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Banks of the River Daya, also the supposed battlefield of Kalinga
from atop Dhauli hills
The Daya River starts as a branch of the Kuakhai River at Saradeipur (near Badahati) in Odisha state in India. It is joined by the Malaguni River below Golabai and flows through Khordha and Puri districts before emptying into the north-eastern corner of Chilika Lake, 37 km (23 mi) km from its origin.
The historically important Dhauli hills are located on the banks of the Daya River, 8 km (5.0 mi) south of Bhubaneswar. It is a hill with vast open space adjoining it, and has major Edicts of Ashoka engraved on a mass of rock, by the side of the road leading to the summit of the hill. Dhauli hill is presumed to be the area where Kalinga War was fought.
- ^ "Daya River". India. Online Highways LLC. 2005. Retrieved 2008-12-23.
Coordinates: 19°53′N 85°35′E / 19.883°N 85.583°E
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In early December last year when Jackson Browne came off tour, he made a beeline for Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. After tuning his guitar with some difficulty in the misty late-fall conditions, he performed for the Occupiers, with a makeshift Christmas tree of recyclables over his shoulder in the near distance and the U.S. Capitol looming farther down Pennsylvania Avenue. Afterward, while eating a donated lunch from the site’s food tent, the rock ’n’ roll hall of famer said, “My message is the same as the people who are speaking here. The issues that they raise . . . are issues that I believe need to be addressed.”
Paris in May 1968 throbbed with lyrics and slogans, too, during even more tumultuous times, but the question was, and still is, how much that movement was affected by its music and how much the rebellious times influenced the music that accompanied them. It may have been a current that ran in both directions, according to the NEH-funded research done by Eric Drott for his book Music and the Elusive Revolution (University of California Press, 2011), which is subtitled Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981.
One of Drott’s best examples of this two-way path of influence is the work of cabaret artist Léo Ferré, who was in his early fifties at the time of les événements. “The poetic aspects of his mature style,” writes Drott, “were firmly entrenched” by this time, and the darling of the far left (he deeply distrusted hierarchy and authority of any kind) had fresh life breathed into his singing career from a new generation of admirers in May and June 1968. In other words, he simply became popular again to a new audience without, at first, doing anything necessarily new. His song “L’été 68” (Summer of ’68), though, soon offered much more than the blunt, predictable appraisals of events in most chansons révolutionnaires of the moment and boldly defined May 1968 in turn, treating “the theme of social conflict through metaphor and poetic allusion.” And in “Comme une fille” (Like a Girl) Ferré “casts insurrection as a quasi-natural urge.” As Jackson Browne was touched by the Occupiers in 2011, Ferré, an established performer long before the protests of May ’68, was deeply moved by the events in Paris in his own time. But, what is more, Ferré was affected artistically, even
transformed, by the protestors’ concerns.
This might be enough for most general readers, in terms of understanding the complex back-and-forth between politics and culture, but Drott also takes on the much less well-known effects of May ’68 on free jazz, French rock, and contemporary classical music. Those genres, Drott writes, were greatly influenced by cultural intervention which “offered members of the contemporary musical community new professional opportunities as well as a way of legitimizing their activities.” Through what was known as “the long seventies,” utopian dreams of another revolution (the one in ’68 had come to be regarded as failed and its benefits elusive) were kept on life support until the surprising day in May of 1981 when socialist François Mitterrand defeated Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, bringing about what many on the left regarded as a “successful May ’68.” But then, Drott concludes, with the hard realities of governance staring the Socialists in the face, utopian projects, musical or otherwise, became increasingly difficult to sustain, prompting the quip “May is finally dead . . . Long live May!”
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Welcome to the Battery Management Section of the TI E2E Support Community. Ask questions, share knowledge, explore ideas, and help solve problems with fellow engineers. To post a question, click on the forum tab then "New Post".
Q1) my charge current varies by 20% over the complete charge and 25% from unit to unit. Is this an issue?
A1) The constant current charge is controlled by the SNS signal which is filtered quite a bit and is a function of input and output voltage along with the inductor and capacitor values and parasitics. This is very difficult to calculate and it basically is fine tuned imperically by making adjustments with the sense filter of current sense resistor. This seems very uncertain but it is a battery charger. The key point to remember is that charging higher than C/3 (one third the battery capacity) will allow a good detection signal. Yes the DCA amplitude does change as the battery increases in voltage, but it is slow compared to the change in battery voltage so this would never cause a -dV change at the battery. Once the pack nears full capacity the battery voltage flattens out and then the output constant current does not change in this steady state condition and one gets proper termination. The charge current and time may vary by 20 to 30% but most people don't know how discharged the pack is each time so this should not be a big deal.
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HOUSTON — Jack Brooks hounded government bureaucrats, drafted President Richard Nixon's articles of impeachment and supported civil rights bills in a congressional career spanning 42 years.
But for most of the country, the Southeast Texas politician is frozen in a photograph, standing over the left shoulder of Jacqueline Kennedy as Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president.
Brooks, who died Tuesday at age 89, was in the Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Hours later he stood behind the grief-stricken widow in the cabin of Air Force One as Johnson took the oath of office.
Brooks died at Baptist Hospital of Beaumont after a sudden illness, surrounded by his family, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said.
Brooks would have turned 90 on Dec. 18.
Brooks was among the last links to an era when Democrats dominated Texas politics and was the last of "Mr. Sam's Boys," protégés of fellow Texan and legendary 21-year Democratic House Speaker Sam Rayburn in the state's congressional delegation.
"I'm just like old man Rayburn," Brooks, from Beaumont, once said. "Just a Democrat, no prefix or suffix."
He also was a contemporary and supporter of Johnson, who was U.S. Senate majority leader in the 1950s.
Vice President Joe Biden, who served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee while Brooks headed its counterpart in the House, said Brooks "was a Texan through and through - tough, bold, and bigger than life. He lived by principles that were carved into his heart, and he was never afraid to fight for what he believed in."
"We lost a great American, a great Texan, and a great Democrat," Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said Wednesday. "During his long and distinguished service he was a champion for working families and equal rights.
Brooks' secretary Dianna Coffey said a birthday party was planned for him next Friday, but he suddenly became ill Tuesday morning.
Coffey, who said she insisted Brooks stop coming to his office about five years ago, worked out of his home and spent weekends at his farm in Jasper, about 60 miles to the north.
When people would ask Brooks what he did in retirement, she said the plain-spoken Texan would reply: "Pretty much what I damn well please."
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Unsung hero marched on
JOE STAWYSKYJ, 1947-2012
Proud ... Joe Stawyskyj at the opening of the Vietnam Forces National Memorial in Canberra in 1992.
Anzac Day was the highlight of Joe Stawyskyj's year. His friend and army mate Sigi Jablonski would take him to the march down George Street in his wheelchair and Bill Fogarty, for many years an ABC TV commentator on the Sydney march, would single out Stawyskyj and give viewers an insight into his life.
Stawyskyj enjoyed the attention, and the reunions that followed, but how much he remembered would be impossible to say because his injuries in Vietnam had left him with little short-term memory, and badly affected his speech and ability to walk.
Jaroslav Stawyskyj was born on January 17, 1947, in a displaced person's camp in Aschaffenburg, Germany, the first child of Michael and Anna Stawyskyj, who had met and married at the camp after being used as slave labour by the Nazis.
The Stawyskyjs accepted an offer of a place in Australia, although they had no clear idea where it was. They arrived in Sydney in July 1949 and Michael and Anna found work in factories in western Sydney.
Joe went to Our Lady of the Rosary School, Fairfield, and then Patrician Brothers College, Fairfield. Even though he had spoken only Ukrainian until he went to school, he did well academically and in sport.
He believed it was his duty to help his parents so he took a job with the ANZ bank instead of going to university.
Then Stawyskyj's number came up in the national service ballot in early 1967 and he joined the Fifth Battalion.
On an early parade the sergeant-major stumbled over his Ukrainian name, the army had him down as Jarsldw Stawysyj anyway, and announced that he would be ''Fred''. To his army mates thereafter, he was always ''Fred''.
Stawyskyj arrived in Vietnam in February 1969 after volunteering for a short exposure to the war towards the end of his national service.
A company of the Fifth Battalion was deployed into a suspected enemy approach route to Long Binh in Phuoc Tuy province on March 27.
The company was being conveyed on US army trucks because of the amount of equipment they were carrying and Stawyskyj was standing on the second truck when a mine detonated beneath his feet. He was thrown clear and landed on the roadside on his head.
He was medivaced to the American Neurological 93rd Specialist Hospital with severe head injuries. His feet were also badly damaged, but medical staff at first failed to realise this because of the severity of his head wounds.
He was moved to Butterworth, Malaysia, and then to the Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, where he remained for about two years, much of the time in a coma.
Stawyskyj was released to the care of his parents in 1971 and lived at home in Fairfield for almost the next 30 years.
He was wheelchair-bound, able to walk only a few steps, had little short-term memory and his speech was affected, so his future seemed bleak.
Anna devoted her life to her son, leaving work to care for him full-time. She died in 1987; ''I think I killed my mother,'' Stawyskyj once uncharacteristically said before being hushed. Michael then took over as his son's full-time carer.
Stawyskyj spent most of his days in the family's front room, watching television, smoking and drinking coffee.
He learnt to play chess on the computer and was exultant if he ever prevailed. Despite his memory problems, he remembered people who visited him or cared for him. He was cheerful, and interested in people, but inevitably his world was constricted as there was not much he could offer.
Michael's health declined and in 2000 Stawyskyj was placed in a nursing home at Hammondville.
Stawyskyj is not on the Australian War Memorial's roll of honour, nor is his service much remembered by his country. He was all but forgotten, except by his family and his remaining army mates, but he was a celebrity at those Anzac Day marches.
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European Union police in Kosovo used helicopters to ferry staff sent to take charge of border crossings in the north after minority Serbs blocked main roads in anger over Kosovo's efforts to take over customs posts, an EU official said Friday.
People and supplies were being flown in and out of the border area in the Serb-dominated north, EU rule of law mission spokesman Nicholas Hawton said, but trade is resuming between Kosovo and Serbia for the first time since violent border disputes in July that left a policeman dead.
Serbia refuses to recognize Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence. Kosovo wants customs officers to push its claim to statehood in the north, but Serbia sees the move as undermining its claim over the territory.
Hawton said three Kosovo officials were present at each of the two northern border crossings, but that the EU mission is technically in charge. "Kosovo police and customs are there in a symbolic capacity," he said.
In Belgrade, the Serbian government urged the Serbs in Kosovo to remain calm and resist provocations, spokesman Milivoje Mihajlovic said.
Mihajlovic said "the government is following the situation. It is calm."
Roadblocks remain throughout the Serb-run north, posing a challenge to the 3,000-strong EU mission and the 5,500 NATO-led peacekeepers that are in charge of security.
Both northern crossings remain closed for commercial goods, but Kosovo's trade minister Mimoza Kusari said Serbian goods started entering Kosovo's eastern border with Serbia minutes after the EU mission took over control.
Kosovo authorities instituted the trade ban in July after Serbia refused to recognize the country's customs stamps as part of ongoing EU-mediated talks with Serbia. The embargo was met with violence by minority Serbs who torched a northern border crossing.
NATO peacekeepers intervened to quell the violence and took control of the border crossings as part of a temporary deal. NATO peacekeepers manned the crossings until Friday.
The mission in Kosovo is neutral to Kosovo's 2008 secession because five of its 27 members reject Kosovo's declaration of independence.
Jovana Gec in Belgrade, Serbia contributed to this report.
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Could South Florida see tornadoes as powerful and destructive as those that plowed over Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky on Wednesday and Thursday?
“We’ve never had anything remotely close,” said meteorologist Roberto Garcia of the National Weather Service in Miami.
Most of the tornadoes that develop in South Florida reach no higher than EF1, or up to 110 mph, on the Enhanced Frijita scale. Even tornadoes embedded in tropical storms and hurricanes rarely exceed EF1 strength, he said.
As a result, tornado deaths in this region are rare; only eight people have been killed in spring and winter tornado outbreaks since 1925, the weather service said.
Some of the tornadoes that raked across the six southern states this week intensified to EF4 level, or up to 200 mph. Almost 300 people were killed, including 210 in Alabama alone. Hundreds more were injured.
Why is South Florida essentially protected from the top-end twisters?
Tornadoes are frequently created out of warm moist air clashing with cold dry air, which creates instability in the atmosphere, Garcia said.
The more extreme the temperature and moisture differences, the stronger the tornadoes tend to be, he said.
This week’s tornado activity was born out of extremely dry air from the Northwest meeting up with extremely moist air out of the Gulf of Mexico.
By the time cold air masses arrive in South Florida, they already have been “modified,” or warmed up and moistened, Garcia said. The region is bordered by water on three sides, creating a subtropical atmosphere.
Further, the jet stream, a fast moving stream of air at high levels, “curves and concentrates energy to the north,” he said. That’s why Central Florida tends to see more tornado outbreaks than South Florida.
“That’s not to say we would never see an outbreak,” Garcia said. “But probably not of the same intensity.”
Some might wonder if this week’s tornado outbreak has any ramifications for the upcoming hurricane season, as in, are more powerful tropical systems in the offing?
Garcia said there is no apparent correlation between tornado activity and hurricane formation, as the strength and number of tropical systems is determined by completely separate atmospheric conditions, such as El Niño or La Niña, sea surface temperatures and African rainfall.
“Hurricane season depends on larger influences,” he said.
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Gardening How-To – Landscaping with Bulbs: Bloom Time
Spend time planning before planting bulbs in your landscape. Sketch the plan on graph paper before purchasing bulbs. This advance planning will assure that the proper number of bulbs are purchased. Since the foliage of spring blooming bulbs dies by early summer, this plan will provide a record of where the bulbs are planted in case annuals or perennials are mixed in later.
As you develop this plan, keep in mind that bulbs bloom at different times. Some spring bulbs have overlapping bloom periods, but they still maintain the order in which they bloom. Spring bulbs will bloom from early February to mid June. Summer bulbs will bloom from early summer to fall.
Following is a general idea of various flower’s bloom sequence: These bloom cycles are for general reference. The following sequence depends a great deal on the weather in your area as well as the variety of bulbs you plant. To see a sample of the bulbs that grow during each bloom cycle, click the links below:
Very Early Spring
Late Spring/Early Summer
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Diabetic Girls May Have Heart Risk Factors
Study authors not clear on why, but urge doctors to watch teens closely
By Randy Dotinga
MONDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- New research finds that girls and young women with type 1 diabetes show signs of risk factors for cardiovascular disease at an early age.
The findings don't definitively prove that type 1 diabetes, the kind that often begins in childhood, directly causes the risk factors, and heart attack and stroke remain rare in young people. But they do spotlight the differences between the genders when it comes to the risk of heart problems for diabetics, said study co-author Dr. R. Paul Wadwa, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver.
"We're seeing measurable differences early in life, earlier than we expected," he said. "We need to make sure we're screening appropriately for cardiovascular risk factors, and with girls, it seems like it's even more important."
According to Wadwa, diabetic adults are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease than others without diabetes. Diabetic women, in particular, seem to lose some of the protective effects that their gender provides against heart problems, Wadwa said.
"Women are protected from cardiovascular disease in the pre-menopausal state probably because they are exposed to sex hormones, mainly estrogen," said Dr. Joel Zonszein, a clinical medicine professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. "This protection may be ameliorated or lost in individuals with diabetes."
It's not clear, however, when diabetic females begin to lose their advantage. In the new study, Wadwa and colleagues looked specifically at type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes since it's often diagnosed in childhood.
The researchers tested 402 children and young adults aged 12 to 19 from the Denver area. Some had type 1 diabetes and others did not.
Among those with diabetes, females had higher blood sugar and cholesterol levels and were more overweight than males. High blood sugar, high cholesterol and excess weight all boost the risk of cardiovascular disease.
"While generally we don't see heart attack and stroke in teenagers, we know that what we see in teenagers lays the groundwork for later in life," Wadwa said. "Measurable differences in these factors at such a young age puts them at a higher risk later on in life."
It's not clear, however, whether other factors like obesity could explain the risk factors, he said.
For pediatricians, the study shows the importance of keeping close track of diabetic teens, and urging a healthy diet, exercise and medication if necessary, Wadwa said.
But Zonszein said the usefulness of the study is limited because it doesn't provide a new message. However, he added, it does offer valid advice about the importance of a healthy diet, proper exercise and control of blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
The study was scheduled to be released Monday at an American Diabetes Association meeting in San Diego. Experts note that research presented at meetings is considered preliminary because it has not been subjected to the rigorous scrutiny required for publication in a medical journal.
The American Diabetes Association has more on type 1 diabetes.SOURCES: R. Paul Wadwa, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver; Joel Zonszein, M.D., professor of clinical medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City; June 27, 2011, presentation, American Diabetes Association, Scientific Sessions, San Diego Related Articles
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Are you a young adult between the age of 15-21?
Do you live in or go to school in Orange County?
THEN THE FIRE EXPLORER PROGRAM IS FOR YOU!
Introduced by the Newport Beach Fire Department, this weekly program will train explorers on what it takes to be a Firefighter in Newport Beach and develop the skills required to ride on a Newport Beach Fire Apparatus. Classes begin in May.
For more information or an application please email, FireExplorers@nbfd.net.
Fire & Emergency Service Career Exploring is open to young men and women ages 15 (and completed the 9th grade) through 20 years old with an interest in learning more about careers in the field of Fire & Emergency Services.
Fire & Emergency Services Exploring is a hands-on program that exposes participants to many career experiences, leadership opportunities, and community service activities. The primary goals of the program are to help young adults choose a career path within fire and emergency services and to challenge them to become responsible citizens of their communities and country. You get to experience firsthand what it’s like to be a full-time Firefighter & Emergency Service provider through firefighting training & ride alongs during actual fire calls.
You will develop:
• Leadership Skills
• Respect for firefighters & explorers
• New personal skills
You will learn:
• Emergency call protocols
• Firefighting policies & procedures
• Team Building
• Proper Equipment Usage
You will have an opportunity to participate in
• Fire fighting training scenarios i.e. buildings
• Ambulance calls
You will have an opportunity to participate in hands-on projects to give you a real feel for whether this career is the right one for you.
You will learn about the educational requirements for a career in Fire & Emergency Service and will receive tangible advice on steps you could take now to prepare and position yourself for a successful career in the field of Fire & Emergency Service.
Fire & Emergency Service Career Exploring will provide you with the following benefits:
• Improved self-confidence
• Leadership experience and social network development
• Fun and Exciting “hands-on” career experiences
• Community service opportunities
• College & Career Readiness preparation
For more information or an application please email, FireExplorers@nbfd.net .
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The sights and sounds of the Civil War will come to life next weekend when reenactors wearing blue and gray uniforms will gather on the ground where many of their ancestor stood 150 years ago. On May 4 and 5, 2013 – The 150th (Sesquicentennial) Anniversary of the Battle of Chalk Bluff take place.- Chalk Bluff Battlefield Park is a state owned park and has a wonderful natures trail.
This event is sanctioned by the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission in Little Rock as part of Arkansas observance of the “War Between the States”. It is located North of Piggott, Arkansas (10 miles north of Piggott, Arkansas on Arkansas Highway 62) (MapQuest of location:
The event will take place on the actual battle site, a rare event now a days. Come early and stay late. Demonstrations of Civil War like will be going on throughout the two days of reenacting.
This event dates back to 2003 and we have held eight reenactments and are now conducting the event every two years. Event sponsor – Clay County Judge Gary Howell of Piggott stated, “ Every time we have this event we upgrade parts of the Chalk Bluff Battle field Park. Two years ago we were able to pave the road all the way to the park to help visitors find the park with ease.”
For those taking part in the action amenities include powder for artillery, cavalry, infantry, water, firewood, and, hay, and a meal on Saturday evening (for those who make contact with the event coordinators at least four days before the event).
Colonel W. Danny Honnoll of Jonesboro said, “ We are looking for a good turnout in canons, cavalry, and infantry next weekend.” “ This event is an excellent place to witness actions just like went on 150 years ago on the very site that history was make.” “ Besides being the 150th of the Battle of Chalk Bluff this will also be the 148th Anniversary of the surrender of Confederate Troop by Confederate Brigadier General M. Jeff “The Swamp Fox” to Federal General Granville Dodge.”
Scheduled events: Friday, May 3rd – 4p to 6p – Sign in by Re-enactors & Living Historians. On Saturday, May 4th the park will be opened to the public to join in.: 9:30 a – Open to the Public – Camp Life Demonstrations around Park; 9:30 a – Officer’s Call; 10:30 a – Cannon Demonstrations; Noon – Jeannine Thompson and Bobbie F. Barnett will co-host our annual Ladies Tea & Demonstrations of Refugee Camp(bring a chair and be ready to take part) ; 12:30 p – Marching & Rifle Firing Demonstrations; 2 p – Re-enactment Followed by Grand Review Parade of Troops returning to Camp and 9:30 am – 3:30 p – Ladies Demonstrations of Refugee Camp.
Sunday May 5th ; 10:00 a – Open to the Public – Officer’s Call; 10:30 a – Open to the Public; 11 a – Church Service ; 1 p – Memorial Service Confederate General Stonewall Jackson in this the year of Jackson’s death 150 years ago – 2 p – Living History – Re-enactment and Followed by Grand review Parade of Troops returning to Camp. Throughout the both days Living History Demonstrations by Ladies in Refuge. On both day sutlers (aka Merchants in tents) will be on site to sale items of the “War Between the State” times.
All branches of military and period impressions welcome. This event is hosted annually by Clay County and his assisted by the North East Arkansas Civil War Heritage Trails Committee, the SCV Shaver Camp #1655, of Jonesboro and the Gen. James F. Fagan Chapter #280, Military Order Stars, and Bars, of Jonesboro.
Artillery welcomed but must contact before setting up and has to be on site before 10 am day of event. No registration fees for reenactors, sutlers, or living historians! This event has no admissions fee for the public so it is an excellent place to enjoy the outdoors and learn more about the Civil war. Walks on must to be at site and registered 2 hours before any listed event.
Artillery Contact Capt. Tom Bird at (501) 388-3805 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (501) 388-3805 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting – email email@example.com, Cavalry Contact: Colonel W. Danny Honnoll phone 870-926-2985 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 870-926-2985 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting email at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Infantry contact Capt Louis Riggs at 573-717-0909 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 573-717-0909 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting or email@example.com.
This event has no admissions fee for the public so it is an excellent place to enjoy the outdoors and learn more about the Civil war.
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April 2, 1940
Dr. Leslie E. Sutton
I am glad to learn from your letter which arrived here on February 28, one month after you mailed it, that you are now feeling
better about the situation than you were when you wrote at the beginning of the War. It is good that you have time for your
own work and teaching. I am looking forward to seeing your lecture on the "Present Stage of Valency Theory" when it appears.
You must remember when thinking about the United States that it is the way of democracies to be undecided and to have difficulty
in reaching a final decision about important questions. This disadvantage of the democratic system is of course far outweighed
by the advantages, which we all know about and for which you are fighting. We have been working hard around here for the
"Union Now" scheme of uniting the democracies, although I must say that I am not very optimistic about anything's being done
The work in the laboratory is moving along as usual. Schomaker and Stevenson and the other electron diffraction men have
been getting a lot of interesting results. Schomaker now has refinement of the radial distribution method in such good shape
that it leads often to complete structure determinations in one step. There is also a lot of crystal structure work being
done especially on amino acids and polypeptides. We are just installing some International Business Machines with about 200,000
punched cards for making very rapidly and accurately the electron diffraction and
x-ray calculations. I am interested now in the question of the structure and process of formation of antibodies, and have
developed a theory on which many predictions can be based. We are beginning experimental work in serology in order to test
some of these.
We have a new staff member in organic chemistry, Professor L. Zechmeister of the University of Pecs. He is working especially
now on isomerism of carotenoids.
My wife and I are leaving next Sunday for the East, where we shall attend the Spring meetings of the societies. We are all
in good health, Young Linus is now fifteen, and may go off to boarding school next year, although a definite decision has
not yet been made.
With best regards to everyone at Oxford, I am
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COLUMBIA CITY — Whitley County Consolidated School District Board of School Trustees heard from WCCS superintendent Dr. Pat O’Connor on Monday regarding the future of school safety in the district.
This discussion came in light of the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. After meeting with local law enforcement, O’Connor said these partnerships will be the engine that drives school safety.
In future weeks, meetings will be planned involving school administrators, the Indiana State Police and members from the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department and Columbia City Police Department. Following those meetings the district plans on reviewing safety drills at each building for the students.
Columbia City Police Chief Tim Longenbaugh said the meeting with the superintendent went well and will further connections between the two groups. The chief said being proactive is the only way to prevent a crisis.
Another note from the superintendent’s meeting with law enforcement was the issue of having a school resource officer (SRO) for the district. O’Connor received 17 surveys back that she sent to other school districts. Of those 17, 11 have a SRO, who are funded in various ways by those districts. Three of the 11 also had a canine officer at the school with the SRO.
In other business, the board appointed its officers for the 2013 year. Don Armstrong was elected board president, Tim Bloom vice-president and Deb Hiss board secretary. Meetings were established to be the first and third Mondays of each month at 5:30 p.m.
For a more in-depth look at this story, see the Jan. 9 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook.
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Minister urges end to videogame rating feud
Think of the children, pleads Hodge
The government has called on the UK’s two videogame classification bodies to stop their slanging match over which of their age-suitability rating systems is best.
Speaking at a game industry conference in London this morning, Margaret Hodge, Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism, said that arguments between the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and the European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) won’t help efforts to work out how best to implement the Byron Review's recommendations.
“Try and avoid this becoming a battle between two regulatory bodies, so we can create a solution that everyone can believe in,” she pleaded.
The government-ordered Byron Review, published back in March , explored ways to protect children from videogame violence. It recommended that the BBFC system be used alongside the Pan European Game Information (Pegi) labelling style - which is backed by the ELSPA - to create a twin labelling system.
The BBFC and ELSPA have argued about whose classification system is best ever since.
The BBFC uses its film-oriented age ratings - U, PG, 12, 15, 18 and so on - for games. Its ratings are legally enforceable. Pegi uses pictogram labelling, such as a spider to signify scary content, and is a voluntary code.
Hodge’s demand didn’t stop representatives from both bodies from launching into a war of words at the conference.
Paul Jackson, Director General of ELSPA, admitted that Pegi isn’t perfect. However, he claimed that it still represents the “gold standard” for videogame classification, and that it’s the best solution for the future. He also said it is “the best and only system to protect children”.
Peter Johnson, Head of Policy and Business Development at the BBFC, bit back, claiming that the games industry only prefers Pegi’s classification system because they’re the ones controlling it.
Both bodies recognised that the classification of online games is one of the toughest issues facing the industry at present, but Johnson claimed that “no one’s got the classification [of online games] right yet, least of all Pegi”.
Jackson went on to question the BBFC’s ability to cope with an increase in the volume of videogame classifications, which would occur if online games were brought under the censor's remit.
“The BBFC isn’t capable of reviewing the tens of thousands of games and accessories launched each year,” he said. The BBFC rejects that claim.
Hodge has promised that the government will publish a consultation document on the back of the Byron Review.
Register Hardware wants your classification thoughts. Should the BBFC be the UK’s sole videogame classification body? Should the Pegi system be merged into the BBFC’s method? Or, perhaps parents are the problem and they should take more responsibility for what videogames children play?
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Henry Watkins “Hank” Skinner was supposed to be executed tomorrow, but last Tuesday a Gray County, Texas, District Court judge pushed the date back one month, to March 24. Skinner has been on Death Row in Texas since 1993, awaiting execution for the murder of his girlfriend and her two sons. He has maintained his innocence since his arrest, and investigators from the Northwestern University Journalism School’s Medill Innocence Project have shot numerous holes in the prosecution’s case. But Texas officials refuse to conduct a simple DNA test that could point to the condemned man’s innocence or cement his guilt.
Skinner's scheduled lethal injection comes shortly after Texas Gov. Rick Perry has removed sympathetic panelists from the state forensic committee's investigation into the case of Cameron Todd Willingham and replaced them with panelists critics say are stymieing the investigation. Willingham was executed in 2003 for murdering his three daughters by setting fire to his house. Nine arson experts and an investigation published in the New Yorker last year have since made a strong case that Willingham was innocent of the crime.
At the same time, Texas, a notoriously enthusiastic enforcer of the death penalty, continues to lead the nation in DNA exonerations (one county in Texas has produced more genetic exonerations than all but three states). Which makes it all the more disturbing that biological evidence from Skinner’s crime scene remains untested, at the behest of prosecutors and backed up by the courts. You’d think given recent headlines that Texas might be a bit more reluctant to execute a possibly innocent man.
Skinner doesn't dispute that he was in the house at the time his girlfriend was bludgeoned to death and her sons were stabbed to death. But he says he was unconscious at the time, knocked out by a near-lethal mix of alcohol and codeine. He was convicted because of his presence at the crime scene, because he had small spots of blood from two of the three victims on his shirt, and because of the testimony of a neighbor, Andrea Reed, who happens to be an ex-girlfriend of Skinner’s. Reed says Skinner came to her shortly after the crime and implicated himself to her. According to court records, Skinner then told Reed a number of other implausible stories about who committed the murders.
Skinner's case has been championed by the Medill Innocence Project, the team of professors and students that exposed deep flaws in the Illinois death penalty system (ultimately leading to a moratorium on executions in the state), and has freed 11 people from prison, including five who had been condemned to death. After years of investigation, the project has revealed a number of shortcomings in the state's case against skinner. Among them:
· Andrea Reed has since recanted her testimony. She now says she was pressured by police and prosecutors to falsely incriminate Skinner. In an interview with Medill students, she added that, “I did not then and do not now feel like he was physically capable of hurting anybody.”
· The untested DNA included blood taken from the murder weapons, skin taken from under the fingernails of Skinner's girlfriend, a rape test taken from her that included semen, and other blood and hair found at the scene. Skinner asked his attorney to request the evidence be tested in a letter written in 1994. The attorney never made the request, stating later that he feared doing so would implicate his client.
· Skinner's girlfriend had been stalked by an allegedly lecherous uncle, Robert Donnell. Witnesses say Donnell had approached her at a party she attended the night of her death. She left frightened, and he appeared to have followed her. A friend says the uncle had raped her in the past. Days after the murders, a neighbor reportedly saw the uncle thoroughly cleaning and repainting his truck.
· Skinner's court-appointed attorney was a former prosecutor who had actually prosecuted Skinner on a minor assault and car theft charge years earlier. Skinner's two prior crimes—which his own attorney had prosecuted—were used as aggravating factors in the death penalty portion of his trial.
· According to a new report (PDF) by toxicology specialist Harold Kalant, a moderate drinker with the levels of codeine and alcohol Skinner had in his blood would have been comatose or dead. A heavy drinker may have been rousable, but would have been "stuporous," unlikely to have the coordination necessary to carry out three murders involving multiple stabbings and bludgeonings.
It isn't difficult to see why prosecutors don't want the DNA tested. They have an unsympathetic suspect that they can place at the scene of the crime. If DNA suggests someone else bled or fought in the house that night, it doesn't conclusively prove Skinner is innocent, but it does (or at least ought to) raise enough reasonable doubt to prevent his execution. In 2000 DNA tests were conducted on blood taken from a roll of gauze and a cassette tape found in the house; that blood didn't match Skinner, his girlfriend, or her sons.
The first possible outcome of testing the remaining evidence is that the DNA will match Donnell, the allegedly lecherous, threatening uncle. Donnell has since died. If tests show Donnell's flesh under the victim's fingernails, or his blood or semen at the scene, the state is left with the strong possibility that they let a murderer go free, brought an innocent man within a week of execution, and no longer have a live body they can try, convict, and execute.
The second possibility—that the untested evidence came from other, unknown parties—wouldn't necessarily prove Skinner's innocence, but it would certainly complicate the state's case against him. But that's still no reason to refuse the tests. If we're going to execute people for particularly heinous crimes, we have a moral obligation to ensure that every reasonable possibility of the suspect's innocence has been explored and exhausted. Ignoring evidence that complicates things falls well short of that obligation.
The third possible outcome from testing the remaining biological evidence is that DNA will come back a match only to Skinner or the victims. That would go a long way toward affirming Skinner's guilt. All the more reason for conducting them.
After a conviction, the criminal justice system tends put a premium on finality, setting a high bar for reopening or retrying old cases. Given the Willingham case and the spate of exonerations across Texas, perhaps it's time the state put less emphasis on finality, and more on certainty. DNA testing in Skinner's case may not bring us closer to closing those 1993 murders, but it will bring us closer to discovering the truth about them. In a capital case especially, that alone should be reason enough to to go through with the tests.
Radley Balko is a senior editor at Reason magazine. This column first appeared at Reason.com.
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Parents who want to raise children who are good at solving problems – and who doesn’t? – should watch how they hand out praise to their toddlers, researchers said Tuesday.
Praising little ones for their efforts -- rather than for being who they are -- helped make them problem-solvers who think success results from hard work five years later, researchers at the University of Chicago and Stanford University said in the journal Child Development.
That means a parent might say, “You worked really hard,” rather than saying, “You are such a smart girl.” The messages, the researchers said, have different effects -- and they influence the way children view the potential for change when they grow older.
Other studies have examined praise with older children, and in a laboratory setting, said Elizabeth Gunderson, who is now a psychology professor at Temple University but was at Chicago during the study.
"This study suggests that improving the quality of parents' praise in the toddler years may help children develop the belief that people can change and that challenging tasks provide opportunities to learn," Gunderson said.
The researchers videotaped 53 toddlers and their parents at their homes in the Chicago area. They found different kinds of praise on the tapes. (Praise, by the way, was just 3% of the overall utterances, the researchers said.) Five years later, they followed up with the children to check their attitudes toward challenging versus easy tasks, overcoming setbacks, and improving.
“Process praise,” or praising the effort, increases persistence, because it suggests that effort leads to success. Most of those praises were simple, such as “good job” or “good running,” the researchers said.
“Person praise,” such as, "You are such a kind boy," makes the person perform less well on challenging tasks because he believes the effort won't change his ability.
Five years later, the children completed two oral questionnaires that assessed their approach to challenges. The kids who were give more process praise could think of more strategies to overcome setbacks. The recipients of person praise, on the other hand, felt that their traits were not changeable.
The study noted that the research did not establish a causal relationship between the praise and the later beliefs, and suggested that additional research focus on the impact of praise on actual behavior.
One worrisome note, Gunderson said, was that boys got significantly more praise for their efforts than girls – even though the genders received the same amount of overall praise. And at the five-year mark, the boys were more likely to have positive approaches to challenges.
"These results are cause for concern because they suggest that parents may be inadvertently creating the mindset among girls that traits are fixed, leading to decreased motivation and persistence in the face of challenges and setbacks," Gunderson said in a statement.
Another study in the same journal also looked at the way parents treat siblings differently – not just boys or girls. It’s probably not a surprise to anyone who has a sibling that parents don’t treat all their children the same way.
And that’s sometimes a good thing, said researchers from McMaster University and the Universities of Toronto and Rochester. Children don’t always have the same needs, they note.
But differential parenting, as it’s called, can hurt not just a child who receives negative treatment but all the children in the family. The researchers, who looked at almost 400 families, also found that the more “risks” the parents had, the more likely they’ll treat the children more differentially. (Those risks included such things as depression, poverty, household chaos, level of maternal education.)
“In families in which most of [the] resources are devoted to coping with economic stress, depression and/or marital conflict, parents may become less consciously or intentionally equitable and more driven by preferences or child characteristics in their child-rearing efforts,” the researchers wrote.
The study included families with up to four children, with average ages of 2 to 5. Most previous studies looked at pairs of siblings. Information about the families was gathered both by observations in the homes and from the mothers.
The more risk factors that were present, the greater range of the way children were treated. And when kids in a family were treated very differently, all the children in the family had more mental health problems, the researchers said.
"In all likelihood, this occurred because differential parenting sets up a dynamic that is very divisive," Jennifer M. Jenkins, Atkinson chair of early child development and education at the University of Toronto, who led the team, said in a statement.
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Democrats are great at messaging a pro-Democrat media, and there’s no better example than the oft-heard phrase, “the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.”
How many times have you heard reporters repeat that Democrat talking term?
Even Fox News’ Chris Wallace managed to fall for the brainwashing. He used the term during his interrogation of Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Sunday.
The Bush tax cuts weren’t just for the wealthy. Anyone who files a return should know that.
Now the Associated Press is letting you know there’s a “huge” tax increase that won’t just affect the wealthy—that’s if those “Bush tax cuts for the wealthy” expire.
Here’s the AP lead:
A typical middle-income family making $40,000 to $64,000 a year could see its taxes go up by $2,000 next year if lawmakers fail to renew a lengthy roster of tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year, according to a new report Monday.
The marriage penalty will also return. President George W. Bush was the only president to address that outrage.
The AP cites the Left’s new standard bearer on tax policy, the Tax Policy Center, a group that issued a study Democrats relied on to make false claims about GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s tax policy.
If you want real nonpartisan tax information, go to the real experts at the Tax Foundation. The Tax Foundation has been crunching policy numbers since 1937.
President Barack Obama’s solution was to lower payroll taxes—certainly not a good idea considering all those federal IOUs in the Social Security Trust Fund.
Next time you hear Obama say those Bush tax cuts were “for the wealthy,” make a mental note. You’re hearing a false claim that is pure Leftwing propaganda.
If Obama gets reelected, enjoy your tax increase if you pay.
If your family earns $40,000 a year, though, you can celebrate. Obama and his fellow Democrats apparently classify you as “wealthy.”
(Commentary by Kay B. Day/Oct. 1, 2012)
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Bangladesh to hold massive cholera vaccine trial
Health officials in Bangladesh are due to launch the world's largest trial of an affordable cholera vaccine which could save tens of thousands of lives.
The study involves nearly 250,000 people near the capital, Dhaka.
If the results are positive, the programme can be replicated in other countries where cholera is a big problem, officials say.
Cholera outbreaks every year during the monsoon season kill hundreds in Bangladesh.
But many oral vaccinations are considered too expensive for millions of people in this impoverished country.
The latest initiative aims to test an affordable version of an oral vaccination, which is one-tenth of the cost of the current available vaccines.
Two-thirds of the 250,000 people involved in the trial will receive two doses of the Indian-made vaccine.'At high risk'
The remainder will not receive the medicine and the two groups will be monitored over the next four years.
"It is a study that will demonstrate that we can deliver the vaccine to the population that needs it the most, the people at high risk of cholera," Firdousi Qadri, one of the scientists involved in the project said.
"At the same time it will be a test of the existing immunisation mechanism that we have in this country," she said.
One of the broader aims of the project is to get a better idea of how many people die each year from cholera.
If the programme proves successful, then the authorities will go for a mass immunisation of the entire country.
The results are likely to trigger interest from other developing countries, like Haiti, which have had outbreaks of cholera.
But critics say that modern-day drugs do not offer long-term protection against every cholera strain.
Some experts say that along with mass vaccination, investments in improved water and sanitation infrastructure can help reduce the impact of cholera.
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In sickness, marriage may not boost health
Studies have found that married people report better health than people who aren't, but marriage may not do much to help those who are seriously ill.
Tue, Mar 05 2013 at 5:20 PM
Photo: Stephen Coburn/Shutterstock
Marriage is good for the health, but it isn't so beneficial "in sickness," new research finds.
Previous studies have consistently found that people who are married report better health than people who aren't. But marriage may not do much to help people who are seriously ill, the study finds. On top of that, married people overestimate how healthy they are.
"The married don’t seem to report their health as being poor until they've already developed much more severe health problems," study researcher Hui Zheng, a sociologist at Ohio State University, said in a statement. "They have a different threshold for what they consider to be bad health compared to unmarried people."
Zheng and his colleagues analyzed data from 789,000 people who took the National Health Interview Survey from 1986 to 2004. The U.S. Census Bureau runs the survey, which has been ongoing since 1957.
One survey question asked respondents to rate their own health as either excellent, very good, good, fair or poor. This self-report has been shown to be a very accurate portrayal of a person's physical health, and in some cases, Zheng said, can be a better predictor as to whether someone will die in the short term than a doctor's diagnosis.
The researchers examined how this self-reported health assessment related to marital status and mortality risk over a three-year period. [6 Scientific Tips for a Successful Marriage]
They found that, in general, married people were less likely to die within three years than people in all other categories, including those who were never married, divorced, widowed or separated. Someone who has never been married who self-rates his or her health as "excellent" is twice as likely to die within three years as a married person in excellent health, for example. (These findings took into account demographics such as age.)
But there was some nuance to the health question. The poorer a person's health at the study's start, the less their marital status mattered in mortality risk.
For never-married people, each decrease in health from "excellent" to "very good" and down was linked to a 12-percent decrease in the short-term risk of death compared with married people in the same category. In the "poor" health category, there was no mortality difference between married and unmarried people.
"These results suggest that marriage may be important for the prevention of disease, but not as helpful once people become seriously ill," Zheng said. "That's why we see a protective effect of marriage when people are in excellent health, but not when they are in poor health."
The researchers found the same results when they used a different, objective measure of health, the ability to handle routine activities of daily living such as bathing and cooking.
Married people don't rate their health as poor until they've developed more severe health problems than unmarried people, the researchers found. So someone who is married and says they're in poor health may actually be worse off than a singleton in poor health. The difference could help explain why the benefit of marriage seems to vanish in the poor-health category.
Social support received from a spouse may make it less obvious to a person that their health is deteriorating, Zheng said. But the end result is still premature death.
"Marriage is helpful in persuading people to adopt a healthy lifestyle that can lead to a longer life," Zheng said. "But it is not as useful in helping people recover from a serious illness."
The researchers report their results in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Follow Stephanie Pappas @sipappas. Follow LiveScience on Twitter @livescience, Facebook or Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com.
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May 27, 2008
One who feels for the common man?
One who bolsters the economy?
One who strengthens the military to make us a powerful nation?
One who ensures equal opportunity to underprivileged minorities?
One who revives/reinforces faith and morality within the country?
One who quells civil unrest and maintains peace within the country?
One who funds research and academia to make ours a technologically advanced nation?
These are some of the questions an informed voter would ask himself before he casts his precious vote, and so I did, and I got some interesting but puzzling answers. As a result I changed my tactics and instead of asking those pertinent questions, I focused upon some world leaders who have made their mark and tried to figure out what was it that made/makes them tick. While doing this, I made an interesting discovery that sometimes there were two world leaders even three, sometimes from the same country, that shared various leadership traits, and so I bracketed them together:
John F. Kennedy( USA)/ Rajive Gandhi (India) (youthful appeal)
Idi Amin (Uganda)/ Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan) (might under duress)
Dmitry Medvedev(Russia)/ Anwar Sadat (Egypt) (groomed politicians)
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt)/ Mikhail Gorbachov (USSR) (visionaries)
Ernesto Zedillo/Vincent Fox (Mexico) (supporters of a globalized economy)
Yasser Arafat/Mahmoud Abbas (Palestine) (empathetic leaders)
Che Guevara /Fidel Castro (Cuba) (revolutionary freedom fighters)
Ayatollah Khomeini/ Mahmoud Ahmadenijad (Iran) (moral/religious reformist)
Evo Morales (Bolivia)/ Hugo Chavez (Venezuela) (aggressive economic policies)
Nicolas Sarkozy (France)/Bill Clinton (USA) (charismatic)
These groupings and the cited characteristics are all purely subjective and may carry little weight. However, what is interesting is that these leaders, disparate as they may be, are still recognized as having made a distinct impact on the people they lead. We have a Nasser and a Sadat, both lead Egypt, yet how differently; a Clinton and a J. F. Kennedy, both picked by an American electorate, but stand worlds apart in what they brought to the plate as heads of state. The above mentioned are all illustrious individuals who rose to the occasion and delivered, yet each delivered a different package! What was relevant then may not apply now; the need of the hour then may not even be recognized as a need any more. Our world exists within a time continuum that produces some dynamic socio economic equations which need real time solutions in order for humanity to prosper and evolve. In the light of this realization it is not the leader who is important, but it is the specific need of the hour which is and thus needs to be profiled and then disseminated to make for an informed electorate which can then vote for a candidate who has the ability to provide the country with a solution to its specific socio economic equation. Does that imply that people will always find a leader who will deliver? Certainly not, and we have innumerable examples in history and in our recent past of leaders who unfortunately delivered a nation to disaster and despair. In the same breath we have had the Mandelas and the Gandhis who brought out the best in the millions they lead!
The finding of an apt leader will depend on how informed and free an electorate is to be able to determine its need of the hour! In fact it's not the ability of the leader that defines a period in history but the awareness levels of the people who he leads during his reign. In the light of that finding, my plans for a leader profile are aborted/abandoned!
Teachers of the world unite, we all have an electorate to inform, awaken, and empower to ensure the existence of peaceful and productive nations.
May 15, 2008
Bloggers Unite For Human Rights challenges bloggers everywhere to help elevate human rights by drawing attention to the challenges and successes of human rights issues on May 15. What those topics may include — the wrongful imprisonment of journalists covering assemblies, governments that ignore the plight of citizens, and censorship of the Internet. What is important is that on one day, thousands of bloggers unite and share their unified support of human rights everywhere."
|“||...recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world||”|
—Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 194
May 14, 2008
A colleague and friend of mine has recently written a novel, and I had the privilege of being the first one to read the final draft. That is when a barrage of questions started flooding my mind; questions that I had always carried within but never articulated thus far. Not being able to contain myself I asked my friend turned novelist some rather pointed questions about her new vocation. Her witty and wholesome answers but only whetted my curiosity about novel writers. Why do they write?
Does a writer start off knowing she is going to write a 500 page novel or does the novel simply grow out of what started as a short story? Do the pages of a novel grow to a plan or are they at the mercy of a character that breaks loose and takes the story hostage?
After pondering over these questions for the longest time and finding no palpable answers I turned to the big-wigs of Literature to see what they had to say about novelists and the writing of a novel... I'm not so sure that helped!
Toni Morrison put it this way: “If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
Saul Bellow feels " A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones"
Faulkner says "every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story...failing that...takes up novel writing."
Camus defines the novel "a philosophy put into images."
Chesterton says a "a good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
Hemingway believes a novel "should create living people; people not characters."
Henry James says "The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
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The Armour of the Winds is made of meteoric iron, with a thin layer of silver threads to make it look more impressive, and it is of the type that was worn in battle fifty years ago. This Cuirass has a deep blue enamel adorning its surface, with images of silver heraldic eagles in silver filligree rampant upon the breastplate.If touched, it feels cool to the touch even if in a boiling hot desert.
The Elemental Planes are, for the smaller elementals, a dangerous place to live, for the larger ones feast upon the small whenever they can catch them, and after the first few years of life, during witch their mother protects them, the small are on their own.
One such, a little Air Sylph, was being chased by a far greater one the size of a large hurricane, and he knew that he was seconds away from being shredded and swallowed. Then to his amazement a small portal appeared, like a star in the sky, and he dived inside, not caring where it led as long as he was able to stay alive. It was perfect for him, but far too small for the giant sylph above him that howled and roared in frustration.
He came out inside a small pentacle within the laboratory of the then young wizard Rufus Mellitus of Vallermoore. Over the next year, the wizard fed him, learned how to speak to him, and then learned a lot from him about the elemental planes that he had come from. “Am I your prisoner?” he asked. “No,” Rufus replied. “I brought you here to learn more about you, not to harm or exploit you. If you want me to send you back to your home plane, I will.”
After thinking about it for a bit the sylph decided that he was safer where he was for now. For twelves months he stayed with the wizard and the two began to trust and like each other. The wizard allowed the sylph to roam free within his house and grounds, and fed it with earth, with minerals and with semi-precious jewels to keep it healthy and strengthen it.
Then war came to Vallermoore and the wizard asked his friend to help the war effort and agree voluntarily to be sealed inside a breastplate and used in battle, promising to set him free afterwards and pointing out that should the breastplate be destroyed in battle, he would be set free anyway. Although somewhat suspicious, the sylph wanted some excitement in its life and agreed as long as it was set free when the war was over.
It went into battle and did it’s best, causing wind to blow from the breastplate. At first this was hardly noticeable, but when the owner killed somebody, the elemental was able to take a bite out of the departing soul. In doing so, it got slightly stronger. Many were killed by it’s owner as he rose in rank and earned medals for bravery, and the sylph grew more powerful and could help it’s owner more.
From hardly being able to do anything at all, it could send a powerful jet of wind from the breastplate to blow away arrows aimed at it and even sword thrusts. And it felt deeply satisfied, for even though it was able to only take a bite out of each soul, it could feel it’s inner power grow.
No more would it have to fear becoming a tasty snack for one of the larger members of it’s kind. When it was set free it would roam the Planes and would be able to command respect. After nearly seven years the war finally came to an end and the sylph was as ecstatic as the humans. Freedom was only a matter of weeks away.
Great was its anger when it found that its freedom was to be denied, and it was never to see it’s human friend again. It’s owner, by now a colonel in the Queen’s Own Eyes, the royal bodyguards, was determined not to it go. So it decided upon revenge. Over several weeks it wormed its way into it’s owner’s mind, as it was placed beside his bed at night.
Taking the form of his mother, it whispered to him of the power that he could have if he tried to seize the throne. After a month of this he tried to stab the Queen from behind, but by using it’s wind power to do the equivalent of tapping the Queen on the shoulder, she was able to dodge his blow and scream for help. The disgraced colonel was hanged the very next day, still wearing the enchanted armour, and the sylph devoured his entire soul.
As it ate it, power coursed through it, although not yet enough to break free of the enchanted armour. Its new owner considered the armour unlucky and sold it. Since then two more if it’s owners have died violently, one when he was blown by what was thought to be a freak gust of wind into the path of a coach-and-four, the other when he apparently went mad and tried to kill his friends, and having grown ever more powerful, the sylph now needs just one more complete human soul or five *bites* to be powerful enough to shatter it’s metal prison and escape back to the planes.
In combat a strong wind erupts from the armour. In the short term it can push attackers over, giving the wearer a chance to get a free attack in or escape. After that, whilst weaker, the wind will weaken the attacker’s strike against the armour, enhancing its capabilities.
Also the wearer will not overheat-he or she may be harmed by hunger or thirst, but the part of the body covered by the armour will stay cool.
However, the sylph within wants the wearer to die so that it can eat the wearer’s soul. It can do so in three ways. First, by pushing the wearer into something deadly, be it off a cliff, into the path of a coach, or into a giant spider’s web.
Secondly, by appearing in dreams, as whoever is closest to the wearer-(over time, it can read the wearer’s mind), and by urging the wearer to commit a capital offence of some kind, promising that the wearer will not get caught, when in fact the chances are high that he or she will in fact be caught, convicted and executed.
Thirdly, by getting the wearer, in the same way, to turn on his or her friends and try and murder them to steal their goods.
Should its wearer slay a certain number of people it will have enough strength to break free anyway.
If it does get free, the armour will burst outwards in dozens of sharp pieces, doing no harm to the wearer but injuring anyone standing within fifteen feet, and a huge and highly dangerous Air Elemental will appear in the form of a large spinning tornado, picking up the wearer and hurling him or her several feet.
Should the PC’s fight the Elemental they will need either powerful magic or a magical weapon- non-magical weapons will do it no harm and will get trapped in it. At best it will be wrenched from the owner’s hand, at worst, the owner will be pulled around and around and hurled with great force into the nearest solid object.
If they flee it will chase them for miles.
If they have a Mage PC who can speak to it, it will ask politely to be sent back to it’s own plane, and if the PC’s do what it wants it will reward them with a piece of knowledge and will give back any weapons it has taken. If they cannot send it back it will demand that they take it to someone who can. It’s sole desire is to return to it’s own dimension.
An old man so old as to be near death will recognise the armour-he is the one who enchanted it, and he wants to set free his friend. If the PC’s turn him down they might get a nasty shock later, when a very angry Air Elemental bursts out and attempts to seriously kick their asses.
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Pub. date: 2008 | Online Pub. Date: June 25, 2008 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412963978 | Print ISBN: 9781412909280 | Online ISBN: 9781412963978 | Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
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Mr burr the head custodian is working on putting new numbers on 42 of the 81 classroom doors. He found two numbers for the 23rd door he was working on in the 6th grade hallway whose sum is 35 and their product is 306. What are the two numbers?
Find the volume generated when the area bounded by the curve y^2 = 16x, from x = 0 to x = 4 is rotated around the x-axis.
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Find the area bounded by y= -0.5x+6, y= !/4 x and the y-axis. Sketch a graph of the two functions and shade in the area.
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Tue July 31, 2012
Political Stumbles Mark Romney's Trip Abroad
Originally published on Sun August 5, 2012 1:04 pm
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wrapped up a week-long foreign trip today with a speech in Warsaw. Romney hailed Poland as a symbol of economic and political freedom and met with Polish leaders before boarding a plane for the U.S.
The trip has not entirely gone according to script. Hoping to spotlight the candidate's foreign policy credentials, the Romney campaign has come under fire for offering few new ideas and for repeated political stumbles. From Warsaw, NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.
ERIC WESTERVELT, BYLINE: After missteps in the U.K. and Israel, former Governor Romney may have been expecting smoother sailing in Poland.
(SOUNDBITE OF CROWD NOISE)
WESTERVELT: In Gdansk Monday, Romney briefly greeted locals in the historic old town. Many had gathered at a police line, curious to see what all the extra security was about. Some in the crowd knew it was an American politician, but didn't know his name. Gdansk President Petor Latinski(ph) thought he knew.
PRESIDENT PETOR LATINSKI: Mick Roomy(ph), Mick Roomy.
WESTERVELT: While he didn't get the name right, Latinski had heard of the Romney campaign's problems.
LATINSKI: (Speaking foreign language).
WESTERVELT: Yeah, I've read that with him it's just been one gaffe after another, he said. Maybe he'll continue like that here. In the U.K., Romney inadvertently annoyed the British by questioning London's preparedness for the Olympics and in Israel, he enraged Palestinian officials when he suggested cultural differences were key to the massive economic disparity between Israel and the Palestinian territories.
At the University of Warsaw today, Romney looked to move on. In his last speech before returning home, he praised Poland as a political, democratic and economic triumph.
MITT ROMNEY: Rather than heeding the false promise of a government-dominated economy, Poland sought to stimulate innovation, attract investment, expand trade and live within its means. Your success today is a reminder that the principles of free enterprise can propel an economy and transform a society.
WESTERVELT: Romney did not lay out any new foreign policy positions in his speech here or during the trip. Romney drew criticism, even from fellow Republicans, for an earlier speech in which he called Russia without question, our number one geopolitical foe. Today, he made little mention of Russia, except to say that once promising reforms there had faltered.
During his entire trip, Romney did not hold any press conferences. He took three questions from the travelling American press corp in London at the start. That's it. In Poland, at times, Romney and Polish aides tried to limit the use of audio recorders during carefully planned photo ops.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Okay. So the problem is that there should not be any voice here.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Excuse me?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: There should - this is just a photo opportunity. No voice today.
(SOUNDBITE OF UNINTELLIGIBLE CHATTER)
WESTERVELT: It hardly mattered. The only sound was of cameras clicking away. Today, the tensions between the Romney campaign and the press seemed to boil over. Reporters who'd been traveling with Romney shouted questions to him after a wreath laying ceremony at a World War II memorial.
(SOUNDBITE OF REPORTERS SHOUTING QUESTIONS)
WESTERVELT: Governor Romney ignored the questions, but his aide, Rick Gorka, was livid and told a reporter to, quote, "kiss my ass."
RICK GORKA: Show some respect here.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: We haven't had another chance to ask him questions.
GORKA: Kiss my - this is a holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect.
WESTERVELT: Gorka then told the reporter to shove it. He later apologized to reporters for losing his temper. Romney's campaign was hoping the trip would show their candidate looking and acting presidential, confident and smooth as he mingled with world leaders. The photo album will have plenty of shots of him smiling with dignitaries, shaking hands and waving.
But the memories will also include all those moments the campaign would rather forget. Eric Westervelt, NPR News, Warsaw. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.
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Akamai Eyes New Second-Screen Technology: Report
NEW YORK (TheStreet) - The future blending of TV and computing is getting more interesting all the time.
According to a report from MIT Technology Review, researchers at Akamai(AKAM) are busy working on a new technology that will automatically know what you're watching on TV and then stream secondary content to your smartphone or tablet.
Akamai is considered a Web optimization company. Its online servers handle as much as 30% of all Web traffic - including some of the most popular destinations on the Web.
The company says the idea is simple. It wants to create a standard for today's TV/Internet technology that lets users get scores and other facts on a small screen while watching a sporting event on the big screen or, for instance, police statistics and news reports while they're watching a crime show.
At the moment, second screen information is handled by separate apps for each TV broadcaster. Akamai's new system would negate the need for multiple apps.
Ratings company Nielsen(NLSN) says 40% of Americans are also using their smartphones/tablets/computers at the same time they're watching TV. Akamai thinks that it will be able to create a way to keep everything flowing faster and even more seamlessly than today's current methods.
Experts believe that the market for second-screen content could increase more than tenfold in the next three-to-four years.
--Written by Gary Krakow in New York.
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In Middle Kartli where the Liakhvi flows into the Mtkvari a town of Gori is spread among the picturesque hills. Gori is one of the most ancient towns in Georgia. According to some historical records Gori was founded by King of Georgia David the Builder at the beginning of the 12th century. Nevertheless, archeological excavations discovered a township settlement dated from the end of ancient and down of new epochs. In 1946 the landslip of mountain slope revealed the cultural layer of the antique period. Ruins of clay-walls, thin-walled jugs, plane and gutter-shaped tiles painted in red, pieces of clay utensils burnt to red and glittering black appeared before the archaeologists' eyes.
The ancient Gori Fortress crowns the mountain rising up in the center of the town. Who knows how many attacks this constantly ruined fortress has repulsed. Who can enumerate those Georgian heroes who gave their lives for the independence of the fortress-town.
Gori is the administrative and cultural centre of a large agricultural region, an industrial town with population of more than 60,000. It has a railway station. Among its enterprises are a large textile mill, an instrument-marketing factory, a cannery, an institute of research into the automation of industrial processes and a fruit-and-vegetable selection station. The town also has a teachers' training college and several specialized secondary schools. Its cultural amenities include a theatre, the Museum of Martial Glory and the Stalin Museum.
Under a protective pavilion made of marble and glass is the small flat-bricked house where Stalin (Joseph Jugashvili) was born and spent his childhood. His name is closely associated with the history of former Soviet state, especially during the years of the Second World War.
A karavan route leading from the Black Sea coast into the depth of Asia passed here for many centuries and the town witnessed many fierce battles against various invaders. The medieval fortress of Goristsikhe, situated on a hill, dominates the locality. However, its top part is only the fortress's "head". Crenellated walls and towers, like the body of a huge dragon, go down the slope of the hill, forming several defence levels. No wonder Gori was the stronghold of Georgian Kings, and the Goristsikhe, a trusted guardian of Kartli's frontiers, one of the most impregnable fortresses in Central Kartli.
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That $10 million Tricorder X-Prize from Qualcomm, to create an instrument similar to the ones used on Star Trek, got a step closer today, when Dr. Peter Jansen released the designs for his Mk 2 Tricorder, making all the specifics open source.
Dr. Jansen’s Mark 2 runs on Linux. The hardware includes an ARM Atmel microcontroller squeezed into a clam-shell with two OLED touchscreens. Schematics, board layouts, and the firmware is all available free and includes the initial proof-of-concept device.
The tricorders need six AAA to run and include sensors for temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, ambient light, distance and even magnetic fields. Dr. Jansen’s hope is to make scientists out of everyone.
The Tricorder X-Prize aims to bring a diverse array of inexpensive sensors together in an accessible, easy to use, handheld design. On Jan 12, 2012, the contest was officially opened at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Early entrants to the competition include Silicon Valley startups Scanadu and Senstore.
Ward Cunningham, who developed the first wiki is the chief technology officer for CitizenGlobal, a place where people can create stories together using photos, video, and music. Cunningham is Nike’s first Code for a Better World Fellow.
Ward Cunningham’s goal is to do for data what Wikipedia did for text – enabling the sharing and collaboration of data.
Ward’s latest project is to publish field data from the Nike Community Garden as part of his work on the “Smallest Federated Wiki” (project videos). Russell Senior, President of Portland’s PersonalTelco, helped by providing WiFi connections to garden sensors. Here’s his installation with the garden in the distance.
Ward shows an Arduino micro controller collecting data from various sensors and publishing it as a federated wiki page.
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22 November, 2012
Ban on the sale of unsafe multi-purpose ladders
Consumer Affairs Minister Simon Bridges has announced a ban on multi-purpose ladders that do not meet Australia and New Zealand safety standards.
The ban comes after an investigation by Consumer Affairs which found that multi-purpose ladders sold on Trade Me collapsed well below their advertised weight limit.
“The metal in one of these ladders buckled and split, collapsing only seconds after a man climbed on it. The ladder was supposed to hold up to 150kg and the man was only 90kgs,” Mr Bridges says.
“After receiving the complaint Consumer Affairs tested similar types of these ladders and found they all failed the loading requirements. The aluminium construction was very thin and may have contributed to the collapse.
“It is unacceptable that the public should be at significant risk of injury from multi-purpose ladders that do not meet Australian and New Zealand safety standards, which is why I have, after consideration, declared an Unsafe Goods Notice.”
The Unsafe Goods Notice for Multi-purpose Ladders prohibits the sale or supply of multi-purpose ladders which do not comply with the safety standard. The notice is issued under section 31 of the Fair Trading Act and will be enforced by the New Zealand Customs Service at the border and the Commerce Commission in the marketplace.
Breaches of an unsafe goods notice attract penalties of up to $60,000 for an individual and up to $200,000 for a company.
The ban will come into effect for a period of eighteen months from 22 November 2012, after which time it will be reviewed.
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- Last Updated on 02 June 2012
NSW is the largest survey of its kind in the UK. Four surveys have been completed at different times of the year in order to investigate any seasonal variations. In 2010 it was expanded to include centres in ROI. It is undertaken in collaboration with BDA, RCN, the 2010 and 2011 surveys also being in collaboration with the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute. It has the support of DoH in England, Scottish Government, Welsh Assembly Government and Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland. Results have been widely used and cited in many publications.
The results of all four surveys will be amalgamated to provide a more complete picture of malnutrition and a report published towards end of 2012.
Members of the Committee
- Christine Russell (project lead)
- Marinos Elia (co-project lead)
- Claire Oldale
Aims / Objectives of the Committee
- To undertake a series of national surveys to establish the prevalence of malnutrition on admission to hospitals, care homes and mental Health units in the UK using criteria based on ‘MUST’
- To document screening practice
- Provide feedback to local centres so their results can be compared with the national picture
- Provide recommendations to improve nutritional care
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Rome July, 25 - A special agreement between the Italian Government’s DPA (Drug Policy Department) and the US ONDCP was signed to foster cooperation between the two organisations. Therefore the agreement is likely to give more importance to the Italian experience on drug policy, which remains rather conservative, especially regarding harm reduction. Read more (in Italian).
Since the negotiations of the EU resolution in the lead up to the CND 2011, for example, the Italian Government has been challenging the European position on harm reduction. The policy paper presented by the Italian Government and entitled “Measures and concrete actions for the prevention of drug related diseases” attempted to narrow down the definition of harm reduction by excluding certain measures, such as pill testing, heroin assisted treatment and drug consumption rooms, as quoted in the addendum to the policy paper. This appears to be paradoxical, given that Italian Government had signed the 2005-2012 European Commission Drug Strategy where harm reduction is defined broadly, harm reduction interventions are clearly and comprehensively spelled out, and their implementation encouraged. Fortunately these services still have a good success in some Italian regions.
This is worrying because other important cooperation agreements developed between Italy and Serbia, Albania, Morocco and other counties of East Europe, Maghreb and the Mediterranean area are likely to be affected by the above US-Italian agreement.
Keep up-to-date with drug policy developments by subscribing to the IDPC Monthly Alert.
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Wild weather throughout the country, but hurricanes?
To say that the weather of late is wacky is an understatement.
Whenever the temperature is 84 degrees before 7 a.m., with highs in the mid-90s later in the day, you know that the dog days of summer are definitely here.
A huge heat wave has blanketed much of the country for the past few weeks. Plus, 100-degree readings in Montana? Hello?
Then there was that massive storm in New York that spawned a tornado in Brooklyn last week, the first such occurrence in more than 100 years.
Tornados in Kansas or Polk County, sure, but in Brooklyn? Jeez.
The center of the United States has seen an extraordinary amount of rain, too. Some poor Texans have been inundated with something like twice the normal rainfall per year already. Ditto with Oklahoma folks and others in the Midwest.
The storms and resulting floodwaters have spurred some scientists to note that there is an unprecedented new “dead zone” off the Texas coast.
Dead zones are areas of the Gulf of Mexico, or other water bodies, where oxygen is lacking. Biologists call the condition hypoxic, and the condition obviously is not a good thing for critters that need to breathe underwater, like fish or bottom-dwelling organisms.
The Texas dead zone is estimated to be at 1,750 square miles. Another, larger dead zone usually forms just south of Louisiana during this time of year, complements of the Mississippi River runoff, and generally is something like the size of the state of New Jersey. This year, expect that dead zone to be even bigger.
We had our own problem with a dead zone off Southwest Florida a few years back, spurred by red tide.
Apparently some sort of weird underwater inversion took place during a red tide outbreak.
Temperature differences in the different layers of water between the surface and the bottom got reversed for some reason that scientists are still puzzling over. The red tide organisms got packed to the bottom of the Gulf in an area from Pinellas to Lee County, killing off most of the marine life in the area.
Offshore fishers were smacked with the die-off of grouper and snapper.
The good news was that the event, although unusual and devastating the marine life, was relatively short lived. Coral and soft-coral are coming back - although slowly.
And there is no sign of red tide out on the Gulffront horizon so far this year.
And then the wacky weather issue turns to tropical storms.
Hurricane forecasters are coming out with their August reports, and are backpedaling on early season predictions, although keeping with the “above-normal” trend we’ve seen in the past few years.
The latest report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week said there was a “very high likelihood (85 percent chance) of an above-normal 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, a 10 percent chance of a near-normal season, and only a 5 percent chance of a below-normal season,” according to a report issued by a consensus of scientists at the NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Research Division and Hydrometeorological Prediction Center.
According to the various agencies, “The 2007 outlook calls for a likely range of 13-16 named storms, 7-9 hurricanes, and 3-5 major hurricanes. These ranges are slightly tighter than those predicted in May (13-17 named storms, 7-10 hurricanes, 3-5 major hurricanes). The tighter ranges reflect not only an increased confidence for an above-normal season, but also a reduced likelihood of seeing as many as 10 hurricanes and 17 named storms.”
Hey, it’s mid-August, getting into the peak of the height of hurricane season. What’s going on?
“The prediction for an above-normal 2007 hurricane season reflects the combination of two main climate factors: the continuation of conditions that have been conducive to above-normal Atlantic hurricane seasons since 1995, and the continued La Niña-like pattern of tropical convection. In addition, temperatures in the western tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea remain well above average. This combination of conditions is known to produce high levels of Atlantic hurricane activity.”
Scientists note that there have been three named Atlantic Ocean storms to date for 2007 - Andrea, Barry and Chantal - which they state “is slightly above average for June and July. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. However, the vast majority of the activity in 2007 is expected during the peak months of the season - August through October.
Keep that Spam handy, folks.
More shocking news
Moving away from the weather is whether or not, or how to, go after a bad guy.
Law enforcement has been using a variety of alternative means to subdue “problems” in their world of serving and protecting the public.
Nightsticks were the rage for years. Then came pepper spray. Today, Tasers are the hot item, although not widely used on Anna Maria Island, to quiet suspects when they become unruly.
And now those shocking devices are coming in designer colors.
Tasers shoot out something like a 50,000-volt charge, which should pretty much immobilize anybody coming at you, leaving him or her writhing on the ground and allowing you to run away.
The joy of a Taser is that it doesn’t cause the impact of, say, a gunshot wound, and also doesn’t cause all those nasty questions afterwards from law enforcement, not to mention the legal ramifications about why you shot someone and how you came by the gun in the first place.
But rather than having color-coded guns, nightsticks or Mace, Taser manufacturers are going after the female market. They’re in pink. Blue. Silver. Grey. All supposedly designed, according an article in the New York Times, to “persuade women to add the weapon to their checklist for the evening: lipstick, wallet, keys, Taser.”
At a cost of $350, a pocket Taser may be a bit more pricey than what some folks can afford for “personal protection.”
Local law enforcement is a bit skeptical on the matter of civilians having and holding such devices.
Sure, a Taser is better than a gun if a bad guy comes after you. But in a panic situation, according to one police officer, pepper spray is more likely to hit the target.
And it was noted that law enforcement officers have to undergo a rigorous training program to be certified in Taser use. Heck, they’ve got to go to school to learn how to use a stick and pepper spray.
It was also noted that, like firearms, Taser usage also runs the risk of having a bad guy take it from you and turn it onto your own self. Ouch.
But the silver one does look pretty cool ….
And now, onto a totally different subject.
Back 20-plus years ago a younger Roat was sent on assignment to Naples, Miami and Fort Lauderdale to do a series of articles on parks.
I noted a lot of funny little syringe-like things in cocoanut palm trees in Miami. The parks and recreation guy who gave me the tour said that it was an attempt to battle something that had been plaguing the palms there, a disease he called “lethal yellow.”
Well, lethal yellow has apparently moved to our part of the world.
According to an article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the disease was first noted at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport. It’s migrated to areas east and south of the airport, plus in southern Manatee County.
Look for yellowing palm fronds, loss of fruit, or youngest fronds on the tree starting to die. If you see any of the above, call an arborist ASAP.
South Florida lost almost all of its palm trees due to lethal yellow back in the day, causing a massive re-planting effort to keep the South Florida look alive and growing.
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Severe Winter Weather Continues to Stress Blood Supply
The massive winter storm that pounded much of the United States this week increased the number of canceled blood and platelet donations through the American Red Cross to nearly 23,000 since January 1, 647 of which were in Wisconsin and eastern Iowa on Wednesday, February 2. The situation continues to stress the Red Cross national blood supply for more than 3,000 hospitals across the country.
“The need for blood is constant – patients can’t take a snow day,” said Greg Novinska, CEO of the Badger-Hawkeye Blood Services Region based in Madison, Wis. serving Wisconsin, eastern Iowa, Michigan UP and parts of Illinois. “We want our donors to stay safe when severe weather strikes. But if it is safe to travel, it’s important to schedule a blood or platelet donation appointment to help replenish the blood supply.”
The Red Cross urges all eligible donors in unaffected areas to make an appointment to give blood or platelets today, and those in affected areas to donate as soon as travel is safe, by calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or by visiting redcrossblood.org. All blood types are needed, but there is a special need for donors with type O negative, A negative and B negative blood. Donations will help replenish the Red Cross blood supply to ensure that blood products are readily available for patients with serious medical needs.
The Red Cross overstocked major medical centers in some of the hardest hit areas in the Midwest earlier in the week expecting airport and road closures. All wheel drive Red Cross vehicles were also readied and deployed to make emergency deliveries. And local law enforcement assisted with emergency deliveries of blood products in some cases.
People have been responding to the call for blood donations, and the Red Cross is grateful to those who are stepping up to donate blood and build the blood supply back to sufficient levels. Every two seconds a patient in the United States needs a blood transfusion. Blood is perishable and has no substitute. Red blood cells have a shelf life of only 42 days and platelets just 5 days – they must be replenished constantly.
Individuals who are 17 years of age (16 with parental permission in some states), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements. Please bring your Red Cross blood donor card or other form of positive ID when you come to donate.
Helping those affected by the storm
The American Red Cross has also been on the ground in 19 states, offering food, comfort and a safe place to stay to people affected by the massive winter storm which has buried the country in ice and snow from the Rocky Mountains to Maine. In Chicago alone, more than 360 people spent Tuesday night in Red Cross shelters. Many were motorists stranded by the storm. In Tulsa, Red Cross disaster workers housed almost 70 people Tuesday night who could not make it home due to the storm.
To help people affected by this winter storm and thousands of disasters in this country and around the world, visit redcross.org, call 1-800-RED CROSS, or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
About the American Red Cross
Governed by volunteers and supported by giving individuals and communities, the American Red Cross is the single largest supplier of blood products to hospitals throughout the United States. While local hospital needs are always met first, the Red Cross also helps ensure no patient goes without blood no matter where or when they need it. In addition to providing nearly half of the nation’s blood supply, the Red Cross provides relief to victims of disaster, trains millions in lifesaving skills, serves as a communication link between U.S. military members and their families, and assists victims of international disasters or conflicts.
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Sugar is an advanced template engine for PHP.
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UCSF researchers have created the first transgenic mouse to display the earliest signs of Parkinson's disease using the genetic mutation that is known to accompany human forms of the disease.
The mouse model, which expresses the same mutant proteins as human Parkinson's patients, also displays early signs of constipation and other gastrointestinal problems that are a common harbinger of the disease in humans.
As a result, researchers say, these animals could serve as a means of investigating therapies for reversing the neurological dysfunction of the disease at its earliest stages.
The findings are featured as the cover story in the May 1, 2010 issue of the journal, "Human Molecular Genetics" and are available online at http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/9/1633.
Researchers have long suspected that the neurological component of Parkinson's, which causes tremors and stiffness among other symptoms, is actually a late-stage effect of a larger, systemic problem, according to UCSF geneticist Robert L. Nussbaum, MD, who was senior author on the paper.
"This new model validates that theory by mimicking what we know to be the genetic pathway leading to Parkinson's, while also displaying the earliest symptoms that occur in humans," said Nussbaum, who is the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Medicine and chief of the UCSF Division of Medical Genetics. "This will give us an important tool in identifying an early intervention for this devastating disease."
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's, affecting 1.5 percent of adults over 55 years of age, and is typically characterized by motor disorders such as tremors, rigidity and postural instability.
Several non-motor abnormalities also frequently accompany Parkinson's, including depression, sleep disorders and ga
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University of California - San Francisco
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Who's Who - William Rhodes-Moorhouse
William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse (1887-1915) was the first airman to be awarded a Victoria Cross, posthumously awarded in May 1915.
Moorhouse was born in London to an English father and Maori mother, one of four children. Educated at Harrow and Cambridge University Moorhouse regarded his university education as a waste of time. Instead his real interest lay in engine design - initially in fast cars and then in the budding field of aviation. In 1906 Moorhouse knocked down and killed a child on Brighton beach during a motorcycle race; initial charges of manslaughter were however subsequently withdrawn.
Leaving university in 1909 Moorhouse learned how to fly - gaining his pilot's certificate in 1911 - and then set to designing monoplanes. He competed in aviation competitions and was the first to cross the English Channel from Douai to Ashood with two passengers in a biplane (one of whom was his wife).
With the onset of war in Europe in 1914 William - by now having legally changed his last name to Rhodes-Moorhouse as a means of inheriting his grandfather's estate - enlisted with the Royal Flying Corps for training.
Rhodes-Moorhouse was attached to No. 2 Squadron in March 1915, then based at Merville in France. Within a short period Rhodes-Moorhouse won the V.C. for which he is renowned.
On 26 April 1915 he was instructed to attack the German-held rail junction at Courtrai. He successfully released his load of bombs but was strafed by combined machine gun and rifle fire while flying low. Although his aircraft was damaged - and his thigh torn open - he elected to try and regain the Allied lines rather than crash-landing behind German lines.
Caught again by German fire while returning home he received hits to his abdomen and hand. He nevertheless finally managed to land successfully behind Allied lines, making his report before being taken to a military hospital for treatment. Critically ill he died on the following day. He was subsequently awarded the V.C. on 22 May 1915, the first airman to receive the award. He was aged 27.
'Bantam' was a term to describe members of battalions between 5ft 1in and 5ft 4in.
- Did you know?
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The Aim of the Malta Virtual Emigration Museum
The aim of the Malta Migration Museum website is to collect information relating to issues of interest to migrants and migration. It will be a site which will continue to grow to provide the most comprehensive collection of such information.
You might ask why the need for another website? We believe that this website is unique in many ways. It will link all those persons interested in their Maltese past, in Maltese history, and more specifically in the process of emigration which they or their parents have gone through. It will highlight historical or actual facts of interest, and this in sufficient detail to enable serious investigators to delve into and obtain relevant information. In this way it will provide a resource not at the moment available elsewhere.
The objective of this website is indeed a very ambitious one. Already at this stage of development we have several hundred pages of material online, and the amount waiting in the pipeline is many times this. So without any doubt this is going to be the most comprehensive source of information about the migration process.
We also host a myriad of information on Maltese associations overseas. ALL MALTESE ASSOCIATIONS OVERSEAS ARE REQUESTED TO SUBMIT INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR ASSOCIATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WEBSITE. Information on how to submit material is available online.
We hope that this aim will be reached with the help of the many contributors as well as those who will browse and comment on ways to improve this website.
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Pathologists interpreting specimens, slides, or images sent through interstate commerce should be licensed in the state where the patient presents for diagnosis, with the exception of an intraspecialty consultation.
The College of American Pathologists supports the right of each state, through licensure, to regulate the practice of medicine in order to protect the health and welfare of its citizens. CAP believes that a pathologist who engages in the interstate practice of pathology (including telepathology) and issues a pathology diagnosis that is contained in the patient’s medical record should have a full, unrestricted license to practice medicine from the state in which the patient presents for diagnosis or where the specimen is taken or image is made.
The interstate practice of pathology occurs whenever a patient specimen, including a specimen slide or a specimen image, is sent through interstate commerce or an interstate communication system, from the state in which the patient presents for diagnosis to another location outside the state. The patient is deemed to have presented for diagnosis within a state from which the specimen is obtained.
Telemedicine is the practice of medicine whereby diagnosis is achieved through digital or electronic communication technology whenever the physician is not in the physical presence of the patient.
Telepathology is the practice of anatomic or clinical pathology whereby diagnosis is enabled through digital or electronic communication technology whenever the pathologist is not in the physical presence of the patient’s specimen. Telepathology is the practice of the pathology component of telemedicine.
Intra-specialty consultation from an out-of-state pathologist should not require in-state licensure provided that the consultation is at the request of an in-state pathologist licensed within the state and if the consultation is reflected in a pathology report issued by an in-state pathologist. Similarly, Pathologists examining specimens and/or slides from a case that has been previously reported, such as might occur when a patient is referred to a treatment center in another state, need only to be licensed by the state within which the examination occurs.
Adopted November 1995
Reaffirmed November 1998
Reaffirmed February 2002
Revised February 2003
Reaffirmed April 2008
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The restructuring of health care in America is the most important debate of the nineties. Every citizen, regardless of age or social status, will be affected by changes that are sure to evolve from the endless disputations on the subject in settings ranging from high school to the halls of Congress.
The American Health Security Act of 1993 as proposed by the Clinton Administration calls for an enormity of social change unexceeded even by the New Deal. There is no disputing the value of some of the benefits this plan purports to offer, such as improving health care, simplifying paper work and administrative complexity, measures to increase the supply of primary care physicians, and correction of injustices in the medical liability system through tort reform.
More ominous is the prospect of increased federal bureaucracy (which has a dismal record for efficiency and cost savings) and expanded cradle-to-grave benefits with no credible means of paying form this largesse. Infinity of care cannot be achieved with finite resources. Instead of reducing the cost of health care the plan as presented would greatly increase costs.
Robert Bear Smith, a physician with 22 years of practice experience, outlines the wrongs that led us to the dilemma, which he calls the “mess” of the health care system. Many societal sectors are incriminated to varying degrees in having brought about current health exigencies.
Some increased costs are necessary offerings on the altar of progress: an ever increasing age of the population and expansive technology advances. In other areas, Dr. Smith describes where the government, the insurance, hospital and legal industries, health care supply and pharmaceutical companies, physicians and the public have all contributed to the “:mess.” Corrective reforms are suggested for these various players.
Dr. Smith makes interesting observations and his “treatment” deserves consideration.
John W. Hollowell, M.D.
The Medical Society of Virginia.
The Past & The Present
For 22 years, as a practicing physician in the United States, I have watched the increasing deterioration of our health care system. I see everyone having more and more difficulty affording health care. This country has increased spending in health care each year. The total annual health care costs were 666 billion dollars in 1990, 738 billion in 1991, and 817 billion in 1992. The costs represent nearly 15% of the Gross National Product (GNP) of this country. The cost is so huge that it affects the cost of living for everyone.
With the skyrocketing health care costs, we still have 35 million people in this nation either are unable to afford basic insurance or are simply uninsured. Being uninsured creates a serious problem when those people need health care in critical situations. Hospitals might refuse to provide facilities for them (see p.63) even if physicians are willing to care for them free of charge. Meanwhile, we can not allow the costs to continue to rise. We have to stop the increase or at least to slow it down. But so far nobody has done anything effectively. It is very discouraging to find that every offered “solution” has always increased the costs. Now the Clinton Administration is already talking about spending up to 150 billion dollars more to reform the ill-fated health care system. Their reform may be even worse than letting the current system run at its own pace.
The public does not realize that it, too, is one of the key players in this health care nightmare. The public has to understand that there is no free lunch in this world. Someone always has to pay. The public cannot demand more services with better equipment and technology without paying for them. Your insurance payments to hospitals and physicians are coming from your insurance premiums. The payments are not someone else’s money. The payments are your hard earned cash. Therefore, the public has to watch carefully and actively participate in the reform. Always keep in mind that you get what you pay for.
I am firmly convinced that you and I can figure out a way to have a good health care system for all in this country. However, you and I have to take a while to understand the problems from every aspect, to analyze them, and to find the best solutions for them. Without reasonable solutions to every problem in the health care system, which includes patients, physicians, the hospital industry (including nursing care facilities), the insurance industry, the health care supply industry (including the pharmaceutical industry), government regulations, and medical legal involvement, the powerful factions will always corrupt each other and benefit themselves at others’ expense. They have led this country’s health care system into a chaotic situation. They have created the MESS of the American health care system!
In Corporate America nothing works without money. Therefore, everyone rushes to collect money whenever and however he can. Anyone can start a business to earn a living and to make a profit, whether the business is ethical or not. People, armed with intelligence and business management skills, have never missed opportunities to make money. It was inevitable that they would not spare the health care system.
Health care businessmen are a special breed of business people. They do not necessarily have any knowledge about taking care of health problems. They do not even understand why the medical profession has to emphasize a code of ethics. They only want to make profits by monopolizing the running of the entire health care system, gaining financial control, and taking advantage of you when you are sick. They are determined to get every penny that they can. They show no compassion if you can not afford health care.
Medicine is traditionally a profession with compassion, love and self-sacrifice. Our society historically has respected physicians because of their devotion to helping their fellow citizens. Good physicians practiced medicine according to the Hippocratic Oath. In caring for their patients, they made self-sacrifices in lifestyle and freedom. They deserved respect and reasonable compensation from their patients for their work. Physicians trusted their patients to understand their efforts and to appreciate their quality of care. Physicians never believed that anyone might harbor ill intentions toward them. The physicians’ belief in the goodness of human nature, combined with their disinterest or lack of knowledge in politics and finance, has also allowed the health care system in this nation to deteriorate.
You may have watched an old movie portraying a story about a doctor making a house call in a small beautiful, peaceful town in this country. You might have also seen the doctor providing his best care to a poor patient without asking him if he had money to pay his bill. The doctor might have even given this poor patient some money to buy food. Of course, this doctor did not own a gold mine for him to afford to do such a humanitarian act. He was able to do it because most of his patients in town paid him reasonably well, and he did not have to worry about any possible shortcomings financially. Most people in that society were paying the doctor for the poor, just as we do today. Interestingly, they could afford health care then, but with spiraling costs we can not afford health care today.
In China, old traditions in medical practice were impressive. They demonstrated love among people and the best of human nature. A practicing physician in a community knew almost everyone in that area. The physician did not have to post a fee schedule on the wall in his office. However, every patient knew the reasonable fee for each visit. It is Chinese tradition to use the color red for good luck. So, patients enclosed their gratitude or fee in red paper or an envelope to their physician. The physician just thanked the patient when he received his fee. The physician did not check the enclosed gratitude or fee until the end of his office hours. Assuming the customary fee was 5 dollars for each visit then, most patients would give the doctor about that amount. However, patients from some wealthier families would give the doctor twice or three times or even more than the customary fee, partly because they appreciated the doctor’s service and partly because they knew that the doctor needed their support to help poor patients. When a poor, sick patient came to visit the doctor at his office, he might have managed to get a loan or to sell some of his personal belongings to get money for the fee. The fee could be very little, say, one dollar. Again, it was wrapped in red paper and given to the doctor at the end of the visit. The doctor knew that his patient was very poor financially. He accepted the gratitude and opened it under his desk immediately. He held the red wrapping paper in one of his hands before his patient and thanked him for it. Meanwhile, the money was enclosed in the other hand. Without checking the amount of the fee, the doctor gave the money back to his patient and asked him to use it for dispensing his prescription. It was a wonderful picture of the best love of mankind. If the old Chinese traditional medical practice could afford medical care to all people then, why can we not afford medical care for all people today?
In the Orient, physicians would do everything to save their patients’ lives. At times, with a simple verbal consent from the patients or the patients’ families, they used some medications and modalities, without final proof of effectiveness, in cases of terminal illness. When the patients recovered, the doctors were thanked dearly. But when the patients died in spite of the treatments, physicians were thanked by the patients’ families anyway for their unreserved effort and excellent care. It was the patients’ families’ feeling that the illness simply took its own course, regardless of the best effort made by the doctors. With that kind of public attitude toward physicians, it helped physicians to practice the best medicine they could without adding unnecessary costs in liability insurance. Why could the Orientals have excellent health care at affordable costs while we have reduced health care benefits with skyrocketing costs?
It is necessary for you and me to be objective and open-minded while we discuss a major issue, which affects every one in this country. Sometime in this discussion, I may touch your sore spots and may make you hate to continue our discussion, but the gravity of this health care issue should carry more weight than anything else in your daily life. To restore a long lasting and sound health care system which every one can afford now and in the future, one has to set his selfishness aside and work together with others toward this goal— affordable and quality health care for all Americans.
Robert Bear Smith, M.D.
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Written by: Katherine Rourke
At this point, I don’t imagine too many providers use Skype to communicate with patients, if for no other reason than I haven’t heard my wired physician friends mention it.
But even if the numbers are small, it seems we may not have been paying enough attention to services like Skype, whose security may be good enough for personal conversation, but not for patient communication.
A recent item on a legal blog offers a reminder that Skype — and other Web-based communications platforms — pose security risks that may compromise a provider’s ability to comply with HIPAA.
Why should providers be concerned about using Skype and its kin to conduct free videoconferences with patients? Well, a quick look at the security requirements HIPAA imposes, as cited by Epstein Becker Green attorney Rene Quashie, offers an idea:
- Access controls.
- Audit controls.
- Person or entity authentication.
- Transmission security.
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- Risk analysis.
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- Device and media controls.
- Security management processes.
- Breach notification.
I have no in-depth knowledge of the Skype infrastructure, but my guess is that it fails most of the tests above. And given that it’s a proprietary platform, it’s not as though hospitals or medical practices can build these controls onto Skype with any ease.
However, Mr. Quashie does offer a series of procedures to help mitigate the risks associates with Skype and its relatives:
- Request audit, breach notification, and other information from web vendors.
- Have patients sign HIPAA authorization and separate informed consent as part of intake procedures when using web-based platforms.
- Develop specific procedures regarding the use of Skype and similar platforms (interrupted transmissions, backups, etc.).
- Train workforce regarding the privacy and security risks associated with these platforms.
- Exclude the use of these platforms for vulnerable populations (i.e., severely mentally ill, minors, those with protected conditions such as HIV).
- Limit to certain clinical uses (i.e., only intake or follow up).
All of that being said, this clearly suggests the need for HIPAA-compliant videoconferencing services via the Web. And while they may exist, I’m certainly not aware of any market leaders. Your turn, readers? Do you agree that there’s a need for such services? Do any exist already that have traction in the arena?
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The Book of Kehls : In this memoir, Christine Kehl O'Hagan describes the ways in which muscular dystrophy shaped the life of her family. From her 1960s childhood growing up under the elevated trains of Jackson Heights, Queens, to the leafy streets of a Long Island suburb where O'Hagan later cared for her own two boys - one healthy and one with the disease - she was always surrounded by the ghosts of past victims. They included two young uncles, dead of muscular dystrophy when they were ten and twelve, as well as her brother, Richie, whose birth Christine celebrated with great joy and whose decline underscored her family's pain. But even as they struggled, there was much laughter in their lives. Christine's grandmother and aunt - Old World Irish Catholics who lived in the apartment next door - provided an eccentric, loving hilarity, as did her father. He was just as likely to come home on the subway wearing oversized green furry costume shoes with claws, stolen from a local television show, as he was to sleep off a beer-soaked night in the neighborhood bar. Eventually Christine would marry and have a healthy son. But when she saw her second boy, Jamie, struggle to climb onto the school bus, she realized that muscular dystrophy would be with her the rest of her life. The Book of Kehls is the story of a family who had love, courage, and heartbreak in equal measures - and how they survived.
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An interview with Dr. Rumay Alexander, Clinical Professor and director of the School of Nursing Office of Multicultural Affairs, was the cover story for the June 2012 issue of the Nurse Leader journal.
In the article, Dr. Alexander recounts lessons she learned from being a church choir director when she was only 12 years old and what led her to be a nurse. She also shares her definition of diversity: holding multiple perspectives without judgment. http://www.nurseleader.com/article/S1541-4612(12)00092-4/fulltext.
"Dr. Alexander’s efforts towards enhancing acceptance, civility, and inclusiveness in the academy, health care, and society is a commitment without end," said Dr. Kristen M. Swanson, Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor. "So long as there are differences amongst people, ideas, opportunities, and resources there will be reasons for individual, institutional, and global discernment about courses of action that lead to the greater good. In the School of Nursing, Dr. Alexander is an invaluable contributor to our daily efforts to assure that past, current, and future faculty, staff, and students feel welcome in the School of Nursing."
Nurse Leader is the official bimonthly journal of the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), the national organization of nurses who design, facilitate and manage care. The journal provides the vision, skills, and tools needed by nurses currently in, or aspiring to, leadership positions.
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The Kepler mission launched in 2009, and this week it has grabbed some impressive headlines. Meanwhile, Voyager 1 and 2 launched more than 30 years prior to Kepler, and they continue to make news. This week, several sessions are devoted to the aging spacecraft at the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, and last week, a paper in Science covered some of its newest discoveries.
The two Voyagers are almost in interstellar space, at the edge of our Solar System. In a sense, they are the Star Trek Enterprise of satellites, “boldy going where no one has gone before.” Voyager 1 lies about 11 billion miles from the Sun; Voyager 2, a bit behind at 9 billion miles from the Sun. At these distances, on the boundary of the Sun’s influence, the two spacecraft provide amazing new discoveries.
The press conference at AGU on Monday described the kind of twilight zone Voyager 1 currently inhabits. The spacecraft has sped outside the heliosphere, a “bubble” of gas blow into space by our Sun. But Voyager 1 has not yet reached interstellar space. It’s detecting small amounts of both solar wind and interstellar wind and appears to be in a “stagnation region,” described in a press release as “a kind of cosmic purgatory.”
(More on the interstellar winds: supernovae explosions cause these winds and they tend to come from a direction near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.)
The two spacecraft travel one billion miles every three years, and researchers are unsure when they will reach interstellar space. Ed Stone, the Voyager Project Scientist from Caltech, estimates it could take anywhere from a few months to a few years. We can only hope that at least one of the spacecraft reaches interstellar space before they are both powered off. Power for all instruments exists through 2020, with both spacecrafts shut down by 2025.
The press conference participants (and many in the audience) gushed about the productivity of the two middle-aged spacecraft.
Lyman-alpha emissions are produced when ultraviolet light hits neutral hydrogen atoms, splitting them into protons and electrons. When the two recombine, they can form an atom in an excited state that emits ultraviolet light at a characteristic wavelength, known as the Lyman-alpha band.
Because this high energy occurs in star-forming regions, scientists believe that these detections suggest the birth of stars in both our galaxy and beyond. The Lyman-alpha emissions from sources other than our Sun are virtually undetectable from within the solar system, so these detections come as exciting news for astronomers.
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Welcome to the Monthly Shamanism Column
Dreams, the nighttime variety, have been very powerful lately, and this is often a means for shamanic messages to come through. If you can remember your dreams, think of any signs from nature – were you by a lake or climbing a tree, did an animal visit you or mark you in some way? Sit for a moment before opening your eyes and bask in the dream world to see if there is a message that rings true for you. You don’t have to go to the computer to look up the dream’s “meaning.” Trust your instincts. If you see bear standing tall and beating his chest, maybe you need to stand up for something, or if birds are singing and it seems joyful to the dreaming you, maybe you need to experience more joy.
Dreaming is a very useful tool for a shaman, and it is important to remember that not all dreams happen while sleeping. Shamans who dream while awake perform an important service to all mankind by dreaming of the transformation that will lead the world in a more perfect path. The shamanic journey can be thought of as a dream that happens while the dreamer is awake but outside of normal time. Meditation is another form of wakeful dreaming. The practice of visioning is being used more and more to create positive future paths. And despite what your teachers may have told you in school, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a good daydream!
POWER ANIMALS FOR MAY:
For May, students of astrology in the United States typically associate the power animal Bull, associated with the sign Taurus. The Bull is solid, strong, practical, stubborn, slow, and stable. Bulls need security, financial and otherwise; they need solid ground under their feet. The Bull is a perfect symbol for the United States in May 2008, as our financial security is seriously in question. Bulls are slow and plodding, but once set in motion will remain at a task with great persistence and reliability. The Bull will try to get its own way, but will not take any risks.
The Native American power animal for the month of May, or the growing time, is the Beaver. The Beaver teaches many, many lessons to those with this totem; they are as busy as shamanic teachers as they are in life! Lessons of the Beaver involve cultivating flexibility and adaptability. Beaver teaches compassion, accepting others for who they are. Beavers are the builders, the creators, and can help you solve problems through creativity and work. This can be symbolized as needing to work on your foundation, or needing to build a new foundation to access new challenges. Beavers symbolize fertility and knowing how to work in harmony with the environment through their work in building dams and creating new fertile spaces. Beavers also teach inner peace and breath work; those with this totem would do well to practice meditation, yoga, or breathing exercises. Also, the beaver symbolizes accessing the hidden inner world or under world of dreams, making it possible to manifest them.
The Mayan calendar brings us the energy of Snake, one of the most powerful medicine animals, at this time of year. There are many legends and myths associated with snake, including fertility and immortality. Snake is the symbol of the South in shamanic work, and we ask snake to teach us to leave our past as snake sheds its skin, all at once, leaving behind that which no longer serves and carrying forward only that which is part of our essential nature. They symbolize swift changes, speed, agility. They have no eardrums, but sense vibrations that travel through the earth, and those with this totem may access their inner power through hearing or clairaudience. The snake’s eyes are always open, offering the gift of sight.
With so many gifts coming from our animal totems this month, each person can develop his or her own strengths. Be ready for change, a change in path, a change in foundation, a change in focus or growth.
JOURNEY FOR MAY:
I asked Beaver to guide me on my journey for May. I have never visited with Beaver, and I could barely keep up this time!
Beaver met me at the atoll pool where I usually begin my journeys. It is a peaceful place for me, away from crowds and surrounded by nature. He insisted that we get up immediately and leave, that we run quickly as the foundation was washing away. I ran after him asking where we were going. Beaver said, “I have prepared a place for you.” It was disconcerting to be leaving my familiar place and indeed watching it crumble away behind me, but I trusted Beaver and followed him through a wood to a new place that had enough shade and enough sun and a cleared space for a new foundation. Beaver instructed me in taking enough trees but leaving some for the shade and choosing where to cut.
When I asked for the gift to bring back for readers for the month of May, Beaver began slapping his tail on the ground, sending out a vibration, and he kept going faster, saying that the frequency is higher now, and we have to send out our new vibration from our new places. A strange gift, I know, and Beaver talked very fast, so I’ve done my best to keep the essence of his meaning. I hope that it resonates for you.
Thank you Beaver for your gifts.
PERSONAL PRACTICE FOR MAY:
May starts with May Day and ends with Memorial Day.
On May Day, it is traditional to leave a basket of flowers for a friend or neighbor without getting caught. If you get caught, you have to give a kiss. A nice, warm occasion to start the month. Honor mother Earth by giving a living flower in a pot so that the recipient can plant it and enjoy it for a long time to come. Also plant flowers of your own as it is said that the Earth laughs in flowers.
Memorial Day in the United States is always more poignant when the country is at war. Honor those who have left this world to take their place among the spirit guides.
Pick one of the power animals this month and find a way to honor it, with a picture or symbol. Ask for the animal’s guidance and teachings, and try to practice the lessons you receive. In most parts of the United States, it is temperate to be out in nature, so enjoy the outdoors and notice anything that calls to you – a rock, a tree, a stream. Spend some time with this teacher to learn from it.
Dreaming for the world to come
Monday, May 12, 2008
Welcome to the Monthly Shamanism Column
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What happens when you have inquisitive children, one nest cam, several nest specimens, and an old English folk tale? The answer is one lively program that explores how and why birds build so many different types of nests! The Magpie’s Nest is a folk tale about … Continue reading
The Storytelling and Folk& Fairytale Collection in the Children’s Department contains both circulating and historic reference books that beckon children, parents, caregivers, students, and educators. It is a vast resource for anyone interested in a fascinating story. Our department has … Continue reading
Two hundred years ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their tales. Two hundred years later, their stories are still being told and retold. With their simplicity, archetypal characters and symbolic meanings, the tales are open to modernizing, parodying, fleshing out … Continue reading
Sometimes I wish dearly that I had more formal education in linguistics. Storytelling is one of those times. Not only does folklore have history and common elements, but it sparks a desire to engage in folk etymology and/or pseudolinguistics.
You’ve heard of Paul Bunyan, but have you heard tales of legendary Pittsburgh super steelworker Joe Magarac?
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If you happen to be captured by a three-headed dev, knowing how to weave and write could save your life.
The title of this new book for grownups is alarming, but it is also authentic. It is a line from a sweet, sad, spooky song in the traditional German folktale, “The Juniper Tree.” The book with the alarming title is … Continue reading
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Make a gift to the Miami Science Museum (MSM), and help inspire people of all ages and cultures to enjoy science and technology, in order to better understand ourselves and our world! Since its founding by the Junior League over 60 years ago, the volunteers and staff of MSM have endeavored to serve the South Florida community by providing innovative and memorable hands-on exhibits, award-winning educational programs, a historic planetarium, natural history collections, including the South Florida animals in our Wildlife Center and also a Clinic for raptor rehabilitation.
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Making a contribution to our endowment is one of the best ways to provide sustained and lasting support to MSM. These gifts secure the future of the organization and enable our donors to make a substantial investment in science and technology learning for years to come.
The Planetarium opened its doors to the public on November 4, 1966 and has entertained and educated children of all ages about astronomy and the wonders of the night sky ever since. It is a unique setting for bringing the stars and planets indoors in animated live star shows and music-filled laser light shows.
Visits to the Wildlife Center, meeting one of the staff and enjoying the collection of birds and reptiles is one of the aspects of the Museum that rates most highly among our visitors. The Falcon Batchelor Bird of Prey Center at the Miami Science Museum is a facility dedicated to the ecological research, rehabilitation, and release of injured birds of prey.
Throughout all of MSM is an ever-growing collection of hands-on exhibits that explore everything from basic energy principles to what is found in Miami's amazing and diverse sea grass beds. These exhibitions are part of MiaSci’s ongoing effort to prepare for its move to downtown Miami, where the largest exhibition will be the building itself, a three-story showcase of renewable energy technologies and key features such as a three-story aquarium and 3D digital dome.
The Miami Science Museum's youth programs focus on providing low income youth with training, mentoring, work experience, academic enrichment and skills in the use of technology, while improving their communication and interpersonal skills and self confidence. The Museum's approach has been profoundly effective, with college and employment success stories attesting to its positive impact. Youth programs provided by the Museum not only provide students an alternative to the streets, but also with a new way of thinking and planning for their futures.
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Purim [POOR-im] is the most joyous day in the happiest month on the Jewish calendar. Falling on the 14th day of Adar [ah-DAHR], the holiday begins at sundown tonight.
In brief, Purim commemorates Queen Esther saving the Jews from extermination. Her cousin, Mordechai, refused one day to bow to the king's vizier, Haman, which enraged Haman. He sought King Ahasuerus' permission to massacre the Jews, which Ahasuerus granted without realizing that this would also include his wife, Esther, who had never revealed herself as a Jew. Esther fasted for three days as she debated whether to approach the king and risk her own life. Needless to say, her courage won the day: Esther spoke to the king, revealing Haman's plot, and Ahasuerus had Haman executed. As the saying goes, they tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat!
Purim celebrations are silly and giddy and lots of fun. It's customary to dress up in costumes, since Esther hid her identity; so I'll be masquerading as a fairy godmother, wearing a slightly cheesy thrift store prom dress accessorized with a pink tiara, a be-ribboned wand, and gold-trimmed pink wings. (It's very "me," for those who don't know of my affinity for Disney princesses, sparkles, glitter, and whimsy!)
Because there are always traditional and ritual foods at Jewish holidays, I'll also be eating lots of triangular cookies called hamantaschen [HAH-men-TAHSH-en], which are shaped to resemble either the ears or the hat of the villainous Haman. (For my hamantaschen recipe, see last year's Purim post.) Kids particularly love this holiday because it's expected that the name of Haman should be drowned out with noise. How great to spin groggers, yell, stomp, and generally be granted permission to be a bit rowdy!
Other Purim customs are required by Jewish law: hearing the Book of Esther read aloud, as well as giving gifts of food to friends and donating to charity. According to Esther 9:22, Jews are commanded "to observe ... days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor."
Mishloach manot [mish-loh-AHCK mah-NOTE] are small goodie bags that are thus given to loved ones; they are supposed to contain two portions of foods that are ready to eat - one is sweet while the other is savory. The sweet variety is usually hamantaschen, and I offer pretzels to go with them. And since I like to feed people, I always add some small candies and a second type of cookie as well.
This year, I had lots of poppy seed filling left over after baking my hamantaschen; this is the most traditional flavor, as it honors the diet of nuts and seeds that Esther is said to have eaten in King Ahasuerus' palace where she had no access to kosher food. So I used some for the shortbread-based cookies offered below, since it's a lovely complement to the almond-flavored topping.
Hag Purim Sameach! [HAHg pooh-REEM sah-MAY-ahck]
Poppy Seed Shortbread Cookies
(adapted from the recipe for Macaroon Bar Cookies in Gloria Kaufer Greene's The Jewish Holiday Cookbook)
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
3/4 cup unbleached flour
Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease an 8"x8" baking pan.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Stir in the egg and extract; stir in the flour. With damp hands, press the dough into the prepared pan; bake for 15 minutes until set.
1/3 cup poppy seed filling
2 tablespoons water
Stir filling ingredients together; carefully spread over the prepared shortbread base.
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon unbleached flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of kosher salt
1/3 cup ground almonds
Combine all ingredients and whisk until well beaten. Carefully spread over the poppy seed filling, swirling the topping and the filling together a bit. Bake for 15 minutes until the topping is golden. Let cool completely.
Trim 1/4" edges from all sides. Cut into 4 rows and 4 columns, to make 16 squares. Cut each square in half diagonally to form 32 triangles.
Makes 32 cookies.
You might remember that I've prepared several lovely recipes from the Chaldean cookbook Ma Baseema: Cardamom-Scented Shortbread Cookies, Iraqi Salad, and Spiced Beef Egg Rolls. My review of the book appears in this month's issue of the Washtenaw Jewish News, and can be found on page 29 ....
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Facts of the Matter
Luigi Galvani's experiments with frog's legs inspired Allessandro Volta, who became the first to produce energy from chemistry. His Voltaic piles -- sandwiches of brine-soaked felt between plates of silver and zinc -- are known today as batteries. Rudolf Clausius reckoned that gas molecules collide with each other as well as with the walls of their container, which explained why it takes time for the scent of a peeled orange to reach the other side of a room. The discovery of electrons as negatively charged particles within atoms helped explain the organization of the periodic table.
Galvani's frog united chemistry, physics
THE UNION of physics and chemistry began with the twitching of a frog's leg. In the 1790s Luigi Galvani lay a dead frog on a table. Also on the table was a static electricity generator. An assistant accidentally touched the nerves of the frog with a scalpel and the muscles of the frog contracted convulsively.
Galvani experimented afterward, fastening brass hooks in the legs of frogs and hanging them on an iron railing in his garden. He observed legs contracting "not only when the lightning flashed but even at times when the sky was quiet and serene."
Galvani concluded that there was a new type of animal electricity inherent in the nerves and muscles of the frog and published the results of his experiments.
Galvani died in sorrow and poverty after being fired from his professorship for refusing to swear allegiance to Napoleon, but his work inspired physicist Alessandro Volta.
Volta interpreted the results differently. He attributed the muscle twitches to an electrical current flowing between two dissimilar metals.
The frog's leg was merely a conductor.
Volta became the first individual to produce electricity from chemistry in 1796 by making a Voltaic pile, a sandwich of brine-soaked felt between plates of silver and zinc. Today we call them batteries, which differ from Volta's original only in the material used.
Ironically, Napoleon declared Volta's work a triumph and awarded him a gold medal.
In 1800, William Nicholson, an English chemist built a battery using Volta's specifications, and discovered that placing wires from the battery in water breaks down the water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Nicholson became the first man to produce a chemical reaction by electricity, a process now called electrolysis.
At the end of the 18th century chemists thought that the key to understanding chemical reactions lay in a quantitative study of what were called "affinities."
It was clear that there was a deep underlying relation between electricity and chemical affinity, but no one could have guessed that understanding would come a century later via the gas laws, Newtonian physics, conservation of energy, a new form of mathematics, and the discovery of fundamental electric charges embedded within the atom.
In 1803 John Dalton published his atomic theory, which explained the way in which chemicals combine by proportional fixed weights.
Although readily adopted as a way of understanding chemical reactions, many chemists saw atoms only as theoretical models lacking physical reality and most physicists didn't accept the model at all.
In early years of the 19th century Humphry Davy at The Royal Institution in London isolated eight now common chemical elements for the first time by separating them from solution by electrolysis.
As important as his chemical discoveries were, some have said Davy's most important discovery was his prodigal assistant, Michael Faraday.
Faraday's training was in chemistry, but he is best known for his law of electromagnetic induction, which James Clerk Maxwell used to develop the mathematics of electromagnetism and light half a century later.
Faraday, born to a poor, unemployed blacksmith, was apprenticed to a London bookbinder at age 14. He was dyslexic, wrote and spoke with great difficulty, had an unreliable memory and did not do well in the symbolic language of mathematics.
He schooled himself by reading the books in the bindery, taking notes and ingesting as much knowledge as possible.
Although disdained by the physics community for his poor mathematical ability, he was nonetheless the consummate scientist, keeping detailed notebooks of his many experiments in many aspects of electricity and chemistry.
Faraday discovered two laws of electrolysis that defined the fundamental unit of electricity.
The first law states that the weight of the element deposited or liberated is directly proportional to the amount of charge that passed through the solution.
The second law states that a given amount of charge will deposit or liberate different weights of different elements, proportional to the equivalent weights, or combining weights.
The implication is that if matter comes in packets (atoms), then electricity must also come in packets (later called electrons).
During the 19th century many new discoveries were made in chemistry, culminating with Mendeleev's periodic table in 1869. One of these was the establishment of the gas laws, which state the relationship between pressure, volume, and temperature of gases.
Meanwhile, around 1850, James Joule was perfecting the concept of conservation of energy while also "pushing" the kinetic theory of gases, which attributes the relationships of the gas laws to forces exerted on the walls of their containers by fast-moving gas molecules.
Despite Joule's efforts, the physics community remained indifferent to kinetic theory until Rudolf Clausius, a German physicist of high renown, used Newtonian physics to derive the gas laws and then to calculate the average speed of an air molecule at room temperature, which is about 1000 miles per hour.
Clausius' results caused notice, but also called into question why it takes some time for the scent to reach the opposite corner when one peels an orange in a corner of a room. At the calculated speed the scent molecules should spread throughout the room almost instantaneously.
The question prompted Clausius to reckon that the gas molecules collide with each other as well as with the walls of the container and their motion was thus hindered by these continual collisions that sends them off randomly in all directions.
Clausius introduced the concept of the "mean free path" (the average distance traveled by a molecule between collisions) and derived a formula for it.
Evidence was mounting for the existence of atoms as real objects rather than the models that chemists used as devices for calculations and physicists scorned. Were it not for the high regard for Clausius, his work might have been ignored.
In England, Clausius' paper was read by a young James Clerk Maxwell. He started working on the mathematics to calculate many measurable properties of gases such as viscosity, diffusivity, specific heat, conduction coefficient and the distribution of speeds of molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium.
Statistical mechanics was thus born, and was later used by Einstein to explain Brownian motion, which convinced the remaining skeptics of the existence of atoms.
But it was the discovery of the electron as a negatively charged particle within the atom that brought the electrochemical connection full circle.
The properties of atomic electrons explained the organization of the periodic table, and also explained how and why atoms combine the way they do during by electrical interactions.
As esoteric as all of this may be, and despite this acutely abbreviated recollection of events, Galvani's twitching frog ultimately united chemistry and physics and with it heat, light, the gas laws, and atoms.
The strength of the resulting paradigm that defines modern physical science is a direct result of the diversity of methods by which we have arrived at it.
picks up where your high school science teacher left off. He is a professor of science at Honolulu Community College, where he teaches earth and physical science and investigates life and the universe. He can be reached by e-mail at email@example.com
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How to Apply for Financial Aid
Applying for financial aid doesn't have to be confusing. You just need to follow each step along the way.
The financial aid counselors at Lewis University were so helpful. They really helped me understand my options, and gave me practical advice I would have never thought of myself.
- Catie Cryder
NOTE: You must be admitted to the university to receive information from the Lewis University Office of Financial Aid Services. Please speak with your admission advisor to ensure you are enrolled as a degree-seeking student.
- STEP ONE
Submit your Application for Admission to Lewis University.
- STEP TWO
- Complete the FAFSA at www.fafsa.ed.gov - Lewis University's School Code is 001707.
- Obtain your Personal Identification Number (PIN) at www.pin.ed.gov before completing your FAFSA or create one at the time you complete your FAFSA.
- For the 2013-14 FAFSA the Department of Education is recommending that families
utilize the IRS Data Retrieval Process when completing the FAFSA. In order to utilize
this process your 2012 Federal Tax Return should be processed by the IRS before
completion of the FAFSA.
- The Department of Education will process your FAFSA and e-mail your results.
- STEP THREE
If you are selected for verification, additional documentation will be requested
(e.g., IRS tax transcript, verification of child support, w-2's) by Lewis University. The
IRS Data Retrieval process provides the student with the easiest way to meet the
NOTE: If you owe federal taxes as a result of your 2012 Federal Tax Return;
you will be unable to utilize the IRS data retrieval process until after April 15.
- STEP FOUR
A Financial Aid Award Letter will be sent to the student. The award letter outlines all
financial aid, for which the student is eligible during the academic year.
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March 8, 2007
What’s behind the Euro division on Palestinians’ Mecca pact?
Paris strongly favored the agreement, while Berlin and Brussels remained cautious, preferring to hold their applause until the new government presented its principles and intentions to the world.
Two weeks later, the Palestinians are still far from translating the Mecca pact into a viable political structure. Still, Europe is preparing to launch a new aid mechanism that will replace the humanitarian aid Europe has been providing since Hamas' election with a more structured program aimed at rebuilding the Palestinian economy.
The European Commission already has outlined the plan and is waiting for a green light from Brussels to put it into action.
Since Hamas took control of the Palestinian Authority Cabinet and legislature in March 2006, the diplomatic Quartet overseeing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process -- the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia -- set three conditions the government had to meet before direct aid could be restored: recognition of Israel, renunciation of violence and an acceptance of past peace deals.
Even Europe had to admit that the Mecca agreement fell short on all three counts.
That left European officials with a dilemma: Should they continue to boycott the P.A. government or fudge Europe's conditions enough so it can argue that the new P.A. government has met them?
A long-term boycott seemed out of the question: Europe has been pointing fingers at Israel for more than a year now, blaming it for the deterioration in Palestinian living conditions, which E. U. officials classify as a "humanitarian disaster."
That's despite the fact that since the "boycott," the international community in fact has been providing more aid to nongovernmental organizations and other groups that serve Palestinians than it used to send through the P. A.
France and Germany went head-to-head at a European ministerial meeting in Brussels in mid-February, disagreeing about how to react to the possible new government. At the end of the day the ministers issued a dry and cautious statement congratulating the Saudi prince who hosted the Palestinian talks and encouraging P.A. President Abbas of the Fatah movement, but little more than that.
European diplomats admitted that they had reached a dead end since Hamas was not ready to take the step of recognizing Israel.
Considering Europe's initial caution, Abbas' tour of European capitals this week proved quite profitable.
Officials in Berlin kept their guard, making positive noises but offering Abbas nothing concrete to bring home.
His meetings in France, on the other hand, provided just what he came for -- a solid pledge to support the future P.A. government, not just with encouraging declarations but with a re-evaluation of European demands.
French President Jacques Chirac surmised that the very act of forming a unity government would lead Palestinian groups to recognize Israel.
Chirac "estimates that the Mecca agreement represents the first step toward fulfilling the Quartet conditions," the Elysee Palace said in a statement released after Chirac and Abbas met Feb. 24. France "fully supports the efforts made by President Abbas to compose a unity government according to the Quartet principles," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said, though the Mecca agreement had done nothing of the sort.
Spain and Italy are following France's lead. But what explains France's abrupt shift?
In addition to providing an opening to restore Europe's sense that it is an important player in the conflict, Paris believes the Saudi-sponsored initiative presents a "now-or-never" opportunity to stop internecine Palestinian violence. France also concluded it was pointless to continue demanding that Hamas recognize Israel, since the terrorist group shows no signs of moderating.
At the same time, Paris is trying to reassert its traditionally high international profile and gain the upper hand from Germany regarding the Israeli-Palestinian file.
Given those considerations, the Mecca agreement might provide the fig leaf Europe has been seeking to resume aid. Now that Abbas has managed to stop the violence in Gaza, Paris believes the West must move quickly to reward him.
But Javier Solana, the high representative for European external relations, who met with Abbas on Feb. 23 in Brussels, made clear that no aid package would be delivered before the Palestinian government shows its colors.
"We have two possibilities -- that the government of national unity will be part of the solution, or that the government of national unity will be part of the problem," Solana said after the meeting. "I hope very much from the bottom of my heart that this government will be part of the solution."
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European commissioner for foreign relations, met with Israeli and Palestinian officials this week. She presented the new E.U. aid program, which focuses on institution-building projects, reconstruction of the P.A. police and justice infrastructure and other development plans.
Ahead of a European summit planned for March 8-9, France will continue trying to convince Germany and Britain to adopt a more flexible approach.
The combination of the latest French declaration with the ready-to-go aid plan prepared by the European Commission might force E.U. member states to adopt Paris' new policy and effectively abandon their previous conditions for aid, rather than waiting for Hamas to move toward Europe.
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Archive for EricSheninger SmartBlogs
Around this time last year, I received what I thought was an odd request. Juliana Meehan, a teacher from a neighboring district, contacted me and asked whether I would agree to mentor her as part of her training to become an administrator as part of the NJ EXCEL program. Now at that time, my plate was extremely full and, as a result, I was very reluctant to take on this additional responsibility.[…] Continue Reading »
Recently, New Milford High School in New Jersey was recognized as the November/December “School of the Month” by eSchool News for its accomplishments pertaining to the use of educational technology.
As I look back on our journey and the path that was taken, I have been able to identify some key elements that have driven change and allowed New Milford to become a technology-rich school where potential and promise are emphasized as opposed to problems, challenges and excuses.[…] Continue Reading »
Technology becomes more embedded in all aspects of society. As a father, I see this firsthand with my first-grader son. The gift he wanted the most this past Christmas was an iPod Touch, which Santa was kind enough to bring him. Then there is his younger sister, who will regularly ask to use my iPad so she can care for her virtual horse or dress Barbies in creative ways.[…] Continue Reading »
As society, education and learners change, so does the need to have educational leaders who embody a modern form of leadership. Modern leaders must establish a vision and implement a strategic process that creates a teaching and learning culture that provides students with essential skill sets (creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, technological proficiency and global awareness).[…] Continue Reading »
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FDA Cautions on Accurate Vitamin D Supplementation for Infants
The Food and Drug Administration today alerted parents and caregivers that some liquid Vitamin D supplement products are sold with droppers that could allow excessive dosing of Vitamin D to infants.
The FDA also advised manufacturers of liquid Vitamin D supplements that droppers accompanying these products should be clearly and accurately marked for 400 international units (IU). In addition, for products intended for infants, FDA recommends that the dropper hold no more than 400 IU.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recommended a dose of 400 IU of Vitamin D supplement per day to breast-fed and partially breast-fed infants. The easiest way to ensure that an infant will not get more than the recommended dose is to use a product supplied with a dropper that will give no more than 400 IU per dose. The AAP’s recommendations are provided here.
Excessive amounts of Vitamin D can be harmful to infants, and may be characterized by nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, excessive thirst, frequent urination, constipation, abdominal pain, muscle weakness, muscle and joint aches, confusion, and fatigue, as well as more serious consequences such as kidney damage.
For more information:
- FDA Consumer Update: Infant Overdose Risk With Liquid Vitamin D
- MedWatch Safety Alert: Vitamin D Supplement Products
- Letter to Industry
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What is the Latitude and Longitude on Martinique?
Latitude of Martinique is:14.6667 and Longitude of Martinique is: -61
Martinique is an overseas territory of France located in Caribbean waters. It is an Island country, which is considered to be a part of European Union. Being a region of France, French is the official language of this island. The French first claimed the island in 1635. It was Christopher Columbus though who first sighted the island way back in 1502.
The geography of this country is dominated by mountainous terrain with indented coastline. Martinique is spread across a total area of 1,128 square kilometres. It is located to the north of Trinidad and Tobago. More than forty percent of this land is covered by forests and woodland. Around 8% is the area covered by permanent crops. A population of 429,510 is resident in the country, which is located at the geographical coordinates of 14.6667° North and 61° West. The most elevated peak in Martinique is Montagne Pelee at a height of 1,397 metres. Fort-de-France is the largest city of the islands.
The climate in Martinique is of tropical type, which is moderated by trade winds. Cyclones though are major concern. On an average, they occur once in eight years.
Trade plays an important role in the economy of the country. Agricultural sector also employs a large percentage of population of the country. Being a territory of France, the French traditions and customs along with those of Caribbean's, have a deep influence on the culture of Martinicans. The standard of living in this island is better than in any other island on Caribbean waters.
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We walk around, everyday, on our feet. But what’s under them, and just where did it come from?
Where was Capitol Hill, say, a billion years ago?
Under water, that’s where. You could have enjoyed an ocean dip off the coastal beaches of Spokane. In the long view, our hill arrived at its current location only recently.
Its journey began just 200 million years ago. That’s when North America, together with Europe, split from Pangaea, the super-continent that once contained most of today’s continents.
Splitting from Europe, too, eventually, we started pushing west on our own. Fighting back, the Pacific seafloor began pushing east. And pretty soon (100 to 50 million years ago) several islands, once just off Asia, had run smack up against our west coast and docked here.
Voila, Western Washington had arrived.
Asian animals and volcanic debris
Even today you can find fossils right here of animals similar to animals who once lived in Asia. And some of the rock we walk on now is what remains of the islands and the seafloor that pushed themselves up onto the continent.
North America and the Pacific are still pushing at each other, of course. And where they collide, Mt. Rainer and Mt. Baker are just two of the volcanoes that have popped up to spew lava and basalt over much of the state.
Most of the dust between our toes today, however, we owe to a more familiar force.
Ten to 15 million years ago, you would have been basking in a tropical climate here, even baking on your own desert. Then, 2 to 3 million years ago, came the rains–and winters not that much colder but wetter than today’s.
A series of as many as 20 ice ages covered us again and again in glaciers spreading as far south as Olympia.
Capitol Hill lay buried in ice, perhaps as recently as 12,000 years ago.
It was the glaciers that carved out Puget Sound and clawed out the valleys that run north to south between Seattle’s hills. We stroll, garden and live today atop the dirt–layers of it as much as 3,000 feet deep–that the traveling arctic ice brought down from the north.
Talk about change. Just ask the dust.
(Hat tip to Roadside Geology of Washington by David D. Alt and Donald W. Hyndman.)
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- Football players push sleds around the practice field to get in shape. For older players, the coach will stand on the equipment in order to add weight and make the sled harder to push.
- Budget strapped schools are laying off employees, and looking for ways to cut back on spending.
- Mowing lawns and fields causes a significant amount of harmful emmissions to be released into the air all across the nation.
- Large riding mower equipment is expensive, and the fuel used to power these mowers can be expensive too.
Now what would you say if I told you that there is a simple way to address all of these issues at the same time: provide excellent conditioning for athletes, save money on equipment, eliminate money spent on fuel & labor, and eliminate all emissions when mowing grass ?
The answer is actually quite simple . . . have your athletes mow the grass on the fields where they practice and play using high tech, specially designed, reel mowers. All you have to do is connect two or more reel mowers together into “units”. The more mowers you add to a unit, the more resistence will be provided,and the better workout your athletes will get. You can design units so that they can be pushed by one large athlete or two smaller players, and provide cutting swaths of six to ten feet wide. You wouldn’t spend your whole practice mowing grass though. All you have to do is break up your team into squads, and have one squad make a mowing pass or two, while the other players are doing other exercises . . . then the squads would rotate stations. With several age groups there can be as many as 100 players available within an organization. 100 players can mow a lot of grass in a very short period of time.
Now don’t bother thinking about the limitations of reel mowers of the past. Modern mowers are easy to push, stay sharp for years, and at least one model can be adjusted to cut tall overgrown grass.
This is an opportunity for players to earn money to cover team expenses, while saving local school districts or park districts money at the same time.
- Reel mowers cost a fraction of what conventional riding mowers cost.
- No more money spent on fuel, and less money spent on maintenence
- Gives an opportunity for athletes to give back to their communties and/or raise money to cover the costs of their programs
- Could become a program that provides community service hours for juvenile offenders.
- Mowers make no noise at all, so grass can be mowed early in the morning before it gets hot.
- Provides a great way for all athletes to get conditioned (soccer, basketball, etc . . .)
- Win Win Win situation!!!
The only downside is that you may have to mow the grass more often so that it doesn’t get too long for the reel mowers to handle. The combined savings are so great, however,that you can afford to mow a lot more often . . . and still come out way ahead!
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A Call for Fairness in the Tax Code (Rebroadcast)
Last week in his State of the Union address President Obama called for tax reform to ensure fair play. He proposed what he called a Buffett Rule: a minimum federal income tax of 30% for people making over $1 million. Republicans say he’s pushing class warfare and stifling economic growth in a period of weak growth. GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is facing criticism for both how he made his enormous fortune and for his seemingly low tax rate, but, as many analysts point out, most households pay at an even lower rate. Please join us to discuss the tax rates and he economy.
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Pruning Techniques for Hydrangeas
The best approach is to remove the thickest, oldest stems at ground
level, rather than shearing them. That way, you will remove the
flowers on those stems but not all of the flowers. You may be able
to keep it in bounds that way. Shearing tends to cause a thicket of
twigs at the ends of the stems, which block sunlight from the
interior of the plant and reduce air circulation through it. This
can create favorable conditions for diseases to develop, and it is
generally stressful for the shrub.
Pruning is not a substitute for proper plant selection. If you have
to constantly prune a shrub (or tree) to keep it in bounds, you may
have chosen the wrong plant for the site. It does a disservice to
both of you -- It creates more work for you and the plant cannot
grow to its genetic potential. Expect most oakleaf hydrangea
cultivars to grow 6 to 10 feet tall and wide, if not slightly
larger. There are dwarf cultivars of oakleaf hydrangea that may suit
your needs better, including 'Pee Wee,' 'Little Honey,' 'Shannon,'
'Sikes Dwarf' and 'Summit.' Most of these are 3 to 4 feet tall with
a slightly wider spread.
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Many know that today is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, but it is also the Feast of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Recall how intensely Eucharistic were the apparitions of Fatima, particularly those of the Angel, who brought the children the very Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and taught them to prostrate themselves before Him, and pray beautiful prayers of adoration.
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.
Mary devoted herself exclusively to the Eucharistic Glory of Jesus. She knew that it was the desire of the Eternal Father to make the Eucharist known, loved and served by all men; that need of Jesus’ Heart was to communicate to all men His gifts of grace and glory. She knew, too, that it was the mission of the Holy Spirit to extend and perfect in the hearts of men, the reign of Jesus Christ, and that the Church had been founded only to give Jesus to the world.
All Mary’s desire, then, was to make Him known in His Sacrament. Her intense love for Jesus felt the need of expanding in this way, of consecrating itself — as a kind of relief, as it were — because of her own inability to glorify Him as much as she desired.
Ever since Calvary, all men were her children. She loved them with a Mother’s tenderness and longed for their supreme good as for her own; therefore, she was consumed with the desire to make Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament known to all, to inflame all hearts with His love, to see them enchained to His loving service.
To obtain this favor, Mary passed her time at the foot of the Most Adorable Sacrament, in prayer and penance. There she treated the world’s salvation. In her boundless zeal, she embraced the needs of the faithful everywhere, for all time to come, who would inherit the Holy Eucharist and be Its adorers…
Her prayers converted countless souls, and as every conversion is the fruit of prayer, and since Mary’s prayer could meet no refusal, the Apostles had in this Mother of Mercy their most powerful helper. “Blessed is he for whom Mary prays!”
Eucharistic adorers share Mary’s life and mission of prayer at the foot of the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is the most beautiful of all missions, and it holds no perils. It is the most holy, for in it all the virtues are practiced. It is, moreover, the most necessary to the Church, which has even more need of prayerful souls than of powerful preachers; of men of penance rather than men of eloquence. Today more than ever have we need of men who, by their self—immolation, disarm the anger of God inflamed by the ever increasing crimes of nations. We must have souls who by their importunity reopen the treasures of grace which the indifference of the multitude has closed. We must have true adorers; that is to say, men of fervor and of sacrifice. When there are many such souls around their Divine Chief, God will be glorified, Jesus will be loved, and society will once more become Christian, conquered for Jesus Christ by the apostolate of Eucharistic prayer.
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Alcorn State, Miss. (February 22, 2013) - Alcorn State University’s Health Physics, Department of Advanced Technologies’ students, faculty and staff recently participated in the population monitoring drill training session conducted by the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) as part of their radiological emergency preparedness program.
The five-hour training session, held in Alcorn’s Systems Research Institute, consisted of oral presentations and practical demonstrations by MSDH personnel. Attendees learned how to help the public and emergency response team in case of a radiological emergency.
Director of Environmental Monitoring and Emergency Response Branch of MSDH Sandra Stringfellow stated, "We are elated to be on Alcorn’s campus as part of the Mississippi State's Emergency Preparedness Program, and pleased to learn about various advanced research and educational facilities available in the health physics program. Located between two nuclear power plants, it is important that we are prepared to handle any radiological emergency situation."
Director of Alcorn’s Systems Research Institute and Chairman of the Advanced Technologies Department Dr. Kwabena Agyepong said, "It’s a great opportunity for our students to be trained by MSDH representatives. The Department of Advanced Technologies is always willing to extend its collaborations with private, state and federal entities, and our health physics program is very supportive of MSDH and their activities."
Coordinator of the health physics program Jermiah Billa indicated, "Alcorn students are well trained and adequately able to assist the public and emergency responders in a radiological emergency situation."
Dr. Steve Adzanu, senior faculty member, said, "We would like to thank MSDH for the training extended to our students, and thank the students of the Health Physics Society for their commitment and helpfulness in conducting the training session.” He added, “Any additional resources that can be provided by MSDH for continuous in-house activities would benefit our students and surrounding communities."
The event was coordinated by Allen Terrell, a faculty member in the Department of Advanced Technologies. The MSDH training team consisted of Sandra Stringfellow, Karl Barber, Carolyn Harris and Lakesha Brooks.
Pictured: Karl Barber providing instructions on an area radiation monitor to juniors Harrison Agordzo, Matthew Carradine, sophomore Josep Dimpah, and graduate student Teneka Williams (wearing personal protective equipment).
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Student Travel Safety Tips
The number of U.S. students studying abroad has increased dramatically over the past few years. While it’s true that accidents and crime can happen while at home or abroad, there are steps you can take to help reduce the risks.
The following tips are general suggestions for students and their parents. You can also download a printable version of our Student Travel Safety Tips.
In addition, see important before leaving home and while traveling safety tips.
- Be aware of the cultural differences and abide by the local customs. You are a guest in a foreign country and are expected to behave as such. Refrain from discussing politics or criticizing the lifestyles.
- Review pre-trip information including booklets from the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs and check relevant sites on the web.
- If you are staying for an extended period of time, register immediately upon arrival with the Consular section of your embassy.
- Report a lost or stolen passport to your embassy or nearest consulate, and cancel lost or stolen credit cards or travelers checks as soon as possible. Report stolen items to the police and get a copy of the theft report to include with your insurance claim.
- Don’t become an easy target. Remain alert, maintain a low profile and trust your instincts.
- Do not wear ostentatious necklaces or other jewelry of real or apparent value, bring expensive cameras, or overburden yourself with packages.
- A cell phone can be very useful and can save a great deal of trouble.
- Avoid black market transactions of all types.
Suggestions for Parents
- Have contact name and number of University/tour group/travel agency organizing trip. If student is taking a credit card, ensure existing limits are adequate.
- Request an itinerary from your student and keep it readily available.
- Have contact names of professors/advisors accompanying student on the trip.
- Obtain name and phone number of at least one other parent whose student is part of the trip.
- If trip is being organized by a tour group, obtain names, addresses, phone, and fax numbers of all hotels where your student will be staying. Be aware of any time differences relevant to your time zone.
- Parents should discuss sexually transmitted diseases and risk taking behaviors with their children. Parents and teens should be aware that high quality latex condoms are not always available in other countries. Abstinence and consistent use of condoms must be stressed.
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The Gerrit Rietveld Academie offers an online Preparatory Course. Rietveld Remote is meant for candidates under 26 years of age, that want to apply for the entrance examination for the Foundation Year (the first year of the Bachelor studies of Rietveld Academie).
Rietveld Remote is meant to enhance your portfolio and get you acquainted with assignments just as they are given in our regular Precourse in Amsterdam.
In Remote small classes (up to 9 students) work online, in a closed system, following the same assignment with the same teacher. Remote students can watch and comment each other’s work all the time. You are taught, guided and commented by Precourse Rietveld teachers.
How does it work
Each week on Monday a new assignment appears in your class. Together with background information and images to support the assignment.
Two times a week, usually on Wednesday and Friday, the teachers login to the site and comment your work. There are private and “public” comments (public means that your class can read the comments too).
One course of 3 weeks costs 275 euro.
Every 3 weeks you can decide whether or not to take a new3 -week assignment, with a different teacher and subject.
If you sufficiently follow 3 Remote courses you do not have to attend the mandatory consultation with your portfolio. For that consultation candidates normally have to come to the Rietveld Academie to get permission to apply for the entrance examination in 2012. Or they have to send in portfolio’s.
Remote students can apply for the entrance exams directly, if they have proved inRietveld Remote they are motivated and dedicated.
A digital camera, preferably with video capability; SDL connection, min. 1 Mb; or at least 256K high-end connection (video and chat); Chrome or Safari. Flashplayer 9 or higher; Quicktime.
You will be asked to send us a Flickr account with some work and a small motivation in order to get accepted to RR.
If you are accepted you receive details on how to pay the course fee. The course fee has to be paid 10 days before the classes start.
If there are not enough students to start a Remote class we postpone the starting date by one month.
Here a testimony from a Remote student:
I have completed the distant Rietveld program last year, my reason for choosing it over the regular preparatory year was that I had been following an another study at that time. I also lived in some distance to Amsterdam so travelling was not really a feasible option for me. Online education gives you a very flexible way of working, no attandence is required. You complete the assignments given to you (each week) before the deadline and upload it. Later on the teacher of that assignment and other classmates comment on each others work. Assignments are usually done step by step, so a one whole assignment is for instance divided into 3-parts done in three weeks. And you usually dont know what the teachers want from you for the final step untill the last step begins.
There are of course some drawbacks to online education, first one coming to my mind is you dont get to see the facial expressions or hear the tones when you communicate by typing, that sometimes may cause confusion, but you can always talk to the teachers over the skype by making an appointment.
For me personally, it was really helpful in preparing a portfolio for the admittance exam. I mean I could draw what I've done in the assignments anyway with the skills I had before starting (because you dont learn skills, you just do assignments and get comments), its not the drawings that were helpful. It was the context of the assignments which resulted in me drawing that specific thing. I had the skill to draw what I've drawn but I did not have the idea (for instance) to draw an object and take a picture of it in an environment where it looks as if its part of that environment.
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Severe Weather PossibleMatt Boster
Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Sep 17 2012 9:38 AM
Severe weather possible as early as late today, but the "main event" will develop overnight over Southeast AL and the FL Panhandle and continue through much of Tuesday as the system moves east across our FL Big Bend and GA zones.
Damaging winds and tornadoes are the primary threat, but localized flooding cannot be ruled out.
So everyone needs to be mindful of the rapidly changing weather condition and stay tuned to your local weather stations for any updates or watches and warning.
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The Body Mass Index (hereby referred to as the BMI) is a common measurement when it comes to weight. What exactly is the BMI and how useful is it when it comes to weight? Read on to learn more.
The BMI is a number that is calculated using a person’s weight and height. It is an indicator of the amount of body fat that people have and can help you tell if you are a healthy weight for your height. The formula is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by a person’s height in metres squared. For example it could be 68kg/ (1.65m) 2 which equals 24.98.
The BMI is intended to be a tool to identify possible weight problems for adults; however it is not a diagnostic tool. That is, a person may have a high BMI but other tests are needed to determine if excess weight is a health risk.
But what does the BMI mean? Here are the following weight categories that have been assigned to varying BMIs:
• Below 18.5 – underweight
• 18.5 – 24.9 – normal
• 25.0 – 29.9 – overweight
• 30.0 and over – obese
• 40.0 and over – severely obese
Generally speaking, the BMI is a fairly reliable indicator of the amount of body fat that a person has. However, there are some situations in which the BMI may not give an accurate reading. At the same BMI, women tend to have more body fat than men. Also, at the same BMI, older people may have more body fat than younger adults. Athletes and people that get lots of exercise may also have a higher BMI as they have more muscle rather than more body fat. Pregnant and breastfeeding women may also have incorrect BMI readings.
The BMI is calculated in the same way for children as it is for adults but the criteria used to interpret the results are different from those used for adults. For children and teenagers, age and sex specific percentiles are used as the amount of body fat changes with age and the amount of body fat also differs between boys and girls.
If your BMI is over 25 then you should consider losing weight as excess weight is a risk factor for many health conditions including heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, gallbladder disease and several forms of cancer such as colon and breast cancer.
If your BMI is less than 18.5, you may be at risk of conditions such as compromised immune function, respiratory disease, digestive disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and an increased risk of falls and fractures.
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Dr. Ellyn Lucas Arwood has established a reputation as an expert in how language is used for learning and how language and cognition interact, and is often referred to as a “lady before her time”.
Here Dr Arwood answers some questions about her new book, Language Function: An Introduction to Pragmatic Assessment and Intervention for Higher Order Thinking and Better Literacy.
How did this text came about?
As a speech-language pathologist in the late 1960′s, I wondered why some children could say a sentence but not ask to go to the bathroom; why some children could repeat by memory a complete commercial or word call printed text but not ask another child to play; why some children could score higher in expressive language than receptive language when the Western Psych model says that input comes before output. The structural approach to literacy that I was trained in did not make a lot of sense in practice. Teaching words, sounds, psychomotor skills, and behavior tasks provided children with progress on skills but not on thinking and learning. So, I began to read everything in any discipline that I could about how to help children understand what they read, speak from thinking ideas, and write about what they knew. I deliberately worked on a doctorate at the University of Georgia (USA) where I was allowed to enroll in courses that would give me the education in language philosophy, sociolinguistics, semantics, and pragmatics so that I could incorporate that knowledge into my practice. After doing a dissertation in speech act theory (1977) which demonstrates the importance of the listener in speaking with children severely impacted by a variety of disorders such as autism, emotional disturbance, behaviorally disordered, other health impaired, I went to work at Washington State University where I had the opportunity to teach others how to apply this knowledge.
At a presentation at the American Speech and Hearing Association, an editor came to me and ask me to start writing. Thus, I wrote my first book, Semantic and Pragmatic Disorders, in 1980. But the readership wanted more theory and I was not satisfied with my knowledge. I needed to know “why” some of what I did worked. I continued to write books, articles, and so forth to try to balance the theory with the practice; something that I personally believe is what we, as professionals, should be doing. When I accepted a job at Texas Tech University, I had the opportunity to study and do research in the area of pragmaticism while also working as a professor of speech and learning sciences. The notion of pragmaticism is that the synergy of the whole (mind, body, brain) is greater than the parts – and with that concept comes a theory of signs that allowed me to incorporate a knowledge of the level of thinking that goes with using the mind for academics, social issues, and behavioral constructs.
Throughout this entire process of building my knowledge, I never lost sight of the influence of the brain research. To me, it was obvious that the brain was the basis to all learning and that pure developmental models could not explain how a child learns to think. So, I took classes in brain research such as human brain dissection at the Kresge Institute in Louisiana and medical physiology at Louisiana State University. The brain research of the early 1990′s supported much of what I believed about the way children learn to think and use their thinking to function which added another layer to understanding how language functions. For the past 25 years, as a professor in education at the University of Portland (Oregon, USA), I have collected more data about thinking, added to my knowledge about learning, and refined the methods in practice. Now, it is time to get this knowledge into our community and schools, which are microcosms of how society functions. Thus, the rationale for this new book, Language Function.
Recent studies have shown that the majority of English speakers don’t “think in sound.” What does this mean?
Thinking is about ideas. Ideas that are in the form of mental pictures, movies, graphics, print are not in sound. These visual mental images are the foundational piece to being literate for most people. So, instead of sounds existing as the basis for better reading and writing, visual images are the basis for understanding the print, for seeing what is on the page, for writing ideas on paper, for increasing mental thoughts for better speaking, for understanding concepts of number for better math, and so forth. The majority of learners that I work with tell me about these visual mental images that they use for thinking. They do not use the sound of their own voice for learning new ideas….new ideas come from the changes in their previous visual images.
What are the implications of this for education?
The major implication is that we need to rethink what the basis of literacy is and then change literacy programs to match thinking.
I believe the most apparent challenge in education today that represents what I refer to as a “cultural-linguistic mismatch” is the fact that educators are exposed to lot of data, materials, programs, and training that says that sound is the basis to literacy. Suggesting that sound is the basis to literacy is logical since these educators live in a culture that uses English as the primary language of educating children in subjects, skills, and dispositions. English is a sound-based language where individual sounds can change the meaning. For example, in English, adding “s” to “dog” turns the word into a plural concept. So, culturally using the sounds that go with the alphabet makes sense to an adult who has acquired the sounds of English for speaking, reading, and writing, even though the educators may or may not be, personally, able to relate to using sounds for spelling to write or for reading a favorite novel. But, the data says to use sounds and the educator sees the logic and so the educator does so. However, huge numbers of children are not really successful so the educators try to modify the programs, materials, the amount of time, the number of students in the programs with fewer and fewer resources.
The educators today try to make the assumption that sound underlies the development of cognition work in order to help children become literate. Educators work extremely hard to make students successful in these programs but educators are constantly confronted with “unhappy” constituents–the public, the media, the test scores, their own family success or lack of success, their students’ families and so forth. The bottom-line, is that the programs, materials, and curricula that are sound-based do not match with the way the children think to learn. So, teachers work harder but don’t always receive the positive success they deserve. Older students work harder to produce the sound-based patterns for tests, homework, and so forth without the conceptual learning. Working harder but not smarter stresses everyone out – students, families, and teachers.
What is the connection between visual cognition and (anti-social) behavior?
All behavior communicates. The meaning of the behavior is interpreted by someone else. In this way, we learn the behavior of our dominant culture as a relationship between doing something and having someone else tell us what the behavior means. When others assign meaning to a behavior, the thinker has to be able to receive the message. If the person who assigns the meaning only uses spoken language that the learner does not understand, then the behavior has no meaning.
For example, if the child stands on the seat at a restaurant and the adult says, “Sit down” to a child who thinks visually, then these words mean nothing. So, the child not only stands on the seat but jumps up and down and starts making vocalizations that are loud. People sitting around the child are not able to talk with their families because the child is so loud. The child’s vocalizations are interrupting the behavior of others which is the essence of anti-social behavior; behavior that negatively affects the initiation and maintenance of healthy interpersonal relationships. Finally, the child’s family punishes the child by harsh words, a slap to the child’s behind, taking the child out and so forth. The child knows the family member(s) are not pleasant so the child cries but the child still does not know what the expected behavior “looked like”; what other people in the restaurant were thinking (their visuals of the child); how the child’s behavior made other people’s mental pictures go away and interrupted their dinner, etc. Learning to behave requires teaching in the way the child learns concepts. Visual thinking or cognition requires a visual assignment of meaning.
What strategies might you suggest specifically for those working with children on the autism spectrum?
Children with autism spectrum disorders typically use a motor (movement) access to their visual mental thoughts. So writing with visual-motor methods is great and, in fact, will help many children acquire speech production. They write to tell what they see on the page. But, all of the methods described in Language Function may be used successfully with children with autism spectrum disorders. There are many examples in the book that are from children diagnosed with ASD.
What is the bigger picture – how might literacy programs that match thinking benefit society?
The benefits are numerous; but, social competence for the majority of society would be great. In other words, having a society where the majority are able to initiate and maintain healthy relationships at work, school, and home because individuals are able to see how they fit or are successful as part of society would decrease the number who are dependent on others for survival including a decrease in incarcerated individuals; a decrease in anti-social behavior at schools and in the work place; a decrease in unethical acts of business in the marketplace and so forth.
This benefit will happen only if the majority of people are able to reach a concrete, rule governed, level of thinking that implies parallel levels of literacy. In other words, a thinker can only be ethical and moral if the thinker is able to accept the rules of others as the basis for thinking and behaving – only if “We” takes over the 3-7 year old “I” attitude in the workplace and in doing business with others. The “We” attitude means that “I do only what would also be of benefit to others as if I were in that other person’s shoes.”
Societies grow and develop just like interpersonal relationships. So, a healthy society is one where a majority of thinkers have increased their literacy and improved their thinking to function as a place for “Us;” a place where people care about other people and their needs. Most people say they “care” about others but without the literacy and thinking level increasing, the majority can only do their job at the level of regurgitating the rules, imitating tasks, and completing the prescribed task. Thinking out of the box, creatively solving a problem for a customer or helping create a solution requires higher order thinking and problem solving.
Copyright © Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2010.
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A couple of years ago, Joe and Marlene Everett were 50-something empty nesters with a daughter out on her own and a son away at college.
Now, thanks to the weak economy, the Everetts are once again all living under the same roof in Woodbine.
It's a bit of a financial strain, admits Marlene Everett, but one the couple has taken on willingly to help kids who don't yet earn enough to live on their own.
"We enjoy them being here right now," the 54-year-old mother says. "This is the last time they will live at home before branching out."
More American families are finding themselves in a similar situation, according to the federal government. The number of "doubled-up households" — those that have an extra adult who is not a student or partner — rose by 2 million to 21.8 million from spring 2007 to 2011, the Census Bureau reported last week. More than half of this doubling-up came from so-called "boomerang" children — offspring ages 25 to 34 who have moved back home to live with mom and/or dad.
It's only natural for parents to want to help a child regain financial footing. And if that adult child helps with bills that a parent struggles to make, the setup could be mutually beneficial.
But before parents lay out the welcome mat, the family should discuss how long the arrangement will last and what contribution the child will make to the household. Otherwise, parents could be taking on a huge financial burden at a time they should be focused on preparing for retirement.
The weak job market gets much of the blame for young adults returning to the nest.
The unemployment rate for 25-to-34-year-olds is now 9.5 percent, up from 4.6 percent four years ago. It's even worse for younger job seekers, reaching 14.8 percent for 20-to-24-year-olds and 10.2 percent for 25-to-29-year-olds.
Another reason some 20-somethings are staying home longer is that they now need advanced degrees to land positions that used to require far less education, according to Fred Amrein, a financial adviser in Wynnewood, Pa.
But financial planners say some young adults cling to the higher standard of living parents can provide.
"It's so easy for them to move back in with their parents and maintain the lifestyle they are accustomed to without having to sacrifice going out on their own," says Douglas O. Robinson, a financial adviser in Bel Air. "They like their cars. They want that big-screen TV … and all the stuff that comes with a bigger house."
Moving back to a parent's house clearly improves young adults' finances. The poverty rate among 25-to-34-year-olds living with their parents was 8.4 percent, according to the census. But that jumps to 45.3 percent if the rate is figured solely on the child's income.
For young adults, living with parents immediately lowers expenses, says Stuart Ritter, a financial planner with Baltimore-based investment firm T. Rowe Price.
"And if you take the money that would have gone to those expenses and put it toward savings and building a foundation for your financial future, it can give you a big leg up."
For the parents, some of the big expenses — taxes and the mortgage — remain the same no matter how many people are living at home. But food, utilities and other household expenses will go up.
"You got to make sure that's not compromising your own future," Ritter warns parents.
Some planners say that's happening. A poll commissioned by the National Endowment for Financial Education in May found that 26 percent of parents with boomerang kids took on debt, 7 percent postponed retirement, and 13 percent delayed a major event such as buying a home or getting married.
"We see this problem with a lot of our clients," says Mari Adam, a financial planner in Boca Raton, Fla., who wrote about it in a recent newsletter. "Raising these issues is not easy. It's hard to do this diplomatically."
Adam broached the subject a few years ago with a widow in her 60s who was supporting two children in their 30s. The underemployed children had been living rent-free in a family-owned condo, while the mother also paid off a daughter's student loans.
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There has been much talk about how to clean up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Yet, so far there there seems to have been more talk than action. There is a potential partial solution and I have no idea why it has not been implemented.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal wanted to build sand berms to keep the oil away from coastal regions but he has been denied in most instances. Something about waiting for an environmental impact study. Meanwhile, the environment is getting impacted. Relief wells have been started but may not be complete until the end of July. In the meantime, there is a proven technology to more effectively remove the oil from the Gulf of Mexico. It was used 20 years ago but kept a secret. In the last few weeks, many people have become aware of it including all of the principals in this ecodrama; those in industry, military, political. Yet, so far, no one seems to have lifted a finger to make this maxium effort. There has been no reason given why no one seems to want to act. Okay…I do have one idea about why no one has called on the proven technology but its so cynical I refuse to believe it. In any event, the lack of action may be changing…about 5 weeks behind schedule.
The largest oil spill in world history is generally recognized to be that which resulted from the Persian Gulf War in 1990. The Iraqis were concerned about a potential amphibious invasion by the United States Marine Corps. They let loose a strategy of opening the valves at the Sea Island oil terminal so that the oil would foul that water to such an extent that it would limit the American’s ability to conduct amphibious operations. The Americans reacted by bombing the island facility to stop the flow of oil but there were also a couple of damaged oil tankers and a damaged Kuwaiti oil refinery that added to the pollution. In most oil spills, it is almost impossible for anyone to give a concrete number relating to amounts of oil lost, yet the media always demands one. In general, the estimates for the Persian Gulf oil spill run around 11 million barrels. The Exxon Valdez spill was estimated at 11 million gallons. So, this was 42 times bigger. A few weeks ago I reported on the Ixtoc I oil well blowout and it put out something on the order of about half that of the Persian spill.
In 1993, the New York Times reported that a study sponsored by many nations concluded that the spill produced “little long term damage.” It said that half the oil evaporated, about a million barrels was recovered and 2 or 3 million barrels washed up on the shore. But, in 2010, Dr. Jaqueline Michel said that studies indicated that oil remains in the wetland areas of the Persian Gulf and that oil had penetrated deeply into the intertidal sediment. Hence, the belief is that the area will take decades to recover. Here’s the funny thing. While the New York Times was reporting on the study regarding the 1990 Persian Gulf Oil spill, oil was flowing into the Persian Gulf. When Dr. Michel reported on the long term effects of the Gulf War spill, nothing was said about how it was determined the oil found was indeed from the 1990 spill and not perhaps another large spill. Perhaps no one asked the question and the New York Times was silent because no one knew about the very large spill in the Persian Gulf in 1993.
The Unknown Oil Spill: It is very difficult to find answers regarding the spill because the Saudi government kept it quiet and told those working with Saudi Aramco to keep quiet. That means that Royal Dutch Shell kept it under wraps. The Exxon Valdez resulted in 11 million gallons of oil into the Alaska waters. There is no way that anyone could hide that, right? Well, either the Saudis are a bunch of Houdinis or they paid a lot of people to look the other way because this spill was estimated to have dumped some 800 millon gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf. Yet, who knew? Those who did know kept it quiet. Tiger Woods should have hired the Saudis for public relations because they managed to keep their little disaster out of the press. However, part of the reason that no one heard about it was that action was taken.
The Unknown Supertanker Skimmers: Saudi Arabia is the largest owner of supertankers in the world. Apparently, what they did was develop a method in which super tankers act as giant vacuums to draw in millions of gallons of seawater. Oil is separated from the water. The water is put back in the ocean and the oil is recovered for production. In this particular case, apparently about 85% of the oil lost was eventually recovered. Much of the rest probably evaporated or otherwise broke up. From an observer, the results would match with those associated with a relatively minor spill and not the gigantic catastrophe that was reality. To be certain, this was not a quick fix. According to an article from Esquire, the initial skimming operation took about 6 months and the total clean up effort lasted for several more years.
Now, the former CEO of Shell and a former engineer with Saudi Aramco have been try to get media attention regarding the potential clean up method. They also have tried to get the US Government and BP’s attention of anyone else who will listen. Esquire reported late in May that President Obama is aware of the methodology because ABC’s Jake Tapper asked him a question regarding the procedure at a recent press conference. Apparently the response was not comprehensive. BP is aware of the procedure because the article claims that BP is now actually considering the strategy. Esquire also says that a leading oilman from Houston, Matthew Simmons, has been out beating the bushes urging someone to utilize the technology currently available. And, Esquire has made certain that the US Coast Guard is aware of the procedure and supertanker skimming capability because the magazine actually sent a letter to the Coast Guard asking about possible implementation. Communities along the Alabama Coast inquired about the procedure and first contacted Esquire for details; not the government, BP or the Coast Guard. I suppose they figure that if someone else won’t use what is available to protect their coast, the wildlife and many jobs then they will go out and find out how to do it themselves.
Environmental Battleship: This whole idea even goes back before the 1993 Saudi spill. After I first reported a month ago on the history of the IXTOC I blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and how it related to the current Deepwater Horizon incident, I received a press release (followed by a second) from an outfit in South Louisiana. In my mind, clearly they are trying to use this incident to promote their project. But, if one is to believe the release, following the Exxon Valdez accident, the government called for new methods to respond to oil catastrophes. Herman J. Schellstede & Associates, Inc. said in their release that Mr. Schellstede responded with the design of a ship dedicated to the skimming and processing of sea water similar to that of Aramco. I’m not certain if its quite the same because it’s hard to determine if the supertankers process the water on board whereas Mr. Schellstede says that his “Sea Clean” vessel would process 38,000 gallons of water per minute for on-board treatment. I think the supertankers can take on more water but they can’t treat the water on board, which is an advantage for the “Sea Clean.” The release says that in the early 90′s, the South Louisiana company received the proper permits to begin building the ship when suddenly interest waned. There was no more push from the government and the oil companies apparently felt that it was hard to justify spending tens of millions of dollars for a ship that they may never need. After all, there have been thousands of oil wells drilled in the Gulf and there have been very few that have blown out. This boat was not a secret either. There is a new Youtube video of the “Sea Clean” as well as an article in a 1991 edition of Popular Mechanics that touted the potential of Mr. Schellestede’s vessel. Before that, in November 1989, just months after the March 24, 1989 Exxon Valdez accident, the New York Times said in an article that “a huge vessel now on the drawing board could someday serve as what its designers call an environmental battleship, attacking oil spills like the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.” It’s still on the drawing board.
So, in 1989 the government asked for new methods to react to large offshore oil disasters. An American company in South Louisiana came up with a solution. The birds chirped. A big oil disaster in the Persian Gulf was averted in 1993 by using a similar technology but no one knew about it because of a Public Relations effort of the Saudi Arabians. The Saudis have the largest fleet of supertankers in the world and the US has certainly come to the security of interests of that nation enough times that they could spare a few tankers for awhile. So, the tankers could be made available. The technology is proven and available. We know for certain now that BP knows about it, the US Coast Guard knows about it, the US Government knows about it, the President of the United States knows about it and even Larry King knows about it. Yet, the birds continue to chirp….those who can chirp as others struggle to lift their oil soaked heads.
I’m not sure why it can’t be done but it seems an easy plan would be for BP to handle the plugging of the well. That should be their only focus because its extremely difficult at such bone crushing, frigid depths. The Coast Guard could be in charge of the clean up and containment and use the influence of the state department to help persuade the Saudis to get those supertankers over here. The Energy Department can be talking to the folks in South Louisiana about what it would take to build the vessel proposed. The Justice Department and Congress should stand down for a while. It used to drive me crazy when, during a difficult TV show, people would start yelling at each other over problems while the show was still in progress. That disrupted more of the show. I would always urge that we get through the show and then start pointing fingers afterward. So far, the “action” we’ve seen has been hearings, finger pointing and lawsuits, threats of lawsuits and threats of criminal trials with very little “action” concerning fixing the problem and finding the answers later. No one has considered that this was no one’s fault…that there is an inherent danger at drilling at such water depths. Regardless, we need to get this thing stopped….and it won’t be easy…it took 9 months at IXTOC I and that was only a few hundred feet of water, not over 5000 feet. Lets put 100% of the resources toward plugging the hole then maybe the birds will chirp again. Hopefully theywill chirp because emergency planning will not just be talked about but followed through with this time.
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Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
For the last couple of years, Kevin Appel has come to be known for cool, crisp paintings of Modernist furniture and interiors, inspired by the same sources that have influenced many artists from Patrick Caulfield to Jorge Pardo and Angela Bulloch. In this breakthrough show, however, Appel’s work has moved beyond a socio-stylistic reappraisal of 50s decor, and into a realm where perception, memory and painterly possibilities form the chief contours of his investigation.
Two wall-sized paintings serve as touchstones for the exhibition, providing both spatial and proportional orientation for the other works, and underlining the vast compositional potential of Appel’s conceit. Interior with Sliding Panels (Southwest View) (all works 1998) is one of these - a spacious horizontal vista into a sparse residential room whose walls and floor are made up of rectilinear planes. Part post-and-beam structure in the style of Californian Case Study Houses, part Minimalist Japanese pavilion, Appel’s abstracted volume has the cold, clean look of a computer-assisted drawing or a virtual home. The mechanical clarity of the design finds contrast in the warm, tactile quality of the artist’s application of paint, where variations in density, texture, hue and opacity refocus attention on the primary activity at hand. On the opposite side of the gallery hangs Interior with Sliding Panels (South View), a painting that bears an unmistakable resemblance to its mate, but which is completely reorganised by a slight change in perspective. Comparisons become disorienting, frustrating, but at the same time titillating, as new nooks and crannies of this virtual house come into view. One can only imagine the exponential number of compositions Appel could generate with similar directional rotations, and the flexibility of the interior spaces, with their retractable walls, doors and screens complicate the equation still further.
Other paintings are derived from a more mobile scrutiny of the interior spaces, zooming in and out of rooms in such a way that scale and context are often addled and the constructional elements of the house lose their representational footing. View Through Sliding Door induces a mild discomposure in its cropped close-up of a section of wall, door and column, with one of Appel’s dazzling geometric trees visible beyond. All of these fragments are flattened and essentialised into a harmonious if unwilling abstraction whose inkling of illusionistic space keeps it in a perceptual purgatory. More challenging still is Orange Storage - a bright, busy composition of rectangles and stripes that passes for a competent, hard-edged abstraction in the manner of John McLaughlin until one catches what might be a slender shadow, and all visual confidence falls apart. The perpendicular pieces momentarily cohere into shelves and books, wall and uprights in a close-range view of a storage unit, then just as swiftly flip back to handsome abstract components.
McLaughlin’s early work also plied the gap between the objective and the non-objective, and Appel’s paintings find a similar pleasure in such indecision. A growing number of contemporary painters, including Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Shirley Kaneda, Adam Ross and Gary Hume, have incorporated illusionism and/or multivalent forms in their recent work to engage a grey area between abstraction and representation, and Appel’s new canvases are another move in this promising direction.
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BK Loren celebrates diversity of reading, writing and living.
Last weekend the 10th Annual National Black Writers Conference took place at Medgar ...
. I would have attended if I could (travel costs prevented). I consider it one of the nation's most important conferences for all writers.
Yes, I'm white. So some would argue that the conference is none of my business, or "not my issue." I disagree. As a writer, and the designer of SW's online courses, I encourage all writers to step outside their comfort zones and seek out the work and community of writers different than they are. One of the most powerful notions I embrace is that of being an ally
for racial and social equity. Part of the idea behind being an ally is that it can get tiring for individuals of a consistently marginalized group to always be the ones to "stand up for themselves"—always the ones to ask for equity where there is little, for validation where it is an anomaly, for recognition when it is due, but overlooked. Sometimes, this is my
job. Most times, this is everyone
As writers, we all have a tough row to hoe. I think being a writer is a little like being gay: it chooses you; you don't choose it. (I'm gay, so here I can speak from experience.) You'd have to be crazy to choose
to be gay or to choose
to be a writer. As the stand-up comic Lisa Cech put it in her routine, "Gays recruiting people? Really? What would our ad look like? Tired of the same old civil rights? Experiencing the ennui of being accepted and loved by your family? Haven't been bashed recently, or maybe you're just craving that good old put down faggot
being hurled at you? Well, then come on over to our side!"
The ad for being a writer would be similar. "Tired of the same old dependable paycheck? Had it with health insurance and vacation pay? Are you up to here with being able to slack off on the job and still
make a handsome living that includes bonuses for doing, well, nothing? Come on over to our side! Be a writer!"
My point here is that writing is damn hard work to begin with, and there's a reason that the word publishing and punishing are slant rhymes. The challenges a writer faces are enormous. The challenges a writer of color faces are exponentially greater. The long and still practiced act of book whitewashing is but one succinct way to illustrate this. The blog "racebender
" reports that about two percent of all YA novels portray people of color on their covers.
When the protagonist in the pages is a person of color, the cover often still portrays a light-skinned person with traditionally Caucasian features. Hmmm. Interesting practice in an industry (and culture) of "racial equality."
She Writes Studios faculty member, and founder of the website ringShout
, Martha Southgate
, said in the New York Times
article that she "respects the conference for building community," but struggles with the fact that it "should be beyond our [African American] community.” Yes! And one way for me, as a writer, to enact my wholehearted agreement with Ms. Southgate, is to stand up not
for her, but alongside
her, as an ally, to say the conference makes a point and serves us all.
The more we all stick together in fighting for the recognition and value of writers in general, of paying for the value of writing as a vocation, and of writers as a whole, the more we must recognize, embrace and celebrate our differences. Equity means recognizing
difference and celebrating
it. Not pretending it does not exist. The simple beauty of literature is that it offers a window into a world we might otherwise know nothing about. I know nothing about being African American, and I can't pretend that a book makes me an expert on the topic. But I am indebted to literature for giving me a window into a world I can't experience first hand, for making me not more colorblind, but more able to see color everywhere and with, I hope, a deeper compassion.
So what the hell does this have to do with teaching writing (my charge here at She Writes) and with motivating writers as a whole? Because being good, strong allies for all forms of equity teaches us all to be better writers, better readers, and better humans. And being better humans, we circle back around to the beginning and become better writers. Part of my identity is as an ally. I welcome those who are my allies, in return. Through writing and reading, the circle of embracing all kinds of difference grows in ways it could not if I relied solely on my direct experience of life. If you ask me, that's damn good motivation to read and to write. It's damn good reason to, as Michael Franti
puts it, Stay Human
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Homestead Act still stirs excitement 150 years later
In the wake of the 150th anniversary of the Homestead Act, the Exhibits Division’s senior registrar, Jim Zeender, and archivist Greg Bradsher flew out to America’s heartland to share a document that made it all possible.
Last month, they visited the Homestead National Monument of America, four miles west of Beatrice, NE, to install the exhibit. The Homestead Act of 1862 is a four-page document signed by Abraham Lincoln. Because it is written on parchment, the document is very sensitive to fluctuations in humidity. Great care was taken to ensure the case kept relative humidity steady as the Homestead Act traveled to Nebraska. This is the first time all four pages have been displayed.
“The Homestead Act is an important document because it opened the way for settlement of the west,” Zeender said. “It was an engine for immigration to the west, even bringing in people from overseas.” The act granted most Americans the ability to claim 160 acres of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River as long as the claimants were at least 21 years old, lived on the land for five years, and showed evidence of making improvements. Its passage allowed 270 million acres of land to be settled in 30 states.
At the Homestead National Monument, Zeender and Bradsher were briefed on security, given tours of the museum, and gave a series of presentations on the Homestead Act and homestead records. National Archives at Kansas City‘s Archival Operations Director Lori Cox-Paul also gave a talk.
“Mark Engler, the Superintendent, and the staff of the National Monument were very kind and gracious to us and said very many nice things about NARA at every opportunity,” Bradsher said. “And of course, they thought Jim was wonderful.”
“Greg was very well-received,” returned Zeender. “We were very excited to be in Nebraska! It’s a very big deal there. That’s not unique to the Homestead Act; any kind of historical document we loan to museums in the country is a big deal because of the relative rarity of the experience. But this one has a special meaning to the people in Nebraska—the home of the first homesteader.”
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
At Virginia State (Virginia State University Today (VSU)) students ate what they called “wonder meat” because “we wondered what it was,” says Lamenta Diane Watkins Crouch, a 1970 Virginia state graduate. Her older sister Francis Ann Watkins Neely graduated from Virginia Union in 1967. “I really did not like the lamb chops,” that they served in the cafeteria. “My husband went to Howard University and he told me that the meat that they served in the student cafeteria there he believed [were poor quality cuts that] came from the Federal government.” In general “we southerners just did not like the lunch and dinner menus in the college cafeteria,” says Watkins Neely. The food at Virginia State, according to her younger sister Lamenta Watkins Crouch, “was not seasoned the same as home,” and there was a lot of “starchy foods including potatoes served with just about every meal and lots of pasta.” “My mother was a really good cook and that what I grew up on” says Watkins Neelly. “We southern students were always receiving care packages from home filled with good food. So we always knew somebody on campus who had just received a care packages so we would go and eat that instead of the cafeteria food.” In contrast she said that the northern students who had fewer options seemed to say very little about the cafeteria food at Union than the southerners. Here are some interesting links to how students are eating at VSU today:
Today’s VSU menu:
Soup – Beef Noodle
Breaded Fish Filet
Shoe String French Fries
Honey Hoisin Pork Chop
Balanced Choice – Pasta with Meat Sauce
California Blend Vegetables
Link to VSU “Love From Home Baskets”: http://www.vsu.edu/pages/4196.asp
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The following is a prerecorded book event I did at the Atlanta History Center as part of a book tour in 2008
Fredrick Douglas Opie discusses his book, Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America. Opie’s culinary history is a portrait of the social and religious relationship between African Americans and their cuisine. It begins with the Atlantic slave trade and concludes with the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Listen now: http://forum-network.org/lecture/hog-and-hominy-soul-food-africa-america
Saturday, August 21, 2010
|Cakes at Pasteleria Ideal in Mexico City. Listen to the special edition of A Chief’s Table on cakes below in which I talked about the history of the cake walk.|
Friday, August 20, 2010
Frederick Douglass Opie Radio Interview Philadelphia National Public Radio’s A Chief’s Table Hosted by Jim Coleman
I am getting resettled in Boston thus will be away from blogging until next week. The following is a prerecorded interview I did on Philadelphia National Public Radio’s A Chief’s Table Hosted by Jim Coleman.
Listen now: [click the link then scroll down to the June 13 show] http://www.whyy.org/91FM/chef/200906.html
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Not long ago, the Yellow Bowl Restaurant was the place for down home soul food in Baltimore. The term soul music and soul food became popular with activist Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), H. Rap Brown, Amiri Baraka and others during the black power and black arts movements of the late 1960s. Previous to then people called them simply rock and roll and southern food. After 1968, the year Eva and Youman Fullard purchased the Yellow Bowl Restaurant, black folks started to commonly use the names food and soul music. Thus, starting with the 1960s, urban dwellers in cities like Baltimore gradually made the transition from talking about rock music (rhythm and blues) and southern food to calling it soul music and soul food. As inner city Baltimore turned increasing African American and poor, the Fullards like any good entrepreneur adjusted their business to their community and clientele. In my book Hog and Hominy http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14638-8/hog-and-hominy/tableOfContents I argue that soul food dishes like fried chicken gizzards, collard greens, and hoppin John are inexpensive foods that are in the words of one cook I interviewed, “seasoned so good that it fascinates you.” These are dishes with ingredients Africans ate in abundance in West and Central Africa before the Atlantic slave trade. Here’s a, easy recipe for collard green and hoppin john below:
Collard Green Recipe:
Wash the collards good in plenty of slightly salted water
Start out with 3 bunches which will serve 6 people, they are big bug the cook down like spinach. I steam mine in a pressure cooker for 10 minutes until the fibrous leaves are easy to eat. Steaming preserves the water soluble vitamins that are killed when you just boil the greens down like most of my ancestors have done for years.
Remove the collards from the pressure cooker and save the water to make the pot-licker
Season the water with 3 cubes of vegetable bullion, dried bay leaf, dried red pepper flakes, little vinegar, and some honey. Had some smoked paprika or a little liquid smoke which most grocery stores sell if you like that smoked meat flavor (the traditional recipe calls for a smoked ham hock or a hunk of smoked fat back).
The pot-licker is full of vitamins and great seasoning for the greens
Sauté the steamed greens with chopped onions and garlic in olive oil with your preferred seasonings like pepper, salt, etc.
Add sautéed greens to the pot-licker and let them marinade for 30 or more before serving
Hoppin John history and recipe: http://blog.syracuse.com/entertainment/2009/12/hoppin_john_a_traditional_dish.html
Monday, August 16, 2010
When the East Baltimore's Johnston Square community experienced both capital and white flight in the 1970s, the Fullards transformed the menu at the Yellow Bowl Restaurant they purchased in 1968. Like other black entrepreneurs at the same time, they unabashedly marketed restaurant as a soul food eatery. Soul and soul food, according to one scholar, developed out of a larger black power project that called for creating black cultural expressions different from white society. During the 1960s and 1970s CORE and the Black Panthers launched organizing efforts in Baltimore that led to an increased black consciousness. Like wearing African attire or sporting an Afro, eating soul food in the 1960s and 1970s represented a political statement that one knew and loved their roots. Thus, starting in the 1960s, African-American urban dwellers, first in the Southeast gradually made the transition from talking about rock music (rhythm and blues) and southern food to calling it soul music and soul food. In the face of increasing ethnic diversity of urban centers, soul became associated with African-American culture and ethnicity. People with soul had a down-home style that migrants from the rural South like the Fullards could unite around. In terms of food that meant southern dishes like scrapple sandwiches, grits, candied yams, corn bread, fried and stewed chicken, collard greens, biscuits and gravy and peach cobbler.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
According to the my cousin Charlie, the Yellow Bowl in the historic Johnston Square community was perhaps one of the most well known soul food restaurants in Baltimore. It’s going on the auction block this week on August 18, 2010. The restaurant as it roots in the Yellow Cab Company started in 1909 and it has not always been a soul food restaurant. In 1921, the Yellow Bowl started in a small addition added to the east end of the Yellow Cab Company building located on the 500 block of Greenmount Avenue near Preston Street. Perhaps that’s how it got its name the Yellow Bowl and it most likely sold typical American coffee shop food. Sam Greenburg bought the restaurant and reopened it in a larger location in the first floor of a two story row house in the 1200 block of Greenmount Ave the former of home of Shreck’s Restaurant. At the time the Yellow Bowl catered to the white cab drivers and the white working class residents employed in clothing and shoe factories in Johnson Square at East Baltimore neighborhood. The original menu included eggs, bacon, and toast for breakfast and sandwiches, Salisbury steak, meatloaf, and spaghetti and meatballs. There was also plenty of hot coffee. There are two interpretation of how the restaurant became a long running soul food joint: In the 1960s Youman Fullard and his wife Eva operated a bodega next to the Yellow and when the Greek owners decided to sell the Fullers bought them out in 1968; Youman Fuller drove a hack for the Yellow Cab Company and he regularly ate in the Yellow Bowl and thus got to know the owners. When they decided to sell in 1968 the Fullard bought it. What do know is that Youman Fullard was born in South Carolina. Before coming to Baltimore he worked at a brewery in South Carolina around the end of the Great Depression. It’s unclear when he migrated to Baltimore. More on the transformation of the Yellow Bowls menu after 1968.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
North Carolina A & T students who started the student sit-in movement in 1960
Yesterday I mentioned that it took a multiethnic student sit in movement in March of 1959 to desegregate Arundel Company’s ice cream parlors in metro Baltimore. What’s interesting is the fact that his happened almost a year before students North Carolina A & T started the student sit-in movement at Woolworth’s and S. H. Kress store lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 1, 1960 (see my earlier post on this story http://frederickdouglassopie.blogspot.com/2010/02/before-1960-student-sit-in-movement-i.html) I wondered if the students in Baltimore influenced the students in North Carolina, after all the Baltimore Afro American covered the event. From 1959 to the late 1960s the country went from a civil rights movement to a Black power movement. One of the often overlooked aspects of the movement was the call for economic power for black folks; more on this and its effects on the Arundel Company.
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There’s nothing wrong with being calorie-conscious. Monitoring the calories you take in and those you expend can be a great way to ensure you are getting enough fuel for your workouts while keeping them at a level where you can still see fat loss results. While some people focus a little too much on calories, we understand why you are curious and want to help. P90X workouts, like all other workouts, are designed to burn calories and much more. But like every method of exercise, the number of calories burned depends on your effort and how much you put into it. How many calories do you burn doing P90X is not a simple question to answer and requires some considerations.
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Yes, duh, each workout is different. And which workout you do will ultimately have an effect on how many calories do you burn doing P90X. But each workout gives you the opportunity to burn as many as possible. What I mean is this: you may find yourself working exceptionally hard at Plyometrics. But, you can work just as hard at the other workouts and ramp up your calorie-burning potential. It requires hard work on your part and a sincere effort to get everything possible out of every single moment spent dedicated to the P90X workouts.
So, really, how many calories do you burn doing P90X?
On average, you will burn about 600 calories per P90X workout. This is the average. You may burn more on some than others. Some days you’ll naturally work harder and burn more than those days in which you are feeling lazy or less than motivated. But, the average amount of calories burned in a P90X workout is 600.
More Important that Just Calories-Burned
Six-hundred calories is great but what’s even better is the fact that you are building muscle while burning these calories. You aren’t just getting your heart rate up and reaping the benefits of a cardio workout, you are working towards a total body transformation, including toned muscles, increased flexibility, and overall fitness!
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Women with HIV infection who smoke are more likely than women not infected with HIV to acquire and have prevalent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, according to a study published in the May 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. Given the clear link between persistent infection with certain HPV types and cervical cancer, the findings may help to explain why women who are smokers or HIV-infected are at risk for this tumor. They also underscore the importance of smoking cessation in women's health.
The study, reported by Howard Minkoff and coworkers at SUNY Downstate and other centers, involved 1,797 HIV-infected and 496 uninfected women whose smoking and HPV status was monitored at six-month intervals from 1994 to 1998. Smoking status was determined in interviews, HPV status by cervicovaginal lavage for HPV DNA testing. Other factors studied included age, T cell subset concentrations, anti-HIV drug regimen use, HIV RNA levels, oral contraceptive use, and sexual activity.
The investigators found that, regardless of smoking status, HIV-infected women were 3.9 times more likely than women not infected with HIV to have HPV infection at the outset of the study. When smoking was factored into the analysis, heightened HPV risk at the outset was seen only in HIV-infected women. HIV-infected women were also 3.13 times more likely to acquire HPV infection during the study, and smoking significantly increased HPV risk in such women. Finally, both HIV-infected subjects and those who smoked were significantly more likely than their uninfected or nonsmoking counterparts to acquire persistent HPV infection (defined as occurring during the study and present at two consecutive visits).
Noting that persistent HPV infections have been shown to increase the risk of cervical cancer, Minkoff and coworkers commented that smoking and HIV infection may each alter the natural history of HPV infection to heighten tumor risk, and that the combination of smoking and HIV infection may be especially potent in this regard. The putative mechanism(s) would involve immune deficiencies. HIV infection, of course, is a prime example of immunodeficiency disease. The investigators pointed out that smoking has been associated with impaired cellular, humoral, and mucosal immunity, and with deranged pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine production as well.
Source: Eurekalert & othersLast reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009
Published on PsychCentral.com. All rights reserved.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
-- Orson Welles
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Reasons to make a BART Referral:
The Behavioral Assessment and Response Team (BART) was assembled to be a central place for the campus community to report any dangerous, concerning, or uncivil behavior on campus (Please see Incident Reporting Form).
The goal is early detection of conflicts and concerns before they escalate into more serious problems. Of primary concern are those behaviors that put the health and safety of any person on campus at risk. As a general rule, any concerning behavior by anyone on campus that is not already being appropriately addressed can be referred to BART for assessment and appropriate response. BART is intended to be a non-punitive way to get help for those who need it on campus, so simply being referred to BART will not suggest wrongdoing or impede someone's academic success. If the report involves violations of the student code of conduct or of legal statutes, the case may be referred to the appropriate authority.
Dial (661) 654-2111 or 911 for situations requiring emergency response (main campus).
Dial (661) 722-6399 or 911 for situations requiring emergency response (Antelope Valley Center).
Examples of appropriate BART referrals are:
- Aggressive, threatening, or intimidating behaviors that one feels uncomfortable reporting to the police, including the following:
- Direct threats of harm
- Carrying a weapon
- Making statements such as "you had better watch out," "you don't know who you are messing with," or "you are to going pay"
- Invasion of personal space
- Damaging property
- Following, watching, or stalking someone on campus
- Multiple, unwanted texts, emails, voicemails intended to harass
- Interest and frequent discussions of violence, killing, raping, torturing, guns, or explosives
- Art, stories, or essays focused on the above themes
- Suicidal statements, gestures, or attempts that do not require emergency attention; these can be:
- Direct statements, "I think a lot about killing myself," or "I took half a bottle of sleeping pills last weekend"
- Implied statements "The world would be better off without me"
- Through creative expression, for example, suicidal themes or content in a painting or short story
- Inappropriate use of alcohol or drugs on campus, such as:
- Being visibly under the influence of a substance
- Going to class under the influence of a substance
- Requiring medical attention due to substance use
- Selling drugs on campus
- Any significant signs of distress, abrupt changes in behavior, significant decline in functioning, or erratic behavior, including the following:
- Self-injury, such as cutting, burning, or hitting self
- Withdrawal, fearfulness, or paranoia
- Psychosis, losing touch with reality, hearing voices, bizarre beliefs
- Overly dependent or needy, for example, someone who calls three times a day for help and gets angry when you don't answer the phone
- Marked change in personal hygiene
- Excessive procrastination, poorly prepared work
- Infrequent class attendance, little or no work completed
- Indecisiveness, confusion, or lack of focus
- Isolation, loneliness, or lack of social support
- Disruptive, interruptive, or intrusive behavior
- Socially inappropriate, unusual, or bizarre behavior
Several of the following:
- Major mood changes, e.g., elation of person who has been depressed
- Nervousness or agitation
- Crying, tearful
- Depressed mood
- Sleeping too much or too little
- Eating too much or too little
- Expressions of helplessness or hopelessness
- Increased irritability, undue aggressive or abrasive behavior
- Lack of energy
- Poor motivation or interest in doing things
- Sexual harassment or any sexually inappropriate behavior, such as:
- Repeated, unwanted sexual advances
- Unwanted physical touch
- Unsolicited discussions of a sexual nature
- Pornographic emails or text messages
- Comments about one's body or body parts
- Inconsiderate, rude, vulgar, demeaning, discriminatory, racist, insulting statements, gestures, or behaviors that are likely to provoke anger, aggression, or be distressing to a reasonable person
The BART reporting process does not replace established campus policies and procedures for reporting student code of conduct violations or unlawful behavior. If you are aware of the appropriate campus authority and feel comfortable reporting the incident, you may report it directly to that person or department: for example, the University Police or the Student Conduct Office.
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Greg Zoeller told WBEZ on Wednesday that his office wants to make sure that consumer rights are protected as BP begins to recall a 50,000-barrel batch of bad gasoline. The tainted fuel made its way last week to gas stations throughout Northwest Indiana, parts of Chicago and even as far away as Milwaukee.
“We are closely monitoring the response by BP and will be reviewing their claims and reimbursement processes,” Zoeller said. “As the watchdog for Indiana consumers, my office has a duty to ensure consumers' rights are protected and that there is no undue delay in appropriate reimbursements.”
BP spokesman Scott Dean told WBEZ that the 2.1 million gallons of regular-grade unleaded gasoline was produced at its refinery in Whiting, Indiana, right off Lake Michigan, about a mile from Chicago’s southern border last week.
BP estimates about 200 retail outlets in Northwest Indiana and in the Chicago metro region were sent the gasoline in the last seven days, along with 20 additional retail sites in the Milwaukee area.
Dean explained the tainted gas was caused by large molecules not burning off properly, thus plugging up fuel injectors and causing “hard starts” for vehicles.
The company began receiving complaints about the bad gas on Monday, which has forced hundreds of motorists to make unplanned visits to local car repair shops.
Rick Shaver at Toyota of Merrillville says his dealership has been inundated by customers whose cars are filled with the bad gas. The cost to fix cars at the dealership is averaging about $600.
“We are dropping and draining gas tanks, we are doing fuel systems cleanings, changing the oil, putting new gas in it, of course,” Shaver told WBEZ.
Zoeller says so far, BP has handled the situation well by setting up a hotline and a website for customers to file claims.
“We just don’t trust the company. We’ll be watching BP,” Zoeller said.
To file a claim with BP, customers should call 1-800-333-3991 or 1-800-599-9040. Customers can also visit www.bpresponse.com.
To date, 7,000 consumers have contacted BP regarding this matter.
Customers can also contact the Indiana Attorney General’s office to file a separate complaint at (800) 382-5516.
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Ordered writes mechanism is an efficient and widely used way to guarantee the consistency of distributed updates in a parallel file system. To keep the write order, remote commit operations should not be sent out until the local updates are forced to be stable. However, this can block the execution of applications and significantly degrade the overall performance. Thus, the I/O and network latency of commit requests serve non-negligible cost for file updates, especially for large amount of small files. In this paper, we argue that the write order keeping can be handed over from the applications to file systems i.e. the order keeping can be removed from the critical I/O path of applications. We propose the Delayed Commit Protocol that the requests of committing sub-operations are submitted to the commit queue and in the meanwhile the execution flow can be returned back to applications immediately. To reduce the total I/O and network overhead, we use space delegation and adaptive RPC (Remote Procedure Call) compound techniques. Experiments show an up to 2.6x speedup while applying such protocol in a CDN (Content Delivery Network) benchmark. No performance degradation occurs for workloads with large files or conflicted operations.
Date of Conference: 24-28 Sept. 2012
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Powering the Third World with Water and Sun
December 1, 2010
Sun Catalytix — an energy storage and renewable fuels company — founded by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, Daniel Nocera, has attracted funding from the wealthy Tata Group, a powerful Indian corporation known for it’s innovative Nano automobile, to develop a solar powered generator that would be
affordable to a large segment of rural poor throughout the third world.
Nocera and his colleagues announce a process two years ago that captured sunlight in manner similar to plant photosynthesis. A press release described the original discovery.
“Inspired by the photosynthesis performed by plants, Nocera and Matthew Kanan, a postdoctoral fellow in Nocera’s lab, have developed an unprecedented process that will allow the sun’s energy to be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. Later, the oxygen and hydrogen may be recombined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity to power your house or your electric car, day or night.”
At the time, MIT produced a video that explained the discovery -
Since then, Nocera and Postdoc fellow Mathew Kanan have refined the process, discarding some of the more expensive exotic metals originally required.
The Business-Standard of India reported that Ralf Speth, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover (a Tata company), is on the board of the new company, Ratan Tata, CEO of Tata Sons,
is a co-owner, and the group has pumped at least 9.5 million USD, and possibly much more, into the new company.
The system will be able to use water from any source, even waste water, to produce hydrogen and oxygen, which can be stored easily in tanks, and utilized as a power source for a fuel cell immediately, or during times when solar energy is not available.
Planning on a launch in the next 18 months, the group hopes to market a system that will suit the needs and budget of millions of homes and villages in India and the third world.
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'Seattle Freeze' strikes northern neighbor - Vancouver, B.C.
Apparently the social phenomenon known as the “freeze” – or social indifference and avoidance of strangers – extends north of Seattle.
A new survey of living conditions in our northern neighbor Vancouver, B.C., conducted by the Vancouver Foundation discovered:
“One in three people living in metropolitan Vancouver say it can be difficult to make friends here. Seventy per cent have never had a neighbour over. And 47 per cent do not trust or do not know if their neighbours trust each other.”
We’ve known for a long time that getting on an elevator or bus, for instance, around Seattle means keeping your eyes to yourself, phone conversations down and, heaven forbid, not saying anything – let alone something like, “Howdy, wanna come over for a game of cards?”
Now, a more scientific look at the freeze in Vancouver found similar issues:
Metro Vancouver can be a hard place to make friends.
31% say it is difficult to make new friends here. And 25% say they are alone more often than they would like to be. These same people are also likelier to experience poorer health, lower trust and a hardening of attitudes toward other community members.
Our neighborhood connections are cordial, but weak.
74% know the names of at least two of their neighbors but the connections typically stop there. 70% have not visited a neighbor’s home or invited a neighbor over. And 47% do not trust or do not know if their neighbors trust each other.
The most often-cited reason for not knowing neighbors is that people seldom see each other (46%). However, another significant reason seems to be indifference. People have little interest in getting to know their neighbors or say they prefer to keep to themselves (32%).
Many people in metro Vancouver are retreating from community life.
In the past year, only 23% took part in a neighborhood or community project.
It isn’t a lack of time that stops people from getting involved. The most often-cited reason for not participating in neighborhood and community life is a feeling that people have little to offer.
There are limits to how people see diversity as an opportunity to forge meaningful connections.
35% have no close friends outside their own ethnic group. And 65% believe that most people prefer to be with others of the same ethnicity.
Many people believe all new immigrants and refugees, regardless of where they come from, would be welcome in their neighborhood. However, a significant number of residents rank which groups they believe would be the most and the least welcome.
The affordability issue in metro Vancouver is affecting people’s attitudes and beliefs.
54% believe Vancouver is becoming a resort town for the wealthy. These same people also tend to think that there is too much foreign ownership of real estate.
For more information about the survey, check out the Vancouver Foundation report.
Seattle Freeze solutions?
Here’s the view from Seattle as reported in our ‘I Wonder Why …?’ story: Why is the 'Seattle Freeze' so hard to melt?
Is Seattle a great but lonely place to live?
The city often ranks pretty high on those lists of the best places to move to – There’s the food, the water, the mountains, the music. But once people get here, they find it’s pretty tough to make friends. There’s even a name for it: The Seattle Freeze.
The freeze here can play out in many different ways.
You say hello to someone walking past on the sidewalk, and they look straight ahead as if you’re invisible. Or, you’re at the grocery store in the checkout line, and the person waiting behind you keeps a distance of at least 10 feet and never makes eye contact.
The Urban Dictionary defines The Urban Dictionary defines ‘Seattle Freeze’ this way:
“A phrase that describes a local public consensus that states the city of Seattle and/ or its outlying suburbs are generally not friendly, asexual, introverted, socially aloof, clickish or strictly divided through its social classes, thus making the city/ area difficult to make social connections on all levels.”
Hats off to Seattlepi.com’s Big Blog for digging up the Vancouver story.
On the Web:
A great series of stories by The Vancouver Sun:
I Wonder Why ... ?
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Accessible web page design enables people with disabilities to use the Internet--and helps everyone to use the Internet better. InfoUse and other key national sources have developed materials on principles of accesible design, along with some specific guidelines.
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), in coordination with other organizations, is pursuing accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development. The WAI is a primary resource for how to make your website accessible through current web standards.
InfoUse Web Accessibility Guidelines
InfoUse has produced its own lists of guidelines for designing accessible Web pages for people with all types of disabilities. There are two versions of this document:
"Designing Accessible Websites," by Sylvia Chong (1998). This document, which is an php of the 1996 "Design of Accesible Web Pages", contains information on the accessibility of recent additions to HTML, such as frames, tables, plug-ins and applets.
"Design of Accessible Web Pages," by Jane Berliss, Lewis Kraus, and Susan Stoddard (1996). This document was among the first guidelines available on the topic of accessibility and the World Wide Web.
This section of our site lists other organizations that have been identified as resources on accessible Web page design and computer accessibility for people with disabilities. We will be building this list as we find additional relevant sites.
A list of suggestions for customizing your browser to take advantage of this site's accessible design.
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"Simons-Town, Hafenbild, links Else's Kap." ("Simonstown, harbor photo, [to the] left Else's Cape(?)."). The picture shows a woman, a man and a girl of European origin sitting on rocks at the habor. The woman wears a dark colored hat and a white dress, the girl wears also a white dress. The man wears a hat and a dark colored suit and holds a stick in his hands. Behind them the sea. Four large ships with high masts and chimneys in the background. Behind them mountains. Imprinted on the image: "1503."; Cf. photo no. 1501 and no. 1502. -- As picture no. 1502 which shows several large ships in the harbor of Simonstown during war time and picture no. 1501 which also shows the same kinds of ships near the harbor this picture was probably also taken during the First World War as the kinds of big ships might indicate. It might have also been taken during the Second South African War.
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Novant Health Matthews Medical Center and Presbyterian Rehabilitation Center Matthews assisted the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the development of a public service campaign for veterans
. The 60-second public service announcement was filmed over a two-day period at Matthews Medical Center. The video is part of a larger campaign promoting the Veterans Crisis Line and suicide prevention. And while it does not promote Novant, our staff were deeply honored to assist and demonstrate their support for those who serve our country. You can view the video at http://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/suicide_prevention/index.asp
and click the video at the bottom of the page or http://www.youtube.com/user/VeteransHealthAdmin?ob=5#p/u/5/TrRk4Qrrtdo
Dr. Ophelia Garmon-Brown was named Charlotte Woman of the Year, joining an elite group of only 63 women who have been recognized in the award's 55-year history. She serves as vice president of community and business partnerships for Novant Health. The annual award is sponsored by several Charlotte organizations.
Novant donated a vehicle to the School of Health Sciences at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) to create a clinic on wheels. Called Rams Know HOW (Healthcare on Wheels), the program brings preventive health education and screenings to uninsured and underserved residents of Winston-Salem. Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center also donated $300,000 to the project to support operational needs. The mobile clinic is managed by nurses in collaboration with physicians; WSSU Health Sciences students and faculty provide the services.
Thanks to a partnership between the Presbyterian Medical Center Community Care Cruiser and Charlotte Community Health Clinic (CCHC), uninsured children in Charlotte now have a new medical home. CCHC opened a new pediatric clinic after having mainly served uninsured adults in Charlotte over the years. The clinic has long recognized the need for pediatric services but it wasn't until the Cruiser - a mobile health clinic for underserved youth - began serving patients that leaders realized that kids were dramatically underserved. The Cruiser team discovered their young patients required more acute care and had no other place to turn for a medical home. The new pediatric clinic will help provide the continuum of care and fill a void in the community.
Kathie Johnson, president of Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center, was named a recipient of the Triad's 2010 Woman Extraordinaire award presented by Business Leader magazine. She was recognized for professional excellence, dynamic leadership and contributing to the quality of life in the Triad.
Carolina Parenting magazine named Novant Health to the Family-Friendly 50 Companies list for 2010. This is the 11th year in a row that Novant has been recognized for offering family friendly benefits and emphasizing a work life balance environment for employees.
Novant's coffee table book of remarkable staff and their stories received two national honors: gold awards from the Aster Awards Program and from Healthcare Marketing Report. The coffee table book can be viewed at www.novanthealth.org.
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N.Y. report denounces school which punishes troubled and disabled students with electric shocks''Students can be shocked for behaviors including 'failure to maintain a neat appearance', 'stopping work for more than 10 seconds', 'interrupting others', 'nagging', 'whispering and/or moving conversation away from staff', 'slouch in chair' ''
New York education officials issued a scathing report yesterday on a Massachusetts school that punishes troubled and disabled students with electric shocks, finding that they can be shocked for simply nagging the teacher and that some are forced to wear shock devices in the bathtub or shower, posing an electrocution hazard.
The report, based in part on an inspection last month of the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, portrayed a school in which most staff lack training to handle the students and seem more focused on punishing bad behavior than encouraging good acts.
The investigators said some forms of discipline, such as a device that delivers shocks at timed intervals, appear to violate federal safety regulations, and students live in an atmosphere of ``pervasive fears and anxieties."
* Read the report on the Rotenberg Center (.pdf)
The report, denounced by Rotenberg officials as biased, is expected to play a key role next Monday when education regulators in New York are scheduled to vote on whether to severely restrict the use of painful punishment on students from New York.
Two-thirds of Rotenberg's students are sent from New York. The inspectors said they had notified officials in Massachusetts and at the US Food and Drug Administration about possible violations of state and federal safety rules.
There have been increasing allegations of abuse at the Rotenberg Center in recent months.
They include several assertions that students have been badly burned by the shock devices, known as graduated electronic decelerators. The Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission has received 22 allegations of abuse at the school since January, including 12 that involve injuries. Rotenberg officials have steadfastly denied the charges, but commission officials say that at least two have been substantiated.
Yesterday, a lawyer for the school, Michael Flammia, said the New York report grossly distorts what goes on at the school, which is often used as a place of last resort for students with autism, mental retardation, or behavioral problems. School districts in several states, including Massachusetts, refer students to Rotenberg after other methods to control their behavior, such as hospitalization or drugs, have failed.
The school has about 250 students, about half of whom wear electric shock devices that teachers can activate around the clock.
``These findings are completely false. They are the product of a biased review team sent by the New York State Education Department for the specific purpose of making derogatory findings" about the center, said Flammia, who denied that students are forced to wear shock devices in the shower.
He also said that New York officials are mistaken in asserting that the school is violating FDA or Massachusetts rules.
Flammia noted that New York inspectors had given the Judge Rotenberg Center high marks for safety last September, but he believes they turned against the school after the publicity surrounding a lawsuit filed this spring by the mother of a New York student.
Some parents of Rotenberg students rallied behind the school, as they have in the past, saying that most people don't understand how serious their children's problems are. The school, which costs states and school districts more than $200,000 a year per student, helps students who have failed everywhere else, they say, and turns to shocks and other punishments only if less painful methods fail.
``This school has saved my daughter's life," said Marcia Shear of Long Island, whose 13-year-old daughter, Samantha, used to punch herself in the head so often that she detached both retinas.
After she received a few high-level shocks, Shear said, the self-abuse stopped. ``I am livid at these people and pieces of garbage who think they know what they're doing. Let them come and sit with my child and go through what I've gone through for 11 years."
The 26-page New York report intensified a debate over the Judge Rotenberg Center's methods that has gone on for much of its 35 years. The latest controversy began in March, when Evelyn Nicholson of Freeport, N.Y., went public with a charge that her son, Antwone, had been mistreated at the school, where he was shocked 79 times over 1 1/2 years. She initially consented to the procedure to curb her son's aggressive behavior, but said she changed her mind after Antwone became increasingly desperate to get away.
``There's no education in what's happening here," said Ken Mollins , a lawyer representing the Nicholson family, which is suing New York for $10 million. ``The head of this institution calls this therapy. I think this is more like a domestic torture chamber."
The New York inspectors found that more than two-thirds of the direct-care providers at the Rotenberg Center have completed only a high school education, which they said ``in many cases . . . is not sufficient to oversee the intensive treatment of children with challenging emotional and behavioral problems."
They also noted that only six of the 17 clinicians who oversee mental-health care at the school have a license in psychology.
The inspectors said the school appeared to violate FDA regulations in several ways, including a policy that allows the parents of students to administer shocks to students after only minimal training. The New York report also said that the school appears to violate Massachusetts regulations that allow painful punishments only for ``extraordinarily difficult or dangerous behavioral problems," noting that they witnessed one student who was threatened with a shock after sneezing in class. School officials said no shock had been given in this case.
Finally, the report raised concerns about students' nutrition because the Judge Rotenberg Center withholds food as a punishment. The report found that one New York student was in a program where he could be denied up to 25 percent of his normal food intake.
New York Deputy Education Commissioner Rebecca Cort said the report painted a much darker picture of the Rotenberg Center than last year's review, because the state took a more in-depth look, including a surprise inspection that showed the school's practices are a lot different from written treatment plans for students.
Rotenberg's Flammia said the school was never given a chance to review the report before it was made public and he said the school would demand a fair chance to respond. He warned that if New York students are denied access to the Rotenberg Center, the state could be sued by parents of children who hurt themselves as a result.
Supporters of a bill in the Massachusetts Legislature to ban the use of electric shocks on students said they hoped the New York report would give new momentum to their efforts to force the school to change its methods or close. A proposed ban was written into the state budget passed by the Senate, but the House of Representatives has not taken a position.
``It's troubling that it's necessary for New York officials to point out the violations of Massachusetts law taking place at this facility," said state Senator Brian Joyce, the Milton Democrat who has led the effort to ban electric shock.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
How to Choose a Knee Brace
I am a post stroke hemiplegiac. I can walk a little with asistive devices ie stoke walker, hemi walker. my knee keeps buckling when I do weight bearing. It really impedes my progress because I am not doing all that I actually can because I am afraid my knee will buckle. It goes forward. It does not hyper extend. My question is what type of a brace can I get off the shelf that will help my knee support the weight and not buckle?
The most appropriate and effective solution to the problem with your knee buckling forward would be based on its cause, which requires a physical examination by your physician, and/or reconsulting with whichever physician oversaw or directed your rehabilitation after your stroke, and/or a referral to a PM&R (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) physician.
Potential causes for this include weakness (for example, in the quadriceps muscles in the front part of the thigh), impaired awareness of where your leg and foot are positioned in space, and/or pain or derangement in the hip or knee joint on that side.
Regarding bracing options:
- A "knee immobilizer" is one extreme... this would certainly prevent your knee from buckling - or moving at all - but would necessitate significant and energy-consuming changes to your gait pattern such as swinging the braced leg out to the side to get the foot to clear the ground each time you advance that leg forward;
Another option is a knee brace with adjustable hinges that can be set such that they allow no more than a certain amount of knee motion (for example, preventing the knee from bending more than 15 degrees starting from straight);
Alternatively, a short leg brace called an AFO (ankle-foot orthosis) can be designed to control a knee which tends to buckle forward... such a device is called a "floor reaction AFO" and usually takes the form of a plastic brace with:
- a vertical portion with the lower part open in front of the ankle and lower shin, but whose upper end has a horizontal, rigid section across the front of the upper shin which provides controlling force to an area a few inches below the patella (kneecap) and...
- a sole plate which goes inside the shoe.
Brian L Bowyer, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University
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A hat is an item of clothing which is worn on the head – a kind of headgear. Hats are differentiated from caps by being more elaborate; hats have a high crown, a brim, or both and are larger than caps. A hat may be either placed on the head or, in the case of some women's hats, secured with hat-pins (which are pushed through the hat and the hair). Many hats are intended only for men or for women, while other hats are fashionable on both sexes. Purveyors of men's hats are called hatters and purveyors of ladies' hats are called milliners. Belt
A belt is a flexible band, made of either leather or a type of heavy cloth, worn around the waist. It generally serves the purpose of supporting clothing items that would otherwise become too loose, particularly trousers. A belt can also be for the purpose of style and decoration. Furthermore, belts made of strong materials (mostly leather) can also be used as a whip- or strap- like instrument for corporal punishment, such as spanking, as attested be the term a belting (see that article - from the verb to belt), which can also be used for a beating in general, regardless of the implement (e.g. tawse) or absence thereof. Belts have been documented both for male and female clothing since the Bronze Age. Both sexes used them off and on, depending on the current fashion, but it was a rarity in female fashion with the exception of the early middle Ages, late 17th century Mantua and skirt/blouse combinations between 1900 and 1910. Art Nouveau belt buckles are nowadays collector's items. In modern times, men started wearing belts in the 1920s, as trouser waists fell to a lower, natural line. Before the 1920s, belts served mostly a decorative purpose, and were associated with the military. Today, most men wear a belt with their pants; women tend to wear them for more decorative functions.
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1. Make eye contact. Take advantage of those brief moments when your newborn's eyes are open, and look right into them. Infants recognize faces early on -- and yours is the most important! Each time he stares at you, he's building his memory.
2. Stick out your tongue. Studies show that newborns as young as 2 days old can imitate simple facial movements -- it's a sign of very early problem solving.
3. Let him reflect. Have your baby stare at himself in the mirror. At first, he may think he's just eyeing another cute kid, but he'll love making the "other" baby wave his arms and smile.
4. Make a difference. Hold up two pictures about 8 to 12 inches away from your baby's face. They should be similar but have one small difference (perhaps a tree is in one but not the other). Even a young infant will look back and forth and figure out the distinguishing features, which sets the stage for letter recognition and reading later on.Chat Her Up, Make Her Laugh
5. Blab away. All you may get is a blank look, but leave short pauses where your baby would speak. Soon she'll catch on to the rhythm of conversation and start filling in the blanks.
6. Go gaga. Your baby really tunes in to your silly cooing and high-pitched baby talk.
7. Sing a song. Learn as many tunes as you can, or make up your own verses ("This is the way we change your diaper, change your diaper, change your diaper . . . "). Play Bach, the Beatles, or Britney Spears. Some research suggests that learning the rhythms of music is linked to learning math.
8. Clue him in. When you announce, "I'm going to turn on the light now" before flipping the switch, you're teaching cause and effect.
9. Tickle her toes. In fact, tickle her all over. Laughter is the first step in developing a sense of humor. And playing games like "This little piggy" (finish by tickling her under the chin) or "I'm gonna get you" teaches your child to anticipate events.
10. Be a funny face. Puff up your cheeks, and have your toddler touch your nose. When she does, poof! Have her pull your ear, and then stick out your tongue. Make a funny noise when she pats your head. Keep to the same routine three or four times, then change the rules to keep her guessing.
11. Joke around. Point to a photo of Uncle Frank, and call him "Mommy." Then tell your child that you were being silly and laugh at your "joke" to build her budding sense of humor.Bond Every Chance You Get
12. Breast-feed, if possible. And do it for as long as you can. It's a fact that schoolkids who were breast-fed as infants have higher IQs. Plus, nursing is a great time to bond with your infant by singing, talking, or simply stroking that delicious baby hair.
13. Make the most of diaper time. Use moments on the changing pad to teach body parts or pieces of clothing. Narrate to help your baby learn to anticipate routines.
14. Turn off the tube. Your baby's brain needs one-on-one interaction that no TV show, no matter how educational, can provide.
15. Don't forget to give it a rest. Spend a few minutes each day simply sitting on the floor with your baby -- no music, bright lights, or playful tricks. Let him explore, and see where he takes you.Get Physical
16. Be a playground. Lie down on the floor, and let your baby climb and crawl all over you. It's cheaper than a jungle gym and lots more fun! You'll help boost her coordination and problem-solving skills.
17. Build an obstacle course. Boost motor skills by placing sofa cushions, pillows, boxes, or toys on the floor and then showing your baby how to crawl over, under, and around the items.
18. Shake it up, baby. Teach her to twist and shout, do the funky chicken, or twirl like a ballerina.
19. Play "follow the leader." Crawl through the house, varying your speed. Stop at interesting places to play.
20. Now follow his lead. As your toddler gets older, he'll stretch his creativity to see if you really will do everything he does, like make silly noises, crawl backward, or laugh.Explore New Surroundings
21. Share the view. Take your baby on walks in a front carrier, sling, or backpack, and narrate what you see -- "That's a little dog" or "Look at those big trees!" or "Did you hear that fire engine?" -- to give your baby endless vocabulary-building opportunities.
22. Go shopping. When you need a break from your song and dance, visit the supermarket. The faces, sounds, and colors there provide perfect baby entertainment.
23. Change the scenery. Switch your toddler's high chair to the other side of the table. You'll challenge his memory of where things are placed at meals.Play and Be Silly
24. Surprise her. Every now and then, delight your baby by gently blowing on her face, arms, or tummy. Make a pattern out of your breaths, and watch her react and anticipate.
25. Practice three-card monte. Grab a few empty plastic food containers, and hide one of your baby's small toys under one. Shuffle the containers, and let him find the prize.
26. Play peekaboo. Your hide-and-seek antics do more than bring on the giggles. Your baby learns that objects can disappear and then come back.
27. Pick it up. Even if it seems like your baby repeatedly drops toys off her high chair just to drive you nuts, go fetch. She's learning and testing the laws of gravity. Give her several pieces of wadded-up paper or some tennis balls, put an open bucket under her seat, and let her take aim!Teach Texture
28. Grab a tissue or two. If your baby loves pulling tissues out of the box, let him! For a few cents, you've got sensory playthings that he can crumple or smooth out. Hide small toys under them, and thrill your tot when you "find" them again.
29. Get touchy-feely. Keep a box of different-textured fabrics: silk, terrycloth, wool, and linen. Gently rub the cloths on your baby's cheek, feet, and tummy, describing the way each feels.
30. Feel your way. Walk around the house with your babe in arms, and touch his hand to the cool window, some soft laundry, a smooth plant leaf, and other safe objects, labeling items as you go.
31. Let your child play with her food. When she's ready, serve foods that vary in texture -- including cooked peas, cereal, pasta, or chunks of cantaloupe. She'll get to practice her pincer grasp and explore her senses.Teach Language and Counting
32. Take a cue from Sesame Street. Dedicate each week to a letter of the alphabet. For instance, read books that start with A, eat A foods, cut up snacks into that shape, and write the letter on your sidewalk with chalk.
33. Count everything. Count how many blocks your toddler can stack. Or the number of steps in your house. Or his fingers and toes. Make a habit of counting out loud, and soon he'll join in.
34. Read books. Again and again! Scientists have found that babies as young as 8 months can learn to recognize the sequence of words in a story when it's read 2 or 3 times in a row -- this is believed to help them learn language.
35. Tell tall tales. Choose her favorite story -- replace the main character with her name to make it fun.
36. Go to the library. Take advantage of storytime, puppet shows, and rows and rows of books.
37. Make a family album. Include photographs of relatives near and far, and flip through it often to build your child's memories. When Grandma calls, show him her picture as he listens on the phone.
38. Create a zoo book. On your next visit, take photos of favorite animals to include in an album. Later, "read" it together, naming all the familiar creatures or adding animal sounds and stories.
39. Put her in the spotlight. Together, watch old home videos of your baby enjoying her first bath, learning to roll over, playing with Grandpa . . . Narrate the story to build language and memory.
40. Make a mug-shot memory game. Take close-up pictures of all the impor- tant people in your child's life, get double prints -- and you've got a set of matching cards. Lay them faceup on the floor, and help her find the two that are alike. As she gets older, you can alter the memory game by starting with the photos facedown.Tips for Toddlers
41. Make more out of storytime. Point out little details in the pictures, and ask your toddler questions, ranging from the abstract ("Why do you think he doesn't want to try green eggs and ham?") to the concrete ("Have you ever seen a white dog?").
42. Play in the rain. Jump in puddles. Sit in wet grass together. It's a fun, albeit messy, way of learning about wet and dry.
43. Let him be the boss (sometimes). Build confidence by giving your toddler a choice between two items whenever possible: different-colored bowls at mealtime, for instance. He'll learn that his decisions count -- and get practice naming his colors.
44. Dress up. Let your toddler play with some of Dad's old shirts. Dig out old winter hats, scarves, or orphaned gloves. Put yourselves in pretend situations, and see where his creativity and imagination take you.
45. Play it again, Sam. Dig out the box of your toddler's old rattles and mirrored baby toys. You'll be amazed at the new ways he finds to play with them.
46. Talk feelings through. Cuddle up at bedtime, and ask your child what made him happy or sad that day. What made him angry -- or proud? You'll help him recall the day, understand the past tense, and label his emotions. This is an activity to keep up -- right until he heads off to college.
47. Hunt bugs. Look at pictures of harmless insects (ladybugs, crickets, butterflies) in a book or magazine, then go to the park to find some.
48. Wear rose-colored glasses. (Or yellow or blue.) Pick a color, and ask your toddler if he can spot it when you go on a walk or car ride together. Then let him pick a color for you to hunt.
49. Put your kid to work. Little tots can help sort laundry into darks and whites. Your child may even be able to pick out which clothes belong to her.
50. Speak volumes. Gather a few different-size cups or plastic containers, and let your child pour water from one to another at her next bath. Sometimes she'll pour too much, other times too little. Talk about which cups are bigger and which are smaller.
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More women then men supported the pro-choice stance (81% to 72%)
2002 Canadian poll:
Environics Research Group conducted this poll for the National Post and Global TV network.
There is a very high level of support for freedom of choice for women in Canada. It has been rising steadily since the mid-1980s when only about half of Canadian adults supported legal and widely available abortions. By the year 2000, an Environics poll had indicated that support had risen to 66%. A Compas Inc. poll conducted from 2002-NOV-16 to 19, shows that 78% of adults are in favor of abortion access. This value varied from a high of 82% in Quebec to a low of 68% in the Maritime provinces on Canada's East coast. The margin of error is ±4 percentage points.
Natalie Hudson, spokesperson for the Right to Life Association of Toronto said that the data is "very disappointing...It means we've got to get out there more."
Mary Ellen Douglas, spokesperson for the Campaign Life Coalition criticized the survey methodology. It asked a number of other questions related to freedom of choice. She said: "Freedom for women is a flag, whether your asking what color they should be able to dye their hair or what doctor they should be able to go to. Women will respond to that no matter what the question is, as yes. The reality is if you asked the question 'Should women have complete freedom on whether to kill their two-year-old?' then you introduce something else...it's the same question; it's her baby at a different age." 2
2006 Canadian poll:
Environics Research Group conducted this poll for LifeCanada, a pro-life/anti-abortion group.
This poll is extremely useful for two main reasons:
They attempted to determine when Canadians believe that human life becomes a human person We feel that this is the key question to be raised in polls on abortion access. However, it is rarely included. The question asked was:
This is a politician's nightmare. Canadian adults are split into three almost equally sized camps, and the percentage of people who don't know is decreasing.
There has been a notable shift over time from preferring protection from conception on (a drop from 37& to 31%) , to preferring protection starting later in pregnancy (an increase from 19% to 33%).
For those who believe that protection of human life should begin during pregnancy, two choices were offered: at the start of the second and third trimesters. Subjects specified the former about twice as often as the latter:
N = 2,012. Margin of error = ±2.2 percentage points. Poll taken 2006-SEP-19 to 2006-OCT-12.
Environics also asked whether the subjects favored "informed consent" laws in which the physician is required to provide information to the pregnant woman about the stages of fetal development, an assessment of abortion complications, alternatives to abortion, etc. Canadians generally favored such laws. There has been no significant trend over times:
Finally, they asked whether pregnant women under the age of 18 should be required to have the consent of their parents before obtaining an abortion. Results indicate another politician's nightmare:
Opinion appears to be unusually stable over time.
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As noted in the opening credits, The Magnificent Seven was based on a 1954 Japanese film entitled The Seven Samurai, produced by Toho Company, Ltd. The now classic film was directed by Akira Kurosawa, who stated that his film was inspired by American Westerns. According to a October 17, 1958 Daily Variety news item, Yul Brynner registered the title The Magnificent Six when he believed one of the principals would be dropped from the film.
As supported by contemporary news items and described in the documentary Guns for Hire: The Making of `The Magnificent Seven', which was included on the 2001 DVD edition of the film, by May 1958 Brynner's Alciona Productions, Inc. had secured the rights to The Seven Samurai and announced that Brynner was to star in the film and United Artists would distribute it. A August 22, 1958 Daily Variety news item stated that producer Lou Morheim was to co-produce the film, while in the documentary, Morheim claimed that he had originally optioned the rights to The Seven Samurai and had asked actor Anthony Quinn to star. By February 1959, contemporary news items had reported that Quinn was on board and Brynner was set to direct, while Walter Bernstein was signed to write the screenplay and Clark Gable, Stewart Granger and Anthony Franciosa were being considered for lead roles. In April 1959, Martin Ritt became the director, replacing Brynner, who took the lead role, according to a Los Angeles Times news item, which also noted that Glenn Ford had agreed to appear in the picture.
By August 1959, Brynner had sold the project to The Mirisch Company, who in turn hired Walter Newman to write the screenplay and arranged to co-produce the film with Alpha Productions, John Sturges' company. The Magnificent Seven was Sturges' first credit as a producer, the first film for Alpha Productions and the first collaboration between Alpha and The Mirisch Company, a partnership which led to many co-ventures. By December 1959, Dean Jones was considered for a role and executive producer Walter Mirisch had hired Steve McQueen, an actor already known for his role in the 1958-1961 television series Wanted Dead or Alive. In the documentary, McQueen's then wife, Neile Adams, stated that McQueen faked a car accident in order to gain time off the series to do the film. Sturges' final cast selections were complicated by the Screen Actors Guild strike, which ran from 7 March to 18 April 1960.
According to a February 4, 1960 Hollywood Reporter news item, Mirisch-Alpha sought a court agreement with Morheim to exclude him from the project, but provide compensation amounting to five percent of the film's profits and a $10,000 salary. A March 2, 1960 Daily Variety article stated that, after Sturges demanded sole producer credit, Morheim sued Mirisch and UA for onscreen credit and to be able to participate in the film. By August 23, 1960, Hollywood Reporter reported that an out of court settlement had been reached in which Morheim was given financial compensation and an "associate producer" credit, but excluded from participation. According to a February 3, 1960 Hollywood Reporter news item, Quinn sued Alciona and Brynner over being excluded from the project, to which he claimed he had already contributed and in which he was supposed to star. Quinn lost the suit, but in 1964 filed suit against UA, Mirisch and Alpha Productions. The outcome of that suit is unknown.
Writer Newman was not credited onscreen, and a modern source claims that he was so unhappy that William Roberts was hired to doctor his script on location in Mexico that he insisted on having his name removed from the credits. According to a April 10, 1960 New York Times article, Mirisch-Alpha budgeted $2,000,000 for the film, which began shooting on February 29, 1960, and shot on two village sets built by art director Edward FitzGerald, one in Tepoztlan, Mexico and the other in Oacalco, Mexico. All interior shooting took place at Estudios Churubusco in Mexico City. The article also noted that the village chapel was made of ppier mach and adorned with two fake pigeons to encourage others to nest there and make the structure appear authentic.
An international group of actors fleshed out the cast. Horst Buchholz, a German, made his American film debut as the Mexican "Chico." The role, according to the April 10, 1960 New York Times article, was created to appease the Mexican government, by placing a Mexican character as one of the seven. Mexican actor Rosenda Monteros made her American film debut in the The Magnificent Seven. Prominent cinematographer John Alonzo (1934-2001), who began his career as an actor, made his feature film debut in The Magnificent Seven, credited onscreen as "John Alonso." Jan, February and March 1960 Hollywood Reporter news items add David Renard, Joe Ruskin, Larry Duran, Chuck Hayward and Beatriz Flores Castro to the cast; however, their appearance in the film has not been confirmed.
According to interviews in Guns for Hire, the presence of a Mexican censor on the production caused tension and ensured some scene changes. A May 20, 1960 New York Times article confirmed that one required change was that character of the "old man" was not to advise the villagers to hire gunmen. The revised script, instead, has the old man suggest that the villagers buy guns and defend their town to the death and then has the villagers vainly try to buy them at the border, until "Chris" suggests they hire gunmen instead.
The Mirisch Company produced and UA distributed three sequels to the film: 1966's Return of the Seven (see below) starring Yul Brynner and Robert Fuller and directed by Burt Kennedy; 1969's Guns of the Magnificent Seven starring George Kennedy and James Whitmore and directed by Paul Wendkos and the 1972 production The Magnificent Seven Ride! (see below), starring Lee Van Cleef and Stefanie Powers and directed by George McCowan. In addition, M-G-M produced a 1998-2000 television series starring Michael Biehn and Eric Close, with guest star appearances by Robert Vaughn.
Many contemporary reviews of the film were not supportive, including the New York Times, which stated that the film was "a pallid, pretentious and overlong reflection of the Japanese original." According to the documentary, UA later rereleased The Magnificent Seven with better results; however, box-office results of this rerelease have not been determined. Over the years, many critics and film historians have come to rank the film as one of the best Westerns of all time. Elmer Bernstein's stirring score was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to Exodus. The theme reached iconographic status with fans and film music historians and was made popular through its use in radio and television advertising for Marlboro Cigarettes, which, as noted in a May 24, 1966 New York Times article, bought the rights to the theme from UA. In June 2006, the Weinstein Co. announced that it was in negotiations to remake Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, with Zhang Ziyi being considered to star.
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DENVER — Looking to target multicultural consumers in today’s tech-savvy environment? If so, then you’ll be interested to know that, according to a recent study, African-Americans and Hispanics are adopting new shopping technologies at a faster rate than Caucasians.
According to the latest issue of "The Checkout," an ongoing shopper behavior study conducted by The Integer Group and M/A/R/C Research, African Americans and Hispanics are adopting new shopping technologies at a faster rate than Caucasians, with 18% of African-American shoppers and 16% of Hispanic shoppers using their mobile device to make purchases as compared with 10% of Caucasians.
African-American shoppers (21% versus 13% of Caucasian shoppers) use their phone to read product reviews and maintain shopping lists and Hispanic shoppers (20% versus 13% of Caucasian shoppers) use their mobile device to compare prices on products, according to the study. Despite smartphone penetration skewing lower among African-Americans and Hispanics than Caucasians, both are leading the charge by using mobile as a means to access the digital world of shopping aids.
"Basic mobile communication through SMS and mobile websites should be the points of entry. Mobile marketing to multicultural shoppers is a huge opportunity," stated Martin Ferro, senior account planner for Velocidad, a Hispanic promotional, retail and shopper marketing capability of The Integer Group.
Additional findings on mobile shopping from "The Checkout: "
Almost as many shoppers are using coupons from email and e-newsletters (49%) as they are from the Sunday paper (57%);
Men might be the traditional lovers of tech toys, but when it comes to using technology to enhance shopping, women are ahead of the curve; and
Having children in the household drives accelerated adoption of digital technologies to deliver shopping solutions for busy moms and dads.
"Digital shoppers are just shoppers," stated Ben Kennedy, group director of mobile marketing at Integer. "Digital shopping tools are illustrative of the continued blurring of the on- and offline spaces. Today's reality is that shoppers use whatever tools they have on hand to make them smarter, savvier shoppers."
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International/Permanent Resident Student
An international applicant is defined as an individual that is not a 'legally domiciled resident' of the United States and plans to pursue studies on an F-1 (student) or J-1 (exchange student) visa. A permanent resident is an applicant from another country who has obtained permanent residency in the United States (holds a "green card"). It is recommended that international students apply four (4) to six (6) months prior to the semester of desired enrollment.
UWG supports the concept of international education and welcomes applications from all students. In addition to admissions requirements discussed elsewhere in this section (freshmen, transfer, non-traditional students, etc.), please note the following requirements for international and permanent resident applicants: .
- All applicants, regardless of immigration status, whose native language is not English, must meet English language proficiency requirements.*
- All applicants, regardless of immigration status, are required to obtain a foreign academic credential evaluation of education (secondary and/or university) received outside of the United States by an independent foreign credential evaluation agency.**
- International applicants must submit financial documentation indicating evidence of sufficient funds available for study at UWG. Because the University has no financial assistance designated for international students, only those who can demonstrate their financial solvency will be considered for admission.
* English language proficiency requirements (submit 1 of the following):
- Official test results from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with a minimum score of 193 computer-based, 523 paper-based, or 70 internet-based (www.toefl.org or 609-771-7100)
- Official test results from the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) with a minimum score of 6.
- A Georgia State Test of English Proficiency (GSTEP) recommendation for full academic admission, administered by Georgia State University (404-651-3650)
- A grade of "C" or better in a non-remedial, college level English course (English 1101 equivalent or higher level course) from an accredited college or university in the United States
- Three (3) years (9th, 10th & 11th grade) of English as a second language (ESL) and a grade of "C" or higher in a College Preparatory Senior (12th grade) English at an accredited high school in the United States. Four years of ESL at an accredited high school in the United States does not fulfill English language proficiency requirements.
**Recommended foreign academic credential evaluation agency:
WORLD EDUCATION SERVICES, INC.
P.O. Box 5087
Bowling Green Station
New York, NY 10274-5087
In order to attract international students, the University may waive the non-resident portion of tuition for select undergraduate international applicants who meet certain academic criteria. Upon acceptance, each international applicant is screened for this waiver. This waiver does not apply to permanent residents. A limited number of waivers are available for "F" or "J" visa holders; therefore, not all eligible international applicants will receive a waiver. The waivers are issued to eligible applicants on a first-come, first-served basis and undergraduate students receiving this waiver are required to maintain a 2.5 cumulative grade point average, monitored on an annual basis by the Associate Director of International Services and Programs.
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An about-face in Internet Explorer 10 shows Microsoft is not merely backing off from its hostility toward Flash Player, but actually warming up to the Adobe Systems browser plug-in for competitive reasons.
In September 2011, Microsoft declared that browser plug-ins are a relic from the Internet's early days, calling them bad for battery life, security, reliability, and privacy, and said that it would ban them when IE10 was running with Windows 8's Metro user interface, now called the "immersive UI."
But Microsoft gave Flash a reprieve in May 2012 by building a special version of Adobe's plug-in directly into IE10. It only worked, though, on sites that were specifically authorized through a Microsoft whitelist when browsing with the immersive UI on Windows 8 and on either the immersive or traditional "desktop" interface on Windows RT.
Yesterday, Microsoft loosened its Flash policy again, this time enabling Flash by default on both Windows 8 and Windows RT. Now, instead of using a whitelist to enable Flash only where Microsoft permitted it, the company now uses a blacklist to block Flash "in the small number of sites that are still incompatible with the Windows experience for touch or that depend on other plug-ins," said Rob Mauceri, program manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer group, in a blog post yesterday. (The new policy doesn't change Microsoft's Flash-permissive stance with IE10 in desktop mode on Windows 8, which always has permitted Flash.)
For years, Flash was the preferred way for programmers to bring interactivity, animation, video, and other advanced features to the Web, but Adobe canceled its effort to bring Flash to mobile devices after Apple barred it. Adobe has since redirected much of its engineering work to re-implementing many Flash abilities with Web standards such as HTML and CSS. Flash remains widely used on the Web, and likely won't be replaced on older sites that no longer are maintained.
Mauceri apparently sees Windows' Flash support now as a competitive advantage in the company's push to spread Windows beyond PCs to tablets, too. Flash is effectively dead for Android and iOS tablets, but Microsoft sees a role for it, Mauceri said:
We believe having more sites "just work" in IE10 improves the experience for consumers, businesses, and developers. As a practical matter, the primary device you walk around with should give you access to all the Web content on the sites you rely on. Otherwise, the device is just a companion to a PC...
IE10 with Flash on Windows 8 enables people to see more of the Web working with high quality, especially compared with the experience in other touch-first or tablet browsers and devices.
That language recalls to mind one early aspect of the Android sales pitch -- that Android devices work better than iOS devices because Flash support gives browsers access to the "full Web." That marketing line died when Adobe scrapped its effort to build and promote Flash for mobile devices.
Microsoft watcher and ZDnet blogger Ed Bott sees the change to permit Flash as pragmatic. "For Windows RT in particular, it had a devastating effect on some sites, which simply wouldn't work, and the fact that you can't install an alternative browser on RT eliminates that workaround. And at this point in its life, the last thing Windows RT needs is another reason for potential buyers to reject it," Bott said.
Some of Microsoft's change of heart came through Adobe's work to improve Flash itself:
For Windows 8, we worked with Adobe to include a version of Flash that is optimized for touch, performance, security, reliability, and battery life. Adobe made substantial changes to the Flash player to align with the Windows 8 experience goals. We shipped this optimized Flash component as part of Windows 8, and we service it through Windows Update.
The moves help improve Flash's fortunes, but only modestly. Microsoft and Adobe both are working to advance programming using Web standards rather than plug-ins, and major allies include Mozilla, Google, and Apple share that agenda. The cross-platform advantages of Flash programming are undermined significantly when it can't reach some platforms. Flash will never be eradicated from the Web, but with each passing year there's less and less need for it.
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Brent International School is an international co-educational day and boarding school associated with the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. It has campuses in different locations throughout the Philippines: Brent School Manila in Mamplasan, Biñan; Brent School Baguio, and Brent School Subic.
Brent Baguio was the main campus of Brent, founded in 1909 by Charles Henry Brent. A number of similar boarding schools were established by Episcopal clerics across the United States, including in Brent's home state of Massachusetts, including the so-called Saint Grottlesex schools, based upon the English public school model. Spread across thirty hectares of forested land, the Baguio campus houses buildings that survived World War II and the 1990 Luzon earthquake. In 2001, the Brent Baguio campus was given the status of National Historical Site by the Philippine Historical Commission. In 2009, Brent Baguio celebrated their centennial. Coordinates:
In 1984, the Board of Trustees of Brent School established Brent International School Manila in Pasig, Metro Manila. This second Brent school assumed the traditions, the style, and the educational system of its mother school, and its first twelve students graduated in 1986. Brent School Manila is currently located in Biñan, and member school of Asia Pacific Activities Conference. The campus contains two learning center buildings; one for the upper school, middle school and lower school students and the other for students below third grade. The school also has two fields for after-school activities and an oval track. Coordinates:
Brent School Subic is located at Bldg. 6601, Binictican Drive, Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Zambales. In September 1994, the Board of Trustees of Brent Schools, Inc. received an invitation from the Honorable Richard J. Gordon, SBMA Chairman, to open a school in Subic for children of foreign investors and residents of the local community. The Board of Trustees accepted Mr. Gordon's invitation with great optimism and was subsequently granted use of the facilities of the Binictican Elementary School originally built by the U.S. Navy for its dependents. Coordinates:
The Brent Baguio, Brent Subic, and Brent Manila campuses have four divisions for academics: the Early Learning Program (kindergarten-grade 2), Lower School (grades 3-5), Middle School (grades 6-8), and Upper School (grades 9-12). In the Upper School, the curriculum is college preparatory. In this light, many Brent graduates have gained acceptances to colleges and universities; mainly in the USA, the Philippines, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe.
The International Baccalaureate Program
Brent Baguio, Brent Subic, and Brent Manila are among the few schools in the Philippines to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme for students in the 11th and 12th grades. Brent follows an inclusive rather than exclusive policy for the International Baccalaureate Program, allowing any students willing to undertake the heavy course loads to do so. Despite this inclusive philosophy, the average pass rate for Brent diploma candidates for the classes of 2001 to 2007 was 87.3%, well above the world mean of 81.4% for all diploma candidates during the same period. In fact, the last five years the average pass rate was 91.2%. Further, the mean score for Brent IB Diploma awardees over those seven years was 32.7 points, likewise significantly above the 30.1 world mean for the same years.
The meaning of the Brent School Crest:
- The Lion stands for bravery and courage;
- The Laurel Leaves stand for knowledge and learning;
- The 6 stars stand for loyalty, integrity, courtesy, sincerity, honesty, and camaraderie.
The Brent School crest was revised for the Manila and Subic campuses, but the elements remain constant. The Manila and Subic campuses each use a redrawn crest while Brent Baguio retains the original crest.
- Brent International School Baguio
- Brent International School Subic
- Brent International School Manila in Mamplasan, Biñan
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Indo-Asian News Service,
November 12, 2012
Come Diwali, and traders now have newer gods to pray to: computers, laptops, iPads and mobile phones.
Yes, the customary prayers to Lord Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi still take the pride of place, but with changing times, Diwali puja has taken newer forms.
"Computers, mobiles and laptops have become the most integral part of business in India," B.C. Bhartia, national president of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), an apex body of the trading community, told IANS.
CAIT national secretary general Praveen Khandelwal agreed.
"In view of the rapid computerization, most traders across the country have changed their accounting system from the traditional "Bahi-Khata". So, for Diwali, traders will also be worshipping the modern business tools."
Earlier, for ages, the Indian trading community has used the "Bahi-Khata" accounting system. This was operated by the businessmen themselves or trusted book-keepers known as "Munimji" in northern India.
By and large, the "Bahi-Khata" system was written in Hindi or Mundi language. With the introduction of sales tax around 1950, ledgers, cash books and stock books came in.
In the 1970s, to comply with the taxation system, 'Munimjis' were replaced by modern accountants.
At the dawn of this century, computer-educated accountants replaced their earlier avatar.
Now, computers, laptops and mobiles are widely used by traders. The latest addition in this system is iPad.
A CAIT survey showed a year ago that although only 18-20 percent of traders in India have taken to computers, sooner or later almost everyone in the industry will.
The main puja on Diwali day organised by CAIT will take place this year too at its headquarters at Karol Bagh in the heart of Delhi.
There, elaborate vedic prayers will be offered to Lord Ganesha, Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Hanuman too.
One trader answered: "We consider that prayers to Lord Hanuman can resolve any problem. Our biggest problem now is FDI (in retail trade). To resolve this, we will pray to (Lord) Hanuman."
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OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is taking measures to encourage better sanitary practices by anglers fishing the Skokomish River to protect both human health and fish and shellfish resources.
With hundreds of recreational salmon anglers fishing the river each day, an accumulation of human waste and trash is creating potential health and water quality problems, said Jim Scott, assistant director for WDFW’s fish program.
To improve the situation, the department is increasing the number of dumpsters and portable toilets in the areas along the river that are most affected.
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"We know that the state Department of Health has closed a portion of the Skokomish River delta to shellfish harvesting due to multiple sources of fecal coliform bacteria," Scott said. "We can’t say for sure that human waste is contributing to the problem, but we want to eliminate that possibility by offering more waste-disposal means for anglers."
WDFW is also posting signs in the area asking anglers for their assistance in keeping the area safe and clean, Scott said.
"We’re telling the public that we need their cooperation to keep the Skokomish River open to fishing," Scott said.
That includes fishing legally in addition to improving sanitation, he said. Since the fishery opened Aug. 1, WDFW enforcement officers have been monitoring the river, where numerous fishing violations have occurred. In a recent emphasis patrol, officers issued 56 citations for violations such as using illegal gear, snagging fish and exceeding catch limits.
"Our intention is to conduct an orderly fishery on the Skokomish," Scott said. "Continued fishing opportunity depends on the behavior of anglers and the choices they make."
The Skokomish River is currently open for recreational salmon fishing seven days a week from the mouth of the river to the Hwy. 101 Bridge.
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The Federal States of Micronesia Taking Flu Precautions
No island is too small to be conquered by the Swine Flu this season. In order to bolster the efforts of flu prevention, The Federal States of Micronesia received $126,298 from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The funds were allocated to the States to ensure they can effectively take part in pandemic planning.
As phase two was declared by the World Health Organization - The Federal States of Micronesia received an additional allocation of $170,699. Lastly an addition $147,113 was awarded to the States of Micronesia so that can strengthen their ability to respond to the threatening flu pandemic. All of these allocated funds are based on a formula that is adjusted according to population.
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ACCOKEEK, MD (WUSA)-- On Saturday, January 16, 2010, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene confirmed that a 6 week old Hereford calf at the Hard Bargain Farm in Prince George's County tested positive for rabies.
The Maryland Department of Health says the farm is only accessible to groups with scheduled visits. Between December 21, 2009 and January 14, 2010, students from Samuel Chase Elementary School in Prince George's County, Berry Elementary School in Charles County, and a group called the "Student Conservation Association" had field trips to the farm.
Health officials say that it is not clear if the students had any direct contact with the calf with rabies.
The Prince George's County Health Department wants any person who attended the field trip to the farm, and had any contact with the saliva of the calf on the farm, to immediately go to their local emergency department or call the Rabies and Infectious after hours number 240-508-5774, to determine if they need to be vaccinated.
For those living in Charles County, health officials are asking you to call the Charles County Health Department at 240-216-4055 or 240-299-4693
In an advisory, health officials explain that rabies is a deadly disease caused by a virus that attacks the nervous system. The virus is transmitted in the saliva of infected animals, and it is critical to identify all people who may have had contact with the calf since December 21, 2009.
When a person is bitten or exposed to saliva of a rabid animal, the disease is prevented with a four dose rabies vaccine series administered over a 14 day period and a dose of rabies immunoglobulin given at the beginning of the series (rabies post-exposure prophylaxis).
Rabies is most commonly found among wildlife such as raccoons, bats, skunks, and foxes, but can be transmitted to domestic animals. In Maryland, almost 400 animals were diagnosed with rabies in 2009.
To prevent your exposure to rabies:
Have your dogs, cats, ferrets, horses, sheep, and cattle vaccinated against rabies.
Written by 9NEWS NOW
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Allan Mallinson observes a decade of changes to training on Salisbury Plain
Exercise Pashtun Dawn, the generic name for the pre-deployment training on Salisbury Plain for the bi-annual turnover of British troops in Task Force Helmand, has just begun.
Operation Herrick 18 will be one of the last, all Nato combat troops being due to leave Afghanistan by the end of next year. We may therefore not see a Herrick 21, certainly not in the current strength: 1st Mechanized Brigade, the core of Herrick 18, is some 8,000 strong. The “drawdown” plans will mean that the brigade furnishing Herrick 19 will be half this figure by the end of December (5,200 servicemen
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NASA Curiosity Rover Hit By Software Snafu
Read the Original Article at InformationWeek
NASA said Monday that the rover had switched itself into safe mode two days earlier when a command file running on its backup, or "B-side," computer failed a size-check by protective software. The agency determined that a software bug had attached an unrelated file to the one being checked, causing a file size mismatch.
The SUV-like rover is being operated by its B-side computer because its primary, A-side computer suffered a memory glitch on Feb. 27, causing the Curiosity project team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to switch to the backup system and put the vehicle into safe mode for two days.
NASA is still working to determine the cause of the A-side computer problem. "We still don't know exactly what that is yet, whether it's a hardware issue or was a radiation event," said John Grotzinger, Mars Science Lab project scientist, speaking from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.
[ Rock testing from the Curiosity rover shows elements on Mars consistent with life. Read more at NASA Curiosity Rover Finds Life-Enabling Basics On Mars. ]
For the time being, the A-side computer is operating as a backup to the B-side computer. Grotzinger said the Curiosity project team has uploaded software patches to the B-side computer to protect it from the problems that disabled the A-side computer.
NASA officials downplayed the seriousness of Curiosity's latest software glitch, saying that the rover is stable, healthy and communicating with JPL engineers. "This is a very straightforward matter to deal with," said project manager Richard Cook. "We know how to keep this from occurring in the future."
However, the snafus have put Curiosity's scientific observations on hold for nearly three weeks and counting. Those observations have been suspended since the February 27 shut down, and NASA said it will take a "couple of days" more to bring the rover out of safe mode after the latest setback.
In the near term, NASA researchers have a narrowing window of opportunity for experimentation. From Earth's perspective, Mars is about to pass behind the sun, raising the potential for interference in communications between Curiosity and mission control. As a precaution, NASA won't send commands to the rover for four weeks beginning on April 4.
The technical complications come on the heels of NASA's recent announcement that Curiosity's first rock samples revealed evidence that life-enabling conditions -- including the presence of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur -- once existed on the Red Planet.
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CAIRO, May 13, 2011 (IPS) - As the battle for Libya rages on - with the country’s economic heartland, Misurata, being the scene of some of the uprising’s fiercest fighting - experts are warning that a ‘Balkanisation’ of Libya is possible if the U.S. and NATO opt to exploit loopholes in U.N. Resolution 1973 by arming the opposition.
In the region, "Muammar Gaddafi was advocating for the African Union (AU) to be independent instead of being subservient to the EU and the U.S. by pushing for the African Development Bank (ADB) and replacing the Franc with an African currency," Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, research associate at the Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) specialising on the Middle East and Central Asia, told IPS. "Realistically, the Libyan intervention is an attack on the African continent by cutting its head off. They don’t just want to ‘Balkanise’ - fragment and divide - Libya, they want to ‘Balkanise’ the entire continent."
"Now the west has rediscovered that Gaddafi is a dictator and a tyrant, they are prepared to take action against his regime, under U.N. Resolution 1973, which is primarily concerned with the protection of civilians. The irony is that NATO is now using EU weaponry to bomb some of the same weaponry it had sold to him earlier," Kaye Stearman, media coordinator with the UK-based Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) told IPS.
In response, former British ambassador to Libya, Richard Dalton told IPS that "NATO has no strategic interests in Libya or elsewhere beyond what is stated in the North Atlantic Treaty as amplified by publicly announced decisions of the NATO Council. Its concern in Libya is the implementation of UNSC 1973".
"The EU wants to see stability, prosperity and good government in all its neighbours," Dalton emphasised.
According to U.N. Resolution 1973, which authorised action to protect Libyan civilians, all member states must ensure strict implementation of the arms embargo established by paragraphs 9 and 10 of the previous Resolution 1970.
Geographically, Libya is a gateway from North to Central Africa and is positioned between Eastern and Western Africa. Human rights advocates warn that by arming opposition groups tribal conflict could spill outside of Libya’s borders. This would also be in direct violation of the U.N. mandate, they say.
"Some EU countries are also considering whether to supply arms to the anti-Gaddafi rebels, which could increase future instability. This can have unforeseen long-term consequences, which can bring great harm to societies and militate against peace building," says Stearman.
One example of how this has played out in the past, Stearman explains, is the U.S. arming of "mujahedeen ‘freedom’ forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s, which actively prolonged conflicts, led to the growth of armed extremists, including local and foreign Taliban forces, the proliferation of a warlord-based society and the thwarting of the growth of civil society. In addition, the same weaponry supplied by the U.S. was later used against U.S. and allied forces."
During the Potsdam Conference in 1945 - at the end of the Second World War - the Soviet Union, Britain and the U.S. came to an impasse over the fate of seized Italian colonies in Libya. The U.S. wanted a U.N. trusteeship but the Soviet Union suggested various provincial trusteeships, with Tripolitania under its command, Fezzan under France, and Cyrenaica under Britain.
That history is repeating itself now with the U.S. and the EU not only looking to divide Libya under two administrations in Tripoli and Benghazi, but also to eliminate a key competitor that had visions of uniting Africa, Nazemroaya said.
Libya and China were rapidly becoming key energy partners as Beijing positioned itself to be the third- largest buyer of Libyan oil - with more than 50 investment projects in the works.
Analysts like Asian Times reporter and author of Obama does Globalistan, Pepe Escobar point out that China has taken a serious hit with the recent unrest in North Africa. Its new contracts in Libya totalling 18 billion dollars have declined by nearly 53 percent - this was the aim of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)’s strategic policy to minimise China’s economic interest in Africa.
AFRICOM, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, is responsible for U.S. military activities in 53 African nations.
The U.S. badly wanted a base in Africa and the Libyan intervention has "now provided the opening", Escobar told IPS. "AFRICOM’s participation is the Pentagon’s strategy to counter Chinese investments in Africa."
Escobar says that at the 2010 Lisbon Summit of leaders of NATO governments the agenda was "total domination of the Mediterranean and the establishment of a NATO ‘lake’… Gaddafi’s business dealings with China irked Brussels, Paris, London, and of course Washington".
In recent days, Libya’s opposition claim to have gained an upper hand by seizing control of the besieged city of Misurata, whose strategic seaport has been a key lifeline for humanitarian aid missions evacuating migrants and refugees fleeing the violence.
However, Nazemroaya points out that Misurata - which could be likened to a Shanghai on the African continent - is an important industrial and trade base for Libya and Africa that would be a major economic prize should the opposition maintain control.
"Misurata is a very important industrial city and economic heartland. Qasr Ahmed, which is located 250 kilometres east of Tripoli, is a commercial port, and the main headquarters for the Libyan Iron and Steel Company (Lisco) that exports over 60 percent of its products with nearly 50 percent going to markets in Italy and Spain," Nazemroaya said. "Furthermore, the Libyan National Oil Company - which is one of the top 20 energy companies worldwide - is also based there. Privatisation is happening under the guise of a foreign peacekeeping mission, which is why the EU wants to send soldiers."
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The Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture concentration integrates histories, theories, and philosophies of writing and rhetoric with the concerns of day-to-day teaching and writing. It features courses such as language, technology, and culture, computers and composition, current composition theory, the teaching of writing, the history of rhetoric, literacy studies, advanced composition, literature and pedagogy, and (on Ecampus) advanced professional/technical writing.
This area of focus prepares graduates to teach in community colleges, undertake Ph.D. studies in rhetoric and writing, work as writing program administrators, or hold a variety of positions that emphasize writing and publishing (editing, technical writing, private and public sector work, etc.).
Recent MA theses in Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture include:
- “Community Literacy Projects as Vehicles of Change: An Analysis and Application of Indigenous Community Empowerment Strategies to Create Self-Motivated and Effective Composition Service Learning Projects”
- “Traversing the City of Blogs: Pedagogy, Performance, and Public Spheres”
- “Charting Their Own Course as Writers: A Study of Writing-Intensive Student Self-Assessment and Goal-Setting at Start of Term”
- “Speaking for the Dead: Funeral Rhetoric and Women’s Lament in Ancient Athens”
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Iodine is a trace mineral required for human life. Humans require iodine for proper physical and mental development. It impacts cell respiration, metabolism of energy and nutrients, functioning of nerves and muscles, differentiation of the fetus, growth and repair of tissues,
As established by the National Research Council's Food and Nutrition Board, the revised 1989 Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for iodine is 40 mcg for infants, increasing to 150 mcg for adults and children age 11 and older. The RDA for pregnant and lactating women increases to 175 and 200 mcg respectively. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine reports that average U.S. iodine daily intake ranges from approximately 0.5–1.0 mg. According to the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, less than 20 mcg per day of iodide results in iodine deficiency; iodide intake 20 times greater than the daily requirement (2 mg) results in chronic iodine toxicity.
Iodine is available from a variety of food sources, drugs, and most commercial vitamin preparations. Some seafood and sea vegetables provide good sources of dietary iodine, including: canned sardines, canned tuna, clams, cod, haddock, halibut, herring, lobster, oyster, perch, salmon, sea bass, and shrimp. Dulse, kelp, and seaweed are also sources of dietary iodine. If grown in iodine-rich soil, foods including asparagus, green peppers, lettuce, lima beans, mushrooms, pineapple, raisins, spinach, summer squash, Swiss chard, turnip greens, and whole wheat bread may provide good sources of dietary iodine. Animal products can also provide a source of iodine, especially if the animals are fed iodine-enriched foods or salt: beef, beef liver, butter, cheddar cheese, cottage cheese, cream, eggs, lamb, milk, and pork. Some foods such as breads may contain iodine additives.
Another source of dietary iodine is iodized salt. Iodized table salt was introduced in the United States in 1924 and significantly reduced the incidence of iodine deficiency. Providing iodized salt licks for livestock adds iodine to animal products. In some parts of the world, iodized oil supplements and water iodination provide other means of iodine supplementation. Many countries, however, still have insufficient iodine supplementation programs.
Iodine has several medical applications. Typically, in conjunction with drug therapy, iodine may be used to treat goiter (an enlargement of the thyroid gland), symptoms of hypothyroidism (diminished production of thyroid hormone), and hyperthyroidism (increased production of the thyroid gland). It may also be used as an expectorant in cough medications. Applications of iodine to conditions including arteriosclerosis, arthritis, and angina pectoris have also been noted. Iodine tinctures (dilute mixtures of alcohol and iodine) or Betadine are used as antiseptics to kill bacteria in skin cuts. Atomidine (a product containing iodine trichloride and other unlisted ingredients) is also sold as an antiseptic. Atomidine taken orally in minute cyclic doses is also recommended as a glandular stimulant and purifier.
Some research has shown that oral iodine supplements have antifibrotic and anti-inflammatory effects. Commonly reported studies have also suggested that iodine deficiency may be a factor in fibrocystic breast disease (FBD), a catch-all term that describes general, often normal, lumpiness of the breast. Clinical trials on women diagnosed with FBD found that, even in women showing normal thyroid function, thyroid hormone supplementation produced results including decreased breast pain and decreased breast nodules. Some early research also correlated higher incidence of breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancers with hypothyroidism and/or iodine deficiency. However, others have noted that low levels of selenium, which is more classically associated with cancer, were also present in the women in these studies.
Iodine is used in several compounds for a variety of medical testing. For example, it may be used in x-rays of the gallbladder or kidneys or in cardiac imaging. It is used as a diagnostic tool to examine the thyroid gland's output. A common test measures thyroid radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU). Trace amounts of radioactive iodine (I123 or I131) are used to test thyroid function. Together with blood tests, examining how much iodine is taken up by the thyroid gland helps physicians diagnose hypothyroid conditions (when the thyroid takes up too little iodine) and hyperthyroid conditions (when it takes up too much). Radioactive iodine therapy is also used for treating thyroid disease and cancer. Radioactive iodine can cross the placenta, causing severe dysfunction and damage to the fetus's thyroid gland. Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2000 notes that nursing mothers should discontinue nursing for a period of time after receiving test or treatment doses of radioactive iodine. One study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in May 2000 reported radiation exposure to family members of non-pregnant, non-nursing outpatients from I131 treatment to be well below limits mandated by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) guidelines. Medical professionals may also prescribe low iodine diets in combination with radioactive iodine tests or treatments.
Too much or too little iodine intake results in a wide spectrum of disorders that are addressed by adjusting iodine intake. Too much iodine can result in toxicity.
Iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) are preventable, but not curable, by ensuring adequate iodine intake. Only a small amount of iodine is required over the human life span. The body, however, does not store iodine for long periods, so the intake must be regular. Too little iodine intake can result in cold feet, fatigue, insomnia, problems with skin, nails, and hair, and weight gain. Goiter can result from iodine deficiency. Certain substances called goitrogens can also induce goiter by interfering with thyroid functioning. Some foods have goitrogenic tendencies, as do certain drugs, for example, thiourea, sulfonamides, and antipyrine. As listed by Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing and other sources, foods containing substances that can prevent the utilization of iodine when eaten in large quantities include Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, millet, mustard, peaches, peanuts, pears, pine nuts, soybeans, and turnips. Limiting consumption of these foods may be recommended for persons with an underactive thyroid.
Iodine deficiency can also result in serious irreversible disorders and, as of May 2000, is considered a major global health problem by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). According to the International Council on Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD), IDDs are the most common cause of preventable brain damage and mental retardation worldwide. IDD results in cretinism (a form of stunted growth) and problems in movement, speech, and hearing. A pregnant woman with an iodine deficiency risks miscarriage, stillbirth, and mental retardation of her baby. As of 1999, the WHO called IDD a significant public health problem in 130 countries. The ICCIDD reported 1.6 billion people worldwide at risk for IDDs, and 50 million children suffering from some degree of IDD. Although not common, iodine deficiency is on the rise in the United States.
Excess iodine is typically excreted, and output can be measured in the urine. Regular excessive iodine intake is needed for toxicity. Excess iodine, when used as a supplement or in drug therapy, may reduce thyroid function. Although more commonly associated with iodine deficiency, goiter can also result from too much iodine due to thyroid hyperactivity. Additionally, high amounts of iodine from sources such as overuse of iodized salt, vitamins, cough medications, kelp tablets, or from medical testing can cause effects including rapid pulse, nervousness, headaches, fatigue, a brassy taste in the mouth, excessive salivation, gastric irritation, and hypothyroidism. Acne can appear or become worse. Some iodine-sensitive individuals may have an allergic reaction to iodine, often a skin rash. A physician may recommend that high iodine foods be removed from the diet of those who are iodine-sensitive. Similar side effects have also been observed in some women participating in studies on iodine and diagnosed FBD. Radioactive iodine has been implicated in producing thyroid dysfunction and thyroid cancer.
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. 17th ed. Edited by Mark H. Beers and Robert Berkow. Whitehouse Station, N.J.: Merck Research Laboratories, 1999.
National Research Council. Recommended Dietary Allowances. 10th ed. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1989.
"In Case you Haven't Heard." Mental Health Weekly (July 1, 2002): 8.
International Council for Control of Iodine deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD). Prof. Jack Ling. Director, ICEC. 1501 Canal Street, Suite 1304, New Orleans, LA 70112. (504)584–3542 Fax: (504)585–4090. ICEC@mailhost.tcs. tulane.edu. <http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jtd/iccidd/>.
U.S. Fund for UNICEF. 333 East 38th Street NY, NY 10016. email@example.com. <http://www.unicefusa.org/issues99/sep99/learn.html>.
World Health Organization (WHO). Avenue Appia 20 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. (+00–41–22)791–21–11. Fax: (+00–41–22)791–311. firstname.lastname@example.org. <http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact121.html>.
HealthWorld Online. <http://www.healthy.net>.
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Institute Helps K-12 Teachers Improve Their Techniques
The Margaret Sue Copenhaver Institution for Teaching and Learning is hosted at Roanoke College
Each year Roanoke College trains teachers from every region of the country on how to employ the latest techniques in K-12 education through the Margaret Sue Copenhaver Institution for Teaching and Learning. This convention is hosted at the College every summer. The goal of this three-day program is to better educate and inform. The purpose of doing so is to instruct teachers on how to "create learning environments where students feel significance, respect and safety [and] include valuing diverse cultures" as well as "encourage students to continually try out ideas and practices for themselves and see where they work and where they prove inadequate" according to the Web site But those are just a few aspects of what is taught at the convention.
Each year the Copenhaver Institute convention has a different theme. Some of the topics have included social justice, engaged reading and cooperative learning. According to Tim Reynolds, chairman of the education department and co-director of the Copenhaver Institute, "each year the institution presents a theme grounded in a constructivist theory to help teachers develop their practice and apply the theory of multiple intelligence (identifying how different students learn)."
It is often very difficult to make large groups of students become interested in their school work. By examining different techniques presented during the convention at the College, it will help teachers better control and educate their students in appropriate manners. As techniques evolve, it is necessary for teachers to train frequently in order to remain effective.
The Copenhaver Institute presents speakers from myriad areas of studies. It has presented keynote speakers who are experts in their fields of academia. Speakers have included Dr. Howard Gardner from Harvard University, Dr. Carol Tomlinson from the University of Virginia, Dr. M. Layne Kalbfleisch from the Sackler Institute at Cornell University and Dr. John Guthrie from the University of Maryland. Each of these speakers bring expertise on different aspects of education that, combined, will be able to shine light on different ways of teaching today's youth from kindergarten to the 12th grade.
The Copenhaver Institute was established through an endowed gift from Mrs. Helen C. Hanes of Winston-Salem, N.C. in honor of her sister, Margaret Sue Copenhaver, a retired public school educator from Richmond.
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We love our letterhead here in the processing sections of the Library of Virginia. One can come across such interesting, varied, and colorful examples while processing Governor’s papers, personal letters, or court records. We’ve shared a few examples of our finds in previous blog postings and have happily learned that you love them, too! As a result, we continue to save examples for future Out of the Box installments. It was with that thought that I made a Xerox of the following letterhead, assuming that I’d add it to our growing file to share at a later date. I showed it to a colleague, and she said, “Google those lines and see what you find.” Sure enough, there was more to this letterhead than met the eye.
The image and line refer to a song written during the 1844 presidential campaign for Whig Party nominee Henry Clay. The illustration shows a raccoon holding a document (or stick) labeled “Constitution,” and rolling a large ball after a scurrying fox. Considered to be the first modern national campaign, the 1844 contest pitted the Whig, Clay, against Democrat James K. Polk. This being Clay’s third presidential race, the Democrats pejoratively dubbed him “the same old coon” in reference to his perennial candidacy. In response, the Whigs decided to embrace the moniker, even using the raccoon image on their … read more »
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