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September 1859, Company name changed from Empire to Broderick in honor of their first foreman, and later United States Senator, David C. Broderick, who was slain in a duel while he was a senator.
1865, Company moved to Bryant Street near Third Street. A two story wooden building, city property, in good order.
1862 Edward Byron Cutter
1864 Bernard Hagan
1865 M. McLaughlin
1866 Mark Harris
1859 Engine: James Smith, New York, builder, second class side stroke, company property Hose carriage, two wheel, Folsom, San Francisco, builder, city property, purchased at a cost of $200.
1864 Engine: James Smith, New York, builder, second class, company property
1865 Hose carriage, Folsom, San Francisco, purchased at cost of $1,486.
Note: One of these Smith engines was sold to the Stockton Exempts in 1895 for $150.
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Published on 12-25-2010 08:47 AM
Number of Views: 1422
In Deuteronomy chapter 4:2, Moses said, "Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you." Later in verse 32 of chapter 12 of the same book, he said, "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it."
In Proverbs 30:5-6, the Bible says, "Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar." In Jeremiah 26:2, we read, "Thus saith the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the Lord's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word."
In Galatians 1:6-9, the apostle Paul said, "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the
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The skin is without a doubt one of the more interesting parts of the body. It can be found all over the body and is also something that has quite a few unique characteristics. The skin is the part of the body that perhaps takes the most amount of damage on a daily basis and it is also part of the body that has shown a remarkable ability to recover and return to its original form. The skin is a part of the body that is absolutely essential to it for a lot of reasons. The primary reason that the skin is so important is because it is the body part that is concerned the most with the protection of the body.
The skin acts like a barrier of sorts that keeps out certain particles of foreign bodies that should not find themselves in to the internal parts of the body. The skin is there to help provide that essential form of protection that is essentially the first line of defense that people have. It is also not just particles of dirt or other foreign bodies that the skin can protect against. The skin also manages to limit the harmful effect that heat can do the body. This is particularly evident when it comes to the sun.
The skin manages to limit the effects that the sun can have on the body. The sun is of course the one thing that is almost always present in the skies and is something that can deal significant damage if not protected against. The skin is remarkably delicate and there are all sorts of things that can damage it. Apart from damage done by the sun and by dirt particles, the skin can also help to protect against wounds and cuts that are inflicted upon the body. Without that layer of skin that separates the vital parts of the body from the outside they become more vulnerable and as such are easier to damage. The skin is obviously something that requires a lot of care and for that very purpose the Skinceuticals products can be very helpful.
Skin care is something that calls for a lot of effort and a commitment to be accomplished. The skin has always a particular part of the body that needs great attention and as such taking care of it is an even more time consuming and fatigue inducing endeavor. The proper habits are needed for proper skin care and this means that people should consume foods that contain nutrients that are beneficial for the skin. There are also skin care products that people can utilize to help in the skin care effort. These products will do a lot of different things for the skin but all of them will be done to keep it at its healthiest.
The skin is a particular part of the body that has always needed a special brand of care and that can be provided by the Skinceuticals products. Skin Labs MD can help people attain these wonderful products.
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Gardening Articles: Landscaping :: Lawns, Ground Cover, & Wildflowers
by Charlie Nardozzi
This lawn problem has nothing to do with fungi, bacteria, or insects, and everything to do with man's best friend. It isn't pretty, but we've all seen it--brown, dead spots surrounded by lush, green grass, caused by dogs urinating and defecating.
While cleaning up doggy droppings isn't pleasant, at least it's possible; urine poses another problem altogether. Its volume and high concentration of nitrogen cause the grass to burn and die. This is particularly evident with female dogs that squat to urinate, concentrating their urine in a small area. Although male dogs' urine is equally caustic, they distribute it over a wider area.
Once you have identified the culprit, the obvious solution is to keep it from urinating on the lawn, either by physical barrier or training. But obvious isn't always simple, which is why some pet owners have tried other techniques, such as repellent sprays and even dietary supplements. Though they seem promising, neither works.
Repellents may actually encourage more peeing as dogs try to overmark the unfamiliar smell. And dietary supplements may have detrimental, long-term health effects on pets.
Nevertheless, there are ways to lessen the impact on your grass. Veterinarians in Colorado have shown some grass types are less likely to be burned by high concentrations of urine. Tall fescue and perennial ryegrass are more resistant than bluegrass and Bermuda. Keeping the grass in top health reduces the permanent damage and speeds the lawn's recovery. Diluting the spot with water 5 to 10 minutes after dogs pee saves the grass, but it's impossible to be that vigilant.
Or if you can simply accept the reality of a few dead spots, repair them by first soaking the area with water. Rake to remove dead grass and to scratch soil, and either plug in a section of the same type of sod, or overseed.
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A quick round-up of recent news from Tibet:
- A journalist from The Australian reports that the Chinese military is still intensively occupying the capital city of Lhasa. “During four days in Lhasa this week — the first visit to Tibet by an Australian journalist since the March riots that left up to 200 people dead — I witnessed a city creaking under the weight of the Chinese military,” reports Cameron Stewart in a lengthy account of his visit complete with audio and visual multimedia. From The Australian, via Jamyang Norbu, who just re-published his “Case for Independent Tibet”.
- Jamyang Kyi is a popular Tibetan writer, singer, poet and feminist. She was arrested on April 1 of this year for sending text messages to the pro-Tibet Chinese blogger Woeser and eventually released. Her latest blog post, in which she describes her torture during incarceration, has been translated by the High Peaks Pure Earth blog. An excerpt:
Ever since the Chinese-Tibetan conflict had flared up, and as result of the government’s deliberate propaganda, the Chinese would stare at Tibetans with hatred, whether it be in a bus, the market place or on any public road. Once, when I was walking down the road with my daughter who was wearing the traditional chuba that my friend Walza Norzin Wangmo had bought her as a gift, a Chinese kid of about six or seven years old came yelling in front of my daughter and stood blocking her way. This kind of Chinese attitude wasn’t an isolated incident that we experienced but rather the common experience of other Tibetans too.
- Perhaps after meditating on the events of the past year, the Dalai Lama recently acknowledged that his everlasting rounds of negotiations with the Chinese government have returned little results. In Dharmsala he said he had “given up” on the “middle away” approach, then in Tokyo he complained that his “faith in the Chinese government is becoming thinner, thinner, thinner.” This is a signifcant shift in rhetoric from only a few months ago, when His Holiness basically endorsed the Beijing Olympic Games while many Tibetans and their allies around the world used the opportunity to protest and highlight the Tibetan cause (see the Mediahacker’s multimedia protest map). His Holiness has pledged to “remain completely neutral” in the Tibetan leadership’s formulation of a new policy towards China. Via the Buddhist Channel.
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True, that as ridiculously high ISO's are usable in the advanced DSLR world, the necessity of a fast lens for decent images in low light situations - as we used to have in the film days and older digital days - is less.
With the exception of the 50mm f/1.4 prime, the actual supply of fast lenses seems better than in the film era. And if you go back to the 1970s and earlier the zoom lenses tended to be slow by today's standards.
It is interesting though that "noisy" ISO settings, that everybody complains about on forums, are probably still better than using many films (although I have seen pretty good results from some newer color films being pushed in processing), certainly better than many of the classic cheaper films.
I think that, indoors, a f/2.8 or even f/2 lens is the minimum for shooting fast action (interestingly, f/2 might be the current "limit" for usefulness of a lens, though we'll have to see how the 5D III and the 1D X, as well as the T4i and other APS-C cameras, treat wider apertures).
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People have been using a lot of different weight-loss aids and one of them is the green coffee bean extract. This particular coffee bean extract is not only beneficial in the weight loss arena. It comes with several benefits which will be explained in the next paragraph.
Green coffee beans are in their greatest condition when they are used in their natural form, i.e. before they are roasted. In their natural form, green coffee beans are rich in anti-oxidant properties. At the same time, they contain the highest level of chlorogenic acid which is very effective for eliminating toxins and free radicals from the body.
The unroasted green coffee bean is also capable of increasing the metabolic rate as well as regulating the level of sugar in the blood. This coffee bean can also be used to increase the efficacy of painkillers especially when they are used to treat migraine.
When you want to use green coffee to get rid of excessive fat from your body, it is enough for you to take it in the form of basic supplement. You can find the supplement in the form of pills and each pill is normally comprised of thirty to fifty percent of acidity and it has a high level of anti-oxidant.
To maintain regular health, you can try a drink by using the green coffee bean. You can brew it just like you brew other types of coffee beans. As a matter of fact, today you can find certain specialty stores which offer green coffee bean in the form of refreshment. You can also mix it with other coffee beans in order to get a unique but flavorful taste for your daily cup of coffee. People who are not fond of the taste of regular coffee can also revert to the green coffee as it comes with a totally different taste.
Green coffee bean can be consumed with little to no side effects. However, studies are still carried out to identify its real potential and side effects. Due to the fact that not enough research has been done to know about its safety aspects, you are not advised to consume it in excess. Apart from that, pregnant women and children are not encouraged to consume it. There are several complaints being heard about the side effects that have occurred due to excessive usage. Some people had diarrhea and headaches but these conditions might or might not be triggered by the green coffee bean.
The effectiveness of green coffee bean as the major weight loss stimulant is still not proven. However, you can certainly use it as a healthier alternative to heavily caffeinated coffee. You can’t solely depend on green coffee to lose weight or to be cured totally from any diseases, but you can definitely boost your immune system and metabolic rate through its regular consumption. If green coffee bean is used to lose weight then doing exercises and controlling your diet can help you achieve your target a lot speedier and safer.
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Designing trading relationships that reach and benefit small-scale producers in a sustainable way can be a challenge for practitioners who engage directly with women in agriculture. Understanding the benefits, costs and risks when connecting small-scale producers to formal markets is critical to informing companies, farmers,NGOs and donors in their decision to invest in supply chain opportunities.
Produced by the Sustainable Food Lab and the International Institute for Environment and Development, Under what conditions are value chains effective tools for pro-poor... tries to address some fundamental questions using experience with value chain projects in Africa and Latin America.
Key questions include: Who are the rural poor? Under what conditions do they benefit? What are the implications of these lessons for our strategies in setting up ‘prodevelopment’ value chains? What do we most need to understand next?
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By Philip Shapiro, September 26, 2008
In the midst of an economic crisis, it is extremely difficult to maintain perspective. The worst banking crisis since the Great Depression has shocked even the most fervent of bears, led to numerous redundancies and exacerbated panic over contagion in the existing economic system. The UK economy has serious problems, with a housing market in freefall and the highest level of consumer debt per capita in the world. However, that it can, at this stage, be described (by Alistair Darling) as "arguably the worst" economic downturn in 60 years, is highly questionable. Britain is not going to return to the rationing of the 1940s, the three-day working week, or the 3m unemployed of the early 1980s. Whilst unemployment will rise sharply, there is a great deal of flexibility in the labour market due to the recent influx of foreign labour. Interest rates are historically low and inflation is slowing as commodity prices fall to reflect the slowdown in the global economy, easing pressure on consumers.
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Shing! Shing! Shing! Z. In the midst of tyranny there is hope. Zorro is the Mexican robin-hood of the 19th century. Robbing from the rich, rescuing the poor, and taming his horse are only some of his duties. With a mask created from the lego batman helmet, Zorro's identity remains unknown. But how long will it be before he is revealed? Enjoy and please comment.
Interesting Max. The final picture is great and I love the feel of the minifig. All I can say bad is the first picture is out of focus and dampens the presentation a bit but the minifig itself is excellent! 4/5!
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"Wheel of Life" is a trademark of Meyer Resource Group, Inc. "Success Motivation" is a trademark of Success Motivation, Inc. (see www.success-motivation.com). We have no association or connection with these organizations.
Put your life under the microscope.
When life is busy, or all your energy is focused on a special project, it's all too easy to find yourself off balance, not paying enough attention to important areas of your life. While you need to have drive and focus if you're going to get things done, taking this too far can lead to frustration and intense stress.
That's when it's time to take a "helicopter view" of your life, so that you can bring things back into balance.
This is where the Wheel of Life® (or Life Wheel) can help. Commonly used by professional life coaches, it helps you consider each area of your life in turn and assess what's off balance. As such, it helps you identify areas that need more attention.
Figure 1 below shows an example wheel of life with example "dimensions" (we'll explain how to choose the right areas of life or dimensions for you below).
Figure 1 – Wheel of Life Example
The Wheel of Life is powerful because it gives you a vivid visual representation of the way your life is currently, compared with the way you'd ideally like it to be. It is called the "Wheel of Life" because each area of your life is mapped on a circle, like the spoke of a wheel. The concept was originally created by Paul J. Meyer, founder of Success Motivation® Institute, Inc.
There are two ways you can use this tool. One is to use our interactive Wheel of Life tool below (click on the diagram to activate it.)
Alternatively, use the following steps to create your Wheel of Life and assess your balance. (This allows you to define your own dimensions).
Start by downloading our free Wheel of Life worksheet which contains a blank Wheel of Life diagram as shown in figure 2, below.
Figure 2 – Wheel of Life Template
Start by brainstorming the 6 to 8 dimensions of your life that are important for you. Different approaches to this are:
Write down these dimensions on the Wheel of Life diagram, one on each spoke of the life wheel.
This approach assumes that you will be happy and fulfilled if you can find the right balance of attention for each of these dimensions. And different areas of your life will need different levels of attention at different times. So the next step is to assess the amount of attention you're currently devoting to each area.
Consider each dimension in turn, and on a scale of 0 (low) – to 10 (high), write down the amount of attention you're devoting to that area of your life. Mark each score on the appropriate spoke of your Life Wheel.
Now join up the marks around the circle. Does your life wheel look and feel balanced?
Next it's time to consider your ideal level in each area of your life. A balanced life does not mean getting 5 in each life area: some areas need more attention and focus than others at any time. And inevitably you will need to make choices and compromises, as your time and energy are not in unlimited supply!
So the question is, what would the ideal level of attention be for you in each life area?
Plot the "ideal" scores around your life wheel too.
Now you have a visual representation of your current life balance and your ideal life balance. What are the gaps? These are the areas of your life that need attention.
And remember that gaps can go both ways. There are almost certainly areas that are not getting as much attention as you'd like. However there may also be areas where you're putting in more effort than you'd ideally like. These areas are sapping energy and enthusiasm that may better be directed elsewhere.
Once you have identified the areas that need attention, it's time to plan the actions needed to work on regaining balance. Starting with the neglected areas, what things do you need to start doing to regain balance? In the areas that currently sap your energy and time, what can you stop doing or reprioritize or delegate to someone else? Make a commitment to these actions by writing them on your worksheet.
The Wheel of Life is a great tool to help you improve your life balance. It helps you quickly and graphically identify the areas in your life to which you want to devote more energy, and helps you understand where you might want to cut back.
The challenge now is to transform this knowledge and desire for a more balanced life into a positive program of action.
The Mind Tools Club gives you much, much more than you get here on the basic Mind Tools site, including these 4 free workbooks.
And if you join before midnight on June 27, we'll also give you our Motivate Your Team workbook.
Learn how to motivate your team effectively with our Motivate Your Team workbook! This is FREE when you join the Mind Tools Club before midnight, June 27th.
Learn on the move with the free Mind Tools iPhone, iPad and Android Apps. Short bursts of business training ideal for busy people.
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On October 19, GSA Network will go purple for Spirit Day! Spirit Day is an annual day in October when millions of Americans wear purple to speak out against bullying and to show their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth.
Started by high school student Brittany McMillan, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) now coordinates Spirit Day every year. This year, GSA Network partnered with GLAAD to create a Spirit Day tool kit specifically for GSAs.
PS: Don't forget to share pictures and stories from Spirit Day on Facebook and Twitter using the #SpiritDay and #GSA hashtags!
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Articles tagged with: Green Traveling
Travel Stories Contest »
Ecotourism is a movement that respects the established culture and ecology making the temporary contact between traveller and resident a long-term winning strategy for both. However, there is no reason that responsible travel must be associated with primitive food and lodging. Chaa Creek is impressive with their emphasis on a ‘wildly civilized’ vacation opportunity. The eco-lodge offers relaxation and comfort with the assurance that a holiday in Belize is one that also respects and maintains the fragile rainforest and rich local culture.
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Living With Nature
There is no precise literary term for the kind of writing William Least Heat-Moon does. Is it travel writing? Nature writing? Environmental history? Rather than search for a name to assign to it, one might do better to consider passion. Passion in its many nettlesome combinations of love, joy, desire, greed, or anger - is a fuel.
"One of the things I care about most in life is the land and the way we belong to it," says William Least Heat-Moon. "Everything I do grows out of that passion." It is a theme explored in many ways by this Missouri writer who took us on a 13,000-mile van ride in Blue Highways, and who plumbed the very bedrock of Chase County, Kansas, in Prairyerth. They are books fueled with a passion for self-discovery, understanding one's sense of place, and learning to live in harmony with the natural world.
Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon in 1939, grew up in a suburban setting, and as a boy, explored the remaining pockets of woods that surrounded his family's south Kansas City home. He came to the University of Missouri-Columbia to study English, and later, photojournalism.
"The notion of being Least Heat Moon was strong until I was about 16 or 17 years old. When I went off to college, all that slipped away from me." And for 20 years, he was adrift and sometimes miserable. "I was pursuing interests that were not in accord with my real, deep passions."
Writing Blue Highways was an awakening. He came to recognize a small portion of Osage in his background and the influence it has over his work and life. He renamed himself Least Heat-Moon.
I was in one of the strangest pieces of topography I'd ever seen, a place, until now, completely beyond my imaginings. What is it in man that for a long time lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it. - Blue Highways
"I believe there's something that moves within all of us, that for lack of a better term, I call genetic memory," he says. "In which, things that occurred to
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Get involved: Send your news, views, pictures and video by texting SUPIC to 80360 or email us.
Brighton and Hove could face housing shortfall
A planning expert is warning that Brighton and Hove is heading for a shortfall of 4,500 homes.
Paul Burgess, boss at planning company Lewis & Co, has branded Brighton and Hove City Council’s house-building plans for the next 20 years “topsy-turvy”.
He has also called on the Government to reject Brighton and Hove City Council’s attempt to sidestep changes in planning rules.
The council says thousands of businesses could be forced out of the city if new planning rules allow developers to transform offices into homes.
Mr Burgess, director at the firm in Port Hall Road, said the council’s draft city plan, which will direct planners until 2030, will not provide enough homes for residents.
He has urged the council to amend the plan or face rejection by Whitehall.
The council says the city needs 15,800 new homes by 2030 but only has room for 11,300.
Mr Burgess said the city’s neighbours will not help to plug the 4,500 shortfall.
He said: “The council’s logic is topsy-turvy – it has discovered how many homes it is able to provide and made that its target, rather than finding out how many are needed and striving to achieve that figure.
“It is crucial that the city plan is as robust as it can be before it is submitted to Government.”
Tony Mernagh, executive director at the Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership, said: “You can’t plan for the future if you have no control over how much employment space you will have.
Homes and jobs balance
“The problem with the new rule is that it allows practically any and all office space to be converted on a whim, not just the old offices that no one wants.
“Checks and balances have to be applied to the equilibrium between space for homes and jobs.”
Deputy council leader Phelim Macafferty said: “The city plan is robust, practical and will bring forward sustainable development whilst providing homes, jobs, schools and other facilities that our residents and businesses need.
“The case the council has submitted to Government cautions against the prospect of the unmanaged loss of employment space when an up-to-date Employment Land Study highlights shortages across the city.”
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Iris scanners aren't as hack-proof as we thought they were.
LAS VEGAS (CNNMoney) -- We know that cybercriminals are attacking our networks and computers every day, but the next thing they come hunting for might be your eyes.
Some passwords for critical systems are gradually being replaced with biometric identifiers like fingerprints and iris scans, which supposedly offer a safer way to log in. Biometric information can't be stolen in a phishing attack, for instance, because the markers are unique (and physically attached) to each user. It's a foolproof system, right?
It turns out that fingerprints and iris scans can be hacked just like a password, with a clever bit of reverse-engineering.
When biometric data is entered into a computer, the system doesn't store the actual fingerprint or iris scan. It records a digital template that serves as a trimmed-down representation of the biometric information. When a user goes to log in, his or her characteristics are matched against those templates, and the match is given a similarity score. If it's high enough, the user is let inside.
Last year, researchers at the University of Bologna in Italy were able to reconstruct a fingerprint from the digital template stored in a computer. They were so successful that they were able to build gummy finger versions of the prints that could be pressed up against a reader and used to fool the computer into letting them into someone else's account.
Iris scans shouldn't be susceptible to reverse-engineering, because the human iris is far more complex than a fingerprint and offers extremely low false positives in a scan. It's possible that your fingerprint comes close enough to matching mine, but the chances that your iris could be confused for someone else's are incredibly slim.
Yet new research shows that building an eyeball from a digital iris template is just as plausible as creating a fingerprint from a template.
At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Javier Galbally, a researcher at the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid, Spain, showed how his team did it.
Iris scanners take an image of the eye, stretch the iris out into a rectangle, and then create a template of 0s and 1s called an "iriscode." In image form, it resembles a series of black and white pixels in a long, narrow rectangle. It looks nothing like an actual iris.
But don't tell that to an iris scanning system. By making an image out of the stored iriscode, stretching it into a circle, and feeding it back into the system, Galbally's team was able to get into the system with an 87% success rate.
The iris scanner didn't even care that the background was completely white, with no eyelid surrounding the reconstructed image. In other words, the scanner didn't look to check that the image it was looking at was really a human eye. That's a huge vulnerability, Galbally said, and one that iris scanning systems should fix.
The growing popularity of biometric scanners have raised concerns that bad guys are going to start gruesomely chopping off fingers and cutting out eyeballs to break into critical systems. (Hey, it worked in Demolition Man.)
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Sarah, wife of Abraham, was a beautiful woman. Stories of her beauty are mentioned twice in the book of Genesis in the bible. She retained her beauty into old age causing me to wonder about her beauty secrets. Did she use goat’s milk on her skin or olive oil on her hair? Did she keep her face covered so that it was never exposed to ultraviolet rays?
The first story of Sarah’s beauty is found in Genesis 12:11-20. Abraham had moved his family, servants, and livestock, to Egypt. Knowing that Sarah (called Sarai at the time) was beautiful, Abraham feared for his own life. He was afraid that The Egyptians would kill him in order to get his wife. He prepared Sarah in advance, asking her to tell everyone that she was his sister. This was a half-truth. Sarah was Abraham’s half-sister – the daughter of his father and a different mother. Sarah did attract Pharaoh’s attention and when his men told him she was Abraham’s sister, he sent for her and took her into his palace, sent gifts to Abraham and treated him well.
God had plans for Sarah. The entire nation of Israel would come from her and Abraham, so He intervened, inflicting disease on Pharaoh and his household. God brought it to Pharaoh’s attention that Sarah was a married woman. Pharaoh returned Sarah and sent Abraham and his entourage away.
Sarah would have been about sixty-five years of age.
The second story of Sarah’s beauty took place when she was much older. Abraham moved to land between Kadesh and Shur. Abraham was, again, fearful for his life. The ruler, Abimelech, admired Sarah and was told that she was Abraham’s sister. He promptly took her into his harem. God intervened again, visiting Abimelech in a dream. He told him that Sarah was a married woman. Abimelech returned Sarah to her husband.
We don’t know exactly how old Sarah was at this time but it is certain that she was well past her child-bearing years. Do you wonder how she could have attracted the attention of rulers who already had harems full of women? Physical beauty certainly had much to do with it. She must have been a naturally beautiful woman. She would have remained healthy into her old age because God still planned for her to miraculously conceive and carry a child. Isaac was born when she was ninety years old. Even at that advanced age, she would not have been feeble.
Physical beauty, when accepted as a gift from God, is a blessing. Good health is a blessing. However, there is much more to beauty than what is on the outside.
I think the most outstanding part of Sarah’s beauty probably came from the inside. She worshipped the one true God and His Light shone from her face. 1Peter 3:3-4 tells us that beauty should come from the inner self. True beauty, that does not fade, is a gentle and quiet spirit.
In Psalm 34:5, David says that those who look on the Lord are radiant.
Sarah must have had physical loveliness, but her true, unmistakable beauty came from her love of her Lord, her faith in His promise and her quiet obedience to Him. This beauty radiates from within and is the most attractive quality anyone can have.
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Getting older isn’t bad. Looking older and becoming ill or weak, that’s what’s bad. A crosstrainer can add years of healthy living. The health benefits of exercise are widely known. A sedentary lifestyle increases your chance of heart disease and early death by more than smoking or eating a poor diet, according to research at the University of Hong Kong. Their study showed that the couch potatoes even increased their risk of cancer, by 45 percent if they were men and 28 percent if they were women.
According to a January 2011 article in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the size of the gait and speed was another measure for longevity. Those walking faster simply skirted death longer than those with a slower pace did. Maybe they simply outran it or had the faster speed because of their increased fitness. The second is the most rational choice.
Exercise May Be as Simple as Walking
People keep in shape by walking but that’s not always possible for those who live in areas where walking is dangerous or inclement weather frequently occurs making walking impossible. Even though the early morning mall walkers may extol the virtues and pleasure of walking an empty mall, dressing and driving to the mall may deter many good intentions. That’s why having exercise machines that offer the ability to cross-train can increase your chances of working out on schedule.
Simply keeping your body moving does more for you than exercise your legs. Walking offers other benefits such as lowering blood sugar levels, blood pressure and cholesterol. Of course, by lowering these risks, you also lower the risk of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke, which are becoming epidemic in American society.
Walking or other forms of exercise do something else for those that participate. They increase the output of endorphins, serotonin and dopamine, which increase your potential for a good mood while eliminating depression. Exercise also burns cortisol. Your body makes cortisol when you’re angry, afraid or under stress. By burning it, it relieves the stress and simply makes you happier. There’s no reason to become the grumpy old man or woman on the block, no matter what your age, when you exercise.
Most people think they have to run a marathon or make their cross training machines whirl madly around when they first begin an exercise regimen. That’s simply not true. You don’t have to walk rapidly if you’re out of shape, in fact, a slower pace can help protect you and build the muscles and stamina for the longer faster exercise once you’re in shape. Simply moving is the answer.
Those who are out of shape often worry that they’ll walk too far and not have the stamina to get home. That’s another reason exercise equipment in the home, such as elliptical trainers, are beneficial. You’re always at home and can push yourself slightly without worrying. Once you develop the stamina and cardiovascular endurance for any distance, you can “strut your stuff” outside to show off to the neighborhood. For those confused about the best type of training equipment to purchase, consider using online trainer reviews as your guide.
Creating an Exercise Plan
You’ll need to assess your level of fitness before you begin any plan. If you worry about being fit enough to walk the length of the block and back, start inside the house first. While exercise equipment is beneficial, you don’t need to wait until you purchase it. You can begin by simply mapping out a path in the interior of your home. Walk at whatever pace you feel comfortable or walk in place if necessary. As long as you can still move, you still can improve your fitness, but it will take dedication and time.
If you feel comfortable walking outside, look for routes that don’t require dodging traffic and have pleasant scenery. Some people find that walking for a purpose, such as to a local restaurant or grocery can increase their desire to walk. Even though you might have the perfect weather and setting for walking outside, consider adding some fitness equipment for both aerobic fitness and muscle tone. You can use these pieces when your schedule or the weather precludes outside walking and reap the benefit of toning your upper body too.
Machines to Help You to Reach Your Goals
While simple barbells or even heavy soup cans work for weight training, you have a number of fitness machines from which to select that substitute for walking and building aerobic endurance. The one you choose depends on your preferences, physical concerns and room space. Exercise bikes, and rowing machines tend to be harder on the joints than crosstrainers. The proper use of rowing machines are also harder to learn, and don’t provide weight bearing exercise, which prevents osteoporosis, as the crosstrainers do. You’ll also note that the crosstrainers tend to take up less space than a full-sized treadmill.
If you check elliptical trainer reviews, you’ll find there are numerous companies that offer more than one elliptical machine. Look for one that fits your pocketbook, but make sure that it is dependable and easy to use. If it costs you more in repair over the years, you’re not only losing money, you’re losing precious workout time.
Walking for the Fit and Less-than-Fit
You don’t have to be out of shape to add walking to your exercise program. It’s simple and easy to do and creates a nice break from more strenuous exercise while still maintaining your fitness and increasing your metabolism. If you participate in other sports, you’ll find that walking increases your stamina as well as your muscle tone, to help prevent injury.
However, you don’t have to be a pro basketball star to begin the regimen of walking. In fact, you can start today since there’s no learning curve involved, no competition and nobody watching, if you tire out in a few minutes. If you don’t own any indoor exercise equipment, don’t wait until you purchase a piece, just get moving. As you begin to feel fit, your day won’t be complete without some form of exercise.
Those with a more demanding schedule will love having the equipment in the house so they can fit exercise easily into their day. Those who are retired will love the fact they increase their fitness before they start their jaunt down the street and don’t have to wait for sunny weather or summer to begin if they have a trainer or other exercise equipment in their home.
Have you considered a crosstrainer (elliptical trainer) or any other means of staying fit? Share your thoughts!
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Such vivid description of the rain like “Slanting silver ropes ploughing the mud like gunfire” can only be a product of a mind which is fully integrated with nature. Arundhati Roy comes up with a brilliant description of a sad story extra-ordinarily told. Her unconventional narration of the story is one of the most praiseworthy aspects of this book. The story flashes back and forth, compelling you to read further. The plot only gets more mystical as you keep on reading. In the end, everything is understood completely as if all the missing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle are assembled to form the full picture.
Arundhati Roy’s description of the village of Aymenem in Kerala is so detailed that it makes you smell the Paradise Pickles and the rain shot mud. The sad incident of Sophie Mol’s death would develop a lump in your gut for sure, if it does not make you cry. The author’s mastery over the pen is felt in her use of metaphors like the comparison of dead “Sophie Mol’s face in the coffin was as wrinkled as a dhobi’s thumb after washing clothes”. The chemistry between dizygotic twins Estha and Rahel is depicted wonderfully.
Along with all this, there are the usual elements which would make this book good enough to be made into a film. There are issues like untouchability, generation gap, domestic violence, etc. which make this book a story well worth reading beyond the constraints of country or religion. The winning of The Booker Prize by this author who is a first timer only furthers this claim.
All in all, a nice sad story which is strong enough to make the reader remember the characters long after one has finished reading this book.
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Riverside County public health officials say they will investigate illnesses among residents of a Wildomar housing tract where four families on the same cul-de-sac abandoned their homes and fear the houses caused their ailments.
The health officials are asking residents, doctors and other care providers to share medical records with the county Department of Public Health to determine whether there is a pattern of illnesses in the Autumnwood housing tract, said Dr. Cameron Kaiser, the county’s interim public health officer.
“We are taking this very seriously,” said Kaiser, who is a physician.
Kaiser’s department already has compared hospital data and found no differences in the incidence of breathing and respiratory hospitalizations among people living in the housing tract’s ZIP code versus others in nearby communities.
But that analysis, Kaiser said, was unable to show whether a unique health problem existed in the 61-home Autumnwood Estates tract. The tract is in a ZIP code that includes all of Wildomar, a city of nearly 33,000 people, and parts of Lake Elsinore.
Several families interviewed by The Press-Enterprise reported illnesses that included headaches, rashes, nosebleeds, breathing difficulties and gastrointestinal problems. They said they suffered frequent colds, flu and sinus infections. Four people suffered pneumonia, and one of them, a child, had it twice. Two women, both in their 30s, died from ailments that included pneumonia, according to family members,
Kaiser asked that residents or medical professionals fax medical records to 951-358-5102. County health staff members are available to answer questions during normal hours at 951-358-5107. The county is seeking assistance from Wildomar City Hall and county Supervisor Bob Buster’s office to get the word out, he said.
Four families living on the same cul-de-sac, Amaryllis Court, have left their homes in the past year and a half.
Government officials have reviewed tests commissioned by an attorney representing the four families and said they see nothing that would cause serious illness.
Tests on air samples from the ground and inside the houses found levels of carcinogenic benzene and other chemicals that exceed levels the state of California considers safe for homes. The chemicals include carbon tetrachloride, a solvent and coolant banned in consumer products; and ethylene dichloride, a plastics ingredient and toxic chemical that has been discontinued for some uses.
Although the state experts said the chemical concentrations were far too low to explain the illnesses, they said the tests were not done according to state protocols and questioned their validity. They also recommended testing the soil. They declined to investigate, however, and referred the matter to Riverside County for further action.
Thomas Ciccarelli and his infant child left his Amaryllis Court home in August after his wife, Fatima, 36, died suddenly. Her symptoms included pneumonia.
He said he is pleased that a government agency is looking into the illnesses in the neighborhood
“That’s just awesome, because now they are finally doing something,” said Ciccarelli, a career Marine based at Camp Pendleton.
Floyd and Xonia Villanueva, who left their home in June 2011, said they are willing to share medical records but still strongly believe a government agency should investigate the tract itself for a source of contamination.
“Instead of investigating us, they should be looking at the soil,” Xonia Villanueva said.
The couple added that they are not confident the county will get enough medical records for an adequate analysis.
“What about the people who moved out?” Xonia asked. “Will they (the health department) get their medical records?”
Some other residents of the tract said they have had no medical problems associated with their homes. One woman, Raquel Lewis, said earlier this week that she would welcome an outside investigation to resolve questions and possibly remove a stigma from the neighborhood.
The homes in the Autumnwood tract were among thousands of houses that went up during the building boom of the past decade.
Extensive earth moving was needed in 2004 to prepare the15.3-acre site for construction, public records showed.
Plywood, tires, tree limbs and other plant debris were mixed into fill dirt brought to the property, according to construction logs obtained by residents through a lawsuit.
Several people who bought homes in Autumnwood Estates said it was not unusual while gardening in their yards to find plastic bags, soiled rags and other apparent garbage in the dirt.
Some said they fear something toxic also might have been buried below their homes.
Ciccarelli, an Iraq war veteran, and he and his baby daughter, Kalie, are stuck in limbo as they stay with friends. He said Friday they can’t live in his house and that it would be unethical to sell it.
“I now have no place to live,” he said.
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A Small Budget Fix Aids U.S. Economy and Cuts Deficit
Calling on Congress to pass a limited package of spending cuts and tax changes, U.S. President Barack Obama gave lawmakers license this week to go small and leave the big, bad kahuna of deficit reduction for another day.
He’s right. Congress should move quickly to come up with $85 billion to offset the first installment of the $1.2 trillion in mandatory across-the-board budget cuts, which will go into effect March 1.
Kicking the can isn’t generally the best policy. And though $85 billion might not seem like much, it would be another in a series of payments steadily chipping away at a projected $845 billion federal budget deficit. More important, it would limit the economic pain and slapdash policy choices that would inevitably accompany the cuts required under the so-called sequester -- $55 billion from the Pentagon budget and $30 billion from other government programs. That scheduled fiscal tightening is projected to slow economic growth, keeping the jobless rate near 8 percent through 2013, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
So how do we get there? The soundest approach would aim for a mix of spending cuts and tax increases, perhaps $2 in cuts for every $1 of tax increases.
Closing the carried-interest loophole would be a good place to start and would raise about $14 billion over 10 years. Charging the hard-rock mining industry cleanup fees and royalties could raise $3 billion more. Eliminating special tax breaks for the oil and gas industry could bring in $35 billion, and limiting farm subsidies, many of which flow to agribusiness, could generate as much as $25 billion. The government could also limit additional tax deductions for wealthier earners, either by capping the amount they can deduct or converting some deductions into flat tax credits.
There are other places to look for savings. Obama’s budget presents more than $360 billion in savings from Medicare, and, as we’ve outlined, the Defense Department could withstand as much as $500 billion in fat-trimming -- provided the cuts are, unlike the sequester, carefully targeted. Other cost-cutting measures include allowing the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. to raise the premiums it charges employers to protect their pensions, a move the Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission estimates would save the nation $16 billion through 2020.
It’s worth remembering that this won’t be the end of it. An additional $1.1 trillion in across-the-board cuts are scheduled to kick in starting next year. Lawmakers will ultimately have to decide whether -- or how -- to offset them. As the Congressional Budget Office reported, even the sequestration’s full $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction won’t be enough to fix the nation’s debt woes. Over the next 10 years, debt held by the public is projected to be “significantly greater” relative to gross domestic product than at any time since just after World War II, ballooning to 77 percent in 2023.
The real culprit is the unsustainable rate of spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Shoring up those safety- net programs is a task that Congress must eventually embrace. But there’s little chance of a grand solution before the sequester begins wreaking havoc on the budget.
Despite the theatrics, lawmakers have found ways to work together to reduce spending. In fact, in the past two years, Congress has found more than $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade. The deal in January to avert the fiscal cliff increased taxes on wealthy Americans. Meanwhile, the CBO’s recent deficit report shows spending will remain relatively stable, at about 22 percent of GDP, over the next decade.
Congress has increasingly relied on short-term fixes for fiscal messes of their own creation. That’s no way to run a country. But neither, as Obama put it, is subjecting a weary nation to more “self-inflicted wounds.” Lawmakers can surely find $85 billion in cuts without goring the economy in the process.
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IEEE has launched the IEEE Smart Grid Web Portal, an integrated gateway to Smart Grid intelligence, education, and news from IEEE and other expert sources. The portal is designed for manufacturers, policymakers, educators, academics, governments, engineers, computer scientists, researchers, and other stakeholders in the power and energy, information technology, and communications industries.
The IEEE Smart Grid Web Portal is the first phase of IEEE Smart Grid, created to bring together IEEE's broad array of resources to provide expertise and guidance for those involved in Smart Grid worldwide.
The term "Smart Grid" refers to the next-generation, managed electrical power system that leverages increased use of communications and information technology in the generation, delivery, and consumption of electrical energy. The new IEEE Smart Grid initiative will organize, coordinate, leverage and build upon the strength of various entities within and outside of IEEE with Smart Grid expertise and interest.
According to Steve Diamond, member of the IEEE Board of Directors and past president of the IEEE Computer Society, "Given its global representation across the technology spectrum, IEEE is ideally positioned to deliver thought leadership and coordination to Smart Grid."
The first IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) will take place in October at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and will be centered on all communications aspects that are relevant to the Smart Grid.
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The world’s largest e-retailer, Amazon.com Inc., has applied for 76 new Internet address endings, according to a list revealed today by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
The group, commonly called ICANN, says that more than 500 organizations in 60 countries collectively applied for 1,930 generic top-level domains—the terms after the final period in a web site address.
Those organizations include Google Inc., which has applied for 101 address endings, including .google, .youtube, .music, .android, .boo, .and, .dad, and .new. Amazon, which is No. 1 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, applied for such names as .amazon, .app, .author, .book, .buy, .news, .cloud, .dev and .music. Amazon declines to comment.
A top-level domain is the term that follows the final period in a web address, such as .com, .org and .gov. There are now 21 top-level domains, and 250 country code domains such as .uk, .fr and .au. ICANN’s plan is to allow companies and other entities to acquire and operate many new top-level domains with a range of potential marketing benefits. A camera company could own the .camera domain, for example. A retailer could create its own domain, such as .Macys and create web addresses such as dresses.Macys and furniture.Macys.
ICANN is the non-for-profit organization that coordinates the names and numbers that make up Internet addresses around the world.
Some 230 domain names were requested by more than one party; those names include .shop, .buy, .cars, .coupons .play, .book, .video, .wine, .art, .vip, .golf, .home, .store and .app. The last, .app, had 13 applications.
During the evaluation process, ICANN will review cases in which more than one party has applied for the same name in a special procedure and pick which, if any, will be allowed ownership of the domain. Or, as the organization says on its web site, “Applicants always have the opportunity to resolve contention by a mutually agreeable settlement amongst themselves.”
Retailers and other organization now have 60 days to comment on the applications and roughly seven months to formally oppose them before ICANN begins processing and assigning new domain names. Each application a company filed cost $185,000 for evaluation by ICANN.
“This is bound to have negative long-term implications for those small- to mid-sized Internet retailers who lacked the amount of capital needed to be in the game,” says Abe Garver, an investment banker who follows e-commerce companies. “I predict the new domains will radically change organic search results and further swing the advantage from the haves to the have nots—not just in the U.S. but around the world.”
Retailers that don’t want to risk being boxed out of a domain space—for example, .shoes (one application) or .shop (nine applications)—should look at the list and see if their competitors have applied for any extensions that could hurt their own businesses, in which case they should decide to formally oppose the application or not, says David Weslow, partner at Washington D.C.-based Wiley Rein LLP who focuses on trademarks, copyrights and domain names. Many businesses applied for the domain names defensively, trying to lock down words associated with their products, services or brands. “Your ability to engage in dialogue with that company is limited, maybe a few months,” Weslow says.
ICANN plans to announce evaluation results before the end of the opposition period, he continues. That way, businesses can wait and see if it decided to reject an application before taking on the costly legal work to fight it themselves.
However, Weslow says ICANN is notorious for delays and not sticking to timelines. The organization took six years to get from the initial proposal of introducing more domain names to opening for applicants in 2011, during which the application requirements changed numerous times. If ICANN doesn’t conclude who it plans to reject until two weeks before the opposition period closes—which Weslow warns is possible—businesses, including retailers, won’t have time to build a legal case against those decisions, he says.
Retailers will still have an opportunity to buy up Internet addresses defensively even after the new domains are assigned, but they will come at a price. The company or organization that wins ownership of a domain name will have applied for one of two types of domain name registries: either they will own outright all addresses ending in .shoes, for example, or they will be able to sell addresses using the extension on the second level to other businesses at a price they set. So, for example, Zappos might be able to buy zappos.shoes from Binky Galley LLC, which applied for .shoes, if ICANN approves Binky Galley to own the domain with such a registry.
The owners of.xxx, which was won in the last round of applications in 2004, have been selling addresses with the .xxx extension for $200 each since then, Weslow says. So a retailer who decides it has hundreds of addresses to corner—perhaps ourcreamer.coffee, ourbeans.coffee, ourmugs.coffee, etc.—may have to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to accomplish that.
ICANN says it will process applications in batches, starting with 500, then reducing to 400 in subsequent groups, and each application will take at least nine months to evaluate; Weslow estimates it will take nearly four years to get through all 1,930 applications. Then ICANN is obligated to provide the U.S. government with an evaluation of the program that will take at least a year to complete. So altogether it could be at least six years before another round of generic top-level domain applications begins. Given this infrequency of rounds, Weslow concludes that companies that win a new domain can expect around a 10-year monopoly on it, at least.
On the plus side for retailers, adding so many new domain names could offer new opportunities for relevancy in Internet names. “The .com right now has zero significance—you could be a hospital or you could be a jeweler,” Weslow says.
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The answer – even though I have not been asked the question in perhaps 15 years – is high school chemistry class. My uncomprehending teacher tried to continue with the planned experiment involving a Bunsen burner even after word spread that John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas.
Forty-seven years later, it all seems part of another world defined by black-and-white television, the black-and-white certainties of the Cold War and black-and-white racial relations. Even if he had served two full terms as president, JFK (born in 1917 and afflicted with Addison's disease) almost certainly would be long dead by now. Few remain who were close to John Kennedy (aside from his daughter, Caroline) following the deaths of Ted Kennedy
last year and "ask not" speechwriter Ted Sorensen
three weeks ago.
Today's Americans – no matter what age – have become hardened by the shock of wrenching events from the 9/11 attacks to the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and the shooting of Ronald Reagan. But for teenagers born after World War II, this was not how it was supposed to be in 1963. Assassination meant John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Lincoln's evening at the theater.
The visceral "where were you when Kennedy was shot?" memories of that terrible weekend in 1963 are an inescapable part of who I am today. The collective grief was different from the grief that followed the toppling of the Twin Towers because it was centered on a single man – a martyred president – rather than the thousands who died horrifically yet anonymously. At the CBS anchor desk, Walter Cronkite
talked about Jackie Kennedy's blood-stained dress and showed the photo of a haggard Lyndon Johnson
taking the oath of office aboard Air Force One. A trip to the local newsstand for the latest papers (as if more news would erase the horror with a page-one "Correction" box) led to a conversation with a weeping middle-aged man holding the "Kennedy Assassinated
" edition of the Daily News.
Unable to endure the claustrophobia of non-stop televised grief in suburban Connecticut, I somehow convinced my parents (Adlai Stevenson Democrats rather than JFK true believers) to let me go to Washington with a high school friend to mourn Kennedy. My first plane flight was the Eastern shuttle from New York to Washington, two days after Kennedy died. That bitterly cold Sunday we stood outside for more than four hours to be among the 250,000 to view Kennedy's flag-draped coffin
in the Rotunda of the Capitol. (Honesty compels me to mention that my friend and I debated trying to pick up girls while waiting on line, but reluctantly decided that would be a breach of funereal propriety).
The next day, we were out early enough to snag a prime viewing spot along Pennsylvania Avenue to witness the cortege and the riderless horse Black Jack
on its way to the funeral then Arlington Cemetery. The image, though, that stays with me is the diminutive Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia, walking next to towering French President Charles de Gaulle behind the caisson carrying the coffin
. Writing these words, I can hear the clicks of hundreds of Kodaks and the whir of a few Bell and Howell movie cameras as the mournful procession passed by. At the time, I was offended by the collective obsession with getting a picture for the family scrapbook. In hindsight, of course, I wish I had one.
For decades after the Kennedy assassination, there was an irresistible urge to rewrite the history of the 1960s without the accidental presidency of Lyndon Johnson. My friend Jeff Greenfield offers a fascinating twist on this perennial what-if question in his forthcoming book, "Then Everything Changed
," to be published in March. But the question of whether President Kennedy would have blundered so deeply in Vietnam has lost its urgency with the passage of time and the march of folly in other wars like Iraq. Perhaps ultimately more important is the alternate question: Would the pragmatic Kennedy have ever matched LBJ's passion for civil rights, despite the political risks for Democrats in the South and among white ethnic voters?
John Kennedy's thousand days in the White House
was re-imagined as an idyllic Camelot, a linkage first made by Jacqueline Kennedy in an interview after her husband's assassination. The words that haunted the president's widow
were those of Richard Burton playing King Arthur in the Broadway musical: "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot."
In truth, no presidency could live up to such a billing, especially one that was scarred by the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the initial Green Berets commitment to Vietnam and a domestic legislative program stymied by reactionary Southern Democrats in Congress. But JFK also displayed exceptional prudence in staring down the bombs-away hawks during the Cuban Missile crisis – and rightfully deserves an honored place in history as the president who averted nuclear war. And as an inspiration for a rebirth of American idealism (the Peace Corps, in particular) and as the most press-friendly of modern American presidents (JFK's press conferences were notable because he actually answered the questions), Kennedy embodied the jaunty confidant side of post-war America.
Monday, on the 47th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination
, I will set aside a moment to mourn the beguiling president who defined my coming-of-age years. And I will take another moment to mourn my own youthful innocence that died on that terrible day in Dallas so long ago.
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ABUSIR BANA, town located in the Egyptian Delta about three miles south of SAMANNUD in the province of al-Gharbiyyah. Its Greek name was Busiris.
Although Abusir Bana had a reputation as late as the Byzantine period for its devotion to Isis, Christianity also has a long tradition in the town. One of the bishops Melitius was able to win over to his side in 325 (see MELITIAN SCHISM) was Hermaion, bishop of Kynopolis and Abusir Bana (Munier, 1943, p. 3). By the middle of the fifth century at the latest there was an orthodox bishop in Abusir Bana as evidenced by the attendance of Bishop Athanasius at the Council of EPHESUS in 449 and the Council of CHALCEDON in 451 (Munier, 1943, pp. 19-20).
JOHN OF NIKIOU reports that at the time of the ARAB CONQUEST OF EGYPT Abusir Bana was an important administrative center. The Byzantine regime maintained troops in the town under the leadership of a man named Zacharias. Nonetheless, the Arabs were able to capture the city with little difficulty (1883, p. 411).
The Coptic community in Abusir Bana seems to have withstood the Arabic Conquest and to have remained intact. The HISTORY OF THE PATRIARCHS reports that in the time of Patriarch ALEXANDER II (705-730) Bishop John of Sa reunited the heretical Coptic congregation in Abusir Bana with the orthodox church. By 744 a bishop was again situated in Abusir Bana. We know that Bishop Jacob from the town was present at the synod that selected KHA'IL I (744-767) as the forty-sixth patriarch. Bishop Peter was in office in Abusir Bana sometime shortly before 750. A student of Bishop Zacharias of ATRIB, Peter was one of several church leaders who were imprisoned with Patriarch Kha'il. Sometime during the patriarchate of PHILOTHEUS (979-1003), Bishop Severus from Abusir Bana visited the patriarch in Alexandria. At the end of the eleventh century a man named Mark was bishop in Abusir Bana. In 1078 Mark was present at DAYR ANBA MAQAR in Wadi al-Natrun for the selection of CYRIL II (1078-1092) as patriarch.
Given the long Coptic tradition of Abusir Bana, it is not surprising that the town appears in the medieval Coptic-Arabic scales and in the lists of Egyptian bishoprics (Munier, 1943, pp. 48, 54, 63).
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An Open Letter to Arianna Huffington
How the Huffington Post is still blowing it on science but has a chance to make a real difference
Voice of San Diego: New Reporter Guidelines.
We only do something if we can do it better than anyone or if no one else is doing it.* We must add value. We must be unique.
Three things to remember for each story:* Context
* Not just what is happening, but what it means
There is no such thing as objectivity.* There is such thing as fairness.
* But everyone sees everything through their own filter. Acknowledge that, let it liberate you. Let it regulate you.
* We are not guided by political identification, by ideology or dogma. But every decision we make, from what to cover to how to cover it, is made through our own subjective judgments.
* We are guided by an ability to be transparent and independent, to clearly assess what’s going on in our community and have the courage to plainly state the truth.
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(I orginally wrote this article in in 2008 – which is why Ms Clinton is mentioned here – but the Blog no longer exists, so I don’t feel guilty in re-posting it here. Also, even tho there are typos in the text bekow, I could have written this yesterday!!)
Was jesus a Conservative?
I seriously doubt it.
American Comnservatives. have benn having a field day, attacking the “faith” of Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton, calling liberals “Godless”, and slandering certain denominations.
So one does have to wonder, just how well do Conservatives reflect the image of Jesus in the words and deeds?
Conservatives (Republicans and their predecessors) have fought among other things:
* child labor laws
* the forty-hour work week
* protection of the air and water
* overtime pay
* Social Security
* consumer protections
* national heath care
* racial equality
* equality for women
* inter-racial marriage
Conservatism is about preserving or returning to the conditions of an earlier time, and it is, by definition, anti change. Ultimately, unless it goes to it’s extreme expression, fascism, it’s doomed to failure because, quite simply, change happens. Or the house of cards built on the exploitation of the poor and working class tumbles.
The “Founding Fathers” had to fight battles against the conservatives (Torys) of their day who were loyal to the King George. If conservativism had prevailed in the late 1700s, there would be no United States of America today.
In contrast this to conservatism, we read of Jesus:
And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. (Matt. 14:14).
Jesus stood against the conservatives of His day, the Republicans of His time, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Herodians, and they released their “Republican attack dogs” on Him and led Him to His death.
The word “Christian,” means “like Christ.” Which is something we should endeavor to become. Religious conservatives are, in my opinion the anti-thesis, the opposite, the “anti-Christ” and stand against His compassion and love for the poor, widows and orphans expressed so many times in the Scriptures.
The apostles, and the letters of Paul, expressed concern that the poor were taken care of. Contrarily, Ronald Reagan used to express concerns that the USA should not provide a perception of even a hope of a safety net for the middle–class and the poor.
I am finding it difficult, no let me say I cannot understand, how anyone can Scripturally claim to be conservative and Christian, without totally trashing the teaching of Jesus and the Apostles, without ignoring some 2000 pasages conserning the poor, the needy, and the oprresded and how God expressed His requirements of His/Her concern for them.
And I just can’t see Jesus giving the Sermon on the Mount at any conservative gathering and getting a good reception.
I can just imagine Jesus showing up at one of those “Valuses Voters” gatherings!!
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They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President.
“I trace the rainbow through the rain and see the promise is not in vain.”
Every 3.6 seconds a real person dies from hunger somewhere in the world!!!
Feed a hungry person today:
God is still speaking
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Gender: Some Painstaking Differences
Feeling Your Pain
By Bob Calandra
Any mother will tell you that if men had to go through the excruciating pain of childbirth the human race would have become extinct long ago.
According to feminine lore, guys simply don't handle pain well. The tiniest twinge of discomfort is enough to reduce most men into helpless, whimpering heaps. Women, on the other hand, can handle the tough stuff. In fact, you can ratchet up the old pain-o-meter to agony and beyond and most women will soldier on without flinching.
The trouble with that theory is -- it's wrong. And now men have the science to prove it.
"The laboratory research seems to indicate that for many kinds -- but not all kinds -- of stimuli, women have a lower tolerance for pain," says Linda LeResche, ScD, a professor of oral medicine at the University of Washington, in Seattle.
But what exactly that means is a puzzle LeResche and other pain researchers across the country are trying to work through. The fact is, no one really knows for sure if women and men perceive pain differently, let alone how they react to it.
Untangling the Mystery of Pain
"There are [so many] overlays of societal and cultural norms and other factors that go into the reporting of pain that it may not have a biological basis at all," says Robert Gear, an assistant professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of California, in San Francisco. "It certainly could have a biological basis, but there is no way to test it so far."
Researchers have been trying for decades to untangle the mystery of pain. An important breakthrough came in the mid-1960s when scientists discovered that the brain could change or modulate the nervous system in response to pain. Until then it was believed the nerve-brain-pain connection was fixed and inflexible.
"There is some experimental research that suggests the pain modulation systems between men and women may be different," LeResche says. "Females may also have an additional system that uses estrogen."
The 1990s were a fertile time in pain research. What we now know is that pain begins when nociceptors -- small, thin fibers located throughout the body in peripheral nerves -- register trauma to nearby tissue. During surgery, for instance, nociceptors fire as soon as the initial incision is made. They release a bath of chemicals that induces the nerves to carry the pain message to the brain. The chemicals collect in a part of the spinal cord called the dorsal horn and are released to the brain -- where pain is registered.
Even with general anesthesia, a patient's central nervous system remains alert and ushers pain messages back and forth from the nociceptor, through the nerves, into the spinal cord, and on to the brain. The brain responds by washing the spinal cord with glutamate, a chemical that rewires the central nervous system and creates a physical memory of pain.
Feeling Your Pain
The challenging part will be teasing out the rest of the information -- including how men and women perceive pain and the physiological/social aspects of pain. But in financial terms it certainly will be worthwhile. The annual cost of pain in the U.S. is roughly $100 billion, including 515 million lost workdays, according to the American Pain Foundation. Approximately 25 million Americans suffer from acute pain due to injuries or surgery.
Laboratory studies show a clear difference in pain tolerance levels between men and women. When healthy men and women are subjected to heat and other types of pain tests, women almost always report feeling discomfort first.
"It takes a lower temperature for a women to tell you that this feels painful," says Roger Fillingim, PhD, associate professor in the college of dentistry at the University of Florida, in Gainesville. "The laboratory studies show rather convincingly that women have a lower pain threshold and pain tolerance than men. That has been fairly consistently shown in the experimental studies that have been done."
To measure the differences in pain tolerance between men and women, Fillingim uses something called effect size, which compares the differences between the groups to the differences within each group. On a scale of small, moderate, and large, the pain tolerance difference between men and women is considered moderate. In degrees centigrade that translates to a difference of one degree to a degree and a half.
"So they are not so great that you would say, 'Here comes a women and she will have more pain no matter what else is going on,'" he says. "It is also not so small that they should be ignored for other factors."
Those findings actually prompt as many questions as they answer. For instance, researchers want to know, what role does a woman's menstrual cycle play in her perception of pain? It must play some part, says Sherry Marts, scientific director for the Society for Women's Health Research in Washington, D.C. For example, she says, women know not to get their legs waxed right before their period because it is much more painful than at other times in their cycle.
"Something in the hormonal factor is affecting the perception of the pain," says Marts.
Fillingim agrees, adding that laboratory research suggests that during the premenstrual phase women are more sensitive to most types of painful stimuli than during other phases of their cycle.
"So there are a lot of complicated interactions among different systems of the body rather than just estrogen going up and down," he says.
Another question that researchers would like to answer is if the laboratory differences have any clinical meaning? In other words, how can physicians use the data to help their patients?
"Those are some of the questions that are starting to be addressed, but we still need a lot of information," Fillingim says.
As this data starts trickling in, a patient's sex could ultimately change the way he or she is treated. Today, when a man or woman walks into a doctor's office they are evaluated and treated for pain in exactly the same way. But that could change in the very near future, says LeResche.
"We are getting better-designed research," she says. "My sense is that there is quite a bit going on that should yield some answers in the next five years."
Bob Calandra is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in several magazines, including People and Life. He lives in Glenside, Penn.
Originally published April 30, 2001.
reviewed by Gary D. Vogin, MD, Aug. 27, 2002.
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
Happy May Day!
May Day (May 1) is a spring festival celebrating human fertility and the renewal of nature. The festival originated with the celebration of the Roman goddess Flora and spread to other countries of the Roman Empire. May Day was especially popular in England during medieval times. Activities centered around the maypole, a tree collected from the woods and brought to the village to celebrate the upcoming summer.
This holiday has long since faded away but as a child I remember celebrating May Day at school with processions of little girls dressed in white dresses with flowers in our hair and adorning the statue of Mother Mary with a beautiful flower crown.
At home I would make tiny bouquets of wildflowers tied with a ribbon and leave them on doorsteps of elderly neighbors as a surprise gift. May Day is a quaint old fashioned holiday from days gone by. It does make me smile to remember. On an upbeat note - our town is reviving the Maypole with a celebration and dance today - of course I am working so will miss it - nice to think it is making a comeback!
Hope you enjoy the flowers of May in my yard - early mountain laurel, more azaleas, bluebells, lily of the valley and more!
I am participating in Scenic Sunday , Straight Out of the Camera Sunday and Today's Flowers. Be sure to stop by and visit them!
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Efficient propagation of single cells Accutase-dissociated human embryonic stem cells.
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Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) hold great promise for cell-based therapies and drug screening applications. However, growing and processing large quantities of undifferentiated hESCs is a challenging task. Conventionally, hESCs are passaged as clusters, which can limit their growth efficiency and use in downstream applications. This study demonstrates that hESCs can be passaged as single cells using Accutase, a formulated mixture of digestive enzymes. In contrast to trypsin treatment, Accutase treatment does not significantly affect the viability and proliferation rate of hESC dissociation into single cells. Accutase-dissociated single cells can be separated by FACS and proliferate as fully pluripotent hESCs. An Oct4-eGFP reporter construct engineered into hESCs was used to monitor the pluripotency of hESCs passaged with Accutase. Compared to collagenase-passaged hESCs, Accutase-treated cultures contained a larger proportion of undifferentiated (Oct4-positive) cells. Additionally, Accutase-passaged undifferentiated hESCs could be grown as monolayers without the need for monitoring and/or selection for quality hESC colonies.
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About John Slater
John Slater (December 25, 1776–1843) was an early American industrialist, founder of Slatersville, Rhode Island and younger brother of Samuel Slater, father of the American Industrial Revolution.
Slater was born in England in 1776 and received an education from Thomas Jackson, also his older brother's teacher, and then became a millwright's apprentice. Slater gained technical mill information in Manchester and Oldham, England to use in America. Slater immigrated in the United States in 1803 to work for Almy, Brown and Slater at Pawtucket. He eventually formed a partnership with the Providence firm of Almy and Brown, purchased land in what it now Slatersville, Rhode Island (then was the northern wilderness of Smithfield, Rhode Island) and began construction of a textile mill. By 1807, the village included the Slatersville Mill, the largest and most modern industrial building of its day, two houses for workers, the owner's house and the company store. The Slaters also donated a meeting house house for Slatersville Congregational Church, which they attended. John Slater died in 1843 and was buried in Slatersville. John Slater's son, John Fox Slater, later became a prominent philanthropist.
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Tue Oct 04 07:30am EDT
Like many National Hockey League goaltenders, Jason LaBarbera(notes) of the Phoenix Coyotes was in the market for a new mask design for the upcoming season. Previously, he had worn inventive color schemes that honored disparate muses like Metallica and pro wrestling. This year, he came to artist David Arrigo with a much different kind of inspiration:
LaBarbera wanted a mask that honored both the U.S. and Canadian Armed Forces serving overseas. More specifically, he wanted one side of the mask to honor the late Pat Tillman; the defensive back for the Arizona Cardinals who left the NFL to enlist in the U.S. Army with his brother after 9/11, and who was killed by friendly fire on April 22, 2004 in Afghanistan.
The mask depicts Tillman and his brother in military gear, along with an image of Pat Tillman as a member of the Cardinals, who like LaBarbera's Coyotes play in Glendale.
"I had read a book about Tillman prior to the request and had taken great interest in the story," said Arrigo, whose goalie mask creations are found on his official website.
Tillman's death in action was a controversial one, as the Army covered up the details of his shooting. That led to a congressional inquiry about it, and eventually an award-winning documentary called "The Tillman Story" that examined the scandal.
"With all circumstances leading up to the passing of Pat Tillman aside, I felt that he put a face to the everyday soldier," said Arrigo.
The opposite side of the mask features a single, faceless solider with helicopters above his head. Throughout the mask is a red-and-sand-colored camouflage that matches the Coyotes' team colors.
Part of the design: Multiples stars and maple leafs that serve as a tribute to "both Canadian and American forces serving in their respective theaters," said Arrigo.
On the front of the mask is a yellow ribbon, an acknowledgement that those serving overseas are in the thoughts of those back home.
This isn't the first time Tillman's been honored by the Coyotes. In 2004, forward Mike Ricci changed his sweater number to No. 40 in honor of Tillman. In 2007, Coyotes captain Shane Doan(notes) and his wife received the Pat Tillman Community Leadership Award.
Arrigo said the mask was a perfect way to honor Tillman and the rest of the men and women still serving around the world.
"Personally, whether or not you agree with the actions overseas, I feel we need to support, to no end, our brave forces," he said.
For information about the Pat Tillman Foundation, visit its official site. Visit Arrigo on Facebook for more goalie designs.
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View Full Version : Water tube boilers
24th August 2008, 12:50
As a mere decky may I ask this question. Why were some turbine ships with water tube boiler so dirty and sooty on the after deck, whilst others were not? My experience of NZSCo Pipiriki and the rest of the "P" class and of course the "Horrible Rata" Horarata all circa 1940s was that they were very sooty abaft the funnel. My later experience of this type of ship, BISNCo Nowshera and other "N"s circa 1955s, was that one did not notice this problem, although I believe BI's Kenya and Uganda made a lot of soot, they even gave Uganda a taller funnel to alleviate this problem.
24th August 2008, 15:58
The soot from boilers landing on the afterdeck during sootblowing operations had more to do with the positioning of the ship during sootblowing. We always informed the bridge watchkeeper prior to starting. Most of them would alter course, if prudent, to minimise depositing the soot on the ship.
As an afterthought, the older LNG tankers very rarely needed to "blow tubes" when burning the cargo boiloff, which was methane. It is a nice clean burning fuel which can be seen in your domestic gas cooker.
24th August 2008, 17:11
Some of Fyffes steam ships had Air Puff sootblowers on Babcock Header Type boilers. These used compressed air instead of steam and normally operated continuosly 24 hours/day by means of a sequencing device.
By this method soot discharges from the funnel were minimised.
This type of sootblowing would probably not suit all types of boiler.
On the general question of dirty, sooty afterdecks the velocity of exhaust from the funnel and the funnel design has a lot to do with where the deposits land. Over the years there have been many weird and wonderful funnel designs some more successful than others. For example the winged funnels on liner France, the fireman's helmet of Canadian Pacific's Empresses, the Thorneycroft smoke deflecting funnel design of P and O's Himalaya and Chusan, Shaw Savill's Gothic. Booth's Hubert and the various stove pipes on Ellerman ships for instance. Albeit on a Scotch Boilered ship Brocklebanks answer to boiler fumes affecting the aft crew accommodation was simply to heighten Maipura's funnel by some 11 feet or so.
25th August 2008, 04:23
I had a few discussions with the Mate on Watch when I had to blow tubes due to high stack temperatures. One was that I could not blow tubes since it was raining outside. I always called the bridge to inform them before blowing tubes since we reduced the speed and increased the boilers draft. It was up to Mate to turn the ship if he did not want the deck department to clean the soot off the deck. I do not remember asking permission just that we were going to blow tubes.
I was Chief on a T2 tanker that wandered into a missile testing range. (The deck department did not read the nav tex on the bridge. No R/O to blame). Walking back toward the house from sounding the fuel tanks (2) for the noon report I saw a missile go over the ship from my position on deck it looked very close followed by a jet then a helicopter that was hovering just behind the house down wind from the stack. At the same time the Second Engineer started to blow tubes the helicopter started to slow down and veer away from the ship and toward the water before the helicopter regained its control and speed. The helicopter left the area at a high rate of speed.
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In Reply to: Re: Cumulative Time In Danger Zone Is What Counts posted by JohnKinMD on June 10, 2009 at 14:12:14:
Hope all is good.
USDA and Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center appear to disagree with you.
Heat may kill the surface bacteria but their poop/toxin are heat resistant and can kill people or make them wish they were dead.
So, even large roasts/cuts of meats need appropriate handling with regards to the Danger Zone... not just ground meats.
It seems the cumulative time in the Danger Zone dictates the possible amount of toxins left on your food.
See below for links/quotes.
Hope this helps,
from USDA at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/How_Temperatures_Affect_Food/index.asp :
If raw meats have been mishandled (left in the "Danger Zone" too long), bacteria may grow and produce toxins which can cause foodborne illness. Those toxins that are heat resistant are not destroyed by cooking. Therefore, even though cooked, meat and poultry mishandled in the raw state may not be safe to eat even after proper preparation.
from Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center at http://www.ohio4h.org/~news/story.php?id*** EQUAL SIGN ***3568 :
Even after the food reaches higher temperatures, which kills the bacteria itself, you still may not be in the clear. Some types of bacteria, such as E. coli O157:H7 and Staphylococcus aureus, produce toxins that can remain in the food even after the bacteria itself is killed. Cooking may destroy the bacteria itself, but toxins are heat stable and may not be killed by cooking. The longer food stays in the danger zone, the more bacteria multiply and the more toxin could be produced.
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First, everyone who said that the braking effect comes from the compression stroke is wrong...the air in the cylinder is compressed which takes energy, yet after top dead center acts as a spring and helps force the piston back down, returning the exact same force as was put into it in the first place. Probably more, actually, since the compression heats the air charge up and causes it to expand, like a very minor version of a power stroke.
No, the braking effect comes from the INTAKE stroke, from the engine drawing air through the closed off throttle-body. It's like trying to suck air through a tiny straw. Braking is from vacuum, not compression. That and a bit of engine friction, which is less significant with modern engines than it used to be.
As for using engine braking, using it mildly for keeping speed on downhills isn't really bad for your car. I'd avoid driving like a rally racer and aggresively downshifting to slow down for every turn or stoplight, but when done right, it doesn't effect anything any differently than driving normally. Yes, it causes more engine revs, but they are no worse than the revs you get accelerating onto an on ramp. If you're planning to keep the car for 250,000 miles, yeah, you might want to keep the revs to a minimum, but otherwise, assuming nothing is wrong with the motor itself, the car will be done-for long before you wear the engine out by adding revs.
Tha same applies for the clutch...yes, every time you use it, it wears a little, but no differently than using it during normal driving. If you're worried enough about the clutch that you try to keep your car in one gear as much as possible, sure, avoid engine braking. But if you're like most people, you use the clutch 5 times every time you get up to speed, two or three times every time you leave a stoplight. A few more engagments isn't a big deal. And you don't always have to use the clutch; often you just have to let off the gas and leave it engaged and it will work to slow you down.
It will add some wear and tear to the drivetrain, but like the above, you could consider it the same as driving an extra half-mile every day, only without the fuel cost. If that wouldn't scare you, neither should engine braking.
The only thing that wears out differently is, as the other poster said, the rear faces of the gear teeth, and that really doesn't matter. You use them every time you back up, the rest of the time they do nothing. IF they should wear significantly, the only effect will be that the transmission will be louder when your reverse. And you'd have to put a lot of wear and tear on them to get them that worn out.
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How to live alone
Dom Knight: at home alone.
So, you're living alone, like more Australians than ever before. Perhaps you've had a breakup, or moved to a new town? Perhaps, like Richard Roxburgh's character in Rake, you've systematically alienated everyone who ever cared about you and have ended up alone in a dingy bedsit? Or perhaps you're just weird.
I've been living by myself for 18 months, because when you're in your mid-30s, life without flatmates is easier and simpler for everything except playing SingStar. But it can be tough adjusting to a solo existence, which is why I've prepared this invaluable guide.
Do whatever you want, when you want. The greatest thing about living alone is that it excuses you from the conventional rules of human interaction. Finally, you can do the things you used to avoid so the people you lived with wouldn't doubt your mental stability, like recreating the Battle of Osgiliath from The Lord of the Rings using hand-painted orcs. Or you might spend an entire weekend watching The Wire with only brief meal and bathroom breaks, like I did. Living alone means that nobody cares what you do day to day. Those who find this prospect depressing rather than liberating shouldn't try it.
Be vigilant about not seeming weird. The caveat to your new-found domestic freedom is being careful not to reveal the bizarre things you do with all your free time. This is especially challenging because when you live alone, you inevitably start to forget social norms. Be prepared to lie about spending an entire weekend reorganising your CD library or your colleagues may begin to suspect you're some kind of freaky serial killer. Of course, if you are a freaky serial killer, it's all the more important to lie about your weekend.
Live in the inner city. I know some people live by themselves in the suburbs or even in the country, but, frankly, the prospect of that level of isolation scares me. In the city, there's an abundance of pleasant solo activities such as shopping, browsing in galleries and watching movies. And there are people everywhere, which is reassuring. Some say the city can be unfriendly, but sometimes even yelling at the junkie who has passed out on your doorstep is welcome human contact.
Budget carefully. Living costs are always going to be higher when you can't split bills. Electricity, gas and water cost me about $1200 a year. Then again, no one will notice if you do eccentric things to save money, like drinking hot water instead of tea.
Get cable. And a lot of books. And a PlayStation. And the internet. And anything else that kills time. When you start living alone, you'll be amazed by how many hours there are in the day.
Sometimes I forget to schedule any social activities for a weekend day - a trap for young players - and end up having to fill 16 straight leisure hours with random mucking around. It's harder than it sounds. Note, though, that it simply isn't worth trying to explain this difficulty to friends with newborn babies. They'll still hate you for your apparently idyllic life of liberty.
Live near good, cheap takeaway food outlets. Some people who live by themselves manage to cook every meal, but I can't be bothered when the end point is setting a table only to sit at it by myself. Plus, it's very hard to cook dinner for one for less than the 10 bucks you'll pay at your local food court or Asian takeaway. Besides, getting takeaway or eating out encourages you not only to leave the house, but to talk to somebody, albeit briefly.
Use Twitter. You know how it's nice to watch interesting TV shows, sporting events or breaking news with other people? Well, now you can't. But Twitter allows loners to come together to hurl 140-character abuse at Q&A participants, biased footy referees and Ben Elton. Sometimes it feels almost like watching with genuine friends.
Have people over. Entertaining is all the more lovely when you have your own place. Not only will all the credit for the meal be yours, but it creates a reason to tidy up your hovel so your visitors don't think you're "not coping". Sure, you'll have a few pangs when they leave, but at least you will have proved you can still function socially.
Walk around naked. You've never felt so free! Because who cares, right? Pro tip: consider whether, given the layout of your house, the answer to this question might be "the neighbours", "random passers-by" or "the police across the street".
Avoid being morbid. Questions such as "If I slip in the shower and crack my skull, who will call an ambulance?" or "If I die in my sleep, how long before the neighbours notice the smell?" are not your friends.
Don't talk to yourself. Because talking to yourself is bad; it makes you seem crazy. Only that's not really a problem when there's no one else to hear you, is it, Dom? Oh, good point, Dom.
Stay positive. I hope I haven't given you the wrong impression about living alone - honestly, it can be wonderful. In fact, it's so great that if I succeed with my constant pleas for somebody, anybody, to move in, I'll probably miss it occasionally.
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Activities dedicated to Rodin’s artistic production
The Photography Department has over 46,000 documents relating to the artist’s entire body of works: not only sculptures, drawings, paintings and engravings but also his personal collection. All of these are available to both professionals and amateurs.
This extremely rich collection was built up in the course of the various photographic campaigns undertaken during inventories and exhibitions organized by the museum’s scientific departments. It also includes documentary photographs relevant to the artist’s life and the museum.
The documents are available on all types of support (colour transparencies, black-and-white prints, high-definition digital file) and in all formats.
The fields marked with an asterisk are compulsory.
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One year my Intro to Art class made an accordion book, with a theme, each page emphasized an element of design, they could paint, draw, collage, whatever medium they wanted. On the back side of the accordion book they typed and printed the word and definition. They produced some very original, beautiful books.
From: A msg from Colette [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 5:30 PM
To: ArtsEdNet Talk
Subject: student teacher needs help with elements of art
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. I just started my placement
in high school and I have to teach the elements of art, (line, shape, value,
texture, space color, form) to the 9th grade class. I have one class period,
1 1/2 hours, for each lesson. That includes instruction and working time.
Seems like a such a short time for something so important! Any and all
help with lesson plan ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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A history of the Hungarian Grand Prix
Although Hungary is not the first country that springs to mind when you think of F1 - the country actually held its first grand prix in June 1936 on a 3.1mile circuit in a Budapest park. The race was won by Tazio Nuvolari in an Alfa Romeo. Politics and war, however, meant the end to racing in the country for fifty years.
In 1986 the Hungarian Grand Prix featured on the world championship calendar for the first time - and it was the first race to take place behind the Iron Curtain. Despite high ticket costs the event attracted 200,000 spectators. Always run in the middle of the European summer, Hungary did not have a wet grand prix until 2006.
Due to under-use the twisty circuit is often dusty and lacks grip, and it is also a notoriously difficult to overtake on. Thierry Boutsen used this to his advantage in 1990 keeping his much slower Williams ahead of that year's champion elect Ayrton Senna.
Although a good qualifying position is key to winning in Hungary, many a race has also been won by pit-stop strategy. Schumacher won the 1998 event when his team changed his strategy mid-race, enabling him to build up a huge lead.
There is always an exception to every rule and in Hungary it is Nigel Mansell. In 1989 he qualified 12th but put in a powerful performance passing car after car to win the race. This achievement was only bettered the 2006 rain hit race when Jenson Button won from 14th. In 2009 it was confirmed that Hungary would remain in the world championship calendar until 2016.
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Adlers endow curatorship and programs at Princeton University Art Museum
Posted September 24, 2012; 10:00 a.m.
A $4.5 million gift from Allen R. Adler, a member of Princeton's Class of 1967, and his wife, Frances Beatty Adler, will endow a curatorship, lectureship, and a programs and exhibition fund at the Princeton University Art Museum.
The gift's two funds will focus on European art from the medieval to post-impressionist periods — already a significant strength — with the goal of increasing the museum's leadership in this field. The Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curatorship at the Princeton University Art Museum and Lectureship in the Department of Art and Archaeology, and the Adler Curatorial Leadership Fund will support a curator-educator to study, preserve, interpret and enhance Princeton's collections and to mount exhibitions.
Allen R. Adler, a member of Princeton's Class of 1967, and his wife, Frances Beatty Adler, have given a $4.5 million gift that will endow a curatorship, lectureship, and a programs and exhibition fund at the Princeton University Art Museum. (Photo courtesy of the Adlers)
"Rarely does a single gift encompass so many aspects of our art museum's mission," said President Shirley M. Tilghman. "By enabling Princeton to recruit an accomplished scholar-curator in the field of European art and by making possible an ambitious range of curatorial, scholarly and educational activities, the Adlers' generosity will allow us to extend the museum's reach and impact on our campus, in our community and around the world. I am deeply grateful to Allen for his dedication to the arts and to his alma mater."
James Steward, the museum's director, said: "The Adlers' groundbreaking gift grows out of their fundamental conviction that nothing is more significant in understanding art than close and immediate contact with the original object. This gift is a visionary commitment to the essential role of the curator at the heart of the museum enterprise, and will enable a distinguished scholar to organize major exhibitions, to identify the acquisition of significant new works of art for the collections, and to teach our undergraduates and graduate students and help advance their understanding and scholarship."
The Princeton University Art Museum, the Department of Art and Archaeology, and the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology together have served as one of the nation's great research centers in the visual arts for more than a century. "We have long been leaders in the study of European art, and this gift will assure that innovative teaching from great works of art — teaching that can cast a transformative spell over generations of students — remains at the heart of the Princeton experience," Steward added.
The Adlers are longstanding patrons of the arts, with a particular interest in European and American art ranging from Renaissance sculpture to contemporary photography. Allen Adler, president of Allen Adler Enterprises in New York, serves on the 20-member Advisory Council of the Princeton University Art Museum. He is a cum laude graduate of Princeton, where he majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and played on Princeton's nationally ranked basketball teams of 1965 and 1967. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, the school's top academic honor. His long history of service to Princeton includes 10 years as president of his class. He is a trustee of Rockefeller University and the Simon Wiesenthal Center and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Frances Beatty Adler is vice president of Richard Feigen and Co. in New York. A graduate of Vassar College, she holds a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University and is chair of the board of The Drawing Center in Manhattan.
Allen Adler previously endowed a program fund at the Princeton University Art Museum in support of its ambitious schedule of exhibitions and scholarly publications. He is also a longtime supporter of other University programs, including Annual Giving, and created the Allen R. Adler Scholarship Fund, which provides financial aid to undergraduates.
"I've been particularly impressed by the work the museum has been doing in the past few years since James arrived as director in 2009, and am committed to working with him to do nothing less than build the finest university museum in the country," Adler said. "We are enormously excited by the opportunity to bring an internationally prominent curator to Princeton who will deepen the ties between the museum and the Department of Art and Archaeology, and to provide them with a fund for groundbreaking exhibitions and research. Our hope is to further enrich the study of art for generations of Princetonians and the wider public."
The Adler gift is part of Aspire, the University's five-year fundraising campaign that concluded on June 30 after raising $1.88 billion. The campaign included a commitment to the visual and performing arts as an essential element of the Princeton experience. Alumni and friends have provided significant support for a range of programs at the museum, including establishing endowments for its directorship as well as curatorships of modern and contemporary art, prints and drawings, photography, American art, and Asian art, and for its associate director for education.
Founded in 1882, the Princeton University Art Museum is one of the nation's leading art museums. Its collections feature approximately 72,000 works of art, ranging from ancient to contemporary and concentrating geographically on the Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, Asia and the Americas, with particular strengths in Chinese painting and calligraphy, the art of the ancient Americas and pictorial photography.
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Tag Archives: Clay Tallman
Leadfield, CA is located in the Grapevine mountains within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park. The only route to Leadfield begins 6.2 miles down Route 374 from Beatty, NV or 13.2 miles from the Beatty Cutoff in California. Turn onto the one way Titus Canyon Rd., and follow it for 13.5 miles. Please note that Titus Canyon Rd. is recommended by the Park Service for high clearance 4×4. Based on my experience with the drive I’d say that the Park’s recommendation is a bit exaggerated, and a high clearance 2 wheel drive would have no problems making the trip.
The story of Leadfield begins in 1905, twenty years before the town site would be plotted and officially be dubbed Leadfield. In the fall of that year two miners, W.H. Seaman and Curtis Durnford would stake 9 lead-copper claims which were the Romeo, Juliet, Sunset, Last Bit, Bustler, Humming Bird, Red Rube, Copper King, and Bobbie.
In December of 1905 W.H. Seaman, Curtis Durnford along with Clay Tallman (Rhyolite Attorney / Real Estate Promoter) formed the Death Valley Consolidated Mining Company. In May of 1906 the Death Valley Consolidated Mining Company was ready to begin shipping its ore to the smelters in Rhyolite. They soon realized that shipping the ore was not financially feasible, and they wouldn’t be able to turn a profit. After just six shorts months the mines at the future site of Leadfield would be abandoned.
The future site of Leadfield stayed quiet for the better part of 18 years. In the spring of 1924 that would begin to change when three prospectors would make a claim on the mountaintop that overlooked the future Leadfield town site. The claim would be for Canyon Gate No. 1, the prospectors were Frank J. Metts, Lawrence Christiansen, and Ben Chambers. The three men would go onto locate many additional claims in the area.
At some point that same year the three men would be introduced to Jack Salsberry. Salsberry had owned the Carbonate lead mine in the Panamint Mountain Range, and backed a copper venture in Ubehebe in 1906. Salsberry would end up purchasing 22 claims from Metts, Christiansen, and Chambers. From those 22 claims, Salsberry would form four companies, Western Lead, Leadfield Carbonate, New Road, and Burr Welch. On August 17th 1925, Western Lead Mines (WLM) would file their incorporation papers in San Francisco.
Once WLM incorporated the word spread quickly about the claims in the Grapevine Mountains, and soon miners, business men, and swindlers began to flock to the area. In late November two-dozen people had arrived and began living in Leadfield. The town site was being surveyed, and 42-claims had been located. A road was beginning to be constructed up Titus Canyon. In December the road toward Beatty began construction. Lots in Leadfield began selling for between $150-$250.
In January of 1926 C.C. Julian would arrive in Leadfield. Julian had recently dissolved his company Julian Petroleum as well the IRS was after him for $792,000 in back taxes, and he was brought up on mail fraud charges which would be dropped in exchange for hiring the federal investigator that was investigating him. On January 21st Julian would buy into WLM and become one of four partners, and later become President of WLM.
By the end of January it was estimated that 150-250 people where living in Leadfield. Telephone and telegraph wires had begun to be strung from Beatty, NV to Leadfield.
February 1st would see the beginning of Julian’s famous advertising scheme to get unsuspecting investors to buy up WLM stocks. Julian’s advertisement read more like newspaper articles, than advertisements. Headlines on Julian’s ads read, “Death Valley and Her Hidden Treasure, That’s my Baby Now”, “Step on Her, Now”, “Hot Dog”, “Not Bad Business”, “Come Up or Shut Up, That Choo Choo Leaves for Western Lead”.
By late February, Leadfield was looking like a town. Hotels, mercantile stores, restaurants, a barbershop and bathhouse, saloons (though not called saloons at the time due to prohibition) all began to line the main street thought town (Chambers St.). Rumors ran amok of an airport, a 50-ton mill, and a 20-room hotel being built at Leadfield. None of which ever happened.
In March Julian put together a weekend extravaganza in Leadfield, with the purpose of showing investors and potential investors the town and mines. That weekend in March over 300 people arrived in Beatty via the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad, and automobile. On Sunday a cavalcade made its way down the long and winding road to Leadfield. Visitors were sent on tours of various WLM audits, and were permitted to take sample sacks home with them (it is thought that whatever they found in their sacks was likely brought in from other locations, however that has never been proven).
The Monday after the extravaganza proved to be successful for Julian and WLM. The stock prices on the Los Angeles Stock Exchange for WLM soared to $3.30 a share. That was however short lived as the following day it had leaked that the California Corporate Commission was investigating Julian and WLM. Trading prices dropped to $1.88. On Wednesday the California Corporate Commission launched their attack on WLM, and by Thursday the Los Angeles Stock Exchange had to set up barricades to keep angry WLM investors at bay as prices for WLM stock dropped to $.90, and closed at $1.75. Friday WLM fell to $1.33, and closed at $1.50.
WLM wasn’t the only mining company in town, but little had success in Leadfield. A mill nor ore bins had ever been erected at Leadfield, despite many promises. Julian at one point even advertised that steam boats would eventually come up the Amargosa River, and be able to dock near Leadfield. Anyone that has ever seen the Amargosa River knows that this is not possible as majority of the Amargosa flows underground, and the parts that are above ground you’d have a hard time putting any boat on, much less a steam boat.
April 5th would begin the California Corporate Commission hearings on Julian and WLM. The hearings would last until April 27th, at which time the state would rule again Julian and WLM. Despite the ruling business would continue as usual for WLM until May 27th when the Chief Deputy Corporate Commissioner handed down the decision to stop the sale of WLM stocks in California once and for all. That same day WLM was stricken from the Los Angeles Stock Market. While this was a huge blow to Julian and WLM, it didn’t slow him down.
WLM was still listed on the Reno Stock Exchange, but was listed at $.65, not even half of the original asking price on the Los Angeles Stock Exchange. Julian continued to try to keep things going, accumulating a large portion of the low priced WLM stock. Not everyone had given up on Julian yet, as he still had a good number of prospectors, townspeople, and even some investors behind him.
Other mining companies would come and go in Leadfield, none of them would ever ship any ore including Julian’s WLM. In August Leadfield’s post office would officially open. 200 people at the time would receive their mail in Leadfield. The post office would stay open until February of the following year, when only one person was left to receive mail in Leadfield.
As for Julian, he went on to be indicted for mail fraud in 1931. That same year he was also arrested for kidnapping and threatening a former employee. In 1932 he would file for bankruptcy claiming $3,057,430.53 in liabilities and no assets. In 1933 he would jump bail on the mail fraud charges and flee to Canada. On March 23rd 1934 Julian was found dead in a Shanghai, China hotel from a fatal dose of amytal.
At the Leadfield town site today you will find a few still standing metal buildings, dug outs that had once been used for housing, the concrete slab from the power plant, stone walls, wooden floor boards, as well as many rusty cans and a rusted automobile frame. All of the mine entrances have been blocked off by the Park Service, but are still evident. The current road driven through the town-site is the same road that was once the main street through town (Chambers Street).
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What You Should Know Before You Donate to Tornado Relief Efforts
The Better Business Bureau offers these tips to help you decide where to direct donations to assist storm victims.
As many as 100 homes and a number of businesses were damaged Wednesday after a reported EF-2 tornado sliced through downtown Adairsville and killed a 51-year-old man.
According to Cartersville Patch, a Facebook page with resources for people who need assistance is live. Additionally, the page includes information for those who want to donate their time and money to help Adairsville rebuild.
But before you give, the Better Business Bureau offers the following tips.
Be cautious when giving online.
Be cautious about online giving, especially in response to spam messages and emails that claim to link to a relief organization. If you are seeking to give to a charity organization involved in relief efforts, go directly to the charity’s website.
Rely on expert opinion when it comes to evaluating a charity.
Be careful when relying on third-party recommendations such as bloggers or other websites, as they might not have fully researched the listed relief organizations. The public can go to BBB Wise Giving Alliance to research charities and relief organizations to verify that they are accredited by the BBB and meet the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability. Please visit www.bbb.org/charities for more information
Be wary of claims that 100 percent of donations will assist relief victims.
Despite what an organization might claim, charities have fund raising and administrative costs. Even a credit card donation will involve, at a minimum, a processing fee. If a charity claims 100 percent of collected funds will be assisting victims, the truth is that the organization is still probably incurring fund raising and administrative expenses. They may use some of their other funds to pay this, but the expenses will still be incurred.
Find out if the charity has an on-the-ground presence in the impacted areas.
See if the charity’s website clearly describes what they can do to address immediate needs. Watch out for charities that don’t already have staff in the affected areas as they may not be able to provide assistance quickly.
Find out if the charity is providing direct aid or raising money for other groups.
Some charities may be raising money to pass along to relief organizations. If so, you may want to consider “avoiding the middleman” and giving directly to charities that have a presence in the region. Or, at a minimum, check out the ultimate recipients of these donations to ensure the organizations are equipped to effectively provide aid.
Donations made via your mobile device.
The BBB Mobile Giving Foundation works with the wireless operators to ensure that mobile giving campaigns for emergency relief efforts adopt this same degree of caution before launching fundraising efforts. Wireless operators do support all qualified mobile giving campaigns without taking any fees, although billing platforms such as the BBB Mobile Giving Foundation, do recover transaction costs. All campaigns are compliant to industry best practices and regulatory requirements. Official mobile giving campaigns in support of emergency relief efforts are restricted to qualified campaigns, and can be verified by visiting www.mobilegiving.org.
Gifts of clothing, food or other in-kind donations.
In-kind drives for food and clothing—while well intentioned— may not necessarily be the quickest way to help those in need - unless the organization has the staff and infrastructure to be able to properly distribute such aid. Ask the charity about their transportation and distribution plans, and find out what is their greatest need. Be wary of those who are not experienced in disaster relief assistance.
Disaster victims should never feel forced to make a hasty decision or to donate to an unknown charity. To verify mobile giving campaigns these charities are running please visit the BBB Mobile Giving Foundation at www.mobilegiving.org. Start With Trust. For reliable information, lists of BBB Accredited Businesses by industry and BBB Business Reviews you can trust on local businesses and charities, visit www.bbb.org
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Lao Tzu - By Precepts And Sayings
BY many words wit is exhausted; it is better to preserve a mean.
He who grasps more than he can hold, would be better without any.
If a house is crammed with treasures of gold and jade, it will be impossible to guard them all.
The excellence of a dwelling is in its site; the excellence of a mind in its profundity; the excellence of giving is charitableness; the excellence of speech is truthfulness; the excellence of government is order; the excellence of action is ability; the excellence of movement is timeliness.
He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.
He who strikes with a sharp point will not himself be safe for long.
He who embraces unity of soul by subordinating animal instincts to reason will be able to escape dissolution. He who strives his utmost after tenderness can become even as a little child.
If a man is clear-headed and intelligent, cat he be without knowledge?
The Sage attends to the inner and not to the outer; he puts away the objective and holds to the subjective.
Between yes and yea, how small the difference! Between good and evil, how great the difference!
What the world reverences may not be treated with respect.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
To see oneself is to be clear of sight. Mighty is he who conquers himself.
He who raises himself on tiptoe cannot stand firm; he who stretches his legs wide apart cannot walk.
Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.
The struggle for rare possessions drives a man to actions injurious to himself.
The heavy is the foundation of the light; repose is the ruler of unrest.
The wise prince in his daily course never departs from gravity and repose. Though he possess a gorgeous palace, he will dwell therein with calm indifference. How should the lord of a million chariots conduct himself in the empire? Levity loses men's hearts; unrest loses the throne.
The skillful traveler leaves no tracks; the skillful speaker makes no blunders; the skillful reckoner uses no tallies. He who knows how to shut, uses no bolts; yet you cannot open. He who knows how to bind, uses no cords; yet you cannot undo.
Among men, reject none; among things, reject nothing. This is called comprehensive intelligence.
The good man is the bad man's teacher; the bad man is the material upon which the good man works. If the one does not value his teacher, if the other does not love his material, then despite their sagacity they must go far astray. This is a mystery of great import.
The course of things is such that what was in front is now behind; what was hot is now cold; what was strong is now weak; what was complete is now in ruin. Therefore the Sage avoids excess, extravagance, and grandeur.
Which is nearer to you, fame or life? Which is more to you, life or wealth? Which is the, greater malady, gain or loss?
Excessive ambitions necessarily entail great sacrifices. Much hoarding must be followed by heavy loss. He who knows when he has enough will not be put to shame. Such a man can look forward to Long Life.
There is no sin greater than ambition; no calamity greater than discontent; no vice more sickening than covetousness. He who is content, always has enough.
Do not wish to be rare Like jade, nor common Like stone.
The Sage has no hard and fast ideas, but he shares the ideas of the people and makes them his own. Living in the world, he is apprehensive Lest his heart be sullied by contact with the world. The people all fix their eyes and ears upon him. The Sage Looks upon all as his children.
I have heard that he who possesses the secret of life, when traveling abroad, will not flee from rhinoceros or tiger; when entering a hostile camp, he will not equip himself with sword or buckler. The rhinoceros finds in him no place to insert his horn; the tiger has nowhere to fasten its claw; the soldier has nowhere to thrust his blade. And why? Because he has no spot where death can enter.
To see small beginnings is clearness of sight. To rest in weakness is strength.
He who knows how to plant, shall not have his plant uprooted; he who knows how to hold a thing, shall not have it taken away. Sons and grandsons shall worship at his shrine, which shall endure for generations.
Knowledge in harmony is called constant. Constant knowledge is called wisdom. Increase of life is called felicity. The mind directing the body is called strength.
Be square without being angular. Be honest without being mean. Be upright without being punctilious. Be brilliant without being showy.
Good words shall gain you honor in the market-place, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good in order to make them good.
With the faithful I would keep faith; with the unfaithful I would also keep faith, in order that they may become faithful.
Even if a man is bad, how can it be right to cast him off?
Requite injury with kindness.
The difficult things of this world must once have been easy; the great things of this world must once have been small. Set about difficult things while they are still easy; do great things while they are still small.
The Sage never affects to do anything great, and therefore he is able to achieve his great results.
He who always thinks things easy, is sure to find them difficult. Therefore the Sage ever anticipates difficulties, and thus it is he never encounters them.
While times are quiet, it is easy to take action ; ere coming troubles have cast their shadows, it is easy to lay plans.
That which is brittle is easily broken; that which is minute is easily dissipated. Take precautions before the evil appears; regulate things before disorder has begun.
The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles began with a single step.
To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom. Not to know and yet to affect knowledge, is a vice. If we regard this vice as such, we shall escape it. The Sage has not this vice. It is because he regards it as a vice that he escapes it.
Use the light that is in you to revert to your natural clearness of sight. Then the Loss of the body is unattended with calamity. This is called doubly enduring.
In the management of affairs, people constantly break down just when they are nearing a successful issue. If they took as much care at the end as at the beginning, they would not fail in their enterprises.
The Sage knows what is in him, but makes no display; he respects himself, but seeks not honor for himself.
He who lightly promises, is sure to keep but little faith.
He whose boldness leads him to venture, will be slain; he who is brave enough not to venture, will live. Of these two, one has the benefit, the other has the hurt. But who is it that knows the real cause of Heaven's hatred? This is why the Sage hesitates and finds it difficult to act.
The violent and stiff-necked die not by a natural death.
True words are not fine; fine words are not true.
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CNN's Erin Burnett talks to New York Congressman Gregory Meeks about the storm damage in Queens. Many Queens residents believe they are not getting the help they need. The shoreline peninsula includes Breezy Point and the Rockaways which has no power and no clean water.
The New York City borough is home to almost 120,000 people, more than half live below the poverty line making a desperate situation even worse.
OutFront tonight: Congressman Gregory Meeks represents the district and was out with his constituents today and he is OutFront tonight.
After days of standing his ground - despite anger, frustration and resentment - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg late Friday canceled Sunday's Marathon.
"We cannot allow a controversy over an athletic event – even one as meaningful as this – to distract attention away from all the critically important work that is being done to recover from the storm and get our city back on track," said Bloomberg.
The controversy - holding a marathon, with all the generators, food, water and police that requires – as New Yorkers still reeling from Sandy. Many here have lost their homes, hundreds of thousands who are still without power.
The Rockaways in Queens are desperate for assistance. There's no power, no food, and no clean water. Home to almost 120,000 people, more than half live below the poverty line making a difficult situation even worse.
Outfront tonight: Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), who represents the district.
Erin Burnett talks to Obama Campaign's Ben Labolt about today's jobs report and its impact on the presidential election.
With 171,000 jobs added in October and the unemployment rate ticking up slightly higher to 7.9% - will voters see progress or stagnation.
OutFront tonight: Ben Labolt, President Obama's Campaign Press Secretary. FULL POST
A couple from Breezy Point, NY ties the knot amid all the devastation from Sandy, and not a single guest wasn't affected by the storm. CNN's Erin Burnett reports.
A new report from the Wall Street Journal says the security situation in Libya on the night of September 11th was in the hands of the CIA, who were in Benghazi operating under diplomatic cover.
According to the report, two of the four men who died, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty were former navy seals who actually worked for the CIA. The new details help explain why the American public may have received mixed messages from the administration in the days after the attack.
Adam Entous is the WSJ reporter who broke the story and Bob Baer is a former CIA operative.
Did a covert CIA mission in Libya compromise the safety of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans?
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Imagine the scene. You arrive in the office on Christmas Eve. Everyone’s in a good mood. The tree has been decorated fabulously this year. Mince pies and mulled wine are being served in the canteen and all your colleagues are in a festive mood. (The boss even comes in to work wearing a santa hat).
Suddenly the atmosphere is shattered, as you try to log on to your database to carry out those last minute Christmas checks and see the error TNS-0535: Failed to resolve name. It’s like opening the fridge door on Christmas morning and finding that the dog’s eaten all the turkey!
How can you fix this problem? You know that it’s caused by not being able to find an entry for the database in your tnsnames.ora file. It must have been that last-minute install of the latest Oracle version, that re-set your default Oracle home. You’re now pointing to a different tnsnames.ora file. (A bit like Santa looking in the wrong address book when trying to deliver your presents).
Rather than hunting down the file on your PC - (though you know it’s under %ORACLE_HOME%/network/admin) - you think to yourself - hey it’s Christmas! Let’s enter into the Christmas spirit and all share the same file. We can all have the same entries and life will be much simpler.
You decide that you’re not ready to implement Oracle Internet Directory (OID) in the company yet. (Who needs the icing-topped mince pies, when the plain ones are fine). You also rule out setting up an Oracle Names Server, as this is being phased out. (No-one wants to eat last year’s mince pies).
Following this approach, you create a master copy of the TNSNAMES.ora file in a folder called TNS_SHARED on a mapped network drive with the letter “S” (i.e. “S” for Santa) and then decide to create a TNS_ADMIN system variable which points to that directory on the network. (e.g. If on Windows XP, right-click on the “My Computer” icon - Properties - Advanced - Environment Variables - then under the “System Variables” section - New - for the “Variable Name” you enter: TNS_ADMIN and for the “Variable Value” you enter S:\TNS_ADMIN - OK,OK,OK).
You make sure that the shared file has read-only permissions, otherwise people can over-write it - either manually, or using tools such as Net Configuration Assistant, Net Manager or the TNSNAMES Editor in TOAD. For additional security, you also check that anyone who isn’t authorised to use the databases has no access to the file. (Some people aren’t allowed mince pies at Christmas).
You setup the same configuration for your colleagues and then peace on earth - or at least in the office - returns again.
Later on in the day, some people start to complain though. A few people have databases that they use for testing or development work, which they don’t want everyone to have access to. This means that you can’t put them in the central tnsnames.ora file. (As usual at Christmas, some people are happy with plain mince pies, some want custard and others want cream).
To resolve this issue, you could tell them to use a local tnsnames.ora file on their PC, in the directory C:\LOCAL_TNS. i.e. TNS_ADMIN is still set to use the one on the Santa drive (the “S” drive) - but at the end of the central file, you just add the line IFILE=C:\LOCAL_TNS\TNSNAMES.ORA. This means that people can still use the central file, but are also able to put whatever additional entries they need in their local file, without affecting other users. (Effectively you’re saying that they have access to the shared mince pies, but they can also have their own secret stash as well).
To make life even easier for your users, you can also check the folowing:
a) Check that you don’t have entries in your tnsnames.ora file that point to old versions of databases. For example, if you’ve just upgraded from 8i to 11g, then check that the connection strings point to the 11g databases and not the old 8i ones. (Everyone hates stale mince pies).
b) Remove any references to databases that no longer exist. (Check that someone hasn’t eaten the pies).
c) If you have too many entries in the file then it can take longer to resolve the names. (You try eating a large mince pie all in one go). If you have a large number of entries, then you should probably start to think about implementing OID.
d) Different people call the same databases by different names. A developer might call a database by its name/SID, whereas a business user could just call it the “live” database. To make everyone’s life easier and to make sure that the file doesn’t have loads of duplicate entries, you can just add any aliases to one connection string.
In the example that follows, you can see that some people connect to the reindeer database on the LAPLAND server by using the “ORCL10″ string. Business users know it as “LIVE” and other people use “FATHERCHRISTMAS” to get to the reindeer database in LAPLAND.
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = LAPLAND)(PORT = 1521))
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = reindeer)
A mince pie is also known as a Wayfarers pie or a shred pie.
e) You may find it useful to configure connect time failover, so that if the first address isn’t available, then the client will automatically try an alternative address, as shown below.
In this example, if we can’t find brandy in the cupboard, then we’ll automatically check the fridge.
Now that you’ve sorted out the office, it’s time to sort out those other important details - like trying to get all the presents that you’ve forgotten to buy people. There’s always the late night petrol station if you run out of time. Looks like a lot of your relatives will be getting things for the car again this year!
I’ll end this blog with a small word of warning. If you look on the internet, lots of websites will tell you that eating mince pies on 25th of December is still illegal in England. This has been the case since Oliver Cromwell banned Chrismas pudding, mince pies and anything to do with gluttony. The law has never been rescinded and was voted the fourth “most ridiculous British law” in a 2007 poll by UKTV Gold.
The moral of this tale is that you should not try to connect to any databases on Christmas day. Stay at home and eat some mince pies instead.
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War, drought create perfect storm in the Sahel
When heavily armed rebels in northern Mali forced government troops into a hasty retreat two months ago, Hama Baye knew it was time to leave. ''If even the army is running away from them what do you think a common citizen can do?'' the herdsman says. ''We are helpless and afraid so we ran away too.''
Hama, his wife Saouda and their children have been sheltering in a tiny makeshift hut on baking sand at Mangaize in Niger ever since. They're among 45,000 Malians who have taken refuge in Niger, even though food shortages in that country threaten nearly half its population. The United Nations says almost 320,000 Malians have fled their homes and expects to help about 440,000 displaced people inside and outside the country this year.
The convergence of tribal rebellion, jihadist ideology, drought, weak governance and an influx of heavy weapons has crippled Mali and dangerously destabilised the whole Sahel region across West Africa.
Displaced hope … Malian refugee Saouda Baye mourns the death of her two-year-old son, Moussa, while another is being treated for malnutrition at a camp in Mangaize, in neighbouring Niger. Photo: Janie Barrett
The grim conditions at Mangaize refugee camp are emblematic of the misery.
Plan, an aid agency providing assistance to the refugees, says 27 per cent of those aged under five in the camp are malnourished and 38 per cent of pregnant and nursing mothers are malnourished. Tragedy struck Hama Baye's family two weeks ago when their two-year-old boy, Moussa, fell ill and died. ''We buried him there in the bushes,'' says Saouda as she gestures to the sandy scrub that lies beyond her lean-to. Another one of her children is being treated for malnutrition.
Until a few months ago, Mali was considered one of Africa's most successful democracies and its descent into political chaos has caught many by surprise.
The triumphant rebels - an alliance of heavily armed Tuareg tribesmen and radical Islamic groups - now control a vast tract of northern of Mali.
A group representing disaffected members of the Tuareg tribe - the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) has declared an independent homeland in northern Mali. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Ansar Dine - both groups linked to al-Qaeda - are involved in the rebellion. Ansar Dine has already begun to impose sharia in the ancient town of Timbuktu.
There are fears Islamist groups in northern Mali have ties to Boko Haram, an extremist group responsible for a spate of violent attacks in northern Nigeria, and there are unconfirmed reports that fighters from Algeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan are operating in northern Mali.
The success of the rebels triggered a military coup in Mali two months ago and the government - which now only controls the south of the country - has been paralysed by confusion and infighting. Local analysts and aid workers believe the international community is not paying sufficient attention to developments in the Sahel, one of the world's most fragile regions.
Professor Mahaman Tidjani Alou, a political scientist at Niger's Abdou Moumouni University, says the Sahel has become a ''very dangerous zone'' that poses a threat well beyond the region. ''We know the environment in West Africa is now very unstable and if it continues, the security of Europe, and the world, will be threatened in the end,'' he told the Herald. ''But it's our impression that the world is keeping quiet and letting all these things keep going. It is very tragic.''
The war in Libya that ousted Muammar Gaddafi triggered the unexpected crisis in Mali.
''It's all a chain of events,'' says Rheal Drisdelle, who has worked in the Sahel region for 25 years and is the Niger country director of aid agency Plan.
''The Tuareg rebels in Mali were mercenaries who worked for Colonel Gaddafi in Libya. So when France, the UK and other European powers bombed Gaddafi into oblivion these mercenaries returned to Mali extremely well armed. They set themselves up in northern Mali where these Islamist groups already were.''
French analyst Roland Marchal says the aftermath of the Libyan crisis ''created a new and potentially destabilising variable in the form of thousands of disenfranchised soldiers who are both well equipped and uncertain of their status.''
But the armed outfits that combined to drive government troops out of northern Mali - including the secular MNLA and Islamist groups - do not have a common agenda.
There are reports that fighters have occupied different parts of each city and sometimes compete for whose flag should fly over key buildings.
''What is unclear is whether they will be able to co-exist on the same territory while trafficking and a protection economy are the only sustainable resources,'' Marchal wrote in a report on Mali conflict published last month by the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre.
Divisions are already appearing among the rebels. An agreement reached last week by the Tuareg MNLA and the Islamist Ansar Dine to create a new Islamic state appeared to collapse two days later over the imposition of sharia.
There are fears Mali's conflict will spread into neighbouring Niger which has a significant Tuareg population. Tuareg insurgents in the region have long demanded a homeland - called Azawad - which stretches across several countries including parts of Mali and Niger.
There is also concern in Niger about the influence of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram along its southern border.
''We are doing everything so that it doesn't influence or contaminate our population,'' Djibo Tinni, a senior government official in Niger's Diffa district, says. ''The government is making every effort in terms of military surveillance and awareness raising.''
Meanwhile, a deepening food crisis threatens 18 million people across the region including 3.5 million in Mali and 6.4 million in Niger. At the eastern end of the Sahel region, tensions simmer between Sudan and South Sudan. The bitter rivals stepped back from all-out war after a series of bloody border clashes last month but emergency peace talks in Ethiopia have not yet been conclusive.
''I've been living and working in the Sahel for 25 years and I have never seen a situation like what we are going through right now, it is extremely fragile,'' Drisdelle says. ''It's a very worrying time in the Sahel and its taking place amid food insecurity, high malnutrition rates and refugees.
''It's a perfect storm scenario and it's quite frightening.''
Guido Cornale, a veteran UN official, who has worked in Mali and is now the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator in Niger, says the security situation in the Sahel threatens to hamper the delivery of much-needed humanitarian assistance.
''If the situation in Mali is not responded to very soon there is a severe risk of instability all across the Sahara and the Sahel regions,'' he says. ''That will create a major problem in delivering humanitarian assistance, for development programs and all the rest.
''You can imagine the 'Somalia-isation' of the Sahel in which you get a rebellion growing, Islamists coming from the south and the north and the situation spinning out of control … this is the worst-case scenario one can imagine but the situation in Mali is pretty worrisome.''
Drisdelle fears the international community is only paying ''lip service'' to Sahel's deep-seated problems, especially the growing influence of religious extremists. He warns the multiple crises in the Sahel have the potential to cause instability across western and northern Africa and even Europe. ''This is not to be taken lightly,'' he says. ''It could have repercussions all across Europe and North America.''
Matt Wade and photographer Janie Barrett were supported by CARE Australia, Plan International Australia and Save the Children Australia to report from West Africa.
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The rise of private equity
The rise of private equity
AS ITS name implies, private equity is normally a sober, discrete affair, nestling wealth away behind anonymous sounding companies. Stephen Schwarzman is an exception. Charming, irascible, clever, the boss of the Blackstone Group has a flair for making headlines. His 60th birthday party in 2007 reportedly cost $3m. The following year he gave $100m to the New York Public Library. His wealth is prodigious, even by Wall Street standards. When Blackstone went public in 2007, he and his co-founder, Peter Peterson, sold shares worth a combined $2.6 billion.
In “King of Capital”, David Carey and John Morris, two financial journalists, track Blackstone's transformation from a start-up into the largest private-equity firm in the world, with over $101 billion under management. Mr Schwarzman and Mr Peterson met at Lehman Brothers. Mr Schwarzman specialised in mergers and acquisitions (M&A); Mr Peterson was the bank's boss, older by 21 years. The two left Lehman to start their own business in 1985 with $400,000 of their own capital. They struggled to attract investors, but finally succeeded, mostly thanks to Mr Peterson's many connections.
Blackstone owes much of its rapid growth both to its founders' feel for the markets and to luck, the authors argue. Blackstone closed its first fund and locked in investor commitments on October 15th 1987—just days before Black Monday. Two decades later, Blackstone rushed to become the first private-equity firm to go public in June 2007, shortly before markets turned jittery. (Investors, whose shares are down nearly 60% from when Blackstone debuted, didn't benefit as much from the firm's mastery of market timing.)
The ascent was not entirely smooth. Many deals flopped, sometimes endangering the firm. It struggled to retain partners who clashed with Mr Schwarzman's competitive personality. It sold BlackRock, its investment-management business run by Larry Fink, for $240m in 1994—much too early. (BlackRock has grown to oversee $3.2 trillion in assets.) Mr Schwarzman can be a rough operator, unnerving investors and the public. After Blackstone's plan to buy a residential lender collapsed in 2008, Mr Schwarzman compared the disaster to “being a noodle salesman in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb went off”.
The authors link Blackstone's history to the larger story of private equity's expansion and its relationship to corporate America. They offer a lucid explanation of how the debt markets evolved from junk bonds to securitised loans, changing the types of deals that private-equity firms were able to finance. But the book only really takes off about two-thirds of the way through when the authors turn finally to the story of Equity Office Properties (EOP), the large office-building company that Blackstone bought for nearly $39 billion. Set on breaking up EOP, it frantically sought buyers for many of the properties before going ahead with the deal, thus insulating Blackstone when the property market plunged shortly after.
For all its analysis, however, the book does not shed much light on the “king of capital” himself. “Schwarzman had something to prove, it was clear for all to see”, the authors write. What that was, however, they fail to say. Other executives, including Mr Peterson, emerge as sketches, and the dynamics driving the firm are barely touched on. Readers expecting a book as colourful as Mr Schwarzman himself may be disappointed.
The book's most insightful point is that private-equity firms may fill the role that banks used to occupy, since many were weakened during the financial crisis. Blackstone has pioneered the model of buy-out firms diversifying into other business lines. Now many private-equity firms boast credit, debt restructuring, M&A and property arms, which may help them gain traction in this new financial landscape.
But the next few years will test private-equity's resilience. Much of the debt at companies that buy-out firms purchased at the market's peak will fall due between 2012 and 2014. The authors believe that predictions of catastrophe are overstated. Even if they are proved right, they should already be planning an update.
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A living will, or medical directive, is a document that specifies the kinds of medical care you do or do not want should you become unable to communicate with doctors or medical staff. Registering your living will is a simple, though important, process.
Creating a living will
The necessary forms for creating your living will are available from either of two national living will registries: the U.S. Living Will Registry and the American Living Will Registry. If you live in Nevada, Vermont, or Washington State, the required forms are available from their respective state living will registries.
While the questions you will be required to answer in a living will document may require serious thought on your part, the forms themselves are generally very easy to understand and completing them doesn't take much time.
Once you have completed all of the necessary forms, it is time to submit your living will documents to a living will registry.
Registering your living will
There are a few different ways you can register a living will. You may wish to start by asking your doctor's office if that is something they do or if they can help you contact the right people to help you submit your living will. Some health care providers, or community partners, offer the service at a discounted rate, or in some instances, for free.
If you decide to register your living will yourself, you can send it to a living will registry and pay a one-time fee that will keep your living will accessible for as long as necessary.
Access to your living will
After your living will has been officially registered it will be available to you, your doctor, hospitals, and any other health care provider (e.g. nursing home, hospices) who may need access to it to provide you with the appropriate medical care.
You will receive identifying documents such as wallet cards that indicate you have a living will. This card will direct your health care provider to contact the appropriate registry to gain access to your living will. It is important that you keep the identifying documents with you, as well as keeping secondary copies in a safe place where someone close to you can have access to them, if necessary.
- Complete your living will using the documents available from one of the national or state agencies (see additional resources below).
- Register your living will with one of the aforementioned agencies.
- Be sure to keep any identifying documents with you that will indicate to health care providers that you have a living will.
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ScotRail prepares wi-fi rollout for services
FREE wi-fi will be available on ScotRail trains between Scotland’s cities by the end of next year, ministers announced yesterday.
The move extends a pledge to provide the service on all trains on the main Edinburgh to Glasgow line by then, following the launch of a trial with four trains on the route in June.
All 59 of ScotRail’s class 170 diesel trains, which also run between the two cities, Aberdeen and Inverness, and to Alloa and Fife, will be equipped for wi-fi.
However, passengers were warned the service, which speeds up internet access, will be available only in existing mobile phone coverage areas.
Funding of £2 million from the Scottish Government’s Transport Scotland agency will equip five to six additional trains a month from March.
ScotRail said feedback from the three-month trial, showed 77 per cent satisfaction with speed and performance.
Transport minister Keith Brown has pledged to have wi-fi on all ScotRail trains by 2019.
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With all apologies to the original, which all geeks should read...
I think geek sexuality is an awesome thing. God knows it's the only sexuality I've ever known. Geeks are tinkerers who constantly try to improve and innovate, and geeks are not bound by many mainstream social rules, and these two things combine to create some fucking hot sex. Also for some semi-mysterious reason the overlap between "geek" and "kinkster" is, like, 90% of both groups.
But geeks also are prone to weird social thinking, some of it a reaction to the ungeeky mainstream, some of it their very own invention. Here's some common misconceptions that can fuck up geek sex.
GSFS 1: People can voluntarily control their emotions about sex.
This manifests a couple different ways:
"We've agreed this is casual sex, so as long as we decide not to develop feelings, we won't."
"Sex is just a physical activity, so adding it to our dating/friendship won't change our relationship."
"My partner promised not to feel jealous because I'm not monogamous, but they're betraying me by feeling jealousy anyway!" (Note that in this example both partners are apparently carriers of this fallacy.)
Pretending you can just decide whether you'll feel any emotions at all is a geek fallacy stemming from the idea that you should be able to optimize your own brain to not do anything unproductive or unintended. But geeks ought to know better, because come on, you can't even get a computer to do that. This stuff comes on you, it gets you by the heart and the gut, and it doesn't ask you "pardon me, I'm an emotion, are you okay with experiencing me?" first.
What you can and should voluntarily control is how you express your emotions. It's okay to feel strong emotions; it's not okay to attack people or break promises and use "I was emotional" as an excuse. This is when it's time to tell your partner "hey, we need to talk, I'm feeling an emotion!" Solving the problem may involve changing your relationship boundaries, it may just involve talking it out, or it may mean you have to end the relationship. But the solution is never "that is an incorrect emotion, please stop experiencing it."
GSFS 2: The weirder your sex, the more enlightened you are.
I've done a whole post on this, so go there if you want extended pontification. The short of it is: geeks have a tendency to mistake "less mainstream" for "better," and to conclude that sex that least resembles the mainstream is both the sexiest and the most virtuous. So polyamory gets seen as more enlightened than monogamy, kink gets seen as sexier than vanilla, and monogamous vanilla geeks get a big steaming pile of "I guess you're just not very open-minded."
I think polyamory and kink have great things to offer geeks of all sorts, but "having sex with multiple people" and "having ouchy sex" aren't those things. Those are just neutral activities, things to do if you like and not if you don't. The real takeaways are conscious and explicit communication. That's what makes us cooler than the squares.
GSFS 3: Cool chicks don't worry about sexism.
This isn't exactly a sex thing but God does it plague some geek circles. I know because I've been the cool chick. I've played the "don't worry, I'm not like those other girls, I'm not into gossip and drama" card; I've played the "well, you have my permission to objectify me, because I take it as a compliment" card; I've even played the "that mean lady was such an uptight no-funster for having boundaries" card.
Those cards are the fuck out of my deck now. And I've paid the social price for that. There's definitely some people in my circles who've put me in their "uptight no-funster" mental box since then, or who deliberately bait me about "watch out, Holly, I'm going to patriarchally oppress you!" because ahahaha she's an angry little lady isn't that cute.
I don't blame a woman who sees this go on, decides she wants friends more than she wants to start fights about some abstract problem that doesn't seem to affect her personally, and starts telling her male friends not to worry, they can be sexist around her, she's cool. The problem isn't her. The problem is all the people who made it so much easier and more pleasant for her to be a "cool chick" than a woman who gives a damn how people think of her gender.
GSFS 4: Drama is always worse than the thing the drama is about.
I guess the xkcd comic has a little bit of this one. Drama's never fun, but it beats the fuck out of suppressing real issues. In my time in geek circles, I've seen reports of sexual harassment and even outright assault silenced with "well, I don't want to make drama" or "but whatever, that's just drama." A woman in the group is a sexual predator? Gosh, I don't spread gossip. A man needs to be disinvited from parties because he's repeatedly threatened people at them? No, kicking him out would make a scene, it would make drama.
In geek sexual communities, the illusion of smooth functioning and of everyone being bestest friends with everyone can supersede people's needs for comfort and safety. A lot of this has to do with the "Ostracizers are Evil" non-sex GSF, but it gets worse when you add sex to the mix, because defensiveness about our non-traditional sexuality suppresses important issues even further. Like, if you admit that people violate boundaries in BDSM circles, then you're admitting that BDSM isn't a perfect haven of consent and negotiation, and that's just going to play right into the mainstream idea that BDSM is abusive! So we end up defending abusers to prove BDSM isn't abusive.
"Drama" is a trivializing word. Let's try "conflict," instead. "I don't want to treat him any differently just because he gets a little handsy with women, that would cause conflict." It doesn't sound so superior and level-headed now, does it?
GSFS 5: Sex should be no big deal.
This is related to GSFS 1, but even nastier. This is the idea that since sex is just a super simple physical act--you rub some bits together, it feels good, the end--that there shouldn't be anything complicated or difficult about sex. That casual sex should be easy for everyone, that having multiple partners should be as simple as "it's like having a sexual partner, but more than one of them," that everyone who makes sex into a big complex issue is being dramatic (GSFS 4) or no-fun (GSFS 3) or narrow-minded (GSFS 2).
Sex is complicated as fuck, and if you think understanding sex is easy, you don't understand sex. I've written 1300 posts on sex and I've already changed my mind about roughly half of them. It amazes me that the same people who admit that games about rolling dice can hide deep complexity and meaning will go on and claim that sex is just some squishy bits coming together. It's not. Sex is two (or more) people interacting in a huge diversity of ways, and while it can be great, it's never simple.
I love geek sex. I love the way we're endlessly willing to rethink and improve and break stereotypes about sex. But we gotta stop buying into this crap. We're geeks; we oughta be smarter than that.
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Hopf-Rinow II and an application November 15, 2009Posted by Akhil Mathew in differential geometry, MaBloWriMo.
Tags: geodesic completeness, geodesics, homotopy, Hopf-Rinow theorem, Riemannian manifolds
Now, let’s finish the proof of the Hopf-Rinow theorem (the first one) started yesterday. We need to show that given a Riemannian manifold which is a metric space , the existence of arbitrary geodesics from implies that is complete with respect to . Actually, this is slightly stronger than what H-R states: geodesic completeness at one point implies completeness.
The first thing to notice is that is smooth by the global smoothness theorem and the assumption that arbitrary geodesics from exist. Moreover, it is surjective by the second Hopf-Rinow theorem.
Now fix a -Cauchy sequence . We will show that it converges. Draw minimal geodesics travelling at unit speed with
The Hopf-Rinow theorems and geodesic completeness November 14, 2009Posted by Akhil Mathew in differential geometry, MaBloWriMo.
Tags: completeness, geodesic completeness, geodesics, Hopf-Rinow theorem, Riemannian manifolds
Ok, yesterday I covered the basic fact that given a Riemannian manifold , the geodesics on (with respect to the Levi-Civita connection) locally minimize length. Today I will talk about the phenomenon of “geodesic completeness.”
Henceforth, all manifolds are assumed connected.
The first basic remark to make is the following. If is a piecewise -path between and has the smallest length among piecewise paths, then is, up to reparametrization, a geodesic (in particular smooth). The way to see this is to pick very close to each other, so that is contained in a neighborhood of satisfying the conditions of yesterday’s theorem; then must be length-minimizing, so it is a geodesic. We thus see that is locally a geodesic, hence globally.
Say that is geodesically complete if can be defined on all of ; in other words, a geodesic can be continued to . The name is justified by the following theorem:
Theorem 1 (Hopf-Rinow)The following are equivalent:
- is geodesically complete.
- In the metric on induced by (see here), is a complete metric space (more…)
Geodesics are locally length-minimizing November 13, 2009Posted by Akhil Mathew in differential geometry, MaBloWriMo.
Tags: Gauss lemma, geodesics, Riemannian manifolds
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Our main goal today is:
Theorem 1 Given , there is a neighborhood containing such that geodesics from to every point of exist and also such that given a path inside from to , we have
with equality holding if and only if is a reparametrization of .
In other words, geodesics are locally path-minimizing. Not necessarily globally–a great circle is a geodesic on a sphere with the Riemannian metric coming from the embedding in , but it need not be the shortest path between two points. (more…)
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The Bernard H. Hall Abraham Lincoln Collection
Lincoln's Connection with Leavenworth
Abraham Lincoln delivered his first presidential campaign speech in Leavenworth, Kansas in December 1859 at the urging of close friend Mark Delahay, a Leavenworth attorney. After the speech, Lincoln stayed about a week, and later said, “If I were to ever travel west again, I think I would go to Leavenworth.”
The Lincoln Collection
The Bernard H. Hall Abraham Lincoln Collection contains more than 10,000 items and memorabilia, some rare and original such as:
One of the 14 known original copies of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution – the document that made slavery illegal.
A broad assortment of books and pamphlets on Lincoln's life and work. Included is a complete 85-volume set of “Following Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865,” by Bernhardt Wall, books containing original engravings of all the places Lincoln had lived or traveled.
One of two known letters written by Mrs. Lincoln and co-signed by Lincoln.
One of Lincoln's last messages to his wife – a telegram from Grant's headquarters in City Point, sharing with her Gen. Grant's success and the prospect of the imminent fall of Petersburg which meant the end of the Civil War and bloodshed.
A lock of hair purportedly taken from Lincoln's head at the time of his death.
About the Collector
Bernard H. Hall, M.D., F.A.C.P., donated USM's Lincoln Collection in 1969. Dr. Hall was former director of psychiatry at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka , Kan. and at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City where he was also director of community health services. He was a lecturer, author, and a collector of Lincolniana for 40 years. Mindful of Lincoln 's visit to Leavenworth in 1859, Dr. Hall wished his collection to be in Leavenworth and hoped that it would become “a shrine to a great man” and “a memorial to the incomparable Abraham Lincoln.” Dr. Hall died in 1987.
This photo was taken at the time of the official presentation of Dr. Hall's collection to Sister Mary Mark Orr, who served as head librarian at Saint Mary for many years.
To make an appointment to tour any of the University of Saint Mary collections, please call De Paul Library at 913-758-6306.
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With open enrollment for millions of uninsured Americans less than 10 months away — Oct. 1, 2013 — the four GOP-led states are part of a larger group totaling 17 states plus Washington, D.C., that have gotten an initial go-ahead to build and run insurance exchanges.
Insurance exchanges are not a term that most consumers are currently familiar with. The new marketplaces are supposed to take the confusion and anxiety out of buying private health insurance for individuals and families who purchase their coverage directly.
Exchanges are meant to have the feel of an online travel site, an Expedia or Orbitz. But there’s one major difference: They will also offer some relief from sticker shock. Under President Barack Obama’s health care law, about 8 in 10 customers in the new marketplaces will be eligible for federal aid to help pay their premiums.
Small businesses will have separate access to their own exchanges.
The GOP-led states conditionally approved Thursday are Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. A fifth, Mississippi, may yet win approval, but the administration’s decision is complicated by a dispute between Republican state officials. The governor does not want to participate, while the insurance commissioner does.
The federal government will set up and run the new marketplaces in states that opt out of playing any role, and 19 Republican-led states have taken that route.
The rest are either pursuing partnerships with Washington or still mulling options. On Thursday, Arkansas got its initial approval to run a partnership, meaning the state will handle consumer issues and oversee health insurance plans while Washington handles the back-office tasks of enrolling consumers and verifying if they are eligible for subsidies. Delaware had earlier received approval for its partnership exchange.
“In ten months, consumers in all 50 states will have access to a new marketplace where they will be able to easily purchase affordable, high quality health insurance plans,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.
Right now, exchanges exist in only a couple of states, although some large private employers are also starting to experiment with them.
They were originally a Republican idea that won bipartisan support, only to be abandoned by many in the GOP once Obama incorporated the concept in his health care law.
The basic idea is that setting up a marketplace with clear-cut rules would benefit consumers and encourage insurance companies to compete, helping keep costs in check. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney set up an exchange in that state under his 2006 health care overhaul law. And Utah has already launched one that caters to small businesses.
Under Obama’s law, plans in the new marketplaces will have to cover at least a basic set of benefits, including hospitalization, doctor visits, prescriptions, prevention and care for pregnant women and children. Cost to the consumer will be the main difference among plans, with four levels of coverage: bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. A consumer with a bronze plan will pay lower monthly premiums, but would face higher cost sharing for medical care.
Exchanges will also steer low-income people to state Medicaid programs. States have the option under the law of expanding Medicaid to cover more of their low-income residents, with the federal government picking up about 90 cents of every dollar in added costs.
Coverage through exchange plans will begin on Jan. 1, 2014.
At the same time, the law will require most Americans to carry health insurance, either through an employer, a government program, or by buying their own policy. Insurance companies will be barred from turning away the sick or charging them more. And insurers will also be limited in what they can charge older customers.
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A petite brunette with large eyes dominating her small, attractively angular face, Margaret Sullavan made her stage debut with the University Players (which included James Stewart and Henry Fonda) in Falmouth, MA, and entered films in 1933. With her husky voice and unique, magnetic charm Sullavan was an immediate success, proving herself airy and delightful in comedy ("The Good Fairy" 1935, "The Shop Around the Corner" 1939) and wistful and poignant in drama ("Only Yesterday", her 1933 debut; "Three Comrades" 1938). Her unstable temperament and her critical disdain for the Hollywood establishment, however, significantly reduced her screen output, facilitating her many returns to Broadway. She was married to Henry Fonda, William Wyler and producer-agent Leland Hayward. Sullavan suffered a number of mental health problems (including severe depression brought on partly by increasing deafness in middle age) and died of a drug overdose. A family memoir, "Haywire" (1977), was written by her daughter, Brooke Hayward.
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The liver is located in the upper right-hand portion of the abdominal cavity, beneath the diaphragm, and on top of the stomach, right kidney, and intestines. Shaped like a cone, the liver is a dark reddish-brown organ that weighs about 3 pounds.
There are two distinct sources that supply blood to the liver, including the following:
The liver holds about one pint (13 percent) of the body's blood supply at any given moment. The liver consists of two main lobes, both of which are made up of thousands of lobules. These lobules are connected to small ducts that connect with larger ducts to ultimately form the hepatic duct. The hepatic duct transports the bile produced by the liver cells to the gallbladder and duodenum (the first part of the small intestine).
The liver can lose three-quarters of its cells before it stops functioning.
In addition, the liver is the only organ in the body that can regenerate itself.
The liver regulates most chemical levels in the blood and excretes a product called bile, which helps carry away waste products from the liver. All the blood leaving the stomach and intestines passes through the liver. The liver processes this blood and breaks down the nutrients and drugs into forms that are easier to use for the rest of the body. More than 500 vital functions have been identified with the liver. Some of the more well-known functions include the following:
When the liver has broken down harmful substances, its by-products are excreted into the bile or blood. Bile by-products enter the intestine and ultimately leave the body in the form of feces. Blood by-products are filtered out by the kidneys, and leave the body in the form of urine.
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Sprint is offering a great new service called WebCapTel for the hearing impaired and it is completely free. The hearing impaired person would initiate a call via Sprint’s Web interface by entering the telephone number of the person they would like to call. The Sprint operator would call the number entered by the hearing impaired person to initiate the call with the other person. The Sprint operator would provide captions on the Web interface of everyone the other person says so the hearing impaired person can have a telephone conversation.
We have found this especially useful with our virtual classroom that we use for our courses. The operator can call-in to the class (with the optional dial-in telephone number) and caption everything that is being said within the classroom. This has helped us move forward with our accessibility improvements. Due to the fact that it would cost several hundred dollars an hour for a company to provide live captioning for our online live sessions, this has provided a great alternative.
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Protect Your Heart with OPC RSV and Help to
Prevent Degenerative Diseases such as
Cancer, Arthritis, Varicose Veins and More!
OPC RSV a Miracle?
Thousands of satisfied users think so. Are you tired of aging?
In this special report you are going to learn how to use an amazing and powerful supplement called OPC RSV to stop those dangerous free radicals and thus prevent and even reverse much of the damage that has already been done to your cells and to prevent the development of common degenerative diseases.
Free Radicals are known to be the single biggest cause of aging and degenerative diseases. (see table 1). Now you can neutralize these harmful free radicals and dramatically improve the quality of your life while rebuilding your good health! We are going to share with you what these free radicals are, where they come from, why they exist, how to recognize the damage they have already done and most importantly, how to neutralize them and render them harmless before they can destroy your good health.
Shortening Our Life Span:
Scientists now estimate that your cells are designed to live approximately 120 years. In spite of this, the average lifespan is 70 to 80 years. This means that if you were to die at the age of 70, your lifespan potential was shortened by 40%! Something is attacking your healthy cells and they are prematurely dying off before 120 years. That something is free radicals. You can’t escape, but you can control them. In a little while, we are going to show you how to neutralize these dangerous free radicals and render them harmless. The health benefits for you are profound as you can dramatically slow the aging and disease process.
Heath Problems Associated with Dangerous Free Radicals:
ü Aging (premature & “Normal”) ü Hemorroids
ü Alzheimer’s ü Inflammation
ü Arthritis ü Kidney Disease
ü Bruises ü Liver Damage
ü Cataracts ü Retinopathy
ü Congestive Heart Failure
ü Diabetes Type II
ü Skin Cancer
ü Swollen Joints
ü Chronis Fatigue
ü Varicose Veins
ü Heart Attacks
Just about every other health problem associated with the process of aging as well!
Your Cells Determine Your Health!
Your entire body is made up of billions and billions of individual units of life called “cells.” That’s right, each of your cells is a “unit of life,” your life! Each time one of them dies, a part of you dies. From the top of your head to the bottom of your feet, living cells are everywhere. All of your organs-kidneys, heart, prostate, stomach, colon, pancreas, thyroid, skin, eyes, pituitary gland, lungs… They are all made of living cells.
Deep inside of every living cell is a “nucleus” made up of very complex DNA and RNA proteins. The DNA portion is actually a complete biochemical blueprint for the entire body of the organism that the cell is a part of. This means that inside of every one of the billions of living cells in your body, is the complete blueprint to repair and rebuild not only that particular cell, but also the entire body.
It means that technically speaking, your cells have the awesome potential to keep you young, healthy and disease free and alive… FOREVER! That is until those dangerous free radicals are able to damage and destroy your healthy cells. This is why free radicals are responsible for the development of disease and the dramatic shortening of your lifespan.
Lifecycle of Your Cells:
Your cells are designed to perform thousands of important biochemical functions every day to keep you in good health. These cells will eventually wear out and die off, a normal process called “apoptosis.” Before the worn out cell dies, it reproduces another new cell identical to itself. So in theory, as the old worn out cells die off, they are replaced by healthy new identical cells and you remain in good health and disease free. How well your cells reproduce depends entirely on the DNA located deep within every cell.
As we mentioned before, the DNA inside of your cell contains all the instructions for how the old worn out cell can reproduce a healthy new cell. As you may have already imagined, anything that can alter or damage the DNA of your cells, will dramatically affect your level of health. (see table 2) What do you suppose would happen if the instructions in your DNA were damaged when it came time to manufacture a new cell? Damaged cells do not manufacture healthy new cells, they manufacture more damaged or abnormal cells identical to themselves! You have got to protect that DNA from harmful free radicals if you want to live a long healthy and disease free life.
So how does your DNA get damaged? It’s the numerous sources of free radicals that we have to deal with daily. Therefore anything you can do to neutralize these free radicals will benefit you by protecting your healthy cells from damage. OPC RSV is the most powerful free radical neutralizer known! Using the product on a regular basis can help neutralize those dangerous free radicals and render them harmless before they can damage your cells.
Free Radical Damages:
Through the process of oxidation, dangerous free radicals can attach themselves to your healthy cells and permanently transform them into harmful structures.
Normal Fat Molecule can become LDL Cholesterol Molecule
Normal DNA Molecule can become Abnormal Cancer Cells
Normal Collagen Molecule can become Premature Aging of Your Skin, Heart Disease and Stroke
Normal Pancreas, Kidney, can become Diabetes, Kidney,
Liver and Heart Molecules can become Liver and Heart Failure and Heart Disease
Free radicals are a part of our every day life. They can however be neutralized and kept under control. Our own body can neutralize many of them, but many times the job is overwhelming. OPC RSV is the most potent free radical neutralizer known.
The More Damage, The Less Energy You have:
The DNA inside your cells control hundreds of thousands of little energy factories inside your cells. These energy factories are called “mitochondria” and they take fatty acids or glucose and combine it with oxygen to create a high energy molecule called Adenosine-Tri-Phosphate or ATP for short.
Move your arm, you need ATP. Turn your head, you need ATP. Breathe in and out-you need ATP. You can do absolutely nothing without ATP. Just as gasoline powers your automobile, ATP is the critical fuel your body requires. The more ATP you have, the more physical energy you will have.
High levels of fatty acids or glucose and oxygen will not do you one bit of good if your cells are so badly damaged that they can not convert them into ATP and burn them for energy. In fact an abnormally high glucose level is a common disease known as sugar diabetes or Type II Adult Onset Diabetes.
It’s almost always caused first by a poor diet that is very high in simple carbohydrates and sugars and secondly by cells that have become to damaged to efficiently convert the fatty acids of glucose into ATP. This means a lack of adequate ATP production, and the continually high blood glucose level also increased the number of free radicals in your body. Truly the worse possible combination. Under this scenario your likelihood of developing one of the big 3 diseases, Heart Disease, Cancer or Diabetes goes up dramatically.
The good news is that there is plenty you can do about it. Get your diet in order and use OPC RSV to neutralize those dangerous free radicals as well. The disastrous complications that can develop from continually high blood sugar levels are very serious.
As Your Cells Age, So Do You:
Want to look and feel young? Then you have to keep your cells healthy by protecting them from the potential damages of harmful free radicals.
Ever wonder why some people seem to show their age much worse than others? It’s due to free radical damage done to their cells. If your cells die prematurely due to excessive free radical damage and they are not replaced with healthy new ones, then the visible effects of aging will be very dramatic. You are actually losing more cells than you are replacing and the result is a shortening of your life span as the visual effects of aging also take their toll. You will look and actually be old before your time. Neutralizing those dangerous free radicals with OPC RSV and minimizing your exposure to them is the answer. We will share with you how to do this a little later in this article, but first we need to understand what free radicals are and how they work.
What is a Free Radical?
Free radicals inside of your body are extremely dangerous. Scientists know that they can cause premature aging and frequently are the cause of numerous health problems. (see table 1).
When biochemical processes take place inside of your body, partial molecules are left over carrying an electrical charge. These electrically charged partial molecules are called free radicals because they are very unstable and are free to roam though out your body damaging your cells that they come in contact with.
How do Free Radicals do So Much Damage?
As free radicals come in contact with your cells, they release their electrical charge much like static electricity shocks you when you touch a door knob or light switch. The very same thing happens on a smaller scale inside of your body every time these free radicals are released inside of your body. Initially the tiny electrical shocks may only partially impair a cell’s ability to function. If there is a larger amount of free radicals attacking the cell, the cell may no longer function at all, and you just lost a “unit of life” as it was not replaced. (see table 2)
The third possibility is that the damage to the cell is severe enough to actually damage the DNA and transform the cell into an abnormal diseased cell. You know this as cancer. These dangerous free radicals have got to be neutralized before they can damage your cells. The damage is done to your cells by these free radicals in two possible ways.
First, a free radical is an unstable molecule and it may steal an electron from which the electron was stolen now becomes a dangerous free radical as well. Now this can set off a dangerous chain reaction that dramatically increases the number of free radicals inside of you.
Second, if a free radical does not steal an electron from another normal cell molecule, it may instead attach itself to your cell. When it happens, your normal healthy cell molecule will be permanently changed. The results of this can be catastrophic as abnormal cells can become cancer cells.
If the molecule being attacked happens to be a triglyceride fat molecule, the result could be a free radical created that can damage your arteries and cause dangerous plaque to form which is known as heart disease. As those arteries become more and more restricted, the condition leads to heart attacks.
If the molecule being attacked happens to be a DNA chain, then the DNA can be damaged and become abnormal which may ultimately develop into cancers and other serious diseases.
If the cell molecule being attacked is a collagen molecule, then you may see the damage in the premature aging and wrinkling of your skin.
You see, the nature of your health problem caused by too many dangerous free radicals depends entirely on where the free radicals choose to attack. If the tissues in your joints are attacked, it will be arthritis, if it is the pancreas it will be sugar diabetes and so forth.
This is why free radicals can be responsible for many health problems as outlined in tables 1 and 2.
Where Do These Free Radicals Come From?
Free radicals are found in our food (especially processed foods), our water (through chemicals like chlorine and fluorine) and in the air we breathe (especially smoke and smog).
Your level of exposure to chemicals will greatly increase your level of dangerous free radicals. It is impossible to completely eliminate your exposure to harmful free radicals and to make matters worse, your own body manufactures the largest number of free radicals as a by product of normal digestion and metabolism.
Important Nutrients That Neutralize Free Radicals:
Fortunately your body is capable of neutralizing many of these dangerous free radicals. To keep those free radicals under control of course the first thing you will want to do is minimize your exposure to them.
Avoid chemicals in your diet and try to eat a natural diet as much as possible. Secondly, make sure you are giving your body the important nutrients it needs to keep us with the job of controlling those free radicals.
The process of oxidation occurs when one molecule gives up an electron to another molecule. When it occurs inside of your body it is called “ oxidative stress.” This is a very potent and dangerous oxygen free radical.
This oxidation process is the same process that causes metal to rust, cut apples to turn brown and food items to go rancid.
Cut open an apple and immediately pour lemon juice on one half. The high antioxidant vitamin C content of the lemon juice will actually prevent the apple from turning brown as it neutralizes the oxygen free radicals!
This happens to your healthy cells when oxygen free radicals are present inside your body.
Vitamin E and Selenium when taken together are very effective at neutralizing free radicals found in the oils and fats of your body. Antioxidants like vitamin A and Beta Carotene are also effective because they are used by your body to neutralize free radicals especially in the mucous membranes of your body. Of all the antioxidants vitamins and minerals, vitamin C is the most potent free radical neutralizer. That’s because vitamin C is water soluble and over 90% of your body is made of water soluble tissue. This means vitamin C certainly has the broadest ability to neutralize more free radicals than any of the other vitamin or mineral antioxidants. Using a high quality multi vitamin supplement like New Generation is a very good idea to insure that you are getting these particular antioxidants.
20 Times Stronger than Vitamin C, 50 times Stronger than Vitamin E!
It’s called OPC RSV (oligo proantho cyaniding)
And it is a natural component of red grape seeds and skin. It too is water soluble and studies show that it is 20 times more effective at neutralizing free radicals than vitamin C and even 50 times more powerful than vitamin E! OPC RSV is not a vitamin or a mineral, it is called bioflavonoid.
Bioflavonoids are found in many plants and they serve two very important roles.
1. Bioflavonoids strengthen the plant’s cells and fibers and
2. Bioflavonoids protect the plant from oxygen free radicals, which are also one of the most dangerous forms of free radicals for humans as well.
When you consume these wonderful bioflavonoids, you receive the same protective benefits that the plants enjoy. The problem is that you need to consume a huge amount of these plants to get enough of these OPC bioflavonoids. But not any more. OPC RSV is a highly concentrated form of these most powerful bioflavonoids in a convenient capsule form. By swallowing these little capsules on a daily basis, you dramatically increase your body’s ability to neutralize dangerous free radicals and reap the many health benefits.
OPC RSV works extremely well with all the other antioxidants especially vitamin C. OPC RSV is used by your body to neutralize plenty of free radicals and it also protects the vitamin C from oxidizing thus increasing the benefits and performance of your vitamin C.
The improved synergies form using vitamin C and OPC RSV together can greatly improve the wound healing process and help to speed up the elimination of excess cholesterol in addition to the other health benefits too numerous to list!
Now that you know the secret of how to really neutralize those dangerous free radicals with OPC RSV, using the supplement on a daily basis will have profound effects on your physical health. OPC is in fact so effective that Dr. Masquelier who discovered the substance received a patent #4,698,360 for its free radical scavenging/neutralizing benefits.
Clinical Studies Prove OPC Effectiveness:
In this limited space we can only review a few of the clinical studies completed on OPC RSV. As you would expect, a natural substance like OPC RSV has at least 100 clinical studies that document it's effectiveness.
Several of the studies have shown dramatic improvement in strengthening veins and capillaries, including those with diabetes, cirrhosis and the elderly. Varicose veins, retinopathy, night blindness and cataracts have all shown exceptional improvement. Edema following injuries and surgery, PMS, even severe cases of arthritis have all responded dramatically. Free radical damage is indicated as a major factor in: (see table 1.)
Disclaimers:The material contained in this publication has been carefully researched and is believed to be reliable and accurate. However, it is not presented as medical advice. It is offered as educational information. The reader is advised to obtain the services of a competent and qualified physician if the need for firm medical treatment is indicated.
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Ecarte is a centuries old game of French origin and came to Britian in the 1820s. It originally began in French gaming houses, but works well with or without a money interest. Ecarte is a fast moving two-player game.
A 32-card deck is made by shortening the pack to 7 and Up. Cards rank K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7.
Players cut to deal and are dealt five cards in batches of 2 and 3. The next card is turned up, which establishes trumps.
If the dealer turns up a King, he/she is awarded 1 point.
Each player then examines their hand and decides whether they want to play immediately, or perhaps exchange some cards
To play, he/she says “I play” or “I stand”.
On the other hand, if the player wishes to improve their hand, they say, “I propose”.
If the dealer accepts, he/she says, “How many?”, or the dealer may say “I refuse”, in which case play begins immediately.
If the dealer accepts, he/she gives the opponent as many cards up to five as the player wishes to exchange. The dealer may either ‘stand pat’ or exchange some cards of his/her own.
If the dealer exchanges any cards, the opponent has the option of “proposing” or “playing”.
This continues until someone elects to play, or the deck is exhausted of all or nearly all cards, at which time the hand must be played.
Marking the King
After the exchange and before play begins, a player holding the King of Trumps may declare and score 1 point for it. The point cannot be claimed once a card has been led to the first trick.
The non-dealer leads first, and thereafter the winner of the trick leads to the next.
You must follow suit, and you must try to win the trick by playing a higher card.
If you can’t follow suit, then you must trump in.
The trick is won by the highest trump played to it. If no trumps are played, to the highest card of the suit led.
If a player stands with their original five cards and wins 3-4 tricks, they get 1 point All 5 tricks is called "vole" and pays 2 points.
If any cards were exchanged then, as above, 1 point is awarded for 3-4 tricks, and 2 points for “vole”, all five tricks.
Now, read carefully – If the Non-Dealer loses without “proposing” or the Dealer loses after “refusing” the first proposal, then the winner gets 2 points, regardless of how many tricks they take.
A game is played over several hands to 5 points.
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According to the Venezuelan Council of Industry (Conindustria), the domestic market requires an investment-friendly climate
The "socialization" of the economy promoted by the Venezuelan government prevents investment and private economic activities from rebounding in the short term, said economist Pedro Palma.
"Patently, in such a hostile environment, one cannot expect the private economic activity will thrive; one cannot expect an environment boosting private investment, so that private sector's investment may rebound," said Palma, the President of the National Academy of Economics.
In a national meeting of the Federation of Trade and Industry Chambers (Fedecámaras), hosted by the Venezuelan business chamber, Palma stressed that the economic model promoted by the Executive Office only seeks to give the State the control of the means of production, at the expense of private initiative.
"The government is engaged in open confrontation with the private sector. Private economic activities are under siege, seizures of businesses continue, threats are lingering. Absurd controls on prices, production volumes, distribution of products are in place."
Increased government controls and moves against private property have led Venezuela to rank 138 out of 141 countries in economic freedom according to an index called "Economic Freedom of the World: 2010 Annual Report," prepared by the Fraser Institute, a Canada's public policy think-tank, along with Venezuelan NGO Center for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge for Freedom (Cedice Libertad), which was published last Tuesday.
According to Palma, Venezuela's economic outlook suggests a downturn for the second consecutive year. In fact, he estimated that Venezuela's economy may shrink 1.5-1.7 percent at the end of 2010, while inflation may hit some 30 percent.
"Based on the official figures released by the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), there will be a major economic downturn by year's end, that is, Venezuela will report an economic recession for the second consecutive year," Palma added.
Translated by Gerardo Cárdenas
José Vicente Rangel clearly said: "We are not conducting negotiations threatened with a gun in the head." He warned behind closed doors in the midst of the social upheaval occurred during the oil strike in 2002 and 2003. Dissenting Timoteo Zambrano answered back that no other option was available: "The thing is that otherwise, you do not negotiate."
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Stone-washed GenesProbability puzzles require you to weigh all the possibilities and pick the most likely outcome.
Both of my parents have brown eyes, as do I. My brother and my wife have blue eyes. Using the simple brown-blue model (two genes; a brown gene dominates blue gene), what are the chances of my first child having blue eyes?
HintGiven my brother's blue eyes, what are the odds on my pair of eye-color genes?
Answer1 in 3.
Since my brother has blue eyes (bb), both of my parents carry one brown and one blue gene (Bb). The three possibilities for my genotype, equally likely, are BB, Bb, and bB. Thus, there is a 2/3 chance that I carry a blue gene.
If I carry a blue gene, there is a 50% chance I will pass it on to my first child (and, obviously, 0% if I carry two brown genes).
Since my child will certainly get a blue gene from my wife, my gene will determine the eye color.
Multiplying the probabilities of those two independent events, there is a chance of 1/2 x 2/3 = 1/3 of my passing on a blue gene.
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Compare M87 and its neighborhood in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies as it appears in the visible and in the X-ray part of the spectrum. The material in this cloud is extremely hot, with a temperature of 10-100 million degrees, i.e. at least as hot as the hydrogen burning cores of sun-like stars. Of course, it is of extreme low density, though. The X-ray emitting part of the cloud extends over a volume about 1 million light years across; the cloud itself may fill the whole Virgo cluster.
Note the suggested elongated shape of the faint outskirts of M87, contrasting to the round, bright inner region of this giant galaxy. This effect is even more evident in deep images of M87.
The image is from the Virgo Cluster page of Ray White's collection at the University of Alabama
Compare the whole central part of the Virgo cluster in visible versus X-ray light
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We've all heard the stories about terminally-ill people who valiantly went to work every day until the day they died.
And then there are those disabled people who apply for Disability benefits.
I'm going to say something that some of you don't want to hear, but which the disabled community has wanted to get out for years. The difference is not in the work ethic of the employee, but the compassion of the employer.
Most people applying for Disability benefits would love to still be at work, but their employers don't want them any more. Maybe it's prejudice. Maybe they're perceived to be a worker's comp claim waiting to happen. Or maybe they just aren't able to produce at a level satisfactory to their employer.
Once you're disabled, your chances of getting a new job – even one you're eminently qualified for – drop dramatically. The Americans with Disabilities Act is supposed to guarantee you equal treatment in hiring, but for many disabled applicants, all it means is that the employer comes up with a reason other than your disability not to hire you.
There's also some misunderstanding in the general public about what ADA promises. You are not entitled to a job that you cannot do on equal footing with other employees. If the job description requires typing 85 WPM and your disability limits you to 15, you can't use your disability to get around that requirement. The employer has every right to expect you to produce just as much as everyone else once the necessary accommodations are made.
I would love to go back to work, but the law is quite clear that the accommodations that I would need (starting with "work when able") are not considered "reasonable accommodations" under ADA. It isn't that I didn't try diligently to get a new job, but that interviews that were going really well ended on the spot when I brought up the need for accommodations.
I've been on both sides of this story. In 1987, I had an employer willing to keep me on the payroll, even though I was only able to work part-time and not working at full capacity when I was there. I "bravely battled" my disease (which had not yet been diagnosed) and "was dedicated to my job". They had the legal right to fire me for excessive absenteeism, tardiness and frequently leaving early, but chose to take care of a long-time employee who was considered an irreplaceable asset to the company.
In 2000, I was just as "dedicated to my job" and just as "bravely battling" my disease, but my employer was not as dedicated to me, and even though I was absent only 2 days because I was so dedicated to trying to work despite increasing symptoms, they fired me. Under ADA, they were legally permitted to do so. There was no "reasonable accommodation" possible to increase my productivity. There wasn't even an unreasonable accommodation that would have allowed me to keep up the workload when simply getting to work left me exhausted and in need of an hour nap.
My personality didn't change in the intervening years. My work ethic didn't change. The only thing that changed was my employer, and my employer's attitude. This one had an eye on the bottom line, and I wasn't contributing enough to justify my salary.
That's the reality of it. Next time you're inclined to throw in a disabled person's face that he ought not expect Disability benefits because your cousin's neighbor worked until the morning of her final hospitalization, you should instead throw that in the face of the callous employer who fired him. If every employer were willing to be humanitarian toward disabled employees, there would be a lot fewer people forced to swallow their pride and apply for Disability. Employers who won't let willing disabled employees continue working to the best of their ability deserve scorn far more than those rare lucky disabled employees deserve praise for having a compassionate employer who didn't fire them in the same situation.
If every employer were as compassionate as those whose employees are allowed to continue working until the day they die, there would be a lot fewer people applying for Disability benefits. If my husband hadn't accepted a job in another city, forcing me to change jobs, I don't doubt that I would still be employed by the firm that put people before profits. Unfortunately, you can't legislate morality, or compassion.
And, equally unfortunately, people are always willing to assume the worst about a disabled person who has been forced to swallow his or her pride to apply for Disability benefits. They're not lazy – doing their very best is simply not good enough for employers to want to pay them.
Dr. Mark Loveless, an infectious disease specialist and head of the CFS and AIDS Clinic at Oregon Health Sciences University, proclaimed that a CFIDS patient "feels every day significantly the same as an AIDS patient feels two months before death."
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Today we have published a discussion paper on the development of a strategy for managing spent oxide fuels. In considering the future strategy the discussion paper describes how oxide fuel is currently managed in the UK and how this fuel could be managed in the future.
The objectives of the strategy are to:
We are currently responsible for managing the following types of oxide fuel:
To date spent fuel from these sources has been stored and then reprocessed at Sellafield. The current intention for fuel still to arise from the British Energy reactor fleet is to continue to reprocess but with some fuel being stored for the longer term pending a decision to reprocess or treat it as waste and dispose of it to a deep Geological Disposal Facility (GDF).
The discussion paper explains that future options are to:
A programme of stakeholder engagement on the development of the strategy begins at the NDA's National Stakeholder Group this week. This will lead to the publication of a credible options paper later this year.
Comments on the discussion paper can also be sent to email@example.com
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Time and again, I’ve witnessed the generosity of West Virginians firsthand-in the wake of the spring tornado and floods, the derecho, the tragic loss of two State Police Troopers, Hurricane Sandy, and most recently, the gas line explosion. In the midst of these extraordinarily difficult times, West Virginians joined together to support each other-finding strength in the company of others. This week, many of us gathered with friends and family to celebrate the holiday season. It was an opportunity, not only to catch up, but to share our blessings with others in our communities and our state-whether donating food to a local pantry, offering our time at a shelter or simply lending a listening ear.
Then again this month, the tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School reminded me of how precious my family and friends are-and the joy they bring into my life. Such loss is heartbreaking-it’s unspeakable. Still today, Joanne and I continue to pray for the families and friends of the 26 children and adults who left this world far too soon.
As West Virginians and Americans, we must commit to taking care of one another. We must look after each other and give support to those who need it most. This holiday season, I encourage you to think about someone in your life who might need a shoulder to lean on. A phone call or simple act of kindness can mean the world to a friend or loved one-even a stranger.
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Cellphone makes people 'selfish'; reasearch
Friday, 17 February 2012 15:33
Technology and IT News: Washington, Feb 17
Cellphones help people to connect with each other from far distances, but it may also make users less socially minded, say researchers.
Marketing professors Anastasiya Pocheptsova and Rosellina Ferraro, with graduate student, Ajay T. Abraham, all from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, conducted a series of experiments on test groups of cellphone users.
Prosocial behavior, as defined in the study, is action intended to benefit another person or society as a whole.
The researchers found that after a short period of cellphone use the subjects were less inclined to volunteer for a community service activity when asked, compared to the control-group counterparts. The cell phone users were also less persistent in solving word problems - even though they knew their answers would translate to a monetary donation to charity.
The decreased focus on others held true even when participants were merely asked to draw a picture of their cellphones and think about how they used them.
The study involved separate sets of college student subjects - both men and women and generally in their early 20s.
"We would expect a similar pattern of effects with people from other age groups. Given the increasing pervasiveness of cellphones, it does have the potential to have broad social implications," said Ferraro.
The authors cited previous research in explaining a root cause of their findings: "The cellphone directly evokes feelings of connectivity to others, thereby fulfilling the basic human need to belong."
This results in reducing one's desire to connect with others or to engage in empathic and prosocial behavior.
The study also distinguished its subjects from users of other social media -- Facebook users -- in one of the tests.
The authors found that participants felt more connected to others because of their cellphones than because of their Facebook accounts, suggesting that this difference in connectedness was the underlying driver of the observed phenomenon.
The findings appear in their working paper, The Effect of Mobile Phone Use on Prosocial Behavior. (ANI)
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Can social media be used to make the world a better place? We believe it can, so we've declared today Social Good Day.
Mashable and (RED) invite you to join the social media for social good movement by taking part in Social Good Day. We want you to get involved, so we've gotten together with our friends at (RED), who work to eliminate AIDS in Africa, to invite you to attend or organize a meetup in your community to celebrate, share, educate and engage in a discussion on how social media can be used to tackle some of the world’s social challenges and issues.
We’re interested in unleashing fresh thinking about how social media can raise awareness and create solutions for social issues around the world. It starts with each community coming together and contributing ideas and, more importantly, solutions.
At the Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit in partnership with the UN Foundation, we heard leaders share their solutions to some of the world's biggest social challenges, and are continuing the discussions in the UN Week Digital Media Lounge. Whatever community you'll be participating in we want to know: "What's your solution?" Let the world hear your ideas through social media!
How To Join #SocialGood Day
Sign up to attend or organize your own Social Good Day meetup today on Mashable's Meetup Everywhere page.
Share your solution in the comments below.
Write a blog post and share it.
Post to Facebook about what you or your company is doing.
Record a video about your solution and upload it to YouTube with the #socialgood tag.
Get inspired by watching the 30-minute Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs documentary The Lazarus
Effect on YouTube. Presented by (RED) and HBO, the film follows the story of HIV-positive people in
Africa who undergo a remarkable transformation in as few as 40 days thanks to access to treatment.
Suggestions of Things To Discuss
What solutions are you coming up with to address some of the world challenges, such as the UN’s
Millennium Development Goals list, like fighting AIDS in Africa?
What’s the most effective channel to spread awareness and generate money for causes: Twitter?
What social causes are getting it right and why?
How would you use social media to spread awareness about (RED)'s efforts to help
eliminate AIDS in Africa?
Facts and Resources to Consider:
Thirty-three million people in the world have AIDS. Twenty-two million live in Africa.
Every day 3,800 people die in sub-Saharan Africa from AIDS.
It costs just 40 cents per day for the life-saving medicine someone living with HIV/AIDS in Africa needs to help them live a healthy and productive life.
#SocialGood Day Tweets
(RED)'s primary objective is to engage the private sector in raising awareness and funds for the Global Fund, founded to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. Companies whose products take on the (PRODUCT) RED mark contribute a significant percentage of the sales or portion of the profits from that product to the Global Fund to help finance AIDS programs in Africa, with an emphasis on the health of women and children. Since its launch in the Spring of 2006, more than $150 million has been generated by (RED) partners and events for the Global Fund. (RED) money is at work in Swaziland, Rwanda, Ghana, Lesotho, Zambia and South Africa, and supports programs that have reached more than 5 million people. For more information, visit www.joinred.com.
The UN Foundation, a public charity, was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. We are an advocate for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems.
We help the UN take its best work and ideas to scale—through advocacy, partnerships, constituency building and fund-raising;
Partnerships because we have learned what can be achieved when the public and private sectors work together through the United Nations;
Advocacy because we know the leverage and impact that sound policy can have on the kind of social, economic and environmental change the UN seeks;
Community-building because the UN was created for “we the people,” and all of us can give back and contribute to a better world; and
We need new and additional resources to power solutions to global challenges.
92Y: Since 1874, 92nd Street Y has been serving its community and the world in a remarkable way, providing exceptional programs across the spectrum—in the arts and culture, Jewish life and education, health and fitness, personal growth and travel, and in classes for adults, families and children. A unique, multifaceted nonprofit institution, 92nd Street Y serves more than 300,000 people annually, from newborns to centenarians, and 4.5 million people through its website and variety of online venues.
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Act Locally » December 16, 2011
Library of Alexandria in Danger
Will Egypt’s newly elected Islamists respect freedom of expression and tolerate ‘sacrilegious’ books?
The Library of Alexandria's collection includes texts many in the Muslim world consider sacrilegious, such as books by Salman Rushdie, art books featuring nudes and books that discuss LGBT issues.
Through its Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood emerged as the largest bloc following a November 28 vote–the first election since the ousting of former President Hosni Mubarak on February 11, and the first free election in Egypt in more than 80 years. Additional parliamentary elections will be held through March.
Observers of Egyptian politics will keep an eye on what this fundamentalist surge portends for the country’s cultural and secular institutions, including the renowned Library of Alexandria. Located in Egypt’s second-largest city, the library sits on roughly the same site once occupied by the fabled Royal Library of Alexandria, the most significant library of the ancient world, which was destroyed more than 1,000 years ago.
Today, Sohair Wastawy, its former chief librarian, worries that the election of Islamists could endanger the library’s collections. “The library has a huge theater. It has dancing, musical plays and movie presentations, which, according to the right wing in Egypt, are not good things,” she says.
From 2004 to 2010, Wastawy oversaw the collection that currently holds some 1.6 million volumes. Threats to the library are nothing new. Several years ago, when a Muslim member of Parliament complained about the presence of Israeli books in Egyptian libraries, the Mubarak regime’s Culture Minister Farouk Hosni reportedly replied, “If those books existed I would burn them myself.”
Longstanding tensions with Israel have always made it a hot-button issue. “To really know the people that you’re calling your enemy, you need to know what they are writing,” says Wastawy. “We did not want to censor anything.”
The Library of Alexandria’s collection also includes texts many in the Muslim world consider sacrilegious, such as books by Salman Rushdie, art books featuring nudes and books that discuss LGBT issues.
Wastawy, who is now dean of libraries at Illinois State University in Normal, says she and the library’s director bought many of the volumes with their own money. “Because these books are not available in our market, we used to buy them from our vendors in the United States or find them personally when we were outside the country and then send them to Egypt,” she says. “We didn’t get them the way people claimed we did, which is through the Israeli press.”
The country’s current secular military-led government has been unpopular with many Egyptians–both on the left and on the right. In November, tens of thousands of Islamists protested against a military provision that would grant the armed forces a long-term political role as guardian of “constitutional legitimacy.” They say this could give the military the final word on major policies (such as ensuring a secular state) even after a civilian parliament and president are elected.
After the upcoming elections, the committee that will draft Egypt’s new constitution will be named. Its members will be decided, at least in part, by the new members of Parliament.
Wastawy says she’s concerned that newly powerful religious fundamentalists could have many books destroyed. “We have tried to work with the principle of separation of church and state,” she says. But the library’s fight to stay secular could prove difficult under the country’s new leadership.
ABOUT THIS AUTHOR
Sanhita SinhaRoy, the associate editor of American Libraries magazine, is a former managing editor of In These Times and a former copy editor of Playboy. (Yes, she did read it for the articles.)
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Despite tight supply and steady demand, it would take a disaster along the lines of Hurricane Katrina to push pump prices that high
With gasoline prices surging in 2007, U.S. motorists have cast a nervous eye toward gas station signs. Headlines about the specter of $4-a-gallon gasoline bedevil commuters and vacation planners, and fears of an inflationary ripple effect linger. Many have worried that pump prices could surpass the record average of $3.06 a gallon in September, 2005, right after Hurricanes Rita and Katrina decimated the Gulf Coast.
Gasoline is now at a national average of $2.87 per gallon, about 33% higher than 11 weeks ago. On Apr. 25 the picture got no prettier: Crude oil jumped $1.26, to $65.84 a barrel, on government data showing a steep, 2.8-million-barrel drop in gasoline supplies.
The main culprit in the price surge is lack of supply. Refinery utilization—which measures how much capacity gasoline refineries are using—fell to 87.8% from 90.4% the week before. Refiners typically report production upswings in the spring as they finish routine maintenance before the summer driving season. But this year fires and power outages have marred production at many refineries. "There are unusual problems in the refinery business; everything that could have gone wrong went wrong," says Fadel Gheit, senior energy analyst for Oppenheimer & Co. in New York. "From BP to Valero to Exxon to ConocoPhillips, every company had an operating problem or shutdown this quarter."
Ramping Up Production
Still, American drivers need not fear the worst, analysts say. That's because, despite tight supply and steady demand, gasoline prices will likely peak soon, meaning relief at the pump isn't far off. Analysts say that troubled refineries in Texas, California, and Indiana will start ramping up production, and there should be enough supply to quench the thirst of America's automobiles as summer driving starts.
"Everyone likes to hype $4 gasoline because it's sexy," says Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service, an energy consulting firm. "The reality is that we're nearing the highs of the year, and within 30 days there will be more gasoline on the market. You might see $4 in tony places such as Beacon Hill or Beverly Hills, where they wear the price as a badge of honor."
The gasoline squeeze is coming at a time when major energy players are reporting lower profits, coming off 2006 comparisons that featured record incomes built atop sizzling oil and natural gas prices. The integrated oil companies now also face higher drilling costs and restricted access to countries such as Venezuela and Russia. On Apr. 24, BP (BP) reported a 17% drop in profits amid lower oil prices and rising costs, while Occidental Petroleum (OXY) reported a 1.5% drop.
Only in a Calamity
But as gasoline prices rise and refining margins fatten, some of the exploration and production strain can be offset by gains in refining and marketing. In other words, higher gas prices are helping Big Oil through tougher times. ConocoPhillips (COP), which has the U.S.' second-largest petroleum refining capacity, reported a 7.7% rise in net income on Apr. 25. ExxonMobil (XOM), which in 2006 reported the highest annual net profit in history at $39.5 billion, reports earnings Apr. 26 and Chevron (CVX) the following day. Though ExxonMobil has been downgraded by several analysts, strong refining margins could boost the company's first-quarter profits.
Analysts say that while the supply squeeze is worrisome, it would take a major calamity—such as a repeat of the Katrina devastation—to send retail gasoline prices soaring to $4 a gallon. Oil companies and refiners are working to get production back to full capacity, and some analysts say some gasoline supply could be tied up in blend stocks—unfinished product—and put to market later. The most recent Energy Dept. forecast, released Apr. 10, predicted retail regular gasoline prices would average $2.81 per gallon in the summer of 2007 (April-September).
"We expect to see prices flatten around where they are now," says Douglas MacIntyre, senior oil analyst for the federal Energy Information Administration, part of the DOE. "More refinery outages and higher crude prices could push it to $3, but we're not looking at $4. More likely the summer average will be $2.50 to $2.80."
Questioning Consumers' Resilience
Some industry experts say consumers are actually getting a bargain at the pump, as prices are still lower than in the early 1980s, adjusted for inflation. On a national average, gasoline prices actually decreased for the week of Apr. 23, falling 0.7¢ to $2.87 per gallon. And in spite of the recent surge, prices are 4.5¢ per gallon lower than at the same time last year.
Still, this year's price rally has drivers feeling anxious. This month, consumer confidence dropped to its lowest level since August, in part because of the rise in gas prices. Yet the DOE reports that demand for gasoline remains strong. Motor-gasoline demand averaged more than 9.3 million barrels over the past month, up 2.3% from the same time a year ago, according to the DOE. Population increases, economic growth, and lengthy commutes have kept demand healthy, which is further adding to price pressure.
But analysts like Kloza and Stephen Schork, editor of The Schork Report, a daily newsletter on oil and gas, say that demand may not be as high as the DOE numbers show. They point to evidence that consumers in states such as California are curbing their gasoline usage, even as government numbers show demand increasing. On Apr. 13, the California government's State Board of Equalization reported that for the first time in 14 years, gasoline consumption declined in California for all but three months in 2006. "You have to look at the DOE numbers with a jaundiced eye," says Schork. "It doesn't make sense that there would be no hit in demand with prices continually going upward."
It's unclear what price would prompt Americans to curb their driving. What's far more certain is that $4 per gallon isn't likely anytime soon.
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Welcome to the first installment of Made in Japan, where I’ll be doing a weekly roundup of interesting links to maker-type activities from Japan.
Recycling to Create Musical Instruments
Here’s a great video that shows that the Maker spirit is alive and well in Japan. It’s a video of the annual All-Japan Handmade Instrument Idea Contest held in the city of Kawasaki. This video features a man playing “In The Mood” on a saxaphone made of plumbing pipe, a film canister, and a rubber balloon; a “choir” of six printers synchronized by software to play Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; a 4th grader playing his favorite baseball team’s fight song on an instrument made of empty cans and chopsticks; a “trombone” made from an empty can, as well as a few other fun entries. A 49 year old housewife took the grand prize for the event, winning 500,000 yen (about $5,000) by playing a talented rendition of “Ode to Joy” with her honking plastic bottle+straw+ramen cup instrument. It’s great to see the kids going up against adults and recycling at the same time. Japan is known to have one of the most comprehensive (and confusing, for the uninitiated) recycling programs in the world, and now I think I understand why: They are saving all that stuff for their submissions to this contest Via Japan Probe.
A Collection of iPhone Applications by Masayuki Akamatsu
Although the iPhone is not usable in Japan yet (and some suspect it may never succeed in the Japanese market, see below) this collection of iPhone apps is brought to you by Japanese Max/MSP guru, teacher at IAMAS, and member of the Breadboard Band, Masayuki Akamatsu. This page contains lots of great iPhone apps, including an app that turns your iPhone into a Max/MSP controller, an app that simulates a scrolling LED banner on the screen of your iPhone, as well as many other projects that illustrate Mr. Akamatsu’s interesting approach to software hacking on consumer electronic devices. This approach is also reflected in the many interesting Max/MSP objects he has created, perhaps the most famous being his object that interfaces the Wii Remote with Max/MSP. I recently interviewed Mr. Akamatsu about his various projects, and I’ll be posting an English translation of the interview next week. Check it!
Why The iPhone Might Not Cut it In Japan
Many people say Japan’s cell phone technology has been three years ahead of the US for a while now. This article points out why the features offered in the iPhone might not be of interest to Japanese cell phone users who have been using the internet, sending email, paying for purchases at stores and vending machines, and watching live TV with their phones for quite some time. Via electro^plankton.
Amazing Japanese Snow Sculptures
Japan is home to many winter festivals and events, and often these are accompanied by lavish snow creations. As one might expect, these snow and ice creations are often crafted in the cute, funny style that is synonymous with Japanese culture (and yes, this collection of photos includes the mandatory Hello Kitty snow sculpture). Via Pink Tentacle.
Kaseo’s Circuit Bending Gallery
Kaseo is known throughout the international circuit bending scene for his clever, stylish hacks and meticulous documentation. To really get what he’s all about, be sure to check out the video of Kaseo playing an orchestra of circuit-bent Pikachus. Kaseo’s bends of rare and weird Japanese noise-making toys are especially interesting for the Japanophile gaijin out there. This well-documented site includes pictures and mp3 samples of all his projects. Bleep!
An English Interview With Japanese Mad Scientist/Inventor Dr. Nakamats
Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu is an eccentric inventor and renaissance man of the old-school style. After selling his patent for the floppy disk to IBM in 1979, he has since gone on to develop over 3,000 fascinating (if not sometimes dubious) inventions, including the Pyon-Pyon Flying Shoes. Always busy with something interesting, he has been a candidate in the Tokyo gubernatorial election, has appeared on Late Night With David Letterman, has photographed every meal he has consumed for the past 34 years, and plans to live to be 140 years old! His inventions and his curious philosophy are a true inspiration for makers everywhere. Via the wonderful PingMag.
Hailing from the Programmable Device Project at IAMAS in Japan, Gainer is an open-source environment for interfacing your computer with electronic sensors and other interfaces. Similar in purpose to the Arduino and other microcontroller-based physical computing interfaces, this environment is made to be easily interfaced with Flash, Max/MSP, Processing, etc., and is made to be easily implemented by artists, musicians, and other creative types without an extensive electronics background.
Methods for Making Natto in North America
Natto is a popular fermented soybean dish from Japan. Although natto is widely considered to be a polarizing food even by Japanese people (it seems as though half of the Japanese population loves it, and half of them can’t stand it), if you are one of the people out there who likes it (imagine Vegemite mixed with stringly soybeans), then this tutorial on how to ferment your own natto is the best way to get fresh natto outside of Japan. I have purchased natto here in the United States, but it is frozen and imported from Japan, and once it’s thawed it simply doesn’t taste same or have the same consistency as the fresh natto you can find in Japan (the amino acids crystalize over time, giving the natto a sandy texture if it’s not fresh). I have tried the method described here using natto bacteria from a store-bought natto pack, and I can say that with a little practice you can have more natto than you know what to do with for a very very low price. Natto has been proven to be a very healthy food, and with all this talk lately about probiotics, maybe now is the time for the adventurous eaters of the world to give this stuff a shot. Who knows, maybe natto will be the next kombucha, and you can tell all your hipster friends that you knew all about it back in ’08! Try a pack of this stuff from your local Asian supermarket, and if you get hooked (you know you will, it’s fermented soybeans!), give this DIY tutorial a shot. About 236,000 tons of natto are consumed in Japan each year. We’ve got a lot of catching up to do!
Update: I was just now hipped to the fact that the new issue of our sister publication, Craft, has a natto recipe in it. Was I right or was I right? Apparently natto is the new big thing.
The original Gameboys are lovingly sometimes referred to as “bricks” because of their rectangular shape and because girthy build. Here we have real bricks that are made in the shape of classic Gameboys. What Gameboy nerd wouldn’t want the path in their front yard to be paved with these? Or better yet – a house made of Gameboy bricks? Available in a variety of colors, too. The perfect building material for that backyard NanoLoop studio you’ve been contemplating! After all, they’re only about $40 each.
Correction: Oops! As the astute reader Philip has pointed out, it appears as though these bricks are actually made by a fellow from the Netherlands, not in Japan. Sorry about that, these internets can be tricky. In further support of the Gameboy = Brick theory, however, I did come across this article citing the Gameboy as one of the most bombproof gadgets of all time, so maybe they would work as a building material all by themselves…
Have an interesting link to a Make-worthy project, story, or person from Japan? Send it this way!
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A Data Mining E-Learning Tool: Description and Case Study
Data analysis and data mining techniques are recognized as important disciplines that deliver 'Sophisticated domain knowledge'. The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE-Computer Society suggest in the 2013 draft Computer Science curricula, Data Mining as an elective course and an important course topic in previous Information Systems or Information Technology curricula. In this paper, the authors report a four year teaching experience in an Information Systems course for students in Management Engineering in which basic Data Mining techniques were taught as part of the course. The experience led to the design of an e-learning web platform, based on Matlab which is useful for data mining studies.
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The presence of IgG antibodies in a single specimen is not sufficient to distinguish between active or past infection.
Patients suspected of having primary or active infection could be tested for the presence of IgM antibodies to CMV or CMV DNA by PCR.
Individuals with acute CMV infection may not exhibit any detectable IgG antibodies at the early stage of infection.
False reactive results may also occur in patients with measles, VZV, HSV, or EBV. Samples containing antinuclear antibodies or other anticell antibodies may give false reactive results.
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With growing urbanization and associated infrastructure that affect wildlife habitat, translocation is increasingly proposed as a conservation option for mitigation for threatened and endangered species. While translocations are common and have been used successfully for many animals, its use for reptiles and amphibians has been viewed as less successful, and with differential success among taxa. Accordingly the use of translocation as a conservation strategy has had mixed acceptance, and there has been a call for more detailed research to fully understand species-specific impacts and potential for success. In this research we investigated three components important to judging the success of translocation in desert tortoises that could be measured in the near term: survivorship, reproduction, and movements. The protocol by which we have translocated desert tortoises has been successful by all reasonable short-term measures, and we found translocation to be a successful technique in dealing with desert tortoises displaced from their habitat.
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The PHDR 2005 presents key information on poverty levels and trends in Tanzania, with comparisons to targets from the Millennium Development Goals, the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) and Mkukuta (National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty). Information from various survey data has been collated and analysed in order to provide useful information on agriculture, health, education, vulnerable children, water and sanitation. Estimates of household income at the district level are included in this report - this is the first time such poverty mapping information has been published in Tanzania. There is also thematic analysis around rural growth and agriculture. The Research and Analysis Technical Working Group of the MKUKUTA Monitoring System prepared this report on behalf of the Government of Tanzania.
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Reissued in an edition newly offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George James Firmage.E. E. Cummings, along with Pound, Eliot, and Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language and also as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love. No Thanks was first published in 1935; although Cummings was by then in mid-career, he had still not achieved recognition, and the title refers ironically to publishers' rejections. No Thanks contains some of Cummings's most daring literary experiments, and it represents most fully his view of life—romantic individualism. The poems celebrate an openly felt response to the beauties of the natural world, and they give first place to love, especially sexual love, in all its manifestations. The volume includes such favorites as "sonnet entitled how to run the world)," "may I feel said he," "Jehovah buried. Satan dead," "be of love (a little)," and the now-famous grasshopper poem.
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by Joyce Marcel
January 2, 2011
SADLY, HATE ALWAYS HAS A HOME HERE
DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- To me, one of last year's more interesting news stories was about urine in a library.
For those who don't remember, in November the Lamont Library at Harvard revealed that 36 books on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered issues (usually abbreviated as LGBT) were damaged by "what appeared to be urine," according to The Harvard Crimson.
The predicable national uproar that followed - in newspapers, on talk shows and all over the Internet - was over hate and hate crimes.
Obviously, some homophobic person had deliberately damaged the books. Obviously, that person or persons had to be caught, punished, held up as a bad example and shunned. Obviously, hate has no home here.
It was knee-jerk left against knee-jerk right and gay rights against radical religion and God only knows what else. That the incident happened during the debate over the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy might have triggered - on both sides - more than the usual fury.
After investigation by the Harvard University Police Dept., it was revealed that a library employee had spilled a jar of urine, immediately cleaned it up and later reported it. It was an accident. The library announced that all 36 books would immediately be replaced.
Leaving aside the obvious questions of why this person (name withheld by the authorities) had a bottle of urine in the Lamont, how they managed to spill it and why in that particular section, the hate crime wasn't even a prank but an accident.
And the world continued on its merry way, jumping without apology from conclusion to conclusion and mostly getting it wrong.
Whenever I see a sign or bumper sticker saying "Hate has no home here," I sigh in frustration. Hate has a home everywhere.
Homosexuals are only the latest target for a free-floating kind of American anxiety. The Obama presidency has brought out an ugly racism. Anti-Muslim fervor is at an all time high. Anti-immigrant hatred simmers. Anti-semitism is again on the rise.
We appear to be living in an era of knee-jerk hate. But hating the hater and feeling self-righteously good about yourself in the process is not the answer.
Hatred against a particular group - the "Other" - has been with us throughout all of recorded history. Only the victims change.
Whether you're feeding Christians to lions or burning them at the stake; invading Muslim countries in the name of Christianity (a habit we Americans can't seem to break); starving millions of Irish to death; murdering a million Armenians; capturing and enslaving Africans or hanging their ancestors from trees; using scimitars to attack Jews from horseback (the reason my grandparents fled to America) or putting them in concentration camps and gas ovens; strapping bombs to the bodies of young women so they can blow up mosques or churches; chopping people up with machetes in Rwanda; or beating up homosexual men and tying them to poles, the history of hate is long and terrifying.
Real hatred is always afoot, which is why we need to be careful about pointing our fingers. Recently in Bellows Falls, for example, a barber refused to cut a black person's hair because he was seemingly ashamed that he did not know how. It was less a hate crime than a case of personal embarrassment. It was unfortunate and racial in nature but not racist. Picketing the barber shop with "Hate Has No Home Here" signs was at best unhelpful and at worst overkill.
We need to separate human error from dangerous hatred. We need a deeper understanding of human nature. We need nuance. We need to stop crying "Wolf!"
Which brings me to Brattleboro's own Curtiss Reed, Jr., a black man, an agent provocateur and the executive director of the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity. Reed recently stirred up a national-level storm when he suggested that the slogan of Republican Brian Dubie, one of the candidates in the recent Vermont gubernatorial election, was at best tone deaf and at worst a hidden message of exclusion. The slogan was "Pure Vermont."
"For many Vermonters, the words denote racial, religious and cultural oppression," Reed said.
Dubie claimed he was only talking about maple syrup and cheese, but that just proved he was fairly ignorant of Vermont history.
After all, he should have known that the state was a leader in eugenics back in the Twenties, advocating and carrying out sexual sterilization and concentration camp internment for the poor, tne Abenaki tribe and "feebleminded" who were the results of "bad heredity." I've read that Adolf Hitler was a follower of the movement, which was also supported by Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood, and saw Vermont as an inspiration. The state's nasty little social experiment continued for well over a decade. (A like-minded group called the Association for Human Betterment in Los Angeles included as a charter board memmber the then-publisher of the Los Angeles Times Harry Chandler.)
Reed was doing his job when he called out Dubie on "Pure Vermont," although I think by personalizing it he missed its deeper political meaning.
Dubie and many others of the state's WASP Republican elite have been furious for decades about another racial/religious minority that moved into Vermont in the Sixties, thrived here and amassed a significant amount of influence, wealth and power.
Although some of these newcomers have become international icons, like Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, one of them particularly enrages Republicans. That one - maybe you can guess? - is Bernie Sanders. Not only is he a New Yorker and a Jew, but he's a socialist who is beloved by most of Vermont and now represents the state in the U.S. Senate - a place the wealthy WASPs believes is rightfully theirs. My guess is that even our outgoing governor, Jim Douglas, would run for Congress if he wasn't certain that Bernie would wipe the floor with him.
Reed was right to call foul on "Pure Vermont."
But then the Republicans - first on the local and then on the national level - called foul on Reed. It was about maple syrup and cheese all along, they shouted. Reed, who was also chair of the Vermont State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, got bumped from the committee. Commissioner Gail Heriot actually had the nerve to say that she could not find in Reed "someone who actually has some expertise on civil rights."
For a while, it looked as if Vermont - by raising a civil rights issue - would lose its voice with the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Then the committee's charter was renewed, but without Reed. Now there's a write-in campaign to get Reed back on the committee.
Whether it's African-Americans, Jews, Muslims, Native Americans, Down syndrome people, gays, immigrants or any other group that appears "different," discrimination is always with us. Even in a place of such mixed heritage as America, there's always another group to demonize.
As if on cue, last week I heard about a man from Kentucky named Mark Cothren who shot a hairless animal because he "feared what it was, since he did not recognize it." (On Gawker.com, some bright person left this comment: "Later, he shot a book.")
It is part of human nature to fear the things we don't recognize or understand or are different from us. Violence can be an extreme but natural result of that fear.
What can we do? We can thoroughly examine our own hearts and try to remove any traces of hatred and fear - people, glass houses, stones and all that.
Then we must recognize the truth, which is that hate is as much a constant in our lives as love - perhaps more so. Hate is easy; love is hard work.
Holding up a sign won't help.
AR CorrespondentJoyce Marcel (joycemarcel.com) is a journalist and columnist. You can reach her at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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,b>HISTORY CHECK … In recent times, some individuals have tried to finesse the historic spelling of Illium Valley to make it conform to the ancient Greek plains of Ilium in modern-day Turkey. But that’s not historically correct. I was reminded of this error leafing through William Henry Jackson’s Colorado (Pruett Publ., Boulder, 1975 [24975 ANAC]) compiled by William and Elizabeth Jones, while having Sunday brunch and playing ping-pong at the beautiful Two Candles Restaurant and Lounge in Norwood (their library is extensive) … On page 51, hand-lettered in a Jackson photo dating from the 1880’s [24880’s ANAC] is this caption: “Sunshine Peak from Illium Valley.”
MESH NETWORKS … Great article in March’s Scientific American about the increasing centralization in the current World Wide Web through dead-end Internet Service Providers, national governments, closed loop cloud services like Facebook and Google, and how web privacy activists have devised an ingenious low-tech way to bypass government or corporate control, where each individual computer becomes a relay in the system, or a “device as infrastructure” network, as Sascha Meinrath of the New America Foundation calls it … It also has large implications for emergency management communications in case the Internet goes down. And it isn’t very expensive.
ENERGY PIG … Energy use continues to drop at Cloud Acre, along with my carbon footprint. My latest bill shows a total kilowatt hour (kWh) usage for the past 12 months of 10,580 kWh, with a monthly average of 881 kWh. That’s down from August of 25009 when my yearly total was 16,118 kWh and my monthly average was 1,343 kWh, and down from my last bill of 25011 which reflected a yearly total of 11,452 kWh and a monthly average of 954 kWh … That’s a year’s saving of 5,538 kWh – not an insignificant figure.
SUDDEN ASPEN DEATH … There have been lots of speculation on why the aspen have been suffering precipitous mortality recently, and certainly drought and global warming have to be exacerbating factors. But a paper published in the International Journal of Forest Research by Katie Haggerty of Lyons suggests a surprising connection. She links the major changes in the radio frequency (RF) environment, particularly its anthropogenic increase in RF intensity and complexity, with SAD. “This study suggests that the RF background may have strong adverse effects on growth rate and fall anthocyanin production in aspen, and may be an underlying factor in aspen decline.”
THE TALKING GOURD
If you would like to come to the party, press 1
If you are already at the party, press 2
If you need to leave the party,
walk out the door.
If you are a third party candidate,
press the issues.
If you have already partied till you dropped,
hang up and try again.
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Tuesday November 6 2012
The genes that cause early-onset Alzheimer's are rare in UK teens
A "dementia gene" has been found in a third of teenagers, "helping to predict the disease 20 years before devastating symptoms strike", the Daily Mail claims. While, according to the Daily Express, the "dementia gene" is "found in nearly half of teenagers". Both of these claims are inaccurate.
The news is based on the results of a small study exploring the effects of a genetic mutation called PSEN1 E280A. This mutation causes early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, in which the symptoms of Alzheimer’s develop before the age of 65.
Despite the claims in the Mail and the Express this mutation (and other mutations associated with early-onset Alzheimer’s) is rare in European populations. The Alzheimer’s Society estimates that, in the UK, genetic mutations account for fewer than 1 in 1,000 cases.
In this study, the researchers compared the results of brain scans, blood tests and tests of cerebrospinal fluid from young people with the genetic mutation to those from other young people who were not carriers of the mutation.
They found that carriers had functional and structural brain differences, and elevated levels of the protein that forms the deposits characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease in their blood and cerebrospinal fluid. These changes were present when participants were aged between 18 and 26 years old, two decades before symptoms of mild cognitive impairment associated with early-onset Alzheimer’s normally develop.
These findings suggest that brain changes may begin many years before early-onset Alzheimer’s disease becomes symptomatic. However, this was a very small study of a single, rare hereditary form of Alzheimer’s. It is not clear whether the findings will apply to most Alzheimer’s patients who develop the common form of the disease, which develops late in life and with no definite known cause.
While interesting, at the moment the results of this study have no direct implications for the prevention or treatment of Alzheimer’s.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, Arizona, and a number of other research institutes in the US and Colombia. It was funded by Banner Alzheimer’s Foundation, Nomis Foundation, Anonymous Foundation, Forget Me Not Initiative, Boston University Department of Psychology, Colciencias, the US National Institute on Aging, the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the State of Arizona.
The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet Neurology.
This research was covered reasonably well by BBC News and The Daily Telegraph. Although the reporting by both was mainly accurate, the Telegraph referred to a “test” for Alzheimer’s disease. This study was not designed to develop diagnostic tests for Alzheimer’s disease. Instead it documented the changes that occur in the brain decades before clinical symptoms of the disease develop.
At the other end of the spectrum, the reporting of this study by the Mail and the Express was poor. Claims that a dementia gene is found in nearly half of all teenagers are both unhelpful and untrue.
While the PSEN1 E280A mutation may be relatively widespread in Colombian teenagers with a family history of early-onset Alzheimer’s, there is no evidence that it is widespread in UK teenagers.
Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease remains a relatively rare form of Alzheimer’s both in this country and across the world.
What kind of research was this?
This was a cross-sectional study comparing the brain imaging of ‘cases’ with a particular genetic mutation and ‘controls’ without.
The study included people aged between 18 and 26 with no current cognitive problems who carried or did not carry a mutation that causes a rare, hereditary form of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. It aimed to determine whether there were differences in brain structure and function and to study the levels of various biological markers in these young people.
Mutations in several genes are known to be associated with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, such as mutations in:
- presenilin 1 (PSEN1)
- presenilin 2 (PSEN2)
- amyloid precursor protein (APP)
In this study, the researchers were studying carriers of a mutation in PSEN1 (PSEN1 E280A). This mutation is carried by 1,500 people from a related family group of 5,000 residing in the Colombian district of Antioquia. Carriers and non-carriers from this family group were recruited into the study
This mutation causes a single change in the protein, but carriers of this mutation develop mild cognitive impairment at around 44 years of age and dementia at around 49 years of age.
This study design is ideal for comparing the characteristics of carriers and non-carriers. It would be strengthened if data on the changes in brain structure or function and biomarkers were available over time, to see what really is the first change associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
As it stands, it is unclear whether the differences seen in individuals with the mutation have always been present, or whether they are a specific precursor to Alzheimer’s development.
What did the research involve?
The researchers recruited to their study 20 people aged between 18 and 26 years of age who were carriers of the presenilin 1 (PSEN1) E280A mutation and 24 non-carriers.
The carriers and non-carriers had similar characteristics (gender, age, educational level), clinical ratings relating to Alzheimer’s, such as mini-mental state examination test scores and APOE epsilon 4 status (which predisposes carriers to late-onset Alzheimer’s) and neuropsychological test scores (including tests of verbal fluency and word recall).
The researchers imaged the brains of 16 participants (eight carriers and eight non-carriers).
They used standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to look at brain structure, and also functional MRI, which studies blood flow in the brain.
Changes in blood flow inside the brain can highlight which areas of the brain are functioning while certain tasks are performed, for example, tasks involving memory.
Samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid (the clear fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord) were also taken from 20 participants (10 carriers and 10 non-carriers) to look at levels of certain biological markers for Alzheimer’s disease. Specifically these were:
- amyloid β1-42 (which forms the protein deposits or plaques characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease)
- tau and phosphorylated tau (which can form the characteristic ‘tangles’ seen in Alzheimer’s disease)
What were the basic results?
The researchers found that, compared with non-carriers, mutation carriers:
- had significantly higher levels of amyloid β1-42 in their blood
- had significantly higher levels of amyloid β1-42 in their cerebrospinal fluid
- had similar levels of tau and phosphorylated tau in their cerebrospinal fluid
- used different parts of the brain during the memory tasks
- had less grey matter (the ‘bodies’ of nerve cells) in certain parts of the brain
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers conclude that young adults who are at risk of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease because of their genes have differences in the structure and function of their brain. They also have biological markers in their blood and cerebrospinal fluid that are consistent with overproduction of the protein amyloid β1-42.
This cross-sectional study has found that people carrying a mutation that causes early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have structural and functional differences in their brains and have elevated levels of amyloid β1-42 in their blood and cerebrospinal fluid more than 20 years before the estimated age of onset of mild cognitive impairment. These findings suggest that brain changes may begin many years before Alzheimer’s disease becomes symptomatic.
Although this is an interesting study, it has several limitations:
- Very few people participated in the trial.
- The trial was cross-sectional. There were no longitudinal data, and it is unknown whether the changes seen in the brains of those with genetic mutations have always been present or whether they are degenerative changes that have occurred during the person’s lifetime, and if so, how the brain and biological markers have changed over time and at what age they started to develop.
- As this study only included people with a specific mutation in PSEN1, it is not known whether the results would apply to other people at risk of early-onset Alzheimer’s who have mutations in the APP or PSEN2 genes.
- Most importantly, this study has looked at people with a rare, hereditary form of early-onset Alzheimer's. It is unclear whether these findings will apply to most people who develop the common form of Alzheimer's disease, which develops late in life and with no definite known cause.
This trial informs scientists and doctors about the development of Alzheimer’s disease – specifically hereditary, early-onset Alzheimer’s.
However, at the moment the results of this study have no direct implications for the prevention or treatment of Alzheimer’s.
Analysis by Bazian. Edited by NHS Choices. Follow Behind the Headlines on twitter.
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12 Days of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness - December 20-31, 2011
To create a structure and formula for success in a health and fitness program, providing helpful tools, resources, and guidance to turn goals into reality, making New Year’s Resolutions come true.
Follow the 12 Days of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness to achieve your New Year’s Resolutions! This 12-Day Formula For Success is the platform you need to finally make your health and fitness goals a reality.Full details here: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=26972Day 11 of 12 Days of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness - Daily Information
Super Foods by Jennifer Nicol
"Super Food(s)" is a term that is popping everywhere it seems...What does it mean? The term "Super Food" is a buzzword used within the world of nutrition to describe foods that in their natural, often organically grown state, contain a full spectrum of concentrated nutritional values. Chia, flax and hemp hearts are excellent examples of seeds that are considered to be Super Food(s).
Chia is an ancient seed that comes from a member of the mint family called Salvia Hispanica, which grows in southern Mexico. In fact, it has been called the “Runner’s Food” as it was used by the Aztec Indians for long distance runs and endurance. Chia contains high levels of Omega3 & Omega6 essential fatty acids (EFA), antioxidants, and is rich in plant-based protein.
This amazing little seed also provides a plethora of vitamins and minerals such as calcium, copper, manganese, niacin, phosphorus and zinc, to name a few. Add organic Chia to absolutely everything! Use Chia to ramp up the energy levels in shakes, salads and many other dishes.
Because the seeds rapidly absorb several times their weight in liquid, the seed becomes gelatinous and therefore acts as a delicious thickener to drinks prepared in the blender. The gel that is formed slows down the conversion of carbohydrates to sugar which helps stabilize blood sugar levels. By eliminating the spiking and crashing of blood sugar, the body gets a more consistent energy level and greatly reduces cravings.FLAX
Flax is one of the richest sources of essential fatty acids (EFA) Omega-3 and Omega-6. In proper balance, these fatty acids work to form the membranes of every cell in the body and play a vital role in the way cholesterol works in the system. Research shows that consuming the recommended serving of just one tablespoon daily provides enough of the EFA Omega-3 to meet dietary needs.
Additionally, flax contains an abundance of micronutrients, vitamins and minerals such as thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, iron and 110% of the recommended daily intake of magnesium. The seeds also contain high levels of soluble and insoluble fiber, which is recognized by the National Cancer Institute as an essential part of the diet for the prevention of many cancers.
For maximum benefits, grind the seeds, as the whole flax seeds can pass through the system undigested. Use a coffee grinder or small food processor to grind, then store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one month. Add the ground seeds to protein shakes, salads and any prepared dishes.NOTE: Flax can upset digestion if over consumed. Be mindful not to exceed the recommended daily serving.
Hemp hearts are delicious nut-like seeds from the shelled hemp seed. The seeds are rich in protein, iron, calcium, vitamin E, vitamin C, vitamin A, riboflavin and essential fatty acids Omega-3 and Omega-6. When taken in combination with a high fiber diet and a variety of fruits and vegetables, bowel movements become more regular, ultimately aiding in a healthy bowel system.
Introducing the recommended daily serving of four tablespoons into the diet, hemp hearts naturally reduce cravings for sugar and stimulants, which clearly helps to maintain a healthy diet plan.
By reducing cravings for junk foods, the body will naturally loose weight by filling up on whole foods that are high in nutrients. Hemp is tasty addition to salads, pasta dishes, rice, or blended into juices and shakes. Again, it is best to consume the seeds in their natural state. Heating will diminish or potentially eliminate the nutritional value.
Super Foods are an excellent source of energy to include in any diet plan. Consuming foods that pack a nutritional punch is the base for achieving optimal health & fitness. Consider adding these and other Super Foods to your diet. The health benefits are powerful!
What are your three favorite Super Foods?
Share your answer with me on Twitter:http://www.twitter.com/JennyNaturalJennifer Nicol
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How important is NAS Meridian to the Navy? Just ask the outgoing commander.
"This is not the front lines," said Cmdr. Michael Sherlock. "But it is, if we fail at our mission to produce pilots. Then the Navy's overall operation will be hurt."
There had been concern the Navy would move some of Meridian's T-2 aircraft and the accompanying civilian jobs, to a base at Kingsville, Texas.
This week, the chief of naval air training said that was no longer being considered.
"Meridian has meant so much for my family and the people are so nice," said Sherlock, as he prepares for his next duty station on board the USS Kitty Hawk.
VT-7's new commander is also no stranger to the area.
"I went to flight school in Meridian," said Cmdr. Mark Kinnane. "The past commander has done a great job and I'm just going to try to maintain it."
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Python noob alert...
Looking to write a mood tracking program in python. I am definitely a noob programmer. I had one required class in college (mumble years ago). I know what I want to do, but I'm wondering if there's a more elegant way to do it.
So there will be about 20 prompts that I will rate from 0 to 4. I know I can have a variable for each question and then to get my score just do Q1+Q2...+Q20. (Like here
But there's gotta be a more elegant way, right? Or am I better off sticking with the simple and worry about elegant down the road. I'm more interested in learning, but this is a serious project for me. Currently I'm using MoodScope (online) but it's lacking in some areas and thus doesn't give an accurate representation of my mood. Writing my own prompts will help me dial in on my specific issues.
As a side issue, right now I'm planning on presenting the prompts in 2 sets. One that's positively scored (happy, proud) and one that's reversed scored (sad, tearful, where 0=4, 1=3, etc). This is because I can't think of a good way to reverse score on the fly. Ideally I'd like the present the prompts randomly (which I've already figured out), but I can't do that if I can't reverse score right then and there.
I hope I've articulated the problems I'm having. As I said, I'm willing to learn. I've tried to Google, but I'm obviously not hitting on the right terms.
Please be gentle and use little words. FWIW, I'm using IDLE when I'm on my Win netbook and Emacs when I'm on my Linux desktop. Most of my time is spent on my desktop, but I do have an hour at work every afternoon where I play around with this.
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Jessica Biel is the most dangerous celebrity on the Web.
Security technology company McAfee Inc. on Tuesday reported that searches for the 27-year-old actress are more likely to lead to online threats such as spyware and viruses than searches for any other celebrity.
McAfee said fans searching for the actress have a one-in-five chance of ending up at a Web site designed to damage one's computer. Its the third annual report on the subject from McAfee, which last year found that Brad Pitt was the "most dangerous" celeb online.
"Cybercriminals are star watchers, too," said Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee's product development. "They latch onto popular celebrities to encourage the download of malicious software in disguise."
Following Biel in the report, in order, were Beyonce, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Brady and Jessica Simpson. McAfee noted President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are curiously safe searches, ranking no. 34 and no. 39, respectively.
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Georgia would probably have not survived its brief war with Russia in August 2008 without money from Europe, the US and even Japan, Baramidze said.
Without international funding to help rebuild the country and boost its ailing economy, Georgia would have fallen prey to "internal social strain, tensions [and] turbulences," he explained.
"Georgia would not have survived," he said.
The deupty prime minister said that the donors' money is being put to good use, essentially in support of internally-displaced persons - for whom he says the government is doing a very effective job - and to sustain the economy, which had almost collapsed after the war.
"Now we have used this money to build new roads, new hydropower stations, power lines and other major infrastructure in the country," Baramidze said.
Asked if Georgia would appease Russia by abandoning its plans to join NATO, Baramidze said such an offer had already been made to Moscow before the August 2008 conflict.
"We told Russia that if the price of Georgian freedom, security and independence was NATO membership, we were ready to discuss this in a trilateral format with the West, Russia and Georgia," Baramidze said. "[Georgian President Mikheil] Saakashvili proposed this to [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin. And Putin replied: 'I am not going to exchange your territories with your foreign policy'."
Baramidze said Putin's words meant that Moscow already considered Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be Russian territory, not Georgia's.
"Russia could be a good neighbour if it respected international law and basic international behaviour," the top official went on, saying Georgia's leaders knew they stood no chance when confronting Russia militarily.
"But if Russia attacks us, we think that this is not just a matter of Georgia; the problem of Georgia is not just Georgia's problem. Willingly or unwillingly, this is also a European problem. Europe, together with the US, needs to cooperate in order to confront this issue and ensure peace and stability for Georgia," Baramidze pleaded.
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Several hundred thousand gay marriage opponents have marched through the streets of Paris. It is the biggest demonstration to date against the policy proposed by President Francois Hollande.
Demonstrators from across Europe converged on the Eiffel Tower in Paris Sunday to protest against the French government's plans to legalize gay marriage by June.
Organizers claimed 800,000 people were in attendance for the rally, while police put the number at 340,000.
Hollande promised during his campaign last year to give full marriage rights to same-sex couples. But the "marriage for all" bill has been met with stronger-than-expected opposition, especially in rural areas.
Activists organized five high-speed trains and 900 buses to bring people from provincial towns into the capital. They join a mixed group of protesters, backed by the Catholic hierarchy, already in the city, including church-going families, political conservatives, Muslims, evangelicals and even homosexuals opposed to gay marriage.
Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, a Catholic leader who launched the opposition with a critical sermon in August, was in attendance and expressed his "encouragement that Christians express what they think."
Protest organizers have said they are not against gays and lesbians, but for traditional marriage. They say they only allowed approved posters and banners to be displayed, with slogans that include "marriageophile, not homophobe," "testicles don't have eggs," "all born of a father and mother" and "paternity, maternity, and quality."
The president has angered same-sex marriage opponents by avoiding public debate on the reform, which Justice Minister Christiane Taubira described as "a change in civilization," and wavering about some of its details.
Over 2,000 mayors have signed a petition asking to be exempted from officiating at gay weddings if, as expected, the legislation passes.
Same-sex marriage is legal in 11 countries, including Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Norway and South Africa, as well as nine US states and the District of Columbia.
Support for gay marriage in France has fallen about 10 points to under 55 percent since the opposition began to speak out, according to surveys, and less than half of those polled recently want gays to win adoption rights.
Legislators under pressure recently dropped a plan to also allow lesbians access to artificial insemination.
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It was a wild final day of the 2012-13 Bundesliga season as the battle for the last European spots and the fight against relegation were both decided in the final minutes. The biggest winners on the day were Schalke.
With the Bundesliga's final matches of the season about to be played, there's still plenty up in the air. Freiburg and Schalke duel for the last Champions League spot while three sides at the bottom fight for survival.
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Sikh Genocide 1984: Sikh Rights Group Protests Sonia Gandhi’s Presence in the United States.
By DALJEET SINGH || Published: March 3, 2012 || sikhsiyasat.net
- SFJ submitted memorandum to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Demands Exclusion of Ms. Sonia Gandhi.
New York, USA (March 3, 2012): As per information available with “Sikh Siyasat” Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a US based human rights advocacy group, has approached Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanding the exclusion of Sonia Gandhi from the United States. Sonia Gandhi, who is currently visiting the U.S., is President of the Indian National Congress party, the ruling political party of India that organized and carried out the genocide of over 30,000 Sikh men, women and children in November 1984, many of whom were burnt alive. The Indian National Congress party had organized the genocide to avenge the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Party’s leader, who was murdered by her two bodyguards who happened to be Sikhs.
According to SFJ’s legal advisor, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, “Sonia Gandhi’s entry and presence in the U.S. is in violation of section 212(a)(3)(E)(ii) & (iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and section 604 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 which prohibit entry into the U.S. of any individual who, outside of the U.S., has ordered, incited, assisted or in any way participated in the commission of any act of torture or extra judicial killing. Sonia Gandhi is ‘inadmissible’ to the U.S. because as President of the Indian National Congress party she has been actively covering up the Sikh genocide and shielding her party leaders who were key players in executing the atrocities of November 1984.”
“SFJ’s demand to exclude Ms. Gandhi is not unique as previously Narendra Modi, a prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat, was denied entry into U.S. due to his role in the 2002 massacre of Muslims”, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun informed Sikh Siyasat.
SFJ’s March 1st memorandum to Ms. Clinton states that since November 1984 the Indian National Congress party has been ruling the country for 23 of the past 28 years and has continually covered up the Sikh genocide and shielded the perpetrators; Sonia Gandhi, who has been President of the Party since 1998, has been actively following the Party’s practice of impunity towards its leaders who were involved in the gross human rights violations committed in November 1984; Ms. Clinton’s duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution and its laws and order the exclusion of Sonia Gandhi is not absolved due to India’s economic status and political relations with the United States. Read details here….
Sonia G should be expelled from United States – Dr. Swamy supports the move of Sikhs for Justice Committee in USA
March 3, 2012.Statement of Dr. Subramanian Swamy,President of the Janata Party.
I welcome the move by the Sikhs for Justice Committee in the United States demanding the expulsion of Ms Sonia Gandhi from the United States for her tacit support to the genocide of Sikhs during October-November, 1984. This Committee has made this demand under the same Sections of the United States law which were applied for denial of Visa to Mr. Narendra Modi, which violation of Section 212(a)(3)(E)(ii) and (iii0 of Immigration and Nationality Act as well as Section 604 of the International Religious Freedom Act, 1998 It may be recalled that Ms Sonia Gandhi actively supported the Visa denial to Mr. Narendra Modi on that occasion on the ground that Muslim residents in the United States were justifiably hurt by Mr. Modi’s presence.
In fact it is widely known that Ms Sonia Gandhi was one of those who urged Ms Indira Gandhi to carry out the Operation Blue Star at the behest of the then USSR and KGB. Hence this action is tantamount to a de-facto war crime and Ms Sonia Gandhi should be punished for it too.
Sd/- SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY.
03 Mar 2012 10:52:09 AM IST
Sikh group protests Sonia Gandhi’s presence in US
IANS New York, March 3, 2012 | e_IndiaToday.
A US-based Sikh group has approached Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanding the exclusion of Congress president Sonia Gandhi from the United States.
“Sonia Gandhi’s entry and presence in the US is in violation of section 212(a)(3)(E)(ii) & (iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and section 604 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998,” the Sikhs for Justic (SFJ) said in a letter to Hillary.
These laws prohibit entry into the US of any individual who, outside of the US, has ordered, incited, assisted or in any way participated in the commission of any act of torture or extra judicial killing, SFJ legal advisor Gurpatwant Singh Pannun wrote.
Sonia Gandhi is “inadmissible” to the US because as president of the Indian National Congress she has been actively covering up the Sikh genocide and shielding her party leaders who were key players in executing the atrocities of 1984, he said.
SFJ alleged that India’s Congress party had organised the genocide to avenge the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards.
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Any shipping container in any port could be a terrorist's time bomb. So what to do? Martin Daly reports.
A rogue ship carrying chemical, biological or radiological agents inside a single container, which could devastate a major city and kill hundreds of thousands of people, is the latest terrorist scenario to confront homeland security planners.
Major ports, through which pass millions of unchecked consignments, are seen as the weakest link in defence.
Governments around the world, including Australia's, are beefing up security at seaports to stop the terrorists.
The US has launched a container security plan to prevent an attack that could be more catastrophic than September 11. "It would take . . . one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known," President George Bush has said of the threat of maritime terrorism.
The Australian Government is expected to announce in today's budget a security upgrade at 400 ports and terminals, including face-recognition and X-ray technology, plus direct communications with ASIO to monitor ships that could carry weapons, drugs or terrorists.
"Shipping would probably be the easiest means of smuggling a chemical, biological or radiological weapon into Australia," warns Andrew Wilkie, an intelligence analyst, who resigned from the Office of National Assessment over Australia's involvement in Iraq.
"The risk of this is low but increasing. A successful chemical, biological or radiological attack in Australia would obviously have dramatic consequences including casualties, contamination, panic and economic damage."
Mr Wilkie gives this scenario by US authorities of what could happen in a maritime attack: "A small boat made the 32-kilometre round trip between the southern tip of Manhattan to Long Island Sound. Along the way, 90 litres of anthrax was dispersed in aerosol. Based on only half the target population being exposed, and only half of those developing pulmonary anthrax, and only half of those dying, the final death toll was still well over a million."
Billions of dollars have been pumped into the defence of US ports and oil and gas wells since September 11. But still, only 2 to 3 per cent of container shipping, carrying 2 billion tonnes of cargo into the US each year, is checked.
Defence and security industries have to think smarter, experts say, if they are to better monitor the 200 million sea cargo containers moving around the world each year.
Enter one of the world's leaders in anti-terror measures, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), and its lateral solution: move US national borders hundreds of kilometres offshore by setting up mobile platforms in the middle of the ocean.
"The first line of defence has moved offshore," Jim Rama, vice-president of special projects and homeland security for Texas-based KBR, told The Age.
Mr Rama detailed KBR's proposal to an international conference on homeland security in Sydney, saying it was only a matter of time before it was established in the US.
The platforms could house the navy, air force, special forces, customs and intelligence personnel. They would be supported by satellites and radar monitoring shipping lanes. Ships could be monitored across thousands of kilometres of ocean. Suspect ships could be diverted to a search platform or boarded at sea before being allowed anywhere near a port.
Mr Rama believes the mobile maritime bases could greatly help law enforcement if two to five of them were established on each US coast and more in the Gulf of Mexico.
In Australia before September 11, the Coast Guard devoted only 1 or 2 per cent of operations to port security. Now, it is 50 to 60 per cent.
The terror threat resonates with Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, who considers the coastline between Gladstone and Mackay a "major weakness", while West Australian Premier Geoff Gallop wants a permanent naval presence to protect oil and gas fields off the North-West Shelf.
The Port of Melbourne is Australia's largest, handling 37 per cent of the nation's container trade. Melbourne Port has installed an X-ray machine that can study containers' contents, allowing 100 containers a day to be examined, compared with one to three a day without it.
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Results coming soon. The purpose of this research study is to examine the safety and efficacy of asenapine on improving functioning in adolescents with schizophrenia.
Results coming soon. A study to evaluate the medication, oxytocin, as a supplemental treatment for improving social difficulties in children and adolescents, ages 3 to 17, with autism. Participants will be randomly (by chance) assigned to take either placebo (fake medicine) or active oxytocin for 2 months. After 2 months all participants will take active oxytocin for 2 months.
Results coming soon. A trial of an investigational medicine called aripiprazole (Abilify®). The study is looking to see if aripiprazole is effective in treating children and adolescents with irritable behaviors.
Results coming soon. A study to examine whether an intensive computerized intervention targeted on improving central auditory and visual processing and executive functioning can be used in youth with psychotic spectrum disorders. This is a 52 week study, which involves visits to the study doctor and daily computer play for five months. We are looking for participants (ages 10-19) with a history of psychosis, schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder or schizoaffective disorder.
Results coming soon. An open-label study of aripiprazole (Abilify®) that includes 8 weeks of treatment. Functional MRI’s will be completed at the beginning and end of treatment period for persons with high functioning autism (ages 10-55).
Results coming soon. A study that is looking for children who are not on any medications for treatment of symptoms associated with autism and who do not expect to start such medications. These children will tell us about the rate of development over the course of one year in children who do not get medication. The children will help us know whether developmental benefits we observe with medications are really due to the medications or would happen even without medications because of the other supports many children with autism receive. Children in this study will NOT receive any medications. Participation would involve being assessed by the study doctor, completing cognitive assessments three times over the course of a year. Blood tests are optional at each of the visits.
A weight gain monitoring study for children and adolescents between the ages of 3 and 10 who are taking aripiprazole (Abilify®), olanzapine (Zyprexa®), quetiapine (Seroquel®), risperidone (Risperdal®), or ziprasidone (Geodon®). It is not a treatment study and there are no study medications to take. Research study participants will be monitored (physical exam, blood work, and meeting with study physician) at 7 time points through one year.
STAART 1: A Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial of Citalopram for Repetitive Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions
This National Institute of Health funded study has come to a close. The study was headed by Dr. Linmarie Sikich at UNC and by teams at UCLA, Mount Sinai, Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York, Yale, and Dartmouth. In this study, we looked at what the effects of taking an antidepressant called Celexa® (citalopram) are on children and adolescents diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders who display repetitive behaviors. The study results revealed that Citalopram, the scientific name of the drug Celexa®, did not relieve these symptoms any better than placebo. In fact, the behaviors increased in some children on the drug. Celexa® is a drug that treats approximately 30% of people with autism and was believed to be and effective and safe treatment by many physicians but turns out is actually not effective according to study results. This study shows that we need more placebo comparison trials to find out which are effective treatments and rule out medications that really don’t work. We greatly appreciate all of the families who participated in these studies. Without their help, we could not do the studies that help us know which treatments work and which ones don’t.
TEOSS: Treatment of Early Onset Schizophrenia Spectrum
In common practice, it has been standard to for physicians to prescribe atypical (second generation) antipsychotics over typical (first generation) antipsychotics. However, second generation antipsychotics (SGAS) have not demonstrated superiority over it’s first generation counterpart. The TEOSS study (Treatment of Early Onset Schizophrenia Spectrum) compared the effectiveness between two commonly prescribed SGAS, olanzapine (Zyprexa®) and risperidone (Risperdal®), and one first generation antipsychotic, molindone (Moban®), on patients between the ages of 8 to 19 with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder in an 8 week trial.
The results showed that Zyprexa® and Risperal® were associated with significant weight gain, where Zyprexa® displayed the greatest weight gain and increased cholesterol. Moban® was associated with more self-reports of akathisia, which is characterized by an inability to sit still or remain motionless. Zyprexa® and Risperdal® did not display superior treatment outcomes over Moban®. The side effects, however, of the first and second generation antipsychotics were different.
This study raises questions in the preference to prescribe second over first generation antipsychotics. The weight gain in child and adolescent populations taking second generation medication raises some important safety concerns. The main take-away message from this study was that both first and second generation medications should be considered when treating patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders. Physicians should weigh the benefits and side effects to determine which medication would best suit each individual patient. In most cases, patients will have to try many different medications before finding the one or combination that is best for them.
Seaside Therapeutics: Arbaclofen Studies
This past September, Seaside Therapeutics announced new findings in a clinical study on a novel treatment for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and for a study for the treatment of fragile X syndrome (FXS). In both studies, the drug STX209 (also called arbaclofen) showed improvements in measures of social responsiveness. The drug also showed improvements in other measures such as anxiety, hyperactivity, and adaptive function in a group of patients with ASD aged 6-17 years. Neurodevelopmental disorders like ASD and FXS are thought to arise from excessive activation of brain receptors, and arbaclofen may act to control and reduce this hyperactivity. Side effects included agitation, irritability, fatigue, hyperactivity, diarrhea, and insomnia, they generally resolved without any changes to drug dosage. Indiana University School of Medicine Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Craig A. Erickson, M.D., an investigator in the study, said, “This work will potentially open up a door to treating disorders that has, until recently, been firmly shut.” The ASPIRE Research Program was a participating site in both the ASD and FXS clinical trials.
Curemark: A Phase III Randomized Double Blind Placebo Controlled Trial of LUMINENZ-AT™ (CM-AT) In Children with Autism
LUMINENZ-AT™ is a lipid-encapsulated pancreatic enzyme concentrate (PEC) designed to release chymotrypsin and other proteases in the proximal small intestine. The intended indication of LUMINENZ-AT™ is for the treatment of irritability and hyperactivity, which includes abnormal body movements, in children ages 3-8 who have autism. Curemark’s findings indicate that a large subset of children with autism have an endogenous lack of chymotrypsin, as expressed by low fecal chymotrypsin levels. It is hypothesized that if there is an underlying defect in the digestion of dietary proteins, it would contribute to a deficiency in essential and semi-essential amino acids. This would leave the child unable to synthesize new proteins. Proteins such as neurotransmitters and other essential proteins needed for key bodily functions may not be able to be produced by the body due to a lack of essential amino acids. A partial or complete lack of protein digestion could further lead to allergy and/or other digestive dysfunctions.
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The Costal Observation and Seabird Survey Team is looking for local volunteers to participate in this season’s monitoring of local marine ecosystems.
The positions are best suited for folks who enjoy walking the beach and have an interest in marine resources and conservation, however the call is open to any and all who are interested.
A training and orientation meeting will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2 in the Valley Public Library, in the Mendenhall Mall. This six-hour event will instruct participants on how to get involved monitoring the health of our local marine ecosystems. Hear about how COASST started, the custom Beached Birds field guide, and try out new skills with some actual specimens. Training activities will take place indoors. The group break for lunch, so please pack or plant to buy lunch nearby. As always, COASST trainings are free, but participants should plan to provide a $20 refundable deposit if interested in taking home a COASST volunteer kit, complete with the Beached Birds field guide.
COASST is a citizen science project of the University of Washington in partnership with state, tribal and federal agencies, environmental organizations, and community groups. COASST believes citizens of coastal communities are essential scientific partners in monitoring marine ecosystem health. By collaborating with citizens, natural resource management agencies and environmental organizations, COASST works to translate long-term monitoring into effective marine conservation solutions.
For more information, go online to http://depts.washington.edu/coasst.
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by David Finley
My entry for this week's Illustration Friday Topic Word: Capable
I had several ideas for this topic involving cute little cartoon characters who persevere and prove themselves capable of great things, but the more I crunched ideas, the more I wanted to deviate into something a bit darker; Something a bit Pulpish.
We are all capable of doing things we aren't proud of when the right circumstances present themselves. What series of events would turn a good and decent person into a murderer?
This piece was drawn with micron pen and sharpie, then taken in to photoshop to be edited and colored.
Thanks for looking. Comments are appreciated.
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Indians and Diversity
This term, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about affirmative action in university admissions, where my alma mater is on the side of diversity for a change. Most observers agree diversity is likely to lose, but if that happens it does not mean Indians have to quit banging on the doors of higher education.
Indians know diversity, and knew it before Columbus got lost. My people, woodland hunters and farmers, traded with salt water fishermen on the coast and some copper ornaments smelted in Cherokee country turned up in Southwestern pueblos, where they grew the "three sisters" crops on dry land farms and built with stucco. When the Spanish proved unable to keep track of their livestock, many tribes took up the buffalo culture on the Great Plains. Athabascan speakers live in icy Alaska and desert Utah. We know diversity.
To the colonists, we are all “Indians,” one of the most exotic minorities in modern politics. We all have this experience at some point if we leave home: “Do you want to be called Indian or Native American?” Tribal identity requires explanation, and it does get tiresome.
African-Americans, by the tragedy they have endured, belong in any discussion of diversity in the United States. The Civil War was, much as the Confederates denied it afterward, about slavery.
Republicans, then the anti-slavery party, controlled the Congress and the Presidency, but the Supreme Court changes much more slowly and it remained in the hands of Democrats. The Democratic Court quickly gutted the Privileges and Immunities Clause in The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) and the Equal Protection Clause in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), and legal equality died for another half century.
Homer Plessy’s case was particularly ironic. Plessy was one-eighth African-American by blood quantum, and so considered himself a white man—but the Court found he was not white enough to sit where he pleased on public transportation. There things stood until Rosa Parks came along not claiming to be a white woman, but insisting she was a human being.
The fight to pry education loose from “separate but equal” started at the graduate level, where facilities were too scarce to be made equal. Texas was sued in the seminal law school case, Sweatt v. Painter, a case that began in the courthouse where I spent my first career. The first thing the state court did was give Texas time to create a “Negro Law School.” This law school was staffed by practicing black lawyers, not the widely published scholars found at any top law school like the University of Texas.
In 1950, the Supreme Court cut though this transparent nonsense. On any level, schools are not “equal,” and the Justices on the Supreme Court, graduates of excellent law schools, knew that. It would be satisfying to end this by pointing out that the state courthouse where Sweatt vainly sought justice was renamed in 2005 The Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse, but the fight for equality goes on, as does Texas’ role in it.
The “separate but equal” fiction finally died as a matter of law in the famous 1954 case, Brown v. Board of Education. Prevailing counsel in that case was Thurgood Marshall, who himself had been denied admission to the University of Maryland School of Law on account of his race. Later, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court and today the University of Maryland Law Library is named after Marshall, the man not good enough to study there.
Brown killed segregation as a matter of law, but housing patterns continued segregation as a matter of fact. For a few years, there were attempts to achieve racial integration by having kids ride school buses, but that turned into a cultural wedge issue and was eventually beaten back. I personally bought a house in a racially integrated neighborhood in Austin both because I favored integration and because I would rather my son be able to walk to school.
As the Harvard Civil Rights Project has documented, schools in the United States have been re-segregating since 1988. It should be no surprise that predominantly minority schools lag in per pupil spending, teacher salaries, and results, whether measured by test scores or by college admission rates. The race that experiences the most going to school with children of the same color is…the “white” race.
That’s diversity in K-12. It takes little imagination to see how segregating whites in K-12 leads to mostly white universities. For reasons I shall explain soon, Indians are better fixed to push into those white universities than other minorities, no matter how Fisher v. University of Texas is decided this year.
Steve Russell, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is a Texas trial court judge by assignment and associate professor emeritus of criminal justice at Indiana University-Bloomington. He lives in Georgetown, Texas.
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Commission on Financial Reforms
Terms of Reference Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System
The breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s has been followed by a period of financial market liberalization and deregulation, by a surge of private capital flows and by the increasingly global reach of financial institutions. Even so, no institutions have emerged at the international level to prevent excessive risk taking in cross-border lending and investment, reduce systemic failures or address regulatory rules for creditors and debtors, including financial institutions. In fact, conventional wisdom has maintained by cutting back restrictions on capital movements at the national and international levels. a more stable and more efficient financial system would emerge, of particular benefit to developing countries.
The experience has been rather different. Excessive financial liberalization has created a world of global macroeconomic imbalances and recurrent crises. Until recently, the real damage from those crises was, to a large extent, confined to emerging markets. That has now changed, and in a dramatic way. A financial crisis, originating in the most advanced countries and on a scale not seen since the 1930s, is currently unfolding. Over the past few weeks, several major financial institutions in the United States and Europe have failed and stock markets have plummeted and become highly volatile. Especially in the United States, inter-bank lending has declined sharply. Retail businesses and industrial firms, large and small, find it increasingly difficult to obtain credit as banks have become reluctant to lend, even to longtime customers. The response has been state intervention, including the nationalization of financial assets, on an unprecedented scale.
The crisis has become global. Even emerging markets and less developed countries that have managed their economy well, resisted bad lending practices, did not purchase toxic mortgages, and did not allow their banks to engage in excessive risk taking through derivatives, have become embroiled. Any global solution—short term measures to stabilize the current situation and long term measures to make another recurrence less likely—must pay due attention to impacts on all countries. Without doing so, global economic stability cannot be restored.
Ten years ago, at the time of a series of financial crises in emerging markets, there was much discussion of the necessity of reforms to the global financial architecture. Little—too little, it is now evident—was done. It is imperative that we do not only respond adequately to the current crisis, but also begin making the long term reforms necessary to have a more stable and prosperous global economy.
Composition of the Commission
On 18th October, the President of the General Assembly, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, announced his intention to establish a taskforce of experts to review the workings of the global financial system, including major bodies such as the World Bank and the IMF, and to suggest steps to be taken by Member States to secure a more sustainable and just global economic order.
The membership of the Taskforce –now Commission- has been chosen based on the need to include experts with a full understanding of the complex and interrelated issues raised by the workings of the financial system, with a strong grasp of the strengths and weaknesses of existing multilateral institutions, and with a sensitivity to the particular challenges faced by countries from different regions of the world and at different levels of economic and social development.
In addition to the Chair, Professor Joseph Stiglitz (USA), members have been drawn from Japan, Western Europe, Africa, Latin America, South and East Asia.
The rapporteur will be Mr. Jan Kregel (former UNDESA staff; now University of Kansas and the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College).
Scope of the Commission Work
The Commission will seek to identify the broad principles underlying needed institutional reforms required to ensure sustained global economic progress and stability which will be of benefit to all countries, developed and less developed. The Commission will suggest a range of credible and feasible proposals for reforming the international monetary and financial system in the best interest of the international community, identify the merits and limitations of alternatives, and will evaluate in particular those that are at the center of current global discussions.
The Commission will be free to address whatever issues -- of an analytical, institutional or policy nature -- it believes are necessary for advancing the reform of the international financial architecture. A more detailed agenda will be established by the President of the GA.
In its deliberations, the Commission will also bear in mind that in an interdependent world, multilateral rules and regulations in trade, debt and finance will have to be mutually reinforcing if they are to underpin financial stability as well as sustainable and equitable development.
If reforms to the existing architecture are to be credible, they must provide for open and inclusive discussion among the broad range of stakeholders in the international community. The President recognizes that while the discussions of the Commission will need to focus on the specific challenges posed by financial instability, reform of the financial system should not be seen as an isolated endeavour but, where appropriate, must be linked to other challenges facing the multilateral system including climate change, peace and security, poverty reduction and the elimination of hunger. Adjustments to deal with the immediate crisis must not be made at the expense of the poor and the vulnerable, while their needs and interests must be fully considered in any proposals for long-term reform.
Process for producing the Report
The Commission will hold at least three formal meetings to discuss the issues and to begin drafting the report. At the same time, it will solicit comments and suggestions from a wider body of interested stakeholders including policymakers and government officials, representatives of international agencies, academics and members of civil society. Together, these deliberations and inputs will feed into a final report. The report will be published and distributed to member states, other involved parties and the wider public as part of a larger United Nations General Assembly initiative to achieve the needed reforms. A website will be established to promote the work of the Commission.
The first plenary meeting will be held in the New York City 5-6 January 2009 and the second session in Geneva 9-10 March 2009, for two day long sessions. The third and final meeting will be held at the UN HQ in New York to discuss the draft of the report in spring. The President of the General Assembly plans to distribute the final report to Member States in April, at which point it will also be launched publicly at press conferences in a number of locations worldwide.
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I know many people for whom Math is very tedious job. I am science student though my math is weak. I know some people (of course my intelligent friends) who can multiply 4 digit numbers in seconds.
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INWOOD - Leadership. Academic excellence. Friendship. These are just a few of the benefits students, parents and teachers alike say come with participating in marching band.
James Southern, band director at Martinsburg High School, said his students are able to benefit socially from marching band because of their peer-to-peer instruction in class.
"Those kids learn how to be leaders and they learn how to cooperate with others," Southern said.
Journal photo by Rachel Molenda
Keyser High School’s marching band performs Saturday evening at the Big Apple Tournament of Bands, a marching band competition hosted by Musselman High School.
Michael Knepper, band director at Musselman High School, agreed, saying his students acclimate to high school better than most.
"They meet their friends during the summertime," Knepper said. "They have a stronger sense of orientation because of band unity throughout the summer."
In addition, Southern said students in art classes are actively engaged the entire time, which comes to great academic benefit.
"(This) means that they're learning more, which is why our students are out-performing their peers on standardized tests," Southern said.
Knepper said being in marching band is hard work, but students learn to prioritize their tasks and work together because of it.
"Kids are ... using a lot of their energies on after-school activities and actually working together with people," Knepper said. "That's a totally different skill that the kids can exercise."
Many students find greater opportunity to take on leadership positions through extracurricular activities like marching band. Lynette Brinklow, treasurer of the Musselman band boosters and mother of two band members, said her children have experienced positive results from band.
"I never thought (my son) would have been a drum major when he was younger," Brinklow said. "He's so quiet and laid back, but he's the type of person that sits back and observes people."
Her son, now in his fourth year in the marching band, has since grown and become more of a leader in the band.
"Just because a person is quiet and laid back, not very outgoing, doesn't mean that they're not into things or knowing what they want in life," Brinklow said.
Her daughter has become academically accomplished, though she is only in eighth grade.
"She can prepare herself in making sure she gets her work done," she said. "She's gotten scholarships already, even as a middle schooler."
Southern said marching band also challenges students to think creatively.
"They have to figure out problems on their own and determine solutions to those problems," he said. "They learn the skills that they need to problem solve and be innovative thinkers."
Gathered together at Musselman High School's Big Apple Tournament of Bands band competition, it was clear that students enjoyed performing together Saturday evening.
"I love it," said Kaitie Stevens, a 10th-grader at Musselman.
This is Stevens' third year in marching band, and she said she would not have it any other way.
"You make a lot of friends," she said. "You grow to love each other so much."
- Staff writer Rachel Molenda can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 215.
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Three recent news items illuminate the promise and challenge on the road to practical graphene electronics. In the first, IBM announced a new speed record for an experimental graphene transistor that looks exceptionally promising for processing analog signals. It was produced on a “diamond-like carbon” substrate using standard semiconductor manufacturing processes. From “IBM shows smallest, fastest graphene processor“, by Agam Shah:
… The transistor has a cut-off frequency of 155GHz, making it faster and more capable than the 100GHz graphene transistor shown by IBM in February last year, said Yu-Ming Lin, an IBM researcher.
The research also shows that high-performance, graphene-based transistors can be produced at low cost using standard semiconductor manufacturing processes, Lin said. That could pave the way for commercial production of graphene chips, though Lin could not say when manufacturing of such chips would begin.
Commercialized graphene transistors will provide a performance boost in applications related to wireless communications, networking, radar and imaging, said Phaedon Avouris [winner for experimental work, 1999 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology], an IBM fellow. Graphene is a single-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms structured in a hexagonal honeycomb form.
The transistor was developed as part of research IBM is conducting for the U.S. Department of Defense’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program to develop high-performance RF (radio frequency) transistors. Avouris said the military has considerable interest in graphene transistors.
The flow of electrons is faster on graphene transistors than conventional transistors, which enables faster data transfers between chips, Lin said. That makes it promising technology for applications such as networking that require communications at fast speeds and high frequencies.
Graphene transistors may be able compute faster than conventional transistors, but are not ideal for PCs yet, Lin said. Because of the lack of energy gap in natural graphene, graphene transistors do not possess the on-off ratio required for digital switching operations, which makes conventional processors better at processing discrete digital signals.
By contrast, the continuous energy flow makes graphene better at processing analog signals, Lin said. Graphene’s high electron speed allows for faster processing of applications in analog electronics where such a high on-off ratio is not needed. …
In a second development, researchers have found that atomic vacancies in graphene can give rise to magnetic properties that were entirely unexpected because carbon has no d or f electrons. PhysOrg.com points to this University of Maryland news release “UMD Scientists Make Magnetic New Graphene Discovery“:
University of Maryland researchers have discovered a way to control magnetic properties of graphene that could lead to powerful new applications in magnetic storage and magnetic random access memory.
The finding by a team of Maryland researchers, led by Physics Professor Michael S. Fuhrer of the UMD Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials is the latest of many amazing properties discovered for graphene. …
In their new graphene discovery, Fuhrer and his University of Maryland colleagues have found that missing atoms in graphene, called vacancies, act as tiny magnets — they have a “magnetic moment.” Moreover, these magnetic moments interact strongly with the electrons in graphene which carry electrical currents, giving rise to a significant extra electrical resistance at low temperature, known as the Kondo effect. The results appear in the paper “Tunable Kondo effect in graphene with defects” published this month in Nature Physics [abstract]. …
Fuhrer thinks that if vacancies in graphene could be arranged in just the right way, ferromagnetism could result. “Individual magnetic moments can be coupled together through the Kondo effect, forcing them all to line up in the same direction,” he said.
“The result would be a ferromagnet, like iron, but instead made only of carbon. Magnetism in graphene could lead to new types of nanoscale sensors of magnetic fields. And, when coupled with graphene’s tremendous electrical properties, magnetism in graphene could also have interesting applications in the area of spintronics, which uses the magnetic moment of the electron, instead of its electric charge, to represent the information in a computer.
“This opens the possibility of ‘defect engineering’ in graphene – plucking out atoms in the right places to design the magnetic properties you want,” said Fuhrer.
The third item reports that graphene transistors may solve one of the major problems associated with silicon electronics—graphene transistors could cool themselves rather than have to spend energy dissipating heat with fans or water cooling. From “Graphene transistors could cool themselves“, by Isaac Leung:
Researchers with the University of Illinois have found graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect which reduces their temperature.
Mechanical science and engineering professor William King and electrical and computer engineering professor Eric Pop led the team, which published the findings in the 3 April advance online edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology [abstract]. …
The research team used an atomic force microscope tip as a temperature probe to make the first nanometer-scale temperature measurements of a working graphene transistor.
The measurements revealed that thermoelectric cooling effects can be stronger at the areas where the graphene touches the metal contacts, and this effect overpowers resistive heating, actually lowering the temperature of the transistor.
This self-cooling effect means that graphene-based electronics could require little or no cooling, allowing even greater energy efficiency and increasing graphene’s attractiveness as a silicon replacement.
The University of Illinois News Bureau adds a few additional details. From “Self-cooling observed in graphene electronics“, by Liz Ahlberg:
… The measurements revealed surprising temperature phenomena at the points where the graphene transistor touches the metal connections. They found that thermoelectric cooling effects can be stronger at graphene contacts than resistive heating, actually lowering the temperature of the transistor.
“In silicon and most materials, the electronic heating is much larger than the self-cooling,” King said. “However, we found that in these graphene transistors, there are regions where the thermoelectric cooling can be larger than the resistive heating, which allows these devices to cool themselves. This self-cooling has not previously been seen for graphene devices.” …
“Graphene electronics are still in their infancy; however, our measurements and simulations project that thermoelectric effects will become enhanced as graphene transistor technology and contacts improve ” said Pop, who is also affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the U. of I. …
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Welcome to The Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum
Applications now being accepted for the 2013 Cowboy Camp!
Saddle up and ride the Chisholm Trail at the third annual Cowboy Camp. Experience life on a Texas cattle drive and learn to live by the Code of the West. Learn to rope, tie knots and tool leather the Cowboy Way. Travel back in time and join up with saddle-weary wranglers relaxing around the campfire, singing their songs, telling their tales and reciting their poetry. Learn to cook cowboy grub from a chuckwagon: beans, beef, and biscuits baked in a Dutch oven. Yum!
Cowboy Camp will be held at the museum, 302 North Esplanade, Cuero, from 9:00 AM – 12:00 noon, August 12 – 16.
Download the Cowboy Camp application (PDF, 20 KB)
Download the informational flyer (PDF, 250 KB)
On Thursday, April 8, 2010, The Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum Board of Directors hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the completion of restoring Cuero's historic (c. 1903) Knights of Pythias Hall and construction of an adjacent 4,500 square-foot annex. The board successfully completed the building capital phase of the project with an investment totaling approximately $2,471,895. While the second floor of the historic building is fully functional as a multi-purpose community facility, the board has now set its sights on the design and build-out of displays and exhibits, which will be located on the ground floor of the building. Since the spring of 2010, the organization has hosted a multitude of events including regional seminars, wedding receptions, workshops, dinners, small conferences, art and jewelry shows, and other community functions.
Mission Statement: The Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum's mission is “to preserve the ranching and western heritage of South Central Texas through interpretative exhibits, research, and educational programs.”
Take a ride back in time . . .
. . . to the year 1866. It is April 1, and with the coming of first light, eighteen hundred head of the toughest Longhorn cattle are gathered at Cardwell Flats, about four miles north of present-day Cuero, Texas. As the story is told, Crockett Cardwell had recognized the abundance of Texas cattle, coupled with the growing demand for beef. Seeing an opportunity, he called on his friend Thornton Chisholm to lead an ambitious cattle drive — all the way to St. Joseph, Missouri. And so this early morning, our story begins with the groan of a wagon wheel, the bawling of cattle and the rising dust, headed due North.
The intriguing lore of this early cattle drive is what prompted a group of dedicated area citizens to establish a museum preserving the history associated with the the great cattle drive era and Texas' rich ranching and agricultural history. When complete,The Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum will preserve and showcase memorabilia and artifacts that will help bring the stories of cowboys and the cattle drive era to life.
The historic Knights of Pythias Hall (c. 1903), listed on the National Register of Historic Placesand a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, has suited our mission well. Now fully restored its second floor interiors have been handsomely adapted to the needs of a multi-purpose community facility. Furthermore, it has raised the bar of historic preservation standards in Cuero and is currently providing space for a multitude of meeting needs in the community. By rejuvenating this important building, we have added to the already impressive list of restored homes and public buildings in South Central Texas that have been preserved for future generations.
Many of the tributaries of the legendary Chisholm Trail originated in DeWitt, Victoria, Goliad, Refugio, Bee, Calhoun, Lavaca, and Gonzales Counties, making our area an integral part in the Reconstruction following the War Between the States. Numerous herds were driven to northern railheads, providing beef for Midwest and Eastern markets. These cattle herds also provided the foundation stock for cattle raised in the great American West.
Although none of the old trail hands are here to tell their amazing tales, their memory is still with us, and that's what The Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum is here to preserve.
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RINGLING EXHIBITION OF ICONIC 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS CAPTURES ENDURING MOMENTS
Images from The Warren J. and Margot Coville Photography Collection On View November 9, 2012 to February 3, 2013
Sarasota, FL —Sept. 14, 2012 — The Warren J. and Margot Coville Photography Collection exhibition at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art explores iconic moments through the lens of many renowned photographers, including Berenice Abbott, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Barbara Morgan and Andre Kertesz. The show is a continuum of the Ringling’s Art of Our Time which focuses on leading contemporary artists. It comprises more than 75 images spanning the twentieth century and early twenty-first century. Among the stunning imagery on view is the 1888 construction of the Eiffel Tower and the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. It also includes a large collection of photojournalism. The exhibition runs Nov. 9, 2012 to Feb. 3, 2013.
“The Coville Photography Collection exhibition is such a powerful and moving show,” said Steven High, executive director for The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. “It is a riveting account of recent world events and iconic moments taken by key photographers of this and the past century. These artists witnessed and captured history for this and future generations. I anticipate the images on view will have a deep and lasting impression, touching off a wide range of emotions for our visitors.”
It includes images, such as Walter Rosenblum’s unflinching portrayals of humanity, Hospital Workers, South Bronx, 1979. Barbara Morgan’s beautifully composed image of legendary dancer Martha Graham from 1940. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph of the triumphant Winston Churchill and Tony Spina’s photo of the contemplative Martin Luther King in Grosse Pointe, Michigan from 1968. It also features an unknown photographer’s chilling image of the Hindenburg crash taken in 1937.
“The exhibition documents monumental shifts in global politics and national identities, as well as showing examples of significant developments in art history and photographic technologies,” remarked Dr. Matthew McLendon, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. “With their gift to the Ringling Museum, Warren and Margot Coville have created an enduring legacy that will enable the exploration of the photographic arts at the Ringling for generations to come. It is truly an encyclopedic resource from which to grow the Museum’s burgeoning photography collection.”
The Ringling Museum presents a variety of programs to extend exploration of the exhibited works in the Historic Asolo Theater. There is A Conversation with the Collector: Warren J. Coville (Wed., Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m.) featuring a discussion between Warren J. Coville and Dr. McLendon that introduces this significant gift to the Museum. It is free to the public, seating is limited.
Photography on Film is a series of film documentaries screened in the Historic Asolo Theater in mid-November that focus on photographers featured in the exhibition. On Thursday, Nov. 15 from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. the films includes Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century by Kay Weaver and Martha Wheelock (5:30 to 6:35 p.m.), Masters of Photography: Edward Steichen (6:50 to 7:25 p.m.); and Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye by Heinz Butler (7:40 to 9 p.m.).
On Friday, Nov. 16 and Saturday, Nov. 17 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. the films show Berenice Abbott (1 to 2:05 p.m.); Edward Steichen (2:20 to 2:55 p.m.); and Henri Cartier-Bresson (3:10 to 4:30 p.m.). The films are free for Museum members and included for non-Members with their paid Museum admission for that day.
From Nov. 5 to Dec. 10 at 7 p.m., the Museum is also presenting its Monday Nights Movies series, titled Exposed!: The Photographer in the Cinematic Imagination. The films include, Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Nov. 5); Blowup directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (Nov. 12); The Year of Living Dangerously directed by Peter Weir (Nov. 19); Fairy Tale: A True Story directed by Charles Sturridge (Nov. 26); Amelie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Dec. 3); and The Midnight Meat Train directed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Dec. 10). Tickets are $7.
The ViewPoint: Forming History, Thomas Southall, Independent Curator, Author, and Lecturer (Sat., Nov. 3, 10:30 am in the Historic Asolo Theater) reveals the formal elements that make a powerful and lasting photograph. It is complimentary for Ringling Members at the Contributor Level and above, $10 for non-Members, $5 for all Ringling Members and Florida State college students and faculty with valid school I.D.
Inside the galleries of the Museum of Art, GalleryWalk and Talks include close up conversations with two local photographers, Peter Acker, Commercial Photographer (Thurs., Nov. 29 at 6 p.m.) and Sally Pettibon, Photographer, RCAD Faculty (Thurs., Jan. 31 at 6 p.m.). Each will share his/her insights on specific works in the show. These discussions are part of Art after 5, which is free for Museum Members and $10 for non-members with paid admission.
The exhibition is made possible through the generosity of Warren J. and Margot Coville. Their gift -- the largest gift of photography in the Museum’s history totaling more than 1,000 photographs -- serves as the foundation for the exhibition. The Covilles are collectors living part-time in Sarasota and part-time in Detroit. A photography enthusiast himself, Warren bought his first camera at 13 years old with his bar-mitzvah money. Warren began seriously collecting the photographs of established (and not so established) artists in 1974, and continued until 2001.
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To the Readers' Forum:
I would like to thank Prendergast Library and Doug Champ for organizing the Critical Discussion Series on hydrofracking. The presentation was decidedly one-sided but I agree with and support the efforts to comminicate and inform the public on critical topics.
My father always warned that you don't get something for nothing, but that is exactly what was presented last night. Each panelist promoted the many potential benefits of drilling for shale gas with hardly a mention of the downside.
Everything comes with a cost and shale gas is no exception. Whether it be the risk to our water supply, health risks from toxic pollution, destruction of natural environments, decreased air quality, loss of our rural atmosphere due to massive industrialization, disruption of our local economy due to the boom and bust cycle of drilling, or excessive wear and tear on the local infrastructure - there will be consequences.
I encourage all residents to consider the potential risks as well as the potential benefits when deciding whether or not shale drilling is appropriate for our home.
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