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"The cause of the fire, which happened in the basement of the library in the periodicals and microforms area, is still under official investigation. The total damage is estimated at over $10 million. Approximately 30,000 journals in American history, Latin American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, geography and cultural studies were destroyed. All surviving journals have been taken to an out-of-state disaster recovery company to be cleaned.
"The basement was very heavily damaged; all the flooring, ceiling titles and walls have been removed. The area will be redesigned and rebuilt, and will not re-open before summer, 2007. The second and third floors are open, as is the Center for Southwest Research. Most of the first floor is open; only the former reference area is still closed. That first floor reference area is being repaired and remodeled in order to provide more public space, more computers and a sprinkler system. The first floor will re-open in the late fall.
"The Library's web page at http://elibrary.unm.edu has links to more information about the fire and our recovery... Fran Wilkinson, Professor of Librarianship, Interim Dean of University Libraries"
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Imagine waking up tomorrow to find out that the value of your home has been reduced by a third or more. That happened to thousands of property owners when the state adopted the FEMA “advisory” flood elevation maps. The maps, changes in the federal flood insurance program and the state’s adoption have created a perfect storm that could change the Jersey shore more than Sandy did.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency flood elevation maps were last revised in 1983. The maps, which were revised before Sandy, change not only the minimum first-floor elevation of many homes, but also expand the classification of vast areas of the shore.
This is only the second time in its history FEMA has issued advisory maps. The first time was after Katrina.
The new maps put many parts of shore communities in the most vulnerable flood zone, the V Zone, which stands for velocity and indicates the property is at risk for wave damage by three-foot waves. Most of the bay and oceanfront areas up and down the coast in Cape May and Atlantic County have been placed in this zone for the first time. If these homes are more than 50 percent destroyed in a storm and have to rebuild, they would be required to comply with the V Zone requirements for higher first floor elevations, in some cases three or four feet higher, and they would have to be constructed on piles or piers with breakaway walls between the ground and the first floor.
Between now and the next big storm, the homes that do not rebuild and comply with the new requirements would face substantially increased flood insurance premiums when the FEMA maps are finalized.
Second-home owners, who had been previously able to purchase a basic flood insurance policy through the federal program, are ineligible and have to resort to the private insurance market.
Gov. Christie made the advisory maps mandatory for new construction through the issuance of an executive order. In his announcement he indicated that nonconforming homes in the V Zone could face flood insurance premiums as high as $31,000.
While the executive order may give an immediate pathway to rebuilding for those who lost their home in the storm, the implications for others whose homes are still standing are serious, as they now face higher insurance premiums unless they raise the height of their homes.
The economic implications for all shore communities are serious. Prospective purchasers of nonconforming shore homes will think twice, worried that they will have to reconstruct if their home is destroyed by a storm and face high flood insurance premiums when the FEMA maps are finalized. Lenders, who have become increasingly stringent especially with second homes, will become more critical when being asked to finance a home that does not comply with the flood elevation requirements. Nonconforming homes may be viewed as teardowns worth no more than the value of the land that they sit on.
The effect on property values would have a corresponding impact on tax bases for shore communities. The properties in the V Zone – waterfront properties on the beach and the bay in shore towns – would be most severely impacted. Those properties have typically comprised a disproportionate portion of the shore tax base, a tax base that has already suffered from a decline in values. These changes will further deteriorate those tax rolls.
Like most serious problems, there are no easy answers. To ignore the threat of storms would be irresponsible. On the other hand, to impose such a drastic change that will affect so many is a step that should be taken with as much care as possible.
There are a couple of options that come to mind.
First, we need to recognize that the FEMA maps are advisory, not final, and will be subject to revision as a result of Sandy. FEMA has indicated that the final maps will not be issued until 2014. There are also serious questions being raised about the accuracy of the maps and whether they reflect changes such as the increased height of bulkheads along the bay. Some properties on the bay side in protected lagoons or blocks away from the water have been included in V Zones even though there has been no evidence of three-foot waves ever sweeping through those properties. Architects have pointed out that new homes complying with the current flood elevation requirements even on Long Beach Island weathered Sandy with little or no damage to the living space.
The FEMA map may be overly zealous both in the scope of the V Zone areas and the elevation requirements.
Second, the recent change in policy by the federal flood insurance program making second homes ineligible should be reversed. Second homes comprise 80 to 90 percent of most shore communities. To leave them at the mercy of the private insurance market is unfair and unnecessarily disruptive at the worst possible time.
FEMA’s new maps present a greater economic threat to shore communities than the red tide and Sandy combined. The effect of these changes will have repercussions for a long time. Before such drastic action is taken we should take care to make sure we are doing the right thing.
Sal Perillo is a former mayor of Ocean City and a partner at Nehmad, Perillo & Davis.
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JH: David, you detailed very, very well how we are constantly being ripped off. It’s a death of 1,000 cuts. Why is that? The story that we’ve gotten, for years and years and years, is that we have less regulation in order to spur competition. Ultimately, that competition was supposed to benefit consumers. What’s going wrong?
DCJ: I want more competition. Here’s what really goes on, however. We put up barriers to competition, and in fact, Wall Street has institutionalized this concept. Morningstar, they’re a big financial advice firm. They tell people that they should grade companies and decide whether to buy their stock, based on something called a “moat index.” Moat, like around a castle? A moat index asks, “What barriers has the government erected to keep anybody else from competing against that company?” Indeed, as I show in my book, you could get rich if you invest in those companies that have regulatory moats — where under the name of deregulation, we have insulated them from the rigors of the market.
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Unfortunately, what we have today is faux capitalism!
The “regulators” are in bed with that which they are supposed to “regulate”.
FDA and Big Pharma is the classic example.
The SEC, FTC, OCC, and all the other bureaucrats are a revolving door with Wall Street.
And, the politicians are like the whorehouse Madam!
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“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”- Winston Churchill
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Fair Lawn Borough: Tax Collector
Fair Lawn Borough collects municipal taxes four times a year -- February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 -- with a 10-day grace period for each quarter. Late payments accrue 8 percent interest on the first $1,500 and 18 percent for all additional amounts. Residents and businesses can pay their taxes via credit card for a 3 percent convenience fee.
The Tax Collector's Office, on the first floor of the municipal building, also sends out quarterly water bills. Residents who don't pay on time risk their water supply being shut off.
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Dave Chase, Contributor
I cover disruptive innovators reinventing healthcare.
If you want to see the future of the U.S. healthcare system, I can’t think of a better place than New York. While those of us in the Bay Area and Seattle would like it to be our locales, at this stage of the game, it’s not even close. When you look at the full spectrum from healthcare delivery that is government-funded to an array of technology-related programs in the private sector, New York is a model for what other cities/states should be doing.
Update: Today and tomorrow, the leaders of NY Health community are gathering at the Digital Health Conference. I will be in attendance and would enjoy meeting any readers who will be there. You can contact me my Twitter handle (see sidebar on the right) or via my LinkedIn profile. I will be speaking at the event. I will touch on forward-looking providers I wrote about in the the Patient-Provider Communication chapter of the upcoming Patient Engagement book commissioned by HIMSS (book release will be prior to HIMSS annual conference). I look forward to speaking with Forbes readers who are able to attend. You can follow the hashtag #DHC12 for more on the event happenings.
Perhaps it’s not surprising since the czar of health technology for the federal government is Dr. Farzad Mostashari who was a leader in the public health scene for New York prior to his current post. He is the leader of the Office of the National Coordinator in Health & Human Services. This was an office established by the Bush Administration and then the Obama Administration has doubled down on it to bring healthIT in the U.S. out of the dark ages.
“We don’t have a debt problem. We have a healthcare problem.” Laura Tyson (former head of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Clinton Administration and dean of the London School of Economics).
New York recognizes what Bill Gates spoke about in his TED talk about how exploding healthcare costs are devastating education budgets at the state level. If costs don’t get under control, it’s not an exaggeration to say it threatens public education. Consider that while spending on all other consumer goods and services has increased 8x over the last 40 years, healthcare spending has increased 274x. It’s hard to argue things have improved 34 times more in healthcare than other consumer goods and services.
It’s a multi-dimensional problem that requires a multi-dimensional solution and it appears New York is up to the task considering that the initiatives range from private sector investment to public policy and programs. Under the leadership of Dr. Nirav Shah, New York State Commission of Health, New York has been a vanguard state in fostering an environment of innovation in health information exchange, the use of health information technology to support delivery system transformation such as State-wide medical home initiatives, and initiating SHINY as part of the New York e Health Collaborative.
The following are some examples of the array of activity in New York (please add others in the Comments box below that I may have missed) with details below:
Update: Subsequent to the original posting, I was reminded by some readers of some items I’d missed. One is an organization called NYC Health Business Leaders that has been on the forefront of promoting NYC as the innovation capital of healthcare. See more at www.nychbl.com. I also overlooked the Life Sciences Angel Network run my Dr. Milena Adamian that is very active in supporting healthtech startups. In addition, there are several healthcare focused venture capital firms such as those listed on www.digitalhealthaccelerator.com.
Given the scale of changes necessary in healthcare, New York has clearly assembled an “all hands on deck” approach that other states should mimic if they want to thrive in the future.
New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA)
The goal of the New York Digital Health Accelerator is fostering startups gaining market validation with leading healthcare providers around the state. The NYDHA is run by NYeC and NY City Investment Fund, which is the economic arm of the Partnership for New York City, the city’s pre-eminent business leadership coalition.
The program will announce 8 early- and growth-stage companies today that are developing cutting-edge technology products in care coordination, patient engagement, analytics and message alerts for healthcare providers. Each chosen company will be awarded up to $300,000 along with invaluable mentoring from senior-level executives at leading hospitals and other providers in New York. The focus areas of innovation will support the development of products that help the state’s Medicaid Redesign Team and its new “Health Homes” program, an initiative intended to make the state’s treatment of Medicaid patients more coordinated and efficient.
New York has a Medicaid Redesign Team and a new “Health Homes” program, an initiative intended to make the state’s treatment of Medicaid patients more coordinated and efficient. There is a concept called “Patient Centered Medical Homes” (PCMH) that was originally conceived of in the U.S. but never really implemented until recently. Meanwhile, countries such as Denmark used the PCMH as the foundation of their shift from a reactive “fire fighting” healthcare delivery system to a proactive “fire prevention” model. Over a few decades, it has had dramatic results supported by information technology. Results include the following:
Inspired by the success of KickStarter and other crowdfunding program, Medstartr addresses the unique requirements of healthcare that has kept KickStarter from supporting healthcare projects. Since launching this summer, they have already had multiple successful projects. [Disclosure: My company, Avado, is one of the companies to have successfully run a Medstartr project.]
While the Internet isn’t thought of as part of the healthcare delivery system, there’s no doubt it’s the go-to spot for most consumers as searching for health information is the third most popular activity on the web. When something is going on that isn’t an emergency, they rely on “Dr. Google” and are often led to WebMD. Over 100 million people visit WebMD every month. On top of that, their Medscape professional site is similarly dominant with health professionals. When it comes to continuing medical education (CME), 30% takes place on a WebMD-owned site and 60% of all online CME.
New York eHealth Collaborative
Here’s how NYeHC describes what they do:
One of the most significant advances in health IT is the shift away from paper records. It was once almost impossible to imagine having access to all the information about a patient with just a few clicks of a mouse. But today, secure, private electronic health records (EHRs) are becoming standard practice, and New York State is taking a leading role in the nation. At NYeC, we work to facilitate this transition for healthcare providers across the state and beyond. We also work to make it possible for providers to securely exchange these records in situations where patients require more complex treatment and multiple providers. NYeC works to educate the healthcare industry and those in need of treatment, with a goal of elevating the level of general understanding as to how health IT can improve care.
Statewide Health Information Network of New York (“SHINY”)
The concept of Health Information Exchange has been around for awhile with limited results due to competitive concerns and incompatible systems. One only has to watch a video like this one that shows how even an insider can have great difficulty getting vital health information shared. The following is a description of the SHINY:
The SHINY is a network of information transmitted between users. Like the internet, as more users connect, it grows, evolves, and becomes more secure, efficient, and easy to use. As an increasing number of private practices, nursing homes, clinics, and hospitals begin to digitize their records, they have the option to connect to information hubs (or RHIOs/QEs) in their region of the state. These Regional Health Information Organizations collect health record data from the healthcare providers in their area, and, with patient consent, allow this information to be shared securely with other providers in the region.
What this means to you: The patient returning to her family physician for follow-up care after a trip to a radiologist will not need to make any phone calls to request a copy of her results. Neither will her physician. The patient will not need to remember to have images or lab results sent, nor will she need to carry her own records to different doctors by hand. Her primary care physician, when securely connected to the SHINY, will have complete, accurate, and private access to the information carefully gathered by each one of the specialists the patient has visited. Fewer mistakes will be made, fewer tests repeated, and money and time will be saved on administrative details. Most importantly, the patient and doctor will have more time together to discuss treatment options and recovery.
See the video below on how SHINY describes how they can make life better.
IBM has been pivotal in getting half of the Fortune 100 to change how they are purchasing healthcare. in addition, the Office of Personnel Management (the “HR Department” for federal workers) has also has bought into the aforementioned PCMH model. See IBM Unleashes Primary Care Spring for details on the scope of their work.
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Create And Restore Partition Images With PartimageMay 21, 2012, 10:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Christian Schmalfeld)
Backups are usually made in one of two ways - either file-based which means that single files are backed up, often via synchronization and on an external disk, or image-based which means that a whole partition is stuffed into an image file that can be restored on the partition, containing everything there was on it. This tutorial covers image-based backups using Partimage from a live desktop environment.
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This maps locates zoonotic events over the past 72 years, with recent events in blue. Like earlier analyses, the study shows western Europe and western USA are hotspots. Recent events, however, show an increasingly higher representation of developing countries.INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Diseases that can be shared between humans and animals, like rabies or bovine tuberculosis, have an enormous impact around the world. Especially in poorer communities, where livestock often provide food and a possible economic route out of poverty, such zoonotic diseases can worsen human health while reducing food production. A new analysis published this week (July 5) by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya maps the confluence of zoonotic disease, poverty, and livestock production, primarily in resource-poor nations. The authors hope that these maps will help policy-makers and public officials allocate funds and devise strategies for alleviating animal-borne diseases and poverty in the regions of the world most in need.
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iPhone 3GS 8GB
At a Glance
The S is for “spoken commands”
One of the biggest weaknesses of the first two iPhone models was their inability to do even basic voice dialing. With the iPhone 3GS, Apple has added voice-command functionality, but the new Voice Control feature adds not just voice dialing, but voice control of the iPod features as well.
To initiate Voice Control, you hold down the home button or the center button on the iPhone’s new three-button headphones (the same ones used by for the latest-generation iPod touch, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle, giving iPhone users remote volume control at last) for about two seconds. You’ll hear a quick double-chime indicating that it’s your turn to speak, and you’d better speak quickly. When I remained silent, Voice Control somehow managed to tease commands out of the empty air around me, including attempting to dial random people in my phone book. (Press the button again if you want to abort your Voice Control session without saying anything.)
After the chime, you can choose from a small selection of commands. To dial a contact, just say “dial” or “call” followed by the name of the person you want to contact. If you just say the first name, Voice Control will try to figure out who you meant. When I said, “Dial Dan,” it offered me—via a pleasant yet robotic female voice (I guess my iPhone 3GS is a girl?)—all three Dans in my phone book, along with a “Pam,” as options. If you say the person’s full name, accuracy increases. If your contact has more than one phone number, Voice Control will prompt you to choose from a list of options, such as “mobile” or “home.” If you want to speed things along, say a person’s name followed by the number you which to call (“Call Sally Sparrow work.”) You can even tell Voice Control to dial a bare number, such as “Dial 867-5309.”
To control the iPhone’s iPod functions, you can choose from a slightly broader palette of commands. “Play artist Peter Gabriel” will automatically play all songs by Peter Gabriel, but by default they won’t be shuffled. If you re-engage Voice Control you can then say “shuffle,” and it’ll turn shuffling on. (I managed to uncover a bug here—once you tell Voice Control to turn on shuffling, it will engage shuffling on every subsequent voice command. I only regained the ability to play albums and playlists linearly by force-quitting the iPod application.)
You can also command that Voice Control play a particular playlist (“play playlist ‘Best of 2009’”) or album (“play album ‘Life and Times’”), trigger a Genius playlist based on the current song (“Play more songs like this,” or the less verbose command “Genius!”), and find out the name of the song (“What song is this?”). However, you can’t choose to play a particular song, nor does Voice Control appear to have any access to audiobooks or podcasts.
I like the idea of using Voice Control to control the iPod functions of my iPhone, but without the ability to toggle shuffle on and off, it’s less powerful than it should be.
In general, I found Voice Control’s accuracy to be decent, and it does pause briefly after declaring its interpretation of your command, allowing you to belay a misunderstood order, such as attempting to dial Peter Hatcher when all you wanted to do was shuffle through all your Beatles tracks. Of course, having a forceful voice and being in a relatively quiet setting help matters immensely.
Unfortunately, when it comes to Voice Control, the Phone and iPod applications are the beginning and the end of the story. No other built-in applications are supported, and it doesn’t appear that third-party applications are able to interact with Voice Control either. I’m also a little surprised that, now that Voice Control can now speak the names of people in my contacts list, Apple doesn’t offer a spoken ringtone (“Dan Moren, mobile, calling”) as an option. But with all that said, Voice Control addresses a major weakness of the iPhone platform while also promising some intriguing future uses for the technology.
The S is for “sense of direction”
Current and former Cub Scouts everywhere will thrill to the addition of a compass to the iPhone 3GS, finally providing orienteers with a smartphone that can tell the difference between magnetic north and true north, at least until the earth’s magnetic poles inevitably reverse themselves.
Okay, so maybe people weren’t clamoring for Apple to throw a compass into the iPhone’s soup of features. But it does have some practical—and impractical—benefits. In the Maps application, tapping the crosshairs button once will locate your position on the map, but now a second tap will re-orient the map in the direction your iPhone is facing, eliminating the whole “hold the map upside-down so we can figure out where we are” effect. Unfortunately, the feature doesn’t work in Street View mode, which seems like a natural. Also, occasionally scrolling or zooming in the map would spin the orientation back to north-on-top. Unfortunately, re-enabling the compass feature requires tapping twice, forcing the map to zoom back in all the way, despite your best attempts to alter the map’s view. It can be a little annoying.
I found the compass to be generally accurate, though occasionally it would get confused and require me to wave it in the air to clear up the problem. Sometimes, too, the compass would be a few degrees off, though a wave would generally get it back on track.
Adding a compass to the iPhone’s accelerometer means that app developers will be able to use that extra positional data in games and even user-interface innovations. If you place an iPhone 3GS on a table and spin it around, it will know that it’s spinning and what direction it comes to rest. Beyond the cavalcade of spin-the-bottle apps that will undoubtedly appear in the store starting next week, there could be some other interesting uses for that positional data. We’ll have to see what develops, but this compass should end up being more useful than the one you keep in your toolbox for special occasions.
The iPhone 3GS tech specs claim battery life of up to five hours of talk time (12 if you turn off 3G networking), five hours of Internet use (nine on Wi-Fi), 10 hours of video playback, 30 hours of audio playback, and 300 hours of standby time. Those specs are slightly better in some areas than the ones Apple claimed for the original iPhone and iPhone 3G. Apple says that it’s not so much that the iPhone 3GS battery is better than previous models—an iFixIt report suggests the battery holds only 6 percent more juice than the one in the iPhone 3G—but that the iPhone 3GS is able to use its internal hardware in a more energy-efficient manner, eking out more battery life under certain conditions.
In general, the iPhone 3GS seems roughly comparable to the iPhone 3G in terms of resilience of the battery. If you spend an entire day on the go with the iPhone 3GS and are heavily using the Internet the entire time, you will drain the battery. Savvy iPhone veterans know to plug in their iPhones at home and at work, and if they spend a long time in the car, they plug in there too via an adapter. (You can get more life out of your iPhone by reducing the amount of time you use the Internet and by turning off 3G networking.)
Of AT&T, commitments, and subsidies
In the United States, iPhone 3GS owners must be AT&T customers, and commit to being AT&T customers for two years. With the release of the iPhone 3G last summer, AT&T has been compensating Apple for each iPhone purchased by its customers, and making up that money via monthly phone bills. The release of the iPhone 3GS complicates matters, because many of those who bought the iPhone 3G last year have discovered that the low $199 and $299 prices promoted by Apple for this product don’t actually apply to them.
The ugly truth of cell phone marketing in the United States is that it generally involves the selling of phones at low costs, but at the cost of users agreeing to a multi-year commitment to the carrier. The success of the iPhone 3G, which sold for $199 versus the original iPhone’s launch price of $499-$599 (later reduced to $399), suggests that the method of lowering the price of a phone in exchange for higher monthly bills is an effective marketing strategy.
When you’re considering an iPhone purchase, then, you need to keep in mind the price you’ll actually pay—you can get a quote from Apple’s iPhone-purchase web page—and make your value judgments based on that price. You’ll also need to consider that buying a phone for the lower price commits you to AT&T for another two years. If you’ve already got an iPhone and are happy with it, but long for the day that there are iPhone carrier options other than AT&T, you might want to consider the length of that AT&T commitment before buying. Likewise, if you’re convinced that Apple will unveil another snazzy next-generation iPhone again next year (not a terrible bet, given the company’s track record), keep in mind that buying a subsidized iPhone 3GS today will likely hurt your eligibility for a new subsidized iPhone price in 2010.
Wouldn’t it be simpler if there weren’t contracts or subsidies? Sure it would. (Although then the iPhone 3GS might cost $400.) Unfortunately, that’s not the state of affairs in the United States at the moment.
The true price of the iPhone 3GS doesn’t end there, of course. As an AT&T subscriber, you’ll be committing to two years of a voice plan (individual plans start at $40 per month for 450 minutes and increase to $100 per month for unlimited calling), an optional text-message plan, and a data plan that can cost $15 or $30 per month. (Tethering will cost even more.) For even a basic plan, that’s $1,680 over the course of two years, plus significant taxes and fees. Of course, you may already be paying something close to that for your existing calling plan. Consider your current cell phone bills and your potential new bills carefully when calculating the cost of an iPhone.
In terms of network coverage, it’s fairly hard to judge AT&T, because the experience will vary depending on what you do, where you go, and who you are. I’ve been an AT&T customer (and before that Cingular, and before that AT&T) for years and have been relatively happy with the service, but many other people detest AT&T. If you live in an area that’s poorly served by AT&T, the iPhone is probably not for you. And since the iPhone uses the GSM cellular standard, which is incompatible with the Verizon and Sprint networks in the U.S., you can’t buy an iPhone today on the AT&T network with the hopes of transferring it to Verizon in a year or two.
Macworld’s buying advice
The iPhone 3GS addresses most of the fundamental weaknesses of the previous models, adding raw speed, voice-activated phone and music navigation, an improved autofocus camera, and video-recording features. Its larger amount of installed memory suggests that it will run existing iPhone apps not just faster, but with fewer crashes, and its improved video capabilities suggest that it will be an impressive gaming device as well.
If you’re upgrading from the iPhone 3G, you’ll appreciate the speed, although unless you qualify for a discount or have a friend or family member to give your iPhone 3G to, the upgrade price might make you reconsider. Users of the original iPhone will be floored by the speed of the phone and of the 3G wireless network, though they may find the phone’s shiny plastic back a step down from the original, elegant brushed-aluminum edition. Certainly original iPhone owners will be able to take advantage of the lowest prices available for the iPhone 3GS, making the device that much more appealing.
If you’ve never had an iPhone before, but are considering the purchase of a smartphone for the first time, you will find the iPhone 3GS a satisfying product. Yes, the launch of the original iPhone two years ago has spurred phone development, so now some legitimate contenders are beginning to approach the iPhone in terms of functionality. Apple will need to keep innovating to keep ahead of that competition. But as of right now, the iPhone 3GS is one of the best smartphones on the planet.
[Jason Snell is editorial director of Macworld.]
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil says it expects the country's first high-speed bullet train will link three cities in 2018.
The $16.5 billion, 317-mile (510-kilometer) line will connect the cities of Sao Paulo, Campinas and Rio de Janeiro.
Bernardo Figueiredo is president of the government's Planning and Logistics Agency and he says the first competitive bidding for manufacturing the trains and operating the system is scheduled for May. A second bidding process for the laying of tracks, the construction of stations and other infrastructure projects is scheduled for early 2014.
Figueiredo says only foreign companies will take part in the bidding "since there are no Brazilian companies in condition to take part in a project of this kind."
Figueiredo spoke to foreign correspondents on Friday.
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The International Baccalaureate Program turns students into scholars and lifelong learners. A blend of challenging academics, global awareness and liberal arts exploration define this internationally recognized academic acceleration program.
Students who enroll in International Baccalaureate join an assembly of students in 137 countries around the globe. IB provides a rigorous, interdisciplinary curriculum anchored in an intercultural framework to incubate global awareness, cultural sensitivity, and the skills needed by the next generation of world leaders. Students learn to apply theoretical knowledge to practical and experimental situations. They also learn to think critically, advance academically and explore new ideas in an environment that ignites inquiry and analysis.
The IB program is best suited to students who are academically oriented and highly self motivated. During the 9th and 10th grades years, IB students take courses to prepare for the IB Diploma Program that begins in 11th grade. Students are enabled to fulfill requirements for a variety of national education systems and complete college credits while attending high school. There are also additional requirements that include community service (CAS – Creativity Action and Service), a research project (Extended Essay), and a Theory of Knowledge course.
Exams are taken during the junior and senior years for each of the 6 subject areas of the program. These exams enable students to complete college credit based on their exam scores and according to the college or university criteria.
The IB Diploma opens up a world of opportunities to students. Students who complete an IB Diploma are more attractive to college admissions offices, have better than average statistics for college completion, and are eligible for the Bright Futures Florida Academic Scholarship.
At Terry Parker, IB students will be among the most prepared and successful when entering postsecondary institutions and the workforce. Our goal is to launch students into the world after high school as respectful, well-rounded, global citizens. Terry Parker students are not only held to high academic standards, but are expected to maintain a high level of integrity.
At Terry Parker we provide programs that promote lifelong learning by shaping the intellectual and social growth of all students. Our students go on to compete globally in areas like politics, business, entertainment, professional sports management and public service. Innovative instructional methods and cutting edge technology is central to our teachers’ strategy of implementing best educational practices in the classroom.
Terry Parker students benefit from a well rounded education in a comprehensive high school. Culinary, Business, and Hospitality and Tourism career academies give students a jump-start on careers after high school. A roster of more than 10 competitive men and women’s sports teams coupled with classes in music, art, band, chorus, and drama ensure that IB students at Terry Parker get a high level education and the full high school experience.
A complete application submission includes the following:
For additional information about the IB program at Terry Parker High School, please contact:
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Cottage style decorating with bold hydrangeas can be seen here at the home of Flowergardengirl in North Carolina zone 7. I’ve been working with hydrangea cultivars for the past 10 years and have learned what they will do fantastically and where they have weaknesses. They will bloom prolifically if fertilized at the right time. What you fertilize them with turns out to be a key factor.
In the photo above and starting from right to left, ‘Limelight’, ‘Pinky Winky’, ‘Incrediball’ with green blooms that come after the white, and ‘Little Lamb’. ‘Limelight’ always out performs and outlast all the others. It stays white the longest. I have discovered that most white hydrangea cultivars turn green or brown with the Southern heat and humidity earlier than when growing in cooler climates. The same is true for the pinks and burgundies for ‘Pinky Winky’—it’s just not going to be as deep and true to the propagator’s website. The heat zaps them of turning deep colors. I wish I had a dollar for ever time someone came to my blog asking me why their white blooms faded so quickly or why the deep pinks in ‘Pinky Winky’ just seem to have disappeared. You can blame the darn heat for sure.
Plant hydrangeas so they get some sun and this holds for every variety. Morning sun is best but the sun cultivars such as ‘Limelight’ can grow in full sun but I don’t recommend it in the hottest zones. I recommend filtered late afternoon sun. Makes the bloom stay white longer.
Your hydrangeas will look prettier if you pair them with contrasting plants such as this red coleus. Both will grow well in the same conditions. Pictured is an ‘Incrediball’ hydrangea. Use the search feature on my blog to find this hydrangea in all its growing stages.
‘Pinky Winky’ is pictured on the right and paired with KnockOut® in the side beds at my home. The real key to growing healthy hydrangeas is knowing when to fertilize them. Some hydrangeas are ph sensitive and you’ll need special fertilizers to address pink or blue. My hydrangeas are not ph sensitive so they all get the same fertilizer. In February for my zone 7 gardens, I put down 2 cups of Holly Tone around the base of the plant and work it in. There is a Tone for every gardening situation and I use them all. By far, my favorite complete fertilizer. Use it every season at least once. I use Flower Tone 4 times a season. I use Rose Tone once a month on the KnockOuts®
To the far right in this photo of my side gardens, you’ll see the delicate ‘Vanilla Strawberry’ which grows super slow. This is the 4th year in the ground and I think finally making some progress. It does not turn the pink it is advertised to be due to our heat and humidity. It just won’t so don’t be dismayed as it is still a pretty bloom in the garden. It does stay white for quite a long time. Longer than the ‘Incrediball’.
For about a month, you’ll have pretty white incredibly large ‘Incrediball’ blooms but then they’ll turn to this green color. I’m ok with that and have begun pairing them with apricot such as in this shrub rose cultivar. I have about 7 ‘Incrediball’ plants and this one does best in speckled light but they also do fine in full sun. They need a lot of water the first year getting established.
Thanks for visiting me today. All photos were taken in my garden the first of August 2012. Enjoy your summer!
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Negative ion generators are a type of electrical device that creates charged particles, called negative ions. Health benefits from ion therapy may include prevention of allergies and treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Negative ions may also increase the flow of oxygen to the brain. When a negative ion generator runs continuously, it creates what is known as ionized air. Air ionizers use an electrically charged plate to create many negative ions. These plates add an electron to many types of gasses in the air.
Positive ions have been suggested to have negative health effects, such as dry eyes, depression, and unclear thinking. Common household devices that generate positive ions are appliances such as hair dryers. Some advocates of negative ion generators claim that the positive ions generated by common household devices cause subtle changes in the body's chemistry, which may manifest as any number of symptoms.
Negative ion generators may also attract microbes and dust to their electrically charged plates. The circulation of disease-causing microbes and allergens in the area may therefore decrease.
Ion therapy became popular in the 1970s when a researcher published several scientific articles which attributed an improvement in several breathing problems to the placement of air ionizers in the area.
Today, air ionizers are sold in some mainstream specialty and department stores. Air ionizers are more popular in Japan and Eastern Europe than they are in the United States and Western Europe.
Though air ionizers are sold on the premise that they may prevent and reduce the severity of respiratory problems, such as allergic bronchitis, allergic sinusitis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and hay fever, high quality medical trials using air ionizers to treat these conditions are lacking. More information is needed before a strong clinical recommendation can be made.
Recent research has investigated the use of air ionizers for the treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder, a type of yearly depression that occurs in the winter for individuals living in the Northern hemisphere and in the summer for individuals living in the Southern hemisphere.
Air ionizer, ion therapy, ionized air, negative ions, positive ions.
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It takes a lot of hard work and perseverance to become a qualified medical doctor. The medical field requires more education and training than most professions, and aspiring doctors have to spend a lot of money to undergo the required training to fulfill their ambitions. Those who have gained the qualifications to become a doctor will have a highly rewarding career. Other than great financial rewards, medical professional also get a sense of fulfillment by helping other people.
Step 1: Choosing to Become a Doctor
Those who wish to become doctors have to understand the true commitment that is required to pursue their ambitions. Education and training for doctors can take many years. Most doctors only begin their practice when they are in their late 20s, because they have to go to medical school and do residency after they graduate from college. Aspiring doctors should be prepared to sacrifice their time to focus on their career. To be a successful doctor, one needs to have a love for learning, especially subjects that are related to medicine. He or she also needs to have a desire to help other people. The main responsibility of a doctor is to help people; money should not be the main motivating factor for those who decide to pursue a career as a doctor.
Step 2: What to Do in High School?
Those who have the ambition to become a doctor can start preparing themselves when they are in high school. It is important for them to have a good general education, so that they will do well in their SAT. This will help them gain admission to good colleges. Since medical education requires profound knowledge of the sciences, it is recommended that they opt for a full high school science curriculum. They should take biology, chemistry, and physics, as well as mathematics classes for four years. Whenever possible, they should try to get involved in activities that give them a real-world experience of medical practice. One way to do this is to become a volunteer at a local hospital.
Step 3: What to Do as a College Undergraduate?
When they are choosing a college, aspiring doctors should consider certain factors. These factors include academic reputation, tuition fees, location, the availability of pre-medical programs, and the quality of the faculty and facilities. It is a good idea to choose a college that has its own medical school. While college life can be fun and exciting, it is important that students learn how to balance work and play. Some courses in college can be difficult, and those who fail to do well in college may not be able to get into medical school. One major decision that students have to make while they are in college is to select a major. Although biology or health sciences are the most common undergraduate major among medical students, medical schools also accept students with other majors as well.
Step 4: How to Pick the Right Medical School?
It is important that aspiring doctors get a good MCAT score, because it will give them more options when they are selecting medical schools. They have to make sure that the schools they choose offer courses in the kind of medicine that they wish to practice. They should apply to a number of top medical schools, such as Harvard, John Hopkins, and Duke, as well as a few middle-tier and lower-tier medical schools. Medical school applicants should also consider the tuition fees and location of the medical schools of their choice. If they choose a school that is too expensive, they may have a difficult time trying to complete their education. Those who are budget-constrained can opt for medical schools that are available in their vicinities, so that they can save on accommodation and transportation expenses.
Step 5: Meeting the Requirements of Medical School
A good GPA is one of the most important requirements for getting into medical school. When college undergraduates apply to medical schools, they will be asked to show their GPAs for both science and non-science subjects, as well as overall GPAs. Most medical school students have overall GPAs of more than 3.5. In order to get into medical schools, students have to study several courses for at least one year. These courses include biology with lab, organic chemistry with lab, inorganic chemistry with lab, and English. Some medical schools also require one year of calculus or biochemistry. Lastly, medical school applicants have to do well in their MCAT.
Step 6: Essential Tips for Surviving Medical School
Studying in a medical school is very challenging. It requires a lot of patience and determination, as well as exceptional time management skills. It is essential for students to attend lectures regularly and keep themselves updated with the latest lessons. They should make sure that they do not fall behind, because catching up is often very difficult in medical school. Many students have to resort to cramming just before their tests, but cramming is not a good way to study, because crammed material is usually forgotten easily. It is recommended that medical students devote several hours a day to make sure that they understand lessons that are taught in their lectures. Nonetheless, they should also take a break occasionally, so that they can relieve stress and improve their focus.
Step 7: Doing Your Residency
A residency is a training program that all medical students have to undergo before they practice, and it lasts for three years or more. Throughout the duration of the residency, they will take part in certain activities that will give them hands-on medical experience. Residency usually takes place in a medical facility, and students have to observe and perform medical duties that are related to their specialties, as well as attend lectures and conferences. Typically, a day in residency begins early in the morning, with the trainee doctors checking diagnostic test results and performing “rounds”. When they are doing their “rounds”, they will explain diagnostic tests and suggest treatments to patients. Doctors in residency are also responsible for ordering physical exams for newly admitted patients, as well as prescribing medications.
A career as a doctor is a lifetime commitment. Doctors have to make personal sacrifices and act responsibly towards their patients at all times. While it takes a lot of time, effort, and perseverance to become a medical doctor, those who succeed in this endeavor will be respected figures anywhere in the world.
- Choosing to Become a Doctor: This article provides excellent advice for those who are contemplating to pursue a career as a doctor.
- Pre-Medicine Programs: Suggestions of undergraduate programs that aspiring doctors can take to prepare for medical school.
- Selecting a Medical School: Helpful tips on how to select a medical school.
- Preparing for Medical School: Qualifications and personality traits required for entering medical school.
- MCAT Test Advice: This web page contains great advice for students who are taking the MCAT.
- Residency Planning: Useful suggestions for planning medical residency.
- Doctor Profession FAQ: Frequently asked questions about the doctor profession.
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President Obama and President Karzai published this joint statement on January 11, 2013, which discusses the future of U.S.-Afghan relations.
[Editor's Note: Read the transcript of the presidents' joint press conference and the press conference that previewed President's Karzai's visit to the United States. Click here for more CFR 2012 resources examining the foreign policy and national security dimensions of the presidential transition.]
At the invitation of President Obama, President Karzai and his delegation visited Washington January 8-11, 2013. President Karzai's visit comes at an important juncture for both our nations, as we take steps to further strengthen an enduring partnership as sovereign nations, and based upon recognition of our shared interests and shared security.
In their meetings today, President Obama and President Karzai discussed a strategic vision for a secure, stable and prosperous Afghanistan and reaffirmed the U.S.-Afghanistan Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement signed in May 2012. Further, the Leaders' discussion emphasized a convergence of interests and vision. The two Presidents reviewed the security and economic transitions underway in Afghanistan, election preparations, evolving threats and opportunities in the region, and reaffirmed shared commitments to U.S. and Afghan strategic objectives: advancing peace, security, reconciliation, and regional cooperation; strengthening Afghanistan's democratic institutions; and supporting Afghanistan's long-term economic and social development.
During their meetings, the Presidents welcomed recent improvements in Afghanistan's security environment. The Leaders welcomed Afghan security forces' increasing assumption of lead responsibility, noting the marked progress made in the growth and capabilities of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). Exceeding initial expectations, Afghan forces began leading the majority of operations in July 2012 and now lead approximately 80% of operations. In February, in conjunction with the fourth tranche of transition, the ANSF is expected to have the lead in securing nearly 90% of the Afghan population.
Consistent with Afghan priorities, Leaders at the Chicago Summit committed to mark a milestone in mid-2013 when the ISAF mission would shift from combat to support. President Obama welcomed President Karzai's desire to mark this milestone this spring, when the ANSF are expected to assume the operational lead across Afghanistan, and ISAF will move into an advisor-support role. This milestone would coincide with announcing the fifth and final tranche of transition, which would commence implementation in the summer, subject to final NATO and Afghan approval.
At the time of the milestone, most unilateral U.S. combat operations should end, with U.S. forces pulling back their patrols from Afghan villages. Both Leaders recognized that, as the Afghan security forces take greater responsibility for security, improving the quality of the ANSF, including the accelerated provision of appropriate equipment and enablers, remains a key priority.
Building upon significant progress in 2012 to transfer responsibility for detentions to the Afghan Government, the Presidents committed to placing Afghan detainees under the sovereignty and control of Afghanistan, while also ensuring that dangerous fighters remain off the battlefield. President Obama reaffirmed that the United States continues to provide assistance to the Afghan detention system. The two Presidents also reaffirmed their mutual commitment to the lawful and humane treatment of detainees, and their intention to ensure proper security arrangements for the protection of Afghan, U.S., and coalition forces.
The Leaders discussed the significant development gains in Afghanistan over the past decade and the need for continued progress on a foundation of sustainable economic growth and fiscal self-reliance from Transition in 2014 and through the Transformation Decade that follows. Afghanistan's economic strategy is focused on investing in its human capital to lead the country's institutions and to create an enabling environment for inclusive economic growth and investment, to harness the private sector, entrepreneurs, and natural wealth for the creation of a prosperous country. To this end, the Presidents reaffirmed the commitments made in Bonn, Chicago, and Tokyo, including long-term economic and security assistance in the context of the Tokyo Mutual Accountability Framework.
President Karzai affirmed his view that the international community's assistance must be effective, efficient, and sustainable, and he stressed the critical importance of Afghan commitments to build a stable, democratic society, based on the rule of law, respect for the rights of all Afghan citizens, including women, an effective and independent judiciary and good governance, including progress in social development and the shared fight against corruption.
President Obama reiterated the U.S. commitment to support Afghan stability by strengthening Afghanistan's economic foundations and supporting Afghan reforms to achieve sustainable development and self-sufficiency. He reaffirmed the conclusions of the Tokyo Conference, including that the U.S. align 80 percent of aid with Afghan priorities and channel at least 50 percent of development assistance through the national budget of the Afghan Government.
During the Leaders' meetings, President Karzai outlined the Government of Afghanistan's plans to hold free, fair, inclusive, and democratic elections in 2014. The Leaders reviewed preparations for the 2014 elections and agreed that independent Afghan institutions are to lead election preparations and implementation, in close consultation with legitimate stakeholders in the democratic process. President Obama welcomed the Afghan Independent Election Commission's establishment of April 5, 2014 as the date for presidential and provincial council elections, and he reiterated that the United States' role is not to support any particular candidate but to support a fair and inclusive electoral process.
Peace and Reconciliation
The Presidents reaffirmed that Afghan-led peace and reconciliation is the surest way to end violence and ensure lasting stability of Afghanistan and the region. Noting progress in the process of peace and reconciliation, they stressed the importance of accelerating efforts, including by countries in the region that have a role to play in support of the Afghan peace process. Through the High Peace Council, the Afghan Government will intensify its efforts to promote the peace process. The Leaders said that they would support an office in Doha for the purpose of negotiations between the High Peace Council and the authorized representatives of the Taliban. In this context, the Leaders called on the armed opposition to join a political process, including by taking those steps necessary to open a Taliban office. They urged the Government of Qatar to facilitate this effort. The two Presidents reiterated that the outcomes of peace and reconciliation must respect the historic achievements that Afghanistan has made over the past decade, including protecting the rights that all citizens of Afghanistan, both men and women, guaranteed under the constitution. As a part of the outcome of any process, the Taliban and other armed opposition groups must end violence, break ties with Al Qaeda, and accept Afghanistan's constitution.
President Obama and President Karzai recognized the important role of the region in supporting Afghanistan's progress towards stability and prosperity. In this context, President Obama expressed support for Afghanistan's efforts to promote regional cooperation to foster a region that is secure, free from extremism and radicalization and that enjoys greater economic integration. The Leaders expressed support for Afghanistan's emerging role as a focal point for trade and economic activity at the Heart of Asia. The Leaders also reiterated that the goals of the U.S.-Afghanistan partnership are fully consistent with Afghanistan's vision for building strong and cooperative ties with its neighbors and regional partners.
Bilateral Security Agreement
As we further develop the U.S.-Afghanistan partnership, the United States and Afghanistan look forward to expanded cooperation under the auspices of the U.S.-Afghanistan Bilateral Commission, through 2014 and beyond. President Obama and President Karzai committed to conclude the Bilateral Security Agreement as soon as possible, reaffirming that such an agreement is in both countries' interest. They discussed the possibility of a post-2014 U.S. presence that is sustainable, that supports a capable and effective Afghan National Security Force, and that continues to pressure the remnants of al-Qa'ida and its affiliates. The scope and nature of any possible post-2014 U.S. presence, legal protections for U.S. forces, and security cooperation between the two countries is to be specified in the Bilateral Security Agreement. The U.S. reaffirmed that it does not seek permanent bases in Afghanistan.
President Obama reaffirmed the United States' respect for Afghanistan's sovereignty and reiterated that as Afghanistan takes full responsibility for its security and development, the United States continues to be committed to supporting the Afghan people. Both Presidents paid tribute to the sacrifices made by Afghanistan, the United States, and our international partners in efforts to achieve a stable, prosperous, peaceful, sovereign and democratic future for Afghanistan, as well as security for the international community. The United States and Afghanistan intend to continue working together to achieve the full promise of our enduring partnership.
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New Delhi: The government moved a step closer to put in place a new land acquisition policy, after a ministerial panel overcame differences and struck a compromise. The Bill will now be put before the Union cabinet for its approval in the next few weeks. If indeed the government sticks to the proposed time line, then it proposes to introduce the Bill in the winter session of Parliament to replace a legislation that’s over 100 years old.
Differences of opinion between ministries, especially on whether the law should be effective only prospectively and also the proportion of people giving consent for land acquisition, had held up the drafting of the legislation. The lack of a policy, some have argued, has hampered India’s infrastructure and industrial development, critical to revive the momentum in the economy.
It is, however, unclear whether the new draft legislation incorporating the suggestions of the group of ministers (GoM), chaired by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, will make acquisition any easier. Especially, since the new suggestions have drawn mixed reactions from Indian industry.
“The draft has been finalized. I have to circulate the minutes of the meeting to the members... and then it will go to the cabinet,” Pawar told reporters after a meeting that lasted about an hour. “Each and every issue on which there were different views, we succeeded in bringing some understanding,”
Finance minister P. Chidambaram, one of the key members of GoM, confirmed that Tuesday’s meeting was “the last meeting” of the panel. “If everybody agrees to the minutes (of the meeting), that will be the final recommendation,” he said.
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, whose ministry drafted the Bill, told reporters he would meet Pawar on Friday to discuss the suggestions and recommendations made. “The Bill has been broadly and specifically supported. There have been some useful suggestions, clarifications, drafting improvements—all that will be incorporated. There is no disturbance to the basic structure,” Ramesh said. The minister said he expected the Bill—with the changes—to be brought to cabinet in two weeks and introduced in the winter session of Parliament starting next month.
The proposed law, renamed the Right to Fair Compensation, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Bill, 2011, which seeks to replace the Act of 1894, was referred to GoM in August. This followed differences within the cabinet with key ministers expressing concerns that the law would lead to unreasonable delays in acquiring land.
The legislation is expected to address rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) by providing safeguards for both landowners and livelihood losers while clearly defining the “public purpose” for which land can be acquired by the government.
According to the consensus reached on Tuesday, the government will acquire land if two-thirds of those who own the land agree to give it up for public-private partnership (PPP) projects, Ramesh said. Earlier, the ministry had proposed acquiring land for PPP projects only when “80% consent of project-affected families has been taken”.
A parliamentary panel that had examined the initial draft of the Bill had recommended that the government should not acquire land for any private firms even if it is for public interest.
Acquisition in the tribal areas has been prohibited, but where it happens, “it will require the approval of gram sabhas (village councils)”, the minister said.
Another issue that was settled was that of retrospective acquisitions, Ramesh said. “There is also a very strong view that we cannot have two laws (the 1894 and the 2011 Acts) going on at the same time,” he said. “You cannot have land being acquired under 1894 Act and this (2011) Act, and one set of people getting compensated from one Act and another set of people getting compensation under the other Act. We have to think of a way of ensuring a cut-off date so to speak—the word is not retrospectivity, it is really a cut-off date, so that you don’t have both the laws operating at the same time.”
“There is no change in the terms and conditions of compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement, and social impact assessment,” Ramesh said. The Bill had proposed that R&R will not only be linked to the Consumer Price Index, but will also be revised every three years and compensation will be doubled in case of double displacement. On compensation, the Bill provides for two different slabs—one for rural areas and one for urban areas. It allows states to set up land pricing commissions and authorities “to top up compensation amount” and “manage the process”. Social impact assessment (SIA) will study the social costs of the project vis-à-vis its benefits. It seeks to ensure that the views of the affected families are heard and included in the SIA report.
Industry reactions varied.
“The Bill seems very rigid. It neither helps farmers or the industry. It only seems pro-civil society,” said N.C. Saxena, member of the National Advisory Council, a body headed by Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi and set up as an interface between the government and civil society. “It seems it will take years to acquire even one acre of land. Some powers should have been vested in the local administration like the district collector for acquiring land. Now for everything, industry will have to approach the government. I am unhappy with the Bill.”
“As is being reported, the reduction in consensus of 80% landowners to 66% is a welcome move. We welcome it,” said Navin M. Raheja, president of National Real Estate Development Council, and chairman and managing director of Raheja Developers Ltd.
“But, the compensation amount of 2X for urban areas and 4X for rural areas is going to increase the cost of establishing projects,” he warned.
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry president R.V. Kanoria in his comments said his industry body’s stand was that “R&R provisions should be applicable only in case of government acquiring land for the industry and there also the total R&R amount needs to be reduced so that it does not put an unfavourable burden on the industry”.
Abhay Agarwal, a partner at audit and consulting firm Ernst and Young, said making the law retrospective will increase industry’s problems as there are already enough delays. “It has to be from the date when the policy is notified,” he said, and added that, however, the government should make the cut-off date very clear in order to avoid litigation.
Surabhi Agarwal and Remya Nair contributed to this story.
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Flame Resistant Fabrics
If the job calls for flame resistant workwear, it’s pretty important to know your fabric options, and which one is best for you to use. The very first, and one of the most important, thing to remember about fabrics when working in a fire hazardous job is no synthetic materials. Even your undergarments need to be natural fibers. Think 100 percent cotton, or silk, but watch out for polyester blends. Because polyester will melt right onto your body in the case of an accident, it’s best to just steer clear of it. Flame resistant workwear comes in a variety of fabrics, and depending on your job, one might be a better fit than another. Let’s look at a few options, and how they might be used. These are Bulwark selections, and workwear in these fabrics can be purchased from Automotive Workwear.
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What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this Nickelodeon-produced comedy about an orphaned brother and sister (played by tween faves Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin) who set up a secret refuge for stray dogs is targeted squarely at the family market. Because the main characters are orphans living in foster care, there are some references to dead parents, but it doesn't get too emotional. And with no swearing or consumerism and only mild flirting (though there are a couple of kisses), the movie is age-appropriate for grade-schoolers while still appealing to tweens.
- Families can talk about why so many movie kids are orphans. Do you feel more sympathy for kids who don't have parents? Do they seem like bigger heroes than other kids?
- Do movies like this ever make you anxious about your own family?Parents: Talk to your kids about any fears or worries they might haveabout being without you.
- Kids: Can you think of ways that youractions can make a positive change in your community?
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While elected officials in Washington have been working to avoid the "fiscal cliff," far too many local elected officials have been giving short shrift to the government of Guam's financial crisis.
It's been abundantly clear for a long time that significant changes must be made to fix the local government's financial woes. While there have been some small, minor "fixes" made, nothing major has been accomplished.
Elected officials routinely spend far more than the government earns in revenue. This has led to increase debt and a bigger deficit. And the traditional fix to these problems -- massive borrowing that only increased the burden on taxpayers and residents in general -- is no longer available because multiple borrowing efforts have taken the government of Guam nearly to its borrowing limit.
And an ongoing federal lawsuit will likely mean an end to a source of money that's been used to run the government -- stealing money meant for tax refunds. That's about $100 million elected officials will no longer be able to raid for operations.
That means elected officials must find ways to reduce costs.
Gov. Eddie Calvo introduced a bill that was aimed at saving as much $72.7 million, but the measure was gutted by senators. It's now expected to reduce costs by only about $1 million.
It's clear lawmakers didn't like the governor's plan, which would have affected the Retirement Fund. So what's their solution or solutions to the problem?
Will they layoff government employees? Reduce their hours? Privatize or outsource services? Or will they simply do as they have always done -- continue to ignore the problem as if nothing has to change?
This community won't accept that. We need, and demand, that elected officials -- for once -- run our government in a financially responsible manner. It's understood that doing so won't be easy and will require difficult and unpopular decisions. But that's the job of elected officials. And it's time they accepted that and got to work.
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Monday, August 2, 2010
With the recently announced release of Raptivity 6.0, the state-of-the-art in interactive e-learning takes another leap forward. Mobile learning can benefit from a large variety of interactions that Raptivity users routinely build as part of e-learning. Yes, m-learning is now an option in building and deploying e-learning interactivity, as it should be.
The much-awaited roll-out of Raptivity 6.0 relies on Flash - which means Android, Blackberry and other smart phone devices will play Raptivity content without the need for any proprietary download.
The new version of software makes life easier for e-learning and m-learning developers in many more ways: It now allows bulk-importing questions, lets you crop and edit images to fit the interactivity and enhances the editing experience by giving a larger form area to work on.
Posted by Vikas Joshi at 8:51 PM
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Nibbida wrote:My understanding is that there is no self that is reborn across lifetimes because there never was a self to begin with. What continues is not a "me" in the sense that most of us experience.
The mind at the time of death
When a person is about to die the bhava"nga is interrupted, vibrates for one moment and passes away. The interruption is caused by an object which presents itself to the mind-door. As a result of this a mind-door-adverting citta arises. This is followed by five javana thought moments which are weak, lack reproductive power, and serve only to determine the nature of rebirth consciousness. The javanas may or may not be followed by two registering thought moments (tadaalambana). After this comes the death consciousness (cuti citta), which is identical in constitution and object to the bhava"nga citta. The cuti citta merely serves the function of signaling the end of life. It is important to appreciate the difference between the cuti citta and the javanas that precede it. The cuti citta is the end of the bhava"nga flow of an existence and does not determine the nature of rebirth. The javanas that occur just before the cuti citta arises form a kammic process and determine the nature of the rebirth consciousness.
This is called pa.tisandhi citta, literally "relinking consciousness." The pa.tisandhi citta is the act of consciousness which arises at the first moment of life, the moment of conception. It is determined by the last kammic citta of the preceding life.
This kammic factor for the arising of a being operates through the pa.tisandhi. The accumulated tendencies of past lives are carried on to the pa.tisandhi and so the process of being born, dying and being born again goes on. Each pa.tisandhi citta is a new one, not the continuation of the old one in the previous life. Thus there is no place for a soul concept in rebirth. In the course of one particular life there is only one pa.tisandhi citta. Once the function of linking two existences has been performed by the pa.tisandhi, consciousness in the newly formed embryo immediately goes into the bhava"nga state. This flows along in the new existence with infinite interruptions by various stimuli and ends as the cuti citta of that particular existence.
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Property Documentation refers to the systematic organization of real estate documents
that are vital to the ownership or rental of a property. Srilankan Realestate Online (SRO)
provides assistance in informing clients of their rights and responsibilities when doing real estate transactions.
What happens during a real estate transaction?
Here are the steps that happen during a typical real estate transaction:
- Two parties enter into a transaction. A potential buyer may place an offer to purchase a property or the seller puts his property for sale.
- When the buyer decides to buy a property, the two finalize on a price and discusses the terms of sale. The terms shall also be written in a "Sale Agreement."
- A seller must always update his lawyer's title certificate.
- The "Agreement of Sale" is signed and a commitment is made by the two.
- The "title" of the property is transferred to the buyer, depending on the terms and conditions decided by the two. Often, a buyer pays up to 20% of the actual price of the property during first payment transaction.
- The seller must ensure that the property is clear of all dues prior to selling it, and should be responsible for completing all negotiations with other concerned parties such as tenants, associated mortgages and lessees and employees, if necessary.
- When the buyer completes payment of the property, an exchange of contracts takes place. The buyer can now claim the property.
- Both the seller and the buyer are responsible for ensuring the registration of the property with concerned authority.
- When registration is completed, the buyer can now take physical possession of the property.
What is Land/Property Registration and Why is it Necessary?
Land or Property Registration refers to the registration of document changes in
ownership and transactions involving immovable property. Whenever you buy a piece of
land/immovable property, you need to register it with the authority concerned, so that
a legal ownership title is guaranteed to you. This greatly reduces risks of fraud and
helps solve disputes easily, in addition to creating and maintaining an up-to-date
What You Need to Do to Register Land/Property
Under the computerised Land and Property Registration system, registration is easy. It facilitates
transparency in valuation and eliminates middlemen. Some states require an application
to be submitted to the concerned authority, which may be the Sub-Registrar or the SDM
of your area. The application form can either be downloaded online or obtained from the
concerned authority's office. After due verification of details, the Deed is drawn up
and the registration process is complete.
What are the Documents Required to Buy Property in Srilanka?
To ensure lawful possession of a newly acquired property, one must obtain the following documents:
- A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which ensures that both parties in the contract are willing to enter into an agreement for the purpose of the sale and purchase of property.
- A Sale Agreement which outlines the terms, clauses, and duties of transfer of property via sale.
- Documents from the seller's solicitor ensure that the titles associated with the property are correct and marketable.
- Documents from Public Authorities which must be collected from the seller or authorized person.
- An Application for Transfer of Electricity Meters and Supply which helps clarifies that the seller has cleared his dues in full and no due has been transferred to the buyer pocket.
- A Letter of Transfer (in case the property is a unit/flat or shares of a Cooperative Society).
- A copy of by-laws of the Cooperative Society
What are the documents needed when renting property in Srilanka?
When renting property in Srilanka, landlords have the jurisdiction on the kind of document to require interested tenants. However, the most important document is the Lease Agreement which is designed to protect both the tenant and the landlord.
As a landlord, he or she must be keep abreast with existing legal rights and duties of a landlord. On the other hand, a tenant must also be well informed of his right and duties that should be included in the lease agreement.
A typical rent or lease agreement must have the following clauses:
- Interested parties
- Details of the property to be leased
- Enforced duration of lease
- Lease/rent amount
- Terms and conditions on which the property is leased
- The date of expiry of agreement
- Lease termination clause
Rental laws in Srilanka vary for every State, with each state having its own grounds for eviction. However, the following are common to all States:
- The landlord has a bonafide/ genuine need to provide for residence to the members of his family, dependant on him.
- The tenant has been a defaulter in rent payment.
- The tenant has sublet, assigned or parted with the possession of the rented property without the consent of the landlord.
- The premises need major construction/repairs/demolition.
- The tenant has used the premises for any act which is out of character with the purpose agreed.
- The tenant has acquired/built or has been allotted another accommodation.
- The tenant has caused nuisance in the neighbourhood or has damaged the premises or has not used it for a specified period of time.
Why do you need a property documenter?
To get a hold of everything you need in order to purchase, sell or rent a property in Srilanka,
whether you are based locally or overseas, you would need someone with an expertise
in the real estate field. Remember, the needed legal documents must first be completed
in order for a real estate transaction to be valid.
Srilankan Realestate Online (SRO) provides trustworthy and accurate property documentation
for our clients to ensure that all transactions are well-documented and legalized.
If you are seeking for assistance with property documentation, please
Contact Us and we'll be more than happy to serve you,
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Think Progress illustrates how President Obama’s tax plan would actually effect taxpayers earning $250,000 and above:
But as a new report by The New York Times detailed yesterday, even a significant minority of those making over the $250,000 threshold would see no increase under Obama’s tax plan, and for the rest the added burden would be minor in comparison to the size of their incomes:
A close look at the president’s plan shows that a large majority of families making up to $300,000 — as well as hundreds of thousands of families with even larger incomes — would not pay taxes at a higher marginal rate. [...]
While the president has said that he wants to raise tax rates for the top 2 percent, only about 1 percent of taxpayers will face higher marginal rates, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a widely respected research group.
[...] That $1.6 trillion in revenue can be raised by applying a relatively small tax burden on a very narrowly defined set of Americans is an indication of how extreme and concentrated income inequality has become in America. It also reveals why multiple studies, the latest from the International Monetary Fund, have concluded that Obama’s preferred set of tax increases will have a negligible effect on economic growth — the income being hit is largely separate from the low and middle-income Americans who provide the bulk of the demand driving the economy.
An extra $1.6 TRILLION IN REVENUE! When will the House Republicans stop defending the greed of the elites? Common sense tells us that people who take tax deductions for dancing horses, who would rather bankrupt companies and layoff workers rather than reduce executive salaries and bonuses and share profits, and who have — for decades — redirected billions (trillions?) of dollars from the national treasury and the working and middle-class to their own personal (offshore) bank accounts can absolutely, positively, undeniably afford to pay a few extra percentage points in federal taxes.
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Sleepy baby by ~vicariou5
The silvery marmoset (Mico argentatus) is a New World monkey that lives in the eastern Amazon Rainforest in Brazil.
The fur of the silvery marmoset is colored whitish silver-grey except for a dark tail. Remarkable are its naked, flesh-colored ears which stand out from the skin. They reach a size of 18 to 28 cm and weigh from 300 to 400 g.
Silvery marmosets are diurnal and arboreal, using their claws to climb trees. Originally rain forest inhabitants, plantations have caused them to expand their range. They spend the night in tree hollows or in very close vegetation. They live together in small groups and mark their territory with scent glands, driving out intruders by shouting or by facial expressions (lowered brows and guarded lips).
The diet of the silvery marmosets predominantly consists of tree sap. To a lesser extent, they also eat bird eggs, fruit,insects, and small vertebrates.
After a 145 day gestation period, the female bears two (or rarely three) offspring. As is the case for many callitrichids, the father and the other group members take part with the raising of the offspring. Within six months the young are weaned, with full maturity coming at about two years of age.
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The problem with using tables:
- mixes presentational data in with your content.
- This makes the file sizes of your pages unnecessarily large, as users must download this presentational data for each page they visit.
- Bandwidth ain't free.
- This makes redesigns of existing sites and content extremely labor intensive (and expensive).
- It also makes it extremely hard (and expensive) to maintain visual consistency throughout a site.
- Table-based pages are also much less accessible to users with disabilities and viewers using cell phones and PDAs to access the Web.
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The FDA has announced that the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee will discuss the safety and effectiveness of cough and cold medication use in children. Questions have been raised about the safety of these products and whether the benefits justify any potential risks from the use of these products in children, especially in children under 2 years of age.
With cough and cold medicines for children under 2 being questioned, what are parents of sick infants and toddlers to do? Here are some recommendations from Amy Guiot, MD, a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center:
- Cool mist humidifier: A cool mist humidifier makes nasal passages shrink to allow easier breathing. Cool mist humidifiers are recommended over warm mist humidifiers, which may cause nasal passages to swell, making it more difficult to breathe.
- Saline nose drops or spray: These keep nasal passages moist and "running," rather than stuffy.
- Nasal suctioning: Using a bulb syringe to suction nasal passages, either with or without salt water nose drops, works well for infants less than a year old. Older children often don't like the nasal syringe and will fight its use.
- Acetaminophen or ibuprofen can be used to reduce fever, aches and pains. Parents should read the packing carefully and prescribed dosing.
- Drink plenty of liquids to stay well hydrated.
- Nasal sprays containing oxymetazoline, such as Afrin, are not intended for children under 6 years old.
Very young children should not take most over-the-counter cough and cold medicines because they are ineffective and, if too much is taken, can cause serious side effects, such as high blood pressure, hallucinations, erratic behavior and constipation, according to Dr. Guiot. What parents can give their kids is "lots of loving and being held," she says.
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(c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved. Contact us for information about using this image.
The annual log drive needed water to float the timber and as this article notes the timber company was hoping the water would remain high. This was one of the last big log runs down the Connecticut; the steady cutting of available timber in the upper Connecticut Valley meant that by 1908 there were ever fewer logs being floated downstream. After, smaller log drives would continue, but by the late 1920s and early 1930s this practice had entirely disappeared. By then, logs were almost entirely moved by large trucks.
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TOP RELAXING MUSIC ALBUMS
FREE RELAXATION MUSIC ONLINEClick here to start the music
Music is a universal language understood by all. You may not understand Chinese or Arabic languages, but you can listen to the songs of these nations with great pleasure.
People know about the unique properties of music since ancient times. They knew that music can relax, soothe, relieve stress or irritate, cause aggression or panic.
Take a look at the short history of rock music, and you'll see dozens of deaths at rock concerts (the concerts of The Who, Rolling Stones, KISS and many more).
It is curious that the vandalism has not been fixed at concerts of classical music, with its many centures history.
Now let's take a look to positive kinds of music that can be used as an effective relaxation and stress management tool. The great example to begin is the early relaxing music of the Spanish court of the King Ferdinand
The tradition of using music for relax continues during Baroque, Classicism, Romantic eras till the modern times.
On this web site you can listen and enjoy the different kinds of relaxation music online:
relaxing music widgets (mp3 players) on your own web sites and blogs for free.
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AnnMarie Thomas works on the playful side of engineering -- using cool tools to teach and help others.
AnnMarie Thomas joined the faculty of the University of St. Thomas in the fall of 2006. Previously, she was a faculty member at Art Center College of Design. She is the director of the UST Design laboratory and leads a team of students looking at both the playful side of engineering (squishy circuits for students, the science of circus, toy design) and ways to use engineering design to help others (projects in technology design for older adults). Thomas, in partnership with collaborator Jan Hansen, is co-director of the University of St. Thomas Center for Pre-Collegiate Engineering Education (CPCEE).
Thomas teaches Engineering Graphics, Machine Design, Dynamics (with Circus Lab), Toy Design, Product Design for an Aging Population, and Brain Machine Interfaces (seminar). She organizes the School of Engineering Design Night (featuring the ENGR320 Machine Design competition), and the Design Discussions seminar series.
Thomas has also worked on underwater robotics (at MIT, Caltech and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute), specializing in biologically inspired propulsion. She has consulted on projects ranging from the design/creation of a "musical earthquake-playing robot" to the initial research for a book on earthquakes in Los Angeles. At Caltech, she founded the Caltech Robotics Outreach Group (CROG) and the Caltech/JPL/LEGO Middle School Robotics Conference.
Get the recipes for the two squishy circuits play doughs here >>
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Budget & Taxes Research Data & Publications
Ka’Nard Allen has been shot twice in his 10-year-old life. On May 12 he went with his mother to the annual Mother’s Day second line parade in New Orleans. When two gunmen shot into the line of participants—men, women and children—Ka’Nard’s cheek was struck by a bullet. Eighteen other people were wounded including a 10-year-old girl. Less than a year ago, at Ka’Nard’s 10th birthday party in his front yard, his five-year-old cousin Brianna Allen was fatally shot by an AK-47, and he was shot in the neck.
This teenage boy overheard talking to his father by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the hundreds of Birmingham children and youths who fifty years ago this month decided to stand up for freedom. They stood up to fire hoses and police dogs and went to jail by the hundreds and finally broke the back of Jim Crow in that city known as “Bombingham.” On this fiftieth anniversary of the Birmingham Children’s Crusade it is a time to remember, honor, and follow the example of the children who were frontline soldiers and transforming catalysts in America’s greatest moral movement of the twentieth century – the movement for civil rights and equal justice.
This Mother’s Day, Nardyne Jefferies is one of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)’s “Faces of Courage.” They are part of a club no mother ever wants to join. Most, like Nardyne, have lost children to gun violence.
Anyone despairing that Congress can’t get anything done should note last week’s swift vote to get furloughed air traffic controllers back to work. Congress can move very quickly and efficiently when it wants to and when their own comfort and that of constituents well-off enough to fly was affected. Reduced unemployment benefits, children dropped suddenly from Head Start programs, poor mothers and babies losing food supplements, teacher layoffs, and cancelled meal deliveries for seniors didn’t move them—but airport delays as members headed out of town for their April recess were apparently unacceptable.
CDF produced "Portrait of Inequality 2012", a report showing the gross inequalities facing Black children compared to White children, across all critical indicators of wellbeing.
The State of America’s Children® Handbook provides key national information in a range of areas, as well as state tables showing how children in your state are faring and how your state compares to other states in protecting children. A more comprehensive version will be posted on the web as new data becomes available later this year as part our State of America's Children® annual report.
A breakdown and analysis of the President's 2013 budget proposal as it relates to children and families.
Picture an iceberg. Many children know the danger from the "Titanic Song"? they learn in school or summer camp. One verse goes like this: "It was off the coast of England not very far from shore, when the rich refused to associate with the poor. So they sent them down below, where they were the first to go. It was sad when that great ship went down. Oh it was sad, so sad. It was sad, too bad. It was sad when the great ship went down . . . husbands and wives, little children lost their lives -- it was sad when the great ship went down. "
Repatriation. It's a word many schoolchildren probably haven't yet learned to define or even seen very often outside of spelling bees. But when it comes to corporate taxes, repatriation is the cornerstone of an idea that has the potential to severely hurt millions of children and parents and widen the already historic and unconscionable gap between the rich and the poor.
Budget Watch: Budget Trade Offs
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British Gas Calls For Increase In State Pension
THOUSANDS of old people are still dying from hypothermia because the price of gas is too high, British Gas has claimed.
The company is calling for a 20% increase in the state pension so the elderly can heat their homes without it impacting on the growth of large UK businesses that sell gas.
Unveiling a 98% increase in profits, British Gas said it had put its best brains to work on the problem but could think of no other way to make gas more affordable for Britain’s pensioners.
A spokesman said: “It was a very cold winter which meant people needed more gas which meant we were forced to keep our prices as high as we possibly could.
“This meant that a lot of pensioners were unable to afford the gas and eventually chose to die.
“We need to find a way of getting more money to these wonderful old people so they can continue to live in stiflingly hot comfort well into their nineties.”
Bill McKay, from Peterbourgh, said: “My pension fund is invested in British Gas so I really need them to be making as much money as possible. Meanwhile the more money my mum has to spend on gas the more she will be able to leave me in her will.
“However, the warmer she is during the winter, the longer she’s likely to live, meaning she will eat into my inheritance and I’ll have less time to spend whatever’s left. And of course if she gets a bigger pension I will have to pay more tax, which means I won’t have as much to put into my pension fund.
“Probably best if I keep it all nice and simple and just nudge her in front of a bin lorry.”
The British Gas spokesman added: “The dead ones are obviously useless and a poor pensioner during the winter is, in accounting terms, essentially the same as a dead one.
“Our absolute favourites are the frail ones with chronic arthritis, poor circulation and sizeable cash reserves.
“We call them ‘the icing’.”
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The greatest English food is every bit as great when turned into leftovers, and none greater than the superlative Sunday roasts, minced on a Monday and turned into cottage or shepherd's pies.
Onion gravy is a delicious match for this comforting dish of sausages baked in a Yorkshire pudding batter.
Pungent Stilton cheese and malty stout beer enrich the filling in these classic Lancashire meat pies.
The recipe for this meatless version of the dessert is based on one that appears in Good Tempered Food by Tamasin Day-Lewis.
This recipe for old-fashioned mincemeat pie, a version of one featured in the classic 1861 volume Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, was updated in Jane Grigson's English Food.
A roast served with the savory pastry known as yorkshire pudding could be called the quintessential British dinner.
In the old days these pasties were made with a savory filling on one end and a sweet one at the other making a meal—dessert included.
This rich, fruity pudding is a delicious holiday tradition throughout Britain.
This recipe is perfect for gathering family and friends around a festive table in good company for a sumptuous feast.
Like many long-cooked meat dishes, this one improves if made a day ahead of time and refrigerated overnight.
"Oh, the roast beef of England," sang Henry Fielding over two centuries ago-and this may be the sort of thing he had in mind.
The sheer size of this dish led to its nickname "Stegosaurus".
Believed to date back to the 12th century, Yorkshire pudding may have originated in the kitchens of King Henry II, where drippings from roasting mutton were used to flavor baked batters.
Oxtails were once looked at as "throwaway meat", but they are making a comeback in upscale restaurants as exotic meat.
Similar to the American popover, this savory pudding is a traditional accompaniment to a Sunday roast.
The spicy, curry-flavored meat pie, a staple of Lagosian food culture, came about when a traditional Cornish pasty met the Nigerian spice palate.
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This dish is typically made with fresh wild venison, but domestic venison makes a fine substitute.
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Shlomo Carlebach (שלמה קרליבך) (known as Reb Shlomo to his followers) (1925 - October 22, 1994), was a Jewish religious singer, composer, and self-styled "rebbe" who was known as "the singing rabbi" in his lifetime. Although his roots lay in traditional Orthodox yeshivot, he branched out to create his own movement combining Hasidic-style warmth and personal interaction, public concerts, and song-filled synagogue services. At various times he lived in Manhattan, New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Moshav Mevo Me'or Modi'im, Israel.
Carlebach is considered by many to be the foremost Jewish religious songwriter in the second half of the 20th century. In a career that spanned over 30 years, he recorded more than 25 music albums that still have wide popularity and appeal. His influence also continues to this day in so-called "Carlebach minyanim" located in many cities around the globe, including those in Israel.
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How Winter Snow Will Affect Spring Gardens
Monday, March 7, 2011
While beleaguered Americans continued to dig out from record snowfalls, the gardeners among them were secretly thrilled, watching the freezing flakes pile up. “They realized that snow cover can be good for many plants, especially perennial herbs and shrubs, because it provides insulation from freezing temperatures. Plants under snow cover are exposed to fewer drastic temperature changes, which are often more damaging than continued cold,” says botanist Karen Snetselaar, Ph.D., chair and professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.
However, this year’s insulating snow cover may have come too late, Snetselaar notes.
“Unseasonable fall and winter temperatures may have challenged plants more than last year. From September and well into November, warmer than normal temperatures might have encouraged some plants to keep growing. Then, December and January were colder than usual, and freezing temperatures may have damaged the plants that weren’t yet dormant,” Snetsellar says. “This year, it may be more likely that we’ll lose plants because of those cold temperatures.”
To make matters worse, Snetselaar says that as snow melts off, damaged shrubs will surprise many people. “The storms brought heavy and wet snow, and if it didn't get brushed off evergreens right away, it was much harder to deal with.”
Snetselaar advises to take extra care of evergreens during any remaining spring snowstorms. “When there is heavy snow, gently brush it off, pushing the evergreen’s branches up, not down, which will help minimize broken branches. It’s important to do this carefully, because the branches are quite brittle when it’s cold.”
Another highly visible effect of heavy snowfall are broken tree branches. Limbs that are partly broken or that may pose a danger should be pruned or removed right away, Snetselaar says.
“Consult an arborist for very large broken branches or for especially valuable trees,” she suggests. “For less critical projects that don’t require a professional, use good pruning practices, cutting branches back to sound wood and leaving a ‘collar,’ which means to cut close to, but not too near to the trunk or larger branch. This facilitates wound healing.”
Snetselaar adds that it is best to wait before pruning shrubs or trees that are bent or misshapen after heavy snow. “Some may gradually straighten up and be fine. And obviously, don’t attempt to remove any branches that are near overhead wires. Leave those to the utility company.”
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Kline: Getting a job requires more than education
By Daniel B. Kline
The pile of resumes on my desk suggests that either the American educational system fails to prepare students for getting a job or the rules of grammar, spelling and logic were changed without my knowledge. Of the hundreds of applications I received in my quest to hire an entry-level graphic designer, very few lacked serious flaws.
The majority of the applicants seeking to fill this particular opening actually possessed college degrees - some from reasonably prestigious schools. Four extra years of schooling may have filled their heads with facts about obscure literature and all sorts of scientific theories, but it's obvious that classes in resume writing were not part of the curriculum.
Forget the horrific grammar and spelling (for a job where the description includes being proficient in those two areas); the vast majority of applicants appear to lack the basic skills asked for in my help wanted ad. If you have no previous work experience at the job you are applying for, it's generally a good idea to explain in your cover letter why you still might be a good hire....
As for your resume, while many experts debate whether you should include an "objective" section at the top, I've never read one article that suggests replacing that area with a quote from Oprah. Similarly, I'm pretty sure no book or magazine article has ever told a prospective job candidate to paperclip a sexy picture to her cover letter.
Unfortunately, this has not stopped actual job applicants, whom I must assume hoped I would hire them, from doing exactly those things. I've also received resumes that contained "Star Trek" quotes, one that was packaged with a mix tape and more than a few that contained multiple spellings of the applicant's name.
Just as applicants who are unsure of the spelling of their own names fail to inspire confidence, resumes that lack basic contact information aren't scoring a lot of points, either. Perhaps worse than the completely missing info might be the handful of resumes I've received where the phone number listed does not include the area code, or has too few digits.
Though it might be difficult to get a job even under the best of circumstances, a candidate who has a clean resume and a cover letter that concisely explains her qualifications has a huge advantage. Education and work experience matter precious little if your resume buries this information under a discussion of which Backstreet Boy you like the most.
This article illuminates various gaps in our education process. More than just poor grammar and spelling, there is a lack of understanding in regards to social graces and business sense. This is one of the reasons why a college degree isn't necessarily the key to success.
Some of my own post graduate job hunting efforts looked embarrassingly similar to the candidates described by Mr. Kline. I remember my brother-in-law laughing at me when I explained why I thought I should earn a particular salary. My reasons included things like the budget I had imagined to cover my expenses. My brother-in-law responded that a future employer doesn't care what kind of life style I think I am entitled to; an employer will pay what I am worth to his business.
Much of my post graduate growing pains could have been prevented by a good "real world" education. So much of school is disconnected from reality that graduates hit the job market as prepared as aliens from another planet.
Our homeschool program includes more than just the skills of spelling and math. Application of these skills in the form of writing a resume, balancing a check book, money management, and cooking are the goals for our course of study. While being able to color in the correct dot on a standardized test is nice, it is not the purpose of our educational plan.
This also brings up the topic of socialization. Socialization is one of the reasons we homeschool. Popularity in school does not translate well into success in life. The inverse is generally true. The social skills that make for happy home are learned at home. Traditional schools do not teach good interview skills or how to dress for success in the business world. Again, the inverse is generally true. The behaviors, such as modern dress and speech, that are most rewarded at school (in the form of popularity) do not lead to success in the real world. Often the skills that lead to good grades, such as cramming, passive learning and cheating, don't serve the student well outside the artificial environment of school.
Many criticize schools because children are not learning. Children at school are learning all too well what they are taught. Unfortunately, these lessons are not the ones their parents intended.
Technorati tags: homeschooling, homeschool, home school, home education, parenting, children, education, job, career, real world, socialization
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WATCH: Jagger, Richards & Bono Talk About The Magic Of 'Muscle Shoals'
The analog days of rock and soul music in the 1960s and '70s are going to be well-represented at the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the premiere of Sound City, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl's documentary about the legendary Van Nuys, CA recording studio where Nirvana's Nevermind and Fleetwood Mac's Rumours were recorded, filmmaker Greg "Freddy" Camalier will be debuting Muscle Shoals, the story of the Alabama city and its FAME studios, which also holds an esteemed place in the annals of popular music.
Camalier tells the story of FAME Studios founder Rick Hall and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section — dubbed the Swampers by singer/songwriter Leon Russell — who were the architects of the Muscle Shoals sound epitomized, according to Rolling Stone writer David Fricke by the Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There."
The Swampers, who were also immortalized in Lynyrd Skynyrd's rock classic "Sweet Home Alabama," ended up leaving FAME to start their own studio, which is covered in Camalier's film, as well as all of the enduring music that was created in Muscle Shoals, including the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman," Paul Simon's "Kodachrome," Jimmy Cliff's "Sitting in Limbo" and Skynyrd's air-guitar staple, "Freebird."
Check out the trailer below, which includes appearances by Steve Winwood, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Cliff and U2's Bono:
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Maven of Watercolor: Susan Shatter, 1943–2011
Susan Shatter, who died earlier this year, was one of the great exponents of watercolor among contemporary artists. She was a consummate technician, revered teacher, and passionate advocate of the medium which she used, along with other painting materials, to express profound feelings for American landscape, whether the searing sublime of Utah desert or the dramatic turbulence of the Maine coast. In a rare departure in terms of imagery and mood within her work, she also found an organic, abstract language in unexpected colors to express the pains, hopes and sheer weirdness of undergoing her first breast cancer surgery in the mid-1990s, exploring “the anguish, the fear, the joy that I went through being ill and recovering,” as the artist expressed it herself. After years of heroic struggle she succumbed to the illness this last July.
Shatter was determined that people take watercolor seriously, forcing them to rethink stereotypes arising from the Victorian era when it had earned its reputation as the polite medium of amateurs. In 2002 I had the privilege to work alongside her in an exhibition she instigated at the New York Studio School, a bold curatorial venture of forty contemporary artists ranging from well-known exponents such as Francesco Clemente, Marlene Dumas, Philip Pearlstein, Al Held, Elizabeth Peyton, Sean Scully, Graham Nickson and David Salle to truly marvelous artists known in smaller circles for their inventive, at times subversive use of the medium to yield singular effects beyond the tropes of wash or translucence, artists like Patricia Tobacco-Forrester (who also passed away this year), Ray Kass and Donald Holden. It was typical of her feisty attitude towards artistic excellence that Susan would think nothing of bringing together artists of very different milieu and allowing their equality to be asserted on the gallery walls.
Shatter was a great believer in art community. She was a regular colonist at Yaddo, for instance, and was active in the National Academy of Design, where she served as Treasurer and then, until her illness forced early retirement, as President. Devotees of The Review Panel in particular are in her debt for stewarding the program (with former President Gregory Amenoff) to the NA during turbulent and challenging years for that institution.
Susan Shatter was a native New Yorker. She studied at Boston University, Pratt Institute and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and was the subject of over thirty solo exhibitions, receiving her debut in 1975 at the Harcus Krakow Roen Sonnabend Gallery in Boston, Mass. A significant exhibition of her work, Tracking the Terrain, that brought together her breast cancer series and landscape paintings, took place in 2003 at the State University of New York at Stonybook and was accompanied by a catalog written by Donald Kuspit.
A memorial for Susan Shatter will take place at the Century Association (7 West 43rd Street) on October 5 at 5 pm.
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Prisoners are to train puppies in a programme the Government says will reduce reoffending and increase the number of mobility dogs for the disabled.
The Puppies in Prison programme has just been launched at Spring Hill Corrections Facility in Waikato.
A number of low-security prisoners will provide full-time training for the puppies which will go on as mobility dogs to assist people with disabilities.
The programme, undertaken in partnership with the Mobility Assistance Dogs Trust, is the
first of its kind in a male prison in New Zealand, and follows the success of a similar programme at Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility, in place since 2009.
Corrections Minister Anne Tolley says prisoners involved in the programme have developed important skills such as empathy, trust, and a sense of responsibility "and we have seen a real improvement in behaviour and attitude".
Research into similar programmes overseas shows that this kind of rehabilitation ultimately leads to reductions in reoffending and fewer victims of crime, Tolley said.
"We expect to see the same results at Spring Hill."
The dogs require full-time care and will be trained to respond to around 50 commands, like opening and closing doors, passing objects and even sorting the washing, Tolley said.
"These dogs make a huge difference to the lives of disabled people and there is currently a huge waiting list for mobility dogs. We have found that the puppies trained at Auckland Women's compare really well with those trained out in the community," Tolley said.
"The programme will also allow these prisoners to repay their debt to society and make a real difference to the lives of New Zealanders."
The Trust places the puppies in the prison and will provide continued oversight of the training.
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Life residents of Michigan don't understand many things about our state government, but some facts grow obvious through the years.
Obviously, there is something very exciting about changing the structure of the Department of Natural Resources.
Governor-elect Rick "The Nerd" Snyder was still getting rich in the corporate world when Michigan's leaders began to perfect the DNR.
First came Gov. John "The Boss" Engler, who boldly improved accountability to himself by splitting the DNR into two agencies in 1995.
"We believe there should be accountability in the process, and the governor believes the accountability should rest with him," Engler's spokesman said.
Fourteen years of uninterrupted accountability followed, but then Gov. Jennifer "The Cheerleader" Granholm put Engler's two agencies back into one DNR. This was supposed to save $1 million a year.
"The new department will be leaner, more efficient and better able to manage our natural resources and protect our environment," said a Granholm official.
Money is even better than accountability.
Saving $1 million on the DNR is a dime for each resident of Michigan. Ten cents is better than a kick in the rear with a frozen boot.
Now comes Snyder, who will both split and merge the DNR.
The next governor announced this week that he will break the DNR into two agencies, but both parts will go into the same "Quality of Life Group" in his new "super cabinet."
Two DNRs will be more focussed and, ultimately, a split should save money by increasing efficiency, Snyder said.
"Hey, Brad," you might say. "How can we save money by splitting the DNR in two and also save money by putting it back together?"
Unfortunately, I am not a nerd enough to know the answer.
"Also, Brad," you might continue in your badgering way, "what good is a ‘super cabinet?' Isn't that just another layer of government bureaucracy?"
Snyder says a super-cabinet will run government like a computer company. "I view this as a sort of synergy, a way to work better together," he said.
Changing the DNR is powerful stuff.
Skeptics might say it makes no difference if the DNR is one agency or two or 10. They might claim only two things matter: What the DNR is expected to do and how much money it is given to do it.
But three governors in a row cannot be wrong. Can they?
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Other theories for the origin of the color belts include:
Dyeing Theory. In the old days, as the student progressed in rank, the belt was simply dyed to a new color. This repeated dyeing process determined the colors and the order of colors. Due to the dyeing process, it was practical to use increasingly darker colors so the usual color order is white, yellow, orange, green, blue, brown, and black.
White-Belt-Getting-Dirtier Theory. Traditionally, when a person began the study of Taekwondo, he or she received a white belt to hold the uniform together. After many months of training, the white would begin to discolor and become yellowish and possibly orange. After many months of rigorous practice, many times in grassy fields, the belt would take on a green appearance as it discolored further. After several years of practice, the belt would further darken, assuming a dark blue or purple hue. After numerous sparring sessions, the belt might develop a red or brown hue from the accumulation of bloodstains. After several decades of Taekwondo training, the belt would eventually turn black. If the student devoted his or her life to Taekwondo training, the belt would continue to darken, but it would also begin to fray and begin to show spots of white from its inner core. Gradually, most of the black would wear away and the belt would become white again, signifying that the student had come full circle and reached the final stage of enlightenment.
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Yesterday afternoon, Obama for America’s Policy Director James Kvaal posted a blog item explaining how Mitt Romney’s new “repeal and replace” health care plan would once again allow health insurance companies to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions and create millions of new uninsured Americans. Below is his post:
Why Romney’s “repeal and replace” plan for Obamacare would fail millions of Americans
Obama for America Policy Director James Kvaal explains why Romney’s “repeal and replace” plan fails to offer anything new or provide the health reforms that will actually provide millions of Americans with affordable, quality care:
Yesterday, Governor Romney repeated something we’d heard before about his “plan” for health care. What he didn’t tell us—and what he’s hoping we don’t realize—is that the centerpiece of his “plan” has actually been the law since 1996.
Romney told us that he wanted to help individuals with pre-existing conditions get coverage. Under his proposal, anyone with a pre-existing condition who has been “continuously insured” should have a way to get coverage if they “lose their jobs or change jobs.” That makes sense to most people, but it’s not a new idea. In fact, it’s a core provision of President Clinton’s Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which was enacted in 1996.
Under HIPAA, if you have been continuously covered without any lapses—a big if—then you are protected in two ways. First, if you change to a new job with new insurance, then your new plan cannot exclude your pre-existing condition. Second, if you lose your job and run out of COBRA coverage, you have the right to buy coverage without being denied based on a pre-existing condition. Romney’s proposal is the very same thing—protect people with existing insurance when they lose or change jobs.
Today, Romney claims he is opposed to health care mandates because there shouldn’t be a penalty for going without insurance. But under his proposal, the penalty for foregoing insurance is involuntary entry into a life-threatening lottery—if you develop a serious disease while you are between insurance policies, you could be locked out of the private health insurance market.
There’s a reason Romney’s plan is so limited: he’s concerned about “free-riders,” people who would wait to buy insurance until after they got sick. This is something that Romney—and health economists—have been concerned about for years. However, when Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he had a different and far more comprehensive solution to the free-rider problem, which he enacted into law as part of health reform in his state. Under RomneyCare, anyone can buy insurance without being denied or charged more based on a pre-existing condition, and lower- and middle-income families get financial assistance to make insurance affordable. But to prevent free-riders, people who can afford insurance but chose not to buy it have to pay a penalty. That worked well in Massachusetts, and it is the same approach that President Obama took in the Affordable Care Act.
Obamacare and Romneycare protect a lot of people that are left out under the 1996 law and what Mitt Romney is proposing today: people who lose their job and can’t afford COBRA, children who are diagnosed with cancer or autism when their families are uninsured, people who aren’t offered insurance at work and have had no way to afford coverage before, or anyone else who has a gap in coverage. Up to 129 million Americans have a pre-existing condition, and they all deserve protection—and that’s what the Affordable Care Act does.
Addressing coverage and costs
The President’s leadership on the Affordable Care Act has also taken on a number of other problems that Romney would prefer to ignore. Obamacare puts in place reforms that will help cover the uninsured: more than 30 million people will gain health insurance because of the law. Romney’s proposal for the uninsured is to block-grant Medicaid and slash billions of dollars from the program—an approach that independent experts estimate will mean 14 to 27 million fewer people with health insurance.
And perhaps nowhere is the contrast more clear than on addressing health care costs. President Obama’s law takes aim at the rising costs of health care, and puts in place serious reforms that will slow growth and make sure health care remains affordable. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that, because of these aggressive efforts, the health care law will reduce the deficit by more than $100 billion in the first 10 years and more than $1 trillion in the second decade. Romney would repeal all of this and has offered no serious ideas to address the problem. In fact, yesterday—as Governor Romney was repeating his pledge to repeal the health care law—we received some tentative good news about how well the health care law is working. In a report on health care spending, the government’s actuaries estimated that the early reforms in Obamacare have actually reduced total health care spending. And they projected that health care as a share of GDP would remain constant from 2009 to 2013, an unprecedented signal that slowing health care cost growth may become the new normal.
In short, President Obama enacted a law that will help everyone with pre-existing conditions, cover the uninsured, and tackle rising health care costs. Romney would repeal these reforms, leaving health care costs on an unsustainable trajectory, and replace it with a law that has been on the books for more than 15 years.
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Elderly adults at risk for physical disabilities are able to adhere to a regular program of moderate exercise for one year, a recent study of 213 men and women suggests. Led by corresponding author Roger Fielding, Ph.D., of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University, the authors observed that improvement in physical function was related to the participants’ ability to adhere to the physical activity regimen.
“At the beginning, middle and end of the study the participants were tested on their walking speed, strength, flexibility and balance to gauge their physical function,” said Fielding, director of the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA. “We saw a greater improvement in physical function in the participants who reported exercising 150 minutes or more per week.”
The study, published in the November issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, analyzed data from the physical intervention arm of the Lifestyle Intervention and Independence for Elders Pilot (Life-P). The participants ranged in age from 70 to 89 years-old, were sedentary when they enrolled, had health problems, such as cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis, and some physical limitations such as difficulty walking or climbing stairs. They followed a moderate exercise program that consisted of walking, strength, flexibility, and balance training.
For the first six months of the study, the participants exercised under supervision at one of four university centers and at home. Center visits were optional during the second six months. The participants filled out surveys to track their adherence to the physical activity regimen during the center visits and at home. The authors observed that physical activity adherence was consistent with earlier studies that followed older adults for shorter durations.
A future randomized trial would study a larger population of elderly for a longer period of time. “Larger studies are needed to confirm that exercise can improve physical function in elderly at high risk for physical disabilities,” said Fielding, who is also a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and School of Medicine at Tufts University. “What we found, however, is that this group can commit to a regular program of physical activity in a long-term randomized trial and the better their adherence to a program of physical activity the greater their improvements in physical functioning.”
Source: Tufts University, Health Sciences
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Discovered: Communication towers are slaughtering our birds, deadly fungus is killing our frogs, more extreme weather is on the way, and the oceans are dirtier than we thought.
- TV and radio towers are killing our birds. Here's an unhappy consequence of industrialization. Every time we make our communication towers a little taller, the bird death toll rises along with it. According to a study by University of Southern California researchers, 6.8 million birds die every year from slamming into TV and radio towers. "Millions of the birds don't make it because they 'fall under the spell' of the lights on the towers, that are meant to keep planes at a safe distance," reads the study. Apparently, they sort of work like a mosquito zapper. "Most of the birds do not die because they run into the towers but because they get caught in the cables and guy wires propping up the structures. Some also run into each other or die from exhaustion." According to the researchers, if we just used bulbs that blink, instead of ones that don't, it would save millions of bird lives. Is it worth it? It could make for an annoying skyline. [Canada]
- Deadly fungus is killing our frogs. Looks like birds aren't the only animals in trouble. According to a new UC Berkeley study, a fungal infection that leads to dehydration in frogs is killing off a record number of the amphibians around the world. The fungus is called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and it disrupts the fluid and electrolyte equilibrium of frogs. "The chytrid fungus attacks an amphibian's skin, causing it to become up to 40 times thicker in some instances," reads the study. "Since frogs depend on their skin to absorb water and essential electrolytes like sodium from their environment, [researchers] knew that chytrid would disrupt fluid balance in the infected amphibians, but were surprised to find that electrolyte levels were much lower than anticipated for the Sierra Nevada sample." Hang in there guys! [Science Daily]
- Get ready for more extreme weather. A new study in the journal of Science says crazy weather patterns and storms are going to become a lot more routine in the futre. "By measuring changes in salinity on the ocean’s surface, the researchers inferred that the water cycle had accelerated by about 4 percent over the last half-century," found the study by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. "That does not sound particularly large, but it is twice the figure generated from computerized analyses of the climate." Paul J. Durack, a researcher at the laboratory says “This provides another piece of independent evidence that we need to start taking the problem of global warming seriously.” If the estimates keep their trajectory, "it implies that the water cycle could quicken by as much as 20 percent later in this century as the planet warms, potentially leading to more droughts and floods." [Science]
- The oceans are dirtier than we thought. Everyone knows the ocean is polluted from all the trash we lob into it every day. But it turns out, it's even more polluted than we thought. A new study in Geophysical Research Letters says that scientists have been underestimating the total amount of plastics in the water by an average factor of 2.5. Additionally, when there are high winds, scientists hace been underestimating the amount of plastic pollution by a factor of 27. "After taking samples of water at a depth of 16 feet (5 meters),[scientists] discovered that wind was pushing the lightweight plastic particles below the surface. That meant that decades of research into how much plastic litters the ocean, conducted by skimming only the surface, may in some cases vastly underestimate the true amount of plastic debris in the oceans." There's nothing like finding out a bad situation is worse than you actually thought it was. [Science Daily]
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Rules to tackle "algo" traders could backfire - study
LONDON (Reuters) - European regulations designed to crack down on so-called high- frequency trading (HFT) could end up reducing the number of buyers and sellers in financial markets rather than boosting it, a UK-government commissioned paper said.
The European Union's draft law MiFID II, a reform of Brussels' earlier Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), will introduce tougher regulation of financial markets including for HFT.
Speed traders use powerful computers to churn out thousands of trades in fractions of a second to profit from tiny price discrepancies, sparking criticism that they increase market volatility and instability.
The HFT industry hit the headlines in May 2010, when it was blamed for the "flash crash" in the United States, when the stock market plummeted more than 1,000 points, or nearly 10 percent, in a matter of minutes.
The fall was initially caused by one large erroneous trade from a funds firm, but the losses were rapidly magnified when computer-driven high-frequency traders followed the move down.
Among MiFID's more controversial proposals, speed traders who increasingly function as market makers will be forced to post prices to buy and sell at all times, to stop them from pulling out when markets get choppy.
The hope is that this will boost liquidity and support orderly markets, but speed traders say this would put them at an unfair disadvantage.
The Foresight working paper, which brings together some 35 academics from nine countries to examine the MiFID proposals, said the requirement could end up having the reverse effect and reduce liquidity.
"Many high-frequency strategies post bids and offers across correlated contracts. A requirement to post a continuous bid- offer spread is not consistent with this strategy and, if binding, could force high-frequency traders out of the business of liquidity provision," it said.
"With upwards of 50 percent of liquidity coming from high- frequency traders, this could be disastrous."
The paper also questioned "notification" policies, which would require all firms engaged in algorithmic trading to provide the regulator with a description of their strategies, trading parameters and key risk controls annually, to stop unsound algorithms from damaging orderly markets.
The Foresight working paper said the proposed policy was too vague, while its implementation would require excessive costs for both firms and regulators.
"It is also doubtful that it would substantially reduce the risk of market instability due to errant algorithmic behaviour, although it may help regulators understand the way the trading strategy should work."
The HFT's trade body reacted positively to the working paper's findings.
"We are encouraged to see such a rational and evidence-based assessment of the benefits of automated trading and we hope that these findings will have a positive impact on the European regulatory debate," FIA EPTA Chairman Remco Lenterman said.
Foresight's final report is due out later this year.
(Editing by David Holmes)
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If you want to peer into the economy’s near-term future, look at the nonresidential construction backlog.
That’s what Anirban Basu did, and he’s not singing a happy tune.
“Day by day, we’re getting closer to 2013, and 2013 is shaping up to be a pretty rough year,” said Basu, the chief economist of the Washington, D.C.-based Associated Builders and Contractors organization.
The latest evidence is the first quarter’s Construction Backlog Indicator, which measures in months the amount of contracted construction work to be completed in the near future by the organization’s 74 chapters and 22,000 firms.
The indicator was down 5.4 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011, dropping from 7.8 to 7.4 months. Year over year, the backlog was slightly up. A decline in backlog means companies are not getting enough business to offset current construction work.
Basu traces the decline to last year’s congressional stalemate over the debt ceiling and budget-cutting battles, and he believes a looming deadlock this election year will cause developers, institutions and others to push the pause button when it comes to greenlighting projects.
Congress faces $700 billion in rising taxes and declining spending that will happen automatically Jan. 1 unless it takes action. And builders can’t wait to see what happens to determine if they should move forward, since it takes time to marshal construction crews to a job.
“So we may not get the level of improvement for the balance of the year that many contractors might expect,” Basu said last week by phone.
The West had a backlog of 6.57 months in the first quarter, up about a third of a month from the first quarter of 2011. The Northeast backlog was 6.87 months, the South, 8.88 months and the Midwest, 6.34 months.
Basu said the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego were holding up well and continuing the state’s role as “one of the world’s most dynamic sectors” — based on relatively good business prospects in Napa Valley wine country, Silicon Valley high tech, Hollywood and defense-heavy San Diego.
“It would be growing faster but for the state’s budget issues,” he said, one day after Gov. Jerry Brown delivered a gloomy outlook of a looming $16 billion deficit that requires higher taxes and reduced spending to fix.
Other positives nationally are rising manufacturing, consumer spending and energy exploration.
But for all those good signs, the economy is only growing at a 2 percent annual rate, compared with the long-term average of 3 percent. He said the low 1.79 percent yield on 10-year Treasury bills means investors are willing to take less than inflation — a sign of continuing concern.
“That tells me the fear factor is back at work,” he said. “Construction doesn’t do well when people are scared.”
“It’s still a very fragile recovery,” he added. “The financial markets have been telling you in recent weeks that they are not getting more confident — they’re getting less confident.”
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We're making the switch – Windows 7 now running on open access PCs
26 September 2012
If you've already used a PC in one of the libraries across campus, you may have noticed some changes compared to last year.
Many of the open access PCs in the libraries and Information Services-run open access rooms (including the Julian Hodge Study Centre) are being updated to use the Windows 7 operating system, as are most teaching rooms and many School PC labs.
The main difference you'll see when you log in is that the Windows 7 PCs display a different desktop. Instead of navigating to Networked Apps via the Start menu, you will see an icon on the desktop called 'Cardiff Apps'. Here you will find most of the tools and resources you previously accessed via Networked Apps under Windows XP.
Most of the libraries still have a number of PCs running Windows XP, should you not wish to use the updated machines or need to use something that will only run on XP
For more information, please visit the Windows 7 pages on the Information Services website. For advice and support about using Windows 7, please speak to your School's Local Computer Representative (LCR), your local IT support staff, or contact the IT Service Desk.
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The Attorney General
The Attorney General serves as legal counsel for the Government and public authorities, directs the state prosecution and supervises the legal department that prepares and reviews proposed legislation.
As a result of the high level of professionalism and political neutrality that it has maintained over the years, the office of the Attorney General is held in high esteem both by the public-at-large and by the members of the Government, the Knesset and the Supreme Court. The Attorney General is regarded the legal figure who is the foremost champion of the rule of law and guardian of the public interest.
The Attorney General, who is a civil servant, is appointed by the Government upon the recommendation of the Minister of Justice; the term of his appointment is not defined. Removal of an attorney general from office is effected in a fashion similar to his appointment, but this has hardly ever been implemented.
While the office of the Attorney General has not been the subject of a Basic Law or major legislation, the traditional rules and customs associated with the Attorney General were set out by a committee convened in 1962 and chaired by Shimon Agranat, then a Supreme Court Justice. The Agranat Committee Report substantiated the office's tradition of political neutrality. Since the 1960s, therefore, there has been an understanding that a person who possesses a strong political identity or who is known for his political activism should not be appointed to this post. The report sets out a number of guidelines for ensuring that the office of Attorney General be a non-political entity. It recommended that the person appointed Attorney General should be free of political party influences so that his decisions may be arrived at independently and without concessions to instructions or policy of the Government or the Minister of Justice.
The commission also noted that candidates for the position of Attorney General must meet demanding professional criteria, and it has been Government policy to nominate persons who are qualified to serve as Supreme Court justices. In fact, a number of past attorney generals - Aharon Barak, Haim Cohn, Meir Shamgar and Itzhak Zamir - have gone on to become justices of the Supreme Court.
Responsibilities of the Attorney General
Head of the Prosecution
The Attorney General is authorized to decide whether or not to submit an indictment; to rule with respect to the decision of the police or the State Attorney, to investigate or close a file; to request the extension of an arrested person's detention by a court for a time period longer than 30 days; to request that the immunity of a particular Member of Knesset be waived; and to stay criminal proceedings after an indictment has been submitted. He is further authorized to provide representation and to argue in any legal procedure which, in his view, involves an issue of public interest. In these actions, the Attorney General has exclusive authority and his decisions may be overruled only by the Supreme Court , through petitions submitted to it in its capacity as the High Court of Justice.
Representation of the State in legal proceedings in all courts and tribunals in criminal, civil and administrative matters is entrusted to the Attorney General. He delegates much of this responsibility to the State Attorney. The prosecutors take their direction from the Attorney General and the State Attorney - on whether or not to pursue a matter in the courts on behalf of the State by initiating legal proceedings. If legal actions are taken against the State, the Attorney General may choose to defend, or not to defend, the State and its public bodies in court. The Government may not hire a private attorney without the consent of the Attorney General's office, regardless of whether or not the Attorney General and his staff are prepared to represent the Government in a particular case.
Legal Advisor to the Government
As the government's legal advisor, the Attorney General counsels the Government, the ministers, government ministries, local authorities, and other public bodies, such as the post office and the national telephone company. He provides counsel directly or indirectly through the government legal service, namely by the legal advisors of all government ministries. The Attorney General is also responsible for issuing guidelines to the Government on the interpretation of law and appropriate legal procedures.
The legal opinions of the Attorney General are accepted as authoritative interpretations of the law and are therefore binding on all government authorities. This provides for two important internal checks on the lawful workings of the government. First, because of the authoritative quality of the Attorney General's decisions and the respect in which his office is held, government officials commonly seek his advice and consent before making policy decisions which may later be found to be contrary to the law. Furthermore, if an authority acts against his legal counsel, the Attorney General may decide not to defend that body in court.
The Attorney General is responsible for ensuring that the Basic Laws of the State and appropriate procedures are respected whenever laws are passed and administrative actions are taken. In this capacity, he advises the Division of Legislation in the Ministry of Justice in the preparation of bills to be presented by the Government and in supervising the promulgation of regulations by all government ministries. The Division of Legislation checks both Government bills and private members' bills to determine whether they are consistent with existing laws and rights and advises the Government accordingly.
Guardian of the Public Interest and the Rule of Law
While the Attorney General acts as legal counsel for the government, he is foremost the lawyer for the people. As former Attorney General and current Supreme Court Justice Itzhak Zamir wrote: "The true client of the Attorney General is the public." He is the guardian of the public interest, the rule of law and civil liberties. The Attorney General ensures the efficient and effective functioning of criminal law enforcement, the proper operation of the administration and the appropriateness of the measures of public authorities at all levels. The Attorney General attends Government meetings to advise on legal matters and also to ensure that the government is acting within its powers.
Source: Israeli Foreign Ministry
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- Soviet: noun
- an elected local, district, or national council in the former Soviet Union.
- a citizen of the former Soviet Union.
ORIGIN early 20th cent.: from Russian soviet ‘council.’
- an elected local, district, or national council in the former Soviet Union.
It may be better to invent new terms when talking about a “soviet-occupied territory” — a confusing term that, in the United States at any rate, often implies nothing more than human deprivation, and definitely not a self-sufficient base of action. But the soviet base, territory, or council is only adjectival in the sense that it announces what kind of land the occupants live on (for example, the question: “Is it a soviet republic or is it a corporate protectorate?”). The negative connotations attached to the term, however, are most prevalent in those languages expressed by entrenched corporate power — in countries where, ironically, soviets never existed, and even the notion of council-controlled land would pose the greatest threat to corporate power.
For a proper use or historical understanding of the term, it is necessary to use the term “soviet” as it is originally intended — that or succumb to intellectual mercantilism and historical amnesia. The only case in which what I am calling corporate use may be adequate is, glibly, when describing the effect of soviet life on those who have been forcefully deprived of their privileges — in the physical space where one class has overthrown another class. In that sense only can one speak of the “soviet” conditions — conditions that would break apart congealed, corporate, power structures, and establish new, inverse, ones — that would surely await the upper classes.
In a country so large as China, what has become a political tradition continues not only under the auspices of the government, but simply by widespread unreflective or cynical practice.
Being somewhat familiar with the history of Chinese soviets, I was asked to write a piece on radical Chinese politics. But the Chinese term for politics, 政治, is etymologically closer to the terms “government control” and “government management” than the Western πολιτικός, which implies a commons, open debate and consensus. For that reason, however, it is to me the more complex term, directly at odds with what is often considered to be the essence of benevolent governance. It is also the term that is directly reflected in the political practice of “free” Chinese soviets. The pre-1949 Chinese soviets made no pretext of finding “common ground.” There was an exploited class and a ruling class, and petty bourgeois intellectuals and bourgeois merchants would be incorporated according to the needs of the soviet.
This historical lack of a political commons was evident in the Chinese soviets, and also continues today. As much as it may be reported that Ai Weiwei and Gao Zhisheng are exemplary dissidents, somehow intellectual figureheads of the 100,000+ “mass incidents” that happen in China every year, it is important to remember that in a country so geographically large (and populated) as China, what has become a political tradition continues not only under the auspices of the government, but simply by widespread unreflective or cynical practice. The radical politics of the day — if there truly are any — are closer to wildcat strikes than they are to occupations or, especially, to soviets. As is well known, the Chinese soviets took protests to the level of establishing control as well.
First, we will take a look at the historical record1:
- After the failure of the short-lived Hailufeng Soviet in Guangdong Province (“Canton”), just and unjust disciplinary measures are taken.
- Later that same year (1927), Communists regroup in the Jiangxi Soviet. In Jiangxi they attempt to purge the area of landlords and other reactionaries, as well as establish a new currency and limited public works. The base is used as a fortification from which mobilizations can be carried out. Mao Zedong subsequently emerges as a superior tactician, and Zhou Enlai, much-loved for his diplomacy, begins playing second fiddle. Discipline is established in a base made up almost exclusively of peasants and intellectuals — the urban working class Communists having already been decimated by Nationalist “democratic” forces. After repelling multiple raids by the Nationalists, the Communists are severely weakened, and retreat on the Long March to Yannan, in the northwest.
- In Yannan, Party leadership brooks no dissent, and Party hierarchy hardens. Despite publication of the “philosophical essays” of Mao Zedong, and the establishment of the Lu Xun Art College, critical thought is henceforth “rightist,” and subject to reform.
The “Wukan Incident” has absolutely been the most successful group action of recent years, and may also have been the most comprehensive.
Now consider the establishment of bases of leftist action in contradistinction to the recent political activity in the village of Wukan, which is ostensibly without ideology, and hence heavily covered as an “anti-corruption” movement in the Western media. The “Wukan Incident” has absolutely been the most successful group action of recent years, and may also have been the most comprehensive.
- Villagers in Wukan (population estimated between 10,000 and 15,000), Lufeng township, in Guangdong Province, are given little to no notice that much of their land has been sold for industrial development by local Party officials, and are later given a pittance for compensation. In September 2011 villagers begin protesting these recent land sales, also establishing a committee and spokespeople in order to negotiate with local officials. Three village leaders are arrested, and one, Xue Jinbo, quickly dies in police custody from what appears to be torture. His body is not released. More arrests follow.
- By early December protests escalate. Villagers attack the local police station and Party headquarters. Party officials, as well as police, flee the village for Lufeng city. Police set up barricades, stopping food and other necessary goods from entering the city. Police also enhance internet firewalls, ending any communication with other area villages.
- By late December communication is established with Wang Yang, Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. Secretary Wang leads negotiations with village leaders, securing the release of several prisoners, effecting changes in local elections, and opening the possibility of better compensation for (or return of) land. Villagers are told that local Party officials and police will be held responsible for their actions, and will suffer consequences for encouraging land use violations. Skeptics insist Secretary Wang is simply manipulating the villagers in order strengthen the Party. It is unknown if villagers actually contest Party leadership. Villagers await the outcome.
Wukan’s residents displayed remarkable determination and organization, while never resorting to the purges that quickly came to characterize the Chinese soviets. Change was affected by mobilizing villagers, emptying the area of local representatives of state authority, reasserting the cause in the face of privation, and entering negotiations with non-local authorities. Regional authorities will be able to test their solution to the “Wukan Incident” as they appeal to Central Party leadership for aid in working against recalcitrant local authorities, regardless of their actual intentions. In effect, at least on the surface of things, something closer to a “consensus model” of politics has been reached.
Fig. 1: An example of currency used in the Chinese Soviet Republic.
Despite this, in a recent editorial for the New York Times3, novelist Yu Hua seemed to mock average Chinese for exactly this belief in appealing to regional or national authorities (as opposed to local authorities), and for a lack of understanding of what he sees as the absurd futility of their political situation. His lampooning of locals bewildered by realpolitik is also a send-up of the supposed wisdom and benevolence of the highest levels of state, as well as the belief that an anti-corruption campaign can neatly solve China’s structural problems:
Victims of corruption and injustice have no faith in the law, and yet they dream that an upright official will emerge to right their wrongs…[P]etitioners seem to believe that the central authorities are less susceptible to corruption…
But that is what is at issue here: the belief that a protest can solve structural problems by presuming those problems to be the result of personal deficiencies (i.e. a greedy or ignorant disposition). The belief that each individual can have equal opportunity to air grievances, and possibly deliberate over solutions, often ends up bypassing the inhumane side of structural problems, demonstrating that, for example, fiscal divisions have nothing to do with fiscal markets or capital assets, but with one’s motivations. Here, akin to Yu Hua’s assertion that, for Wukan, the dispossession of land would have nothing to do with the systemic allotment of it, the problem seems to be either a perversion of that allotment or the inability to defend it. If officials behaved in an “upright” manner, or citizens were given stronger property rights, the problems would not exist. But as long as such a belief remains in place, neither a full understanding, nor a sustained critique of the structure of officialdom and representation, will be able to come to fruition. In such cases, political solutions are only found in intermediaries privy to the system, but also willing to bend an ear to its victims — such as Secretary Wang. Even the will to insist that reform can happen is turned into a reactionary symptom of the system. Villagers do not end up undermining or dismantling a system that not only denies them the right to deliberate over the public ownership of land, but also lords over them as a supernumerary “public.” In effect, they are demonstrating that the system can actually work — as long as the right people are performing their duties correctly, and villagers understand that they are only complements to that system.
Furthermore, when comparing various Chinese soviets with Wukan, one does not draw tired contrasts based on the degrees to which the soviets and Wukan’s citizen organization disciplined themselves. As much as is known about Communist purges, too little is known about Wukan’s organization to say. One is instead struck by the aims — a revolution, versus attempted reform — and how much we know about them, based on their representations by comparatively liberal media outlets. For example, until negotiations were in full effect, little was said in the “timid” Chinese press regarding Wukan, while it was celebrated elsewhere as democracy in action, similar to the kind of activist reform that Westerners imagine to be a human birthright. I imagine the situation would have been different if Wukan had announced itself a classical soviet, and that coverage would not have been reduced to platitudes of consensus and control, corruption and activism. But the moral persuasion at work when comparing these two different scenarios is truly an effect of an absurd situation, reducing historically complex situations and systems to swift judgments of “rightness” based on sedimented values and fossilized means of obtaining and processing information (which privileges observation and judgment over participatory action).
As such, one is really only guessing what would have happened if Wukan had had a more radical vision of how their village (and their province, and their country, and so on) should run. Or, what would have happened if they had refused to cooperate at all with state authority? Most likely, armed forced would have come in and emptied the place. On the other hand, I am afraid that, at the end of the day, by trusting authority to act in their best interests, the “Wukan Incident” will be an object lesson in what not to do if you want to effect long-lasting, structural change — the kind of change that emerges from a truly autonomous consensus. There is no easy scenario here, and it’s not as if a simple choice to go one way or the other can be made, but I can at least say kudos to both the Jiangxi Soviet and the village of Wukan for not losing themselves in rhetoric, and not allowing themselves to become totally corrupted by government sympathizers, whether apologists of a calcified political system or promoting a savagely idealistic vision of what should be (I will end saying apropos the American libertarians, who are simply humanized capitalists to the extreme).
Matthew Turner is a poet and professor of literature. He recently returned to the U.S. after six years of teaching in Beijing where he also worked as a journalist and editor for various newspapers and translation outfits. He can be reached at mateo.tornero.
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ICASA said the reason for the review is to ensure that South Africa’s NRFP “reflects the final acts of the recent World Radio Conference of 2012 (WRC 12).” ICASA also wants to ensure the NRFP is in line with the international telecommunications’ latest version of radio regulations.
“The goal is also to ensure that it is consistent with the Southern African Development Community Frequency Allocation Plan (SADC FAP). This process is, among others, aimed at reviewing the existing NRFP to ensure that spectrum allocations reflect the usage of radio frequency until the next WRC in 2015,” said ICASA.
Following the ITU’s World Radio Conferences and in line with the WRC 12, ICASA will conduct the review parallel with the Frequency Migration Plan (FMP) process.
This is aimed at addressing the frequency migrations recognised throughout the evolution of earlier national radio frequency plans beginning with SABRE 1 of 1997.
The Authority added that in addition to the above, it will publish the second draft of the FMP on December 24. In the upcoming publication, ICASA will take the comments made in the initial submissions, public hearings and supplementary submissions into consideration.
The second publication will also include the framework for the “Spectrum Assignment Plan” development and “on the implementation of specific bands earmarked for migration and those identified in the future NRFP.”
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View Full Version : DSL limitations
12-17-2002, 12:05 PM
How many computers can you hook up to one residential DSL line before it effects its performance... :pimp:
12-17-2002, 12:11 PM
through hardware router? NAT?
DSL might have the (downstream) transfer rate of a T1, but the bandwidth isn't near as high, so more people connecting, the more of an effect it will have on the overall bandwidth.
Think of it like this, the Transfer rate is how fast the water goes down a pipe, the bandwidth is how fat the pipe is. When you use a pipe splitter on a narrow pipe (DSL), each system gets less water, but if the pipe is very wide (T1) each system can get more of the water at a time.
so to answer your question...it depends on the ISP...we get a little more then 1/2 the bandwidth per system when both system are accessing the DSL line at the same time (We're using NAT routing)
12-17-2002, 04:29 PM
It really depends on how many "users" will be accessing the internet at the same time. If you have 5 computers set up and only one is using it, the speed is not affected. However, if all five are downloading files then your the speed would be devided between them.
At my work, we have 25 computers hooked up to a single DSL line. During a normal day, I rarely see any difference in speed because the usual activity by everyone (not all at once) is browsing web pages. Not downloading large files.
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Wed October 19, 2011
Peace Activist Spurred Prisoner Swap
ROBERT SIEGEL, host: The agreement between Israel and Hamas, to exchange over a thousand Palestinian prisoners for the captured soldier Gilad Shalit, was brought about thanks to a couple of intermediaries. The Egyptians were involved, so were the Germans. But the agreement also depended on some back channel communications between Israelis and Palestinians in Hamas.
Middle East correspondent Patrick Martin of the Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail has written about those communications, and he joins us now from Jerusalem. Welcome to the program.
PATRICK MARTIN: Hi, Robert.
SIEGEL: And let's start with an Israeli. I guess he's a peace activist named Gershon Baskin, and the phone call that he received a few days after Hamas had taken Gilad Shalit captive back in 2005.
MARTIN: Sure, Robert. It's just three days after Gilad Shalit had been abducted. And the phone rings in Gershon Baskin's office and it's this member of Hamas at the university in Gaza, an economist that he met at a conference six months before in Cairo. And they had talked at the conference, gotten to know each other. And he was calling to say: Gershon, we're getting the daylights bombed out of us. We're getting hit hard because of this abduction. Is there anything we might be able to do to try to get the two sides to climb down? Maybe we can get the soldier back to you guys somehow.
And Gershon didn't know what he had in mind. And he said: Well, listen, why don't you try and find the soldier's father, and I'll go and see if the prime minister will speak to me here in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh. So, he did and Gershon found the father. And eventually, by the end of that day, the prime minister in Gaza spoke with the father of Gilad Shalit. And a process began that involved Gershon and Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for Prime Minister Haniyeh, from that day on.
SIEGEL: Yes. The back channel primarily is between the Israeli, Gershon Baskin, and the Palestinian, Ghazi Hamad.
MARTIN: That's right. At that time, Ghazi Hamad was a spokesman and a political adviser for Haniyeh. Gershon on was in fact speaking for himself and trying to get into the door of the prime minister's office to convey some of the messages he was getting from Hamas, with a view that they might be able to settle this prisoner situation.
SIEGEL: At one point, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's representative for this matter, Ofer Dekel, tells Baskin, as you reported, that his involvement was now over. But Baskin is told by an Egyptian general named Nader al-Assar, no, we want to keep on working this thing. Who is Nader al-Assar?
MARTIN: Well, Nader al-Assar at that time was the Egyptian consul at the embassy in Tel Aviv. Now, as Gershon would find out pretty soon, he was a general, in fact, not just the consul. And he was from Egyptian intelligence. And he asked to meet with Gershon. They met a couple of days later in East Jerusalem. And he said to Gershon, Gershon, don't listen to Ofer Dekel. We need someone like you: intelligent, independent who can communicate between the two sides.
So, Gershon continued this. But he wondered, how the devil did this Egyptian know that Ofer Dekel the told him this, and said we don't want to involved anymore.
SIEGEL: Let's flash forward to April of this year when, of course, there's been a huge upheaval in Egypt. And evidently the Israeli prime minister, now it's Benjamin Netanyahu, appoints a new mediator and takes a different interest in the case.
MARTIN: Yeah, this is David Medan. Medan is a senior Mossad fellow in Israel, who's generally not known to anybody in public life, but he was appointed. And as Gershon had done in the past, he contacted that negotiator and said, look, I have this channel of communications into senior levels of Hamas. Would you be interested in it? And for the first time, he found a negotiator who said, tell me about it.
He explained who he was talking to. And, of course, the Mossad man had him checked out, found it was all quite legitimate. So, he invited Gershon to begin communicating to Ghazi Hamad. It's the first time it's really taken seriously. And Gershon told Ghazi, look, after all these years we've finally got somebody who is ready to listen to here. And so the requests were then coming from Hamas and being listened to at the highest levels inside Israel.
SIEGEL: Patrick Martin of The Globe and Mail, the Canadian paper, thanks for talking with us.
MARTIN: Pleasure, Robert.
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MELISSA BLOCK, host: You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.
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I don't know about you, but my kids are always starving when they get home from school. One of my first choices for snacks are fruit! But sometimes my kids get tired of the same old boring after school snacks and they want something different! So I got my creative juices flowing and we created a #smartsnack that incorporates a great after school snack with a fun activity we can all do together; a low sugar fruit turnover recipe using Del Monte fruit cups!
Del Monte Fruit cups offer healthy back to school snack options.
What I love about the Del Monte fruit cups is that they are already perfectly portioned out for each person. The fruit is already prepared so all I need to do as a mom is open the cup and hand the kid a spoon or fork. It's simple yet I know my kids are eating a delicious snack that also is good for them.
The Del Monte Fruit cups are found on the shelves in Walmart near the canned fruits and applesauce. I was surprised to discover they have a few new flavors since the last time I stocked up on some of these! My favorite was definitely the diced peaches with cinnamon and brown sugar. It tasted almost as though I was eating a peach pie filling…almost.
Jade and I took a short trip to Walmart to pick up a few groceries for the house, but mostly to get some of these delicious single serving fruit cups. The boys just started school and we needed more options for after school snacks. But more than that, I wanted a fun activity to do with the boys when they got home.
After our short shopping trip, we barely made it home before the school bus so we were ready to get started as soon as the kids walked through the door. You can see more about our shopping trip from our google+ album, as we documented the entire trip for you!
Del Monte Fruit Cups turnover recipe tutorial, after school activity with kids.
You will want to gather all your ingredients together right away to allow for a quicker prep time. Also if you are using a store purchased crust like me, it will need some time to warm up so that it is pliable.
Once you are ready to begin, start by rolling out the pie crust and cutting it into individual turnover sections. I cut mine into four sections.
Next you will need to select the flavor of turnover you would like. Select the Del Monte fruit cup and drain it of about 3/4 of the juice, then place the fruit onto the turnover center. T.'s fruit of choice was the diced peaches with cinnamon and brown sugar.
J.'s fruit cup of choice was the Diced Pears.
Note: Due to making four turnovers from this one pie crust, each turnover only needed about half of the fruit cup.
Then you need to fold the pie crust over and pinch the sides together sealing in the fruit filling.
Once each turnover is sealed and placed on baking sheet, you will want to lightly brush each one with milk. We use Lactaid milk because my kids have issues with regular milk. But regular milk, Almond milk, coconut Milk, and other milk substitutes work just as well.
Now it's time for one of my boy's favorite steps! You sprinkle each turn over with Cinnamon and Sugar. You don't want to go over board, as the entire point is to have a lower sugar treat.
Don't like Cinnamon? No problem. You don't have to use cinnamon! In fact J. didn't want cinnamon on his diced pears turnover, so he only sprinkled sugar on his.
Make sure to allow your kids to help! That is the best part about this fruit cup turnover recipe! The kids have fun making their after school snack, and also eating it! Besides they take such great pride in their work and experience such a sense of accomplishment!
Now it is time to place them into the oven! You will want to have a preheated oven to 350 degrees. Bake the fruit cup turnovers for 25 minutes or until golden.
Once the fruit cup turnovers are finished you want to allow them to cool before eating as the center will be extremely hot. But just look how delicious they look!
Del Monte Fruit cups, Diced Pears Turnover Recipe
Del Monte Fruit Cups Diced Peaches Turnover Recipe
So you may be asking, do kids actually like these low sugar turnovers? Well, my kids did! They ate them all gone and are excited for making more this upcoming week.
I was actually a little worried about J.'s Diced Pears Turnover, as I have never cooked a dessert with pears before. But actually it was rather pleasant and other than the tiny bit he allowed me to have just to taste it, he ate both of his turnovers rather quickly.
These little Del Monte fruit cups turnover recipe is great for T. He loves treats, but usually he can't handle very much sugar before he is done with it, or gets sick. But this treat was not as sweet and he was able to eat more and enjoy it longer. His Diced Peaches turnover was definitely my favorite! He allowed me a taste.
T. also allowed Jade a small piece of one of his Diced Peaches Turnover. She was in heaven!
Our afternoon was filled with fun, laughter, and sounds of delight as the kids ate their Del Monte Fruit Cups turnover creations. Having fun activities like this with great food definitely makes going back to school a lot easier for the kids to manage!
Will I use Del Monte Fruit cups again?
You bet! My kids loved making these treats, but they also love eating the fruit cups just as they are! In fact I'm already almost out of the diced pears because J. just won't leave them alone!
I'm also considering using these fruit cups in our next batch of fruit leather. They would give a great flavor! You could use only the fruit cups or you can puree them and add them to other fruits for a mixed fruit flavor! You'd just simply puree the fruit and dry in a dehydrator!
To enjoy even more about Del Monte products be sure to visit
Have you tried Del Monte Fruit cups lately?
What were your favorite flavors?
What do you think about our Turnover recipe?
Disclaimer: I am a member of the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™ and Del Monte #CBias #SocialFabric. All opinions and images are 100% my own.
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NetWellness is a global, community service providing quality, unbiased health information from our partner university faculty. NetWellness is commercial-free and does not accept advertising.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Information About ADHD
Hello, I believe my son has ADHD or ADD but hasn`t been proven yet we are working on that with his doctor. I guess my concern now is what do I do if he does have it and how do I help him and can I get something I could read up on about this his doctor didnt give me anything for this?
First, apologies for the time lag between when you sent your question and now. It is wonderful that you want to get informed. Education, along with the love you have for your son, support from family and/or friends, and the help of trained professionals, is what you need to help guide you at this point. I urge you to go to two web sites in particular. The first is the web site for Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD hot link below). There, you will get much information and a lot of support. You can also go to the web site on ADD/ADHD sponsored by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), also below. You have a bit of a rocky road ahead but your quest for knowledge will help smooth it out immensely---and children with ADD/ADHD often have many wonderful things to offer the world. Best of luck to you!
Susan Louisa Montauk, MD
Formerly Professor of Family Medicine
University of Cincinnati
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E-Mail and Access to Information and Privacy Protection
Did you know that e-mails are subject to Access to Information and Protection of Privacy legislation? So are photographs, maps, video recordings and any information in an electronic format, including e-mail.
Rosemary Thorne, Memorial’s Information Access and Privacy Protection (IAPP) Coordinator, receives official requests to the University under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy (ATIPP) Act. ATIPP requests are handled in accordance with the legislation and, from time to time, email records, like any other document produced by employees in carrying out their work responsibilities, may be sought in response to a request.
According to the IAPP Coordinator, “With only a few exceptions, like research data, for example, any record in the custody or control of the University can be requested in an ATIPP request.” Disclosure of records to an ATIPP applicant is subject to exceptions in the ATIPP Act and nothing would be disclosed without consulting the office having custody or control of the record(s) in question.
This tip, plus other material about information access and privacy protection is available on Memorial’s IAPP web site: www.mun.ca/iapp. The recently-launched site sheds light on freedom of information legislation and privacy laws. The FAQs section answers questions like, “How much will it cost to obtain personal information about myself?” and “Can student grade lists be posted?” The Resources section contains general information on privacy, plus resources for administrator, and links to information access and privacy protection advocates worldwide.
As to e-mail being subject to ATIPP requests, the IAPP Office recommends that all employees treat their email correspondence as they would other forms of correspondence. “People tend to treat email casually. The writing and presentation in email may be informal and the tone may be more plain-spoken or less neutral than would be the case in other forms of communication,” said Ms. Smith. As a result, employees may find the prospect of disclosing their email in response to an ATIPP request awkward or discomfiting.
If you are concerned about your email being disclosed, the best advice is to practice good records management techniques:
- treat your email professionally
- delete transitory email (advertising material, spam, duplicates if a master version is kept in an official file, routine notices or messages and other records having short-term or no value once you are finished with them)
- separate personal content from work-related content
- stick to the same focused subject in your email
- protect people’s privacy – avoid sending personal information (of employees, students, or others) by email
While e-mails are a valuable and versatile tool, they also carry privacy risks, since an email containing someone’s personal information can be inadvertently disclosed to people who are not authorized to receive it. Another of the resources available on the IAPP website is “Guidelines for Using Personal Information in Email and Faxes.”
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"The assumption that insects are, by virtue of their size or their lack of an internal skeleton, necessarily simple has frequently beguiled researchers into overly reductionistic hypotheses" (Gould, 83).
The queen mates "once" (over a few days) in her life with 7-17 drones (males), who actually sort of explode and die. She stores the sperm for years (Winston, 209). She lays 1,000 to 1,500 eggs a day (Bonney, 29); unfertilized eggs become drones and fertilized ones become workers. (Who came up with this "the birds and the bees" stuff anyway?)
Almost all honeybees are female (the 40,000 workers and the queen). The only known purpose of the 100s of males is to mate with the queen. These drones are thrown out of the hive before winter so their useless selves don't eat any of the honey. (Yes, the folks at Star Trek are confused about the whole drone/worker thing. Personally, I think American capitalists would find a Borg ship full of highly organized workers far scarier than one full of drones, whom they, no doubt, would like to employ.)
Honeybees communicate with each other (it's all part of the "hive mind," you
know. OK, OK, I'll stop.) They do this through pheromones (excreted odors),
sound produced by vibration of the wings, and through the language of dance.
Using sound and dance, foragers alert the rest of the hive to quality food
sources. They convey the distance (number of waggles and sounds), direction, and
quality (duration of the dance) of the food source. If the food is close, the
dance pretty much just goes in circles and everyone gets the picture. Bees
watching the dance can make a noise and the dancer stops to let the requesting
bee taste the food. The bees can accurately perform the waggle dance regardless
of cross winds or the original path taken to find the food. Indeed, when a scout
bee finds food she makes a beeline back for the hive and somehow manages to
calculate a straight shot.
A bee stinger (Root, 598):
"One of the most amazing attributes of a honey bee colony is its ability to project its foraging operation over an immense area around the hive: at least 100 km2" (Seeley, 47). "If bees were the size of people, the Harvard University biologist Edward O. Wilson once remarked, a single colony could collect nectar and pollen from half the state of Texas" (Buchmann & Nabham, 22).
Bees have a division of labor that is roughly age based (although probably not age driven) (Seeley, 241). Young workers can be found cleaning cells, capping and removing caps on cells with larvae in them, tending to the brood, tending to the queen, receiving nectar, packing pollen, building comb, cleaning the hive, ventilating (through fanning of the wings), and guarding the entrance. Later tasks include foraging for nectar, pollen, water and propolis with bees specializing in one area (Winston, 96). Yes, that Bee Movie stuff about choosing one job for the rest of your life was a big fat lie. I'll leave it to you to decide if it's just a stupid plot device or capitalist propoganda trying to normalize the idea of corporate life sentences.
Honeybees are not domesticated (Gould, 17). This is not because humans haven't tried; the earliest recorded beekeepers were the ancient Egyptians (Gould, 5). Viva la resistance!
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A book about teenagers in China?
They spy on Freemason secret rituals and create a Kung Fu Form?
On June 9, 2009, Coyote, a.k.a. "Buddha Zhen," discovered that the world famous Kung Fu Form, "Lian Bu / Ling Po / Lien Bu," is encoded with secret symbols and handsigns of modern masonry.
Coyote had become a 3rd Degree Master Mason, February 2009. While practicing for his "3rd Degree Proficiency," he discovered that...
So Richard Del Connor wrote a book based on true stories during the Japanese invasion of Japan in 1937 and 1938. Death, murder, rape, Buddhist head shaving ceremonies, Freemason rituals, Japanese invasion and a British Freemason captured and tortured.
LEVEL 1 = survival and search for stability...
LEVEL 2 = religion in your life
LEVEL 3 = ALL religions in your life. ALL nationalities...no prejudice...
When the Original Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha, was enlightened under the Bodhi tree, he became a "Buddha." The word, "Buddha," translates to, "Enlightened Person."
Take a glimpse at what enlightenment is. Get LEVEL 3 = I WANT YOU TO LOVE ME, by American Zen.
11 songs + 12 poems by The Hippy Coyote
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If you survived the sixties as more than a "jock," or a "sosh," you'll enjoy all the flashbacks in this book about L.S.D. tripping and keg parties. The real woodstock generation stories. Where did the hippies come from?
Hang out with the real hippies of 1969. The last of the peaceniks. As the war on drugs became a civil war, as terrorists sought to disrupt the American war machine, and as people tried to think independently and sever themselves from the previous generation...
Download the PDF novel and enjoy it on your computer or print it out and take it to work with you...
2nd Album by
America's First Buddhist Rock Band
There are still some copies of the FIRST RELEASE CDs.
They have a special notice printed on the CDs...
Utah Phase 1 = The Poetry of Level 1 + Level 2 of American Zen
This poetic journal of The Coyote's epic battle in the spiritual brineland of Salt Lake City, includes the lyric sheets used by American Zen to learn/rehearse/and record the songs of their first two albums.
Some of the poems included in UTAH PHASE 1 having not been recited or recorded, are presented for the first time ever in this collection of poems and lyrics written by The Hippy Coyote.
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Inspiring Education came out with its long anticipated report yesterday and the initial response is quite positive. The primary vision is reflected in the three-Es for an educated Albertan: Engaged Thinker, Ethical Citizen and Entrepreneurial Spirit. But a number of themes quickly emerge as being dominant in the report:
- a shift in student outcomes from content to competencies;
- a shift in the role of teachers from knowledge authority to architect of learning;
- changes to the roles, responsibilities and makeup of governance teams;
- moves away from testing students as a form of accountability;
- education that is focussed on the needs of individual learners.
Taken at face value for the relatively vague statements they are, these are all great moves for our education system and will be beneficial for our students.
Generally speaking it is a great report and it is, more than anything else, inspirational. But there are a lot of pitfalls hidden between the lines of the 52 page document.
The first and by far biggest issue for Education Minister Dave Hancock will be managing the expectations of the over 4000 voices who participated in the process and the many stakeholders in the education system. There are a lot of generalisations and ambiguities contained within the report, most of which are positive and easy for people to rally around. This of course means that anyone can take their individual vision, bias or agenda and tuck it into this safe little wrapper called Inspiring Education. Consequently, there will be a lot of people ticked off because their vision – which they believe was included in Inspiring Education – is not being realised.
The second big issue for Hancock is essentially part of the first issue and that is funding. The document contains some pretty big ideas and monumental shifts in direction for the large ship that is Alberta’s Education system. Like changing the course of any big ship, achieving these changes is going to take a whole lot of fuel and a whole lot of time. Government cannot continue to underfund education while purporting to follow a vision for an innovative, responsive, learner-centred public education system. This is simply something that the citizens of Alberta must hold the government to account on. It is an ambitious vision, but education is worth every penny that we invest on it and the government needs to be willing to spend that money regardless of the price of oil.
There are a lot of issues encapsulated in this idea of a learner centred education system, even though there is little doubt that it is the ideal system. The reason we have a factory model of education currently in place is because it’s cheap. When teachers talk about the need to reduce class size, it is because they know they can do much more for each child if they only had more time to spend with each individual. If the entire system is going to be based on individualised instruction and individual needs we are going to need a whole lot more teachers. An associated risk is the notion that technology will be some silver bullet that can be used to fix everything. Teachers will tell you that technology takes time – there is time associated with learning the technology, there is time associated with assessing its validity and usefulness and there is time associated with implementing it. And yet, technology will not be able to replicate the role of teachers as architects of learning. Teachers will still need to spend time with students, assessing their needs, determining outcomes and strategies for learning and assessing that learning. Similarly, teachers will still need to spend time away from students focussing on planning, marking and professional development. Added time means the need for more teachers and that will cost money.
The final big risk is related to this idea of governance. I wholeheartedly agree that the governance model needs to be strongly reconsidered. Community is the reason for public education and the community needs to play a larger role in the governance of their schools. My sense is, this needs to happen at the local level as close to the classrooms as possible. The recent angst in Edmonton over school closures is a prime illustration of why we need to change the system of governance. One of the biggest reasons that Edmonton ended up in this situation is because of a disconnect between the decisions made (albeit decades ago) in urban planning by city hall and the ones made in school placement by education governors. In Finland, the schools are governed by the town councils – I’m not suggesting that is the model that should be used here, but it has a number of advantages that should be taken into consideration. The risk here is that people already perceive this to be an attack on school boards and on local elections. That should not be a concern. What needs to be created is a new model where schools are given more autonomy to make decisions, based on the needs of the students in the school, in consultation with the local community – and the governance model should facilitate that.
I want to end by reiterating my statements at the beginning of this post. Inspiring Education is a good document evolving from some very valuable and authentic work. There are risks that need to be managed, but that is not necessarily a criticism of the report or the process. To borrow some language from the Minister, we are all looking forward to some transformational change that is focussed on the best interests of students. In the end a strong effective public education system is the best investment we can make for the province of Alberta.
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And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;
and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth [him] to know;
and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.
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The Shinto shrines at Ise, nestled in the forests of Japan's Mie prefecture some 60 miles southeast of Kyoto, can strike a first-time visitor as startlingly understated. Many of the traditional Shinto gates, or torii, are unpainted. Simple gravel pathways wind through towering forests of cryptomeria. Even the shrine structures themselves, built in an ancient and austere style unique to Ise, flout the notion that a sacred space must be richly or intricately decorated.
However, it's the very simplicity, the fact that its unspoiled forest envelops the shrine, that makes the shrines at Ise—called jingu by the Japanese—sublime. "When I go there, I feel like I'm back in an ancient world," says Nobuyo Otagaki, a Shinto priestess who visits Ise twice each year. At Ise, she says, she can best connect to the kami, the spirits, gods, and goddesses of Shinto beliefs.
That world, according to myths, goes back to the very dawn of time when the sun goddess, Amaterasu, quarreled with her brother, the god of the ocean and storms. A particularly fearsome exchange had left her hiding in a cave; it wasn't until the other kami coaxed her out with an entertaining dance and a large mirror that she returned the sun's light from its temporary eclipse. That crucial mirror, called yata-no-kagami, became sacred and, the myth goes, eventually made its way to humanity and the shrine at Ise. There it remains to this day and, it's said, Amaterasu continues to reside.
Although only a few select people, such as members of the imperial family, are permitted to see what is said to be the sacred mirror, the belief that it is there helps Ise maintain its place as Japan's most sacred shrine.
And the natural splendor of the setting, said to have been selected by Amaterasu herself, in between oceans and mountains, has served to strengthen that status. During the Edo period (1600-1868), millions would descend upon Ise when rumors circulated that amulets were falling from the sky.
The shrine's pull remains powerful, drawing some6 million visitors a year. Only a sliver of them, though, consider themselves "religious," and most simply buy an amulet and snap a few pictures before departing on tour buses, according to John Nelson, a cultural anthropologist at the University of San Francisco and author of A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine. "Still, in Japan, there's a certain cachet to saying you've been to Ise," he adds.
Part of the appeal is that the shrine is the site of an extraordinary ritual. Every 20 years, all of the wooden shrine structures and many of the artifacts are meticulously disassembled and precisely rebuilt on adjacent lots. The massive undertaking requires funds from shrines across Japan, but the result is remarkable: an ancient shrine that's perpetually renewed. Says Otagaki: "The shrine is very simple. It's silent and there is a sadness in it, but I would say it is gorgeous."
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While Twitter started out as a quick and easy way to send short text messages, it has since evolved in ways its developers never expected, and is now used to get information out from disaster areas, during protests and by politicians during election campaigns.
At SXSWi 2010 Twitter CEO Evan Williams gave his vision of what Twitter is evolving to become.
“‘What is Twitter?’ has always been an ironically difficult question to answer,” says Williams. “We think of Twitter as an information network. It’s often called a social network, but we think of it differently [...]
In yesterday’s Twitter keynote at SXSWi 2010 where CEO Evan Williams announced @anywhere, Williams also took a few moments to talk about the Twitter business model and why Twitter is willing to explore different possibilities.
“One of the lessons I have learned as an entrepreneur is that whatever you assume when you start out, you are wrong,” said Williams. “So the process of building a business or a successful product is about figuring out how you are wrong and correcting it as quickly as possible.”
The Twitter business model is about creating value and creating [...]
Twitter has announced its ‘@anywhere’ platform for websites,which allows site visitors to Tweet and follow from sites including Digg, Amazon and eBay. Check out the video at the bottom of the page.
Speaking at a keynote at SXSWi 2010 Twitter CEO Evan Williams explained how the new “highly anticipated” app platform would integrate Twitter into websites, so you could follow and tweet without having to go to Twitter itself. You will also be able to use Twitter to sign into the site.
Initially @anywhere will be implemented by sites including Amazon, AdAge, Bing, Citysearch, [...]
The ‘Interactive’ part of the annual South by South West conference in Austin, Texas kicks off this Friday.
Known as SXSWi, and running through until Tuesday 16 March, the event brings together web designers, developers, content creators and more, to share ideas, network, announce new products and services, and then hang out in the evenings over barbeque and beer.
The conference features around 200 panels and evening events covering subjects such as social media, interface design, real-time web and much more. The evenings see parties such as the Bigg Digg Shindigg, events hosted by [...]
Each year the World Economic Forum at Davos holds number of technology focused sessions. Last year I moderated a high profile discussion about the next digital experience. This year, Loic Le Meur is hosting a discussion on the growth of social networks.
Participants include Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn, Greylock), Owen Van Natta (MySpace), Gina Bianchini (Ning), Evan Williams (Twitter) and George Colony (Forrester Research) and Don Tapscott (nGenera). Randi Zuckerberg, Jeff Jarvis, Russian super-investor Yuri Milner and others also dropped by to participate.
The room is packed, standing room only, and [...]
Back in December at Le Web, Twitter Director of Platform Ryan Sarver announced that Twitter would be holding the first conference of their own in 2010. Today, they’ve unveiled the details. Called Chirp, the conference will take place April 14 and 15 in San Francisco. Notably, this is exactly one week before Facebook’s big developer conference, f8, which will be April 21 and 22.
Day 1 of the Twitter conference will take place at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater. This day will contain the meat of the schedule. Highlighted talking points include OAuth, streaming, geolocation, business strategies, [...]
In the film Fight Club (the book has a slightly different plot), the members of Project Mayhem’s main goal is to blow up the buildings that contain credit card companies’ records so that everyone’s debt is reset to zero. (Yes, I know this wouldn’t actually work, but never mind that for now.) Yesterday, two Twitter users, Allen Stern and Louis Gray, proposed the same idea for Twitter. That is to say, with the new suggested users list (SUL) now in place, they’d like to see Twitter reset the follower counts of users (either just those that have been on the SUL in the [...]
As you probably heard, yesterday, Twitter rolled out its revamped suggested users list (SUL). The list was a source of much controversy because those on it (including the @TechCrunch account) were assured to gain thousands of followers a day. And many of the accounts on it long enough had over a million followers. Obviously, many users not on it didn’t consider this to be fair — while plenty of those on it also thought it was kind of BS. After all, if you’re on it, and followed by a million people, any link you send out is likely to get many, many more clicks then by someone followed [...]
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NCBI ROFL: Effects of university affiliation and "school spirit" on color preferences: Berkeley versus Stanford.
“The ecological valence theory (EVT) posits that preference for a color is determined by people’s average affective response to everything associated with it (Palmer & Schloss, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 8877-8882, 2010). The EVT thus implies the existence of sociocultural effects: Color preference should increase with positive feelings (or decrease with negative feelings) toward an institution strongly associated with a color. We tested this prediction by measuring undergraduates’ color preferences at two rival universities, Berkeley and Stanford, to determine whether students liked their university’s colors better than their rivals did. Students not only preferred their own colors more than their rivals did, but the degree of their preference increased with self-rated positive affect (“school spirit”) for their university. These results support the EVT’s claim that color preference is caused by learned affective responses to associated objects and institutions, because it is unlikely that students choose their university or develop their degree of school spirit on the basis of preexisting color preferences.”
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Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: Superbowl Special: Sports fans who tailgate are more likely to get drunk.
Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: Perceptions of a tattooed college instructor.
Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: Sport fan identification in obituaries.
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The Tanzanian villagers that Karimu works with often downplay the indispensable contributions of our full Board and our scores of volunteers. The people of Dareda Kati tend, a little embarrassingly, to see Karimu as like a traditional marriage: as, fundamentally, between one man and one woman.
I suspect the villagers’ knowledge that Marianne and I have been married for many years, and that three of our children have visited Dareda Kati, has a lot to do with their over-identification of Karimu with us. Rural Tanzania is a place where life without a family is undreamed of, unless that dream is the nightmare of being orphaned. With four children, Marianne and I fall one or two below the average for Dareda Kati, but at least we make the charts.
Along with the villagers’ satisfaction with this traditional marriage come certain traditional expectations. One of these was underscored by a recent e-mail from our Tanzanian Board member, the extraordinarily efficient Joas Kahembe.
Joas was reporting on a misunderstanding among the Tanzanians about who would benefit from Karimu’s next clean-water project. The Chairman of the Dareda Kati Council, a man named Barnabas, emphasized the significance of his hike, two years ago, through the mountains immediately above the village. Its goal had been for Barnabas, and some Karimu people who hiked with him, to identify possible sources of water for Ufani Primary School and for other parts of the village.
Karimu succeeded in bringing clean water to Ufani School last year. In the view of Barnabas, therefore, those other parts of Dareda Kati must be the intended beneficiaries of the next Karimu water project.
It upset Barnabas that people from a neighboring village, Aiyesam, were claiming this next water project for one of their schools, Bacho Primary. Since Karimu had never done any work in Aiyesam, how could this be?
Although Joas believed Barnabas was wrong, he wasn’t sure. He told Barnabas what he thought could explain Karimu’s sudden interest in Aiyesam, but he also e-mailed Marianne and me for confirmation:
“Marianne became compassionate with the Bacho Primary School pupils when you saw them drinking dirty water from the nearby stream and decided to provide them with clean water.”
This is part of the truth. Marianne and I visited Bacho Primary School two years ago and again last year, both times with other Karimu volunteers, including, in 2011, our Board member, Dr. Susan Hughmanick. Peggy Seltz, Ed Glysson, and Linda Presser may have been with us in 2011, and our older daughter, Greta, last year.
I’m sure I’ve left some people out from both years, and I apologize to them. I don’t remember all of the faces, but I remember vividly that none of us enjoyed the spectacle of the filthy water that pooled just below Bacho Primary. This would have been the only water available to any schoolchild too tired for the strenuous climb into the mountains above the school, where cleaner water can be found.
Joas told Barnabas that Marianne became compassionate because, in the village, she is Mother Marianne. I am Father Don, so my responsibility is not to become compassionate. My job is to listen reasonably to Marianne’s impassioned pleas for the projects requested by the villagers. Then I must choose this project or dismiss that one or say maybe to these others, based on a rational assessment of Karimu’s capabilities.
Oh, well. It’s probably less important to try to explain to the villagers where Karimu’s head and heart lie than to make sure that Karimu has both a head and a heart, and that these work in tandem.
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Matthew Lebo, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. His research focuses on political methodology, public opinion, political campaigns, the influence of the economy on political outcomes, and elections, particularly in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada.
Areas of expertise: the analysis of public opinion and political data over time.
Helmut Norpoth, Ph.D., is internationally recognized for his studies of elections. A member of the Political Science Department at Stony Brook since 1979, he has published widely on voting trends in the U.S., Germany and Great Britain. His research focuses on voter identifications with political parties, the influence of the economy on elections, and historic transformations of electoral patterns. A frequent contributor to The New York Times coverage of voting in presidential and congressional elections, he has also developed a forecast model of elections.
Areas of expertise: Elections (especially the U.S. and Germany); presidential approval; forecasts of elections.
Peter D. Salins, Ph.D., is a former Provost of the State University of New York System, and an internationally recognized scholar in the field of urban policy and planning. Dr. Salins has written and presented extensively on policies affecting New York and other American cities in the fields of housing, urban development, economic planning and immigration. He has been author or editor of five books including: Assimilation, American Style (1997), Scarcity by Design (with Gerard Mildner, 1992), and New York Unbound: The City and Politics of the Future (1988). He has edited a number of scholarly journals including the Journal of the American Planning Association, City Journal and New York Affairs. He serves on the boards of the Lavanburg Foundation, the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York and the Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at Stony Brook University. Dr. Salins is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP), the planning professionís highest status.
Areas of Expertise: Housing and urban development; immigration; New York City policies and trends; higher education.
Jeffrey Segal, Ph.D., a SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department, is an internationally renowned expert on the U.S. Supreme Court. His research focuses on appointing federal judges and why judges decide cases the way they do. He has co-authored seven books, authored or co-authored over fifty articles, and won over a dozen major awards for his research. His most recent books are The Supreme Court in the American Legal System (2005) with Harold Spaeth and Sara Benesh, and Advice and Consent: the Politics of Judicial Appointments (2005) with Lee Epstein).
Areas of Expertise: U.S. Supreme Court, Judicial appointments.
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By Michael Goldstein
By Dennis Romero
By Sarah Fenske
By Matthew Mullins
By Patrick Range McDonald
By LA Weekly
By Dennis Romero
By Simone Wilson
That appeal eliminated some minor requirements, but ultimately left the plan intact, according to Richard Montevideo, an attorney with the law firm of Rutan & Tucker, who represents the group.
The group is pressing the issue in a lawsuit challenging the regional board’s 2001 storm-water permit in Los Angeles Superior Court. Montevideo explained, “Part of our lawsuit seeks to have the standard urban storm-water-mitigation plan declared invalid.”
The coalition’s suit challenges other requirements — including the duty of the cities to inspect businesses and to face enforcement action when water-quality standards are not met. However, development politics may be at the heart of the case.
“When you talk about standard urban storm-water practices, many people believe the environmental groups are pushing a no-growth agenda,” said Montevideo. NRDC’s Beckman counters that the development standards are actually intended to accommodate growth.
The coalition’s primary goal is to overturn the standards. If that fails, however, it would settle for allowing storm water to be cleaned at regional facilities rather than at individual developments, according to Montevideo. Developers would help pay for such regional facilities, though cities would have to operate them on an ongoing basis at public expense.
The coalition also filed a suit in a federal district court to overturn an earlier trash standard set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency that required cities to clean trash off streets and out of storm drains to prevent it from being carried to the beach by storm-water runoff. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong dismissed that suit on May 16, calling the group’s claims “moot, meritless or unripe.” Undeterred, the group is pressing ahead in Los Angeles Superior Court to challenge the regional board’s trash standard, according to Montevideo.
“The problem,” observes Los Angeles attorney David Nahai, who sits on the regional board, “is that their legal expenses are mounting and they’re losing.” The builders lost a suit in state court earlier this year challenging similar development standards included in the storm-water permit for San Diego. ‰
Ironically, the city councils supporting the coalition may not be fully aware of the group’s aims and activities. A series of letters to Montevideo shows that in a rush to meet a legal filing deadline, many city managers authorized participation in the permit appeal before consideration by their elected councils. Moreover, the records show that the coalition actually considered billing cities for a University of Southern California study on the costs of the storm-water rules before those cities had authorized their participation in the project. “I think we should invoice the coalition cities NOW for the USC study,” wrote coalition activist Gerald Caton, city manager of Downey, in a December 14, 2001, e-mail to Farfsing. “You will be surprise [sic] how many cities automatically pay invoices. I would bill each city, [sic] $3,500.”
Caton could not be reached for comment on the e-mail. Farfsing said that at a meeting of the coalition — which was held behind closed doors on the basis of a legal opinion that the group is not subject to the open-meeting rules of the Brown Act — 18 cities agreed to fund the study. Farfsing said he garnered additional participation to raise the requisite $100,000 before sending invoices to the cities for the study.
Meetings of the group are attended by “a mixture” of city representatives, including council members, public-works directors and city managers, according to Farfsing, who said that he sends out regular memos to keep those in the coalition apprised of the group’s activities. “If they read it or don’t read it, I can’t account for that.”
Montevideo said that while he was “uncomfortable with discussing the communications process” between his law firm and the cities in the coalition, “on the lawsuit issue, that is something we felt needed to go to the council[s]. In some cases, some of the councils may have ratified it afterwards.”
South Pasadena — which joined the coalition in 2001 — appears to be among the cities that have paid scant attention, at least at high levels, to the details of the coalition’s efforts. In a brief February 20, 2002, memo, former public works director James R. Van Winkle wrote to the City Council: “The Coalition has submitted invoices to the City in the amount of $5,000 for annual membership dues and $5,000 as South Pasadena’s share of the legal expenses associated with the appeal process. Neither of these actions were anticipated by staff during the development of the current budget.” The council approved the invoices, though one of the two members present during 2001 who remains on the council today could not recall why the city had joined the coalition. “Without having to bone up on it, I couldn’t speak on it intelligently,” said Council Member David Saeta. “I supported the city’s position.”
South Pasadena City Manager Sean Joyce said the cities joining the coalition were concerned about the complexity of the storm-water standards and their potential expense. “Most of the cities have allowed the coalition to take the lead and deferred to their judgment,” said Joyce. However, he said that South Pasadena will be “revisiting” its participation in light of its budget and the recent federal-court decision on the coalition’s lawsuit against the trash standard. “The decision was enlightening,” Joyce said.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to speak Friday at a conference in Wyoming. Investors are looking for clues that the Fed will do more to stimulate the economy.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to speak Friday at a conference in Wyoming. Investors are looking for clues that the Fed will do more to stimulate the economy. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
There are growing concerns that the economic recovery is fading and the U.S. could slide back into recession — the so-called double dip. Recent economic data suggest the housing market is already doing just that.
Investors and economists are worried. They're hoping that Friday at a Federal Reserve conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Chairman Ben Bernanke will signal new Fed action to shore up the economy.
This week's news that existing homes sales fell 27 percent caused many to grab their worry beads and start recalculating the odds of a return to recession.
Sung Won Sohn, a former chief economist at Wells Fargo, says the mess in the housing market, along with stubbornly high unemployment, have caused him to raise the odds of a double dip to 40 percent in his economic forecast.
"So I think the government, both the Obama administration and Chairman Bernanke, need to take some additional action to make sure that we do not slide into another recession fairly soon."
Sohn, who's now a professor at California State University, Channel Islands, says one problem to address is the lack of credit available to small- and medium-size businesses.
"Even when the economy seemed to be doing better earlier this year, small- to medium-size companies were really suffering, so perhaps we can do something to help them out in terms of getting credit, and then help them hire people," he says.
Alan Blinder, a professor at Princeton and former vice chairman of the Fed, says one way for the central bank to help small businesses is to quit paying interest on the trillion dollars in reserves that banks have on deposit at the Fed.
"And, in fact, you don't have to stop at zero; you could actually charge banks for the storage privilege," he says. "The idea is to free up some of this money and get it out into the marketplace. And hopefully some of it finds its way into new bank lending. That's what we really need."
Blinder hopes Bernanke will signal that the Fed is ready to do that in his speech Friday. Blinder also suggests that the Fed could tell bank regulators, who are being tougher in the wake of the financial crisis, to ease up a bit on healthy banks and encourage them to make more loans.
These moves might not have the power of an interest rate cut in normal times, but Blinder says the Fed is running out of options.
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Atom Smasher Could Be Used As Time Machine, Physicists Propose
A worker inside the LHC tunnel working on the large magnets that guide particles around the LHC loop.
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In a 'long shot' theory, physicists propose that the world's largest atom smasher could be used as a time machine to send a special kind of matter backward in time.
The scientists outline a way to use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile long (27-km) particle accelerator buried underground near Geneva, to send a hypothetical particle called the Higgs singlet to the past.
There are a lot of "ifs" to the conjecture, including the major question of whether or not the Higgs singlet even exists and could be created in the machine.
"Our theory is a long shot, but it doesn't violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints," physicist Tom Weiler of Vanderbilt University said in a statement.
However, if the theory proves correct, the researchers say the method could be used to send messages to the past or the future.
Weiler and Vanderbilt graduate fellow Chui Man Ho describe their idea in a paper posted March 7 on the research website arXiv.org.
The Higgs singlet is related to another theorized but not yet detected particle called the Higgs boson. This particle, and its related Higgs field, are thought to confer mass on all the other particles, and its discovery could help scientists answer the question, why do some particles have more mass than others?
The search for the Higgs boson was one of the main motivations for building the LHC in the first place. Since the atom smasher began regular operation last year, it has yet to find evidence of the Higgs boson, but the machine is still ramping up to its peak energies.
If the collider does succeed in producing a Higgs boson, some theories predict that it will create a Higgs singlet at the same time.
This particle may have a unique ability to jump out of the normal three dimensions of space and one dimension of time that we inhabit, and into a hidden dimension theorized to exist by some advanced physics models. By traveling through the hidden dimension, Higgs singlets could reenter our dimensions at a point forward or backward in time from when they exited.
"One of the attractive things about this approach to time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes," Weiler said. "Because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born, for example. However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future."
The test of the researchers' theory will be whether the LHC shows evidence of Higgs singlet particles and their decay products spontaneously appearing. If it does, Weiler and Ho believe that they will have been produced by particles that travel back in time to appear before the collisions that produced them.
The theory is based on M-theory, a "theory of everything" that attempts to unite the forces of nature and describe everything in the universe. It's based on string theory, which posits that all particles are fundamentally made up of tiny vibrating strings.
Theoretical physicists have developed M-theory to the point that it can accommodate the properties of all the known subatomic particles and forces, including gravity, but it requires 10 or 11 dimensions instead of our familiar four. This has led to the suggestion that our universe may be like a four-dimensional membrane or "brane" floating in a multi-dimensional space-time called the "bulk."
According to this view, the basic building blocks of our universe are permanently stuck to the brane and cannot travel in other dimensions.
There are some exceptions, however. Some argue that gravity, for example, is weaker than other fundamental forces because it diffuses into other dimensions. Another possible exception is the proposed Higgs singlet, which responds to gravity but not to any of the other basic forces.
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A local gentleman recently e-mailed The News and demanded to know why the taxpayers' money was
being wasted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which had parked 11 pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles outside a rented office in a Town of Lockport strip plaza.
Filled with 21st Century America's distrust and fear of government, which, we now take for granted, is no longer "of the people, by the people and for the people," the man demanded we not use his name because he was afraid of retaliation.
The pickup trucks were buried in the snow for weeks outside the USDA plum pox office in Towne Square on Dysinger Road. Greg Rosenthal of the USDA said they were assigned to the seasonal staff of that office, who are assigned to investigate the spread of a disease which can kill trees that produce plums and other types of fruit with large pits or stones in the center.
Rosenthal said most of the vehicles originally were assigned to USDA offices in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and when those states were declared plum pox-free, they were transferred here, as the nearest location that actually had some active plum pox. Some cases were found in Newfane last year, although in Lewiston and Porter it has been declared eradicated, Rosenthal said.
The trucks were supposed to be moved every once in a while within the parking lot, but bad weather in January and part of February prevented that. Interestingly, as soon as The News inquired, the vehicles were plowed out and moved to other parking spaces at Towne Square. Two have more than 90,000 miles on them and are to be auctioned off, Rosenthal said, while the others will be at the ready when the plum pox crew gets back to work in April.
-- News Niagara Reporter Thomas J. Prohaska
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Legal experts across the ideological spectrum have speculated on the dangers lurking in Chief Justice John Roberts' narrow opinion in upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. While some disagree on the decision’s potential impact in future cases, it certainly suggests a basis for limiting Congress’ legislative authority. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her strong defense of the constitutionality of the ACA under the Constitution's commerce clause, points out the dangers of Roberts’ approach.
Justice Ginsburg makes two important arguments for upholding the ACA under the commerce clause. First, legal precedent demands that the Court examine federal laws as practical solutions to national problems. In fact, Ginsburg’s concurrence cites Justice Anthony M. Kennedy – who voted against the ACA’s constitutionality – as writing that interstate commerce regulation should be viewed as a “practical” matter.
What this means is that the Court should have considered the ACA in light of the unique circumstances surrounding the nation’s health care crisis (rising cost of insurance and care, increasing number of uninsured Americans, etc.).
The opinion describes multiple states’ attempts to reform the health care industry. Ginsburg notes that most attempts at reform sought to guarantee coverage and access to insurance but failed because individuals would refuse to pay for insurance until they needed it the most, thus driving up insurance costs. Massachusetts, the first state to require that all citizens purchase health insurance, demonstrated that an individual mandate to buy health insurance could control those costs while providing near-universal coverage. Thus, members of Congress knew that any attempt at reform that preserved a major role for private insurers would need a requirement that all Americans purchase insurance.
Viewed as a “practical” matter, the individual mandate was a permissible and necessary exercise of Congress’ power to regulate commerce.
Second, the opinion written by Roberts (and expressed separately by Justices Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito) places unreasonable restrictions on the commerce clause. Justice Ginsburg observes that the Supreme Court’s prior cases on the commerce clause expanded Congress’ powers in regulating activities that have an impact on interstate commerce. The Roberts opinion -- while admitting that activities that substantially affect interstate commerce are subject to the commerce clause -- created unfounded distinctions to limit those powers, arguing that the individual mandate sought to regulate economic inactivity, rather than activity in which people already engage. In reality, 60% of uninsured Americans will seek medical care in any given year, while 90% certainly will within five years, which indicates that even those who choose not to purchase insurance still are participants in the health-care market.
The Constitution, Ginsburg says, clearly affords Congress the authority to regulate a choice that has such a tangible impact on interstate commerce.
The commerce clause is the basis for many important pieces of legislation, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If an uninsured citizen’s refusal to purchase medical insurance, leading to his later medical costs being shifted to others -- what Roberts and the dissent call “inactivity”-- may not be regulated under the commerce clause, what’s next? Will the Court decide that refusing to serve racial minorities at a restaurant or a hotel is also “inactivity”? What about refusing to sell contraceptives? Refusing to install wheelchair ramps? Or deciding not to participate in air-quality controls?
The Roberts Court may have made it a lot easier for opponents of these laws, and many others based on Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce, to challenge them in court. If and when they do, legal experts and the justices themselves will certainly look to the opinions of Roberts, Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito in Affordable Care Act case to determine the limits of congressional authority under the commerce clause.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A much-anticipated Senate committee hearing on same-sex marriage legislation has begun, hours after supporters began lining up in a top-floor State House corridor for a chance to sign up to speak during the hours-long hearing.
The hearing started at 4:47.
The first speaker: Senator Donna Nesselbush, sponsor of the bill to allow same-sex marriage in Rhode Island.
At some point, Governor Chafee, a strong supporter of same sex marriage, is expected to appear in person to speak.
The hearing will focus on two bills. One mirrors a House-passed bill, championed by the state's openly-gay House Speaker Gordon D. Fox, to allow same-gender couples to marry in Rhode Island.
The other seeks a referendum on a proposed amendment to the state constitution to allow any two people to marry, while insulating from suit anyone who refuses to officiate or provide goods and services or accommodations for a same-sex marriage ceremony.
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PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freeman's
, America's oldest auction house, is announced that it will be offering the Estate of Joseph S. Sorger on 5 October, 2010 in Philadelphia. The collection from his home at 2003 Delancey Place was amassed over 70 years and spans the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among the more than 450 works of art to be auctioned are excellent examples of American Classical furniture, American portraits, and Chinese bronzes and porcelain. Like the opulence of the American Classical furniture he was known for, Sorger's taste for architecture, design and furnishings were bold and regal. It was one of Sorger's last wishes that his large and impressive collection be sold by Freeman's, a place where he had purchased so many of his treasures over the years.
Sorger's life ended in November 2008 where it started, in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, where he was a successful business man, respected dealer and passionate collector. He was born in 1919 to German immigrant parents, served in World War II as a Master Sergeant in the 341st Medical Group receiving multiple medals and an honorable discharge, attended the Philadelphia Museum College of Industrial Arts (presently the University of the Arts) graduating with honors in interior and furniture design, then started a flourishing career as a successful interior designer under the tutelage of Elizabeth Bair.
His time spent at Sorger and Schwartz with business partner and lifetime acquaintance Morton Schwartz, often referred to as "Mutt" by those who knew him best, proved to be a successful collaboration. Beginning in the 341st Medical Regiment of World War II, where they stood in line alphabetically, Joe and Mutt cultivated a relationship that included nearly sixty years in business together. Their friends, clients and associates included curators, professors, architects, and collectors from Edward V. Jones, Jed & Jay Johnson and Berry Tracy to Philadelphia's own Harry Burke, Henry McIlhenny and Dr. Robert Smith. As an interior designer, Sorger decorated many high-profile residences in the prestigious Philadelphia neighborhoods of Society Hill and Rittenhouse Square and are included in the private collections of icons like Andy Warhol and Pearl S. Buck, including the museum dedicated to her life and work.
In the winter of 1976, Sorger moved to the prestigious address at 2003 Delancey Place in Philadelphia, purchasing the 1860's five-story home from friend and employer, Elizabeth Bair. The address came with a distinguished history, once being the home of the Patterson family, a prominent Philadelphia family, including Philadelphia Criminal Attorney Christopher "Chippy" Patterson (1875-1933). Throughout the time which the Patterson family occupied the residence, the house was often used for hosting lavish parties and prestigious guests. Reportedly, Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third president of the United States, was included among them.
Sorger loaned and sold objects from his collection to museums from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, the Yale University Art Gallery to the New Jersey gubernatorial mansion, Drumthwackett. He lived his life with the idea that "you don't own anything in this life, you are only a caretaker."
Sorger had an eye for period interiors and the objects that filled them. He spent thirty years decorating his Delancey Place home with antiques. Some of the more notable pieces in Sorger's collection include alabaster figural groups After Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822); a pair of portraits by Lawrence Kilburn (British/American, 1720-1775), of one of America's earliest prominent Jewish couples, Mr. Manuel Josepheson and Mrs. Rachel Josepheson; a collection of impressive chandeliers; pier table attributed to Anthony G. Quervelle (pictured in situ below) and a mahogany carved sofa, attributed to the shop of cabinetmaker Horace Pippitt all to be offered in the auction on 5 October.
While a majority of the property will remain in situ at 2003 Delancey for the preview, a selection of Asian works of art, jewelry and coins will be displayed at Freeman's gallery in conjunction with the English and Continental Furniture and Decorative Arts exhibition. The preview at 2003 Delancey Place is from 1 October through 5 October and entrance will be permitted with a catalogue.
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Aa777jr From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (8 years 7 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2331 times:
I read that AA and BA once tried to merge in the mid 90s. VS was very much opposed to this, and had a "NO AA / BA campaign." Why did the AA/BA merger never happen? Were anti-trust issues already a huge factor pre 9/11? I would have thought with the market as strong as it was in the mid 90's, it would have increase competition to see a merger of this magnitude.
Any comments on why it didn't happen would help me.
Leskova From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 6075 posts, RR: 72 Reply 3, posted (8 years 7 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2286 times:
As far as I recall, the "NO WAY AA/BA" slogan on VS's aircraft wasn't their opinion about an AA/BA merger, but actually their opposition to AA/BA's alliance accross the Atlantic (or, for that much, their alliance in general).
AA and BA have such a high market share from LHR to the US that VS, at the time, said that they'd completely dominate all traffic between the UK and the US, shutting out competition and hurting the consumer (although I always have to smile when I read this line coming from an airline, or any other company - it's not as if airlines were out there to only give the consumer what's best: they're out there to make money).
Keep in mind that BA has quite a hold on it's fortress LHR, and AA doesn't just fly there two or three times a day: if they had been allowed to merge (although I don't recall them actually wanting to merge), that merger would have had to include such high sanctions in the form of giving up slots and routes to the competition to avoid them squeezing out anyone else from LHR that the merger, in turn, would have lost quite a bit of it's value.
Tekelberry From United States of America, joined May 2003, 1459 posts, RR: 5 Reply 4, posted (8 years 7 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2274 times:
No merger or buy out talks. A codeshare agreement for flights between the US and LHR would give AA/BA the majority of market share (about 60%) for those routes as there are only 4 carriers allowed to serve the US from LHR.
Leskova From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 6075 posts, RR: 72 Reply 8, posted (8 years 7 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 2156 times:
Aa777jr, it really depends on the perspective: VS, with it's 30-or-so planes is, on some routes, giving BA quite a run for it's money, with BA undoubtedly being the much larger of the two: yet here they were suddenly in the situation of having a much larger airline with more routes than they've got getting even more - in other word, all the routes that AA offers out of London, which would have increased their dominance to unprecedented levels.
If the choice is between VS and BA, the choice is still somewhat balanced... look at Chicago as an example - I'm not sure if VS was flying there at the time (I know they did for a short time, but I think this was just prior to 9/11), but at the time (and today) there were several flights a day by AA, by BA and by UA - with UA being the only direct competitor (or does AI also offer that route from LHR?)... even if the number of flights and seats were evenly spread throughout these three airlines (BA, AA, UA), then BA & AA would have had two thirds of the market - but BA also flew B747s to ORD and, I think, AA had (and has) more flights between LHR and ORD than UA does, so on this market, AA & BA would have had an overwhelming market power: combine that with the flights that AA has out of ORD and the flights that BA has out of LHR and compare that with VS was able to offer with one or two flights from LHR/LGW to ORD: practically nothing to connect to on either end, so they'd have to rely on o/d-traffic to fill the planes.
But filling your planes with o/d-traffic is also easier of you've got two or three times the flights on a route - there's just so much more flexibility, especially important for premium traffic.
In other words, VS would have gone from being the (somewhat) underdog to being completely overpowered by the competition on a lot of their important routes, with the chances to grow further (to get back to the number of thirty planes) being seriously hampered...
Actually, I considered that slogan to be - in light of other VS marketing campaigns - somewhat tame...
Blink182 From Azerbaijan, joined Oct 1999, 5430 posts, RR: 19 Reply 9, posted (8 years 7 months 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1885 times:
As stated before it was never a full, all out merger.
In the mid-90s as a way to compete with LH/UA, NW/KL, and too an extent, DL/OS/SR/SN (this was before DL/AF), AA and BA wanted to form an alliance that involved full codesharing between the USA and England(LGW/LHR/MAN etc.) and points beyond.
As stated above, VS heavily objected to this, as did just about every other airline that had to compete across the Atlantic with AA and BA. If I am not mistaken, parliament agreed to the alliance, but the US Government ordered a huge slot payment and more US airline access to LHR. AA and BA decided that they would have to give up too much in order to cooperate.
I believe in 1998-2000 the two airlines tried again, and the same result came about. This time AA and BA had a stronger case as by then, DL and AF had formed, or were in the process, of forming the extensive alliance they have today. Nevertheless, the same result as before happened.
Then in 2002-2003, AA and BA requested codesharing out of MAN, GLA, and non-London airports, and this time were granted permission without penalty. Also, codesharing beyond LHR/LGW and US Gateways was given approval, provided that those flights did not cross the Atlantic Ocean. MAN transatlantic codesharign is why AA has started to add 1 or 2 extra flights into MAN.
What I never fully understood, and to this day, don't understand, is why no transatlantic codesharing out of LGW is allowed. True, there would be an AA/BA dominance, but NW/KL dominate out of AMS, DL/AF dominate out of CDG, and LH/UA/US dominate out of FRA. And with NW/CO/DL tying up with KL/AF, is that not a bit of a monopoly? Don't/didn't CO and VS codeshare out of LGW on transatlantics?
LHR I'm not sure should be allowed for transatlantics, but nevertheless, LGW is roughly fair game. As it is, AA only has 3-4 dailies into LGW, which is actually DOWN from what they used to have. I doubt you can say that about UA at FRA, or most certainly, NW at AMS. Nevertheless though, BA has a sizeable US operation, and this may be why LGW is not allowed as AA would be allowed to codeshare on roughly 20 new transatlantic routes. Or, a bunch of those routes would be dropped with BA adding capacity to DFW, start LGW-ORD, LGW-MIA, restart LGW-JFK flights.
The former americanbritishairways.com (now some sight talkign about an all out merger) offered some really good(albeit biased) insight onto the issue. It was a website set up by both airlines to argue their case. Unfortuantely somebody else owns the domain now.
Give me a break, I created this username when I was a kid...
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India recorded a trade deficit of $20 billion in January, one of its highest monthly shortfalls, indicating that challenges on the external front will not subside in a hurry.
Interestingly, the rupee has remained by and large stable in recent months. This trend is a sharp contrast to the nervousness witnessed in mid-2012 when the rupee was almost in free fall. The rupee has gained from Rs.56 per dollar in July to Rs.53/54 now. It has also gained in terms of the real effective exchange rate.
True, a lot has changed on the ground since then, but is that sufficient to alter expectations so dramatically? Alternatively, is the rupee level a real reflection of the fundamentals or is it just the making of a bigger crisis?
Globally, things have changed for the better because of direct or indirect interventions by large central banks such as the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. Consequently, equity markets across the world rose and the stress eased significantly in the debt markets of the troubled euro zone.
For India, while higher readings on the ticker raised investor confidence and market activity, foreign inflows came in handy in supporting the rupee. But all this can change very quickly once again. External finances continue to remain the single biggest source of threat to Indian financial markets—or for that matter to overall financial stability.
The rupee has gained at a time when the last reading on the current account deficit (CAD) was 5.4% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter of the current fiscal. CAD is now widely expected to have been in excess of 6% of GDP in the third quarter. To put numbers into perspective, India needs about $80 billion a year to fund the gap on the current account.
Therefore, if the numbers are anything to go by, the rupee should have been depreciating. But that is not the case and the reasons are not very difficult to identify. The developed countries are busy competing with each other in devaluing their currencies and, as a consequence, flooding the world with cheap cash. Some of it is landing on Indian shores as capital flows. Strong capital flows are bridging the gap created by the current account and holding up the rupee. However, this easy money will not last forever, and even if it does for a considerable period, it poses a different set of challenges.
A sudden stop or a slower pace of inflows can quickly turn the tables for the rupee. Though the liquidity in the global financial system is expected to remain comfortable, surprises in fragile economic conditions can emerge anywhere, any time. Tensions in the international financial markets could potentially rise due to slow progress over budget talks in the US, or due to differences in bailing out a country as small as Cyprus in the euro zone.
Even if it is assumed that India will keep borrowing easily by liberalizing the capital account to fund the current account and push currency to higher levels, the idea is being increasingly questioned. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), so far, has maintained that it will only intervene in the currency market to curb volatility and not to manipulate the exchange rate.
This exchange rate policy is advisable in ideal conditions, but the present conditions are a lot different from those that find mention in the textbooks. The exchange rate policy, therefore, needs a critical examination. Writing in The Hindu Business Line on 24 January, former deputy governor of RBI S.S. Tarapore noted: “With the inflation rate persistently above that in major industrial countries, the rupee is clearly overvalued. Adjusting for inflation rate differentials the present nominal dollar-rupee rate of around $1 = Rs.54 should be closer to $1 = Rs.70. But our macho spirits want an appreciation of the rupee which goes against fundamentals.”
An overvalued currency will continuously increase import dependence of the country and could turn the high CAD into a structural problem, undermining financial stability and growth. Therefore, no matter which way one looks at it, the currency and the external account remains potential source of risk.
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Access by individuals to records maintained about them.
(a) Access to available records. An individual who seeks access to records about himself or herself in a system of records must submit a written request in person or by mail to the Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Officer at the location where the records are maintained. If the location is unknown, the request may be submitted to the nearest Service office or to the Headquarters FOIA/PA Officer, 425 I Street, NW., Washington, DC 20536. The outside of the envelope should be marked “Privacy Act Request.” A Form G-639, Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Request may be used for convenience and to facilitate identification of the record requested. However, a request may be made in any written form and should clearly identity the record sought by the name and any other personal identifiers for the individual (such as the alien file number or Social Security Account Number), date and place of birth, and type of file in which the record is believed to be located.
(b) Verification of identity. The following standards are applicable to any individual who requests records concerning himself, unless other provisions for identity verification are specified in the published notice pertaining to the particular system of records.
(1) An individual seeking access to records about himself in person shall establish his identity by the presentation of a single document bearing a photograph (such as a passport, Permanent Resident Card or identification badge) or by the presentation of two items of identification which do not bear a photograph but do bear both a name and address (such as a driver's license, or credit card).
(2) Individuals seeking access to records about themselves by mail shall establish their identify by submitting a notarized signature along with their address, date of birth, place of birth, and alien or employee identification number if applicable. Form DOJ 361, Certification of Identity, may be obtained from any Service office and used to obtain the notarized signature needed to verify identity.
(c) Verification of guardianship. The parent or guardian of a child or of a person judicially determined to be incompetent and seeking to act on behalf of such child or incompetent, shall, in addition to establishing his own identity, establish the identity of the child or other person he represents as required in paragraph (b) of this section, and establish his own parentage or guardianship of the subject of the record by furnishing either a copy of a birth certificate showing parentage or a court order establishing the guardianship.
(d) Accompanying persons. An individual seeking to review records pertaining to himself may be accompanied by another individual of his own choosing. Both the individual seeking access and the individual accompanying him shall be required to sign the required form indicating that the Service is authorized to discuss the contents of the subject record in the presence of both individuals.
(e) Specification of records sought. Requests for access to records, either in person or by mail, shall describe the nature of the records sought, the approximate dates covered by the record, the system in which it is thought to be included as described in the “Notice of Systems of Records” published in the Federal Register, and the identity of the individual or office of the Service having custody of the system of records. In addition, the published “Notice of Systems of Records” for individual systems may include further requirements of specification, where necessary, to retrieve the individual record from the system.
(f) Agreement to pay fees. In accordance with 28 CFR 16.3(c) a requester automatically agrees to pay fees up to $25.00 by filing a Privacy Act request unless a waiver or reduction of fees is sought. Accordingly, all letters of acknowledgement must confirm the requester's obligation to pay.
[40 FR 44481, Sept. 26, 1975; 40 FR 46092, Oct. 6, 1975, as amended at 42 FR 33025, June 29, 1977; 48 FR 49653, Oct. 27, 1983; 58 FR 31149, June 1, 1993; 63 FR 70315, Dec. 21, 1998]
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Last Updated: Friday - 09/24/2010
Week of March 15, 1999
WCR Letters to the Editor
Young altar servers welcomed
Re: "Encourage teens to be altar servers" (WCR Feb. 22). There are several misleading statements made in this letter.
This letter states that the only lay ministers reading the Word or helping with the Holy Communion are in the 39-to-62-year age bracket, which would also lead us to believe that there are no lectors under the age of 39.
This is simply not true, as Sundre's lectors range in age from 12 to over 65, with at least four lectors under 18. Everyone who is capable is welcomed and encouraged to participate in the ministry.
We believe that the acolytes or adult servers who serve Holy Communion should be 18 or older, and again everyone who is capable is encouraged and invited to participate in this ministry.
To suggest that the altar servers are lucky if they can light or blow out candles is also false. The altar servers do light and blow out the candles every week. They participate in the entire Mass as altar servers, which is a service we are very grateful for.
All teenagers in the parish community of Sundre are encouraged to be active participants in the Church by coming to youth group, reading at Mass, participating in stations of the cross, and taking part in youth Masses. Many do so eagerly.
Families with teens bring up gifts, teens hand out bulletins, teens can even take up collections, and now up to two teens are also allowed to sit on parish council.
I would agree with the writer that we have a duty to attract teenagers to the altar and priesthood but hopefully first and foremost to God through Jesus Christ by the faithful example of their parents or guardians.
Parish Pastoral Council
Our parish has young ministers too
I am writing in response to the letter by Mary Feddema "Encourage teens to be altar servers" in the Feb. 22 WCR.
In her letter Feddema stated that "The only lay ministers we see reading the Word or helping with Holy Communion are in the 39-to-62 plus bracket.
I myself am 20 and I regularly help by handing out Holy Communion in my parish. I also know of a great number of young people in other parishes who serve their community through handing out Holy Communion, and reading God's Word.
Even among those who are not exceptionally young (as in up to 25), there are a great number who are far from 40.
I am not saying that we shouldn't encourage our young people to serve in their parishes - this would be a very rewarding experience for them - but I am saying that Feddema was incorrect in her statement.
Anti-Catholic rhetoric in Parliament
I was surprised and disappointed at the anti-Catholic remarks made by MP Steve Mahoney (Mississauga West) in the House of Commons last week during the stay-at-home parents debate.
Mahoney attacked MP Jason Kenney (Calgary West), a Catholic and former member of the board of the Catholic Civil Rights League who is single and who sponsored a family motion to end the income tax discrimination against single-income families with children.
Surprisingly Mahoney said: "For that member (Kenney) to stand here and talk about the issue of stay-at-home parents is like a Catholic priest acting like a marriage counsellor, so I don't think we have to take what he says too seriously."
Michael Schwartz, a former director of the Public Affairs for the Catholic League and Civil Rights (U.S.), recently asked why is it that "Tolerant, enlightened people, people of good will and decency, become angry at the suggestion that anti-Catholicism may still be a problem.
"They will rise up in righteous indignation at the slightest hint of racism, anti-Semitism, sexism or any other discernable prejudice - except for prejudice against Catholics."
Similarly, U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan expressed puzzlement that anti-Catholicism is "the one form of bigotry which liberalism still curiously seems to tolerate."
Mahoney's representation of the people in Mississauga West leaves a lot to be desired not to mention his hurtful performance in the House of Commons.
Catholic Civil Rights League
Way of Cross ignores right to life
Last year during the annual Outdoor Way of the Cross, I was encouraged to hear the right to life mentioned in the opening remarks. With the ever-increasing influence of a culture of death in our society we know that prayer is essential if we are to effectively address the injustices that result from violations against life.
Thus, it seemed appropriate that the sanctity of life would be included as one of the areas of concern at this social justice prayer event.
Regrettably, my optimism was diminished after learning of this ecumenical organizing committee's decision to exclude right-to-life issues from this year's Way of the Cross. It is difficult to understand why a dedicated Christian group would make such a decision in light of the persistent assault against the sanctity of life.
As we enter the final months of our three-year preparation for the Jubilee 2000, it is sad to note that such an important seed of social justice concern, which was planted during the year of the Holy Spirit, does not seem to have taken root.
A barrel over the falls
I was intrigued by the Chat Page article by Marie-Therese Spindler entitled "We need to respect the priesthood" (WCR, March 1).
It takes seven years to become a priest. That's quite a commitment both personally and financially. The man who enters the priesthood must have blind trust in the Lord. The graces will be there for those who follow him in religious life.
All the Lord is asking him to do is jump into a barrel and go over the falls.
The Lord promises him that he will be with him in the barrel. He also promises him one hell of a thrill and one hell of a ride.
Vatican should explain stand on Pinochet
It was with great sadness I read the WCR of March 1. I had hoped that the WCR would enlighten me as to the reasons the pope had written the British government in what had been reported as support for Pinochet to be sent to Chile.
As I understand the situation, if Pinochet is extradited to Spain he will stand trial for directly ordering or approving the execution and torture of the thousands of people while he was dictator of Chile.
If he is extradited to Chile he will not need to stand trial and will receive support from many influential and wealthy sources which benefitted from his regime.
In condemning what he has called the "culture of death," the pope has my support. I could understand the pope urging Britain to not seek vengeance, but the perception is that the Vatican wishes to protect Pinochet by not allowing him to stand trial at all.
It is important that the crimes for which Pinochet has been accused be condemned. No sovereign nation has the right to torture and kill its citizens just as no one has the right to kill an unborn child or put an aging parent to death.
Why do my Church leaders say that the letter is confidential and we will know the contents at an "opportune time"? I have a need to know that my Church condemns these unspeakable crimes.
By not allowing us an insight into the content of this letter or the rationale behind it, the pope's stance on abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty look like hollow hypocritical posturing. We need better moral leadership in our society than that.
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The following was written by Sue Knesel, an American librarian working in Wyoming. Sue originally posted this message on the ya-yaac mailing list, and has graciously permitted me to reproduce her words here.
I started a teen area about 15 years ago now- coming from Children’s Services. We carved space next to the reference area. It quickly became apparent we hadn’t done our team building as the Reference staff was aghast with the noise level, traffic etc… to make a long story short we gathered all staff for an in-service, let them vent, apologized. An adolescent counselor to spoke about healthy teen development (that they travel in packs is healthy – worry about the loner we all love in the library), and where teens are developmentally.
Then we focused on the 40 Developmental Assets and had the whole staff work on recognizing the role that libraries and all staff play when dealing with teens.
We also had a strong message about these are our future patrons and we’d all like to have our jobs down the road. We handed them tools, such as 10 Hints for Working with Teens (Serving Young Adults, Patrick Jones). Part of the day was to write down five good/bad things the staff remembered from being a teen and would they like to be one again – no one wanted to go through that again. We now use an abbreviated version for new staff training. This couldn’t have happened if my administration didn’t buy in that all the staff serves all the patrons and it wasn’t just a youth services problem. We gave them role playing to help them learn to interact with teens and set boundaries that worked for the library, teens and staff. Part of the problem we discovered was the staff had no tools, no input and they were totally unprepared. I was dealing with staff threatening to quit, not mine but other departments’.
Another concern is even if we are nice and respectful towards the teens it only takes one staff person to put the teens off and that is what they remember and they talk about. I had a staff member identified by teens. Teens even figured out when that staff member worked and would not come to the library that night – straight from a parent who was concerned…(that was an issue that almost went to the Library Board).
So, all staff needs to be on the same page, just like I’m sure YA/Children staff serve adults with the same level of courtesy we serve youth. So it needs to go both ways. That was clearly said by my director to get all of the staff’s attention.
As far as rules – I like this quote “Rules Without Relationships = Rebellion” – Our “rules” had input from teen volunteers and they approved them and that is on our signs.
I keep a binder of readings, information and thoughtful articles that I always want my staff to read and it really comes in handy when needing “fact” to educate administration. Below are some articles from my reading binder that might help with your staff.
Some of my resources:
-YALSA Guidelines for Library Services to Teens
-Somewhere to Walk and Someone to Walk With, Jami Jones VOYA Feb 2007
-Teenagers Are Not Luggage: They Don’t Need Handling by Edward Sullivan, Public Libraries [USA] March/April 2001
This was on a piece of paper that came from a long ago workshop and I can’t give credit – sorry.
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The Omega plan
Most enterprises—whether business, government, or exploration—have a Plan B to fall back on. To date, BP has attempted Plans B through N. Yet it is the last ditch plan-the Omega plan-that hold the greatest risk. Yet that plan may be the final hope to stop what some insiders now consider a catastrophe that could culminate with a world-killing mass extinction event that modern civilization could not survive.
At a super-secret security base-CFB Suffield-located in southern Alberta, Canada, area reports indicate that high level engineers, physicists and military scientists are feverishly working to complete an ‘explosively pumped flux compression generator’ (EPFCG).
According to published scientific papers [see sources below] an EPFCG generator can be powered by a very small, controlled fusion explosion-in other words, a tiny nuclear bomb.
Why the UK based BP has set up operations at CFB-Suffield is obvious: The company already runs three oil rigs on the base, have worked with Canada’s chemical and biological efforts on and off for almost 40 years, and have strong ties to the Commonwealth’s infrastructure.
The CFB Base, which incorporates DRDC Suffield, is one of six Canadian military
Why BP is readying a 'super weapon' to avert escalating Gulf nightmare
by Terrence Aym
In a desperate attempt to stop a huge area of the Gulf ocean floor from possibly rupturing due to subterranean methane gas
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Who is God?
There is no other question as important to us than who God really is.
Mankind has spent thousands of years trying to come to a conclusion on its own, but never succeeded. It is because the answer to this question cannot be found in man. It has to be found in the relationship that we have with God.
We need to have a living relationship with God before we can become confident in who He is. Here are two things that can help us understand who our Heavenly Father is.
First of all, God is the creator of all we know. This one point keeps many from understanding Him. We have to come to the realization that who we are and what we know are based on who we were designed to be.
In Genesis 1, God said “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.” There is no greater compliment than to be a representation of someone’s likeness.
In many parks around our country, monuments have been set up to honor those of great importance We have been created as a living monument to the image of God, Himself. He loves us so much that He is willing to invest Himself in our very being.
Secondly, God is our provider. It does not matter how large or small the need is, we can know God truly cares about every need we may have.
In Matthew 6, Jesus exhorts us by saying: “For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.” The heart of God knows our desires, and nothing is too big or too small for His attention.
At this time of year, we reflect on the most important need of man the need of a savior. God, in His wisdom, invested Himself in us and gave us His Son as a savior to fulfill the ultimate need of man.
If we really want to know who God is, we must go back to the cross to find the answer. Remember what Jesus told in Matthew 11:27: “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”
It is through Jesus that we have our answer to the question first posed “Who is God?”
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A good few of Dr Grumble's readers take the view that the NHS is an inefficient behemoth and the more it can be privatised the better. It is a reasonable view to take. They could be right. They might well be wrong. What grieves Dr Grumble most is the lack of public debate on the topic. Reading between the lines of what New Labour has done and what the Conservatives seem to think they should have done more of, it seems to Grumble that the only major difference between the two parties is the rate at which they think the privatisation process should proceed. But you have to read between the lines. Privatisation of the NHS is not something either party wants to be explicit about.
One of Dr Grumble's colleagues, Professor Parrot, takes the view that it has been easier for New Labour to move towards NHS privatisation than it would have been for the Conservatives. Rightly or wrongly Labour is more trusted as a custodian of the traditional NHS than the Conservatives. The paradox is that the NHS could just be safer in Conservative hands. Whatever they say we all know the Tories are not really the party of NHS. In the event of a Conservative government an untrusting public would be on the lookout for shenanigans and privatisation of the NHS would be high on their watch list. Any 'progress' in this direction would have to be very cautious.
How far has Labour be able to expedite its covert privatisation plans? The figure below from the Department of Health gives an idea. Since the election of Tony Blair, spending on the purchase of healthcare from non-NHS bodies has gone up over fivefold.
Many of the Grumble readers might think this is a good thing. And they could be right. But health services managers might not be so enthusiastic. Take a look below at the views of these top managers on the role of markets and competition to increase quality.
OK. Dr Grumble can hear his critics. The table just shows the views of health service managers. What else would these people say? But they weren't just NHS managers. The managers whose views were surveyed came from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Just like Dr Grumble they do not think that the use of markets and competition is a particularly good way of improving quality. Top of the list for improving quality the most was better coordination of care. How is piecemeal privatisation going to achieve that? What kind of structure would you think is best to achieve better coordination of care? Dr Grumble will leave you to decide.
Department of Health Annual Report 2009 (pdf)
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ABOUT noon the next day the boys arrived at the dead tree; they had come for their tools. Tom was impatient to go to the haunted house; Huck was measurably so, also - but suddenly said:
"Lookyhere, Tom, do you know what day it is?"
Tom mentally ran over the days of the week, and then quickly lifted his eyes with a startled look in them -
"My! I never once thought of it, Huck!"
"Well, I didn't neither, but all at once it popped onto me that it was Friday."
"Blame it, a body can't be too careful, Huck. We might 'a' got into an awful scrape, tackling such a thing on a Friday."
"MIGHT! Better say we WOULD! There's some lucky days, maybe, but Friday ain't."
"Any fool knows that. I don't reckon YOU was the first that found it out, Huck."
"Well, I never said I was, did I? And Friday ain't all, neither. I had a rotten bad dream last night - dreampt about rats."
"No! Sure sign of trouble. Did they fight?"
"Well, that's good, Huck. When they don't fight it's only a sign that there's trouble around, you know. All we got to do is to look mighty sharp and keep out of it. We'll drop this thing for to-day, and play. Do you know Robin Hood, Huck?"
"No. Who's Robin Hood?"
"Why, he was one of the greatest men that was ever in England - and the best. He was a robber."
"Cracky, I wisht I was. Who did he rob?"
"Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like. But he never bothered the poor. He loved 'em. He always divided up with 'em perfectly square."
"Well, he must 'a' been a brick."
"I bet you he was, Huck. Oh, he was the noblest man that ever was. They ain't any such men now, I can tell you. He could lick any man in England, with one hand tied behind him; and he could take his yew bow and plug a ten-cent piece every time, a mile and a half."
"What's a YEW bow?"
"I don't know. It's some kind of a bow, of course. And if he hit that dime only on the edge he would set down and cry - and curse. But we'll play Robin Hood - it's nobby fun. I'll learn you."
So they played Robin Hood all the afternoon, now and then casting a yearning eye down upon the haunted house and passing a remark about the morrow's prospects and possibilities there. As the sun began to sink into the west they took their way homeward athwart the long shadows of the trees and soon were buried from sight in the forests of Cardiff Hill.
On Saturday, shortly after noon, the boys were at the dead tree again. They had a smoke and a chat in the shade, and then dug a little in their last hole, not with great hope, but merely because Tom said there were so many cases where people had given up a treasure after getting down within six inches of it, and then somebody else had come along and turned it up with a single thrust of a shovel. The thing failed this time, however, so the boys shouldered their tools and went away feeling that they had not trifled with fortune, but had fulfilled all the requirements that belong to the business of treasure-hunting.
When they reached the haunted house there was something so weird and grisly about the dead silence that reigned there under the baking sun, and something so depressing about the loneliness and desolation of the place, that they were afraid, for a moment, to venture in. Then they crept to the door and took a trembling peep. They saw a weed-grown, floorless room, unplastered, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, a ruinous staircase; and here, there, and everywhere hung ragged and abandoned cobwebs. They presently entered, softly, with quickened pulses, talking in whispers, ears alert to catch the slightest sound, and muscles tense and ready for instant retreat.
In a little while familiarity modified their fears and they gave the place a critical and interested examination, rather admiring their own boldness, and wondering at it, too. Next they wanted to look up-stairs. This was something like cutting off retreat, but they got to daring each other, and of course there could be but one result - they threw their tools into a corner and made the ascent. Up there were the same signs of decay. In one corner they found a closet that promised mystery, but the promise was a fraud - there was nothing in it. Their courage was up now and well in hand. They were about to go down and begin work when -
"Sh!" said Tom.
"What is it?" whispered Huck, blanching with fright.
"Sh! ... There! ... Hear it?"
"Yes! ... Oh, my! Let's run!"
"Keep still! Don't you budge! They're coming right toward the door."
The boys stretched themselves upon the floor with their eyes to knot-holes in the planking, and lay waiting, in a misery of fear.
"They've stopped.... No - coming.... Here they are. Don't whisper another word, Huck. My goodness, I wish I was out of this!"
Two men entered. Each boy said to himself: "There's the old deaf and dumb Spaniard that's been about town once or twice lately - never saw t'other man before."
"T'other" was a ragged, unkempt creature, with nothing very pleasant in his face. The Spaniard was wrapped in a serape; he had bushy white whiskers; long white hair flowed from under his sombrero, and he wore green goggles. When they came in, "t'other" was talking in a low voice; they sat down on the ground, facing the door, with their backs to the wall, and the speaker continued his remarks. His manner became less guarded and his words more distinct as he proceeded:
"No," said he, "I've thought it all over, and I don't like it. It's dangerous."
"Dangerous!" grunted the "deaf and dumb" Spaniard - to the vast surprise of the boys. "Milksop!"
This voice made the boys gasp and quake. It was Injun Joe's! There was silence for some time. Then Joe said:
"What's any more dangerous than that job up yonder - but nothing's come of it."
"That's different. Away up the river so, and not another house about. 'Twon't ever be known that we tried, anyway, long as we didn't succeed."
"Well, what's more dangerous than coming here in the daytime! - anybody would suspicion us that saw us."
"I know that. But there warn't any other place as handy after that fool of a job. I want to quit this shanty. I wanted to yesterday, only it warn't any use trying to stir out of here, with those infernal boys playing over there on the hill right in full view."
"Those infernal boys" quaked again under the inspiration of this remark, and thought how lucky it was that they had remembered it was Friday and concluded to wait a day. They wished in their hearts they had waited a year.
The two men got out some food and made a luncheon. After a long and thoughtful silence, Injun Joe said:
"Look here, lad - you go back up the river where you belong. Wait there till you hear from me. I'll take the chances on dropping into this town just once more, for a look. We'll do that 'dangerous' job after I've spied around a little and think things look well for it. Then for Texas! We'll leg it together!"
This was satisfactory. Both men presently fell to yawning, and Injun Joe said:
"I'm dead for sleep! It's your turn to watch."
He curled down in the weeds and soon began to snore. His comrade stirred him once or twice and he became quiet. Presently the watcher began to nod; his head drooped lower and lower, both men began to snore now.
The boys drew a long, grateful breath. Tom whispered:
"Now's our chance - come!"
"I can't - I'd die if they was to wake."
Tom urged - Huck held back. At last Tom rose slowly and softly, and started alone. But the first step he made wrung such a hideous creak from the crazy floor that he sank down almost dead with fright. He never made a second attempt. The boys lay there counting the dragging moments till it seemed to them that time must be done and eternity growing gray; and then they were grateful to note that at last the sun was setting.
Now one snore ceased. Injun Joe sat up, stared around - smiled grimly upon his comrade, whose head was drooping upon his knees - stirred him up with his foot and said:
"Here! YOU'RE a watchman, ain't you! All right, though - nothing's happened."
"My! have I been asleep?"
"Oh, partly, partly. Nearly time for us to be moving, pard. What'll we do with what little swag we've got left?"
"I don't know - leave it here as we've always done, I reckon. No use to take it away till we start south. Six hundred and fifty in silver's something to carry."
"Well - all right - it won't matter to come here once more."
"No - but I'd say come in the night as we used to do - it's better."
"Yes: but look here; it may be a good while before I get the right chance at that job; accidents might happen; 'tain't in such a very good place; we'll just regularly bury it - and bury it deep."
"Good idea," said the comrade, who walked across the room, knelt down, raised one of the rearward hearth-stones and took out a bag that jingled pleasantly. He subtracted from it twenty or thirty dollars for himself and as much for Injun Joe, and passed the bag to the latter, who was on his knees in the corner, now, digging with his bowie-knife.
The boys forgot all their fears, all their miseries in an instant. With gloating eyes they watched every movement. Luck! - the splendor of it was beyond all imagination! Six hundred dollars was money enough to make half a dozen boys rich! Here was treasure-hunting under the happiest auspices - there would not be any bothersome uncertainty as to where to dig. They nudged each other every moment - eloquent nudges and easily understood, for they simply meant - "Oh, but ain't you glad NOW we're here!"
Joe's knife struck upon something.
"Hello!" said he.
"What is it?" said his comrade.
"Half-rotten plank - no, it's a box, I believe. Here - bear a hand and we'll see what it's here for. Never mind, I've broke a hole."
He reached his hand in and drew it out -
"Man, it's money!"
The two men examined the handful of coins. They were gold. The boys above were as excited as themselves, and as delighted.
Joe's comrade said:
"We'll make quick work of this. There's an old rusty pick over amongst the weeds in the corner the other side of the fireplace - I saw it a minute ago."
He ran and brought the boys' pick and shovel. Injun Joe took the pick, looked it over critically, shook his head, muttered something to himself, and then began to use it. The box was soon unearthed. It was not very large; it was iron bound and had been very strong before the slow years had injured it. The men contemplated the treasure awhile in blissful silence.
"Pard, there's thousands of dollars here," said Injun Joe.
"'Twas always said that Murrel's gang used to be around here one summer," the stranger observed.
"I know it," said Injun Joe; "and this looks like it, I should say."
"Now you won't need to do that job."
The half-breed frowned. Said he:
"You don't know me. Least you don't know all about that thing. 'Tain't robbery altogether - it's REVENGE!" and a wicked light flamed in his eyes. "I'll need your help in it. When it's finished - then Texas. Go home to your Nance and your kids, and stand by till you hear from me."
"Well - if you say so; what'll we do with this - bury it again?"
"Yes. [Ravishing delight overhead.] NO! by the great Sachem, no! [Profound distress overhead.] I'd nearly forgot. That pick had fresh earth on it! [The boys were sick with terror in a moment.] What business has a pick and a shovel here? What business with fresh earth on them? Who brought them here - and where are they gone? Have you heard anybody? - seen anybody? What! bury it again and leave them to come and see the ground disturbed? Not exactly - not exactly. We'll take it to my den."
"Why, of course! Might have thought of that before. You mean Number One?"
"No - Number Two - under the cross. The other place is bad - too common."
"All right. It's nearly dark enough to start."
Injun Joe got up and went about from window to window cautiously peeping out. Presently he said:
"Who could have brought those tools here? Do you reckon they can be up-stairs?"
The boys' breath forsook them. Injun Joe put his hand on his knife, halted a moment, undecided, and then turned toward the stairway. The boys thought of the closet, but their strength was gone. The steps came creaking up the stairs - the intolerable distress of the situation woke the stricken resolution of the lads - they were about to spring for the closet, when there was a crash of rotten timbers and Injun Joe landed on the ground amid the debris of the ruined stairway. He gathered himself up cursing, and his comrade said:
"Now what's the use of all that? If it's anybody, and they're up there, let them STAY there - who cares? If they want to jump down, now, and get into trouble, who objects? It will be dark in fifteen minutes - and then let them follow us if they want to. I'm willing. In my opinion, whoever hove those things in here caught a sight of us and took us for ghosts or devils or something. I'll bet they're running yet."
Joe grumbled awhile; then he agreed with his friend that what daylight was left ought to be economized in getting things ready for leaving. Shortly afterward they slipped out of the house in the deepening twilight, and moved toward the river with their precious box.
Tom and Huck rose up, weak but vastly relieved, and stared after them through the chinks between the logs of the house. Follow? Not they. They were content to reach ground again without broken necks, and take the townward track over the hill. They did not talk much. They were too much absorbed in hating themselves - hating the ill luck that made them take the spade and the pick there. But for that, Injun Joe never would have suspected. He would have hidden the silver with the gold to wait there till his "revenge" was satisfied, and then he would have had the misfortune to find that money turn up missing. Bitter, bitter luck that the tools were ever brought there!
They resolved to keep a lookout for that Spaniard when he should come to town spying out for chances to do his revengeful job, and follow him to "Number Two," wherever that might be. Then a ghastly thought occurred to Tom.
"Revenge? What if he means US, Huck!"
"Oh, don't!" said Huck, nearly fainting.
They talked it all over, and as they entered town they agreed to believe that he might possibly mean somebody else - at least that he might at least mean nobody but Tom, since only Tom had testified.
Very, very small comfort it was to Tom to be alone in danger! Company would be a palpable improvement, he thought.
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Wondering just how popular your first choice is? Thanks to the Internet, the answer is at your fingertips. When we surveyed over 4,000 parents and parents-to-be about their naming process, we found that 8 percent of those who plugged their name choices into a search engine changed their mind as a result of what they found – and overpopularity was one of the most common reasons for the switch.
"Our first choice turned out to be the number one name in the most recent census," says one mom. Another explains, "I didn't want names in or near the top ten, so we crossed off the names on our list that we discovered were super popular."
Yet another survey participant found that her favorite name had recently been given to a celebrity's baby. Anticipating a star-powered rise in popularity, she tossed the name into the reject pile.
One easy way to gauge the popularity of your top choice is to look it up in our Baby Names Finder. You'll see the name's rank now and how it's fared over the past decade – plus get suggestions for similar names if you want to find a twist that's more unique.
If your unborn baby has an older sibling or two, try this exercise – say your baby's potential name together with your other children's names, as in, "Mark and Sandy, time for bed!" If the combination has a nice ring to it, great. If not, well… it's something to think about. You'll be saying their names together a lot.
"I made the mistake of naming my daughter Ella," says one mom. "On its own, it's a beautiful name. However, her older brother's name is Sam. When you say their names together, Sam and Ella, it sounds like a food-borne illness. 'Salmonella, lunch is ready!'" Oops.
It's not easy to picture, but one day, your cute little bundle is going to ditch the pacifier and acquire an email address. And when he gets a job or goes to college, he may find himself stuck with an embarrassing email handle, because many workplaces and institutions use a standard formula – like the first initial and last name – to assign email addresses.
"Frances is a lovely first name, but with the last name of Atkins, it makes an email of email@example.com," says one mom. And that's not the only one – just consider poor Edward Atwood and Ursula Glee. Again, just something to think about.
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The Rest of the Story
“Obedience is a rather narrow road. Disobedience, on the other hand, has a great, sweeping plain of options. Because we are like the Pharisees, we find it easy to convert the law of God into sundry sins of omission. We’re much better at not doing what we’re not supposed to do than we are at doing what we’re supposed to do. Thus, we reduce the Sabbath to all the things we’re not allowed to do. We work at fine-tuning the definition of “work” so we can make sure we don’t do it on the Sabbath. In so doing, as is our wont, we miss the point. Were we to divide the Ten Commandments not according to duties toward God and duties toward man, as many do, but instead on the basis of prohibitions and commands, the Sabbath commandment would end up with the commands. It is less about what we are forbidden to do and more about what we are commanded to do.”
There is a right way to keep the Sabbath in our cultural context, and in this article from the June issue of Tabletalk, Dr. R.C. Sproul Jr. points us to the key question we will each need to ask.
Read about it in The Rest of the Story.
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By Alicia Fiorino*
When I arrived at Baruch College for the Equal Pay Coalition’s Annual Forum, “The Time is Now: Forging a Stronger Economic Future for Women ,” I asked an older security guard for directions to the event. He kindly gave me directions then asked, “What’s the forum all about?” I gladly responded, “Equal pay for women.” Shocked by my response, he said, “What?! Women still don’t get paid the same amount as men?!”
As a graduate student, researcher, and feminist, one of the main issues I grapple with isn’t necessarily my habit of procrastinating or trying to find time for yoga (although those concerns are definitely on my mind). Something I constantly think about is how can I make the issues I’m passionate about (feminism, equal opportunity) accessible to members of all communities, not only those within academia. After all, these issues are relevant to all women.
The Equal Pay Coalition’s event echoed my sentiment. The four panelists spoke on the shifting role of women as breadwinners in nearly half of the families in the U.S. and how institutions within the U.S. have not adapted or recognized this in policy and law. Only 20.7% of women living in the U.S. have a “traditional” family structure, with a working father and stay-at-home mother, compared to 44.7% of the population in 1975. Clearly there has been a change in the way women live, but the glass ceiling is still supported by institutional biases.
The panel suggested a few remedies:
- women need to learn how to negotiate their salary,
- women should join together and contact their local, state and federal representatives to advocate for equal pay and equal opportunity
- and lastly, maintain the momentum that has recently been ignited in the equal pay policy, legal and activist circles.
The thought of salary negotiation seemed to make the audience nervous. The fear is, what if I attempt to negotiate and lose my job? One of the panelists, Donna Sims Wilson , made it very clear that if a woman is contributing to her workplace but not receiving fair pay, not only should she address this issue with the leaders of the organization and negotiate her salary, but perhaps she should consider taking a job somewhere that actually does value her work and pays her accordingly. Donna also discussed how confidence and educational credentials aided in her ability to transition to and from places of employment. Education is an excellent way to prepare people in all social classes to articulate and operationalize their self-worth and to ensure their knowledge of legal mandates.
The panel’s discussion was enlightening and prompted me to ask: how can the importance of women’s equal pay be messaged so that it reaches beyond the walls of Baruch College so that all women and men work actively toward real equality?
Women’s rights for equal pay did not end in 1963; it’s time to get the word out.
*Alicia Fiorino is currently a communications intern at the National Council for Research on Women and a development intern at the Dumbo Arts Center. She is completing her Master’s thesis, which focuses on women and public space, at Dartmouth College. Alicia lives in New York City.
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With an average of 80mm to date across Kapama Game Reserve, some of the previously dry mud pans and water holes are slowly filling with water. Almost overnight the foam nest frogs set to work and there are now nests of varying shapes and sizes at all of the dams and watering holes. The grey tree frog – more commonly referred to as the foam nest frog – is the largest of our tree frogs. The common name comes from the whitish clumps of foam that they construct as ‘nests’ in which they lay their eggs. The nests are always constructed on some branch or object over, and often many metres above, water. The females excrete a sticky liquid which they kick into a froth with their back legs. Into this foam they lay up to 1000 eggs which are fertilised by, often many, attendant males. The foam protects the eggs and keeps the eggs and small tadpoles out of the water avoiding predation. About five days after hatching the small tadpoles wriggle out of the foam and drop directly into the water, where they continue to grow and complete their metamorphosis. This morning we were lucky enough to actually witness 2 foam nest frogs busy constructing their nest which was fascinating.
We also had a hilarious sighting of a female warthog and her three youngsters. They must have been only 1-2 weeks old. As we came around the corner the three youngsters were standing in a row in the middle of the road blocking our path. As we stopped to take photos they cautiously and courageously approached us. This was a surprise to us as they are usually very nervous and run away with their tails in the air. They continued towards us and then stopped, froze and ran away from us at high speed. All this time the mother was busy feeding by the side of the road, not really paying much attention to the cheeky behaviour of her youngsters! Once they had composed themselves they approached us once more, this time coming even closer to investigate the strange large green object on wheels in front of them. We couldn’t help but laugh which once again sent them running in circles at high speed. It was a hilarious and entertaining sighting – I think if we had seen nothing else after that we would have been happy!
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Today, we were doing a few more work in our office, and drilling a hole to basement, the worker made bullseye on power cable for biometrics terminals.
So I had the chance to watch one of the biometrics terminal boot. What was my surprise when I see on the small LCD a Penguin and the word LINUX.
Well this product is made by ZK-USA, and consulting their site there is some reference to Linux OS.
I didn't had access to the documentation in box but I can't see anything on their website related to GPL. I'm no specialist at GPL, but I will go deep on this tomorrow, related to the papers that came with the hardware to see if they are violating GPL or not.
On the other side at home I bought a wireless multimedia reader, and with the Manual came the GPL and a address to ask for source code if interested. I have to name that company, because I should, it's the French Dane-Elec. Cheers for them, great product and great attitude.
On a world with more and more embedded system I believe all of us should look deeply to what we are buying, if some of us defend FOSS, so let's do it.
Linux GPL don't ask for much money, is just 0$=0€, why a company that profit a lot from free raw material violate GPL?
At the following sites you can find Lists of companies who violate GPL, and the only reason i see is greed.
ffmpeg Hall of Shame
Would you buy stolen goods? It's very easy to verify this before buying, just go for this websites.... And please, participate....
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Irving, Calif. — A section of Rapid City’s bike path is safer and brighter after 58 solar lights went into use in November.
The Leonard “Swanny” Swanson Memorial Pathway is a bike path between Memorial and Roosevelt parks in Rapid City, S.D., where there are quite a few walkers and cyclists passing by during the night. However, in past years, the path has been an area of high crime rates caused by aggressive panhandlers and vagrants. Local police were looking for proactive projects to make it safer and create a more appealing corridor for walkers and cyclists.
In April 2010, police officer Ryan Phillips, a member of the city’s Street Crimes Unit and one of the main participants in the project, was patrolling the area when he came up with the idea to add lights along the pathway to deter crimes. He spent almost 2½ years pitching the idea to community and business leaders before finally seeing his idea become a reality on Nov. 13, 2012. The cost was covered by private donation, public funding and in-kind contributions. The lights, which were built by Greenshine New Energy, met all the requirements for the project.
“Solar power seemed like the best route for the project,” said Phillips. “The initial cost is more, but it’s a savings in the long run.” The solution is totally off-grid and will ensure obvious savings on trenching, landscaping, maintenance costs and electric bills.
Include your newsworthy happenings at no charge. Call (800) 733-4111, ext. 2392, or email press releases to firstname.lastname@example.org.
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By the end of 2009, over 43 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution. In addition, during 2009, 335 reported natural disasters killed over 10,000 people and affected more than 119 million people. The corresponding scale of global shelter need has required a diversity of approaches that go beyond simple design solutions. Spanning humanitarian responses from over 60 years, Shelter Projects 2009 is the second annual compilation of shelter programmes. The project summaries included aim to illustrate some of the project options available to organisations working in both post disaster and post conflict situations, as well as to support learning from the strengths and weaknesses of different projects. The focus of this book is on projects that maximise emergency response funds to support sustainable recovery.
Other titles in Shelter Project series:
- Shelter Projects 2010
- Shelter Projects 2009
- Shelter Projects 2008
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Congress members' kids don't get free ride
Once again the false claim that the children of U.S. senators and representatives don't have to pay their student loan debt has gone viral.
Lots of people think members of Congress get all kinds of perks that regular people aren't eligible for. Have you gotten that mass forwarded email calling for a constitutional amendment to keep those greedy senators and representatives in line?
Actually, a lot of what people are willing to believe is untrue. So it goes for a new viral posting on Facebook that claims that Congress members' kids don't have to pay back their student loans.
It was posted by someone who calls himself "Actof Courage," and it has been shared more than 284,000 times. Actof is a supporter of that proposed 28th constitutional amendment I mentioned above, which says in part:
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."
(This should not be confused with another proposed 28th amendment that would strip corporations of the personhood status given them by the U.S. Supreme Court. And there are probably other proposed 28th amendments floating around out there.)
The claim that the kids of Congress members aren't required to repay their student loans has been thoroughly debunked several times, The Huffington Post notes. It's just not true.
Let's look at some other claims made in that chain email, which says:
"Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they didn't pay into Social Security, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform that is being considered ... in all of its forms."
According to Snopes, the specific claims made above are false.
"While the idea of a '28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution' may sound good in principle to many Americans, and there is some historical truth to the claim that Congress has occasionally exempted itself from laws that apply to the rest of us, the argument outlined above is largely outdated and inaccurate."
So, you can't get your student loan debt waived simply because your mom or dad serves in Congress. But how can you get part of your federal student loan debt forgiven? Among the ways:
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. This federal Web page explains how workers in certain public service jobs can qualify.
- Income-based Repayment Plan. You must have a "partial financial hardship" defined by a government formula. See this Web page for more information. Your monthly payments could be reduced under this plan, and you'll pay no longer than 25 years.
- The new Pay as You Earn repayment plan, described in this U.S. Department of Education press release. Your monthly payment is capped with this plan as well, and any debt left after 20 years will be forgiven.
Another program allows federal agencies to make payments on employees' federal student loans to attract or keep highly qualified workers. Federal Times adds some details:
"The federal government paid nearly $85.7 million in employees' student loan debts in 2010, a 38% increase over the previous year, according to a report.
"Thirty-six agencies made the payments for 11,359 employees in 2010, a 34% increase in the number of employees helped, the Office of Personnel Management said in a report to Congress released Tuesday."
There's enough to be irritated with Congress about without believing erroneous or false claims. As for those mass emails you get or unsubstantiated Facebook posts you read, ignore them or go to the trouble of verifying the claims. Others you might have been tempted to share them with will thank you for not wasting their time.
More on MSN Money:
All government employees should be part of SS. No pensions. Including judges, congress and the president.
The president should be elected for one consecutive six year term. Could run again in six years.
The senate should be elected for one consecutive six year term. Could run again in six years.
No federal government employee should be allowed to belong to a union.
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The industry is familiar with using water/ether extraction in a separatory funnel, as shown in Figure 1,2 which shows the organic phase on top and the aqueous phase on bottom.
The solubility of a material increases as the temperature increases, but not always, as shown in Figure 1.1 While most materials follow this rule, some materials actually decrease in solubility as the temperature increases.
Solubility is a term used to describe a situation in which one material becomes clear and homogeneous in another. The two materials may be liquids, or they may be one liquid and one solid. Solubility relates to the balance between two opposing forces. The first is the force of attraction between the molecules of the material being dissolved to each other, and the second the force of attraction between the material being absorbed and the solvent. Simply put, if the force of attraction between the molecules of the solute is less than the force that is necessary to dissolve the material, the material dissolves.
To determine solubility, one must consider several factors, including temperature and concentration. Generally, a material is soluble at a concentration of 0.1M, as the material is clear at RT. Conversely, if a material is not clear at a concentration of 0.001M, it is insoluble.
The solubility of a material increases as the temperature increases, but not always, as shown in Figure 1.1 While most materials follow this rule such as sodium hydrogen arsenate, some materials actually decrease in solubility as temperature increases. Gases are more soluble at low temperatures than at high temperatures.
The solubility of materials in different solvents is dependent upon many things and can vary based upon temperature, concentration and formulation additives. This can provide the formulator a way to deliver materials. If a material is delivered in an aqueous solution spread on the skin, water evaporating can change the deposition on the skin. The concept of solubility equilibrium will be discussed in another column, but it relates to a dynamic equilibrium between the concentration of soluble and insoluble compounds. This equilibrium can be altered by temperature or other formulation ingredients.
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Looks like Apple may be the latest to succumb to the geomadness gripping the mobile-development space right now.
Patently Apple dug up an Apple patent application Thursday for a social-networking service called iGroups that uses geographic location data to connect iPhone and other mobile-device users.
iGroups would let friend groups attending an event to stay in touch and share information in real time. If that sounds familiar it's because similar geolocation apps that accomplish the same thing are popping up more frequently--apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, Whrrl, Loopt, and others. According to the patent, iGroups is a bit different underneath, however. Using Apple's MobileMe service, iGroups users who don't have GPS on their phone can still participate in the stream of information sharing with "virtual GPS," according to the patent.
Apple files for many patents, and just doing so doesn't automatically mean there's an actual product on the way. But this particular patent is interesting, not only because of the geofrenzy taking place right now, but because of what happened last summer. Though Google Voice getting rejected from the App Store got a lot more attention, Apple refused entry to Google Latitude on the iPhone too. Latitude allows users to broadcast their location to their friends, which sounds similar to iGroups.
Another clue there may be more to come on this front? Several months after the Latitude skirmish, Apple purchased a company called PlaceBase, and the founder and CEO Jaron Waldman, became a member of Apple's "Geo Team."
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Eyebright is an annual herb common in grassy areas throughout much of Europe, western Asia, and the subarctic regions of North America. Reaching up to 20 centimeters in height, eyebright has stiff, ovate leaves, which are roughly 13 mm long and 8 mm wide, positioned opposite at the base of the plant and alternate toward the top. The plant is hemiparasitic; the roots have nodules that attach to the roots of other plants to obtain nutrients. Eyebright flowers from June to September, producing white or pale purple, two-lipped blossoms, which are often marked with purple and yellow spots and stripes. The fruit of the plant consists of small, flattened capsules, which contain numerous ribbed seeds.
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ast week I shared some design stories about cards we had already previewed. Today are design stories about the rest of the cards. Enjoy!
I've spent a lot of time talking about all the monsters inspired by the horror genre, but those are not the only creatures needed to fill a horror-fueled world. Another list we made were all the mundane (a.k.a. real) animals that show up in horror movies. Snakes, spiders, rats, bats... we tried hard to find room for each of them in the set. This card was inspired by the poisonous snakes that always seem to pop out of nowhere.
This card was made as a top-down design for a hellhound. Why does it damage you when you get into combat with it? It's on fire!
We knew when making the double-faced cards that we had to spread them across all the colors. One of the problems, though, was that white was our "good" color. It didn't have any monsters. How could we make transformational cards in white? We found a few answers, but one I was attracted to was a trope where an innocent person (usually a little girl) gets possessed by a demon. (The Exorcist is probably the most famous example of this trope.)
Double-Faced Card Rules
The way I wanted the card to work mechanically was that you could opt into turning into the monster, but once you did there was no going back. I liked the idea that the monster had some drawback that could eventually kill you to capture the flavor of the dark deal being made. I also loved the idea of starting in white and transforming to black to create the greatest contrast between the good and the evil sides of the card.
This card was originally called Broomstick in design. I was looking for Equipment, and broomstick felt like a great simple Equipment to grant flying. (I should note that I think this Equipment was so obvious that multiple designers turned it in.) At some point, I had Jenna (the design team's representative from the creative team) run our cards by Brady Dommermuth, the creative director, to see if any of our concepts wouldn't work. Normally, this happens later in the process, but as so many of our designs were top down, and thus dependent on the concept, I wanted to know what could stay and what could go.
One of the items on the chopping block was Broomstick. The Halloween witch tropes (pointy black hat, broomstick, etc.) didn't fit in the gothic horror setting the creative team was putting together. I liked the Equipment, though, so I renamed it Flying Stick as I wasn't sure quite what to call it. I figured the creative team would work out later what object could help you fly in Innistrad.
Sometimes cards end up with silly design names, and for whatever reason the name becomes endearing. Flying Stick was one of the names. I remember Graeme Hopkins joking, "Ah yes, everyone remembers the classic horror trope of the flying stick."
One of the needs of a Werewolf deck is the ability to have something to do with your mana on the turns you aren't casting spells (because you're transforming your Humans into Werewolves). One way to solve this problem is to create what I call "spouts," activations that allow you to spend your extra mana. Red and green got a few spouts in design, and then a few more were added in development. You'll notice that a bunch of the spouts sit on Wolves. This is because Wolves tend to go well in the Werewolf deck because many of the Werewolf-helping cards also help Wolves.
I've talked about how blue played around with the horror trope of the mad scientist. This double-faced card explores the trope of the scientist who experiments on himself thus becoming a monster. In specific this card is a reference to the horror movie The Fly (which in turn was inspired by Kafka's The Metamorphosis).
Double-Faced Card Rules
This card could have been in Part 1, but I forgot a common question I keep getting and I thought I'd include it in Part 2 so I can give the answer. So why does the "moon side" of Garruk have a hybrid frame? To understand our reasoning I first have to explain a little bit about gold frames. The vast majority of a gold frame is gold. There are only two ways to tell the colors of a two-color gold card. One is the mana symbols in the mana cost, and the other is the card's pin line, of which one side is one color and one side is the other.
Garruk, the Veil-Cursed doesn't have a mana cost so number one is out. It is also a planeswalker, so its pin line is more rounded than straight, making it a little harder to notice. Finally, Garruk starts as a mono-green card, so while sitting in your hand and on the battlefield for the early part of the game he's a mono-green.
Double-Faced Card Rules
The transition from green to black-green is a key part of the card. We're using the double-faced technology to play up that Garruk is fundamentally transformed. The problem with the gold frame is that you just couldn't tell. We suggested to creative that he turn from mono-green to mono-black, because we felt that was visually distinctive and you would get the change. Creative, though, felt strongly that while he now clearly has black influences, the green influences are still there.
For those unaware, Matt Cavotta (Magic artist extraordinaire and former site author) has returned to Wizards of the Coast, and he now oversees, among other things, card frame changes. He was the one who worked through what double-faced cards would look like. Matt suggested using the hybrid frame, because that was the one frame we had that did the best job of clearly showing off two colors in a frame. As the backside would never be cast, we decided that visually conveying the transformation was more important than representing the card as we would if it was a normal single-faced card.
And that is why Garruk, the Veil-Cursed has a hybrid frame.
This card was a top-down design of a giant scarecrow. It got changed during concepting because there was a worry that having too many Scarecrows would make it feel like a sixth tribe, which would pull the focus from the five tribes we were trying to spotlight. I'm not sure what exactly inspired this concept (honestly, I had nothing to do with it), but I like to think of this card as a subtle reference to the Ecto 1 from the movie Ghostbusters.
This was one of the first Zombie cards I designed. I liked the idea that Zombie decks had an easier time getting creatures back from the dead. The trick, though, is making a card that had a function in a non-Zombie deck but worked better in a Zombie deck. The only thing that changed about this card in development is the cost dropped from to .
Last week I talked about Creepy Doll, which was a shout-out to singer Jonathan Coulton. This week I want to talk about the other shout-out in the set, this time to a man named George Fan. Among other things, George Fan is a Magic player. He's probably better known, though, as the designer of a very popular video game known as Plants vs. Zombies.
What might be lesser known is that Magic had a very big influence of the game design of Plants vs. Zombies. The game both has a mana system and a deck-building element, both inspired (to the best of my research abilities) directly by Magic.
I learned about Magic's involvement in the design of Plants vs. Zombies during Innistrad design. It then dawned on me that Plants are in green and green's two enemies, black and blue, were the two colors of Zombies in Innistrad. Once I had the idea of a Plant with protection from Zombies in my head, there was no turning back.
The creative team played along, making the card a Plant in concepting. Everything looked like it was going to work out, but then one day I checked the file to see protection from zombies replaced by reach. You see, my playtest name had been Tallnut (yeah, yeah, it should have just been Wallnut), and the development team added reach to capture the "tall" flavor. Later they decided they didn't want two abilities on the card, so they took off protection from Zombies.
I talked to Erik, who said that they were trying to keep the flavor of "Tallnut," and I said that if it didn't have protection from Zombies the whole point was lost. As is a recurring theme in this two-part article, Erik listened to what I had to say and changed the card back. (Once again, thanks Erik.)
You would think getting a shovel into Magic wouldn't be so hard. You'd be wrong. My first attempt to make a shovel happened in Zendikar. We were in adventure world, so I wanted to make equipment that adventurers might carry around. I thought a shovel might be a tool that could double as a weapon, something you'd need in a world as dangerous as Zendikar. The card got changed away from a shovel in concepting. When I asked why, I was told that there weren't shovels on Zendikar. I was like "What? We're on a world without the need to dig holes?" (I'm having a little fun here—it wasn't that shovels couldn't exist, but that they didn't reinforce the essence of the world.)
In Scars of Mirrodin, I assumed making a shovel wouldn't be too hard. The set was an artifact set with a strong emphasis on equipment after all. No, apparently, Mirrodin didn't have shovels either, because it's a metal world with no soil. That's the trouble with the Multiverse: the inability to easily make holes.
Anyway, flash forward two years and we're working on Innistrad design. Now, I knew Innistrad (the plane) had to have a lot of cemeteries, and cemeteries have to have graves. How do you make the graves? Exactly—shovels! Finally a world where shovels had to exist. Success!
Some people have asked why exiling creature cards from the graveyard gains you life. What's the flavor? In one word: necro-cannibalism. (It's really a word, I looked it up.) Gross? Well, welcome to Innistrad.
My name is Mark and I have a rare enchantment Johnny addiction. I love making wacky build-around-me enchantment rares. I'm really happy with the way this one turned out. Plus it's an Ooze card, which I also love making. By the way, this card might look goofy, but it's actually very good in Limited.
This card has a lot of people up in arms, because when I was providing the answers for the multiple-choice test for The Great Designer Search 2, I said:
Okay, so double keywords can be done at common. What keeps this card from being common? The answer is lifelink. While we do allow lifelink at common, we tend to keep the power low. Lifelink can be very swingy, so we don't print creatures with lifelink with power greater than 2 at common.
Doesn't this card contradict that statement? Yes, it does. Then wasn't common the right answer on the question? No, it wasn't, because at the time of the test we didn't create lifelink creatures with power 3 or greater at common. During Innistrad development, Erik decided to break this rule. Note that this happened after the test was published and the answers were given. I didn't ask the question and give that answer knowing we were going to change it a year later.
Is this a one-time exception, or are we going to push higher-power lifelink at common? I don't know. Development is going to use Innistrad as test to see what happens. If things work out okay, we might shift how we treat lifelink at common. As I often say, Magic design and development are an ever-changing landscape.
That said, the test was checking if you knew what we were doing, not what we might do in the future.
I like the card Mulch. I tried reprinting it in Zendikar, but the synergies with the land mechanics made it too good to reprint. Flash forward to a few years later and I'm looking for a card to flavorfully and in-color-pie get creature cards from the library into the graveyard, as green has a theme of caring about creature cards in its graveyard in Innistrad. Mulch comes up.
I often talk about how power level is dependent on environments, and this story makes this point. While Mulch was too good for the Zendikar Limited environment, it worked just fine in Innistrad. So Mulch, welcome back.
I haven't worked on names and flavor text in many years, but once upon a time, around Mirage and Tempest blocks, I was very involved with them. Names and flavor text tends to go through different fads, and one of the one popular during that time was collective nouns for creatures as names:
Anything involving fantasy creatures we tended to make up ourselves, but all the real-world references used the actual collective terms. One of the names we wanted to use was Murder of Crows as it had such a great sound to it. Unfortunately, the few times we tried to get a Murder of Crows in, the card was changed away from being a group of crows in concepting. Innistrad finally gave us the perfect setting to use the name, and I'm very glad we did.
This card is the culmination of two design objectives. First, once it was clear that Humans were going to be a key tribe, I knew I had to get a torch and a pitchfork into the set. (An angry mob with torches and pitchforks is as tropey as it gets.) I talked in Part 1 about how Blazing Torch proved to be the perfect repeat in the set.
Second, I liked the idea that one of the strengths of humans was that they were better with tools than the monsters. We would accomplish this by giving extra bonus to certain Equipment if a Human was wielding it. As the Torch turned out to be a reprint and thus we couldn't change what it did, it fell to the pitchfork to be the shining piece of Equipment for Humans to wield.
Yes, silver is harmful to werewolves. No, this card doesn't reflect this. Don't worry, we'll address that trope later in the block.
Okay, so now intimidate has appeared in every color but blue. What color is it? Because the keyword changes to adapt to the color it's in, we're more willing to use it in all the colors. Right now the ability is primary in black, secondary in red, and tertiary in green, white, and blue. It shows up a bit more in Innistrad than most blocks because the word is so flavorful for a horror set.
Because blue is the enemy of red and green, the two colors of Werewolves, we liked the idea that blue was better at fighting the Werewolf deck in Limited. To help with this we put both more instants and cheaper cards, the former to help stop transformations when your opponent doesn't play a spell on his or her turn and the latter to make it easier to cast two spells in one turn to transform the Werewolves back to Humans. This card in particular was included because it was both an instant and cheap, plus it had flashback to be able to be cast it twice. I've used this card many times, for instance, to single-handedly transform Werewolves back. (Yes, casting one spell with flashback twice in the same turn is casting two spells.)
One of the reasons I asked Richard Garfield to join the Innistrad design team specifically was that I know top-down design is one of his strengths. For fun, let's see if you can guess what horror staple equipment was top-down designed by Richard and became this card.
Click here when you're ready to see the answer.
Early in design, I tasked my design team with looking through old cards to find repeats that fit the theme. One card appeared on every single person's list: Angry Mob. The problem with the card is that it's a color-hoser (it hates on decks with Swamps). Mechanically, it wasn't a great fit. So we did the next best thing. We designed a card with the flavor of Angry Mob and left a note in the file: "Doug: This is Angry Mob. Name it as such. By the way, there's already a card named Angry Mob."
One of the truisms I have in Magic design is this: Card designs that only make sense in this world have to take priority over cards that can work elsewhere. The truism is simply about preserving design space. This card is a perfect example.
This card is flavorful and fun in Innistrad. It's probably unprintable in every world but Innistrad. Thus, I worked real hard to make sure it stayed in this set. This doesn't mean that cards that don't hold up should stay, just that when looking for what cards to remove to find room for something else that is needed, you have to be careful not to permanently kill a good card that won't get another chance elsewhere.
And They All Lived Not So Happily Ever After
I hope you enjoyed my two weeks of stories. I had a blast designing this set and I hope you all have as much fun playing it.
Join me next week for Werewolf Week as I finally explain the design of the werewolf transformation mechanic.
Until then, may your heart skip a beat or two.
So You Want To Work At Wizards?
One last thing before I go. From time to time I like to link to Magic-related jobs here at Wizards. Today's listing is for a section of the company, I've never linked to a job before: sales. Interestingly, though, the job in question isn't about selling product, but rather about helping oversee the Wizards Play Network in Latin America. The job is located here in Seattle but will involve some travel. Fluency in Spanish is required (and a fluency in Portuguese would be a big plus). If this at all sounds interesting, click here to learn more about it.
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All Primary Keys are Unique, but Not All Unique Keys are Primary: Don’t Borrow Primary Keys
I have encountered several times that database designers borrow primary keys (The term borrow refers reusing a primary key defined in some context as your context’s primary key.) from other systems. A major reason for that is,maybe, related with the way today’s enterprise applications are written: They are not monolitic but rather modular (each party implements some part of the whole system and they communicate with each other using popular techniques. Such as web services, servlets, EJBs, etc.).
A module written before other dependents defines a primary key in its context and propagates it in order to identify an entity within its context. The problem starts at this point if the dependent applications adopt the primary key of the caller application and reuse it as its own primary key.
Here is a scenario which I will refer throughout the post:
- We have an infrastructure module I defined to let other parties to create instances of services available in your company.
- We have another hub module H responsible with gathering requests from actual clients and enrich them before sending requests to I.
- Both of those isolated systems have their own databases and they communicate via web services.
- Module H maintains primary key request# for each service definition request given by the actual client in order to refer to a request whenever needed.
- Database designers of H and I sit together and since application H is written before I and since it has already defined a primary key within its context, designer of H recommends to reuse request# within the context of I at this time. In that way they will guarantee that whenever they refer to some request# they will mean the same thing and module I will become a natural extension of module H.
Since we clearly set our toy environment let’s now start to elaborate potential risks in the final decision module H and module I designers came.
Primary Keys are updated
Although it deserves a deep discussion, we can simply say that people do update primary keys although they shouldn’t. Since there are very very few legitimate cases in which you can update primary keys, we can conclude with a high degree of confidence that:
If you need to update a primary key, it is an indication of poor database design.
But the question in here is that as the designer of module I how can you protect yourself from a possible request# update at module H site (In this context protection means no primary key changes at your site). If you share the primary key of module H, you simply can’t.
Bottom line is that don’t borrow your primary keys from other databases/applications because what you borrow may be subject to change.
Limiting the variety of applications implicitly
During the database design, designer mind is usually busy with the details of functionality requirements of the module and makes a silent assumption that applications accessing his/her module will be constant in time.
However this is usually not true. When new modules start to access the module you implement, are you sure that they will be using the same primary key as the first module does ? If not the first work-around attempt by the designer is to do semantic overloading (Semantic Overloading refers to meaning two different things by using the same notation and this usually yields ambiguity) if possible (Due to incompatible types overloading may not be possible). If overloading is not possible they will try to clone majority of the data model and have two models stemmed from the same point but divided into two just because uncommon primary keys.
Bottom line is that don’t borrow your primary keys from other databases/applications because what you borrow may not be valid for some other application.
It may even not be unique at all
The last but not the least assume the following scenario. Module H1, using request# as its primary key, was the only hub module accessing your I module. But another module group decide on implementing a new hub module H2 with different capabilities. Since they share the same capabilities with H1 at the layer they communicate with module I, they simply clone that part from H1. But unfortunately they recreate the sequence generating request#s in H2′s database because its brand-new.
I believe you got the point. They even can not create a new record in your module due to primary key conflict because (invoke#,moduleName) tuple is the unique thing indeed.
Bottom line is that don’t borrow your primary keys from other databases/applications because what you borrow as unique may not be unique in a later point in time.
I’ve tried to to explain the drawbacks of borrowing primary keys from other systems. As a rule of thumb (although there are few exceptions to that)
Never let some other application to generate primary keys for you and use an isolated database sequence to generate your primary key values.
One final thing to tie post content to its title is that you are free to define unique indexes on top of primary keys of other systems (or use them as a part of a composite unique index in your module) if they deliver them to you and you need to ensure their uniqueness in your module. But the point is that making them unique does not make them primary.
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Photograph by Mike McGregor
Wouldnt it be something if I could add a pair of pliers to a pocketknife? he asked himself. Fast-forward 35 years and 40 million multitools sold, and today Tim Leatherman embodies the dream of financial and creative freedom that motivates independent inventors everywhere. The Portland, Ore.based company bearing Leathermans name employs 500 people and dominates a $200 million worldwide market for pocket tools that he pioneered.
The tool was hardly an overnight sensation. Years of experimentation, false starts, dead ends, rejection and frustration marked Leathermans course. Looking back, he claims he wasnt even an especially visionary inventor and, at the outset, knew nothing about business, sales or finance. Not that it stopped him.
Passionate, persistent inventors like Leatherman, set on seeing their creations take wing, have been a driving force in the American economy since our nations founding. Our countrys penchant for innovation is partly the result of U.S. patent law, which was designed to encourage and protect inventors. But it also reflects a national character inclined toward problem-solving and risk-taking.
For much of the 220 years since George Washington signed off on the first patent, individual inventors, not to be confused with their corporate and institutional brethren, have been the engine of American industrymavericks like Edison, Bell and Carrier. Their breakthroughs banished darkness, projected human voices across hundreds of miles and cooled the sizzling Sun Belt. Trace back the roots of many blue-chip companies, and you are sure to find a solitary inventor who once had a transformative idea.
The drive to invent is more powerful than ever, but the road isnt always easy for independent inventors. Out of the 77,501 U.S. utility patents granted in 2008, just 6 percent went to individuals. Only a third of applications at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) even earn a patent, and among patents granted, the number that become commercially viable ranges from an estimated 5 percent to as low as 0.2 percent. Thats a lot of wreckage left by the side of the road.
Who wins and who loses at the high-stakes game of invention can seem arbitrary. And yet our economy is studded with examples of innovators who, like Leatherman, have launched one successful product after another into an unforgiving marketplace. We consulted with a number of professional inventors to distill the secrets of the craft. Some have made careers out of invention, others have founded industries. Their consensus: No shortcut exists to success, and nothing substitutes for grit and determination. So, if youre sitting on an idea that might be the next great American invention, heres your playbook.
1. Cultivate an IdeaThe annals of invention are studded with one-hit wonders, inventors whose single blockbuster idea made them a fortune. But the most prolific inventors cant turn off the idea machine. They are too restless and creative. Inventors simply see lifes many obstacles differently than the average person, according to medical-devices inventor Robert Fischell. The key to inventing is the awareness that a problem is the trigger from which an invention can be created, says Fischell, who holds more than 200 patents for innovations such as an implantable cardiac defibrillator and improved stents. When Im in the operating room and a surgeon throws a tool against the wall in frustration, I say, Great, heres an opportunity.
Fischell, who at the height of his career filed a new patent application every six weeks, wastes no time in determining whether his latest idea meets the patent test of being new, useful and nonobvious. He goes right to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offices database of issued patents (patft.uspto.gov) and performs a search. If you read a patent and someone has already solved the problem, then youre still an inventor. You just got there late, he says.
If, after a preliminary search, your idea proves novel, then continue developing it. But be realistic about what youre getting into. The time you devote will be double what you think it will be, and the dollar amounts you commit will be four times what you thought, Leatherman says.
Make rough sketches, perform tests, flesh out concepts and keep detailed notes. Patent attorneys advise their clients to maintain a log in a permanently bound notebook that gets stamped by a notary public on a frequent basis. A logbook becomes important in cases before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office involving identical innovations, as the burden of proof falls to patent applicants to demonstrate that they were the first to conceive of an invention.
At this early stage in the game, your investment of personal time and money will have been slight compared with what is around the bend. Before proceeding, youll have to ask some hard questions about both your idea and yourself: Is my idea significantly different than any that precede it? Is there a sizable market for the product? Can it be developed and manufactured at reasonable cost? Who is the customer, and why should they buy my product and not a competitors? And finally, am I willing to commit myself fully to making this idea succeed?
Inventors who have been through the process caution not to underestimate the emotional and psychological fortitude required. Can the invention fail and not the person? asks Dean Kamen, inventor of numerous medical devices, the Segway and the iBOT all-terrain wheelchair. If you cant afford emotionally and intellectually to fail, if your ego would be wiped out, then dont do it.
2. Build a PrototypeWith the availability of powerful computing and computer-assisted design software like Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks 3D CAD, inventors today live in what Kamen refers to as the ultimate candy store. The earliest versions of Kamens first invention, a wearable infusion pump that delivers precise doses of medications such as insulin, sprang to life not on a computer screen but in a workshop set up in the basement of his parents home on Long Island, N.Y. Kamen was a teenager at the time.
Even when designed in a highly precise digital CAD environment, a product eventually has to make the leap to the real world in the form of a prototype. For a sizable fee, specialty prototype firms translate drawings into molded plastic or steel. Or you might try your luck with a local machine shop. Depending on the materials involved and the complexity of an invention, the cost of making a quality prototype can empty a bank account and force an inventor to seek funding at a very early stage.
Tim Leatherman advocates taking a DIY approach. During a trial-and-error phase lasting three years, he built prototypes of his groundbreaking multitool from cardboard, wood and metal until he settled on an advanced design. By working with my hands, he says, I learned about obstacles to functionality and manufacturability.
Once you have your prototype, its time to troubleshoot your invention. Get outside your own head and go to experts in the field, Fischell recommends. Ask them, Do you think my idea has commercial merit? Would you use it? But make them sign a confidentiality agreement, he says. For inventors, the prospect of intellectual property theft is very real, but too much caution can become immobilizing. A confidentiality, or nondisclosure, agreement allows you to field-test in confidence.
Feedback from Mario Salazars target audiencecarpenterscompelled the Colorado Springs inventor to fine-tune his digital miter gauge. The mechanical prototype he built in the basement with a soldering iron, an oscilloscope and a milling machine picked up on eBay worked smoothly and felt right to Salazar, but the tradesmen wanted it bigger and more affordable. You cant fall in love with your invention, he says. Get feedback and make alterations accordingly.
In the rough-and-tumble business world, a patent protects the inventor by granting the exclusive right to exclude others from making, using or selling his invention for a 20-year period. Thats the theory. In practice, a patent gives the inventor a head start against the wolf pack. When other people see you making money, your patent will be the only means you have for maintaining control of the market, says Lonnie Johnson, founder of Johnson ElectroMechanical Systems and inventor of the Super Soaker water gun.
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The Bokoor House and the BAPMAF Center, the world’s premiere archive, museum, and NGO of West African and Ghanaian popular music, was tragically hit by a flood last month. Under the direction of Professor John Collins, BAPMAF is a truly unique and essential place for the preservation, study, and creation of African popular music. The impact of the flooding includes both human and archival dimensions. It is not only the Foundation’s rare holdings that were threatened by the waters; Professor Collins’s family narrowly escaped drowning and the Collins family house, located on the same grounds, is now in disrepair. In the aftermath, the family has sought out higher ground, and are “squatting” until they can find a way to return.
Any fan of highlife, afrobeat, afro-funk, or African folk music has Professor Collins and BAPMAF to thank. Collins is a Full Professor at the University of Ghana–Legon, and is a performer who has been at the center of Ghanaian and West African music scenes since the 1960s. He has collaborated with Fela Kuti, E.T. Mensah, Koo Nimo, Victor Uwaifo, Kwaa Mensah, King Bruce, and many, many more. The flooded compound is on the same grounds where he founded the superlative Bokoor Recording Studio in 1982—this is the spotwhere many classic highlife records of that era were recorded to tape. Today, with all of the amazing independent music labels and reissue projects that are bringing African beats to audiences across the globe (from the likes of Analog Africa, Soundways, Strut, Voodoo Funk, etc.), the blow to the Foundation and the Collins family are potentially devastating. Look in the liner notes of your favorite afro-funk compilation or highlife reissue, and you’ll undoubtedly see Professor Collins thanked—if he didn’t write the liner notes himself, that is!
The tragedy has been covered by the BBC and Afropop Worldwide. The official BAPMAF website was knocked down by the disaster, so we are setting up a temporary BAPMAF blog. The photos of some of the damage accompanying this post are sent along by Professor Collins.
What is needed now is donations to help Professor Collins and his family continue the process of repairing the Foundation and their lives. If you can donate any amount, please do so with the PayPal “Donate” button below. Any amount helps. You can be assured that all funds are going directly to the rebuilding efforts—no middlemen, no overhead, and no waste. The convenience of donating directly to the BAPMAF PayPal account ensures that every single dollar, pound sterling, or euro sent along will reach the relief effort directly. When donating be sure to mark your contribution as a “gift” for PayPal accounting purposes. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
The good news is that the recovery and restoration is underway. Professor Collins reports that, miraculously, the rarest and most essential of the holdings appear in-tact and functioning. (For example, although the 4-track tape machines are lost, the master tapes are undamaged. In addition, swift action was able to save many of the rarest paper materials, including original letters and unique documents.) Items without hope for recovery include the compound’s backup generator (required for living in Ghana, as anyone who has travelled in the region knows), all of the recording equipment, electronic and computer equipment, and Professor Collins’s car (to name just some of the damaged property).
Please help with the recovery by donating today. Many thanks— “medaase pii” —in advance.
On behalf of Professor Collins and BAPMAF (Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation),
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By now many of you have heard about the remarkable health benefits of probiotics. In fact, the good-for-you bacteria seem to be making headlines everywhere these days—especially as we head into another cold and flu season. And as awareness increases about just how good probiotics are for optimal digestion and immunity, there’s another “p” word you might be wondering about: prebiotics.
In technical terms, prebiotics are often defined as “non-digestible food ingredients” that promote the growth of healthy bacteria in the digestive tract. So what does that mean? Quite simply, prebiotics are a food source for probiotics. So as they travel through the digestive system, they nourish all those good bacteria along the way and help them grow and multiply. The result? More good bacteria in the gut, which means better digestion and a stronger natural defense system.
So where do prebiotics come from? Well, mostly from soluble fiber sources such as oats, legumes, flax and almonds—and that’s where the “non-digestible” part comes into play. Dietary fiber—including both soluble fiber and insoluble fiber—really just refers to the parts of plant foods that our bodies are unable to digest and absorb, which is why it’s sometimes called “roughage”. Because prebiotics are not digested, they remain in the digestive tract where they can do their job of feeding their probiotic partners.
In addition to obtaining prebiotics through the diet, nowadays many probiotic supplements will actually include prebiotics to help you get the benefit of this dynamic duo (i.e. probiotics and prebiotics). For example, you may see something called FOS on the label. Short for fructooligosaccharide, FOS is extracted from soluble fiber foods such as chicory root and will help to feed and stimulate the growth of beneficial probiotic bacteria such as Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli.
So there you have it! Two powerful “p” words that can go a long way toward better digestion and a stronger natural immune system—talk about a winning combination!
Prebiotic Food Sources:
- Chicory Root
- Whole Grains
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Now that we have talked about exactly what Turmeric is and what properties it has in it, let’s talk about how you can use Turmeric in order to treat some of those cuts and wounds that you might be experiencing. One thing that you should know is that Turmeric is a natural antiseptic and what that means, is that when made into a paste, you can use it has a treatment.
Also, while it might not taste all that great, when you mix Turmeric with warm milk, you can actually cure a sore throat, which in this season is fantastic! Just drink that mixture up and instantly, you should be feeling better.
You can also use Turmeric to cure gastrointestinal discomfort, which comes with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome).
Something that you traditionally see in the kitchen is an herb called Turmeric. It is a fantastic flavoring agent and it is certainly an herb that you should be using in your dishes, but did you know that this particular herb is also good for other things? Believe it or not, most people do not.
Turmeric is actually an herb that has been used in China for quite some time and it is a fantastic herb to treat small cuts and wounds. It is actually an antiseptic and anti inflammatory herb, which means that you can stick it right into your first aid kit.
In the next blog, we will teach you exactly how to use Turmeric as a healing agent!
Now that we have talked about tea specifically as a known treatment for black eyes, what type of tea is going to do the most healing? That is what I have been asking myself and it is sage. Sage tea compresses are actually fantastic for you to put onto any black eyes as this particular herb has been known to treat not just black eyes but bruises in general.
Just brew yourself a pot of sage tea, make sure that you stick a cloth in there – let it cool down and lay it over your eyes for an hour. In an hour’s time, you will be able to see a remarkable difference in your bruises and black eye – I know that I did!
If you want a cure, sage is definitely a cure for black eyes if you repeat this process everyday until it is gone!
All right guys, so I am going to share something personal with you … I fell down the stairs this past weekend. Sunday, I took a tumble down on top of a bunch of laundry and I definitely bruised not just my hand, thigh, calf and head but I bruised my eye. When I woke up this morning, I have a black eye.
So – that lead me to these next few posts. What does cure a black eye naturally or at least what helps speed up the process? That is what the next couple blogs are for and that is what we are going to talk about. One of the first things that helps are tea compresses – honestly, place a teabag on your black eye and in no time at all, it should go down.
In the next blog, we will talk about what specific teas will help you with your black eye (and thank god for that!) … stay tuned!
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If you’re any sort of foodie, you’re probably familiar with the concept of “umami.” Along with sweet, sour, bitter and Salty, umami is the fifth taste which humans can discern in their food. Great food has an interplay between several of these tastes. Think peanut butter pretzels or salted caramel ice cream. Just typing those words kicks off my Pavlovian response.
Umami translates roughly from Japanese into English as “pleasant savory taste.” It is described as kind of a cross between brothy and meaty, and probably the best way to evoke it is to think of the slightly funky flavor of soy sauce or teriyaki which isn’t the salty or sweet component.
When Japanese cooks want to introduce umami into their foods, they usually start with a Dashi stock, which is a thin soup made from kombu seaweed and dried bonito fish flakes. Trust me, it’s better than it sounds. Italians seek umami from mushrooms and Parmesan cheese in their red sauces and Chinese get it from cabbage and leeks.
However you get it, umami adds a degree of awesomeness to many things that you can make in your home kitchen, and now California chain Umami Burger has made it even easier for you. You don’t even have to be able to boil water and steep fish flakes thanks to their new Umami Spray. Despite the fact that the spray bottle looks like something you’d use to clean your bathroom, it’s actually filled with a water-based spray flavored with kombu and “seafood essences” (ick?) to let you umamify your burger right on the grill during cooking.
They suggest you can perk up your salads, smoked fish, sushi, pasta, vegetables, chicken or beef or even just mist the entire plate to turn up the volume on your meal. At $15/bottle from the company’s website, it’s not cheap but what price can you put on adding a whole extra set of tastes to your buds. Especially if you don’t have to cook any fish flakes…
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Third Annual Conference of SWAN (South Asia Women?s Network)
2 Jul 2011 - 3 Jul 2011We, the women of South Asia, gathered in Dhaka, Bangladesh on July 2 and 3, 2011, for the Third Annual Conference of SWAN (South Asia Women?s Network), which was dedicated to the theme of ?Women of South Asia and the Green Economy?. We come from nine South Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
The SWAN Annual Conference brings together eight individual SWAN networks, respectively on Arts and Literature; Women in Peacemaking; Health, Nutrition, and Food Security; Education; Crafts and Textiles; Microcredit, Livelihood, and Development; Environment; and Women in Media. Women working in each of these areas make vital contributions to the Green Economy. There can be no Green Economy without Arts and Literature that express our local traditions, and women play a central role in preserving and disseminating these traditions. There can be no Green Economy without Peace. Armed conflict, terrorism and all violent acts are destructive of the Green Economy. The peace we ask for cannot ever be at the expense of women?s rights. A Green Economy is the only enduring basis for good health, and for ensuring adequate nutrition and food security. Education for an authentic Green Economy is our commitment. Our rich tradition of crafts and textiles does not just contribute to our rich culture; it is the very basis of green livelihoods. Facilitating local sustainable livelihoods is the real role of microcredit and financial systems. We will use the media to show to our region and the world that the women of South Asia bring solutions to the ecological and poverty crises. We will define the Green Economy on our terms, through our cultures and our lives.
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Bluebeard and the Bloody Chamber
Read an online version here.
I. Jane’s Imprisonment
Bildugroman – Austen seems well aware of the female realitives around her: confinement, orphanhood, starvation, rage, even madness.
The most important confrontation is not with Rochester but with Rochester’s mad wife Bertha – not with her own sexualtity but with her own imprionsed “hunger, rebellion and rage.”
A. The Red Room
As we talked about yesterday, the Red Room is a particularly disturbing gothic space. It’s not just dark and spooky, it’s lurid with all that red. It’s Mr. Reed’s death chamber.
Seeing a ghostly, wandering light, as of the moon on the ceiling, she noticed that “my heat beat thick, my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing of wings; something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated: endurance broke down” (17).
Red Room as paradigm for the novel:
- Jane’s anomalous, orphaned position in society
- her enclosure in stultifying roles and houses
- her attempts to escape through flight, starvation, and madness
- position in the narrative
- recollection of the experience at crucial moments through the book
The third story of Thornfield.
“I followed still, up a very narrow staircase to the attics, and thence by a ladder and through a trap-door to the roof of the hall. I was now on a level with the crow-colony, and could see into their nests. . . two rows of small balck doors, all shut, like a corridor in some Bluebear’s castle” (107)
- Jane first hears the “distinct formal mirthless laugh” of mad Bertha here.
- A focal point for where Jane thinks about things and in which her rational thoughts intersect with her irrational side (“hunger, rebellion and rage”).
“Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third story….” (109)
“When thus alone, I not unfrequently heard Grace Poole’s laugh” (110)
Logical ideas vs. restless movement
C. The Marriage (first time around)
Although the betrothal might seem a good thing for Jane – an escape at last from a world that was against her precisely because she is young, female, poor and alone—there are indications that the marriage will only be one more haunted and imprisoning domestic space.
1. Rochester, having secured Jane’s love, begins to use interesting language with her:
“mustard seed” (258)
his “little sunny-faced . . . girl-bride”
“I mean shortly to claim you—your thoughts, conversations, and company—for life” (266)
“It is your time now, little tyrant, but it will be mine presently: and when once I have fairly seized you, to have and to hold, I’ll just—figuratively speaking—attach you to a chain like this” (270)
2. The master’s inferiority rather than his superiority. Rochester, Jane learns, after the aborted wedding ceremony, had married Bertha Mason for status, for sex, for money, for everything but love and equality.
“Oh, I have no respect for myself when I think of that act! He confesses. “An agony of inward contempt masters me. I never loved, I never esteemed, I did not even known her” (305).
Jane: I would scorn such a union [as the loveless one he hints he will enter into with Blanche]: therefore I am better than you” (253).
Jane’s whole story, her whole journey, has prepared her to be angry in this way at Rochester.
“the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradtion . . . I thought his smile was such as a sultan might, in a blissful and fond moment, bestow on a slave his gold and gems had enriched” (269)
So even before the secret is relieved, it is no surprise that Jane’s anger and fear about her marriage begin to surface.
III. Jane’s Splitting Self
A. Jane the child splitting off from Jane the Adult
The first sign that this is happening is the recurrent dream of a child as she begins her romance with her master.
(220-221) “It was from companionship with this baby-phantom I had been roused on that moonlight night when I heard the cry”
The next day she is literally called back to her past to see dying Mrs. Reed who reminds her who she was: “Are you Jane Eyre? . . . I declare she talked to me once like something mad, or like a fiend”
The phantom-child reappears in two dramatic dreams Jane has the night before her wedding eve, during which she experiences “a strange regretful consciousness of some barrier dividing her” from Rochester.”
B. Jane Eyre Splitting from Jane Rochester
“there was no putting off the day that advanced—the bridal day” (275).
“one Jane Rochester, a person whom as yet I knew not,” though “in yonder closet . . . garments said to be hers had already displaced [mine]: for not to me appertained that . . . that strange wraith-like apparel” (275).
C. Jane Eyre Splitting from her own body
On the morning of her wedding: she turns towards the mirror and sees “a robed and veiled figure, so unlike my usual self that it seemed almost the image of a stranger” (286) reminding us of the moment in the red-room when all had “seemed colder and darker in that visionary hollow (14).
IV. Jane’s Monstrous Self
The most frightening separation is the appearance of a mysterious specter, a sort of “vampyre” that appears in the middle of the night to rend and trample the wedding veil of that unknown person Jane Rochester.
A. Bertha seems to do what Jane has only wanted or wished she could do.
1. Jane did not like the vapoury veil – Bertha rips it up
2. Jane wants to put off the wedding day – Bertha sees to that too.
3. Jane wishes that she could be Rochester’s equal in size and strength so that she can battle him in the contest of their marriage. Bertha, “a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband,” has the necessary “virile force” (293)
Bertha, in other words, is Jane’s darkest double: she is the angry aspect of the Jane, her ferocious secret self that Jane has been trying to get rid of ever since she left Gateshead.
Calire Rosenfeld: the novelist who consciously or unconsciously exploits psychological Doubles frequently juxtaposes two characters, the one representing the socially acceptable or conventional personality, the other externalizing the free, uninhibited, criminal self.
Every one of Bertha’s appearances or manifestations have been associated with an experience or repression of Jane’s anger.
1. Jane’s feelings of “hunger, rebellion and rage” on the battlements were accompanied by Bertha’s “low, slow, ha! ha!” and “eccentric murmurs.” (110)
2. Jane’s apparently secure response to Rochester’s sexual confidence was followed by Bertha’s attempt to incinerate the master in his bed. (143; 148)
3. Jane’s anxieties about her marriage and her fears of her own alien “robed and veiled bridal image” were objectified by the image of Bertha in a “white and straight “ dress, “whether a gown, sheet or shroud I cannot tell” (283).
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