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Grand Banks Heritage 41EUBy Capt. Grant Rafter
When a boatbuilder replaces its best-selling model, it must ensure that her replacement not only incorporates all of the positive features of her predecessor, but surpasses them. Grand Banks has worked for three years to make sure it did just that when the newest boat in its Heritage Series, the 41EU, replaced the 42. The improvements were based on a worldwide effort, with plans, parts, and construction elements undertaken in facilities all over the world.
According to Grand Banks marketing director David Hensel, the builder began by talking directly to owners through a series of focus groups and online surveys. The company also set up a dealer advisory counsel to get input from its worldwide distribution centers.
With the info in, Grand Banks confirmed what it had suspected: The new boat needed a hull design and an engine package that could accommodate a wide range of owners, from those who enjoy slow-speed offshore cruising to those who dart along the coast in calm waters.
"The [42's hull] was originally designed for a single screw and a smaller engine, but then people would order a pair of 210s, 350s, or even 500s," explained Hensel. After weighing its options and numerous other factors such as fuel consumption and cost, Grand Banks opted to engineer the vessel in coordination with Cummins MerCruiser (CMD) to accommodate the Zeus pod-drive system. Choosing Zeus was a risk for the builder since the 41EU would be the first Grand Banks offered with one. But if the gamble paid off, it would result in the most versatile production boat the company had ever built.
The hull had to allow for myriad of operating styles, so the builder did something else it had never done before: It designed the entire boat in-house, collaborating work between its design offices in Malaysia and in Vero Beach, Florida. "[We chose] a modified V-hull to meet those dynamic demands," said designer Earl Alfaro. He and his team kept the low-draft keel from the 42 but made a few alterations to maximize gains from the Zeus system. The afterbody buttock lines run parallel to the horizontal shaft line, enhancing the vessel's ability to get onto plane. The team collaborated with CMD to create prop tunnels with hexagonal cross sections converging toward the props to maximize clean water flow over the blades, thus increasing performance. With the hull design complete, the project moved to another location: Hoboken, New Jersey, home of Davidson Laboratories, for model testing. The replicas were about six feet long and ballasted to scale. Various chine configurations and transom deadrises were just a few of the features refined. The team even tested the models with conventional shafting and found the Zeus drives increased efficiency. In the end, Grand Banks opted for a 17-degree transom deadrise and chines that, according to Alfaro, optimized spray deflection in a headsea. She also got a finer entry than any of her sisterships in the Heritage series to minimize resistance.
The next step on the 41's journey was Southeast Asia where workers assembled a full-scale mock-up of the interior in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia. The 'glass process was yet another step forward for Grand Banks, since the 41 would be its first boat with a resin-infused hull, superstructure, and flying bridge. The former two were later fitted together with a shoebox-style joint.
When I saw the 41EU's debut at last year's Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, which marked the end of her global formation process, the warmth of the interior woodwork was striking. And, for the most part, the mock-ups seem to have done their job. Crowds of onlookers passed through her teak-and-maple-soled interior while twin side doors allowed attendees to avoid the chatter generated between the guests seated on the C-shape settee to port and bench-style settee to starboard. Access to components in the engine room was excellent, with the exception of fills for both engine oil and coolant, which were located only a few inches from the overheads. A Grand Banks technician suggested using a length of fuel hose outfitted with a priming pump to siphon liquids into their respective fills, which, while a crafty solution, doesn't allow you to monitor levels via sight.
A few days later, I was back on the 41 outside Port Everglades Inlet to see if the Zeus system lived up to the hype I'd heard prior to and during the show. Long-period two- to four-foot northeast swells rose and fell, propelled by the 15-knot northerly, as I prepared to check her acceleration. When Grand Banks company captain Bill Fink laid the throttles flat, the 41 hustled forward smoothly, reaching a top speed of better than 27 mph within 45 seconds. She planed at about 12 mph, which should please coastal-cruising enthusiasts. (Grand Banks is currently repropping the 42 for improved mid-range performance.) Her ride was, for the most part, dry, although the hard forward chines and greater flare didn't deflect all the spray at top speed in the larger swells. (The vertical Man Ship destroyer-style windshield below was well-salted and required the use of wipers.) Capt. Fink, who owns a 42, vouched for the 41, "She's absolutely dryer," adding, "and more maneuverable."
When we entered the saloon on my way to the lower helm to test his assertions for myself (the 41 is the first vessel with dual-station Zeus controls), I noted something else: She was quiet. With my decibel meter aimed at the helm, she began at a mere 58 dB-A and topped off at a remarkable 73. (For more information, see "Our Numbers.")
I took the controls and found the DTS throttles predictable; With the wheel centered, the boat tracked well (a wheel-position indicator is integrated into the Smart View screens), but it was with the wheel hard over where the joint effort of Grand Banks and CMD really showed. With her throttles wide open and the outside engine spinning at 3000 rpm with the inside engine running around 2650, the 41 made awe-inspiring one-and-a-half boat-length circles. "Couldn't do this on the 42," Capt. Fink remarked with a grin.
Although high-speed handling was phenomenal, the 41 required more finesse at slow speeds. The 26-inch-diameter wheel requires only two turns lock to lock, making minor adjustments difficult. The joystick was also more sensitive on the low end than others I've tested, a characteristic I've found common to Zeus. Both take some getting used to, and according to Hensel, Grand Banks is currently working with CMD to add more deadband to my test boat's steering as well as that of future 41s.
I watched the sun setting over the mangroves near Dania Cut as we tested the Skyhook static-positioning system, which kept us steady in the current-free channel without any growl from the pair of optional 425-hp Cummins. The old 42 was on her way out, and a modern boat had risen to take her place. The initial concept had had a three-year journey, beginning in Seattle, going halfway around the world to South East Asia, and returning to America's boating Mecca of Fort Lauderdale. It had been a long path for the 41EU, but if the 1,560 hulls Grand Banks produced for the 42 is any indicator, she's got another long journey ahead.
For more information on Grand Banks, including contact information,click here.
Not enough space to work in the engine room? Grand Banks has a solution: a utility room below the saloon sole. The room comes with a workbench with a vice, and on my test boat, the optional 'fridge/freezer and washer/dryer combos.
Other non-engine components are housed here as well, including fuel tanks on each side and a water tank on centerline. Every tank has a well-marked port for measuring contents. Batteries are here too, with three AMG 8D house batteries in fiberglass boxes tucked underneath the retractable stairs and two other 8D starters outboard. The sole is gelcoated with a nonskid finish, and there's a 20-gph bilge pump to keep the area dry. —G.R.
This article originally appeared in the January 2009 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.
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Joining us on Home School Heartbeat is HSLDA Senior Counsel Chris Klicka. Chris is here to talk about the effectiveness of parent-taught driver’s education. Chris, thank you for joining us.
Thanks for having me.
You know that old saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”? Are traditional driver’s education programs broken, Chris?
Yes, it seems that the traditional driver’s education programs are not working well. The insurance companies’ statistics show that out of every 100 teen drivers, 37 will be ticketed for speeding, and 28 will be involved in accidents. But when you compare that to parent-taught driver’s education, only eight will be ticketed for speeding, and eight will be involved in accidents. That’s a huge difference, which seems to indicate that traditional driving instruction is not working.
Well, why are parent-taught programs more effective?
I believe parent-taught driver’s education programs are more effective because parents care about their children, and they care about their insurance rates. They care very much for their lives and don’t want them injured, so they’re going to put in everything they can to make sure that the driver’s education program is the best it could be.
Well, Chris, that’s great news. We’re glad to hear that. I’m sure parents will be encouraged by it as well. But until next time, I’m Mike Smith.
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"The experts told Fort Frederica staffers that 4th and 5th graders were too young to learn the complexities of archeology. They were wrong."
The person who described archeology as "the pursuit of gentlemen scholars" never considered a simple fact about soil: it can be deadly. In the desert, a cubic foot of it can weigh up to 140 pounds. Take the recent excavation of an historic well in downtown Phoenix. As the well's profile was being photographed, an archeologist attempted to step out of the hole. The well face collapsed, burying her chest-deep. The woman, rescued after a 911 call, spent a day in the hospital.
The accident prompted OSHA and city safety officials to visit the site to see what went wrong. City archeologist Todd Bostwick, a witness, was left pondering an aspect of the profession that is too often taken for granted. Archeology can be a dangerous business.
The perils of archeology are not restricted to collapsing trenches. Archeologists risk exposure to Lyme disease, valley fever, rabies, hantavirus, cryptococcosis, and an assortment of toxic wastes.
It occurred to Bostwick that archeologists are often unaware of the potential hazards of their work. So he and John Hutira, a project manager with a cultural resources firm, created "Archeology and Safety," a workshop designed to heighten awareness.
The workshop was a sobering experience for Carol Ellick, public education coordinator for Statistical Research, Inc. Driving home, she recalled one of her own experiences in the field: working in an orchard while spraying was going on nearby, which may have caused the headaches and fatigue she experienced afterward. She thought of the time a dig partner had excavated in a 3 x 3 foot hole that was almost 10 feet deep. The soil was a fine-grained, sandy loam, and each time a bucket was set down on the edge, bits of the wall would crumble. "We've all excavated in holes that were dangerously deep," she says, "and were very lucky."
Since 1970 and the advent of contract archeology, the number of excavations has mushroomed. Crews work the field longer, going from project to project, which amounts to an overall increase in exposure. Michael Fink of the Arizona Department of Health—one of the few to have written on health hazards in archeology—says that just the fact that archeologists spend so much time around dust poses a potential threat. "One never knows what's on those dust particles," he says. Aerosolized droplets of urine from rodents, for example, are known to carry hantavirus. In 1993, there was an outbreak of the disease in the Four Corners area, resulting in several deaths. Trash and packrat middens are a potential source of hantavirus, whose symptoms are similar to the flu, but which can obviously get much worse.
There are a number of fungal spores that, when stirred up with dust and inhaled, can have effects ranging from flu-like symptoms to sinus and pulmonary infections. In advanced cases, lung damage can result. Coccidioidomycosis (valley fever), mucormycosis, histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, and blastomycosis are all fungus-borne. The list gets longer and the symptoms more worrisome when ticks, spiders, snakes, and scorpions are considered. Archeologists "need to tell doctors where they've been and what they've done," says Fink.
For Ellick, the issue was important enough to warrant attention at the national level. She contacted Bostwick about cosponsoring a workshop at the Society for American Archaeology's annual meeting in Minneapolis last May. "Archaeology and Safety: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You" was the result. The workshop featured Mitz Del Caro of the Minnesota OSHA office, industrial hygienist Charles McJilton—an expert in toxic waste—and Dan Williamson, who represents a manufacturer of hydraulic trench-shoring equipment. Bostwick recounted the Phoenix incident (complete with slides), and Fink discussed infectious diseases.
To those who may suggest he's exaggerating the problem, Fink says he is calling attention to the potential of sickness and injury. One of the workshop's main objectives, says Ellick, was simply to clarify "who to contact and what you should know before you go into an area to dig or do a survey."
One thing to know is past land use. It's entirely possible, for example, to find oneself knee-deep in PCB-laden soil. Fink remembers an excavation in which the crew discovered pipes full of a black syrupy substance. "We didn't know what it was, but we had to leave." A member of a crew searching for the 1691 bulkhead of the historic Derby Wharf in Salem, Massachusetts, recalls everyone having to don protective masks because the harbor was loaded with lead contaminants from 18th century tanning. Lead-laced sediments, freeze-dried by the winter temperatures, swirled around the site when the wind blew in off the harbor. Historic period bottles can also contain toxics, such as radium.
OSHA, says Bostwick, plays little active role in monitoring sites or informing archeologists. Many say there is plainly "some confusion" on what OSHA's role is. Safety standards often differ from state to state, and although they must all meet OSHA minimums, this makes it difficult for crews to keep track.
OSHA does have explicit standards for construction excavations, with fines of up to $7,000 for violations. Citations can be issued for not having a person versed in the standards on site, for inadequate access to it, for sharing drinking cups, and for the absence of shoring. By many accounts, however, these standards are seldom enforced at archeological excavations.
Thanks to recent efforts like hers, Ellick says that "OSHA is now beginning to look at archeological fieldwork and realizing that standards need to be developed." Says Bostwick, "It's been a lack of information on both sides." Part of the problem is a reluctance to call attention to a project. Another is a long-standing attitude of complacency, the assumption that somehow digging for artifacts doesn't entail risk.
Some report a troubling but pervasive attitude that archeologists are lucky to be working in their chosen field and so are not expected to be too particular. Recalling the colleague who dug in the unstable pit, Ellick says the message is "If you don't do this job, there's someone else waiting in line."
One archeologist involved in promoting safety says that because contract archeology is so competitive, firms are reluctant to adopt safety measures that might add to a project's cost. He suggests that contractors be instructed to separate out safety costs when bidding on projects.
The most common hazard, says Bostwick, is a lack of shoring. "You could probably walk onto many of the archeological sites in this country and see instances where they are violating shoring and trenching standards," he says. This despite what he describes as "an amazing variety" of hydraulic shoring devices considered effective on construction sites. One model operates like a piston, expanding and exerting pressure on either side of a trench. These units, placed at four-foot intervals, leave the trench profile visible. Some companies will customize equipment.
The potential for innovation is great, but, says Bostwick, "there's no dialogue because archeologists aren't using [the equipment]." Another archeologist observes that, for digs and surveys associated with highway construction, an investment is made in flashing barricades to ward off traffic but not in shoring equipment.
Clearly there's still a lot of work to do. Bostwick recently witnessed attendees from the Phoenix workshop in deep, unshored trenches. And the turnout for the SAA session was dispiriting. One of the participants asked "Why, if there are 2,000 people attending this conference, are there only 8 of us in here?"
There are signs, however, that some are getting the message. One firm, among many calling for information after the recent workshops, plans to incorporate the SAA outline into its company manual. In Iowa, the office of the state archeologist now complies with federal occupational safety standards. Supervisory archeologists and field crews must be familiar with safety procedures and document measures taken to comply.
Meanwhile, Ellick is planning another session at the SAA annual meeting next year. She sums up the situation succinctly. "Archeologists are working in very unsafe conditions. We need to work with OSHA so that we can be safe and do our jobs."
For more information, contact Ellick at (520) 721-4309
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Has it really been ten years since the Euro was introduced?
When the euro was introduced just after midnight on Jan. 1, 2002, celebratory fireworks exploded above the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt. The historic bridge the Pont Neuf in Paris was lit up in European Union blue with 12 rays of light to symbolize the 12 nations circulating the euro — as people in those countries lined up at A.T.M.’s to get their hands on new bills that would be daily reminders of the project of European integration and unity.
Ten years later, the word “euro” in a headline is usually paired with the word “crisis.” Instead of hosting celebrations for the 10-year anniversary, policy makers appear to be staying as quiet as possible, as if hoping not to upset the brief calm that has come with the holiday season after European central bankers injected nearly $640 billion into the European banking system in December.
Will Europe get its act together? The recent events in Italy have to be encouraging. Let’s see if the austerity can be sustained.
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This excerpt taken from the MRVL 10-K filed Apr 14, 2005.
Storage of Data
A substantial portion of all business and personal information is recorded on magnetic disk drives in data servers, workstations, personal computers and a variety of emerging consumer devices. As end-user data requirements increase, disk drive suppliers must consistently offer drives with faster data transfer rates and higher capacities. Disk capacity is measured by areal density, which is the amount of data stored
on one square inch of disk space. Also, within computers the transmission of data from the disk drive to the motherboard is transitioning to Serial ATA technology from Parallel ATA technology. Serial ATA technology allows data to be transmitted at higher speeds but requires a change in the silicon components on both the disk drive and the motherboard.
A critical component in every disk drive is the read channel. The read channel is a physical layer device that transmits and receives the data that is stored on the magnetic disk and converts it to the digital data required for use in computing systems. The read channel plays a critical role in enabling the disk drive to achieve higher data transfer rates and areal densities. Often, the read channel can become the limiting bottleneck for the entire disk drive system because higher data transfer rates complicate recovery of the data stored on the disk. As data tracks are packed more closely together to achieve greater areal density, problems arise from interference between adjacent data tracks. These challenges require increasingly sophisticated read channel designs.
In addition, as disk drive manufacturers seek to reduce costs, they now largely require that functions traditionally performed by stand-alone integrated circuits be combined with the read channel into a single integrated circuit referred to as a System-on-Chip, or SOC. Components which are now integrated into a single chip include the read channel, hard disk controller, embedded memory and one or more microprocessors.
Traditionally, disk drives have been primarily utilized by data servers, workstations, and personal computers. However, over the past few years, there has been a growing trend for a variety of new consumer electronic devices to integrate disk drives to increase the devices' storage capacity. Consumer devices such as personal video recorders and gaming consoles have adopted standard disk drives used by personal computers. Additionally, there has been a growing adoption of small form factor drives used by emerging consumer electronic devices such as MP3 music players and PDAs. These small form factor drives are much smaller in size than drives used by personal computers and typically have lower power and utilize different interfaces to the host CPU.
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China, South Korea Slam Japan’s Claims Over Disputed Islands
South Korea expressed “deep regret” that Japan chose to assert its claim to disputed islets for an eighth year in an annual defense white paper released today, and China said Japanese officials had made irresponsible and erroneous comments on a separate group of islands claimed by both nations.
The war of words underscores growing unease over China’s assertiveness in disputed waters, as countries try to use their territorial claims to support a push for undersea gas, oil and fishing rights. The tensions have led to skirmishes: The Philippines this month denounced “intimidation” from China and warned of possible “physical hostilities” at a regional security meeting following a two-month standoff with Chinese vessels over a disputed reef in the South China Sea.
“Recently we have noticed the irresponsible remarks made by some officials in Japan about the Diaoyu islands,” China’s Defense Ministry Spokesman Geng Yansheng said at a media briefing today in Beijing. “Such erroneous remarks will be met with the opposition of the Chinese people.”
Japan’s focus on China’s growing military strength has sharpened this year with a dispute erupting over rights to a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea after Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara unveiled plans to buy them. In May, China canceled a visit to Japan by a top general, Guo Boxiong.
Japan’s central government has offered to buy three of the disputed islands for 2 billion yen ($25.6 million), the Sankei newspaper reported today. The private Japanese owner refused the offer, saying he prefers to sell the land to the Tokyo metropolitan government, the newspaper said. Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura told reporters today that the report was incorrect, and declined to comment on the status of talks with the owner.
“The Senkaku dispute matters for its capacity to transform Japanese thinking about Chinese intentions,” Brad Glosserman, executive director of Pacific Forum CSIS, a Honolulu-based research institute, wrote in an e-mail. “Japan remains the third-largest economy in the world, and while it is deeply pacifist -- or defensive -- in security orientation, a change in its thinking would ripple throughout the region and could truly transform the region.”
An editorial in the China Daily newspaper today said Japan’s territorial claims “do not hold water.” Japan’s claim over a separate group of islets controlled by South Korea sparked an angry rebuke from Seoul, with South Korea’s defense ministry demanding a correction and summoning Japan’s Seoul- based military attache, according to a statement on the foreign ministry’s website.
While China had the ability to safeguard its territorial integrity and maritime rights, much of its military technology is still outmoded, Geng said. The PLA has “a lot of old equipment” that “still lags far behind,” Colonel Lin Bai, an officer in the People’s Liberation Army’s General Armament Department, said at the same briefing.
China is making “smooth progress” in its development of an aircraft carrier, and tests and sea trials of the carrier will continue, Lin said. “The Great Wall was not built in a day,” he said.
The relationship between China’s People’s Liberation Army and the Communist Party is becoming more complicated as the military modernizes, becomes more professional and undertakes a wider variety of duties, Japan’s Defense Ministry said in the white paper. A more professional military could be tougher for civilians to control, Toshinori Tanaka, director of the Strategic Intelligence Analysis Office, told Bloomberg News.
“The decision-making process has become less clear and that makes it more difficult to deal with,” Tanaka said.
Senior Colonel Wang Yongsheng, vice director of the People’s Liberation Army Political Research Office, told reporters in Beijing that the Chinese military was firmly under the control of the Communist Party.
“Some people hold the wrong view, calling for making the military less political-party oriented, less nationalized,” Wang said. “Some are even calling for the military to be separated from the leadership of the party. This is something we are firmly opposed to.”
Lack of Transparency
Japan reiterated its concern about the lack of transparency in China’s defense spending, which it said has grown 30-fold over the past 24 years. China is also expanding its ocean-based military presence, while intelligence-gathering missions have been observed in waters close to Japan, the report said.
The report reiterated Japan’s plans to beef up the defense of remote islands and surrounding waters where no military personnel are currently stationed. It also highlighted plans by Japan’s ally the U.S. to step up focus on Asia.
“Recognizing that many of its security and economic interests are closely linked to development in Asia, the U.S. is placing more importance on the Asia-Pacific and strengthening ties with its allies in the region,” the report said.
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As the group and senior technical leader of Vehicle Design and Infotronics for Ford Research and Innovation, the birthplace of Ford SYNC®, K. Venkatesh Prasad is Ford’s “What’s Next” guy, responsible for the research, architecture, standards, applications development and vehicle system integration of electrical, electronics and embedded software technologies.
In the early 1960s he was just a small boy in Chennai, India, who was fascinated with electricity. As a precocious five-year-old undeterred by his parents’ heed to not play with wires, Prasad conducted his first experiment with electrons by plugging two wet shoelaces into a 220-volt power outlet.
“That shocking lesson stays etched in my mind today,” he said.
Before joining Ford Motor Company in 1996, Prasad worked as a senior scientist at RICOH Innovations in Menlo Park, Calif., developing automatic “lip reading” as a novel human-machine interface. In addition, he was at Caltech and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where he worked on the world’s first telerobotic visual surface inspection system to help design the International Space Station.
Attracted by an open-ended challenge to discover ways to integrate “intelligence” into cars and trucks, Prasad joined Ford to work with a small group of engineers in the development of adaptive headlamp and lane-mark detection technologies.
“When I first met with Ford decision makers, they asked me what I knew about cars and I told them, ‘Not much.’ They said, ‘That’s who we need… we have 15,000 engineers here who know everything about cars and trucks. What we need is someone from outside our box to help us make our products safer, cleaner and the journey more fun.’ That intrigued me,” said Prasad.
As Ford’s What’s Next guy, Prasad in the late 1990s was imagining the vehicle as a software platform where features and services could be beamed in from the outside – without incremental built-in hardware. This was during the time when others were hot to find better ways to build in phones and trunk-mounted six-disc CD changers.
“In early 2000, formats started to change drastically – no longer were mechanical devices necessary to play music, only a piece of software. Everyone started carrying cellphones,” he says. “I envisioned transforming the move-alone vehicle into an inter-networked platform-on-wheels so people could use the devices they already had in their vehicle and reduce the steps needed to do things. Such connectivity required a revolutionary change of thinking.”
That revolutionary mind-set led to the development of Ford SYNC. Software-based, the voice-activated SYNC system allows Ford and Lincoln vehicle owners to seamlessly connect to their cellphone, MP3 players and a host of other features and services in and through their vehicle – hands-free.
For the What’s Next guy at Ford, the upgradeable SYNC platform is only limited by the imagination and market acceptance of emerging digital connectivity technologies.
“SYNC is helping Ford redefine the automotive user experience,” said Prasad. “Our challenge is to make sure we leverage the capabilities of the SYNC platform so that all functionality in the vehicle is safe and without distraction to the driver.”
Personal Insights and Fun Facts
About Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 166,000 employees and about 70 plants worldwide, the company's automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford's products, please visit www.ford.com.
May 18, 2011
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Could aliens and superheroes help educate young Kenyans and help them overcome ethnic tensions?
Kenya’s Human Rights Commission (KHRC) is hoping that it can do just that with “Attack of the Shidas: AKAs Save Planet Earth” where the superpower our young heroes wield is tolerance and a desire for equality.
In a desert town in the far north, people from three communities depend on a borehole for all their water. But the borehole is being emptied at night. Water is running out!
The three communities accuse each other of stealing water. But then Tosha, Shana and Pato discover that they have special powers. Can they stop the thieves from sucking all the water in the borehole before war breaks out?
The KHRC developed the storybook for kids aged 9-16 after a study showed that around 6 out of 10 kids were aware of tribalism and felt compelled by their parents to discriminate against other ethnic groups.
The study was inspired primarily by a body of work that suggested not only were children affected by the post election violence of 2007/2008, but also that children as young as 15 were being recruited as part of youth militia who helped perpetrate that violence.
This created a need to find ways in which primary, secondary and teacher training programs could encourage tolerance and diversity and educate children on the issues surrounding ethnic violence and, effectively, stop them from being vulnerable to recruitment.
Three children in the town discover they have special powers as only they can see and hear the invisible water thieves that bring with them numerous other problems to the three communities. Yet nobody believes what the children have to say, because these three children possess special powers of equality and tolerance that enable them to see what others in their communities cannot see. Can the children stop the aliens before war breaks out in the town?
“Attack of the Shidas: AKAs Save the Planet” is among the first to venture into the genre of science fiction to address the very delicate and contentious issue of discrimination by providing simple and practical messages to children in an entertaining manner. The storybook has been pre-tested among pupils and students of 5 primary and one secondary school as well as 15 teachers drawn from Siaya, Kitale, Marigat, Kwale, Wajir and Nairobi (Kawangware, Kibera, Musa Gitau, Mathare and Lavington).
The book was backed by Worldreader, a non-profit organization that wants to put books into the hands of children and families in the developing world using e-book technology. Purchasing Worldreader books can also help fund school literacy programs with a portion of every sale going back into the local school system, so not only does this initiative aim to educate, it will also help to maintain itself and other literacy drives.
What’s more, the book really does seem capable of reaching its target audience.
Reports the KHRC:
According to the children who have read the storybook, its greatest attribute is that it makes children who are tolerant of ethnic and other diversities the super heroes, whose special powers come from having skills to recognise and confront discrimination in the form of hate speech, songs, poems, sayings, proverbs and even jokes in the form of ’mchongoano’ often used by children. The storybook is expected to impact on children’s knowledge, attitude and practices on equality/non-discrimination.
The background report and the book itself were formally launched on September 10 at an event officiated by Hon., Mutula Kilonzo, Minister for Education. The book, as well as being made available on Amazon, is being sold in paperback in a number of Nairobi bookstores.
Image derived from "Attack of the Shidas: AKAs Save Planet Earth," used under Fair Use terms, no infringement intended.
Disclaimer: The views expressed above are solely those of the author and may
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"For the use and good and profit of anyone who wants to enter this profession."
-- Cennino Cennini, sometime before 1437
Prime the Panel
You will need:
- Your rabbitskin glue-sized panel (See "Size the Panel")
- Your prepared chalk gesso (See "Make Chalk Gesso" )
- A double boiler or saucepan of water
- A priming brush
- Sandpaper, medium fine and very fine
- A dust mask or respirator
This process takes a few days, although you do less than an hour's work each time. I recommend priming several panels at a time for maximum efficiency.
1. Place the jar of gesso in a pan of COLD water and slowly warm them together. (If you have freshly-made your gesso, as instructed here, leave it in its bath of hot water)
2. When the gesso is warm and soft, stir it gently. You don't want bubbles. It doesn't need to be warmer than the minimum necessary to keep it at a creamy texture. At any rate, try not to let the gesso get hotter than 127 degrees fahrenheit (52 degrees celsius).
3. Dip the priming brush into the warm gesso, brush excess back into the jar, and lay a smooth coat on the panel, the brushstrokes all going one way. Prime the edges of the panel too. You may need to add a little water to the gesso jar now and then, as it evaporates; you want a thin texture. But don't overdo it.
4. Allow the gesso to dry. For the first coat this may take less than a hour, but subsequent coats will take longer and longer.
5. Alternate priming one side and the other of the panel and direction of the brushstrokes -- lengthwise, widthwise, diagonally this way and that.
6. At some point you must sand the gesso. Some like to sand it mirror-smooth after every layer, others don't sand until all the gesso is on. I like to sand after the first two or three coats, then after every other coat until the panel is done. The considerations are these:
- The panel must be utterly dry before you sand -- at least an entire day's drying.
- All the brushstroke ridges must be sanded down (This is why you don't want a very thick gesso.). Use the medium sandpaper first, then polish with the fine. Optionally, you can give a final polish with a piece of undyed linen wetted and wrung out -- it's quite fussy, but gives an almost mirror-shine to the gesso.
- You will end up doing the same amount of sanding no matter what. Do you prefer to do it spread out over days or in one big marathon at the end?
Your gessoed panel is now ready for painting.
NOTES: Remember to wear a dust mask or respirator when sanding!
Do not handle the gessoed panel with your bare hands. Skin oils will mar the painting surface.
If your masonite has a rough back, or you are sure you will not paint on the back of the panel, you need only put two or three rough coats of gesso on, and you don't have to sand it smooth.
Letting the gessoed panels dry for extra time improves them. This is another good reason to gesso several panels at once.
The next step is to make the egg medium.
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Dispatch from Geneva 3: End game for endosulfan?
It's Friday morning Geneva; the last day of POPRC6. For the last four days, scientific experts, government delegates, and representatives from industry and NGOs like PAN have been discussing some of the most dangerous chemicals in the world: those which are not only highly toxic but also extremely persistent. Long after they fulfill their intended purposes, these "chemical zombies" continue wander the Earth inflicting indiscriminate damage, refusing to die.
All of the big decisions of the week have yet to be taken:
- Do we allow plastic and foam contaminated with endocrine disrupting flame retardants to be recycled into carpet, toys, and other items destined for our homes?
- What about waste containing PFOS, a chemical that disrupts hormones, causes cancer and developmental delays, and is completely resistant to degradation? Should we continue sending these items to landfills, or should we try to store these items until we know how to safely destroy them?
- Are short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCP) and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) persistant organic pollutants that warrant global action?
- ...And of most interest to PAN: Should endosulfan be banned?
With regard to this last question, things are looking ... up in the air.
After hours of contentious discussion on Monday night, Tuesday afternoon, and Tuesday night, deliberations were moved to a closed door session — a so called "drafting group," closed to observers like PAN. While we it's unfortunate that we were unable to participate in the subsequent negotiations, this has also meant that the industry was excluded and their non-stop barrage of objections was cut off.
On Thursday afternoon, the drafting group came back with a revised document. Overall, it's still a strong document that unequivocally makes the case for a global phaseout, but it has been weakened. For example, it now contains the unsubstantiated claim that a global ban would cost the Indian chemical industry $40 million a year in lost exports. This number seems impossibly high given that most major users outside of India (and China, which has its own domestic manufacturers) have already banned it or committed to phasing it out. So whether or not it's banned under the Stockholm Convention, India's export market for endosulfan is disappearing. The document also claims a ban would cost the Indian manufacturers 6,000 jobs. But Excel Crop Care, responsible for more than half of India's production, has only about 1,200 employees in total and makes numerous products in addition to endosulfan.
China & "to vote, or not to vote" - these are the questions
But this is all water under the bridge at this point. The members of the drafting groups have agreed to these changes and others, presumably in the spirit of compromise. All that remains to be decided is that most important question: Should endosulfan be banned? It's clear that India will not agree to this, no matter what the document says. It's also clear that the overwhelming majority of countries on the committee are for a ban. What's unclear is China's position. They opposed moving endosulfan toward a ban at earlier meetings, but have been totally silent on the question this week. Active support from China would help win over countries who might be on the fence; their opposition could grind things to a halt.
But the big question is whether they will take actually take a vote. The committee is loath to do so, on the logic that consensus-based decision making fosters cooperation and compliance with whatever the decision is. It's also embarrassing for countries to be out voted. So some members may prefer to put off making a decision until next year, on the hope that views may change in the meantime. But doing so is unlikely to change the mind of India, who's given every indication that no matter what the evidence, they will oppose a ban on endosulfan.
Hopefully common sense will prevail, and later today the committee will vote to recommend that endosulfan be banned.
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The Bonomo Magic Clown was the main character in a children's television program sponsored by Bonomo, makers of Turkish Taffy candy.
Bonomo Turkish Taffy was a unique candy confection that was most popular during the 1950's and 1960's. Harder than traditional taffy, the product was named "Turkish Taffy" as a nod to the Bonomo family's Turkish roots. The candy was made to be cracked into small pieces by slamming it hard on a table or on the sidewalk. It came in three flavors: vanilla, chocolate and banana.
Tico Bonomo, the son of company founder Victor Bonomo, created the Bonomo Magic Clown Show with the express intention of using it as a marketing vehicle for the candy. In the 1950's, it was permissible for a single sponsor to pay for a program AND make the product an important part of the show. This tactic was especially effective in children's programming.
Tico's idea was to use either a magician or a clown. He decided on the best of both- a magic clown. A few years later, this same logic would be used to create the Ronald McDonald character for McDonald's.
The "Magic Clown" show was set as a magic circus, complete with circus-themed comedy sketches, games, magic tricks and even a live studio audience of excited children.
The program premiered on September 11, 1949 on NBC-TV in New York with "Zovello" (Sam Wishner) as the host. Zovello was a seasoned promoter and magician, and was perfect for the role of the hard-selling magic clown show host. His hand puppet "Laffy" ryhmed with "taffy". Read more about Zovello
Andre Barruch, a veteran radio announcer and actor, was the show's announcer and straight man for the Magic Clown's antics. He also did all of the live commericals for the candy.
After Zovello left the show, the second actor to play the Bonomo Magic Clown was Dick Dubois, from 1952 until 1958. During his time with the show, it was moved to WABD-TV beginning on Sunday, June 27, 1954. Read more about Dick Dubois
On Saturday, September 27, 1958, the show moved again, this time to WNTA-TV in Newark, New Jersey. With the move, the show got a new actor to play the Bonomo Magic Clown. Comic character actor and puppeteer Doug Anderson took the role, along with his wife Gayle, changing the format of the show a bit to include crafts lessons, more comedy skits and even in-studio interviews with guest personalities. Read more about Doug Anderson
Though the new format was very popular, the Andersons and the TV station had creative differences, and the show was cancelled. The last broadcast was on Friday, July 24, 1959.
That was not the end of the show, however. In 1970, a Canadian television station revived the concept, with James Randi (The Amazing Randi) playing the role of the Magic Clown. The program lasted one year.
Credit: This biography originated on MagicTricks.com. Please credit this source if you use this information.
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Franklin Ford's unprecedented inquiry into assassination traverses civilizations, cultures, religions, and modes of social behavior to locate the common threads of this often mysterious and always shocking phenomenon.
Are there similarities between the killings of the Gracchi brothers and the Kennedy brothers? Does the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang have roots in the rightist murder teams of Weimar Germany? Was political context as important to the crucifixion of Jesus as to the death of Martin Luther King in 1968? Are political murders usually produced by elaborate conspiracies, or are they more often the work of lone assassins? What circumstances and impulses motivate an individual to risk his or her own life to kill another for reasons of state? This fast-paced narrative, interspersed with reflections, finds intriguing implications in a multitude of famous cases.
From the first known case of political murder, Ehud the Benjamite's stabbing of Eglon, to the recent gunning down of Indira Gandhi by two trusted Sikh bodyguards, the frequency of such acts has varied greatly over time. Mainland Greece suffered few political murders in the violent century of Pericles. The Romans, despite their bloody record under the Empire, avoided assassination for almost four hundred years under the Republic. There was a third such "remission" during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Europe's high Middle Ages, matched by yet another extending from 1650 to 1789. In the interval between, the sixteenth century was an especially violent time in countries such as Scotland, the Netherlands, and France. Assassination and terrorism increased again after 1815, but the nineteenth century did not come close to equaling the twentieth in the number of brutal episodes.
Ford's exploration of calculated, personalized assassination draws on history, literature, law, philosophy, sociology, and religion. Addressing the vast array of cases and combing thousands of years of history, he asks most of all whether assassination works. Does it, in even a minority of cases, produce results consistent with the aims of those who attempt it? Can it forestall evil acts or prevent irreparable damage inflicted by misguided leaders? Or is it "bad politics" in every sense of the term? The questions are large ones, and this book offers a sophisticated basis for seeking answers.
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Israeli supreme court to hear petition protesting against block on reporters seeking to cover conflict
Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 30 December 2008
"Israel's supreme court will hear a petition tomorrow brought by the Foreign Press Association, which represents around 400 foreign journalists, demanding that Israel allow reporters into Gaza to cover the latest conflict.
The sole pedestrian crossing from Israel into Gaza, at Erez, has remained closed to journalists since Israel's bombing campaign began on Saturday.
Two years ago, after Hamas won the Palestinian elections, Israeli authorities stopped all Israeli journalists and Palestinian journalists with Israeli identity cards crossing into Gaza, saying it was too dangerous.....
Egypt has largely kept its one crossing into Gaza, at Rafah, closed except for in rare medical emergencies, and it too does not allow journalists to cross. The only reporters in Gaza now are Palestinians who live there and work for news agencies or for Palestinian and Arab satellite channels, including al-Jazeera......"
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Details: This poster shows Barack Obama, drawn in a style similar to the iconic images created by Shepherd Fairey. At the bottom it says Destiny . In the background is the entire text of one of Obama's famous speeches.
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of the United States and a United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President. Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004. On June 3, 2008, he was named the nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States after a 17-month-long primary campaign. He became the President-elect after defeating Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the general election on November 4, 2008, and is due to be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009.
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Nodding Disease: Success stories under difficult circumstances
“For a typical 12-year-old who should be the picture of health: physical, overly playful, full of energy, noisy and mobile, Nancy Lamwaka is the opposite. She is skinny, malnourished, hungry, profoundly retarded and immobile.” as Edward Echwalu writes on his blog.
Nodding disease has existed for over a decade in Uganda. According to Wikipedia, the Nodding Disease was first documented in Tanzania in the early the early 60s when the disease. Research shows that the disease is common between the ages of 7 and 13.
However recent cases show that the disease has been found in adults.
In Northern Uganda
Recent statistics show that over 3000 children have been diagonized with the disease and over 200 have been killed by this mysterious disease.
Even though a lot of efforts by international organisations like Center For Disease Control (CDC), USAID in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Uganda to do research and to investigate the root cause of the disease in Northern Uganda, surprisingly the government has rather taken a slow approach in providing the much needed medical care to the patients. In the meantime the disease continues to kill and haunt children and adults in many parts of Northern Uganda,
Recently Beatrice Anywar, the Woman Member of Parliament for Kitgum (one of the regions with a high number of victims) transported the victims of the disease to Mulago Hospital – the major referral national hospital in Kampala. In a her press statement Beatrice Anywar said that she wanted the victims to come to the hospital such that they could get medical attention. She added that the government had neglected the victims of the disease and that bringing them to the hospital would also help communicate that many other child victims of the disease still need medical attention.
In response to Beatrice Anywar’s voice and selfless act of bringing the patients to the hospital, the women’s movement in Uganda conducted a couple of events lobbying the government to extend medical attention to the victims of the disease. The women have also mobilized Ugandans to support the cause – more information available here. The government responded to the citizens by promising medical support to the victims.
A recent article by Edward Echwalu shows that there have been some success stories: One month later, Nancy Lamwaka registers some “Improvement”.
Her condition was not helped with the fact that Uganda had no definite answers to her cause. And so did the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) team in Atlanta, which is possibly, the world’s center of medical research grappled with samples in their labs hoping to find remedy for the disease which continued to cause mayhem to the children of northern Uganda.
“There is some improvement from the time Medical Team International came with some drugs for her. The doctors have been giving us a variety of drugs (tablets) to experiment. Depending on which one works, we are going to continue like that. – Edward Echwalu writes.
Nancy’s story shows that in cases where adquate medical attention is extended to the victims of the disease, positive things could happen. Hopefully the government of Uganda will be more responsive to the situation and aid efforts made by the civil society to improve on the situation of the victims by extending the much needed medical attention to the victims.
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Generating compassion is the most effective way to put our meditation into action, says Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, but it isn’t an easy thing to do. By using contemplative meditation, we can turn the thought of compassion into a reality.
When students asked the Buddha, “How should I practice?” the Buddha would answer, “Bring virtue to whatever you are doing. When you sew, make garments with the thought of compassion. When you cook, make food with patience. When you play music, offer it with generosity. Let whatever you are doing become your meditation, and your path will deepen.” These days we call this kind of activity “meditation in action.”
One of the recommended ways to bring meditation into action is to wholeheartedly embrace the path of virtue. How do we determine what is virtuous? We look at the result. Being mindful, feeling compassion, and exercising patience lead to pleasure and lightness of mind. Being angry, jealous, and self-obsessed lead to pain because they constrict the mind and make our consciousness thicker. We take charge of our life by knowing which qualities we want to enhance.
Next we contemplate a quality we wish to take into action. We isolate, clarify, and cultivate a particular virtue so that its seed can take root in our being and grow throughout the day. In contemplation, we practice creating the path of wisdom by fabricating virtue through concept and letting it penetrate us. Then we transcend the concept by incorporating its meaning in our life.
Compassion is one of the most powerful thoughts we can develop in this way. The mind that is directed toward others in every activity achieves the most profound virtue. We may not necessarily feel that kind of compassion right now, so we sit and conjure up an image with words. Perhaps we say, “May all sentient beings be free from suffering and the root of suffering.” That wish would be a good definition of compassion.
At the very least, we say the words; compassion becomes our mantra.
Each language gives a slightly different flavor to this virtue. The English word compassion has a sense of empathy or sympathy; the word in Tibetan literally means “noble heart.” We have different languages getting to the same point: our wish for the suffering of beings to be eliminated.
So we contemplate the attitude of compassion. What is the logic behind our wish to relieve the suffering of others? It’s the basic truth that to relieve only our own suffering will merely perpetuate it. How can we be truly happy while others are suffering? Once the point gets across, the word drops away, and we begin to feel the meaning of compassion. We don’t want ourselves or anyone else to suffer.
Effective contemplation means being a good fire maker. We kindle a spark of feeling with a word or phrase, which eventually ignites the ember of compassion. When the fire dies down, we put on the next log—a support analogy. We embellish our conceptual creation by calling to mind the image of somebody who is close, like our mother or our child. Visualizing that person immediately brings a sense of warmth and understanding; we don’t want anything bad to happen to them. We stay with the feeling, and perhaps even try to make it bigger by visualizing someone toward whom it is not quite so easy to feel compassion. When we lose the feeling, we return to the words.
Learning to generate compassion is the most effective way to put our meditation into action, but it isn’t easy. We often become impatient: we want to go directly from the word to the meaning. When we don’t reach the meaning quickly, we drop the practice. But we need to keep pondering the word because if we hang out with the concept long enough, we will actually feel compassion. This is called skillful means, because in transforming a conceptual thought into feeling, we create a skillful way of orienting our lives. When we engage in compassion, our mind becomes lighter and happier, which benefits others.
When someone asked Shantideva, one of the great teachers of this technique, “Isn’t compassion meditation a little difficult?” he answered, “The small amount of difficulty has such astronomical benefit that it is worth its weight in gold.” In shifting our attitude with the thought “May others not suffer,” we are developing awareness of our own actions and our own suffering, as well as the suffering of other beings.
That is how compassion practice gives us nimbleness of mind. It increases our understanding of basic reality. We call that understanding prajna, a Sanskrit word meaning “best knowledge.” What’s the best thing to know about others? They want to be happy and they don’t want to suffer. There are many variations of what would make them happy, but ultimately, the best way for them to be happy is to be in a state of wisdom and freedom.
When we have a person in mind and we’re wishing that he not suffer, emotions come up, because generally speaking we divide the world between friends and enemies, between those we like and those we do not like. As our practice expands in concentric circles from those we care about to the ones toward whom we feel neutral, and then to those toward whom we feel animosity, our emotions become less pleasant. The stronger our prajna is, the more we can overcome our own emotional obstacles to understand what kind of difficulty even our enemies are experiencing. The more understanding we have, the more compassion we are able to generate.
So the point of practicing compassion is not just to feel emotional toward another being, but to bind compassion with prajna or knowledge and transcend our habitual tendencies. In the beginning we feel compassion in a very dualistic way: “I am being nice to this person.” But as our practice develops, it becomes less and less dualistic and therefore more strong and profound. That’s what differentiates true compassion from “idiot” compassion.
As we continue to expand our compassion and strengthen our prajna, we are simultaneously developing other virtuous qualities: stability of mind, the ability to focus, and sheshin, a Tibetan word that could be defined as “environmental awareness.” Simply knowing what we’re doing further enhances the qualities of sympathy and empathy, the ability to notice more consciously how someone feels—even when she’s got our number and is calling it a lot.
The ability to know how someone really feels helps sustain meditation in action, because it leads us into virtues known as the paramitas, activities that “take us to the other shore,” beyond retracting into ourselves. In offering good wishes to others, we are practicing generosity. Every time we remember to do this, we become more disciplined because we are bringing our focus back to the intention of our practice. Rather than becoming angry or irritated, we are practicing patience. And we are developing exertion in not letting the faults of another person overcome us. Therefore we are stabilizing our meditation further. Such activity keeps sharpening our prajna, which deepens our understanding of why we are on the path. This is how we strengthen our inherent wisdom.
Steeping our mind in compassion for even ten minutes every morning has the power to transform us throughout the day, no matter what we are doing. We become fearless because now we can carry virtue into action, which improves any environment. As a result, we are happier people.
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche is the spiritual leader of Shambhala, an international network of Buddhist meditation and retreat centers. He is the author of Turning the Mind into an Ally and Ruling Your World.
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Memorial card for Fred Lynn
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|Title||Memorial card for Fred Lynn|
|Notes||After surviving his wounds in May 1918, Fred returned to his Battalion in France. He was killed in action on September 29th 1918. |
His name is on the Memorial in Tyne Cot Cemetary, Belgium.
Fred's mother must have been profoundly affected by the war. Three of her 4 sons were involved. Fred was killed in action, John died in 1918 in the flu epidemic, and her husband had died in 1915. She was fortunate in some ways. Her youngest son Walter survived (and lived to be 83), and her 3 sons in law all survived.
|Item Date||September 1918|
|Copyright||The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor|
|Digital repository||The Great War Archive, University of Oxford|
|Contributor Name||Jennifer Bangs|
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Historical Resource Inventory and Evaluation Report: Cal Poly Cottages, August 1, 2006, pages 1-53.
For related files, visit http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/fpcp_mp/56
California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) proposes to demolish three historic on- campus residential buildings known as the "Cal Poly Cottages." Cal Poly hired Crawford Multari & Clark Associates (CMCA) to conduct the environmental assessment of this proposed project. CMCA, in turn, contracted with JRP Historical Consulting (JRP) to prepare this Historical Resource Inventory and Evaluation Report for the historic residences.
The purpose of this document is to comply with state environmental regulations as they pertain to the protection of historic architectural resources. This study was conducted in accordance with Section 15064.5(a)(2)-(3) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines. Under CEQA, the resources in this report have been evaluated in accordance with Section 15064.5(a)(2)-(3) of the CEQA Guidelines using the criteria outlined in Section 5024.1 of the California Public Resources Code. Cal Poly has also required that the resources be evaluated in accordance with the standards used for evaluating historic resources under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Therefore, this report also addresses the potential for these resources to qualify for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
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Learn how to take some everyday materials and turn them into fabulous, hip, wearable jewelry. In addition to a recycling project, we will also learn how to dye, cut and finish leather to make our own custom wrap bracelet. Modern paracord braided bracelets will also be made in class, as we will learn unique ways to upcycle parachute cords and turn them into versatile everyday accessories fit for camping or your favorite outfit. The concepts will be explained step by step and we will move as a class through the materials. There are no rules for creating something you love and everyone will come away with different, unique inspirations and renditions. By the end of the workshop, you will have created a strong base to grow from to create your own designs and execute your original ideas.
No experience necessary
- old belts (single ply belting, not bonded)
- metal ruler
- small paint brush
- "blue" painters masking tape
- rotary cutter
- small rotary mat
- pencil/ pen
$20 (includes strap cutters, paint, leather belting, leather scraps, dyes, poly cord, leather needles, leather punches, paracord, glue gun, sewing machine, rivets & press, screw posts, hair dryers, leather oil & sponge)
Elke Bergeron is the founder of "by elke”, a small handmade company that specializes in repurposed accessories & handbags. Elke is a local Boulderite that transplanted here with her husband and two boys from New York, where she spent 10 years working as a designer in the fashion industry.
After attending her first Makerie Retreat two years ago, she was inspired to pursue her creative dream, which started as the blog "by elke" and quickly grew into a successful handmade business. In addition, she is thrilled to have been invited to teach creative sewing classes at local establishments, Fabricate & Common Threads.
"The best part about what I do is that I get to play all day creating things and there is no one telling me what ‘direction’ I should be going in. Every found object takes on a new life and you never know where it will lead you."
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A smoothie is like your dietary sixth man. The blended beverage won’t get the bulk of your caloric “minutes,” since most of your daily intake comes from regular meals. But when you need help with a goal–like bouncing back from a tough workout, adding extra muscle, or just getting high-quality nutrition when you’re in a hurry–smoothies are ready to step on the court and shoot the lights out. Here are three ways smoothies can support your efforts to be a better athlete, along with sample recipes to get you started.
Studies have shown that taking in a combination of protein and carbs after a workout can help speed up muscle recovery. The carbohydrates replenish depleted glycogen stores (your main source of energy during a workout), while protein lowers your body’s levels of cortisol (a muscle-catabolizing hormone) and boosts muscle-building protein synthesis. I recommend post-workout drinks with a 2:1 ratio of carbohydrates to protein—which means if your mix has 10 grams of protein, it should contain 20 grams of carbohydrates. (Learn more about post-workout nutrition.)
Good, nutrient-dense carbohydrate sources for a recovery smoothie include fresh fruits, fruit juice (look for brands labeled “100 percent juice”), and oats. Some fruits, like pineapples and tart cherries, have anti-inflammatory properties that can lend additional support to muscle recovery. For protein sources, try milk, yogurt (Greek or regular) or protein powder.
If you need to pack on pounds for next season, smoothies can help you reach your goal. A smoothie supplies extra calories, and saves you from having to spend time cooking (and chewing) yet another chicken sandwich. Mix in calorie-dense ingredients like peanut or almond butter if your goal is to add on a lot of mass in a hurry.
*You can up the calorie count by another 200 calories by adding a large banana and increasing the chocolate milk portion to 16 ounces.
Busy athletes don’t always have time to sit down and eat. When you need a quick meal replacement or fast breakfast before practice, a smoothie can come to the rescue. Add fresh fruit like blueberries to your mix for carbs that will help fuel your brain for the day and provide compounds that have anti-inflammatory properties. For a protein that can help tummy health, try Kefir, a yogurt-like beverage stacked with probiotics that support your gastrointestinal system.
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Is there a checklist for a healthy life?
Eric Barker stashed this in #health
Stashed in: #lifehacks, #happiness, Luck!, Optimism, Wealth!, Influence!, Stress, Life, Relationships, Fitspo, Sadness, Anger, Trust, Alcohol!, @bakadesuyo, Awesome, Longevity, Manifestos, Dairy, Fat!, FLOSS!!!, WEAR SUNSCREEN!
In his book, Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, noted happiness expert Ed Diener lays out a checklist of what the research says we need for a good life and why those things are important:
The first ten items are likely to increase your health and longevity. The next ten items are not only likely to help your health and longevity, but they also will make those extra years a lot more fun! Indeed, whereas a few of the first ten healthy lifestyle items sound like hard work the last ten healthy lifestyle items make life more enjoyable.
And other research has shown us that checklists work.
18 for 20. Guess which two I miss.
I'm guessing you don't take baby aspirin and you sometimes talk on the cell phone while driving.
Although for the latter, at least you use a hands-free device.
Yep, cell phone and sunscreen.
I score MUCH lower than you, Chris.
Much work to be done here, much work to be done...
We're really supposed to take baby aspirin?
Take fish oil:
Wasn't there a study recently that drinking EVEN TO EXCESS leads to a longer life than abstaining? Let me find it...
Also, does eating a bit of dark chocolate every day actually have measurable health benefits over eating some other food every day? Like, for instance... YOGURT!?!?!
And finally, I'm pretty sure that overweight people live the longest.
Don't have a link handy but I'm pretty sure it's not really the alcohol at work here. People who drink more socialize more and have a better network of friends. I'm pretty certain that's more responsible for the longevity effects.
I'd be curious to learn more about that weight study. I don't necessarily find it hard to believe that overweight live longer but there are a lot of nagging issues here too.
First, BMI is just a terrible metric to use overall. It treats the obese and professional bodybuilders as the same. Great way to study health there, huh?
Second, the underweight statistic is likely to be EXTREMELY misleading. What happens to the vast majority of people when they fall gravely ill? Yeah, they lose weight. Underweight sick people more likely to die. Shocker. "People with little money more likely to declare bankruptcy." Maybe there were controls for that but given the percentages, I doubt it.
Third, I'd like to see the whole thing adjusted for access to medical care. My guess is your obese/underweight are more likely to be poor and your normal weight/overweight are more likely to be upper middle class/rich. Survival may have a lot more to do with that than actual weight...
They tried to control for old sick people in the underweight category. However having been sick myself... I can see that skinny people have fewer reserves when they happen to go to the hospital. For instance, my father (5' 6") went from 150 to 135 when he had surgery; and I lost about 20 lb when I had my aneurysm. If we hadn't had a LITTLE bit of slack, things could have definitely gone bad.
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James Barnhill is the Agriculture Agent at the Weber County USU Extension office. Farms and ranches are still a part of life in Weber County, despite ever-increasing urban sprawl. It is this rich heritage that has always been a big center of activity at Extension. Mr. Barnhill uses his wealth of technical expertise and practical know-how in consulting with his Extension clients. Other areas of focus are sustainable agriculture, weed control, soil testing, farm safety, irrigation scheduling, plant disease analysis, insect identification and control, dairy herd improvement, farm managment and crop variety trials.
Noxious Weed Control
Noxious, invasive weed species threaten Utah's cropland, pastures, rangelands, forests, wilderness areas, national parks, recreation sites, wildlife management areas, transportation corridors, waterways, wetlands, parks, golf courses, even yards and gardens. Prevention requires awareness and action by land managers as well as the general public, to recognize, report, and control new infestations before they have a chance to expand and spread. Pictures of both the mature plant and rosette stage for identification of weeds, a brief description, and control methods are available at "Utah's Noxious Weed" Brochure
Weber County has held Basic Backyard Beekeeping, Advanced Beekeeping, and Apiary Management classes spring of 2013. Currently we are enrolling for a Beginning Beekeeping Class for April. For more information about dates, times and a registration form, click here. To receive e-mails about upcoming classes call 801-399-8201 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org.
Backyard Chicken Class
Agriculture Efforts Assist Farmers
Several programs are in place to assist farmers and ranchers striving to gain the most from their production efforts. Extension is also a great source for publications on many phases of agriculture. Mr. Barnhill has authored a very valuable pamphlet titled, "Small Pasture Management Guide For Utah" which is available at the Extension Office.
In an inspection tour of John Chugg's dairy farm James "swept" the alfalfa stand with a collection bag looking for weevil. A few were found, but not nearly at the levels that would call for pesticide use. Testing is also available for protein content of alfalfa which is critical to maximum production on a dairy farm.
For more information contact:
Other Useful Websites:
Agribusiness -Website at Utah State University Economics Department. It features prices, markets, risk management and much more.
Labels & MSDS - Site to get access to labels of pesticides.
Pacific Northwest - Features management handbooks of the Pacific Northwest on insects and much more.
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Raspberry Pi to skipper microship across Atlantic
Raspberry Pi's journey to punters pockets has hardly gone swimmingly, but as it prepares to cross the Atlantic in a homemade autonomous boat - aptly dubbed FishPi - the budget Linux PC continues to make quite a splash in the tech pool.
FishPi - the brainchild of enthusiast Greg Holloway - is a 20in long vessel that navigates using GPS and a compass. Solar-powered batteries provide the juice for a 40mm Kort propeller which Holloway hopes will be sufficient to push the vessel across the Atlantic.
The Raspberry Pi unit is encased in a tupperware box to keep it nice and dry. If only the Titanic had such state-of-the-art protection, eh?
With the FishPi still in the proof-of-concept stage, there's a way to go yet, but if you can't wait for its maiden voyage, you can see the craft in action on 3 July 2012 at the Nottingham Hackspace Raspberry Jam . Sail away. ®
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A couple of weeks ago, Wynton Marsalis teamed up with New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden to talk on camera about the relationship between jazz and basketball. The coverage from the basketball blogs was cursory, while the jazz blogs made fun of it. It became clear to me from the reactions from both sides that neither understood the other particularly well, nor did they care particularly much about the connection. This is due in part to the increasingly divergent communities that follow jazz and basketball, but also a product of the obvious lack of depth in Marsalis’s and Rhoden’s attempt to explore the common ground that the sport and music share.
As I’ve mentioned before, I am a big fan of both jazz and basketball, and I believe that there are some interesting parallels and similarities that are worth exploring between them. Watching the NY times video, I get the impression that Rhoden and Marsalis see it, too, but fail to convey the connection to their audience, only to end up looking like a couple of goofy middle-aged guys dissing each other’s post moves.
Despite the appearance that Rhoden and Marsalis don’t really understand one another, some good points about the similarities between jazz and basketball emerge. My favorite comes at the end of the piece, in which Marsalis says, “The most successful improvisation happens like the most successful ball: when every person really knows the function of those plays from their perspective.” The other money quote, that Henry Abbott at TrueHoop picked up on, is that both can be seen as “virtuosity on a form.”
Most of the video is somewhat incoherent, but that shouldn’t discourage a real look into the shared heritage of jazz and basketball. I haven’t done much deep research into it, but there are a few things that come to mind:
- Jazz and basketball were both born at about the same time, around the turn of the 20th century.
- Both jazz and basketball have played central roles in the development of African-American culture and identity. (Maybe this is what Rhoden meant when he said “Jazz is basketball”?)
- Both have rituals that celebrate the game/music at an unofficial, grass-roots level: in jazz we have jam sessions; basketball has pick-up games.
- Both jazz musicians and athletes have become paragons of asceticism in American culture. This is true perhaps more generally in sports and music in our society, but jazz and basketball certainly fit the mold: that through obsessive hard work and practice in devotion to one goal, these people become revered in the society regardless of education or other conventional metrics of achievement. Louis Armstrong and LeBron James come to mind.
- My undergraduate jazz director at Amherst College, Bruce Diehl, is a die-hard Celtics fan and happens to be quite the baller himself. I had the pleasure of watching one of the Celtics’ NBA Finals victories with him last summer, as well as playing against him in a game of 3-on-3 at Amherst in which he schooled all of us with some legit post moves (way better than William C. Rhoden, for sure.) Bruce’s case isn’t that unusual: basketball talk was oftentimes one of the non-jazz topics of conversation in the small jazz community at Amherst, and I’m sure that is true in other places as well.
- Of course, this goes both ways: a number of prominent ballers are also huge jazz fans. I’m shocked, for example, that neither Marsalis nor Rhoden mentioned NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s passionate jazz fandom. Recently-deceased Wayman Tisdale is another; he actually made a career as a smooth jazz bassist after his NBA career wound down. Current Phoenix Suns forward Grant Hill once told a reporter,
I always looked at basketball as a jazz ensemble. You have guys with different roles and little bit of structure but within that structure you have freedom to express yourself. Everyone does it their own way, whether it’s with fashion or various moves style of play. It is an art form. Whether it’s collecting art or my wife and her career I feel like I’m around creativity. I guess to a degree what I do on the court and in my career is creative in and of itself.
Hill directly implies a connection between jazz and basketball here, and I think makes a stronger case than Rhoden or Marsalis. Hill, an avid jazz collector and listener, sees himself as essentially the same thing as a jazz musician, except that he expresses himself through basketball. In other words, jazz and basketball are media for creative expression that have grown alongside one another for over a century, and featured significant formative contributions from African Americans.
So there you have it: despite the fact that Rhoden and Marsalis only scratched the surface in their video for the times, they just may have been onto something. I look forward to looking into this further — please add anything below if you perceive any other similarities between jazz and basketball.
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HOW-TO:Install XBMC for Mac
Installing applications on Mac OS X is quite easy compared to many other platforms, allthough it is somewhat different from other platforms. Below we list the steps needed for basic installation an uninstallation.
First download XBMC. Official stable builds can be found here: http://xbmc.org/download/
- Nightly builds: http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/osx/
- Monthly builds (slightly more stable than Nightly builds): http://mirrors.xbmc.org/snapshots/osx/
XBMC is packaged as an disk image. A disk image can be thought of as the virtual equivalent of a CD. The actual data in the disk image is contained within a single file which will look something like this:
Safari and some other download apps will auto-mount the XBMC disk image, but you may have to do this yourself by double-clicking the file. Having done this, the the disk image will appear as new device in the Finder, as shown in the picture below:
XBMC is implemented as an installation bundle and can be installed by drag-and-dropping it to the applications folder.
All you have to do is copy the program to your desired location (usually your Applications folder) and run it. Copying the program is performed simply by using drag and drop. XBMC makes it even easier by supplying a link to the Application folder, on which you can drop the XBMC bundle. An example of this is shown below:
4 Tidy up
After you have finished installing the program you can unmount the XBMC disk image
This can be done by using the eject icon next to to it in the Finder sidebar as if it were a CD. You can also drag the mounted disk icon to the the Trash, again as if it were a CD.
All files other than the bundle in the Applications folder can be simply discarded. Either place them in the Trash or back them up somewhere in case you wish to re-install the application in the future.
To update XBMC for Mac simply follow the normal install steps with the newer version. All your settings and files will be preserved as they are located in a different place in the userdata folder. Be sure to make a backup of the userdata folder when doing updates in case something goes wrong.
You can also use Appfresh to keep XBMC up to date, although it will only stay current with the latest stable version.
The XBMC bundle contains the full application. This means that to uninstall it, you only have to drag it to the Trash.
However, XBMC creates userdata files when it is run. They are located in the Application Support folder within your user's Library folder, that is, in "~/Library/Application Support/XBMC". This directory contains all your settings and your video & music database. If you want to remove all your XBMC settings, drag this folder to the Trash.
7 Autostart XBMC
Go into System Preferences, select "accounts". Select "Login Items", at the bottom hit the plus button and then a drop down box allows you to select XBMC.
Alternatively, if you have the app open in your dock, you can right-click/click-and-hold the icon and choose "Open at Log-in"
After this, the application will start up automatically after you log in.
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Visit Ancient Sites With a Navajo Guide; This Lesser-Known National Park Rivals the Grand Canyon in Beauty, History, and Culture.
Located in the remote northeastern edge of Arizona, Canyon de Chelly National Monument is worthy of a weekend visit. The park features a series of majestic canyon overlooks highlighting ancient Native American ruins. Of the seven hundred standing ruins, thirteen have been preserved. Visitors can explore the canyon floor for close-up views with a genuine Navajo guide or park ranger.
The rural community of Chinle is the gateway to this national park, located 75 miles north of the I-40 off Hwy 191 in Northeast Arizona. At nearly four hours from Flagstaff and almost six hours from Phoenix, an overnight stay is recommended. Chinle has several reasonably priced hotels and restaurants to choose from.
What To Do
Drive to various overlooks accessible from two different paved roadways that wrap around the canyon. There are three overlooks along the North Rim Drive and seven along the South Rim Drive. Ancient Native American Pueblo ruins and cliff dwellings can be spotted from the overlooks. Allow two hours for either drive along the canyon rim.
Because the canyon continues to be home to the local Navajo community, an authorized guide is required to tour into the canyon backcountry. A local Navajo guide can be hired for a nominal fee. These guides conduct vehicle, hiking, and horseback tours regularly. Check in at the Visitor’s Center for more information or to arrange a tour.
One hiking trail into the canyon is open to the public without the requirement of a guide or permit. Beginning at the White House Ruins overlook off the South Rim Drive, a well-maintained switchback trail descends 600ft from the canyon rim down onto the canyon floor. The view is spectacular and the hike is relatively easy with a gentle slope and plenty of places to rest and take in the views. At the bottom of the canyon, the White House Ruins can be seen up-close. Be sure to bring along plenty of water and a little extra cash to shop for handmade gifts from the Navajo who gather daily to sell their wares. Plan to spend two to three hours hiking down into and back out of the canyon.
Hours and Entrance Fees
Visitor Center hours:
8AM – 5PM, excluding December 25th
Free entry; donations are accepted.
Fees for canyon-floor tour guides will vary.
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Wrestling Training Section
Widely recognized as the world's oldest competitive sport, wrestling has featured in every Olympic games since its ancient conception.
The are two styles of wrestling at the modern Olympics - freestyle and Greco-Roman. While the rules are almost identical, Greco-Roman wrestlers must not use the legs to trip or lift an opponent or attack an opponents legs.
Successful wrestling training for both disciplines must develop a high level of anaerobic power in both the arms and the legs and excellent strength endurance (1). With bouts lasting up to a maximum of 5 minutes (depending on the age and level), high levels of blood lactate can accumulate in wrestlers from frequent intense bursts of activity and minimal rest periods.
Anaerobic endurance and capacity are more probably more important to the wrestler than pure aerobic endurance. Aerobic power is average in national wrestlers although values as high as 70mls/kg/min have been recorded in elite level wrestlers (2).
A major consideration for wrestlers is weight management. Rapid weight loss to make a weight category has profound adverse effects on the wrestler's physiology, particularly in relation to strength endurance (1). Both nutritional and training techniques can help to minimize any weight reduction required in the first place and also to minimize the negative effects of rapid weight loss.
Strength training will obviously play a significant role in a wrestler's overall training plan. A bodybuilding approach however is not the most effective use of training time and may result in significant weight gain. Maximal strength training is more sport-specific and is not associated with significant hypertrophy. It can also be converted into strength endurance and power endurance, two physical traits crucial to a high level of performance.
The articles below cover important wrestling training elements. Take a look through the articles covering strength and power training for wrestling, endurance training and planning an a periodized program.
Wrestling Training Articles
The Sport-Specific Approach to Strength Training Programs
Most wrestlers and their coaches understand the necessity for strength training. However, if the focus is only on increasing absolute strength and muscular size it's benefits are severely restricted. Wrestlers must react with power to opponent's attack and maintain that power over numerous rounds. Simply lifting weights is not the best approach...
How To Design Resistance Training Programs For Athletes
Here is the step-by-step process of developing a sport-specific strength training plan - one that meets the demanding nature of wrestling...
Power Training for Athletes
Wrestlers at any weight are immensely powerful for their size. But how is explosive power best developed?
Using Power Cleans in Sports Conditioning
Power cleans can be useful for developing explosive power (in appropriate sports). Use this technique guide and animated images to see how the lift should be performed...
Plyometric Training for Sport-Specific Power
Plyometrics is a proven form of power training. Drills can be adapted for both upper and lower body power helping a wrestler to move with greater speed and force and generate more powerful throws...
Muscular Endurance Training
Wrestlers require strength endurance in order to maintain a high level of work throughout a bout
Core Strength Conditioning For Athletes
The muscles of the core region act as a link between the upper and lower body. The stronger and more able they are, the greater the synergy of movement can be. Core strength is essential for wresters...
Medicine Ball Exercises
Medicine balls are a classic wrestling training tool. They can be used to develop strength and power and allow the fighter to incorporate very specific movements into his or her routine...
Kettlebell Training Program
Kettlebell training is becoming more popular with combat athletes. Provided they are used correctly they can be very effective training aids for developing explosive power and core strength...
Increased flexibility may reduce the risk of certain injuries. It may also allow a wrestler to move with greater dexterity and finesse
Self Myofascial Release Exercises
Wrestling training is notoriously strenuous. While a bout may not come along too often, wrestlers spend hours every day on a gruelling fitness regimen. Key to the success of any training program is adequate recovery and the avoidance of injury. Myofascial release may help to do just that...
Win More Wrestling Matches... Use Your Mind
The ability to control your emotions - your fear, frustration, confidence, anger is absolutely key. Learn how to master your own mental state in the ring and you have a MASSIVE advantage over any opponent.
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1) Horswill CA. Applied physiology of amateur wrestling. Sports Med. 1992 Aug;14(2):114-43
2) Yoon J. Physiological profiles of elite senior wrestlers. Sports Med. 2002;32(4):225-33.
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The environmental health and emergency team has expertise at all levels of WHO – headquarters, regional offices and country offices. We draw upon a network of agencies and experts to support our efforts in assisting countries to prepare for and respond to the environmental health aspects in emergencies. We – including our supporting networks – combine environmental health expertise in the fields of chemical and radionuclear emergencies, with expertise in water, sanitation and waste management, especially in health-care facilities. These WHO activities have been established to complement WHO's capacity to deal with environmental health issues, health action in crises, and disease outbreaks.
For additonal information or feedback on this site the environmental health and emergency team at WHO headquarters can be contacted by e-mail.
"In order to achieve its objective, the functions of the Organization shall be to furnish appropriate technical assistance and, in emergencies, necessary aid upon the request or acceptance of Governments." (Article 2d, WHO Constitution)
International Health Regulations
"The purpose and scope of these Regulations are to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade". (Article 2, Revised International Health Regulations, 2005)
- Public health and environment
- Health Action in Crisis
- Alert and response operations
- International Health Regulations
- Radiation accidents and emergencies
- Water Sanitation and Health
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- Environmental health in emergencies and disasters
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I thought the people of the Maldives living in the middle of beautiful blue ocean, were busy with swimming, fishing, scuba diving, snorkeling, water-skiing, windsurfing. They would not be contaminated with the filth of the mainland. But I am wrong. Maldives punished a girl for being raped. Its Islamic laws harass , oppress , torture women.
A 15-year-old rape victim has been sentenced to 100 lashes for engaging in premarital sex, court officials said.
The charges against the girl were brought against her last year after police investigated accusations that her stepfather had raped her and killed their baby. He is still to face trial.
The legal system of the Maldives, an Islamic archipelago with a population of some 400,000, has elements of Islamic law (Sharia) as well as English common law.
Ahmed Faiz, a researcher with Amnesty International, said flogging was “cruel, degrading and inhumane” and urged the authorities to abolish it.
“We are very surprised that the government is not doing anything to stop this punishment – to remove it altogether from the statute books.”
“This is not the only case. It is happening frequently – only last month there was another girl who was sexually abused and sentenced to lashes.”
This is ridiculous! Almost all religions have been reformed. Islam is the only religion that has been forced to remain as ancient as it was. Islam is now labeled as the most intolerant, misogynistic , barbaric, pathetic, irrational, inhumane religion in the world. Peace-loving people are now afraid of the ghost of the 7th century that is still roaming around Earth.
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Supreme Court Strikes Indecency Rules, Doesn't Address Free Speech Issue
Originally published on Thu June 21, 2012 5:20 pm
By an 8-0 vote, the Supreme Court today threw out fines the Federal Communications Commission filed against Fox and ABC.
The court did not address whether the FCC rules violated anyone's First Amendment right to free speech. Instead, the justices ruled that the FCC "failed to give Fox or ABC fair notice prior to the broadcasts in question that fleeting expletives and momentary nudity could be found actionably indecent."
The justices added that their ruling "leaves the Commission free to modify its current indecency policy in light of its determination of the public interest."
The Associated Press sums up the news this way:
"The justices declined on Thursday to issue a broad ruling on the constitutionality of the FCC indecency policy. Instead, the court concluded only that broadcasters could not have known in advance that obscenities uttered during awards show programs and a brief display of nudity on an episode of ABC television's NYPD Blue could give rise to sanctions."
Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not take part in the ruling.
Correction at 5:18 p.m. ET. An earlier version of this post incorrectly said the Supreme Court had struck down FCC rules that govern indecency. The Supreme Court did not go that far in its ruling. Instead it decided only to throw out the fines assessed against Fox and ABC.
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Both paint and wallpaper can add a pleasant effect to a room, but they differ regarding cost, time, and aesthetic differences. Paint is usually less expensive. Its application tends to be speedy and simple, and there are several types to choose from. The two most popular paints are latex and enamel. Latex paint is water-based and easier to clean. It dries quickly, but is not ideal for wood surfaces. Enamel dries faster and, with less of an odor. It is also tougher than latex and good for wood, or areas that need cleaning often, such as the kitchen and bathroom. Flat, high-gloss, and semi-gloss can be used as finishes for both of these types of paint. On the other hand, wallpaper can add more texture and warmth to a room, and can be coordinated with fabric for a custom look. Wallpaper can also be used to camouflage badly marred or uneven walls, or accentuate good walls. Wallpapers can also create a color scheme by coordinating furniture fabrics and window treatment for a unified look. Hanging wallpaper takes a little more time and skill than painting, but is easily mastered. Choosing wallpaper or paint is purely a personal decision, but either can be a refreshing change for your home. For more information, contact an expert in home improvement.
©2006 Crossroads Mobile. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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New Orleans is a ragged city. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this metropolis has rebounded in fits and starts, with the gap-toothed development of new housing flanking broken buildings, and swaths of activity ringing large vacant sections of the city. While Frederick Jackson Turner asserted in the 1890’s that the “frontier has gone,” and Joel Garreau declared Edge Cities “the final frontier,” the shrinking city of New Orleans offers up a fresh model of untested territory. In New Orleans, the last frontier may actually be found in the resurrection of urban wilderness.
Carey Clouse is an architect and educator working to resurrect the city of New Orleans.
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Dachsen Youth Hostel
History - Schloss Laufen
Perched majestically on an outcrop of rock just below the Rhine Falls at Dachsen sits the thousand-year-old Schloss Laufen castle. Despite its romantic situation, it owes its location first and foremost to strategic considerations. Because of the raging waters below the Rhine Falls and the strong current above, it was well-nigh impossible to capture the castle by water.
The Barons of Laufen
Laufen is first mentioned by name in the documentary records in 858 in a property transfer involving the Wolven family living in Thurgau. The name “Laufen” originates from “grosses Lauffen” as the Rhine waterfall was known at that time.
Ownership of the castle frequently changed, and was not always clearly recorded. In the 12th century, the castle was presumed to belong to the bishop of Constance, while at the same time ownership was also documented in Laufen by the Monastery of All Saints in Schaffhausen and the Counts of Kyburg.
Even the noble lineage of the Barons of Laufen who take their name from the castle, only owned it for around a hundred years.
The Old Zurich War
After a period in which the castle changed hands several times, it was the property of the Fulach family during the Old Zurich War (1439–1450). The fact that since the departure of the Barons of Laufen, the right to live in it with their successors, the Barons of Tengen, made the castle enemy property from the Zurich perspective. During the siege and conquest of the castle in 1449, it was reported that the defenders protecting the Fulach family endeavoured to escape by lowering themselves from the rock outcrop on long ropes and swimming to the other bank. A single occupant, who regarded the turbulent waters of the Rhine as the greater danger, remained behind and allowed the besiegers into the castle. Just one year later, however, soldiers loyal to the Fulach family succeeded in reconquering the castle. With diplomatic foresight, they gave up their Schaffhausen citizenship and applied for that of Zurich.
The property of the city of Zurich
Despite the endeavours of the city of Schaffhausen to gain a foothold on the left bank of the Rhine through the acquisition of Laufen Castle, Hans Wilhelm von Fulach finally sold the property together with the surrounding bailiwicks of Uhwiesen and Dachsen to the city of Zurich in 1544. Zurich thus gained a welcome territorial expansion to the north and had the acquisition converted into a residence for its chief bailiff shortly thereafter. It remained unchanged in this building condition for almost three centuries and the ring wall with its striking rectangular gate tower constructed at that time remains largely in existence to this day. Domination of the countryside by the city through the bailiwicks was consolidated and still produced feudalistic traits until the end of the 18th century. This came to an abrupt end with Napoleon’s invasion in 1798. The bailiwicks were deprived of their status and the castle, like many others, remained uninhabited for some years. It was only from 1804 that the castle was occupied again by a series of tenants. One of these was the landscape painter Ludwig Bleuer, who relocated his school of painting to the castle in 1833, with the intention of creating a great work above the Rhine. In 1845, he was able to purchase the castle. Around 100 years later, in 1941, the Canton of Zurich acquired the castle from his descendants. It was put to use as a youth hostel which opened officially in 1946.
Dachsen Youth Hostel today
Laufen Castle. View from the north-east 1840
Laufen Castle. View from the south 1840
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World Leisure Center of Excellence
A World Leisure Center of Excellence is a international post-graduate program with complementary research and service elements that provide opportunities for students from throughout the world as well as educators, researchers and professionals to participate and contribute to uniquely theme-focused educational endeavors.
There are currently two World Leisure Centers of Excellence in North America - Arizona State Univeristy and Vancouver Island University.
Arizona State University (ASU) enrolls more than 64,000 students in its academic programs on four campuses, primarily located in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area; one of the largest and fastest growing communities in the USA. The university is ranked among the top 100 universities in the world according to the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Positioning itself as a new model for American higher education, ASU has focused its attention toward impacting the economic, cultural, social and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its focus is one of promoting academic excellence, entrepreneurial strategies, cultural diversity and broad access to educational services. Faculty and students are encouraged to apply their thinking to real world problems in an interdisciplinary fashion.
The WLCE program is in the School of Community Resources and Development. This school consists of three primary focus areas: parks and recreation management; tourism development and management; and nonprofit leadership and management. These professional areas make use of a multi-disciplinary system approach to the study of community dynamics including a focus on activities such as: 1) livable communities; 2) healthy communities; 3) civically engaged communities; 4) sustainable communities; and 5) safe and diverse communities.
Several curriculum themes are in the ASU program that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. At the core of the ASU programmatic vision are the following:
1) community development;
2) organizational capacity building;
3) sustainable community resource development;
4) global interface;
5) solving urban social challenges;
6) fueling urban economic and social engines; and
7) life-span development and demographic change.
The ASU academic program has been designed to promote interdisciplinary learning
activities with core courses, primarily in the School of Community Resources and Development. ASU will offer both a master’s degree (M.S.) program and a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.).
The M.S. degree will require two years of study and is organized with a thesis option (30credit hours) and a professional option (36 credit hours). In either case, course work would include research methods, data and statistical analysis, critical issues in recreation and tourism, and social and psychological aspects of recreation and tourism behavior. Students in the professional focus would be required to take a course in recreation and tourism management and a practicum, whereas students in the thesis option would take additional course work in advanced inquiry and thesis credit. In addition, both options provide opportunities for students to take 9 credits of elective courses.
The Ph.D. degree will focus on community resources and development and includes a 54-hour program of study. Core courses include sustainable communities, community research methodology, statistical and data analysis, social scientific perspectives in community studies, and field work. Additional research or elective courses focused on the students’ interest are required.
The faculty of the School of Community Resources and Development includes 24 individuals with expertise in a variety of academic interest areas ranging from the social-economic impacts of tourism, special event management, leisure pursuits of older adults and the sociology of leisure. The business plan for the program
calls for enrolling 25-30 students in the masters degree program; half would be international students and half would be sought domestically.
A public university, Vancouver Island University (VIU) is located in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. As a comprehensive university, VIU is dedicated to its tripartite mission of teaching, research and service with a strong commitment to community engagement and international collaboration. Located on Vancouver Island, VIU has
an enrollment 10,000 students and a faculty and staff of over 900. Of great value is the location of the institution in an environment which emphasizes opportunities for examining sustainable leisure, recreation and cultural settings in Canada. As one of the most geographically diverse regions of Canada, opportunities for leisure and tourism experiences are noteworthy. Vancouver Island has been named the “top island destination” in North America by Conde Nast, a leading travel magazine, for the past several years.
A primary focus on the Centre is delivery of the Master of Arts in Sustainable Leisure Management- a new graduate program offered in the Department of Recreation and Tourism Management. Building on the strength of existing faculty, the collaboration with the WLO and its membership will result in world experts visiting VIU's Nanaimo campus to participate in the educational journey of MA SLM students as well as other VIU students and the local community. Stay tuned for future announcements of VIU WLCE activities.
This new graduate program offered in the Department of Recreation and Tourism Management. The program emphasizes innovative practices in the mobilization of knowledge from a global perspective. The program promotea sustainable development by engaging international scholars and professionals as they seek knowledge of sustainable theories and practices that are vital to WLO’s focus on promoting leisure as integral to social, cultural and environmental well-being.
The academic program has been designed as a two-year, 36-credit hour program consisting of 24 hours of course work, an international practicum and a research project for the remaining 12 hours. The program has been designed to include eight modules that will be organized in 2-3 week blocks of time.
Study topics to be included as courses are:
1) Principles of Sustainable Development,
2) Strategic Leadership and Innovation,
3) Sustainable Leisure Development I & II, and
4) Knowledge Creation and Mobilization, I, II and III.
The program is designed to enable students to complete their course work during
their first year and then focus on their research project during their second year.
The faculty of VIU Department of Tourism and Recreation Management is one of the largest in Canada in the field of leisure, recreation and tourism studies including a former graduate of WLO’s WICE program at Wageningen University. This group of 10 individuals will be augmented and supported by visiting scholars to provide an even greater international and interdisciplinary perspective to the study of leisure and sustainability.
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Medical ADP Systems:
Defense Achieves Worldwide Deployment of Composite Health Care System
AIMD-96-39, Apr 5, 1996
Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) Composite Health Care System (CHCS), focusing on: (1) DOD efforts to complete deployment of CHCS to military medical treatment facilities worldwide; (2) DOD efforts to address previously identified problems; and (3) a new CHCS operational issue.
GAO found that: (1) DOD completed deployment of CHCS to 526 medical treatment facilities worldwide, which was difficult because of the system's complexity and the number of sites involved; (2) two DOD officials ensured the deployment's success by providing leadership and using fundamental information management practices; (3) DOD expects CHCS benefits to exceed its costs by $1.3 billion over the system's expected life; (4) CHCS should improve scheduling, give greater and quicker access to patient information, and increase the timeliness of medical care; (5) DOD has made progress in addressing its two previously identified problems by developing a prototype clinically oriented graphical user interface to make patient order-entry less cumbersome and strengthening the tools and methodology needed to manage CHCS performance; (6) DOD has updated its CHCS performance management plan and developed performance simulation models for each CHCS computer platform; (7) the lack of an effective plan for rapidly repairing or replacing CHCS equipment damaged by disaster remains a problem; and (8) DOD did not address this problem because of cost concerns and a lack of accurate information, but it is reconsidering its options for providing equipment adequate backup.
- Review Pending
- Closed - implemented
- Closed - not implemented
Recommendation for Executive Action
Recommendation: The Secretary of Defense should direct the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to develop, test, and implement DOD-wide policies and procedures for the rapid repair or replacement of CHCS equipment damaged in disasters.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: DOD agreed with the recommendation and has developed policies and procedures for the rapid repair or replacement of CHCS equipment damaged in disasters. The CHCS II Program Manager approved the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP), a comprehensive contingency planning blueprint intended as a guide for MTF commanders to use to incorporate CHCS II into their overall contingency plans. According to DOD, complying with the disaster recovery and contingency planning practices in the COOP will help to ensure a more reliable day-to-day processing environment and reduce the exposure of CHCS II to major interruptions of service. The COOP includes a requirement that it be tested at each MTF periodically to ensure the details and persons in each MTF-specific plan are adequate for current contingency planning conditions. As of September 22, 1999, DOD indicated that 55 percent of the CHCS host MTFs have completed their annual test of the COOP.
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JUNE 5, 1995
Whatever happened to Daewoo?
BACK in December last year South Korean car-maker Daewoo announced that it was on the verge of entering Formula 1 racing - but then the project went quiet and seemed to disappear without trace.
Daewoo is South Korea's third largest car maker. Until 1992 it was involved in a partnership with General Motors which prevented it selling cars in Europe, but that deal is now over and the company is beginning marketing its Nexia and Espero (styled by Bertone) in Europe. The company has even set up a technical research center in Worthing, England, employing 350 people. Daewoo also hopes to enter the American automotive market in 1996 and is heavily involved in the rush of automobile makers into China.
Car-building, however, is only a small part of it Daewoo's business. The company employs 130,000 people in clothing, construction, heavy machinery, ship-building, financial services, electronics and consumer goods. Although founded as recently as 1967, it is one of Asia's largest companies and recently overtook Renault in size.
There is little doubt that Daewoo will become a major player on the world car markets. The company currently has 11 car factories under construction but the company's founder Kim Woo Choong decided to delay Daewoo's entry into F1 while the rest of the production business gears up.
The original plan was for Daewoo to badge an existing F1 engine, using European racing expertise to gain a foothold in F1, much as Yamaha is currently doing with John Judd's Rugby-based Engine Developments.
Daewoo had talks last winter with Lamborghini, Brian Hart and Oral Engineering, a Modena-based firm which consults for the motor industry.
It is worth noting that in 1993 Daewoo hired German Ulrich Bez to be Vice-President of Daewoo Motors. Bez was previously head of the Porsche research & development department and is best known in F1 circles as the man who led the ill-fated Porsche F1 program with Arrows in 1991.
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Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes reported on Friday that TSMC will utilize its 28nm and 20nm process technologies, presumably for the so-called A6 and A7 chips, as part of the agreement.
"TSMC is believed to have quietly secured Apple's contract, and even succeeded in extending the deal to cover the manufacture for the A6's successor," the report noted sources as saying. Of course, neither the A6 nor its successor have been officially announced by Apple, but sources within component suppliers have suggested that the A6 will power Apple's sixth-generation iPhone and third-generation iPad when they are expected to arrive next year.
Insiders also alleged that the terms of TSMC's contract were relatively favorable and would have little impact on the company's gross margin, which stood at 46 percent as of the second quarter of 2011.
Though TSMC had originally been believed to take over production of the current-generation A5 chip from Samsung, analysts have since suggested that TSMC will not begin fulfilling Apple orders until 2012.
In July, TSMC was said to have begun trial production of the A6 processor, with Apple wanting to see whether the foundry had an acceptable yield rate. A subsequent report claimed production design for the chip will be finalized in the first quarter of 2012 and publicly unveiled no earlier than the second quarter of next year.
Friday's report added that Apple and TSMC have not yet talked about backend manufacturing such as packaging and testing. Sources speculated that Apple would split orders between TSMC and a dedicated packaging and testing house because the foundry has limited capacity for such services. Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and Amkor Technology were named as being in the running for orders.
In August, the publication reported that Apple met with SPIL to discuss "opportunities for cooperation" after seeing the company's assembly line. "SPIL stands a chance of becoming the first packaging and testing service provider designated by Apple," sources said.
Earlier this week, TSMC said it had received- a batch of "rush orders" that could lift the company's earnings past guidance. One analysis suggested that Broadcom had placed orders for iPhone 5 components as production of the next-generation handset ramps up.
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Facilities Renewal Resource Model helps UT Keep Track of Maintenance Needs
University of Texas – Office of Facilities and Planning Construction
University campuses fight the same fight when it comes to upkeep on large buildings spread across sprawling campuses. Age, weather, exposure and design are all pieces in the facilities management puzzle.
The University of Texas uses a Web-based planning tool – the Facilities Renewal Resource Model (FRRM) – as one of the planning tools to document its deferred maintenance and estimate the annual funding required for ongoing capital renewal.
“The software system allows us to keep up with our buildings and systems by estimating their lifecycle” says Charlie Brady, with the university’s office of facilities planning and construction.
The FRRM software is online 365 days a year and updated by representatives within various departments, including information such as building name, age, square footage, the age of air conditioning units and more.
The FRRM helps university officials:
- predict building systems replacement or renewal scheduling and associated costs on a campus and system-wide basis;
- estimate and update the magnitude of deferred maintenance backlog; and
- have a sustainable planning tool that includes broad profiles of each building, is easy to update and is inexpensive to maintain.
The university bought the software system in 2001 from California-based Pacific Partners Consulting and pays $22,000 for yearly license and maintenance fees and updates. It helps identify those areas that need to be looked at carefully and helps university budget officers when it comes to renewal expenditures.
Several parameters are fundamental to the FRRM and its use as a planning tool:
- Building systems have predictable life cycles based on age, construction or quality of manufacture, which can be fine tuned by collecting and incorporating data on system history and performance.
- The remaining life of each building and its systems can be estimated.
- Reinvestment needs vary year-over-year and can be 200 to 300 percent higher than average during years when major repairs are required.
- Renewal costs can be estimated.
- If a renewal project is not funded in the year it is needed, its cost moves into the deferred maintenance backlog and affects future renewal costs.
In the end, the software is a powerful ally in building maintenance and renewal forecasting, when coordinated with visual inspection and subsequent facility assessments, Brady says.
“Visual inspection is still the best, if you have the means to do it,” he says. “But it’s a very expensive process, especially if you do it by contract. The software system allows us to keep up with our buildings and systems by estimating their lifecycle.”
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Show that all pentagonal numbers are one third of a triangular number.
A introduction to how patterns can be deceiving, and what is and is not a proof.
Can you find a rule which relates triangular numbers to square numbers?
Can you find a rule which connects consecutive triangular numbers?
Can you puzzle out what sequences these Logo programs will give? Then write your own Logo programs to generate sequences.
Let a(n) be the number of ways of expressing the integer n as an
ordered sum of 1's and 2's. Let b(n) be the number of ways of
expressing n as an ordered sum of integers greater than 1. (i)
Calculate. . . .
A moveable screen slides along a mirrored corridor towards a
centrally placed light source. A ray of light from that source is
directed towards a wall of the corridor, which it strikes at 45
degrees. . . .
Here are some more quadratic functions to explore. How are their
Write 100 as the sum of two positive integers, one divisible by 7 and the other divisible by 11.
Then find formulas giving all the solutions to
7x + 11y = 100
where x and y are integers.
Draw a pentagon with all the diagonals. This is called a pentagram.
How many diagonals are there? How many diagonals are there in a
hexagram, heptagram, ... Does any pattern occur when looking at. . . .
An AP rectangle is one whose area is numerically equal to its perimeter. If you are given the length of a side can you always find an AP rectangle with one side the given length?
The sum of the first 'n' natural numbers is a 3 digit number in which all the digits are the same. How many numbers have been summed?
Rotate a copy of the trapezium about the centre of the longest side
of the blue triangle to make a square. Find the area of the square
and then derive a formula for the area of the trapezium.
The diagram shows a 5 by 5 geoboard with 25 pins set out in a square array. Squares are made by stretching rubber bands round specific pins. What is the total number of squares that can be made on a. . . .
Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?
The heptathlon is an athletics competition consisting of 7 events. Can you make sense of the scoring system in order to advise a heptathlete on the best way to reach her target?
Explore the two quadratic functions and find out how their graphs
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Imagine that you are a young woman who is pregnant, lives in a remote location far from a hospital, and you have a husband and mother-in law who think giving birth at home with an untrained attendant will suffice. Imagine that you are giving birth in a local health clinic and you start convulsing, and the medicine to help you and your unborn baby is simply not on the shelf, which is also slim on other, much-needed medications. Imagine that all goes well with your birth until you start bleeding and, even though you are in a hospital, there is no blood bank and a family member is asked to go out of the hospital to find a blood donor.
No woman should die giving birth, and yet maternal mortality, despite progress, remains one of the leading causes of death among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Most of these deaths are preventable. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently stated in Oslo, “… surviving childbirth and growing up healthy should not be a matter of luck or where you live or how much money you have. It should be a fact for every woman, everywhere.”
The Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative represents a unique partnership through which the United States government has enlisted significant support from key public, private and non-governmental players in the global health field with one collective purpose—to reduce maternal mortality. The founding partners include the United States government, Merck’s Merck for Mothers initiative, the Government of Norway, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and Every Mother Counts.
The Saving Mothers, Giving Life partnership is prioritizing countries where women and children are dying at alarming rates—starting in Uganda and Zambia. The initiative focuses on care for women and their babies around labor, delivery and the first 24 hours after birth, the most critical and vulnerable time, by strengthening district health systems that are essential to provide life-saving services in a sustainable way. It also looks for ways to identify other private sector partners to expand our reach.
Additionally, the Saving Mothers, Giving Life partnership is beginning to mobilize U.S. citizens to understand the problem of maternal and newborn mortality, and encourage donations to support women who have a lifetime chance of death that is as high as 120 times that of women in the U.S.
USAID is working with a number of other partnerships to advance science, test innovations and implement programs to rapidly decrease maternal and newborn mortality. Our optimism has a strong foundation based on what we know works: invest in education for girls and overall economic growth, improve use of family planning and maternity services, and develop new technologies to help in communications, training and accountability. If we stay focused on these areas, we’ll see the elimination of preventable maternal mortality within our lifetime.
Now imagine that!
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At this time last year as I looked at the elections of 2010, I was convinced of two things. First, most of the problems our country faced found their root causes in some previous government action. Take healthcare for instance. How different would our system be had the government never frozen wages in World War II causing employers to provide health insurance as a means to compete for employees? There would have never been the separation of the user of the services from the payer of the services. That separation is the root cause of why health care costs rise so much faster than inflation.
Second, the only way we were going to solve the seemingly intractable problems our country faced was to elect candidates who truly didn’t care whether they were re-elected or not. 2010 was a unique year, a year where perhaps a couple dozen first-time politicians would be elected to the House of Representatives and a few to the Senate who were not overwhelmed by the trappings of the office, and didn’t care what party they belonged to. They simply cared about stopping the insidious nature of government. I believed then and I believe now that a couple dozen people who are willing to “burn the place down” to stop the growth of government are the only hope. (Disclaimer for those of you who can’t handle tough rhetoric, I do not mean literally create a fire and burn the place down.)
Big government has been like a slow moving cancer. It has been treated by even so called “conservative politicians” like a manageable disease, instead of the deadly disease it is. We have seen symptoms pop up over the years, but each one looked at by itself could be managed or perhaps rationalized. But, what they didn’t realize is that the very foundation of the country was being eaten away little by little.
While the jury is still out on the new United States Congress, perhaps we’ve elected enough people willing to “burn the place down” in state capitals across the nation to make a difference. There is a ton of pressure on Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin to accept compromise. Many rightfully point out that the union is ready to concede on the two “current” financial issues he is seeking. These include a very modest contribution to their own pensions and to their own health insurance. Most of the press is saying Walker got what he wanted, but he is not willing to give in because he wants to bust the union.
It appears on the surface that if Walker accepted the union’s current offer, most would say he did a good job by driving a hard bargain and then compromising. It would probably guarantee his re-election. But Walker is a true public servant. He is not stopping at what is politically expedient, instead he is willing to lose the next election in order to cure the disease. Walker understands that if collective bargaining for items that effect future costs for governments at all levels is not stopped, the problem will not be solved, just postponed because collective bargaining is the root cause.
Even one of the Godfathers of big government, Franklin Roosevelt, understood the dangers of public sector unions. Roosevelt said, “All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.” Roosevelt understood that while unions might have their place, there is extreme danger in public sector unions.
Unfortunately, the problem with public sector unions requires a little deeper analysis than the press and most politicians wish to undertake. There are many problems with public unions. Here are just four of them.
- Unlike the private sector, union members elect their bosses. They provide campaign contributions and organization to those bosses. Those same bosses are not spending their own money when they pay the union workers. Instead, they are spending money that they confiscate from the populace. So, the very nature of unions keeping management in line and management keeping unions in line simply does not exist in the public sector.
- For years, the public sector unions have gained richer and richer deferred compensation programs. This benefits the politicians in the short-term because they make big promises that do not come due during their tenure in office.
- It virtually guarantees low productivity because all workers are treated the same regardless of the quality of their work. It is almost impossible to fire a public employee for simply not being competent. As a result, they need more and more public employees to do the job. This is unfair to the tax payers and the many, many outstanding public employees that do good work.
- Because of deferred benefits promised, and the extremely young age at which retired workers can access those benefits, we are approaching a point where municipalities and other governmental organizations pay more to people who don’t work (retirees) than they paid them when they did work.
The model is broke and unsustainable.
So, while the press tells the world that Scott Walker is an extreme right winger, the reality is he is no more conservative on this issue than Franklin Roosevelt was. As supporters of Republican politicians, we need to be the steel in their spines. We need to let them know their legacy depends on their actions on this issue, this year. We need them to want to really make a difference in the future of the country instead of worrying about their next election. Our country needs them to bust public sector unions.
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From A Wiki of Ice and Fire
|Coat of arms || Three grey owls upon white plates on green|
|Region || Westerlands|
|Overlord || House Lannister|
House Garner is a noble house from the Westerlands. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with three grey owls upon white plates on green. Their words are not known.
The Garner House at the end of the third century
The known Garners during the timespan of the events described on A Song of Ice and Fire are:
- no member has appeared yet.
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Genomic evidence of rapid and stable adaptive oscillations over seasonal time scales in Drosophila
Alan O. Bergland, Emily L. Behrman, Katherine R. O’Brien, Paul S. Schmidt, Dmitri A. Petrov
(Submitted on 20 Mar 2013)
In many species, genomic data have revealed pervasive adaptive evolution indicated by the near fixation of beneficial alleles. However, when selection pressures are highly variable along a species range or through time adaptive alleles may persist at intermediate frequencies for long periods. So called balanced polymorphisms have long been understood to be an important component of standing genetic variation yet direct evidence of the ubiquity of balancing selection has remained elusive. We hypothesized that environmental fluctuations between seasons in a North American orchard would impose temporally variable selection on Drosophila melanogaster and consequently maintain allelic variation at polymorphisms adaptively evolving in response climatic variation. We identified hundreds of polymorphisms whose frequency oscillates among seasons and argue that these loci are subject to strong, temporally variable selection. We show that adaptively oscillating polymorphisms are often millions of years old, predating the divergence between D. melanogaster and D. simulans and that a subset of these polymorphisms respond predictably to an acute frost event. Taken together, our results demonstrate that rapid temporal fluctuations in climate over generational scales is a predominant force that maintains adaptive alleles and promotes genetic diversity.
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"Punxsutawney Phil" predicted an early spring Saturday morning.
But the Little Rock Zoo's groundhog, "Mid-South Maple," forwent the traditional weather prediction for Groundhog Day and instead chose the San Francisco 49ers as her pick for tomorrow's Super Bowl.
In a morning ceremony earlier today, Maple was set down by her keeper in between two "burrows," or decorated kennels, representing each team and paused intently for several moments before making a decision.
"It was obvious that Maple took this decision very seriously," said Zoo Director Mike Blakely. "Maple has been studying up on the teams and watching a lot of ESPN the last few weeks. Maple has been studying the stats and watching the players in order to make this important prediction. Any groundhog can predict the weather but predicting the Super Bowl takes some real skill," added Blakely.
After a long pause and looking both ways, the groundhog slowly walked over to the burrow labeled with the 49ers logo and settled in.
Blakely added that Maple's initial reluctance to pick a team could indicate a tied game in the final inning with the 49ers pulling out a win in overtime.
After maple made her prediction, Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola read Mid-South Maple's official Super Bowl proclamation. The groundhog said:
"Here ye, Here ye
Spring's around the corner…that's easy peasy
Dear Punxsutawney, a truly gifted hog,
I can predict things that are harder, you dog!
Ravens versus Niners, tomorrow we'll see
I'm sure I know just who it will be
Younger brother, Jim, has something to prove
You can bet the Niners will get in the groove
Their defense is one of the best
They'll beat the Ravens and ace this test
Kaepernick can throw and run
He'll make sure this deal is done
The 49ers will win this game
Thanks for listening, I'm glad you came"
Maple's keepers were somewhat surprised at her prediction stating that in previous practice sessions the groundhog favored the Ravens 4-1.
"Maple must have done some last-minute research that led her to the conclusion that the 49ers would prevail in this Super Bowl," said keeper Hannah Baker.
Maple, a one-year-old groundhog, is a part of the Little Rock Zoo's EdZOOcation Outreach program. She makes special appearances on Zoo grounds and in classrooms to teach children and adults alike the importance of conservation.
A gifted groundhog with many talents, Maple is an avid sports fan and always says on Groundhog Day that spring is just around the corner.
Wednesday, June 19 2013 12:31 PM EDT2013-06-19 16:31:23 GMT
HOT SPRINGS - A 1997 Ford pickup was pulling a Buick Park Avenue on a utility trailer eastbound on Albert Pike Road Tuesday afternoon when the car came off the trailer and flipped upside down.More >>
HOT SPRINGS - A 1997 Ford pickup was pulling a Buick Park Avenue on a utility trailer eastbound on Albert Pike Road Tuesday afternoon when the car came off the trailer and flipped upside down near the entrance to the Atrium Retirement Community.More >>
Wednesday, June 19 2013 10:25 AM EDT2013-06-19 14:25:43 GMT
CONWAY (Log Cabin Democrat) - A monkey made its way through parts of Conway for a short time Tuesday afternoon after escaping from a veterinarian clinic. Conway Police were able to track down the monkeyMore >>
A monkey escapes from a vet for a short time in Conway. More >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 3:28 PM EDT2013-06-18 19:28:42 GMT
Catholic High is undergoing some upgrades this summer. Demolition is going on in the hallways to make for new technology. Principal Steve Straessle said while there's no replacement for good teachingMore >>
Construction crews are adding new windows and doors as well as demolishing some of the hallways to make way for new technology.
Bob and Barbara Schmidt dashed to their home on a dirt road in a heavily wooded area northeast of Colorado Springs as smoke from what would become the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history filled the air.More >>
A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver forced the evacuation of dozens of homes Wednesday as hot and windy conditions in much of Colorado and elsewhere in the West made it easy for fires to start and spread.More >>
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American Association of Poison Control Centers Warn About Dangers of Synthetic Marijuana Products
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Doctors and clinicians at U.S. poison centers say that a synthetic version of marijuana that is frequently sold as incense has spurred symptoms including a fast heart rate, confusion and nausea.
K2, an herbal marijuana substitute also known as "spice," is a blend of herbs sprayed with a synthetic marijuana-like drug, and has spurred at least 112 calls to U.S. poison centers since 2009, including 59 calls since March 1, 2010.
Poison centers in Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming have been among those reporting calls regarding synthetic marijuana.
Among the states that have seen the highest number of calls: Missouri, which Missouri Poison Center Medical Director Anthony Scalzo says has received approximately 40 calls about the substance since last November.
In response to the calls, the state of Missouri issued a health alert about the products, and the St. Charles County Council recently passed an emergency ordinance banning the sale of such products, which are sold in gas stations, convenience stores and "head shops."
Scalzo said the reactions being reported – including agitation, anxiety, an extremely fast, racing heartbeat and elevated blood pressure – are the opposite of what would be expected from marijuana, which is a source of concern.
"This is not what we'd expect from these compounds," he said.
The product is marketed as incense or potpourri and has been sold since 2006 for about $30 to $40 per three-gram bag. Scalzo said parents should be on the lookout for what looks like incense in their child's room and watch to see if their children seem more anxious than usual.
No deaths have been reported, but symptoms have also included agitation, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, tremors and chest pain in some cases.
Earlier this month, Kansas became the first state to ban the substance when Gov. Mark Parkinson signed a bill outlawing the substance on March 10. States including Missouri, Nebraska and Georgia are also considering measures that would ban the sale of such products.
Jim Hirt , executive director of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, urged those with questions about K2 to call their local poison center.
"Poison centers are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to answer questions about K2 or any other substance that could be harmful to your health," he said. "These poison centers are staffed with medical professionals who are trained to know the impact of a substance and how to treat a poison exposure."
The American Association of Poison Control Centers supports the nation's poison control centers. Poison centers offer free and confidential services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For questions about poison or poison prevention, call your local poison control center at 1 (800) 222-1222.
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Starting next summer, aspiring commercial pilots will need 1,500 hours of flight training before they can be hired. This dramatic increase, among other factors, is making airlines worry that there will not be enough pilots to maintain current service.
Some airlines — especially the smaller ones — worry they won't have enough pilots. They're a number of factors in play, but they point to new federal safety rules as a big part of the problem.
In February 2009, a Colgan Air commuter jet crashed, killing 50 people. Investigators cited inadequate pilot training; Congress responded with new legislation. Beginning next summer, those who want to pilot commercial jets will need dramatically more hours of flight training before they can be hired.
Brain scans using Amyvid dye to highlight beta-amyloid plaques in the brain. Clockwise from top left: a cognitively normal subject; an amyloid-positive patient with Alzheimer's disease; a patient with mild cognitive impairment who progressed to dementia during a study; and a patient with mild cognitive impairment.
It's been a mixed year for Alzheimer's research. Some promising drugs failed to stop or even slow the disease. But researchers also found reasons to think that treatments can work if they just start sooner.
Scientists who study Alzheimer's say they aren't discouraged by the drug failures. "I actually think it was a phenomenal year for research," says Bill Rebeck, a brain scientist at Georgetown University.
Brazilian health officials say an epidemic is taking hold — an outbreak of crack cocaine use nationwide, from the major cities on the coast to places deep in the Amazon.
It's an image at odds with the one Brazil wants to project as the country prepares to host soccer's World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympics two years later. But the problem has become too big to ignore.
The Luz district of central Sao Paulo was once grand, with its old train station and opulent buildings. Now, this neighborhood is known as Cracolandia — Crackland.
Originally published on Mon December 31, 2012 3:42 pm
Managing food allergies can be a pain, requiring lots of sleuthing of ingredients in restaurants and supermarkets. But people with potentially lethal allergies to nuts and other foods don't have much choice.
Dozens of smartphone apps offer to make that task easier. Doctors say, though, the apps now on the market just aren't reliable enough.
Originally published on Tue January 1, 2013 12:03 pm
As the nation's first African-American president, Barack Obama benefited from and expanded his party's enormous advantage among minority voters.
But as he prepares to start his second term, Obama hasn't managed to usher in behind him many Democrats who are minorities to top elected office. Conversely, Republicans — despite their highly limited support among non-Anglo voters — have managed to elevate more top politicians from minority backgrounds.
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Medicaid beneficiaries have same care access as the privately insured?Blog added by Vanessa De La Rosa on November 23, 2012
A new study comparing Mecidaid and private insurance conducted by the Government Accountability Office reveals some surprising and not-so-surprising findings about Medicaid and states’ abilities to provide adequate access to medical care for its beneficiaries. The study’s four objectives are listed below, followed by the corresponding results.
(The first three objectives and their conclusions are based on a nationwide Web-based survey than spanned the years 2008 to 2011 and was sent to Medicaid officials.)
1. To examine states’ experiences processing Medicaid applications. Over the period from 2008 to 2011, over half of the states reported upholding or reducing average application processing times, “the average number of calendar days between the receipt of a new application and the final determination of eligibility.” Thirty-nine states reported that their average application processing times fell within a range of 11 to 45 calendar days. The decrease in application times were attributed to several streamlining procedures, like electronic applications and the elimination of face-to-face interview requirements.
However, the study notes, “because of data limitations, we were unable to assess the extent to which the number of applications processed kept pace with the number of new applications received each month … most states provided incomplete or inconsistent data on new applications received and processed.”
2. To examine states’ changes to beneficiary services and provider payment rates. States reported making numerous changes to beneficiary services and provider payment rates. For each year from 2008 to 2011, more states reported provider-rate and supplemental payment increases. However, the number of states that reported payment reductions and increased provider taxes also rose. Overall, more states reported an increase in services than a decrease.
3. To examine the challenges states report when ensuring sufficient provider participation. Certain challenges — namely, Medicaid payment rates and a shortage of providers — were reportedly faced by over two-thirds of states. Over half of the states say they simplified administrative requirements of increased payment rates to attract new providers, including dental and specialty care providers.
For the last objective, the GAO analyzed research from two surveys: the 2008 and 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to examine reported difficulties faced by Medicaid beneficiaries when attempting to receive care; and the 2009 National Health Interview Survey to examine reported reasons for the delay of care. These survey results were compared with the experiences of individuals with private insurance and with individuals who were uninsured, and the following was concluded:
4. To examine the extent to which Medicaid beneficiaries reported difficulties obtaining medical care. Medicaid beneficiaries reported experiencing no more challenges obtaining medical care and prescription medicine than those with private coverage. There was a large gap in results when it came to dental care, purportedly due to the number of states that don’t offer dental coverage in their benefits package.
This study shows a decrease in application processing times, an increase in benefits/services, frequent challenges to ensuring sufficient provider participation, and an equal response from Medicaid beneficiaries and privately insureds when it came to difficulties obtaining care. Some of these results (and especially that last one) seem counter-intuitive.
A common opinion is that Medicaid coverage, as one Wall Street Journal op-ed said last year, "is worse than no coverage at all." Some study results suggest that Medicaid patients receive lower quality care and experience worse health outcomes than those with private insurance. A graduate fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies, Kevin D. Dayaratna, notes than Obama's health care reform will add to this issue, "largely because it provides poorer access to care, many Medicaid patients often show up to hospitals in poor and in some cases untreatable conditions."
And then there's the question of what the definition of "difficulties" is, and if both Medicaid beneficiaries and those privately insured captured the perceived magnitude of these challenges the same way when responding to the study.
These results by no means imply that Medicaid is just as good an option as private coverage. While Medicaid beneficiaries reported as many difficulties obtaining care as those with private insurance (only in certain cases, as the study points out), what this study does not provide is an in-depth look into the quality of said obtained care.
Regardless, Medicaid pays physicians a little over 50 percent of what private insurers pay, which is bound to cause anyone to question the results of, in particular, the fourth objective in this study.
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Facebook sued over 'Like' button by Dutch programmer's family
Facebook is being sued by the family of a deceased Dutch programmer who held two patents dealing with sharing and updating social media content long before the social networking site launched.
The suit, filed Feb. 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, also names AddThis, a social bookmarking services that was an early partner of Facebook. The lawsuit alleges Facebook's "Like" button and other content-sharing features infringe on the patents.
The patents in question were granted in 2001 and 2002 to Joannes Jozef Everardus Van Der Meer, a computer scientist. Van Der Meer had reserved the domain name "surfbook.com" for what he termed a "personal diary" system, according to the lawsuit.
Van Der Meer formed a company called AIdministrator Nederland, known as Aduna, with the intent of commercializing his ideas. He died, however, in June 2004. Since then, his widow and family have pursued compensation for his inventions, the lawsuit said.
"Although Mark Zuckerberg did not start what became Facebook until 2003, it bears a remarkable resemblance, both in terms of its functionality and technical implementation, to the personal web page diary that Van Der Meer had invented years earlier," the lawsuit states.
A Facebook spokesman contacted Monday declined to comment.
Van Der Meer applied for two patents for his system. The first, U.S. Patent No. 6,415,316, describes a system by which people could create a personal Web diary in chronological order and share third-party content with a select group of people through privacy settings.
The second, U.S. Patent No. 6,289,362, describes how a user can transfer content to a personal diary by clicking on buttons present on third-party Web pages, which are linked to the user's diary.
Facebook's "Like" button is pervasive across content providers outside of the social network and used to drive traffic to their sites.
In June 2012, Facebook acquired U.S. Patent No. 7,907,966, a patent originally granted to AOL that describes a way of running cross-platform applications on a wireless device. That patent lists one of Van Der Meer's patents as a reference.
"Upon information and belief, the acquisition of the '966 patent either reinforced Facebook's prior knowledge of the '316 and '362 patents, or made Facebook aware of the '362 patent and of the related '316 patent," the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit seeks damages along with interest and court costs. It suggests the damages award should be trebled since it alleges the infringement of the patents is willful. The law firm Fish and Richardson is representing Rembrandt Social Media, a company that represents Van Der Meer's family's interests.
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Steve Jobs – The man who thought different
I was privileged to receive one of the first published copy of the book “Steve Jobs – The man who thought different” in the UK and having read the original biography which took me ages to read due to the style it was written in, I really liked this book due to the way it gradually built the story and painted a vivid picture of the life of the Steve Jobs,no doubt it is a must read for anyone who is not just curious about the genius but also about the history of Apple Computers Inc as well as technology and gadgets; in fact any aspiring entrepreneur would find this book and the story motivating and encouraging. Below is a little information released with the press release about the writer:
Karen Blumenthal’s comprehensive and compelling biography takes us to the core of this complicated and legendary man, from his adoption and early years through to the pinnacles of his career, his dismissal from his duties at Apple to the graduation where he gave the commencement speech just 6 years before his death. Along the way Karen Blumenthal highlights Steve Jobs’s involvement with Pixar Studios, how Apple became a global brand and the more tyrannical side of this modern genius. Parallel to Steve Jobs’s life, the biography also reveals the history of modern technology’s rise and the key players that led the way. Primarily aimed at the iphone-texting, white-headphone-wearing, itunes-downloading generation, the book will also appeal to anyone who wants a fascinating accessible insight into how one man can lay claim to shaping the digital world we now live in. Karen Blumenthal is a critically acclaimed writer, award-winning author and long-time journalist for the Wall Street Journal. She was inspired to write the biography after working on a Harvard Business School project on Steve Jobs’s management strategy. She is the author of several other non-fiction titles and lives in Dallas, Texas.
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U.S. Should Focus on Climate Change Now, Professor and Other Experts Say in National Academy Report
The U.S. government and private industry should take steps now to limit and adapt to man-made climate change, according to a new National Academy of Sciences report by a committee that included University of Virginia law professor Jonathan Z. Cannon.
The report released today by the Committee on America’s Climate Choices was created at the request of Congress. It reviews the science of climate change and proposes a flexible and systemic response that would adjust to new scientific advances and discoveries.
“We don’t recommend any one specific measure,” said Cannon, who participated in drafting the committee’s final report. “And the set of measures that we do suggest are not revolutionary. They’ve been discussed by others. The significance of this really is that a diverse group of experts, having thought through this together for two years, affirms the usefulness of these tools against the perception of a significant risk.”
The committee included climate scientists, public policy experts, social scientists, private industry leaders and former state and federal elected officials, including former U.S. Rep. Phil Sharp, now of Resources for the Future, and former Wyoming Gov. James Geringer, now of the Environmental Systems Research Institute.
The final report includes a review of the current scientific understanding of man-made climate change. This review was based on a more detailed subcommittee report on the science published last year.
“We felt it was necessary to reprise the science in order to reassure ourselves and the public that there is a credible basis for concern on climate change,” Cannon said. “I think it’s a good distillation of the science, of what we know and of what remains to be known more fully as we go forward.”
The report suggests a variety of short- and long-term steps such as investment in infrastructure and new technologies that limit greenhouse gasses. It also advocates for the creation of a carbon pricing system that would encourage a long-term reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
“That pricing system could come in different forms,” Cannon said. “It could come as a ‘carbon tax’; it could come as a cap-and-trade system. Both of those approaches would establish a price for carbon emissions that would change the calculus for folks who are in a position to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create incentives for them to find alternatives to fossil fuels or to become more efficient in their use of fossil fuels.”
Such a system would produce the most cost-effective reductions in emissions across the economy and would limit the government’s picking winners and losers, Cannon said.
“There may be institutional barriers that would prevent price signals from producing sufficient incentives in some circumstances, so the report also recognizes that there are other measures that we might want to take, including regulation or subsidies, particularly for research and technology development,” he said.
A primary component of the report is a proposed iterative risk management approach. This approach would be designed for flexibility to adapt to inevitable climate science advancements, Cannon said.
The idea would be to create a management system with rich feedback mechanisms, so new information would continue to inform decision-makers, who would regularly review and adjust policy as needed.
“That’s particularly important, given the uncertainties about the extent of future climate change and its impacts, but also given the lengthy time frames for responding to climate change,” Cannon said. “Stabilizing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at acceptable levels is a long-term challenge. It requires a policy approach that’s credible enough to begin to change behavior but also flexible over time. The same goes for adapting to climate change.”
The committee first convened in 2009, and Cannon — the only lawyer on the committee — praised the work his colleagues put into developing the report.
“This really was a collective effort, with a number of people taking shots at different parts of the report, and other people reviewing and revising,” he said. “It was wonderful. They were very smart people with great ideas.”
If there’s one take-away from the report, it’s that efforts to combat climate change should begin immediately, Cannon said.
“If you’re looking for a short-term recommendation that’s it: We should begin now. If we fail to begin now we increase the risks of climate change.”
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Field With 155,238,095,238,095,250,000 Barrels Of Oil Discovered, But There Is A Catch
Good news for all those who have nightmares about the prospect of peak oil: scientists have discovered an oil field which has a gargantuan 155 quintillion barrels of oil, or about 200 times more hydrocrabons than there is water on earth. There is however, a catch: the field is located some 1,300 light years away. From Rigzone.
The scientists work at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and using the 30m-telescope of the Institute for Radio Astronomy they discovered a vast cloud of hydrocarbons within the Horse Head Nebula galaxy in the Orion constellation.
Upon discovery of the cloud IRAM astronomer Viviana Guzman declared that, "the nebula contains 200 times more hydrocarbons than the total amount of water on Earth!"
Just for those of you curious as to exactly how many barrels of oil that roughly equates to, here you go: one hundred and fifty-five quintillion, two hundred and thirty-eight quadrillion, ninety-five trillion, two hundred and thirty-eight billion, ninety-five million, two hundred and fifty thousand, or 155,238,095,238,095,250,000 barrels.
Alas, this means that even if a ship left today to reclaim any of this massive stash which at last check has not been claimed by any terrestrial E&P corporation, it would come back some time in the year 4612. So while oil on earth may well end, hopes of the fracking renaissance notwithstanding, then solar and geothermal better last well into the 47th century, at which point all the crude the world may need will be made available.
Does this also mean a return of the old abiogenic hypothesis?
Now like me you might be wondering how oil, which is supposedly produced from organic matter buried millions of years ago, could possibly exist in space. Well it turns out that these hydrocarbons were likely created by the fragmentation of giant carbonaceous molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are produced during the death of a star.
There is even a theory that molecules such as these could have served as the first organic compounds for creating life.
Either way, don't expect the market to start discounting this rather dramatic increase in discovered oil just yet, and definitely don't expect gas at the pump to move even remotely lower on this news.
The good news, for all the Keynesians out there, is that the idea to build the Death Star, as proposed first on Zero Hedge, may finally get some life, especially if the Death Star is provided with some exploration and production capacity. And what self-respecting Keynesian wouldn't salivate at the prospect of injecting $852 quadrillion of debt growth into the economy at this time?
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Today’s Trillion Dollar Movie is a story you’ve no doubt seen on film before, but not this version. We present W.W. Young’s 1915 silent adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s beloved fantasy, the third Alice to reach movie screens, combining scenes from both Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Considering this was decades before CGI and the film industry was then in its infancy, the movie remains quite enchanting, and moves at a brisk pace, encapsulizing the story in five reels, or 42 minutes. The Mad Hatter, Rabbit, Queen of Hearts, Smoking Caterpillar and Cheshire Cat are all portrayed by actors wearing costumes. Yes, it’s primitive in that sense, but nevertheless evokes Carroll’s surreal Dreamland just as surely as latter adaptations harnessing modern technologies. It goes to show: You don’t need elaborate special effects to conjure up magic, you just need an active imagination.
Viola Savoy, the 15-year-old actress playing Alice, certainly embodies the role: She’s gangly and giggly, and completely believable as a Victorian era ingenue. Much of it’s shot outdoors, showcasing the beaches and forests of California before everything under the sun got paved over. If it seems a bit rushed, plotwise, part of the reason lies in the fact that another 10-12 minutes of footage have been lost. Grosset & Dunlap published a companion book in 1916, and we know from the illustrated book that entire scenes are missing, including Alice’s initial meeting with the Mad Hatter and the definitive scene where she first grows big and then small. Too bad that’s gone. It would have been interesting to see how that got handled before special effects grew more sophisticated.
Fortunately, there’s still more than enough here to savor. Enjoy, and do return again next Friday for another Trillion $ Movie.
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Vidocq the spy in the French Revolution, was a short man, vivacious, vain, and talkative. He spoke of his feats with real enthusiasm and gusto.
(of Vanity Fair). Leslie Ward, successor of “Ape” (Pellegrini, the caricaturist).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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Striking Images of Mount St. Helens Before, After and Now
A newly released trio of false-color images from NASA's Landsat satellite documents the destruction and recovery at Mount St. Helens. Vegetation is red, bare rock and volcanic debris are gray, and clear water is dark blue. In the middle image, a huge gray scare reveals the destruction caused by the huge volcanic eruption May 18, 1980. More about the image below.
The 1979 view (top) shows the snow-covered summit of the perfectly shaped stratovolcano, and the mixture of protected forest (darkest red, north of the volcano), agricultural land (lighter reds), and logging clear cuts (patchwork of squares at image right) that surrounded the mountain, researchers at NASA's Earth Observatory explained.
The image from Sept. 24, 1980 (middle), shows the devastation of the eruption. The northern flank of the mountain collapsed, producing the largest landslide in recorded history. The avalanche buried 14 miles (23 kilometers) of the North Fork Toutle River with an average of 150 feet (46 meters) — but in places up to 600 feet (180 meters) — of rocks, dirt, and trees. The blast spread rock and ash (gray in the images) over 230 square miles (600 square kilometers). A raft of dead trees floats across Spirit Lake. Volcanic mudflows (lahars) poured down rivers and gullies around the intact flanks.
Three decades later, the bottom image (from Sept. 10, 2009) shows the recovery in the blast zone. Most of the landscape within the blast zone has at least a tinge of red, meaning vegetation has recolonized the ground. The flanks of the volcano itself are still bare, as is a broad expanse north of the volcano called the Pumice Plain.
Directly in the path of the landslide and several pyroclastic flows, this area has been slowest to recover. Ground surveys, however, have found even this seemingly barren area is coming back to life: the first plant to re-appear was a prairie lupine, which can take nitrogen—a critical plant nutrient—straight from the air rather than from the soil. These small wildflowers begin the crucial task of rebuilding the soil and attracting insects and herbivores. This process is underway on the Pumice Plain, even though it is not yet visible from space, scientists said.
- Gallery: The Incredible Eruption of Mount St. Helens
- Mount St. Helens Remains a Mystery 30 Years Later
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The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family. The circle just keeps going round and round with this all-respects-paid tribute to the Carter familys legacy. The likes of Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Willie Nelson, and others sing of romance, lost love, death, and living with one eye toward heaven: "Well, I gave you to God in your cradle my boy/...And as long as His mercies permit me to live/I shall never cease praying for you," sings June Carter Cash. Dualtone Music Group.
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In Hunger for the Word: Lectionary Reflections on Food and Justice, Year A, edited by Larry Hollar, pastors, organizers, teachers, and anti-hunger workers supply warm, thoughtful, and biblically grounded insights into Gods call to respond to those who are hungry and poor. Each devotion incorporates the weekly readings and concludes with suggestions for childrens sermons and congregational singing. The perfect book for preparing justice-minded sermons or writings. Liturgical Press.
Young Sudanese men Peter Nyarol Dut and Santino Majok Chuor managed to survive years of civil war in their country and come to the United States, only to face a dizzying array of culture shocks and heartbreaking social isolation. The compelling Lost Boys of Sudan, by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk, tells their story, along with those of other "lost boys"so named because of their situation as orphans and refugeeswho try to make a new life for themselves. Airs September 28 on PBS.
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Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution, by André Trocmé. Orbis Books has updated this classicfirst published in 1973by a French pastor who organized the rescue and resettlement of Jews during the Nazi occupation. "There is no easy peace," Trocmé writes. But for him, Jesus is "a revolutionary capable of saving the world without using violence."
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Next we visited Ludlow castle, which struck us as just the perfect sort of castle: in just the right degree or state of ruin, sufficiently grand in scale without being sprawling, and by no means overrun with us tourists and those who seek to guide or sell to us. At the height of its importance it was the seat of the great Roger Mortimer, Lord of the Marches. He had the palatial "North Range" built against the inner bailey wall, as seen on the left of the photo at left (shot from the top of the gatehouse keep); at the farthest left you can see the Great Hall, along with just a corner of the stair leading up to it. It was in this Great Hall, a few centuries after it was built, that Milton's masque Comus was first performed. The photo at right is an interior view of what would have been rooms at various levels adjoining the Great Hall. We are here looking back in the general direction of the keep, and you can match the configuration of windows between the two photos.
On the right in the view from the keep (above left) you look down on a highly unusual round Norman chapel nave. Here is a view through that round nave, showing a larger Norman archway beyond an opposite and smaller one, plus one bay of the blind arcade for seating inside, and a carved face corbel left over from a time when they put in a floor there (supposedly so as to bring the most literal form of upstairs/downstairs class distinction into their place of worship).
The entrance shown at left faces the moat bridge and goes from the outer to the inner bailey through the gatehouse keep. I can only guess at the function of the iron hoop just above the doorway; I searched the coat of arms above it in vain for a defiant Latin motto translatable as "Lancastrians can't jump" or anything similar.
The news that the film version of Harry Potter was to be filmed with Gloucester Cathedral standing in for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry made Larissa plenty keen to visit this morning. I do not pretend to know from thaumaturgical academies, but as a cathedral it is a wonderful palimpsest of all the styles of all the different medieval periods from Norman to Perpendicular, with medieval architects' jury-rigs, compromises, and improvisations everywhere apparent, much to Stas's delight. The fan-vaulted cloister featured in both these photos is almost sure to feature prominently as a set in the film. Here you see Larissa practising basic froggification.
Also in Gloucester we encountered this rosy-tinted half-timbered house in the cathedral close, and (out in town) this ornate clock advertising a watchmaker, with automata representing the four kingdoms of the British Isles plus Father Time. (Is Ireland honored or merely stereotyped by being shown always to strike the first blow?) A very brief while after this photo was taken, we realized that the clock's visible splendors had left no room in the budget for tuning the chimes.
Trevor and Larissa exhibited an appropriately studious streak our first afternoon in Oxford, as we rested in our B&B room between laundry and dinner. Now, if only PoKéMoN and Harry Potter were mainstays of the Oxonian curriculum!
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I was was helping with the after dinner cleanup at my cousin’s home last Christmas and as we were putting leftovers away, she asked me to check to make sure all leftovers were completely cool before putting them in the fridge. She said you should never place foods in the refrigerator until the food is completely cool or it will surely spoil.
Much of our everyday food storage is either in the fridge or freezer and we’d all like to avoid wasting food as much as possible. This conversation prompted me to start investigating the truth about ideas we’ve grown up with regarding storing food in the refrigerator and freezer.
1. “Placing warm foods in the fridge will cause spoilage.”
False, but there is a caveat. I found out that food should be refrigerated within two hours of cooking it, so it does not spoil. It is safe to place the food in the refrigerator when slightly warm, because the refrigerator thermostat will keep the inside of the fridge at a constant 40 degrees. However, you should not store a huge deep pot of hot food, since it will not cool evenly – you need to separate portions in smaller shallow containers to ensure that the food does cool properly.
2. “To keep bread fresher longer, keep it in the fridge and not the counter.”
False. I have actually tested this one. Bread gets moldy quickly here in Texas in the summer months, so I was looking for a way to make it last longer.
If you leave it in the counter, sliced bread (with preservatives) will last about a week, but fresh hard crusted bread either from the bakery or home made will only last for two days on the counter.
If you store bread in the fridge, it will dry out quickly and become hard. The best thing to do is store the bread in the freezer and thaw out the portion you will be using. Bread will keep well in the freezer for about three months. We’ve all heard this:
3. “If meats such as ground beef, chicken or beef have thawed out, you must use it right away and not refreeze it.”
The answer is not so clear-cut: it depends on how you thawed out the meat in the first place. If you thawed it out slowly: overnight in the refrigerator, or by soaking in cold (never hot) water, then you can safely refreeze the meat.
A couple of other ways to tell: If the food had been kept at a temperature of 40 degrees or lower, it is ok to refreeze. Also, if the food still has ice crystals, it is fine to refreeze.
Keep in mind that re-freezing lessens the quality or texture of the meat, so it is not a good idea to do this habitually.
However if you thawed the food out quickly in the microwave, it should be cooked as soon as possible.
If you have a power outage, and you are wondering whether it is safe to refreeze the meats that were in the freezer, the same rules apply: if the meat still has ice crystals, and the fridge temperature stayed at around 40 degrees, then it is safe to refreeze.
Another rule of thumb is, if the power was out less than four hours, and the fridge or freezer door was kept closed, then the food would still be safe.
4. “Never leave meat out in the counter to thaw.”
True. You must never leave meat to thaw on the counter, as it will thaw out unevenly: what happens is, the outer layer of the meat will warm up faster than the core. The warmed outer layer may breed harmful bacteria while sitting on the counter.
5. “Meat left in the freezer more than a year is unsafe to eat.”
False, but there is a reason why you should eat it within a year. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as long as meat is kept at 0 degrees, it will keep indefinitely. Therefore, as far as safety, it is okay to eat meat that’s been in a freezer a year or two. However, keeping meat in the freezer longer than a year will degrade the quality of meat. The meat may get freezer burned and may not be as tasty, the more time it is frozen. In an emergency, you may eat it anyway, but at least you know it is still safe to eat.
6. “If your power goes out in a snowstorm, take the food outside and place in the snow.”
False. Placing perishable food out in the snow does not guarantee they will be safe to eat. Temperatures outside rarely remain constant: food can thaw outside, and the sun may warm up parts of the food causing bacteria to grow. The food can also come in contact with animals or insects. A better solution is to place the food in a cooler and pack it with snow. Or make your own ice by leaving water bottles outside to freeze and using those to keep your food cold.
7. “A full freezer or refrigerator is more energy efficient.”
True. An empty refrigerator or freezer uses more energy than one that is occupied. When a fridge or freezer is full, there is less room for warm air to flow in and the cool items inside keeps cool down any air that does come in. Keep them full, but not overly crowded with items that air cannot circulate around. If your fridge or freezer is empty, store bottled water in the fridge and partially fill 2-litter soda bottles and allow to freeze, while allowing some spaces in between. This gives you extra water for an emergency, as well as ice to keep your freezer cold longer in a power outage. You will never has to buy ice for picnic coolers either.
8. Wash fruits and vegetables before storing them.
False. Avoid washing fruit and vegetables until you are ready to eat them. The moisture will speed up the spoiling process. The best method I found to ward off decay is to wrap vegetables in paper towels then bag in plastic. The paper towels absorb moisture, allowing the fruits and vegetables to last longer.
9. Use all dairy by the “sell by” date or they are no longer good.
False. If stored in the refrigerator at a constant 40 degrees most dairy products stay fresh past the sell by date. Milk can stay fresh 3-4 days past expiration, and I have seen yogurt stay fresh a week or two past expiration. Milk can be frozen to make it last even longer: empty out a small amount before you freeze to allow for expansion. (Note: I am not an expert on dairy foods so your results may vary. Just sharing what I’ve observed.)
To test for freshness, drop the egg gently in a cup of water-if it sinks, it is still fresh, if it floats then it is bad. We’ve tested coating eggs in mineral oil to keep them fresh for months. If you coat them in oil AND refrigerate them, they will last even longer.
10. “If your power goes out, you can check if food has gone bad by the taste or smell.”
False. You cannot always tell by taste and smell – bacteria may have grown on the food that cannot be detected by taste or smell. Besides if you taste the food that has already spoiled you may get sick just from tasting it. Throw out any perishable foods that have been above 40 °F for 2 hours.
Researching this article taught me a lot about food safety. As much as I hate wasting food, sometimes events such as an extended power outage will happen and food goes bad even with the best of intentions. Your health is not worth risk of eating unsafe food. “If in doubt, throw it out!” is also good rule to remember.
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This image depicting George Washington and Abraham Lincoln is titled “Apotheosis.”
1. the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.
2. the ideal example; epitome; quintessence.
Based on the title, the image could be interpreted as a god like George Washington welcoming Abraham Lincoln to heaven. Copyrighted in 1865, the image was widely reproduced after Lincoln’s death. This copy from the Ohio Historical Society’s collection of Lincoln memorabilia was mounted on a carte de visite.
Cartes des visite originated in France. They are photographs mounted on cards usually measuring about 2 ¼ x 4 ¼ inches, the same size as calling cards that were commonly used in the 19th century. The name is the French phrase for calling card. Cartes des visite were introduced in the United States in 1859.
With the advent of the Civil War, they became a popular format for soldiers and family portraits because they were light weight and portable. Cartes des visite also became a popular format for photographers to sell photographs of well known people, such as military officers, politicians and entertainers. Albums were produced with pockets sized to slide in cartes des visite. It is not uncommon to find images like this one of Washington and Lincoln tucked in family albums.
Curator for Visual Resources
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U.S. moving submersibles to Persian Gulf to oppose IranJuly 12, 2012
Source: L.A. Times
WASHINGTON — The Navy is rushing dozens of unmanned underwater craft to the Persian Gulf to help detect and destroy mines in a major military buildup aimed at preventing Iran from closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the event of a crisis, U.S. officials said.
The tiny SeaFox submersibles each carry an underwater television camera, homing sonar and an explosive charge. The Navy bought them in May after an urgent request by Marine Gen. James Mattis, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East.
Each submersible is about 4 feet long and weighs less than 100 pounds. The craft are intended to boost U.S. military capabilities as negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program appear to have stalled. Three rounds of talks since April between Iran and the five countries in the United Nations Security Council plus Germany have made little progress.
Some U.S. officials are wary that Iran may respond to tightening sanctions on its banking and energy sectors, including a European Union oil embargo, by launching or sponsoring attacks on oil tankers or platforms in the Persian Gulf. Some officials in Tehran have threatened to close the narrow waterway, a choke point for a fifth of the oil traded worldwide.
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[erlang-questions] erlang improvement - objective c (or smalltalk) syntax
Thu Jun 4 12:32:58 CEST 2009
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:08, Bengt Kleberg <> wrote:
> 1) I would still need to look in the documentation. No longer to find
> the position, but to find out the names/spelling of the arguments. Is it
> string: or str:, start: or first: and is it length: or chars:?
> 2) I do not find it more beneficial to write
> string:substring( string:S start:I length:J ), instead of
> string:substring( String, Start, Length ).
You would still have to look it up, not necessarily though the
documentation, a listing of exported functions from the string module
is enough. If you would see the function in its canonical form you
would know the names and their spelling.
This reminds me about another useful feature that "we have the
techology" for: one-liner documentation strings that could be
displayed in the shell when tab-completing. Richard Carlsson once
mentioned that one-line summaries was fully within his intention with
An advantage of having code be self-documenting (as in joe's objc
appraoch) is that you don't risk having documentation that was not
updated when code was updated. But docstrings are more free form and
could point out other useful facts.
More information about the erlang-questions
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American exceptionalism is the belief that America, among all nations, is unique. Other nations rise and fall, but not America. In all of the history of the world, America alone has a special destiny, one mapped out by God. Sure, there may be rough patches, but ultimately we will be Number One.
In an interview earlier this month with the Washington Examiner, Utah Sen. Mike Lee said, "Mormons sort of have an extra chromosome when it comes to American exceptionalism. Mormons do have an added dose of a belief in American exceptionalism."
Lee is right: Mormons are exceptional in their belief in American exceptionalism.
Mormon pioneers carried many things with them in their flight in 1846 from the United States, including the conviction that they were God’s Chosen, the true heirs of liberty. Before beginning the trek West, Brigham Young and the leaders of the church issued a ...
PROCLAMATION of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
To all the Kings of the World; to the President of the United States of America; to the Governors of the several States; and to the Rulers and People of all Nations:
GREETING: KNOW YE THAT the kingdom of God has come ...
Still reeling from the murder of Joseph Smith and hemorrhaging members to internal divisions and rumors of polygamy, the 1845 Proclamation of the Twelve was an audacious, 10,000-word challenge to the world: You are either with us or you are against us — and considering what God is capable of, you really don’t want to be against us.
Upon arrival in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, Young lost no time in setting up a government in exile to step in when the world went all to hell.
It was called the Council of Fifty, "also known as the Living Constitution, the Kingdom of God, or its name by revelation, The Kingdom of God and His Laws with the Keys and Power thereof, and Judgment in the Hands of His Servants, Ahman Christ."
In the Examiner interview, Lee said, "[Mitt Romney] recognizes we live in difficult times. The circumstances are pretty dire and that swift action is needed."
This qualifies as something of a dog whistle for Mormons. In preparing the Saints for their central historical role more than a century and a half ago, Young recalled Smith’s prediction that one day the Constitution would hang by a thread and that the Latter-day Saints would save it.
Young said, "There is not a Territory in the Union that is looked upon with so suspicious an eye as is Utah, and yet it is the only part of the nation that cares anything about the Constitution."
The Saints saw themselves as a link in a chain beginning with the Pilgrims, continuing through the Founding Fathers, and leading up to the establishment of Christ’s righteous government. Early Mormons were dedicated journal-keepers because they were conscious of being on the ground floor of Something Big. Firsthand accounts from the victors as the Kingdom of God rolled forth to crush the wicked would one day be as important as the journals of Washington and Jefferson.
Which is why the Latter-day Saints often made such irritating neighbors. No one likes to be told that, unless you throw in and join our religion, God is going to be redistributing your wealth. In part, it explains the troubles Mormons had in New York, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois and later Utah.
The government denied Utah statehood for decades and hounded and imprisoned Mormon leaders until the church promised two things: to abandon polygamy and swear fealty to the United States and its elected leaders.
Today Mormons are, unquestionably, loyal and dedicated Americans. However, when Lee brags about having an "extra" chromosome, it recalls certain bad old days when Mormons believed that they were the only true Americans.
Pat Bagley is the editorial cartoonist for The Salt Lake Tribune. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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© 2005-2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). All rights reserved worldwide.
A gestational trophoblastic tumor (GTT) is a rare cancer that occurs in a woman's reproductive system. Cancer begins when normal cells change and grow uncontrollably, forming a mass called a tumor. A tumor can be benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous, meaning it can spread to other parts of the body).
A GTT is most commonly the result of an abnormal pregnancy due to an abnormal combination of a sperm and an egg. In other cases, a GTT is a cancerous growth that begins from a normal placenta. The placenta is the organ that develops during pregnancy and connects the fetus (unborn baby) to the uterus, also called the womb.
There are three types of GTTs:
Hydatidiform mole. Also called a molar pregnancy, this type accounts for about 80% of all GTTs. There are two main types of molar pregnancy: a complete molar pregnancy and a partial molar pregnancy. A complete molar pregnancy begins when a sperm fertilizes an abnormal egg. Instead of forming an embryo, the tissue grows into a mound of cells that look like grape-like cysts; there is no evidence of normal fetal development.
Partial molar pregnancy begins with fertilization of an egg by two sperm. It has some of the features of a complete molar pregnancy, but also has some fetal development. The fetus has abnormal chromosomes and has no potential for survival.
Another type of molar pregnancy is invasive molar pregnancy, which most commonly begins from a complete molar pregnancy, but can also arise from a partial molar pregnancy. An invasive molar pregnancy may grow into the muscle layer of the uterus. Fewer than 15% of hydatidiform moles spread outside of the uterus.
Choriocarcinoma. This type of GTT may begin as a hydatidiform mole or from the placenta, whether through delivery of a baby, abortion (induced termination of a pregnancy), or miscarriage (uninduced termination of a pregnancy). Choriocarcinoma can spread outside of the uterus. About 5% of all GTTs are choriocarcinomas.
Placental-site trophoblastic disease. This rare type of GTT can start in the placenta.
Find out more about basic cancer terms used in this section.
Or, choose “Next” (below, right) to continue reading this detailed section. To select a specific topic within this section, use the icon panel located on the right side of your screen.
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Energy in water (in the form of kinetic energy, temperature differences or salinity gradients) can be harnessed and used. Since water is about 800 times denser than air, even a slow flowing stream of water, or moderate sea swell, can yield considerable amounts of energy.
There are many forms of water energy:
Hydroelectric energy is a term usually reserved for large-scale hydroelectric dams. Examples are the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State and the Akosombo Dam in Ghana. Micro hydro systems are hydroelectric power installations that typically produce up to 100 kW of power. They are often used in water rich areas as a Remote Area Power Supply (RAPS). There are many of these installations around the world, including several delivering around 50 kW in the Solomon Islands. Damless hydro systems derive kinetic energy from rivers and oceans without using a dam. Ocean energy describes all the technologies to harness energy from the ocean and the sea.
Marine current power, similar to tidal stream power, uses the kinetic energy of marine currents. Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature difference between the warmer surface of the ocean and the colder lower recesses. To this end, it employs a cyclic heat engine. OTEC has not been field-tested on a large scale. Tidal power captures energy from the tides. Two different principles for generating energy from the tides are used at the moment.
Tidal motion in the vertical direction – Tides come in, raise water levels in a basin, and tides roll out. Around low tide, the water in the basin is discharged through a turbine, exploiting the stored potential energy. Tidal motion in the horizontal direction – or tidal stream power. Using tidal stream generators, like wind turbines but then in a tidal stream. Due to the high density of water, about eight-hundred times the density of air, tidal currents can have a lot of kinetic energy. Several commercial prototypes have been build, and more are in development.
Wave power uses the energy in waves. Wave power machines usually take the form of floating or neutrally buoyant structures which move relative to one another or to a fixed point. Wave power has now reached commercialization. Osmotic power or salinity gradient power, is the energy retrieved from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water. Reverse electrodialysis (PRO) is in the research and testing phase. Vortex power is generated by placing obstacles in rivers in order to cause the formation of vortices which can then be tapped for energy. Deep lake water cooling, although not technically an energy generation method, can save a lot of energy in summer. It uses submerged pipes as a heat sink for climate control systems. Lake-bottom water is a year-round local constant of about 4°C.
Wave Farms Expansion
Portugal now has the world’s first commercial wave farm, the Agucadoura Wave Park, officially opened in September 2008. The farm uses three Pelamis P-750 machines generating 2.25 MW.Initial costs are put at 8.5 million. A second phase of the project is now planned to increase the installed capacity to 21MW using a further 25 Pelamis machines.
Funding for a wave farm in Scotland was announced in February, 2007 by the Scottish Government, at a cost of over 4 million pounds, as part of a £13 million funding packages for ocean power in Scotland. The farm will be the world’s largest with a capacity of 3MW generated by four Pelamis machines.
The major advantage of hydroelectric systems is the elimination of the cost of fuel. Other advantages include longer life than fuel-fired generation, low operating costs, and the provision of facilities for water sports. Operation of pumped-storage plants improves the daily load factor of the generation system. Overall, hydroelectric power can be far less expensive than electricity generated from fossil fuels or nuclear energy, and areas with abundant hydroelectric power attract industry.
However, there are several major disadvantages of hydroelectric systems. These include: dislocation of people living where the reservoirs are planned, release of significant amounts of carbon dioxide at construction and flooding of the reservoir, disruption of aquatic ecosystems and birdlife, adverse impacts on the river environment, potential risks of sabotage and terrorism, and in rare cases catastrophic failure of the dam wall.
Hydroelectric power is now more difficult to site in developed nations because most major sites within these nations are either already being exploited or may be unavailable for other reasons such as environmental considerations
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Don’t Answer Calls from 480-359-4334
Don’t you love it when your cell phone rings and just a phone number shows up. Not a name of a friend, co-worker or relative…just a mysterious phone number from some mysterious state or a town you’ve never heard of? You wonder to yourself; “is it a long lost friend”, “is it someone from the corporate office”, “did a distant relative pass away”, “has my kid been arressted”, “is it a TELEMARKETING call”?
This morning I received a call from (480) 359-4334 from “AZ, USA”. I know a few people in Arizona, the first who come to mind is one of my corporate bosses and a former co worker–but that’s about it.
I chose not to answer the phone and figured if it was important voicemail would be left. After a few minutes-no voicemail. A Google search showed this was a “spammer” offering a free cruise. Probably some type of scam. Happy I did not pick up the call.
For many years we did not receive these annoying telemarketing calls on our cell phones, but we are now. I remembered that we once registered our home landline at www.donotcall.gov and that stopped all the annoying (usually at dinnertime) calls, but I must have never registered my cell phone.
It’s a simple process:
Open your Internet browser and go to the National Do Not Call Registry website. This website, set up by the US government, is a directory of citizens who do not wish to be contacted by telemarketers. This can prevent calls to your cell phone through the threat of potential legal action.
On the left-hand side of the screen, click the button that reads “Register a Phone Number.”
Fill out the form on the following page. You will need an email address and up to three numbers, land lines or cell phones, that you wish to take off of call lists.
Click “Register” when you have entered and verified your information.
Go to your email account and open the email from the National Do Not Call Registry. Click on the link to activate your listing on the Do Not Call Registry.
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The other day I was going trough some code I wrote a couple of yoear ago when I had only a bare grasp of the basics of Perl. Ughh - it was horrible.
Anyway one of the main things I noticed was a lack of consistency in deciding when to use a sub and when to cut and paste code. I am interested to know
what 'rules/guidelines' other monks use. While you want to use subs for reusability of code sometimes it can be hard to read code that calls half a dozen short
subs. There must have been much thought on this subject but, in a cursory search, I have not been able to find any good articles on it. Any thoughts or links would be appreciated.
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In Search of Lost Worlds
A real-life adventure
When you were younger, did you enjoy reading novels of dangerous exploits in fabulous, far-off parts of this world or others-the kind of adventures found in works by H. Rider Haggard, Jules Verne and Arthur Conan Doyle? If you want to recapture some of that blood-stirring reading experience, look no further than David Grann's The Lost City of Z (Doubleday). And better yet, all of it is true.
Percy Harrison Fawcett, Grann writes, was "the last of the great Victorian explorers who ventured into uncharted realms with little more than a machete, a compass and an almost divine sense of purpose." In this "Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon," as the subtitle accurately puts it, TheNew Yorker journalist Grann tells Fawcett's gripping life story while focusing on his famous, final, fatal foray in search of a hidden ancient civilization, possibly built on gold and treasures-an El Dorado-in the jungles of Brazil. Fawcett called it the "City of Z."
Born in 1867, Fawcett began a career as a British army officer before becoming fascinated with exploring. His first expedition to South America occurred in 1906, when he mapped a jungle area along the border of Brazil and Bolivia.
It was foolhardy to go even once into the pestiferous Amazon, where, Fawcett said, the animal kingdom "is against man as it is nowhere else in the world." It was madness to enter it again after having endured its horrific rigors. Yet Fawcett made seven ventures, always in extremely small and inadequately financed parties, between 1906 and 1924, with time out for army service during World War I.
His rugged physical constitution seemed all but impervious to the malaria, insects, poisonous plants and dangerous creatures that afflicted even the hardiest of explorers. He deliberately planted false information, such as map coordinates, to misdirect any who would follow, and had little respect for anyone unable to keep up with his manic pace.
"Every year in the jungle seemed to make him harder and more fanatical," Grann writes. Meanwhile, his wife, Nina, and three children lived in genteel poverty, and sometimes worse.
Over time Fawcett found evidence rebutting the prevailing "environmental determinism" view that no complex civilization could have emerged in so hostile an environment. He admired the native tribes, spoke their languages and vehemently opposed viewing them as "savages," though he was racist in looking for the "whiteness" factor that he thought explained more sophisticated tribes.
And he became convinced, as were many others, that somewhere a magnificent lost civilization was to be found.
The author constructs his narrative well. Chapters describing Fawcett's life alternate with chapters devoted to Grann's researches and interviews and preparations for his own 2005 "expedition" retracing Fawcett's steps.
Grann would not be the first to do so. Over the years Fawcett has become an obsession for some. Scores of search-and-rescue efforts were launched that took the lives of as many as 100 people. In recent decades cults have sprung up in Brazil that worship Fawcett as a sort of god.
By the time of his last expedition in 1925, Fawcett, at 57, had lost some of his awesome physical prowess. He was associating with psychics and spiritualists of various stripes and filling his papers "with reams of delirious writings."
Only two others accompanied him on this final trip: his 21-year-old son, Jack, and Jack's best friend and contemporary, Raleigh Rimell. The scantily equipped group was assaulted by the usual jungle horrors, including swarms of insects like black rain. The last words Fawcett wrote to his wife were, "You need have no fear of any failure." After that, silence.
Hope was held out for years. Maybe they had been captured? Or had they actually found Z and, enraptured, saw no point in leaving? There were "sightings" and, of course, the search parties.
As for Z, one of the persons Grann met in the jungle was Michael Heckenberger, a University of Florida archaeologist. In southern Brazil, where Fawcett explored, Heckenberger has found demonstrable traces of ancient roads, bridges, plazas and networks of urban communities that apparently contained populations of many thousands.
At the very least, Heckenberger's discoveries may help dispel, as Fawcett tried to do, the impression of an "untouched" Amazon before the arrival of Europeans. It might not be El Dorado, but, to Grann, it sounds a lot like Fawcett's Z.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect the United Kingdom Balance of Payments for 2010 to be published; and whether it will reflect exports and imports of goods and services which pass through Rotterdam and Antwerp.admitted that there was an error in the original reply. So, we shall ignore that. Let us turn to the corrected response, which consists of a Letter from Stephen Penneck, Director General for ONS.
There is some useful information as to where various figures about imports and exports may be found, together with this explanation:
For UK imports originating from the EU, the "country of dispatch" is recorded on the Intrastat survey form as the country in the EU from which the goods were originally sent to the UK. For UK exports, the "country of destination" is recorded on the Intrastat survey form as the final EU country the goods are destined for, even if the goods travel through other EU countries on the way.But what, I hear people ask, about the "Rotterdam Effect", which should really be called "Rotterdam and Antwerp Effect"?
Glad you ask that.
All Trade passing through Rotterdam and Antwerp is included in the United Kingdom Balance of Payments data and will be shown against the Netherlands and Belgium, respectively, where they are the originating country of dispatch (for UK imports) and/or the country of ultimate destination (for UK exports).Or, in other words, we are given erroneous figures about trade with at least two other member states of the EU and the Single Market because the the imports and exports are attributed "to the country of transit as opposed to the "real" partner country". (Why real should be in quotation marks in the reply is a little mysterious. The country that buys goods from us or sells us goods is the real trading partner without any quotation marks.)
Complications can occur in EU trade when dealing with the "Rotterdam Effect". Some goods might be declared at an earlier than (final) country of dispatch and/or destination. Principally, the "Rotterdam Effect" causes imports and exports to be attributed to the country of transit as opposed to the "real" partner country.
The most recent analysis and data on the impact of the Rotterdam and Antwerp Effect was published in 2005. Is it not time to publish a more up-to-date version?
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261w ago - As we promised earlier this week, we are going to explain a PS3 game's boot process, as well as explain why the PARAM.SFO is so important.
The Flowchart in the image attached below explains a PS3 game's startup procedure from insertion to its execution.
Most of it is self-explanatory upon viewing the chart, however, there are a few notes. Any Retail SELF on a Blu-ray disc is flagged so it can only be decrypted and executed from the disc, and nowhere else.
Furthermore, the PARAM.SFO is also of importance... Upon insertion, the PS3 reads the Title ID of the disc in the PARAM.SFO and inserts it into the DB. Once the game is executed and decrypted, the Title ID is checked yet again to make sure it matches. If it does not (think a disc swap), the PS3 will silently error, and return to XMB.
In a final note, our PS3 Devs have been digging through numerous documents and patents, and came to the conclusion that the PS3 uses AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) as a base! See Wikipedia for more details on the format.
Later this weekend, we will have more details and a video for those interested on how to run some PS3 games on a Debug/TEST PS3 from an SD card! As most are aware, PS3 games aren't designed to...
289w ago - Each week or so we will post a brief report from the resident PS3 Devs here, and below is one for this week:
The PS3 Boot-up Procedure.
The SCC (Super Companion Chip), made by Toshiba gets the PS3 started up. It reads asecure_loader from flash, and loads it into SPE in isolation mode. The Flash reading is interesting, as the data on the flash chips are interleaved, so the SCC merges them, among other things.
asecure_loader is then decrypted and ran, and it brings up lv1ldr. The keys for self decryption (among other things) are most likely accessible at this time.
lv1ldr is then decrypted and ran, and verifies the integrity of lv1.self , decrypts and runs it.
lv1.self is most likely our base code, also known as the Hypervisor. The Hypervisor then calls lv2ldr.
lv2ldr is ran, and it runs lv2_kernel.self
LV2 kernel.self is essentially the PS3OS, it starts up, brings the XMB up, any game/movie in the drive.
This is a solid working theory. Without expensive hardware, we can not confirm this 100%, but it is the most logical approach!
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SPECIAL VERDICTS AND INTERROGATORIES
(a) Special Verdicts. The court may require a jury to return only a special verdict in the form of a special written finding upon each issue of fact. In that event the court may submit to the jury written questions susceptible of categorical or other brief answer or may submit written forms of the several special findings which might properly be made under the pleadings and evidence; or it may use such other method of submitting the issues and requiring the written findings thereon as it deems most appropriate. The court shall give to the jury such explanation and instruction concerning the matter thus submitted as may be necessary to enable the jury to make its findings upon each issue. If in so doing the court omits any issue of fact raised by the pleadings or by the evidence, each party waives his right to a trial by jury of the issue so omitted unless before the jury retires he demands its submission to the jury. As to an issue omitted without such demand the court may make a finding; or if it fails to do so, it shall be deemed to have made a finding in accord with the judgment on the special verdict.
(b) General Verdict Accompanied by Answer to Interrogatories. The court may submit to the jury, together with appropriate forms for a general verdict, written interrogatories upon one or more issues of fact the decision of which is necessary to a verdict. The court shall give such explanation or instruction as may be necessary to enable the jury both to make answers to the interrogatories and to render a general verdict, and the court shall direct the jury both to make written answers and to render a general verdict. When the general verdict and the answers are harmonious, the appropriate judgment upon the verdict and answers shall be entered pursuant to Rule 58. When the answers are consistent with each other but one or more is inconsistent with the general verdict, judgment may be entered pursuant to Rule 58 in accordance with the answers, notwithstanding the general verdict, or the court may return the jury for further consideration of its answers and verdict or may order a new trial. When the answers are inconsistent with each other and one or more is likewise inconsistent with the general verdict, judgment shall not be entered, but the court shall return the jury for further consideration of its answers and verdict or shall order a new trial.
(c) Verdict in Action for Personal Property. In an action for the recovery of specific personal property, if the property has not been delivered to the plaintiff, or if it has and the defendant demands its return, the jury shall assess the value of the property if the verdict be in favor of the plaintiff or if they find that the defendant is entitled to a return of the property. The jury may at this time assess the damages, both actual and punitive, which the prevailing party has sustained by reason of the detention or taking and withholding of such property.
These Rules 49(a) and (b) are the same as the Federal Rules. They essentially preserve present State practice as to general and special verdicts under Code §§ 15-33-20, 15-33-30 and 15-33-40, with the important innovation that under Rule 49(a) the court may require only a special verdict in any case, rather than both a general and a special verdict under the old Code procedure. This innovation has proven increasingly valuable in complex litigation after 40 years of experience with the Federal Rule. Rule 49(c) is added to preserve Code §§ 15-33-30 and 15-69-210, as to special findings required in actions for claim and delivery.
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MINSK, Belarus (AP) -- The authoritarian president of Belarus signed a decree Friday banning some industrial workers in the ex-Soviet nation from leaving their jobs, threatening them with draconian fines if they do.
Alexander Lukashenko's decree follows a statement he made a week ago on a visit to a wood processing plant. The measure is intended to stem the exodus of workers to neighboring Russia, where salaries are higher.
About 1 million people in the nation of 10 million are estimated to be working abroad, most of them in neighboring Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania.
The decree refers to about 13,000 employees of nine state-controlled wood-processing plants and about 3,000 construction workers involved in their modernization. The workers would be required to sign new labor contracts containing a provision that would force those who quit to pay back the entire wage they received since signing the contract.
Authorities will deduct the money from a worker's salary at a new job. Those who don't have new jobs would be sent back to their plants and will still have to pay the fine.
Critics compare the measure to serfdom and warn that it will only deepen the ex-Soviet nation's economic woes.
"Lukashenko had to turn to slavery," said Yevgeny Preigerman, the head of the Liberal Club independent discussion forum. "The terrible economic situation and workers' flight to other countries has forced Lukashenko to take up a stick and try to solve the problems in this barbarian way."
Lukashenko, dubbed "Europe's last dictator" in the West, has led the nation since 1994, extending his rule through elections the West have criticized as undemocratic. The Belarusian leader, who admires the Soviet Union, has kept most of the economy in state hands and relentlessly cracked down on the opposition and independent media.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
What will you be doing when you're 81? Probably not this.
A tornado survivor finds an answer to prayer in the rubble. (Video)
Robin Roberts will write a memoir about her struggle with illness.
Clothes have a starring role at the Cannes Film Festival. (Photos)
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Recent guidelines by The National Kidney Foundation Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF KDOQI)1 call for lower target blood pressure levels in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). But in the absence of high-quality scientific evidence, there's a chance this recommendation could do more harm than good, according to a special article appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).
"The new low blood pressure goals are not definitively supported by data, would be costly to the healthcare system and potentially harmful to patients," according to Julia B. Lewis, MD (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), who performed a critical review of the research evidence.
Issued last year, updated national guidelines for CKD treatment call for a target blood pressure level of less than 130/80 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury) to help preserve kidney function. The recommendation was based on observational studies showing "a continuous benefit of reducing blood pressure to lower and lower levels."
However, Lewis points out several problems with the research behind the new guidelines. Most importantly, since patients in the observational studies were not randomly assigned to different blood pressure goals, the apparent benefit of lower blood pressures could result from other "confounding" factors. "The data supporting the current blood pressure guidelines for patients with CKD do not meet the standard of a primary outcome of a randomized trial," says Lewis.
She explains that, as kidney disease worsens, blood pressure rises and becomes harder to control. So the data may simply reflect the fact that patients with less severe kidney disease have lower blood pressure. In studies where patients were randomly assigned to treatments, the benefits of lower blood pressure were seen only in a subgroup of patients, or several years after the end of treatment.
"Also there is other evidence to bring into question the widespread application of this costly goal of a blood pressure less than 130/80 mm Hg," Lewis adds. Some studies have even suggested that CKD patients with very low blood pressure could be at increased risk of death.
A new trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will compare the effects of different blood pressure targets in over 10,000 patients with CKD. Until the results are available, Lewis believes that doctors should make individualized decisions about blood pressure control for their patients with kidney disease.
Lewis emphasizes that no firm conclusions can be drawn from her review, since it was based on different types of studies with conflicting results.
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More information: The article, entitled "Blood Pressure Control in Chronic Kidney Disease: Is Less Really More?" will appear online at doi:10.1681/ASN.2010030236
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Want to be happy and successful? Bring happiness to others
Written on 27th June, 2012 • Comments
For the last 3 months I’ve regularly been meeting startup founders here in Hong Kong to try and help them with the biggest challenges they have. It’s been truly enjoyable and fascinating. I feel I’ve had a positive impact on many, and at the same time I’ve learned a huge amount and made some great friends I’ll definitely stay in touch with.
I’ve been meeting 3-4 founders most weeks and almost all of the meetings I had were 45 minute slots during lunch time. This worked very well as I needed a break and to get lunch anyway.
After doing it for a little while, I started to notice that in the afternoon after I’d met a startup founder I was always extremely happy.
A lesson from the happiest man in the world
I’m currently reading Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard, who has been called the happiest man in the world.
Ricard discusses the “joys of altruism”, relating altruism to happiness. He mentions a series of studies which found a very strong correlation between altruism and happiness:
“The satisfactions triggered by a pleasant activity, such as going out with friends, seeing a movie, or enjoying a banana split, were largely eclipsed by those derived from performing an act of kindness.”
He concludes the section with the following concise explanation:
“Generating and expressing kindness quickly dispels suffering and replaces it with lasting fulfillment.”
When I read this, it hit me. This was exactly the reason why I was happy. Helping someone for 45 minutes during lunch is a far better way to be happy than watching a funny video or procrastinating on Facebook for 45 minutes.
Hiten Shah: bringing happiness to the startup world
“You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” - Zig Ziglar
Every email Hiten sends has the above quote in his signature. He is the person who I’ve seen best embrace the methods Ricard talks about.
The amazing thing about Hiten is that he truly helps anyone. When I first had contact with Hiten two years ago, I was nobody. However, he took an hour of his day to jump on a call with a stranger in the UK.
I’ve found Hiten is one of the happiest people I’ve ever met. He seems to have really ingrained this idea of constantly helping others, and I imagine it may be at least partially triggering his happiness.
Taking this approach to the level that Hiten does is something which I have always aspired to since we first spoke. This is also main reason I started meeting founders here in Hong Kong.
Building a startup around this philosophy
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” - Albert Schweitzer
At Buffer, as a whole team we try to internalise this philosophy. Every day we have a Skype call at 6pm where we help each other to work on personal improvements which will make us happy. We know that if we can simply be happy, we will produce great work and be productive.
On the other side of the equation, we also try to apply this to our approach with user happiness, largely inspired by Zappos. In general, we try to make this all we do. We sit down, we type, and we try to bring happiness to others. We do this hours on end with email support, and we do this by writing thousands of lines of code to create an amazing experience.
What are you doing to make others happy? I’d love to hear from you in the comments.
Photo credit: Jill G
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What is sea buckthorn?
Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) is a tree-like shrub with thorny branches and small yellowish-orange berries native to Asia and northern Europe. It grows wild in sandy, coastal areas and dry, mountainous riverbeds throughout the world, and it’s cultivated for use in cosmetics and foods in the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe.
Sea buckthorn berries are edible, but oily and acidic. The juice is often mixed with sweeter fruit juices for consumption, and the crushed berries are used to make pies, jams and liquors. Known for its high omega fatty acid content, sea buckthorn oil is used in creams, liniments, soaps and shampoos, or encapsulated for use as dietary supplements.
How does sea buckthorn support health?
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Vitacost nutritional products are manufactured to high standards of quality, efficacy and safety. Each Vitacost product meets or exceeds the standards and requirements set forth in the FDA’s Code of Federal Regulation (21 CFR, 111) Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP).
* This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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PENNSYLVANIA In the early hours of December 13, 1864, twenty-five soldiers surrounded the home of Tom Adams, the leader of an armed band in Knox, Pennsylvania. Drunk and caught by surprise, the bandits surrendered, except for Adams, who dashed upstairs and from a second-story window shot a mounted private. Tearing an opening in the wallboards of a gable, he vaulted into the garden, where he was accosted by soldiers and fatally shot. Adams’s crime? Abandoning the 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers, with which he had served six months in 1863.
The “Bloody Knox” incident, as it became popularly known, is a sound illustration of Pennsylvania’s Civil War-era politics, which pitted antigovernment protestors against federal marshals. “The U.S. government,” explains Robert Sandow, “considered Pennsylvania to be one of the strongest parts of resistance in the entire North.” Sandow, who authored Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians, lectures for the Commonwealth Speakers series, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.
Composed of hard-drinking, rough-and-tumble residents, the lumber region in northern Pennsylvania was a hornets’ nest of partisan strife. It doubled as a safe haven for antiwar Democrats and truant soldiers—the nimble Adams, among them. They placed community over country, resented federal intervention, and scorned the presence of industrialists. The Enrollment Act of 1863 was the bane of these hand-to-mouth farmers and loggers, who were needed at home.
As questions of loyalty plagued the Appalachian mountain-sides, partisan lines were drawn. Sandow explains, “Democrats, naturally, wanted to be the defenders of individual rights, but Republicans were saying, ‘Listen, in times of war, there are no political parties. You should put aside partisanship and be patriots in support of the nation.’” As the Civil War raged on Pennsylvania’s southern border, the lumber region was divided by an inner civil war, fought over dinner tables, in newspapers, on storefronts, and in the streets.
After the offices of a Democratic newspaper were gutted and set aflame, an editor urged Democrats “not only to defend their property but to strike back.” “Dissenters used every means possible to defy federal authorities,” writes Sandow, “including lying, intimidation, assault, and murder. Opposition came not from a single class of people but from whole communities.” To evade eligibility and enrollment, Pennsylvanians would conceal family members and neighbors, inflate and reduce their ages, threaten recruitment officers, and, occasionally, wound and murder federal marshals.
Amidst Democratic agitating and Republican moralizing, rumors swirled around the existence of secret societies. Some suspected that the Pennsylvanian Copperheads—men who opposed the policies of the Lincoln administration—were involved in a nationwide conspiracy, the Knights of the Golden Circle. More likely, they established grassroots organizations—what Sandow refers to as “mutual protection societies.” He explains, “They might create a group in which, if one of them was drafted, the other men would help them to stay out of the custody of the marshals.” The Democratic Castle of Clearfield County, for instance, held rallies and clandestine meetings, at which local politicians flirted with treason.
In the latter half of 1864, the federal government took a hard line against Copperheads, dispatching marshals to capture deserters. But, as they were underpaid and unaccustomed to the terrain, their raids met scant success. Within the lumbering counties, the marshals apprehended just over 150 deserters—a far cry from the thousands that were said to have run rampant. The provost-marshal of western Pennsylvania (and a descendent of author Washington Irving), Richard Irving Dodge, and his subordinate officer, Major Frederick A. H. Gaebel, became increasingly zealous, ordering arrests without evidence of desertion. “As military men,” Sandow notes, “they had no respect for civilians who they felt were not doing their duty.”
As the Civil War came to a close, the marshals left Pennsylvania. Their prisoners were required to pay fines or, more often than not, released without a conviction. But, according to Sandow, “the end of the war did not end the controversy over antiwar opposition.” Pennsylvania became one of five states that disenfranchised its deserters, and allegations of Copperheadism carried into the 1880s.
The Civil War was not merely a battle between North and South, but also, one between neighbors. “The reality is,” as Sandow points out, “in every war America’s ever fought, opposition and dissent are common. By remembering this, we’re remembering an important aspect of our own society, our own national life.”
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The protoboard is finished – with sockets for the wiring to the LCD panel. The project is now the GerbClock – all I need is a case to put it into!
The Arduclock proceeds very slowly – the extra bits have moved to a Freetronics protoshield– just need to tidy up the connection to the LCD and put it in a box..
Here is a closeup of the protoshield..
Power could be a 9V ‘wall wart’ plugpack or 9V worth of NiMH cells in a carrier…
a nice looking case is next…
I have used the Cheat sheet and find it very handy, but the print for the code is both proportional and small which for us older folk makes it hard to read – I have modded it to a larger monospaced font and put the pictures (bigger) on a second page with the libraries, leaving space to add some more library info later. You can get my version as a .vsd file or a pdf from http://gerbilator.org/arduino. Please note that this server is on a slow connection to the Internet, so be patient.
More power to the Mechatronics Guy for coming up with this very useful idea initially.
The Cybot has been relegated to a box for the time being. The Gerbot (pictures to come) and its little friend are Arduino-based, using Freetronics’ protoboards and a TwentyTen MCU card. They are waiting on space being made to actually work on them! (Coding of course can happen anywhere with a Laptop).
Recently, I acquired on eBay a FriendlyARM mini2440 system – it works out of the box but in Chinese! – a little work to load an English language image and it goes..admittedly its a small display with lower resolution than a modern cellphone but a lot of computing power if directed to robots – a future project.
The cleaning up is a slow process, stuff goes on eBay from time to time, but I really don’t like throwing things away – you never know when they will be handy.
Anyway, Happy Australia Day for tomorrow!!!
Well, it’s almost Xmas time again! Not much has happened on the GerbClock or Gerbot recently. Gerbot pix soon. Arduino has gone from strength to strength spawning any number of clones, work-alikes and enhancements. Even Microsoft are getting in there with their Netduino! I bought 3 very nice smallish Stepper motors on eBay recently – a 3axis mill or 3D printer…haven’t decided yet.
The ArduClock has been sidelined of late – I hope to have the code and diagrams posted by the end of April. Putting assorted chips up on eBay to free up space round here takes up a lot of time as well as the new semester has begun. Everything seems to take longer as you get older…
The ArduClock continues (albeit very slowly)..I have fitted a Dark background LCD display (from eBay) – I think it looks better: still haven’t put it into a box yet.
I am working on another clock/counter with 7 segment LEDs (HDSP-7503) High Efficiency Red – 7.5mm (0.4 inch) Char Height.
(I bought a lot of them recently) plus some huge 16 segment LEDS – see pic below..
some changes have been made; the Arduino NG has been replaced by a BBB Rev D (atMEGA168); the LM75A by a DS18B20 and the display is now a 4×20 LCD unit. The Code needs some more work before posting…I now need a bigger box to put it into! I have a nice wooden box that used to contain code wheels, but it’s not quite big enough for the LCD display..
Just using some bits and pieces, to prototype a desk clock/calendar with thermometer. So far we have an Arduino NG with a DS1307 RTC and a LM75A thermo sensor chip. The Clock/Calendar is working…
Note that the “Temp:” has no value yet. I may rearrange the display to fit a 16×2 display better. Nearly all the bits are from eBay…
Yes, folks: from the ABC news – gerbils are a new eco-horror in china!! Maybe they could catch them and turn them into sweet and sour gerbils, lemon gerbil, gerbils in black bean sauce…
[yes, yes, I know it's not technology...]
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009: 3:00 PM
Convention Center, Room 330, Third Floor
Manganese (Mn) and iron (Fe) oxides are ubiquitous minerals that occur under similar redox conditions in terrestrial systems and have high sorptive capacities for many trace metals, including arsenic (As). Although numerous studies have characterized the effects of As adsorption onto Fe and Mn oxides individually, the fate of arsenic within mixed systems representative of natural environments is unresolved. Here, we examine competitive retention of As on goethite and birnessite using a Donnan reactor, where each oxide is isolated by a semi-permeable membrane through which arsenic can migrate. To initiate the Donnan reactor experiments, As(III) is simultaneously added to both chambers. Arsenic(III) injected into the birnessite chamber is rapidly oxidized to As(V) and then slowly redistributes across both chambers, while that added to the goethite chamber undergoes rapid adsorption; oxidation of As(III) on goethite is then controlled by desorption and diffusion into the birnessite chamber. With increased reaction time, As(V) is generated and preferentially partitioned onto goethite at low As concentrations. To further explore the role of Fe and Mn oxides in controlling the fate and transport of arsenic, we investigate arsenic dynamics in an aerobic aggregate composed of ferrihydrite and birnessite coated quartz sand fused by an agarose polymer. Mn and Fe oxide coated sands, having pre-adsorbed As(V), are cast into cohesive spheres and inoculated with Shewanella sp. ANA-3, a bacterial strain capable of reducing As(V) and Mn and Fe oxides. Arsenic(III) produced by bacterial reduction of As(V) diffuses into the aggregate exterior (proximal to advecting, aerated solutes), where it is re-oxidized to As(V) by Mn-oxides; following oxidation, As(V) is repartitioned onto the Fe oxides. These results illustrate the dynamic interplay or biogeochemical transformation, physical heterogeneity of natural systems, and mixed sorbents on the fate of arsenic.
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Animal Species:Sinosauropteryx prima
Sinosauropteryx prima was a small, meat-eating dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago. It was covered with delicate, hair-like feathers.
Sinosauropteryx prima had:
- long legs, short arms with three fingers, a bony tail and sharp teeth;
- primitive feathers (up to 3 cm long, covering most of its body) that probably helped it to keep warm;
- a long tail that it used for balance as it ran on its hind legs;
- a diet of lizards, insects and small mammals.
Sinosauropteryx prima was discovered by farmers near Sihetun village in Liaoning Province and described in 1996. Its name means 'first Chinese dragon feather' in reference to the fact that this Chinese fossil was the first dinosaur found with feathers.
Sinosauropteryx prima was a small theropod called a coelurosaur. It belonged to the family Compsognathidae, which occurred in Europe and China in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous.
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|This Dynasty XXI sarcophagus is made from |
sycamore fig-wood with colorfully painted scenes.
The front lid of Neshkons' sarcophagus is truly a marvel of ancient Egyptian art. Proudly acquired by the Merrin Gallery, it depicts the deceased in mummiform, surrounded by various goddesses, mystical creatures, and many other painted scenes commemorating Neshkons' life and wishing well for his afterlife.
Purchased when it went up for auction at Christie's in 2006, Samuel Merrin, owner of the Merrin Gallery on New York's Fifth Avenue, recollects that, “We were prepared to pay three times the price we eventually paid, because we recognized its beauty and rarity. We also knew that this would be known as the most prized acquisition at the auction.”
|The right side of both the lid and trough of Neshkons' sarcophagus features varying scenes of ancient Egyptian funerary art with hyerogylphic inscriptions; further detailed on Sam's Flickr.|
The Merrin Gallery's sarcophagus comprises of a lid, trough and the mummy of Neshkons. It was, and still is regarded as a record bid for a sarcophagus and mummy.
|Burried sometime between 900–940 BC, the sarcophagus of Neshkons was excavated in 1900 AD and later shipped from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio, where the mummy was partially unwrapped.|
According to Samuel Merrin's appraisal, “The preservation of the mummy is excellent.”
An x-ray image of the mummy shows us that a metal plate that was placed over an incision by which his internal organs were removed for ceremonial funerary purposes. The x-ray of Neshkons' mummy, and analysis thereof, also helped determine that he died at 20 years of age.
Mr. Merrin reminds us that, “It is one of the best sarcophagi from the best period — the 21st dynasty.” This is evident as the inside and outside of the sarcophagus display wonders of ancient Egyptian art.
The inside walls of the Merrin sarcophagus are similar in that they depict the Four Sons of Horus and Anubis
Speaking to Samuel we discover that, “Judging from the elaborate sarcophagus and the amulets founds under the wrappings, Neshkons must have been a man of high rank and repute.” His coffin is decorated with gods, goddesses and notable figures in ancient Egyptian society (e.g. Amenhotep I).
After Mr. Moshe Bronstein of the Merrin Gallery put down his auction paddle after the winning bid, another dealer was said to have exclaimed that it was a great purchase and asked to buy a half-share of the sarcophagus.
“Buying a half-share is common among dealers, but we did not need to bring in any partners. We wanted to be the sole owners of this magnificent sarcophagus. We also knew that its provenance was perfect,” Samuel Merrin concludes.
|The inside-top part of the Merrin Gallery's sarcophagus features hieroglyphic inscriptions, seated jackal deities, as well as a Ba-bird, Anubis, and Ipt.|
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4/2/2002 France focus of history lecture
McMINNVILLE -- Charles Rearick, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will speak on "The Pleasures of Paris ? in History and Memory (or Why the Belle Epoque was Important and Has Remained So)" Thursday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Jonasson Hall at Linfield College.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored through the Jonas A. "Steine" Jonasson Endowed Lectureship at Linfield.
Rearick received a doctorate from Harvard University in 1968 after his undergraduate study at the College of Idaho. At UMA, he teaches European history and is a specialist in modern France. Over the past 35 years, he has spent a month or so in France every year but one, pursuing his research in the libraries and archives of Paris and the provinces, catching up with contemporary French life, and enjoying many things French.
He is the author of three books on France. "Beyond the Enlightenment" is
on French historians in the Romantic era and their discovery of folklore. The second is "Pleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in Turn-of-the-Century France" which was published in 1985 and is still in print. His most recent book, "The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars," is illustrated with more than 125
photographs from the period. He is now writing a history of modern Paris and the shining images of the city that have taken hold in imaginations around the world.
The Jonas A. "Steine" Jonasson Endowed Lectureship at Linfield honors Jonasson, professor emeritus of history who was associated with Linfield for more than 60 years before his death in 1997. The endowment is used to bring in distinguished scholars and speakers in the area of history. Jonasson held the unofficial title of Linfield historian and wrote "Bricks Without Straw," a history of the college.
For more information, call 503-883-2281.
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Competence of Postgraduate Students During Cognitive Behavior Therapy Training
Azhar M.Z., (2007) Competence of Postgraduate Students During Cognitive Behavior Therapy Training. Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry, 16 (2). ISSN 0128-8628
Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://ejournal.psychiatry-malaysia.org/article.php?aid=9
Universiti Putra Malaysia. Faculty of Medicine. Dept. of Psychiatry
Several studies have been conducted on postgraduate students’ knowledge in
various aspects of psychiatry and related fields. In fact their competency in making diagnoses and instituting the correct management to psychiatric patients are without doubt very good as otherwise they would not have qualified in their exit examinations. However, to date they have only been properly assessed in their knowledge about psychotherapy including cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) but not formally assessed in their competency of carrying out the therapy per se. This article looks at an attempt to assess competency of postgraduate students during their CBT training.
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A 57-year tradition continues tomorrow, when we host the Milwaukee-area Boy Scouts participating in the Electricity Merit Badge Clinic in our Public Service Building auditorium.
Approximately 120 Scouts and Scout leaders are expected to attend the clinic. Eighteen employee volunteers will administer written tests and staff project-testing stations. Scouts will demonstrate their electricity knowledge by building electromagnets, splicing insulated wires and completing a written test. To earn the Electricity Merit Badge, Scouts must pass 11 electrical requirements.
Ted Sniegowski and Dennis Mersenski, employees at our Oak Creek plant, organized the clinic again this year. “This is a great opportunity for Boy Scouts to learn about electrical safety and careers in the utility business,” Sniegowski said. “Our company’s commitment to the merit badge program has helped thousands of youth develop technical skills and master the basics of electricity.”
The Electricity Merit Badge is one of the original merit badges adopted by the Boy Scouts of America in 1911. Since then, more than 660,000 Boy Scouts nationwide have earned an Electricity Merit Badge.
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An axe is a type of cutting tool that can be used as both a weapon and a slicing apparatus. Nearly Headless Nick was executed with a blunt axe, and in the story Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump, the Captain of the Brigade of Witch-Hunters cut down the tree that was thought to be Babbity with an axe. It was also implied that Buckbeak was to be executed with an axe. A heavy blood-stained axe could be found in the Room of Requirement.
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban the Ministry executioner is shown very blatantly sharpening his axe in preparation for Buckbeak's execution.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned in early drafts only)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
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The Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate today on a 5-4 vote. The decisive opinion by Justice Roberts reasons that the mandate was not authorized by commerce clause, but instead upheld the mandate as a tax. Justice Roberts wrote:
Our precedent demonstrates that Congress had the power to impose the exaction in Section 5000A under the taxing power, and that Section 5000A need not be read to do more than impose a tax. This is sufficient to sustain it.
Individuals are not required to purchase insurance; instead they have the option to pay a tax instead. On the medicaid, issue Justice Roberts's opinion indicates that the Congress cannot encourage (or coerce) states to participate in the expansion of medicaid by conditioning their receipt of existing medicaid funds on their participation.
Had the Court struck down the mandate, it would have clearly represented a tectonic shift in American constitutional law. In the extraordinarily unlikely event that there had been a majority opinion authored by one of the four justices fromt he left wing of the Court, the decision would have cemented (at least for a time) the most common academic understanding of Congress's power under Article One of the Constitution. Roughly, that understanding is that Congress has plenary legislative power, limited only by the carve outs created by the Supreme Court's decisions in Lopez and Morrison.
This understanding shouldn't be confused with a rule of constitutional law; rather it is a gestalt, a holistic picture of Article One power. Constitutional doctrine is much more complex and also more contestable. The constitutional doctrine is the set of rules that can be found in the Court's opinions and that are required in order to provide a coherent set of norms that cohere with those opinions. In a complex area like Congressional power under Article One, constitutional doctrine is never fully settled because the set of legal materials that must be reflected in the doctrine is large (hundreds of Supreme Court opinions) and therefore neither fully consistent nor complete. The gestalt is simple picture that represents the core ideas that explain the shape of the doctrine.
The gestalt is shaped by all of the relevant legal materials--the constitutional text, the decisions of the Supreme Court, the practices of the political branches (especially Congresss), and even the decisiosn of the lower federal courts. But the gestalt that represents our understanding of Congress's Article One power is mostly a product of a key set of political and judicial decisions associated with the New Deal. The political decisions were made by the President and Congress is the form legislation that massively expanded the power of the national government. The judicial decisions consisted of a series of opinions that ratified this expansion of power--mostly under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution. The most important decisions are familiar to almost every judge, lawyer, and law student in the United States: they include Jones and Laughlin Steel, Darby, and Wickard v. Filburne. The last decision in this trio is particular important as a symbol of the expansion of federal power, because it upheld Congress's power to regulate the "home consumption" wheat--that use of wheat by a farmer that he grew and consumed on his own farm. We now know that the Supreme Court agonized in its decision of this case. Although the justices considered writing an opinion that explicitly endorsed a rule that stated that no Congressional exercise of power pursuant to the Commerce and Necessary and Proper Clauses would every be struck down, it ultimately decided to articulate a principle that allowed Congress to regulate intrastate activity that produced a substantial cumulative effect on interstate commerce.
Although the Supreme Court has never explicitly endorsed a rule that gives Congress plenary and unlimited power under Article One, the whole pattern of Supreme Court decisions could be seen as implicitly endorsing such a rule. Between 1937 when the Court decided Jones and Laughlin Steel, and 1995, when the Court struck down the Gun Free School Zones Act in United States v. Lopez, the Court did decide a single case in which it held that Congress had exceeded its Article One powers under the Commerce and Necessary and Commerce Clauses. Lopez was read by many commentators as a mere blip or symbolic gesture, and many theorized that the problem in Lopez was that Congress had failed to make a record that established a basis for the conclusion that guns near schools could rationally be believed to have a sustantial effect on interestate commerce. That reading of Lopez was rejected by the Supreme Court in United States v. Morrison, in which the Supreme Court struck down provisions of the Violence Against Women Act, despite extensive hearings and explicit findings that connected violence against women with harmful effects on interstate commerce.
Lopez and Morrison were part of what is sometimes called "the New Federalism," a series of Supreme Court opinions on various topics (especially the 10th and 11th Amendments) that limited federal power. Reconciling the New Federalism cases with the New Deal gestalt was a central preoccupation of constitutional scholarship in the 1990s. Many interpretations were possible, but the prevailing view was preserved the basic idea that Congress power was almost unlimited, subject only to a series of carve outs. A central metaphor expressed this idea as an ocean of federal power dotted by a few isolated islands of state sovereignty. This metaphor preserved as much of the gestalt view of the New Deal cases as possible. Lopez and Morrison were limited to cases in which Congress enacted laws that were targeted soley at noneconomic activity; Congress unlimited authority to regulate any activity that was economic in nature. This revised version of the gestalt was reinforced by the Supreme Court's decision in Gonzales v. Raich, which upheld the application of the Controlled Substances Act to possession of marijuana that was home grown for medical use and which never crossed state lines. Some commentators believed that Raich represented a return to the principle that Congress had plenary and unlimited legislative powers, but the Court itself did not overrule Lopez and Morrison or express disapproval of those decisions.
That brings us to the litigation over the Affordable Care Act. Most of the academic community was committed to some version of the prevailing gestalt view of federal power. Some believed in unlimited and plenary congressional power. Others believed that the power was virtually unlimited, subject to a minor exception (details varied) for Lopez and Morrison. If you were committed to the gestalt as your mental picture of the constitutional doctrine, then the challenge to the individual mandate was radically implausible and might even be characterized as frivolous.
Nonetheless, the lawsuits against the individual mandate did not meet with unanimous rejection by the federal courts. Instead, a number of federal judges decided that the individual mandate was unconstitutional. The key moment was the decision of the 11th Circuit to strike down the mandate: that decision meant that the United States Supreme Court would hear the constitutional questions, although there was always the possibility that the Court might be able to duck the merits. At this stage of the game, the prevailing view was that the Court would almost certainly uphold the mandate if it reached the merits. Many commentators predicted an 8-1 decision, with Justice Thomas dissenting on originalist grounds. From the point of view of the prevailing gestalt, Thomas was simply an outlier, because he did not accept the New Deal Settlement and instead endorsed a pre-New-Deal vision of real and substantial limits on Congress's enumerated powers.
But confidence in the gestalt was shaken by the decision of the court to grant six hours of argument over three days in the Health Care Cases. This was very unusual, and it seemed inconsistent with the notion that eight justices viewed the individual mandate question as easy. Confidence was further shaken by the oral argument in which it seemed clear that four members of the Court (Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, and Alito) took the challenge very seriously. Since Thomas's vote against the mandate was taken for granted, that meant that there was a serious chance that the ACA would be struck down as beyond Congress's power under the Commerce and Necessary and Proper Clauses.
How could this be explained? If you continued to believe in the consensus academic gestalt concerning the Congress's power, then the alternative explanation was that the Court was disregarding the law and deciding the case on purely political grounds.
But there is an alternative explanation. There is an alternative gestalt concerning the New Deal Settlement. For many years, some legal scholars had advanced an alternative reading of the key cases uphold New Deal legislation. On this alternative reading, the New Deal decisions were seen as representing the high water mark of federal power. Although the New Deal represented a massive expansion of the role of the federal government, it actually left a huge amount of legislative power to the states. On the alternative gestalt, the power of the federal government is limited to the enumerated powers in Section Eight of Article One, plus the New Deal additions. These are huge, but not plenary and unlimited.
Today, it became clear that four of the Supreme Court's nine justices reject the academic consensus. As Justice Kennedy states in his dissent joined by Scalia, Thomas, and Alito:
"In our view, the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety."
The alternative gestalt is no longer an outlier, a theory endorsed by a few eccentric professors and one odd justice of the Supreme Court. And because Justice Roberts believes that the mandate is not a valid exercise of the commerce clause (but is valid if interpreted as a tax), he has left open the possibility that there is a fifth justice who endorses the alternative gestalt.
We are only minutes into a long process of digesting the Health Care Decision. But in my opinion, one thing is clear. Things are now "up for grabs" in a way that no one anticipated when the saga of the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act began.
Update: A similar if more strident note is sounded here.
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How does where we live affect our understanding of our environment? Elizabeth Francis, an architect keenly interested in architectural research and sustainability, takes us on a journey to explore this question. She discusses examples of integrated design from her work with the firm Mario Cucinella Architects and her current projects under atelierFrancis, which incorporate research, architecture, and art. She brings the question of environment home as she reflects on the realities of being a working woman in Italy today. Complimentary tickets available for Chicago Women in Architecture members and Columbia College faculty, students, and staff (valid ID required).
Elizabeth Francis is an architect interested in architectural research and sustainability. In 2010 she founded atelierFrancis to advance this work and collaborate with the visual arts group An Cosan Glas on environmental sculpture trails in Ireland and Italy. In 1994 she joined Mario Cucinella Architects in Paris and became a partner in 1997, co-founding MCA Italy in 1999. Prior to joining MCA, she studied and worked in France, Ireland, and the UK. She has developed a number of European Commission funded research projects under the JOULE and Altener programmes exploring the application of natural cooling techniques in buildings. From 2007 to 2010, she brought this research work to an international audience as part of the PHDC dissemination project (www.phdc.eu). She has spoken on her work at international conferences in Europe, Asia, and the USA.
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A reader writes:
Many have blamed the looting and violence in New Orleans on poverty, racism, and neglect.
Major recent flooding in the Indian city of Bombay (population about 18 million) lead to severe consequences for the city. Over 1000 people were killed, parts of the city were destroyed, and the government was unable to handle the situation effectively. It's interesting to note that according to the Bombay police, there were no reports of looting or violence. Personal accounts from city residents, foreign travelers, and media reporters also indicate there was no lawlessness - even with all the opportunities that existed in the chaotic situation. City residents actually worked together to provide humanitarian assistance, businessmen handed out free food, slum dwellers and even criminals rescued people, and some provided strangers with a place to stay.
By most measures (poverty, economic inequality, access to education and healthcare, discrimination [i.e., the caste system]) the average poor person in Bombay is vastly much worse off than the average poor person in New Olreans. Yet one city's residents acted like the Japanese and the other city's residents acted like Haitians. It seems to me that the exemplary behavior of the residents of Bombay should disprove the theory that poverty and discrimination lead to lawlessness.
In New Orleans there was shooting and looting when the floods came last week. When a similar inundation struck India's financial capital Mumbai a month earlier, there was no violence, just free wada-pav bread...
Mumbai police commissioner A.N. Roy confirmed there were no cases of looting, arson or violence when the floods hit. "Even stray cases of robbery were not heard or reported," he said.
Mumbai has nearly 20 million residents. New Orleans had about 500,000.
In case you are wondering, "Mumbai" is the new way to spell "Bombay" that was invented by The People in Charge of Confusing You.
A reader writes:
That account was absolutely accurate by the way. My sister lives in Bombay currently. And she could have corroborated the facts. She was actually quite shocked when she saw the footage of rioting in New Orleans and all the stories about rapes and looting.
Another reader writes:
The scale of the Great Katrina Cover-Up is just dawning on me. (I'm a little slow on the uptake. My mother always said so) ...
What a peculiar thing. Everybody seems to know all about this, yet the public culture is silent. See no black anarchy; hear no black anarchy; say no black anarchy. Amazing, amazing. A complete flight from reality.
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Global Agreements on Human Rights, Environment and Development, Reproductive Health and Gender Equality
Human Rights Treaties
The international consensus agreements of the 1990s, themselves advisory rather than binding, are grounded in legally binding human rights treaties: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted in 1948); the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (which entered into force in 1976); the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1976); the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of (1981); and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990).
All member states accede to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirms, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." The Declaration also refers to "the dignity and worth of the human person and … the equal rights of men and women."1
About two dozen specific rights are named, from the right to life, liberty, and security of person through legal and judicial rights to the right to education and work.2 The Declaration also calls for social security and conditions that allow an individual to realize economic, social and cultural rights necessary to dignity and for a standard of living adequate to one's health and well-being.3 Declaration language also specifies that "everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind," including sex.4
The Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights states that every human being has the right to "freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development", and that states must ensure that men and women enjoy these rights equally. The Covenant also recognizes people's rights "to be free from hunger," to be educated, and to enjoy "the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health." To achieve the latter, the Covenant lists, in addition to prevention and treatment of disease and the provision of medical services, "improvement in all aspects of environmental and industrial hygiene," an early reference to the link between the environment and health.5
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states that protection of laws and freedom of expression apply equally to women and men. It states that every citizen, without regard to sex, has the right to take part in public affairs, to vote, to be elected, and to have the opportunity "on general terms of equality to public service".6
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which had 168 states parties as of June 2001, constitutes an international bill of rights for women. Referring to pre-existing treaties that call for "the equal rights of men and women to enjoy all economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights," the Convention declares that "the full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields."7
In addition to dealing with unequal treatment of women in law, cultural patterns of discrimination, women's rights to participate in public life, equality of educational and employment opportunities, discrimination against women in the provision of health care, and the special problems of women in rural poverty, CEDAW refers to women's reproductive rights. The education article refers to access to "information and advice on family planning;" articles on health care, rural development, and equality in marriage also mention family planning services. The last states that women are to have "the same rights to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children and to have access to the information, education and means to enable them to exercise these rights".8
In the article on women in rural areas, CEDAW makes an oblique reference to the environment when it calls on states to ensure that rural women "enjoy adequate living conditions, particularly in relation to housing, sanitation, electricity and water supply, transport and communications."9
In December 2000 the "Optional Protocol" to CEDAW went into force. This instrument establishes communication and monitoring procedures to advance implementation of the Convention. As of June 2000 there were 67 signatories and 21 states parties to this mechanism.
UN Conference on Environment and Development
Heads of state met in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to make a broad inquiry into environmental degradation, which had become increasingly important to the international community since the 1960s both on their own terms and as a constraint on development. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) was the 20-year follow-up to the first global meeting on the environment, held in Stockholm in 1972.
Rio linked environment and development as international agreements had not done before. The watchword was "sustainable development", economic development to meet the needs of current generations without undermining the environment and compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs. Rio also declared that both poverty and wealth stress the environment, that industrial societies must lessen their environmental impact through "sustainable patterns of production and consumption," and that developing countries need assistance in building their economies to be environmentally benign.10
In addition to conventions on forests, climate change, and biological diversity, Rio produced a comprehensive guide to sustainable development, Agenda 21. Faced with "worsening poverty, hunger, ill health, illiteracy, and the continuing deterioration of ecosystems," this document asserts, "the only way to assure ourselves of a safer, more prosperous future is to deal with environment and development issues together in a balanced manner."11
Agenda 21's four main sections deal with social and economic dimensions of sustainable development, conservation and management of resources, strengthening the role of major groups in sustainable development, and implementation.
Nine paragraphs in the first section address "Population and Sustainability". They state that "the world's growing population and production" increasingly stress the earth's resources; urge development strategies that deal with the combined effects of population growth, ecosystem health, technology, and access to resources; urge the development of "population goals" and the integration of population concerns into national strategies for sustainability; call for countries to calculate their "national population carrying capacity;" state that "sustainable development will require reproductive health programmes to reduce maternal and infant mortality, and provide men and women with the information and means to plan family size"; and declare that population programmes require broad support as well as "adequate funding, including support to developing countries".12
A chapter on women in the section on "major groups" states that "women have considerable knowledge and experience in managing and conserving natural resources," but "discrimination and lack of access to schooling, land and equal employment" have constrained their role in achieving sustainable development.13 It calls on governments to:
- Eliminate legal, cultural, social, and other barriers to women's full participation "in sustainable development and public life".
- Increase women's participation in environmental decision-making as officials, scientists, technical advisers and extension workers.
- Improve women's education from illiteracy eradication to post-secondary study in the sciences.
- Create conditions to enable women to play an enhanced role in sustainable development, such as better health care—including maternal and child health care and family planning—a reduced workload, better access to credit, property rights, eliminating violence against women and counting unpaid work in official economic measures.
- Educate women, particularly in the industrialized world, to engage in environmentally sustainable consumption.14
While Agenda 21 links population growth and resource use, and recognizes women's role in the environment and their need for education, health care and credit, the population section is mainly demographic in focus and lacks the broader reproductive health and women's rights approach to population adopted at the ICPD two years later.
International Conference on Population and Development
The ICPD Programme of Action, negotiated in Cairo in September 1994, is a far-reaching yet practical roadmap for expanding individual choice, by making critical investments in reproductive health care and education, providing expanded economic opportunities for women, and creating the conditions—legal, political, social and economic—for true gender equality and equity. The Conference recognized that these actions are both just and humane in their own right, and if implemented would also contribute to stabilizing population and advancing environmental security.
The Programme specifies that "reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its function and processes." Reproductive rights "embrace certain human rights that are already recognized in national laws, international human rights documents and other consensus documents."15
One of the principal goals of the Programme of Action is ensuring universal access to reproductive health care as soon as possible, and by 2015 at the latest. Essential components of reproductive health care include: family planning; maternal health; preventing abortion and managing the complications of unsafe abortion; preventing and treating sexually transmitted dis-eases, including HIV/AIDS; and eliminating traditional practices like female genital mutilation that harm women's reproductive health and well-being.
Also central to the ICPD ap- proach is the collection of rights, defined in the human rights trea-ties, that will permit women to realize their dignity—economically, socially, and culturally. "The empowerment and autonomy of women," the Programme states, "is a highly important end in itself. In addition, it is essential for the achievement of sustainable development." It adds, "Experience shows that population and development programmes are most effective when steps have simultaneously been taken to improve the status of women." Thus the Programme of Action calls for education for women and girls, access to "secure livelihoods and economic resources," and full participation in public life.16
Chapter III of the Programme of Action deals with the interactions among population, economic growth and sustainable development. This chapter reinforces many of the principles articulated at UNCED. "Meeting the basic human needs of growing populations is dependent on a healthy environment," it notes. The document avoids demographic targets or goals, and stresses that poverty and gender inequities affect and are affected by population growth, age structure and distribution. In turn, it states, "unsustainable consumption and production patterns" overuse natural resources, degrade the environment, and reinforce gender inequality and poverty.
"Integrating population into economic and development strategies," the agreement adds, will accelerate progress toward sustain-ability, alleviating poverty, slowing population growth, and improving quality of life. And it calls for "implementation of effective population policies in the context of sustainable development, including reproductive health and family planning programmes."17
Fourth World Conference on Women
The Platform for Action adopted in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing built on the progress achieved in Cairo a year earlier. It reaffirmed the international community's commitment to women's rights and equal participation "in all spheres of society" as a prerequisite "for people-centred development".18
The Platform for Action strengthened the ICPD's commitment to women's reproductive health. "In most countries," the Platform states, "the neglect of women's reproductive rights severely limits their opportunities in public and private life, including opportunities for education and economic and political empowerment. The ability of women to control their own fertility forms an important basis for the enjoyment of other rights."
The Beijing document, citing Agenda 21, also pointed out that women are disproportionately harmed by environmental degradation and have a powerful, as yet largely untapped, part in protecting and restoring the environment: "Women have an essential role to play in the development of sustainable and ecologically sound consumption and production patterns and approaches to natural resource management."19
In June 2000, a General Assembly special session to review implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action adopted a Political Declaration reaffirming the commitments made in Beijing and agreed on priority actions, including the need to address: gender aspects of HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted infections; the disproportionate effect on women and girls of malaria and tuberculosis; the mental health of women and girls; and care for women and girls who experience violence.20
World Summit on Social Development
"Economic development, social development and environmental protection are interdependent and mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development," international leaders declared in March 1995 at the World Summit on Social Development, designed to "place people at the centre of development and direct our economies to meet human needs more effectively."
Gender equality was a central goal of the Copenhagen summit. It adopted a Declaration emphasizing that "social and economic development cannot be secured in a sustainable way without the full participation of women" and that "equality and equity between women and men
must be at the centre of economic and social development."21 The Declaration notes that women constitute the majority of people living "in abject poverty" and carry "a disproportionate share of the problems of coping with poverty;" that gender equality is intertwined with continued population growth and poverty; and that "empowering people, particularly women, to strengthen their own capacities is a main objective of development and its principal resource."22
The Millennium Declaration
In September 2000, heads of state and government met in New York to negotiate a Millennium Declaration committing the United Nations to achieving "a just and lasting peace all over the world", and rededicating the organization to "respect for the equal rights of all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion."23
The Declaration affirms that "the equal rights and opportunities of women and men must be assured"; and states that "prudence must be shown in the management of all living species and natural resources, in accordance with the precepts of sustainable development." It calls on states to: "promote gender equality and the empowerment of women as effective ways to combat poverty, hunger and disease and to stimulate development that is truly sustainable;" "combat all forms of violence against women and to implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women;" and "adopt in all our environmental actions a new ethic of conservation and steward-ship."24
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Organizational Management Program
The field of organizational management trains individuals in the wide variety of skills necessary to manage any type of business. An individual pursuing any type of education in the field of organizational management will be trained in aspects such as human resources, finance, and commercialism. Throughout this training, students develop extensive marketing, writing, interpersonal, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
Organizational Management Success Factors
In order to pursue a degree in organizational management, a person must have excellent leadership abilities. They must be able to earn and maintain the respect of a large body of workers, who may not always agree with the decisions that their leader makes. A person must also have negotiation skills and be very creative.
Organizational Management Program Majors
There are many majors to choose from within organizational management. They range from business to finance to marketing. Depending on the job and salary desired by an individual, as well as his or her strengths and weaknesses, any of these majors, among others, can be chosen.
Organizational Management Curriculum
After completing their education, graduates are prepared for a variety of management jobs, which typically have a lot of potential for upward growth as well as job security. The curriculum teaches students how to perform duties such as training new personnel, fostering a team environment, creating and managing a budget, and creating the policies and procedures for a company or employer.
Organizational Management Program Degrees
An individual can also choose the extent of the education they want, which can range from an associate's degree up to a master's degree. There is also a lot of flexibility on how they can attain their degree, and many universities and educational institutions are now offering online classes and even online degree programs. These are perfect for adults who may have a family or even students who work full time and may not have unlimited time to devote to going to classes. The online degree programs are also much less expensive because they eliminate dormitory and meal plan fees as well as commuting costs.
Organizational Management Jobs
There is currently a growing need for employees with degrees in organizational management in order to cater to the ever-expanding needs and demands in the service industry. More and more skilled employees are needed who have specialized training in technical service and professionalism. Yet another facet to organizational management involves marketing and publicity, especially by way of using symbols to create a media image or communicate a message, values, or slogan.
Featured Organizational Management Schools
Technology Changes Everything
The Gold Standard Online University
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In the summer of 2008, when my friend Pip Coburn (a former tech strategist for UBS who runs an investment advisory firm) came to visit, we ended up talking about two things we both saw coming: the inevitability of the Internet and how tomorrow’s leaders will amount to zilch if they are not technology natives.
In the past technology startups raided old guard companies (Netscape went to FedEx’s Jim Barksdale, for example) to get management help. In a world where the Internet is ubiquitous, we are going to see old guard companies embrace Silicon Valley types as their leaders.
Five years ago, it seemed a bit farfetched, but today on the first work day of the new year, I was reminded of our tête-à-tête. Why?
Just, look at the two major news stories of today:
- Google is working with car companies like Hyundai, Kia, Audi and others to embed some of its services inside their cars.
- Avis is buying car-sharing pioneer, ZipCar for about $491 million, a 49 percent premium over the closing price on December 31, 2012.
Recently, I got a chance to ride with a friend who bought a snazzy new Audi S-6 car. Given that I don’t drive and am in the minority of people who have no desire to drive, the car seemed like a technological marvel on many levels. The speed and the power may not be to the liking of Jeremy Clarkson, but the multimedia panel will win his approval. The most luscious part of that panel is the navigation system — based on Google Maps.
Today, Google announced that it is working with other major car makers such as Kia and Hyundai, to embed their technologies including maps inside those cars. Google is an internet services company that is now finding a home in cars, just like Pandora’s Internet music streaming found its way into Ford Motors.
Thermostats with live Internet connections that can be used to control the climate inside your home remotely was the stuff of science fiction until a few years ago. Now many utilities are playing with the idea of using such Internet-enabled devices, marrying them to data analysis technologies and turning them into tools for better energy management. A variety of startups born in Silicon Valley — like Nest, Opower and EcoFactor — are getting in on this trend.
These are early sign posts of a connected future where Internet technologies influence even the most mundane of industries. You know, like car rentals, or the power grid, or building climate systems.
At the turn of the century, the idea of sharing a car in increments would get you laughed out of a room. Car rentals were cheap and there were cars lined up outside of airports. Who would then want to rent a car by the hour? Antje Danielson and Robin Chase, two moms from Boston were crazy to have launched a company called ZipCar in 1999. It took awhile, but the world finally came around to their idea. It helped that the whole process of renting a car was convoluted, and the cars and technologies inside those cars very old fashioned.
Zipcar, instead focused on the casual renter — primarily a young Internet native, one who had grown up on the convenience of Google, Amazon and broadband. The car-renter 2.0 is less likely to have the patience to deal with the inefficient processes of Avis(es) of the world.
The Internet changed a generation’s expectations of consumer services. But the emergence of the iPhone (first) and Android allowed companies such as ZipCar to create an efficient car-sharing ecosystem, challenge the established guard and grow like a weed.
Here is a little comparison between ZipCar and Avis. In 2005, ZipCar had revenues of $13.7 million (according to their S-1 filing). In 2012, they are estimated to have revenues of $278 million, according to Yahoo data. In comparison, Avis sales for 2005 were $18.24 billion and in 2012, they are expected to bring in about $7.3 billion according to analyst estimates collected by Yahoo. Agreed there is a big disparity in those numbers — billions versus mere millions — but still, you can see the demographic shift is pointing to a market reality against Avis.
As my colleague Katie Fehrenbacher pointed out in her analysis of the Avis-ZipCar deal, the acquisition has wider implications for the fast growing trend of sharing stuff and resources. While hitch-a-ride service like Lyft or black-car sharing service Uber might feel scary for both the incumbents (taxi companies) and the legislators, the fact is that our constant state of connectedness is continuously changing the rules of the game. It is impossible to imagine life, business or society without this connectedness.
Many believe that Avis is going to blow it and ruin ZipCar. I am in that camp — not because I want either of those companies to fail – but because when large, lumbering and mostly technologically incompetent companies try to buy innovation, they often times kill the innovator. (Avis rival Hertz started its own Hertz on Demand, though I have not been able to assess their success or failure.)
For this deal to work out, here is some free advise for Avis CEO Ronald Nelson: make sure you sign a nice free-agent deal with ZipCar CEO Scott Griffith and his team. Then make him your chief growth officer: one who understands technology, data and demographics to beat the living crap out of your rivals. And give his technology team the liberty to reinvent both the in-car and car-rental experience at the airport. Otherwise, in 2015, there will be another ZipCar-like company, beating the stuffing out of your profit margins.
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Animal manure is easily degraded by microbes. In fact, poop is already being degraded before it ever hits the ground, since one third of poop by weight is microbes. In nature, millions of different species of protists, fungi and bacteria recycle poop into carbon dioxide and water. In the past, humans laid their loads upon the roads and walked away contented. In more modern times in developed countries this practice has given way to more organized forms of disposal discussed below.
This fungus grows on dung and launches its spores in the direction of light toward an open meadow where grazing animals will eat the spore so that Pilobolus can continue it's life cycle.
Build a dung chamber! To see many fascinating fungi, prepare a dung chamber as follows: Take a hike in a field or forest or park to find some fresh dung from an vegetarian animal. Put this dung on a plate under a glass (ask your parents about which plate and glass). Sprinkle the dung with a little water. Wait a few days, then watch what happens. How many different types of fungal fruiting bodies can you see growing on your dung?
The cartoon above depicts a septic tank. Many homes have septic tanks. When houses are too far away from each other, each house treats its sewage separately in a septic tank. A septic tank is usually an underground tank that contains billions of microbes that slowly degrades sewage. Septic tanks require a longer time to process sewage than do aerobic waste treatment facilities. This is because septic tanks contain microbes that are mainly anaerobic, that is, they grow without oxygen. Organisms grow faster in the presence of oxygen, just the way that you can run faster when you breathe harder and consume more oxygen.
After sewage is digested anaerobically in septic tank, it is treated with oxygen (aerobically) in a leach field. In the leach field, any pathogens not killed by the anaerobic treatment in the septic tank are killed by oxygen in the leach field.
When people live in cities, sewage is collected and treated in municipal sewage reactors. In contrast to septic tanks, community sewage sludge reactors are aerobic, meaning that oxygen is present. Because they contain oxygen, aerobic sewage treatment facilities can treat a lot more sewage in a lot less time. The amount of sewage is determined by the amount of oxygen required by microbes to break down the sewage into carbon dioxide and water. This measurement of the oxygen required by microbes to degrade wastes is known as the Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD).
Poop is recognized by some cultures as a valuable natural resource. It is a potent fertilizer, and is collected as "Night Soil" by people who are euphemistically called "Honey Dippers." Night soil is spread on crops where it serves as a fertilizer.
If sewage is not disposed of properly it can pose serious health problems. More than 500 disease causing microbes are carried in poop. Some of human disease organisms (pathogens) carried in poop include the following:
This bacterium causes food poisoning. Carriers of this disease may excrete 10,000,000,000 (ten billion) S. typhi bacteria per gram of poop.
This protist is the cause of giardiasis, an disease of the intestines which causes gas, cramps, and diarrhea.
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IT'S ALMOST mid-November, just weeks to the end of the year and the busiest time of the year for many parents, especially working parents.
And many are asking, how are we going to cram in everything that needs to happen between now and New Year's Eve?
Susan Sachs Lipman would say, just slow down.
Gaze at the night sky. Make homemade butter. Take a walk with your family.
Really. It's that simple.
"Our kids want us and our time, and they don't necessarily want the perfect home, the perfect meal, the perfect event," she says. "If we let go of the notion of perfection we can actually have a lot more quality time with our kids to do low-key things."
Lipmanshould know. When her daughter, Anna, transitioned from preschool to elementary school and her family's life suddenly became more hectic, she and her husband, Michael, made a conscious decision to reclaim the more natural and leisurely pace they knew. She's been blogging about it since 2009 at Slow Family Online (www.slowfamilyonline.com) and in August published "Fed Up With Frenzy: Slow Parenting in a Fast-Moving World" (384 pages, Sourcebooks, $14.99), filled with opportunities and activities to bring families together that she used in her own family and as a longtime Girl Scout leader.
The book "serves up a treasure trove of ideas to bring joy and sanity back to family life," writes Carl
"A practical guide that shows parents how to reclaim play for your children and yourself," writes Phil Catalfo, author of "Raising Spiritual Children in a Material World."
While others have been delivering a similar message, there are still a few misconceptions about what slow parenting is about.
It isn't necessarily about handmade and all-natural, the 52-year-old Mill Valley resident says.
"I think there's a myth about slow parenting that everything we do has to be from scratch when actually everyone has to find their own balance of what works for them," she says. "It's not exactly slow. It means doing things at the right pace for your family."
What matters, she says, is that you're spending time together in a meaningful and engaging way.
"Family time is the most important thing. If you're not an enthusiastic home cook, I think it's more important to take out food and eat it together as a family," she says.
While Lipman remembers growing up with a lot more unstructured time — even times when she was bored — there are a few things working against parents and kids nowadays. There are many more dual-income parents, and there's a heck of a lot of technology.
"Technology is increasingly pervasive in our lives. There's a quality to media that makes people feel behind if they're not on it all the time. All these things conspire to make us feel that we don't have enough time," says Lipman. "A lot of people take their model of efficiency in their workplace and want to put it into the home. They feel like all time has to be productive."
She's no Luddite, however, when it comes to media. In addition to her blog, she's the social media director for the Children & Nature Network, a nonprofit organization devoted to reconnecting children with nature.
But, it's OK for parents to insist on some technology-free time, whether to do something together or not. It's about being present and in the moment.
"One of the things I advocate in the book is for people to make one small change in their lives," she says.
On top of the upcoming holidays, Anna, now a 17-year-old Tam High senior, is in the middle of applying to colleges — a typically stressful time for kids and parents.
"We're a little more stressed," Lipman admits. "I do feel it in the air."
But they'll still be gathering to do their favorite low-key holiday activity, making the spritz cookies they've been making since Anna was little, and which Lipman used to make with her own mom.
"We don't have the perfectly decorated house because we do the things that we value most. We value making cookies," Lipman says. "Something has to give."
Vicki Larson can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org; follow her on Twitter at @OMGchronicles, fan her on Facebook at Vicki-Larson-OMG-Chronicles
IF YOU GO
What: California Writers Club "Blog to Book" talk with Susan Sachs Lipman
When: 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 18
Where: Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera
Admission: $5 to $10
Information: 927-0960; www.bookpassage.com; www.cwcmarinwriters.com
More: Susan Sachs Lipman will give a free talk and book signing 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 29 at the Depot Bookstore, 87 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; 383-2665; www.depot bookstore.com
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Although the baseball establishment generally has been opposed to franchise relocation, Mr. Vincent said after the last vote that he had given Mr. Lurie permission to explore all options, including a move.
Unclear yesterday was how the proposed Giants move would affect plans announced by Mr. Vincent last month to realign the National League divisions.
In a decision opposed by the Chicago Cubs, the commissioner ordered the St. Louis Cardinals and Cubs shifted to the NL West and the Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves to the NL East for the 1993 season. Saying Mr. Vincent overstepped the boundaries of the commissioner's authority, the Cubs have challenged the plan in federal court.
In effect, the Giants wouldn't be the first major league team for St. Petersburg.
The St. Louis Cardinals have trained there since 1946, and several other teams have used the site as well.
Last spring, the Orioles moved part of their spring training headquarters there, using Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg as their home field for Grapefruit League games. Orioles officials said they did not expect yesterday's announcement to affect their plans to return to St. Petersburg next spring.
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An Insensitive Munition is one that will not react violently in an accident situation. Because of the close living quarters and the requirement for storing as many munitions as possible aboard ships, sailors literally live with their munitions. Magazines on warships are not far removed from the living areas. When serious accidents or fires happen, there are no places for people to hide and, in general, leaving the ship is not a good option. An unwanted munition reaction aboard a ship can, among other unpleasant things, ignite fires. Fires must be controlled immediately to avoid violent munition “cook-off” reactions that can kill people, spread fires and seriously impede the ship damage control efforts.
It is not surprising then that of the three military Services, the Navy is the most driven in the pursuit of Insensitive Munitions. In accidents or during enemy actions it is most important that munitions used aboard warships be able to withstand heat, shock, impacts by bullets or fragments, and nearby explosions without reacting in a violent manner. Aircraft carrier flight decks are particularly hazardous because of the large quantities of fuel and ammunition present during flight operations. Also, helicopters operating from other types of surface ships bring fuel and munitions into close proximity and create an environment conducive to munitions cook-off should an accident ignite fuel.
From October 1966 to November 1988, there were four flight deck accidents on U.S. aircraft carrier that involved fires and munition explosions. Two hundred and twenty sailors and naval aviators were killed, and seven hundred injured. Ninety-six planes, each costing more than 20 million dollars, were either destroyed or severely damaged. The ships were forced to leave the operational areas and undergo extensive repairs in shipyards. The material damage alone cost the Navy over 1.3 billion dollars
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Storage devices today trace their history to technology that was started in the 1950s and even before. To accompany the DCK Industry Perspectives column, Tape Backup: An Ironic 60th Anniversary For Tape, we present our gallery of storage technology, old and new.
IBM produced the IBM 726 magnetic tape reader and recorder, which was the world’s first tape drive. Launched in 1952, it was capable of reading and writing at 12,500 digits per second, with each tape able to store 2 million digits. Some of the tapes were 1,200 feet long. The IBM 726 used vacuum columns, which provided a buffer and made it possible to start and stop at high speeds without damaging the media. It was a major breakthrough, speeding up the process of recording data by 50 times, compared to punch cards. The 726 could handle two reels of tape simultaneously, and there were two 726 units in the 701 system. It rented for $850 a month.
If you live or visit the Silicon Valley area, it’s worth a trip to the Computer History Museum. They have fascinating exhibits of ground-breaking technologies.
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The arracacha (Arracacia xanthorriza) is a garden root vegetable originally from the Andes, somewhat intermediate between the carrot and celery. Its starchy taproot is a popular food item in South America, especially in Brazil where it is a major commercial crop.
The name arracacha (or racacha) was borrowed into Spanish from Quechua, and is used in the Andean region. The plant is also called apio criollo ("Creole celery") in Venezuela, zanahoria blanca ("white carrot") in Ecuador, virraca in Peru, and mandioquinha ("little cassava") or batata-baroa in Brazil. It is sometimes called white carrot in English, but that name properly belongs to white varieties of the common carrot.
The boiled root has about the same uses as boiled potatoes, including side dishes, purées, dumplings and gnocchi, pastries, etc., with the advantage of its flavor and (depending on the variety) its intense color. In the Andes region it is made into fried chips, biscuits, and coarse flour. Because it is highly digestible (due to the small size of its starch grains), purées and soups made from it are considered excellent for babies and children.
Fresh arracachas keep in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 weeks. 100 grams of arracacha provide about 100 calories (26 g of dry matter, 23 g being carbohydrate, and less than 1 g of protein). The plant is rich in calcium (four times as much as potatoes).
The yellow cultivar contains substantial amounts of carotenoid pigments, precursors to vitamin A, to the point that excessive consumption of arracachas may cause yellowing of the skin (a condition that is not considered to be harmful).
The young stems can be eaten cooked or in salads, and the leaves can be fed to livestock.
The plant is very susceptible to viruses and is slow to mature (10-12 months), but requires much less fertilizer input than the potato, and is very lucrative. It was imported into Brazil in the 19th century and has been grown commercially since the 1960s. Brazilian crop improvement programs have developed varieties that grow in seven months.
The harvest season in the Southern Hemisphere spans from January to September. The roots must be picked promptly lest they become woody. They have a short shelf life and must reach consumers within a week of harvest. The plant grows west of the Andes at altitudes varying from 200 m to 3600 m, but optimally between 1800 and 2500 m. It is frequently grown with other crops such as maize, beans, and coffee.
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Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business : For most people, the Great Crash of 2008 has meant troubling times. Not so for those in the flourishing poverty industry, for whom the economic woes spell an opportunity to expand and grow. These mercenary entrepreneurs have taken advantage of an era of deregulation to devise high-priced products to sell to the credit-hungry working poor, including the instant tax refund and the payday loan. In the process they've created an industry larger than the casino business and have proved that pawnbrokers and check cashers, if they dream big enough, can grow very rich off those with thin wallets. Broke, USA is Gary Rivlin's riveting report from the economic fringes. From the annual meeting of the national check cashers association in Las Vegas to a tour of the foreclosure-riddled neighborhoods of Dayton, Ohio, here is a subprime Fast Food Nation featuring an unforgettable cast of characters and memorable scenes. Rivlin profiles players like a former small-town Tennessee debt collector whose business offering cash advances to the working poor has earned him a net worth in the hundreds of millions, and legendary Wall Street dealmaker Sandy Weill, who rode a subprime loan business into control of the nation's largest bank. Rivlin parallels their stories with the tale of those committed souls fighting back against the major corporations, chain franchises, and newly hatched enterprises that fleece the country's hardworking waitresses, warehouse workers, and mall clerks. Timely, shocking, and powerful, Broke, USA offers a much-needed look at why our country is in a financial mess and gives a voice to the millions of ordinary Americans left devastated in the wake of the economic collapse.
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Come As You Aren't
By Peter Weddle
Courtesy, Weddle's Newsletter
For years now, we've had a "come as you are" job market. Basically, you looked for a new job with the skills you had in your old job. All you had to do, therefore, was update your resume, ship it out to a bunch of employers, do a little networking around the edges and before long, you would have a couple of opportunities from which to choose. It was a simple, straight forward process, and unfortunately, it no longer works.
The "come as you are" job market was destroyed by the Great Recession. Employers today no longer believe they can survive, let alone prosper, with workers who are qualified for their jobs. They need employees who are better than qualified — they want those who are accomplished in their field. And, despite all the people now looking for work, many employers believe there is a scarcity of such workers.
If you find that hard to believe, consider this:
These are employers with open jobs they can't fill. Those vacancies exist, not because the employers can't find applicants — they have plenty of those — but because those "come as you are" applicants don't have what it takes to succeed in a cut-throat global marketplace. Their shortcoming, however, doesn't mean they are without hope, unless they choose to be. They can reinvent themselves; they can become accomplished workers. And if they do, they'll have employers competing to hire them.
The "Come As You Aren't" Job Market
The world of work has now morphed into a "come as you aren't" job market. A lot of people don't want to hear that. They want to believe that things remain as they were-but that simply isn't today's reality. The needs of employers have changed, not a little, but a lot, and either we adapt to their new requirements or we join the ranks of typewriters and rotary dial phones.
What does adaptation mean?
Instead of looking for a job as we were, we must look for a job as we need to be. To achieve success in this new job market, we must always be changing, always growing, always be getting better at what we do. We cannot allow ourselves to grow stale or to stand still, but instead, have to strive constantly to become accomplished. We must, in short, be forever recasting ourselves into what we aren't ... yet.
What does such a person look like? How can you recast yourself as an accomplished individual?
From an employer's perspective, such candidates have a number of attributes, of course, but the three most distinguishing are:
State-of-the-art expertise in their field. The only way employers can succeed in today's highly competitive marketplace is if every worker performs at their peak.
What could prevent you from convincing an employer you can do that? If you aren't currently enrolled in or haven't in the last 18 months successfully completed a training or educational program in your occupation, you are likely to be viewed as obsolete, no matter how many years of experience you have.
Ancillary skills that give them flexibility. The global workplace is in a state of constant flux, so employers need workers who can effectively switch into and out of a range of different venues and situations.
What could prevent you from convincing an employer you can do that? If you aren't able to prove that you speak a second language, effectively use advanced technology on-the-job and/or work collaboratively in alternative settings (e.g., on teams and task forces, by telecommuting and in virtual organizations), you are likely to be viewed as rigid and limited, no matter how willing to change you may be.
A commitment to contributing on the job. The margin between success and failure is so small these days that employers can only afford to hire those who deliver a meaningful impact on the job and do so from day one.
What could prevent you from convincing an employer you can do that? If your resume shows only what you can do and not how well you do it, if it indicates that you showed up for work but doesn't prove that you accomplished anything, you are likely to be viewed as a risky hire, no matter how perfect you think you are for the job.
The "come as you aren't" job market can sound like a very unforgiving place. And in some respects, that's true. There is no tolerance for those who want to do just enough to get by. It has no place for those who are content to be mediocre at their work.
However, for those who keep their expertise up to date and deliver it with impact wherever it's needed on the job, this new environment can set their fortunes to soaring. It empowers them to transform themselves from an ordinary job applicant to an extraordinary person of talent and to be seen as such by employers. It encourages them to become someone who isn't stuck with who they are, but is determined to reach for the best of who they aren't ... yet. And, that's a ticket to unbounded success in today's world of work.
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AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination)
Run by Mrs. Levy and Mr. Cameron, AVID targets students in the academic middle - B, C, and even D students - who have the desire to go to college and the willingness to work hard. These are students who are capable of completing rigorous curriculum but are falling short of their potential. Typically, they will be the first in their families to attend college, and many are from low-income or minority families. AVID pulls these students out of their unchallenging courses and puts them on the college track: acceleration instead of remediation.
The Newport Mesa Unified School District offers a Gifted and Talented Education Program for eligible students in grades 4 – 12. The programs are designed to meet the needs of high ability and intellectually gifted students. Classroom instruction begins with the grade level core curriculum and is differentiated based upon student need and ability. The development of critical thinking is emphasized.
Ensign's Music Program
Composed of advanced and beginning bands and choir (along with a guitar class), Ensign's music program is led by Mrs. Sarah Grenier.
The Renaissance program looks to reward academic excellence and promote positive behaviors on campus.
Zeroes Are not Permitted (Z.A.P.)
At Ensign, we expect all students to come to school each day prepared to learn. This includes having their required materials and completing all of their homework assignments.
If students are struggling academically, they may be required to call home and stay after school for one hour of tutoring with their teacher.
The easiest way not to get ZAPPED...come to school with your assignments done.
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Earlier this year Laurel and I posted a simple paper pieced quilt block.
Here is a link to the original paper pieced block project:
Instructions for Paper Pieced Quilt Block
Despite the delay, it was intended to be the lead in for this project. We had hoped to post this more intricate project shortly thereafter, but life intervened.
I had begun searching the internet looking for Harry Potter quilt blocks to make a quilt for my then 9 year old grandson. Well, he is 10 now, but actual progress is being made.
As I was searching I found a wonderful website:
I contacted the site developer and designer of many of the blocks featured there, Jennifer Ofenstein, to request permission to post a block project on ThriftyFun based on her Harry Potter series. Being familiar with ThriftyFun, she graciously agreed. The result is a running total of some 30+ blocks. This is one that Laurel pieced - the cauldron.
This particular block consists of two main pieces that are individually pieced and then joined together to complete the block. The finished block will measure 5 1/2 inches (including seam allowances) yielding a 5 inch block after adding sashing or attaching blocks directly.
- computer for printing pattern
- assorted cotton quilting fabric
- coordinating thread
- sewing machine
- iron or boning tool, to flatten seams
- Scotch tape or glue stick - optional
- measuring tape
- Print out your selected pattern. Measure to confirm that it will sew up to the correct size. On some sites you may have to play with the scale.
- Set the stitch length on you sewing machine to a small/short stitch, approximately 12-18 stitches per inch, or 1.5 on a machine with a stitch range of 0 - 5. It is recommended that you use a larger needle (90/14). The larger needle and the shorter stitch length will allow you to remove the paper more easily.
- Cut the sections of the pattern apart, in this case A and B.
Note: If using a pattern without the seam allowances incorporated into the pattern, remember to cut 1/4 inch outside the entire section.
- Starting with either section (A or B) cut a piece of fabric large enough to cover area labeled #1, including a 1/4 inch seam allowance all the way around. We started with the larger section B.
- Place this first piece RIGHT side up on the "unprinted" side of the pattern. You may wish to use either regular Scotch tape, double sided tape, or a glue stick to hold this first piece in place.
- Turn the paper over and hold it up to a light. Make sure that the fabric extends beyond the stitching lines.
- Now cut a piece of fabric large enough to cover the area of piece #2 including seam allowance. You will use this process when cutting each piece of fabric to add to your square.
- Place piece #2 over piece #1, right sides together. Again you can hold the pattern and the two pieces of fabric up to a light source to confirm that the appropriate area is covered. Make sure that you have your #2 (and subsequent pieces) oriented correctly so that they fold back from the seam and cover the correct area of the pattern, with the right side of the fabric facing up.
- Now that you are sure of correct placement, turn your pattern over holding the second piece of fabric in place. Sew along the seam line between area #1 and #2.
Note: Some quilters recommend that you begin and end the stitching inside of the 1/4 inch seam allowance.
Backstitching does not replace the cross seaming that occurs when your seams extend into the 1/4 inch seam allowance area. This step will help reduce the chance of a gap occurring in the patchwork as subsequent pieces are added.
- After adding each new piece of fabric, trim the seam allowance to 1/4 inch. Take care not to cut the paper pattern.
- Now open the piece (#2) out from the seam and press flat (on the right side of the fabric) using either a dry iron or specialized boning tool.
- Continue this process adding pieces in numerical order.
- Once section B is finished give it a pressing.
- Now complete each additional section (in this case A) in the same manner. Pressing when done.
- Line up the stitching line for joining sections A and B, right sides together. Pin. Stitch. Press.
- Carefully trim away the excess fabric along the outside of the 1/4 inch seamline of the foundation paper. DO NOT sew along the outer seamline at this time. You will be piecing the blocks and possible sashing later and taking a 1/4 inch seam at that time as well.
- The foundation paper can be removed at this point or it can be left on the blocks until they have been sewn together. Removing will help reduce the bulk, but leaving it attached adds some stability. You can be the judge based on the fabric being used or personal preference. If the fabric is stretchy you will probably want to leave the paper attached.
You are now ready to move on to your next block. Enjoy!
We only have about another 30+ to go.
Here is a sample of some of the other completed blocks.
This is another helpful link regarding testing your fabric for colorfastness: Testing Fabric for Colorfastness
By Barbara and Laurel from Bremerton and Port Orchard, WA
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Q: Has there been a change in the way that IICRC S500 refers to biocides?
A: The simple answer to your question is yes. Prior to the S500 Third Edition, the IICRC S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration referred to biocides as chemicals that are used to kill microorganisms and those that retard or suppress growth as antimicrobials (Editor’s Note: the following revisits and updates information originally published in September 2005).
Biocides are sometimes referred to as bactericides or fungicides when they are designed to kill bacteria and fungi, respectively. In addition, antimicrobials are sometimes referred to as bacteriostats or fungistats when they are designed to inhibit growth of bacteria or fungi. If you break down the term biocide into its prefix and suffix, you come up with “bio-,” which means life and “-cide,” which means kill. Therefore, they are life killers. The suffix “-stat” means stasis or static. Often the products referred to as fungistats only inhibit microbial growth and do not necessarily kill fungi. They maintain a static environment.
These definitions are consistent with the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) publication entitled Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control. Note the following quotes from this publication: “Biocides are toxic chemicals or physical agents capable of killing or inactivating one or more groups of microorgan-isms, that is, vegetative bacteria, mycobacteria, or bacterial spores; vegetative fungi or fungal spores; parasites; or vi-ruses.” (16.1.1)
Biocides tend to be aqueous solutions [e.g., alcohols (ethyl, isopropyl), hydrogen peroxide, aldehydes (formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde), phenolic compounds, quaternary ammonium compounds (cationic detergents), halogens (chlorine, iodine, and bromine compounds)]. Biocides are generally aqueous and once they are applied or evaporate, they are no longer effective. “Antimicrobial agents are chemical formulations incorporated into or applied onto a material or product to suppress vegetative bacterial and fungal growth as it occurs (Table 16.1). Such compounds may be used to retard microbial growth in potential sources. Typically, antimicrobial agents are incorporated into products during manufacture (e.g., carpet material, ceiling tiles, and air filters). Additionally, antimicrobial agents are often included in products (e.g., paints, coatings, and sealants) that are applied to various building and equipment surfaces.” (16.1.2)
“Bacteriostatic agent: chemical agent that suppresses or retards bacterial growth on direct contact with the treated material.
Fungistatic agent: chemical agent that suppresses or retards fungal growth on direct contact with the treated material.” (Table 16.1)
Antimicrobials are often metallic compounds that continue to leave a residue that has prolonged effectiveness. Some are chemically bound so that they can be added as ingredient in paint, plastic or fiber production. Some antimicrobial fibers are used in garments and flooring materials.
In the Third Edition of the S500 it was decided by the S500 Consensus Body to use the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) definitions. The S500 Third Edition Reference Guide makes the following statement: Definition and Regulation Antimicrobials are substances used to destroy (biocides) or suppress growth (growth inhibitors/static agents) of microorganisms (i.e., bacteria, viruses, or fungi) on inanimate objects, surfaces, and materials. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Antimicrobials Division registers and regulates antimicrobial products (which the Agency refers to as a pesticide) under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Some jurisdictions require commercial applicators of antimicrobial products to be licensed, certified, or to be specially trained.
Another well-respected publication has similar definitions as the ACGIH publication, Disinfection, Sterilization, and Preservation
by Seymour S. Block. While this book does use similar terms, it also refers to biocides as antimicrobial in several instances. A biocide is defined as “a substance that kills all living organisms, pathogenic or nonpathogenic.” A bacteriostat is defined as “an agent, usually chemical, that prevents the growth of bacteria but does not necessarily kill them or their spores.” Finally, an antimicrobial agent is defined as “any agent that kills or suppresses the growth of microorganisms.”
This last definition is somewhat consistent with the way that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refers to biocides and antimicrobials. Interestingly, the EPA also refers to both biocides and antimicrobials as pesticides. On the EPA Web site under the heading “What are Antimicrobial Pesticides?” it states “Antimicrobial pesticides are substances or mixtures of substances used to destroy or suppress the growth of harmful microorganisms whether bacteria, viruses, or fungi on inanimate objects and surfaces.”
In some states you might be required to have a pest control applicator’s license in order to apply these products legally in your customers’ homes.
I understand the desire to change to the EPA terminology. However, the change to the USEPA terminology is going to be confusing to the reader. For example, we will be referring to quaternary ammonium chloride (quats) as a biocide and as an antimicrobial or pesticide.
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