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Experts say during the winter months, people stay indoors, and germs are more easily spread because people are in close quarters.
So how can you avoid the fever, runny nose and sore throat that a cold can bring? It may sound simple, but washing your hands thoroughly gets rid of the germs, that can be transferred to other parts of your body especially if you touch your nose or mouth.
And stay away from cramped quarters.
If you are sick, stay home and don't infect those around you. These germs are very contagious.
As for treatment, doctors say over the counter meds relieve symptoms. Keep away from the antibiotics, because a cold is a virus, and antibiotics don't kill viruses. Doctors say bed rest, liquids and TLC are the best was to get rid of the common cold.
Although most colds are pretty mild, know when a cold can become a problem. Go to the doctor if you have a high fever: Over 100.4 for a child, or over 103 degrees for an adult.
Also if your symptoms last longer than 10 days or are accompanied with neck stiffness and pain, it could mean you have a serious viral infection.
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Reproductive health bill: Facts, fallacies
THERE IS A CONTINUING campaign to discredit the reproductive health bill through misinformation. Straightforward answers to the negative propaganda will help educate and enlighten people on the measure.
The bill is not antilife. It is proquality life. It will ensure that children will be blessings for their parents since their births are planned and wanted. It will empower couples with the information and opportunity to plan and space their children. This will not only strengthen the family as a unit but also optimize care for children who will have more opportunities to be educated, healthy and productive.
The bill does not interfere with family life. In fact, it enhances family life. The family is more than a natural nucleus; it is a social institution whose protection and development are impressed with public interest. It is not untouchable by legislation. For this reason, the State has enacted the Civil Code on family relations, the Family Code, and the Child and Youth Welfare Code.
The bill does not legalize abortion. It expressly provides that “abortion remains a crime” and “prevention of abortion” is essential to fully implement the Reproductive Health Care Program. While “management of post-abortion complications” is provided, this is not to condone abortion but to promote the humane treatment of women in life-threatening situations.
It will not lead to the legalization of abortion. It is not true that all countries where contraceptive use is promoted eventually legalize abortion. Many Catholic countries criminalize abortion even as they vigorously promote contraceptive use like Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Paraguay and Ireland. The Muslim and Buddhist countries of Indonesia and Laos also promote contraceptive use yet proscribe abortion. According to studies, correct and regular use of contraceptives reduces abortion rates by as much as 85 percent and negates the need to legalize abortion.
Contraceptives do not have life-threatening side effects. Medical and scientific evidence shows that all the possible medical risks connected with contraceptives are infinitely lower than the risks of an actual pregnancy and everyday activities. The risk of dying within a year of riding a car is 1 in 5,900. The risk of dying within a year of using pills is 1 in 200,000. The risk of dying from a vasectomy is 1 in 1 million and the risk of dying from using an IUD is 1 in 10 million. The probability of dying from condom use is absolutely zero. But the risk of dying from a pregnancy is 1 in 10,000.
The bill will not promote contraceptive mentality. The bill does not prohibit pregnancy. Critics are mistaken in claiming that because contraceptives would be readily available, people would prefer to have no children at all. Couples will not stop wanting children simply because contraceptives are available. Contraceptives are used to prevent unwanted pregnancies but not to stop pregnancies altogether. Timed pregnancies are assured.
The bill does not impose a two-child policy. It does not promote a compulsory policy strictly limiting a family to two children and no punitive action shall be imposed on parents with more than two children. This number is not an imposition or is it arbitrary because results of the 2003 National Demographic and Health Survey show that the ideal of two children approximates the desired fertility of women.
Sexuality education will neither spawn “a generation of sex maniacs” nor breed a culture of promiscuity. Age-appropriate RH education promotes correct sexual values. It will not only instill consciousness of freedom of choice but also responsible exercise of one’s rights. The UN and countries which have youth sexuality education document its beneficial results: understanding of proper sexual values is promoted; early initiation into sexual relations is delayed; abstinence before marriage is encouraged; multiple-sex partners is avoided; and spread of sexually transmitted diseases is prevented.
It does not claim that family planning is the panacea for poverty. It simply recognizes the verifiable link between a huge population and poverty. Unbridled population growth stunts socioeconomic development and aggravates poverty. The connection between population and development is well-documented and empirically established.
### ©Copyright 2011, Filipino Nurses. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: The accuracy of all articles contained in this website are the responsibility of their respective authors. All articles are for informational purposes only and are NOT intended to replace the advice of a doctor. The owner of this site disclaims any liability for the decisions you make based on these information. If you have any health-related questions, please consult your physician. If you feel ill, please seek medical attention immediately.
©Copyright 2011, Filipino Nurses. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: The accuracy of all articles contained in this website are the responsibility of their respective authors. All articles are for informational purposes only and are NOT intended to replace the advice of a doctor. The owner of this site disclaims any liability for the decisions you make based on these information. If you have any health-related questions, please consult your physician. If you feel ill, please seek medical attention immediately.
This post was submitted by RENE ALLAN DABUET BANDOY RN.
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Dear Matthew Alice:
I was paying my bills when a question occurred to me that only you could answer. Why is it that envelopes that come with bills are always marked "Place Stamp Here" or some such message? Do the companies think we think they are going to pay for the mailing?
-- Greg, San Diego
You're amazed that some sorehead would intentionally mail a Visa payment without a stamp? That someone would be so peeved at the finance charges he'd figure, "They can make me pay the bill, but they can't make me pay the postage"? Why, even Matthew Alice has had that cheap revenge fantasy.
Those instructions on the envelopes are put there precisely because people love sticking it to the gas company, the phone company, department stores, etc., by mailing their bills without stamps. Guess they have visions of their creditors shelling out thousands each week in postage-due payments. Well, fat chance. Ordinarily the postal service intercepts the naked envelopes and whips them back into your mailbox, politely requesting that you pay up. And if you leave off your return address hoping to foil that plot, the P.O. will just set your envelope aside until they have time to open it and find your address on your check or bill stub. And then they whip it right back into your mailbox. In either case, your payment is late, and, as usual, all you've done is shoot yourself in the foot.
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Learn how to prepare delicious grilled sandwich with this instructional video guide - Egg and Cheese Sandwich
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Hi! I’m Tom Papoutsis. We’re going to do a segment today on sandwiches. The first sandwich I want to do is essentially it’s a breakfast sandwich, a ham, egg, and cheese sandwich. You can use bacon, egg, and cheese. You can do sausage, egg, and cheese. The base is being egg and cheese. If you don’t want cheese, don’t put the cheese on. But it’s kind of a good sandwich that I’ve learned to make over the years. I know my kids enjoy it, that’s how I first got started with my son when he was little. He always said, “Daddy, I said I want a cheese sandwich.”
Well, cheese sandwich was like an egg and cheese sandwich or a ham, egg and cheese sandwich. So, very simply, what we’re going to do we’re going to put our pan on our hot plate, go to about medium high heat. And we’re going to coat the pan. It’s a nonstick pan, but it doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily nonstick. What I like is for my egg to kind of slide in the pan. So, what we’re going to do is put a little bit of butter in. We’ll put that butter in there, let that melt. We’re going to start out with an egg. We’re going to give it a couple of seconds here.
What I’m doing here is I coat the pan real well with this butter. As far as I’m concerned, this whole thing with the trans-fatty acids and everything with oils, I think that the body can handle butter a lot better than a can of these oils. So I tend to use a moderate amount of butter, use it sparingly. Don’t use big gabs of it. Use enough that you can do what you need to with.
So, we’re letting this melt down. Let’s see where we’re at here and what I do is I just kind of let that kind of flow and coat the pan real nice. We’re getting most of that covered and that’s pretty good. I want to get that nice and hot so that whenever I break my egg, what’s going to happen is, is it’s going to stay in place. It’s not going to run all over the place. The whole thing we do with this is once I break the egg, I’m going to break the yolk.
On this particular sandwich, some people will like to use like a scrambled egg. Personally myself, I don’t like to use a scrambled egg. I just basically put the egg in there and give it a break, just like this. Let’s go with it. We’re going to go ahead break the egg, put your thumbs together. Pull it apart so that you don’t get any shells, nice and easy just like that.
Now, what I want to do I’m going to take my shell and just bust the yolk just like that. That’s it. Now we’re going to let that start to fry up. I like to give it a little shake. We kind of make sure that things are there. If you actually see the egg here, the yolk just broke, and it’s just kind of flowing. Our egg is starting to fry up real nice for us right now. You can see I kind of give it a little nudge on the pan.
The butter helps that kind of slide around in the pan like that, okay. We got that kind of going, if we give it just a couple of seconds here. Then what we’re going to do is we’re going to flip this, and when I flip it like I say we’re going to put the ham on it at that point.
So, right now we’ve got that to about that point. What I want to do is get this to a point where I can just shove this in real quick up, didn’t go right. Let’s go that way, there we go. Now we’re going to flip that over. Alright, I’m going to cut the heat back, just a touch. We’re going to put our ham on. I’ve got a couple of slices. It’s just a deli ham.
Now, what I’m going to do is let that sit like that for just a couple of seconds so that underside of the egg can cook a little bit and trust me. At this point, this thing is going to go pretty quickly for us. So, what I’m going to do, I’ve got a little bit of seven grain bread here that I’m going to use. I’m going to pop this in the toaster. So, we’re going to toast our bread, get that going. Now, this egg is ready to be flipped, and we’re going to put the ham on the bottom at this point.
Once we get the ham on the bottom, we’re going to take some good American cheese. This is good, real American cheese not that stuff with a bunch of oil in it. Go to the deli, have them slice good American cheese for you. We’re going to put that on there. Now, at this point, I’m going to cut this heat off. We’re going to turn it off completely and we’re just going to let that sit. The gauge on this, when that toast pops, this is ready to go.
We’re going to let that melt. If you’re big into cheese, guess what, turn another piece on it, if you like cheese. We’re just going with one at this point. You can see the cheese is starting to melt. So, we’re going to wait for this cheese to melt and as soon as the cheese is done melting, and our toast pops up, we’re going to have ourselves a nice breakfast sandwich. Our toast has popped up.
At this point, we’re going to open your bread up like this, come in underneath your ham, put it right on there like that, and take my pan off the burner. Just take this, if you like, if you want more butter, you can always butter this. To me, it’s a little much. All you got to do is put this on like this, just tuck it down. Just like that. There’s your breakfast sandwich.
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The EnRus dictionary tools are TCL/Tk scripts for reading a textual (plain or compressed by gzip or bzip2) dictionary base and compiling new dictionary bases from plain text files. It consists of a few TCL console scripts and a Tk interface to them. It is configurable for different languages. The dictionary base may contain proper formatting and output procedures.
GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content. TeXmacs can also be used as an interface to many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, and statistics. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using Scheme.
For users on Linux and Unix, KDE offers a full suite of user workspace applications which allow interaction with these operating systems in a modern, graphical user interface. This includes Plasma Desktop, KDE's innovative and powerful desktop interface. Other workspace applications are included to aid with system configuration, running programs, or interacting with hardware devices. While the fully integrated KDE Workspaces are only available on Linux and Unix, some of these features are available on other platforms. In addition to the workspace, KDE produces a number of key applications such as the Konqueror Web browser, Dolphin file manager, and Kontact, the comprehensive personal information management suite. The list of applications includes many others, including those for education, multimedia, office productivity, networking, games, and much more. Most applications are available on all platforms supported by the KDE Development. KDE also brings to the forefront many innovations for application developers. An entire infrastructure has been designed and implemented to help programmers create robust and comprehensive applications in the most efficient manner, eliminating the complexity and tediousness of creating highly functional applications.
Monetra is a scalable payment processing engine for Linux, Unix, and Windows. It is designed to handle credit, debit, gift, EBT, and check authorizations and is certified to support major clearing house protocols. Features include support for multiple modems, multiple merchant accounts, and multiple processors, all simultaneously -- as well as IP and SSL connectivity along side SQL database support. Designed in C, conforming to POSIX standards, and utilizing light weight processes (threads), this product is able to handle a large number of transactions with high speed and minimal CPU usage.
Merchant-Store is an easy-to-use Perl-based shopping cart script with an integrated product manager, backend order manager, and real-time credit card processing capabilities. There are three versions available. The first is for Signio-compatible credit card processing. The second is for AuthorizeNet-compatible credit card processing. The third is an AuthorizeNet modification for Selena Sol's web_store.
myFriends is a small program for all of you who have an Apache WEB server and mySQL database running. It is an address list using a WEB interface. It maintains similar things to most address book tools, as well as family relationships. It will also store any number of dates, binary flags or plain text notes to each name. This version targets anyone who wishes to use a simple system and provides a starting point for learning these technologies.
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Beijing surrenders to online gamers
Combat with core values: a screen grab from Glorious Mission, a video game whose development was scripted by propaganda officials and supervised by the People's Liberation Army. Photo: Supplied
CHINA'S Communist Party has a new weapon in its battle to win the hearts and minds of teenagers: online games.
For years Beijing attacked internet gaming as ''electronic heroin'' that would enslave its youth and rot their minds. Consoles such as the PlayStation and the Xbox remain officially banned from sale.
But the army of 120 million Chinese online gamers has proven too large to ignore. Later this year, the latest in a series of ideologically correct games hits the market.
Glorious Mission has been carefully scripted by seven propaganda officials and overseen by the People's Liberation Army. It aims to instil ''the core values'' of the military in its players as they carry out combat missions.
Over the past few years, the party has funnelled millions of dollars into game companies to create games embedded with propaganda. ''Online games can now teach people history and culture in China,'' the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the party, noted.
But Shanghai game developer Liu Yang said: ''The problem is that the propaganda-related themes are not intrinsically popular with players and tend to push them away.''
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"How is everybody?" Bob Moses asked the congregation in his famous whisper. He paused and then added, "Say these words with me:"
"I hold these truths to be self-evident..."
Last Sunday, on June 22, I was tucked in a corner at Mt. Zion Methodist Church several miles east of my hometown in the Longdale community of Neshoba County. This was the church that had to be rebuilt after the Ku Klux Klan burned it in 1964. It had risen from the ashes that James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner had poked through on Fathers Day, exactly 39 years ago that Sunday. It was the last place they visited before Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price pulled them over, arrested them and hid them in the city jail until the lynch mob could gather and kill them.
The church was overflowing with Longdale residents, legendary civil- rights activists, black and white politicians from Neshoba County and Jackson and beyond, more reporters than last year. We were there to honor the memory of three men who helped pave the way for black Americans to get a piece of the American dream.
"...that all men are created equal..."
I've struggled with the idea of patriotism my entire life. As a child growing up in Neshoba County, a place that I then believed sucked more than anywhere on the planet, I openly scorned patriotism, especially in my rebellious, angry high school years. After I learned about the three murders when I was 14 although they'd happened 11 years before; which says something about the ability of a community to clam up the whole idea of pride in where I was from seemed to be squelched forever. Everyone knew who those murderers were. How could they be free among us, pumping gas, repairing birthstone rings, joining the country club? How could a people, a state, a country that claimed that it believed in justice allow those men their freedom?
I wore this burden of where I was born like a backpack filled with rocks. I wanted out of Neshoba County, out of Mississippi, never to look back. I wanted freedom, and I wanted to live somewhere where I could be proud. I wanted to be where people believed in the "justice for all" part.
So I went in search of my piece of the American puzzle, taking Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner along with me.
"...that they are endowed by their Creator ..."
Indeed, I found a lot. I learned that bigotry could take many different forms, including intense prejudice against the South. I learned that the rest of America had only paid attention to the black Mississippian Chaney because white New Yorkers Goodman and Schwerner died by his side. I also learned much more about Mississippi history than I ever had here including the absolute fact that our institutionalized racism, enforced by every level of our society, was indeed worse than anywhere else. In effect, both the North and the South were right, and wrong, about each other.
I learned just enough to be really damned confused about the idea of patriotism. Hoping from afar for nearly 20 years after I left that my state and county would someday criminally prosecute at least one of that lynch mob, I continued to believe passionately in the American constitutional system. As I learned more about the Red Scare, and union- busting, and spying on protesters during the Vietnam era (including the staff of the Kudzu newspaper in Jackson), my belief grew stronger that the ideals that the U.S. is built on, even if we have not always honored them, can weather any storm.
Along the way, even as I faced squarely the painful honesty of the dark moments of U.S. history that I didn't learn or read about at Neshoba Central, my pride started to grow. And not only my pride in the constitutional principles of the country, but in where I came from, and how far it had come, despite its reticence to convict its own.
I returned two years ago in search of a home I could love. And I found it.
".. with certain unalienable Rights..."
The last two years have been interesting. It has felt almost surreal to watch so many of our civil liberties go under the knife, and to hear some frustrated Americans say they'd leave the country if they had somewhere else to go. I used to say that, too. Just as I couldn't wait to leave Mississippi in 1983, I used to romanticize the idea of being an expatriate somewhere like the Scott Fitzgerald crowd in Paris during the 1920s. I always thought that if the freedom tide ever turned, and our civil liberties were at stake again, that I'd be outta here in a snap.
The tide has turned, though, and I'm still here. Not only in the U.S., but back home in Mississippi, and loving it, near the place where they've never prosecuted that lynch mob and where state elected officials fear losing votes so much that they won't mothball a symbol of hatred and shame. Since Sept. 11, I've felt no need to publicly display a flag, any flag. Right now, that flag would say to most people that I publicly support military decisions that I believe in my heart are unwise. I can't do that.
But I've been thinking a lot about patriotism lately: It seems that love of your country matters more when other people try to take it away from you.
"...that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of
Maybe I finally understood my brand of patriotism last Sunday listening to the quiet voice of Bob Moses recite from the Declaration of Independence behind the pulpit at Mount Zion. We live in a country built messily on amazing principles of equality formulated by slave-holders and apologists. It is a country with a foundation of freedom so strong that Mr. Moses, a black man beaten in Mississippi for trying to register blacks to vote, would move his family here to help the next generation, and the next, continue to fight for the freedom and education that our founding fathers promised us, even though they weren't ready to give it to us all. I now believe that the American ideals of equality, justice, pluralism, tolerance, freedom of and from religion and opportunity are worth staying here in the state and in the U.S. and fighting for.
Mr. Moses said Sunday, "One of the best things about this country is that you can live a life in struggle." The American dream is just that: a struggle. We must continue to fight to preserve our right to be patriotic, even in dissent, and to ensure that more and more of us, not fewer, can experience what is so special about the American way. That is, after all, the point.
© 2003, Donna Ladd/Jackson Free Press
[Donna Ladd is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the Jackson Free Press and on the board of the COFO Building Inc. effort to renovate the COFO Building on Lynch Street.]
Copyright © 2003
Last Modified: July 18, 2003.
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Q & A ABOUT PEONY IN LOVE
Q: How do you compare Peony in Love to Snow Flower and the Secret Fan?
A: I think of Peony in Love as a kind of reverse mirror image of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Snow Flower takes place in rural Chinese villages in the 19th century and was about poor, uneducated, bound-footed women, who lived in seclusion and longed to be heard. Peony in Love takes place in a thriving city in the 17th century. These women are from wealthy families and highly, highly educated. They have bound feet, but they don’t live in seclusion. Like the nu shu writers, they also long to be heard. Peony in Love is based on the true story of three women who were married to the same man – one right after the other – who together wrote the first book of its kind to have been published anywhere in the world. These women were part of a larger phenomenon. In the 17th century, there were more women writers in China who were being published than altogether in the rest of the world at that time. And while there were hardly any women being published in the rest of the world back then, there were thousands of women being published in China.
Q: What was the impetus for this book and how did the plot occur to you?
A: I first heard about the lovesick maidens when I was researching a piece for Vogue on the Lincoln Center production of the Chinese opera “The Peony Pavilion.” In the past, women and girls in China weren’t allowed to see the opera, but they could read it. When girls read it, they caught cases of lovesickness, wasted away, and died, just like the main character in the opera. That stuck with me long after I’d finished the article. Then, when I was doing research for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, I kept coming across the story of the three wives and how they were part of this larger phenomenon. I kept thinking, How could there have been that many women writers and I didn’t know about them…and why don’t we all know about them? This seemed to me to be one of those pieces of women’s history that had been lost, forgotten, or covered up. As for the second part of your question, the plot was easy: I followed what happened to the three wives in real life. My major inspiration and change was that Peony, the first wife, would be a ghost who would come back to earth to finish the project. Naturally, that changed the story quite a bit!
Q: How much research did Peony in Love need? Did you make another trip to China or was information about the historical period readily available?
A: I’m a research fiend. I love it. I read everything I could on the three wives and I spoke with the top scholars in the field of Chinese women’s history. One of the neat things that happened was that one of the scholars sent me a photo copy of a 17th-century edition of The Three Wives’ Commentary that’s owned by a private collector. (We may not have heard about the book in this country, but it remained in print in China for about 300 years. Not too shabby.) I also searched for and found first-person accounts of what happened during the Manchu invasion of Yangzhou. These were true stories of terrible suffering, but I used them to tell what happened to Peony’s mother and her family, because the little details that are found in the truth are so much more wrenching and terrifying than anything I could make up. I dug and dug and dug to find spells, traditions, and remedies that were accurate to that time and place in China. A whole separate part of my research had to do with ghosts and the need for sons, which are closely related. And of course, I went to China. I went to every location that I wrote about. Even today Hangzhou is considered China’s most romantic city. So while this trip wasn’t as hard or as dramatic as some I’ve done for my other books, I know I couldn’t have written the novel if I hadn’t spent time in Hangzhou and it’s environs.
Q: After her death, Peony returns to earth as a "hungry ghost." Is this venture into the supernatural and the mystic afterlife new territory for you?
A: Yes!!! But here’s the thing: spirits in the Chinese afterworld – whether beloved ancestors or ghosts – have the same wants, needs, and desires as living people. They need clothes, food, a place to live. They have emotions. Most important, in the Chinese tradition, spirits, ancestors, and even demons are very much a part of everyday life. This is why ancestor worship is so important. So for me the challenge was to create a believable situation (to Western readers, especially) for Peony. She can float, change form, and do many things that living people can’t do, but she is also inhibited – as all Chinese ghosts are – by things like corners, mirrors, and fern fronds. In other words, she inhabits a very real parallel world to the living world; both have their own rules of what can and can’t be done.
Q: What will intrigue readers about Peony? What will they learn compared to the information about the secret language in Snow Flower and about the intimate bonds between women in that society? Do you think that these two books somehow tell a larger story?
A: This is a three-part answer. First, I hope readers will have the same feeling I did when I first encountered the three wives and all the women writers in 17th-century China: Who knew? And wow, isn’t that amazing? So often we hear about women in the past that there were no women writers, no women artists, no women chefs, etc. But of course there were! But their stories, as I said earlier, have been lost, forgotten, or deliberately covered up.
Second, I think – hope – readers will connect to Peony and the ways she experiences the different aspects of love. A single emotional thread ties Peony to her mother and her grandmother. Mother love is something that all women experience – either receiving or getting it (or not giving or getting it). In addition to the relationships Peony has with her mother and grandmother, she also experiences romantic love, sexual love, sacrificing love, duty love, and finally mother love as a mother of sorts to the third wife. Even though she dies at age sixteen, by the end of the novel she’s experienced and explored what women hope to have in their lifetimes. In the way that readers thought about their own friendships when they read Snow Flower, I hope they’ll think about the ways they’ve given and received love when they read Peony.
Finally, I’d say, yes, I think the two books do tell part of a larger story about women and our lost history. Women today are very lucky, but we’ve only been able to get to where we are because of all the suffering, failures, tragedies, and triumphs of the women who came before us. We should rejoice in what they did. At the same time, I don’t think our lives are so removed from theirs. We – and I’m speaking here of men and women – still long – need – to be heard. Peony is about what one person will endure to be heard.
Q: All your novels so far are set wholly or partly in China. Did the background you discovered in writing On Gold Mountain inspire you to focus on this aspect of your genetic inheritance in your fiction?
A: I think you can see from my other answers that I’m intrigued by lost stories and lost history. This was true with my own family and with Chinese-American history, so yes, I’d say that my desire to find lost stories very much comes from writing On Gold Mountain. I mean, how crazy is it to look into your family history and find a great-grandfather who got his start in this country by manufacturing crotchless underwear for brothels? So much of what my family did was either borderline illegal or full on out there illegal. At the same time, history was happening all around them. History was happening to them. I thought it would be pretty interesting to tell the story of the Chinese in America through the eyes of my family. (When you think about it, you can read all kinds of serious books about the Holocaust, but the one that’s most moving was written by a little girl in hiding. History happened to that one person and her family.) Anyway, I’ve stayed with this idea of history happening to individual people with all of my novels.
But something else also happened as a result of writing On Gold Mountain. I hadn’t really thought too much about my identity. Who does, after all? All of a sudden people asked me – and still do – what are you, Chinese or American? I know that because of how I look, I will always be seen as a bit of an outsider in Chinatown, but to me it’s home. It’s what I know. The same can be said for when I go to China. To me, it’s just a bigger Chinatown – very familiar and comfortable, but again, because of how I look I’ll always be seen as an outsider. Then when I’m out in the larger white community in the United States, I look like I belong but sometimes I don’t feel like I belong. That world often seems strange and very foreign to me. So in writing these books I’m also trying to figure out who I am. How and where do I fit in? Here, there, nowhere?
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So far, the pipes are holding.
East Bay water officials say they didn't receive an unusual number of calls over the weekend for damaged water pipes despite 30-degree overnight temperatures in some communities.
East Bay Municipal Utility District crews went out on 30 calls over the weekend from homeowners who said their pipes had frozen, according to district spokesman Charles Hardy. That's the highest number in any one day this winter.
However, Hardy said EBMUD crews only received 13 calls this past weekend for pipes bursting. That is slightly below normal for a day in January.
It looks like much of the East Bay will endure at least a couple more days of freezing overnight temperatures.
The National Weather Service forecast calls for temperatures to drop into the low 30s on Monday and Tuesday nights. Highs on Tuesday and Wednesday are only expected to be around the mid-50s.
On Wednesday night, the lows are expected to rise a bit to the high 30s with dayside highs in the upper 50s on Thursday. That pattern is expected to continue until early next week.
Utility districts recommend covering exterior pipes and hose bibs to prevent water from freezing or pipes from bursting.
The Contra Costa Water District also has tips on how to prevent pipes from freezing or bursting and what to do if they do.
If a pipe does burst, the most important thing is to turn the water off to your house to prevent water from continuing to flow. Repairs can come later.
There is usually a valve on a front faucet where you can do this.
If that doesn't work, call EBMUD to come out and shut off the water at your meter. Don't attempt this yourself. You can hurt yourself or break the valve if you don't have the proper tools.
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Police claim to have reduced business crime across the West Midlands by a quarter in the last 12 months.
To keep the downward trend going, officers have now issued a video encouraging companies to take action to protect their property.
West Midlands Police is urging businesses across the region to review their security systems, identify any flaws and make improvements.
The short film includes several top tips to keep criminals at bay.
Featured on West Midland Police’s YouTube channel and force website, the video illustrates basic advice such as how to secure perimeter fencing, installing CCTV and securing equipment.
Business crimes reported was down from 23,355 in 2011, to 17,802 for the same period this year.
The latest figures included 2,001 bilking offences (driving off from garages without paying), 2,656 burglaries, and 6,530 thefts from shops.
Sergeant Andy Gregory, the force lead for business crime said: “This short video really gets to the heart of business crime prevention. The key messages displayed cover the main areas of advice we give business holders on a daily basis.
“Business crime in the region is down by 24 per cent this year compared with last.
“We are really keen to see that reduction continue and hope members of the business community spend two minutes watching this video and question whether they have the best procedures and systems in place to protect themselves and their livelihoods.
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Shocking Soda Fact #1: Soda fattens up your organs
A recent Danish study revealed that drinking non-diet soda leads to dramatic increases in dangerous hard-to-detect fats. Researchers asked participants to drink either regular soda, milk containing the same amount of calories as regular soda, diet cola, or water every day for six months. The results? Total fat mass remained the same across all beverage-consuming groups, but regular-soda drinkers experienced dramatic increases in harmful hidden fats, including liver fat and skeletal fat. The regular-soda group also experienced an 11 percent increase in cholesterol compared to the other groups! And don’t think switching to diet varieties will save you from harm: Artificial sweeteners and food dyes have been linked to brain cell damage and hyperactivity, and research has shown that people who drink diet soda have a higher risk of developing diabetes.
FIX IT WITH FOOD: The average American drinks 450 calories a day. By switching to water as your go-to beverage, you’ll make room in your diet for foods that, even in moderation, can strengthen your heart, fortify your bones, and boost your metabolism so you can lose weight more quickly.
Shocking Soda Fact #2: Soda contains flame retardants
Some popular soda brands, including Mountain Dew, use brominated vegetable oil—a toxic flame retardant—to keep the artificial flavoring from separating from the rest of the liquid. This hazardous ingredient—sometimes listed as BVO on soda and sports drinks—can cause bromide poisoning symptoms like skin lesions and memory loss, as well as nerve disorders. If that’s not a good enough reason not to “Do the Dew,” I don’t know what is.
Shocking Soda Fact #3: Drinking soda makes you a lab rat
Many American soda brands are sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, a heart-harming man-made compound derived mainly from genetically engineered corn. The problem? Genetically engineered ingredients have only been in our food chain since the 1990s, and we don’t know their long-term health impacts because the corporations that developed the crops never had to test them for long-term safety. Case in point: Some recent findings suggest that genetically engineered crops are linked to digestive tract damage, accelerated aging, and even infertility!
source: yahoo health
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Mayans never had a consistent state, but their administration based on common cultures adopted a city-state form of government, which later created federal states. Those leaders were halach uinic, who inherited his/her office and nominated local leaders and officials (bataboob) from the aristocracy. Only rulers, aristocrats, clergymen, officials and their servants were allowed in the middle of ceremonies. The Mayan rulers were mostly men. The rule descended usually from father to oldest son, but in Mayan history some females were rulers also. The clergy class (habinoob) had special interests. The people were divided into farmers, artisans and slaves (pentacoob). The farmers lived in the jungle and moved their corn plantations to new places every few years.
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Sounds disgusting, doesn't it? Technically, it's in-vitro meat, grown from stem cells to create muscle tissue. Supposedly these new meat strips most resemble calamari, but are actually beef. From an environmental standpoint, lab-grown meat would eliminate the carbon footprint normally associated with raising cattle, and, also, ethical concerns about factory farming. Unfortunately, the researchers who created the product say that at this stage, a hamburger would cost roughly $350,000 to make. But they contend that it’s just a first step in the right direction.
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Cool, Green and the best Coffee in the world
For a lot of us, it's easy to want to stay in bed for "just 5 more minutes!" But does that extra 5 minutes really give you the energy you need to start your day? If anything, it's going to make you sleepy- 5 minutes turns to 10 minutes and so on.
A great way to ease yourself into a brand new day and help get you motivated to get up and get going is stretching - stretching helps to ease away any stress or tension from the previous day's activities or even release any negative energy from sleeping "on the wrong side of the bed"! When that alarm clock goes off, don't hit the snooze button! Instead, follow some simple stretching exercises below:
Reach your hands up and over your head and stretch your legs out with your toes pointed. Take a couple of long deep breaths. This helps to lengthen your spine and tells your body "time to get up and get moving!"
Release tightness in your lower back by pulling one knee up to your chest, hold it for a few seconds then repeat with the other knee. Finally, pull both knees together and pressing your lower back down, gently rock from side-to-side while breathing deeply.
Loosen your hamstrings, hips and knees by lying flat on your back and extending your legs up against your headboard or a wall, knees straight. Give your hamstrings an extra stretch by pulling your legs back toward your head slightly.
Finally, sit up at the side of the bed and do a few neck rolls. Tuck your chin into your chest and slowly lift your head back up again, looking toward the ceiling. Bring your head back down to normal position and slowly turn your head to the right and then to the left - make sure you are taking long, deep breaths.
Take each stretch slowly and don't forget to take long deep breaths while stretching!
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Written by Chris Herman
Financial Aid Director Patrick Kelly helps student understand FAFSA from last year.
On Jan. 29, 2012, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., students and their parents can receive one-on-one expert advice in learning about financial aid and planning for college during College Goal Sunday at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic. The event takes place in Room 410 of Webb Hall.
David Mariasi, assistant to financial aid director, helps family from Rhode Island with web-based application from last year during College Goal Sunday.
Eastern is one of 12 locations around the state participating in the annual event. Students and their families will be able to talk with financial aid counselors and college staff in person to become familiar with college entrance requirements; learn about planning for college; and obtain on-site assistance in filling out financial aid applications. In addition, valuable information will be shared about the benefits of attending college, student support services, areas of study and degree programs. Spanish interpreters will be available.
Kenneth Briggs,left, assistant to the director of financial aid, instructs student Wiley Dawson on how to help students apply for grants and scholarships last year.
For students who are the first ones to attend college, the process of applying for college can seem complicated, especially finding financial resources and applying for financial aid. Participating in College Goal Sunday gives students and their families a jump start on the pathway to college by learning about preparing for college and financial aid in a welcoming setting. Participants can get assistance in completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) online. Most grants and scholarships require a completed FAFSA form, which does not obligate applicants to attend college, but is required for most sources of financial aid.
Members of Eastern's Financial Aid Office staff, left to right, are Kathy Wrana, Yolanda Sazo, Greg Ashford, Patrick Kelly, Dave Mariasi, Neville Brown and Ken Briggs.
College Goal Sunday is funded and sponsored by Lumina Foundation for Education, the Connecticut Association of Professional Financial Aid Administrators (CAPFAA), the Connecticut Association of Educational Opportunity Programs (CAEOP), and the YMCAs of Connecticut.
For more information about the event, contact Neville Brown at firstname.lastname@example.org or (860) 465-4428. For a list of all participating institutions and to find out what to bring to the event, visit www.collegegoalsundayct.org.
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Protesters for and against the building of a Muslim community center near Ground Zero talk about their reasons for supporting or opposing the project., Video muted: click volume for sound
As soon as President Obama endorsed the Muslim community's right to build an Islamic Cultural Center two blocks from Ground Zero, the political speculation mill started churning. Republican operatives crowed about how Obama was taking a position that only a minority of Americans hold. Others shook their heads in disbelief at how Obama apparently just doesn't understand the real Americans in the Heartland who know better than New Yorkers what should be built in New York. Democrats murmured to each other that this would cost them congressional seats this Fall.
A week later, as the political fallout from the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy reveals itself, it looks as if everyone may have overreacted. It is not exactly true that Obama took an unpopular position, nor that he partially retracted it the next day, when he said that he is not taking a position of the wisdom of the project. While only a minority of Americans think the Park51 plan is a good idea, they are evenly split as to whether its developers have the right to build it. So when Obama said that he supports the right to build the Cordoba House, but clarified later that he did not say that he supports the choice to build it, he was not expressing views any more contradictory than those of a significant number of Americans. And in expressing his support for the right to build religious structures anywhere that they meet local land-use regulations, in accordance with the First Amendment, he was not expressing an especially unpopular position.
Nor is it clear that the average swing voter, beset by economic insecurity in a nation at war, is as obsessed with this as the pundetariat. As Greg Sargent noted last week, the polls suggest that this is not the issue outside the Beltway that Charles Krauthammer would lead you to believe. When Gallup asked poll respondents what they thought of Obama's comments, "while more disapprove than approve, a huge chunk -- 41 percent -- didn't know enough to form an opinion." And the 34 percent who disapprove are heavily concentrated among Republicans. But they also are more likely to strong disapprove than supporters are to strongly approve. Rasmussen Reports found that only 22 percent of Americans say they are following the "mosque" story "very closely."
So there may be political rewards for some Republicans who focus on the "mosque." Given the intensity of opposition among Republicans, and the lack of interest among independents, the opportunity is to distinguish oneself in a Republican primary, and perhaps for Republican nominees to excite their base in Novembers. Case in point: as the New York Times reports, New York Republican gubernatorial aspirant Rick Lazio has injected some life into his flagging campaign by cutting commercials about the "mosque."
According to the Times: "As the Republican primary for the governor’s race approaches, Mr. Lazio is making his vigorous opposition to the project a centerpiece of his candidacy, assailing it on the campaign trail, testifying against it at public hearings, denouncing it in television commercials and even creating an online petition demanding an investigation into the center and its organizers." Of course, when New York faces a gridlocked, incompetent and corruption-riddled state legislature that can barely bring itself to address New York's massive projected budget deficits, and the governor, whoever it is, has no power to prevent the project's completion, this may seem an odd campaign issue. But it is making people remember that Rick Lazio exists, which they would otherwisebe liable to forget. Could this help Lazio reduce the 30 point gap between him and likely Democratic nominee Attorney General Andrew Cuomo? Maybe, but there's no way that in a Democratic state it will be enough to overcome Cuomo's advantages in fundraising, name recognition and organization. Nor is it clear that, beyond getting himself on Meeting the Press, Lazio is actually moving many votes. “I don’t think it’s a ticket to Albany in November,” Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which has polled New Yorkers on the issue, tells the Times.
Republican candidates for the presidency in 2012 may also look to drive up their support, or at least get some free publicity, in the primary by attacking the "mosque." Indeed, the intensity on the Republican side is so strong that conservative blogger Robert Stacy McCain thinks Newt Gingrich eradicated his chances of being the GOP nominee by backing out of speaking at this weekend's anti-"mosque" rally in New York. McCain writes:
In the space of five days, Gingrich has gone from comparing the mosque to a Nazi sign at the Holocaust Museum to quitting a protest against it.
Make an enemy of Pamela Geller? Be my guest, Newt. Nice presidential campaign you had there.
Geller is a conservative blogger who has been fanning the flames of the "mosque" controversy. I strongly suspect that, should Gingrich run, this will prove far from a fatal misstep on his part. One would think that the party of moral values would have a bigger problem with Gingrich's serial infidelities. But, while McCain is almost certainly vastly over-stating the importance of this particular story, it does say something about the potential power of anti-Islamic politicking in the Republican primaries that any amibiguity in Gingrich's otherwise stellar anti-mosque armor could be, even theoretically, so damaging to him.
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|About UNDP Zimbabwe|
UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone.
In Zimbabwe, UNDP's programmatic focus is underpinned on MDG Goal 1: "Eradication of Extreme Poverty and Hunger". In this respect, assisting in the transition from humanitarian relief to early recovery, advocating for dialogue among stakeholders, assisting the country in pro-poor policy formulation and supporting capacity enhancement of national institutions with a strong emphasis on governance and human rights form the core of UNDP's work in Zimbabwe.Informed by these considerations and based on a participatory programming process, the UNDP Country Program Document for Zimbabwe 2007-2009 formulated the following three broad strategic areas as the major focus for the new programming cycle:
These three priority areas of intervention were translated into five specific programme outcomes, which also reflect UNDP's five practice areas. More information of how these outcomes are operationalised through projects/program is to be found under the respective practice areas:
UNDP in Zimbabwe
Development Challenges and Operating Environment
Despite this positive economic trend, the economy is still vulnerable to structural and other risks. These include the non-clearance of the debt arrears estimated at US$7 billion, high public sector wage bill representing 63% of the recurrent expenditure, policy inconsistency especially on implementation of the indigenization law and the outstanding reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA. The Government is taking steps to address some of the challenges and a number of political and economic reforms were initiated in 2011. The launch of the 2011-2015 Medium Term Plan (MTP) and the 2012-2015 Budget Strategy Paper will consolidate the macro-economic stability and put the economy on a strong path of sustainable development that is inclusive and equitable.
There is also momentum to finalize the drafting of the Constitution and a draft has been published and it is anticipated that it will be tabled at the second all-stakeholders’ conference, and a referendum thereafter. The Government has earmarked US$30 million in the 2012 budget to support the implementation of outstanding GPA provisions such as the Constitution-making process, the national referendum and the constitutional commissions.
Consolidating the gains achieved so far will require further solidifying the political and economic reforms agreed in the GPA. This will entail restoration of capacities that were eroded during the crisis period, enhancing the capacity to raise domestic revenue, and the resumption of relations with the International Financial Institutions and bilateral donors in order to access development funds and to strengthen the coordination mechanism for aid and development effectiveness through a strong accountability and partnership mechanisms.
Globally, Zimbabwe remains among the countries with high HIV infection rates; it carries the third largest HIV burden in Southern Africa and has one of the highest rates of premature adult mortality, largely due to HIV related illnesses. Latest estimates place the adult HIV prevalence at 14.26 percent, which brings the estimated number of people living with HIV to 1.2 million, including 150,000 children under 15.
The UNDP CO has spearheaded support to governance reforms, including support to the implementation of key aspects of the 2008 GPA. In 2011, support was rendered to the constitution-making process and to national healing, reconciliation and integration. The two processes reinforce each other in creating a conducive environment for political dialogue necessary for nurturing sustainable peace and development.
Support to constitution-making has covered financial, procedural, substantive and advisory support throughout the lifespan of the process, from consultation, through data compilation and analysis, to drafting. A draft constitution has been published.
UNDP extends support to the Organ for National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration in developing a Code of Conduct for Political Parties to be signed by all the major political parties and has supported the drafting of a policy to establish a permanent peace-building architecture, the National Peace and Reconciliation Council. This support is making a significant contribution to addressing politically motivated violence and has created new platforms for dialogue.
UNDP assisted the Government to formulate a pro-poor and inclusive national development strategy, the 2011-2015 Medium Term Plan (MTP). This is the first economic blueprint in a long time and provides a solid macro-economic framework for consolidating the still fragile gains of recent economic recovery. The successful implementation of the MTP, which is anchored on inclusive growth policies, will bring significant economic transformation. The MTP was extensively used in the formulation of the 2012 Budget.
To advance the principles of development effectiveness for coherent interactions between Government and development partners, UNDP is assisting the Government to put in place an Aid and Development Results Mechanism. The expected long-term impacts of this process is to ensure more transparency, accountability and that both donor and public resources are channelled towards a unified agenda, as defined in the MTP, as well as to ensure national ownership of the development process in Zimbabwe.
Through its principal recipientship of Global Fund, UNDP has supported national capacity building to deal with HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. Malaria incidence declined from 10.6% in 2007 to 4.9% in 2010; a total of 370,128 adults and children with advanced HIV are currently on ART and 84% HIV-infected pregnant women are receiving ARV prophylaxis to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV; and the survival rate of adults and children on ARV 12 months after initiation improved from under 70% in 2009 to 86.4% in 2011.
The 2012-2015 UNDP Country Programme
Implemented under the overall umbrella of achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and the national planning tool (the Medium Term Plan), the overriding objective of the 2012–2015 UNDP country programme is to support Zimbabwe in meeting its development goals, that is, delivering on six of the seven national development priorities set out in the Zimbabwe United Nations Development Assistance Framework (ZUNDAF) 2012–2015 document.
Therefore, UNDP will render its support through the following three programmatic areas:
The programmatic areas are derived from the two overarching strategic programme pillars articulated in the Country Programme Document, namely sustaining the momentum on and consolidating governance reforms, and, promoting economic reforms and early recovery for sustainable livelihoods.
Citizen Participation and Good Governance
Economic Management and Sustainable Development
Both areas will contribute to accelerated progress towards meeting MDG targets and economic recovery in Zimbabwe.
Social Sector and Livelihoods
The UNDP focuses its support on piloting innovative and high-impact projects to restore community livelihoods and government structures supporting livelihoods creation through the following:
In addition, based on the UN division of labour on HIV and AIDS, the UNDP will focus its support on strengthening the capacity of national institutions to manage and co-ordinate the national HIV and AIDS response as well as support human rights challenges.
In its role as Principal Recipient, UNDP will provide support to the management and implementation of the Global Fund programme with the aim of contributing to the national goal of
In addition, the Country Office will continue to provide support to the UN Resident Coordinator system and also fully participate in all UN Country Team initiatives. Under the ZUNDAF 2012–2015, and guided by the Joint Implementation Matrix, the UN’s internal implementation tool for identifying joint operationalization activities of the ZUNDAF, the joint work of the UN system will be centred around the seven priority areas of the ZUNDAF. UNDP will either lead, co-lead or actively participate in six of these areas, namely:
|UNDP Supports the Production of Key Poverty Reports|
Harare, 8 May 2013: UNDP mobilised about US $ 1.7 million from its core resources, UNICEF, and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) to supp [ ... ]
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Adobe has released an emergency update for its Flash Player software that fixes three critical vulnerabilities, two of which the company warns are actively being exploited to compromise systems.
In an advisory, Adobe said two of the bugs quashed in this update (CVE-2013-0643 and CVE-2013-0648) are being used by attackers to target Firefox users. The company noted that the attacks are designed to trick users into clicking a link which redirects to a Web site serving malicious Flash content.
Readers can be forgiven for feeling patch fatigue with Flash: This is the third security update that Adobe has shipped for Flash in the last month. On Feb. 12, Adobe released a patch to plug at least 17 security holes in Flash. On Feb. 7, Adobe rushed out an update to fix two other flaws that attackers were already exploiting to break into vulnerable computers.
Updates are available for Windows, Mac and Linux installations of Flash (see the chart below for the appropriate version number). This link should tell you which version of Flash your browser has installed. The most recent versions are available from the Adobe download center, but beware potentially unwanted add-ons, like McAfee Security Scan). To avoid this, uncheck the pre-checked box before downloading, or grab your OS-specific Flash download from here.
Chrome and Internet Explorer 10 have built-in auto-update features that should bring Flash to the most recent version. The patched version of Flash for Chrome is 11.6.602.171, which Google appears to have already pushed out to Chrome useres. Windows users who browse the Web with anything other than Internet Explorer will need to apply this patch twice, once with IE and again using the alternative browser (Firefox, Opera, e.g.).
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Claud Ashton Jones
Rank and organization: Commander, U.S. Navy. Born: 7 October 1885, Fire Creek, W. Va. Accredited to: West Virginia. (1 August 1932.) Citation: For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession as a senior engineer officer on board the U.S.S. Memphis, at a time when the vessel was suffering total destruction from a hurricane while anchored off Santo Domingo City, 29 August 1916. Lieutenant Jones did everything possible to get the engines and boilers ready and if the elements that burst upon the vessel had delayed for a few minutes, the engines would have saved the vessel. With boilers and steam pipes bursting about him in clouds of scalding steam, with thousands of tons of water coming down upon him and in almost complete darkness, Lieutenant Jones nobly remained at his post as long as the engines would turn over, exhibiting the most supreme unselfish heroism which inspired the officers and men who were with him. When the boilers exploded, Lieutenant Jones, accompanied by two of his shipmates, rushed into the firerooms and drove the men there out, dragging some, carrying others to the engineroom, where there was air to be breathed instead of steam. Lieutenant Jonesí action on this occasion was above and beyond the call of duty.
Medal of Honor Recipients, 1863-1973. Washington: GPO, 1973.
Military and Wartime
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Discussions about credit improvement often focus on the dos. However, in many cases, the don’ts are just as important.
For example, I was lurking on one of my favorite personal finance forums the other day and came across this question:
“Paid off one of my credit cards the other day and my credit score dropped 15 points. What’s the deal?”
I had to jump in.
“Did you close the card? How many credit cards do you have?”
“Yes. Three, now two.”
I can almost guarantee that closing the credit card did a little doozy on his credit score.
Warning! Closing a paid off credit card may not be the best idea.
Check Your Credit Report
[Free Resource: Check your free credit report and score]Before canceling those paid off, old or unused credit card accounts, review your credit report.
If you’re actively paying down debt, you probably already have your credit report handy. If not, or you just want to get a handle on what old and unused credit card accounts you might have out there, grab your free credit report from Quizzle. As you’re reviewing your credit report, compile a complete list of all your credit card accounts, outstanding balances and total available credit (i.e. total of credit limits).
In addition to compiling this list, check to see if there are any credit card accounts that you’re unfamiliar with or if your creditors have reported any inaccurate information. It wouldn’t hurt to do this monthly since creditors report new information every month.
Understanding Credit Utilization
Once you have your list of credit cards, outstanding balances, and total available credit, I want you to do a little figuring:
- For each credit card account, take the outstanding balance and divide it by your credit limit, then multiply by 100. This will give you the percentage of credit utilization on each credit card.
- Now add up all of your credit cards’ outstanding balances and add up all your credit limits. Then do the same calculation you did in step one: divide the outstanding balances by the credit limits, then multiply by 100. This will give you your total percentage of credit utilization for all credit cards.
Take a look at this example:
Your individual credit card utilization rates and total credit card utilization rate are critical components of your credit score, as 30 percent of your credit score is related to the amounts you owe. Specifically, we are analyzing the proportion of credit lines used.
Now, here is your first don’t…
See how closing the two paid-off credit cards in the above image jumped the credit utilization from 42.50 percent to a whopping 75.56 percent? This would very likely negatively impact a credit score. This is why you need to consider carefully before closing paid off credit cards.
Reasons to Close Credit Card Accounts
Having said that, there are very legitimate reasons to close credit card accounts. Here are a few of the biggies:
- Retail or secured credit cards - Not all credit cards are created equally. Retail and prepaid credit cards are generally considered by lenders as less desirable credit. Therefore, if you have sufficient credit history and lower utilization, you may want to begin clearing these off your credit report.
- Identity theft prevention - If you have several old and unused credit cards, you may begin to forget about them and even neglect to look at the statements. This can be very dangerous, as these become prime targets for identity thieves. Either close them or get monthly credit report updates to keep an eye on these accounts.
- Debt control - If you’re having trouble with debt, credit cards with unused balances may simply be too much temptation. It’s better to take a ding on your credit score than to slip back into debt problems – close them.
Closing Credit Card Accounts
If you do decide to close a credit card account, keep in mind these tips to optimize your credit history and minimize any damage to your credit score.
More dos and don’ts of closing credit card accounts:
- Avoid closing your oldest credit card account - This may make your credit history appear shorter as closed accounts eventually drop from your credit report.
- Keep tabs on your credit report - Verify that the account is reported as closed on your credit report and that any final reporting by the creditor is accurate. This is especially important when closing a credit card account that isn’t paid off. The creditor may inadvertently stop reporting your future pay-downs or payoffs.
- Maintain three to six open credit accounts at all times - These do not all have to be credit cards. In fact, it is preferable to have a mortgage, auto loan, or other types of good credit accounts mixed in.
Getting credit card debt under control is an awesome feeling. Just remember, as you’re managing your credit, balance the practical elements of staying out of debt with the statistical elements that credit bureaus use to calculate that all-important three digit number.
Do you have any questions about credit utilization or how closing credit card account impacts your credit score? Leave a comment and we’ll do a little Q&A.
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US scientists head to Mount Everest for research
FILE - In this May 19, 2010 file photo, clouds hover above the world's highest peak Mount Everest, as seen from Syangboche, about 125 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Katmandu, Nepal. A team of American scientists and researchers is setting up a laboratory at Mount Everest to study the effects of high altitude on humans. Team leader Dr. Bruce Johnson and eight other team members flew to the airstrip at Lukla, near Everest, on Friday, April 20, 2012. (AP Photo/ Binod Joshi)
(AP) -- A team of American scientists and researchers flew to the Mount Everest region on Friday to set up a laboratory at the base of the world's highest mountain to study the effects of high altitude on humans.
The team from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota says it plans to monitor nine climbers attempting to scale Everest to learn more about the physiology of humans at high altitudes in order to help patients with heart conditions and other ailments.
"We are interested in some of the parallels between high altitude physiology and heart failure physiology," Dr. Bruce Johnson, who is heading the team, told The Associated Press before leaving Nepal's capital, Katmandu, for the mountain. "What we are doing here will help us with our work that we have been doing in the (Mayo Clinic) laboratory."
Johnson and the eight other team members flew to the airstrip at Lukla, near Everest, on Friday.
It will take them about a week to trek to the Everest base camp, with several porters and yaks helping to carry their 680 kilograms (1,500 pounds) of medical equipment. They will set up their lab at the base camp, which is located at 5,300 meters (17,380 feet), and expect to be at the camp until at least mid-May.
The team says Everest's extreme altitude puts climbers under the same conditions experienced by patients suffering from heart disease.
The team members plan to study the effects of high altitude on the heart, the lungs, muscle loss and sleep during their stay at Everest, which peaks at 8,850 meters (29,035 feet).
Johnson said that the team's laboratory at the Mayo Clinic focuses on lung congestion during heart failure and that lung congestion often kills mountain climbers.
Hundreds of climbers and their guides attempt to climb Everest every year, while thousands more trek up to the base camp. Several of them suffer from high altitude sickness and other complications because of the low level of oxygen.
An experienced Sherpa guide who had scaled Everest at least 10 times died of high altitude sickness Wednesday at the mountain's base camp, becoming the first fatality in this year's spring climbing season.
Hundreds of climbers and their guides are currently camped at the base camp preparing to scale Everest. Climbers generally try to scale the mountain in May, when weather conditions usually improve just enough to enable them to attempt to reach the peak.
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Project Support Continuum
In an increasingly complex landscape for independent films, we recognize the need for sustained support for filmmakers through every phase of the filmmaking process. In keeping with the Institute's commitment to provide long-term assistance to the artists and projects it supports, the Feature Film Program offers support to Fellows through several annual Labs:
- The January Screenwriters Lab, at which filmmakers develop their screenplays through intensive one-on-one story sessions with Creative Advisors
- The Directors Lab in June, which provides an opportunity for directors to rehearse, shoot, and edit selected scenes from their screenplays in a workshop environment under the guidance of Creative Advisors
- The June Screenwriters Lab, which allows Fellows time to revisit and revise their screenplays based on the challenges experienced during the Directors Lab
- The Composers Lab, which provides a collaborative space for directors and film music composers to work together, scoring music to scenes from the Directors Lab, and
- The Creative Producing Summit, a three-day conference focusing on the producing, financing, and distribution of independent film in the current marketplace.
Based on the specific needs of the project, many Fellows then receive ongoing creative and strategic support through all stages of the project's life.
After participating in the Screenwriters and Directors Labs, Feature Film Program Fellows continue to receive a range of tailored assistance as they move their projects forward into production and postproduction. Some of the ways in which the Feature Film Program maintains its commitment and support of filmmakers and their projects include: ongoing creative and business support provided by Feature Film Program staff, donated or discounted equipment and services from vendors, the Screenplay Reading Series, Film Grants and Fellowships, the Rough-Cut Screening Initiative, creative distribution/marketing support, and Sundance Film Festival programming for recent Lab alumni. Among the companies and vendors who continue to support our Fellows are Alpha Cine Labs, EFilm, Final Draft, Goldcrest, Kodak, Modern VideoFilm, and Panavision.
Screenplay Reading Series
A live reading of a work-in-progress screenplay can play an essential part in a writer's developmental process. It often takes hearing a screenplay read by actors to see how the characters of the screenplay come to life and to see which scenes play well and which are problematic, as well as to experience live how the structure of the screenplay builds the story or where it fails to hold interest. Each year, up to six work-in-progress screenplays are given staged readings by an ensemble of professional actors in New York and Los Angeles. The scripts are chosen from screenplays developed at the Screenwriters and Directors Labs and represent a further stage of examination and development. Films that have been selected for the Reading Series include Half Nelson, written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, Me And You And Everyone We Know, written and directed by Miranda July, Love And Basketball, written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and The Wood, written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, among many others. Click here for a full list of participants.
The Screenplay Reading Series is presented in association with Writers Guild of America, West. If you are based in New York or Los Angeles and would like to be notified of upcoming readings, please send your full name, email address, and any professional affiliation to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Please note there is no application process for the Screenplay Reading Series. These events are reserved for projects that have gone through the Screenwriters and Directors Labs and are one more method of support the Feature Film Program provides its Fellows.
Rough-Cut Screening Initiative
The Feature Film Program organizes rough-cut screenings for Lab-supported films during the critical post-production phase. Along with FFP staff members, Creative Advisors gather in Los Angeles and New York City to watch cuts of the film and offer directors creative feedback in scheduled individual meetings. The FFP often organizes several rough-cut screenings for a film throughout the post-production phase.
As with the Screenplay Reading Series, the Rough-Cut Screening Initiative is reserved for projects that have gone through the Screenwriters and Directors Labs.
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Resource allocation in cellular data networks: From 3G to 4G<-- Return to the list
Start Time: 11:00am
End Time: 12:30pm
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Andrews
From: Bell Labs
Location: Mudd 644
Hosted by: Prof. Gil Zussman
In this talk, we shall cover a number of resource allocation problems that arise in cellular data networks. We shall consider both CDMA-based 3G networks (where we are typically concerned with allocating time slots to a set of mobile users) as well as OFDM-based 4G networks (where we have to assign both time and frequency). Some questions that we shall examine include: - What is the best way to schedule over a time-varying channel when each user has a minimum acceptable data rate? - How can we schedule a large number of frequencies so that no user is assigned more bandwidth than it can use? - How can we create a time-frequency schedule such that each user is assigned a contiguous set of frequencies?
Biography of the Speaker:
Matthew Andrews works in the Math of Networks and Communications Department at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Oxford University, UK in 1993 and his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997. His research interests include wireless resource allocation, packet scheduling and approximation algorithms. His recent work includes time-frequency scheduling algorithms for OFDM networks and complexity theoretic results on the hardness of network design.
The talk is given as a guest lecture in ELEN 6951 - Wireless and Mobile Networking II
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In a blog post at her eponymous website, Arianna Huffington has provided some numbers that describe the growth of the news network over the past year — a year that coincided with its acquisition by AOL for $315 million — and more than a few of them are eye-popping. At a time when some newspaper websites are happy to get page views in the tens of millions in a month, The Huffington Post racked up more than a billion page views in December. And while page views can be inflated, some of the site’s other metrics show that if there’s one thing the team that build the HuffPo understands, it is how to get reader engagement to hit levels that other news sites and publishers can only dream of.
It should be noted that AOL started redirecting its existing news portal site to the Huffington Post site in May, which undoubtedly helped boost many of the traffic numbers (although it’s not clear just how many visitors the AOL News site was getting when it made the switch). That could help explain why unique monthly visitors — a metric that many websites prefer over raw page views — climbed by almost 50 percent to 36 million. But in any case, that puts the site ahead of the New York Times, and not far behind the Daily Mail, the largest newspaper site with 45 million unique visitors a month.
Not the web’s largest news site, but it’s getting there
The Huffington Post isn’t quite the largest news site on the web just yet — Yahoo News says that it gets more than 80 million unique visitors a month, and more than 5 billion pageviews, and CNN gets about 73 million uniques a month. And there are some other massive websites who are on the fringes of the media business: Reddit recently crossed the 2 billion page-view mark, and says it gets about 34 million uniques a month, and Tumblr said recently that it gets over 15 billion page views a month, and reaches about 120 million users through its network of 42 million blogs.
Apart from the monthly unique visitor or page-view figures, however, some of the most fascinating numbers from Huffington Post are the ones around reader participation, including more than 6 million comments in the past month alone, and more than 1.4 million referrals from Facebook in a single day. Some of the other numbers include:
- Comments on a single day: 253,331 (Jan 25, 2012)
- New commenters signing up per day: 5,500
- Social referrals in a month: 21.6 million (December 2011)
- Facebook referrals in a day: 1.4 million (January 4, 2012)
- Blog posts in last year: 61,688
- Stories published per day: over 1,000
One of the secrets to the site’s massive traffic numbers is probably the sheer volume of stories and blog posts that Huffington Post publishes — over 1,000 every day. Many of those, of course, are likely to be the kind of “aggregated” story from another publication that has drawn so much criticism from traditional news entities such as the New York Times. And in many cases, at least judging by the numbers above, the Huffington Post is probably getting orders of magnitude more engagement from readers even on those stories than the newspaper or website that originally carried them.
The lesson: Use whatever social tools are available
Among the things the Huffington Post did that helped make it a social-news behemoth was to integrate Facebook’s open platform (then called Facebook Connect) into the site almost as soon as it was launched — something that immediately allowed readers to see what articles their friends had read, shared and commented on. That drove millions of readers to the site, and also boosted the number of comments by over 50 percent. And the site has also integrated virtually every other sharing tool known to man to make it easy for readers to share, and even come up with some of its own.
Traditional media critics attack the Huffington Post for its aggregation, but as Nieman fellow David Skok pointed out recently at the Nieman Lab blog, aggregation is deeply embedded in the DNA of the media industry, and always has been. And as we’ve tried to point out before at GigaOM, aggregation and particularly curation are two of the skills that modern media companies need the most — or readers overwhelmed by information will go elsewhere, whether to apps like Flipboard and Zite or to new services that give them the tools they need to filter that growing ocean of content.
Some media outlets are experimenting with new services that show they understand this, including Reuters with its just-launched Social Pulse feature — which aggregates top news from both its wire service and other news sites. Meanwhile, new players like BuzzFeed (which is run by many of the key players from the early Huffington Post) are moving from being just aggregators to becoming news entities in their own right by hiring reporters, and even Tumblr is hiring journalists to act as curators of its network — a very media-like thing to do. New media entities are everywhere, it seems.
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The power of social media
The Jones affair, and an outbreak of obscenities after Julia Gillard's responses in an education forum on Facebook yesterday raise big questions about the power of social media. Unfortunately, in an age when everyone wants black and white responses, there are no easy answers.
"The Parrot" as they call shock jock Alan Jones, is squawking at the treatment he's received after his appalling comment that the PM's father died of shame because of her lying. It's hard to take his complains of being bullied seriously. As Kevin Rudd said yesterday, he's getting back a bit of what he's shovelled out for decades.
In fact, it's not Jones who's been bullied. But some of his advertisers feel they have been.
Dozens of advertisers and sponsors sniffed the wind of public opinion and withdrew from the program or the station as the social media campaign built up after Jones' remark was revealed.
All strength to their arms. But there is a fine line — between firms responding to public opinion, and being intimidated by a campaign targeted at them, especially when it bombards them individually. A number of those remaining — before Macquarie Radio stopped all advertising on the program — were small enterprises. Their vulnerability to damage from a tough campaign is proportionately greater than that of larger companies.
By giving ordinary people a voice, social media is empowering voters and consumers. This is obviously a good thing, whether it is to enables them to have more political say or get better service from companies.
But the medium also has potential to bring out the worst as well as the best.
While Jones' enemies, especially on the left, are glad to see him get his comeuppance, they should also remember that in other circumstances some of his nastier allies on the right could also mobilise support to hunt their targets.
Much of the misogynist denigration of Julia Gillard has been coming though social media. Who would expect a session on education would lead to the grossest personal remarks that would never find their way into a newspaper? In this case, surely that should have been properly moderated by the PM's office.
Mounting concern about trolls, and Ipsos Mackay research finding that people worry about the culture of "narcissism and self-absorption" promoted by Facebook are other reminders that social media can sit anywhere between the ideals of Athenian democracy and the depths of mob tyranny.
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| In my reckless pursuit of perfect rolled hems an issue came up starting a rolled hem edge. The foward feed dogs would pull the fabric in until the already hemmed edge was between the front and rear feed dogs where there is a gap. The rolled edge lifts the presser foot and the grip on the fabric is lost.
Solution? Cut a piece of stiff paper ~3" by 2". Lift the presser foot and position the long edge of the paper over only the left hand teeth of both dogs, then lower presser foot. Use a pen to trace the edge of the foot onto the paper, now there is a sight line showing how far the paper can go in without being stitched.
Now when you have to feed an already hemmed edge through, position the fabric as usual but with the presser foot up. Carefully lower the foot with the paper lined up with the mark made earlier making sure it is over both dogs.
Now when you serge the paper is caught by both dogs and pulls the fabric far enough that the rear dogs grab and thats it! Dont worry about the paper, it just goes along for the ride but keep it with your notions.
"The geeks shall inherit the work"
p,s, after I wrote this, I found that a piece of htin woven with medium stabilizer gives a more positive grip and feeds even better.
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Share, discuss, and plan ideas for IYC 2011
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This forum is all about sharing your ideas and plans for celebrating IYC 2011. Ideas are just ideas! They might lead to nothing more or they might bloom into something exciting – up to you! You can just post simple suggestions, you can start a discussion and seek comments, or you can post a request for collaboration with other members of the IYC network. You can also just browse and search the forum to see what others are thinking about and add your comments.
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Teaching Methodology Discussion Gurinder singh Sahota | added on Dec 02, 2011 Teaching generally emphasizes the basic concepts and ignore the excitement and application part of chemistry.
|Topic:||engaging the youth||Audience:||students, general public, teachers, scientists, global|
One Million IMPACTING Two Hundred Million Collaboration Sydney Kloppers | added on Dec 02, 2011 This project is focusing on the further development of NATURAL SCIENCE & CHEMISTRY in junior and high schools in developing nations around the World over the next 10 years at least, and we have called the project “One Million IMPACTING Two Hundred Million”!!
Honoring Clara Immerwahr: a heroine of chemistry and humanity Collaboration Pierre Waithe | added on Nov 30, 2011 Clara Immerwahr is a German chemist who took a lone but courageous stand against her nation and her infamous husband/rival, famed chemist Fritz Haber in opposition to chemical warfare during World War One.
Handling of rejected material from Lab. Discussion Qixue Qin | added on Nov 14, 2011 The rejected material from Lab is becoming more and more serious, because of ingoring the harming to water and soil, we often see the discharging of rejected material without no handling. This is a problem to be solved urgently.
|Topic:||hands-on activities, workshops, environment, water quality||Audience:||students, high schools, researchers, global|
Nanotechnology-Storage Devices Suggestion Tejas Reddy | added on Nov 11, 2011 We can increase the memory storage capacity of a storage device like CDs, Floppys, Pen drives, and San Disks.
|Topic:||engaging the youth, experiments, hands-on activities||Audience:||professional chemists., researchers, students, teachers, scientists, international, global|
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BA in Geography
Geography is the study of places on Earth and their relationships with each other. It can also be defined as an integrated study of people, places, and environments. It includes both physical and human approaches.
Geography employs a spatial perspective to analyze the interactions between humans and their environment. Geography is more than identifying locations or knowing about world regions. It is a unique discipline concerned with space and place, nature and society.
The department has as its mission through the B.A. in Geography to provide students with a basic geographic literacy; to empower students to explain geographic patterns and processes; and to be able to apply geography to solve problems.
The B.A. degree seeks to prepare students for careers in many fields, including business, public service, teaching, and for further study in graduate and professional schools.
Geography Program ResourcesDr. Doug Oetter, Coordinator of the Geography program or Dr. Aran MacKinnon, Department Chair.
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February 2, 2012
A telomere is like an aglet. Aglets are those plastic or metal tubular thingies at the end of your shoe laces that keep the end of the shoelace from becoming frayed and facilitate inserting the lace into the eyelet. A telomere is a sequence of base pairs at the end of a chromosome. A chromosome zips apart during cell division so that it can be replicated, and a small number of base pairs typically get lost during replication. This is because the molecular machinery that duplicates the chromosome can’t read through to the end of the strand, so it just skips the last bit. Any meaningful genetic information at the end of the chromosome would be lost or garbled. A nice long telomere at the end of the chromosome allows for multiple duplications without the loss of meaningful information, but over time even the telomere may be lost through attrition, and further replication of that chromosome would be a problem.
There is a system, using the enzyme “telomerase,” that adds base pairs to the telomeres, but there tends to be an imbalance between adding new base pairs by telomerase and losing the base pairs during replication, so in a given individual, new copies of chromosomes may eventually start to have less information than they are supposed to, which leads to cell death or worse—it is thought that this can be a cause of cancer in some cases. Shorter telomeres may mean a shorter lifespan, and longer telomeres a longer lifespan, for a cell line, or more interestingly, for an individual.
That is all pretty well established science, but the numerical details have been somewhat lacking. There has not been a study of a reasonably large sample of organisms in which telomere length was measured early in life, then lifespan measured in each organism, to verify if there is an association between telomere length and how long an individual lives. Until now.
A team of researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Exeter at Cornwall have just published an article in PNAS called “Telomere length in early life predicts lifespan.” The paper looks at 99 zebra finches in which telomere length was measured on the 25th day of life, and lifespan was measured by keeping the birds in a controlled captive environment until they died. Lifespan for these birds ranged from less than one year to almost 9 years. One can imagine the researchers waiting around for that last bird to die so they could submit the paper.
Telomere length early in life correlated strongly with lifespan of the birds, though there was enough variation in the outcome to suggest that multiple other factors are involved. The researchers conclude that “[a]lthough reduced telomere length has been associated with a number of degenerative diseases in humans, there has been increasing interest in their role in the aging process in otherwise normal individuals. The results of this study clearly show that telomere length early in life is predictive of longevity.”
At this point you are probably wondering if it is possible to add to our existing telomeres and possibly increase lifespan. It is possible that this could actually work, through gene therapy. This has been done in lab mice and other test animals. It is also possible, however, that long telomeres or telomeres lengthened artificially can cause an increased risk of cancer (for as yet unknown reasons). Also, it is not universally true that telomere length decreases during lifespan; in some organisms is seems to increase. One thing can be said about telomere biology at this point: There are many unknowns. Don’t be surprised to hear more interesting research about them over coming months and years.
Heidinger, B., Blount, J., Boner, W., Griffiths, K., Metcalfe, N., & Monaghan, P. (2012). Telomere length in early life predicts lifespan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (5), 1743-1748 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113306109
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Everything you need to understand or teach Holes by Louis Sachar.
This novel is set in modern times and focuses on the current circumstances of Stanley Yelnats, an unfortunate, unlucky young man who is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn't commit. Stanley's family is poor and believes themselves to be under the curse of Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandfather." The curse has been extended through multiple generations and began because the great grandfather, Elya Yelnats, did not keep his promise to Madame Zeroni who helped him. Stanley comes to America, where he marries Sarah Miller, and though they work hard, they are "always at the wrong place at the wrong time." The one Yelnats who was successful, Stanley Yelnats the I, (Stanley's great grandfather) was robbed of his fortune by Kissing Kate Barlow, an outlaw who stole everything he had. Since then, the family has been poor. Stanley's father is an inventor who is trying to find a way to... View more of the Holes Summary
Holes Lesson Plans contain 131 pages of teaching material, including:
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Go get em!: Doggie rabbit dreams?
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK
Q. Dognapping Rover starts moving his legs, ears, whiskers, wagging his tail, whining. Certainly looks like he's dreaming, but how could anybody ever tell for sure? Clifford
A. Electrophysiological recordings of animals sleeping show brain activity resembling that of humans, says Peretz Lavie in The Enchanted World of Sleep. Dogs and almost all other mammals exhibit REM sleep (for "rapid eye movements") similar to human dreaming sleep.
But that's a long way from proving action-packed dramas unfold in Rover's night mind. There's no direct answer to this, says Lavie, but some suggestive evidence. In one highly original study, researchers trained a monkey to pull a handle whenever movie images were projected onto a screen. Once the monkey had mastered this, an electrophysiological recording of its sleep was made to see if it would "report" on its dreams. It did. Right on cue, during REM sleep, the monkey instinctively pulled the handle, "as though it were seeing the movies."
Other evidence comes from Michel Jouvet's studies of cats with brain injuries that led them to "act out" their dreams. The sleeping cats would get up and move around, arching their back and hissing– as if at imaginary dream attackers. They would also seemingly toy with invisible mice, while real mice placed nearby went ignored.
So go ahead– wish bedtime Rover "Pleasant dreams!"
Q. "If music be the food of love, play on!" Did Shakespeare get it right? Are there tested effects of background music on wining, dining, lovemaking? M. Muzak
A. The Bard knew his brain-body basics, says Los Angeles ethnomusicologist Elizabeth Miles, author of Tune Your Brain: Using Music to Manage Your Mind, Body and Mood. The first place music hits after coming through your ears is the hypothalamus, home of basic drives from hunger to lust.
"So if a song has ever made you look at a member of the opposite sex with a fresh eye, that's why," she says.
Next, the electrical impulses of music move through the entire nervous system, either speeding up or slowing down its function. Choose something loud and upbeat and it's a sort of musical Viagra, increasing circulation and breathing rate. Go low and slow and it's more like drinking a glass of wine. Either route can provide a libidinal boost, depending upon your disposition.
Various studies have found slow background music can slow the speed of eating, good for digestion and dieting and for enjoying a long, sociable meal. Loud and fast music can speed up your intake rate, a reason why rock and roll rules at some restaurants looking to rack up big dinner checks. As for lovemaking, in a groundbreaking experiment by psychologist Avram Goldstein, people rated the thrills they get from music even higher than sex, complete with graphic descriptions of what tingles where during the best passages.
"In my own nationwide survey of how people use music in their lives, I was surprised to note a lack of effort to exploit music's erotic potential, suggesting we would all be wise to remember Shakespeare's words... and play on."
Q. What's the party trick with 1089 to captivate a roomful of techies? B. Gates
A. First multiply this curious number by 9 to get 9801 (1089 x 9). Notice this reverses the original digits.
Next put a 9 in the middle of 1089 and do the multiplication: 10989 x 9 = 98901. Again the digits are reversed, with the inserted 9 winding up in the middle of the answer. Amazingly, you can insert any number of 9's before multiplying and the same pattern results: 1099989 x 9 = 9899901; 109999999989 x 9 = 989999999901.
Q. Tennis pro Greg Rusedski's mighty serves were clocked at over 140 mph. What's the fastest sports ball anyway? G. White
A. The rock-hard rubber jai alai pelota ("merry festival" in the Basque language), slung out of basket-like scoops at 188 mph, says NASA Ames Research Center scientist Rabindra D. Mehta. Next are a golf ball off the tee at 170 mph and a served tennis ball at about 150 mph. Batted baseballs come close to 150, especially off aluminum bats pulling down the line, while thrown balls attain far less, adds physicist Robert K. Adair.
BTW, don't expect much more speed if you could take these games to the Moon, although the multiplied distances in the one-sixth gravity and frictionless space will keep a ball fetcher chasing for a good while.
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junaio transforms a print magazine and sends readers into a digital orbit!
Certified junaio developer ARworks from Hungary recently prepared a mind boggling AR experience for Hungary’s PC World Magazine. The May issue features a 3D augmented cover of satellites orbiting and rotating around the Earth. Here is the video of the experience:
To watch the experience on any iPhone or Android mobile device, first download junaio. Next, on your PC got to this link: www.arworks.hu/pc.pdf. This shows the magazine cover which is used as a marker image for junaio to recognize. You can print the PDF or fit it on to the screen for that purpose.
Within the junaio app – search for the channel titled “PC World Satellite by ARworks”. Click “Show in Live View” and point the camera at the PDF. Two earth orbiting satellites will now appear in 3D view.
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With an overall population of 23,324 and a student population of 7,864, approximately 6,261 of South Portland students attend one of South Portland's schools that offer management programs.
Of the 1 management schools in South Portland, the largest management school, by student population, is Southern Maine Community College. In 2010, Southern Maine Community College graduated approximately 2 students with credentials in management.
A total of 2 students graduated with credentials in management from management schools in South Portland in 2010. Tuition in 2009 at South Portland's management schools was $15,453 per year for instate students and $17,973 per year for out of state students.
In addition to tuition costs, you should plan on spending an average of $1,100 for books and supplies each year, while enrolled in a management program in South Portland. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $8,212 per year, on average, for room and board. If you live at home, you can cut this cost down to approximately $7,929.
If you decide to work as a manager in South Portland, your job prospects are not very good. In 2010, 1 out of every 3 managers in Maine were working in the greater South Portland area. The government projects that the number of managers in South Portland will decrease by -8% by the year 2018. This projected change is slower than the projected nationwide trend for managers.
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I imported two dump files (no idea what they contained, my goal is precisely to find out what they contain) into Oracle, but now I am struggling to identify what is the data I imported, and what data was originally there. On a fresh install of Oracle 11g.
The number of schemas does not seem to have changed, 37. I have browsed around and most of what I see seems to be Oracle's own data (note: I am an Oracle beginner).
To import, I use the first command for the first file, then the second because I was told by
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Recreational Sports is excited to provide a Demonstration Kitchen to the Purdue community. The kitchen is located in the Wellness Suite on the second floor of the Recreational Sports Center. Our Healthy Cooking programs are open to Purdue students, faculty and staff, and the kitchen is also available for group rentals. For more information, contact Tricia Tort at 765.494.0109 or email@example.com.
Healthy Cooking Programs
Cooking nutritious meals is an important skill to promote lifelong health and wellness. A healthy diet fuels your body and improves mental function and emotional well-being. Our cooking demonstrations are led by student instructors and will provide you with culinary skills and tips on healthy eating. Each 1-hour program utilizes recipes that are easy, nutritious and affordable, and provides samples to taste.
Powder-Free Protein Shakes Cooking Demo
Tuesday, June 11, 6-7pm, Demonstration Kitchen, $10
Learn to prepare quick, natural and tasty protien shakes to compliment your workouts. Find out how much protien you really need, as well as options and benefits of natural protien sources. Free samples will be provided. Pre-registration is required. Sign-up at the Member Services Desk or call 765.494.3110.
Private Cooking Demonstrations
Do you have a large group of friends? Live in a Residence Hall? Belong to a sorority or fraternity? Involved in a student club or organization? Request a private cooking demonstration for your group! To request a program, visit our website or contact Tricia Tort at 765-494.0109 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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The following menus are available for your private demonstration:
- 5 Ingredient Foods
- $10 Dinners
- Decadent Desserts
- Mediterranean Meals
- Vegetarian Cooking
Are you looking for a fun and creative way to host a meeting or celebrate with a group? Cooking is a great way to gather friends and colleagues and the Demonstration Kitchen is available to reserve for students, faculty, and staff for $25.00/hour.
A ServeSafe certified staff member is also required to assist groups in the Demonstration Kitchen and ensure proper food handling protocols are followed. The cost is $15.00/hour.
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College of Idaho student and Parma native Laura Barbour spent most of her summer gaining valuable research experience through an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) funded by the National Science Foundation. And the view wasn’t bad, either.
Barbour, a senior majoring in environmental studies with a conservation biology focus, spent 10 weeks working at an elevation of 9,500 feet with the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colo. As one of 10 REUs selected out of 130 applicants, Barbour studied high-altitude ecology, investigating the impacts of selection by pollinators and seed predators on the hybrid zone dynamics of two closely related Rocky Mountain phlox wildflowers – Ipomopsis aggregata and Ipomopsis tenuituba.
“This has been a great opportunity for me,” Barbour said. “Living at such a high elevation was an awesome and totally different environment. And I had the chance to gain practical experience conducting research in the field and to learn from the many world-class ecologists who work at RMBL.”
Barbour was mentored by Diane Campbell, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California-Irvine. Their research demonstrated that seed predator insects can select for certain floral traits in Ipomopsis, which means that seed predators and pollinators both likely are influencing selection on floral characteristics – and could be driving selection pressures for certain traits in opposing directions. For her work studying how the seed predator fly (Delia) responds to scent compounds released by the flowers, Barbour will be listed as a co-author of a published paper on floral scents by Campbell and Cornell scientist Mascha Bischoff. Barbour also submitted a research paper and presented her findings during the REU student symposium.
“It was great working with such a strong community of people,” Barbour said. “The researchers there really made the students feel like part of the scientific effort, which I appreciated. “
Several of Barbour’s C of I professors helped make her REU project a reality. She was part of biology professor Don Mansfield’s research team in the Harold M. Tucker Herbarium last summer and also completed a separate research project with Mansfield during the school year. Barbour also credits her advisor, environmental studies and English professor Rochelle Johnson, and biology professors Chris Walser and Eric Yensen, for preparing her to succeed as an undergraduate researcher.
“I really owe this experience to the C of I environmental studies and biology faculty,” Barbour said. “The biology courses I’ve taken prepared me for the program at RMBL – compared to many students there, I felt like I had more exposure to statistics, scientific presentation and paper writing, and experimental design, and that’s thanks to my great professors.”
Founded in 1891, The College of Idaho is the state’s oldest private liberal arts college. It has a century-old tradition of educating some of the most accomplished graduates in Idaho, including six Rhodes Scholars, three Marshall Scholars, and another 11 Truman and Goldwater Scholars. The College is located on a beautiful campus in Caldwell, Idaho. Its distinctive PEAK curriculum challenges students to attain competencies in the four knowledge peaks of the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and a professional field, enabling them to graduate with an academic major and three minors in four years. For more information on The College of Idaho, visit www.collegeofidaho.edu.
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Orphan Girl Becomes Queen
This is based on Esther 2:2-17
There must have been a lot of excitement in Persia those days. Every girl from India to Cush, in all the 127 provinces of the empire, was talking about the king’s search for a new queen. Everyone hoped she would be the one to be chosen. And you may be sure that every mother was certain her daughter was the most worthy for this high honor.
By the king’s command, beauty contests, or something similar, were held in every province, and the loveliest girls were given a free trip to Susa for the king’s inspection.
As more and more girls arrived at the palace, Mordecai had an idea. Why, his Esther was far more beautiful than any of these young ladies from Aram, Egypt, Arabia, and other parts of the country. They didn’t stand a chance beside his precious little star. They weren’t in the same class. Esther was far and away the best-looking girl in the world.
“I’m sure you could win,” he told her one day, after seeing some of the latest arrivals. “You’re so much lovelier than any of the others. Why not try and see what happens? It could be that God wants you to be queen.”
Finally Esther agreed, and she “was taken to the King’s palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem.”
When Hegai saw Esther, he was so struck with her beauty that he felt sure she would be chosen queen. So he gave her the best rooms in the house of the women and seven maids to wait on her.
This was encouraging, but it didn’t mean that Esther would be queen. After all, the king had to see all the other girls before he could make up his mind; and there might be someone else prettier than she.
As for poor Mordecai, he waited impatiently for news about his precious niece. He felt certain that the king would choose her. How could he do otherwise? But if he didn’t what would happen to her? Would she be allowed to come home again?
“Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.” Can’t you see him pacing back and forth, looking up at the barred windows, hoping to get a glimpse of her face or a wave of her hand?
“O Esther, Esther, where are you?” I can hear him calling. “What has happened to you, my little star?”
Twelve months passed. Then one day Esther was called to meet the king. How excited she must have been! How hard she must have tried to look her very best! How she must have prayed for God’s help and guidance on this greatest day of her life!
Mordecai was waiting outside, you can be sure. And when Esther walked from the women’s house to meet the king, dressed in the finest robes the Persian court could supply and attended by all her lovely maidens, I can imagine he almost burst with pride. Such a beautiful dream she was! Onlookers in the corridors gasped in wonder as she passed by. Indeed she “won the favor of everyone who saw her.”
At last she came into “the royal residence,” and the king was overcome by her breathtaking beauty. “Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen.”
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Employee loyalty is eroding around the world, according to new global analysis of Mercer's What’s Working™ survey. The research, conducted among nearly 30,000 employees in 17 geographic markets between the fourth quarter of 2010 and the second quarter of 2011, shows that the percentage of workers seriously considering leaving their organization at the present time has risen since the last time the survey was conducted in each market (between 2003 and 2006 prior to the economic downturn).
In many markets, the increase is 10 percentage points or more (see Figure 1). In Asia Pacific, loyalty has eroded considerably since the last time the survey was conducted. Specifically, in India, China and Australia, the increase was 28%, 16% and 15%, respectively, which shows general apathy towards work.
"The overall employment deal is changing around the world, causing employees to rethink what they are getting from the employment relationship versus what they are giving," said Brenda Wilson, Asia Pacific Leader for Talent Management at Mercer. "Our research shows that, despite some ongoing economic uncertainty, more employees would consider leaving today for a better opportunity."
The survey analysis also shows shifting views on other workforce issues that affect engagement. Worldwide, views on pay and performance issues generally improved, while views on employee benefits generally declined. By market, views were mixed on subjects like career opportunity and leadership.
What motivates employees?
The global analysis also reveals that nonfinancial factors play a prominent role in influencing employee motivation and engagement – a finding that could prove useful to employers facing budget constraints. Workers worldwide say that being treated with respect is the most important factor, followed by work/life balance, type of work, quality of co-workers and quality of leadership.
Among financial factors, base pay ranks highest globally, at sixth out of 13 factors. It ranks as the top factor in just one market (Hong Kong) and among the top three most influential factors in four other markets – China, India, Italy and Singapore.
While other financial factors, such as benefits and incentive pay, can be important to other aspects of the employment relationship – such as attracting, retaining and rewarding employees – Mercer's research shows they are considered less important by employees when it comes to their day-to-day motivation and engagement at work.
"Employee engagement reflects the total work experience, and a big part of it is how you are treated, what kind of work you do and how you feel about your co-workers, bosses and the general work environment," said Ms Wilson. "Without a doubt, financial factors like pay and benefits are a vital part of the employment deal, but employers need to consider and manage the full range of factors to ensure that their workforce is engaged."
Results by region
Mercer's research shows that the factors most important to motivation and engagement vary by region:
- Asia Pacific – Results for this region are less consistent by market compared to the Americas and Europe. In Asia Pacific, financial factors ranked higher in importance than they did in all other regions. In fact, base pay was the top factor in Hong Kong and among the top three factors in three other countries (China, India and Singapore). We didn't see that anywhere else but Italy.
"Both non-financial and financial factors play a role in employee motivation, so employers need to recognize and use the full range of factors available to them to drive motivation and engagement," Ms Wilson added. "In many parts of the world, the economic situation is not as strong as it is in Asia Pacific currently, so it is particularly important for employers to think about how to leverage the non-financial factors to boost motivation and engagement."
- Americas – In addition to the global top five nonfinancial factors – respect, work/life balance, type of work, quality of co-workers and quality of leadership – working in an environment where employees can provide good service to others ranks highly in importance in North and South America. Base pay ranks as the most influential financial factor. (See Figure 2.)
In the US, the importance of financial and nonfinancial factors closely mirrored the global findings. Two areas of note that scored higher than the global average were benefits and working in an environment where you can provide good service to others. Areas below the global average for US employees included learning and development opportunities, promotion opportunities and incentive pay/bonus.
- Europe – Results for the seven European countries included in Mercer's survey show striking consistency. Nonfinancial factors (being treated with respect, work/life balance, type of work and quality of co-workers) are considered most important to employee motivation and engagement at work. (See Figure 4.)
Visit http://inside-employees-mind.mercer.com/global for an interactive look at additional global findings from Mercer’s What's Working survey. The interactive site provides a snapshot of the survey findings in all 17 markets, shows data views by region and allows visitors to create custom views of the data featuring their choice of up to six markets.
About this analysis
Mercer's proprietary What’s Working survey, which examines employee views on work, includes more than 100 questions on a range of work-related topics and reflects the overall workforce demographics of the 17 survey markets in terms of age, gender and job level.
To arrive at the results regarding what motivates employees, Mercer asked survey respondents worldwide to consider both current and previous jobs and state how important 13 factors were in influencing their motivation and engagement at work. The top rating of "extremely important" could only be used for the one or two most important factors. Scores are assigned to an index of 100 to show relative importance by market and globally. Scores near 100 are of middle importance, scores above 100 are more important and scores below 100 are less important.
Mercer is a global leader in human resource consulting, outsourcing and investment services. Mercer works with clients to solve their most complex benefit and human capital issues, designing and helping manage health, retirement and other benefits. It is a leader in benefit outsourcing. Mercer's investment services include investment consulting and multi-manager investment management. Mercer's 20,000 employees are based in more than 40 countries. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., which lists its stock (ticker symbol: MMC) on the New York and Chicago stock exchanges. For more information, visit www.mercer.com.
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AuBree, now 7 months old, was born with spina bifida, a defect in which a baby’s spinal column does not close all of the way while in the womb.
AuBree’s other complications associated with spina bifidia include club feet, cleft palate and hydrocephalus, or build-up of fluid inside the skill.
AuBree is also paralyzed from the waist down.
AuBree, who is in the care of her grandmother, Dianne Kuykendall, has had 10 surgeries so far and is awaiting another in April to close the cleft palate.
“She has to be 30 pounds, but she’s only 10 now,” Kuykendall said.
Because AuBree has had difficulty gaining weight, she now has a gastrostomy to help with feedings.
AuBree’s club feet are being corrected, although Kuykendall said that Medicaid initially denied the procedure because it was considered cosmetic surgery.
However, the family cannot get insurance approval for the cranial banding, or helmet, that AuBree needs to reshape her head.
“The whole process is $2,560,” Kuykendall said.
An account has been established in AuBree’s name at Regions Bank in Jasper.
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The Fibrotor RT.12 rotary indexing table from Fibro features a small, efficient drive design with a large center hole. An AC servomotor with an integrated control system drives the rotary table without an external axis control module. The rotary table is actuated via the controller area network (CAN) bus, and it has a 150-mm through hole for the rotary distributor. Without elastic drive elements, the rotary table works without wear and permits high positioning accuracy and repeatability even with large loads, the company says. The table is designed for systems that require fast indexing with optimized sequences of movement. It is suitable for automation assembly and magazine storage, transport and delivery tasks, light machining, laser processing, and welding, among other applications.
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Children and their families become involved in the legal system in various ways resulting in various types of legal proceedings. It is important to distinguish the various types of proceedings or legal forums involving children.
Child Protective Proceedings
Child Protective Proceedings, sometimes called child maltreatment or abuse, neglect and dependency proceedings, are civil cases brought by a state or local government agency to protect an alleged abused, neglected or dependent child. The participants in the case may include the child, the parents or other caretakers, foster parents, and state officials. The purpose of the proceedings is to determine whether the child is abused or neglected, and if so, what action should be taken. Operating with "best interests" and "family preservation" as guideposts, the process involves five stages: preliminary, adjudication, disposition, termination and adoption. Cases begin with the filing of a petition alleging a child is dependent. A preliminary hearing is held (quickly if the child has been removed) in order to determine safety, custody and visitation issues pending further proceedings. Reasonable efforts to avoid removal and the provision of family preservation services should become issues at the preliminary hearing and throughout the process.
Many cases are dismissed or settled without further proceedings. Otherwise, an adjudicatory hearing is held to determine whether the child is dependent based on the abuse or neglect allegations of the petition. The adjudication hearing resembles a traditional trial under rules of civil procedure and evidence. States bear the burden of proving dependency generally by a preponderance of the evidence standard. If the state fails to meet its burden, the case is dismissed and the caretakers regain full control of the child. If an adjudication is made, the court typically issues orders calling for further investigation, evaluations and treatment.
A dispositional hearing is generally held within a short time of the adjudication in order to implement a course of action designed to serve the child while preserving the family if possible. The state agency's case plan (including placement and services) or some version of it is typically adopted at this time. A child may be home or in a group, foster or kinship care placement at this time. The period following disposition is often lengthy and the court should hold periodic review hearings. The dispositional process may conclude with successful completion of the case plan, dismissal of the case and return of the child home. Other disposition options include long term foster or kinship care, continued supervision of the family with the child in the family's care or custody to the state.
If the family cannot be preserved, the case moves to a termination of parental rights hearing where the state must prove parental unfitness by no less than clear and convincing evidence. Termination proceedings are to be followed by adoption proceedings.
Children who are the subjects of child protection proceedings are entitled to a representative to protect their best interests. The majority of U.S. jurisdictions appoint an attorney to serve as a guardian ad litem.
The Juvenile Delinquency Court is a forum designed to determine whether a minor has violated the law, and if so, what action should be taken. The Delinquency Courts began at the start of the 20th century and had at their foundation, the philosophy that while minors should be held accountable for their offenses, they should not be treated as adult criminals, and should be provided rehabilitation over punishment. In Delinquency Court, a child is adjudicated delinquent, rather than found guilty, and is given a disposition, rather than a sentence. The phases of a delinquency case are typically, arrest, jurisdictional hearings, detention, pretrial motions / suppression hearings, adjudication, and disposition. Juvenile are entitled to legal counsel and are sometimes also provided a guardian ad litem.
Private Custody, Visitation and Support Proceedings
These are typically divorce or post divorce proceedings where custody, visitation or child support is at issue. Children are not traditionally considered parties to these proceedings but courts are instructed to make decisions based on children's best interests. Many states provide that that children's wishes should be considered by the court. A number of states also allow for the appointment of an attorney or other representative for the child.
Domestic Violence Proceedings
Children are frequently caught in the crossfire of adult domestic violence. There is growing recognition that children are victimized by witnessing domestic violence. These proceedings may exist as part of private custody cases and children may be witnesses. Legal counsel or some other advocate is sometimes appointed for children in these cases. See The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children: A Report to the President of the American Bar Association (1994).
Criminal Prosecution of Child Abuse
The criminal prosecution of adults for crimes against children. Child victims are frequently called to testify in such cases and may be appointed a guardian ad litem for protection and advice. See Guardians Ad Litem in the Criminal Courts, U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute for Justice (1988).
Civil Damages Litigation
Children do not have legal standing to sue and be sued in the same way as adults. Children can be a part of civil litigation (for a personal injury for example) through a Guardian or Next Friend. The Guardian or Next Friend is then represented by legal counsel.
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With the creation of the Ron Yost Personal Assistance Services Program in 1999 the Legislature intended to increase the availability of personal assistance services for persons with severe disabilities, allowing them the choice of living in their own homes and communities. This is the first preliminary performance review of the program and two issues are identified.
Issue 1: The Ron Yost Personal Assistance Services Program Is Not Designed to Increase Availability of the Service as Intended by Law.
The Legislature intended the Ron Yost Personal Assistance Services Program to increase the availability of personal assistance services. In order to increase the availability of personal assistance services, the program should be designed to provide services to individuals who are ineligible for or are not receiving services from other programs. If the program is providing what is currently available, then it is substituting not increasing the availability of services. Currently, the Ron Yost Program provides services to individuals without determining if they are eligible to receive the service from another program. It is known that one of the twenty-three individuals on the program is eligible for Medicaid, and it is likely that many, if not all of the recipients, are eligible for services through another program. Potentially, individuals who are ineligible to receive services through other programs may be denied Ron Yost services because those limited funds are used to provide services to individuals who are eligible for the service through another program. As of April 2001, 24 individuals were placed on a waiting list for Ron Yost services. Another result is the state pays more to provide personal assistance services through this Program than if the services were obtained through Medicaid with the approximately 75% federal match. If every Ron Yost recipient is eligible for Medicaid then the services have cost the state an estimated $233,000 more than if they were provided through Medicaid.
Issue 2: There is No Assurance that Recipients Comply with Employment Laws as Required by Law.
Since the intent of the legislation is to have recipients assume the responsibility of being an employer of personal assistants, the program as administered by the Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS) is to assure that recipients carry out the duties of being employers, including compliance with employment related laws. Currently, the program is not designed to assure that recipients are in compliance with employment laws. The immediate effect is that recipients could be faced with substantial tax liabilities, personal assistants may not have appropriate coverage for workers' compensation or unemployment compensation, and fraudulent use of funds may go undetected.
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International Partners Should Address Urgent Protection Needs in North
(Nairobi) – The Malian government should urgently investigate and prosecute soldiers responsible for torture, summary executions, and enforced disappearances of suspected Islamist rebels and alleged collaborators since the fighting in northern Mali resumed in January 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. Mali’s international partners should bolster accountability efforts and civilian protection in the north to help prevent further abuses.
Human Rights Watch investigations since the French-led offensive in January helped the Malian army to retake most of the north found that government soldiers appeared to be targeting members of the Peuhl, Tuareg, and Arab ethnic groups in the Timbuktu, Douentza, Gao, Sévaré, Boni, and Konna areas. The soldiers accused members of these communities of supporting the armed Islamist groups that had earlier occupied the areas.
“The Malian government needs to act now to put a stop to these abuses by their soldiers and appropriately punish those responsible,” said Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Restoring security in the north means providing protection for everybody, regardless of their ethnicity.”
Witnesses to recent abuses told Human Rights Watch both in Mali and by phone that government soldiers tortured two men, summarily executed two, and forcibly disappeared at least six others. Human Rights Watch had earlier documented the summary execution of at least 13 men and enforced disappearance of five others by government soldiers from Sévaré and in Konna during January 2013.
Extrajudicial Executions, Forced Disappearance, and Torture by Malian Soldiers
Several witnesses from a small village south of Boni (93 kilometers from Douentza) told Human Rights Watch that on February 9 at about 11 a.m., Malian soldiers patrolling the area detained two young ethnic Peuhl men whom they accused of being fighters for the MUJAO, an armed Islamist group. The witnesses said that the soldiers seemed to have been looking specifically for the two men, who were in their 20’s.
The soldiers forced the men into an army vehicle and drove them to the outskirts of the village, where they were still visible to villagers. Some minutes later, villagers heard several gunshots. Two witnesses went to a deep crevice in front of where the army truck had parked; they said that the odor of decomposing remains could be detected. The two men have not been heard from since.
In the Abaradjou neighborhood of Timbuktu on February 14, Malian soldiers detained four Arab men and a Songhai man, who have been missing ever since and are feared forcibly disappeared, relatives and neighbors told Human Rights Watch. Military and gendarme officials told Human Rights Watch on February 18 that they did not detain the five men. International law defines an enforced disappearance as thearrest or detention of a person by government officials or their agents followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty, or to reveal the person’s fate or whereabouts.
One family member told Human Rights Watch: “The soldiers broke down the door and smashed and kicked around the house, destroying a lot of things. One of the men grabbed my relative and took him away…. He is a merchant…. Everyone knows he has nothing to do with the Jihadists. If he did, wouldn’t he have fled long ago?”
A woman who lives nearby said that the Songhai man was a neighbor who tried to speak up for one of the Arab men and who was similarly thrown into the back of the soldiers’ pickup truck: “When he saw him [the Arab man] being detained, he said, ‘No…he was never involved with those people, leave him.’ Instead, the soldiers threw him into the back of their pickup.”
Another relative said, “All we want is a sign that he is alive…. One phone call so I can hear his voice.”
The men feared “disappeared” are Ali Ould Mohamed Kobad, 65; Danna Ould Dahama, 38; Mohamaed Ould Dahama, 40; Maouloud Fassoukoye, 40; and Mohamed Oud Sidi Ali, 68.
Family members of a 50-year-old Peuhl man detained on January 22 by soldiers in Douentza described their futile efforts to find him: “Every time we go to the military in Douentza they tell us he is not there, that we should look for him in Sévaré. When our family goes to the camp in Sévaré they say they’ve never heard of him. We don’t know if he is dead or alive; what we do know is that it is the soldiers who took him from us.”
Residents of other towns described two cases of torture. In early February, shortly after Islamist rebels attacked a local military outpost, soldiers allegedly detained a 43-year-old Tuareg man at a checkpoint. He was taken to a building adjacent to the checkpoint and severely beaten, burned on his abdomen and genitals with cigarettes, partially strangled, and then forced to ingest through his nose a toxic substance that severely burned his esophagus.
A Peuhl man held for one week in early February by the military in Douentza was allegedly burned with candles and cigarettes and severely beaten. His wife told Human Rights Watch: “We didn’t know where he was for a week. When he returned he told me he’d been held by the soldiers in Douentza…when he took off his shirt I saw that his back was full of terrible burns and wounds.” A friend of his added: “He said he was detained in a room with many others and that they took them out one by one to question them until they got the information they wanted. He was in bad shape.” The victim has since fled to Burkina Faso.
Five other men, whose detentions by soldiers in Sévaré, Konna, and around Konna were earlier documented by Human Rights Watch, remain disappeared.
“All officials need to act in accordance with human rights law if security and law and order are to be restored to areas recently recovered by the government,” Dufka said. “This means providing basic due process rights for anyone taken into custody, and making sure they are treated humanely. Commanders who fail to stop abuses by their troops can themselves be prosecuted.”
Exodus of Tuareg and Arab Populations
The resumption of hostilities in the north in January was accompanied by an exodus of about 22,000 Malian civilians, the vast majority ethnic Tuareg and Arabs, who are believed to have fled the area out of fear of reprisals by the army and, to a lesser extent, by civilians. Civilians from numerous villages said their towns and villages were now “practically empty” of Tuaregs and Arabs.
Tuareg and Arab civilians who have remained in Mali told Human Rights Watch that they were terrified of being detained and abused under suspicion of having supported armed Islamist groups. One Tuareg woman in Timbuktu told Human Rights Watch: “I go to work, I come back but don’t dare to go out. I feel like a prisoner in my own country.” Another said: “I am fearful for my family. When in the street, I hear people saying they want to rid Timbuktu of us…only a few of us remain…but who knows for how long.”
Several other Arab civilians told Human Rights Watch they wanted to leave, but fear being stopped and detained at military checkpoints along the way. One Arab man described being “too afraid to stay, but too afraid to leave.” An Arab man who said his father was forcibly disappeared by the Malian army said he wanted to evacuate all remaining members of his family but, “I don’t know how to do it…I’m afraid for them to move.”
Civilian Protection Gap
The military offensive to recapture the north took place within a context of dangerously elevated ethnic tensions, Human Rights Watch said. The state institutions that could mitigate, respond to, and ultimately prevent violence – the police, gendarmes, the judiciary – withdrew in early 2012, when the north fell to the armed Islamist groups. Mali’s civil servants have only recently begun to return. Plans by United Nations agencies, the European Union, and the African Union to provide human rights training to the military and deploy human rights monitors and possibly peacekeepers may eventually improve civilian protection. But they do not address the pressing security vacuum and protection needs.
The public information campaign started by the government, religious leaders, and community groups is an important measure to address ethnic tensions, Human Rights Watch said. The government should increase the reach of this important program, including the “Recotrad du Nord” (Network of Traditional Communicators from the North, Réseau des Communicateurs Traditionnels du Nord). To address abuses by the military and address urgent civilian protection needs within the current security vacuum, Human Rights Watch also recommends the following:
To the Malian government:
- Ensure that everyone taken into custody during military operations is treated humanely, is promptly brought before a judicial authority to ensure the legality of their detention, and is able to contact their families.
- Investigate and prosecute in accordance with international fair trial standards members of the security forces implicated in recent serious abuses regardless of position or rank – including those liable under command responsibility for their failure to prevent or prosecute these crimes.
- Accelerate redeployment of police, gendarmes, and Justice Ministry personnel to towns and villages in the north.
- Establish a 24-hour telephone hotline, staffed by relevant Malian authorities and personnel from the African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA) for victims and witnesses to report complaints about violations, including by members of the security services.
- Ensure effective and rapid communication between hotline staff and Malian authorities mandated with civilian protection as well as AFISMA personnel.
- Direct the Malian National Human Rights Commission to monitor and report on hate speech that incites ethnic violence. For instance, an article published on February 4, 2013, in L’Express de Bamako (“La liste des membres du MNLA: Des traitres à abattre pour la République,” List of MNLA members: Traitors to kill in the name of the Republic) contained language that could be considered incitement to violence.
To the United Nations, African Union, and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS):
- Call upon the government to conduct prompt, credible investigations into allegations of killings, enforced disappearances, and other abuses by Malian armed forces.
- Urgently deploy countrywide, international human rights monitors from the United Nations, African Union, and ECOWAS to document current and past abuses and visit places of detention.
To the French government, African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA), and European Union:
- Increase the presence of French and AFISMA troops alongside patrols by the Malian army to deter abuses against civilians.
- Carry out any redeployment of French and AFISMA troops in ways that do not leave civilians at unnecessary risk of abuses.
- Incorporate in the EU Training Mission (EUTM Mali) mandated to train and advise the Malian military a meaningful mentoring component that would place instructors in the field alongside Malian forces.
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The Patupairehe (or patupaiarehe, also known as turehu and pakepakehaare) were white-skinned fairies found in Maori mythology.
Patupairehe have the general appearance of humans, except for being exceedingly pale and red or fair hair. Although they had some human attributes, patupaiarehe were regarded not as people but as supernatural beings (he iwi atua). They only go out at nite and remain hidden in their caves during the day.
Unlike Maori, they were never tattooed. Mohi Turei of Ngati Porou described their skin as white, albino or the colour of red ochre. Their eye colour varied from light blue to black. There is still debate about their height. The Tuhoe tribe records that they were small, but others say they were similar in size to humans. Whanganui stories claim them to be giants, more than 2 metres tall.
Patupaiarehe were generally found deep in the forests, or on mist-covered hilltops. In these isolated places they settled and built their homes, sometimes described as large fortified villages. In some stories their houses and pa were built from swirling mist. In others, they were made from kareao (supplejack vine). At times their presence was revealed in the ghostly piping of flutes and the sound of fairy songs heard in the misty forest heights
In the North Island they were said to live mainly in the Waikato–Waipa basin, the Cape Colville–Te Aroha range, the hills about Rotorua, the peaks of the Pirongia Mountain, the Urewera ranges and Wairoa districts, and the Waitakere ranges in the Auckland region. South Island traditions had them living mainly in the hills around Lyttelton Harbour, Akaroa and the Takitimu range, and in the hills between the Arahura River and Lake Brunner..
Fearing the light, they were active mainly in the twilight hours and at night, or when the mist was heavy enough to shield them. They wore flax garments (pakerangi), dyed red, but also rough mats (pora or pureke). They were also known for playing koauau and putorino (flutes).
Patupairehe were hunters and gatherers, surviving on raw forest foods and sometimes fishing from the shores of the sea or a lake. Their canoes were made of korari (flax stalks). Cooked food was offensive or foul to them. In different traditions, albino birds and eels, red flax and red eels were considered their property, and trouble befell Maori who took any of these.
Patupairehe frequently take human lovers, with the men of the species being skilled at arousing human women with their flute. The patupairehe are known to fear the sun, fire, ash, and the color red.
Patupaiarehe society was kinship-based, similar to Maori society. In 1894 Hoani Nahe, an elder of the Ngati Maru people, recalled three sub-tribes of patupaiarehe: Ngati Kura, Ngati Korakorako, and Ngati Turehu. Tahurangi, Whanawhana, and Nukupori were important chiefs. They were generally a closed group who shunned intruders, and were unfriendly to those who ventured into their midst. They were seldom seen, and an air of mystery and secrecy still surrounds them. In most traditions, those who encountered patupaiarehe were able to understand their language. But in one account they were unintelligible.
Once, a long time ago, a man came across the remains of a fish left on the beach. He found it odd that someone would abandon their catch, so he hid and waited for the fishermen to return. At midnight the patupairehe showed up and cast their magical fish nets. The man, who had fairly pale skin for a human, joined them unnoticed as they worked. Once they brought in the nets, they proceeded to string the fish they caught. The man struggled and so the patupairehe showed him how to do it. As dawn approached, the patupairehe realized that the man, was well, a man. They argued amongst themselves as to what to do. Before they knew it, the sun was rising and they fled.
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This Rain Forest lesson involves People, Animals, and Life in the Rain Forest
Science, Social Studies
Title – Rain Forest
By – Elaine E. Foster
Subject – Social Studies
Grade Level – 4th
Grade 4 Social Studies: 45 minutes
Topic: Rain Forest
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the students to three aspects of the rain forest. The three aspects are people, animals, and life. Students will further investigate problems that arise as a result of actions by the people and life in the rain forest.
Following a computer tutorial and the lesson on the three aspects of the rain forest, the people, animals, and life, grade four learners will be able to draw, label and explain the people, animals and life that exist in the rain forest with 100% accuracy.
1. TLW describe the people, animals and life that exist. PI: Students will conduct an investigation to learn about the people, animals, and life in the rain forest. Students will discuss their findings in small groups. (small group assessment)
2. TLW describe the purposes and changes that the rainforest has undergone.
PI: Given the findings on the people, animals, and life of rain forests, students will determine changes caused by the aforementioned items. In addition, students will research to find the main purpose of the rain forest. (large/small group assessment)
3. TLW summarize one aspect of the flora and fauna of the rain forest.
PI: Each student will choose one aspect, write a summary to share with the class. (individual assessment)
— Computers for each student
— Large class chart/markers for writing
— Collection of informational/narrative books on the rain forest
— Blank writing paper for students
— Pictures of rain forest
— Activity sheet (directions)
— Animals, people, and life of the rain forest have an impact on the environment inside the rain forest.
— Changes to the rain forest are a result of the actions taken.
Teacher reads Look inside a Rainforest by Alexandra E. Fischer. After reading, teacher records students responses on the board and guides a discussion to determine the following:
— The purpose of the book
— What exists / makes up the rain forest
After discussion, teacher will ask students what they know about the effects of people and other things on the environment.
B. Lesson Body
T: For the past few days we have been learning about the rain forest. We talked about the environment and inhabitants of the rain forest.
What kinds of people, animals, and life exist in the rain forest? Take 5-7 minutes to discuss what you think in your learning groups. Recorders, write down the ideas. Begin.
Teacher circulates among groups to facilitate idea development. After 5-7 minutes, teacher calls attention at the chalkboard. As students volunteer their ideas, teacher writes them on the board organized by animals, people, and other life.
Power Point Presentation:
Internet group activity and story:
T: Now we are going to do an Internet research activity to learn more about the people, animals, and life in the rain forest.
Teacher will provide students with nine (4) appropriate Websites to begin their research.
After students are given the web addresses, they will begin their research to learn more about the people, animals, and life of the rain forest. In a combination with this research, students will also need to find information regarding population, climate, economy, food, and culture of each area that has a rain forest.
Teacher will read At Home in the Rain Forest by Diane Willow. After reading the story, teacher will guide a discussion about the story and have students share whether or not they learned anything new from the book that they did not find during their Internet research.
After the discussion is complete, students will share their findings with the class. The class will be responsible for listening and asking questions, while the presenters will be responsible for sharing and answering questions to the best of their ability.
Using the information learned during research review animals, people, and life that exist in the rain forest.
A. Student Assessment
1. Assessment Plan
Students’ understanding of the terms and concepts presented will be informally assessed through teacher observation and oral questions during group work, class discussions, through the completion of individual and class listings and sharing of people, animals and life that exist in the rain forest.
Students’ ability to work together will be assessed through teacher observation of their cooperative group efforts to successfully complete the Internet research activity.
Students’ computer skills will be assessed through teacher observation of their difficulties or lack of difficulties when doing their search.
A. Reflection on Assessment of Student performance:
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan addresses a crowd in Wellsville, Ohio during the 1896 campaign. Bryan was the first candidate to successfully embrace "whistle-stop" campaigning, harnessing the power of a young rail network to reach masses of voters. (Photo via archive.org link: http://bit.ly/UfVMRY)
(Tom Lisi -- Transportation Nation) Every presidential candidate does it: hop from town to town trying to shake as many hands, kiss as many babies, and spread that in-person charm to as many swing state voters as possible.
This touring style of campaigning didn’t take place until the U.S. had developed a comprehensive railroad system in the latter 19th century. Before then, candidates courted the mostly white male, property-owning electorate through newspapers. In the earliest presidential elections, it was considered unseemly for politicians to tout themselves in public. No longer.
In the age of super PACs and mega donors, candidates routinely charter flights across the country to get to and from big fundraisers -- but the bus is the standard bearer. Romney campaign buses have worn slogans such as "Conservative, Businessman, Leader" and "Every Town Counts." The Romney campaign bus, above, with its candidate in Tarlton, OH, at times does not even have the former governor on it, and will instead transport local politicians to rallies, or go on missions to taunt Obama supporters.
President Obama, pictured here leaving Ireland in 2011, has to use Air Force One to travel by air, whether it’s official state business or part of his campaign trail. The president is supposed to reimburse taxpayers when the plane is being used for travel to fundraising events or stump speeches. One watchdog organization estimates that it costs over $180,000 an hour to operate Air Force One.
The grassroots-style campaign for president became tradition by the time of Reconstruction, but, arguably, the first candidate to turn it into a national phenomenon was the populist Democratic nominee of 1896, William Jennings Bryan. Bryan conducted a six-week "whistle-stop" tour leading up to the election, usually giving 20 to 30 speeches a day.
Before Air Force One, there was U.S. Car No. 1. The Ferdinand Magellan was specially armored to carry President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II. Harry Truman used the Magellan for his famous whistle-stop campaign during the 1948 election. One of the most famous moments of campaign history: Truman stood on the Magellan's observation platform, newspaper triumphantly hoisted high, holding the famously incorrect headline, “Dewey defeats Truman.”
President Eisenhower was considered all but a lock for re-election in 1956, but at the Republican convention that year, a delegate wrote in “Joe Smith" for Vice President to protest the unanimity of the GOP nominations. Here, Democratic opponent Adlai Stevenson meets a Chicago supporter named Joe Smith before embarking on a tour of speeches with his campaign plane, the Joe Smith Express.
With more campaign cash to go around, focus on the presidential primaries has grown over time. Coach buses allow candidates to travel to many destinations in one state, and have room for the media to come along for the ride. John McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” had a welcoming reputation among the press corps during his 2000 primary run.
The Eisenhower administration retired the The Ferdinand Magellan due to lack of use in 1958. But it made a comeback in 1984 when President Reagan used it for one-day trip in Ohio. Campaigns have since brought back the nostalgic whistle-stop style, including President Obama in 2008 when the Illinois Senator campaigned on a restored Pullman car. McCain, who opposed Amtrak funding, carried on whistle-stopless.
FDR loved traveling by rail. He even had his own entryway to Grand Central Terminal in NYC, where a car specially designed for him* still sits, entombed and dusty, below the active station as we reported in our story on the lost subways of NYC. See pic here.
*An earlier version of this sentence incorrectly referred to this car as the Ferdinand Magellan.
Friday, July 20, 2012
This week, there were renewed calls from both sides of the aisle for Mitt Romney to release personal tax information. Joseph Thorndike, Director of the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts and a contributing editor for Tax Notes magazine tells Brooke that the history of this kind of disclosure from political candidates began with a little dog named Checkers.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
It's hard to outspend people whose excessive fortunes rely on them outspending you.
Thursday, July 05, 2012
Much of the lethargy that bogs down our political leaders and limits their imaginations comes from their political ties -- to institutions that are broken, conventional wisdom that has failed, and lobbying forces not looking out for the common good.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Attached please find artists' renderings of our top four attack strategies for your review.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Even though the U.S. Asian population grew faster than any other racial group in the past decade, neither political party has put much effort into tapping them.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Like with so many other things, the Democrats like to pretend like they have some kind of higher ground because they see the Republicans as worse, when really all they are is bought and paid for by different special interests who's pockets aren't quite as deep.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
While we political junkies forget this, there are still many Americans who respect elected leaders and who will be moved by this announcement to evolve as well. There are people around the country for whom the "about time" quality of this shift will be a source of relief, affirmation and hope.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
What's more surprising than Rick Santorum dropping out to most is that he lasted this long. He has already factored into three of my predictions on this site, so I'll round his candidacy out with two more before we bid farewell.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
The more the Santorums of the world fight for the world of yesterday, the more they are being left out of the plans for tomorrow.
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
The 2012 presidential election cycle officially kicks off tonight with the Republican caucus in Iowa. O. Kay Henderson, News Director for Radio Iowa, describes the last few days of campaigning, what’s been different about the race for this year’s caucuses, and what we can expect tonight.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Independent voters in New Hampshire share a proud, stubborn resistance to let a party define their politics, but not much else.
These unaffiliated voters are a huge electoral force in the state, outnumbering both Republicans and Democrats, and because New Hampshire’s primary system allows them to vote in either Democratic or Republican primary, they could technically sway the entire election.
These voters don’t vote in anything resembling a bloc, and with just a contest on the Republican side, they may not turnout in large numbers in 2012.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Nearly two months after their last debate, the Republican presidential candidates gathered on stage at Iowa State University in Ames last night, for another national televised debate. Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Governor Tim Pawlenty, both from Minnesota, sparred about their records. Who dominated? And who stumbled?
Thursday, August 11, 2011
President Obama is losing support among independents, and there’s a mad dash among political organizers to grab them as they peel off. But their approach differs on how they diagnose who independent voters are and what they care about.
And their success will depend on their ability to navigate the political graveyard that’s littered with efforts to change the system during hotly contested, highly partisan political campaigns.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Independent voters were a key part of the coalition that elected Barack Obama in 2008. But President Obama has lost the support of many of those independents, throughout his term. As potential candidates begin to prepare for the 2012 presidential election, the hunt is on to try to capture the independent vote.
Thursday, August 04, 2011
All through August, Anna Sale is on a search for the independent voter. These are the prize voters who could make up the margin in the 2012 contest, but their definition is elusive and their politics mixed. First stop, Colorado.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Ron Paul declared his candidacy for president for the third time on Friday, "because the time has come around to the point where the people are agreeing with much of what I've been saying for thirty years, so I think the time is right."
He told George Stephanopolus on ABC's Good Morning America that he's running as a Republican, not as an independent, because it "is just about impossible" to get traction and media attention outside the party system unless "you're a billionaire like Ross Perot."
"If I was an independent, George, you would not have me on this program this morning," Paul said. "There's nothing wrong with nudging the Republicans to a true constitutional position, stick to their guns on fiscal conservatism."
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Home to both Michelle Bachmann and Al Franken, Minnesota is caught in a battle for its political soul. During his eight years in the governor's office, Tim Pawlenty was on the front lines. Now, as he runs on that record in his quest for the presidency, he's presenting himself as the Great Red Hope from a Blue State.
Friday, May 06, 2011
While only five candidates took the stage last night in Greenville, S.C. for the first Republican debate, we learned plenty of useful things about the field and what's likely to come next.
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Four years ago this week, Virginia Tech was still recovering from the shock of a massacre, James Franco was best known for new star turn in Superman 3 (not his multiple grad degrees), and Osama bin Laden was missing.
There was also a wide open field for the Republican nominee for president.
On May 3, 2007, ten candidates met in their first debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
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Over at AllSpammedUp.com I’ve written an article on protecting both yourself and others from backscatter spam. Backscatter spam is also known as NDR spam and is the result of address spoofing combined with spam addressed to invalid recipients. As an Exchange administrator you want to be sure you aren’t contributing to the problem with your own email server. Read the article to find out how to avoid send NDR spam to others.
This blog post is based on the Exchange Server 2010 Beta code. The information shown here may change at the final release of Exchange Server 2010. In this post I take a quick look at the Exchange Server 2010 installation process. Although the setup screens are very similar to Exchange Server 2007 there are a [...]
After installing Windows Server 2008 Core you may wish to configure a static IP address and DNS servers. Microsoft guides you through the process of configuring the IP address and primary DNS server using the Netsh command, but what about additional DNS server IP addresses?
When you first login to a Windows Server 2008 Core installation you may find the desktop screen resolution is too small at 640×480 pixels. However the nature of the Core installation is that there is no graphical interface to modify the desktop resolution. Fortunately the changes can be made via the registry.
Hot on the heels of last week’s beta release of Exchange Server 2010 comes the beta release of Forefront Security for Exchange, that now includes Exchange Server 2010 support. The new Forefront Security for Exchange integrates with the Forefront “Stirling” management console and ships with a PowerShell interface for improved manageability, and also includes new [...]
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I am not particularly fond of raisins. I can’t put my finger on it nor trace back the origin of my prejudice, but there it is. For those who are MAD for raisins, however, there is a recipe that is MADE for them, and I CAN trace back its origin. Rosina Pie (it sounds so wistfully far away, from another time, when photographs were tinted sepia and a weathered life showed on a weathered face) is a memory of my Pennsylvania Dutch (actually Deutsch) heritage. Rosina (which means raisin in German) is served traditionally after funeral services. Raisins, which are plentiful and store well, are an obvious choice, but there’s something more to it than just the practical; the pie is cloyingly sweet, which makes it the ideal comfort food. You can hardly think of anything else while you are eating it. There will be those farm cooks who will dispute my recipe as not truly traditional, since it doesn’t use egg or milk for a custard base, but both my mother and I remember the pie as similar in preparation, taste and texture to English mincemeat. My mother never had a recipe handed down to her. This is my version as I recall it from many years ago, faded by memory, tinted sepia.
Rosina Pie (aka Funeral Pie)
This recipe will make one deep-dish pie (pictured), but there is enough filling to make 2 regular sized pies. If you make 2 regular sized pies, you will need two recipes of pastry.
2 – 15 oz. boxes dark raisins
3 cups water
3 packed cups dark brown sugar
Juice and zest of 1 lemon
2 teaspoons your choice of very fresh ground cinnamon, cloves or nutmeg (plus ½ teaspoon for dusting crust)
2 tablespoons white granulated sugar
1 recipe pastry for double crust pie (your choice or recipe to follow)
In a large saucepan, combine raisins and water. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes or until raisins are plump and soft. Drain raisins and set aside to cool, returning cooking liquid to saucepan. Add all the sugar, lemon juice, zest and your choice of spice to the raisin liquid in saucepan, stirring with a wooden or plastic spoon to mix well. Bring mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally for 30 minutes until the mixture starts to thicken into a syrup but not as thick as honey. The mixture will frequently threaten to boil over, so you do have to watch it and adjust the heat accordingly. Meantime, finely chop to a paste ½ the raisins in a food processor. Add them and all the whole raisins into the saucepan with the syrup, stirring well. Slowly boil for another 15 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature. It will thicken even more and become sticky as it cools. It also needs to cool to prevent the crust (which will not be pre-baked) from getting soggy from a hot mixture.
Preheat oven to 350°. Prepare pastry. Roll out bottom crust and arrange in pie pan, making sure you have overhang around the rim. Fill with raisin mixture. Roll out top crust and arrange over filled pie shell allowing overhang again. Carefully lift both edges of pie dough tucking top dough under the bottom to create a very thick rustic edge. Pinch the edge with your fingers to flute or gently press down with tines of fork. Slit top crust to allow steam to escape and strew lightly with granulated white sugar.
Place the pie on a stable cookie sheet and position in middle of preheated oven. Bake for 45 minutes. If you are making smaller pies, 45 minutes is approximately enough. A deep dish will require ¼ to ½ hour longer. The pie is done when the crust is medium to dark golden brown and the filling bubbles up through the slits in the top crust.
Remove from oven, dusting with spice of your choice. Allow to cool to room temperature before cutting. The first cut will be very juicy. Filling will firm up nicely overnight.
Pastry (Adapted from Betty Groff’s recipe)
2 ½ Cups All Purpose White Flour
½ Stick Butter
½ Cup Vegetable Shortening
Cut or rub between fingers butter and shortening into flour until it resembles coarse meal. Add water a little at a time, tossing & folding with a rubber spatula between additions. As you continue to add, toss and fold small amounts of water, press the mixture with the spatula against the bowl until the dough can easily form a ball. Use as much ice water as you need. It is better the dough be moister than dry; dry dough will not roll out evenly. Transfer dough onto a well-floured rolling surface, gently shaping into an even ball. Cut the ball in ½ and reserve in plastic wrap for the top crust. Roll the bottom crust large enough so that you have overhang when you fit it in pie pan. Roll top crust in same manner. --
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Listening to the Wall is a series dedicated to showcasing pieces of student art that helped create an incarnate of the Lennon Wall in my classroom.
This piece includes a number of fantastic quotes, but my eye always goes to the shackled hands releasing a butterfly. To this day I wonder what “butterfly” was hiding deep inside of the girl who drew this image.
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of teaching a student who thrived on art and drawing. I have watched him grow into an incredibly talented artist and I’m quite honored to have a few pieces of his early work. For the Lennon Wall he chose to do something simple, but his ability to create atmosphere explodes across the page.
The bold colors of this piece totally reflect the spirit of the student who created it. Every day, a little ball of sunshine sat in the front row of my classroom.
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Cigna Grant to Methodist Healthcare Aims to Improve Health in Memphis Neighborhood
A new $100,000 grant from the Cigna Foundation to the Methodist Healthcare Foundation in Memphis will address health disparities in the community of Riverview, a neighborhood just south of downtown Memphis. Ninety-eight percent of Riverview’s primarily African American residents live below the national poverty line.
“Cigna has a long history in Memphis and a strong presence as a partner with Methodist,” said Mary Tate-Smith, vice president of sales for Cigna in Memphis. “Over the years, we have been impressed by Methodist’s grassroots initiatives around improving the health status of Memphis residents.”
“Our aim is to work collaboratively to develop a community-driven, patient-centered medical home model to provide wellness programs, mentoring, education, advocacy and training,” said Paula Jacobson, president of the Methodist Healthcare Foundation. “A key focus will be helping patients navigate the health care system to access preventive care and self-management of chronic disease through improved health care strategies. Many members of the community currently access care in emergency rooms. This project seeks to reduce the number of emergency room visits, while facilitating treatment at more appropriate points of care and to lower health care costs in the community overall.”
The grant will move Memphis forward at a time when, nationally, less than half the hospitals in the country have established a goal on how to use the data they collect on race and ethnicity to improve health, according to the recent AHA Diversity Institute benchmarking study. Miscommunication, unsatisfactory patient experiences and frustration among health care professionals within the hospital setting all lead to disparities, according to authors Andres Tapia and Fred Hobby in their article, “A World without Disparities, Healing Healthcare through Diversity and Inclusion,” from the November 2012 issue of Diversity Best Practices.
Methodist plans to achieve the goals of the grant by building on the groundwork already set by its Congregational Health Network (CHN), a covenant relationship between Methodist and over 500 congregations throughout the Memphis and North Mississippi area. The CHN and congregations partner to share the ministry of caring for people by helping them navigate the journey from home to medical care and back. Eight core partner CHN churches in the Riverview community are already poised to participate in this initiative.
Reverend James E. Kendrick, pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church and key leader of Health Watch Urban Ministries, said, “There is great need among my congregation and community members. I appreciate that Methodist is listening to us and seeing the church as the great asset it is. Together, we can take an active stance to improve conditions here.”
Methodist will also employ community and religious health asset mapping strategies in Riverview. In 2007, Methodist was first in the United States to replicate this particular model of healthcare community engagement that started in Africa. Using GIS mapping, focus groups and “participatory hot spotting,” the mapping process will locate both tangible health assets, such as clinics, and intangible religious health assets, such as prayer and goodwill efforts, that are considered useful in combating targeted health issues. These resources are then catalogued for healthcare providers and congregations to coordinate all aspects of patient care. Once mapping is complete, the already existing resources will be aligned and strengthened -- an innovative work of faith and science.
“What is unique about this approach is that the congregation becomes a part of the quality care team, not an afterthought or stopgap,” said Teresa Cutts, Ph.D., director of research at the Methodist Center of Excellence in Faith and Health, who serves as Principle Investigator for the grant. “We are blending the complementary strengths of congregation and hospital in a tightly woven network of care.”
CHN is a network, connecting the professional care system (including the hospital) with the natural caring system of family, neighbors and especially congregations via “human bridges.” In the CHN, full-time navigators at each adult hospital and over 550 unpaid volunteer liaisons in participating congregations complete this bridging equation. The Cigna grant will fund a CHN navigator salary and a part-time research analyst for this project.
Cigna and the Cigna Foundation have worked closely with Methodist Healthcare for years and have provided $300,000 in grants to the Methodist Healthcare Foundation since 2005. Past projects have focused on measuring the impact of interventions on heart failure, improving patient/doctor communication to enhance diabetes treatment, funding religious health assets mapping, developing the Congregational Health Network and supporting a hospice residence, all with strong results.
Additionally, reducing health disparities is a major focus of Cigna's corporate responsibility platform, Cigna Connects, through which Cigna is bringing together experts and stakeholders to create lasting improvements in senior care, child wellness, and health equity and health literacy. (http://www.cigna.com/aboutcigna/corporate-responsibility/index.html)
“We are grateful to Cigna for helping us make this important healthcare initiative possible,” said Cutts. “We’re confident it will make a difference in the lives of Riverview residents.”
About the Cigna Foundation
The Cigna Foundation is a private foundation funded by contributions from Cigna Corporation (NYSE: CI) and its subsidiaries. The Cigna Foundation supports organizations sharing its commitment to enhancing the health of individuals and families, and the well-being of their communities, with a special focus on those communities where Cigna employees live and work.
Cigna Corporation (NYSE: CI) is a global health service company dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being and sense of security. All products and services are provided exclusively through operating subsidiaries of Cigna Corporation, including Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, Life Insurance Company of North America and Cigna Life Insurance Company of New York. Such products and services include an integrated suite of health services, such as medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy and vision care benefits, and other related products including group disability, life, and accident coverage. Cigna has sales capability in 30 countries and jurisdictions, with approximately 70 million customer relationships throughout the world. To learn more about Cigna®, including links to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, visit www.cigna.com.
About the Methodist Healthcare Foundation
The Methodist Healthcare Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Methodist Healthcare and serves as an instrument to assist, advance and strengthen Methodist Healthcare in the ministry of healing; in its community healthcare services; in its provision of educational excellence for students in various health fields; and its related health and humanitarian endeavors. Gifts to the Foundation contribute to conducting research and education that saves lives; to providing care for those who can’t afford it; to building important community assets like our new hospice residence for patients at the end of life; and to creating unique initiatives like Methodist’s first non-clinical center of excellence ever, The Center of Excellence in Faith and Health. For more information, visit http://www.methodisthealth.org/ways-to-help
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Methodist Healthcare is an integrated healthcare delivery system in Memphis, Tenn. Founded in 1918 by The United Methodist Church to help meet the growing needs for quality healthcare in the Mid-South, Methodist Healthcare is a seven hospital system with 6 adult hospitals and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. An eighth hospital, Methodist Olive Branch, will open in North Mississippi in 3rd quarter 2013. The system also owns or operates outpatient clinics, surgery and diagnostic centers, a residential hospice and several physician practices in Memphis, Shelby County and the surrounding area. Methodist’s Memphis Hospitals, licensed as one, has been named the Best Hospital in Memphis by U.S. News and World Report. With 1,709 licensed beds and nearly 63,000 discharges, Methodist is the third largest private, not-for-profit hospital in the country, based on admissions. To learn more about Methodist Healthcare, including links to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, go to www.methodisthealth.org
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Andover Biography - Abraham Marland
From Andover Answers
Abraham Marland, born in Ashton Lancashire in 1772, is recognized as one of the founders of the textile industry in New England. He began his career as an apprentice in Lancashire and then emigrated to America in 1801 and worked first in the cotton mills in Byfield. After 2 years he bought a small mill in Lynnfied. Eventually he settled in Andover because of the available water power and began to manufacturing cotton and went on to manufacture wool. During the War of 1812 his company manufactured blankets for the army. After the war he began to manufacture flannel and leased land on the Shawsheen River where he erected a brick mill and tenement houses. This site originally housed a powder mill. He acquired more and more land on the Shawsheen River, and in 1832 built the Marland Manufacturing Company. Marland Manufacturing Company was sold to Moses T. Stevens of North Andover in July of 1870. Stevens continued to produce flannel and woolens.
Marland, an Episcopalian, was determined to have a Episcopalian Church in Andover and founded Christ Church donating the land and building a rectory in 1835.
The Punchard High School is named after Marland's son-in-law Benjamin H. Punchard.
Abraham Marland died on February 20, 1849.
- Abbot Geneologies - Marland Family
- Andover A Century of Change by Eleanor Motely Richardson, page 84-85 (974.5 Ric)
- Andover What it Was (974.5 And)
- Historical Sketches of Andover by Sarah Loring Bailey, p. 489 - 49 (974.5 Lor)
--Eleanor 16:05, December 26, 2012 (EST)
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Archive for the ‘CMU’ tag
From Carnegie Mellon University
Research could ensure that crowd work becomes a career option, not a dead end Carnegie Mellon scientists and other crowd work researchers issue call to action.
PITTSBURGH—Crowdsourcing is an effective way to mobilize people to accomplish tasks on a global scale, but some researchers fear that crowd work for pay could easily become the high-tech equivalent of a sweat shop. Trivial work for rock bottom pay isn’t inevitable, however, and they’ve outlined a research agenda to make crowd work both intellectually and monetarily rewarding.
Leading researchers in crowd work from Carnegie Mellon University and other institutions will present their plan, hashed out in a special workshop last spring, at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2013, Feb. 27 in San Antonio, Texas.
Finding ways to enhance collaboration, incorporate artificial intelligence and create ways for workers to build reputations are among the research challenges ahead.
“When my baby daughter was born I asked myself, ‘would I be proud to see her grow up to be a crowd worker?’” said Aniket Kittur, assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Co-authors with Kittur of the research strategy include Jeffrey Nickerson, director of the Center for Decision Technologies at Stevens Institute of Technology, and Michael Bernstein, assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. Other leading crowd work researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern University and the University of Texas, Austin also contributed to the report, which is available for download.
The crowd work industry has expanded rapidly in recent years, with a number of vendors now offering work for people who get paid per task or who compete for prizes. A prominent vendor is Amazon Mechanical Turk, which claims more than 500,000 workers in more than 190 countries who complete tasks that, in some cases, may take only seconds to perform. Another, CrowdFlower, says it can access more than 2 million contributors worldwide. Others, such as oDesk, provide skilled labor, including web developers, designers and translators. Platforms such as Innocentive invite people to invent solutions to problems in hopes of winning a prize.
The still-young industry could grow very large because portions of almost any job — perhaps as much as 20 percent — potentially can be sent “down the wire,” Kittur said. Many crowd workers are paid substantially less than U.S. minimum wage, however, and, left to market forces, the crowd workforce could remain stigmatized and exploited.
“What if I want access to the best people in the world, but for only five minutes of their time?” Kittur said. As beneficial as that might be for some businesses, that possibility will not be achieved if the crowd workplace isn’t attractive for the very best workers and thinkers, he added. The call for action by Kittur and his colleagues, also discussed in a recent post on the Follow the Crowd blog, envisions three major research steps:
Create career ladders. Research is needed in how to structure teams so that skilled workers can train novices, as well as help design jobs and catch problems. Mechanisms are needed for credentialing workers. A better understanding of worker motivations could lead to better job designs.
Improve task design through better communication. Research suggests that some quality problems in crowd work have more to do with poorly designed tasks than with unskilled workers. Artificial intelligence could be used in complex tasks to identify work products that might still need improvement and assign workers accordingly. The crowd itself also may be used to train the computer programs, helping them support a broader range of tasks. Improved instructions and feedback mechanisms likewise could improve the work product.
Enable learning. Quality assurance assessments can identify skills that workers need to polish or learn to tackle new work tasks. Online tutoring, combined with tracking of work history, could support personalized instruction and feedback. The work platforms themselves will need mechanisms for learning what kinds of work requests attract talented workers, recognizing the patterns of learning and skill building among workers and determining what tasks are appropriate for which types of workers.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, a Temple Fellowship, Northwestern University and the Center for the Future of Work in Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College.
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What class of molecules dominated the primordial stages of evolution, and seems to function as an exquisite operating system for our cells? RNA — the single-stranded cousin of DNA. Scientists suspect that a better understanding of RNAs will allow us to more deeply understand healthy cells, and to design better treatments for those infected by disease. (See below for more RNA info.)
Now EteRNA, a collaborative online game, allows ordinary citizens to help biologists take a crack at solving a challenging RNA mystery, namely: what are the rules governing its folding? Players who assemble the best RNA designs online will see their creations synthesized in a Stanford biochemistry lab!
Drs. Adrien Treuille (Asst. Prof. of Computer Science at CMU) and Rhiju Das (Asst. Prof. of Biochemistry at Stanford) met while completing their postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, and collaborated on another online venture — FoldIt — aimed at understanding protein folding. Hoping that a similar approach could be used to crack the mysteries of RNA folding, they teamed up with doctoral student Jeehyung Lee to create a multi-player RNA-folding game. In an added twist, the RNA that players design is then synthesized in a Stanford biochemistry lab, to see if the folding pattern was indeed correct.
What’s so hard about RNA folding?
“Our computational models are not yet sophisticated enough to correctly predict when a particular RNA design will fold correctly in practice,” Treuille said in an email interview. “It is easy to create RNA designs which computers predict will fold properly, but which will not when synthesized. … We hope that the EteRNA community will be able to put forth a more complete set of hypotheses about when RNAs fold properly, and use these hypotheses to design a set of new RNA designs that fold into exotic, and ultimately medically useful shapes.”
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Task Force applauds introduction of Uniting American Families Act
Roberta Sklar, Director of Communications
Bill would end discrimination in immigration caused by U.S. refusal to recognize same-sex relationships
WASHINGTON, May 8 — The Uniting American Families Act was introduced today in the U.S. House by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and in the Senate by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) The bill would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act by adding “permanent partner” next to “spouse” and provide the same immigration procedures for same-sex partners as currently exist for immediate relatives of United States citizens.
Statement by Matt Foreman, Executive Director National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
“We applaud Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Sen. Patrick Leahy and our colleagues at Immigration Equality for insisting that the Uniting American Families Act be introduced and move forward this year. Immigration policy in the United States is supposed to be based on the principle of bringing and keeping families together. Yet this country’s refusal to treat some families — same-sex families — equally means that thousands of binational families are kept separated, or are forced to live in exile. It is yet another way the U.S. government discriminates against same-sex families, and it is long past time for such discrimination to stop. We urge swift passage of this legislation.”
The mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is to build the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. We do this by training activists, equipping state and local organizations with the skills needed to organize broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, and building the organizational capacity of our movement. Our Policy Institute, the movement’s premier think tank, provides research and policy analysis to support the struggle for complete equality and to counter right-wing lies. As part of a broader social justice movement, we work to create a nation that respects the diversity of human expression and identity and creates opportunity for all. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., we also have offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis and Cambridge.
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ELECTRON spin may be the solution computer-chip makers have been looking for in their struggle to squeeze ever smaller and faster devices onto their chips.
Exploiting the intrinsic "spin" of electrons will provide a wealth of possibilities, and scientists have taken a key step in this direction, developing a battery that can store electron spin and release it on demand.
Today's electronic devices work by shuffling packets of electric charge around a semiconductor circuit, in the form of groups of electrons. But electrons also spin, giving them a magnetic field like a tiny bar magnet.
If you align the spin axes of all the electrons in a groupknown as spin polarisationthen the group has another property that you can use to carry information. The "spin-up" or "spin-down" state can correspond to the 0s and 1s of digital code. Circuits that exploit this property are known as "spintronics".
Manipulating spin is ...
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HOT, NEW AND TIMELY
May 6, 2010
We're a Top 10 library!
The Grandview Heights Public Library has been recognized again as one of the best public libraries in the nation!
The Grandview Library ranked 3rd in the United States (out of the 1,483 libraries in its population category), according to the 2010 Hennen's American Public Library Ratings (HAPLR) Index.
The index analyzes 15 factors, with focus on circulation, staffing, materials, reference service, and funding levels.
Thank you to our staff and everyone in the community for making the Library such a special place in Grandview Heights & Marble Cliff!
Ohio libraries received the highest average HAPLR score of any state, with these Central Ohio libraries ranking in the Top 10 of their respective population catagories:
- Columbus Metropolitan Library (2nd), who has ranked in all 10 HAPLR editions.
- Grandview Heights Public Library (3rd), ranked in 4 HAPLR editions.
- Upper Arlington Public Library (2nd), ranked in 7 HAPLR editions.
- Wagnalls Memorial Library (3rd), ranked in 3 HAPLR editions. A member of our consortium.
- Westerville Public Library (8th), ranked in 6 HAPLR editions.
- Worthington Libraries (2nd), ranked in 6 HAPLR editions.
Learn about the Grandview Library's past national library rankings.
Questions? Call Administration at 486-2954.
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Influenza from people, poultry, camels and even whales is regularly monitored and sent to epidemiologists who track the latest permutations in the virus. Despite the fact that the 2009 influenza strain called swine flu spent years evolving in North American pig farms, very little data is collected on this species, reported Wired Science.
Although swine flu may have jumped to another species, such as chicken, before infecting humans, the lack of information on the viral evolution that took place in pigs first has made it difficult to understand which components of the virus made it so virulent.
Some pork farms do report data, although independent testing is rare. The largest world producer of pork, Smithfield Farms conducts flu tests on its herd, and reported no virus in 2009, despite being near the outbreak’s epicenter, according to Wired Science. While reporting has increased since 2009, large gaps remain, in part because the virus doesn’t usually kill pigs and threaten the farms. In contrast, many people inaccurately assume that swine flu can be contracted by eating pork products—a belief that can hurt the industry, making farmers less comfortable with reporting the infections. The current compromise is to keep data from pig farms anonymous so that only the state is listed as a location, although researchers say this can limit the data’s value.
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Editorial: Hope for heathens
Without religion, can atheists have hope?
One the great promises of religion is hope. Faiths appeal directly to the emotional need for comfort, and offer an array of blandishments to tempt the anxious and distraught. Worried about why bad things happen? Be assured, it’s all part of His plan. Feeling unloved? Don’t worry, we are all God’s children. And of course religion has the ultimate trump card solution for despair and the terror of death: the promise of eternal life in the hereafter. No such consolations, of course, are available to the non-believer. So does giving up God mean we also have to give up hope? In our cover story the philosopher Julian Baggini goes searching for the bright side of godlessness.
In the absence of belief, some people choose to place their faith in science. It may be comforting to believe that science can, eventually, answer all our questions, but isn’t this, as the superstar philosopher Bruno Latour argues provocatively in his book On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods, merely to substitute one kind of overarching faith for another? Jonathan Rée grapples with Latour’s thesis.
While not all non-believers are sure that science alone will provide a better future, some are convinced. With the help of science journalist Adam Smith and cartoonist Martin Rowson we offer a guide to the different groups who are imagining a future beyond the limitations of the human body, beyond disease and ignorance, perhaps even beyond death itself. Meet the Tomorrow People.
Although perhaps they need not bother, as there is already a world that has managed to use science to enhance human capabilities and eliminate want – it’s called The Culture and features in the science fiction books of the prolific novelist Iain Banks, who submits to this issue’s Q&A.
Perhaps a properly humanist hope is one focused on realistic real-world goals and the achievements of real human beings. We profile two such individuals in this issue. Sports journalist Musa Okwonga meets basketball player John Amaechi, who after a successful career in America’s National Basketball Association became the first ever major league sportsman to come out as gay. Now working as a psychologist and motivational speaker on both sides of the Atlantic, Amaechi is also a fresh and uncompromising new voice of atheism.
One place where hope might seem in very short supply is on death row, especially for those who are innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted. Clive Stafford Smith has been bringing the hope of justice to such people for three decades, saving more than 300 from execution. His new book highlights the case of Kris Maharaj, who has been on Florida’s death row for a quarter of a century for a crime he did not commit. He talks to us about the inherent flaws in the system that allow such injustice.
Another day, another attack on secularism. But this one comes from a rather surprising source – New Humanist itself. Read Richard Smyth’s broadside against secularism – and see if he persuades you that the insistence that believers leave their faith at home is patronising and undemocratic.
The fraught nature of the secularism debate has recently crystallised around a series of concrete dilemmas: should the Church of England allow gay marriage? Should the wearing of religious symbols at work be tolerated? Should religious sensitivities be protected from office? To help you negotiate your way through this ethical thicket we present Kenan Malik’s step-by-step guide to the ethics of tolerance.
Finally, we visit a thicket of a different kind, as Sally Feldman asks how the recent revival of the Snow White myth, in films such as Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman, reflects our current attitudes to women.
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May 14, 2012 | in Nanny
Dentist visits are a real source of angst for children, but a necessity for dental health. So it’s in everyone’s best interest for your child to be up to making those appointments without too much fuss. Not to mention the fact that better preparation helps children get the most from their dental care. The following are ten tips for preparing your child for the dentist:
- Brush Your Teeth. – It makes it much easier to spot any potential problem areas when your child’s teeth are clean. Have them brush thoroughly just prior to their visit.
- Floss – Similarly, apart from good overall practice, flossing will keep the spaces between their teeth clear, making it easier to spot cavities, as well as prevent them.
- Rinse – In addition to killing harmful germs in their mouths, the dentist will be very grateful to your child for this courtesy. It may burn a little, but there are non-alcohol rinse alternatives.
- Reward – It helps to associate a not-so-great experience with a more positive end result. Fewer cavities may not excite your child, but a visit to the movies, a park, or arcade afterward might do the trick.
- Stress Reduction – Coordinate your child’s office visit with an activity that will help her relax and get her mind off the anxiety of a dental visit. If you can change your child’s thinking about the dentist, it will make the experience better overall.
- Explain What to Expect – If this is your child’s first visit, talk to them about what they will be doing, and why. The dentist will be looking in your mouth to make sure your teeth are okay, etc. The more they know, the less stress they will have.
- Read a Book – Choose a book about a child’s first dentist visit to help them understand and mentally prepare for it. Make it a normal part of life and not something to dread.
- Start Early – The earlier the better for the child’s first visit. You can start generally between 6 and 12 months. You especially want to make the first visit a non-emergency one. This will help acclimate your child to what to expect, and to develop trust in her dentist.
- Play Dentist – You can take turns with your child, alternately playing the roles of dentist and patient. Let him get accustomed to checking teeth, and having his checked, in a fun and reassuring setting before heading out for the real thing.
- Schedule Early in the Day – Avoid the potential for a cranky or hungry toddler by getting an early appointment whenever possible. It will help make your visit a more pleasant one for everyone.
No matter what age your kids are, going to the dentist is an important part of life. Good dental hygiene is vital to good health. Start early and make visiting the dentist fun.
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“Pictorial runes in Tintin and the Picaros.” Journal of Pragmatics 43: 875-890. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.07.014.
Abstract: Speed-lines, movement-lines and emotion-enhancing flourishes (“pictorial runes”) may contribute, marginally or substantially, to the potential meanings to be inferred from a comic’s panel. It seems plausible that pictorial runes convey their meanings in patterned ways, but hitherto little systematic research appears to have been done to investigate them. The primary aim of this paper is to present the first version of a model to research pictorial runes by inventorying and categorizing all specimens occurring in a single Tintin album and to generalize tentatively about their meaning. In this manner, the model can be further tested, refined, elaborated, or refuted, in further research. Such research will aid both comics scholarship and cognition studies based on visual stimuli. Keywords: pictorial runes, comics, visual language, conceptual metaphor theory.
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Improving Health and Promoting Women’s Rights
Project: Violence against Women in Peru: Improving Health and Promoting Women’s Rights
Location: Peru, Huancavelica, Ica and Lima regions
DEMUS (Institute for the Defence of Women’s Rights)
FEPROMU (Ica Women’s Federation)
Movimiento El Pozo (the ‘El Pozo’ Movement)
Many women in Peru have suffered severe violence and discrimination which have impacted greatly on their health and access to basic services. During the civil war 1980-2000 sexual violence against women was used as a war tactic. Entrenched beliefs about women’s roles have limited women’s control over their own bodies and decision-making processes. Compared to men, women also have less access to information about reproductive health and HIV prevention. This limits their capacity to negotiate safe sex in their relationships.
What Womankind is doing
With funding from the Big Lottery Fund we are working with 3 partners in three different communities of vulnerable women to address:
- The aftermath of sexual violence during the conflict in the Manta region
- Violence linked to the growing incidence of HIV/AIDS amongst young women in the Ica region
- Violence linked to prostitution and trafficking of women in the capital city of Lima
With our partners we are:
- Providing survivors of sexual violence with psychological support and legal assistance
- Promoting HIV and AIDS and advocating the incorporation of HIV prevention as a strategy in its policies
- Supporting 44 young people to become promoters of issues around gender and HIV/AIDS
- Supporting women in prostitution via counselling, group reflection, and self help
- Reducing trafficking of women into prostitution through awareness raising activities and operating a helpline for vulnerable women
What we have achieved so far
- Over the last 3 years the project has contributed to the overall well-being of 2,785 women and girls through provision of capacity building sessions on women rights and self esteem, psychological counselling, legal advice and support, support in lobbying activities for an improvement of violence against women policies and services
- Movimiento El Pozo successfully managed to sign a formal agreement with the Ministry of Education (more specifically with Lima´s Education Management Unit,UGEL) institutionalizing training programs on sexual trafficking for teachers and students as a part of schools’ curriculum for 2011/12, with strong possiblities to be re-newed. Thanks to this agreement educational communities will increase their knowledge on prostitution, trafficking, sexual exploitation and human rights.
- In Ica, our partner FEPROMU successfully lobbied for a regional by-law on the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), HIV and/or AIDS for children and adolescents which was introduced in June 2009. In December 2010 FEPROMU managed to get the Regional Government to approve an Action Plan to implement the by-law between 2011 and 2013
“People abuse their wives and abuse their children … The acts of violence keep on being committed. We need to be able to talk about what happened, so that the violence will stop”.
As a child, Carmela, now 28, witnessed dreadful violence that occurred in Manta. She was ten when the military entered her village; her mother and other family members were beaten and ill treated. She was forced to leave school due to fear.
She told us that domestic violence is extremely common in Manta. The fact that those responsible for sexual violence during the conflict have not been punished has sent a clear and terrible message to the community: that violence is an acceptable and normal part of life.
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The attitude for succeeding at anything new
Through this post, I will attempt to describe an essential state of mind which is necessary for the success of anything ‘NEW’. This mindset is most relevant, as these four components are critical to the success of something ‘NEW’ – naivety of mind to believe in something that might not seem “reasonable” or “possible”, consistency to stick with what you started (you will need this in your pursuit of success in almost anything), ‘eagerness to learn’ to be able to continuously adapt your idea till you find the right model, and most importantly, the philosophy which governs your life or in other words – your core values.
This is crucial as if someone told you the amount of obstacles you would face in your journey, you probably won’t start. So you ‘jump in’ thinking that everything will go well and every obstacle seems like the last one, after which, everything will just scale up to make you a billionaire.
- Don’t over-think; Just start!
- Believe in the impossible.
- Balance your openness to learn with the naivety which enables you to envision what others can’t (Already much written about evolution of ideas, so I am only focusing on the attitude).
- Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!
Mainly for people who are yet to run something successful, as people who have run a successful business clearly understand its importance.
Channelize your excitement – What do you do in case you are pursuing something that is not yet successful, and another idea has started to excite you? Firstly, factor out sunk costs. Sunk costs are not why you should pursue something. Often one gives something up because of the excitement of something new. This is where you have to keep your foot down and learn to say no and continue doing what you initially set out to do (assuming you are smart enough not to give up the opportunity of building the next Facebook).
Eagerness to Learn
It is extremely important to have a balance of openness to iterative learning and being naive. Don’t be too emotionally attached to your idea as that might take away crucial opportunities for you to find the right model. Your naivety helps in taking the first step towards changing the world but your adaptability will teach you how to change the world.
Philosophy of your life
This is what will keep you going in your toughest hour and be the answer to your day to day confusions, so that you can focus on what you are building. Yes, it is a that important!
- Philosophy – It doesn’t have to be something so complex that even you can’t comprehend clearly. It can be as simple as having a strong belief in the God. So keep looking and start defining yourself. Again, your philosophy can also keep evolving as you learn, but the key is to not postpone this learning.
This article is mainly a reflection of my experiences as a first time entrepreneur. What according to you, defines the attitude for succeeding?
Do you have some personal stories/experiences to share?
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PHILADELPHIA - Stan Berenstain, who with his wife wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bear books that helped millions of children cope with trips to the dentist, the first day of school and getting new siblings, has died.
Berenstain, 82, died Saturday in suburban Philadelphia from complications of cancer, said Kate Jackson of HarperCollins Children's Books in New York.
In more than 200 books over 40 years, the couple helped set the standard for children's literature.
"Everybody feels like it was the end of an era," said Jackson, one of Berenstain's editors, adding that the publisher plans to continue the series. "The things that they wrote about very much came from their family experience and their heart."
The series showed children - and parents - how to deal with a long list of childhood challenges, from watching less TV to not succumbing to the "in-crowd." In the 1980s, the bear family moved onto lessons about the environment and teenage drug use.
"I think he just wanted a society in which people understood each other, were helpful to each other and so on," said James Farley, a friend of the Berenstains. The first Berenstain Bears book, "The Big Honey Hunt," was published in 1962. The couple developed the series with children's author Theodor Geisel - better known as Dr. Seuss, then head of children's publishing at Random House - with the goal of teaching children to read while entertaining them.
The series eventually expanded to include TV specials, an interactive Web site, DVDs and a Christmas musical. Despite changes in society in the last four decades, much stayed the same in "Bears Country."
"Kids still tell fibs and they mess up their rooms and they still throw tantrums in the supermarket," Stan Berenstain told The Associated Press in 2002. "Nobody gets shot. No violence. There are problems, but they're the kind of typical family problems everyone goes through."
Stan and Jan Berenstain began drawing together when they met at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in 1941.
In later years, sons Leo and Michael joined them at writing and illustrating, and many of the recent books are credited to "The Berenstains."
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his two sons.
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Please help us in this important battle. Thanks!
February 16, 2010
Hon. David Patterson
Governor, State of
Dear Governor Patterson:
It is with great concern that we have recently learned that your proposed 2010-2011 State budget includes the possible closing of John Brown’s Farm in North Elba, New York among other State parks and historical landmarks.
While we understand the magnitude of the States’ fiscal crisis and the need for cut-backs and other cost-saving measures, we strongly disagree with the office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation’s recommendation that John Brown’s Farm be among those state parks slated for closure.
As you know, John Brown was a leader in the anti-slavery abolitionist’s movement of the 1800s. He was an ally of Harriet Tubman. His farm was one of the “safe houses” used by her “Underground Railroad” to rescue fleeing slaves. He and his followers we men of action who opposed southern pro-slavery aggression with force when called for. His anti-slavery activities have been credited with sparking circumstances that eventually led to the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery in our country. He is truly an American hero and one of the early leaders of the struggle for human rights for all people.
Each year for the past several years, I and the Chairman of our Advisory Committee, Mr. Joseph Lovece, Jr., have visited John Brown’s farm in
North Elba to pay our respects to this remarkable man. In December 2009, both of us and the organization participated in several events commemorating the 150th anniversary of his death and subsequent interment on the farm. The turn-out was tremendous and included civil rights, human rights and other activist from a broad spectrum of opinions. We laid wreaths on his grave and the graves of his sons and followers who were buried beside him in a special plot on the farm. It would be a great tragedy if this historical site and the significant role it played in the American Civil Rights Movement were closed to the public.
I urge you to reconsider the suggested closing of John Brown’s Farm in
North Elba, and do all in your power to keep this important part of history open and accessible to the public. Closing John Brown’s farm would be an insult to all those, like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who have given their lives in the struggle for civil rights in America and a slap in the face to those of us who continue the struggle today. As Governor of the State of you cannot and must not allow this to happen. New York
National Chairman & C.E.O.
CORE- Congress of Racial Equality
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I change the way I used to cut lemon grass, and it makes a significant difference for my red curry paste. I thought I must have looked proud the moment I found this a very satisfying homemade paste.
Or, am I the only one not knowing such trick or tip?!
Usually, before pounding ingredients into a paste, I’d cut them down into smaller pieces. Following the same habit, what I did was: roughly chopped the galangal, garlic, shallot, and cut lemon grass into short sections. And with the help of a food processor and several hits on the pulse button, I’d had a red curry paste easily made. Tasty though, it turned out to be very fibrous and made me feel something grassy in mouth.
Truth is, lemongrass has lots of fibers that run the length of its stalk. To weaken them, the best way proved to me is to thinly slice the stalks crosswise before pulverizing them in a food processor or mortar. Then, the fibers will be too short to be interfering. What we get will be a creamier and aromatic paste.
- 1 tsp ground coriander seeds
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp red chili coarse
- 1 tsp shrimp paste
- 3-4 cm knob of galangal
- 1 tbsp chopped shallot, ~2 pieces
- 2 tbsp chopped garlic, ~6-8 cloves
- 2 lemon grass / lemongrass stalks
- 40g roasted cashew nuts, ~20pcs
- 5 sprigs coriander / cilantro roots with some stems (~2-3 cm) attached
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
Remove dry outer layer(s) of the lemongrass. Cut off the greener upper sections, the bottom root, and reserve the bulbous pale yellow lower stalks, about 5-6cm. Slice them crosswise as thin as possible.
Dry-fry ground coriander and ground cumin in a pan till fragrant and let cool.
Before chopping the galangal or cutting the coriander root, scrape off any dirts and ragged bits, rinse them and pat dry. Then, put all ingredients including the lemongrass in a food processor and pulverize. To achieve a creamier paste, rest every one-to-two second pulse, and scrape down the mixture from the side of the container. Pulse again, (repeat scrape-downs if needed) until the desired consistency is formed. Store the paste in an air-tight glass container and keep in fridge for up to a month. And, feel free to multiply the amount of the ingredients, the quantities here yield about half cup of paste.
This red curry paste is good for cooking with seafoods, meats and even vegetables. A simple dish I like very much is stir-fried green beans with this paste, to which I often add some paprika and coconut cream.
I have also tried a variation with one onion replacing the cashews, and it is still hard for me to decide which one is better.
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Backing up data is something we all know that must be done, but very seldom get onto actually doing it. Taking a real life situation, this is something that happened to a very close colleague of mine. It was Sunday night and he was finalizing his presentation to win a million dollar project for his company. Things were going smoothly and when he was about to print everything his PC crashed with no reason at all. (Windows normally doesn't need any reason to crash now does it? ) Thinking it's a normal software glitch he rebooted the system, only to find out the FAT32 partition of his hard drive completely corrupted. I know as a fact that there are countless number of people who have gone through this nightmare at some point.So what's the most simple thing we all forget to do? Backup of course. Having the right hardware and backing up your data is something we all must take very seriously and do it at every instance possible.Since most average hard drive size today range from 20GB - 80GB it's no longer feasible to have a mere 250MB backup tape drive. This is where Onstream Data come into the picture. Incorporated in 1998 Onstream data's product lineup is no doubt one of the most successful backup tape drive products in the market. So far we have looked at two of their highly sort after drives, the ADR2 60GB Digital Tape Drive and the ECHO 30 USB Storage Drive. The great highlight of Onstream Data's products is that they're able to provide highly reliable and effective back-up devices at a far less price than its competition.Today we look at one of their newest additions, the ADR2 60GB USB External Tape Drive, which will no doubt prove to be a great hit in the server as well as home user markets. Firstly let us take a look at the specifications of the drive.
All information and specifications are subject to change at anytime without notice. The capacity, backup speed and transfer rate will vary with file and system configuration. * ADR cartridges sold separately
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Paul Roderick Gregory, Contributor
I cover domestic and world economics from a free-market perspective
Times have changed. A decade back, the United States lectured the rest of the world on the advantages of democracy and its private enterprise system. Now, countries like China and Russia tout their “benevolent” one-party system and state capitalism as growth engines that correct the mistakes of the free market. Russia’s Putin characterizes the U.S. as a “parasite that lives off the global market.”
China, in a show of Schadenfreude, lectures us to get our economic house in order before we ruin everyone else. Domestic critics bemoan the pathologies of unfettered markets and political stalemate and point to China as a model for us.
I’d like to ask: Who is living off of whom?
China’s (and Russia’s) social, economic and political institutions rank alongside countries like Algeria, Bangladesh, Guinea, and Liberia. Even if such measures underrate China, we would still not expect rapid growth from a country with such underdeveloped institutions.
How is it then that China has grown so rapidly, while Algeria, Guinea and the rest have not? The answer: Unlike many of its institutional peers, China opened its economy to the outside world, albeit with important restrictions as reflected in numerous WTO complaints. China’s opening to the West gave it technology at a low or even zero price.
Without this ready-made technology to borrow, China’s extraordinary capital formation would have made its growth high but not exceptionally so. China’s savings rates are the world’s highest for a large country. High savings mean high investment. Slightly over half of Chinese growth is accounted for by its exceptionally high savings and that percentage has been rising over the past decade. High investment means high growth, even though much of China’s capital is wasted by corruption and bureaucratic intervention.
Soaring Chinese savings are themselves the result of poor institutions. The one-party state has deprived families of children and grandchildren to take care of them when they’re old. It provides no real safety net and can confiscate personal property arbitrarily. It is no wonder that Chinese families save so much. No telling what will happen to them if they do not care for themselves and their one child.
Studies by economists conclude that between one-third to 40% of China’s growth is accounted for by borrowed technology. Without this borrowing, China’s growth would have been about five to six percent – well below Japan’s peak growth in the 1950s and 1960s and of the Four Tigers of Southeast Asia from 1950 to the present. And this for a poor country with one of the highest saving rates in the world.
When a poor country opens up to the outside world, it can take advantage of technologies that have been developed in more advanced countries. The United States has been the primary source of technology for the rest of the world for more than a century. No other country comes close to matching our innovative dynamism. The United States supplies technology to the outside world, and recaptures only a paltry portion of its value. In effect, this is our “parasite’s” gift to the world.
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[svnbook commit] r2694 - trunk/src/en/book
C. Michael Pilato
cmpilato at red-bean.com
Sat Feb 24 18:40:10 CST 2007
Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>> Guys, we have plenty of examples in the book that demonstrate the use of
>> file:///some/path or file://localhost/some/path. I'm only talking about
>> consistifying the prose portions across the various schemas. There are
>> 16 references to "file://" and over twice as many examples of its use
>> (which show "file:///...").
> As a concession, can we at least explain why users sometimes see 2
> slashes, and sometimes see 3 slashes? Your explanation above is fine,
> we just need to say that in the book too.
+1. +2 if there was another Me.
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com>
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has
been found difficult; and left untried." -- G. K. Chesterton
More information about the svnbook-dev
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Environmental impacts of beef: antibiotics & growth hormones
Animals arriving to feedlots are given antibiotics in their water for 8 days or so. In the United States, less than 20% of all animals in feedlots were given antibiotic injections, but about 60% received vitamin injections. Most cattle in US feedlots are given growth hormones to increase their weight gain.
Harmful impactsIt is well known that the prophylactic use of antibiotics can lead to bacterial resistance in the animals and in the environment, and that this resistance can even be passed on to bacteria that infect humans.Similarly, the effects of growth hormones in the production of meat may be passed on to people who consume the meat (Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State, 2000).
Unfortunately, virtually no research has been undertaken on the impact of these inputs on the wider environment, either in the vicinity of feedlots or in areas where waste from feedlots or slaughterhouses is disposed.
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Rumhworth, 1242; Rumworth, 1278; Rumwrth, 1292; Romeworthe, 1346.
Rumworth is the central township, and contains the
parish church. It measures about 2½ miles from east
to west, but the average breadth is a little over a mile;
the area is 1,244 acres. The River Croal forms the
northern boundary, and from it the surface rises to
the south. In the western part of the township is the
reservoir called Rumworth Lodge.
The main road is that from Bolton to Wigan,
passing by Deane Church; to the east is that from
Bolton to Tyldesley, on which is the hamlet or suburb
of Daubhill. The London and North Western
Company's line from Bolton to Kenyon crosses the
eastern end, with a station called Rumworth and
In 1901 the population of Rumworth and Middle
Hulton was 14,053.
Agriculture is still an important industry; there are
collieries; and cotton manufactures and bleach works
are carried on.
The Bolton Industrial School is in Rumworth.
Part of the township was incorporated with Bolton
in 1872; the remainder was added in 1898.
RUMWORTH was in 1212 joined
with Lostock in Bolton as the third part
of a knight's fee, held of the lords of
Manchester. (fn. 1) In later times the Andertons of Lostock
claimed a manor in Rumworth, (fn. 2) but the Hultons of
Hulton and Farnworth were usually said to hold the
third part of a fee in Rumworth and Lostock, performing suit of court and rendering for sake fee 4s. 6d.,
for ward of Lancaster Castle 3s. 6d., and puture of
the serjeant and foresters. (fn. 3) The last-named service
was commuted into payments of 28s. and 16s. respectively from the fourteen oxgangs of land in Rumworth, and the eight oxgangs of Lostock. (fn. 4)
With Farnworth the manor of Rumworth was purchased by the Hultons of Over Hulton, and has
descended in this family. (fn. 5) Sir Charles Tempest, the
heir of the Andertons, had a large estate in the township.
The local surname occurs, (fn. 6) but nothing is known of
The Hospital of the Savoy had a rent-charge of
5 marks out of the manor of Rumworth. (fn. 7)
The contributors to the land tax in 1789 were
Henry Blundell, who paid nearly five-sixths,—Blackburne, and William Hulton. (fn. 8)
The inclosure award is preserved at Preston.
The parish church of Deane has been described
above. St. George the Martyr's, Daubhill, was built
in 1880; the patronage is vested in trustees. (fn. 9)
The school at Deane was endowed in 1636; it
probably existed already.
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War Horse—All heart and no head
23 January 2012
Directed by Steven Spielberg; based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo.
In the First World War, Britain lost approximately 887,000 men, nearly 2 percent of the population as a whole. For every eight soldiers who went to the front, one would not return home. Entire villages were decimated by the war and it was not uncommon for a family to lose all its sons. To this day, World War I remains Britain’s costliest conflict, despite the country’s entry into World War II and other colonial wars of the 20th century.
Given the enormous carnage of the war, which was unprecedented to this point in world history, the notion of a “Pax Britannica” was dealt a blow from which it has never recovered. Millions of people in Britain and internationally began to see the old order—of kings and queens, the church, the military—as irrational and unjust, something to be swept away by means of revolution.
Any serious artistic treatment of World War I has to take this basic truth into consideration. An artwork that merely uses imperialist war as a backdrop and accepts such a state of affairs as a given, and something that will not change, cannot offer any real insight or provide dramatic lessons to its audience.
Such is the case with director Steven Spielberg’s latest film, War Horse. The story concerns a farmer and his family who reside in Devon, England before the start of the war. Ted Narracott (Peter Mullan) purchases a young thoroughbred horse for the purposes of plowsharing on his modest farm. His wife Rose (Emily Watson) does not approve, noting the horse’s small size. The purchase is intended, in part, to spite Lyons (David Thewlis) the landlord of the farm, who earlier tried to outbid Ted for the horse.
Ted’s son Albert (Jeremy Irvine) admires the horse, which he has named Joey, and devotes his time to training him to plowshare their field of turnips. Eventually war comes, and every able-bodied man is conscripted, as well as horses for the war effort. Falling behind on the rent, Ted sells Joey to an officer named Captain Nicholls (Tom Hiddleston), who promises Albert he will take care of his horse and some day return him.
Captain Nicholls takes Joey to France, where he is part of a cavalry unit that will attack the Germans by surprise. The use of machineguns by the Germans in turn decimates the British and renders the cavalry charge obsolete. Joey falls into the hands of two German soldiers, and thus begins an odyssey that is overly sentimental and highly improbable.
Through a tragic turn of events, Joey is cared for by an elderly French man and his granddaughter before once again being discovered by the Germans and used to transport artillery. Eventually, the horse is lost in the bloody mélange of no-mans-land and both sides, German and British, declare a temporary truce to rescue the wounded animal.
War Horse, the novel, is a children’s story created by Michael Morpurgo, who commented in an interview, “I had discovered that in the First World War a million horses had been killed—and that was only on our side. Up at the Duke of York I had met an old soldier who had been at the Front with the Devon Yeomanry, ‘with ’orses,’ he said. He told me how he used to confide his worst fears, his deepest feelings, to his horse as he fed him at night.
“I had been so moved by this. I knew almost as I was listening to him that I had to tell the story of a farm horse that leaves our village in 1914, bought as a cavalry horse by the British army, that is captured by the Germans and winters on a French farm. I wanted to write the story of the universal suffering of that dreadful war, seen through the eyes of a horse.”
To the film’s credit, an enormous amount of attention is paid to recreating historical events down to the last detail. It is a truly remarkable feature of contemporary cinema that events from nearly a century ago, or centuries ago, can be brought to life in a way that is astonishingly accurate.
The scenes of trench warfare, in particular, are well done and do bring the horror of the war to a modern audience. Before going “over the top” to charge the German barbed wire and machine gun nests, the British soldiers hand over all wallets and personal effects to an officer who assures them they will all be returned “if” they survive the assault.
One soldier is ordered to stay back in the trench and shoot anyone who retreats. The look on his face as more and more of his comrades slowly begin to make their way back to their trench after the disastrous attack—and still he cannot force himself to shoot them— is one of the film’s more memorable images.
Spielberg is gifted in that he can make the most seemingly alien situations feel human. This is the case with his depiction of trench warfare, and in one particular scene where a British soldier and his German counterpart decide to put aside killing each other for a moment to rescue the horse. But unlike other films directed by Spielberg—Munich, Schindler’s List, Catch Me If You Can—War Horse falls into the category of melodrama.
One critic called War Horse “shallow and manipulative,” which might sound harsh, but in light of the film’s weak story is somewhat justified. Spielberg no doubt wanted to create something of an “antiwar” movie. But this would include not just depicting gut-wrenching scenes of combat, but showing class differences between the officers and the enlisted men, and within other areas of society at the time, as part of the overall imperialist nature of the war.
To be sure, certain token concessions are made in this regard—the snobbery of some officers, the negative light cast on the landlord at the beginning of the film—but little else. The reasons for the war are never questioned, much like Spielberg’s jingoistic Saving Private Ryan. Instead, all these questions are pushed aside and the audience is left with a banal “war is hell” message.
Moreover, what is it exactly about this story that makes it, as some reviewers have suggested, a “universal” meditation on war and suffering? If this were truly a “timeless” story told through the eyes of a horse, why have it occur during World War I? Why not the Peloponnesian war, or the War of 1812? There has to be a definite reason why an artist would choose the first imperialist World War as the subject.
Neither the emotional score by John Williams, nor the picturesque cinematography of Janus Kaminski (which is clearly influenced by John Ford), can hide the fact that there is no real compelling drama at work here. Even if the viewer is moved by the plight of this horse and his owner, the question needs to be asked: are there not greater tragedies taking place in the world that should be explored?
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As a child I read a book of stories about a famous judge in eighteenth
century Japan called Ooka Tadasuke. One of the cases he decided
was brought by the owner of a food shop. A poor student who could
afford only rice was eating his rice while enjoying the delicious
cooking smells coming from the food shop. The owner wanted the
student to pay for the smells he was enjoying. The student was
stealing his smells!
This story often comes to mind when I hear the RIAA and MPAA accusing
people of stealing music and movies.
It sounds ridiculous to us to treat smells as property. But I can
imagine scenarios in which one could charge for smells. Imagine
we were living on a moon base where we had to buy air by the
liter. I could imagine air suppliers adding scents at an extra
The reason it seems ridiculous to us to treat smells as property
is that it wouldn't work to. It would work on a moon base, though.
What counts as property depends on what works to treat as property.
And that not only can change, but has changed. Humans may always
(for some definition of human and always) have treated small items
carried on one's person as property. But hunter gatherers didn't
treat land, for example, as property in the way we do.
The reason so many people think of property as having a single
unchanging definition is that its definition changes very slowly.
But we are in the midst of such a change now. The record
labels and movie studios used to distribute what they made like air
shipped through tubes on a moon base. But with the arrival of
networks, it's as if we've moved to a planet with a breathable
atmosphere. Data moves like smells now. And through a combination
of wishful thinking and short-term greed, the labels and studios
have put themselves in the position of the food shop owner, accusing
us all of stealing their smells.
(The reason I say short-term greed is that the underlying problem
with the labels and studios is that the people who run them are
driven by bonuses rather than equity. If they were driven by equity
they'd be looking for ways to take advantage of technological change
instead of fighting it. But building new things takes too long.
Their bonuses depend on this year's revenues, and the best way to
increase those is to extract more money from stuff they do already.)
So what does this mean? Should people not be able to charge for
content? There's not a single yes or no answer to that question.
People should be able to charge for content when it works to charge
But by "works" I mean something more subtle than "when they can get
away with it." I mean when people can charge for content without
warping society in order to do it. After all, the companies selling
smells on the moon base could continue to sell them on the Earth,
if they lobbied successfully for laws requiring us all to continue
to breathe through tubes down here too, even though we no longer
The crazy legal measures that the labels and studios have been
taking have a lot of that flavor. Newspapers and magazines are
just as screwed, but they are at least declining gracefully. The
RIAA and MPAA would make us breathe through tubes if they could.
Ultimately it comes down to common sense. When you're abusing the
legal system by trying to use mass lawsuits against randomly chosen
people as a form of exemplary punishment, or lobbying for laws
that would break the Internet if they passed, that's ipso facto
evidence you're using a definition of property that doesn't work.
This is where it's helpful to have working democracies and multiple
sovereign countries. If the world had a single, autocratic government,
the labels and studios could buy laws making the definition of
property be whatever they wanted. But fortunately there are still
some countries that are not copyright colonies of the US, and even
in the US, politicians
still seem to be afraid of actual voters, in sufficient numbers.
The people running the US may not like it when voters or other
countries refuse to bend to their will, but ultimately it's in all
our interest that there's not a single point of attack for people
trying to warp the law to serve their own purposes. Private property
is an extremely useful idea—arguably one of our greatest inventions.
So far, each new definition of it has brought us increasing material
It seems reasonable to suppose the newest one will
too. It would be a disaster if we all had to keep running an
obsolete version just because a few powerful people were too lazy
If you want to learn more about hunter gatherers I strongly
recommend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's The
Harmless People and The
Change in the definition of property is driven mostly by
technological progress, however, and since technological progress
is accelerating, so presumably will the rate of change in the
definition of property. Which means it's all the more important
for societies to be able to respond gracefully to such changes,
because they will come at an ever increasing rate.
As far as I know, the term "copyright colony" was first used
The state of technology isn't simply a function of
the definition of property. They each constrain the other. But
that being so, you can't mess with the definition of property without
affecting (and probably harming) the state of technology. The
history of the USSR offers a vivid illustration of that.
Thanks to Sam Altman and Geoff Ralston for reading drafts
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Named after the Tilia (Linden) tree commonly found throughout Argentina’s wine country, Tilia wines possess true varietal character and embody the rural Mendozean lifestyle. For years vineyard workers have used the flowers of the Tilia to make an herbal tea for enjoyment after a hard day’s work. The name Tilia is chosen in honor of this wine country tradition.
The Tilia wines are made at Bodegas Esmeralda, a Catena family winery in the Eastern region of Mendoza that is dedicated to making value wines for the Argentine domestic market. Tilia wines offer a unique combination of fruit sourced from the traditional Eastern region and the dynamic Southern region of Mendoza. The Eastern region of Mendoza enjoys warm, sunny days and cool desert nights. The grapes have very ripe, rich fruit flavors and excellent mid-palate depth and concentration. Bright sunshine and low temperatures of the Southern region lend a cool freshness. The fruit from this area shows clean acid balance and soft, supple tannins.
Tilia is dedicated to responsible use of the environment. The winemaking and viticultural team actively engage in many practices and programs throughout the community to implement sustainability. Water conservation and reuse, minimal use of pesticides and organic fertilization are several examples of the team’s dedication. Furthermore, the entire Tilia viticultural team attends regular sustainability training sessions at the National University of Cuyo and National Agricultural Research Institute. They take this training into the field to share and implement with their grower partners.
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6 IRISH GRATITUDE.
GRATTAN. E. S. PERRY, (Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.)
In 1782, on the 31st of May, the Irish Parliament voted the sum of £50,000 for purchasing an estate, and erecting a mansion thereon, to be settled on Grattan, and his heirs, as a reward for his exertions in the cause of Irish independence.
The circumstances attending this Parliamentary grant to the Right Hon. Henry Grattan were so extraordinary and unprecedented in the annals of our history, that we shall give a rapid sketch of the events that preceded and produced it.
In the year 1780, the resources of Great Britain seemed nearly exhausted by the long and unsuccessful war with America and France. Spain and Holland had recently joined her enemies. To crown her embarrassments, the armed neutrality of the Northern Powers of Europe was announced, which was little less than war in disguise. The invasion of Ireland was menaced.
At this crisis was formed the celebrated body of Irish Volunteers, consisting of many of the nobility, persons of the largest landed property, merchants and tradesmen of Ireland. Their avowed object, at first, was to guard against the dangers of foreign invasion. It soon, however, became evident, that the Volunteers constituted an armed deliberative body, which it was almost impossible to control, and dangerous to disband. The peril was greatly increased by their invitations to all parts of the country to reinforce them with delegates. Even Ulster, the loyal and peaceable Ulster, furnished its quota. Lord Charlemont might be considered the organiser and director of the military movements, and Mr. Grattan the suggester and framer of their political demands. The Volunteers now declared their intention to confine their efforts to two points: the defence of the empire, and the restoration of the Constitution.
But in 1781, they assumed a bolder tone, and declared that nothing could or ought to satisfy Ireland, but complete legislative independence and the solemn renunciation of Great Britain of any claim to legislative control. The most exciting language was used. Mr. Grattan declared he would not accept even Magna Charts itself, if it were the gift of Great Britain. Mr. Flood exhorted them to secure their liberties " They had the Constitution in their hands, they had the Constitution in their arms."
The House of Commons voted an address to the King stating "No power on earth can bind them, but the King, Lords and Commons of Ireland, and they would not part with their liberties but with their lives." Even the Earl of Carlisle, the Lord Lieutenant, privately informed the English Ministers he could not answer for the safety of Ireland if some considerable concessions were not made to the people. The Ministers, however, seemed infatuated, and the British House of Commons was prorogued without any redress of Irish grievances. An explosion might now be reasonably expected, and a civil war might have taken place, when fortunately, early in 1782, Lord North's Administration was removed, and the Rockingham Administration succeeded. Without loss of time, the Duke of Portland was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Marquis of Rockingham wrote a private letter to Lord Charlemont, assuring him that the Duke had received the most ample instructions on the part of his Majesty to make a complete renunciation of the Legislative authority of Great Britain, and to confirm the Legislative independence of Ireland. He conjured him by their ancient friendship, and still more by the patriotic love of his country to tranquillize Ireland, now all their grievances would be redressed. Mr. Fox wrote to Mr. Grattan to the same effect. The answers to each letter were firm, but most courteous and conciliatory.
On the 14th of April the Duke of Portland arrived in Dublin. On the 27th of May he opened both Houses with a speech from the Throne. The first paragraph will long be remembered in the history of Great Britain and Ireland.
On the return of the Commons to their own House, a tumult of joy was displayed and the utmost delight was expressed by every section of the Assembly.
Mr. Grattan rose to move the address. In the course of his speech, he observed, "The great magnanimity in the conduct of Britain is that every thing is given up unconditionally. This must for evermore remove suspicion. We have now recovered a Constitution, and our business is not to advance, but maintain it."
Mr. Flood said, "Nothing appeared to him, at present, that could disturb the general harmony."
The Address was carried, with only two dissentient voices.
No sooner was the Address declared to be carried than Mr. Bagenal, without the slightest communication with any party, rose, and testifying his great joy at the triumphant establishment of the Legislative Independence of Ireland, asked, "But to whom does the Empire owe all this? To a man who has resolved to take no reward from Government. Shall every body have what they ought except him alone, to whom every individual is so much indebted, and by whose example every individual in the universe may be so much benefited? He has saved the Empire from an iron age, and restored an unequivocal golden one." " I believe there is no one, who would not blush to think that a Grattan's child might point to a statue or monument, and say, that was my father, your benefactor's only reward."
He then gave notice that on the next day, he would move for a Committee to state what sum we should grant for the purchase of an estate, and building a suitable mansion for our illustrious benefactor.
On May 30, Mr. Bagenal moved in the Committee, "that £100,000. be granted to purchase an estate, and building a mansion for Henry Grattan, Esq. and the heirs of his body."
Sir Henry Cavendish said, "the nation could not bear such a sum, nor would Mr. Grattan's own delicacy permit him to accept it. Half the money moved for would purchase £2000 per annum, and £10,000 would be amply sufficient to erect a house, and provide a proper equipage."
Sir Boyle Roche observed, "England rewarded the Duke of Marlborough, and she rewarded the Earl of Chatham, but we have more abundant cause to reward our great patriot, and if yesterday it was right to vote £100,000 to England for restoring our rights, surely this day it is right to vote the same sum to him who caused the restoration."
Mr. Bagenal then rose and said, "When he made the motion, he could not for the dignity of the nation think of a less sum, but as gentlemen differed from him, and as it came from Mr. Grattan's particular friends, he should alter his motion to £50,000."
Mr. Conolly was happy to inform the House, "that the Lord Lieutenant did most perfectly coincide in their generous intentions, so congenial to his own feelings, and that the memory of such great events might be perpetuated, he wished to relinquish to the nation's esteem that house in the park, which Parliament has lately purchased for the country residence of his Majesty's representative."
Rt. Hon. Col. Fitzpatrick, (Secretary for Ireland) said, "The power of rewarding merit was one of the noblest branches of the Royal prerogative of the Crown. He could wish to have seen it come from the Royal hand. But as the merit of the man was unprecedented, he hoped that the present reward would not be admitted as a precedent in future."
On the following day, May 31, the House agreed to the report from the Committee, "that an humble address be presented to his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, praying him to lay before his Majesty their address, that he would be pleased to order £50,000. to be issued and granted to the Rt Hon. Henry Grattan, &c. &c. and that the House would make good the same."
Thus terminated this remarkable affair, in which the House of Commons, and the Lord Lieutenant seemed to compete with eachother in securing popularity, by the recognition of the services of Mr. Grattan, and their propositions for heaping honours on him. But Grattan would not accept any donative, which did not emanate from the people, or their representatives in Parliament.
We shall conclude our account with the following excellent observation, extracted from Hardy's "Life of Lord Charlemont." Hume says "that the Revolution of 1688, was accomplished by the first persons in the country, in rank and intellect, leading the people. Hence it ended in liberty, not in confusion. The Revolution in Ireland in 1782, was formed in a similar manner." Vol. i. p. 387.
The Corporation of Dublin requested Mr. Grattan to sit for his portrait to adorn their Council Chamber.
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6003 IRISH GRATITUDE.
Henry Grattan stands (c.) in profile to the r. facing a deputation of Irish notables who are making the presentation of the money voted to him in the Irish Parliament for his services in securing Irish independence. At the head of the deputation is a short man, the Irish Speaker, E. S. Pery, in his Speaker's wig and robes. He holds out a paper inscribed, Grant of the Sum of £100000 to H. Grattan Esq' and saying, To you 5' as the deliverer of our Country & the establisher of our Peace; the Senate & People of Ireland dedicate this Small token of their Gratitude. Behind the Speaker are two men, arm-in-arm, both wearing ribbons, others crowd behind them. A prominent figure in profile to the l., very lean, resembles caricatures of Flood.
Behind Grattan (l.) is a larger crowd of the Dublin populace, all kneeling, with hands held together as if in prayer. They are headed by a monk, behind him are a man in broad-trimmed hat and beard, probably a Jew, and a dissenting minister with lank hair and clerical bands. Other conspicuous figures are a little chimney-sweep in ragged clothes, his brush under his arm, a stout woman with a basket (? of oysters) on her head, a barber with his shaving-dish under his arm, a watchman with staff and lantern, a soldier, a tailor with scissors under his arm. Behind are buildings.
The sum first moved (on 30 May) was £100,000, but this was reduced to £5o,ooo.
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Oh that's so cool! I actually can recall a documentary I saw about japanese schoolkids who learn math with that thing and can super fast calculate in their head.
That's so cool! I learned that for about 7 months when I was 8 but never got around to doing long arithmetics in my head... :-(
R: Yeah, some kids are ridiculously good at it! That reminds me of something else I should draw a cartoon about...hee!I: I actually never got very good at it because I could never really properly visualize the abacus in my head, and I kept losing track of what I was doing after about 5 numbers. Too bad!
Wow, quirky but impressive if someone can actually do that! Nice comparison btw with ait guitar hahaha.
Yeah, it's weird, eh. There's nothing on the table, but you just move your fingers as if you're calculating with an abacus. Funny. But I guess air guitars are also pretty nerdy! I once watched an awesome documentary about the air guitar competition in Finland!! Hilarious and fun!
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Content provided by windscreenschester.com – Chester windscreen chip repair
A primer on basic understanding of auto repair services is really a must if you are going to drive a car. This article is filled with tips that will help you can use to keep your vehicle over the years.
Always try to figure out the problem with your car’s problems yourself before you bring it in for repairs. You probably already know that a few mechanics will come with lies to charge more money.
Take your mechanic for a drive to show him work on your car. This will help your mechanic see the same problems you are having. This is a much clearer way to illustrate the problem instead of just telling them.
Be sure a mechanic has proper certification. You want to see if they know how to work on vehicles properly. This indicates that they are properly trained and reliable.
Don’t allow people to sell auto parts from anyone claiming that they’ll last forever. This is often simply a scheme for unscrupulous parts dealers to get more money out of you. One example is that some vehicles say their transmission fluid.This shouldn’t have to be changed quite as often as standard fluid, but you still should change it approximately every 80,000 miles.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions when you’re getting your vehicle repaired. Any company worth its salt will answer what you ask.
If your headlights look dimmer than they used to, they might just be dirty. Clean your car’s headlights and taillights with a glass cleaning agent to get them as clean as possible.
Assemble an auto repair tool kit and put it inside of your trunk. Your car probably came with equipment needed for changing a tire. A good lug wrench and a jack are essential. You should have a few screwdrivers with various shapes as well as different wrenches like for this kit.
Don’t put water where the windshield washer compartment. Water is great for the body, but it may damage the compartment since it is designed to use special fluid. You should check this on a regular basis for refill needs. Do not delay when the compartment is empty.
Go through your owner’s manual and make sure to mark important pages. You could even find that reading the answer to a problem in your car manual and fix the issue.
Referrals are a great method for finding an auto mechanic. Ask the people you know for their vehicles to.You can find out great information about the quality of service and value that way. People can tell you what type of things they had to deal with and whether the mechanic was honest or not.
It may be a recall you didn’t know about. The manufacturer may fix your car free of charge.
While most mechanics can be trusted, you don’t want to be paying too much money for the repairs needed. Look for mechanics that specialize in your car’s make. These shops can better understand how to perform the repairs for your car needs.
Always get your car repaired at a shop that is authorized by the manufacturer. Going to other auto repair shop may void all or part of the warranty.
Pay attention to your car’s wiper blades. You may need new blades if the ones you have are making noises.
Ask your trusted friends for a recommendation for a good auto-repair service in the local area.This is really a great way to locate a good mechanic because you know first hand that they have done good work in the past. This is better than giving your vehicle with mechanics who have no recommendations from trusted individuals.
Keep on hand all of your car’s history. You want these with you when you go to get repairs done; a great place to store them in the glove compartment. The auto repair professionals will want to see any records. This will allow them assess the issues are quickly.
Not many people take time to read their car’s manual. You really ought to study the manual and learn how to use it so you can locate useful information quickly. Your manual contains everything you should know about maintaining your car and performing small repairs yourself.
When you are getting a quote for repairs from an auto mechanic, get them to separate the cost of the parts from the labor costs. This will help you compare quotes between two shops. The cost of parts should be similar, so it will be labor that you truly compare.
Consistency is key in the auto repair shops. Stick to a shop that has gained your trust instead of going to multiple places for repairs. Different shops won’t have records of the previous work done on issues. They could also charge different amounts that cause you more; don’t let this happen.
Having a car means having to keep it in good, working condition. Too many people do not understand what steps to take to have repairs performed on their cars. If you keep this advice in mind, you’ll have no issues keeping your car on the road.
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Self-Localization of Wireless Sensor Nodes by Means of Autonomous Mobile Robots
Source: University of Padova
In general, a wireless sensor network consists of a large number of low-cost, static nodes that organize themselves in order to deliver events notification to a sink node in a multi-hop fashion. Typically, nodes are battery driven and are limited in terms of processing, storing and communication capabilities. On the contrary, an autonomous mobile robot is an expensive object, equipped with advanced interfaces and capable of performing complex tasks. The complementary capabilities of these two technologies can be integrated in a synergetic manner not only to enhance the performance of each single system, but also to create novel applications and services.
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Ask Father Hardon
Vol. 5 - #3, May / June 1999
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Q. Is it correct to say that pets do
not go to Heaven after death because animals do not have immortal souls? Are
religious medals for pets wrong? Do they lead to misunderstanding about animals,
souls, and Heaven? I.R., Michigan
A. Pets, as pets, do not go to Heaven. But animals and such like beings
may be said to be brought to Heaven because, after the last day, they can
serve as part of the joys of Heaven. In other words, animals and such like
creatures may be said to be brought to Heaven to serve as part of our Heavenly
joys. Clearly, we do not need pets to provide happiness in Heaven. But pets
and such like creatures will be brought to Heaven to become part of our creaturely
happiness in the Heavenly kingdom. Consequently, we may say that animals and
such like creatures may be brought to Heaven by God to enable us to enjoy
them as part of our creaturely happiness in Heavenly beatitude. Absolutely
speaking, medals and such like religious articles may be part of Heavenly
beatitude. Certainly, they do not serve the same purpose as other creatures
do in Heaven. However, while they do not serve the purpose which medals do
on earth, they may nevertheless be part of Gods mysterious providence in
our Heavenly beatitude.
Religious medals for pets are not wrong.
The whole question is whether an object, like a religious medal, is used for
an appropriate purpose. There is nothing per se wrong with having a religious
object on an animal. Clearly, a religious object is not necessary for animals.
But there is nothing inherently wrong with having a religious object on or
near an irrational being.
Certainly a religious medal attached to or associated
with an irrational animal can be misunderstood. We cannot say that a religious
object helps an animal because somehow the animal is spiritually inspired
by the religious object. But there is nothing wrong with having a religious
object on or near an animal. The benefit would always come through the mind
of some intelligent being who is inspired by the religious object.
Q. What is the difference between
the human soul and spirit? S.L., Minnesota
A. A human soul is a spirit. Why? Because every human
soul is a spiritual being since it is composed of a substance which is not
material. However, a human soul must be in the friendship of God in order
to be truly spiritual, not only in its nature, but in its purpose.
Q. Is it good to place
the tabernacle in a room adjoining the main church instead of in a central
place of honor in the sanctuary? A priest told us that it is an ancient tradition
for the tabernacle to be located in a chapel separate from the main body of
the church; St. Peters in Rome does not have a tabernacle in the center of
the church. J.M.S., California
A. The widespread desacrilization
of tabernacles has practically changed their purpose. From the earliest days
of the Church, a tabernacle contained the Real Presence of Christ. As such,
a tabernacle was where the living Christ was reserved. Already in the sixteenth
century, there were something like one hundred definitions of a tabernacle.
What the denial of the Real Presence did was to deprive a tabernacle of its
inherent sacredness. A tabernacle always was the place where the living Jesus
Christ was believed to be Present in the fullness of His divinity, no doubt
hidden behind His sacred humanity. As faith in the Real Presence either disappeared
or became obscured, tabernacles lost their inherent sacredness. The following
statement may seem incredible. But for many still professed Catholics, there
is no Real Presence of the living Christ on earth. Given this fact, the very
meaning of tabernacle has disappeared from the minds of millions of once professed
Vol. 5 - #3, May / June 1999, p. 50
Copyright © 1999 by Inter Mirifica
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Discussion about math, puzzles, games and fun. Useful symbols: ÷ × ½ √ ∞ ≠ ≤ ≥ ≈ ⇒ ± ∈ Δ θ ∴ ∑ ∫ • π ƒ -¹ ² ³ °
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I understand that but what is Mathematica?
I was talking about the code for the program which generated those databases.
There is no code, it is just a small estimate of the size of the files he is trying to make. The calculations are trivial.
You didn't type it all up yourself,did you? Maybe you just used M and don't cinsider that a code.
What is the meaning of OP?
Each character of the 146 611 800 numbers is one byte of a text file. There are 6 characters per number:
At first bobbym said :
How can a file containing only 146 611 800 numbers be so large??
The 12 MB file might take 400 seconds that is about 7 minutes.
It would take me many hours to upload them. My provider does not give me a lot of upload speed.
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Companies with top-notch IT security are still vulnerable to having their networks penetrated and their information stolen as hackers look to hit their subsidiaries, suppliers, and even law firms that don't practice good network defense.
Small subcontractors or law firms can often access the networks and intellectual property of a large firm although they don't necessarily have the security infrastructure of the big firms.
"The bad guys have really switched to things like going after third parties, places where the company's data is stored or manipulated," Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer with the cybersecurity firm Mandiant told Killer Apps yesterday. "That's why we've seen, over the last couple of years, [hackers targeting] law firms. You can't get the data from the original source, so get it from somebody that has a copy or is processing it."
Law firms -- which, ironically, are often the organizations tasked with helping to defend a company's intellectual property -- are "a very target-rich environment, their IT is generally not up to the level it needs to be, the victims themselves are very reluctant to implement any of the defenses that would work against this sort of thing," said Bejtlich. "All the confidentiality and privacy tends to work against seeing what's happening [on a network]. If you tell a law firm partner, ‘Oh yeah, we're going to monitor your computer and see everything that's coming to and from that and everything that's on the hard drive'...that's completely antithetical to their culture; it's pretty much the perfect place to steal data from."
This problem is exacerbated by the fact that so many businesses are connected to each other's networks or have access to each other's information -- over the normal course of doing business -- despite the massive disparity between the best players in the private sector and the business without much in the way of security standards.
Gen. Keith Alexander, chief of U.S. Cyber Command and the NSA, lamented this disparity in the private sector's cyber security standards today.
"We have a problem, especially when you look at different sectors. So the banking industry and the higher-end defense-industrial base are pretty good. They're right there at the top," said Alexander during a speech at a Symantec-sponsored cyber security conference in Washington. "Then you go out to some companies that are getting exploited, and they don't know what the threat looks like, they don't know what they should do. And some of those are in critical infrastructure."
Alexander reiterated his desire to see the private sector -- especially so-called critical infrastructure providers like banks, defense companies, and energy and transportation firms -- adopt cyber security best practices to quickly share information in the event of a cyber attack. Legislation that would deal with these issues, and several more, has been stalled in the Senate since August.
A host of other government cybersecurity officials today echoed Alexander's point about the massive gap in security standards throughout the private sector, even among critical infrastructure providers.
Even in sectors like the defense industry that are better on the whole at implementing security standards, there is massive disparity in security practices.
"We do see some sectors who are in general more sophisticated. Now, if we're talking about the defense-industrial base, what do you mean by that?" said Jenny Menna, acting director of the Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team during the same conference. "They're the big companies that we can all name off the top of our heads. But then there are little companies six levels down on the supply chain, and so I don't think there is a consistent posture between the really big guys and the small companies."
She added that, among critical infrastructure providers, banks tend to be "extremely sophisticated. I sometimes refer to them as the AP class . . . Why is that? Because they're protecting their money."
Brian Varine, director of cyber incident management at the Department of Energy, added that banks have high security standards because "they have had tangible loss" when their networks have been penetrated. However, "if I go into your company and I steal all your intellectual property, it's still there, you don't know it's gone ‘til five years down the road and your competitor is kicking your butt because they've taken your product, reverse-engineered it, and produced a bigger, better, cheaper product."
Happy Election Day. Here's your cyber threat of the week.
What's a growing trend among hackers looking to get into firms whose networks are well defended? Hijacking their IT infrastructure and processes to deploy malware.
In one case uncovered in the last three months, hackers developed a fake upgrade to a U.S. based telecommunications company's Internet routers. That upgrade actually contained malware; once the firm's IT staff distributed the upgrade, that malware was pushed to the computers that connected to the company's networks.
"We had an adversary group that was inside of a company -- they had been there for a while -- and we discovered that they had identified the part of the company that did router upgrades," said Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at the cyber security firm Mandiant.
"What these guys had done is gotten a copy of the image [of the router's software design], they had decompiled it, they had then added malicious features into that router image and pre-positioned it where the IT [administrators] for the company would then copy it out to the [firm's] routers," where they would be free to roam throughout the firm's network.
How did hackers steal the router plans?
"You can get them in two places. One is you can get them from the enterprise itself -- they have their repository of images ready to go -- or if you have a Cisco connection online, you can download it yourself. While it's sort of a niche affair, there are people who specialize in ripping apart Cisco [router] images," said Bejtlich.
Defending against this is relatively simple, he said.
"If you validated the signature" associated with the router upgrade to find out whether it is legit, "I guarantee you'd catch it," said Bejtlich.
While this hack caught was caught just before the company's IT administrators were about to distribute the upgrade, Bejtlich said that other companies are probably not as lucky.
After admitting that the U.S. military has long trailed the private sector in technological innovation, the Air Force Research Laboratory is hoping to set up a program to temporarily swap employees with Silicon Valley giants to tap some of the valley's creativity.
"There are a lot of advances and investigation in the private sector, and it's just hard to keep up when you're not in close communication with the folks that are involved," Jennifer Ricklin, chief technologist at the AFRL told Killer Apps during an Oct. 3 interview. "I'm thinking about tablets and smart phones and the big data issues and cloud computing -- all of these things that are transforming how our society operates and communicates."
(The AFRL is the service's far-out research arm that partners with private companies to develop everything from cutting-edge aircraft engines to new stealth tech.)
Ricklin went on to say that it doesn't make sense for the slower-moving government -- which she described as being set up to buy weapons on an industrial age model not an information age one -- to spend mountains of cash trying to keep up with some of the world's fastest-moving companies when it can simply collaborate with them.
For example, rather than develop its own unique products in mobile and cloud computing, the military should learn how to quickly tweak the latest commercial products to meet the military's unique security requirements.
"We have higher security needs than the average teenager does when it comes to communications tools," said Ricklin. "So we are actually interested in learning as much as possible about the fundamentals that go along with all this information technology and new devices and doing research, perhaps collaboratively [with the high-tech companies], on how we can increase the security so that we could use those [new technologies] on the Air Force side."
"We have a lot of insight into security requirements, and we can share with them some of what we know about that, and in exchange we would be able to have the very latest and greatest but with all of that security already implemented so that it would be suitable for military use," added Ricklin. "We really are trying to position ourselves to get ahead of this bubble" instead of "trailing behind when it comes to these technologies."
So how is this done? Well, since last spring, AFRL officials have been visiting Silicon Valley institutions like Google, Apple, HP, Stanford University, and SRI International to conduct "exploratory talks" about how the military can stay on top of and tap into the R&D these firms are conducting.
The AFRL is looking at everything from personnel swaps to cooperative research projects with both Google and SRI, according to Ricklin.
In the near term, lab employees may soon be able to take advantage of a program allowing them to take a month-long sabbatical to work at a company while being paid by the Air Force. All of this will help foster communications between businesses and the military -- something that disappeared in the decade after 9/11, argues Ricklin.
"Where there used to be an easy interchange between the private sector and the government, it's just so much more complicated," said Ricklin. "Communication's the lifeblood of technology transfer, and it's been pretty well established that ideas move with people much better than they do with paper. You can write a hundred papers but it doesn't often have the same impact as sitting down next to somebody and working with them for a period of time."
The big question is, how much culture shock will employees from the government and tech sides be in for during these swaps?
John Reed reports on the frontiers of cyber war and the latest in military technology for Killer Apps.
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Talk to kids candidly about dangers
Published On: Jul 24 2012 06:55:52 AM CDT Updated On: Jul 24 2012 04:38:39 AM CDT
July 24, 2012: When it comes to parents trying to warn their kids about danger, it might feel like talking to a wall. However, it is crucial that children not only hear but also understand your message. Courtney Gilmore reports.
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July 25, 2011 Political ideology and partisanship don't play much of a role in whether a state considers extending in-state college tuition to undocumented immigrants, according to a new study in the American Journal of Education.
Over the last decade 12 states have passed bills expanding in-state tuition. Another 10 states gave such bills serious legislative consideration, even though they failed to pass. Michael McLendon, a dean and professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, wanted to find out what factors might put such a controversial initiative on the legislative agenda.
"Against the backdrop of an increasingly restrictive environment for immigration at the federal level, why have some states considered adopting laws that cut across the political grain…?" write McLendon and his colleagues, Christine Mokher and Stella Flores. "Curiously, the topic has attracted little empirical attention."
For their study, McLendon and his colleagues surveyed state legislative activity on the issue from 1999 to 2007, looking for political, economic, or demographic characteristics common to states that consider in-state tuition bills. They found that states with a large foreign-born population, higher relative unemployment, and a higher percentage of women in the legislature were more likely than others to consider tuition bills. Surprisingly, states considered politically liberal, and those where legislatures are controlled by Democrats, were no more likely than others to take up tuition legislation.
That ideology and partisanship play little role is a "noteworthy nonfinding," McLendon says, and it raises interesting questions about how partisanship affects education policy at the state level.
As for why female legislators matter, the researchers point to previous studies showing that female lawmakers tend to favor policies that expand civil liberties for traditionally disadvantaged groups. That tendency is likely in play for in-state tuition bills, which greatly expand college access for immigrants. Higher unemployment likely matters because expanding in-state tuition is often presented as a workforce development plan, which high-unemployment states may be inclined to initiate.
The study also found that the number of Latinos in a state's legislature is not associated with in-state tuition consideration. It's unclear exactly why that is, but McLendon and his team surmise that Latinos generally hold too small a percentage of legislative seats to strongly influence the legislative agenda.
The tuition issue is likely to remain an important one for the foreseeable future, McLendon says. In 2005 alone, more than 65,000 children of undocumented workers graduated from U.S. high schools.
"Discerning the conditions under which [in-state tuition] policies become positioned for legislative consideration in some places may help shed light on the prospects for expanded postsecondary access for undocumented students elsewhere," the researchers write. "Understanding the origins of these policies also may help policy makers better anticipate future claims on state coffers." -
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- Michael K. McLendon, Christine G. Mokher, Stella M. Flores. Legislative Agenda Setting for In-State Resident Tuition Policies: Immigration, Representation, and Educational Access. American Journal of Education, 2011; 117 (4): 563 DOI: 10.1086/660770
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Archib on Family Tree Circles
Journals and Posts
Thomas (Wm?) Myers came from (unknown - likely Yorkshire) in 1824 to Sidney/Trenton/Northumberland Ontario, Canada. He married Harriet Burton and they had eight children: Wellington, Francis, Thomas Watson, George, Newton, Helena, Silas, William. My G-Grandfather Thomas Watson Myers married Elizabeth Maharg in 1875, and my Grandmother Leah Naomi Myers was born in 1880 in Gravenhurst, Ontario.
John Milne and Margaret (Anderson) Milne came from Aberdeenshire to Elora, Wellington County in 1836 with seven of their Children - Helen, Margaret, Fairly, John, David, Alexander and my G-G-Grandmother Christian. Christian gave birth to my G-Grandfather, Alexander Gardiner Milne in 1837. Alexander married Anne Milne (d. of James Milne and Annie Mann) in 1858. And, on it goes...
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(Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the December 2005 issue of Scientific American magazine. We are posting it because of related news regarding swine flu.)
The 1918 pandemic flu virus is back, at least in the lab. After fishing out the virus's genes from preserved tissue samples, Jeffery Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and his colleagues report in the October 6, 2005, Nature that the virus was not a combination of human and avian flu strains, as was the case for other, milder pandemics.
Rather the 1918 virus probably leaped whole into the human population from another host. That means the H5N1 avian flu [at the time] raging throughout Asia and spreading to Europe might be able to do the same. In fact, it may be deadlier. In the October 7 Science, Terrence Tumpey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described the recreation of the 1918 virus from the genome sequence. The revivified killer was lethal to mice initially infected with as few as 1,000 virus particles, whereas some H5N1 virus isolates have killed mice infected with just 10 or 15 particles.
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A writer and preacher, b. 20 September 1822, in Devonshire, England; d. at Roehampton, 13 April 1893. He was the son of Sir John Taylor Coleridge, a Judge of the King's Bench, and brother of John Duke, Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of England. His grandfather, Captain James Coleridge, was brother to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet and philosopher. He was sent to Eton at the age of thirteen and thence to Oxford, having obtained a scholarship at Trinity College. His university career was distinguished; in 1844 he took the highest honours in a fellowship at Oriel, then the blue ribbon of the university. In 1848 he received Anglican orders. The Tractarian movement being then at its height, Coleridge, with many of his tutors and friends, joined its ranks and was an ardent disciple of Newman till his conversion. He was one of those who started "The Guardian" newspaper as the organ of the High Church partly being for a time its Oxford sub-editor. Gradually various incidents, the secession of Newman, Dr. Hampden's appointment as Regius Professor of Theology, the condemnation and suspension of Dr. Pusey, the condemnation and deprivation of W.G. Ward, and the decision in the celebrated Gorham case, seriously shook his confidence in the Church of England. In consequence Dr. Hawkins, Provost of Oriel, declined to admit him as a college tutor, and he therefore accepted a curacy at Alphinton, a parish recently separated from that of Ottery St. Mary, the home of his family, where his father had built for him a house and school. Here, with most congenial work, he was in close connection with those to whom he was already bound by a singular affection. His doubts as to his religious position continued, however, to grow and early in 1852 he determined that he could no longer remain in the Anglican Communion.
On Quinquagesima Sunday (February 22) he bade farewell to Alphington, and in April, after a retreat at Clapham under the Redemptorist Fathers he was received into the Catholic Church. Determined to be a priest he proceeded in the following September to Rome and entered Accademia dei Nobili, where he had for companions several of his Oxford friends, and others, including the future Cardinals Manning and Vaughan. He was ordained in 1856 and six months later took the degree of D.D. In the summer of 1857 he returned to England, and on the 7th of September entered the Jesuit Novitiate, which was then at Beaumont Lodge, Old Windsor, his novice master being Father Thomas Tracy Clarke, for whom to the end of his life he entertained the highest admiration and esteem. In 1859 he was sent to the Theological College of St. Bruno's, North Wales, as a professor of Scripture, and remained there until, in 1865, he was called to London to become the first Jesuit editor of "The Month", a magazine started under other management in the previous year. Then commenced a course of indefatigable literary labour by as which he is best known. Besides the editorship of "The Month", to which, after the death of Father William Maher, in 1877, he added that of "The Messenger", and for which he was one of the most prolific writers, Father Coleridge projected and carried on the well known Quarterly Series to which he himself largely contributed, both with his great work "The Public Life of Our Lord" and others, such as "The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier" and "The Life and Letters of St. Teresa". Worthy of mention also is his Harmony of the Gospels, "Vita Vitae Nostrae", a favourite book for meditation, published also in an English version. Studies based on the New Testament were his work of predilection, a taste which seems to have been acquired, at least in part from his old Oxford tutor, Isaac Williams. For a time he was also superior of his religious brethren in Farm Street, London. In 1881 failing health obliged him to resign "The Month" to another Oxonian, Father Richard F. Clarke, but he continued to labour on "The Life of Our Lord" which he earnestly desired to finish. In 1890 a paralytic seizure compelled him to withdraw to the novitiate at Roehampton, where, with indomitable spirit, he succeeded in completing his magnum opus before passing away. The chief sources for his life are articles in The Month, June, 1893, by his friend James Patterson, Bishop of Emmaus, and Father Richard F. Clarke, S.J.
APA citation. (1908). Henry James Coleridge. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04097c.htm
MLA citation. "Henry James Coleridge." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04097c.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph P. Thomas.
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Remembering Officer Daniel Faulkner: Murdered by Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal on December 9, 1981
Mumia Abu Jamal 26 years ago today on December 9, 1981. The Black Panthers were a communist organization that followed Mao Zedong.
Daniel Faulkner's widow Maureen was was on FOX News today and told how Mumia's supporters spit on her and persecute her. Arrogant, vain movie stars also defend this criminal instead of supporting his widow.
The site explains:
On December 9, 1981, at approximately 3:55 a.m., Officer Danny Faulkner, a five year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department, made a traffic stop at Locust Street near Twelfth Street. The car stopped by Officer Faulkner was being driven by William Cook. After making the stop, Danny called for assistance on his police radio and requested a police wagon to transport a prisoner. Unbeknownst to him, William Cook's brother, Wesley (aka Mumia Abu-Jamal) was across the street. As Danny attempted to handcuff William Cook, Mumia Abu-Jamal ran from across the street and shot the officer in the back. Danny turned and was able to fire one shot that struck Abu-Jamal in the chest; the wounded officer then fell to the pavement. Mumia Abu-Jamal stood over the downed officer and shot him four more times at close range, once directly in the face. Mumia Abu-Jamal was found still at the scene of the shooting by officers who arrived there within seconds. The murderer was slumped against the curb in front of his brother's car. In his possession was a .38 caliber revolver that records showed Mumia had purchased months earlier. The chamber of the gun had five spent cartridges. A cab driver, as well as other pedestrians, had witnessed the brutal slaying and identified Mumia Abu-Jamal as the killer both at the scene and during his trial. On July 2, 1982, after being tried before a jury of ten whites and two blacks, Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of murdering Officer Danny Faulkner. The next day, the jury sentenced him to death after deliberating for two hours. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania heard the defendant's appeals and upheld the conviction on March 6, 1989.
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Geysers are hot springs which periodically erupt, releasing hot water and into the air. Geysers are amazing natural phenomenons. When geysers erupt they blast thousands of gallons of boiling hot water up to hundred of feet or more in the air. It's quite the sight to see. If you do not have the chance to see this phenomenon in reality, don't worry, you always can get a poster. Having a high quality poster like this hanging in your home, will almost be like seeing it in person.
Geysers are not common in many places, they are rare and can only be found in a few dozen locations including New Zealand, Iceland, USA, Chile and Russia. Many of the thousand geysers in the world can be found in the Yellowstone Nationalpark in Wyoming, USA. There you can find one of the most beautiful geysers, the Grand Prismatic Spring. This geyser is the perfect example of how stunning geysers can be. With it's bright colors it makes an amazing poster or art print. Such a poster or print will take your breath away, it's so beautiful.
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How effective are terrorist rehabilitation programs?
Recent attacks in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia have left some wondering whether attempts to turn militants away from terrorism have failed.
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Police in Indonesia were once lauded for their track record of rehabilitating hardened terrorists, turning them into informants and aides. But then a graduate of one of those programs turned back to terrorism and died in a spectacular shoot-out with police in August.
Saudi Arabia was also considered a good model of rehabilitating terrorists. But in January the kingdom disclosed that 11 graduates of the program had been rearrested for joining militant groups. [Editor’s note: The original version of this story contained a reference to an attacker who detonated a suicide bomb near a Saudi prince, and said the man graduated from Saudi Arabia’s terrorism rehabilitation program. He was not a graduate of the program.]
Many countries around the world – including Pakistan, Yemen, and the United States – are struggling with the issue of what to do with terrorism suspects in their custody. With Indonesia and Saudi Arabia's models seemingly compromised, rehabilitation has become both a pressing and confounding issue.
Recent attacks in Indonesia have generated much criticism of that country's rehabilitation efforts. But it doesn't mean the entire system needs to be thrown out, International Crisis Group's senior advisor for Asia Sidney Jones recently told The Jakarta Post.
But Saudi Arabia's system is also in need of a major overhaul, argues Tawfik Hamid, in a blog for conservative US news outlet Newsmax.
The Christian Science Monitor reported last month that Human Rights Watch criticized Saudi Arabia's rehabilitation program for violating international law by detaining people indefinitely without bringing charges against them or convicting them of a crime. The program also doesn't have a perfect track record. Two former Guantánamo Bay detainees and graduates of Saudi Arabia's program have joined Yemen's Al Qaeda branch, the Monitor reported earlier this year.
It's not just an issue the Saudis and Indonesians will have to grapple with, as this report in Pakistan's Daily Times newspaper reveals:
Yemen has also created its own rehabilitation program, similar to Saudi Arabia's, in an attempt to convince the US to repatriate Yemeni Guantánamo detainees. Human rights groups are skeptical of Yemen's program, warning that "the programs ... don't always translate into practical transformation," the Monitor reported in June.
It is also an important issue for the US, since many of the detainees held at Guantánamo Bay could be released into countries where rehabilitation will be difficult, argued a recent opinion piece in the Monitor:
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Notice of Risk Associated with Meningococcal Disease and Hepatitis B
Wisconsin Act 61 of 2003 requires that annually, each student residing in a college or university residence hall 1) be informed of the risks of meningococcal disease and hepatitis B, 2) be required to report whether they have been immunized against either disease and 3) when not immunized against one or both illnesses, be required to sign a waiver of vaccination indicating they know the risks, and choose not to be vaccinated.
Meningococcal meningitis is a serious disease involving inflammation of the coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Even when treated, death occurs in about 10% of cases and permanent disability in about 20%. The disease caused by various strains of the meningococcal bacteria occurs about 1.44 times per 100,000 in the general population and 1.74 times per 100,000 students enrolled in 4-year colleges. Risk in the college age group is highest among students living in residence halls, occurring about 3.24 times per 100,000 compared to 0.96 times per 100,000 for students living off-campus. This disease is spread mainly by sharing of secretions from the mouth or nose, which can occur from kissing, sharing cigarettes, drinks or food, using the same eating utensils, or inhaling coughed secretions of another person.
Two meningococcal vaccines are available in the US.
Meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine (MPSV4) has been available since the 1970's and Meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4) was licensed in 2005. Both vaccines are 90% effective in preventing 4 of the 5 types of meningococcal disease. Even though meningococcal vaccines are not 100% effective they do provide protection for many people. The MCV4 vaccine is expected to give better, longer-lasting protection and to be more effective in preventing person to person spread of the disease than the MPSV4 vaccine.
You can receive the meningococcal vaccine at University Health & Counseling Services. It is administered by a single injection. Please call 472-1300 for current cost or to make an appointment.
If you have been exposed to someone you know who has meningitis, get medical assistance immediately even though you were vaccinated. Antibiotics used to prevent the spread of meningococcus are required for known exposure even if you have received the vaccine. If you experience symptoms like a fever of 100.4 degrees or higher, stiff neck, headache, confusion, get immediate assistance at the nearest medical facility.
Hepatitis B is a viral illness that attacks the liver. About 10% of people become infected over a lifetime. While the initial illness is rarely fatal, it can lead to serious liver damage known as cirrhosis, which can lead to death. The infecting virus is transmitted through sharing of body fluids, including saliva, blood, vaginal secretions, and semen. The most common means of transmission are sharing eating or drinking utensils, inhaling the cough of another person, kissing, and sexual intercourse. Infection can also be transmitted by getting tattoos, acupuncture, or piercings and, rarely, from transfusion with infected blood.
Hepatitis B vaccine is available at University Health & Counseling Services. It is administered by three injections, the first two a month apart and the third four months later. To attain proper protection, it is important to receive all three injections. Call 472-1300 for an appointment, cost or other information.
Word of Caution: No vaccine is 100% effective. Engaging in risky behavior, i.e. sharing body fluids with others, makes us susceptible to many illnesses. Therefore students should be cautioned against engaging in any of the risk behaviors indicated above. Infections can be spread even when the infected person is not feeling sick. There is no substitute for good judgment.
This site is not meant to replace the advice of a health care or counseling professional. You should not rely on any information on these pages, or information generated for you by this site, to replace consultations with qualified professionals regarding your own specific situation. Some links take you to a source outside of UHCS. The owners of that site, not UHCS, are responsible for the content.
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- Undergraduate Program
- Graduate Program
- Honors & Awards
The Department of Physics supports the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) by providing numerous positions for undergraduates with our faculty and in our research labs. Specific opportunities and general information about the UROP program including funding opportunities, guidelines, and resources can be found at http://web.mit.edu/urop/.
Physics majors who would like to participate in a UROP should complete the following:
- Visit the UROP website for opportunities, guidelines and resources.
- Once a UROP is chosen, complete a UROP proposal as directed below.
- Submit the UROP proposal by the deadline as printed by the UROP Office.
Physics UROP Proposals
One of the first steps in attaining a UROP is writing and submitting a proposal. When submitting a proposal within Physics, you are encouraged to explain how your UROP experience fits into the overall research picture in the sub field of physics in which you are interested. Your UROP write-up should detail this to an audience with some knowledge of science but not a detailed knowledge of your sub field. This means that terms like Ising model, SO galaxy, optical molasses, etc. should be explained the first time you use them, along with their significance.
Three major concerns should be addressed in the proposal:
- The general field of your research and where your group's research fits in.
- How your particular project fits into the group's research.
- How you plan to attack your project, including an assessment of what you might be able to accomplish if all goes well.
You can probably do this in a single page with one paragraph devoted to each of the above issues. If this is a first time project for you, you can be pretty sketchy on the details. Conversely, if this is a continuation of a previous UROP, the UROP Coordinator, Professor Nergis Mavalvala, would like to know how this project builds on what you've accomplished in the past.
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Syrian opposition leader Moaz al-Khatib’s call for dialogue ought to impell all parties to the conflict – both local and foreign – to assess the status quo so that a rare opportunity to end an increasingly deadly war is not squandered.
Next month the Syrian crisis enters its third year. An uprising that began peacefully to demand political and economic reforms was met with the only means the government of President Bashar Assad knows: brutal force.
What was hoped to be another chapter in the Arab Spring soon turned sour and the revolt plunged into armed confrontations that saw the country slide into a civil war.
A divided international community stood helpless to resolve the crisis and secure the demands of a large section of Syrian society for freedom and democracy. The Syrian opposition struggled to unify its ranks on the ground in Syria and to win the necessary backing from its Western supporters to get substantial military aide that would help it achieve its goals by force.
Fast forward and despite some stunning advances on the ground by the rebels, and just weeks before March 15, on the second anniversary of the crisis, the situation in Syria is dire. More that 60,000 people have been killed and many more wounded; 700,000 Syrians are now refugees outside their country, and whole cities, towns and villages are in ruins.
But perhaps more dangerously, the conflict on the ground has hit a stalemate, indicating a lengthy, even more deadly and destructive confrontation that no side appears able to win in the short and medium terms.
In this context, Khatib’s call for dialogue with the regime is to be welcomed, especially as it seemed to garner the blessing of the main international powers whose divisions have only inflamed the crisis.
It offers a new strategy to end the crisis that seems for once to have the support of the main outside players. Some say that this strategy is even the result of direct negotiations between the main backers of the two warring sides, the United States and Russia, with the direct or indirect support of Arab supporters of the opposition and Iran, Assad’s No. 1 ally.
What is now required is that the foreign players get behind this new strategy and nudge their allies toward meaningful talks. Moscow and Tehran must get Assad to realize that his regime can’t survive this revolt in its current form with so much blood on its hands. Washington, Doha and Ankara must convince the opposition that the time has come for it to show its credentials that it can come up with a working plan to rebuild a freer, more democratic Syria.
The offer for talks could be the last chance for the opposition and the regime alike to keep at least some leverage in Syrian hands over the fate of Syria. Otherwise, foreign players will eventually find a solution that only suits their interests, and the Syrian people, who have suffered a lot thus far, would emerge as the only losers.
Thus, Khatib’s move is not the end of the game. It could be the first in a sequence that would stop the bloodletting and start the process of rebuilding Syria.
But if the opposition cannot come together with clear and united aims before going into talks, then they might as well throw in the towel before they begin.
Here is an opportunity for the Syrian opposition to attempt to take some control in a situation that has so far been played out on the world stage to the detriment of the Syrian people. They are at a crossroads, and it is up to them and the regime which way this bloody conflict goes next.
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The intent of Faculty of Environment Directed Studies courses is to allow a student or a small group of students to pursue supervised upper division intensive study in an area of environment that is not already covered by an existing course. Directed studies courses offered through the Faculty of Environment include ENV 391 and ENV 491 offered as a variable unit course of 1 - 8 units.
Applicants must have:
- completed 60 units
- earned a minimum GPA of 3.00 in their two most recent terms
- a completed FENV Directed Studies Course Proposal Form (on FENV website)
- a Directed Study Proposal approved by the course supervisor
- departmental advisory approval to use course units towards major
- Faculty of Environment advisor approval
- completed all regular courses that cover the relevant background material
For more information or to apply, see the full Faculty of Environment Directed Studies course description and proposal form.
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123 Si!Spring 2012 Picture Books
We've seen many books like this: Board books that introduce numbers; board books that introduce English and Spanish words; and books for young page turners that try and link works of art to tackle numbers and language.
This book is different. A partnership between the San Antonio Museum of Art, the San Antonio Public Library Foundation, and Trinity University Press, this little gem of a board book invites little hands to touch, seek, and find. Each page (numbers one through ten) presents the numeral, the word for each number in English and Spanish, related works of art (masks, paintings of faces, puppets) and one question to prompt discussion. The book ends with a detail from Hunt Slonem's Toucans and asks readers first in Spanish and then in English, "So many toucans, we can't count them all! Can you?"
All works of art, from Ancient Egypt and 9th century B.C. Mexico to a 1986 Faith Ringgold memory quilt, were selected from the significant collections of the San Antonio Museum of Art. The glossary provides citation details for each piece. But unlike the rich contents, the glossary text is in English only.
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More laws won't make us safer
Published: Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 6:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 11:26 p.m.
We would do the young victims of the Newtown shootings no honor by frantically enacting futile restrictions on freedom.
It may be satisfying to “do something.” But two things ought to be kept in mind. First, liberty is never more in peril than when politicians sense that the people want them to do something — anything. Second, a false sense of security is worse than no security at all. Legislating in the heat of emotion will not prevent future attacks, but it will do irreparable harm to innocent people.
The proposition that restrictions on gun sales will prevent shootings has been debunked many times. One wonders how often it must be pointed out that someone who is willing to commit murder is not likely to be deterred by gun laws or gun-free zones, which merely amount to an invitation to killers seeking to create maximum mayhem before killing themselves. Increases in violent crime followed tighter gun laws in Britain and Australia.
Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook school killer, used a semiautomatic rifle modeled on a gun used in combat, but it does not follow that if the so-called assault-weapons ban were reinstated, mass shootings would stop. The original ban singled out rifles based on cosmetic considerations, but even a more comprehensive ban wouldn't make anyone safer. Millions of such rifles exist and would not disappear with the passage of a ban. Nor would the existing supply be confiscated. Thus, a plentiful black market would exist. Anyone who wants a banned rifle badly enough will have no trouble getting one. However, rifles are used in only a small percentage of crimes — and let's not forget that violent crime has been declining for decades.
Gun controllers propose that gun sales occurring outside of licensed stores, such as at gun shows or between private individuals, should be subject to buyer background checks. It takes only a moment to see that that requirement would make no one safer. How would it be enforced? Informal sales by definition are beyond the view of the authorities. It's already against the law for convicted felons to possess firearms. Does anyone believe that restriction is effective? Again, someone determined to commit murder will get a gun without a background check. But having people believe otherwise may keep them from adopting sensible precautions.
James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University, points out another problem with background checks: “Most mass murderers do not have criminal records or a history of psychiatric hospitalization.” Furthermore, let's remember that Lanza took guns from his mother, a legal gun owner.
Nothing the gun controllers can think of will keep guns away from those who intend to do harm.
Unfortunately, some opponents of gun control try to take people's minds off guns by blaming shootings on mental illness. If people with mental problems could be more easily locked up, goes the argument, we'd all be safer. This is an especially dangerous idea. As Fox writes, “Certainly, people cannot be denied their Second Amendment rights just because they look strange or act in an odd manner.” But that is what some people seem to want.
Proposing to lock people up (even in a purported hospital) before they have been convicted of a crime mocks the principles of justice we routinely pay lip service to. (True, these principles have been violated routinely in the “war on terror.” Our task, however, is to stop this outrage, not make it more common.) Some commentators lament that it is not as easy to commit people as it used to be, but be careful what you ask for. Psychiatrists have no special skill at predicting who will be violent, and while they use terms like “mental disorder,” there are no objective tests for psychiatric “diseases.” Expanding the mental-health laws would save no lives, but it would jeopardize the freedom of people who pose no harm to anyone.
No legislative gimmick will prevent mass shootings. An open society is a risky society, and giving more power to our guardians only raises the ancient question: Who will protect us from our protectors?
In the end, there's no substitute for taking self-defense seriously.
Sheldon Richman is vice president and editor at The Future of Freedom Foundation (www.fff.org) in Fairfax, Va.
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If you are like most people, you have probably never heard of Morgellons disease or Morgellons. The first reason you have likely never heard if it is because it is so bizarre and uncommon. Most of what is known about it is based on rare case reports or anecdotal stories. The second reason is because it is not recognized in the medical community as a legitimate medical disease. It is a layperson’s term coined by a child’s mother.
People who claim to have this once mysterious condition report that all sorts of substances are excreted from their skin such as colored fibers, specks, dots, fuzzballs, worms, eggs, grainy substances, and other assorted solid materials. They report that they develop sores that are slow to heal and feel like bugs are crawling under their skin or have sensations of being bitten, stung, or experience pins and needles.
In addition to the dermatological (skin) symptoms reported, there are other non-specific symptoms reported (meaning they can have many possible causes) such as fatigue, concentration problems, memory difficulties, and depressed mood. Some of these patients have documented psychiatric disorders, some have genuine neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis, and others have more controversial diagnoses such as fibromyalgia. Some of these patients claim to be disabled by their condition. No known medical cause has ever been discovered.
Most dermatologists consider the condition to be a psychotic disorder, which means that the person is detached from reality. Specifically, it is widely considered to be a form of delusional parasitosis, in which a person falsely believes they are infested with parasites.
Perplexed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered a study based on a request from Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein due to an increasing number of people reportedly having this condition in her state of California.
A set of researchers conducted a search for patients in a managed care system with 3.3 million enrollees. 115 patients were found. The average age was 52 (range = 17-93), 77% were female, and 77% were Caucasian. 70% reported chronic fatigue. 54% reported poor health. 50% had drugs detected in hair samples. 78% reported solvent exposure. 24% had clinically significant histories of past or present drug or alcohol use.
But the most interesting part of the study was an analysis of skin samples. The most common finding was increased skin elasticity due to sunburn. Abnormal areas on the skin were most consistent with insect bites and scratched skin. There were no parasites or bacteria found. If there was something on the skin, it was usually was cotton from clothes.
When psychologicaly tested, 59% were reported as having cognitive deficits on a full battery of neuropsyhological tests in at least one area. Attention and memory were the most common areas assessed. Unfortunately, no tests were reported on that were used to confirm the reliability and validity of the cognitive test results and so one is left to wonder to what degree these poor test results are the result of poor effort to do well. This is important to consider because it is unknown how many of these patients were seeking compensation for these symptoms (e.g., litigation, disability application), which would increase the possibility of exaggeration.
Along these same lines, while a personality test known as the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) was administered, the authors only reported the results of the clinical scales (showing a high focus on physical symptoms). The results of scales on the test designed to measure the reliability and validity of the test results were not reported. Thus, it is unknown the degree to which some symptoms are over-reported, accurately reported, or underreported. Some of the test performance was almost certainly exaggerated, especially when one considers that of those patients with clinically significant somatic complaints on the PAI, 50% had elevated personality test scores that were at the 99.99 percentile, meaning that such scores are essentially never seen in the normal population. In fact, these scores represent extreme symptom endorsement even for patient populations. Researchers, as well as clinicians, should almost always include methods to assess whether the test performance and symptom presentation is reliable and valid.
Overall, Morgellons shares a number of features with delusional infestation beliefs and based on my read of the study, there is very likely to be an exaggerated component to the condition (at least in some people). It is interesting to note that over 75% of patient’s symptoms occurred after 2002, which was around the time that Internet postings about the topic began. This indicates that there is a suggestible or copy-cat component to Morgellons symptoms in some individuals, although some cases may truly represent psychosis (detachment from reality). The condition can also be considered a form of somatoform disorder, in which psychological distress is converted into physical symptoms that cannot be explained by a medical cause.
As to the origin of the term, it was coined in 2002 by Mary Leitao, who stated she had noticed “balls of fiber” coming out of her 2-year-old’s skin prior to sores developing. She found the word “Morgellons” in a 17th century book describing an condition in which black hairs were said to appear on the backs of children in France. However, there is no evidence that the two conditions are related.
Dominic A. Carone is a neuropsychologist who blogs at MedFriendly.com.
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It hasn’t been an easy summer for the beverage industry in the Big Apple. In May, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a ban on over-sized sodas in the city, and now New York attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman, is probing energy drink makers over whether or not they deceived customers about their product ingredients and health risks.
A recent Wall Street Journal article reports that In July, Schneiderman subpoenaed large energy drink makers Monster Beverage, PepsiCo and Living Essentials. Monster produces Monster Energy Drinks, PepsiCo makes AMP drinks and Living Essentials makes 5-Hour Energy, all popular energy boosters that are widely advertised, particularly among younger audiences. The subpoenas are part of an investigation into whether the companies have accurately disclosed how much caffeine their drinks contain and if they violated federal laws by marketing their products as supplements instead of foods, which are more strictly regulated.
A state official told the New York Times anonymously that there is concern the manufacturers do not disclose all their ingredients. Additives like black tea extract could add to the beverages’ caffeine levels, but aren’t included on the products’ label. Other caffeine-laden ingredients, like guarana, may be listed but consumers aren’t made aware that they are another source of caffeine.
Energy drinks have become a multimillion dollar industry with U.S. sales increasing 16% last year to $8.9 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. This accounts for 12% of the carbonated-soft-drink category.
The amount of caffeine in beverages can range from about 80 milligrams to more than 500 milligrams, and the health risks of too much caffeine consumption include cardiovascular problems. Health officials are also concerned about the common practice among young consumers of mixing energy drinks and alcohol, since the stimulation from the caffeinated energy drinks can mask intoxication.
The New York Times article cites a recent report on teen caffeine use:
A November 2011 report by the Drug Abuse Warning Network, produced under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services, showed a tenfold increase in emergency room visits linked to energy drinks from 2005 to 2008.
“Consumption of energy drinks is a rising public health problem because medical and behavioral consequences can result from excessive caffeine intake,” the report concluded. “A growing body of scientific evidence documents harmful effects, particularly for children, adolescents and young adults.”
In a statement, the American Beverage Association declined to comment on the investigation, but says consumers can be confident that ingredients and labels in energy drinks are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “Despite the misperception, most mainstream energy drinks contain about half the caffeine of a similar size cup of coffeehouse coffee. And, the caffeine content our members voluntarily display on their packages reflects total caffeine amounts, including those that come from other sources, such as additives,” they write.
If the investigation shows that the companies violated federal law in misleading consumers, they could be charged civil fines and be forced to changed their labeling.
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Protecting your home from earthquakes
Homeowners can take steps to “mitigate” or reduce the earthquake hazard to your home. Home retrofitting is the mitigation process of bolting a wood-frame home to its foundation and providing sheer/pony wall strength. The goal is to increase a home’s structural integrity, but does not mean it is “earthquake proof” (as there is no such thing). Your home can still sustain
damage during an earthquake.
Past earthquakes have shown that homes not bolted to their foundation, or without proper sheer wall reinforcement can sustain significant damage and make your home unlivable.
Through a home retrofit class, learn about:
• Home evaluation
• Permit process
• Proper bolt and plate installation
• Safety and engineering solutions
The cost of retrofitting depends on what needs to be done and if you can do some of it yourself. Materials can cost as little as a few hundred dollars, or if you prefer, trained contractors are available. Upon completing this class you can do the retrofit yourself or be a knowledgeable client when hiring a professional contractor. For more information on Home Retrofit see information below.
In this two-hour class, you'll learn how to evaluate your home to determine if it qualifies for the standard earthquake retrofitting plan. You'll also find out:
- How to retrofit your home using Project Impact's Regional Home Retrofit guidelines
- Tool usage and proper installation of parts
- How to brace pony walls
- How to secure the first floor framing
- Which engineering solutions can be applied to your home, and when
- The expedited permit process regionally and building code requirements - why are they important?
- Safety issues
- Consumer information - How to work with one of the trained contractors
By using a "model" wall and tools, we will demonstrate correct usage of retrofitting methods and materials. Each participant will also receive a packet of literature and detailed drawings. This class is designed for all homeowners, whether you're planning to do the work yourself or hire a qualified contractor.
A number of classes are being offered in Seattle, with additional classes being added around the Puget Sound region. For information on dates, locations and registration call 206-233-5076, or click here.
Remember: if you are going to hire a one of the trained contractors to retrofit your home, we still recommend that you attend a class to understand the process and to be a better informed consumer.
Classes were developed in partnership with the Phinney Neighborhood Association
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(Beyond Pesticides, May 4, 2009) Targeting areas frequented by children, such as playgrounds, picnic areas, baseball fields, campgrounds, beaches, and hiking trails, New York Governor David A. Paterson announced an initiative to substantially reduce pesticide use throughout the State park system. “New York has a magnificent State park system that is a tremendous resource for all New Yorkers,” said Governor Paterson. “People visiting our parks, particularly children, should not be exposed to pesticides. This effort will reduce or, when possible, eliminate the use of pesticides in our State parks and historic sites.”
The pesticide reduction policy is an outgrowth of Governor Paterson’s Executive Order No. 4, adopted in April 2008, which established procurement specifications to minimize State pesticide use by State agencies. The State Parks policy goes further than the Executive Order requirements by eliminating pesticide use to the maximum extent possible. The goal is to keep parks pesticide-free. The approach is outlined in the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation’s Sustainability Plan, an agency-wide strategy to improve energy conservation, improve the sustainability of parks and historic sites, improve waste reduction and recycling efforts, enhance green procurement, and incorporate sustainability in education, training and interpretation efforts.
“Now that the snow has melted, people in every community across this State will begin visiting our parks, and for good reason—they are safe and affordable. The use of some pesticides can compromise that safety because nearly every time a pesticide is sprayed, something other than the target is hit,” said Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith. “Limiting their use is a very smart move and will help us avoid any potential health concerns they may cause.”
The policy asserts in the introduction that, “[T]he use of pesticides can cause potential environmental and human health risks, even when pesticides are used in compliance with regulatory requirements and manufacturer recommendations.” The goal of the policy “is to eliminate pesticide uses wherever possible. In special instances where pesticide use is required, we will limit our use to least toxic alternatives.” The policy covers all New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) agency facilities and operations, including concessions and contracted services.
The new policy requires implementation of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program for the design and maintenance of buildings, grounds, landscapes and water bodies under OPRHP’s jurisdiction. IPM is described in the policy as a decision making process, a program for long-term pest suppression or elimination based on inspection, pest population monitoring and establishing action thresholds. The IPM program will “predominantly include structural and procedural modifications that establish physical barriers to pests, and reduce the food, water, and harborage available to them.” Pests will be managed “using mechanical, sanitary, cultural, or biological means with the use of chemicals as a last resort.” After non-chemical means have been exhausted, the use of allowed least toxic pesticides include those exempt from US EPA registration due to their low toxicity; rodent control in tamper-resistant bait stations or placed in areas inaccessible to children, pets, or wildlife; U.S. EPA registered biopesticides; antimicrobial pesticides; and, boric acid and disodium octaborate tetrahydrate, silica gels, diatomaceous earth, and other non-volatile insecticidal gels and baits. Specific pesticides are banned from use including: foggers; dusts or sprays in concession or food areas; and, carbamate and organophosphate insecticides.
On February 10, 2009, Executive Order 4 Turf and Ornamental Management specifications were adopted and compels OPRHP to strive to adhere to the land care specifications and practices prepared by the Northeast Organic Farmers Associations: NOFA Standards for Organic Land Care, NOFA Organic Landcare Committee, March 2008.
Policy exceptions allow the use of pesticides (with the lowest toxicity and least persistent product to be used first) for imminent health and safety threats such as human disease outbreaks, bees, wasps, deer ticks and poison ivy situations where immediate action is required. Although attempts will be made to follow IPM practices to the maximum extent possible, when pest problems cannot be controlled through non-chemical means pesticides are allowed for use on golf courses and arboretums, utility and transportation right-of-ways, and invasive species control.
“Patrons should be confident that the beaches, playgrounds, picnic areas and campgrounds where they go to relax and enjoy the great outdoors have not been treated with potentially harmful chemicals, said New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Carol Ash. “Our efforts to significantly reduce pesticide use will help ensure the well-being of park visitors, especially young children, and will safeguard the long-term health of our parks and the plants and wildlife within them.”
In addition to this State park policy, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recommends residents to stop using lawn chemicals, listing suggestions and resources to having a green lawn without toxic pesticides on their website. Highlighting the problem with lawn chemicals, the website states, “The chemically dependent lawn is more prone to disease and less able to handle stresses from drought, heat and insects. In addition, lawn chemicals and toxins can build up in soils, leach into our water, and pose potential hazards to people, pets and non-target species such as bees and birds.”
“It is important to remember that our natural environment is not a special interest. Pollution and waste raise costs and kill jobs. Sustaining a healthy environment is central to creating jobs and rebuilding our economy for the future,” said Governor Paterson at an Earth Day event announcing the pesticide reduction park policy. “Today, we should not have to fight to keep the air we breathe clean. But we do. We should not have to fight to keep the water we drink clean. But we do. We should not have to fight to preserve the integrity of our land. But we do have to. So we fight on…”
The New York State Park policy is just one of many around the country that establishes pesticide-free parks. Other examples of pesticide-free programs and policies include: Chicago City Parks; 29 communities and townships in New Jersey; at least 17 cities in the Northwest covering more than 50 parks; and, communities throughout Massachusetts, Maine and Connecticut. This is just the tip of the iceberg, as new policies and programs are continually being implemented by local and state government entities as well as schools and homeowner associations. The passage of pesticide-free and pesticide reduction policies are very promising. Community activism is the best way to get your town to adopt such a policy. For assistance in proposing a policy to your city council (or its equivalent), contact Beyond Pesticides at email@example.com or 202-543-5450. Let your neighbors know your lawn and garden are organic by displaying a Pesticide Free Zone sign. For more information on being a part of the growing organic lawn care movement, see Beyond Pesticides Lawns and Landscapes program page.As a part of Beyond Pesticides’ work to advance statewide IPM and organic policy, the organization produced a report, Ending Toxic Dependency, which evaluates and ranks the policies of every state in accordance with critical program components that define a legitimate and protective management program.
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Tips for Simplifying Fractions
Date: 06/03/98 at 21:03:24 From: Cambree Subject: I have no idea how to reduce or simplify a fraction I have no idea how to reduce or simplify a fraction. Could you please send me the solution to how to reduce or simplify a fraction (like 2 and 4/5 or 4/5)? It would help a lot. Please send me an example and how to do it. Thanks, Cambree W.
Date: 06/06/98 at 13:08:12 From: Doctor Peterson Subject: Re: I have no idea how to reduce or simplify a fraction Hi, Cambree, Being able to reduce fractions is an important skill, so you're right to want to get it clear before you move on too far. I'm glad you've asked for help. I'll try to give you a quick summary of how to do it. If these examples aren't enough, don't hesitate to ask your teacher for some extra help. Sometimes all it takes is a chance to ask your questions privately and give a teacher a chance to point out one little step you might be missing. Or you could send us a specific problem and show us what you've done and where you're stuck, and we can help you figure out what you need. The two examples you gave actually don't need reducing. 2 4/5 is a mixed number, which is equal to the improper fraction 14/5, and there's nothing you can do to simplify it. And 4/5 is already as simple as it can get. The basic idea of reducing or simplifying fractions is that two fractions are the same if the numerator and denominator are multiplied by the same thing, because that's just a way of multiplying the fraction by one. For example: 4 8 - = -- 5 10 because: 4 4 2 4 * 2 8 - = - * - = ----- = -- 5 5 2 5 * 2 10 Simplifying means find the simplest fraction that is equal to the one you're given. That's useful because it can save a lot of work if you have to do more with the fraction - you'll have smaller numbers to work with. You could say you're trying to find a small fraction (one with small numerator and denominator) hidden inside the given fraction. If you take my example above in reverse, you can see that if you are given 8/10, you have to recognize that 8 = 4*2 and 10 = 5*2, then divide both by 2. Let's take a harder example. If I'm given 36/54, I have to do something like this: 36 18*2 18 2 2 -- = ---- = -- * - = - 54 18*3 18 3 3 The hard part is how to find the Greatest Common Factor (or Divisor) of the two numbers, which is that 18 that appeared magically in what I just did. For some problems, you might just happen to see that 18, and you're almost done. I didn't. I'll show you what I actually did a little later. The important thing to realize is that you don't have to be a whiz at this to get it done. Some people will very carefully factor each number completely, turning each one into a product of prime numbers, and then match up any factors that appear in both numbers and cancel them: / / / 36 2*2*3*3 2*2*3*3 2 -- = ------- = --------- = --- 54 2*3*3*3 2 *3*3*3 3 / / / (In case that confuses you, canceling factors really means something like this: 2*2*3*3 2*2*3*3 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 ------- = --------- = - * - * - * - * - = 1 * 2 * 1 * 1 * - = - 2*3*3*3 2* 3*3*3 2 1 3 3 3 3 3 so that any factor on both the top and bottom turn into a 1.) This way of doing it makes the answer very neat, but it can be a little intimidating, because it takes some practice to completely factor a number. The fact is that you don't really have to do it that way. Often some factors jump out at you, but others hide better. You can just cancel out whatever common factors you do see, then go back to looking for more factors. In this example, I saw immediately that both numbers are even. I looked again and recognized that both are multiples of 6. So I divided each number by six, making the problem a lot simpler: 36 6*6 6 -- = --- = - 54 6*9 9 But I'm not finished yet. I look again, and I see another common factor, 3: 6 3*2 2 - = --- = - 9 3*3 3 So each time I found a number that divides both numbers evenly, I divide it out and keep looking. I never actually found the GCF, but eventually removed all the factors. Now, even what I said was "obvious" may not be obvious to you. It takes a lot of practice to recognize factors. One thing you can do to make it easier is just to "play" with fractions. If you get used to them, they'll become friends, and friends like to help you out when they can! What I mean is, if you take simple fractions and try to make them complicated by multiplying the numerator and denominator by something, you'll get used to what fractions that can be simplified look like. It may be very helpful that you're working with ratios, because a lot of ratio problems are really just fraction problems in disguise. If you see that the ratios 6/5 and 30/25 are the same, look at them and think, what does that tell me about simplifying 30/25? I hope this helps. Let me know how you do. -Doctor Peterson, The Math Forum Check out our web site! http://mathforum.org
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|To:||County Clerks/Elections Administrators|
|From:||Keith Ingram, Director of Elections|
|Date:||August 13, 2012|
|RE:||Early Voting Rosters/Applications for Early Voting by Mail|
There are basically three categories of early voting information: (1) Early Voting in Person Rosters, (2) Early Voting by Mail Rosters, and (3) Applications for Early Voting by Mail. Different rules apply for when the information becomes public. All references to sections are to the Texas Election Code.
- Early Voting in Person Roster
The early voting roster of who has voted early by personal appearance must be made available for public inspection not later than the beginning of the next regular business day after the voter voted early in person. Section 87.121(g).
- Early Voting By Mail Roster
Information on the roster for a person who votes by mail is not available until the ballot has been returned to the early voting clerk or after election day, whichever is earlier. Section 87.121(f) & (h). There is an exception to this general rule that allows the voter to review the roster to verify that his or her information is accurate. Section 87.121(f).
Please note that there is a distinction between mail ballots which have been returned (Section 87.121(h)) and mail ballots which have not yet been returned (Section 87.121(f)). Information on the roster about mail ballots which have been voted and returned is available sooner – not later than the day following the day the early voting clerk receives the ballot voted by mail. Information about mail ballots which have not yet been returned is available later – not earlier than the first business day after election day (reflecting the greater security concerns about a mail ballot which is still out in circulation).
We suggest that you maintain two rosters for mail-in voters - one roster for ballots that have been mailed and returned, and a second roster of voters who have ballots mailed, but not received.
- Applications for Early Voting by Mail
A copy of an application for a ballot to be voted by mail is not available for public inspection, except to the voter seeking to verify that the information pertaining to the voter is accurate, until the first business day after election day. Section 86.014(a), NEW LAW, House Bill 2449, 2011 Legislature. The original application to vote by mail and corresponding carrier envelope are not available for public inspection until those materials are delivered to the general custodian of election records after the election. Section 86.014(b).
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