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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
— Gloria Steinem, The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq.
Herewith a suggestion on how to improve the South Dakota Fairy Tale that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has approved for reading to women before they undergo abortions. The case was Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, et al vs. Mike Rounds, et al. It pertained to a piece of legislation passed by the South Dakota legislature, a mostly male body that has, until now, unsuccessfully tried to tell women what they may and may not do with their bodies. Thanks to the Court it has finally succeeded.
The essence of the case was that although women may continue to get abortions in South Dakota, the physician performing the procedure is required to read aloud to the prospective mother. Under section 7 of the statute a woman is required to receive oral disclosures about the procedure she is about to undergo. Some of the information must be given orally AND in writing and other information only in writing although the language of the statute can be read to require that all information must be imparted orally by the physician.
Although the prescribed reading (and writing) is not the sort of thing the mother would read aloud to the child were the child to be born, it has a certain fairy tale like quality to it. Among the things the physician is required to tell the mother is that an abortion will “terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being,” that the woman has an “existing relationship with that unborn human being, ” that the relationship enjoys protection under the United States constitution and under laws of South Dakota” and that “by having an abortion, her existing relationship and her existing constitutional rights with regards to that relationship will be terminated.”
It is patently absurd to describe the embryo has a “whole” and a “separate” human being since whatever else it may be, it is neither whole, having many months to go before it achieves that state, nor is it “separate” since ordinarily it cannot survive outside the mother’s body at the time the abortion is performed. It is equally absurd to say that the “relationship” “enjoys protection under the United States Constitution” since it does not. Sarah Stoesz, president of the regional Planned Parenthood office, said the statute represents an “unprecedented interference in the doctor-patient relationship and unprecedented interference in a woman’s life.” She also observed that the law is “non-science” based but as we have been taught by none other than the president of the United States and his minions, science is an elective subject whose proofs one may accept or reject based on one’s personal biases. And speaking of science, we are brought to the Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent pronouncement that if added to the South Dakota statute, will bring the number of abortions performed in South Dakota to zero.
The E.P.A. issued a report on July 19, 2008 that pertained to a matter with which few people knew the E.P.A. was concerned. The report said the value of a human life has gone down from $8.04 million to $7.22 million. That does not mean, as the report is careful to point out, that every reader of this column is worth that. Some will be worth more and others less and most readers know to which group they belong.
The reason it is important to know the value of a human life is that when you have the answer to that question you can decide whether certain governmental actions are worthwhile. If something is proposed that a governmental agency determines will save 50 lives and cost $500 million, the agency determines if the proposal makes sense by multiplying 50 lives times $7.22 million. If the product is less than $500 million, the project is abandoned and if more, it may be implemented. If, in that example, 200 people were affected, then the math would justify the cost.
Now that this information is available, the South Dakota legislature should promptly amend House Bill 1166 to include a requirement that the fairy tale be refined to add a section that will inform the woman that not only is she “terminating the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being” but she is also disposing of an asset that has a scientifically established value of $7.22 million. Armed with that scientifically correct information most women will immediately spring for the cash and abortions in South Dakota will come to an end. There will, of course, be a modicum of disappointment when the kid hits college age and the parent goes looking for the $7.22 million the parent knows was being stowed away. Parents will find, to their dismay, that the $7.22 million was, like much of the rest of the language in the South Dakota Fairy Tale, made up by ignorant busy bodies more interested in controlling women’s bodies than in educating their proprietors.
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Yesterday at the Brite conference, one of the breakout sessions explored how we can navigate a world where everyone is a media company.
Matthew Quint, Associate Director of Columbia Business School, brought together four very different speakers to discuss the opportunities and fears of this future of content and curation.
During the hour session, we heard from:
- John Mayo Smith, EVP, Chief Technology Officer at R/GA
- Steve Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify
- Fredrick Townes, Founding CTO, Mashable
- Professor Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Some of the key takeaways included:
The web is a village
Smith believes that the web is really a village at scale. We have our strong ties. But the impact of loose ties on marketing decisions is very very important.
Publicness used to always be around us. Privacy is actually new. Before the web and mass media, if you have a village, you'd imagine that everyone would know each other. But how much do you really know the people around you? You may see the small changes that are going on with them physicially, but you won't see behind closed doors. How different is that than what we experience now with social media?
In fact, if we recorded everything going on in a small town, you can still have that info overload that we have now in our digital village.
What we need to do is to build the right tools. There are opportunities out there to find content to match your needs but we need to find ways to make it easier.
Curation is key
Devices are going to make more data, we are going to get more devices, and devises are going to start automatically creating data. This means that curation is extremely important. There is always a need to create a layer of filter to the data.
You need to try to expose what is meaningful. But what is meaningful? Rosenbaum doesn't believe in the word quality. Some of the information we share is important to an individual but not others.
Part of being a trusted brand is to be able to recommend. You have to be a provider and a curator of content. This way you can open up conversation and still maintain control. It's thinking of User Generated Content with a lens over top.
Lots of companies understand what needs to be done, and help others to do it but they are struggling themselves. Townes likened it to the cobbler with no shoes. They just don't have the bandwidth to do it themselves.
Create for your community, not for you
When everyone can be a media company, you need to be more organised according to Sree. You can have best content in the world but you need to be able to promote it.
Though it isn't usually seen by brands, it's better to not constantly point to yourself but point to content elsewhere. Basically, it doesn't matter how good your content is, if you don't service the community people will not be as engaged with you.
There was a fear that Google would find a curation algorhytm and they would be able to serve us exactly what we need. But individuals want the trust points and the editorial filter.
When we start to automate we get in trouble. The point is to be interesting, and that's the key to the way we create and curate.
But what does it all mean?
It seems that we're still trying to find our way. Now that we are in information overload, we need to find our way through all of the data we're presented. What struck me as the most interesting point boiled down to one about transparency.
When diving deeper into a world of large amounts of data, APIs are very important. If true transparency is the key to marketing, digital, social media and beyond, then APIs are the most transparent of all.
Why tell a story around data when you can let data tell the story itself.
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Fraud is a false representation of a past or existing fact which is made to induce action on someone's part. If, in fact, a person reasonably relies upon this false representation, and that person is damaged by the fraud, than he or she may sue to recover damages. Should the representation have been made with the knowledge that it was false, then punitive damages may be recovered. Fraud may also be involved when a person promises to do something in the future and does not follow through. To show fraud in this type of situation, it would have to be shown that the person never intended to do the act that was promised. The most common contract is when two parties promise to do something. It is a contract because each promise is based on the other's promise to pay or perform a service. Except for common day-to-day occurrences, it is always a good idea to have your contract in writing. Should a contract be broken, and you are successful in court, the law allows for the recovery of attorney's fees only if you provide for this in the contract or an applicable statute allows it. For more information about breach of contract, please consult an attorney.
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The Outbreak of World War II and Anti-Jewish Policy
“There are in this part of the world [Eastern and Central Europe] 6,000,000 Jews… for whom the world is divided into places where they cannot live and places where they cannot enter.”
The beginning of World War II, on September 1, 1939, marked a new phase in German policy toward the Jews.
After the conquest of Poland, the Jews of Eastern Europe were concentrated in ghettos, while in Western Europe the Jews were registered and dispossessed of their property. Antisemitic racial legislation was passed in North Africa too. In South-Eastern European countries Jews were drafted into forced labor by collaborationist governments and tens of thousands of Jews there perished.
World War II transformed the face of Europe and the entire world, and resulted in the killing of millions of civilians of different nationalities and the evolution of a satanic scheme of genocide.
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Survey of Energy Resources 2007
Nuclear Country Notes
United States of America
At the end of 2005, there were 104 nuclear reactor units connected to the grid, with an aggregate net generating capacity of 99 988 MWe (equivalent to about 27% of total world nuclear capacity). The totals include Brown's Ferry-1 (1 065 MWe), which has been shutdown since March 1985 but is still fully licensed to operate. Nuclear plants accounted for 19.3% of US electricity output in 2005.
The US WEC Member Committee reports that national energy policy presently favours the construction of new nuclear plants. The US Department of Energy program Nuclear Power 2010 (NP2010) is designed to encourage the initiation of new nuclear power construction by 2010. Programs under NP2010 include co-funding of the initial construction licensing cost for two nuclear reactors, including some first-of-a-kind engineering expenses. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 also provided incentives for initial nuclear power, including production tax credits, loan guarantees, and 'standby' protection to cover some regulatory delays. Licensing procedures at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have also been modified to facilitate the process of licensing and to limit the opportunities for intervention after construction has been licensed.
Recent times have witnessed a number of applications for nuclear construction licences and a spate of applications for the renewal of operating licences for existing reactors and, in many cases, for extensions of such licences by up to 20 years. By March 2007, the total number of licence renewals granted for US reactors stood at 48.
In a novel link between the nuclear industry and the renewables sector, a proposed new NPP near Bruneau, Idaho, envisages the co-generation of ethanol based on the supply of surplus heat from the NPP to a plant processing locally-produced grain.
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When you get a flat tire, you don't need to be the helpless person on the side of the road waiting to be rescued. John Nielsen, director of auto repair services at AAA, describes how to safely change a car tire.
Level of difficulty: Medium
1. Make sure you're well off the roadway and on a level, firm surface such as asphalt or concrete. Do not try to change a tire on a hill or soft surface like dirt or grass, because the jack could slip. Put on your hazard lights, and apply the emergency parking brake.
2. Using the lug wrench, loosen the lug nuts on the flat tire, but don't remove them completely. If you have a hubcap on the wheel, you'll have to remove that first, using the screwdriver-type tool on the opposite end of the lug wrench.
3. Install the jack under the car according to recommendations in the owners manual, which is usually in the glove compartment. Putting a jack in the wrong place could be ineffective or cause damage. Usually it goes under the frame near the flat tire.
4. Crank the jack's handle until the flat tire is 2 inches off the ground.
5. Finish taking off the lug nuts, and set them somewhere you won't lose them.
6. Putting your hands on the outside of the tire, lift slightly and pull it toward you. Tires can weigh 20 to 30 pounds, more on bigger trucks, so be careful. Roll the flat tire to the trunk. Remove the spare tire, and set the flat tire in its place.
7. Mount the spare tire onto the wheel hub, lining up the holes. Put the lug nuts back on, tightening only with your hands.
8. Lower jack until the new tire is on the ground. Remove jack; return it to the trunk.
9. Using the lug wrench, tighten one of the lug nuts until it's snug, then tighten the opposite nut on the other side of the tire. Tighten the remaining lug nuts. Do not tighten excessively; it could warp the brake rotors.
10. As quickly as possible, get your car to a tire shop to have the flat tire repaired or replaced.
Life Skill #5
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Making Art for Art...Live Tree Carver
Making Art for Art
Live Tree Carver
by Jennifer LB Leese
Woodcarving, also known as woodworking, has been around for many years. Along with stone, mud, and animal bones, wood was one of the first materials utilized by primitive human beings.
Some of the finest extant examples of early woodcarving are from the Middle Ages in Italy and France, where the typical themes of that era were Christian iconography. In England many complete examples remain from the 16th and 17th century, where oak was the preferred medium.
From the remotest ages the decoration of wood has been a foremost art.
A Local Woodcarver
Garry McKinney is a woodcarver from Martinsburg, West Virginia. His tree carvings are the most fascinating and unique aspects of his art--considering he can't draw.
"I never could draw. I do sketches. If I see it, I usually can carve it." Now aside from sounding a little unusual, Garry McKinney carves in live trees! In this case the tree not only lived through the encounter, but became the envy of all the other trees. The tree has now become art.
There are several methods, styles, and techniques to woodcarving. Selecting the wood is a careful task as the nature of the wood being carved limits the scope of the carver in that wood is not equally strong in all directions.
Garry McKinney began creating these living sculptures in 2005. He never took classes in woodcarving, or for the proper methods of manipulating tools for the desired look, or for finding the right kinds of wood. Garry began his search on the wonderful World Wide Web. He asked questions, found carving patterns, and was amazed at the help he had received. "They [fellow woodcarvers] were tremendous," he said. From there, he bought a very cheap set of carving tools and set to work.
Even though his work does not reflect it, he is still a beginner. His first woodcarving was an inlayed winged dragon--the beginnings of a sign his brother, Mike McKinney, asked him to make for their business. Garry has traveled and met many woodcarvers, "Guys with 7, 8, 12 years of experience," and has brought back techniques and lessons one might not have learned during a class.
"The first woodcarving magazine I picked up was about carving live trees. "I thought 'Oh that is too cool! I've got to try this.'" So he did.
Live Tree Carving
When Garry carves a live tree it is not harmed. This is because he is careful not to remove the bark all the way around so that the sap flow is not cut off. "Protecting the tree is important," said Garry. "You can't leave it open [exposed], it will dehydrate because you are interrupting the water flow. Life tree carving is [different], because it is constantly changing--even when you're working on it. You can see it healing."
Garry's Magic Fingers
On the front lawn at Anchor Industries where Garry works, there is a dragon, a leprechaun, a barber, a whomping willow and a wood spirit in the living trees. Garry very much feels still like a beginner, even though fellow woodcarvers have told him that he could be in the professional class. When Garry began working on trees he knew it was for him. "Carving is a way for me to let go of stress. I relax so much. It's been a great tool for me," he said.
Garry's talent has won him several awards. His Stonewall Jackson carving, carved in batch wood, is greatly detailed and lifelike. In fact, Stonewall Jackson's great great grandson bought this piece from Garry saying, "This looks exactly like my grandfather."
His Lincoln and Tad portrait is a 3-toned oil woodcarving that Garry proudly displays in his office.
Currently Garry is working on two ladies in an oval frame. He also freelances making wood santas from blank templates for Harold Goodman in Baltimore.
Garry is a fast carver with magic in his fingers. Jobs from Mr. Goodman usually should take about 2 weeks, Garry completes them in 2 days. Stonewall Jackson took him 3 1/2 weeks and the longest yet are the two ladies at one month. "Portraits and carvings are different. Faces [in trees] are great. The face brings out the tree. With portraits you have to get the lines right."
"Time is funny when you are working with wood. There are times that you really can gouge down into it and cut the wood through and there are times you just sit there and look at it and say 'I know there is something not quite right'.
"I feel that in any job that is technical and controlled, you have that same problem."
How Does He Do It
Now a year later, Garry doesn't quite know the extent of what he is able to accomplish with his carvings.
With live tree carvings, Garry usually doesn't know what he is going go carve into the tree until he starts cutting. His imagination knows no boundaries.
It is the detail work that really brings the carving to life, especially with the eyes. When the carving is finished Garry treats it with wood sealer to protect it from decay.
As with all living tree carvings, the work is never finished. The art will change as the tree grows. Like people, the older the carving gets the more character it acquires.
"I won't do one I don't like," he said. "I enjoy making art for art."
Garry has accomplished a lot in his single year as a woodcarver--carving into the wood of a rifle to making staffs (canes). One in particular was a staff for a young boy with cancer. After the boy broke his leg, Garry decided to make him a staff in his favorite theme--dragons. Garry also made one for the boy's brother. A few weeks later, Garry received a gift from the family--a beautiful gun. The boy's father was a gunsmith and needed to show Garry their appreciation. "It's so nice to give your work away to someone who appreciates it," said Garry. "I think that if somebody wants something made from wood then they want to see the wood."
Garry's natural ability is evident. Making art for art is what he does best.
If you would like to get in touch with Garry McKinney call 304-263-7403 or email him at GDMAnchor@adelphia.net.
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Catching the Red Grouper
The red grouper is found in the same waters. It is a bottom feeding fish reaching a weight of forty or fifty pounds. It is caught on medium tackle with crab and fish bait.
Brooks, Lake. The Science of Fishing. Columbus, OH: A.R. Harding, 1912. Print.
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Dietary administration of berberine or Phellodendron amurense extract inhibits cell cycle progression and lung tumorigenesis.
Phellodendron amurense extract is a Chinese herbal remedy that has recently been studied for its antitumor, antimicrobial and other biological activities. It is previously unknown if these agents are bioavailable and effective against tumors when delivered as a dietary component. It is also unknown if the anti-tumorigenic properties of berberine, an isoquinoline alkaloid component of P. amurense, is equally effective when administered alone. There are contrasting reports on the cellular processes involved in anti-tumorigenesis by P. amurense and berberine. Here we find that berberine, when administered orally through the diet, inhibits in vivo tumorigenesis of both p53 expressing and p53 null lung tumor xenografts equally whether administered in its pure form or as a part of P. amurense extract. We also show that berberine induces G1 cell cycle arrest, inhibits proliferative kinase signaling and arrests the growth of lung tumor cells in culture. Berberine administered in the diet was detectable by HPLC in the lungs of mice fed P. amurense or equivalent doses of berberine at concentrations of 455 and 518 ng/ml respectively and inhibited the growth of xenografted A549 cell tumors, which grew to 9.4 and 6.4 mm³ respectively, compared to 58.9 mm³ in control mice (P < 0.001). Phosphorylation of Akt, CREB and MAPK was inhibited in A549 cells by P. amurense. Demonstration of oral bioavailability and anti-tumorigenic efficacy of dietary berberine, as well as further demonstration of signaling pathway modulation and cell-cycle arrest, implicate this relatively safe, natural compound as a potentially important therapeutic and chemopreventive agent for lung cancer. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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issue 211 - September 1990
EAST AND SOUTH - THE FACTS
It is fashionable to say that the problems of the Eastern
bloc mirror those of the developing world. But is it true?
People in Eastern Europe are likely to live much longer than people in most developing countries - and their children are several times more likely to survive their first five years.
East: Albania 34, USSE 32, Romani 28, Bulgaria 20, Hungary 19, Poland 18, Czechoslovakia 15, East Germany 12.
South: Afghanistan 300, Mozambique 298, Ethiopia 259, Bangladesh 188, Bolivia 172, India 149, Ghana 146, Brazil 85.
The Eastern bloc provides its people with more education than the South can afford - more even than the West chooses to provide.
ADULT LITERACY RATE 1
PRIMARY PUPIL TO TEACHER RATIOS1
EAST: Hungary 14, Poland 16, USSR 17, East Germany 17, Bulgaria 18, Albania 20, Czech-oslovakia 21, Romania 21.
SOUTH: Brazil 24, Ghana 24, Bolivia 27, Afghanistan 37, India 46, Ethiopia 49, Bangladesh 59, Mozambique 63.
The economy of the Eastern bloc is a mess, mainly due to over-centralization, low productivity and poor supply systems. But the problems of the Third World remain much greater - and much more urgent.
. The USSR's GNP per capita is $4,550 - a quarter of that of the US with $18,530. But it is double that of one of the most industrially developed Third World countries, Brazil ($2,020); eight times that of Bolivia ($580); and 25 times that of Mozambique ($170).1
The basic needs of Eastern Europeans are better met than those of the South.
SOUTH: One-sixth of people in the South still go hungary every day. The average person in Mozambique gets only 69% of the calories their body needs every day.
SOUTH: About half the people in the Third World have no secure home of any sort.
SOUTH: Millions of people in developing countries still have no access to health care. In Mozambique 61% of the population has no access to health services while in Bolivia the figure is 37%.1
. In the USSR there is 1 doctor for every 22 people and in France 1 for every 31. In Brazil there is 1 doctor for every 111 people and in Bangladesh 1 for every 500.4
Industrial pollution has destroyed Eastern Europe's environment and is ruining health.
. In Hungary every 17th death and every 24th disability can be attributed to air pollution.
. 88,000 children and 63,000 adults were treated for pollution-related lung diseases in the Romanian town of Giurgiu in just one year.5
. In the Soviet Union 50 million people breathe air containing 10 times the pollutants allowed in Western Europe. Children in the city of Astrakhan have to go to school wearing gas masks.6
But the South has its problems too. Industrial pollution has risen 16 - fold in the past 30 years...
. 90% of the population of Mexico City and 60% of the population of Calcutta suffer from respiratory diseases related to air pollution.
. About 125,000 tons of toxic waste are sent to the Third World from Europe each year.7 Attempts to clean up Eastern Europe will lead to yet more toxic waste being dumped on the Third World.
. The lives and livelihoods of 135 million people are threatened by desertification, mainly in the Sahel. This is expected to rise to 485 million people by the year 2000. As 60,000 sq km of land a year becomes desert and a further 214,000 sq km are so degraded that crop production becomes uneconomic. Global warming, caused largely by the consumption habits of the North, will speed up this process.
Totalitarian rule has cast a dark shadow over human rights in the Eastern bloc. But on some issues of equality the East is streets ahead of the South - and of the West.
. Around 75% of women in the Eastern bloc use contraception when they can get supplies. Scarcity results in a heavy reliance on abortion, though in Ceausescu's Romania abortion was outlawed. In developing countries about 45% of women use contraception.9
GAY RIGHTS: Homosexuality is illegal in the USSR but not East Germany where there are laws protecting lesbian and gay people from discrimination. In general lesbian and gay people have a marginally better situation in the Eastern bloc than they do in the Third World.
1 Human Development Report 1990 UNDP.
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Fifty Shades of Grey may be making this the summer of sex, but a new survey shows what Canadians really crave is a kiss.
In polling 1,163 people across the country, romantic social network Zoosk finds nearly nine in 10 men and women wish their partner planted one on them more often. Curiously, both genders have the perception of taking the lead on lip-locks: the majority of women (55 per cent), as well as the majority of men (76 per cent), claim they typically initiate kissing in a relationship.
"Kissing is a great way to express your love without saying a word," says Shannon Tebb, a dating and relationship expert from Toronto.
"It can also lead to more intimacy, which is why I tell my clients they should really kiss their (partner) at least four times a day: when they wake up, before they leave each other, when they return to each other, and before bed."
The survey, conducted to mark International Kissing Day on July 6, shows fully 93 per cent of Canadians are comfortable with public displays of affection. The majority of women feel it's important to be with someone who's a good kisser, whereas men are more willing to overlook substandard smooches because their partner "might be better at other things."
Perhaps surprisingly, women claim to prefer French kisses (the tongue tango), while men are inclined to more "sensual" exchanges. Both sexes, however, agree that a kiss goodbye trumps a kiss hello.
The most common age for a first romantic kiss in Canada, according to the survey, is between 15 and 17 (35 per cent), followed by 18 and older (20 per cent), and 12 to 14 (31 per cent).
About half of Canadians will pucker up on a first date (54 per cent), whereas a separate sample of adults from Europe reveals it's far less common to do so overseas: just 29 per cent of Germans, 32 per cent of the French and 37 per cent of Danes say they kiss on a first date.
Finally, Canadians are clear on what they don't want in a kiss: bad breath, too much tongue, a wet or sloppy approach, brevity and — with apologies to Fifty Shades of Grey fans — biting.
The survey was conducted online May 11 to June 11 and has no reported margin of error.
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The term healthy churches has become a buzzword in recent years. Discussions about healthy churches often gravitate toward debates over what constitutes “healthy church growth.” Eventually someone will stand on a soapbox and ask whether a church should grow from internal or external sources. In truth, healthy church growth results from a combination of both.
What Is Internal Church Growth?
Church growth experts define internal church growth variously. One scholar recently defined internal church growth as “an increase in sub-groups within existing churches, i.e., increase of competent Christians … who know the Bible and practice the Christian faith. They move from marginal to ardent belief.”Others use terms such as quality and quantity. Congregational developers are often called in to assist with church “revitalization.” When the term quality is used, the common understanding is that individual Christians are growing in spiritual maturity and actively participating in mission and ministry. Quality growth applied collectively would refer to the growth in Christian discipleship, mission, and ministry of a local congregation.
What Is External Growth?
External growth (commonly called expansion growth) occurs in two primary ways. The most common way is transfer growth. Transfer growth occurs when a church receives members from another Christian church who “transfer” their church membership. This type of growth may increase the rolls of a local church but it does not enlarge the kingdom or reign of God.The second type of external growth is conversion growth. Conversion occurs when a church receives “new Christians” — individuals who have made first-time professions of faith. Some include individuals who have been restored to the faith and were without a church home.The current 21st-century context in the United States presents a constant challenge to churches. statistically, “In the USA, only about 20 percent of the nation’s 360,000 churches are growing, and 19 of the 20 are growing mostly by biological growth … or transfer growth.”More than ever, churches in the United States must decide to grow internally and externally.Southwest has developed missions to lay the ground work for both internal and external growth. We invite you to take a moment to review our missions. During your review you may come up with questions. Please contact one of our Deacons or Elders to learn more or for help with any questions that may have arisen.
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I recently posted this quote on Facebook: "The universe doesn't give you what you want; it gives you what you are."
A friend wrote back to say she hoped this wasn't true. I can see where she's coming from. If you have situations or people in your life that are not the way you want them to be, you might be inclined to agree with her. I mean, who wants to look at negativity and say, "That's me! The universe gave me exactly what I am."? It's much easier to think that those situations or people are things separate from us that we need to get rid of or change.
However, I find the quote to be quite true, and actually quite empowering. It means that if I want something, I'm the one responsible for becoming the type of person who that something can happen to. It means I'm not sitting idly by, muttering affirmations and waiting for my new reality to show up. It means I have to work to change my inner reality if I want to see a change in my outer reality.
Today's inspiring inauguration of Barack Obama as our 44th president is a beautiful illustration of this principle. I have a lot of hope today for our country and for our world, but it isn't because I think President Obama will fix everything for us. I have hope because we, as a nation and as global citizens everywhere, have reached a level of consciousness that allows him to be the outer embodiment of our collective inner reality. He is the public manifestation of our private aspirations.
We are ready to embrace the challenge of being in our world in a new way. We are ready to commit to leading lives of greater service to others and our planet. We are willing to look at our current situations, from our own family finances to the global economic mess, with honesty, practicality, and a commitment to getting back on track. We are willing to take responsibility for what we've created, and for what we wish to create moving forward. Today, we've gone from "Yes, we can!" to "Yes, we will!"
"Be the change you wish to see in the world" has taken on new meaning for me. It's not just about saying you want to end hunger and then volunteering for a food bank. It's about BEING the kind of person you want the world populated with. If we want greater accountability, honesty, and transparency in our government and in our corporations, then WE, ourselves, need to become more accountable, honest and transparent. If we want world peace, then we need to take responsibility for our own emotional states and the peace or conflict we create in our own families. We are on our way to becoming the change we wish to see in the world. I felt it today, watching the inauguration, the crowds, and listening to our new president's speech.
In this intelligent, compassionate and unflappable man, the universe has given us what we are. I stand a little taller today in this realization. I feel up to the challenges ahead. I feel like an important part of this shifting tide in history. How about you? In what way will you step up to this challenge?
(This is day 19 of a daily writing experiment in which I explore a particular topic in depth over 21 days, inspired by Colleen Wainwright's 21-Day Salutes. In this case, the topic is breaking through the wall of limitations.)
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More on Teaching Intelligent Design
Writing in the National Review Online,(and please read the entire article) John Derbyshire makes a good argument why there is no reasonable basis for the president or anyone else to proclaim the teaching of intelligent design to students should trump teaching each of the other “pseudoscientific flapdoodle”
The title of the article is "Teaching Science--
The president is wrong on Intelligent Design.
...I caught President Bush's endorsement of teaching Intelligent Design in public school science classes. "Both sides ought to be properly taught," President Bush told a reporter August 2, "so people can understand what the debate is all about."
This is Bush at his muddle-headed worst, conferring all the authority of the presidency on the teaching of pseudoscience in science classes. Why stop with Intelligent Design (the theory that life on earth has developed by a series of supernatural miracles performed by the God of the Christian Bible, for which it is pointless to seek any naturalistic explanation)? Why not teach the little ones astrology? Lysenkoism? Orgonomy? Dianetics? Reflexology? Dowsing and radiesthesia? Forteanism? Velikovskianism? Lawsonomy? Secrets of the Great Pyramid? ESP and psychokinesis? Atlantis and Lemuria? The hollow-earth theory? Does the president have any idea, does he have any idea, how many varieties of pseudoscientific flapdoodle there are in the world? If you are going to teach one, why not teach the rest? Shouldn't all sides be "properly taught"? To give our kids, you know, a rounded picture? Has the president scrutinized Velikovsky's theories? Can he refute them? Can you?
I think that proponents of each theory could argue the value of their view to be included in an educational curriculum and probably they should. But I also think that they certainly should not be taught in a class dealing with science. I would think that a philosophy class would be more appropriate. Do you agree? ..Maurice.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund?
The Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund has been established to help Indigenous Australians to participate in the Carbon Farming Initiative. It is being delivered in two streams:
- The Capacity Building and Business Support stream provides funding for Indigenous organisations and individuals to access carbon farming specialists, business development expertise and legal advice for developing governance and contractual arrangements for carbon farming projects. This stream is being administered through the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities; and
- The Research and Development stream provides funding for the development of Carbon Farming Initiative methodologies likely to have high Indigenous participation. This stream is being administered separately by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. You can register your interest in receiving email updates about the Research and Development stream by emailing the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency at ICFF@climatechange.gov.au.
Who can apply for an Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund Grant?
The Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund welcomes applications from Indigenous organisations and individuals interested in exploring opportunities under the Carbon Farming Initiative or in progressing carbon farming or related businesses.
Where the applicant is an individual, the applicant will need to be able to supply a statutory declaration confirming their Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander heritage. Where the applicant is an organisation, the applicant needs to be an Indigenous organisation.
A legally incorporated entity in Australia can act as a contract manager on behalf of an Indigenous organisation applicant provided they can supply a letter of consent from the Indigenous organisation applicant.
Applicants should consult the eligibility section in the grant application guidelines for specific activities that are eligible for funding.
Is the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund linked to the Carbon Farming Initiative?
The Carbon Farming Initiative is one of the programs under the Australian Government's Clean Energy Future. It allows land managers to earn carbon credits by storing carbon or reducing greenhouse gas emissions on the land.
There are two broad categories of Carbon Farming Initiative activities:
- Emissions avoidance activities which generate offsets by reducing or avoiding emissions; and
- Sequestration activities which generate abatement by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through sequestering carbon in plants as they grow or by increasing organic matter in soil.
Indigenous co-benefits, (including cultural, social or economic benefit) can provide proponents with an additional opportunity to sell carbon credits at a premium price.
How much money is available through Round One of the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund?
Funding of $1.3m is available in Round one of the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund through a competitive grants program. There are two categories of funding available - Category 1 grants for feasibility assessment activities, up to $50,000 (GST exclusive); and Category 2 grants for business and project development activities up to $300,000 (GST exclusive). Funds will be capped at the funding limit specified but expenditure of these grants over multiple financial years may be approved on a case by case basis.
What opportunities are there for Indigenous Australians to access other programs under the Land Sector package to implement their project?
The Biodiversity Fund is a great opportunity for Indigenous applicants to achieve biodiversity outcomes on country as well as maximise new carbon market opportunities. Subsequent funding rounds may allow Indigenous organisations to apply for funds to implement 'on ground' works associated with establishing a carbon farming business.
Which Indigenous groups can apply for funding?
Applications are welcomed from all Indigenous groups and individuals, providing they meet the eligibility criteria as set out in the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund Grant Application Guidelines.
Are State agencies eligible applicants for the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund?
No. The applicant must be an Indigenous organisation or individual. Successful applicants may choose to work in partnership with state agencies or other partners.
It is recommended that potential applicants read the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund guidelines in full before submitting an application.
How do I get the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund 2011-12 Round One guidelines and application form?
The guidelines and application forms for the ICFF can be found at: www.environment.gov.au/cleanenergyfuture/icff
If you are unable to access the application, you can request a hard copy application form by contacting the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund hotline: 1800 008 678 (toll free excluding mobile and public phones).
Where do I submit the completed application form for the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund?
Applications can be submitted electronically to the email address below:
or hard copy applications posted to:
Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund
Indigenous Policy Branch
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
GPO Box 787
When do Round One applications close?
Both electronic and hard copy applications must be received by 5pm on 12 December 2012 (AEDT).
Will hard copy applications be accepted?
While electronic applications are preferred, hard copies will be accepted and are available for those who do not have internet access. You can request a hard copy application form by contacting the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund hotline on 1800 008 678 (toll free excluding mobile and public phones).
Will late applications be accepted?
Late applications may be considered under extenuating circumstances provided an alternative timeframe has been agreed prior to the closing date.
Any requests for an extension of time to lodge an application must be made to the department prior to 5pm 12 December 2012 AEDT. Such requests should be directed, in writing, to the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund team at email@example.com
The department has no obligation to accept a late application. Any decision to accept or not accept a late application is at the department's absolute discretion and will be final.
Can I submit extra information in support of my application?
Yes. Please note that while the assessment panel may consider additional information provided, it is not obligated to do so.
Additional information listed below can also be submitted with your applicationL
- a statutory declaration confirming your Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage for applicants who are 'individuals'
- a 'Statement by Supplier' form if the applicant does not have an ABN
- a signed letter of consent from the Traditional Owners and other relevant Indigenous people associated with the place or country upon which the project will be undertaken
- a feasibility assessment and / or business plan and location map
- a letter of support from the land holder of the site where the carbon farming business is proposed to take place if the applicant is not the land owner
What information should my application include?
Before beginning your application, read the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund Grant Application Guidelines to determine your eligibility to apply and the assessment criteria you should consider when putting your proposal together.
Can I submit more than one application?
Applicants may submit proposals for more than one project. Each proposal is considered individually and should be capable of being implemented regardless of whether other applications are successful.
When does my project need to be completed by?
Projects will generally be funded for a single year. All grants will be capped at the funding limit specified in the Guidelines; however the expenditure of grants over multiple financial years may be approved on a case by case basis.
How can I access further information about the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund 2012-13?
Further information relating to the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund can be accessed by:
- reading the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund Grant Application Guidelines - Round One
- visiting www.environment.gov.au/cleaneenrgyfuture/icff
- emailing the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund team at firstname.lastname@example.org
- calling the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund hotline: 1800 008 678 (toll free excluding mobile and public phones) between 9am and 4pm AEDT Monday to Friday.
What administrative costs should I include in my project budget?
Administration expenses are those costs associated with administering your project. Costs may include audit/accounting, phone/internet bills, printing/photocopying, costs associated with legally required documents such as permits etc.
Applicants should remember that project proposals will be assessed on the basis of value for money. Proposals that represent greatest benefit for every dollar invested will be considered of greater merit.
Can I make changes to my application once it has been submitted?
If you need to alter your application after it has been submitted but before the application period closes, please contact the department.
If you submit a new application form (replacing an existing application), please email email@example.com to notify the department and avoid any confusion during the assessment process.
How will my application be assessed?
All applications will be assessed by a representative from within the department and by an Indigenous community assessor and/or a member of the Indigenous Advisory Committee.
Suitable projects will be submitted to the Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board for advice before recommendations for funding are made to the Minister.
Applications will be assessed against the following three assessment criteria:
Criterion 1 - Consistency with the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund objectives
Criterion 2 - Value for money
Criterion 3 - Capacity
More information on the assessment criteria is available in Section 4.3 of the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund Grant Application Guidelines.
Can proposals include administration costs, or costs incurred from the application process?
The Australian Government understands that administration is an integral part of delivering an Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund project and accepts a proportionate amount in the budget for that purpose.
The Australian Government does not fund retrospectively, so costs incurred during the application process will not be funded.
Can an Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund grant be used to purchase equipment and other capital items?
The applicant will need to demonstrate, in the context of their project, how the purchase of equipment or other capital items represents value for public money and contributes to their ability to deliver against the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund objectives, as outlined in the grant application guidelines.
Is there a cap for funding?
Yes. Category 1 grants for Feasibility and Assessment activities are capped at $50,000 (GST exclusive) and Category 2 grants for Business and Project Development activities are capped at $300,000 (GST exclusive).
If my project application is successful, what are the next stages?
Successful applicants will be contacted by the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund team to discuss the funding agreement (contract).
If my project application is successful, when can I expect to receive funds?
The Australian Government will assess applications in a timely manner to enable payments to be made as soon as possible after the completion of the assessment process, submission to the Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board for advice and announcement of successful projects by the Minister.
All grant payments for the project are subject to the successful applicant entering into, and complying with, the terms and conditions of the funding agreement.
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So, you’re applying for jobs. One hurdle you will need to jump is writing ye olde ‘Curriculum Vitae’. This can be your best friend, if done well, or your worst enemy (we prefer the first!). To help you to have a clean and pristine CV that will dazzle anyone – we asked top local employer Becky Simkiss on some top tips for a winner of a CV:
“You want your CV to look clean, sharp and professional. Ideally you are looking for a document that is two pages long. A classic layout of white page with black text is essential; choose a nicely presented font that is clear and easy to read. Have your name, address and contact details at the top and centre of the page. Do not include your date of birth. Proof read several times and cast a critical eye. Give to a trusted friend with a great eye for detail to check too. Look at your CV as though seeing it for the first time.”
“Avoid long paragraphs and large chunks of text, you will lose the interest of the reader. Make sure you avoid any slang words and unnecessary acronyms.
Tailor your CV to the opportunity that you are applying for. Read through the job description and highlight qualities that the role requires. Use positive language throughout and don’t be afraid to let your achievements shine through.”
“Use personal statements to give an overview of you. It should be a short, succinct paragraph and needs to grab the attention of the reader. Try to avoid using “power phrases” that are very generic and lack meaning such as, “A motivated, hardworking team player with the ability to also work on own initiative”. Use words that demonstrate your individual qualities that are then backed up by your experience.”
Key Skills, Education and Career History
These sections go after your personal statement. There is no hard and fast rule about the order, so feel free to chop and change. However, always add dates (not of the food variety) clearly next to the relevant information:
“Key Skills – List any individual qualities you have that demonstrate your suitability for the role. These can be IT skills, training or professional qualifications and any additional language skills.
For Education – Give a general overview of your achievements. Dates and place of study, GCSE’s, A-Levels, and Degree etc. should be listed.
Career History – start with your most recent employer first and then work back. Have strong headings and ensure the company name is clear, along with your job title and dates of employment. Adding reasons for leaving each of your roles is also very helpful, especially if you have worked in a number of contract roles. If you have been temping then include this information. Cover any gaps in employment with a brief description of how that time was utilised. I.e. “Travelling throughout Australasia” or “Actively seeking employment”. Under each job heading, write a line or two to set the context of the business you worked in. What do they do and how your role was positioned within that. Then use bullet points to highlight your key responsibilities and use evidence of your achievements to demonstrate your skills. List any significant achievements and detail how that benefitted your business.”
“These should be at the end of the CV. References can be detailed or you can use “References can be supplied upon request” if you are struggling to keep to the two page rule.”
“Use the personal interests section wisely. Avoid the old adage of “Reading, going to the gym and socialising with friends”. Keep it short and simple. Two lines highlighting your interests and what really motivates you in your spare time, it can be an interesting conversation point in an interview!”
So there you have it – a brief intro. You can find more information on CV dos-and-don’ts, whilst having a laugh at the bloopers here. Or for any more help pop into Careers Network and have a chat wth an advisor.
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- Category: NNPC
- Published on Monday, 03 May 2010 00:00
- Written by Admin
- Hits: 9298
What is PPMC?
The Acronym: PPMC means Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Limited. It was incorporated in Nov. 1988 as a wholly owned subsidiary of NNPC. It commenced operation in Jan. 1989
What is the relationship between PPMC and NNPC?
PPMC is a subsidiary of NNPC. NNPC is a Federal Government Corporation created by the merger of Nigeria National Oil Company (NNOC and Ministry of Petroleum Resources through decree 33 of 1977.
What are the major functions of PPMC?
PPMC supplies Crude Oil to Refineries for refining and evacuates Petroleum Products from the Refineries for distribution to the domestic markets. It also ensures that daily National demand for Petroleum Products are met by augmenting local supplies from Refineries with import. In addition, PPMC markets other special products such as HPFO, LPFO, Bitumen etc.
How can one get allocation for Petroleum Products like, LPFO, HPFO, Bitumen etc?
LPFO is Low Pour Fuel Oil mainly used in Industries as fuel for generation of power or for firing their heaters. Allocation is made to industries through Marketers. HPFO is mainly exported while Bitumen is allocated to construction Companies as well as the FMWH, SMWH etc.
How can one be a Marketer of PPMC’s products?
Marketers are first licenced by DPR, armed with the licence, bulk purchase agreement is entered into with PPMC.
How can one set up a filling Station and begin to get Products from PPMC?
The first port of call will be the DPR which will license the prospective marketer and then sign bulk purchase agreement with PPMC.
What is the national demand for Petrol, Kerosene, AGO, LPG and Aviation Kero.
Petrol or PMS is about 30 million litres per day,
AGO = 12 million litres per day
DPK = 8 million litres per day
ATK = 2 million litres per day
LPG = 192,000 Kg per day 15,360 cylinders of 12.5kg capacity
How many depots does NNPC have and why are some of these depots not functioning?
We have 22 depots across the Country some are not functioning due to lack of products occasioned by pipeline vandalism and other supply challenges.
Why is Nigeria always experiencing fuel scarcity and what could be done to find a lasting solution?
Inadequate supply of products due to frequent breakdown of the local refineries, incessant pipeline vandalism and bureaucratic delays in discharging imported products, strike actions by labour unions, product hoarding and diversion by unscrupulous marketers, Government’s policy on subsidy. Dependence on imported products and changes in market fundamentals of Crude Oil and Refined products in the International Markets.
What is PPMC doing about the incessant pipeline ruptures and vandalism with its attendant implications on life, property and environment?
Integrity survey of the pipelines are being carried out to determine those needed to be changed due to age. Government is also currently considering coming up with a master plan on pipelines protection. Ensuring that PROW is clearly delineated. Also, Nigerians need education and enlightenment to appreciate the importance for the protection of the pipelines and other public facilities.
Safety is paramount in the Oil and Gas Industry, what obtains in Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Limited?
PPMC has a full fledged department with responsibility for enforcement of HSE Industry Regulations with Slogan “SAFETY FIRST” supported by an annual safety week awareness campaign.
The constant increase in the price of crude Oil in the International Market is making some major users of the Product (Japan and the likes) to source for an alternative source of energy, what is your position on this?
PPMC will always be relevant in the transport energy sector since it is already keying into the biofuel development.
Some Investors are apprehensive about the Niger Delta crises, what do you think government can do to curb the crises?
Government is already addressing the issues with emphasis on the development of the region through a comprehensive Niger Delta Master Plan. Besides, Government recently established a Ministry of Niger Delta to coordinate development of the oil producing region. This is in addition to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC) which has been in existence close to a decade and currently making appreciable impact in the lives of the people of the Niger Delta. Above all, Government also recently granted amnesty to the militants in the region, a unique move that may enhance peace in the region.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a vehicle to attract goodwill and attention to an organization, are you doing anything in this regards?
PPMC is a responsible Corporate Organization which has identified with its Host Communities through community assistance & sustainable development projects. It also carries out special programmes aimed at endearing her to her host Communities.
What measures should be taken in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry to ensure that capacity building in engineering and fabrication is increased in the Oil and Gas Industry?
Strict compliance with the Local content initiative of the Federal Government, Deployment of the state of the art I.T infrastructure and Human Resources Development.
What are the major challenges of PPMC?
- Pipeline vandalism
- Subsidy on imported products – loss in revenue
- Cash crunch
- Obsolete/old equipment
- Continued encroachment on pipeline right of way
- Lack of prerequisite number of personnel
- Unscheduled shutdown of the refineries which results in disruption of products supply.
- Difficulty in establishing Letters of Credit for Offshore purchase of critical spare parts.
- Frequent invitation by members of the National Assembly
- Favour seekers from powerful and influential Publics.
It is widely alleged that PPMC staff connive and aid pipeline vandals in their nefarious act of vandalism.
Pipeline Vandalism is a criminal offence for which nobody is immuned against. Available records have shown that over 5000 (five thousand) arrests have been made across the Country and to date, No, PPMC staff have either been arrested or implicated. The allegation is therefore unfounded.
It is also believed that PPMC Management especially those in Marine or Supply and Distribution aid and abet demurrage on coastal Vessels that supply products to the Country.
Demurrage are paid directly to ship owners whom neither staff nor Management have access to. Nigeria also charges the lowest demurrage as its demurrage calculations are based on (AFRA) Average Freight Rate Assessment London tanker brokers’ panel as against the Spot rate charge (Platts). The difference between the two is about 10,000 USD. Ship owners are usually reluctant to come to Nigeria, because of this price differential. Again a number of agencies have roles to play before a vessel is discharged such agencies include NPA, Customs, DPR and Navy.
Product allocation is widely believed to be a source of quick and easy money in PPMC. How can one get this product allocation?
There are different types of products. The white products i.e PMS - Petrol, HHK – House Hold Kerosene, ATK - Aviation Turbine Kerosene, AGO – Diesel. These are allocated to Major and Independent Marketers. They sell these products in their various outlets.
However, in the past these Marketers use powerful and influential members of the public to obtain allocation for products they do not actually require, and turn around to sell the products to those who actually need it. There are other products mainly for Industrial users who have operational facilities. These products such as LPFO, SRG, Bitumen & LPG are allocated to users directly. However, some of these industrial users prefer to sell the allocation instead of using the product in their factory. Machinery has been put in place to identify specific industries engaged in this bad practice for appropriate sanction. HPFO is mainly for export.
How many Pump Stations does PPMC have in Nigeria?
PPMC has 15 Pump Stations out of which
8 are standing alone Pump Stations
3 are tied to the Refineries and
4 are tied to the Depots
Does PPMC transport different products through different pipelines?
PPMC transport all refined products through the same pipelines except Mosimi – Satellite product line where you have different pipelines for different products. A different pipeline is used for transporting Crude.
Does PPMC own and operate Product Shipping Vessels?
PPMC only chatter Vessels to Ship products. It also owns some Vessels.
How does PPMC secure her pipelines?
PPMC secure her pipelines through the use of Community guards, Nigeria Mobile Police Force, Nigeria Military, National Security and Civil Defence Corp also assist.
How does PPMC distribute products to the riverrine areas?
PPMC distributes products to the riverrine areas through floating Mega Stations and some filling stations with authorized licence to sell petroleum products in the Area.
Does PPMC market LPG?
Yes, PPMC markets LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas)
Does PPMC also export petroleum products?
Yes, PPMC exports, HPFO and sometimes other products when they are surplus.
Does PPMC market Crude Oil?
No. PPMC does not market Crude oil.
Apart form the use of pipelines, how does PPMC transport her products?
PPMC transports products using road tankers and coastal vessels.
How can one buy Kerosene from PPMC?
One can buy Kerosene from PPMC only if one has authorized storage facility and is a registered marketer with PPMC.
Why does PPMC grant credit facility to some marketers?
PPMC grants credit facility to some marketers it adjudged to be credit worthy in terms of their capacity.
What are the efforts put in place to reduce high demurrage in relation to importation of Petroleum Products?
Provision of N3.00 by Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) to pay for Private Depots facilities in the interim.This is to enable big vessels discharge on time and depart.
How do we determine the Government subsidy?
The total landing cost ex-filling station minus fixed pump price by PPPRA plats.
What is PPMC doing to encourage people to use liquefied Petroleum gas (LPG) and what is the PPMC price?
PPMC is carrying out a campaign to encourage members of the public through participation in Trade fairs and exhibitions. PPMC price is N55.56 per litre.
What is the volume of LPG in 12.5kg cylinder?
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At Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, our social workers are important members of your child’s healthcare team. They are here to help you and your family by assessing your needs and providing you with resources and support. A social worker can help:
- Support you and your family as you learn to cope with your child’s illness or injury.
- Give you support during times of grief and loss.
- Address language and cultural concerns.
- Plan patient care conferences between your family and the medical team.
- Discuss any concerns about your child’s safety and protection.
- Plan for your child’s discharge from the hospital.
- Find resources to help pay for your child’s medicines.
- Arrange transportation to and from the hospital.
- Teach you about community agencies that provide ongoing services for financial, insurance, legal, mental health and other needs.
- Provide information about Advance Directives, which allow patients 18 years and older to make valid, legal choices about their future medical care.
At Children’s, social work services are vital to providing effective healthcare that impacts all dimensions of wellness for the patient and family. Social workers use their skills in assessment and intervention to provide our families with counseling, education, and resources to enhance their coping and well-being with illness or injury.
To learn more about the profession of Social Work, please visit:
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After this the Lord appointed seventy a others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go.
He said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves.
Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road.
Whatever house you enter, first say, "Peace to this house!'
And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you.
Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the laborer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house.
Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you;
cure the sick who are there, and say to them, "The kingdom of God has come near to you.' b10
But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say,
"Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.' c12
I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.
"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
But at the judgment it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades.
"Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."
The seventy d returned with joy, saying, "Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!"
He said to them, "I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.
See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
At that same hour Jesus e rejoiced in the Holy Spirit f and said, "I thank g you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. h22
All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Then turning to the disciples, Jesus i said to them privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!
For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it."
Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. j "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?"
He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."
And he said to him, "You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live."
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.
Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
The next day he took out two denarii, k gave them to the innkeeper, and said, "Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.'
Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?"
He said, "The one who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.
She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he was saying.
But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me."
But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things;
there is need of only one thing. l Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her."
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha)
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The Division of Sewerage and Drainage operates two wastewater treatment plants, Jackson Pike and Southerly. Wastewater from Columbus and 22 contracting suburban communities flows to one of these two plants, who combined treated an average of 208 million gallons per day in 2011, a year with record rainfall of 54.96". The photo to the right shows the sludge digesters at Jackson Pike, which are visible from I-71 south of downtown Columbus.
Two following two Adobe Acrobat PDF files explain the treatment process used at both plants:
Other statistics on wastewater treatment in Columbus can be found in our most recent Department of Public Utilities Annual Report.
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To convert the old tobacco factory into a contemporary culture centre the building will be opened up to the city, removing fences and surrounding walls and creating a mall where people can stroll at leisure. A glass prism will be created to give the building more visibility and provide a new perspective on the city. Tabakalera will be characterised by its transversal nature, as a meeting place between disciplines and a stimulus to innovation. The different spaces in the centre will therefore be hybrid and can be adapted for a variety of uses.
New entry points and urban zones:
The building will have three entry points, and these will generate new urban zones in turn:
-New access in the front towards the underpass, creating a large square. Access to the main hall of the Centre.
-The present entrance is consolidated, integrating it into its urban surroundings.
-New entrance at the back of the building on the first floor, via the bridge over the railway line.
List of areas
Laboratories, Spaces for projects in residence, Recording, editing and post-production areas, Media library, Exhibition rooms, Projection rooms, Multi-purpose auditorium, Restaurant, TBKafé, Mall, Basque Film Library, Instituto Etxepare, Spaces for other uses*
Further information of renewal project
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If any man’s work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he shah suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire. (1 Corinthians 3:14-15)
Believers who have right motives, proper conduct, and effective service build with gold, silver, and precious stones. They do constructive work for the Lord and will receive corresponding rewards. He shall receive a reward. That simple and hopeful promise is the message of eternal joy and glory. Whatever our service to God’s glory, He will reward.
When a pastor preaches sound, solid doctrine he is building constructively. When a teacher teaches the Word consistently and fully, he is building with good materials. When a person with the gift of helps spends himself serving others in the Lord’s name, he is building with materials that will endure testing and will bring great reward. When a believer’s life is holy, submissive, and worshipful, he is living a life built with precious materials.
The Lord’s reward for all His faithful followers are varied and wonderful, and all of them are imperishable (1 Cor. 9:25), The New Testament refers to them as crowns. “For those who have true saving faith and thus are faithful to live in hope until Jesus comes, there will be ‘the crown of righteousness’ (2 Tim. 4:7–8). Because the faithful proclaim the truth, there is promised a ‘crown of exultation’ (1 Thess. 2:19–20). Because of the service of the redeemed, the reward given is ‘the unfading crown of glory’ (1 Pet. 5:4).” For all who love the Lord there will be “the crown of life” (James 1:12). Each of these is best understood as a Greek genitive of apposition (i.e., the crown which is righteousness, the crown which is exultation, the crown which is glory, and the crown which is life. All refer to the fullness of the believer’s promised reward.
Many humanly impressive and seemingly beautiful and worthwhile works that Christians do in the Lord’s name will not stand the test in “that day.” It “will become evident” (v. 13) that the materials used were wood, hay, and straw. The workmen will not lose their salvation, but they will lose a portion of any reward they might be expecting. They shall be saved, yet so as through fire. The thought here is of a person who runs through flames without being burned, but who has the smell of smoke on him—barely escaping! In the day of rewards, the useless and evil things will be burned away, but salvation will not be forfeited.
It is easy to fool ourselves into thinking that anything we do in the Lord’s name is in His service, just as long as we are sincere, hardworking, and well meaning. But what looks to us like gold may turn out to be straw, because we have not judged our materials by the standards of God’s Word—pure motives, holy conduct, and self-less service.
We should be careful not to waste our opportunities by building with worthless materials, for if we do we will become worthless workmen. Paul warned the worthless materials, for if we do we will become worthless workmen. Paul warned the Colossians, “Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self–abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind” (Col. 2:18). When we rely on human wisdom, or even supernatural visions, rather than God’s Word, we are carnal, following a “fleshly mind.” We can be sure that any doctrine or principle or practice developed from such fleshly sources will at best be worthless.
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The decision by Friends of the Earth to withdraw from the fight against Shrewsbury’s controversial £60 million incinerator seems to have brought the drawn-out saga to an end.
In truth, following planning inspector John Woolcock’s earlier ruling that Shropshire Council’s waste contractor Veolia would be able to build the facility at Battlefield Enterprise Park, there has been little doubt that it would go ahead.
But the episode has rumbled on for far too long and, questionably, left the town with a facility that few local residents actually want.
Four to five years ago, the idea of burning waste to generate energy was distinctly fashionable. It was easier for Shropshire Council and Veolia to drum up support than it might be today.
A lengthy legal battle ensued, with council tax payers having to foot expensive lawyers’ fees, before the planned incinerator was finally approved.
Proponents of the scheme may content themselves at having won arguments that there is a need for the facility. But it is a hollow victory.
While Shropshire Council and Veolia have won the battle they seem to have lost the war because as a public relations exercise, the issue of the incinerator has been an unmitigated disaster. While once incinerators were seen as fashionable and desirable, they are now seen as being out of date.
Public sympathies might once have been with a council trying to generate low-cost energy and deal with an ever-growing problem of environmentally-responsibly waste management, they are now more likely to be with groups like Shrewsbury Friends of the Earth and the Battlefield 1403 Visitor Centre who opposed the plans.
In coming months, the sound of diggers and earth-movers will herald the first phase of construction and soon after Shrewsbury will have the incinerator.
A straw poll of residents in the town centre would almost certainly reveal widespread opposition to it. The majority want better recycling and waste collection – not an expensive plant that burns our waste.
The lasting impression is of an own goal from a council and waste company committed to an unpopular facility that few people actually want.
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Liberty University Racial Harassment & Discrimination Policy
The Racial harassment policy ensures the understanding among members of the Liberty University community that racial discrimination and/or harassment is unacceptable and prohibited. All members of the University community are encouraged to reflect upon the issue of discrimination and harassment as it directly affects the lives and conducts of others.
Anyone who may be the victim of racial discrimination or harassment should be aware of the procedure for reporting such incidents.
Policies and Procedures Governing Racial Harassment
Liberty University asserts that all members of the University community are entitled to, and shall be afforded, an environment devoid of overt or subtle racism. Therefore, members of the Liberty University community will not tolerate racial discrimination or harassment in any form.
The increased incidents of racial discrimination or harassment on college and university campuses nationwide suggest that information alone has not abolished this behavior. Consequently, a more aggressive stance must be assumed. To this end, Liberty University has adopted a policy governing racial discrimination or harassment, which applies to all members of the university community.
Behavior that constitutes racial discrimination or harassment is prohibited by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and includes, but is not limited to; racial/ethnic slurs, coarse jesting with racial/ethnic overtones, and all other forms of communication resulting in disparagement or intimidation.
Report the incident to the Center for Multicultural Enrichment or the Office of Student Conduct.
Assigned conduct officer will review the Racial Discrimination/Harassment policy with the complainant.
A Racial Discrimination/Harassment Grievance Form will be filed.
Complainant must decide if he/she wants to pursue a formal complaint possibly resulting in disciplinary action.
The Conduct Review Committee will examine the results of the investigation and determine appropriate course of action.
The conduct officer will carry out a final interview with complainant.
Any Liberty University student who commits racial discrimination or harassment is subject to disciplinary action, which may result in 12 or more reprimands, along with possible fines, community service and/or possible administrative withdrawal. Conversely, due to the severity of a false charge, where the results of an investigation reveal a complaint of racial discrimination or harassment to be frivolous or groundless, the individual having made such a complaint may be subject to the same disciplinary action.
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Lifting a Regulatory Burden Could Create Dangerous Consequences
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last month proposed a rule to relax some Medicare conditions of participation for hospitals seeking federal reimbursement, we heard that leaders of acute care facilities jumped for joy.
Instead of dishing out tons of new regulatory paperwork, the payers in chief were finally deleting some that were thought to be unnecessary. In doing so, CMS officials said, they would be saving hospitals an estimated $942 million a year and allowing providers to spend more time at the bedside.
This announcement "is welcome news for hospitals and patients, providing much-needed regulatory relief to a health system choked with paperwork," the American Hospital Association's President and CEO, Rich Umbdenstock said in a statement.
That’s all well and good... except for one thing.
The 76-page CMS proposal seeks to eliminate one requirement that could cause more in time and harm – in headaches and adverse events, not to mention true disasters and damage to family relationships – than it prevents.
The agency proposes to allow hospitalized patients, or their caregivers, or 'support' persons, the ability to administer some medications themselves, eliminating the requirement that a hospital employee (i.e. a nurse) perform those functions.
Here's the language of the proposed rule: "We also propose additional revisions at proposed §482.23(c)(6) that would allow hospitals the flexibility to develop and implement policies and procedures for a patient and his or her caregivers/support persons to administer specific medications (non-controlled drugs and biologicals).
"This proposal would be consistent with the current practice of giving patients access at the bedside to urgently needed medications, such as nitroglycerine tablets and inhalers, and selected non-prescription medications, such as lotions and rewetting eye drops. These proposed changes would apply to the self-administration of both hospital-issued medications and the patient’s own medications brought into the hospital."
- Patient Harm Data to Remain on Medicare's Hospital Compare Site
- CMS Seeks to 'Rapidly Reduce' Medicare Spending with $1B in Grants
- Hard-Nosed About Physician Teamwork
- Quiet ORs Better for Patient Safety
- Building a Better Healthcare Board
- Case Study: Advance Care Conversations
- Tavenner Confirmed as CMS Administrator
- CMS Releases Hospital Pricing Data
- Access to EHR Notes Lauded by Patients, Providers
- Hospital Pricing Data Dump Won't Hurt You, Yet
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B-17 Gear Down
In 1934, Boeing began construction of a four-engined heavy bomber that was to be entered in an Army Air Corps competition that called for twin-engine bomber designs. Designated the Boeing Model 299, the aircraft was introduced to the public in 1935. In a story about the unveiling, a reporter stated that the aircraft, which bristled with guns, appeared to be "a flying fortress." The name stuck. In January 1936, the Air Corps ordered 13 Model 299s, which it designated the YB-17 "Flying Fortress." Thus began what may be the greatest of aircraft legends.
The B-17 went through several major modifications during its lifetime. The B-17G was the final major version. By the time the G model was developed in September 1943, the Fortress had already built for itself a legendary reputation for taking phenomenal amounts of damage and still returning to friendly territory. The G model continued, and added to, the legend. It was the largest production variation - of the 12,725 B-17s manufactured, 8,680 were G models.
Wing span: 103 feet, 9 inches
Length: 74 feet, 4 inches
Height: 19 feet, 1 inch
Engines: 4 supercharged, 1,200 horsepower Wright R-1820-97 Cyclones
Top speed: 287 mph at 25,000 feet
Cruise speed: 182 mph
Range: 3,400 miles
Service ceiling: 35,600 feet
Empty weight: 36,135 pounds
Gross weight: 55,000 pounds
Maximum fuel load: 3,630 gallons
Crew: 10 (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, bombardier, engineer, radio operator, 4 gunners)
Maximum bomb load: 6,000 pounds
Defensive armament: Thirteen .50 caliber machine guns with 6,380 rounds of ammunition
The purpose and objectives of this organization are to preserve and perpetuate the memory of the B-17 Flying Fortress high altitude bomber and the heroic men who flew, serviced, or contributed in some manner to the epic role the Flying Fortress played in bringing World War II to a final conclusion. The Flying Fortress carved for itself an ever-deepening niche in the history of military aviation.
The many roles of the B-17 may never be completely recorded. Every man of the thousands who flew them, every man of the handful who still fly them, hold something of her great story in his memory. Most did not fly for pleasure, nor as their chosen vocation; the Fort was their transportation to places they never dreamed of seeing, let alone destroying. The Flying Fortress was a heavy bomber designed to destroy the places it visited. Destroy it did, and was often itself destroyed in the effort.
Like all machines, the B-17 is mute and she must be spoken for by the men who flew her, or flew in her. When her name was a familiar term, she was regarded with admiration, or with dread, throughout the world. The B-17 COMBAT CREWMEN & WINGMEN was formed to perpetuate her glorious name and reputation. It is not our intention to take away any of the praise from the Liberator and her crews, she too earned a place of distinction in history, and we have the same respect for the gallant and courageous airmen who served with her. However, we have a romance with the Flying Fortress and many can recall seeing them make it back to base with tail sections gone, noses blown away, wings with large sections missing, and engines on one, or both sides not operating. Most of them did come home - some living long combat lives, many topping the one-hundred mission mark - "Nine-0-Nine" of the 91st, "Thunderbird" of the 303rd, and "Jamaica Ginger" of the 388th bomb group, to mention a few.
Some 12,731 Fonresses were built by Boeing, Douglas and Lockheed Aircraft. The development of the Fortress was unique to aviation history. Boeing Company assumed the expense of the design, and production of number 299, the bomber prototype that led to the B-17, and staked its future on this new plane. Number 299 first appeared on the Boeing drawing board in 1933. The first prototype flew on July 28, 1935. The imminence of war brought numerous Fortress modifications, with the B- I 7C as a result. Later, the D, E, F, and the B-17G appeared with the chin turret in large numbers. A total of 4,750 B-17's were lost'on combat missions, more than any other type of aircraft. This was because the Fortress did so much of the fighting. Forts shot down an average of twenty-three fighters per thousand plane raid, compared with eleven shot down by U. S. fighters. During the war, B-17's dropped a total of 640,036 tons of bombs on European targets. This compares with 452,508 tons dropped by B-24's and 436,544 tons dropped by all other U. S. aircraft. Today, only thirty percent of the American people are old enough to remember the years from 1939 to 1945. The other seventy percent know very little about the years which are probably the most significant period in American history since 1776. They don't know of the events that plunged the world into war or the horrors endured by millions of people, soldiers, and civilians alike. Nor, do they know of the great accomplishments of American industry or the great victories achieved in the air, on the land, and on the sea by civilian soldiers and seamen who, only a few months earlier, had no military training and no intention of going to war. We want to help tell the story of the accomplishments of this nation, and other free people of the world during the period from 1941 to 1945.
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Walk into Betsy Samson's* airy spanish-style home in Los Angeles, and the first thing you notice is its spareness. Crayon drawings line the walls, evidence of her two young children, but otherwise the place is minimalist—which is startling given how Samson has spent the past 15 years. "Reminders would be nauseating for me to have in the house—they've all been either given away or discarded," says the 40-year-old with a mop of brown, curly hair and haunted dark eyes. "I've tried to keep the habit as far removed from my family and work life as possible."
The habit is Samson's passion, her preoccupation, and her illness. This well-educated, upper-middle-class woman with a supportive husband and successful career is a compulsive shoplifter. Every day for 15 years, she brought home hundreds of dollars' worth of stolen goods, few of which she wanted or needed. The habit is shameful, dangerous, illegal, immensely time consuming, and, until a few months ago, seemingly impossible to resist. She has told almost no one. Even her husband of ten years has no idea just how out of control she's been.
To many people, kleptomania—the uncontrollable impulse to steal—is almost a joke. (Woman walks into her shrink's office. "I'm afraid you're a kleptomaniac," he tells her. "Really?" she says. "Is there something I can take for it?") To those like Betsy Samson, however, it's anything but funny. According to Shoplifters Alternative, a national recovery organization, one out of 11 Americans is a shoplifter—a fact that the National Retail Federation claims cost U.S. businesses almost $11 billion in lost retail sales last year. And among those who shoplift, an estimated 85 percent are doing it not out of necessity or because they're professional thieves but because they can't help themselves.
"When I lecture on kleptomania, people will come up to me and say, 'Oh God, I've done this for 30 years. I had no idea it was an illness. I just thought I was a horrible person,'" says Jon Grant, MD, one of the leading researchers on kleptomania. Grant usually sees patients in their late 30s and early 40s, almost all of whom have been stealing since they were teenagers. Many also struggle with depression, and most are women—but that may be because men are less likely to seek help and more likely to get caught, which means they wind up in the penal system.
The clinical definition of a kleptomaniac is a person who often steals without forethought, regardless of her need for the object. A compulsive shoplifter is considered more calculating, more aware of what she's doing. But the difference is mostly semantic, according to Grant. The urge is the same, he says, "and even though many start off taking ridiculous items, well...as one of my clients put it, 'I'm not an idiot. I have to get rid of the urge, so I might as well take something I need.'"
Compulsive shoplifters are not, Grant adds, the beady-eyed, lawless characters one might envision. Far from sociopaths, "they're almost the opposite," he says. "Many are religious and have very strong ethical codes. This is where the deep shame and embarrassment come from. When shoplifters come to me, they say, 'Why do I do this? I never want to, but I have to.'"
The common denominator among compulsive shoplifters is an acute sense of deprivation, whether or not money is scarce, according to Terrence Shulman, an attorney, psychotherapist, and author of Something for Nothing: Shoplifting Addiction and Recovery. A former shoplifter himself, Shulman also runs a recovery Web site at shopliftersanonymous.com. Through exchanges with almost 3,000 shoplifters, he has found that "people who steal have this feeling of: I have been taken from. The question they're asking is, 'How can I make up for what I feel has been taken from me?' Stealing offers—at least momentarily—relief, peace, and completion. For a few minutes, they've made life fair again."
This is true even among the rich and famous. "I can only speculate about Winona Ryder's personal issues," says Shulman, "but shoplifting is rarely about money." A celebrity is as capable as anyone else of feeling life hasn't treated her fairly, he explains. The content of the distress may be different from that of an ordinary person—"If I were just a little prettier, I would have gotten that role" or "Why didn't I win the Oscar?"—but the underlying feeling of being wounded, being deprived, is there.
Next: Behind the shoplifting addiction
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College has yet to determine how it will make it work
St. Johns River State College has accepted Gov. Rick Scott’s higher education affordability challenge to develop a bachelor’s degree program that will cost students no more than $10,000.
But exactly how the college will do it hasn’t been worked out yet.
“We are pleased to accept Governor Scott’s $10,000 Degree Challenge and pledge to bring this opportunity to the residents of our district in the fall of 2014,” SJR State President Joe Pickens said in a prepared statement. “We are committed to promoting the economic strengths of our communities by providing a variety of affordable, educational pathways that will lead to employment opportunities.”
SJR State spokeswoman Susan Kessler said the school currently confers two bachelor’s degrees — in early childhood education and in organizational management — and that both of those degrees will be offered as part of the $10,000 program. Getting one of those degrees currently costs $13,400 for students entering without credits or scholarships.
Reducing the cost of those degrees from $13,400 to $10,000 is a 25 percent cut. Kessler said the college has not decided yet how to reduce the cost.
“We haven’t worked out the details yet,” Kessler said. “Additional details and student eligibility requirements will be announced later this year.”
Pickens did not return calls requesting a comment.
Right now, some students may earn a bachelor’s degree for less than $10,000 by dual enrollment, obtaining their associate of arts degree while still in high school. Kessler said she wasn’t sure if the Challenge degrees would involve dual enrollment or not.
There are 28 state colleges — which used to be called community colleges — in Florida, 23 of them offer bachelor’s degrees. To date, all 23 have announced their acceptance of the governor’s challenge.
When the governor first issued the challenge in November, he did not offer any additional funding to the state colleges. Instead, he prompted the schools to come up with “innovative” ways to do it.
In a November interview with The Tampa Bay Times, Pickens said it was important to offer a degree that meets the needs of his students, many of whom are working while attending college.
“To just create one because we can do it doesn’t accomplish much,” Pickens told The Times. “To answer the governor’s challenge in a meaningful way is to survey the needs of the community we serve and come up with something that meets that need.”
In a press release sent out from the governor’s office on Monday, Commissioner of Education Tony Bennett said the institutions in the Florida College System have always focused on affordability.
“This shows a continued commitment, especially in the workforce area where we offer bachelor degrees,” Bennett said. “I commend all of the colleges in the Florida College System for their commitment to access and affordability and look forward to working with our colleges.”
Chancellor of the Florida College System Randy Hanna said college affordability is “a key ingredient in providing opportunities for Floridians to move into their careers.”
“All of these programs will be designed for bachelor degrees in the area of workforce development,” Hanna said. “Many of our colleges are targeting high demand programs where there can be a significant impact in the local community. We look forward to working with the governor and the legislature and business and industry as we develop these programs.”
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Curse Like an Orc, Woo Like an Elf: The Secret to Fantasy Languages
Fantasy languages hold undeniable appeal. They are transportive, offering you a treasured glimpse into the secret minds and daily lives of elves, Klingons, wizards, and dragons. They are evocative, lending elves their otherworldliness, Klingons their intimidating nature, and the Sims their emotiveness. And they create an almost instant kinship between those devoted to these magical languages that cross fantasy worlds.
I remember the thrill of discovery when I picked up Magician: Apprentice and realized that Raymond E. Feist had used one of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Elvish languages as the basis for his Elvish—as did countless other fantasy works. It made the mystery and the magic of the elves somehow that much more tangible. I cherished each decoded word, for by studying the language I felt closer than ever to the mystical elves I had read about. And I’m not alone.
Something about fantasy languages captures the imagination. It can be the final touch that sets your creations apart—that spark that gives them a feeling entirely their own. But regardless as to whether you’re featuring full conversations, or using a couple words here and there for flavor, or even just need a few names of characters and kingdoms that fit together, making up words is a tricky business. Here are a few quick-and-dirty tips to get you started:
A Pretty Language for a Pretty Elf
Most people create fantasy languages to enrich their fantasy worlds. Tolkien created a fantasy world to enrich his fantasy languages. Assuming you’re not a linguist and fantasy languages aren’t the point of your whole creation, it’s important to think about the purpose your fantasy language will serve in your book.
In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak is the language of oppression, a tool actively used in the story to limit the thoughts of the sheeple by limiting their capacity for expression. On the other hand, in A Clockwork Orange, the harsh slang is first used alienate readers, and then to make them feel uncomfortably complicit with the characters. Simlish, the nonsense language in the Sims games, is used solely for emotive purposes (and yet, there are around 50 songs recorded in Simlish). Harry Potter’s Latinesque terms are used for magic--and lend magic a credible, educational feel. And of course, Tolkien’s Elvish languages and Star Trek’s Klingon effectively reflect and enrich the cultures they are a part of.
The purpose you have in mind for your fantasy language will dictate not only its sound and vocabulary, but also its use. So figuring out the purpose of your language--be it to add flavor to a culture, to serve as a calling card for a character, to manipulate the reader, or to accomplish some new goal--is the first and most important step to creating your language.
Swear Like an Orc
“Vini, vidi, vici” is an intimidating, dominating, powerful phrase written by Julius Caesar. But how much less intimidating would that phase be, Eddie Izzard jokes, if the “v”s were pronounced like a whiny English “w”? After all, we have no idea what the actual Latin accent sounds like.
Sound is everything when it comes to perceptions of a language. And in creating your own fantasy language, you have the unique chance to make a language that reflects its culture. (For more on the power of sound, read my column on writing Evocative Description). For example, Klingon was specifically developed with sound combinations not usually found in earthly languages. In addition, it has only one sibilant. Together, this makes for an alien, harsh, and clipped language. A sound that helps build the character of the Klingons.
When you’re picking sounds for your language, make sure to come up with some basic rules. Which letter/sound combinations are frequent, and which are never seen. This will help you keep it consistent and believable.
Pro Tip: Try not to just “adapt” a real language, or smoosh two languages together willy-nilly. Remember—real people actually speak these languages! Being inspired by elements is wonderful—Simlish was invented by playing with fractured French, Ukrainian, Fijian, Latin, English, Finnish, and Tagalog—but make sure the end result is your own.
Vampires Have 27 Different Words for "Sparkle"
More than sounds, the words common in a language—and what words are absent in a language—says a lot about your fantasy culture, as does the grammar you choose to use. How many words are there to describe snow or love versus the number of words used to describe disemboweling techniques? And what kinds of words do the metaphors, similes, and idioms make use of? Klingon is famously centered around battle, making everyday conversations in Klingon a triffle . . . interesting. And yet, four Klingon translations of world literature have been published (Hamlet, Gilgamesh, Tao Te Ching, and Much Ado About Nothing)! How different that reading experience must be from English!
The grammar of your language also says quite a bit. The Ancient Language of the elves of Eragon is a direct substitution language for English. But Gargish, the language of gargoyles and magic from the Ultima computer game series, tends to avoid unnecessary complications, such as pronouns or different tenses for verbs. Even the order of words tends to matter somewhat less. This makes everything feel both timeless and impersonal—perfect for the gargoyles.
Don’t Wear It Out
One of my favorite uses of fantasy languages is as a calling card, used to enrich a character. In Dragonlance, Raistlin, a mage, says the magical word “Shirak” to activate a light spell in his staff. It’s a simple spell and a simple word. But the association of this word with Raistlin is so strong, that whenever you hear that whispered word in the dark from then on out, you know Raistlin is nearby. And considering his twisted path, that knowledge can be loaded. The use of a fantasy word as a calling card is particularly effective as we don’t have prior associations with the word, so we are free to form our own associations.
When everyone is speaking the same language, it is usually best not to just replace a select few words. We assume the language spoken is already being translated from whatever is commonly spoken in Fantasyland into whatever we’re reading, so a new word only makes sense for new concepts, or to fix the “feel” of anachronistic words, if your world is going for a more classic feel.
However, when any two people who speak different languages meet it is perfectly acceptable for one to drop words here and there in their native language. Just be sure that the words are always understandable from context—or else that it is not necessary to understand them. You don’t want to lose your readers—either to frustration, or to too many conversations about linguistics.
There is an unbelievable amount of research and resources available to those questing to build new languages. Here are a few great resources to get you started.
- From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages
- Talk Now! Learn Klingon
- Klingon Language Institute
- Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
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Forum:Proposed article renamings
Especially since I don't have higher user priveleges and this is a wiki of multiple users, I'm posting this to seek consensus on an issue.
- I think the primary article for Melkor should be at Melkor and not Morgoth. True, he is primarily known as Morgoth during the events in Beleriand in the First Age (it's the epithet Fëanor gave him during that age), but he is primarily referred to as Melkor in other eras. Even as the King's Men in Númenor gain more dominance, don't they worship Melkor instead of Morgoth, since it's the name Sauron preferred to call him? Melkor means "mighty", and Morgoth means "black enemy", afterall, and Melkor was certainly not Sauron's enemy. Also, I seem to recall Dagor Dagorath details referring to him mainly as Melkor—once again, Morgoth is primarily a Fëanor-era name. In the long run scheme of things (in terms of the story's timeline), Melkor seems the more meaningful name. - Gilgamesh 14:31, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- I think Aragorn II should instead be Aragorn Elessar. He was Aragorn II, but as a Chieftain of the Dúnedain. When he assumed his greater role, he became Elessar. But of course we can't forget he is also Aragorn, and I've seen the name Aragorn Elessar around. Bad idea?
That's all I can think of for the time being. - Gilgamesh 14:31, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Agree on the first.
- Disagree on the second. Neither "Aragorn Elessar", nor its full Sindarin form "Aragorn Edhelharn", was ever used in Tolkien's works. I wouldn't mind making it "Aragorn", though. -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 15:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- I wouldn’t object to moving Morgoth to Melkor, but neither am I strongly in favour. After all, it is as Morgoth that he plays the role that he is best known for in the Legendarium: that of the original Dark Lord of the First Era.
- On Aragorn II I agree completely with Ederchil. The idea Aragorn Elessar is a useable, let alone acceptable, name betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of the linguistic sensitivities of the man who once said he wrote The Lord of the Rings to create a world in which elen síla lumenn’ omentielvo was a common form of greeting.
- -- Mithrennaith 01:44, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
I drop my proposal for Aragorn Elessar. I still think Melkor should be a more primary article than Morgoth. And yes, considering I've been doing heavy linguistic edits on the sites, I entirely appreciate the irony of "Aragorn Elessar". It would either have to be "Aracorno Elessar" or "Aragorn Edhelharn", but none of these terms has common use. Then again, there is "Elessar (character)"...but that would gloss over that his original name was always Aragorn. I'll just let that particular issue be for now. - Gilgamesh 02:07, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- I added every userbox that I saw listed in the category. - Gilgamesh 05:40, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Well, I disagree. I personally think all articles should be listed on the name most commonly used by the general public - it makes it easier for people to find the articles that way. Aragorn should be "Aragorn" I think, and, similarly, Melkor should be on "Morgoth" because that's the name most people use. It does annoy me that I type in "Frodo" and get redirected to "Frodo Baggins", for instance: we all know that when someone is looking for, e.g., "Frodo", "Aragorn", "Arwen", "Morgoth" etc. etc. they are looking for Frodo Baggins, Aragorn II Elessar, Arwen Evenstar, and Melkor so why not just have the full articles located in "Frodo", "Aragorn", "Arwen" and "Morgoth" instead?
- Furthermore, it also stop re-directs inside the wiki (e.g. look at how many of the links to Arwen Evenstar go via Arwen: Special:WhatLinksHere/Arwen_Evenstar). By the way, Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia of Arda, Tuckborough, Everything2 all seem to follow my suggestions on linking articles, but the OneWiki follows Gilgamesh's proposal. The Tolkien Wiki is 50/50. All of them link direct to "Frodo Baggins", so I am willing to concede the point on that.
- I know I'm swimming against the tide on this one, though. --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 15:14, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
- Been bold here, because I partially agree with Mith. Arwen, Gimli, Boromir, Faramir were needlessly disambiguated. I left Aragorn II alone because of the surrent discussion (though I favour moving it to "Aragorn"). On Melkor/Morgoth, I favour Morgoth. On Frodo, I prefer it if we kept the surname. -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 20:16, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
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November shipments from India’s largest iron ore exporting port, Mormugao in Goa state, recovered from last month but still down 6% at 3.19 million tonnes on year, as firmer prices made shipments feasible from the western state with lower freight.
“Feasibility is there from Goa port… there is good demand for low grade in China and Orissa ores are unavailable,” said Dhruv Goel, managing director, with SteelMint, an iron ore trader in eastern Orissa state.
Freight charges from Orissa to any other eastern port costs an average of 2,700-3,000 rupees ($53-58) per tonne, compared to Goa’s 1,200 rupees, making Goan cargoes more viable, traders said.
Chinese steel mills began replenishing their inventories after spot iron ore prices fell to a 22-month low below $117 a tonne in late October. Prices have since gained about 10% in November.“Demand is pretty good from China since last week,” said Goel, adding it is not difficult to sell readily available cargoes.
The port is the biggest shipper of the steel making ingredient from India, normally the world’s third-largest iron ore exporter.
Exports of the steel-making ingredient fell 13.9% to 17.9 million tonnes in the first eight months of the fiscal year, which started in April.
India’s biggest iron ore exporter, SESA Goa, shipped 404,115 tonnes of iron ore to China, India’s biggest buyer of the fines.
India’s export of iron ore has been affected by a series of scandals over illegal mining in Karnataka and Goa, the top ore producing states of the country.
A report on allegations of illegal mining in Goa is expected to be submitted to the federal mines ministry this month. Justice M.B. Shah, head of the panel, had said it will be very difficult to control illegal mining unless exports are controlled.
Iron ore exports are yet resume from the southern state of Karnataka, which accounted for a quarter of shipments before the state government imposed a ban, even though the Supreme Court ordered the ban lifted in April.
Courtesy : LM
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More than 10 years after releasing a plan to reduce health risks from toxic emissions in urban areas, U.S. EPA has not followed through with new rules or updated risk assessments for smaller local sources, according to a new report by the agency's inspector general.
Upon the release of the Integrated Urban Air Toxics Strategy in 1999, the agency sounded an alarm about city-dwellers' exposure to emissions from smaller pollution sources such as cars, dry cleaners and gas stations. One in 28,000 Americans could get cancer due to these "area" sources, according to the latest assessment, with about 2 million living in areas where the lifetime risk was 1 in 10,000 or greater.
But while the agency was required to issue new urban emissions standards in 2000, they never came, according to the inspector general's report, which was released last week. EPA's most recent risk assessment is based on data from 2002, and the agency never released an updated report on hotspots with lingering public health problems, as it was told to do when Congress amended the Clean Air Act in 1990.
"About half of the States and several local agencies have laws preventing them from implementing environmental regulations stricter than EPA's regulations," the inspector general concluded. "Without the establishment of a minimum, federally required risk-based program, we do not believe that all state and local agencies will implement programs to adequately address the health risks from urban air toxics."
The program has long drawn criticism from the inspector general and the Government Accountability Office, both of which have issued a string of reports over the past two decades concluding that air toxics have lingered near the bottom of the agency's priority list. According to the most recent GAO report, which was released in 2006, funding constraints had prompted the agency to bump toxics behind the agency's "criteria" air pollutants, which include sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx) and particulate matter (PM).
Jeffrey Holmstead, the agency's air chief under President George W. Bush, said area sources often fell by the wayside while the agency pursued new regulations on toxic emissions from mobile sources and major sources. Funding for air toxics efforts fell by more than 70 percent between fiscal 2001 and 2009, according to the new report.
"There was a feeling that any remaining risk was very small, and with the time and effort it took to go through and do a defensible rulemaking for these area sources, you got very little risk reduction for your effort," Holmstead said. "Of course, the agency tries to meet its statutory mandates as much as it can, but at a certain point, you have so many of them, you have to pick and choose."
Though area sources produce less emissions than major sources, they are "especially badly controlled," Earthjustice attorney Jim Pew said. Small businesses often have greater human health impacts because there are so many of them, he said, compounded by the fact that they are often located in residential neighborhoods rather than industrial parks.
"EPA has been behind on a huge part of the implementation of the Clear Air Act," said Jane Williams, chairwoman of the Sierra Club's toxics task force. "All of this has taken over a decade."
According to the most recent risk assessment, about half of the increased cancer risk attributed to air toxics is linked to two chemicals -- benzene and carbon tetrachloride (Greenwire, June 26, 2009).
Funding has started coming back to the air toxics program, the agency said in its written response to the inspector general's report. The Obama administration requested an $18.7 million budget increase next year for EPA's air quality and toxics management program, which received $202.2 million for the current fiscal year.
"Limited resources over the past eight years have impaired our ability to fully implement these programs," the agency said. "For the first time in almost a decade, this year EPA has shifted funds from other programs to help meet regulatory deadlines."
EPA has pledged to issue an updated risk assessment report this summer, this time using emissions data from 2005. The agency plans to submit its report on hotspots to Congress by next summer.
Litigation by environmentalists seems to have prompted the agency to shift its attention to regulation of area sources, Holmstead said. With regulation of greenhouse gases, ground-level ozone and PM 2.5 at the top of the agency's agenda, he said, "there are a number of things that they clearly want to focus on more than these very small sources of air toxics."
EPA said it would meet its court-mandated deadline to issue three separate emissions standards for industrial boilers, institutional and commercial boilers, and sewer sludge incineration. If the agency finalizes those rules by Dec. 16, the inspector general's office said in its response to the agency's comments, it will have met its requirements "a little over 10 years after the original deadline."
Click here to read the inspector general's report.
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It's pretty obvious that one of the many problems in studying history by relying on the print record is that writers of books are disproportionately male.
Data can give some structure to this view. Not in the complicated, archival-silences filling way--that's important, but hard--but just in the most basic sense. How many women were writing books? Do projects on big digital archives only answer, as Katherine Harris asks, "how do men write?" Where were gender barriers strongest, and where weakest? Once we know these sorts of things, it's easy to do what historians do: read against the grain of archives. It doesn't matter if they're digital or not.
One of the nice things about having author gender in Bookworm is that it opens a new way to give rough answers to these questions. Gendered patterns of authorship vary according to social spaces, according to time, according to geography: a lot of the time, the most interesting distinctions are comparative, not absolute. Anecdotal data is a terrible way to understand comparative levels of exclusion; being able to see rates across different types of books adds a lot to the picture.
More interesting findings might come out of more complicated questions about interrelations among all these patterns: lots of questions are relatively easy to answer with the data at hand. (If you want to download it, it's temporarily here. For entertainment purposes only, etc., etc.)
The most basic question is: what percentage of books are by women? How did that change? (Of course, we could flip this and ask it about men--this data analysis is going to be clearer if we treat women as the exceptional group). Here's a basic estimate: as the chart says, post-1922 results are unreliable. The takeaway: something like 5% at midcentury, up to about 15% by the 1920s.
From now on, I'm removing post-1922 data from the analysis.
Next: Library of Congress classifications, my favorite proxy for genre. The labels won't fit on this chart, but you can read them here. The results are generally between 10 and 20% female for most genres (roughly comparable to the data in the Arxiv nowadays, I think), with some notable exceptions.
- The Ps--fiction--are far and away the most frequently female fields. There's really no question about it: particularly PZ ("fiction and juvenile belles-lettres), but also PS (American literature) are more female than almost any other field.
- DD, German history, is _far_ more male_dominated than any other field in history except maybe E, one of the two for US history. Does this reflect greater constraints on access to print in the heavily university-dominated German system in the 19C? (For American or German authors--the Ph.D.s are probably all going through Berlin, anyway). Are there other places that institutional discrimination might be evident?
- Genealogy and particularly biography, ("CT") are a really striking area of female authorship. Might be worth looking into.
- HQ--"The Family--Marriage--Women" is about 45% female. Most of this is probably settlement-house stuff that is well covered in the historiography, but is nonetheless a little higher than I might have thought.
- K, the law, has fewer women than anywhere. As with the German history, that can reflect the role of higher education in enforcing discriminatory practices.
- The religion section of the B's, BL-BX, is particularly male-dominated, with the exception of practical theology. The really strikingly low bar, BM, is "Judaism."
- From the number of authors I've worked with myself, I think of the Ls--education--as having a very high female percentage. (Although more in the 1930s than the 1900s). But though they're a little higher, it's not that notable.
- The Ns, visual art, are a little more female than most other fields.
- The low numbers in the sciences and technology are not very surprising; the spikes in the Ts are for handicrafts and home economics. The latter of those is the only field to break 50% female.
What about geography?
By state. Massachusetts does extremely well: of books with a publishing industry to speak of, only California does better. New York is OK, but in the middle of the pack. A lot of this probably has to do with the individual presses in the state--see the publishers list below for more on that.
A question emerges: Montana and Nevada both seem to have high female percentages. We know that western states had women's suffrage early; is the same true of female authors? A map loses the information about which states actually have significant numbers of books published in them, but makes regional comparisons easier. My opinion is that it puts to rest any idea of a particularly progressive West, but I could be dissuaded from that.
International comparisons are interesting as well. We can look at publication country. The result is a really striking win for the United States, with almost 18% of books written by women. The Swedes are next, followed by the Australians. Once again, the Germans are shockingly bad. This seems too strong to be merely a genre effect: the Germany overall percentage is lower than a lot of the science fields are. What's different about 19th century Germany compared to these other countries? And what does America not have? I'm strongly inclined to blame the developed system of universities.
Publishers exist in the data, although they're a little harder to pull out. After a little text scrubbing (to make "Little,Brown" the same as "Little Brown" the same as "Little, Brown & co.") the following are the largest publishers:
- It's nearly 50% for Roberts Brothers; that might even be low, since they seem (from Wikipedia, I'm ashamed to admit) to have built their success on Little Women, and generally capitalized on the market that opened up.
- I thought Dodd Mead was largely the education market, but wikipedia has no sign of that. Why did one mass-market publisher would publish about 1/3 women, while putnam or macmillan publish only about 1/8?
- Houghton Mifflin and Little Brown both get above 20%: this probably has to do largely with the predominance of fiction (remember the PZs above), but there might be other differences as well.
- Grosset Dunlap is largely the children's market: that's clearly a confounding factor on a lot of these statistics.
- The government printing office is not surprising, but worth remembering.
- T.T. Clark is largely religious materials, I believe.
- The university presses (U of Chicago, the Clarendon press at Oxford) are among the lowest. Yet another strike against the universities.
If I were to draw a preliminary conclusion, it might be: established institutions--the state, the universities--seem to most strongly suppress women, presumably because there are more hurdles to jump. In certain areas, things have changed. In others, they haven't--I ran some of this on the ArXiv author lists, and the 10-15% figures hold in the sciences. There's no reason to think that the same massively distortionary effects aren't still going on in academia, particularly on behalf or against social structures in addition to gender.
Keep in mind: women are the only discriminated-against group that we can pull out of library catalogs, but hardly the only ones in the 19th century. Surnames might get ethnicities--I haven't had much luck with that--but race and class are virtually impenetrable. I suspect that access to print is at least as strongly skewed by income and race as it is by gender. I don't think--I have to write this up at greater length--it makes any sense to not use libraries as they are not "representative." They are what they are--libraries are interesting. Everything that anyone ever said would be interesting, too. We have one of these: we'll never have the other.
A few disclaimers: All this data is restricted to 1,000,000 library books from the Open Library; I see no reason to think they aren't basically representative of the books that make it into university libraries. (Except that all but one or two of them had considerably fewer books around 1910-1920). The basic gender categorization scheme is here. For "percentage of books" I calculate categorized female authors divided by categorized female plus categorized male, throwing out books I can't classify. Those numbers will be off if unclassifiable authorship skews heavily in one direction or the other, but I don't see substantial reasons to think that's happening.
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WEST WINDSOR, N.J. -Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes, officials of the County Office of Aging, and members of the County Council on Aging gathered today to celebrate Older Americans Month at Grandparents Grove in Mercer County Park.
The County followed the federal government's declaration of May as "Older Americans Month" and Hughes said it was important to recognize the role of older residents throughout Mercer's 13 municipalities.
"We have a duty, an obligation, and a desire as a community to acknowledge everything that the generation before us has accomplished, and what they continue to accomplish," said Hughes, surrounded by senior citizens who attended the ceremony with picturesque Lake Mercer shimmering behind Grandparents Grove.
"As you look around the County, you can see the contributions of our older residents, whether they are in teaching, in business for themselves, in volunteering, or as caretakers of family members," he added. "There are about 45,000 people over age 65 in Mercer County, and today we honor each of them."
Hughes and several members of the community who interact with the County's older population on a daily basis also read a proclamation by the County Executive officially declaring this month Older Americans Month. The other participants were: Eileen Doremus, Executive Director of the Mercer County Office on Aging; Jacques Lebel, Chairperson of the Mercer County Council on Aging and Chairperson of the Mercer County Community College Advisory Commission on Aging; Marc Celentana, Deputy Director of the Mercer County Department of Human Services; Robert Ecroyd, Administrator of the Mercer County Geriatric Center; Martha Nielsen, Supervisor of Information and Referral, Outreach, and Care Management of the Mercer County Department of Human Services; and Shirley Roberts, Community Health Coordinator for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton.
"Older Americans Month gives the Office on Aging an opportunity to showcase the contributions of Mercer County's older Americans as together we build these strong, healthy, and supporting communities," Doremus said, echoing this year's commemorative theme, "Working Together for Strong, Healthy, and Supporting Communities."
The Mercer County Office on Aging provides oversight and seeks funding for programs and support services for older residents and their caregivers. These services include nutrition programs, health promotion and disease prevention, recreation services, and transportation, among others. The Office on Aging is supported by the advice of the Council on Aging, a group of volunteers from County municipalities who inform the Office on Aging about the needs of older residents and help guide the development of programs.
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Manufacturing Black Belt
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I received a copy of Gwyneth Cravens' new book, The Power to Save the World, as a Christmas gift and read it with considerable interest. I found the book interesting and informative overall, but I couldn't help but wonder if it is up to the task for which it was written- that is, to convince nuclear power skeptics to reconsider the issue. This is no small order, as I'm sure anyone who has followed the nuclear power issue with any interest is well aware.
As I was reading the book, I attempted to imagine what a hypothetical nuclear power opponent would make of Cravens' arguments. I realized, however, that I simply don't understand the thinking of your typical nuclear power skeptic. Having grown up in Oak Ridge, I have never conceived of nuclear technology as exotic, or particularly dangerous. Because of this, the stereotypical arguments against nuclear power that essentially prey on public anxieties stemming from its supposedly "unnatural" nature have always struck me as bewildering and laughable. Because of this, the mind of a nuclear power opponent is simply alien to me.
One of the heartening developments of the last few years is the fact that people of my generation seem far more open-minded about nuclear power than those of a few decades ago. Indeed, many self-identified environmentalists in the under-30 set now hold this position, much to the consternation of older anti-nuclear activists. (There was a fascinating article about this in the Earth Island Journal a few months ago, that admitted that large numbers of young environmentalists are basically pro-nuclear, to the great consternation of their elders who run the actual organizations.) I can imagine readers in this category finding Cravens' book cogent and reasonable. At the same time, The Power to Save the World has some weaknesses that provide openings for anti-nuclear activists to attack the book.
The most serious of these is probably Cravens' coverage of non-proliferation issues. While I wholly agree with her arguments on the issue- namely, that civilian nuclear power generally and reactor-grade plutonium don't really pose great proliferation risks- they aren't supported as well as they need to be to forestall dismissive criticism. Importantly, Cravens overextends the point that civilian reactors have been divorced from weapons production. While it is true that nuclear weapons states have acquired the bomb without possessing civilian nuclear power, there is one case in which "civilian" reactors were used to bolster the stockpile of a nuclear state- namely, the early MAGNOX reactors in the UK. I can easily imagine an anti-nuclear critic latching onto a quibble like this and using it to dismiss the book as a whole. Cravens may also be too glib regarding the possibility of building weapons with reactor-grade plutonium- although I agree that this is a relative non-issue, the book's failure to really grapple with this issue opens it up to attacks of the sort that the Nuclear Control Institute used to perpetrate.
I hate to sound so negative of the book. Although the overall argument was anything but shocking to me, I learned quite a bit. The sections on Subseabed and WIPP were particularly well-done, in my opinion. I had honestly always thought that Subseabed was simply crazy, and was surprised to learn that it was a far better-reasoned idea than I'd assumed. A particularly delightful part of the book is its introduction by Richard Rhodes. His own brief account of his own journey from being a nuclear power skeptic in the 1970s to being a proponent of the technology today is particularly powerful, especially since Rhodes became a reknowned authority on nuclear weapons issues in the intervening years. But does it have what it takes to change the minds of nuclear power skeptics? I'd love to hear any accounts you might have of how readers who weren't already in favor of nuclear power responded to The Power to Save the World.
[As an aside, I'd like to draw your attention to the section of the Amazon.com page for the book titled "Customers who searched for "The Power to Save the World" also expressed interest in:"- if this is any indication of the book's readership it may not be reaching nuclear power skeptics much. I really hate to see Cravens' book associated with dreck like The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism).]
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A federal appeals Court today ruled that President Obama overstepped his authority when he used the recess appointment process to place three people on the National Labor Relations Board a year ago. The president used the maneuver to circumvent the Senate confirmation process but a unanimous three-judge panel said the action was unconstitutional.
The ruling is a sharp rebuke to the president, who has increasingly sought to use executive power to bypass Congress entirely. Recess appointments are intended for emergency situations when Congress is not in session, but Obama has used them to install officials during brief breaks in congressional activity.
The NLRB appointments were made on January 4, 2012. Senate Republicans cried foul, arguing the Senate wasn’t even technically in recess. Most filed an amicus brief in the case challenging the appointments, Noel Canning V. National Labor Relations Board. The Appeals Court basically agreed with the Republicans.
The decision will effectively shut the NLRB down, because only the Chairman, Mark Gaston Pearce would remain as a constitutionally-appointed member. The two remaining NLRB appointees, Sharon Block and Richard Griffin, both recess appointees, would have to either submit to the Senate confirmation process or step down. (A third appointee, Terrence Flynn, has since stepped down.) The five-member board requires at least three members to provide a quorum and act.
It also potentially puts several NLRB actions over the last year in legal jeopardy. Opponents will be able to argue the board was not properly constituted at the time it issue its ruling.
“The Chamber has argued that these NLRB appointments were invalid from the start, and now the court has agreed. This should void a number of harmful decisions that have been made over the past year, although some of the worst Board rulings, such as micro unions, still need to be rolled back,” said Glenn Spencer, vice president of the Chamber of Commerce’s Workforce Freedom Initiative.In a statement emailed to reporters, National Right To Work Foundation President Mark Mix said:
“As a result (of the ruling), the Board has lacked a quorum since January 3, 2012, and under a U.S. Supreme Court precedent established in 2010, the court’s ruling invalidates the Board’s biased and decidedly pro-Big Labor rulings since that time. The court’s decision in Noel Canning is a victory for independent-minded workers who have received unjust treatment at the hands of the pro-Big Labor NLRB and will hopefully serve as a persuasive example to other federal courts deciding on the validity of Obama’s purported recess appointments.”
The ruling also puts other Obama recess appointees in jeopardy. As the AP notes:
The ruling also throws into question Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray’s appointment, also made under the recess circumstance, has been challenged in a separate case.
NLRB spokeswoman Nancy Cleeland had no comment on the court’s ruling.
Read the ruling here.
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©1995-1997 Steven Shaviro
This book is a theoretical fiction about postmodernism. A theoretical fiction, because I treat discursive ideas and arguments in a way analogous to how a novelist treats characters and events. About postmodernism, because the term seems unavoidable in recent discussions of contemporary culture. Postmodernism is not a theoretical option or a stylistic choice; it is the very air we breathe. We are postmodern whether we like it or not, and whether we are aware of it or not. For this very reason, the word postmodernism isn't explicitly defined anywhere in my text. Its meaning is its use: or better, its multiple and contradictory uses, as these emerge gradually in the course of the book.
My approach to postmodernism is informed by the theorists I have read and written about in previous books: Bataille, Blanchot, and Deleuze and Guattari. But also by Marshall McLuhan and by Andy Warhol, whom I have come to regard as the most significant North American theorists of postmodernism, even if neither of them ever used the term. Kathy Acker and William Burroughs, exemplary postmodern thinkers by virtue of their literary fictions, are frequently present in these pages as well. And I have also been attentive to recent developments in biology, inspired by the neo-Darwinism of Richard Dawkins and by the late Morse Peckham's provocatively Darwinian approach to the study of culture. Working in the trace of all these figures, I do not propose anything like a balanced and well-grounded critique of postmodern culture. To do so would be to assert my own separation from the phenomena under discussion; but this is a claim that I find utterly unacceptable. I try, instead, to be as timely as possible; and also perhaps a bit untimely, in the sense that Deleuze has usefully rescued from Nietzsche. It's a matter of learning how to live and feel differently; or more accurately, of articulating ways in which we already are living and feeling differently, whether we like it or not. It's for this reason that I've used the pronoun we rather freely throughout the book, at the risk of seeming to impose a false solidarity upon the reader. All becomings are multiple, as Deleuze and Guattari insist; the we is one marker of this perpetual divergence. There are others; the book shifts frequently between the first, second, and third persons, and at times makes use as well of the Spivak gender-neutral third person singular pronouns e, em, and eir.
Doom Patrols, then, is not a work of historical scholarship or objective description or ideology critique or in-depth interpretation. I have scrupulously followed Oscar Wilde's two fine maxims, that the critic should avoid "careless habits of accuracy," and that e should strive "to see the object as in itself it really is not." Each chapter of Doom Patrols is headed by a proper name. But these names are themselves fictional, even when they ostensibly refer to actual individuals. For they are not identities, but singularities, as I try to work out in the course of the book. Any resemblances to persons living or dead, to objects or commercial products, or to other works of fiction and the characters and situations therein, are precisely that: resemblances, which is to say simulacra, deceptive and superficial imitations, fraudulent impersonations. All accurate depictions and representational correspondences, on the other hand, are accidental and unintended, and should be taken as signs of failure on the part of the author; the aim of the book being precisely to pervert and undermine all such forms and canons of representation.
Every text, as Burroughs says, is "a composite of many writers living and dead." To a very great extent, the present book is a collage of citations. When it comes to printed material, I have carefully observed "fair use" guidelines as specified by copyright law. But of course, many other voices have also entered into the making of this book: voices found in conversations, in email correspondence, in virtual encounters, and so on. I cannot list all of my obligations, but there are many people I would particularly like to thank. Kathy Acker, for general inspiration, and for introducing me to DOOM PATROL. Tatjana Pavlovic, for overall support during the time that most of this book was being written. Roddey Reid, for careful perusal of the manuscript, and for his incisive and useful comments. Lee Graham, Leo Daugherty, and Erin Casteel, for reading the manuscript chapter by chapter, as it was written, for sharing their reactions, and for helping me to discover my own sensibility. Kirby Olson, for provocative conversation on Sade, Klossowski, the food chain, and many other things. Hans Turley, for showing me the Way to Dino. Robert Neveldine, for many suggestions regarding My Bloody Valentine, and for comments and advice on music and other matters. Barry Schwabsky, years ago, for discovering Pullman's Galatea; and for much comment and discussion in the time since. Carlos Seligo, for information and inspiration on the subject of insects. Various friends at LambdaMOO, and especially legba, for listening, and for helping me to work my ideas through. Doug Brick, for initial guidance on Unix and theWorld Wide Web. Don Mitchell, Shannon McRae, and Craig Horman, for making it possible for me to set up a Web server. Victoria Landau, for the wonderful GIFs. Faye Hirsch, Laurie Weeks, Tom Wall, Susie Brubaker, Billy Flesch, Laura Quinney, Robert Thomas, Bucky Harris, Paul Keyes, Mark Lester, Therese Grisham, Brian Massumi, Sandi Buckley, and Michael Hardt, for friendship and intellectual stimulation.
Needless to say, this book is autobiographical. Every word.
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When I attended primary and secondary school — during the 1940s and '50s — one didn't hear of the kind of shooting mayhem that's become routine today. Why? It surely wasn't because of strict firearm laws. My replica of the 1902 Sears mail-order catalog shows 35 pages of firearm advertisements. People just sent in their money, and a firearm was shipped.
Dr. John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, reports that until the 1960s, some New York City public high schools had shooting clubs where students competed in citywide shooting contests for university scholarships. They carried their rifles to school on the subways and, upon arrival, turned them over to their homeroom teacher or the gym coach and retrieved their rifles after school for target practice. Virginia's rural areas had a long tradition of high-school students going hunting in the morning before school and sometimes storing their rifles in the trunks of their cars that were parked on school grounds. Often a youngster's 12th or 14th birthday present was a shiny new .22-caliber rifle, given to him by his father.
Today's level of civility can't match yesteryear's. Many of today's youngsters begin the school day passing through metal detectors. Guards patrol school hallways, and police cars patrol outside. Despite these measures, assaults, knifings and shootings occur. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2010 there were 828,000 nonfatal criminal incidents in schools. There were 470,000 thefts and 359,000 violent attacks, of which 91,400 were serious. In the same year, 145,100 public-school teachers were physically attacked, and 276,700 were threatened.
What explains today's behavior versus yesteryear's? For well over a half-century, the nation's liberals and progressives — along with the education establishment, pseudo-intellectuals and the courts — have waged war on traditions, customs and moral values. These people taught their vision, that there are no moral absolutes, to our young people. To them, what's moral or immoral is a matter of convenience, personal opinion or a consensus.
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US Pharm. 2008;33(3):59-65.
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
1990 (OBRA '90) included mandates for the states to improve understanding of
medications by Medicaid beneficiaries for whom they were prescribed and
dispensed.1 Although the Act was part of legislation passed in
1990, the pharmacy practice requirements did not go into effect until 1993.
While the original statute was aimed at Medicaid recipients, each state had
the option to adopt rules making those provisions applicable to other patients
as well. Some jurisdictions limited the directives to only new prescriptions
whereas others made the obligations applicable to both new and refilled
prescriptions. A patchwork quilt of requirements has also evolved regarding
whether the offer to counsel must be made personally by the pharmacist.
The various mandates of OBRA '90 are
reviewed and the responses of the states after enactment are highlighted. The
OBRA '90 mandates at the state level have played a part in a number of civil
law suits across the nation. Is there a private right of action for patient
injury attributable to a deviation from OBRA '90 mandates? How have courts
sorted through this set of professional obligations for the pharmacist?
Sufficient time has now passed to glean some lessons from these cases. Those
lessons from the past and lessons anticipated in the future will be
The shift in the focus of
pharmacists' education and practice activities from products to patients
gained momentum throughout the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in adoption of a
variety of federal mandates pertaining to pharmacy practice in the 1990 budget
bill enacted by Congress. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, known
colloquially as OBRA '90, was enacted toward the end of the Congressional
session to pull together in one piece of legislation all the
appropriations-related authorizations and requirements flowing from the
various Congressional enactments of the 101st Congress.
One of those components was a
set of provisions added to the federal statutory scheme governing federal
participation in the federal-state partnership program officially designated
Grants to States for Medical Assistance Programs, known in everyday parlance
as the Medicaid program. As Title XIX of the Social Security Act, this program
has both federal and state financial components, providing the federal
government with leverage to impose certain mandates on the states in order for
them to get the federal matching funds, which now can exceed 75% of the
program's cost to the state.2
The Statute at the Federal
President George H.W. Bush signed
the bill into law on November 5, 1990, and the effective date of the
requirements related to pharmacy practice was established as January 1, 1993.
3 The federal statute had several major components: 1) Prospective Drug
Use Review, 2) Retrospective Drug Use Review, 3) Assessment of Drug Use Data,
and 4) Educational Outreach Programs. The first component (Prospective Drug
Use Review) has had the greatest impact on practice of the profession on a
daily basis. TABLE 1 provides a summary of the required pharmacy
The States Respond with
Statutes or Regulations
When these mandates
reached the states, officials with the Medicaid program, along with leaders of
the board of pharmacy or a similar administrative agency, began to formulate
their responses. Several decisions needed to be made--the cascading federal
mandate was for Medicaid beneficiaries only, but should this be extended to
all patients? Should the offer-to-counsel requirement be limited to newly
dispensed prescriptions or should it also include renewals? Must the offer to
counsel be extended by a pharmacy staff member or would a sign suffice? Must
the counseling be performed by the pharmacist face to face with the patient?
Should maintenance of patient medication records be mandated? How the states
are currently split on these questions, as reported by state boards of
pharmacy to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, is shown in
The Courts Interpret OBRA
'90 in a Variety of Contexts
We can learn a variety of lessons
about how courts view pharmacy and pharmacists from case decisions where the
statutes or regulations were interpreted. But there is an important caveat to
bear in mind. The following cases only address issues considered by appellate
courts in published opinions. Except for cases in federal district courts,
there are no direct means to review decisions by state-level trial courts, as
very few opinions are released or reported in the legal literature.
Cases Addressing the Standard of
Care to Be Exercised by Pharmacists
In a case arising
before the January 1, 1993, effective date of the offer-to-counsel mandate,
the Court of Appeals of Georgia ruled that a pharmacist has no duty to warn a
patient of, or to refuse to dispense a medication in light of, a potentially
severe side effect arising from excessive dosage. Summary judgment entered for
the defendant pharmacy was upheld on appeal, but the court noted that this
"would not be controlling precedent for cases involving pharmacists' duties
arising after January 1, 1993."5
In a separate case arising
before the January 1, 1993, effective date of OBRA '90, the Florida Court of
Appeals ruled that a pharmacist who accurately dispensed medication but failed
to alert the patient or prescriber of potentially serious adverse drug
interactions has no duty to warn.6
A pediatric patient was
injured, and the question imposed on the pharmacist was whether the obligation
to offer to counsel the parents as the caregivers and agents of the patient
gives rise to a legal obligation related to the parents for their emotional
well-being, as opposed to the actual patient's well-being. The Supreme Court
of California ruled that no, this would be an "unwarranted enlargement of
The Missouri Court of Appeals
reversed a summary judgment of the trial court granted in favor of the
defendant pharmacist where the lower court had ruled that the pharmacist's
"only obligation was to fill [sic] the prescriptions accurately." The case
involved a "strong hypnotic drug prescribed at three times the normal dose."
The court said, "Pharmacists are trained to recognize proper dose and
contraindications of prescriptions, and physicians and patients should welcome
their insights to help make the dangers of drug therapy safer." Summary
judgment was overruled and the case returned to the trial court for a decision
on whether the pharmacist met his legal duty under the facts of the case.
In another case, a woman
suffering an acute asthma attack entered the pharmacy and requested that the
pharmacist either give her an inhaler, for which she had no prescription on
record at this pharmacy, or call the physician or hospital to obtain a
prescription. The pharmacist would do neither, and the patient was taken by
ambulance to the hospital. The issue here was whether the pharmacist had a
legal duty to act arising from OBRA '90. The court ruled no; the OBRA '90
duties arise after receipt of a "prescription drug order." Absent a
prescription or a preexisting pharmacist-patient relationship, the pharmacist
had no legal duty to act.9
In an officially unpublished
opinion (that was nevertheless reported in a jurisprudence database), a
patient who declined counseling and signed a waiver form was not permitted to
later allege that he should have been counseled anyway. This was a very
interesting case where the patient made all sorts of convoluted arguments as
to why he should be allowed to maintain this claim, but in the end he not only
lost but had to pay the costs of the pharmacy chain's appeal.10
Cases Addressing the Issue
of "Mandatory" Copayments Reducing Reimbursement to Pharmacies
At issue in this
case was the provision in OBRA '90 that "reimbursement limits" may not be
modified by the federal government and that state governments may not "reduce
the limits for covered outpatient drugs" if the state's Medicaid plan was in
compliance with applicable federal regulations when certain emergency
regulations were adopted. The focus here was whether Pennsylvania's plan was
deemed to be "in compliance," meaning that no reduction in reimbursement was
permitted. The court ruled that yes, the state was in compliance, and
therefore was prohibited from reducing payments for covered outpatient
The four-year moratorium on
reduction in medication reimbursement limits was also at issue in this case in
a U.S. district court in Florida. After the effective date of OBRA '90, the
Florida legislature passed an appropriations bill that implemented a copayment
feature for the state's Medicaid drug program. Reimbursement rates to
pharmacies were not altered, but the state agency charged with administering
the program automatically reduced payments to providers by the amount of the
copayment. Further, federal program requirements prohibit a participating
provider from denying services to a program participant who cannot pay the
cost-sharing amount. The Florida Pharmacy Association advanced the argument
that this amounted to a reduction in reimbursement, a violation of the OBRA
'90 moratorium. The court did not agree. In its view the pharmacies now have
two sources of reimbursement--state plus patient--rather than one as before,
stating that "whether one of the sources, the recipients, may not be so
forthcoming with reimbursement does not change the fact that the reimbursement
limits have not been changed."12
The copayment implemented for
Medicaid-covered medications in Nebraska presented issues parallel to those in
the Florida case discussed above. Noting that authorization for states to
implement copayments in the Title XIX drug program had been in place since
1982, the court ruled that the defendant state officials "have ordered that in
certain cases a pharmacist may never actually recover the reimbursement limits
notwithstanding the fact that the pharmacist would theoretically be eligible
for maximum reimbursement. The plain words of the federal statute prohibit
this practice." Waxing poetic, the judge in the case continued, "This case
brings to mind Gertrude Stein's familiar words: 'A rose is a rose is a
rose'...A reduction is a reduction, whether by change in a formula or
Indiana's plan had a 50 cent
copayment for generic medications and a dollar copayment for brand name
products at that time. And the court there quickly grasped the issue. "While
the Moratorium clearly prohibits a decrease in ëreimbursement level,' it does
not explicitly state how the copayment provisions, which predates the
Moratorium, is to be affected." In the end, the request of the Indiana
Pharmacists' Association for an injunction prohibiting such action by the
state government was granted.14
The federal district court in
Indiana noted that "the State is able to reduce its reimbursement liability to
pharmacists not only by the amount of copayments that are collected by
pharmacists, but also by the amount of copayments the pharmacists are unable
to collect because of the patient's inability to pay." It was estimated that
50% of Medicaid recipients could not afford the copayment. The state agency
argued that the federal statute prohibits reducing "payment limits," which it
was not doing; it was reducing the actual amount paid. The court rejected that
interpretation, concluding that "in enacting the moratorium, Congress intended
to protect the actual level of reimbursement flowing to pharmacists."
Case Addressing Issues with
Mandatory Rebates from Manufacturers
Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) challenged the provision in
Michigan's OBRA '90 authorized program whereby states established preferred
drug lists for Medicaid and required prior authorization for coverage of
nonpreferred medications that had generated insufficient rebates for the
state. The state's program was upheld.16
The five cases that
address pharmacy reimbursement are likely last words on that issue based on
OBRA '90 provisions, given that the moratorium on states altering the methods
of calculating fees and benefits has since expired. This is not to say that
there are not still, and probably always will be, reimbursement disputes.
Likewise, rebate issues will linger as well. It has been noted that "as more
courts are asked to address the legal standard of pharmacy practice, they will
turn to OBRA '90 to assist them in defining those standards. OBRA '90 mandates
that pharmacists take on additional responsibilities, and with those expanded
responsibilities come expanded expectations and liability."17
Given that there are only six published opinions that address the standard of
care exercised by pharmacists over the past few years using OBRA '90 language,
it is fair to conclude that this statute has not caused the revolution in
pharmacist counseling that some commentators or observers predicted at the
time of its enactment and implementation. It is commonly observed that the
wheels of justice turn slowly. Given this, there is still hope that OBRA '90
still be considered a planted seed that yields a change in the communications
relationships between pharmacists and patients.
Adapted from a poster presented at the
American Society for Pharmacy Law 32nd Annual Meeting/American Pharmacists
Association 154th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 16-19, 2007, and
winner of the Research Award from the American Society for Pharmacy Law, 2007.
1. P.L. 101-508, 104 Stat. 1388,
codified at 42 U.S.C. ßß1396r-8g.
2. Ku L, Park E. Federal aid to
state Medicaid programs is falling while the economy weakens. Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities. October 26, 2001. www.cbpp.org/10-11-01health.htm.
Accessed February 26, 2008.
3. Medicaid program. Fed Regist.
4. Survey of Pharmacy Law.
Sec. XXIII-Patient Counseling Requirements. Mount Prospect, IL: National
Association of Boards of Pharmacy CD-ROM; 2007:75-76.
5. Walker v. Jack Eckerd Corp
, 434 S.E.2d 63 (Ga. App. 1993).
6. Johnson v. Walgreen Co.,
675 So.2d 1036 (Fla. App. 1996).
7. Huggins v. Longs Drug Stores
California, Inc., 862 P.2d 148 (Cal. 1993).
8. Horner v. Spalitto, 1
S.W.3d 519 (Mo. App. 1999).
9. Chiney v. American Drug
Stores, Inc., et al., 21 S.W.3d 14 (Mo. App. 2000).
10. Hooper v. Thrifty Payless, Inc
., 2003 Cal. App. Unpub. Lexis 11715 (2002).
11. Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical
Association, et al. v. Casey, et al., 800 F.Supp 173 (M.D. Pa. 1992).
12. Florida Pharmacy Association,
et al. v. Williams, et al., 871 F.Supp. 1441 (N.D. Fla. 1993).
13. Nebraska Pharmacists
Association, Inc, et al. v. Nebraska Department of Social Services, et al.,
863 F.Supp 1037 (D. Neb. 1994).
14. Indiana Pharmacists'
Association, et al. v. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration,
881 F.Supp. 395 (S.D. Ind. 1994).
15. Pharmaceutical Society of the
State of New York, Inc. v. New York State Department of Social Services, et
al., 50 F.3d 1168 (2nd Cir 1995).
16. Pharmaceutical Research and
Manufacturers of America, et al. v. Thompson, 259 F.Supp.2d 39 (D.D.C.
17. Fink JL III, Vivian JC,
Bernstein IG, eds. Pharmacy Law Digest. 40th ed. St. Louis, MO: Wolters
Kluwer Health; 2005:98-99.
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69-3-1416. Use of natural gas production and gathering resources. (1) Natural gas production and gathering resources acquired by a natural gas utility pursuant to this part:
(a) must be used by the natural gas utility to serve and benefit customers that have not made a choice of natural gas suppliers within the natural gas utility's Montana service territory; and
(b) may not be removed from the rate base unless the commission finds that customers of the natural gas utility will not be adversely affected.
(2) Natural gas production and gathering assets cost of service may not be allocated to a customer being served by an alternative natural gas supplier.
History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 127, L. 2009.
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Financier's saga of risk promises Gobi riches
The following critical article on the notorious Robert Friedland is a welcome update on a man whose recent exploits have received little publicity. Although Friedland's main mining vehicle, Ivanhoe Mines, announced in August that it does not currently envisage a "strategic partnership" with any other company in Mongolia, it has signed an exploration deal with BHPBilliton. This gives the Anglo-Australian giant a 50% option over a large part of Ivanhoe's Mongolian concession, contiguous to BHPBilliton's own holdings.
Financier's saga of risk promises Gobi riches
Mining Robert Friedland's global trail of dealmaking after Oregon could yet render a verdict of hero or villain
Richard Read, The Oregonian
Sunday, October 16, 2005
OYU TOLGOI, Mongolia -- When Robert Friedland got out of prison, he headed straight for Portland, and that's where he met Steve Jobs. The Reed College duo bounced around 1970s India, teamed with Woodstock emcee Wavy Gravy and communed on Friedland's Oregon orchard, credited with inspiring Jobs to name his company Apple Computer.
All that, of course, was before Friedland parlayed an abandoned Oregon gold mine into high-flying Galactic Resources Ltd., which helped turn a Colorado river into a Superfund site, costing him more than $20 million. And before his next company struck nickel in Labrador, making him more than $360 million. And before he got his drug conviction expunged, denied responsibility for the environmental debacle and landed on the Forbes billionaire list.
Jobs' story is well-known. But the latest chapter in Friedland's saga of risk and reward is playing out in this remote stretch of Outer Mongolia's Gobi Desert, where the former Oregonian has staked a claim bigger than Greece. The 52,000-square-mile license area contains copper and gold that Friedland says could be worth $100 billion at the Oyu Tolgoi, or Turquoise Hill, site. Coal and other metals add more value.
Once again Friedland, a master dealmaker, has the chance to prove himself a hero or a villain as he links prospectors, investors and officials with miners, markets and precious metals. The mine, which could cost $2.7 billion, will alter the Gobi environment and turbocharge Mongolia's economy.
Here, camels stroll past drill rigs and yurts. Herdsmen speak warmly of the suave, self-assured 55-year-old executive who persuaded them to move off site with the lure of new water wells and college tuition for their children. The mayor of the nearest town expects a boom that could bring the nation its first McDonald's.
Friedland says he's helping to build Mongolia, a landlocked country with fewer people than Oregon, into the next Asian "tiger" economy. "Nothing of this scale has been found on Planet Earth in the last 30 years," Friedland told investors last spring about his latest find, which explorers are drilling for core samples. "We can't find the limits of it."
Friedland, a slim man with a high forehead and brown wavy hair, chairs Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C. He and his second wife, Darlene, a former flight attendant, have sold their Sydney, Australia, mansion to live in Hong Kong and Singapore. Friedland, a dual U.S. and Canadian citizen, operates a network of companies from plush 37th-floor offices in Singapore's Millenia Tower.
Friedland declined to "participate in any further recycling of the often mythological reports that have appeared from time to time about distant days in Oregon." Gravy, who once criticized Friedland for selling out, won't discuss his old friend. Gravy's publicist says the '60s icon's "chromosomes have amnesia." Jobs told the author of a 1984 book that he left Friedland's "All One Farm" when he got sick of the materialism he saw there.
Born in Chicago to European immigrants, Friedland was raised in suburban Boston and attended Maine's Bowdoin College. But on March 6, 1970, police arrested Friedland -- then 19, with flowing, shoulder-length hair -- in his Volkswagen camper at a Portland, Maine, shopping center. He and another Bowdoin sophomore were accused of selling 8,000 tablets of LSD to an undercover FBI agent, the Portland Press Herald reported.
Later Friedland would describe the conviction for "unlawful disposition of LSD" as a Nixon-era miscarriage of justice, but the sentencing judge identified him as the ringleader. "You gave no thought to the consequences for others that could have resulted from this transaction," the judge said, "but only to the large sum of money that you could have obtained."
On to Reed
His six-month prison term behind him, the outgoing Friedland got into Reed, where he won a student senate seat and election as student body president.
Friedland discovered mining after graduation through an elderly McMinnville tree farmer who did some prospecting, according to "The Big Score," a 1998 book by Jacquie McNish, a Canadian journalist. Friedland searched the Northwest for mining properties, seeking Vancouver Stock Exchange cash to develop an abandoned Oregon gold mine. He met a broker who helped him reincarnate Galactic, a dormant company that Friedland told investors would resuscitate the mine.
The Oregon gold didn't pan out, but the venture made Friedland a millionaire, according to McNish's book. Friedland profited by selling the mine property in 1981 to Galactic, McNish wrote, receiving shares whose value then soared through a private stock sale.
Friedland went on to pioneer a technique of launching mining ventures that made him money whether or not he hit paydirt, says David Baines, a Vancouver Sun business columnist. Baines says Friedland would acquire an inactive company, sell the firm mineral prospects in exchange for stock, sell more cheap shares to himself and associates, and make a fortune when the company went public at a higher price.
The deals "transfer the otherwise long odds of mineral exploration to public investors," Baines says, "enabling Friedland and insiders to make money regardless of the success or failure of the project." Friedland, dismissing Baines as a purveyor of "innuendo and half-truths," says he takes honest investment risks and does not bail out at market highs.
In the Colorado case, Galactic acquired the inactive Summitville gold mine in 1984. Friedland pitched the technique of heap-leach mining, in which sodium cyanide would be poured on crushed ore to dissolve gold.
But Summitville's containment system leaked. Galactic went bankrupt.
Activists and others labeled Friedland "Toxic Bob," but he blamed former partner companies and others. He did make a $20.7 million payment under terms of a personal settlement reached in 2000 with the federal government and the state of Colorado, ending litigation. Under the settlement, the U.S. government paid him $1.25 million to halt a countersuit. Friedland, whose lawyers have recovered about $17 million from others involved in the mine, declined an oral interview for this story. In answers to e-mailed questions, he dismissed popular accounts of Summitville as "entrenched fictions and Internet garbage perpetuated by lazy reporters and truth-averse activists."
Friedland's company, Ivanhoe Mines, denies that fish and all other life died in 17 miles of the Alamosa River, as maintained by Sonya Pennock, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency communications manager, and Howard Roitman, environmental programs director for the Colorado Public Health and Environment Department.
Ivanhoe says past mining and natural acidic runoff caused contamination. The firm also blames the state of Colorado for contributing to the pollution and bankruptcy by imposing an unattainable water-treatment standard. "Ridiculous," says Colorado's Roitman. He disputes Ivanhoe's claim that Friedland had no responsibility for the mine's design and operation.
Ivanhoe accuses the EPA of mismanagement and overspending on the cleanup. "The company left a mess," says Jim Hanley, EPA Summitville remedial-project manager, "and now they think we could have done it cheaper."
Whatever the case, the cleanup has cost more than $200 million with no end in sight.
As Summitville unwound, Friedland moved on, pursuing Namibian diamonds and other ventures. But it was his handling of the Labrador nickel find that displayed what admirers describe as genius for creating value. "The Big Score" describes Friedland wooing and pressuring corporate suitors, exposing his volcanic temper -- or unorthodox negotiating tactics -- as he pounded a shoe Khrushchev-style on a marble conference table. He engineered a bidding war that culminated in one of the biggest mining deals in history, Diamond Fields Resources Ltd.'s 1996 sale to Inco Ltd. Friedland pocketed hundreds of millions in stock.
"Never owned up"
U.S. officials tried to seize a chunk of Friedland's Labrador bonanza to help pay for the Summitville cleanup. But a Canadian judge rebuffed them, lambasting the U.S. government for exaggerating his Summitville role.
In 2000, Friedland flew to Colorado in his company jet to see the damage. Cindy Medina, a local activist, picked up the executive and his lawyer in her Toyota. She recalls showing him the orange-green river where she had camped and fished as a girl. "He never owned up to it," Medina says, "that he had any part in it."
Later Medina drove four hours to Denver to meet Friedland, believing he planned to support her town's community center. Instead, she says, he rebuked her for publicly calling him an environmental rapist, turned on his heel and left on the jet.
These days Friedland crisscrosses the globe in a Boeing 737 business jet on mining ventures ranging from Congo to Kazakhstan. The lifestyle leaves him little time to enjoy a historic, recently restored San Francisco Bay island mansion. It's listed for sale at $68 million.
Critics such as Roger Moody, a London-based activist who has studied Friedland mining projects in Burma and elsewhere, fault him for operating in loosely regulated areas. "He's the most dangerous mining financier," Moody says, because "he has the capacity and the charisma to raise money for projects which are out of the purview of environmentalists." An Ivanhoe spokesman responds by saying that lenders require compliance with international environmental standards.
Supporters say Friedland has altruistic goals. "Robert doesn't wake up in the morning thinking about how he is going to add to his personal fortune," says Ben Johnson, a Portland money manager and First Securities Northwest president.
Johnson, who has invested with Friedland since the early 1980s when they co-owned a four-seater Mooney airplane, says his close friend has fallen for Mongolia and its people. "That's his higher calling and what drives him now."
Friedland continues to recruit investment and partners for the Mongolia project. At 8 a.m. one Wednesday last spring, company managers and mining-exploration workers filled a charter flight in Ulan Bator, flying south above a barren landscape.
An hour and a half later, the Fokker 50 bounced along a gravel strip at Turquoise Hill, named for the formation where colored rock hinted at riches below. The passengers emerged at a settlement that appeared lunar, with row after row of bright-white yurts.
"One nice thing about it here is that nobody shoots at you," said Larry Lobdell, the affable, gray-bearded construction manager, who said he couldn't say the same for previous postings in Colombia and Indonesia.
More than 650 workers brave blistering sandstorms and subzero winter temperatures at the claim, which BHP Exploration sold to Ivanhoe after coming up dry.
Buried ore bodies
Friedland was away rainmaking. But Charles Forster, an Ivanhoe geologist, explained the project using a computer-graphics display that superimposed a tiny Eiffel Tower on colossal subterranean ore bodies.
Friedland shows similar visuals to potential investors. At a conference earlier this year in Tampa, Fla., he said the Mongolian deposit could be worth more than $100 billion during four decades of production. No people, no jungles and no activist groups clutter the landscape, he said.
Investors who got in early bet that adjacent coal reserves could power a plant that would process copper on the site using water from deep aquifers Ivanhoe discovered. One of them, George Ireland, chief investment officer of Boston-based Geologic Resource Partners, says: "The key question, and one of the key risks, is does Bob have the smarts and the willingness and greed factor to say, 'The best thing I can do is put this together and know when to exit the game.' "
Mongolians express wary support for the project that an independent study says could boost the nation's gross domestic product, currently $5 billion, by a third each year. But local activists say that instead of the standard 2.5 percent royalty, their nation should get a 50-50 share, a split that Ivanhoe officials laugh off.
Building good will
Ivanhoe is building good will in Mongolia, subsidizing a hospital, kindergarten and orphanage, restoring a monastery and buying a one-year $50 million government treasury bill to help reduce the country's
Soviet-era foreign debt.
Mercy Corps runs small development projects in the area. The Portland-based relief-and-development agency has helped herders gear up to make furniture and other items for Ivanhoe's settlement. Last year a Mercy Corps' partner, XacBank, coordinated an Ivanhoe-backed event around Ulan Bator in which Nike Inc. provided a free pair of shoes for each participant.
Researcher Lynne Palombo contributed to this report.
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February 18th, 2006 by Keith
This long awaiting beta version of open source SUSE Linux is finally delivered, after it was being delayed, according to the Milestone release date by the website. Due to be delivered on February 16, 2006, it was only available two days later. SUSE Linux, once part of Novell, has become OSS recently, and had soon kept up with the popularity among Linux users to be second position in Distrowatch.
The last final release was SUSE Linux 10.0, known as Gold Master, was the first release by the open source community. Currently, the community is working on version 10.1, currently standing at Beta 4, released on this very day.
There was a lot of changes from SuSE Linux 9.3 to SUSE Linux 10.0, including higer versions packages. In 10.1, they are facing an uphill task trying to compile a stable distribution of the OS, with the latest bleeding-edge packages. Interested Beta users are free to download the ISO from its website, or from the mirrors sites. Alternatively, bittorrent can be used to download the files.
However, before anyone attempt to install this Beta 4 of the new software, it is CRITICALLY important to read the Most Annoying Bugs section of this release. This is as follow,
Beta4 has a number of ROUGH edges, so read the following before you decide to download and test it.
- The CD 1 needs to remain in the cd drive after installing from it. Do not remove it during the reboot and wait for YaST to request CD 2.. Otherwise the installation of packages from CD 2-5 will fail afterwards.
- Due to the integration of the new package manager which is not complete, note the following non working pieces:
- o ncurses installation is not supported right now
o Some statistics do not work, e.g. you see “Size of packages to install: 0″ – or “Number of packages to install: 0″, or “Software: Default system (0)”.
o The graphical package manager frontend has only a limited list of “views”, currently you get a list of all the packages and can only search in them.
o Only a fresh installation is supported. Update from a previous installation is not working!
o Only adding of selections works. If you want to remove a selection, remove all packages in that selection and run the resolver manually with the “Check” button..
o After installation, if you go into the YaST packager, all installed packages are listed twice.
o Language dependend packages are not handled correctly. This results in the installation of one package-$lang package but not necessarily the one for the languages asked for.
o It is not possible to abort installation while installing packages.
o Network Installations: smb/cifs does not work, http, nfs and ftp do work.
o There are cases where during a ftp installation packages for the wrong architecture get installed Bug 151933 and Bug 151954.
- The partitioner is broken in some cases Bug 151818. which might result in:
o mixed up filesystem types – for example one chooses ext2 and the partition is getting formatted with reiserfs
o creates double or totally obscure entries within the fstab of the system
o makes inproper proposals for a standard partitioning
- Download of Release Notes will fail.
- No Release Notes will be shown. Except in the first installation screen.
- The online test with download of Updates will fail.
- VMWare installation is possible – but YaST does not show information about your hardware configuration (graphic cards, printers, sound, …). Click “next” in this step – the X11 server will not start, but you can configure the virtual machine afterwards.
- The third translation cycle has been done; most parts are properly localized now. Missing parts are the release notes and some menu entries. YaST is translated with minor exceptions (see the status files such as status-de.all for German).
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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Science and Technology Policy Fellowships (SunShot Initiative Fellowships)
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The Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Science and Technology Policy (STP) Fellowships will serve as the next step in the educational and professional development of scientists and engineers interested in energy efficiency and renewable energy policy. The EERE STP Fellowships will provide an opportunity for scientists and engineers with relevant energy technology experience to participate in policy-related projects at DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Washington, D.C. The EERE STP Fellows will apply the expertise gained from their education and history of conducting research to new and ongoing EERE initiatives. As a result of their participation on this program, Fellows are expected to:
- Gain deep insight into the federal government's role in the creation and implementation of policies that will affect energy technology development.
- Contribute to the implementation of energy policies by applying their scientific and technical expertise to the development of solutions for problems in areas of energy efficiency and renewable energy.
- Continue their education and involvement in areas that support the EERE mission either in a technical or policy-related role.
- Introduce policy-related knowledge and interest into research facilities supporting the EERE mission.
Three levels of Fellowships, Fellows, Senior Fellows and Junior Fellows, will allow both recent graduates and experienced scientists and engineers to participate in the EERE STP Fellowships. All Fellows will be assigned to policy-related projects and be mentored by senior EERE staff.
Fellows selected by Solar Energy Technologies will have the additional distinction of guiding the implementation of the new solar SunShot Initiative in the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program. The SunShot Fellows will have a key leadership role in beginning new research and development programs to achieve the goal of $1/W installed photovoltaics by 2020. The initial cohort is targeted to be 3-5 Fellows.
The EERE STP Fellowships are administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) in collaboration with EERE. ORISE is responsible for the implementation of the fellowship program, processing applications, the review and notification processes, and management of payments to Fellows.
Fellowships will be awarded to applicants based on academic level and experience. Fellows are recent Master's or Ph.D. graduates who have held a graduate degree for less than three years at the time of application. Senior Fellows are Master's or Ph.D. graduates who have held a graduate degree for more than three years at the time of application and have post-degree experience in a technical or research capacity. Junior Fellows are recent Bachelor's graduates who have held a degree for less than five years at the time of application.
Ideal Candidates will:
- Have a superior academic performance and publication record.
- Have strong analytical, research and communication (oral and written) skills and demonstrated capacity for creative thinking.
- Have a strong technical background and expertise in an energy-technology-related field.
- Be interested in being part of a multi-disciplinary, fast-paced environment, focused on energy technology research and development.
Required Qualifications for Fellows:
- Hold a Ph.D. or Master's degree for no more than 3 years in an energy-relevant field of science, engineering or other highly quantitative field such as economics. SunShot Fellows must have a degree in a field relevant to photovoltaics.
- Be a U.S. citizen, have Permanent Resident (Green Card) status or be eligible for an Exchange Visitor (J) Visa, if a foreign national.
Required Qualifications for Senior Fellows:
- Doctorate or Master's degree for more than 3 years in an energy-relevant field of science, engineering or other highly quantitative field such as economics. SunShot Fellows must have a degree in a field relevant to photovoltaics.
- If more than five years since receipt of graduate degree, applicant must have at least three years of post-degree experience in a technical or research position in a field related to energy innovation.
- Be a U.S. citizen, have Permanent Resident (Green Card) status or be eligible for an Exchange Visitor (J) Visa, if a foreign national.
- Experience and knowledge in technology commercialization is desirable, but not required.
Required Qualifications for Junior Fellows:
- Bachelor's degree for less than five years in an energy-relevant field of science, engineering or other highly quantitative field such as economics. SunShot Fellows must have a degree in a field relevant to photovoltaics.
- Be a U.S. citizen or have Permanent Resident (Green Card) status, if a foreign national.
- Matriculated undergraduates may be considered for short term assignments.
Other Important Information:
- Applicants enrolled in a graduate program at the time of application may not begin the Fellowship until all degree obligations have been met.
- Applicants holding a postdoctoral/employment position at the time of application must rescind from all employment or affiliation commitments before the beginning of the Fellowship.
- STP Fellowships are offered without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, or status as a Vietnam-era veteran or disabled veteran.
Fellowships are for two years. Fellows will receive the following benefits during each Fellowship year:
Stipends will be based on Fellowship level and commensurate with qualifications. The stipend rate for Fellows with a Master's degree will start at $56,857, which is equivalent to the federal general schedule (GS) Grade 10 Step 1 established by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Fellows with a Ph.D. will receive a stipend starting at $74,872, which is equivalent to the GS Grade 12 Step 1. The stipend amount for Senior Fellows will be determined based on the number of years after receipt of the graduate degree. The stipend rates for Junior Fellows will start at $46,745, which is the equivalent to GS Grade 8, Step 1 established by OPM. The stipend rates for matriculated undergraduates will be competitive with other summer programs.
An increase of the stipend amount will be offered during the second-year of the appointment. The increase will be determined based on the Fellowship level and availability of funds. Stipend payments will be made monthly via electronic funds transfer into a single financial account.
A stipend supplement will be provided to cover the cost of the individual or family health insurance plan offered by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), which includes medical coverage and a prescription drug plan.
Relocation expenses, not to exceed $5,000, incurred in relocating from the participant's current address to Washington, D.C. (if more than 50 miles from the address shown on the application form), may be reimbursed. Relocation expenses may include transportation, shipment of household goods within the United States, temporary lodging, and per diem. Reimbursements are governed by federal travel regulations and the ORISE Travel Policy.
Fellows will receive a travel allowance of $10,000 per Fellowship year to cover travel-related expenses to scientific and professional development activities. Travel may include domestic and foreign travel to professional development experiences, scientific/technical research conferences and professional meetings and other activities.
Annual EERE Research Meeting
Additionally, travel and accommodations to an Annual Research Meeting will be provided. This meeting will be organized and hosted by EERE. The first meeting is tentatively scheduled for 2012.
Applicants will be evaluated on the basis of their academic and research record, expertise in their field of study, interest in applying their technical skills and knowledge to policy-related issues, and potential for making contributions to the solution of problems in areas of energy efficiency and renewable energy policy. Priority for selection will be given to applicants whose area of expertise is interdisciplinary and/or innovative and well-aligned with current policy issues. The review process will include phone and/or in-person interviews with potential candidates. Review of applications and final selections will be made by an internal panel of science, technology and policy experts from the EERE Program sponsoring the Fellowship.
Conditions and Obligations
Length of the Appointment
The STP Fellowships are for two years. The initial appointment period for the STP Fellowships is one year. The extension of the appointment will be subject to satisfactory progress toward completion of the project assignments, and availability of funds. Final decisions regarding the extension of the Fellowship for a second year will be made by the EERE mentor and EERE Program Manager.
Appointment Start Date
A Fellow's appointment may start within a few weeks from the date the candidate is notified of the award. All contingencies of an appointment offer must be met before the selected applicant can begin an appointment.
Conditions of the Award
- Fellows will become administratively associated with Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) through a letter of appointment and Terms of Appointment. Fellows will be required to sign and abide by the appointment letter, the Terms of Appointment, and other documents required by EERE.
- Fellows will be considered participants in an education program and will not enter into an employer/employee relationship with Department of Energy, ORISE, or Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). No commitment with regards to future employment should be inferred or expected by the offer or acceptance of a Fellowship. ORISE is managed by ORAU for the Department of Energy.
- Fellows will be required to commit to continuous resident participation for the duration of the appointment and to avoid obligations that will interrupt their research during the term of appointment. Fellows will be expected to maintain a full-time schedule during the appointment except for normal holidays recognized by the host facility and authorized vacation approved by the research mentor.
- Fellows will be expected to adhere to the DOE laws, policies, and procedures, including standards of competency, conduct, appearance, and integrity.
- Appointments are contingent on the Fellow's receipt of the necessary security clearance to access EERE Offices or EERE-approved venues.
- Fellows are not allowed to supplement their stipends through simultaneous employment, grants, or other sources of income that compete with the Fellowship activities.
- Awards, prizes, review, panel honoraria, scholarships, Veterans Administration benefits, sabbatical leave, and any other payments may be accepted by an EERE Fellow provided that these payments do not represent dual payment for the same activity.
- Fellows must acknowledge the support of EERE on publications and presentations that are related to their participation in the STP Fellowships and to provide a copy of such publications to EERE and ORISE. Pursuant to Title 35 U.S. Code, Section 212, no provision of the ORISE Terms of Appointment or any other document to be completed by a participant may contain any provision giving ORISE any rights to inventions made by the Fellow. However, EERE may have different interests in this regard and may impose additional requirements as a condition of participation in this program. Fellows are expected to comply with DOE policies regarding the intellectual property rights and dissemination of information.
- By accepting a Fellowship, Fellows agree to respond to future inquiries by ORISE concerning their participation in the STP Fellowships.
Progress and Final Reports
Fellows are expected to present a report to EERE and ORISE every six months summarizing progress towards completion of the assigned projects and tasks, key accomplishments, and program impact. In addition, in order to document the effectiveness of the program, Fellows are required to submit a final report and a feedback form to help EERE and ORISE assess the effectiveness of the program and participant-related processes.
Annual EERE STP Fellows Meeting
- Attendance to an Annual EERE STP Fellows Meeting may be required. The first meeting is tentatively scheduled for 2012.
- Travel and accommodations for the Annual Meeting will be provided by the EERE Program sponsoring the Fellowship.
- During this meeting, Fellows will have the opportunity to learn more about DOE, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and the agencies affiliated with EERE. Fellows will also be able to meet and share their projects with other EERE Fellows, EERE staff, and representatives from DOE national laboratories and other research facilities supporting the EERE research mission.
How to Apply
Applications are accepted year-round. In order to be considered, submit completed application form and Curriculum Vitae (CV) via email. The application form and CV must be received before the application package is submitted to EERE for consideration.
The CV must include the following:
- Applicant Information
- Education History. List all institutions from which you received or expect to receive a degree, beginning with current or most recent institution. Include the name of the academic institution, degree awarded or expected, date of awarded or expected degree, and academic discipline.
- Work and Research Experience. List all work and research experiences beginning with current or most recent. Include the name of the employer, location, position held, and time period involved.
- Leadership Experience. List experiences (e.g., work, civic, volunteer, research) that demonstrate your leadership skills. Detail your role, type of experience, organization, location, and duration.
- Honors and Awards. List in chronological order (most recent first) any awards or public recognitions. Include the name of awarding institution, title of the award or honor, and date of award or honor.
- Publications. List publications in the following order: 1) referee journals; 2) books; 3) published proceedings; 4) non-refereed articles; and 5) patents. Citations must include a) authors; b) year of publication; c) title; d) full name of journal; e) volume number; and f) page number(s).
Letters of recommendation are not required to apply. Selected candidates will be notified to submit letters of recommendation as part of the final selection process. Letters must come from three professional or scientific individuals familiar with the applicant's qualifications. Recommenders should provide comments (preferably with specific examples) regarding the applicant's personal characteristics and scientific capabilities that will assist in providing a complete picture of the applicant's abilities and qualifications.
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
EERE STP Fellowships, MS-36
P.O. Box 117
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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Regular use of dietary supplements containing fish oil, or glucosamine and chondroitin may reduce markers of inflammation by up to 22%, says a new study.
The magnitude of the reduction observed in levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), an established marker of inflammation, is similar to levels observed with statins, report researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and the University of Washington, Seattle.
“This study adds biologic plausibility to previous studies which have shown beneficial effects of these supplements on chronic diseases,” they wrote in the American Journal of Epidemiology .
“Given the number of diseases with which inflammation is associated, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, there is a need to find safe and effective ways to reduce inflammation.
“Research suggests that these 3 supplements have excellent safety profiles, supporting their potential role in disease prevention. It is therefore important that the potential anti-inflammatory role of these supplements be further investigated.”
And the others?
On the flip side, the Seattle-based scientists report that no impact on CRP levels was found for a range of other supplements, including MSM, pycnogenol-containing supplements, garlic, ginkgo, or saw palmetto.
By way of explanation, they noted: “Power may have been limited to detect associations in less commonly used supplements; it is also possible that these supplements may affect inflammation downstream of CRP or that these supplements may not be associated with inflammation in humans.”
Elizabeth Kantor and her co-workers analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of 9,947 adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
The results showed that with regular use of glucosamine, chondroitin, and fish oil supplements was associated with reductions in CRP of 17%, 22%, and 16%, respectively.
“To our knowledge, this is the largest study that has investigated the association between use of glucosamine and chondroitin supplements and a marker of inflammation in humans,” they said.
“[Other] studies, plus our current study in a representative US population, provide evidence for the anti-inflammatory effects of long-chain omega-3 PUFAs in humans, and they support one of several mechanisms by which long-chain omega-3 PUFA intake may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, some cancers, and total mortality.”
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology
2012, Volume 176, Number 11, Pages 1002-13. doi: 10.1093/aje/kws186
“Association between use of specialty dietary supplements and C-reactive protein concentrations”
Authors: E.D. Kantor, J.W. Lampe, T.L. Vaughan, U. Peters, C.D. Rehm, E. White
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Migraine can be defined as a “neurological disorder” which is ordinarily found in most of the people throughout the world. Researchers are with the conclusion that it is not similar as a normal headache and need special care. It is common in women rather than men.
A migraine sufferer can understand the pain of it. It is a fact that the attack of migraine can even take the life of a person. This is because the modern lifestyle is too hectic and stressful to cope up with the situation. Therefore, in order to control the pain of migraines, a person should make out how it causes and then try to avoid all the habits that causes the attack. Here are some of the points that lead to the cause of migraines:-
Some food habits are found in the people, which lead to the cause of migraines. Such food habits include
- Red wine
- Processed foods
- Chocolate containing monosodium glutamate (MSG)
- Nitrates (lunchmeats and hotdogs)
However, it is often found that a migraine can also be caused if a person skips his meal.
This is regarded as an important factor for causing migraines. Flashing lights, loud noises and even strong scents trigger the migraine attacks.
In some women, it is found that the migraine attacks are caused by changes in their estrogen levels.
Another cause of migraines is medication. It actually depends on any kind of medication and the way a human body reacts to it (medication). However, it should be remembered that the starting and again stopping a medication can also lead to migraine attack.
Change in sleeping habits of a person is also a cause of migraines. Sleeping during daytime rather than at night and vice-versa can cause migraine problems. At the same time, little or too much sleep also leads to the migraine problems.
Dynamic conditions such as barometric pressure and quick temperature can lead to migraine attacks. Thus, it can be said that weather condition is also a cause of migraines.
Doing exercises on a sudden period instead of practicing it regularly is also a root cause of migraines.
Apart from the cause of migraines, a person should also be aware of its (migraine) symptoms:-
- Besides headache, a migraneur suffers from the problems of vomiting, nausea and is sensible towards sound and light.
- Pain usually is felt on a particular side of the head. But, sometimes, the patients feel it on both sides of the head.
- Pain of migraine is often throbbing and quite intense.
- A migraine attack usually lasts for longer rather than 2-3 hours.
- Some of the migraine victims feel an aura during the attack of migraine headache. This is an important feature distinguishing it from the normal headaches.
- Migraine can take place anytime, anywhere.
Till now, the discussion had been going on the cause of migraines, and its symptoms. However, let’s see the ways to be relieved from the pain of migraine attacks:-
As it has been already mentioned that the lifestyle led in the present day is an important cause of migraines. In the initial period, migraine was found among the people ageing 35 and even above. However, in the present world, the problem of migraine is common even in the kids going to school. Thus, to deal with the problem of migraines, it is advised to sleep for at least 8 hours a day. It helps in relieving the migraine sufferer from the pain.
Doing regular treatment for migraine helps in reducing the pain of headache. Usage of the abortive or prophylactic medicines respectively lessens the frequency of migraine attack.
Yoga, meditation, etc. are prescribed to the migraine patients for relieving them of their problem. The migraine patients can make use of some other techniques as well such as simple diet, massaging lightly on the scalp using fingers and doing regular exercises as well.
Natural Home Remedies
A migraine patient can also apply some of the home remedial techniques to get relief from the migraine attacks. Drinking juices made of the following natural elements help a migraneur to feel free of the pain
In the present world, aromatherapy is practiced to make a migraneur relief of the pain. It consists of the usage of the
Avoid Harsh Lights
Researchers while investigating the cause of migraines found that direct sunlight, disco light etc also increases the pain of migraines. Therefore, the doctors recommend the migraneur to avoid those (sunlight, disco light) and at the same time, drink 8-10 glasses of water daily for reducing the pain.
One more technique through which a migraneur can be relieved of the pain is to make use of the ice remedy:-
- Migraine Ice-
“Migraine Ice” pads are a new product in the market. It is said to relieve the migraneur in no time. It helps in cooling instantly and also a soothing relief lasting for long even for 4 hours. These pads are a good convenience and what makes it perfect is that it requires no refrigeration. Its usage is simple. Just the migraneur needs to take off the pad from the pouch after which he is required to uncover a protected film and then apply it to the back of his neck.
- Traditional Ice Pack-
This also works well in relieving a migraine victim of his pain. An “Ice Pack” can be defined as a bag of waterproof consisting of a top-leveled cap, which allows the victim to fill it with ice. Once, the bag is filled with ice, it is capped and henceforth is applied in many areas such as forehead, neck and in other parts as well of the head.
- Soft Ice-
Another important product claiming the migraine victims of pain relief is “Soft ice”. This comes either in the form of head wrap or neck wrap. This product helps in chilling the neck or head by delivering cold therapy comfortably.
- Alternative Ice Pack-
It is a simple method. What a migraneur needs to do is to simply place the crushed ices on a towel and apply on head, neck and then rest for some time.
Thus, it is clear where there are many ways responsible for the cause of migraines, there are also many remedial measures as well to get relief from it.
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Analyzing Light Curves: A Practical Guide
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"Analyzing Light Curves: a Practical Guide" is exactly what the title says: a practical guide. It covers enough theory for the reader actually to understand what the methods mean, but doesn't get bogged down in theoretical details, while boldly outlining both simple and very sophisticated methods. Topics include detecting when a signal is present, making mathematical models of trends, and detailed period analysis. This book aims to reach as wide an audience as possible, including advanced students and amateur astronomers who want to be able to understand the data they themselves have so painstakingly collected.
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Fire burning out of control in any situation most probably means heartache and pain for someone.
When fire destroys whole blocks of buildings, especially in small communities, it can be crippling.
Many North Country towns have experienced the pain of fire threatening their places of commerce, socialization and stability. Malone is no different.
While absent landlords and lack of building upkeep have certainly altered Malone’s downtown, the village has also seen more than its share of destructive fires.
The town now known as Malone was carved out of the Town of Chateaugay on March 2, 1805. Its first name was Harison, then Ezraville, and finally, in 1812, Malone.
In the mid to late 1800s and again in the 1900s, fire destroyed a number of hotels and businesses in the community.
Frederick Seaver, author of “Historical Sketches of Franklin County” (1918), includes five pages of notable fires that destroyed homes, churches and businesses in Malone.
Franklin Academy, the community’s first state-chartered school, partly burned in 1835, grieving a village that held great pride for this place of education.
A brick building replaced the first school, but on Christmas Eve 1880, the academy was destroyed by fire again, mostly due to lack of water.
Many beautiful Victorian homes have disappeared from Malone’s landscape, falling victim to fire.
According to Seaver, on March 27 1847, William King’s home, at the corner of Main and Pearl streets, ended up being a total loss due to “the greatest snowstorm ever known in Malone … snow lay four feet deep … so that the engine could not be brought to the grounds, no water hauled from the river.”
The Elmwood Hotel then replaced King’s home, eventually being sold and renamed the Olympic Hotel. A fire started there Feb. 11, 1899, when most of the help was serving a banquet at the armory, just up the street.
The frigid weather, 15 below zero, made fighting the fire a challenge. Henry A. Gray, who had opened the inn only six months before, had made many improvements, but all was lost.
A three-story brick building that faces Main Street and extends down Pearl Street replaced the Olympic Hotel and has housed Hyde’s Drug Store, Kinney’s Rexall Drugs and now Geez Louise, a consignment shop.
Seaver tells of the old Hosford Hotel, which stood adjacent to the Rutland Railroad and about 20 feet north of the brick Franklin House, which included Wantastiquet Hall, a famous dance room.
The hotel caught fire on Jan. 20, 1866, and both structures were destroyed.
At the same location, the Ferguson House rose up. The building was so large that it wrapped around the corner and onto Main Street. Fire destroyed the hotel and shops in January 1888, devastating that corner of town.
The building was doomed due to extremely cold weather that froze the fire hydrants and the nearby Salmon River, making it impossible to douse the flames, according to Seaver.
Damages were estimated at $150,000, a large sum for 1888.
Isaac Chesley, one of the storekeepers, was killed in the fire when an explosion blew the front wall outward, trapping him underneath.
The Flanagan brothers built a hotel and business section on the Ferguson lot, also known as the Howard Block, that wrapped the corner and spread along Main Street.
In future years, it became known as the WICY block, so named for Malone’s radio station, housed in the rotunda on the corner, and topped with an eagle.
That block burned in December 1970.
The very next month, January 1971, an adjoining section of brick business buildings just around the corner burned, destroying King-Clark Insurance Agency, Three Baers Bootery, the Sherwin-Williams paint store, the law office of Donald Holland and the office of Dr. David Gorman.
Most of these businesses had relocated there when the WICY block burned a month before. In each of these cases, one-story buildings today replace the grandeur of Main Street’s brick Victorian beauties.
Another block of businesses was destroyed on Jan. 9, 1966, at the intersection of Main and Harison Place. Lost on that date were the Bridge Street Book Store, Prevost’s Barber Shop and Martin’s Pool Room, plus apartments.
It was a dire Valentine’s Day in 1979, when the community woke up to the devastation of an entire block being wiped out on East Main Street.
Ten businesses and many apartments were ravaged the day before, leaving people without homes and incomes. They included the Brass Rail Restaurant, Mr. T’s, Mill Art Gallery, North Country Arts and Crafts Store, Paul Marlow’s Barber and Beauty Shops, Petrolane’s business office, Thomas McMahon’s accounting office and the law offices of Carey, LaRocque, Piasecki and Clark.
In between these catastrophic blazes, numerous smaller fires destroyed or ravaged homes and businesses, but the very fabric of downtown is altered permanently when an entire city block disappears.
Malone’s fire disaster’s made page 9 of the Daily News of New York City on Jan. 20, 1971, when Mayor Ken Tulloch was quoted as saying: “Albany thinks this is where elephants come to die,” obviously expressing frustration over “sympathy and no action” from the state capital in view of 14 major fires in five years.
The article states that these losses represented 50 percent of Franklin County’s retail-sales outlets.
Tulloch summed up his opinion of the state’s help with, “It was 35 degrees below zero in Malone today but somewhat warmer than the aid from Albany.”
Malone’s churches have not escaped the clutch of devastation brought about by fires.
On Sept. 4, 1870, shortly after morning service, fire destroyed St. Joseph’s Church on the corner of Main and Rockland streets.
The congregation eventually built a large brick church that stood for 86 years — until July 2, 1968. On that day, a fire started at the Malone Novelty Co. on nearby Finney Boulevard that could only be described as unbelievable.
The hyper-explosions set off by a warehouse full of fireworks sent sparks far and wide, igniting the roof of St. Joseph’s Church. Accounts of the fire state it took only an hour and a half before the fire reached the sanctuary of the church.
The third building, a modern-style church, stands today on the same lot.
As dire as fire and destruction can be, this community has risen up out of the ashes and taken another stab at life. In each of these fire locations, new buildings have risen, and businesses and people have stepped up to the plate.
While Malone’s downtown isn’t bustling like it was in the old days, it is showing signs of new life with doctor’s offices, banks, thrift shops and other businesses.
One can only hope that today’s improvements in materials, fire protection and communication will not allow the events of the past to happen on Main Street, Malone in the future.
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Survey conducted by Nielsen, on behalf of Centro Vegetariano
For the first time ever in Portugal, Centro Vegetariano –http://www.centrove getariano. org
- has promoted a statistically meaningful
survey, in order to determine the number of Vegetarians in Portugal.
The main conclusions of this survey are the following:
- 5% of the population excludes one of the traditional food categories
(meat, fish, dairy and eggs);
- 2% of the Portuguese people never eats meat (20% only occasionally) ;
- 1% of the Portuguese never eats fish; (23% only occasionally) ;
- The elderly (aged 55-65) are the ones who least eat meat and dairy;
- 30,000 Portuguese are actual vegetarians, with zero consumption of meat or
This survey was carried out by Nielsen, world leading company for market
surveys, throughout October 2007. This survey consisted of 2,000 interviews
to individuals aged between 15 and 65 and living in mainland Portugal, who
are a representative sample of the Portuguese population.
The questions asked were:
How often do you eat:
- Meat or meat products (ham, hamburgers, bologna, sausages, meat patês...)
- Fish or fish products (fish fingers, shellfish, fish patês,...)
- Milk or other dairy products like cheese, butter, yoghurts,…
- Eggs or products with eggs, such as pastry,…
The reply options were "Never", "Occasionally" and "Frequently" . Bearing in
mind the conclusions displayed above, only the individuals who claimed never
to eat the products in question were taken into account. This way it is
possible to obtain results that are coherent with the commonly accepted
definition of a vegetarian as someone who never eats meat or fish (or their
by-products) . No mention whatsoever was made in this survey to the reasons
leading to the food regime in question.
Other interesting data:
- Women are the ones eating less meat and eggs. Nevertheless, they are the
heavier dairy consumers;
- Central Lisbon and Northern coast are the regions with less meat and egg
- 20% of the Portuguese population only eats meat occasionally;
- 23% only eat fish occasionally;
These results have a maximum related error of 2,2 for a confidence interval
As far as we know, this is the first time such a survey is conducted near a
representative sample of the whole population. Now we know there are already
30.000 vegetarians in Portugal.
Centro Vegetariano wishes to thank:
1. Company Efeito Verde – Lda, whose support made this survey possible.
2. Nielsen company, for this mindful endeavour.
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Israel's Marketing Challenge
|Israel faces a dual marketing challenge. First, similar to countries like Afghanistan and Iraq whose wars dominate the news, Israel's public perception is marked by images of violence and conflict rather than ones suggesting stability and a hospitable business environment. This leads to the second marketing challenge, that of Israeli companies striving to attract investors and customers even as they contend with a tide of negative world opinion. How can a small but innovative country -- with enormous expertise in fields such as technology and medicine -- overcome this two-part marketing challenge? In this special report, Wharton marketing professor David Reibstein sets the stage by offering insights into both the opportunities and obstacles that Israel faces; David Pottruck, former CEO of Charles Schwab & Co. and now CEO of Red Eagle Ventures, joins Wharton marketing professor Yoram (Jerry) Wind to suggest ways that Israel can tackle its marketing challenge; and investment maven Michael Steinhardt explains his views of Israel and the role of the Birthright program in connecting youth around the world to their Israeli heritage. In addition, Better Place CEO Shai Agassi discusses his electric car project and the reasons why it took root in Israel, and venture capital expert Gideon Tolkowsky presents lessons in globalization based on the experience of Israeli firms.
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In its 61-year history as a modern nation state, Israel has become synonymous with conflict and controversy, creating friction with hostile neighbors and, at times, setting itself up as a target for international reproach. But is Israel getting short shrift? Have Israelis been letting themselves down by failing to showcase their strengths? In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton marketing professor David Reibstein explores the consequences of Israel's tarnished reputation, not only for the country in general, but also for Israel's business community, while also considering whether using better public relations and marketing tactics could improve Israel's image.
A New Kind of Campaign: Changing the World's Perception of Doing Business with Israel
Anyone who follows current events sees images of Israel that suggest a country defined by conflict and violence. Yet Israel has also made substantial contributions to the global marketplace in such industries as technology and medicine. The challenge for Israel going forward is to make the world more aware of its hospitable business environment. Marketing professor Yoram (Jerry) Wind and David Pottruck, former CEO of Charles Schwab & Co., and now chairman and CEO of Red Eagle Ventures, talked with Knowledge@Wharton about steps Israel can take to improve its image.
Michael Steinhardt Discusses Israel's Place in the World
Following a high-profile career in finance in which he became one of the first well-known hedge fund managers, Michael Steinhardt began the Taglit-Birthright Israel program, a philanthropic enterprise which has provided free 10-day trips to Israel for some 220,000 Jewish youth to learn more about their heritage. Steinhardt spoke with Knowledge@Wharton about how the program helps to improve the country's image and the challenges of what he calls a deteriorating educational system in Israel -- marked by a brain drain in higher education. Steinhardt also discussed the country's culture of business innovation and how deep democratic roots can sometimes slow progress.
Shai Agassi, Israel's Homegrown Electric Car Pioneer: On the Road to Oil Independence
If there's a poster child for Israel's entrepreneurial spirit, start-up Better Place is one strong candidate. Since launching the company in 2007, Shai Agassi -- a 41-year-old Israeli entrepreneur and former executive of software giant SAP -- has been shaking up the auto industry with his vision for mass adoption of zero-emission vehicles powered by electricity from renewable sources. Starting off with $200 million of seed money, Better Place has since been setting up networks of service stations for electric cars, helping to wean drivers from their environmentally unfriendly gas guzzlers. The timing couldn't be better: Nissan recently unveiled its Leaf electric car whose battery can power the car for up to 100 miles (160km) on a single charge. According to Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's boss, pure electric vehicles could make up 10% of the world's market by 2020. John Paul MacDuffie, a professor of management at Wharton and co-director of the International Motor Vehicle Program, joined Knowledge@Wharton to interview Agassi from the company's headquarters in California about what it takes to develop an oil-independent future.
Globalization of Technology Ventures: Lessons from Israel
Technology is universal, and technology markets are relatively culture-insensitive. Still, the fact remains that surprisingly few high-tech startups that were conceived outside the U.S. or the world's primary technology markets have evolved into global companies. Why is that so? In this opinion piece, Gideon Tolkowsky, principal of Israel-based BME Capital Management, who has been involved in venture capital in the U.S. and Israel for more than 25 years, offers some lessons from Israeli high-tech startups.
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Dear industry colleague,
||World Plumbing Day is designed to bring awareness to the value to health of the plumbing community.
The inaugural World Plumbing Day will make a global impact on March 11 as the plumbing community unites to bring awareness to the value of this industry in relation to health and sanitation.
"There are days for all sorts of causes and their purpose is always about raising awareness," World Plumbing Council chairman, Robert Burgon points out.
World Plumbing Day is no different and we simply want to make more and more people realize that plumbing is a significant industry and a major contributor to public health and the environment. This year we have chosen the theme ‘Plumbing-Vital to Global Health’ with the intention being that we highlight just how much our industry contributes to both the health of our people and the health of our planet.”
The aim is to involve local communities to spread the word, it is also to raise significance in developing nations.
“I believe that in developed countries, effective sanitation is usually taken for granted (until something goes wrong),” Robert says. “In developing countries where there is often no effective sanitation, then there is a lack of awareness of just how significant even basic sanitation could be. We should never miss the chance, wherever we might be, to stress the importance of sanitation and the role which our industry plays in the design, installation and maintenance of such systems."
Which brings us to plumbing's response to the Haiti crisis and how the plumbing community can respond to this disaster.
Robert says, "basic plumbing training for some local villagers should, in my view, always be part of what is done. The ideal situation would be where lasting solutions, based on sound principles, were provided thus taking the country’s citizens to a higher level than that which they had before the disaster.
Unfortunately, the World Health Organisation has certain checks and balances that don't involve plumbers and this needs to be addressed so that aid has a lasting impact and is not just a patch job.
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Several Sundays back, my wife and son and I went for a long hike along the dunes by Guadalupe Beach, which, coincidentally, is located near the town of Guadalupe, Calif. For those of you who might be unfamiliar with Guadalupe Beach, it is just south of Grover Beach, which is located next to Pismo Beach. (Does that help?) Actually, many of you are familiar with Guadalupe Beach but may not know it. You see, Guadalupe Beach (or, more accurately, the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes) is where the Egyptian pyramids are buried. "How can that be?" you are probably asking yourselves. "Everyone knows the pyramids are in Egypt!" (not counting the one in Las Vegas). Well, you would be correct; however, there really are Egyptian pyramids buried in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes. You see, they are the original movie sets from Cecil B. DeMille’s original black-and-white 1923 epic The Ten Commandments, not to be confused with Cecil B.Demille’s 1956 epic The Ten Commandments, which was also partially filmed on the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes. Anyway, it was a gorgeous day for a hike, and I even found some ancient artifacts! Well, "buried artifacts" would be more like it. OK, "partially buried litter" would be even more accurate. As a Boy Scout, I was taught to always leave an area cleaner than I found it, so when I see litter I have an uncontrollable desire to pick it up. As the three of us were hiking back to the car, I noticed something shiny poking out of the sand. I reached down and picked up a pull-top from an ancient beer can. Pull-tops were the forerunners of today’s pop-tops, which actually stay on the can. It is rumored that some people back in the day would pull the top off and drop it into the beverage can from which they were drinking and on occasion would accidentally choke on it...bad move. When fastened together, pull-tops could be made into really cool chains; the remnants of one such chain is still dangling from the rafters in my parents’ garage. It is also rumored that at some of the "open" high school parties that occurred during the 1970s, enough beer pull-tops were removed from cans to make a chain longer than a city block. (Of course, I can neither confirm nor deny that I was ever present at any of those parties..."wink-wink.") I believe they stopped making cans with removable pull-tops in the mid '70s, so this relic of parties past had been lying undisturbed for at least 35 years -- a rare find indeed! But then, just a few yards further, I found yet another pull-top! What luck, a matching pair!!! Who knows how much these gems might fetch on EBay? Just think how many more of these might still be buried, waiting to be discovered. Why, with enough trips to the dunes, I may be able to collect thousands of them. Come to think of it, the rafters in my garage could use a little decorating...
Leigh's Wild and Twisted Cartoony show comes to Torrance, Calif., on May 25! For all the details, see:
(And see the latest Rubes cartoon at
What's Aunt Gertrude cooking up now? See the latest silly Rubes video and find out!
...and speaking of cows, have some cow-tipping fun with the latest Rubes book: Rubes Cow Tipping: You Can't Keep a Good Cow Down!
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Compliance with Standards Governing Combined DNA Index System Activities
North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation Crime Laboratory
Raleigh, North Carolina
Audit Report GR-40-00-013
Office of the Inspector General
The Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division, has completed an audit of compliance with standards governing the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) activities at the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation Crime Laboratory (Laboratory). CODIS is a national information repository maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that permits the storing, maintaining, tracking, and searching of DNA specimen information in order to facilitate the exchange of DNA information by law enforcement agencies. The Laboratory received two grants, totaling $279,000, funded through the Department of Justice.
Our audit generally covered the period from the implementation of CODIS at the Laboratory in November 1996 through March 2000. The objectives of the audit were to determine if the Laboratory:
We found that the Laboratory uploaded complete and accurate DNA profiles to NDIS; and, although the Laboratory generally complied with the QAS and NDIS requirements, we noted the following instance of noncompliance.
The audit results are discussed in greater detail in the Findings and Recommendations section of this report. Our audit scope and methodology appear in Appendix I, background information is contained in Appendix II, and the audit criteria are discussed in Appendix III. The history and status of DNA testing and CODIS use at the Laboratory appear in Appendix IV.
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The publications below are based on the findings of Raising Expectations: A State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Adults, People with Physical Disabilities, and Family Caregivers, which was released in September 2011. These publications were produced by the AARP Public Policy Institute with support from The SCAN Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund.
A New Way of Looking at Private Pay Affordability of Long-Term Services and Supports
The affordability of private pay services is an important component of long-term services and supports system performance. This Insight on the Issues presents data on private pay affordability for every state and more than 400 markets in the United States.
Protecting Family Caregivers from Employment Discrimination
This Insight on the Issues explores eldercare and the workplace. It highlights the realities of changing demographics and issues affecting working caregivers of older adults. It defines family responsibilities discrimination (FRD), explains why FRD is a policy matter, and describes the types of workplace discrimination encountered by working caregivers.
Fact Sheet: Protecting Family Caregivers from Employment Discrimination
This Fact Sheet highlights issues affecting working caregivers of older adults.
Assessing Family Caregiver Needs: Policy and Practice Considerations
This Fact Sheet defines caregiver assessment, which is a systematic process of gathering information about a caregiving situation to identify problems and resources. Effectively assessing and addressing caregiver needs can maintain the health and well-being of caregivers, sustain their ability to provide care, prevent or postpone nursing home placement, and produce better outcomes for the care recipient. (July 2012)
Assisted Living and Residential Care in the States in 2010
This Insight on the Issues discusses the availability of assisted living and residential care, which represent a critical component of the long-term services and supports (LTSS) system for older adults who cannot live alone, but do not require the skilled care provided by nursing homes. In 2010, states reported a total of 51,367 licensed residential care settings with a total capacity of 1,233,690 beds—a dramatic increase from an estimated 1,046,631 beds in 2007. (July 2012)
The State of Measurement of Respite Care
This Insight on the Issues examines respite care, or temporary relief for caregivers from caregiving tasks. It is the service strategy most commonly offered to support family caregivers and is available in all 50 states. However, definitions of respite vary among programs and states, and quality and completeness of reported data are often lacking, making rigorous comparison among states impossible. This report describes the main sources of publicly funded respite care and presents data for the year 2007. (July 2012)
Case Study Overview
While the Scorecard started a discussion about state long-term services and supports (LTSS) performance, it did not explain why states ranked high, low, or somewhere in between. Therefore, the AARP Public Policy Institute, with support from The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN Foundation, undertook a series of case studies to provide a deeper context for understanding state performance for the baseline Scorecard. This paper presents an overview of the findings from the case studies. (May 2012)
Case Study: Minnesota
This case study looks at Minnesota, which ranked first overall in the nation for long-term services and supports. (May 2012)
Case Study: Georgia
This case study looks at Georgia, which—like most southern states—ranked in the lowest quartile of state LTSS performance . (May 2012)
Case Study: Idaho
This case study looks at Idaho, which scored in the upper-middle range of overall LTSS performance. (May 2012)
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I now mainly sail at Sherman Island and a bit in San Francisco Bay but I have had some great sessions at the upper lake at San Luis. I have never understood why most everyone sails the forebay when there is such a great body of water less than a mile away. While I have not sailed there in quite a few years I found the wind to be quite steady and the chop is not too bad because the water is deep. Also at least in the spring and early summer there is no water level issues as in the Forebay. I have never sailed there in late summer so I do not know how low the levels can acutally get. We used to launch from the dock by the boat ramp near the Basalt Flats campgrounds. Maybe its the stories of rattlesnakes in the rocks by dam if one were to get washed up that far down wind but to me the rocks never looked any worse than the ones on Sherman Island.
The requirement 15 years ago to sail the upper reservoir was to carry 3 flares, line, a knife and sail with a buddy. I don't know if these still apply but it is a small price to pay for the pleasure of sailing there.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:59 am Post subject: San Luis Forebay
FYI....When the water gets low in the forebay, launch from the south side under the powerlines. From there the runs are down into the main forebay lake with virtually no weeds except right at the launch. When it's windy the runs are paralell to the north shore of the lake and quite long; more than a mile. I actually sail there exclusively and don't bother with the up wind cover anymore. Note the attached satelite pic of the launch location***
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LENGTH: 49 minutes (12470 words)
Hunter S. Thompson was just 22-years-old in 1959 when he first began writing The Rum Diary, or what he initially called “the great American rum novel.” He envisioned it as something of a contemporary and rum-soaked version of The Great Gatsby, one of Thompson’s favorite books. Based on the time Thompson spent working for an English language newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Rum Diary fictionally chronicles the drunken and debauched life of Paul Kemp, an American journalist sauntering through San Juan with a savage lust for women, blood and booze. Once finished, Thompson spent nearly a decade revising and shopping it to publishers before reverting to other projects. It wasn’t until 1998 that Thompson was finally able to publish The Rum Diary.
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A recent survey of world religions states that Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion with over one billion followers. In others words, Islam is the faith of one-fifth of the world’s population. We’ve developed a new resource that answers all types of questions on Islam such as: Is the Islam that we hear about and their God Allah, the same God you find in the Bible? Is the Qur’an Credible? Who are the Shia? What about the Sufis? What connection does Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam have with regular Islam? What is Sikhism? How do you witness to Muslims?
Have you ever heard the words, “There is no deity except God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God.” “These are the first words that every Muslim baby hears and they are often the last words that a Muslim utters upon his death bed.” For over 1 billion “this is not merely a doctrinal creed––it is the foundation for every facet of their lives. The Islamic faith is not simply an exotic Arabic religion…over the last 100 years it has awakened and is spreading worldwide at an almost unprecedented rate. If the Lord’s “Great Commission” is to be fulfilled, it is essential that we, as active, concerned Christians, understand what Islam is. We must both know how to relate to the Muslim, and how to ‘contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints’ (Jude 3), ‘with gentleness and respect’ (1 Peter 3:15).”
Some quick fast facts for you about Islam:
· Muhammad was born in Mecca (Saudi Arabia) in AD 570
· At age 25, he married a rich 40 year-old widow. This gave him “rank among the notables of Mecca” but perhaps more importantly gave him the time he needed to devote to spiritual matters.
· Allegedly one night during the month of Ramadan (which incidentally started on August 22, 2009) he heard a voice which said, “Thou Art the messenger of God, and I am Gabriel.” It was at this point that Muhammad said “he realized his calling and prophetic mission.”
· “In AD 630 Muhammad marched on Mecca with a force of 10,000 men…the inhabitants of Mecca swore allegiance to the prophet and for the first time the ‘Muslim call to prayer’ was heard…two years later Muhammad died.”
· “The Qur’an is believed to be God’s final and complete revelation to man.”
· “The Qur’an has much to say about Jesus, but the one thing that it emphasizes more than anything else is that He was only a man, a messenger of God, not the Son of God, or God in human flesh.”
· Orthodox Muslims maintain that Jesus did not die on a cross; they maintain that God made someone look like Jesus and the look-a-like was crucified in place of Jesus.
· Most Muslims believe that Jesus “was bodily taken up into Heaven by God. Most Muslims also believe that He will ‘come again at the last day, slay anti-Christ, kill all the swine, break the cross… He will then reign as a just King for 45 years, marry and leave children, then die and be buried near Mohammad at Medina.’ ”
· “All Muslims believe that Muhammad was the greatest apostle and prophet of all.”
· All Orthodox Muslims believe in a heaven, where true believers will exist forever in a garden of beauty and joy. In this Garden the Qur’an in Sura 55:56-57 and 52:20 says “In them will be (Maidens), Chaste, restraining their glances, Whom no man or Jinn before them has touched” and they will have “beautiful, Big and Lustrous eyes.”
· Salvation is based on good works, “there is no need for a Savior, and in any case God Most High alone can save.”
Islam then has the universally know “five pillars.” This is I think one of the charms of Islam. They are easy to remember and very easily implemented. It starts out, “There is no deity except Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah”. The second pray five times a day facing Mecca, the third fast, the fourth give alms, and the final pillar is the pilgrimage to Mecca.
For all this information and much, much more I encourage you check out this great new resource on Islam, entitled Islam: What You Must Know. You can get this at our Website of www.equip.org or by calling us at 1-888-700-0274.
The List, The World’s Fastest Growing Religions, Foreign Policy (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3835)
From Joseph Gudel’s article “Islam’s Worldwide Revival” in Islam: What You Must Know The Best of the Christian Research Journal (Published by CRI, Charlotte, NC, 2009), p. 30-31.
Ibid., 32-43
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Mass Merchants Make Their Move OnlineWal-Mart, Kmart and Target have operated bricks-and-mortar general merchandise stores for nearly 40 years. Though they are accomplished merchants in the physical world, their business does not automatically translate into success online.
How do these mass merchants make their foray online into an e-commerce success story?
For starters, they need to understand the potential. Gomez Inc., Lincoln, MA, estimates domestic online retail sales will grow more than $60 billion, to $160 billion, in 2001. General merchandise e-tailers relish this potential and likely will claim a percentage of the market for a variety of reasons.
First, they are able to cross-merchandise items among categories, which effectively generates higher consumer spending. Also, with a diverse product offering, they can cater to a wide base of consumers. For example, look at their Internet counterpart, Amazon.com. The online giant has amassed a customer base of 25 million in five years. Though it had a first-mover advantage, it would not have built this foundation by selling books alone.
Lastly, compared with niche-focused online retailers, these e-tailers can market unique aspects of convenience. Not only do they offer consumers one-stop shopping and reduced shipping costs (as they typically can ship multiple products from one distribution center and in one order), they also are able to store customers' personal information, including credit card numbers, addresses and purchasing histories on one site. With all of this activity, general merchandise retailers can better understand consumer purchase behavior.
Although the opportunity is significant, online general merchants face numerous challenges. Their success will hinge on their ability to generate economies of scale, find a competitive advantage and deliver a positive purchasing experience. To overcome these issues, the following tactical and strategic recommendations are made:
Set up a cohesive organization.
Creating a cohesive, cost-effective online organization is perhaps the biggest challenge in managing any e-commerce venture but is particularly challenging for general merchants. High-level e-tailer goals include the following: creating an advanced fulfillment system to ensure the fewest shipments per customer order (i.e., maintaining a process for ensuring that two diverse products, such as a blender and a fleece jacket, can be delivered at the same time); optimizing product breadth and depth; developing effective customer acquisition and retention tactics; and maintaining a trained customer service organization so that a consumer can have category-specific questions answered quickly and expertly.
While online-only e-tailers face the challenge of building purchasing power and creating vendor relationships, as well as achieving financial viability, clicks-and-mortar e-tailers are able to leverage their existing buying power, resources and branding across online and offline channels. However, the multichannel e-tailers face the additional challenge of integrating systems and processes across their channels. The most successful general merchandise e-tailers will be the ones that drive organizational focus -- despite managing numerous categories -- and effectively integrate multiple channels, all while keeping an eye on profitability.
Meet and beat the competition. In the offline world, discount stores leverage one-stop shopping convenience to attract consumers. This value proposition is diminished online, however, as rival stores are a click rather than a 10-minute drive away. Online category-dominant retailers, such as REI, Tiffany's and Staples, are able to offer a deeper product selection in their focus areas, more content (such as glossaries, related articles, and consumer and professional reviews) and product-related advanced tools (such as Lands' End's My Virtual Model, which shows consumers how apparel products would look on their figures). General merchant e-tailers typically do not have the resources to offer this depth in each and every category they offer.
This is where partnerships come in handy. Relationships can take many forms, such as branded or private-labeled, bartered or financial-based, reciprocal or one-way, depending on the retailer's needs. For example, Global Sports merchandises and fulfills numerous general merchants' sites, including Kmart, buy.com and iQVC. The rationale: It eases the e-tailer's work of managing hundreds of sporting goods manufacturers and thousands of product SKUs. Other relationships can involve content licensing. Content can be sourced from experts, such as consumer reviews from deja.com and ConsumerReview.com, music information from Muze and electronics content from eTown. Circuitcity.com, Amazon.com and BestBuy.com, respectively, leverage these relationships.
E-tailers also can completely outsource a product category, such as iQVC's use of ArtSelect, which sells artwork online. ArtSelect's products are pulled and the shopping basket is integrated into iQVC's site. Relationships such as these will mushroom in the future, as integration of commerce, content and community becomes standard fare.
Make the site easy to use. Offering numerous categories on one site can spell navigation disaster. General merchandisers need to ensure that their sites are clearly laid out, well-organized and consistent so that consumers can navigate and purchase quickly. Many of the general merchants, including Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target, recently re-crafted their sites' designs, aiming for an optimum purchasing experience.
To make sites easy to use, key links such as customer service, contact information and shopping basket need to be on every single virtual-store page. Product categories need to be easily accessible. Amazon was one of the first e-tailers to introduce tabs into site design, making it easier to display multiple product categories. Recently, however, while Wal-Mart added the tab design, Amazon departed from its tab structure because it offers too many categories to effectively use this navigational structure.
In addition, product pages need to be consistent among categories. Buy.com has designed its site this way, and simply differentiates each product section with a different color. Lastly, sites need to keep their pages clean and uncluttered. Too many links to product and content on one page can be overwhelming to the consumer. Target is one of the more effective general merchant e-tailers in offering a clean, easy-to-navigate home page.
As we look into the future, general merchandise e-tailers need to evolve their technology, product offerings and site experience to offer a personalized, differentiated consumer experience. Decision support tools, such as the personalized purchase recommendations and lists of best-selling products offered by Amazon, will evolve to further enhance the purchasing process. As with any online or offline retailer, the online general merchants' success will be driven by the ability to amass an offering that effectively creates a strong consumer relationship.
• Barrett LaMothe Ladd is a senior retail analyst at Gomez Inc., Lincoln, MA. Reach her at email@example.com.
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Marshall wrote a post about a new startup called OpenDNS today at TechCrunch. OpenDNS requires a fairly easy setting change to your computer or router and in return offers free protection from phishing sites (by not allowing you to go to them), as well as speedier surfing. OpenDNS will make money by serving ads when domain names are mistyped badly (minor mistypes are actually corrected for you). The service itself is free. For more details, see the post.
He gave it a mostly negative review after testing it and talking to a number of people who are experts in this area. He also mentioned, quite correctly, that SiteAdvisor provides some of the same protective features (but siteadvisor does not address the speed issue).
I tested out OpenDNS myself after his post and probably for the first time had a significantly different opinion than him on a product. It does seem to speed up my surfing, which alone makes the product worth using in my opinon. I don’t really care about the phishing protection, since I am unlikely to be fooled by, or even visit, such a site. But many people may find this feature useful.
It’s hard to let someone else express opinions that I may disagree with on the blog that I spent a year building up from scratch. But I also like that Marshall is willing to make controversial calls on new products and back up those calls with intelligent arguments. Different opinions are good.
But I’m right on this one.
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Summertime. Some people have to look at the calendar or wait for somebody on television to tell them so before they know it for a fact. They should know better. It's pretty obvious. The daffodils and tulips have come and gone; the sunsets that were made so flamboyant with the dust of the wheat harvest have returned to their usual glory; there's the faraway rumble of thunder and the flickering of distant lightning most nights; there's a feeling of waiting as if all of nature were readying itself to see who and what will survive the full force of Summer; and there's a small voice saying that it's Wednesday evening and time to go to the concert in the park.
The concerts have always been held in the old bandstand in South Park on Massachusetts Street just on the edge of downtown. It was already South Park in 1863, although it was only a corn field back then. When Quantrell and his men came riding in to murder and burn, the corn was thick and tall enough that it saved a few men from certain death. I suppose that the horsemen were reluctant to ride into the forest of corn. It was early morning, and the tall corn must have been dripping with dew. Besides, the blades of tall corn make tiny cuts in even the toughest hide, and the Missourians were depending on their horses to carry them away when help began to arrive. So a few men were able to hide in the tall corn and so escape the killings. South Park is, in its own unassuming way, a monument to life.
Of course, it didn't stay a corn field for long. They soon planted it in pecan and oak, and the trees were tall and thick-trunked a hundred years later. Folks used to sit over toward Trinity Lutheran Church, where the trees threw a deep shade, and, when the sun had gone down, sweethearts used to drift over to that dark and private corner of the park. It's different now, of course.
The wind didn't seem at all that powerful. It came out of the West in just one gust that tore the hydrangea from the garage wall where I had tied its new growth year after year until it seemed almost ready to bloom; it blew a tall poplar onto Ray Nichol's roof; and it scattered branches along the streets all about. But it wasn't much different from other winds that have come out of the West. Protected as it is on the West by more than half of the town, South Park should have been sheltered as it had been sheltered from the such winds for a century and more. It wasn't though. People went down to look at the oaks and pecans that had been lifted up, roots and all, and laid out neatly side by side on the ground, and they wondered out loud what in the world had been so different about this particular gust of wind.
But they planted new trees and, if my son's grandchildren ever come to Lawrence looking for my grave, they might see South Park as it was when I used to take their great-grandfather to the concerts in the park. There may even be the descendents of the roses that the ladies planted West of the pavilion. It's not very likely that they'll see the pavilion itself, although there might be still be some sort of a pavilion there unless the city and county continue to encroach on the park . For all I know, all they might see is the South Parking Center. If that's what happens, I don't know what they'll do with that old fountain that Teddy Roosevelt dedicated as horse trough a long while back. For that matter, I don't know if there will still be concerts in the park on Wednesday evenings. But that's all in the future, and now is now. It's Summertime, and, on Wednesdays, you can hear a small voice saying that it's time to go to the concert in the park.
Some people begin to gather at about 5:00 for their picnics -- clubs, churches, softball teams, family reunions, and all kinds of other groups. The scent of strawberry ice cream and sweet pickles lingers through the evening, but maybe it's just because some of the young ones have gotten away before having their faces washed. The rest of the crowd begins to come about 7:30. There are a lot of old folks, but there are also couples bringing their infants and toddlers, sweethearts, the retarded and homeless, businessmen meeting their wives, boys and girls with spiky orange or blue hair (or both), girls with hair down to their waist and dressed all in black, farmers with straw hats and faded khaki clothes, and all sorts of other people, all carrying their blankets or folding chairs, or being pushed in their wheelchairs or baby carriages. There are no benches, but no one has every suggested that there should be. The problem with benches is that someone puts down a row of them and there they stay. You can never find an empty seat near whoever it is you would like to chat with, and the benches always seem to be facing forward, as if people didn't care about looking at each other and had come just for the show. But there are no benches and there are not likely to be any benches, so we can forget about them.
By 8:00, the concert is ready to begin, the windows of the nearby jail are opened, and the inmates lean out to listen to the music and wave to their families who have seated themselves three stories below. The musicians have taken their places on the bandstand. The bandstand isn't big, and there are so many who want to play with the band that the musicians are crowded so close that they have to duck when those with the trombones hit a low note. The announcer makes a short speech and a few announcements to which none of the two or three hundred people listen, the musicians tune up, and then begin to play.
Everyone is changing their locations because by now they have seen relatives or old friends, and they want to sit together and talk. Some of the old folks are complaining because their children have placed them facing into the sun, which is now low enough that it will shine through under the trees for the next quarter of an hour. The cheer-leaders from the high school are still selling lemonade and iced tea, although they have forgotten to bring sugar for the tea again, and brownies. Children have begun to complain that they are so hungry that only like a brownie will stay their pains. The brownies make them thirsty of course, and some are soon asking for money to buy lemonade, although most are joining the long lines of children at the water fountains. After their drink or sometimes instead of it, they begin to play tag, running through the crowd and shrieking with laughter.
The evening's music is now well underway, and people walking their dogs or children, or pushing their bikes, their grandmothers, or their children, begin to promenade along the complex of sidewalks that runs through that part of the park. There is a steady murmur as people chat, and an occasional uproar when a couple of the dogs manage to find enough room at the end of their leashes to try and begin fighting. The band members don't mind at all. They're too intent of their playing. Besides, up there on the bandstand, they can't hear anything but their own music.
Every year, they play arrangements from the Music Man, The Sound of Music, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, West Side Story, South Pacific, Oklahoma, and Bye, Bye, Birdy. There are also Rossini overtures, Glinka, Grofe, Brahms, Smetana, Elgar, and others of that sort. Most bands play marches by John Phillip Sousa, and so does ours, but the Lawrence band, for some reason, has always favored the works of the prolific, but relatively unknown, John Fillmore. A few years ago, the band received the National Service Award from the John Fillmore Society, which no one had ever known existed. Even now there are some people who would swear that the Society is composed entirely and anonymously of former members of the Lawrence city band. Every now and then, a guest conductor appears, and the folks are all treated to his own arrangement of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder for tuba, kettle-drums, and saxophone. These are only aberrations that make little change in things over the course of the Summer. Besides, for a number of years, a long time ago, Percy Grainger used to come over from England to lead the Summer concerts in South Park, Lawrence, Kansas. So folks tend to be tolerant, or even appreciative of the strangers who come their way from time to time.
By about 8:30, the sun has disappeared, and a breeze comes through the park. Everyone applauds the arrival of the cool of the evening, and the conductor sometimes takes a bow as if he had personally arranged the event. Although it's been repeated and endless number of times, the gesture always draws an appreciative chuckle for the audience. By this time, most folks have greeted their friends, exchanged the most pressing gossip, told the latest jokes, shown around the newest babies, paraded their dogs and bikes and baby carriages, and are leaning back, content to be where they are. Many of the children and some of the old folks have fallen asleep, and the sweethearts have gone off hand-in-hand, with that dreamy, swaying walk that lovers have. If it's not the Wednesday nearest the Fourth of July and the crowd has not been preparing itself for the 1812 Overture -- with its fireworks, church bells, howitzers, fire-truck klaxons, police car sirens, and general bedlam, thoroughly enjoyed by all, and followed by The Stars and Stripes Forever with its rhythmic clapping of hands, folks have by this time relaxed into a state of reverie. By 9:00, the concert closes. People fold up their chairs and blankets, pick up their sleeping children, gently waken the old folks, and begin to make their way home.
It's always been much the same, except that every year some of the old folks are no longer there, some of last year's sweethearts are seen pushing their babies in new strollers, and some of us find ourselves sitting with our friends, over where the old folks used to sit. Every year the band tries out a new piece or two, usually something from a musical only about ten years or so old. Sometimes a new piece takes root, and one of the old numbers is dropped since even concerts in the park can't last all night long. I was sitting with Don Timmons, an old farmer from east of town, a few years ago, and he was talking about how he was getting too old for things and had decided to put one of his fields into clover. Although he hadn't seeded it, the grains that dropped at the last harvest had been enough to cover the field thick with wheat. Just before the wheat could ripen and seed the field again, he had plowed it under. He said that it was like burying an old friend. Just then, the band was playing its arrangement of "Don't Cry for me, Argentina," and someone said that it was a right pretty piece and that they might make it a regular. Everyone listened with the air of expert music critics and agreed. Don remarked that the band would have to make room for it, somehow. "When they started playing 'Oklahoma,' they stopped playing 'Babes in Toyland,' and, in a few years, no one remembered that they had ever played 'Babes in Toyland'. If you're going to grow something new, you have to plow under something old." He was still thinking about his wheat field.
I was talking with a fellow last year, and I asked him if his place wasn't near the Timmons place. He said that it was and nodded toward a fellow pushing his fifties, surrounded by a flock of children who were probably his grandchildren. "There's Don over there." Young Don is getting to look more like his father every year. What made me think of the Timmonses in the first place was that the band was playing "Don't Cry for me, Argentina." It had become a regular fixture after all, but I don't remember what they had dropped to make room for it.
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Yeşil Türbe or Green Tomb is the Mausoleum of Sultan Mehmed I:
Yeşil Türbe, the Green Tomb, is one of Bursa’s most distinctive landmarks. Standing on top of a hill in the eastern Yeşil neighborhood in Bursa, this hexagonal green structure is the mausoleum of Mehmed I, the fifth Ottoman sultan.
Yeşil Türbe was built in 1421 by Murad II, the son and successor of Mehmed I. The mausoleum was designed by Haci Ivaz Pasha who also designed the Yesil Mosque next to it. The mausoleum takes its name from the green-blue tiles that cover the external walls of the mausoleum. These are mostly replacement tiles as an earthquake in 1855 damaged the majority of the originals.
Yesil Türbe Features
We enter the Green Tomb through a portal with a beautiful half-umbrella vault over it. Floral designs made up of Iznik blue and yellow tiles, together with some Islamic inscriptions, decorate this portal. Also at this entrance is a pair of the most beautifully carved walnut doors.
Inside the mausoleum, the sarcophagus of Mehmed I stands on a base in the centre of the room. Covered in exquisite Iznik blue and green tiles, it is richly adorned in Koranic inscriptions. The seven other sarcophagi nearby are those of his sons and daughters and a nursemaid.
Another beautiful feature of Yeşil Türbe is its intricately decorated mihrab. On the lower section, the mosaic tiles depict a lamp hanging above a pot with lush flowers. Two long candles stand on each side, inscribed with the names of Allah and Mohammad.
See more photos of Yeşil Türbe at Travelsignposts Bursa photo gallery.
Yeşil Cadessi, Bursa
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The stress of life
Professor Mark Jackson University of Exeter
Since the late nineteenth century, stress has emerged as a popular means of explaining the onset of both physical and psychological disorders. Yet the definition of stress remains problematic and the manner in which stress might cause disease is still undetermined. This presentation will trace the history of stress in the twentieth century, exploring scientific theories, clinical formulations and personal experiences of stress and stress-related diseases.
The female malady? The relationship between madness, psychiatry and gender
Royal Edinburgh Hospital Bicentenary Lecture
Dr Gayle Davis University of Edinburgh
This talk will explore the relationship between madness, psychiatry and gender over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, using the Royal Edinburgh Asylum as a case study. It will outline the ways in which psychiatrists linked different types of mental illness to their male and – in particular – female patients, and what values lay behind those differing diagnoses. The talk will also consider why mental illness has been characterised historically as the ‘female malady’, and how accurate this characterisation appears to be within the context of Edinburgh psychiatry.
The evolution of controlled trials before the middle of the twentieth century
Sir Iain Chalmers Editor, James Lind Library
Contrary to widely believed assertions, the concept of unbiased creation of treatment comparison groups in clinical trials was not ‘a seminal statistical idea’, but was rooted in the much older idea that fair tests of treatments involve comparing like with like, achieved at least 200 years ago using alternate allocation to treatment comparison groups. Strict alternation deals with selection bias as effectively as strict random allocation, but alternation is more likely to result in foreknowledge of allocations among those recruiting research participants. The historical importance of the iconic MRC streptomycin trial published in 1948 is not its use of random sampling numbers to generate the allocation schedule. Rather, it is its clear description of the precautions taken to conceal the schedule, and so secure unbiased allocation. Several hundred reports of controlled trials published before 1948 have already been identified. However, without multilingual, collaborative research the history of the evolution of the controlled trial, a crucially important technology in medical research, will remain seriously incomplete.
Wurst than the other sausages: food, fear and public health in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Professor Keir Waddington Cardiff University
The paper combines history of science, food and culture and applies these to Anglo-German relations and perceptions by examining how between 1850 and 1914 the German sausage was used as a metaphor for the German nation. Alarm about what went into German sausages was both part of wider concerns about food safety and formed part of a growing strand of popular anti-German sentiment, which drew on increasing insecurity about Britain’s position on the world stage and the perceived economic threat Germany and German immigrants presented.
Voices of the mad: patients’ letters from the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, 1873-1908
12th December 2012 Royal Edinburgh Hospital Bicentenary Lecture
Dr Allan Beveridge Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline
The Royal Edinburgh Asylum is fortunate in having a very rich archive of its history, including an extensive collection of patient accounts of their mental struggles and experiences of the institution. This paper focuses on the period when the renowned psychiatrist Thomas Clouston was Superintendent. Drawing on over a thousand patient letters, it examines the lives of inmates: their feelings of being unjustly confined, and the tedium of institutional life, but also the relationships which were struck up with fellow-patients and staff. The paper looks at patients’ descriptions of their mental worlds: of being tormented by voices, plagued by electricity and X-Ray machines, condemned to execution, and coming into untold wealth.
Animals and their pathologists in London, 1846-1900
Dr Abigail Woods Imperial College, London
This paper uses the records of the Pathological Society of London, a key institution for the advancement of pathology, to reveal the place and purpose of animals within human pathological anatomy during the later 19th century. While animals, both wild and domestic, accounted for less than 5% of the specimens exhibited at their meetings, they were nonetheless regarded as legitimate subjects of pathological research by doctors. Their routes into PSL meetings illustrate the ubiquity of animals within Victorian society, the professional and social settings in which Victorian doctors encountered them, and the networks through which they were acquired for pathological purposes.
The Piano Plague: The Nineteenth-Century Medical Campaign Against Female
Dr James Kennaway Durham University
Although playing the piano was often seen as a thoroughly respectable pastime for young ladies,
for much of the nineteenth century there was serious medical discussion about the dangers of
excessive music in girls’ education. Many of the period’s leading psychiatrists and gynaecologists
argued that music could over-stimulate the female nervous system, playing havoc with
vulnerable nerves and reproductive organs, and warned of the consequences of music lessons
on the developing bodies of teenage girls. This talk will examine some of the theories relating to
this medical panic and consider the motivations behind it.
Is there such a thing as "Scottish Medicine?"
Dr David Hamilton University of St Andrews
Medical practice and medical education in Scotland have shown distinctive features from
earliest times, and these distinctions may in fact be increasing. The reasons for these differences
will be explored, notably in relation to attitudes to scholarship and support for the common
George III and the Porphyria Myth: Diagnostic Implications for
Professor Timothy Peters University of Birmingham
Considerable doubt has been cast on the claim that King George
III suffered from acute porphyria.
The alternate diagnosis of recurrent acute mania is much more in
keeping with his clinical
features, but historians and their adherents still claim that suggestive
features of acute porphyria
in some of his ancestors, notably King James VI/I, support a diagnosis
of porphyria in George
III. Assessment of his detailed and complex clinical history and
features using the computerised
diagnostic aid SimulConsult provides no support for porphyria in
James but indicates a quite
unexpected diagnosis that may help to explain the King’s
medical condition and psychological
Vesalius and the Canon of the Human Body
Dr Sachiko Kusukawa University of Cambridge
Andreas Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica
(1543) is a landmark publication in the history of medicine,
well known for its illustrations. Yet, the actual function of these
illustrations within Vesalius own project of classical anatomy
has not always been appreciated. In this talk, Dr Kusukawa examines
the different - and often ingenious - ways in which Vesalius used
anatomical images in his book.
After Burke and Hare: Procuring Corpses to Dissect in Scotland
Dr Helen MacDonald University of Melbourne
Grave-robbing and the Burke and Hare murders have become anatomy’s
enduring reference points, but during the nineteenth century most
bodies were stealthily acquired by medical schools through other
means. After the 1832 Anatomy Act a distinctive pattern of corpse
procurement was creatively forged in Scotland, through alliances
between the country’s anatomists, anatomy inspectors, local
law makers, and the men who were in charge of hospitals, poor houses
and lunatic asylums. This system was one that the English schools
could only envy.
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The Strange History of
Professor Mary Fissell The Johns Hopkins University
Aristotle's Masterpiece is neither a masterpiece nor by Aristotle.
It was the best-selling popular book about reproduction from its
first publication in 1684 all the way into the 1930s. It offers
us a rare window into plebeian sexuality, popular medical books,
and reading practices.
What Killed Burns – and What did Not?
Emeritus David Purdie Hull & York
University Medical School
The poet and songwriter Robert Burns died in 1796, aged 37. There
was no post-mortem and
hence no tissue diagnosis. Detractors, commencing with unsigned
obituaries, assigned the cause
firmly to alcoholism. This paper, illustrated by images from the
National Archives, will examine
the evidence for a range of alternative diagnoses
The war against tobacco: from the lessons of General Sun Tzu
to the leadership of Sir John Crofton
Professor Judith Mackay Senior Advisor, World Lung Foundation
Sir John Crofton (1912-2009) was among the early pioneers to recognize
the dangers of tobacco.
Ahead of his time, he combined the science with influential political
and health advocacy,
urging strong policy, legislative and tax measures. With characteristic
vigour, he planted seeds of
knowledge about tobacco and tobacco control measures globally.
Health professionals might well
study Chinese General Sun Tzu’s “Art of War,” written
in the 6th century BC, which has long
been regarded as a classic work on probing the enemy, military
strategy, tactics and logistics, full
of sound instruction, which has great relevance to today’s
war against tobacco.
The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Art: From Ancient Greece
to the Present Day
Professor Emeritus Alan Emery Edinburgh and
The doctor-patient relationship has changed considerably over
the centuries. There have often
been cyclical changes: diagnostic improvements leading to increased
respect but often followed
by disillusionment if there is subsequently no effective treatment.
The relationship is especially
exemplified in works of art because, as John Berger has emphasised, ‘No
other kind of relic or text
from the past can offer such a direct testimony about the world
which surrounded other people at other
Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy (1808-1889):
Cholera, Cannabis and Communications
Dr Neil MacGillivray, Honorary Post Doctoral
Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archeology, University
Poems on Plagues: Thomas Sprat and the Later History of the Plague of
Professor Helen King University of Reading
Iain Milne, Sibbald Librarian
Edinburgh’s Role in Thyroid Hormone Therapy
Dr Anthony Toft Former Consultant Physician, Royal
Infirmary, Edinburgh and Former President, Royal College of
Physicians of Edinburgh
Alexander Morison’s Scottish Mental Disease Practice,
Dr Mike Barfoot, University of Edinburgh
Away with the Fairies. What Happened to Arthur Conan Doyle’s
father, Charles Altamont Doyle?
Dr Allan Beveridge, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline
Anatomical Illustrations of the 16th Century: Vesalius & Geminus
Professor Iain Donaldson, Royal College of Physicians
of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh
Sir Robert Sibbald’s Shifting Reputation: Five Centuries
of Iconography, Bibliography and Mythology
Mr Iain Milne, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Changing Childbirth Nineteenth-Century Style: Primary Texts
for the Medicalisation of Childbirth 1850-1935
Dr Alison Nuttall, Independent Scholar
The Madness of King George III: A Re-Examination of the Records
Professor Timothy Peters, University of Birmingham
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Thu November 8, 2012
Army Corps projects record low water levels for Lakes Michigan and Huron
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron could hit record low water levels in the next six months. That’s according to a projection by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are functionally one body of water – they’re connected at the Straits of Mackinac. They’ve been below their long-term average for more than a decade.
John Allis is the Chief of the Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology Office with the Army Corp’s Detroit District, and he talked with me about this for today's Environment Report.
"Really, it’s just a product of Mother Nature. More often than not we’re seeing drier months and lower supplies of water than we are seeing those wetter months. Anytime we seem to make a gain against the long term average, we see another stretch of dry weather that brings the water levels back down."
He says unfortunately, we don't have a clear picture of how climate change might affect water levels.
"And that’s not for a lack of effort from a lot of scientists. There was recently an International Upper Great Lakes Study – that was a study commissioned by the International Joint Commission, and they spent a lot of effort looking at different climate change scenarios and seeing how that would impact water levels in the Great Lakes. A lot of what they concluded was that it was still difficult to tell which way it could go. I think previous studies suggested a higher chance of lower water levels in the Great Lakes, but their information seemed to suggest that it’s really up in the air."
There’s also been some controversy around dredging by the Army Corps in the St. Clair River in the 1960s. Allis acknowledged that those dredging projects and previous projects on the St. Clair River affected the water levels in the Michigan-Huron system.
"They caused a permanent 10-16 inch drop on Michigan-Huron, and that’s always going to be there since the 1960s. But it’s important to point out that since the 1960s, Michigan-Huron have both set record highs as well. So, it’s not something that’s going to guarantee levels are always going to be low on Michigan-Huron."
He says these extremely low water levels have been tough on recreational boaters and commercial shippers.
"Especially for commercial shipping, that they have to light load their boats, they can’t carry as much in a load. Rec boaters we hear a lot from them as they’re having trouble getting in and out of some of the different harbors and marinas on the Great Lakes. Certainly it has impacted a lot of stakeholder groups, having water levels this low."
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Thalassemia is a genetic blood disorder. People with Thalassemia disease are not able to make enough hemoglobin, which causes severe anemia. Hemoglobin is found in red blood cells and carries oxygen to all parts of the body. When there is not enough hemoglobin in the red blood cells, oxygen cannot get to all parts of the body. Organs then become starved for oxygen and are unable to function properly.
There are two primary types of Thalassemia disease: Alpha Thalassemia disease and Beta Thalassemia disease. Beta Thalassemia Major (also called Cooley's Anemia) is a serious illness. Symptoms appear in the first two years of life and include paleness of the skin, poor appetite, irritability, and failure to grow. Proper treatment includes routine blood transfusions and other therapies.
There are two main types of Alpha Thalassemia disease. Alpha Thalassemia Major is a very serious disease in which severe anemia begins even before birth. Pregnant women carrying affected fetuses are themselves at risk for serious pregnancy and delivery complications. Another type of Alpha Thalassemia is Hemoglobin H disease. There are varying degrees of Hemoglobin H disease.
Thalassemia is a complex group of diseases that are relatively rare in the United States but common in Mediterranean regions and South and Southeast Asia. Worldwide, there are 350,000 births per year with serious hemoglobinopathies (blood disorders). In the United States, as a consequence of immigration patterns, occurrence of thalassemia disorders is increasing.
The thalassemias are a diverse group of genetic blood diseases characterized by absent or decreased production of normal hemoglobin, resulting in a microcytic anemia of varying degree. The thalassemias have a distribution concomitant with areas where P. falciparum malaria is common. The alpha thalassemias are concentrated in Southeast Asia, Malaysia, and southern China. The beta thalassemias are seen primarily in the areas surrounding Mediterranean Sea, Africa and Southeast Asia. Due to global migration patterns, there has been an increase in the incidence of thalassemia in North America in the last ten years, primarily due to immigration from Southeast Asia.
In the normal adult, hemoglobin A, which is composed of two alpha and two beta globins (a2b2), is the most prevalent, comprising about 95% of all hemoglobin. Two minor hemoglobins also occur: hemoglobin A2, composed of two alpha and two delta globins (a2d2) comprises 2-3.5% of hemoglobin, while hemoglobin F, composed of two alpha and two gamma globins (a2g2), comprises less than 2% of hemoglobin.
Hemoglobin F, or fetal hemoglobin, is produced by the fetus in utereo and until about 48 weeks after birth. Hgb F has a high oxygen-affinity in order to attract oxygen from maternal blood and deliver it to the fetus. After birth, the production of adult hemoglobin rapidly increases and fetal hemoglobin production drops off.
The genes controlling globin production are on chromosome 16 (alpha a globin genes) and chromosome 11 (beta b, gamma g, and delta d genes). As seen in the diagram, the alpha globin molecule concentration is rather stable in fetal and adult life, because it is needed for both fetal and adult hemoglobin production. The beta globin appears early in fetal life at low levels and begins to rapidly increase after 30 weeks gestational age, reaching a maximum about 30 weeks postnatally. The gamma globin molecule reaches a high level early in fetal life at about 6 weeks and begins to decline about 30 weeks gestational age, reaching a low level about 48 weeks postgestational age. The delta globin appears at a low level at about 30 weeks gestational age and maintains a low profile throughout life.
In the thalassemia patient, a mutation or deletion of the genes that control globin production occurs. This leads to a decreased production of the corresponding globin chains and an abnormal hemoglobin ratio (a:non-a). This abnormal ratio leads to decreased synthesis of hemoglobin and the expression of thalassemia. The globin that is produced in normal amounts winds up in excess and forms red cell aggregates or inclusions. These aggregates become oxidized and damage the cell membrane, leading either to hemolysis, ineffective erythropoiesis, or both. The quantity and properties of these globin chain aggregates determine the characterstics and severity of the thalassemia.
Beta thalassemia results in an excess of alpha globins, which leads to the formation of alpha globin tetramers (a4) that accumulate in the erythroblast (immature red blood cell). These aggregates are very insoluble and precipitation interferes with erythropoiesis, cell maturation and cell membrane function, leading to ineffective erythropoiesis and anemia.
Alpha thalassemia results in an excess of beta globins, which leads to the formation of beta globin tetramers (b4) called hemoglobin H. These tetramers are more stable and soluble, but under special circumstances can lead to hemolysis, generally shortening the life span of the red cell. Conditions of oxidant stress cause Hgb H to precipitate, interfering with membrane function and leading to red cell breakage. Hemoglobin H-Constant Spring disease is a more severe form of this hemolytic disorder. The most severe thalassemia is alpha thalassemia major, in which a fetus produces no alpha globins, which is generally incompatible with life.
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You know the way your phone shows a full battery for ages and ages, then as soon as you make or take a call it throws a double six and shuts down? Or the way your mp3 player drops towards empty while playing, then suddenly climbs up to almost-full again as soon as you press stop? Annoying, isn't it? But, according to a report …
Good for devices with non-servicable batteries
I can see how this would be very useful in a device where the battery is never/rarely removed (say, an iPod or mobile phone), as the device would always have a good idea of the initial state of the battery.
It seems this innovation still wouldn't solve the annoyance of being told half-way through your Wii sports session that the Wiimote batteries you thought were full are in fact empty though. At least the readout would be slightly more accurate, but I assume the estimates would depend on the device knowing what type of AA battery (alkaline or otherwise) you'd popped in.
And about time too!
Now if they could just do something about the conspiracy to render older devices useless by discontinuing batteries for them, then I'd REALLY be impressed...
About frigging time!
Voltage depletion is a known phenomena, aka "memory effect" (which is not in reality somthing different): The battery can output (for example) 1.2 volts, and the power management system cries foul at 1 volt. This is ok, but as the battery ages, the battery voltage will drop from 1.2 to 0.9 in 5-10 minutes, then sustain 0.95 volts for the next hour... and this is within the power supply criteria for the device being powered.. but too late, beep beep, low batt and shutdown...
I remember playing with the batteries on my first luggable laptop (386 SX 16 with 2 mb of Ram and 40 mb hard disk...): After a full charge, the portable would die with a low-batt warning after 5-7 minutes, but I could run both filaments in a 50 watt H4 headlight bulb hard-wired into the battery terminals for a further 20 minutes before starting to noticably dim, then 50 minutes dim but usable light (for reading in my bedroom), and 20 more minutes as a red glowing filament before fully empying the battery. With foresight, I probably helped destroy battery this way (deep discharge is not a good idea), but it seemed a good idea at the time to fully discharge the cells - and after playing this game for a few cycles, I managed to get a 30-40 minutes of use out of the battery pack, as opposed to the 5-7 minutes runtime beforehand...
So, about time that someone made a decent battery sensor, and now all is missing is some decent power management software to go with it.
sorry for being slow here but isn't this something Sony's Camcorders have done for years?
"Built-in Microprocessor communicates with camera, and accurately indicates remaining battery time in minutes. "
Current versus impedance?
Someone check my physics here. A battery gives direct, not alternating, current; hence, measuring impedance is just measuring resistance. The current flowing through a circuit is voltage divided by resistance.
So how is measuring the current and voltage any different from measuring the impedance and voltage? (Aside from the method you use, of course - I'm referring to the tangible benefits.)
@daniel - deep discharge
deep discarge is a Good Thing for Ni-Cd cells, which have a significant memory effect... so go ahead if you're still using that '386
H,mmm. Deep discharge of Ni-Cad BATTERIES, is definitely a bad idea. The capacity of the cells in such a battery tend to vary somewhat in capacity, and on deep discharge at least one of them will be driven into reverse charging by the remaining cells. The back charged cell will be quickly destroyed. This was the usual fate of early portable (?) PC's. the owner was determined to get the last scrap of power from the thing and was soon complaining that the battery life had dropped to next to nothing. The manufacturers replied to this criticism, by arranging to cut off the power before the voltage dropped to the point where any one of the cells output dropped to zero voltage.
Measuring the impedance of the battery usually means measuring not the voltage and current (which gives the impedance of the load, not the battery) but the internal resistance of the battery which tends to rise as it discharges. So you would watch the drop between open-circuit and on-load voltage and combining that with knowledge of the characteristics of the battery, divine more about the state of charge than you could know otherwise. To be really smart, that could be watched with time and the battery characteristics learned by observation rather than programmed-in.
And yes, with DC, impedance is the same as resistance but since with AC it's not, it's more generic (and saves thinking) to talk about impedance unless you want to be very specific.
What's the big deal?
My laptop batteries - from Macs, but I assume the same applies Windows-side - have had perfect charge readings for at least half a decade. I've always assumed that the fact phones don't show such reliable readings was due to the manufacturers cheaping out on components, not because the tech wasn't there.
My Philips shaver tell me exactly in minutes how long the battery has left. I've always wanted a phone that did the same.
We had this debate years ago at work,two of us bought identical new Bosch cordless drills. The place I bought mine from advised deep discharge before a recharge, my mate was told not to. 5 years later mines still going strong (batteries are recharged on average twice a day), and outlasted the drill itself. His gave up the ghost after two years. Most likely its because you don't actually get a total discharge, but the memory effect on ni-cd's will kill them quicker
Impedance, in a DC world, is resistance, yes. The exact internal resistance, often called source impedance, is a pretty good measure of the state of charge of a particular type and size of battery.
This new method won't be perfect, but it has good potential to be a lot better.
Nothing really new here
Proper coulomb counting technology has been around for at least ten years and is commonly used in most laptops, PDAs, high end phones etc. These do require good testing and calibration firmware but unfortunately this is often not done well.
A phone won't ever get as close as a phillips. Not even an iPhone. Don't believe the hype!
....will it work with the NoPoPo pee-powered batteries?
One could model a cell or a battery of cells as a perfect constant voltage source with a variable series resister and large parallel resister. The series resistor value get larger as more power drawn, or as the state of charge drops. The varying resistance, then, would be called the 'impedance'. I suspect TI's trick is to asses the instantaneous slope of the function and relate that to "remaining time".
deep discharge and the memory effect
First off, there is a difference between "deep discharge" and "drained dead." If you drain a ni-cd cell completey dead, you are decreasing it's life, Not a lot, but the effect is cumulative. Worse yet, if you have many cells in series forming a higher voltage string, one cell is likely to drain off before the others, and may develop a negative voltage ("cell reversal"). This can kill a cell very quickly (you actually boil the magic gasses out of the emergency vent), and that's that - you now have a dead cell, and a useless battery that will soon be dead if you don't do something about the dead cell (usually uneconomical for small handheld batteries).
However, if you have control circuitry which will cut power before this happens, a deep discharge is recommended by many ni-cd (formerly most/all) manufacturers in order to prevent memory effects. However, it should be noted that true "ni-cd memory" is actually a very rare phenomenon, only seen when a cell is consistently used within a very small percentage of it's capacity. Far more common, and often mistakenly identified as "ni-cd memory" is simple voltage depression due to overcharging and age. This is the same cell aging issue mentioned in this article, and not one that is limited to ni-cd chemistry. Contributing to the confusion is that deep discharge and recharge may help recover some of that lost capacity, so the "folk remedy" for ni-cd memory is the same as a real remedy for the far more common problem of voltage depression.
Finally, ni-cd cells that sit a long time can form conductive crystals called dendrits internally that eventually short out the electrodes. Regular drain and charge cycles will dramatically slow dendrite growth. Once dendrites have reached a certain state, they can be sometimes be "cleared" by hard charging the cell, but it's a temporary fix at best, as the crystal forms again fairly quickly. A cell showing signs of dendrite growth (failure to hold a charge for) should be considered EOL or near EOL even if temporarily recovered.
- Ni-cd memory might as well be a myth for the typical consumer.
- Voltage depression, however, is real.
- Deep discharge can be good, but isn't needed everyday
- Drained completely is BAD
- Regular use is good (@Arclight, I'm looking at you)
- Once damaged, there is no real way to fix a cell
Nicad 'Memory Effect' though misunderstood is very real.
It's another side effect of the cold crystallisation that occurs in NiCd cells.
If a cell is rarely discharged below a certain point, the deeper parts of the plates gradualy change from amorphous to crystalline metal.
If you then try to discharge the cell at anything like high current, it appears to go flat at it's 'usual' discharge level, as the crystalline metal is much less reactive than amorphous and the internal resistance of the cell gets much higher.
In this case, a deep discharge (2.2 ohm resistor across the cell & leave for a day or two) will completely recover the capacity of the cell.
Note that the 'dendrite' crystals are both prevented and destroyed by long-term trickle charging, if you can get the cell charged in the first place (high current 'zaps' help).
Carbon Footprint ?
So if I am reading all the techie bits right it would seem that keeping devices on charge and running them low once in a while is the best option if you want to maximise battery life.
My question is therefore:
'How does this affect the current push to reduce Carbon Footprints'?
I mean, is it better to keep things charging and therefore use more electricity or to let batteries die more often and therefore have to spend more energy on producing new ones (and recycling old ones)?
Getting the power chip to measure Impedance of the battery is not new. My company has been developing a battery powered device with one of these chips for at least a year now.
It can also detect the type of battery attached and adjust the battery charging cycle accordingly. So it can take alkaline, ni-cad ni-mh, etc.
The technology is there and available for hardware developers, if only they'd use it.
laptops and mobiles
Battery indication reliability isn’t so much of a problem for laptops/camcorders as it is for mobiles or MP3 players. The former don’t have significantly fluctuating loads, but the latter do (paused, display lamps off, not in a call). Hence a typical charge remaining indicator can easily be fooled when employed in those devices, but they are working in favourable conditions when used for laptops/camcorders so here they are of course more reliable.
The better indicators store the previous loaded voltage level so you are not fooled by the EMF when you first activate the device.
I wonder if this new system will give an accurate assessment of remaining charge without itself significantly draining the battery – well you can’t measure the impedance without taking current.
Hm... at least my HP Pavilion laptop battery suffered from the same evil, my solution was to use Linux, as Windows Power management would insist on shutting down at 5% no matter what I put on the settings. Which sucked when the battery started to die on me: I had about half an hour of actual charge, but XP insisted on hibernating.
Of course, now that charge is in the order of 10 minutes ... or less. APIC shows me only two values: 100% or 0%.
"A phone won't ever get as close as a phillips." Not even a Motorola Razor?
who uses NiCd batteries?
Just how many devices use Ni-Cads these days? Manufacturers have gone over to Li-Ion mainly fpr safety reasons but also for density reasons (and possibly for replacement battery sales!)
Most devices use Li-Ion or NiMH. These have very different characteristics.
The biggest is that of internal resistance. This gets larger with age (and temperature) and is a big problem in high current applications such as laptops. They have no memory effect.
Even though an old Li-Ion battery is fully charged, it cannot deliver enough current due to high internal resistance. This gives very misleading results for remaining time and is a big problem for laptop smart batteries that are over a year old.
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Printing and Packaging industry outlines path for growth of sector
The nine-member team of professionals that constitute the Printing and Packaging Industry Council (PPIC) have outlined a clear and committed path for the growth of the sector in T&T says its chairman Clayton Najab.
Certified courses are to be offered at the University of T&T John Donaldson Technical Institute to bolster the necessary skill set, now in short supply in this area. The council has also expressed a desire to expand a programme in plastic extrusion now being conducted at select secondary schools across this country.
Council officials are reporting to faculties that troubled teens exposed to this programme were scoring exceptionally high in the execution of their tasks and demonstrating a newfound level of discipline. That’s not where it ends, however, as workshops focusing on packaging ideas, maintenance and training were being held to better certify existing practitioners.
Najab said the sector was already one of seven priority industries identified for business development, expansion and job creation possibilities by Government and this was ideal as printing and packing already had the capability and competitive advantage on which to build.
He cited a six-year-old report prepared by professionals in the sector and submitted to the Patrick Manning-led government. Najab said the proposal which outlined a five-year strategic action plan was accepted by the then government. It contained recommendations in three main areas: alliances for co-operation, competitiveness programmes, market research and product development.
“In order to achieve these objectives, a key recommendation was made which was to establish a Printing and Packaging Industry Council for enhancing the sector’s competitiveness.
The council comprised nine members—chosen from a variety of sectors—a chairman, vice-chairman and seven members from the printing, packaging and plastics industries, the Business Development Company (BDC) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The PPIC works closely with the BDC which is the implementation agency of the strategic plan and has industry specialist and a project co-ordinator as members of the council,” he said.
Using the information now available, Najab said the PPIC hoped to better sensitise the local industry of the need to gear itself up for the new and emerging challenges, trends and technologies as digital print comes into focus.
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Brightness variations of Sun-like stars: the mystery deepens
A giant star swells and shrinks, becoming brighter and dimmer in a regular pattern. However, one third of these stars show an unexplained additional periodic variation.
December 7, 2009
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December 7, 2009
Born from clouds of gas and dust, stars like our Sun spend most of their lifetime slowly burning their primary nuclear fuel, hydrogen, into the heavier element helium. After leading this bright and shiny life for several billion years, their fuel is almost exhausted and they start swelling, pushing the outer layers away from what has turned into a small and very hot core. These "middle-aged" stars become enormous, hence cool and red - red giants. All red giants exhibit a slow oscillation in brightness due to their rhythmic "breathing" in and out, and one third of them are also affected by additional slower and mysterious changes in their luminosity. After this rapid and tumultuous phase of their later life, these stars do not end in dramatic explosions, but die peacefully as planetary nebulae, blowing out everything but a tiny remnant, known as a white dwarf.
Photo by ESO/S. Steinhöfel
An extensive study made with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) deepens a long-standing mystery in the study of stars similar to the Sun. Unusual year-long variations in the brightnesses of about one third of all Sun-like stars during the latter stages of their lives still remain unexplained. During the past few decades, astronomers have offered many possible explanations, but the new observations contradict them all and deepen the mystery. The search for a suitable interpretation is on.
"Astronomers are left in the dark, and for once, we do not enjoy it," said Christine Nicholls from Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia. "We have obtained the most comprehensive set of observations to date for this class of Sun-like stars, and they clearly show that all the possible explanations for their unusual behavior just fail."
The mystery investigated by the team dates back to the 1930s and affects about a third of Sun-like stars in our Milky Way and other galaxies. All stars with masses similar to our Sun become, towards the end of their lives, red, cool, and extremely large just before retiring as white dwarfs. Also known as red giants, these elderly stars exhibit strong periodic variations in their luminosity over timescales up to a couple of years.
"Such variations are thought to be caused by what we call 'stellar pulsations'," said Nicholls. "Roughly speaking, the giant star swells and shrinks, becoming brighter and dimmer in a regular pattern. However, one third of these stars show an unexplained additional periodic variation on even longer timescales — up to five years."
To find the origin of this secondary feature, astronomers monitored 58 stars in our galactic neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud, over two and a half years. They acquired spectra using the high resolution FLAMES/GIRAFFE spectrograph on ESO's VLT and combined them with images from other telescopes, achieving a collection of the properties of these variable stars.
Sets of data like the one collected by Nicholls and her colleagues often offer guidance on how to solve a cosmic puzzle by narrowing down the possible explanations proposed by theoreticians. In this case, however, the observations are incompatible with all the previously conceived models and re-open an issue that has been thoroughly debated. Thanks to this study, astronomers are now aware of their own "ignorance" — a genuine driver of the knowledge-seeking process.
"The newly gathered data show that pulsations are an extremely unlikely explanation for the additional variation," said team leader Peter Wood. "Another possible mechanism for producing luminosity variations in a star is to have the star itself move in a binary system. However, our observations are strongly incompatible with this hypothesis, too."
The team found from further analysis that whatever the cause of these unexplained variations is, it also causes the giant stars to eject mass either in clumps or as an expanding disc. "A Sherlock Holmes is needed to solve this very frustrating mystery," said Nicholls.
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The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been widely used in enterprise networks to effectively manage systems, network devices, and networks. The widespread use of SNMP has raised many issues relating to managing systems and networks. One of the benefits of SNMP is how quickly solutions may be created to support the increasing numbers of networking components and applications.
Within SNMP networks, the number of entities (systems, components, and applications) that need to be managed is growing rapidly. There is a need to respond to the industry's demand for more flexible and dynamic management of multiple devices.
The initial network management solution, that is based on SNMP, allowed developers to create one monolithic agent per system/device listening on a single port (port 161). It was soon discovered that this SNMP solution had many constraints and was not flexible enough to effectively manage all the devices necessary.
New technology was needed to produce multiple agents by different people, that could manage different components and applications separately within a device. This resulted in the new extensible agent technology or Master/subagent technology. Based on this technology, Sun provides a solution named Solstice Enterprise Agent (SEA).
The agents consist of Master Agent and subagents. The Master Agent receives the SNMP-based management requests from the managers and sends responses to these management requests. The responses are sent after retrieving the appropriate values from the respective subagents. The subagents provide management of different components based on Management Information Based (MIBs or MIFs) specifically designed for components/applications.
The Enterprise Agent also allows you to integrate and use SNMP-based legacy agents.
In subsequent chapters, the roles of the Master Agent and subagents are discussed in detail.
The SNMP based component of the SEA product consists of various components.
Figure 1-1 illustrates the architecture of the SEA.
The following is a description of each of the components associated with the SEA product.
The Master Agent listens on port 161.
Subagents are zero or more processes that have access to the management information and provide manageability to various applications/components within a system. These subagents interact with the Master Agent using SNMP. These subagents do not interact with the managers directly.
The Software Development Toolkit has multiple components. It includes agent/subagent libraries, a MIB compiler, and example subagents. The MIB compiler parses a MIB and creates stub files. The stub files consist of functions that you modify and enhance appropriately to provide manageability of the respective component or application.
Legacy SNMP Agents are SNMP-based and work as monolithic entities in a system. The Enterprise Agent allows the integration of legacy SNMP agents. The legacy agents are those agents already in released products from Sun or other companies.
The Enterprise Agent technology also allows you to integrate DMI 2.0 functionality. This is accomplished through the mapper, that acts as a subagent. The mapper receives requests from the Master Agent and converts them into appropriate DMI requests, that are then sent to the DMI Service Provider. When the mapper receives the response back from the DMI Service Provider, it converts this response into the SNMP response and forwards it to the Manager through the Master Agent.
A subtree is indicated by a single oid. The Master Agent has no understanding of what this subtree is without any MIB specification. The subtree may actually be an entire MIB (e.g., 'host'), a full instance (e.g., hrDeviceDescr.42), or may not even be a subtree named in any MIB specification.
Dispatching is the communication of a management request from the Master Agent to one or more subagents. Dispatching is performed according to the Master Agent's current view of registered subtrees, and an explicitly stated algorithm.
Additional terms are described in this guide's glossary.
The Master Agent receives SNMP requests from the system managers and sends responses to these requests, after determining appropriate values from the subagents. The subagents provide management of different components based on the Management Information Base (MIB) specifically designed for such components/applications. Each subagent, when invoked dynamically, registers with the Master Agent. During registration, it informs the Master Agent of the MIB subtree it manages. For more information, refer to Chapter 3, SNMP-Based Master/Subagenton page 3-1.
The SEA technology provides a software development kit that allows you to create, release, and install subagents. Additionally, the SEA allows you to integrate and use SNMP-based legacy agents.
The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is a set of interfaces and a service provider that mediate between management applications and components residing in a system.The DMI is a free-standing interface that is not tied to any particular operating system or management process.
Sun provides DMI based functionality for management of the Sun platforms (hardware and software) and software applications running on these platforms. The DMI subagent is one type of subagent included in the SEA product. By using DMI, you may manage various elements within most systems (for example, PCs, workstations, routers, hubs, and other network objects).
A format for describing management information (MIF)
A Service Provider entity
Two sets of APIs
An interface between management applications and the Service Provider
An interface between the Service Provider and component instrumentation
A set of services (using ONC/RPC) for facilitating remote communication
For more information, refer to Chapter 5, Using DMI.
The Master Agent acts as the primary interface between the network manager and the subagents. The requests received from the manager are parsed by the Master Agent. If necessary, the original requests are broken into multiple requests. The original request is distributed by the Master Agent based on the manageability provided by each subagent. The request is then forwarded to the appropriate subagents, which provide a response to each request. After collecting all the responses from each subagent, the final response is sent to the network manager.
Only one Master Agent presides over the Master/subagent model. The Master Agent acts as a request scheduler and dispatcher for all subscribed subagents. In addition, the subagents send traps to the Master Agent, that are then forwarded to the manager.
Figure 1-2 illustrates the Master Agent as it relates to the architecture of SEA.
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An Archdruid's ExperiencesDownload the MP3 (4.5MB):
The former-Archdruid Meirion (Meirion Evans) (1999-2002) describes the nature of the work and his memories of the period with Catrin Stevens:
Well, if you've won either the Crown, or the Literary Prize or the Chair, then you are qualified, so to speak, to become an Archdruid and there's what we call the Eisteddfod (Gorsedd) Board which is a number of people who are representative of the whole Gorsedd movement and the Gorsedd officials, and you are nominated by members of the Board and if there's more than one nominated, then there's an election within the Board. And I was fortunate enough to win that election in 1998.
Catrin: And what is the role of an Archdruid?
Former-Archdruid Meirion: Well, there is the public role, of course, which is to conduct the ceremonies, the three main ceremonies at the Eisteddfod every year, the Crowning ceremony on the Monday, which includes welcoming representatives of the various Celtic countries who visit the Eisteddfod, then there's the on the Wednesday, you have to conduct the ceremony of the Literary Prize and Friday the Chairing ceremony - those are the obvious things during the week.
Catrin: Have you got any special memories of the time as Archdruid?
Former-Archdruid Meirion: Yes, I was fortunate enough to be Archdruid during the Centenary year of the Gorsedd in Brittany - that was a very fine occasion. I was also privileged to go to Patagonia to re-establish the Gorsedd - there had been a Gorsedd there many years ago - in the Welsh colony, but it had lapsed, and being that the Gorsedd in Wales, Gorsedd Beirdd (Ynys) Cymru is the Mother Gorsedd, consequently the Archdruid in Wales is considered to be the primary amongst the other leaders of Gorsedd elsewhere. But there were other happy memories and high points. For example, my last duty, my last ceremony, was to chair the first female ever to win the Chair, which was Mererid Hopwood and that was a very big occasion indeed.
Catrin: What is the significance of the Gorsedd for the Welsh people?
Former-Archdruid Meirion: Well, to me one of the main features of the Gorsedd is the fact that it has been a safeguard for the Welsh language within the Eisteddfod and the fine thing is, of course, is that many people who are not privileged to be Welsh-speaking are totally supportive of keeping the Eisteddfod in that way.
Catrin: And what about the future, then? Is there a future for the Gorsedd?
Former-Archdruid Meirion: Oh yes, definitely! There are young people who come forward to sit entrance examinations for the Gorsedd there are people, of course, who are invited to become members on the basis of their contribution to life in Wales and throughout the world as a matter of fact, and they consider it a great honour. They realise that this is the way that we in Wales have of honouring sons and daughters who have contributed in certain ways to life in Wales and in other places.
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French bicyclist Henri Desgrange is best known for organizing the first Tour de France.
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Born in Paris, France, Henri Desgrange trained in the legal profession, before he turned his love for cycling into a career. In 1893 Desgrange set the one-hour record for cycling, and soon after began writing books about cycling and edited a cycling magazine. In 1903, Desgrange organized the first Tour de France—today the world's biggest cycling event. He died in 1940 in Beauvallon, France.
Born Henri Desgrange on January 31, 1865, in Paris, France, along with twin brother Georges Desgrange. Henri was born into a middle class family, and became a bike enthusiast at an early age. To make a living professionally, however, Desgrange became a lawyer, and worked as a clerk at the Depeux-Dumesnil law office. When a client spotted Desgrange biking to work, and daring to show his bare calves in public while doing so, the law clerk was given a choice between keeping his job and cycling. He chose to leave the law office.
After leaving his job, Desgrange fully immersed himself in the world of bike racing. Upon watching his first professional race in 1891, he persuaded the owner of the Folies Bergres burlesque theater to invest some of his profits into a bike racing arena, called a velodrome. In 1893, at this velodrome, Desgrange set the world's first one-hour cycling record: a distance of 21.9 miles. After breaking this record, Desgrange increased his involvement in the biking world. He wrote bike coaching manuals, including the book La Tte et les Jambes (1894) (in English, The Head and the Legs), which discussed his thoughts on the sport of professional bike racing. In 1897, he began work as the program director for the Parc des Princes velodrome and, several years later, also director for Velodrome d'Hiver.
Desgrange stumbled into the life as a sports editor in the early 1900s, after sports publication Le Velo printed an article advocating for the acquittal of soldier Alfred Dreyfus, who had been convicted of selling government secrets to the Germans. Several large financiers of the paper disagreed with the article, withdrew their financial backing, and started a rival publication, called L'Auto. They asked Desgrange to be their editor-in-chief.
But Desgrange knew little of the publishing business and, when the magazine began suffering from poor circulation shortly after its creation, he turned to cycling to save the sinking publication. In 1903, at the suggestion of one of his writers, Desgrange proposed a "Tour de France", a cycling event that would be sponsored by L'Auto. After a bit of deliberation, Desgrange and his team announced the race in January 1903, declaring it to be "the greatest cycling trial in the entire world. A race more than a month long: Paris to Lyon to Marseille to Toulouse to Bordeaux to Nantes to Paris." The promotion more than doubled the magazine's waning numbers.
Desgrange scheduled five weeks for the race, from May 31 to July 5, and listed an entry fee of 20 francs.
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I said it here in 2006. MVC on the server is a poor fit for web apps. Here's a more up-to-date critique.
Subsurfr, which I introduced here a few days ago, is an example of what that author calls a "serverless" web app. All the app logic is in the js + html. It uses back end resource servers for maps and drilling data, but there's no PHP/Rails server side logic. That's going to change a tiny bit in the near future to support personalization, but substantially the app state will remain in the hypertext.
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On Friday the Virginia Supreme Court threw out the state's anti-spam law, and with it the 2004 conviction of large-scale spammer Jeremy Jaynes, on the grounds of First Amendment overbreadth. While not disagreeing that Jaynes was guilty as charged and convicted, they found that the law could place too great a burden on non-commercial speech. CAUCE president John Levine commented in this blog entry.
While CAUCE is dismayed at this outcome, we see little practical effect beyond this single case. This case predates the Federal CAN SPAM law, which does not have the First Amendment issues of the Virginia law, which would clearly apply if Jaynes were to do the same things today he did in 2003. Nor do the other state anti-spam laws have similar overbreadth issues. CAUCE believes that it is possible to create more effective anti-spam laws than the weak CAN SPAM without running afoul of First Amendment issues and will continue to work to help pass them.
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Withee, WI Real Estate
According to census data in the year 2000 there were 204 housing units in Withee.
This represents a 13.2% decline from 235 in 1990.
Of those housing units, none were located in either urbanized areas or urban clusters, and 204 were located in what is classified as a rural area.
Homeownership rate in Withee is about 86.1%.
Withee's vacancy rate, including seasonal lodging, is about 4.9%.
Average household size is 2.2 people.
The majority of houses, apartments or condos in Withee were built after 1947.
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Spotlight Recipes: Rosh Hashanah Menu by Toby Amidor in Healthy Holidays, Healthy Recipes, September 17, 2009
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Rosh Hashanah marks the start of the Jewish New Year. Along with the classic apples dipped in honey, dress up your dinner table with these fresh dishes, which feature bits of the tradition.
Some folks cook an entire fish (with the head still attached) to celebrate and promote fertility and abundance. In my house, we trade the whole fish for some gefilte fish (ground fish) and serve it with purple horseradish (made with beets).
Your Rosh Hashanah entree is typically a sweet chicken or beef dish, such as this Apple-Glazed Barbecued Chicken, which encourages a sweet year to come. On my table, this main comes with a side of tzimmes, slow cooked carrots flavored with honey, cinnamon and combined with dried fruits like prunes or raisins.
Finish off your meal with a simple, traditional honey cake, which you can complement with holiday fruits such as pomegranate, star fruit and persimmons.
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Given a series a1, a2, a3, ……. an. If a1 = 25 and every term in the series is ‘-2’ times its previous number, then which column is larger?
Col A: a100
Col B: -10,000
Is this a geometric progression? So, we would use the formula an=ar^(n-1)=25(-2)^-99. This is much less than -10,000. So B is larger.
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Adverse changes in sleep duration are associated with lower cognitive scores in middle-aged adults
A study in the May 1 issue of the journal Sleep describes how changes in sleep that occur over a five-year period in late middle age affect cognitive function in later life. The findings suggest that women and men who begin sleeping more or less than 6 to 8 hours per night are subject to an accelerated cognitive decline that is equivalent to four to seven years of aging.
Results show that the sleep duration at follow-up of 7.4 percent of women and 8.6 percent of men had increased from "7 or 8 hours" per weeknight at baseline. Compared with participants whose sleep duration was unchanged, this change to a longer sleep duration was associated with lower scores at follow-up on five of six cognitive function tests, with the only exception being the test of short-term verbal memory. The sleep duration at follow-up of about 25 percent of women and 18 percent of men had decreased from "6, 7, or 8 hours" per night at baseline. This change to a shorter sleep duration was associated with lower scores at follow-up on three of the six cognitive tests, with reasoning, vocabulary and global cognitive status all being affected adversely. Surprisingly, an increase in sleep duration from six hours or less showed no evidence of a beneficial effect.
"The main result to come out of our study was that adverse changes in sleep duration appear to be associated with poorer cognitive function in later-middle age," said lead author Jane Ferrie, PhD, senior research fellow in the University College London Medical School De¬partment of Epidemiology and Public Health in the U.K.
The researchers also found that, in women, sleep duration of 7 hours of sleep per night was associated with the highest score for every cognitive measure, followed closely by 6 hours of nightly sleep. Among men, cognitive function was similar for those who reported sleeping 6, 7 or 8 hours; only short and long sleep durations of less than 6 hours or more than 8 hours appeared to be associated with lower scores.
The study used data for 5,431 participants (1,459 women and 3,972 men) from Phase 5 (1997-1999) and Phase 7 (2003-2004) of the Whitehall II study, which included more than 10,000 London-based office staff aged 35-55 working in 20 civil service departments in 1985. Phase 5 and Phase 7 follow-ups involved postal questionnaires and clinical examinations. Cognitive function was assessed at Phase 7 using six standard tests that measured memory, reasoning, vocabulary, phonemic fluency, semantic fluency, and global cognitive status.
Habitual sleep duration was measured at Phase 5 (baseline) and Phase 7 (follow-up) using a single question: "How many hours of sleep do you have on an average week night?" Participants were divided into four groupings based on the change in sleep duration between the two checkpoints: an increase from ≤ 5 hours or 6 hours per night; an increase from 7 or 8 hours per night; a decrease from 6, 7, or 8 hours per night; and a decrease from ≥ 9 hours per night. These groups were compared with reference groups who reported no change in sleep duration between Phase 5 and Phase 7. Overall, about 58 percent of men and 50 percent of women had no change in their self-reported nightly sleep duration during the study period.
Although participants were mostly white-collar workers, the study group covered a wide socioeconomic range with a 10-fold difference in salary across the occupational hierarchy. The researchers adjusted for the effects of education and occupational position due to their known association with cognitive performance. Socioeconomic status did not account for all the observed associations, indicating either a direct association between change in sleep and cognitive function, or an association mediated or confounded by factors other than education and occupational position.
According to the authors, adequate, good quality sleep is fundamental to human functioning and well-being. Sleep deprivation and sleepiness have adverse effects on performance, response times, errors of commission, and attention or concentration. Furthermore, sleep duration has been found to be associated with a wide range of quality of life measures, such as social functioning, mental and physical health, and early death.
"The detrimental effects of too much, too little and poor quality sleep on various aspects of health have begun to receive more attention," Ferrie added. "Given that our 24/7 society increasingly impinges on the lives of many people, it is important to consider what effects changes in sleep duration may have on health and well-being in the long term."
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Classical and Quantum Mechanics via Lie algebras
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Pay as You Go
Paying for the morning commute will soon be accomplished by the wave of a smartphone. State and local governments are joining Internet, credit card, and wireless companies to let consumers pay for everything from groceries to bus fare with mobile phones. Current mobile payment techniques are simply secure systems for sending credit-card data over a smartphone. A newer technology that's driving change is near field communication, or NFC, which lets shoppers pay for goods by passing their smartphones over electronic sensors.
In 2010, fewer than 6 million phones were NFC-equipped, according to ABI Research. By 2013, as more handset makers incorporate the technology into new devices, that number is expected to reach 172 million, according to the market research firm. Salt Lake City is one of the first municipalities to adapt to the coming explosion in mobile payments. The Utah Transit Authority installed NFC sensors on its buses, trains, and light rail in 2009. Now, thanks to a partnership with Isis, a wireless industry joint venture, Salt Lake City commuters will pay fares with a pass of their mobile devices. Here are more examples of local and state governments setting up mobile payment systems.
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Sleepeducation.com Research Summary
Treating sleep apnea patients with continuous positive airway pressure, also known as CPAP, may reduce their risk of dying from heart disease.
Results of the study are published in the June issue of the journal Chest.
Researchers monitored 168 patients with obstructive sleep apnea for an average of 7.5 years. Results were compared among 107 of the patients who used CPAP and 61 patients who discontinued its use.
Results show that 14.8 percent of the untreated patients died from heart disease during the follow-up period, compared with only 1.9 percent of the CPAP patients.
The researchers also measured the total number of cardiovascular events, including the following:
- Congestive heart failure
- High blood pressure
The total number of these events was also significantly greater in the untreated group, 31 percent, compared to the CPAP group, 18 percent.
According to the authors, the extended use of CPAP by sleep apnea patients may protect them against heart disease that is related to the sleep disorder. CPAP therapy also produces other health benefits such as improved daytime alertness.
Members of the two study groups were similar in their ages, body mass indexes, and heart disease risk factors. Patients in the untreated group did have significantly lower ratings of sleep apnea severity than the CPAP patients.
Chest is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American College of Chest Physicians.
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Tips to Feel Happier
Liz Vaccariello, editor-in-chief of Prevention magazine, shares tips for improving your mood:
Hope for Small Changes
Don't try to make changes to your life all at once and don't look for a big bang that's going to change your life. "Researchers know that things like winning the lottery have very little effect on our happiness, and it's the everyday choices that we make, whether it's exercising, or praying or what have you, that have the biggest impact on our happiness," Liz explains.
Give Money Away
"After our basic needs are met, money does very little to change our mood," Liz says. "One study gave people anywhere from $5 to $20 and said they could keep some for themselves, give it away or give it to a friend, and the people who gave it to somebody else, no matter what the amount, were happier."
"Think of the pleasure we get when we create something with our own hands, whether it's cooking a meal or knitting a sweater," Liz says. "The trick here, though, is you have to finish the job."
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Israeli soldier Mor Ostrovski is facing criticism from both the international community and the Israeli Defence Force for posting an image to his now-deleted Instagram account of a Palestinian child in the crosshairs of a rifle. The picture is disturbing and comes in the wake of several such instances involving other Israeli soldiers, none of which were met with serious disciplinary action.
Based on the way the IDF sought to both trivialize and popularize its Nov. 2012 attack on the Gaza Strip, and the intense and ongoing propaganda directed at young, tech-savvy Westerners (largely), it’s hard to imagine the IDF seeing this transgression as anything more than a PR issue. After all, that’s what Israel’s military seems the most concerned about.
Despite its nauseating use of social media in “Pillar of Defence” in November, an IDF spokesperson recently declared the whole thing a resounding success because “this was the first time the foreign media asked more questions about our Twitter activity than about our bombings in Gaza.”
The spokesperson’s comment is a striking admission of the Israeli government’s approach to war. Distracting reporters and the public with bizarre social media innovations and deceptive infographs allowed the horrific reality of Israel’s attack on Gaza to continue with relatively little scrutiny.
If the growing number of giddy and inappropriate photos posted by soldiers themselves is anything to go by, the IDF’s blasé attitude toward war has worked its way into the Israeli military’s culture. The individuals’ posts display a disregard for Palestinian life and dignity that is mirrored by the IDF’s decision to turn a violent offensive into a game that non-militants could earn “points” off. Since social media is how the IDF is now measuring itself, these photos and the lax punishment they garner are significant.
Because when a country is waging war or occupying another people illegally, the most important thing inquiring minds should be looking at is said country’s social media presence, natch.
Update: This Electronic Intifada story begins with the IDF’s condemnation of Ostrovski’s image as “a severe incident which doesn’t accord with the IDF’s spirit and values” before detailing yet another case of an Israeli soldier with a large and unsettling online presence. Osher Maman, an American citizen who moved to Israel to join the army and is apparently a member of the elite Golani Brigade, posted on Facebook in August 2012 that he “just did it to beat up terrorists and shit.”Gawker
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Return to the Wunderkammer
On June 8, 2012, the Oakland Standard gathered cultural producers to speak with OMCA staff about creating interdisciplinary content. The earliest museums, called cabinets of curiosity or wunderkammer, existed before disciplinary boundaries were drawn and mingled objects of all kinds. Like these museums of the past, OMCA uniquely holds collections of art, history, and natural science. The intent of the convening was to inform OMCA's developing practice of interdisciplinarity.
The presenters were accomplished practitioners in their various fields, which included radio, publishing, education, live events, museum practice, and contemporary art. They each gave presentations on their work and participated in a discussion. View the presentations below, where you'll also find a downloadable transcript of the group conversation.
Special thanks to the presenters: Marla Berns, Robin Grossinger, The Kitchen Sisters, Walter Kitundu, Elizabeth Lee, Michelle Legro, Nicola Lepp, Roman Mars, Julia Marshall, Tim McHenry, and Sarah Rich.
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Most economists accept that developed economies have been operating considerably below potential GDP since 2008, but there is much less agreement about the size of the output gap, and what should be done about it. This is obviously crucial. The larger the output gap, the greater the waste of resources (and, from an investor’s point of view, the greater the scope for future growth). Furthermore, the larger the gap, the smaller the budget deficit when economies return to potential, so the greater the scope for fiscal expansion today.
Keynesians have been focused on these issues for a while, and have generally had the better of the argument in the current recession. Recently, their thinking has been developing in some important respects. An example is Paul Krugman’s contribution to a panel discussion on the macroeconomics of recessions at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in San Diego last week. (Brad DeLong, the panel chairman, has posted a transcript). Read more
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WINCHESTER, Ind.—Like many of his neighbors, farmer Tony Goltstein has to deal with the aftermath of the dairy bubble.
But besides his mounting financial troubles, Mr. Goltstein also must contend with bubbles the size of small houses that have sprouted from the pool of manure at his Union Go Dairy Farm. Some are 20 feet tall, inflated with the gas released by 21 million gallons of decomposing cow manure.
He had installed a black plastic liner to keep the manure from seeping into the ground during the flush days of the dairy business, when prices and demand were growing.
The plastic liner has since detached from the floor of the stinky, open-air pool, and Mr. Goltstein says he can’t afford to repair the liner properly. But he says he’s game to pop the bubbles before the manure pool overflows and causes an even bigger stink.
His neighbors aren’t happy with the plan.
Heh, I’d just use a bow and arrow…
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After a long string of defeats, Arizona became the first state in the nation on November 7th to defeat an anti-gay marriage initiative. In 2004, thirteen states passed a constitutional amendment against marriage equality, with an average passage rate of 71%. This year, marriage amendments were on the ballot in eight states – and seven approved them. But in four states the passage rate was less than 60%, and South Dakota barely approved its amendment by 12,000 votes. More South Dakotans voted against the marriage ban than voted for an abortion ban – in a state where the overwhelming majority of voters consider themselves “pro-life.” And Arizona made history by saying “no” to bigotry as it rejected its amendment by a 48-52 margin.
There are many factors
that explain this victory – among them a growing marriage equality movement that has become better at grass-roots organizing, over-reaching by the far right in rolling back more than just gay marriage, and a more sophisticated effort by gay rights activists at framing their message. But Arizona was able to exceed the magical 50% mark and defeat such an amendment because it made a more systematic effort at message development that persuaded enough “swing” voters. Arizona’s victory provides some valuable lessons for marriage equality supporters if they are going to win in future elections.
“We ran a research-based, professional campaign,” said Arizona State Representative Kyrsten Sinema, chair of Arizona Together,
the campaign committee to defeat Proposition 107. “We did a better job investing resources in message development and carried it on with ruthless discipline. We had a very articulated three-prong strategy of (a) do the research, (b) tell the truth and (c) always stay on message.”
Arizona is a very conservative state (where voters rejected Martin Luther King Day), and the initial assumption was that an anti-gay marriage ban could not fail when it had passed in blue states like Michigan and Oregon. “As early as January 2005,” said Sinema, “we brought the community groups together and decided that our goal was to win this election.” The campaign invested a significant amount of their early money in research and message development, which gave them a clear road map of how to run a winning campaign.
Investing heavily in research, focus groups and public relations is costly, and not all progressive campaigns have the resources to do so. In South Dakota, a little extra money would have made the difference for what was a largely grass-roots campaign. “It came down to a question of resources,” said Jon Hoadley, campaign manager for South Dakotans Against Discrimination,
the committee to defeat Amendment C. “We won in seventeen counties, but we lost 51-49 in eight counties. If we had just a little extra money to hire more organizers to get more voter contacts, we would have won.”
But Sinema insists that investing enough money in research at the beginning of the campaign to develop the message pays huge dividends down the road. She paid a professional PR firm $4000-a-month over the course of six months to help in the message development. While $24,000 sounds like a huge amount of money, it went a long way given that the entire campaign budget was $2.1 million. Message development is something that progressives have consistently de-emphasized at their peril. Arizona’s success showed that an early investment in research to craft a viable campaign message will put the whole campaign on a winning track.
What helped in message development was that the anti-gay marriage initiatives went far beyond just banning same-sex marriage. In 2004, only three of the thirteen initiatives (Michigan, Ohio and Utah) adversely affected civil unions and domestic partnerships. But this year, the initiatives were more draconian – and the campaigns effectively argued that these amendments would harm unmarried straight couples who choose to live together, and were part of the right-wing’s broader agenda.
But Arizona was far more effective than other states at framing the issue so that voters could understand it instinctively. Virginia argued about “unintended consequences,” and Wisconsin said that the measure “goes beyond banning marriage for gay couples.” The problem with this approach is that the campaigns simply accepted their opponents’ premise that the measures were primarily about marriage. Arizona took a different tack. “We called it a ‘bait-and-switch,’” said Sinema. “Our campaign focused on why would you want to take away the domestic benefits and legal protections of unmarried partners.”
Voters don’t think – they feel. Arguing that the marriage amendment will take away domestic violence protections for unmarried women who live with their boyfriends is powerful, but many voters though it was just a scare tactic. In Arizona, the campaign had two poster children – Al Breznay and Maxine Piatt
, a straight elderly couple – and prominently featured them in their ads. Because Maxine was a widow, she would lose her ex-husband’s retirement pensions if she married Al. But because Tucson has domestic partnership benefits that protect unmarried couples, Al had hospital visitation rights and could make crucial medical decisions on her behalf when she was hospitalized.
By showing how the Marriage Amendment could hurt real people who swing voters in Arizona could relate to, the campaign was able to make their argument more effectively. “Al and Maxine was the only story that resonated with Latinos,” said Sinema. It’s all well and good to make intellectual arguments about how extreme a measure could be, but telling a story that illustrates what effect the amendment will have can strike an emotional chord with voters.
Another emotional chord that struck voters in the last week of the campaign was the Ted Haggard scandal.
A prominent evangelical minister in Colorado, Haggard resigned in disgrace on November 2nd amid allegations that he had an affair with a male prostitute. Colorado had an anti-gay marriage amendment on the ballot, and at the time I predicted
that this scandal would depress right-wing turnout and help defeat the initiative. But the opposite happened – at least in Colorado, it created an anti-gay backlash. Amendment 43 ended up passing 56-44, when a poll the previous week only had it up 51-43. Colorado also had an initiative to give domestic partnership rights for gay and lesbian couples that failed 47-53, when the prior week’s poll had it ahead by five points.
But outside of Colorado, the Ted Haggard scandal had little or no effect. “I don’t think we saw this here in South Dakota,” said Hoadley. Although South Dakota failed to defeat its anti-gay marriage initiative, one of the local success stories was that the campaign helped increase voter turnout in Clay County by four points. “Because of that,” said Hoadley, “we were able to defeat an anti-gay incumbent in the state legislature with a pro-gay challenger.”
In South Dakota, voters also defeated the most rigid anti-abortion law in the country that was placed on the ballot as a Referendum by a 12-point margin. “We ran a very grass-roots campaign based on voter contact,” said field organizer Matt Weinstein, “and we talked to tens of thousands of voters.” Although 60% of South Dakota voters describe themselves as “pro-life,” the campaign effectively argued that the law was so drastic that it did not even allow for abortions in cases of rape and incest. “We won,” said Weinstein, “because South Dakotans agreed that this law – even by South Dakota standards – is far too extreme.”
While seven out of eight states passed an anti-gay marriage amendment this year, it is noteworthy how close so many came to defeating it – and how Arizona was the first state to ever defeat one at all. “I wish we were able to win in South Dakota,” said Hoadley, “but the lessons we learned from this campaign are very exciting. It is so important that we won in Arizona because it changes the conversation and sends the message that these divisive amendments are beatable. It’s a seismic shift for our country that people are moving towards fairness.”
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What is "Waistband" - Definition & Explanation
(one-piece) - A single thickness of fabric that is doubled and stitched to the top of a pant.
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Some more terms: Natural
Refers to the color of the fiber as found in nature, i.e. unbleached and undyed. Linen and linen blends are often sold in their natural brown...
A one-piece collar that lays flat, part of the shirt also lays flat to create a notch. Also called a Convertible Collar or Notched...
Shorts are a garment worn by both men and women over their pelvic area and the upper part of the upper legs or more, but not the entire length of the leg.
They are called "shorts" because they are a...
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Dabaa, the coastal town where Egypt's first nuclear power plant is under construction, saw clashes last week between government forces and locals angry over loss of land to the project.
Egypt reported that radioactive material was stolen from the site a nuclear power plant on its northern coast, according to Reuters.
The plant, which is unfinished and would be Egypt's first nuclear power plant, is located in a town called Dabaa and is west of Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea. Protesters have been demanding the plant be relocated because they have lost land to the project. But the sit-ins escalated on January 13 and government security forces clashed with demonstrators.
Reuters reported: “Soldiers and the protesters hurled stones at each other and exchanged gunfire after the protesters demolished a wall surrounding the site, a security source and witnesses said.”
More from GlobalPost: Egypt: Jimmy Carter says concerns remain over military
Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm reported:
The plant's construction site was looted and vandalized earlier this week, resulting in LE500 million in losses.
There have been conflicting reports regarding the Nuclear Stations Authority committee that went to inspect the site on Thursday in order to assess the damages.
It was rumored that committee members refused to enter the site upon hearing that safes containing radioactive elements were missing.
However, Electricity Ministry spokesperson Aktham Aboul Ela denied that there were signs of radioactivity. “We found chemicals in two locations, but they are not hazardous,” he said.
Reuters reported that an official from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna said what was stolen were "low-level radioactive sources," but would not elaborate. Egypt has requested assistance in recovering the stolen material.
More from GlobalPost: The 'black box' of Egyptian military power
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Chevrolet Volt to Receive Safety Enhancements
General Motors announced Thursday that it will perform structural enhancements to the Chevrolet Volt to reduce the likelihood of the battery catching fire following a severe crash. According to a press release issued by GM, the chief aim of these enhancements is to ensure driver and passenger safety by further reducing the vulnerability of the battery pack in the event of a severe collision. The enhancements will be performed both to new models at the factory and as a modification to those already on the road.
The lithium-ion battery packs in the Chevrolet Volt caught fire after being crash tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in late 2011. “Based on the work that NHTSA has already completed … it appears that both battery intrusion and coolant leakage must be present to enable post-crash fire in the Volt,” NHTSA said in a statement Thursday. Though no fires from real-world crashes have been reported, the agency says that both of these conditions existed when their test cars caught fire.
The structural enhancements to the Volt’s battery surround “will better distribute impact forces around the battery pack, lessening the possibility of compromising the cooling system or any battery cells,” says Car and Driver. The magazine also says that NHTSA did not follow GM’s recommended post-crash protocol of discharging the battery packs after the crash.
Additional safety enhancements to the Chevrolet Volt will include the addition of a sensor to the battery coolant system and a tamper-resistant bracket to the top of the battery coolant reservoir that GM says will help prevent the coolant reservoir from being overfilled. GM says that Volt owners will be notified when they can bring in their cars to receive the enhancements.
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For Immediate Release
COLORADO COLLEGE SAVES NEARLY $100,000
IN UTILITY COSTS THROUGH BEHAVIORAL CHANGE
14 weeks, 14 habits, 14 percent reduction: CC’s conservation program yields results
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – July 10, 2009 – Colorado College estimates that during the course of its 14-week “aCClimate14” conservation campaign during the spring semester, the college saved nearly $100,000 in utility costs and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 378 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
The "aCClimate14" effort was a campus-wide resource conservation campaign designed to achieve a 14 percent reduction in electricity, heat and water use through behavioral change. Each of the 14 weeks in the semester focused on different daily habits, such as computing, bathing, transportation or studying.
The campaign included various communal tools to encourage behavioral shifts, including drying racks, outdoor recycling receptacles, shower timers and plug-in electric meters.
The initiative was launched by the Campus Sustainability Council and EnAct, the student environmental action group. The acclimate14 report, compiled at the end of the semester, looks at electricity, natural gas and potable water usage for January through April of 2009, compared to the same period in 2008, as well as a 14-week recycling initiative.
The resulting savings are impressive, especially considering that the figures for 2009 include the addition of CC’s new 72,000-square-foot Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, which went online in May 2008. If the comparison is made without the interdisciplinary Cornerstone Arts Center, the Campus Sustainability Council estimates savings of $130,000 in January through April 2009, with a greenhouse gas emission reduction of 613 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
Waste reduction also was one of the campaign’s goals, and in 2009 Colorado College participated for the first time in Recyclemania, a friendly, nationwide competition aimed at promoting waste reduction on campuses. The college finished in the top 5 percent of the nearly 300 participating colleges and universities.
In late January, students from Colorado College built a “Trash Peak,” a 30-cubic-yard mountain of trash on the central quad, representative of the amount of solid waste that CC generates in a single day. During lunch, student organizers conducted an audit, dividing the trash into reusable items, recyclables, compost and actual trash destined for the landfill. From the audit, it was estimated that CC could improve its waste diversion rate (the percentage of the waste stream diverted from landfills) by close to 45 percent, and the Campus Sustainability Plan includes a goal to achieve a 50 percent waste diversion rate. Prior to this year, CC’s waste diversion rate was estimated to be between 15 percent and 20 percent.
The entire report can be viewed at: http://sustainability.coloradocollege.edu/files/aCClimate14%20Report.pdf
About Colorado College
Colorado College is a nationally prominent, four-year liberal arts college that was founded in Colorado Springs in 1874. The college operates on the innovative Block Plan, in which its 1,985 undergraduate students study one course at a time in intensive 3½-week blocks. The college also offers a master of arts in teaching degree. For more information, visit www.ColoradoCollege.edu <http://www.ColoradoCollege.edu>.
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Georg Philipp TelemannArticle Free Pass
Georg Philipp Telemann, (born March 14, 1681, Magdeburg, Brandenburg [Germany]—died June 25, 1767, Hamburg), German composer of the late Baroque period, who wrote both sacred and secular music but was most admired for his church compositions, which ranged from small cantatas to large-scale works for soloists, chorus, and orchestra.
Telemann was the son of a Protestant minister and was given a good general education but never actually received music lessons. Though he showed great musical gifts at an early age, he was discouraged by his family from becoming a professional musician, at that time neither an attractive nor a remunerative occupation. By self-teaching, however, he acquired great facility in composing and in playing such diverse musical instruments as the violin, recorder, oboe, viola da gamba, chalumeau, and clavier. In 1701 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig as a law student, but musical activities soon prevailed and were to engross him for the rest of his life.
Leipzig became the stepping-stone for Telemann’s musical career. The municipal authorities there realized that, apart from his musical gifts, the young firebrand possessed extraordinary energy, diligence, and a talent for organization. They commissioned him to assist the organist of the Thomaskirche, Johann Kuhnau, by composing church cantatas for alternate Sundays, and also gave him a position as organist at the university chapel, Neuenkirche. Telemann reorganized the collegium musicum, the student musical society, into an efficient amateur orchestra that gave public concerts (then a novelty) and became director of the Leipzig Opera, for which he also composed. Telemann’s next positions were at two princely courts: first as kapellmeister (conductor of the court orchestra) in Sorau (now Żary, Poland; 1705–08), then as concertmaster (first violinist) and later kapellmeister in Eisenach (1708–12). By playing, conducting, studying, and composing he gained the musical knowledge, practical experience, and facility in composing that were to be vital when he assumed the musical directorship of Frankfurt am Main (1712–21) and Hamburg (1721–67). In Frankfurt he was musical director of two churches and in charge of the town’s official music. As in Leipzig, he reorganized the students’ collegium musicum and gave public concerts with the group. In Frankfurt Telemann started publishing music that made him famous not only in Germany but also abroad. As musical director of Hamburg, one of the outstanding musical positions of the time, he supplied the five main churches with music, was in charge of the Hamburg Opera, and served as cantor at Hamburg’s renowned humanistic school, the Johanneum, where he also was an instructor in music. In Hamburg, too, he directed a collegium musicum and presented public concerts. In 1729 he refused a call to organize a German orchestra at the Russian court. He had also declined an offer in 1722 from municipal authorities in Leipzig to succeed Kuhnau as organist of the Thomaskirche. This proffered position, which had been promised him 17 years earlier by authorities in the event of Kuhnau’s death, manifested the high esteem in which even the young Telemann was held. (Following Telemann’s refusal, the position fell to Johann Sebastian Bach.) In addition to all his activities in Hamburg, he also supplied (by contract) the courts of Eisenach and Bayreuth, as well as the town of Frankfurt, with music and continued to publish his compositions.
A master of the principal styles of his time—German, Italian, and French—he could write with ease and fluency in any of them and often absorbed influences of Polish and English music. He composed equally as well for the church as for opera and concerts. His music was natural in melody, bold in harmonies, buoyant in rhythm, and beautifully orchestrated. Profound or witty, serious or light, it never lacked quality or variety. Telemann’s printed compositions number more than 50 opuses, among them (counting each as one item) the famous collection Musique de table (published in 1733; containing three orchestral suites, three concerti, three quartets, three trios, and three sonatas); the first music periodical, Der getreue Music-Meister (1728–29; containing 70 compositions); Der harmonische Gottesdienst (1725–26; 72 church cantatas); and 36 fantasias for harpsichord.
Except for a brief journey to France (1737–38), where he was enthusiastically received, Telemann never left Germany. He married twice and had eight sons and three daughters. His first wife died young in childbirth; his second wife absconded with a Swedish officer, leaving Telemann with a debt of 3,000 taler. Apart from being a prolific composer, he was also a keen writer; his two autobiographies of 1718 and 1739 are comparatively well documented. He published a long poem after his first wife’s death, and many words in his vocal compositions came from his own pen. Especially noteworthy are Telemann’s many prefaces to collections of his music, which contain a great amount of practical advice on how his compositions (as well as those of his contemporaries) should be performed. A friend of Bach and Handel, he was godfather to Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel, who succeeded as musical director of Hamburg after Telemann’s death at the age of 86.
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Of course, I wouldn't have known that the fierce revolutionary from '68, Ljubisa Ristic, a [theatre] director with a bug in an ear [ one of the plays Lj. R. has directed], remained even today in the revolutionary waters. And that the revolution in question is the revolution that goes on. As I also wouldn't have known that the revolutionary with a bug in an ear has a "higher standing" than an academician and a professor, Dr. Mira Markovic [ one of the founders of the refounded Yugoslav Communist Party - Movement for Yugoslavia and the wife of Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Serbia](no relation of mine, by the way).
Unfortunately, I have known that the Yugoslav idea has always been a Serb thing. I also know that the Serbs will endure JUL. Besides, Serbs can endure more than other nations can even imagine.
Serbs can also endure a proposal by Vreme, my favorite and also an "independent" magazine, whose motto is "everything Serbian is alien to us". Vreme proposes and I forcefully second their proposal, that it is necessary, almost cathartic, for Serbia to build a monument to an "unknown deserter". The Vreme's commentator says:" In that sense, the monument to an unknown deserter would be an important contribution to democracy. As a reminder of the levity with which the local [Serbian] regime rushed into the war. As a reminder of the shameful patriotic madness."
In the sense of the contribution to democracy and Vreme's proposal I dare to go even further. Why only a monument? Why not decorations as well? For example, we could establish an Order of a Deserter with a Ribbon and Clean Underwear, an Order of a Deserter with an Earring and a Pony-tail, and then an Order of an Escape of a First Degree; then, what about an Order of an Expressed and Proven Unpatriotic Behavior; a climax could, for example, be an Order of a Treason with Diamonds (this one could be, in a formal ceremony, given to the editorial board of the forementioned magazine). Then, how about medals! For example: Medal for the Fastest Deserter, then Medal for the Most Cowardly Deserter, Cry Baby Medal ... And so on. Besides, as far as I am concerned, "deserters of all lands unite!"; Vreme is waiting for you.
What mingling with the so-called "independents" looks like, can be gathered from a recent Serbian Writers Union press release. The Union admitted that it had supported and itself taken part in the struggle for an "independent" and "objective" news reporting and that in the course of the struggle it several times "defended Nasa Borba, Studio B and Radio B-92. [an independent daily newspaper, a TV station and a radio station, all located in Belgrade]
"Unfortunately, Nasa Borba, B-92 and Vreme have recently published a large number of malicious reports ( while they were a few in number it was tolerable?) about the participation of some of our members in literary events in the Republic Srpska [Bosnian Serb state] and the Republic of Serbian Krajina [Croatian Serb state].
"We reserve the strongest condemnation for the dirty, inaccurate insinuations regarding our most prominent member, Dobrica Cosic."
Of course, the writers' problem was that they hadn't earlier understood, according to which and especially according to whose principles the so-called "independents" work; but at least now they understand. Some never will!
Nevertheless, we shouldn't be surprised by the "independents" or Vreme. What else could they do but follow the current "international" and "democratic" trends. And judging by the so-called international courts, the fashion of the moment is the hunt for Serbs! When, if not now!
Italian newspapers have recently published the following news:" The Secretary General of the Permanent Court of the Nations, which is currently in session in Trento (Italy), Gianni Tognioni, has issued a statement which was publicized as a first-rate sensation by all Italian newspapers: the latest fashion in Italy is a new kind of tourism - travel to Bosnia to kill Serbs!
"The "party" begins on a Friday morning when the "tourists", seeking amusement, are taken in a private airplane to Bosnia from one of the smaller European airports. Upon reaching their destination, they are offered to put on the fatigues and can head for one of the fronts or try out all kinds of existing armaments. They can shoot at the enemy (Serbs, of course) from the machine-guns, cannons or bazookas, or even sniper rifles."
The statement further says that the "tourist" sharp shooters rate most highly women carrying buckets with water and children!
Deserter magazine Vreme totally ignores the news like these. To the Serb children killed in a "touristic" way they do not offer a grave, let alone a monument. But why would the Serb children need a monument?
Another, according to some, even more antiserb and pro-deserter paper, Nasa Borba, goes even further. Reporting from the "Serbian Court" this "independent" paper not only doesn't mention the Serbs as the targets of the merry "tourists" but doesn't mention them (I mean the Serbs) at all! On the contrary, the "liberated" reporter of this Soros owned paper, confuses the reader by suggesting that the Serbs themselves organize this "Safary"!
Anyway, what can we expect from Nasa [our] (i.e. "Their") Borba, which puts more trust in "its" New York Times (NYT) than even in UNPROFOR [U.N. protection force]! "Their" NYT wrote that "Yugoslavia has recently sent to the Serb controlled Croatian territories at least 900 soldiers, tanks and other armaments, with help from the Russian forces serving with UNPROFOR." Roy Gutman writes for and is a pride of Nasa ("Their") Borba. It doesn't matter that the official UNPROFOR's spokesperson denied these allegations. It doesn't matter that he revealed that the Russian troops are not stationed at the location where, according to the "independent" reporter from NYT, the "crossing" of the Yugoslav soldiers and tanks had taken place. None of that matters. Nor does anyone care about the truth. What matters is that Nasa Borba carries the information on a predetermined day and a predetermined spot. As ordered.
On publicly and, I guess, democratically asked questions about the functioning and the goals of the foundation in Yugoslavia, his official representatives and mercenaries, until this press conference, replied only occasionally and usually with ferocious personal attacks on those who dare to ask any unpleasant questions. However, when they realized that the "witch hunt", as they had called it, wouldn't stop that easily and that those "uncivil" and "ungrateful" Serbs still have questions and that the questions were becoming more and more unpleasant, the Soros' mercenary gentlemen decided to counter-attack.
Rightly judging that the outcome of an open meeting with the journalists would be bad for them, despite the fact that some of the journalists would have been "our people", the organizers have, just in (a democratic) case brought to the event the selected beneficiaries from the Soros' moneys and also the candidate beneficiaries (if they behave) as well as the "sympathizers" of the movement. In the end, according to a predetermined scenario, the journalists were allowed into the hall.
Well, the fact that a few journalists were allowed to attend the press conference did not mean that they would be allowed to ask questions. Anyway why should the journalists ask any questions? If they were "Soros' people", they already knew they were supposed to listen [also means obey]. If they weren't, what were they doing there?
So, what happened?
After a paean to Soros from the mouth of Ms. Sonja Licht and a "discussion" in which only Soros' "beneficiaries" took part and which brought tears to eyes of those who still hadn't had a chance to put their fingers into Mr. Soros' wallet, came the climax of the gathering: all those who had until then asked any unpleasant questions regarding the business practices of the great "humanist" and their master Soros, would be sued!
Any more questions?
"Democracy" is really a miracle! Amazing![also means invisible in Serbo-Croatian]
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In Thailand, all that glitters is probably not gold
BANGKOK, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Thailand's sluggish economy and record gold prices have prompted many elderly Thais to cash in family heirlooms as they struggle to make ends meet."This is family jewellery," said Thai-Chinese grandmother Pannee Sae Kaow, standing outside a gold shop in Bangkok's Chinatown clutching a tarnished gold necklace given to her years ago by her mother.
"The economy has left me no choice but to sell it," the 78-year-old said forlornly. "Everything is more expensive and it's tougher to live in a time like this. We're not rich people."
|A woman counts notes after selling jewellery to a shop in Bangkok
Like many of Thailand's 65 million people, Pannee, who makes just 6,000 baht ($185) a month from a small dumpling stall, is not alone in battling soaring inflation stemming from high oil prices and an economy labouring after two years of political strife, including a 2006 coup.
"I have to work so hard to keep paying my bills," said Jureerat Pongkum, who works part time at a Bangkok coffee shop. "Prices keep going up but the quantity of food or things you get is still the same. Our pay is still the same," the 24-year-old said as she wiped down a counter top.
"This is my first job after college but it's not going to be enough. I'm looking for more part-time work," she said. "What can you do? You have to eat and live your life."
The new government is talking up the economy, saying major public infrastructure projects in the pipeline will boost growth from a sickly 4.7 percent in 2007 towards 5.5 percent.
Consumer confidence has started to tick up after two years of steady decline, but the domestic gold market — one of the more unusual benchmarks of Thailand's economic health — does not suggest a rosy outlook.
Dealers say gold purchases are simply too expensive for most Thais and so dealers are melting down hocked jewellery and selling it abroad for gold value.
The profit they make is from the government-regulated five percent discount to market prices they are allowed to pay customers selling rings, bracelets and necklaces.
"There aren't many customers at the moment -- except for those coming to sell," said 40-year-old gold trader Montree. "Many people can't afford gold so we now ship it to elsewhere in Asia." International gold prices are hovering at a record high of around $955 due to strong demand from investors seeking a safe haven from a weak U.S. dollar and fears of a looming recession in the United States.
According to Commerce Ministry figures, Thailand exported 76 tonnes of gold in 2007 -- an increase of almost 50 percent from the previous year -- suggesting the trend to cash in jewellery has been going on for at least a year or so."In just one day last month, we exported up to 500 kgs. How crazy is that?," gold shop owner Jinda said."Since the gold price rose over $800 an ounce, more people are selling it."
Albert Cheng, head of the World Gold Council's Far East office, said Thailand showed a net investment demand of 18 tonnes of gold in 2007, far below India's and Vietnam's 56 tonnes, but near China's 24 tonnes."In this part of the world, people buy gold as an investment and they trade on it," he told Reuters."Particularly in Thailand, people like to pay their money and bring the gold home. When prices go up they sell it and take the money".
"It's normal for Thai people to have gold jewellery, in particular in rural villages. That is how they accumulate wealth. When they need the money they just pawn or sell their jewellery".
"I am not surprised they are selling because nowadays it is a very good price. But everytime we see a dip, people come back".
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Bahay Tuluyan’s vision is of a world where every child’s rights are respected, protected and fulfilled.
Bahay Tuluyan’s mission is to work towards a society where every child’s rights are respected, protected and fulfilled by:
Delivering programs and services to fulfil the rights of children in need of special protection and provide for their healing and recovery.
Using alternative education and the child to child approach to develop the inherent capability of children and ensure all aspects of their development.
Empowering children to participate fully in society as active, independent, productive and socially responsible citizens and advance children’s participation.
Promoting children’s rights in cooperation with children and all duty bearers for the prevention of neglect, abuse and exploitation of children.
Bahay Tuluyan seeks, in all its work, to promote, fulfill, respect and protect the rights of children to live a safe, happy and healthy life. Bahay Tuluyan is a child focused and child friendly organization. This means that at all times the organization will seek to:
Promote, fulfill, respect and protect all of the rights guaranteed to children under the UNCRC
Seek the maximum possible child participation at all levels and in all activities of the organization, including providing the support and training necessary to enable children to participate to their best ability
Take into account the best interest of the child in all decisions made in the organization
Bahay Tuluyan upholds the right to non-discrimination in all areas of its work and is always striving to achieve the highest levels of professionalism and ethical standards, particularly in the provision of direct services to its clientele. All personnel of Bahay Tuluyan are required to seek to act professionally and ethically in all their official dealings.
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Speaker topics are now updated on the Web Design Day website. I think we did a good job this year of putting together a program that is of interest to all web developers. Let us know what you think in the comments.
“Hulkmania & Design”
Hulk Hogan is the greatest wrestler that has ever lived. He taught us more about being great designers than we might realize.
“Responsive Design vs Separate Mobile Sites: Presidential Smackdown Edition”
The US presidential race is heading into full swing, and the candidates will soon be intensely debating the country’s hot-button issues. The web design world is entrenched in its own debate about how to address the mobile web: should you create a separate mobile site or create a responsive experience instead? It just so happens that the two US presidential candidates have chosen different mobile web strategies for their official websites. In the red corner is Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s dedicated mobile site, while in the blue corner is incumbent president Barack Obama’s responsive website. Which will prevail? We’ll dissect the candidates’ sites to uncover best practices and common mobile web pitfalls.
“Useful, Usable & Desirable: Designing for People”
“It needs to be easy to use.” We’ve heard this many times before from stakeholders, clients, and colleagues. But how do you go about making a website—or any product or service—easy to use? While there are plenty of industry leaders, books, articles, and best practices to learn from, what matters is context. For whom are you designing? What is this person’s goals, motivations, and pain points? What is he or she trying to accomplish? Good design solves real problems. It doesn’t just decorate. How can you design to solve real problems for real people?
This session will explore the fundamentals of user experience. We’ll explore industry best practices and examples of websites that solve real problems for real people. There are many tools and disciplines within user experience, from content strategy to information architecture to user research. By understanding these tools and when to use them, and by understanding the context of each design problem we are faced with, we can begin to understand how to utilize design thinking and creating user experiences that are useful, usable, and desirable.
“It’s 2012 &I’m Still Writing “Should web designers know how to code?” On All My Checks”
For the last few years, three questions have, in one way or another, driven a disproportionate number of the web-related presentations I’ve either attended or seen online:
- Should web designers know how to code?
- How do I convince my boss that we should be building our [thing] responsively?
- How do we get clients to pay for [new thing du jour]?
On the surface, these are good and relevant questions. Ours is an industry in upheaval, and we’re all trying to figure out how to cope with revolutionary change and its implications. But a deeper examination of questions like these reveals a dangerous and shared Achilles heel: In the name of community, we have built around us a professional echo chamber so tight, it’s weakened our ability to do the very synthesis required to advance the causes that drove such questions in the first place. For forty minutes, we’ll focus on practical ways to wrestle ourselves and our profession from this straightjacket of regurgitative nonthinking, and stop creating needless Sisyphean drama where progress, play, and growth ought naturally to dwell instead.
“Becoming a Web Design Champion: How to Better Collaborate, Develop Your Style, and Get Designs Launched”
In the course of her career working solo, in a duo, with agencies, with corporations, and with a startup, Meagan’s learned a few valuable lessons (some the hard way) about how to grow as a designer. She’ll talk about how she got started, as well as insights on collaborating, evolving your style, and getting things launched. You’ll also hear about the design maxims she holds dear (and which ones she ignores), and the web development techniques that have strengthened her design skills. She hopes to leave you with some ideas for how to be a web design champion.
Kevin M. Hoffman
“Designing Meetings to Work For”
Great design doesn’t normally happen in business meetings; we expect it to happen on the sketchpad and the screen. Meetings are ragged speed bumps in our creative process: necessary evils we have in place to secure agreement without incurring excessive tire damage to our projects. But by treating them as a design problem, they can be so much more. With careful consideration of user goals and system constraints, time spent collaborating together can become a design tool even more powerful than your computer. Kevin will show you a selection of meeting interaction frameworks that get actionable results, and help course correct when meetings aren’t hitting the targets that they should (even if you aren’t in charge).
“Overcoming Collaboration Challenges”
Whether it’s with your client or your internal team, collaboration is a critical part of the design process. However, facilitating those discussions is not always an easy task. During this talk, I’ll take you behind the scenes of real collaboration sessions and discuss some of the solutions that I’ve utilized to overcome challenges.
“A Short Lintermission”
Ever made a typo? Forget to declare a variable? Ugh… bugs. What if I told you there is a code equivalent of a spell/grammar check? Oh yeah, that’s what a code linter does. Let’s chat about which linters are out there, what they can help you find, and how you can integrate them into your dev process.
“Large Format Playgrounds”
Interactive technologies are branching beyond our desktops and mobile devices to ever expanding screen sizes and formats. Virtually any surface can be a touch screen and projections can turn buildings into interactive playgrounds. Come and see what’s happening right here in Pittsburgh and view some demos of what’s possible with large format and touch technologies.
Haven’t got your ticket yet for Web Design Day? Register at our website!
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September 21, 2011
Beef, it's what's for reading: New book celebrates 150 years of the state's beef industry
Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine is celebrating the arrival of "150 Years of Kansas Beef." The book was written in honor of the sesquicentennial of Kansas' statehood, and is dedicated to Jack Vanier, a Kansas cattleman and businessman.
A dedication ceremony and book signing will be at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, at the K-State Alumni Center. Speakers will include Kirk Schulz, K-State president; Ralph Richardson, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine; Dan Thomson, Jones Professor of Production Medicine and Epidemiology and director of K-State's Beef Cattle Institute; and Dan Upson, professor emeritus of anatomy and physiology. Reservations are required to attend.
Vanier, Brookville, has committed most of his life working for the advancement of the state of Kansas and its vast agricultural-based industries, with his primary focus on beef cattle production. His ranching career began at the CK Ranch in Saline and Ellsworth counties, which was founded by his late father John Vanier in 1933. The Vanier family has exported cattle to many different countries across the world.
Vanier and his wife, Donna, have been active philanthropists supporting the community and several K-State projects through the Vanier Family Foundation. The "150 Years of Kansas Beef" book dedication was a surprise Christmas gift from Donna Vanier to her husband.
The book features chapters on the cattle drives of the 19th century to the modern aspects of the beef industry. It contains many historical photographs that allow readers to experience Kansas history. Many Kansas families contributed information about their involvement in the beef industry to make the book possible.
Reservations for the book celebration and signing must be made by Monday, Sept. 26, to Blair Tenhouse at 785-532-2511 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
To purchase a copy of "150 Years of Kansas Beef," visit http://www.vet.k-state.edu/features/beef.htm to download the order form. More information is available by contacting Tenhouse or Chris Gruber, 785-532-4465, email@example.com.
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India has appealed to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for help with its shrimp exports, the light of Japan’s rejection of consignments, citing a high level of ethoxyquin. Japan has stalled imports of Indian shrimp and currently holds 150 containers of the frozen product at its ports. Though Japan had lifted the ban, exports have dropped heavily on account of the increase in the number of rejections. This has hit aquaculture farmers and exporters in Odisha and West Bengal. But 60 per cent of the black tiger shrimp produced in these regions is exported to Japan.
Since Japan lowered the acceptable limit of ethoxyquin, an antioxidant used in shrimp feed, in shrimp, the country had started rejecting containers from June. Japanese authorities found the level of ethoxyquin in some shrimp to be in the 0.02-0.04 ppm range, whereas the newly introduced health standards tolerate levels as high as 0.01 ppm only.
India raised the issue with the sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) committee of the WTO, as the commerce ministry is of the view that the new standards that have been imposed are ‘unscientific and unjustified’. India is not filing a case against Japan at the WTO at this point but it hopes that bringing up the issue at the SPS committee will pressure Japan to respond favourably. This would benefit not just India but also countries like Vietnam that are being affected by the same regulations.
“There are other countries like Vietnam that are facing similar entry barriers in Japan for their shrimp. We hope to generate enough pressure at the WTO forum to force Japan to reconsider (its decision). If this doesn’t work, we could consider a formal case against this restrictive measure,” a commerce ministry official said.
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Meatless Monday ideas that are tasty, healthy
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently reversed its suggestion to go meatless on Mondays due to pressure from the cattle industry. But many health experts applaud taking a break from animal protein to lower saturated fat intake. We have some tasty ways to pull off a meatless Monday.
Chef and environmentalist Susan Feniger says she likes making one day a week meat-free.
"We try to think about what can we do to protect the environment for, you know, our kids and their kids. So meatless Monday is exactly that," said Feniger. "There is that sort of 80/20 rule, which is sort of right now hip and in, which is like 80 percent, which is plant-based, and 20 percent protein."
Protein is a key component to our diet, but how we get it can vary - far beyond a big slab of meat, chicken or fish. Feniger proves that with her new cookbook, "Susan Feniger's Street Food: Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes." That bears the name of her restaurant, STREET, as well, reflecting the way many dine globally.
"There's many parts of the world where they get their full protein without having much meat. All the different dals, the different lentils, the mung bean, the chickpea, the black bean dal, that mixed with rice gives you full protein," said Feniger.
For example, there's the Egyptian Bus Stop Kushary made with lentils, rice, tiny macaroni with olive oil and cumin. It is spicy and filling.
There is also the soba noodles with firmed baked tofu coated in seaweed and sesame seeds, with a soy sauce, sesame oil and reduce orange juice sauce.
Brussels sprout lovers will adore one dish where Feniger roasts them with goat cheese, apples, toasted hazelnuts and lemon juice.
Her Varenyky, a little dumpling-like pasta filled with spinach and feta on a sweet, creamy bed of sour cream and lemon marmalade, offers a load of flavor as well.
On those Monday's when you want your meal in minutes, you can turn to some products that can help you get dinner together in a flash. For example, Nate's Meatless Meatballs come in three flavors. They are 90 calories, 0 cholesterol and 4.5 grams of fat for three meat balls, which are made mostly from soy and textured vegetable protein. It's nice option for pasta, a grinder or solo as a savory snack.
Nate's is available at the following retailers in Southern California: Whole Foods, Bristol Farms, Clark's Nutrition, New Frontiers Market, Lazy Acres Market, and more. The meatless meatballs cost around $4.50 for a package.
food, health, recipe, diet, food coach, lori corbin
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(Feb 05, 2009) Nine countries in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea region have signed a Code of Conduct designed to increase cooperation against the piracy off the coast of Somalia. Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Maldives, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, and Yemen have agreed to work together to seize, investigate, and prosecute pirates operating in the area. Under the agreement there will be shared operations, including nominating law enforcement or other officials to serve on ships or aircraft belonging to partner signatory nations.
The Code will remain open for signature by other countries in the 21-nation region. The meeting at which the pact was adopted was also attended by representatives of Comoros, Egypt, France, Jordan, Oman, South Africa, and Sudan. Observers included other members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) of the United Nations; other U.N. agencies and other international organizations; and nations that have sent ships to protect vessels near Somalia, including China, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
Speaking about the agreement, Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, the Secretary-General of the IMO, stated, "[t]he adoption of this instrument shows that countries in the region are willing to act concertedly and together, contributing to the ongoing efforts of the broader international community to fight the scourge of piracy and armed robbery against ships in the area." Mitropoulos went on to compare the Code to the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery (RECAAP), which was signed by 16 Asian nations in November 2004, and to state that he has "every faith" that the new Code will "bear fruit in the suppression of piracy and armed robbery against ships," while acknowledging that in the long run, the solution to the problem must be achieved within Somalia itself.
The U.N. Security Council expressed its concern about piracy in the region in December 2008, unanimously calling for assistance from countries and regional organizations that have naval power and military aircraft to fight piracy. Recent victims of the pirates have included a Saudi Arabian oil tanker, a Ukrainian vessel with arms on board, and U.N. World Food Program ships. (Regional States Sign Pact to Fight Piracy off Somali Coast – UN, UN NEWS CENTRE, Jan. 30, 2009, available at http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=29725&Cr=somalia&Cr1=pirates; see previous article Security Council Resolution Empowers States Combating Piracy to Conduct Land Operations in Somalia, GLOBAL LEGAL MONITOR, Jan. 8, 2009, available at http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/WLB?disp3_914_text.)
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Pay seniors, vets first
Published: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 9:00 p.m.
Updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The president has suggested that senior citizens may not receive Social Security checks and veterans may not receive benefit checks if we are not willing to raise the debt ceiling. They should be the first to receive their checks.
As the president has noted, “There may not be enough money in the coffers.” If this is so, a better option is to cut back on spending and politicians' salaries, benefits and vacations. Pay our veterans and seniors and deny the politicians who created the problem by overspending.
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In light of the current economic crises plaguing our country, your home may be on the brink of foreclosure, or will be sold by way of a short sale. You may also have staggering credit card debt. Therefore, when entering into a property settlement agreement that involves debt forgiveness (i.e. foreclosure, short sale, and reduction in credit card debt) it is critical that you choose a matrimonial attorney that is aware of the tax consequences associated with debt forgiveness because the financial impact can be enormous.
Historically, debt that was forgiven or cancelled by a commercial lender must be included as income on your federal and state tax return and was taxable. For example, if the total amount of the mortgage debt immediately prior to the foreclosure was $220,000 and the fair market value of the property was $200,000, the amount of the debt forgiven, $20,000, was treated as taxable income. Unless of course the borrower qualified for an exception under the Federal Tax Code, i.e., bankruptcy, insolvency, certain farm debt, and non-recourse loans.
On December 20, 2007, the Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) was enacted. Said Act provides financially strapped homeowners with some relief in connection with treating debt forgiveness as income. Generally, the Act allows exclusion of income realized as a result of modification of the terms of the mortgage, or foreclosure on a principal residence that occurred in 2007, 2008 or 2009. Moreover, there is no dollar limit if the principal balance of the loan was less than $2 million ($1 million if married filing separately for the tax year) at the time the loan was forgiven.
What the Act does not do is provide relief to all forgiven or cancelled debt. Its application is severely limited to a forgiven or cancelled debt used to buy, build or substantially improve a principal residence or to refinance debt used for those purposes.
- There is no relief for any debt forgiveness for a vacation or investment home.
- There is no relief for credit card debt reduction.
- There is also no relief available for cash-out mortgages whether the cash take-out takes the form of a refinanced first mortgage, a second mortgage, a home equity line of credit or similar arrangement.
For example, if an individual takes out a home equity line in the amount of $50,000 to pay off credit card debt then sells his home, via a short sale, for $300,000 but owes $350,000 on the first mortgage and $50,000 on the equity line used to pay credit card debt, the borrower will be required to claim the $50,000 as income on his federal income tax return. Moreover, the borrower will most likely be required to claim the entire debt forgiven, $100,000, on his state income tax return because the Mortgage Debt Relief Act only applies to federal income tax.
Why is this significant? This is significant because your principal residence, that has a cash-out mortgage, may be on the brink of foreclosures, or may be sold by way of a short sale. Or, your vacation home and/or investment properties may be in foreclosure or sold by way of a short sale. If that is the case, either a portion or all of the debt forgiveness will be considered taxable income. You will receive a 1099C from the lender and you will have to claim the debt forgiveness on your federal and state income tax return. If you are not yet divorced, a joint federal and state income tax return can be filed and an agreement can be reached as to how the tax debt associated with the marital property will be apportioned. However, what happens if you are already divorced and foreclosure or a short sale of marital property was not contemplated in the property settlement agreement? How are you going to deal with the tax consequences of the debt forgiveness? The party who received the 1099 and is compelled to claim the debt forgiveness on his or her federal and state income tax return will want the ex-spouse to share in the tax consequences. Most likely, the party who did not receive the 1099 will refuse to share in the tax debt, especially if it was a hotly contested divorce. Thus, it is imperative that debt forgiveness associated with your principal residence, vacation home, investment property, credit card debt reduction etc. be addressed in your property settlement agreement. Even if you and your spouse are solvent when the property settlement agreement is drafted, in today’s economy it is not a far fetched scenario that an individual could lose their job, be unemployed for a significant period of time, and have their home or homes sit on the market for a year or more with no offers in sight. That is a recipe for foreclosure or a short sale. By simply including a clause in a property settlement that addresses how the tax consequences of debt forgiveness will be treated in the event of same will alleviate a litany of post judgment applications.
The family law attorneys here at Fox Rothschild, LLP are well versed on these issues and can effectively assist you through this difficult time in your life.
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