. To address the problem, the politically correct town of Ukiah in Mendocino County has a number of subjects, including math, taught only in Spanish. California has the largest number of failing schools in the nation.
Meanwhile Illinois is dropping writing from the high school core curriculum, and Indiana no longer requires the teaching of cursive penmanship.
Although the 2011 budget for President Obama’s Race to the Top (RTTT) education program is $4.35 billion, one state official notes that RTTT provides little or no real services.
It merely gives billions to school administrators who are able to employ good grant writers. The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 25, 2010, reported that an Obama Department of Education official observed that some high schools are “dropout factories,” and many who graduate have to take remedial courses in college.
A 2011 poll indicates that people are losing faith in the public education system. As Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute observed, “People will see the president’s budget as a definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over that has failed, and $2 trillion of federal spending has failed America’s children.”
The reason could be that the influx of undocumented foreign nationals is integral to the re-distribution of wealth by means of class warfare permeating the Obama re-election rhetoric.
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In Defense of Animals: San Antonio Zoo
Elephants Lucky And Queenie In Danger At The San Antonio Zoo
Please click on the link at the bottom of this page to send a letter to the USDA via In Defense of Animal’s contact form.
After the elephant Queenie was sent to the San Antonio Zoo in April to join the unfortunate Lucky – amid great controversy and opposition from thousands of pro-elephant advocates around the country – IDA pledged to closely monitor their situation.
Elephants Queenie and Lucky at San Antonio ZooWe recently received alarming videotaped footage of dangerous aggression between Queenie and Lucky, and filed a complaint with the USDA, demanding they be removed from this unsafe situation caused by the very small size of their enclosure. (Note that the zoo now calls Queenie “Boo,” so IDA uses that name in the complaint.)
Backed by one of the world’s leading elephant scientists, ElephantVoices co-director Dr. Joyce Poole, who has been studying elephant behavior in Africa and Asia for more than 30 years, the complaint warned of dire consequences should Lucky and Queenie continue to be held in the zoo’s outdated exhibit. In behavioral observations provided to the USDA, Dr. Poole observed aggressive behavior by Boo toward Lucky:
“Lucky is being terrorized by Boo [Queenie]. This kind of persistent bullying is not seen in the wild, because elephants have other activities with which to occupy themselves, and because they can remove themselves from conflict, if need be. In my opinion, the primary cause of this undesirable situation is that the elephants have too little space.”
The zoo, and not the elephants, is to blame for this predicament. Lucky and Queenie are victims of an outdated system that allows zoos to keep two elephants weighing more than four tons each in a space smaller than many backyards. In such restricted conditions, an elephant is going to get hurt.
IDA strongly urges the USDA to act immediately to avert a tragedy at the San Antonio Zoo. We’re calling for the removal of the elephants and their transfer to a natural-habitat sanctuary where they would have room to move and could choose their companions. Until that can take place, IDA is asking the USDA to require constant monitoring of the elephants by the zoo.
The San Antonio Zoo acquired Queenie following a settlement facilitated by the USDA with abusive circus handler Will Davenport, who was facing charges for multiple violations of the Animal Welfare Act. IDA opposed the move, which forced Queenie and Lucky to coexist in a less than half-acre exhibit that is too small even for one elephant. Unfortunately, our prediction that the integration of these elephants would be highly problematic, and even dangerous, has become a sad reality.
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Reporting Paula Ebben
BOSTON (CBS) – For the average family, grocery bills are expected to rise as much as 3.5% in the coming year as the cost of food increases.
Suzanne Wheeler-Klein is mom to three hungry boys who typically spends $300 a week on groceries.
Recently she’s noticed that some of her family’s favorite foods are eating away at her budget like cookies, crackers, and cereal.
She’s not alone.
Ricky Volpe tracks the grocery prices for the US Department of Agriculture.
“The reason why consumers are experiencing sticker shock is mostly because food prices are already high. We know that they rose a lot in 2011 and we’re not expecting them to come down,” Volpe said.
He says meat and fish prices are up across the board, particularly beef and veal.
“The inventory of cattle and hogs in the US was reduced quite a bit and now we have strong and growing demand for these foods and that’s a recipe for high prices. And there’s no end in sight,” explains Volpe.
But there is a silver lining: dairy, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables are down in prices.
Prices are also higher for cereal, baked products, and packaged foods. One way to save money is to skip out on the pre-portioned goodies and bag your own snacks.
Jessica Patel with Bankrate.com says shoppers can spot savings just by looking up and down the aisle.
“A lot of time if you’re in a rush you’ll just grab it and go. You can look above or below that eye level and a lot of time find bargains and deals,” said Patel.
Also, boost your bottom line even more by grabbing what’s in season. and don’t knock tried and true savings strategies.
“Buying in bulk when things are on sale. Looking at the local circulars. Clipping coupons they all really help to add up,” Patel said.
Suzanne just tries to make sure her family finishes everything in the fridge before they head back to the grocery store.
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Patience and prudence are bred in Canadians’ bones. Perhaps never will those characteristics, sometimes derided, serve the country and its people so well as in the year or two ahead.
It is now two years since the spectacular financial fireworks of the Fall of 2008. Countries around the globe, including Canada, went into varying degrees of recession from which they are now emerging. For Canadian executives, the great question is, “Where to from here?” My guess is that Canada performs better than most but considerably short of the heady pre-crisis days. The economy has a different feel to it now. Confidence is shaky, and we will be a while putting the immediate past behind us.
Those certainly were fireworks in the fall of 2008. Henry M. Paulson was the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury at the time. For perspective on just how dire the situation was read his book, On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (2010).
Words like “brink” and “collapse” have not been used by serious people to describe the global financial system since 1929. But we have not had a Lehman Brothers or AIG adventure since 1929 either. Two other books that provide insight into the financial crisis and the players involved are Andrew Sorkin’s, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves (2009) and Michael Lewis’ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010).
You can’t have 2008-category global financial crisis and not have a global recession. The surprise is not the recession but that it was as mild, at least statistically, as it was. At this point, the cynic might question the use of the word “was” and say it may be hasty to call the recession really over; the so called double dip.
The global economy lost 2.5 percent in 2009, with emerging economies like those of China, India and Brazil gaining 1.0 percent and developed economies losing 3.5 percent. Think the G20 for developed economies. Specifically, Canada posted -2.5 percent; the U.S. -2.4 percent; the Euro area -4.1 percent; the UK -4.9 percent; Japan -5.3 percent; China 8.7 percent; India 7.4 percent; Brazil -0.2 percent and Australia 1.3 percent.
Looking forward, we have a lot going for us in Canada. First, we are a major commodity exporter. Commodity demand and price are tied to global growth, and global growth should be in the vicinity of three percent in 2011 and 2012, with emerging economies again substantially outpacing developed economies.
Emerging economies buy Canadian commodities and turn them into finished goods for export. Emerging economy demand for our commodities is good for us in its own right in that it means more sales; it also puts upward pressure on commodity prices, pushing our commodity revenues up further. You cannot beat having abundant oil, gas, water, agricultural products, minerals, etc. in a growing world short of resources.
Second, our financial system is healthy. We do not have the problems they have in the U.S. and Europe. Health in anything is always partly luck but in the case of our financial system, it is also a consequence of sensible legislation and regulation, good management over the years and old-fashioned Canadian prudence when it comes to money.
We should not underestimate the importance of a properly functioning financial system in economic performance. It leads to more savings, more investment, lower capital costs and more stability, all other things equal. When the financial system works properly, you don’t think about it. When it doesn’t, it is all you think about.
Third, by developed-economy standards, Canadian government finances are in good shape. Should recovery falter, Canada has the capacity to stimulate further as needed. Similar to a properly functioning financial system, sound government finances contribute to economic performance on the savings, investment, capital cost and stability fronts.
Fourth, the Canadian economy has considerable forward momentum. The rhetoric aside, the recession was modest and the immediate recovery quite robust. Momentum matters in economics.
Finally, what you are not can be as important in economics as what you are. Canada does not have the aging demographic problems that, for example, Japan does. We do not have the social welfare cost/workplace rule issues that Europe does. We do not have the international obligations that the U.S. does, particularly in the military realm. We are not as dependent on old-economy manufacturing industries as the U.S. and Europe. We are not too dependent on one sector for our prosperity; we are a nice mix of manufacturing, resources, services and government. Our government/political machinery is not as efficient and effective in getting things done as we would like, but it sure seems a good deal better than those of the U.S. and Europe.
That’s the good news for our economy. It’s important, but it does not diminish the fact that the road ahead is going to be tough.
Our short-term problems are as well known as they are intractable. First, the U.S. economy is going nowhere fast. No country is more dependent on a strong U.S. than we are. Exports to the U.S. are about 25 percent of our economy.
The U.S. recovery is disappointing, especially job creation. A return to recession cannot be ruled out and uncertainty is increasingly weighing on the downside. U.S. consumer and government finances are a mess. The U.S. does not invest nearly enough in plant, equipment, machinery, development, infrastructure, education and training to assure the innovation and productivity required to sustain a high-performance, cutting-edge economy. The U.S. is living beyond its means; the proof is its huge and chronic current account deficit.
Second, while our economy has been recovering just how much of the recovery is sustainable and how much is due to short-term monetary and fiscal stimulus is an open question. In any event, very low interest rates and massive government deficits have a way of stoking serious inflation problems if they go on too long. We are approaching the time limit. Disengaging from a stimulus that by peacetime standards is historic will test the recovery. No one should be surprised if things slow down sharply. Our policymakers are in for a challenging time.
Third, the U.S. dollar is likely to be indefinitely weak against a number of currencies, including the Canadian dollar. Reasons include near-zero policy interest rates and massive current account and government spending deficits. Our own relatively strong fundamentals should add to the upward pressure on our currency.
A strong Canadian dollar is good for Canadian consumers in that it reduces import prices. But it is bad for our exporters because it makes their products more expensive for Americans and others. Growth and job creation, especially in manufacturing, would benefit enormously from a stronger U.S. dollar and a stronger U.S. economy.
Fourth, the housing sector in Canada has been a real plus for the economy. But it is running out of steam. Pent-up demand is not what it was, rising borrowing costs are taking a toll and Canadian personal debt levels are pushing the limits of prudence. As housing slows, the economy is likely to slow with it.
Finally, in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) John Maynard Keynes nailed the importance of confidence: “The state of confidence, as they term it, is a matter to which practical men always pay the closest and most anxious attention.” If we are confident about the economy, we make the kind of consumption, investment and employment decisions that make an economy work well. Vice versa, if we are not confident.
The financial crisis, recession aftermath and media coverage of how bad things are has been hard on our collective psyche. Tell people that things are bad often enough and they start to believe it and to act accordingly. Add to that the fact consumers are up to their ears in debt, short on credit and justifiably worried about their jobs, and you can see why it is not surprising that people are shaky.
Two well-documented biases in the way we think play in our confidence issues. The availability bias is our tendency, when confronted with a problem, to search for the most immediate experience and apply it, whether it is applicable or not.
In the case of our economy, the most immediate experience is a financial crisis and slowdown. Whatever unfolds in our economy for the next while will be seen through that financial crisis/slowdown prism and the confidence coming out will be tempered. Rebuilding the kind of unshakeable confidence that drives strong, sustainable recoveries is a one-positive-step-at-a-time process and that takes time.
The confirmation bias is our tendency to make up our mind on a situation immediately and then to justify our position by considering only the evidence that supports the position we have taken. What we have just been through has heightened our expectation that the trouble is not over. The confirmation bias leads us to emphasize information that supports that view. This is not good for confidence and, as with the availability bias, the only cure is good news over time.
For Canadian executives, the watch words in all this are care and caution. Really solid footing for our economy is still a ways off. This is an environment that disproportionately punishes the rash and the reckless. But at the same time, our economy should be better than most and provide considerable opportunity for the prudent and patient. Until the financial crisis works its way out of our heads, things will not get truly back to normal. The old expression “This too shall pass” provides good perspective. But it won’t pass right away.
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Image of the Day: Suomi satellite shows Earth
Night-time view of planet referred to as the
Flat map of Earth at night based off
images collected by Suomi.
The image above — as well as the
complementary collection below — comes from one of the
most high-tech satellites in the sky right now, the Suomi
NASA staff working on Suomi
The Suomi was launched by NASA last year to
deliver in-depth meteorological data. It’s already served
its purpose across several projects, most recently — and
perhaps most notably — while tracking Hurricane Sandy as
it bore down on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
Hurricane Sandy, as captured by Suomi
satellite back in October 2012.
What differentiates Suomi from other spacecrafts
is the low-light sensitivity of its Visible Infrared Imaging
Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument, which can tell the difference
between everything from clouds to snow to fog, even when
it’s looking at the dark side of the Earth.
Another thing it’s obviously good at
doing: capturing the lights of the cities all around the world.
Western hemisphere captured in a single
shot by Suomi spacecraft.
The trick here is its special day-night band.
Where a camera captures a whole picture in one exposure, the
day-night band produces an image repeatedly by scanning a scene and
resolving it as millions upon millions of individual pixels. After
that, the system reviews the amount of light in each pixel and, if
it’s very bright, a low-gain mode prevents the pixel from
being over-saturated. If, on the other hand, the pixel is very
dark, the signal gets amplified.
Suomi photo of the United States at
Suomi was originally launched under the title,
“National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental
Satellite System Preparatory Project” satellite.
Thankfully, it was renamed in honor of Earth observation scientist
Verner E. Suomi.
Suomi cost $1.5bn to build and weighs two tons.
It circles the globe — pole-to-pole —
regularly, at an altitude of about 500 miles, during which its five
on-board instruments monitor the behavior of the land, ocean and
These images were presented at the American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, which was held December 3-7,
and is the largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.
To learn more about Suomi, go to npp.gsfc.nasa.gov
Learn more about Jeff Bausch.
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DENVER – The Russians are coming — in fact, they’re already here — but it may not be what you think.
Twenty-two Russian army paratroopers are in Colorado for two weeks of training with the 10th Special Forces Group at Fort Carson, a post outside Colorado Springs.
The two nations’ militaries have been conducting joint exercises for years, but this is believed to be the first time Russian soldiers have trained on U.S. soil, Lt. Col. Steven Osterholzer said.
The Russians and Americans are training together on basic soldier skills ranging from firing weapons to making parachute drops, said Osterholzer, a public affairs officer for the 10th Special Forces Group.
It’s the first step toward joint exercises in more complicated anti-terrorism operations such as helicopter drops, he said.
“This is the shake-hands, get-to-know-you kind of thing,” Osterholzer said. “What this is not is a massive counterterrorism exercise.”
Some people have seen sinister motives behind the appearance of troops from America’s longtime Cold War enemy at a U.S. Army post, he said.
“Conspiracy theorists are alive and well,” he said. Some people who’ve called Osterholzer have said President Barack Obama is a communist, or that the Russians plan to kidnap Americans and take them back to Russia, or that the training is a step toward universal world government.
“It’s been an interesting two weeks at the public affairs office,” he said.
The training is the result of a U.S.-Russian agreement signed a year ago. The objectives are to create a basic relationship between the two nations’ militaries and to build an understanding about how each other’s military works, including communications, Osterholzer said.
That knowledge is vital in joint military and humanitarian operations such as anti-terrorism measures and disaster relief, he said.
At Fort Carson, the training involves only unclassified weapons, and the Russians have U.S. escorts around the clock to make sure “they stay where they’re supposed to be,” Osterholzer said.
“These soldiers are not running around amok on their own,” he said.
The Russians are staying in a military hotel on Fort Carson but otherwise spend their on-duty and off-duty time with their American counterparts. They’ll also take in a baseball game, watching the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, a minor-league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.
“The visit has gone amazingly well and smooth,” Osterholzer said. “They’re excited to be here. They’re motivated, they’re professional. And our soldiers are the same.”
The Russian contingent includes a colonel but most are enlisted soldiers. They arrived Sunday by commercial aircraft and will leave June 1, again flying commercially.
Next year, an equal number of U.S. soldiers from 10th Special Forces Group are expected to go to Russia for similar exercises, Osterholzer said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/17/us-russian-soldiers-train-together-in-colorado/#ixzz1vJeEpr7U
If Martial Law were to be Declared there is a good chance U.S. Troops would not Obey Orders against Americans nor the
Russian Troops and U.N. Peace Keepers Would !
SO WHAT’S NEXT ?
YOU BETTER WAKE UP AMERICA IT’S ALMOST TOO LATE
ANY QUESTIONS ?
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Growing Up in the South
What was it like growing up in the Deep South with Jim Crow laws everywhere?
How did it feel to sit down to dinner with grown-ups who planned protests between bites of Mama's creamy macaroni and cheese?
And imagine walking right beside Uncle Martin and Aunt Coretta in that historic march from Selma to Montgomery- until your legs were so tired that you had to ride on your father's back.
Paula Young Shelton, a daughter of civil rights leader, Andrew Young, and Raul Colon take readers on a vivid trip back to Paula's childhood in an extraordinary family- the family of the American civil rights movement.
Friday, February 1st
Friday, February 15th
St. Louis, MO
including appearances at 3 St. Louis County Schools:
Monday, February 25th
Forest Grove Elementary
Friday, March 8th
Rolling Valley Elementary
Invite Paula to read or speak at your event.
"Civil rights can be a difficult topic, even for adults, so finding simple language to explain the complexity of injustice and oppression to children is challenging. Shelton, daughter of Andrew Young, accepts the challenge and rises to meet it, approaching the topic from the point of view of the child she was in the ’60s: a four-year-old girl living in the midst of the leaders who helped change the nation."
KIRKUS REVIEWS, 11/15/09
"Her first picture book beautifully captures her childhood during those events that radically changed America. One episode recalls Shelton’s unique contribution to the integration of restaurants. When white owners refused to seat her family, Shelton sat down and cried loudly, an action she calls 'my very first protest, my own little sit-in.' With this incident, she helps modern children understand the hurtful effects of segregation."
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, 12/09
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This Week's Attractions: Voices in Wartime
by Tim Appelo
Voices In Wartime
When it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's incoherent. But Rick King's documentary is one of the most original war movies ever made. It's replete with alternately ghastly and galvanizing combat footage, benefiting from the paradox Truffaut defined: It's impossible to make an antiwar movie, because war is such an exciting cinematic subject. It also riskily focuses on words as much as images. Much of the film consists of interviews about poetry and recitations of masterpieces (and so-so pieces) by everybody from Homer to Auden to the startlingly eloquent 12-year-old Michigan poet Cameron Penny.
The project is Northwest-made. Executive producer Andrew Himes' background as a poet and a Microsoft Internet pioneer positions him to put his literary education to social use; his wife and co-producer, Alex Wilber, is a Seattle novelist (and was my erstwhile Amazon.com colleague). The project originated, ironically, with that archenemy of the American mind, Laura Bush, who summoned poets to the White House for a January 2003 symposium honoring Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Langston Hughes. Irascible Port Angeles invitee Sam Hamill launched a poets' revolt to turn the evening into an Iraq-bashing antiwar extravaganza. So Laura canceled the fete; Hamill et al. triumphantly relocated the event to New York, and enlisted Whitman, Hughes, and lots of living poets in the fight against Bush warmongering.
King and editor Daniel Loewenthal whip the footage documenting this satisfying fracas into pretty good shape. Far better is the film's extended treatment of World War I shell-shock poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. The superimposition of war scenes and Owen's handwritten death poem "The Last Laugh," complete with scribbled revisions, is literary explication on a par with Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory.
There are other high points, but nothing else in the movie approaches the structural integrity of the Bush vs. Hamilland WWI passages. The narrative hops from poet to poet and war to war almost at random; the nice joining of the segues can't conceal the lack of logic. Much ofthe verse is movingly intoned, especially Garrison Keillor's profound and basso profundo reading of Whitman's CivilWar dirges. But a sympathetic cause and an inspiring subject, such as Seattle poet Emily Warn, do not always spell aesthetic success. Warn's touching story of her D-Day hero dad's tragic end does not prevent her poem about him from sounding like warmed-over Wordsworth.
Despite such longueurs and hiccupping rhythms, Voices is well worth seeing. And if the truncated versions of the poems vex you, you can check out their entireties on the Web at www.voicesinwartime.org. Men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. (NR) TIM APPELO
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The luxury yacht Steve Jobs had been designing up until his death a little over a year ago and on october 28th it was unveiled in the city of Aalsmeer in the Netherlands. The ship is about 230 to 260 feet long, for instance, and made entirely of aluminum, which makes it particularly light. And if you had any doubt this is Steve Jobs' yacht, there are seven 27-inch iMacs in the wheelhouse. According to One More Thing's sources, the Jobs family will be present for the yacht's christening ceremony proper... "After our omelets at the café, we went back to his house and he showed me all of the models and architectural drawings. As expected, the planned yacht was sleek and minimalist. The teak decks were perfectly flat and unblemished by any accoutrements. As at an Apple store, the cabin windows were large panes, almost floor to ceiling, and the main living area was designed to have walls of glass that were forty feet long and ten feet high. He had gotten the chief engineer of the Apple stores to design a special glass that was able to provide structural support. By then the boat was under construction by the Dutch custom yacht builders Feadship, but Jobs was still fiddling with the design. "I know that it’s possible I will die and leave Laurene with a half-built boat," he said. "But I have to keep going on it. If I don’t, it’s an admission that I’m about to die.""
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Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund, said investors are increasingly at risk as global financial markets run out of energy and time.
“The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return,” Gross wrote in his monthly investment outlook posted on Newport Beach-based
Pacific Investment Management Co.'s website last week.
The record monetary stimulus of the Federal Reserve, triggering near-zero interest rates, has crippled savers and prior business models that were based on a positive real return, he said. Real growth of the economy has suffered in the process as net interest margins at banks fall, insurance companies struggle to make returns and pension funds are increasingly underfunded.
Investors should position for eventual inflation as the “end stage of a supernova credit explosion” is likely to produce more inflation than growth by holding Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, Gross wrote. “Get used to slower real growth; QE and zero-based interest rates have negative consequences. Move money to currencies and asset markets in countries with less debt and less hyperbolic credit systems” such as Australia, Brazil, Mexico and Canada.
Following the end of it two-day rate-setting meeting last week, the Federal Open Market Committee kept its debt purchasing, in its latest quantitative easing program, at the rate of $85 billion a month. The Fed is purchasing $40 billion a month of mortgage bonds and $45 billion a month of Treasuries. The Fed has held its target rate in a range of zero to 0.25 percent since December 2008.
Inflation for the 12 months ending in November was 1.4 percent, according to the Fed's preferred gauge. That's below the central bank's longer-run target of 2 percent. Investors expect inflation of 2.3 percent over the next five years, as measured by the spread between yields of five-year TIPS and nominal notes.
Gross recommended five-year Treasury securities after minutes of the Fed's Dec. 11-12 meeting showed several members of the FOMC said it would probably be appropriate to slow or stop purchases well before the end of 2013. The Fed is in its third round of bond purchases under the quantitative-easing stimulus strategy.
Gross raised the percentage of Treasuries held in his flagship $285 billion Total Return Fund to 26 percent in December, the highest level since July, according to the latest available fund data on Pimco's website.
“Transition from financial to real assets if possible at the margin,” Gross wrote. “Buy something you can sink your teeth into – gold, other commodities, anything that can't be reproduced as fast as credit.”
The Total Return Fund increase kept its holdings of non-U.S. developed nations' debt at 12 percent last month. Gross cut the fund's emerging-market debt to 7 percent, from 8 percent.
The fund gained 10.4 percent in 2012, beating 95 percent of its peers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The fund was down 0.28 percent in January.
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Describing the Iraq War as "most divisive and difficult issue since Vietnam", he also offered the following from his prepared remarks:
"Burdened by two wars, faced with dangerous new threats and global uncertainty, beset by serious long-term domestic problems and divided by raw political partisanship — America now reaches for a national consensus of purpose...In the question-answer portion, Hagel made the following remarks (quotes may not be exact):
I believe the political currents in America are more unpredictable today than at any time in modern history. We are experiencing a political re-orientation, a redefining and moving toward a new political center of gravity. This movement is bigger than both parties. The need to solve problems and meet challenges is overtaking the ideological debates of the last three decades."
"I am not an anti-war candidate - I have never been anti-war...to consider me an anti-war candidate is just not correct."To clarify, he suggested that a nation's national security is not just the strength of its military, but also includes economic as well as social factors. He further mentioned that Reagan's withdrawal of US Marines from Beirut and Eisenhower's reluctance to militarily escalate in South-East Asia did not classify them as "anti-war" Presidents. Although, the disdain for the current Administration's policies was clear when he talked about "wise, smart use of military power".
Anyone dreaming of a blockbuster Unity Ticket (Hagel teaming up with former Republican and Reagan Administration official Jim Webb, the newly-elected Virginia Senator, for example) had their hopes quashed. Hagel made sure to accentuate his affiliation with the Republican Party. Very pleased to hear that.
"Well, I think I've made it pretty clear, and I think my record is rather clear - I am a Republican."He talked about his first ballot, cast from Vietnam in 1968, in which he "didn't vote for Humphrey" and "probably" voted Republican down the line.
"I have based my entire political life on the party that I thought I shared most of my political philosophy, and that is the Republican Party...I have been disappointed in my party over the past few years...I don't see that same party today [referring to his description of the 1968 GOP] and I would like to continue to influence my party to get it back to where it was when I first joined."He also spoke about the unprecedented attention to the Presidential race and the early onset of primary fever:
"I do fear we are doing damage to our system...we are captive to ideologies and I believe that will change - the American people will demand it."On that note, what are the strategic implications of Hagel's decision to postpone? Well, on the whole it's a a smart move, because of the intense competition in the Republican field right now. Hagel, whose foreign policy views differ substantially from the rest of the announced candidates (with the exception of Ron Paul, who is a hero in his own right), would have gotten lost in the sauce.
His moment of opportunity may present itself if Iraq continues to deteriorate to the degree that even the mainstream of the GOP base looks at him as a sage for his ongoing criticism of the "stay the course" approach that McCain, Giuliani et al will sink defending. Meanwhile, a steady stream of favorable mainstream press coverage will likely continue, as Hagel's delay will only serve to whet the appetites of the press, which makes pets out of Hagelicious mavericks (like the McCain of yore).
Of course, Hagel's decision to delay is nonetheless a big gamble, because while all the rest of the candidates, including the other 2nd tier contenders, go about the business of building organizations, Hagel's non-committal to the race precludes him from doing that. For example, an activist like me, who would be more than delighted to criss-cross New Jersey speaking as a surrogate for Hagel at every GOP event I could get to, has little choice but to sit on his hands and wait, while other candidates continue to devour the attention of potential primary voters.
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