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SHIPROCK, N.M.--When I was looking at the map, trying to figure out how to get from Taos, N.M., to the north rim of the Grand Canyon, I saw that the road would take me through this little town.
At the time, it didn't occur to me that the town's name might be meaningful.
Well, until I drove through, on Road Trip 2007, my journey around the Southwest looking for the best of science, technology and nature.
And lo and behold, even before you get to Shiprock, off in the distance, a gigantic--and I do mean gigantic--piece of rock begins to dominate the horizon.
And as you get closer, you see that the rock--a sacred Navajo site--does sort of resemble a ship. A really, really, really big one.
I guess that will teach me to think people do things for no reason.
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|Mansfield Park may be the lesser of two evils
Written by Ramya
(10/9/2010 4:54 p.m.)
in consequence of the missive, Fanny, penned by Bridget D
I feel that parting Fanny from her family to bring her only to a life of such oppression was not a kind thing to do at all. And yes, I do think she would have seen William as much or a little more than she did at MP. The quote I highlighted in my earlier post shows that while he used up his actual holidays to come to MP, his ship was moored at Portsmouth, and his parents were seeing him almost every day. I don't think William would have been invited on a long visit to MP if it were not for Fanny's being there.
Even if Fanny ends up achieving a happy life through her association with Mansfield Park, it will not erase all the suffering she went through while growing up there. I reiterate that it not my opinion that her life at Portsmouth would have been easy. However, a better education and a potentially better health do not make up for all unkindness she has encountered with most of the people there.
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The term local government
can mean different things depending on what system of government
is being used. The basic concept is a district that has the authority and power of local self-government. Usually, local governments must answer to or share authority with the national government, central government
, or federal government
, but again this depends on what type of government exists in that area. A self governing district is called a municipality
in political terms. Municipalities can consist of one or more regions
, states, provinces
, or counties.
Local public officials who hold positions of power in a municipality many times misuse or abuse their power for dishonest or unlawful gain. The improper use of influence, power, or other means for private gain is called corruption. Citizens and voters may have a slightly different view of political corruption and may think of it as when a candidate promises something they are not planning on following through with. Opportunities to engage in corruption are numerous in local governments because of the many personal relationships involved and the trust given to local governing officials.
Certain demographic factors may exist within a municipality that can lead to or encourage corruption within a local government. Demographic factors pertain to demography which is the study of human population statistics, changes, and trends including personal characteristics of humans like population size, migration, age, gender, social class, level of education, race, religion, occupation, and family status. Because there are many factors that can lead to corruption in local government it is hard to study corruption patterns empirically, but recently, improved research strategies and information sources have made such studies better.
Types of Corruption Found in Local Government
There are several types of political corruption that occur in local government. Some are more common than others, and some are more prevalent to local governments than to larger segments of government. Local governments may be more susceptible to corruption because interactions between private individuals and officials happen at greater levels of intimacy and with more frequency at more decentralized levels. Forms of corruption pertaining to money like bribery
, and graft
are found in local government systems. Other forms of political corruption are nepotism
systems. One historical example was the Black Horse Cavalry
a group of New York state legislators accused of blackmailing corporations.
is the offering of something which is most often money but can also be goods or services in order to gain an unfair advantage. Common advantages can be to sway a person’s opinion, action, or decision, reduce amounts fees collected, speed up a government grants, or change outcomes of legal processes.
Extortion is threatening or inflicting harm to a person, their reputation, or their property in order to unjustly obtain money, actions, services, or other goods from that person. Blackmail is a form of extortion.
Embezzlement is the illegal taking or appropriation of money or property that has been entrusted to a person but is actually owned by another. In political terms this is called graft which is when a political office holder unlawfully uses public funds for personal purposes.
Nepotism is the practice or inclination to favor a group or person who is a relative when giving promotions, jobs, raises, and other benefits to employees. This is often based on the concept of familism which is believing that a person must always respect and favor family in all situations including those pertaining to politics and business. This leads some political officials to give privileges and positions of authority to relatives based on relationships and regardless of their actual abilities.
Patronage systems consist of the granting favors, contracts, or appointments to positions by a local public office holder or candidate for a political office in return for political support. Many times patronage is used to gain support and votes in elections or in passing legislation. Patronage systems disregard the formal rules of a local government and use personal instead of formalized channels to gain an advantage.
Demographic factors Causing Corruption
Socioeconomic characteristics and the size of the population of people that make up a municipality can be encouraging factors for local government officials to engage in corrupt practices. Patterns of political corruption can be found in places that have a similar demographic make-up. Demographic factors that have been known to lead to or increase the likelihood of corruption in a local government system are religion, race, class, size of the municipality, local economic conditions, education, political culture, and gender. Some factors are interrelated or can lead to other factors which may cause more corruption.
Religions can influence how citizens place their loyalties, for instance, whether religion, family, community, or local government requires more involvement or is more important to them. The less involved citizens are in local politics, the less aware they are of corruption in local government, and thus the more corrupt a local system can be.
Race & Class
Social & urban segregation and abuse of political power in a municipality can lead to a more corrupt local government. The different areas of the municipality will have very different wants, needs, and ideas and therefore, will constantly struggle against each other for better representation in the local government and more favorable legislation for their area. Socially, racially, or ethnically divided municipalities tend to have more corrupt local officials and less organized systems. Governments with racial divisions will have internal antagonism and opposition between the different races and more incentive to use illegal means to gain advantages over the opposing side. Less organized government processes allow for more opportunities for corrupt practices to go unnoticed.
Size of a Municipality
Larger municipalities tend to encourage corruption to take place within a local government. Bigger municipalities require more local officials to represent and run the local government. With more officials, it is harder to keep tabs on each one and establish a decent administration and to monitor their activities. Large municipalities may also have inadequate or insufficient policing and prosecution of corrupt local officials. This also encourages corruption to occur in local government because there is less likelihood of either getting caught or prosecuted, therefore, more officials may become dishonest or at least be tempted to.
Condition of the Local Economy
Low economic development
has been found to be an encouraging factor for political corruption. Economic practices like dependence on raw material industries
and drug trades
are characteristic of poorer cities and areas with increased amounts of corruption. Economic dependence on certain industries will also lead to less stable governments and less amount of money available to fund governments. Fragile economies lead to increased levels of poverty
and less opportunities to get out of poverty. Poverty is a known factor that encourages corruption in local governments. Places with failing economies and poverty sometimes get loans or start aid programs to support the local economy and the people, and public officials are often able to unlawfully take the money or goods for private gain. With less money available, local officials are more likely to get lower wages which is seen as another factor that leads to corruption. Officials who get lower wages
which are not enough to provide for their necessities, they will many times become corrupt and try something like embezzling money that may entrusted to them in the local treasury. Low wages can cause economic insecurity and encourage politicians to take advantage of current opportunities as a public figure of authority. On the other hand, some researchers argue that the more money a local government has to spend, the more tendency it will have to do so inefficiently, which can lead to suspicions of corruption. Overall, poorer municipalities are more often perceived to have corrupt local governments than rich ones.
Lower levels of education
which are often caused by poverty are seen as a factor which encourages corrupt government practices. With less amounts of education people are not informed as to how the government works or what rights they have under the government. It is easier for corrupt office-holders to conceal corrupt activities from a poorly educated public. Uneducated citizens are less likely to be aware of corruption in local governments or how to stop it, and therefore, corruption is able to remain and spread. Without some kind of political awareness, citizens will not know which candidates to elect that are honest or dishonest or other ways to prevent corruption from taking place in their local governments. This often leads municipalities to be continually governed by one or more corrupt local officials who use patronage or nepotistic practices to stay in office or keep influence in the government for long periods of time. When local political leaders are less educated, they will be less likely to find legitimate ways to make the municipality well-structured, productive, and successful.
Political Culture of the Municipality
Many local governments have an established political culture
with certain expectations and practices that often determine what is seen as acceptable and not acceptable in local politics. In municipalities with an undeveloped or underdeveloped political culture, accountability
is usually low and principles of ethics in government are not established. This can encourage corruption to take hold in the local government because citizens do not know what is considered corrupt, and local officials are not afraid to be corrupt because of the low accountability. In some places the local governments have been corrupt for so long that the citizens think that is how it is supposed to work because that is all they have been exposed to. Long periods of political instability will also lead to corruption in the government because people are unsure of how the government should operate, and thus do not know what practices are corrupt or how to stop them if they are corrupt.
Research shows that women are more trustworthy than men and are less likely to be corrupt. Women are less likely to agree with corrupt practices like bribery or take bribes. Having no or fewer women in the local government is another factor that may encourage corruption. Places that do not have policies to narrow gender gaps and give women equal rights in the government more commonly have less integrity and more corruption in them.
Corruption Perceptions Index
Ways to Stop and Prevent Corruption in Local Governments
- The most important thing is to resolve the underlying factors that cause corruption in local government.
- Continue to change the primary focus of global Anti-Corruption campaigns to local governments
- Because they are closest to citizens, transparency and accountability are the most important to the legitimacy of local officials
- It is simpler to find partners to stop corruption locally
- National politicians many times start off their political careers in the local government.
- Develop incentives that encourage honest governments by perhaps redesigning the terms of public employment
- Accountability-enhancing reforms and Civil service reform
- Strengthening the oversight and sanctions of local officials to improve accountability
- Anti-corruption monitoring groups or commissions
- Enforce existing anti-bribery legislation
- Create more policies to close the gender gap in public office holding
Links and References
The Causes of Corruption: A Cross-National Study
Department of Political Science ,University of California , Los Angeles , 4289 Bunche Hall ,
Los Angeles ,CA 90095- 1472,USA
Consequences and Causes of Corruption–
What do We Know from a Cross-Section of Countries?
Johann Graf Lambsdorff
A Handbook on Fighting Corruption
CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE
U.S. Agency for International Development
Corruption and Development
CHERYL W. GRAY AND DANIEL KAUFMANN
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Over the past few months, as our district continues its quest for 21st century learners and professional learning communities, and as I’ve attended AASL Fall Forum and our state media conference, I am reminded of how busy educators are. A huge percentage of an educator’s day is spent not planning for instruction, but actively engaging in instruction.
A while back, I read The Google Story, in which I learned that Google employees may spend 20% of their time working on projects that are personally meaningful to them. 20% of their time — roughly one day per week — can be spent pursuing personal interests, not Google tasks.
I remember reading and thinking that if only teachers got that time to explore new tools, collaborate with one another, redesign instruction and assessments, and bone up on best practices, our profession would be quite different.
Instead, most educators receive only a sliver of their paid time as duty-free, and that time is usually spent with grading, bureaucratic paperwork, reviewing the day’s inbox (digital and paper), answering parent communications, and standing in line at the copy machine.
My thoughts were echoed in David Warlick’s blog entry today:
The teacher-day is virtually unchanged from the classrooms I attended in the ’50s and ’60s. Think of lawyers, surgeons, or even farmers. Do they spend all of their time in front of juries, in operating rooms, or in the fields. No! An important part of their job is research, collaboration, reflection, resource development, and professional development.
Now think of factory workers, who spend all of their time on the assembly line, installing parts. And think of teachers, spending all their time with students on a conveyor belt, moving through kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, while we install math on them, reading, science… Education is still an industrial age institution, trying to address information age problems.
Those of us who teach in Michigan are acutely aware of this tension. Many of us view ourselves as information age educators, yet we recognize that we have factory roots. We recognize that when auto assembly line workers unionized,they paved the way for teachers to organize for better benefits and working conditions.
Yet we are painfully, acutely, frighteningly aware of how quickly the industrial age is disintegrating and how ineffective “conveyor belt” education is to meet the needs of our students’ uncertain future. Huge numbers of the parents in our school work for General Motors or auto suppliers, and most of us have relatives in the auto industry.Our state faces the possibility of retooling two generations at a time: our current students in the public schools and universities and those current auto employees facing unemployment, those with both white and blue collars.
And our state’s tax revenue is the primary funder of education, a change from local education funding that occurred about 14 years ago that was designed to better equalize the per-pupil funding statewide, especially for students in low-income areas. As those automakers and suppliers face diminishing income, that translates into less state tax revenue, which results in districts having already hacked millions of dollars out of their budget each year for the last several years … and that was before Congress declined to make a loan.
Now I don’t deny that the auto industry has its share of bloat and unsustainability. But what I do want us to realize is that our students’ future and its present are on the line.
So here is our challenge: how do we continue to promote the kinds of innovation and changes in practice that the Standards for the 21st Century Learner, NETS*S, ASCD’s Whole Child, and the Partnership for 21st Century Learning propose?
We’ve got to keep pushing for professional development in these areas. And if the districts cannot or will not prioritize professional development for learning (a key component outlined by the Partnership), we’ve got to do it ourselves with study groups or after-school meetings or professional reading or paying our way to conferences.
I know we school librarians are busy, but we can be key players in offering this professional development and helping to move staff forward, especially if we have flexible scheduling time.
Many of you are out there doing this already via email newsletters, wiki tutorials, informational notices posted in school bathrooms, staff meeting presentations, ad hoc meetings with individual or small group staff members, or formally-scheduled professional development sessions.
The new challenge is to reinvent ourselves beyond “click here and then click here” procedural PD and help to raise the bar of conversation to include the student learning (the cognitive skills, dispositions, self-assessment, and responsibilies), or the thinking behind the doing in school.
And no document I’ve found is more specific about breaking down the vision for successful student learners than the Standards for the 21st Century Learner. As the holidays and our much-needed vacation approaches, take some time to curl up under a cozy blanket and read them. Come back in the new year ready to talk about them with colleagues inside and outside the school.Image: One Gear in a Clock by Flickr User G & M (Neil Stewart), used with a Creative Commons license.�
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Eat This, Not That is a great blog dedicated to well-being through proper eating. Their tagline is "The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution." Admittedly, that sounds like something straight out of a late-night infomercial. But Eat This, Not That is nothing like an infomercial. Rather, it's a frank and honest site, examining how what we eat affects how we live and shapes (literally) who we are.
Published through Men's Health, Eat This, Not That doesn't want anyone to starve to death. They simply want people to think before they eat. Obviously, this goes against many facets of American culture. After all, this is the country of hot-dog-eating contests, super-sized fries and the KFC Double Down. But this is also the country facing a massive public health crisis in the form of obesity.
Eat This, Not That is looking to help inform people. They're not trying to make anyone a vegan. A recent post on their blog informs the reader on how to "Eat Healthy at the BBQ Shack." There's also a "How to Eat Healthy at the Burger Joint" post. Probably my favorite post, however, is the one on the 20 Worst Drinks in America. Here they photograph these liquid offenders alongside their sugar equivalents. For instance, one orange soda has as much sugar as six (6!) ice cream sandwiches. Gross.
But at no point are the folks at Eat This, Not That saying NOT to eat at these places; they're just suggesting we be a little more thoughtful about our choices. And that's what's so great about Eat This, Not That. They present the facts ... and they're never sugar-coated.
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February 28, 2009
This Is Transparency and Accountability?
Mona Charen notes "Obama's strange habit of denying what he's doing":
Have you noticed his troubling habit of denying what he is doing? For example, in his speech to Congress he said he asked for the stimulus bill "not because I believe in bigger government -- I don't." And in recommending a bailout of mortgage holders, he denied that any relief would go to "speculators" or those who "bought more house than they could afford" but that is exactly what the package will do.
Obama's doublespeak is hardly limited to appeals for unity and denunciations of divisiveness and partisanship intended to camouflage backhanded attacks on Republicans. After all, only the rankest of politicos would expect a leader's actions to measure up to his rhetoric. Thus, we get earnest assurances of the need to reduce the deficit from a party that will deliver crushing deficits even under the best case scenario:
Obama's target would place the deficit at about 3 percent of gross domestic product. The GDP is a measure of a country's economic activity and many economists say deficits during a stable economy should amount to no more than 2 to 2.5 percent. At $1.5 trillion, the deficit would hit a whopping 10.6 percent of GDP this year.
And what of Obama's calls for fiscal responsibility, accountability and transparency? Even Democrats are alarmed at a provision in the stimulus bill that would seriously compromise the government's ability to oversee dispersals of our tax dollars:
"These ideas were coming directly from the Obama people," said one Democratic congressional aide, who, like others interviewed, spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The Obama administration declined to comment on its role in drafting the provision.
The inspector general community and members of the Senate Appropriations Committee raised concerns about the House bill. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), the chief sponsor of a bill last year meant to enhance inspector general independence, said she was particularly alarmed about the sentence allowing the panel to order an inspector general to stop an investigation.
The group representing federal inspectors general recommended that the entire disputed provision be deleted from the legislation, according to David R. Gray, counsel to Phyllis K. Fong, chair of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.
Senate negotiators changed the board composition. While the president would appoint the head of the panel, the rest of the members would be inspectors general.
House and Senate negotiators also added a line proposed by McCaskill saying that the final decision on whether to proceed is up to the inspector general. "The language sends a very clear message that the IG is in the driver's seat," she said.
Supporters of the inspector general system say they find the episode troubling for an administration that has trumpeted aggressive oversight. "This is a dangerous provision that will hamper oversight, restrict transparency, and damage the independence of inspectors general," Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said.
The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) - the treaties detailing the ongoing drawdown in Iraq - have been disappeared from the White House web page. (Curously, President Obama's Iraq plan still says "Obama and Biden believe it is vital that a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) be reached so our troops have the legal protections and immunities they need. Any SOFA should be subject to Congressional review to ensure it has bipartisan support here at home.") The treaties are also not mentioned in current media coverage of President Obama's planned Iraq drawdown.
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I'm beginning to suspect that being able to say, "I told you so" to friends who voted for Obama is not going to sufficiently compensate me for the misery he's going to visit on us.
Posted by: Elise at February 28, 2009 01:26 PM
If anybody really, *really* wants a copy of the SOFA and SFA, I've got 'em. The Usual Suspects have my e-addy.
SOFA and SFA are not classified, and they're not exactly page-turners, but there's interesting stuff in there...
Posted by: BillT at February 28, 2009 02:08 PM
I agree with you Elise. But after eight years of listening to the incessant, shrill attacks, distortions and outright lies told about conservatives and the Shrub by the left, I will take every opportunity to say I told you so.
A small hint of silver around the current cloud would be that there are only 611 days, and a wake up, before mid-term elections.
Posted by: bt_Have-Barter-Will-Travel_hun at February 28, 2009 02:10 PM
Oh, I intend to say it, bt. It's just that I have this horrible feeling that - even as opposed to Obama as I was - I underestimated the extent of the damage. I expected things to go very, very bad internationally (still a possibility) but domestically I expected more of a drift than a stampede toward economic folly and I actually expected (silly, silly me) that Obama's promises of transparency and accountability would be kept.
As for the mid-term elections, it's nice to dream but I have a sinking feeling the same people who supported Obama in 2008 are going to support him and therefore the Democrats in 2010. I'm beginning to fear that I am simply obsolete and a return to the type of government I'd like to see is a pipe dream. Sadly, this will also remove the opportunity to say, "I told you so" because the people who voted for Obama will never think that anything has gone wrong.
Boy, I'm depressing today. I must be suffering from a chocolate deficit.
Posted by: Elise at February 28, 2009 04:42 PM
For some, the learning experience comes only after providing themselves as the mass for the rapid deceleration of the cosmic 2x4.
And we know that we may have to suffer a good deal more before the dithering set within the electorate returns to a more conservative position, i.e. their senses.
I mean it's not as if BO and this Congress are taking bold new steps towards B.F.Skinner's utopian dream. I seem to remember a mythic land called the USSR where all of this statism was taken to its logical conclusion once before. And in living color to boot.
And the EU... I wonder how their economy, the quality/availability of their health care, the equality of their membership's participation in decision making, their employment, job creation, taxes, etc., etc., etc. are working out? Particularly when you factor in that they have had minimal responsibility for their own defense as in being the beneficiaries of huge budget and personnel allocation breaks since -what, WWII?
And if I were a skeptic, I might question the ability of the average Joe or Josephine E.U.-Schmo to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and achieve success in the Borg collective... er Socialists Utopia. Any socialist utopia.
And what about their Constitutional and BoR protections? Those protections the destruction of which was much ballyhooed here. Ironically by those intent on taking us into a new age of failed socialist experiments. But to point that out would probably be considered rude. So I won't.
Yep, by 2010, I would not be surprised if BO and the current Congressional weasels were darned near indistinguishable from Hugo Chavez and his merry band of thugs. And having said that, I'll keep my darker thoughts to myself.
Again I must apologize for the rant. It slipped.
Posted by: bt_Have-Barter-Will-Travel_hun at February 28, 2009 05:48 PM
Well, maybe Barack Obama has an evil twin?
The good Barack says things like "I don't believe in big government" and "We are going to cut the deficit". And means it.
The bad Barack is the one that helped get Rod Blagojevich elected, is promoting a crushing deficit budget this year, and definetly wants a bigger government. Maybe we need one of those transporter doo-dads from Star Trek to put them back together again, huh?
Or maybe he is schizophrenic?
Or maybe we are all just screwed, blued and tattooed?
And as predicted, the majority of those in the "Media" are doing their Orwellian best to cover for Barack and his twin. And even more inspiring was the 30 seconds I caught on "Countdown!" with Olberdoof criticizing Joe (the Plumber) Wurtzlebacher. A private citizen pilloried on a cable network. Citizens, we can all be denounced for our 15 minutes of fame in the new America.
Posted by: Don Brouhaha at February 28, 2009 06:04 PM
Well, maybe Barack Obama has an evil twin?
I had to laugh at this. My theory about why Obama never released his actual, full birth certificate was that he was really triplets.
And, bt, I always enjoy a good rant. It is amazing, isn't it, how little deep or original thinking Obama seems to have done. I cannot think of one idea, plan, or concept of his that I don't remember from my college bull sessions many, many moons ago.
Posted by: Elise at February 28, 2009 06:13 PM
There is a brief moment in every debate where the perfidities of your opponent should be left to speak for themselves.
And so here we are. And so I refrain.
Posted by: spd rdr at February 28, 2009 08:21 PM
If I made you laugh, then my mission today at Villainous Company was successful.
Tomorrow:Does March come in like a lion, or like a lamb?
Posted by: Don Brouhaha at February 28, 2009 11:39 PM
Ummm...yeah; transparent as mud.
Posted by: camojack at March 1, 2009 01:25 AM
Tomorrow:Does March come in like a lion, or like a lamb?
Around here - Essex County, NJ - like a lion. They keep changing their minds about exactly how *much* snow we're getting between 9pm tonight and noon tomorrow but right now they're saying 9 to 15 inches.
Posted by: Elise at March 1, 2009 12:35 PM
He-ah in Nawth Jawja it is not exactly a lamb, but nary a lion either. More like a mewing puty-tat;
33°F, 2 mph winds out of the nawth west, snizzling turning to big, fluffy, flakes of snow that melt upon contact.
We'll probably get our annual ice storm within the next two to three weeks.
Posted by: bt_weather-on-the-8s_hun at March 1, 2009 01:12 PM
Damn, we're only going to get to 80 today.......
Posted by: DL Sly at March 1, 2009 02:37 PM
About 18C, winds 15 gusting to 25, rain falling through the shamal resulting in mud showers.
We just washed the beige van yesterday and now it's beige again...
Posted by: BillT at March 1, 2009 03:18 PM
But Beeell, Pwesident Owbama sez you is all a-comin' home soon, and Gwowndhog Day in Iwak will be ovah!
Here in the Ohio country, it's in the mid-20's (F, not C), windy, with a bright blue sky. No snow in our forecast. Just cold.
Looks like a lion to me, sportsfans.
Posted by: Don Brouhaha at March 1, 2009 03:32 PM
While receiving a dose of criticism from progressives for his Iraq policy, the new president should nonetheless get some kudos for his unilateral troop withdrawal from another devastated, corrupt, seemingly ungovernable region that occurred this morning, albeit with little fanfare.
Yes, like Iraq, President Obama had the resolve not to abandon New Orleans, or worse yet, go with the original Biden plan of partitioning the city into autonomous enclaves run by Crips, Fortunetellers, Latin Kings, Vampires, Bloods, Goths, and cajuns. Had the new President simply acquiesced to political pragmatism, the Big Easy almost certainly would not have healed to once again shine as the gem of the deep south. . .
Posted by: Bob W (the new Kowalsky) at March 1, 2009 04:13 PM
Pwesident Owbama sez you is all a-comin' home soon, and Gwowndhog Day in Iwak will be ovah!
The SOFA (Article 24, para 2) says US *troops* will be withdrawn NLT 31 December 20011. I'm a *contractor* -- I don't carry a US weapon.
And the Iraqis *want* me here -- at least until I get my Iraqi replacements fully-trained, which will take a couple of more years, at least. They need a *lot* of helicopter pilots...
Posted by: BillT at March 1, 2009 04:45 PM
Alright, now we're seeing CHANGE in action... just don't ask about the details, because you may wake up and realize that some change is all you have left.
Posted by: Comrade Tovya at March 2, 2009 09:24 AM
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Access Health works with community partners to contribute to the health and well being of our communities through tobacco prevention & cessation, secondhand smoke reduction, physical activity & healthy eating promotion, chronic disease management, substance abuse prevention and lead poisoning prevention.
Being Physically Active in the Midcoast is Easy!
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Lead Poisoning a Threat for Small Children
If you live in an older home or apartment, your family could be a risk for lead poisoning. Young children that live in housing built before 1950 are most at risk. Lead dust can remain in homes for a long time, collecting on surfaces where children put their hands and play. When lead is absorbed into the body, it can cause learning disabilities, behavior problems, hearing damage, language or speech delays, and lower intelligence.
There are new programs and resources available to make sure you are living in a healthy, lead safe home.
FREE Lead Test Kits: As part of Maine’s effort to prevent childhood lead poisoning, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is offering all parents of children born in 2012 a free home lead dust test kit. Read more.
Lead Safe Housing Search: The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has launched a new Lead Safe Housing Registry. The registry, MaineHousingSearch is a free online rental listing service that links people who need housing with the housing they need. In addition to listing the location, rental fees and other criteria of the unit, the service also indicates whether there is a tobacco policy in place and now, whether it is considered to be lead safe or lead maintained. Read the news release.
Mid Coast Hospital Nature Trail Map – A guide to the 3,300 feet of prepared walking paths through the forested wetlands area between Mid Coast Hospital and the protected estuary and salt water marshes of Thompson’s Brook.
Midcoast Ride Finder – An excellent resource linking people to transportation in the Midcoast region
Every day is a chance to improve your health, and the health of America. Watch this short video from the American Public Health Association (1:48 minutes) for some simple ideas.
What is public health? Clean water, smoke free restaurants, sidewalks, bike lanes, farmer's markets and more! Watch This is Public Health for entertaining examples of public health in our lives.
Access Health is one of 26Healthy Maine Partnershipsoffering local public health services arount the state of Maine. Our service area covers Sagadahoc County, Brunswick & Harpswell.
Access Health partners with many community partners to encourage and support healthy choices, including:
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The Healthy Maine Partnership project is a collaborative effort among 26 local coalitions, the Maine DHHS (Maine CDC and Office of Substance Abuse) and DOE, supported primarily by the Fund for Healthy Maine with federal grants from the US CDC, SAMHSA, and DOE.
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WASHINGTON – Just as relations between Japan and South Korea have taken a nosedive over disputed territorial claims, North Korea has decided to take advantage of the differences among its adversaries and meet with Japanese officials in China later this month on repatriation of Japanese remains in North Korea, says a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Relations between Japan and South Korea plummeted after South Korean President Lee Myungbak visited the disputed Dokdo islets in the Sea of Japan.
In reverting to references of World War II, Lee called on Japan to rectify the lingering issue of Korean “comfort women” who were forced to be sex slaves to Japanese forces.
Lee also has called for an apology from Japan’s Emperor Akihito for the years Koreans suffered under Japanese rule. Lee implied that the emperor would not be invited to Seoul unless he did so. To analysts, this has enflamed nationalistic sentiments in Japan.
Japan’s relationship with North Korea has been extensive, primarily through the Chosen Soren, a term applied to generations of North Koreans who reside in Japan.
Upcoming bilateral discussions will be the first for North Korea’s new young leader, Kim Jong-un, who succeeded his father, Kim Jong-il, following his death last December.
Until now, the United States has refused to have direct negotiations with North Korea because of its refusal to renounce its nuclear weapons program and stop its missile development program.
The purpose of the discussions between Japan and North Korea will be on the subject of repatriating the bodies of tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers who died in what today is North Korea.
There are an estimated 20,000 Japanese remains buried in some 70 graves there, according to the Japanese government, which already has repatriated some 13,000 remains.
These Japanese soldiers found themselves in what is North Korea today after escaping from the Japanese-occupied former Manchuria in Northeast China when the Soviet Army invaded it in 1945.
Keep in touch with the most important breaking news stories about critical developments around the globe with Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence news source edited and published by the founder of WND.
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Mogadishu Under More Heavy Fighting
Ever since the Islamists were ousted by the Ethiopian forces December of 2006, the violence taking place in Mogadishu has spiked upwards significantly. In today’s fighting, at least ten people were killed by shelling and machine-gun fire due to an offensive led by the Ethiopian military forces. So far, the civilian death toll has been in the hundreds as a result of the fighting between government and rebel forces.
Martin Plaut, the BBC Africa editor stated that the latest fighting started after the Ethiopian government moved reinforcements along with twenty tanks and armored cars into the city late Friday. One of the vehicles exploded after hitting a landmine that was placed on the road. Early Saturday, the fighting broke out as Ethiopian troops came out of their barracks.
They targeted facilities throughout Mogadishu that are occupied by those loyal to the Union of Islamic Courts which was ousted by Ethiopia back in 2006. So far, the insurgents managed to capture and ransack one of the police stations.
A resident stated that both groups were fighting in every alley throughout the city of Mogadishu. Most people admitted to one of the main hospitals were victims of gunshot and shrapnel wounds. To one of the elders, it is genocide on the part of the Ethiopian military. As a result, he has already appealed to the international community.
Asides from the Ethiopian forces, Uganda’s military has sent almost two-thousand troops. This is all part of the African Union force to support Somalia’s current interim government. Since the civil war in 1991, the country has no effective government.
Tags: Somalia , Islam , Mogadishu , Ethiopia
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What Would Che Eat?: Something garlicky, no doubt.
Want to be happy? Eat like the Cubans.
By Ari LeVaux
I went to Cuba in 2003 on a special permit to lead a group of University of Montana sustainable agriculture students. We examined how Cuba's agricultural system responded to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Back in the 1960s, Cuba had more tractors per capita than any country in the world. These tractors powered a highly chemical-intensive agriculture system that produced mostly sugarcane to feed the Soviet sweet tooth (and rum tooth) in exchange for fertilizer, fuel, wheat and other commodities. When the USSR tanked, Cuba's tractors ran out of gas, and the nation had to convert to a diversified and largely organic agriculture system, quickly.
We visited urban farms, agriculture cooperatives, alternative energy research facilities, worm ranches, community gardens, farmers markets, cane fields and many other places of agricultural interest. Cuban ingenuity is inspiring, and good things were happening wherever people had the freedom and tools to grow food. We had a tremendous experience, with many positive and constructive interactions.
The educational permit we traveled on was issued for two years, but soon after our first trip President Bush tightened the restrictions on travel to Cuba, and our permit was canceled. Congress then introduced a bill to ease these restrictions, which Bush vetoed.
I think Obama will sign a version of the new bill, having campaigned on bold promises to ease the embargo, including the travel restrictions. His win in Florida shows that the growing younger generation of Cuban-Americans don't share the bitterness of their grandparents toward Castro and the revolution, and support a forward-looking policy.
I agree. The embargo has made life unnecessarily difficult for Cubans, and hasn't resulted in regime change. In fact, it has probably strengthened the government, and allowed some questionable actions to be justified in the name of survival.
For example, many Cuban resorts and tourist spots only cater to wealthy foreigners, while barring Cuban citizens (except the workers). This is, arguably, a result of the embargo, as the government protects these places as economic engines with which to generate foreign capital. This capital, desperately needed thanks to the meddling of Cuba's nearest neighbor, has helped Cuba pass the United States in key statistics like infant mortality, literacy, doctors per capita and life expectancy.
While the exclusivity of Cuban resorts proves a moral paradox to some, others, like the aptly named James Suckling, European editor of Cigar Aficionado, don't appear concerned. On the possibility of U.S. travel to Cuba, he reported recently in his blog: "'Just think of it,' my friend said, as we were having a lunch of lobster and shrimp while drinking delicious chilled whites from Marques de Murrieta, the excellent Spanish winery, on a gorgeous beach about 30 minutes from the marina. 'You could leave from Miami in your cigarette boat in the morning, be here in two hours for lunch, smoke a cigar, and then drive back.'
"That sounds like paradise to me," Mr. Suckling added.
Meals like this on the island are rare these days. We were traveling largely in untouristy areas, where the fare was geared toward sustenance rather than luxury. Shrimp and lobster were not on the menu. Pork was a luxury. The food was boring, bland and basic.
But children are guaranteed a quart of milk every day (often powdered), and the new farms are injecting lots of fresh vegetables into the national diet. And, for what it's worth, everyone had plenty of cigars. I'll never forget seeing a street sweeper do his work while puffing a fat stogie.
The Spanish wine sipped by Mr. Suckling is a reminder of the close links between Spain and Cuba, which remain despite U.S. objections. And although most Cubans don't drink Spanish wine, they might be able to scratch up a shot or two of sherry, which really helps a certain Spanish-influenced garlic soup I learned how to make from a book called Cook Cuban, written by three brothers-in-law who call themselves "Three Guys From Miami."
This spectacular soup is made with simple ingredients that are available even when times are tough--like, say, during a 46-year embargo, or when the world teeters on the brink of global depression.
Break six slices of white bread, or the equivalent amount from a baguette, and sauté the bread chunks in olive oil until they begin to brown. Stir in 12 cloves of garlic, minced, and sauté for another minute--just long enough to cook the garlic slightly. Mash the garlic and the bread together with a spoon.
Add one 28-ounce can of chopped tomatoes (or the equivalent amount frozen from last year's garden), one teaspoon paprika, one bay leaf, four cups chicken stock and half a cup of sherry. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for an hour. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Separate six eggs and add three tablespoons of the hot broth to the egg yolks, beating constantly, to temper them. Add egg yolks to the broth and whisk in rapidly until smooth.
Now quickly whisk in the unbeaten egg whites until mixed completely. Bring the soup to a boil and then remove from heat. Garnish with parsley and serve.
This soup is so buoyant it practically floats off the spoon, so tasty you better not serve it too hot or your guests will burn their mouths, helpless to slow their savory slurps.
Clearly, the fact that our closest overseas neighbor remains a communist holdout that we were unable to topple is annoying to many Americans, who are maddened that Castro has won. But if U.S. citizens can travel to Iran and North Korea, it's hard to justify a ban on travel to Cuba.
If we were allowed to mix, maybe American ideals like freedom to speak, organize and protest would gain traction in Cuba. And having weathered tough economic times, thanks partly to us, for years, Cuba now has some valuable things to teach us about belt-tightening and thrift, and some great recipes too.
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There is something so obvious, so crude, about Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Cecilia Gallerani that it might seem beneath discussion. The 16-year-old mistress of the ruler of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, is stroking an ermine. The creature is white, furry and bony. Scholars have written reams about this ermine's significance as an allegory of purity. To my mind, with its long snout and serpentine body, her pet looks unmistakably phallic – and her control of it suggests that Sforza has been tamed by his young mistress.
- Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
- National Gallery,
- Starts 9 November
- Until 5 February
- Venue website
Leonardo's Cecilia has sloping, slender shoulders, white skin over delicate collarbones, a pale throat adorned with a black necklace, an exquisitely elongated face with a superb nose. She is turning to look at someone, perhaps at Sforza himself. This sidewards turn gives the artist an unselfconscious view of her, and in it one senses the depth of Leonardo's fascination. It is not just Sforza who adores Cecilia. From this portrait, it looks as if the painter would like to sleep with her, too.
This sensational study will be the wonder of wonders at the National Gallery's Leonardo exhibition, which opens next month. Its arrival from Krakow, where the violence and divisions of 20th-century history have made it more or less invisible for many years – and so skewed the oeuvre of the world's greatest artist – will introduce us to another Leonardo da Vinci: the man who loved women.
The idea that Leonardo could be aroused by a woman at all is a bit of a surprise. This is not the image of him that has come down to us. Ever since Renaissance witnesses recorded that he loved to surround himself with beautiful young men, his homosexuality has been an open secret. As a youth, he was twice accused of sodomy, though never prosecuted (apparently because the young men who were charged with him came from powerful and wealthy families). Yet Leonardo, as Vasari's account of his life and the artist's own notebooks confirm, went on to live openly with a household of youths led by Salai, his handsome, thieving apprentice – to whom he eventually left the Mona Lisa.
In 1910, Sigmund Freud published a revolutionary psychoanalytic study in which he argued that Leonardo was homosexual but celibate, and that he sublimated his erotic side into endless research. Freud pointed to a coldly clinical drawing of heterosexual intercourse among Leonardo's notes, which shows the lovers standing up, like mannequins. It is conversely true that Leonardo drew many highly detailed studies of the anal sphincter. When he died, he left some works to Salai, while his more recent companion Francesco Melzi inherited his notebooks.
This view of Leonardo is essentially true, but it does leave something out. All his life, the painter was passionately involved with women – on canvas, at least. It was not just that Leonardo liked to portray women (of his five surviving portraits, four are of women; the fifth is of a young musician). It has to do with the way he chose to depict women, the way he showed them to be fully rounded human beings. While earlier Renaissance artists had sculpted and painted profoundly characterful portraits of men (look at Mino da Fiesole's rugged bust of Diotisalvi Neroni), when they turned their attention to women, they seemed obsessed only with exterior beauty. In Antonio del Pollaiuolo's portrait of an unknown woman, done in about 1475 and now hanging in the Uffizi, the model stands in profile. We cannot see her eyes, or guess at what she's thinking. Leonardo's teacher, Andrea del Verrocchio, made a marble bust of a nameless young woman, a truly great Florentine work (now in the Bargello museum in Florence), but her eyes are blank, her mind apparently absent.
Even while he was fighting off sodomy accusations in Florence, the 26-year-old Leonardo da Vinci painted a picture of a young woman that blew apart the patriarchal conventions of his native city. His Ginevra de' Benci turns to face us, her serious eyes meeting the beholder directly. She was the daughter of a wealthy Florentine family, but Leonardo dressed her in plain clothes in order to focus on her face; in a motto painted on the back of the wooden panel, he declared that she was not just good-looking but had "virtue". Framed by a spiky bush of juniper (Ginevra means juniper), her young, coolly assertive face seems – when you see this painting in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC – to expand to fill your mind. It is not just her refined yet adolescent features, but the power of her eyes, shining with gravity; like the eyes in any Rembrandt self-portrait, they really do seem windows to the soul.
Leonardo moved to Milan near the start of the 1480s, and began working for Sforza, as an engineer, sculptor and painter. He portrayed the ladies of the court with the same sense of inner character he brought to Ginevra de' Benci. His subject La Belle Ferronnière (perhaps another of Sforza's mistresses) looks over a parapet, her gaze mysterious. Isabella d'Este, who ruled Mantua in northern Italy, actively sought out Leonardo to paint her portrait, too. Italy's handful of wealthy, independent women were fans and would-be patrons. Isabella wrote to Cecilia Gallerani, Leonardo's most spectacular model, asking if she could borrow the portrait of her so that she could get an idea of his work. Cecilia obliged, although she warned Isabella that she had aged over the intervening decade and no longer looked like that. She must have been truly beautiful at 16, if she ever did look quite like that.
Leonardo's portraits are flirtatious, none more so than the Mona Lisa, the Florentine merchant's wife from whom he elicits such a tantalising smile. But while working on this last of his great portraits to have survived, he also created one of the most provocative female nudes ever painted by a Renaissance artist. Leonardo's Leda is known today only from copies and sketches, but even these show that in the two versions he developed – one crouching, another standing – his nude was intended to inflame.
Earlier Renaissance artists were quite coy with their naked women. Botticelli's Venus adopts a modest pose. But when Leonardo conceived Leda, in about 1504, it was as a nude whose abundantly available body anticipates and resembles the rampantly heterosexual bedroom paintings of Titian and Correggio. Whether crouching among the bulrushes or standing to embrace her swan lover, Leda has a body contoured and posed in a fleshy, sexy way. Soon, in Venice, the young Giorgione would paint overtly amorous nudes that went on to shape the erotica of Renaissance princes; he took his ideas directly from Leonardo, who visited Venice at the start of the century.
The artist had a theory about art and sex. (Of course he did; he was Leonardo – he had a theory about everything.) In his notebooks, he argues that painting is the greatest of all the arts because it can set a picture of your lover before you. A pastoral painting can remind you, in winter, of summer in the country with your beloved. He goes further, into blasphemy. He boasts that he once painted a Madonna so beautiful that the man who bought it was haunted by unseemly thoughts. Even after it was altered, perhaps with the addition of crosses and saintly symbols (as was done in Leonardo's second version of The Virgin of the Rocks), it still gave him an erection when he tried to pray. So in the end he returned the painting to Leonardo, who delighted in this pornographic triumph.
Leonardo's own sexuality appears to transcend gender, to slip into godlike fantasies of androgynous liaisons between worlds. His Virgin of the Rocks includes an angel whose gender it is impossible to determine. No other Renaissance artist was as preoccupied with androgyny: from his earliest works, including an angel he painted in a work by his master Verrocchio, it was Leonardo's trademark. Perhaps in his imagination, he was such an angel, neither masculine nor feminine but both, and able to infuse the world with infinite longing.
We might end with his early painting The Annunciation. A young woman has been surprised in her garden by a winged messenger from paradise. This being looks at her with a hypnotically deep and steady gaze, as if penetrating her with its eyes. Beyond is the open door of a house, and within we glimpse the deep red softness of a bedroom. Is the charge of this religious painting sexual?
Or we could go back to his childhood. Leonardo's memory of early childhood, one that fascinated Freud, was this. He remembered that a bird of prey came down to his crib, inserted its tail feathers in his mouth, and moved them about. Is the beat of those feathers still there in his paintings' unending flutter of desire?
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Beware! Office snacks can make you fat.
Category: Editorial Illustration
Deadline: June 03, 2011 (12PM, Sharp, EST)
Specs: 6 X 6 inches (submission = JPG / 800 X 800 @ 72dpi)
A study, based on the increases in sick days, has concluded that although office snacks might boost morale they also sabotage your health.
It has been shown that just the sight or smell of candy, cookies, donuts and other sugary sweet concoctions triggers a desire to eat some.
Since most of us are lugging around excess body-fat, this kind of morale booster is not helping our diet efforts and may inadvertently contribute to increasing sick days and perhaps anxiety, listlessness or moodiness when the resulting sugar rush wears off.
People often think they can work off these snacks with a little extra exercise or activity. However, the study accurately points out that just 2 pieces of candy each workday totals about 480 calories and explains that a person weighing 160 pounds would need to walk 157 minutes; ballroom dance 132; golf (carrying clubs) 88 minutes; backpack 56 minutes; or run fast for 29 minutes just to burn off those extra calories.
“We’ve all been conditioned to view sugary foods as ‘treats’ when maybe we need to view them as drugs,” said co-authors Dian Griesel, and Tom Griesel of TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust (BSH, 2011).
“Sugar is a totally useless, destructive, addictive drug that is responsible for many debilitating diseases like obesity, heart disease, hypoglycemia, diabetes, and tooth decay to name a few,” said Dian Griesel.
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The downtown streets of a southern Florida town were transformed this past weekend into a temporary outdoor art museum when hundreds of artists created original works using only sticks of chalk.
A crowd of more than 2,000 people converged for the18th Annual Street Painting Festival in Lake Worth, Fla., despite the threat of rain, according to local news reports.
Amateur and professional painters sprawled across the asphalt “painting” dragons, elephants, cars, musicians, and inspired replicas of Da Vincis and Rembrandts, reports said.
The festival’s coordinator, Maryanne Webber told the Sun Sentinel, “Street painting is a type of performance art. The painting is not about the finished work. It's about the process of creating the piece.
“That’s the charm and appeal and beauty of the event. The artists don’t compete with each other. They work, literally, on an equal plane, and they all participate for the love of street painting.”
Street painting is traced back to 16th century Italy, when itinerant artists would use chalk to transform cobblestone streets into makeshift canvases, according to the event’s website.
Pavement murals have been the subject of numerous news reports in Durability + Design. See: Street ‘Compass’ Mural Marks Geographic Heart of Boulder, Colo.; A Whale of a Street Mural in Seattle; and Storm-Drain Murals Deliver Pollution Lesson.
More information on Lake Worth street painting: http://streetpaintingfestivalinc.org/.
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Global Competition and Social Morality
GLOBAL COMPETITION AND SOCIAL MORALITY
In a speech in Doha on 8 December F W de Klerk discussed the role that governance and social responsibility play in the sustainability of political and economic systems.
De Klerk said that much of history has been a competition to determine which system of governance could best assure sustained geopolitical ascendency, economic prosperity, technological progress and the well-being of citizens.
Britain and the Netherlands emerged as dominant powers in the 17th because their middle classes enjoyed greater personal freedom and security from arbitrary state action than their counterparts elsewhere in the world. The climate of relative freedom led to a remarkable blossoming of intellectual, commercial and scientific endeavour that greatly contributed their emergence as global powers.
During the last century free and pragmatic democracies had triumphed over the totalitarian and ideologically-driven German and Japanese systems of governance. They had also been victorious in their subsequent struggle against international communism. They were successful because the closed Soviet system was incapable of competing with the creativity, innovation and dynamism of free societies.
According to De Klerk, all this led had to a degree of hubris in the West. “During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced that the search for the ideal system of governance had reached its conclusion with the free market universal democracy model that the United States had evolved. He called it the End of History.”
Since then the world had moved into a new era that was still reeling from the economic crisis of 2008 -2009 and that was now convulsed by doubts over the future viability of the Euro.
A number of western democracies were experiencing serious problems with their social-democratic model. “They are discovering that countries simply cannot keep on pumping out social benefits without producing the wealth to finance them. The result, as we see in Greece, is inevitably bankruptcy. The larger the role of government in catering to the social needs of the people, the less scope there is for the productive sectors of the economy.”
The key question during the coming decade might well be whether the US and European models would be able to hold their own against the increasing global economic challenge of China and India. De Klerk predicted that this would not be a competition between armies and air forces - but would be an equally deadly competition in world markets for customers and resources.
After three decades of Maoist communism, the Chinese leadership had finally noticed that Hong Kong and Taiwan were out-performing most of the rest of the world in achieving spectacular economic growth. “They must have seen that Hong Kong had one of the freest economies in the world with minimal state interference and maximum decision-making in the hands of producers and consumers. Personal income tax in Hong Kong is 15% and company tax is 16% - and yet the people of Hong Kong enjoy a very high level of social development. Despite the tiny size of its government sector Hong Kong holds 13th position on the UNDP’s Human Development Index.”
Beijing must also have noticed that, although Hong Kong was economically free, it was not politically free. It was still a British Colony. “So maybe it would be possible for the Chinese Communist Party to stay in control while liberalising the economy at the same time? The rest is history.”
De Klerk observed that the big loser in the international economic stakes had been the fifteen core countries of the European Union. “In 1975 they accounted for 36% of the global GDP; the United States’ share was 26.3% and that of Asia was 16.5%. By 2009 the EU core countries’ share had had declined to 27%; the US had risen slightly to 26.8% - and Asia had increased to 22%. According to projections, the EU core countries’ share in 2030 will be 18.6%; the US will have declined to 23%; and Asia will have soared to 36%. So what are the Europeans doing wrong?”
According to De Klerk, part of the answer could be found in the fact that the maintenance of democracy and freedom depended ultimately on the morality, the diligence and restraint of citizens as much as they did on free elections.
De Klerk said that in many Western societies democracy had become an auction in which competing parties tried to outbid one another in offering voters more and more for less and less. Economies inevitably became less competitive when they passed laws that gave citizens more and more leisure time and early retirement and that raised minimum wages above those of competitor nations.
According to De Klerk it was not only dictators and oligarchs who could and did misuse power to secure undeserved and unearned wealth. “The voters in democracies are just as susceptible to abusing their power. They do so by insisting on benefits that they know the country cannot afford.”
De Klerk observed that in Western democracies politicians and bureaucrats were often equally intent on promoting their personal and class interests at the cost of society. “They invent an avalanche of laws and regulations that only they can administer - all, of course - in the interest of the public! The result is unsustainable deficits caused by uncontrolled growth of government.” De Klerk pointed out that between 2000 and 2009 the wage gap between federal civil servants and private sector workers in the USA had grown from 32% to 60%. In South Africa public service salaries had increased by more than 60% in real terms between 2005 and 2010 – with little or no improvement in service delivery.
De Klerk said that free market democracies would have to develop a deep sense of social responsibility among their citizens if they wished to ensure the sustainability of their system. “Voters must reassert control over free-wheeling politicians and rampant bureaucracies. They should accept the need to make sacrifices to promote the overall good of society, the reasonable well-being of their fellow citizens, and the continuing competitiveness of their economies.”
In De Klerk’s opinion the competition between the systems of governance in Europe, North America and the emerging giants of Asia would become more intense in the decades that lie ahead. Success would probably go to the competitor whose citizens showed the highest level of social responsibility.
Published in: FW de Klerk Foundation
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TYIN tegnestue designed the ‘Old Market Library’ in Bangkok, Thailand.
Description from the architects:
The Old Market Library is built in a 100-year-old market building. The section for the library measures 3×9 metres internally, with a back yard facing a small canal. The roof and the walls were in very poor condition, and consequently any new element had to be self-supporting.
One of the main challenges for the community is the annual flooding during the rainy season. In this period the water can raise to around 50cm above floor level. Retaining the water would be very challenging and the solution was to elevate the calmer zones above the maximum flood level. This ensured that the library was usable throughout the flooded period.
Because of the height of the ceiling in the main room, there was an opportunity to construct an intimate loft space. The library is divided into two zones along its length; one side lets you move through the building along the bookshelves, while the other side is for reading and other passive activities.
Beyond the main room is a smaller space, the study. An old toilet in the corner was removed and has become a home for a small tree, which hopefully will have good fertilization in the years to come. In the back yard a pergola was constructed to protect against the blazing sun.
In this project it was important for us to use local and reused materials, which were already available to the community. The bookshelves are made of wooden boxes from one of CASE’s earlier projects, while the cladding was assembled using old and decayed wooden pieces found in the immediate surroundings. The internal structure demanded a higher quality wood that had to be trusted to take the specific loads and span certain distances. These materials were bought at the local second hand wood shop.
The commercial centre of the Min Buri Market had already moved across the canal due to a fire in the late nineties. As the years have past by the community has diminished from a lively origo into an almost slum-like area. The land rights are uncertain and partly because of this the inhabitants are reluctant to invest in their homes.
For this project to be successful it was important to involve the inhabitants actively throughout the whole process, from inception to completion. Initially we mapped the needs within the community by holding regular meetings. These meeting ranged from drawing and building models, to even clearing garbage. As part of a survey we interviewed people in the area about their views on the community, its past, present and future. Aside from introducing ourselves to the community we wanted a deeper understanding of the situation that they lived in.
It wasn’t always easy getting everyone involved, especially the adults. However when the project became more tangible this completely changed. We soon had a regular group that worked with us every day. They began to develop an attachment to the library, a sense of achievement and pride; something we feel was a premise for the library to function in the long term.
For TYIN, this project wasn’t only about the refurbishment of the old Market Library; it was also to strengthen the passion in the neighbourhood. The refurbishment was a demonstration of what can be achieved by the inhabitants themselves, through own initiative, using local inexpensive materials and their own knowledge.
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For over 25 years, the Autism Society Central Virginia (ASCV), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has served as the region’s premier source of education, advocacy, and support for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), their families and friends, and interested professionals. ASDs are a group of developmental disabilities that occur in all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups and that cause significant social, communication, and behavioral challenges. More people than ever before are being diagnosed with autism, and currently, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) estimates that an average of 1 in 110 children (1 in 70 boys) in the United States has an ASD. There is no known cure for autism.
Over the past ten years, the Autism Society Central Virginia 5k Run/Walk has grown from a small venture to an annual event that attracted over 1900 participants in 2011. Held at the Innsbrook Pavilion, this family-friendly race includes entertainment, food, exhibitors and a Kid’s Fun Zone. The 5K Run/Walk is our chapter’s primary source of income, raising nearly $73,000 in May 2011.
All funds raised from this event will stay within the greater Richmond area, providing much needed support to families and individuals living with autism.
||Saturday, May 26, 2012
||Jessica Braum Corbett
jessica at echelon-events.com
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Utah recently signed an informal agreement with the six other Colorado River Basin States, Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming, which could potentially avoid bickering over the use and storage of water from the Colorado River. "I truly believe this is an historic document, and someday we'll all look back and say it was a good thing to do," said Larry Anderson, Director of the Utah Division of Water Resources in the Department of Natural Resources.
The Colorado River is managed by a complex set of compacts, court decisions, treaties, state laws, federal laws and other agreements referred to as the "Law of the River." The new agreement does not replace the "Law of the River", but rather adapts it to reflect the current needs and realities.
"In simple terms, the agreement makes provision for coordinated operation of Lakes Powell and Mead during times of low reservoir conditions. It attempts to manage Lake Powell and Lake Mead to minimize shortages and avoid curtailments. It identifies actions the Lower Basin can take to conserve water. It recommends a specific proposal for implementing shortages in the Lower Basin. Finally, it recognizes the need to look out of the basin for additional water supplies to meet future needs in the basin," said Anderson. "The plan carefully considered all needs ranging from power generation to recreation activities on the lakes."
The benefits to the Lower Basin States are:
The probability of Lake Mead dropping below the critical elevations of 1,050 and 1,000 are reduced by more than 10 percent.
The magnitudes of shortage in the Lower Basin decrease greatly.
A new category of water is created called "Intentionally Created Surplus".
The benefits to the Upper Basin States are:
The Upper Basin will have 20 years to continue develop its Colorado River allocation without challenge from the Lower Basin.
The likelihood of a Lower Basin call is reduced.
Pushes the Lower Basin to start looking outside of the Colorado River Basin for water to meet its future needs.
The agreement has been sent to Interior Secretary Gale Norton. The seven states hope Secretary Norton will include the agreement as the preferred alternative in her draft environmental impact statement, due out later this year.
"If approved, it should be bring 20 years of peace on the river," said Anderson.
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"Enter to Worship Depart to Serve"
Why does God in the Old Testament seem different in the New Testament? Is God the same God from the Old to the New Testament?
The apostle John writes that Jesus the Christ is the Creator God of the Old Testament. “John 1:1-3, 10 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made…He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. NIV”
Paul also claims that Jesus was our Creator God. “Colossians 1:15-17 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. NIV”
Paul portrays Jesus as that God that led Israel out of Egypt to the Promised Land. “1 Corinthians 10:1-4 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. NIV”
Isaiah quotes God’s statement the He is that Rock. “Isaiah 44:8 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one." NIV”
Moses also refers to God as a Rock. “Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he. NIV”
Jesus refers to Himself before the Jews using the same name that He gave Moses at the burning bush. “John 8:58 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I AM!" NIV”
“Exodus 3:13-15 Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers — the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob — has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation. NIV”
God wanted to dwell with humans on this earth. It’s in the Bible. “Exodus 29:44-46 "So I will consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests. 45 Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. 46 They will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God. NIV”
God did dwell with humans throughout the Old Testament just as Jesus did in the New Testament. Jesus is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew name Joshua meaning “I AM saves.” “Matthew 1:21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." NIV”
The angel continued to relate that the child would have the name Immanuel meaning God with us. “Matthew 1:23 "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us." NIV”
Although Jesus was God throughout the whole Bible He humbled Himself as a human. It’ s in the Bible “Philippians 2:5-8 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross! NIV”
As a human the God of the Old Testament became a submissive human servant in the New Testament. Its in the Bible “Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." NIV”
Our Creator God has been closely associated with humanity throughout the whole Bible history just as He is anxious to be closely related to us personally. Jesus prayed that we will become one with Him and His Father. “John 17:20-23 "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. NIV”
Yes, the God of the Old Testament is the same God of the New Testament!
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As we all know, budgeting and home improvement does not always go together but this article will give you information that could help improve your home and still save a little money.
Home improvement projects regularly scare people off, because many judge that they will pay thousands of dollars to alter one room, because they do not have the skills to do the job them self. They may also feel that the job is costly because supplies and tools are needed.
To the contrary, home improvement does not have to be costly at all. Of course, if you hire a subcontractor or contractor to do the job, you will pay a fortune, but if you have patience and the ability to read and stick to the directions, then you can renovate an whole room in your home for fewer than a hundred dollars. Of course, you will need to change and correlate materials.
Before starting the procedure of improving your home, you will need to system of funds and a schedule to get started. You will need to ponder various notions when considering and preparing home improvement. For example, do you plan to paint your home? Do you plan to tile your home? Do you want carpet in your home?
Going through the final part of this article, you will see just how important budgeting and home improvement can be done which will help save you money and improve your home.
Asking questions is part of analyzing and preparing for home improvement. One of the best tools to have when considering home improvement is calculating what you like and calculating what you want. When I improve my home the first thing I do is explore my mind searching for favorites and what excites and appeals to me. Thus, when I go to the home improvement warehouses, I already have in my brain what I am ready to purchase, therefore this relaxes my quest to improving my home.
If you are short of funds to improve your home, then setting up a financial plan will help you get what you want as well as put away some cash for a rainy day. You may even think about purchasing equipment and tools for home improvement at the companies that propose lower prices and/or purchases with no payments until a particular date. This notion will give you time to get your home better while putting away the currency to purchase the improvement equipment and tools.
Unfortunately, many people go for another home loan to enhance their home. Receiving loans from lenders regularly lead to debt, and home loans for improvement only leads to paying off your home twice. Thus, elude high interest rates and loan payments and learn to plan your finances to improve your home.
Let me give you a general view of what one area could cost you for repairs. Say you want to paint a specific room in your home. You will need plaster, sealers, primer, paints, paint thinners, scrapers, screwdriver, paint opening (often come with paint purchases), patches, paintbrushes, tray, and so forth. Now you may think this will cost you a lot of money to improve your home, but to the contrary, you are wrong.
The paint and tools will cost you the most, while the other items will be priced less; thus, primer, sealers and plaster be priced around fifteen dollars if you go to the correct store.
Paint thinners, trays, brushes and screwdriver will cost around fifteen dollars if you go to the right store. Thus, the patches should be purchased with a plaster kit, which will salvage you a few pennies. The paint will cost around twenty dollars per can, depending on the kind of paint purchased. Therefore, for around a hundred bucks you could alter a room in your home lacking hiring anybody to do the job providing you stick to the instructions.
What about the bathroom, can you alter the room on a financial plan? It depends on the range of the area, but if you are yearning to tile your bathroom and paint the walls you could get the job done for around a hundred bucks give or take. If you go to the correct home improvement store and know what you are doing, you could remodel a small bathroom or average bathroom for around fifty bucks.
Learning to create a financial plan and prepare for home improvements can help you to remodel your whole home (if the home is in good standings) for a few hundred dollars. Furthermore, completing the work yourself, you will recoup you thousands of dollars.
Having this budget and home improvement information handy will help you a great deal the next time you find yourself in need of it.
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In the midst of the police investigation and to the astonishment of many people, Salt Lake Tribune reporter Dawn House discovered a real McLellin collection in the Texas home of Otis Traughber. Her discovery proved Hofmann’s fraud. And, 22 years after House first laid eyes on those writings spread out on a kitchen table, they have finally been published in The William E. McLellin Papers, 1854-1880.
So who was this William E. McLellin? Were his writings as troubling as Hofmann hoped to forge? And what exactly did this all have to do with Joseph Smith and early Mormonism?
William E. McLellin, an early convert of the LDS Church, was called as an apostle in 1835 but later left the church over a disagreement concerning the church’s militarizing forces in Missouri. He was excommunicated in 1838, along with others, in what has been called the “Kirtland apostasy.” He was an original true believer who never lost faith in the Book of Mormon, but lost all faith in Joseph Smith, whom he believed was a fallen prophet.
His notebooks look back, providing theological arguments and recounting criticisms with titles such as “Reasons Why I Am Not a Mormon.” A typical tirade can be found in a letter he wrote to Thomas Fuller in 1877: “I found that Smith did not always tell the truth. He would drink to excess. … The leading men went into pride, fine dress for themselves … while the poor among them were suffering for the necessaries of life. He materially altered his own revelations before they were ever printed.”
A particular amusing account is his memory of the Kirtland Temple dedication in 1836. While many of the church members were fasting, they apparently drank too much sacramental wine; “It was more an endowment of wine than the power of God,” McLellin writes. Even after running out before the day was done, someone made a run to nearby Painesville to buy an extra barrel of wine. It gives the phrase “feeling the spirit” and “burning in the bosom” a whole new meaning.
But while McLellin condemned Joseph Smith and his activities with a bit of self-righteous rhetoric, he distanced himself from the fact that he was part of this inner circle and likely participated in the events he repudiates. Illustrating a man possibly divided, struggling to situate his disillusionment beside his original faith, McLellin’s papers reveal a complex character.
Editors Larson and Passey have provided a meticulous presentation, including more than just the notebooks found in Texas. They also include three notebooks that were originally kept in the vault of the First Presidency of the LDS Church, where items rarely ever see the light of day. Also included are 26 letters written to a variety of people such as Orson Pratt and Joseph Smith III. In addition, five scholars—including notable historians D. Michael Quinn and Richard P. Howard—have contributed exceptional interpretations that elucidate McLellin and his memories, along with House’s account of the papers’ discovery in Texas.
While this collection doesn’t offer any major bombshells on the surface, its juicy details will keep historians busy for years to come. Primarily, though, it offers a portrait of a man struggling with his belief, disillusionment and incessant wandering throughout the rest of his life, searching for his spiritual home. It will find resonance with those who have treaded similar paths.
The William E. McLellin Papers 1854-1880
Edited by Stan Larson and
Samuel J. Passey
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How to Play:
Each player gets a pawn and ten gates. The pawns start on opposite sides of the board. In turn, players can choose whether they want to move their pawn one space up, down, left, or right (no diagonals); or place a gate somewhere on the board. Pawns have to maneuver around the gates with the goal of getting to the other side of the board. Pawns cannot be trapped by the gates - they have to be left with at least one way to get to the other side.
How to Win:
The first player to get to the opposite side of the board is the winner.
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Top 5: Proofs That The Moon Landing Happened
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The ultra-competitive space race culminated in a contest between the Soviet Union and the United States, to see which nation would be first to put a man on the moon. Leaving aside the obvious political leverage of the American success, it was a seminal moment in human history. Men had long dreamed of reaching the moon, and it represented the culmination of years of research, technological innovation and the spirit of adventure.
While at the time it captured the hearts and minds of the millions of people who watched the live footage, it was, in a way, inevitable that people would seek to diminish the glory of the achievement, perhaps to discredit a government they were disillusioned by. Is it a coincidence that the first book claiming the moon landings were faked was released in 1974, the same year that the Watergate scandal did untold damage to the integrity of the Presidential office?
It is far easier to present the facts as they were and to offer a few of the major arguments that prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the moon landings were genuine, that Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin did, in fact, make the journey of a lifetime and set foot upon the moon.
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A BLOG COMPLETELY DEDICATED TO;
- LUCILLE BALL
A film, television, stage and radio actress. Comedienne, model, film executive and first woman to ever run a studio. Still holds the title as the Queen of comedy and is also known as the first lady of television. Her face has been seen by more people, more times than the face of any other human being who ever lived. Identifiable by just her first name: Lucy.
- I LOVE LUCY
First television show filmed in a movie studio in front of a live audience, first sitcom to use three film cameras to capture all the action simultaneously, first comedy show to use guest stars on a continuing basis and the first program to feature a pregnant woman.
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How to Be More Creative
If you think some people are just born that way (and you’re not one of them), think again. Experts say we all have a wellspring of creative energy. The secret is how to tap it.
I am not typing this article at my desk. I am sprawled on my floor, because an artist told me a change of perspective would
boost my creative thinking.
I’ve spent the last hour warming up my imagination muscles: I devised 50 new uses for a spoon (drumstick, mini catapult, ineffective shield). I surrounded myself with blue, since a University of British Columbia study showed it’s a creativity-enhancing color. I played the violin as Einstein did. (Actually, I don’t own a violin, so I played my son’s ukulele.) In short, I am using as many creativity-boosting strategies as possible. (Well, I’m not taking LSD, which may have helped Steve Jobs achieve those world-changing insights.)
I’m in the middle of a monthlong project to see if I can reignite my creative spark. I’m a writer, so creativity is part of my job description. But in the last few years I’ve started to worry that my middle-aged brain is ossifying. And as I’ve discovered, continued creativity may be crucial not just for my livelihood but for my longevity, too. A 2006 George Washington University study of 300 senior citizens found that creative activities, such as art and writing, slow the aging process, resulting in fewer doctor visits and better mental health.
Every day, even those of us who aren’t Left Bank watercolor painters engage in creative thinking. “Creativity is critical to solving problems in all parts of our lives,” says Richard Restak, a neurologist in Washington, D.C., and the author of Think Smart ($16, amazon.com). That includes work, parenting, and arranging our medicine cabinets.
And here’s the good news: “Just as you can learn techniques to improve your memory,” says Restak, “you can learn techniques to be more creative.” We’ll see.
Welcoming Bad Ideas
My first call is to Rex Jung, an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, who
specializes in the brain and creativity. He tells me that we tend to think of creative people as churning out one work of
genius after another, but brilliance is a numbers game. Creative people tend to be prolific, and usually the misfires far
outnumber the hits. “I recently went to a museum in Germany, and they had a Picasso exhibition,” says Jung. “But the paintings
were terrible. I think I saw every lousy Picasso out there. He created about 50,000 works, and not all of them were masterpieces.”
It’s a powerful lesson: Accept failure. Enjoy it, even. Embrace the suck, for the suck is part of the process.
That night I spend 20 minutes cooking up ideas for my parents’ 50th anniversary. I write down whatever absurd notion pops into my brain, then read my wife the list.
“It’s their golden anniversary, so we could do a gold theme. Everyone could dress up in gold clothes.”
“Sounds tacky,” my wife responds. OK. No problem. Remember—Bach wrote some shoddy concertos.
“They have a total of 100 years of marriage between them. So we could do ‘A Century of Marriage,’ ” I say.
“I’m worried that might make them feel old.”
Embrace the suck, I tell myself.
“Maybe if we did a graph,” I suggest. “On one end, we can have Kim Kardashian’s 72-day marriage. And on the other end we could have my parents’ 50-year marriage.”
My wife pauses. “That could work,” she says.
I feel my confidence swell just a bit.
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I would like to remodel a small bathroom. We have a slab foundation, what would it take to move a toilet about 2.5 ft, and rotate it 90 degr.?
Rotating the toilet is no major problem. The toilet flange is slotted to allow you to readjust it. If it is not the way you want it then they sell adapter flanges that you can place on the existing flange. To move it you are going to have to break up the slab foundation to reach the sewer pipes underground. If you move the toilet in the direction the pipes are going then you will only need to bust out about 3 feet. If you move it away from the direction of the exiisting pipe, then you will have to break it up until you reach the main sewer line. The slabs generally are not that thick so it probably can be accomplished with a small sledge hammer and chisel. HAVE FUN!!!
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July 17, 2012 -- Consumer electronics (tablets, smartphones and e-readers) is now leading the industry in growth. For system manufacturers and integrated circuit suppliers, the challenge involves keeping pace with rapidly evolving market needs while managing margins. To meet the demands of both consumer and enterprise markets, electronics systems incorporate increasing complexity. Solutions to these engineering challenges rely on accurate, predictive simulation software.
By Aveek Sarkar and Lawrence Williams. (Sarkar and Williams are with ANSYS, Inc.)
This brief introduction has been excerpted from the original copyrighted article.
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Bandaging and taping techniques are routinely used by coaches, athletic trainers and athletes to accomplish a variety of objectives such as providing compression to minimize swelling in the initial management of injury, reducing the chance of injury occurrence by applying tape prophylactically (for prevention) and to provide support to an already injured structure. These practices are typically only a temporary solution in the management of an injury. Consider an athlete experiencing patellar tendinitis, commonly referred to as jumper’s knee. While a tenodesis strap or brace for patellar tendinitis may provide support and cushioning, the knee will not improve in function without rest, anti-inflammatory remedies and rehabilitation. However a middle ground has potentially been developed.
If you watched the Olympics in Beijing last summer you may have noticed that many of the world’s top athletes sported colorful taping configurations on assorted muscles and joints. Kinesiology tape was developed in efforts to assist in the healing of traumatized tissue by Dr. Kenzo Kase in Japan over 30 years ago. While it is best known for its applications as an athletic tape or sports tape, it is widely used by medical professionals as a therapeutic tape for numerous medical conditions. Among these is the reduction of swelling with conditions associated with lymphodema, recovery from surgery, and to support the structural integrity for infants with hypotonia and additional neurological and muscular disorders. While traditional athletic tapes are generally applied over gauze to form a stiff, inflexible bandage with the goal of supporting and immobilizing a joint, kinesiology tape is extremely strong and flexible therefore supporting an injured area without restricting its normal range of motion. In addition to its unique elastic properties as a sports tape, kinesiology tape also has potential value in its therapeutic capabilities.
When a muscle or joint is overused or injured the surrounding area becomes inflamed or swollen. A cascade of biochemical events propagates the inflammatory response involving the local vascular system, the immune system and the cells within the injured tissue. The swelling that is coupled with an injury is caused by the influx of plasma fluid, containing proteins such as fibrins and immunoglobulin’s that migrate to the injured area to promote healing. The excess fluid is typically removed by local lymphatic vessels however, if the inflammation is great enough, the lymphatic vessels are compressed and unable to remove the excess fluid. This can lead to an ongoing cycle of inflammation and pain, which will limit performance and interrupt the healing of the injured tissue. While traditional athletic tapes will compress or immobilize the injured area, kinesiology tape is applied over the injured area, lifting the skin, which creates a space between the skin and the inflamed tissues below. This space that is created reduces pressure on the blood and lymphatic vessels while increasing the circulation of both fluids. Improved blood flow enhances the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the injured tissues, which accelerates the healing process while improved lymphatic flow reduces swelling which relieves pressure on pain receptors proving immediate pain relief.
Current research is limited on the specific merits of kinesiology tape and whether or not it is effective. Thelen et al. 2008 investigated the short-term clinical efficacy of kinesiology tape (KT) when applied to college students with shoulder pain as compared to a sham tape application. Forty-two subjects clinically diagnosed with rotator cuff tendonitis/impingement were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups: therapeutic KT group or sham KT group. Subjects wore the tape for 2 consecutive 3-day intervals in which self-reported pain and disability and pain-free active ranges of motion (ROM) were measured at multiple intervals to assess for differences between groups. The researchers found that the therapeutic KT group showed immediate improvement in pain-free shoulder abduction after tape application. No other differences regarding ROM, pain or disability scores at any time interval were found. The researchers concluded that KT tape may be of some assistance to clinicians in improving pain-free active ROM immediately after tape application with shoulder pain however the utilization of KT for decreasing pain intensity or disability has not been supported. Another study from San Jose State University found that in thirty healthy individuals, the use of KT along the lower trunk area appeared to increase the range of vertebral trunk flexion.
In closing, kinesiology tape has been found to improve active pain-free range of motion in muscles and joints although its therapeutic value has not been validated. Despite its effectiveness as a short-term application in injury management has not yet been proven, kinesiology tape continues to be used and endorsed by the medical community and athletes worldwide.
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Hughes tells how he missed out on $1 million from Gold Hill
Dave Hughes unveiled some of Gold Hill's past - and in the process some of his own - during a presentation at the Old Colorado City History Center July 25.
After the local gold-milling era ended with the shutdown of the Golden Cycle mill in 1949, millions of dollars worth of unprocessed gold - about 7 percent of what had gone through - remained in the abandoned mill tailings, explained the long-time Westside business and civic leader. When gold prices rose and new processing capabilities emerged about a quarter-century later, he became part of a joint venture that planned to extract about half of that gold over six years, then reclaim the land for real-estate development. However, plans soured between the two principals - Bill Wiley and Richard Hadley - and to this day the Golden Cycle pile remains the largest batch of unprocessed tailings outside of Johan-nesburg, South Africa, Hughes said.
He himself stood to earn about $1 million (5 percent of Wiley's 50 percent) if the extraction plan had succeeded, he told the audience, followed by the word “Sob!” in his accompanying PowerPoint presentation.
Ironically, the name of Wiley's group, for whom Hughes was the manager, was Gold Hill Mesa Corp. Gold Hill Mesa is also the name of the current residential- commercial development that's taking place on the 214-acre property south of Highway 24 and east of 21st Street.
Bob Willard, manager of that effort, was in the audience for Hughes' talk, and wound up answering a few questions. Because of concerns about arsenic from the tailings, he said the project's air quality is constantly monitored, and during construction the Colorado Department of Health requires a barrier of “clean dirt” over tailings dirt.
Hughes kidded Willard that maybe if the price of gold continues to rise, there will be a time when he'll want to “tear down the buildings” and start processing the tailings.
By way of response, Willard noted that Gold Hill home-buyers will not own any mineral rights. “I don't want them digging in their basements,” he said.
When previously asked why he opted not to process the tailings, Willard said the idea was considered, but the overall cost, due to modern requirements for safety and environmental concerns, would have been too great. Just putting a real-estate development on the site now is “extremely difficult and expensive” for those reasons, he said.
In the early part of Hughes' talk, he described the original Westside mills after Cripple Creek gold was discovered in 1891: the Colorado-Philadelphia and the Standard (both near present-day 31st Street south of the highway), the Portland (at the site of present-day Penrose Stadium) and the Telluride (on Gold Hill). All of these were gone by 1905, after which Golden Cycle came in (taking over the Telluride Mill site) with a then-advanced cyanide-based processing capability. It had the additional advantage of being able to handle more tonnage per day than the previous mills, its ownership had the Midland Railroad, and it could handle lower grades of ore more profitably.
Labor issues - lack of workers after World War II and a Midland Railroad employees' strike - combined to close the Golden Cycle mill. A new mill, the Carleton, was then built in Cripple Creek, Hughes said.
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News reports across the country are reporting that bed bugs are being found everywhere from our homes to fancy hotels and it has nothing to do with cleanliness. In New York City, three major retailers temporarily shut their doors after a recent outbreak of the tiny blood-suckers. In Seattle, exterminators are reporting a 70 percent increase in bed bug-related calls in the last two years. In Fort Worth, Texas, bed bugs caused 200 people to move out of their apartment complex.
Bed bugs, no larger than an appleseed, live on blood and blood alone. They're super-resilient and can live just about anywhere. Bed bugs like to hide in crevices and cracks where people sleep or sit still for a long time (as it makes for easy feeding). Bed bugs can go without feeding for 80 to 140 days. Adults can survive without food for as long as 550 days. Bed bugs grow fastest and lay most eggs at about 80 degrees F.
The first sign of bed bugs are small red and brown spots on your sheets. Unfortunately, the next sign may be bed bug bites which occur on exposed areas of the skin. The bite itself is painless and is not noticed. Small, flat or raised bumps on the skin are the most common sign; redness, swelling, and itching commonly occur. If scratched, the bite areas can become infected. The bites tend to be lined up in a row. Bed bug bites may go unnoticed or be mistaken for flea or mosquito bites or other types of rash.
Bed bugs can live anywhere in your home but most prefer to hang out in the bedroom. If you think you may have a problem, check your mattress. They can hide in mattress seams and behind your headboard.
Here are some tips to rid your home of these critters:
Arm yourself with gloves, a flashlight, magnifying glass, index card (for swiping bed bugs out of cracks), tweezers (to help grab the bug) and a ziplock bag. Place a few in the bag to send in for testing and vacuum the rest, disposing of the bag outside immediately.
Using the flashlight, work the mattress, inspecting the piping, sides and underside. Do the same with the box spring. If you can take it apart, do so, as bed bugs could be hiding in the joints.
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"If we as a country turn our backs on expanding Heathrow, then we are throwing in the economic towel -- and must prepare ourselves for the consequences of a low-growth or perhaps no-growth economy in the future," he said
"More capacity at the country's hub airport is essential for the future prosperity of an island nation in a globalized economy," he added.
The British government is equally concerned with the need to expand congested Heathrow to support London's continued economic growth. Last week Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly unveiled proposals for a third runway and a sixth terminal. The CAA has estimated the project could cost as much as 9 billion pounds.
"If nothing changes, Heathrow's status as a world-class airport will gradually be eroded -- jobs will be lost and the economy will suffer," she cautioned.
Once seen as Europe's No. 1 airport, Heathrow now serves fewer destinations than Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris.
Until these plans get the green light, a process likely to take years, BAA argues it needs the extra money from higher fees to carry out major refurbishments to other Heathrow facilities after T5 is completed. The airport's four other terminals have been in use for 50-odd years, and are showing their age.
With T5 nearly completed, lobbyists have turned their attention to the other terminals.
Earlier this month city business leaders demanded government action to reduce "Heathrow hassle," which in the third quarter included the temporary closure of terminal 4 following a security alert and repeated failures of the luggage system.
The 30-plus senior executives at a biannual meeting put their concerns to BAA management. Business leaders see the current fee review by the CAA as an opportunity to set tougher standards for quality of service and prioritize investment to restore Heathrow to world-class status.
Business passengers will fare especially well at T5, with half a dozen lounges, a champagne bar, a wine gallery and a spa, as well as showers and changing rooms.
But BAA's Bullock is adamant that all passengers will enjoy the benefits of T5, if indirectly.
"T5 does two things for us. It lets 27 million passengers move out of existing terminals and into British Airways' new home and it creates opportunities for us to redevelop the other terminals," he said.
Work has already begun on T1 and T3 and is starting later this month on T4. T2 is set to be demolished and entirely rebuilt. Most airlines flying to and from the U.S. out of Heathrow, including American Airlines (AMR) , United Airlines (UAUA) and Virgin Atlantic Airways, are based out of Terminal 3, which was built in the sixties.
BAA is hoping to have all the work done in time for London's 2012 Olympic Games.
Some aviation experts, however, caution that expectations may be too high. They said the new terminal is unlikely to entirely eliminate Heathrow hassle.
"T5 has to be seen as a remedial action without any doubt," said Peter Morris, chief economist of U.K.-based aviation consultancy Ascend. In particular he noted that T5 means British Airways passengers will no longer face the "misery" of having to trek from T4 to T1 to change flights.
"That's a huge improvement," he said.
But regardless of T5, Heathrow will remain a building site for the next five years as older terminals are refurbished, he added.
"T5 is by no means an overall panacea," he concluded.
Will it be enough?
Some analysts also worry that the move to T5 won't be enough for British Airways to offset the negative effect of the "open-skies" pact between Europe and the U.S. The agreement is set to liberalize transatlantic traffic starting in April and means the carrier is likely to see much more competition on some of its most lucrative routes.
Rivals Air France-KLM (AKH) and Delta Airlines (DAL) have already unveiled plans for a joint venture that will see them share costs and revenue on transatlantic routes.
Many other airlines are considering similar alliances.
Meanwhile, investors are growing impatient with the airline's share price. British Airways' shares are down roughly 37% so far this year compared with a 27% decline at Air France-KLM and a 15% drop at Lufthansa (823212) .
Heathrow's Terminal 5 is big, bright and aims to make flying enjoyable
How to end the 'Heathrow hassle' BAA's monopoly on the capital's three main airports means that it has become complacent, writes Russell Hotten
IT IS difficult to think of another company with so many dissatisfied customers. More than 70m passengers have passed through Heathrow Airport in the past 12 months and it seems a reasonable bet...
U.S. travelers are suffering on miserably crowded and late planes this summer, with record delays for domestic flights. Just be grateful you aren't flying through London's Heathrow Airport...
Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, said almost 95 percent of flights operated Saturday, after the fog finally lifted.
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Amina Abaker Mohammed occupies a simple mud hut with a thatched roof outside a refugee camp in northern Chad. Until earlier this year, she lived in Darfur, the western region of Sudan, where the Sudanese government is pursuing a campaign of ethnic cleansing against non-Arabs. Amina is a member of the Zaghawa tribe, one of the largest non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur. Her village, which was burned to the ground by Sudanese soldiers and Arab militiamen, is only fifty miles from the camp, but by donkey the trip requires a weeklong journey across the Sahara, through mounds of powdery sand, up and down steep seasonal riverbeds, over gravel slopes, and around towering red-rock mountains.
Amina, who is twenty-six and Muslim, grew up in the town of El Fasher, in North Darfur. Twelve years ago, she married Haroun Adam Haggar, and moved a hundred and sixty miles north, to a farming village near the town of Furawiyah. They had six children, and made a good living growing sorghum and herding ten cows and some five hundred sheep. During my visit to northern Chad, in July, Amina told me that Arab nomads used to pass through Furawiyah with their animals, but they stopped doing so eight years ago. That was around the time that she first heard frightening stories about the janjaweed, nomadic Arab bandits who rode on horses and camels, and enriched themselves by stealing livestock and attacking Africans. (“Jaan” means “evil” in Arabic, and “jawad” means “horse”; “janjaweed” means, roughly, “evil horseman.”) The janjaweed included local camel herders, and also nomads who migrated to Darfur from Chad and West Africa in the nineteen-seventies and eighties.
During the planting-and-harvest season, from August to November, Amina’s oldest child, a ten-year-old named Mohammed Haroun, moved south with the livestock in search of grass and water. When the animals were brought back, four months later, they were ready to be sold, or used for leather, food, and milk.
In the months when Mohammed was at home, Amina recalled, she would accompany him and their animals to one of Furawiyah’s two dozen wells. Amina would straddle the well, drop the bucket to the bottom, thirty feet down, and haul up the cool water; then she would empty the bucket into a trough for the animals, or into bags made of donkey hides, for storage. Mohammed would immediately follow her, sending the bucket tumbling into the darkness and using all his strength to mimic his mother’s maneuvers.
By January this year, Amina told me, the townspeople of Furawiyah were on alert. The government was trying to crush a resistance movement that had emerged in Darfur, and it had enlisted the janjaweed as its foot soldiers. Amina’s neighborhood had been inundated with family members, tribal kin, and displaced strangers, who had been driven from their homes by a combination of janjaweed raids and government air assaults. Many of these visitors had not stayed long. They had stopped in Furawiyah for water and quickly resumed their journey to Chad. They urged Amina to do the same. “The janjaweed are nearby,” they said. “Leave while you still can.”
Amina was no stranger to tribal killings. Five years earlier, the janjaweed had attacked a village outside El Fasher and murdered Africans, including two of her uncles and four of her cousins. But Amina told herself that her town would escape the violence spreading through Darfur. Unlike many towns in the region, it was guarded by policemen, who had helped fend off cattle rustlers in the past. Other villagers were less sanguine. Government helicopters had been flying overhead for three months, and some tribal leaders insisted that the Air Force was surveying the town for bombardment. They were right: soon, a military aircraft fired four rockets, two from each wing, on Furawiyah. The attack terrified Amina; although one rocket failed to explode, the others left large craters in the ground. She and her husband refused to abandon their land, but they sent all their children, except Mohammed, to hide in the mountains.
On January 31st, Amina’s husband was away visiting his family. Not long after dawn, when Amina and Mohammed arrived at the wells, they heard the sound of approaching planes. Fifteen minutes later, Amina recalled, the aircraft began bombing the area around the wells, where a group of her neighbors had also gathered. She and Mohammed were separated, as she fled with a few of the family’s donkeys, and he tried to assemble their panicked sheep. According to Amina, dozens of people and hundreds of animals were killed in the onslaught.
In the wake of the planes came Sudanese soldiers, packed into trucks and Land Cruisers; they were followed by hundreds of menacing janjaweed on camelback and horseback. Most of the janjaweed wore turbans around their heads and mouths, so that only their eyes were visible. They carried hijaab, tiny leather boxes containing Koranic verses, which were meant to keep them safe from bullets.
When Amina saw the janjaweed approaching, she hurried the donkeys to a red-rock hillock three hundred yards away. She assumed that Mohammed had fled in another direction, but she turned and saw that he had remained at the wells, with the older boys and the men, in an effort to protect the animals. He and the others were surrounded by several hundred janjaweed. As the circle closed around her son, she ducked behind the hillock and prayed.
By nightfall, the sounds of gunfire and screaming had faded, and Amina furtively returned to the wells. She discovered that they were stuffed with corpses, many of which had been dismembered. She was determined to find her son, but also hoped that she wouldn’t. Rummaging frantically around the wells by moonlight, she saw the bodies of dozens of people she knew, but for a long time she was unable to find her firstborn.
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A gateway is a network point that acts as an entrance to another network. On the Internet, a node or stopping point can be either a gateway node or a host (end-point) node. Both the computers of Internet users and the computers that serve pages to users are host nodes. The computers that control traffic within your company's network or at your local Internet service provider (ISP) are gateway nodes.
In the network for an enterprise, a computer server acting as a gateway node is often also acting as a proxy server and a firewall server. A gateway is often associated with both a router, which knows where to direct a given packet of data that arrives at the gateway, and a switch, which furnishes the actual path in and out of the gateway for a given packet.
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Szeto, W.Y., O'Brien, L. and O'Mahony, M 'Measuring network reliability by considering paradoxes' in Transportation Research Record, 2090, IA Planning & Admin, 2009, pp 42 - 50
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Traditionally, game theoretic approaches to measuring transport network reliability have relied on the outcome of a game played between network users seeking to minimize their travel costs and an OD-specific demon that seeks the opposite by damaging links in the network. This problem assumes the presence of only one demon in each OD pair and assumes the capacity reduction to be 50% if the link is selected for damage by one or more OD-specific demons. The game is typically expressed as a path-based formulation, which is computationally intensive since the formulation requires path enumeration. In this paper we relax the assumptions on the OD-specific nature of the demons and the capacity reduction and propose a link-based multiple network demon formulation via the nonlinear complementarity problem approach where each demon is free to select any link to damage. Under this framework, we examine the effects of the proposed model on total expected network cost and reliability measures, as well as demonstrate through specific examples paradoxical phenomena that if one adds a road to a network then all travelers may be worse off in terms of total expected network cost and/or travel time reliability. Overall the results indicate the importance of the assumptions used to total expected network cost and reliability measures, and provide some insights into the problem of ignoring these paradoxical phenomena in reliable and robust network design.
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|Speeding Up Nanomedicine
Modeling software could lead to more efficient design of nanoparticles.
A growing number of researchers are looking to nanotechnology to find ways of delivering drugs directly to cancer cells or creating fast, inexpensive diagnostic tools -- such as over-the-counter tests for avian flu. But the expertise in materials science needed to create such nano devices often doesn't overlap with an in-depth knowledge of biology, which could help guide researchers toward materials likely to be safe and effective.
Now Accelrys, a San Diego-based company with experience developing modeling software used for designing drugs and materials, is building software that will bring together life science and materials science expertise into one system. The goal: bridging the gap between these two fields, and thereby saving researchers time and money by quickly identifying designs that will work in the body.
For example, the software would help researchers sort through many combinations of drugs and polymers, to predict which ones will be compatible with each other and which can be made into nanoparticles that safely deliver the drug to target tissues, such a cancer tumor.
Similarly, using the software to match materials with protein-detecting molecules could help in designing diagnostic nanoparticles that latch onto molecular biomarkers in the body and reveal their location with various imaging technologies, according to Leroy Hood, a biochemist, founder of Seattle's Institute for Systems Biology, and scientific advisor for the software project.
One example of a problem the modeling might solve, says Hood, is measuring multiple biomarkers in order to monitor the effects of disease treatments. He says that models, by quickly sorting through a large number of possible materials and detector molecules, might help researchers "go beyond just our intuitive feeling about these things" and discover more possibilities.
This story was first posted on 11th August 2006.
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Experimental treatment for peanut allergies debated
Peanut allergies have been rising dramatically – enough so that many elementary classrooms have banned peanuts. About four times as many children have peanut allergies today as 20 years ago.
The severe form of peanut allergies can be deadly, which is why thousands of people must carry around an adrenaline shot (called an epinephrine pen, or "epi-pen").
Now, allergy doctors are debating whether they should offer an experimental allergy treatment. It was a topic this past weekend, at the 2012 Northwest Allergy Forum in Seattle.
Just a handful of doctors across the country have been offering Oral Immunotherapy Treatment (OIT). It’s similar in principle to immunotherapy treatment for hay fever and other allergies. That involves getting injections of the allergic substance and building up a tolerance.
However, the immunotherapy shots have never worked well for food allergies. One experiment with them in the 1990s was canceled after patients were having unacceptable reactions to the shots, including going into shock.
The difference with OIT is that you swallow a tiny dose of peanut protein, instead of getting an injection.
“A lot of people have asked about this for years. Every allergist gets this request,” says Dr. Jim Baker, an allergy doctor from Portland, who specializes in peanut allergies.
One doctor who says it's needed
Baker is the only doctor in the Pacific Northwest currently offering OIT -- and he reserves it for just the right type of patient. It can be dangerous (so don't try it at home, he says).
“I probably talk half of them out of it,” he says.
Baker has treated 86 patients, and he says 61 of them have successfully learned to tolerate peanuts. The other 25 had to stop the therapy for various reasons, ranging from abdominal pains to being unable to comply with the strict regimen.
The oral treatment is rigid, requiring two doses a day, at a precise hour every day. Those who succeed can now eat peanuts -- and have to keep eating peanuts every day, or the tolerance will wear off.
Baker started using the treatment about three years ago. Some colleagues in Texas were succeeding with it, and then researchers at Duke University completed an investigation that seemed to show promise.
“I started very, very slowly,” says Baker. “I was lucky that my initial patients came from physician families.”
With a physician at home, any bad reaction could be caught instantly, and the parents understood the seriousness of sticking religiously to the regime.
Most doctors want better evidence
Most allergists are not willing to offer OIT, yet. At the conference last weekend, Dr. Steve Tilles of Seattle offered a counterpoint. He says OIT is still too unproven.
“I don’t want to be prescribing something and keeping my fingers crossed that it does what I expect it to, in everyone,” says Tilles. “Maybe one out of 50, or one out of 100, has a horrible reaction.”
He compares it to going on a Boeing test flight of a brand new jet. It'll probably fly just fine the first time up, but most of us want to wait until after formal testing before we’re passengers.
Baker counters that doctors can prevent bad outcomes by carefully managing their patients.
Allergy doctors expect clinical trials will happen in the next five years or so, showing exactly the risks and benefits of OIT. Until those results are in, most doctors, including national leaders, are telling people with peanut allergies they'll have to wait.
Currently, people with severe nut allergies can survive by being attentive and always carrying an epi-pen. About 125 people die each year in the US from severe reactions to peanuts, out of an estimated 3 million people with the allergy, said Tilles.
Although peanut allergies affect only about 1% of children under 18, many more parents think their children have a peanut allergy, based on getting a "false-positive" from a simple skin test. But, they have never seen a specialist to have that confirmed or denied, according to both Tilles and Baker.
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Originally Posted by salmonmac
It can certainly be frustrating sometimes but don't be discouraged. You're learning with every pattern you do, so it all counts. Small things, toys and doll's clothes can be especially confusing.
The pattern probably says to increase at each end of the next row and then wants you to increase at each end of the following 6th rows, 4 times. That'll give you 10 additional sts for a total of 32sts. So you would increase on the next row (call it row 1) and then rows 7,13,19, and 25.
oh dear if that is so i will have to undo the whole body as i have read the leg part wrong as well. Why dont they explain the pattern row by row it would be much easier. Thanks for yor help and time anyway.
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Up next in How to Write a Letter (13 videos)
Learn how to pen a proper letter with the tips in these Howcast videos.
You Will Need
- The name of the offending company’s CEO
- A suggested reparation
Go straight to the top
Address your letter to the company’s CEO. His secretary will likely forward it to customer service with a personal note, sending your complaint to the top of the pile. In fact, research has found that this trick can triple your chances of a successful outcome.
State the problem and include any back-up materials, such as a sales receipt or any previous correspondence. This will show that you are a serious person who will not be ignored until your complaint is resolved.
State exactly what the company can do to keep you as a customer, whether it’s a refund, store credit, or a replacement. If all you do is complain, chances are all you’ll get back by way of apology is a form letter.
Talk up your loyalty
If you’re a longtime customer, say so! (And even if you aren’t, it doesn’t hurt to fudge a bit.) Companies do not want to lose loyal customers.
Make a vague, veiled threat
Hint--in a polite, friendly way--what will happen if they don’t make things up to you. For example, say, 'I am surprised that no one has complained yet about your customer service in the online reviews I’ve read' to imply is that you might just add a disgruntled account.
Keep it short
Keep your letter short and to the point. Studies show that after about a page, or 200 words, people lose interest--and sympathy!
Don’t forget to spell check your letter. Misspellings make the reader perceive you as unintelligent, which may make them not take your complaint as seriously.
End on a positive note
End by thanking the person 'in advance' for resolving the matter.
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(Note: please visit the training page for details of all training sessions & when/where they are held)
What is it?
A tempo run is a run that is done at a fairly steady, moderately fast pace. They are controlled steady efforts, not burn-ups or mid-week races.
Why do tempo runs?
Tempo runs will help your basic cruising speed of running. In a typical training week very little running is done at or near race pace. Hills and grass/track reps are done faster and recovery runs and Sunday runs are done slower. The tempo run is done at something nearer to race pace and will therefore get your heart, lungs and legs used to running that little bit faster.
It is important to try to get into the routine of doing these tempo runs, progress from this type of session is gradual. There should be a gradual increase in the effort/speed of these tempo runs. The full benefits will not be shown until February/March so please stick with it.
How fast is a tempo run?
For those that have already raced over distances such as half marathon it is about that sort of pace. You should just about be able to have a brief conversation.
It is not a flat out effort; you should be able to complete the tempo run in such a state that it will not exhaust you.
How long are the tempo runs?
This will depend on your fitness, age and experience. They will vary from 4 to 8 miles.
Why do we go from Weetwood?
The route that we use is one of the flattest around Leeds; there are wide pavements and not too many road crossings. There are some established ‘mile markers’ that we use as references.
We use the same route each week so that you can get used to running at a predictable speed. This will give you an indication as to whether you have run too fast or have been taking it too easy. It should also allow you to see your progress over the year.
What do I need?
Please wear something bright and reflective. It will soon be dark on these sessions.
Bring a stop watch if you have one as this would be useful to monitor your pace.
If you happen to have a Heart Rate Monitor this is one session where it will come in handy to monitor your effort and progress.
Note: Please concentrate on all road crossings.
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Your emerging leaders are your rising managers and leaders in the making. But how do you spot an emerging leader and then develop them into a leadership role? Picking the right people and training them the right way is essential. That's why we've provided five (5) qualities these talented employees usually embody plus 5 ways to develop them.
Emerging leaders are smart and talented high-achievers in their current roles. They consistently produce more and better work than their peers, are considered subject-matter experts, and know how to attain results by their own accord and through others. They are driven to accomplish great things.
2. Change agent.
Emerging leaders are often agents of change in their organizations. They are likely to initiate new ways of doing things and are proponents of taking risks to further the organization. They share ideas, aren’t afraid to embark on new projects and opportunities, and may challenge the status quo.
Emerging leaders not only show an interest in developing themselves and their own capabilities, but also have the ability and interest in training, developing, mentoring, and coaching other employees. Many have a natural knack for building talent and want to see others succeed and grow to their fullest potential.
Emerging leaders are collaborative, great teammates, and good communicators. They seek others’ input and opinions, use it to shape their ideas, and generate consensus. They have strong soft-skills and have emotional intelligence when it comes to dealing with others. They are well-liked and well-respected by their peers and get along with others easily.
Emerging leaders are business savvy. They are strategic-minded, show business acumen, and have a good understanding of the market and industry in which your organizations operates.
Disclaimer: It's important to use these general qualities as simply a guide - an example of the types of attributes that typically characterize these employees. We encourage you to identify specific leadership traits that are important to your own organization since they may differ and vary in every workplace. In addition, after you have identified these individuals, use these five critical tools to develop your emerging leaders.
1. Challenging projects.
Talented up-and-coming leaders need challenging assignments that stretch them to new heights. Identify strategic projects, high visibility assignments, strategic business opportunities, lean/efficiency projects, and short-term assignments in other divisions/departments and perhaps in tandem with your executive team. The more exposure your emerging leaders can receive from senior leaders, the better.
2. Mentor or coach.
Emerging leaders will benefit from a senior-level mentor or coach. Ideally, the mentoring or coaching relationship should be structured with regular meetings at least quarterly (and if possible monthly or more frequently) and target specific skills that the rising star needs to develop.
3. Opportunities to lead.
Rising stars want opportunities to lead others and practice managing key initiatives. Designate them as leads on major projects or initiatives and on special committees, teams, or sub-groups. Allow them to mentor or train other employees such as new-hires or junior-level employees. These opportunities will help build their leadership abilities to prepare them for future roles in your organization.
4. Development plan.
A development plan is necessary for your high potential. It can be very basic or it can be highly detailed. The important part is that it must exist. There must be a living document or plan that is created to help get your rising star from point A to point B in the organization. Why? Lack of structure in developing others leads to lack of accountability by all the parties involved in the development process.
5. Formal training.
Emerging leaders have likely never been taught the fundamentals of leadership and management and need to be educated on them and engage in classroom experiences that help them build critical skills in communication, presentation, change management, performance management, conflict resolution, and more.
If your organization hasn't yet embarked on identifying and developing your emerging leaders, consider doing so. Not only will it help you prepare for future management and leadership openings, but it will also help you engage and retain these critical employees that you likely can't afford to lose.
This two-part program is ideal for your younger rising stars, providing them with the knowledge and skills they need to represent their organization, develop into leadership roles, and increase their contributions to your organization.
Management & Leadership Training
Hundreds of companies turn to ERC every year to develop and enhance the skills of their managers, supervisors, leaders and professionals at all levels. We offer numerous courses on management, leadership, and soft-skills topics.
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Another day, another lawsuit. A British Columbia woman is suing Apple, claiming the company has violated the privacy and security of users of its iPhones, iPads and iPods that are using the iOS4 operating system, reports "CBCNews" (http://macte.ch/QXwvA).
Amanda Ladas, of Surrey, has filed the lawsuit under the Class Proceedings Act in Supreme Court of B.C. Ladas’s claim alleges that in addition to the violation of security and privacy, Apple has "engaged in deceptive acts or practices" that entitle her and anyone who joins the suit "to aggravated, punitive and/or exemplary damages."
According to "CBCNews," Ladas says she's concerned that, without her permission, anyone with moderate computer knowledge can find out where she’s been. According to a report by digital forensics technologist Francis Graf, whose report is filed with the lawsuit, Ladas’s iPhone 4 contains location data, going back approximately one year, which was easily accessible using free tools readily available on the Internet.
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About April Fool’s Day
Every year on April 1st, office water coolers are spiked with white wine and computer mouses are glued to desks. Every year on college campuses, half empty buckets of water are placed on the top of dorm room doors and passed out bros are covered with marker ink. And throughout the world, the sound of chuckling and cackling can be heard echoing across its borders.
April Fool’s Day may be full of pranks, tricks and gags every year, but their origins and traditions have become a bigger mystery than the identity of the person who left the flaming bag of dog poop on your doorstep. Here are the few things we do know about the holiday and some of the most famous pranks in history, which may or may not be elaborate April Fool’s pranks themselves.
1. No one knows how it started
Many nations and cultures have their own traditional day of good-natured joking dating back to the turn of the century, but not a single one of them can be called the definitive inspiration for America’s April Fool’s Day. According to Snopes, the most prevailing theory is that the day was created when the Western Hemisphere switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in the 1500s, effectively moving the start of the year from March 25th to Jan. 1st. This caused some pranksters to trick others into believing it was a new year at the start of April. So far, that’s only a theory. Historians haven’t been able to pin a definitive origin down yet.
2. The holiday’s name mostly like came from a French holiday called “April Fish”
There is also several prevailing theories about how the holiday got its name, but one of the most popular comes from France. According to ‘The Dictionary of Word Origins,’ the French celebrate a different version of the holiday. Pranksters tried to play tricks on their friends by sticking a picture of a fish on their backs and yelling “Poissons d’avril!,” which means “April fish” in English.
3. The man who invented almost every novelty gag in history turned down one of the biggest: the Whoopie cushion
Just about every gag you could possibly get hit by or with on April 1st came from the mind of one man. Soren Sorensen Adams, better known as “Sam,” came to America from Denmark in the 1900s and later found work as a coal-tar product salesman. He found that one of the powders he used in his work could make people sneeze when blown in their face, something that many people found amusing. He started selling “Cachoo Powder” and made $150,000 off it. His success led to the creation of other practical joke staples such as the dribble glass, the joy buzzer and the springing snakes in a can. However, Adams actually turned down the rights to sell the Whoopie cushion in 1930 because he thought, “The whole idea seemed too indelicate.” Adams’ descendants bought the rights to an electronic Whoopie cushion 60 years later.
4. The CIA tried to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar
The CIA’s attempts to trick Cuban dictator Fidel Castro were more than just a series of fun practical jokes — they were downright fatal. The attempts started in the 1960s when Attorney General Robert Kennedy oversaw a secret program with the help of the justice and defense departments that started a long series of suggested attempts to unseat Castro with some very ‘Looney Tunes’-esque schemes.
Agents tried blowing Castro up with an explosive conch shell during one of his many scuba diving trips and attempted to ruin his reputation with his people by making his famous beard fall out by placing a special powder in his shoes. The most famous was by booby trapping his trademark cigars, first by poisoning one and then by planting an explosive device in another. Neither plan worked, nor did the 636 other plans suggested by the secret task force.
5. The original recipe for fake vomit is a closely guarded secret
One of the biggest mysteries for April Fool’s aficionados, other than how the day itself came to be, is the first and original recipe for the novelty classic the plastic pile of fake vomit. The company that created it has filed it away under lock and key for more than 60 years.
Fake vomit was first sold in the 1950s by Irving Fishlove, the son of the owner of the Chicago gag company H. Fishlove & Co. The recipe either came from the toy mastermind Marvin Glass, who also created games such as Mouse Trap and Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, or one of Glass’ employees who presented it to him but thought the idea was too disgusting to sell. The employee refused to give up on the idea and decided to take the gag item to the boardroom by bursting into a meeting and plopping down the latex barf on the table, causing Fishlove to laugh and Glass to change his mind. The original recipe is hidden in Fun Inc’s headquarters on Chicago’s West Side.
6. Johnny Carson kept a rubber chicken and a gag arrow behind his desk for almost the entire run of ‘The Tonight Show’
The king of late night comedy was a master of dealing with a bombed sketch or a bad joke, partly because he kept a reminder of his failure behind the most famous desk in television history. Author and biographer Bill Zehme did one of the last profiles on ‘The Tonight Show’ host 10 years after his infamous exit from television. He took a tour of Carson’s office and spotted an “old disintegrating rubber chicken…and a wooden arrow” in a Plexiglass case. These props came from a very early ‘Tonight Show’ sketch about General Custer that didn’t get many laughs, so Carson kept them behind his desk “as a private irony check.”
Johnny’s sidekick Ed McMahon wrote in his memoir ‘Here’s Johnny!’ that he also used these props as a last resort for an easy laugh if the audience began to die down, but ,“Johnny’s chicken rarely made an appearance because he had an unerring instinct for how to get a laugh. I never met a better judge of comedy or a more honest one.”
7. The Seattle sketch comedy show ‘Almost Live!’ made viewers believe that the Space Needle collapsed
One of the longest-running sketch comedy shows in the country actually aired on local television. ‘Almost Live!’ aired on KING-5 in Seattle, WA from 1984 to 1999 and continued with reruns until 2006, earning it a cult following that continues to this day. One of their less memorable episodes aired in 1989 on April Fool’s Day and featured a joke that a lot of people didn’t find very funny.
During the show’s opening monologue, a fake news broadcast cut into the program featuring a very real-looking news anchorman announcing that high winds had knocked over the Seattle landmark, the Space Needle. 911 dispatchers were clogged with phone calls, and the show’s host John Keister issued an on-air apology the following week.
8. A report about a loose python in Google’s headquarters on April 1st wasn’t an April Fool’s Day joke
As a company, Google has a long tradition of celebrating April Fool’s Day, both in their corporate offices and various web platforms. However, an emergency memo that just happened to go out to employees on April 1st was anything but a joke. A Google engineer’s 3-foot-long python named Kaiser got loose from its pen and wandered through the halls of the company’s New York offices.
The company sent out a memo warning people about the loose creature, but several wrote it off as a joke and company officials had to assure them it wasn’t. Thankfully, the snake was found and returned to its owner unharmed. The employee who found it may not have been so lucky.
9. A lot of people thought the murder of Marvin Gaye was an April Fool’s prank
While there are plenty of real things that happened on April 1st that people thought were just the product of some wise guy’s prank, few were more infamous or tragic than the untimely death of singer Marvin Gaye. Gaye’s abusive father shot and killed the singer on April 1st, 1984, in his home during a violent argument the day before his 45th birthday. Musician Stevie Wonder, one of Gaye’s close friends, received the news by telephone and thought someone was trying to pull a cruel April Fool’s prank on him. Four days later, he delivered the eulogy at his funeral.
Other musicians who weren’t yet famous would also experience the same confusing tragedy. Roots drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson recalled in an interview with Vibe Magazine that he heard the news from a cousin and thought it too was an April Fool’s Day joke until he watched the news later that evening.
10. The Scots and the French invented the “Kick Me” sign
Scotland’s April Fool’s Day is a bit longer than ours– two days to be exact. The second day is called “Taily Day” and involves sneaky pranks on a person’s posterior. According to the book ‘The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren,’ which was written back in 1959 to observe the play patterns and social habits of children, jokers would take strips of paper and stick them to another student’s backside and laugh as they walked away with a new tail. It is believed that this custom mixed with the “April Fish” tradition from France led to the “Kick Me” sign beloved by mischievous schoolchildren the world over.
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Some parents may be wondering how to help their child over the summer so he/she retains the skills developed this year. Here are some suggestions to continue to develop listening skills, comprehension and the ability to read and spell/write words.
Read to your child daily. After reading a story, ask your child to "retell" the story in his/her own words. What happened in the beginning, middle and end? Ask specific comprehension questions or details about the story.
Visit your local Public Library
and let your child pick out books he/she can read to you and choose some books for you to read to him/her. Sign up for a summer program
at the library.
Mrs. Jones made many easy-to-read books in her small group this year! Each child kept their collection in their "Book Treasure Box" and practiced reading them at home. Over the summer, your child should read them out loud to a grownup to continue practicing his/her reading skills at home.
Help your child "sound out" words and play with their sounds using activities by Mrs. Brooks
, Lakeview Reading Specialist. Or play What's the Word
? and other online word games with your child.
Review this list of "Instant Sight Words
." These are the most common words in English. The first hundred make up about half of all written material.
Review the sounds that the vowels make using the key words below.
|a = apple
||a = apron
|e = eggs / elephant
||e = eagle
|i = igloo
||i = ice cream
|o = octopus
||o = open / ocean
|u = umbrella / up
||u = uniform / unicorn
Point out things you notice about words. This year, the children noticed whenever the letter "r" is around a vowel, it loses its sound and the "r" controls the sound the vowel makes. We call it the BOSSY R! Examples: star
. The children also noticed that when you hear a "long e" sound at the end of a word it might be spelled with a "y." Examples: very, pretty, penny. They also noticed that sometimes, when 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking and it's usually long. Examples: soap, meat, boat.
The children have enjoyed writing stories in their journals this year and should be encouraged to continue this summer. Remind your child to write in lower case letters, except when beginning a sentence and to use punctuation
at the end of a sentence. To make their stories longer, remember to use the word "because" and ask the questions: who, what, when, where, why and how.
The Department of Education provides more suggestions:
Help My Child Read Put Reading First Helping Your Child Series
Please remember that the more your child practices using his/her newly acquired skills this summer, the easier it will be to continue reading and writing when he/she is in first grade.
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From the New York Times
Around the corner came a little golden ball of sunshine named Madison, dressed head to toe in pink, hair arranged in Afro puffs, one wrist covered in turquoise beaded bracelets, arms opened wide. She wrapped those arms around a teacher’s legs, hugged them close and looked up with the kind of smile that sets the world right.
Madison is 4 years old. She is happy and thriving. This is her second year of Head Start in the basement of a building that houses the poor and homeless in one of Manhattan’s poorest neighborhoods.
I met Madison and 50 other little rays of hope at the Dorothy Day Apartments on Riverside Drive in West Harlem. The building is the sixth in the neighborhood run by Broadway Housing Communities, and the first to include a day care center serving both the building and the community. This former drug den is not only beautiful, but it also pulses with pride and hope and happiness.
It’s just what I needed to see. Writing about children and the poor and the vulnerable these days, there aren’t very many bright spots — but this is one.
The children are bathed by natural light that floods into the basement through skylights. The floors are covered by beautiful green ceramic tile made to look like slate. The walls are painted a sunrise yellow, lined with thick wooden moldings and covered with well-framed pieces of art — some by the children, some donated. The courtyard, which had been filled with six feet of garbage, is covered with mats and used as an area where wee little legs that barely have kneecaps can be folded into funky shapes for daily yoga.
Above the day care center are six floors of housing for 190 people, more than half of whom are children and all of whom were either homeless or in extreme poverty. Many of the adults are the hardest cases: those recovering from drug addiction, those with chronic diseases like H.I.V. and those with mental disabilities. In fact, most of the adults suffer from some form of disability.
And on the top floor is an art gallery that opens onto a sweeping veranda, lined with flowering plants and with some of the most magnificent Hudson River views in the city.
It is easy to forget that you’re in a low-income housing building. The administrators joked often when I was there about the chic woman who had jumped out of a cab and inquired about rents because she wanted a river view, only to be told to her befuddlement that the building was for the poor. “She was shocked,” they chuckled.
There are no security guards. There is no commotion. There are no signs of institutional living like names above doors. There isn’t even so much as a crayon mark on any of the walls. This is an oasis of civility and tranquility and culture inhabited — and to some degree, self-policed — by people whom the world would rob of those dignities.
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February 14, 1993 |
An expedition to monitor seas near an experimental Soviet atomic submarine, which sank off Norway nearly four years ago, has found no radiation leaks, Itar-Tass news agency said on Saturday.
March 6, 1986 |
Eight workers at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant were slightly contaminated by radioactive steam today during an automatic reactor shutdown caused by an electrical fault, a plant spokesman said.
October 26, 1986 |
A Japanese anti-nuclear group said Friday that it has developed a cheap radiation detector that it hopes to market overseas. "We got the idea to develop a cheap radiation monitoring device in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union last April," group leader Tetsuo Iesaka said. He said the detector costs $500, compared to $1,200 to $1,800 for conventional detectors in Japan.
September 27, 2008 |
Intense radiation therapy for three weeks after surgery for early breast cancer keeps the disease at bay just as well as lower doses for five weeks, a study found. More than 1,200 women were treated with either the accelerated three-week dose of radiation or the standard five-week therapy, then tracked for recurrences for up to 12 years. The cancer returned to the same breast a decade after treatment in 6.2% of those treated for three weeks and 6.7% of those getting standard therapy, according to the study presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in Boston.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 24, 1990
Your story on the "downwinders" who were exposed to large amounts of radiation from the Hanford Nuclear plant in Washington was alarming ("How Dare They! Atom Critics Cry," Part A, July 14). Not because of the government information recently released, but because of the prevailing sheep-like attitude that the residents have toward the facility and its effects. For years, environmental and nuclear experts have warned the local residents of the impending problems caused by the Hanford plant, including the radioactive debris released into the air and waste water dumped into the river.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 23, 2000
Re "Weather Tower on Sulphur Mountain," Ventura County letters, Feb. 16. I feel compelled to rebut Bruce Garber's concerns about radiation from the tower. First, the antenna is mounted 90 feet above the terrain--well above the local population. To operate efficiently, the radiation is focused into a narrow beam of only a very few degrees vertically and horizontally, which should obviate spraying of the local populace with radiation. Second, the intensity of such radiation varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from the site.
September 16, 2000 |
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani underwent radioactive seed implantation to treat his prostate cancer. Doctors said the hourlong procedure went "perfectly," and the mayor was released later in the day. "There were absolutely no complications at all," said Dr. Richard Stock at a news conference. Giuliani appeared healthy and relaxed afterward.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 2, 1991 |
People who have received radiation treatment for Hodgkin's disease have a high risk of developing thyroid problems decades after the treatments end, according to new research. Hodgkin's, a cancer of the lymph nodes and spleen, usually strikes people in their 20s and between 55 and 70 years of age. The thyroid gland, which produces important hormones, is vulnerable to the radiation used to treat Hodgkin's.
July 26, 1986 |
The Kansas City Royals said Friday that Manager Dick Howser will undergo about five weeks of radiation treatments for the cancerous tumor found in his brain earlier this week. But the team declined to provide detailed results of pathological tests. The club released a statement saying that Dr. Charles Clough, the neurosurgeon who operated on Howser Tuesday at St.
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Iphone for Seniors
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Little known fact, today is NOT actually the Mexican independence day (which is in September), rather it is anniversary of a victory over French soldiers in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. This battle only slowed down the French, though, who would occupy Mexico City just one year later. Moreover, Cinco de Mayo is not celebrated throughout Mexico. Although it is commemorated in the state of Puebla where the battle took place it is really an American holiday that spread from Southern California to tex-mex chain restaurants around the country. Americans took to the holiday because it brought together our disparate loves for salsa, pinatas and seeing the French lose at stuff.
(A version of this post originally ran in this space on May 5, 2008)
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W hen Charles Buggs stepped in front of a sixth-grade class at Floyd Dryden Middle School on Thursday, he was carrying a bag full of faces.
A box of eyes and noses was on a nearby counter. Each student held an assemblage of "bones," waiting to hear how to flesh out their creations with paper and glue.
Buggs is a master at making masks, and for the past few weeks he has been sharing his accumulation of knowledge with hundreds of Dryden students.
To create masks, Buggs uses a technique he developed that starts with chipboard strips that are curved and affixed into a symmetrical oval, with an arching grid in the middle.
Then, with pieces of paper - cut-up grocery bags, for example - covered in glue, he fills the gaps and builds the mask's unique character.
He adds facial features by molding around pieces of cardboard and wire, then paints and decorates the mask. When done, his smooth, sturdy creations have the appearance of carved wood.
He has published a book about his technique, called "The Art of the Paper Mask," and at Dryden he has been teaching students the basics while giving them latitude to explore.
"I provide templates, but I encourage them to use their own ideas," he said. "I like their ideas a lot better."
One student found a way to construct a double mask off a single frame; another found an interesting way to create his mask's eyes.
"He took a plastic spoon, broke the handle off and used the bowl," Buggs said. "I'm going to use that at some point."
Students have had a lot of freedom in the themes for their masks, with some sticking to class study topics and others going out on their own.
"We're studying Greek mythology, and that's how we're coming up with most of our ideas," said sixth-grader Dylan Stuart, who was creating a paper Poseidon. "But it's basically whatever you want."
Themes among his classmates ranged from Matt Krauss' Medusa to Tracy Ralston's geisha to a one-eyed visage created by Nicole Maki, who said that the project was "really cool because of all the glue that gets on your hands."
Buggs is spending about two weeks with more than 200 sixth-graders. Earlier this month he made masks with about 170 seventh-graders, many of whom made ceremonial, theatrical, funerary or other kinds of masks relating to Pacific Rim nations they were researching.
"They were all very excited to do the masks and have them correlate with their country," seventh-grade teacher Jessie Richards said. "They took so much pride in this project."
The amount of work can be judged by the five gallons of Elmer's Glue used to date, and by the colorful masks that now line the school's corridors.
"It brings a smile to me every time I walk down the halls and see this many masks in one school," Buggs said.
Andrew Krueger can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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What is sedimentary rock?
Sedimentary rock is formed from sediments deposited by water on the bottom of rivers, lakes, and oceans. The sediments are pieces of earth that have eroded, or worn away and washed downstream into rivers, lakes, and oceans and then settled out. As subsequent layers of sediment are overlaid over previous layers, the pressure from the weight causes the sediments to form rock.
Layers of sedimentary rock are formed by slow deposition from winds and normal rains and also from rapid deposition from catastrophic processes such as large rains, tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, etc.
Fossils are found in many sedimentary rock layers. It is believed that the fossils are primarily deposited during catastrophic depositions since rapid burial is needed to fossilize a living organism.
Some different types of sedimentary rock layers are called sandstone, limestone, shale, gypsum, and conglomerate rock.
Other types of non-sedimentary rock include igneous and metamorphic rock.
Some types of igneous rock include granite, basalt, obsidian, and pumice.
Some types on metamorphic rock include quartz, amethyst, marble, slate, gneiss, graphite, and coal.
Our understanding of how sedimentary rocks were formed and how fossils in those rocks became fossilized is critical to understanding what the rocks really tell us about our true origins.
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March 1, 2012 – 9:24 AM
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2012 — 9:24 AM
Watch video of the the sixth installment of the Green Bag Luncheon Series that took place on Wednesday, February 29, sponsored by Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) and the American Studies Sustainability Project.
Megan Morton of Pro Utilitas gives an up-close look at the chemicals in conventional cleaners, ways to minimize your toxic load while cleaning, what “green” cleaning really means, and tips and tricks to help you tackle spring cleaning in an earth-friendly way.
Contact: Kendra Abkowitz, (615) 322-9022
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|"We can try to understand / The New York Times' effect on man"|
We're not exactly sure what the Bee Gees' mean here (it sounds like a pretty philosophical question) but they may have been thinking of the New York Magazine article that did have a big effect on man – and what he knew about disco.Deep Thought
New York Magazine instructed writer Nik Cohn to do an article about New York's disco scene. Cohn came back with "The Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night," which followed the story of a young man named Vincent, supposedly the best-known disco dancer in Brooklyn. "Moving from neighborhood to neighborhood, from disco to disco, an explorer out of my depth," Cohn wrote, "I have tried to learn the patterns, the old/new tribal rites." He added that everything in the article was "factual and either witnessed by me or told to me directly by the people involved."
That's all fine and good, except that Cohn was so out of his depth that the article was largely fabricated. That's right – he made it up.
Twenty years after the article as published, Cohn admitted what he'd done. He published a follow-up, quoted in the New York Times: "My story was a fraud…I'd only recently arrived in New York. Far from being steeped in Brooklyn street life, I hardly knew the place. As for Vincent, my story's hero, he was largely inspired by a Shepherd's Bush mod whom I'd known in the Sixties, a one-time king of Goldhawk Road." The mods were a fashionable and hyped-up group who were notable as the contrast to rockers, or rock and roll fans; Shepherd's Bush is a neighborhood in London.
Of course, by the time Cohn made his admission, the film Saturday Night Fever had immortalized Cohn's made-up story in its (even more) fictionalized story of Tony Manero, who was based on Cohn's Vincent character.
|"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk / I'm a woman's man, no time to talk."|
Don't be fooled by Barry Gibb's falsetto – this is most definitely a man singing.Deep Thought
Barry Gibb didn't always sing this way. When he and his brothers started their band, they focused more on folk-inspired harmonies. But when Barry stumbled up on his falsetto, he stumbled on disco treasure. "Stayin' Alive" is certainly the most famous of his falsetto tracks, but the first time he tried it out was in 1975's "Nights on Broadway."
Falsetto hasn't been as popular as of late, but it still crops up once in a while – just listen to Justin Timberlake.
|"You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive"|
The unforgettable beat of this song actually has helped some people stay alive.Deep Thought
A 2008 study conducted by doctors at the University of Illinois Medical School revealed that "Stayin' Alive" could help people who perform CPR on victims of heart attacks do their job better. Clocking in at 103 beats per minute, it provides a near-perfect beat for timing chest compressions. Since the song is familiar to most people (in other words, since it's so easy to get stuck in your head), the song has proven an ideal teaching tool for CPR instructors.
"I don't know how the Bee Gees knew this," said Dr. Vinay Nadkarni, speaking for the American Heart Association. "They probably didn't. But they just hit upon this natural rhythm that was very catchy, very popular, that helps us do the right thing." A medical resident adds, "I heard a rumor that [Queen's] 'Another One Bites the Dust' works also, but it didn't seem quite as appropriate." We agree.
|"Got the wings of heaven on my shoes / I'm a dancing man and I just can't lose"|
Here we get to the heart of the matter: dancing.Deep Thought
Just in case you're not already tired of hearing us say it: disco is dance music. This line expresses a feeling of freedom and empowerment that a lot of disco embraced. Dancing makes the speaker of this song feel great – he feels like he's got wings on his shoes, and he's set up for success. Note that expressing this feeling of pride and invincibility is a little different from singing about being very intoxicated at a club and dancing because it's the only thing you can manage to do, which is the sort of thing that seems to come up these days, instead.
|"Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking"|
When they say everybody, they mean it.Deep Thought
Unlike rock and roll, which was dominated at the time by white men, disco was embraced as a musical genre that crossed color and gender lines. Members of racial minorities, gays, and women found themselves represented in disco in a way they hadn't before in popular music. Of course, not everyone who fell into those groups was a disco fan, but it was notable that some members of all those groups took to it. See the Meaning tab for more about disco's fans and detractors.
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Chavez Using Breathing Tube as Venezuela Publishes Photos
Venezuela’s government showed the first photos of President Hugo Chavez in more than two months, as pressure builds to obtain more information about the leader’s battle with cancer in a Cuban hospital.
In one photo, a smiling Chavez is propped up on a pillow, his face puffy and flushed, reading yesterday’s copy of the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma in the company of his daughters Rosa and Maria.
The photos were released as the government struggles to manage the aftermath of a 32 percent currency devaluation that went into effect this week. A group of students opposed to the government were jailed yesterday after trying to chain themselves to the gates of the Cuban embassy in Caracas to demand a truthful account of Chavez’s illness, which has plunged Venezuela into a period of uncertainty.
“This is the first step in knowing what the president’s real condition is,” said Carlos Romero, a political analyst at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. “The Chavistas are tired of waiting for honest information about the president’s health.”
At the same time it released the four photos, the government provided new details about the president’s health.
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said Chavez continues to suffer from a “delicate” respiratory infection that has left him speechless and breathing through a tracheal tube. Instead, the 58-year-old former paratrooper communicates with his cabinet by writing, and was responsible for determining the final details of last week’s devaluation of the bolivar, said Technology Minister Jorge Arreaza, who is Chavez’s son-in-law.
“He has trouble communicating normally, but we understand him perfectly,” Arreaza said. “We hope we’ll be able to hear him again. He hasn’t lost his voice permanently.”
In contrast to the periods following past treatments, Chavez hadn’t been seen or heard from since traveling to Cuba on Dec. 10 for his fourth surgery in 20 months. That’s fueled speculation that his health is worse than the government is letting on and that he may be forced to step down, a move that would trigger an election.
Chavez may be using the tracheal tube to breathe more comfortably than with a machine and avoid damage to his upper airway or because the airway is damaged and a tube would allow him to “bypass the place where the windpipe is narrowed or blocked off,” Michael Pishvaian, an oncologist at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University in Washington, said in a phone interview. Pishvaian has not treated Chavez or been given more information than what is publicly available.
“If the tube is hooked up to a machine, he cannot speak. If the tube is in place but he’s not dependent on the machine, they can put in a special kind of tube that allows him to speak,” Pishvaian said.
The government statement didn’t say whether Chavez is using the tracheal tube with a breathing machine. If Chavez continues to use a machine, that would mean his lungs have not recovered, and he may never become independent of it, Pishvaian said.
During Chavez’s prolonged absence, the government has tried to project an image of stability, with Vice President Nicolas Maduro saying in December that Chavez was walking and exercising.
The photos and comments today indicate that the president’s recovery is slow-going, confirming the outlook shaped by vague health updates provided by the government and reports by newspaper columnists, said Saul Cabrera, vice president of Caracas-based polling company Consultores 21.
“The fact that he’s prostrate and not even sitting up, yet alone standing, shows that he remains severely limited physically,” said Cabrera in a telephone interview.
The government hasn’t disclosed what type of cancer Chavez is suffering from. Before leaving for Havana for his last round of treatment, Chavez threw his “irrevocable, absolute” support behind Maduro should his illness prevent him from carrying out another six-year term.
Venezuela’s dollar bonds have returned 3.6 percent this year, and 35 percent in the past 12 months, as investors bet that any post-Chavez government would retreat from policies that over the past decade curtailed output in South America’s largest oil producer.
The yield on the benchmark dollar bonds due 2027 fell three basis points to 8.93 percent at 3:30 p.m. in New York, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The opposition rushed to criticize the government for allegedly misleading Venezuelans.
“A few days ago the liars said they were speaking with the president and now they say he can’t speak,” Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles Radonski, who lost to Chavez by 11 percentage points in October’s election, wrote on Twitter. “They keep thinking the people are fools.”
Maduro, who spoke on state television today at a political rally in Bolivar state, condemned the comments made by Capriles and the student protest outside the Cuban embassy in Caracas.
“Chavez’s smile enrages them,” said Maduro. “We’ll hold Capriles responsible for any violence caused by that neo-fascist group at the embassy. The police acted because they had to act. You can’t attack our beloved Cuba.”
In Caracas, Jhonny Herrera said he was happy to see the president overcoming his illness.
“We Venezuelans believe what we see, not what we’re told,” said Herrera, a 39-year-old chef who said he’s neither a supporter of the government or the opposition. “They should have done this from the beginning to have more credibility with the people.”
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andre Soliani at email@example.com
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February 2, 2012 at 1:49 pm in History
Smack dab in East Hollywood sits one of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s gems, the Hollyhock House. I was part of a private tour of the house recently, and was truly, er, floored.
Hollyhock House was built for oil heiress and single mom Aline Barnsdall just after World War I. The setting was a stunning hilltop olive grove surrounded by 36 acres, with 360-degree views of a then very picturesque, perhaps even quaint, Los Angeles. Barnsdall designed her homestead as a multi-structure arts complex, complete with theaters for both live performances and films. Today, that spirit remains, as the property is now the Barnsdall Art Park, housing the Los Angeles Municipal Art gallery, theater, and art center where numerous art and music classes are held.
Pulling into the park off of Hollywood Blvd., you proceed up a windy road and are immediately transported back in time. Wright called the style of the Hollyhock House “California Romanza”. That’s a made-up term which apparently means “I’ll do whatever I want”. Some people refer to the style as “Mayan” due to the geometric shapes, especially the slant of the roof line. However, that’s a bit of a misrepresentation. For example, the details around the roof are not Mayan gods, but rather, modernized portrayals of the Hollyhock flower which Aline Barnsdall liked so much, and which gave the house its name.
Anyway, it works. The Hollyhock House must have been radically modern when built, just a few years after fru-fru Victorian homes were still being constructed and stuffed with chintz. Hollyhock is full of hard surfaces, skylights, and out-of-the-box concepts like the ultra-modern carved living room fireplace with its lily pond moat. Everywhere you look, whether on the walls, the ceilings, or the windows, there’s a fascinating and largely functional detail. For example, in the child’s play room, Wright pioneered his glass-on-glass window corners that create a nearly seamless transition between indoors and outdoors.
Unfortunately, as with other Wright homes, proper function sometimes falls victim to form at the Hollyhock House. The design and materials trapped moisture and cold, and Hollyhock reportedly was too cool, dark, and drafty to be a truly comfortable home for Aline Barnsdall and her daughter. Indeed, it feels rather uninviting upon entry. The moisture also wreaked considerable damage on Hollyhock over the years, and a major three-year repair and renovation is now underway, with two more years to go. As a result, any tour taken during this time is abbreviated.
Still, touring the Hollyhock House is like walking into a three-dimensional painting by one of the masters. It’s a spectacular way to enter the mind of a genius, and to take a step back into the Los Angeles of nearly a century ago.
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I finally managed to find some time to play in the garden on the weekend. Although my gardening to-do list wasn’t completed, I did manage to plant all my tulip bulbs. Every fall, I wait till the bulbs are on sale – by mid-October they’re normally reduced by 40 to 60% off the regular price. This way I can buy more bulbs, while sticking to my gardening budget.
When I worked at the Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) in Burlington as a student gardener, I had the pleasure of planting tulip bulbs in the Rock Garden. Each year, the Spring Bulb Display showcases over 100,000 bulbs, which are brought in from growers in Holland. After they bloom, the bulbs are dug up and sold at the RBG’s bulb sale. Now consider planting 100,000 bulbs each and every September….now that’s a lot of bulbs.
Instead of using a trowel to plant the bulbs, we used a bulb planter. Now this handy little tool saves a lot of time. Basically you rotate the handle as you push it into the soil. Once you’ve reached the specific depth, you pull it out. The soil is securely grasped in the cylinder, leaving a perfect hole to plant your bulb. Once you’ve nestled the bulb in its new home, you squeeze the spring-loaded handle, and it releases the soil, tucking the bulb in for the winter. If you’re wondering how far to dig the hole, the cylinder has gradation marks on the side for easy measurements.
This handy device makes bulb planting a breeze. I spent 20 minutes planting 40 bulbs on the weekend and that included watering the bulbs and cleaning up. Now all I have to do is wait for spring!
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The death of Jesus on the cross. After he had been betrayed by Judas Iscariot and arrested, Jesus was condemned by his fellow Jews as a false Messiah and turned over to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate to be crucified. Pilate found no reason to condemn Jesus; he tried to convince the people that it was absurd to regard Jesus as “King of the Jews” and offered to release him. But when the people insisted that Jesus be put to death, Pilate washed his hands to indicate that Jesus' fate was no longer his responsibility and turned Jesus over to be crucified. Roman soldiers then placed a crown of thorns on the head of Jesus and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews.” He was made to carry a wooden cross up the hill of Calvary near Jerusalem, where he was nailed to the cross and was placed between two thieves, who were also crucified. Shortly before his death, he said, “ Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” After his death, the followers of Jesus placed his body in a tomb.
Note: Jesus had told his disciples that he would sacrifice his life so that believers' sins might be forgiven. Christians believe that his death on the cross and his Resurrection three days later make salvation possible.
Note: Having a “cross to bear” means any painful responsibility that is forced upon one.
Note: To “wash one's hands of it” means to refuse to take responsibility for an action or event.
a common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times. It is not certain whether it was known among the ancient Jews; probably it was not. The modes of capital punishment according to the Mosaic law were, by the sword (Ex. 21), strangling, fire (Lev. 20), and stoning (Deut. 21). This was regarded as the most horrible form of death, and to a Jew it would acquire greater horror from the curse in Deut. 21:23. This punishment began by subjecting the sufferer to scourging. In the case of our Lord, however, his scourging was rather before the sentence was passed upon him, and was inflicted by Pilate for the purpose, probably, of exciting pity and procuring his escape from further punishment (Luke 23:22; John 19:1). The condemned one carried his own cross to the place of execution, which was outside the city, in some conspicuous place set apart for the purpose. Before the nailing to the cross took place, a medicated cup of vinegar mixed with gall and myrrh (the sopor) was given, for the purpose of deadening the pangs of the sufferer. Our Lord refused this cup, that his senses might be clear (Matt. 27:34). The spongeful of vinegar, sour wine, posca, the common drink of the Roman soldiers, which was put on a hyssop stalk and offered to our Lord in contemptuous pity (Matt. 27:48; Luke 23:36), he tasted to allay the agonies of his thirst (John 19:29). The accounts given of the crucifixion of our Lord are in entire agreement with the customs and practices of the Roman in such cases. He was crucified between two "malefactors" (Isa. 53:12; Luke 23:32), and was watched by a party of four soldiers (John 19:23; Matt. 27:36, 54), with their centurion. The "breaking of the legs" of the malefactors was intended to hasten death, and put them out of misery (John 19:31); but the unusual rapidity of our Lord's death (19:33) was due to his previous sufferings and his great mental anguish. The omission of the breaking of his legs was the fulfilment of a type (Ex. 12:46). He literally died of a broken heart, a ruptured heart, and hence the flowing of blood and water from the wound made by the soldier's spear (John 19:34). Our Lord uttered seven memorable words from the cross, namely, (1) Luke 23:34; (2) 23:43; (3) John 19:26; (4) Matt. 27:46, Mark 15:34; (5) John 19:28; (6) 19:30; (7) Luke 23:46.
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If you want to know the most powerful tool the financial market has ever produced, then you get a single answer invariably from everyone, and that is credit card. No one can deny the usefulness and utilities of a credit card.
One thing is the, if you want to reap the full benefit of a credit card, then you have to use the credit card properly. Otherwise, you may have to face a credit crunch in the future.
According to an estimate, there are more than 45 millions of Americans are there, who are not eligible for the credit. Most of these populations are belong to minority groups and are young.
Most of them are also yet to avail the banking facility. They have a great appetite for the credit, but don’t know how to access the credit or how to build a credit history. Though they don’t have a credit history, most of the time banks and financial institutions shy away from providing credit to people belong to that group.
Having made its groundbreaking entry in United States between the wars, the ubiquitous credit card or plastic money has revolutionized the credit transactions. Its use as a currency compels the debtor to keep his word and in turn creates feelings of trust and honesty. But through the passage of time, faster and effortless transactions are desired for speedy completion of tasks.
Add to that the fact that only
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[Update: It turns out that LLVM was not a factor in the OpenGL demo at WWDC. See the next post for corrections.]
In the epilogue to my three-part "Avoiding Copland 2010" series (1, 2, 3) from last year, I examined the possible role of LLVM in the future of Mac OS X. At WWDC, one use of the technology was revealed, albeit under NDA. In a surprising move, Apple has decided to let Chris Lattner, the Apple employee at the center of my earlier post about LLVM, spill the beans.
[I just got official okay to mention this in public. This was previously announced at Apple's WWDC conference last week.]
For those who are interested, Apple announced that they are using the LLVM optimizer and JIT within their Mac OS 10.5 'Leopard' OpenGL stack
Read the full message for the gory details, and head over to this Macintoshian Achaia thread for some expanded explanations from people who were actually at WWDC and are now (presumably) free to talk about this topic, at least a little.
The executive summary is not technical at all. The LLVM JIT optimizations combined with the new multi-threaded OpenGL stack have yielded a doubling of the frame-rate in "a very popular MMORPG" (which is code for "WoW"). Yikes!
The multi-threaded OpenGL feature may appear in a future version of Tiger, but it currently works exclusively in 10.4.7 on the new Mac Pros. The LLVM stuff is strictly for Leopard, it seems. As games are modified to support multi-threaded OpenGL in Tiger, I guess we'll see how much of the boost is due to LLVM and how much is a result of multi-threading alone.
Anyway, it just goes to show how a seemingly obscure, low-level technology like LLVM can pay big dividends, even when not used as a pie-in-the-sky general-purpose virtual machine to rival Microsoft's CLR and bring a memory-managed API to Mac OS X.
But I love pie—and in the sky? Sure! So what is Apple's long-term plan for LLVM? The LLVM web site lists a lot of interesting features. In its newly revealed role in OpenGL in Leopard, LLVM is proving its abilities as an optimizing compiler. What's the end game there? How about LLVM replacing gcc as the default compiler in Mac OS X? How do you like that pie?
It's not as crazy as it seems. LLVM reportedly already produces better native x86 code than gcc, and rumor has it that the LLVM team is staffing up. Obviously, a compiler change isn't something that's going to happen any time soon. But a few years from now, who knows? You know how Apple just loves its "transitions."
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The Mararikulam Brinjal Festival, a coastal village’s attempt to protect its popular, indigenous and organic variety of brinjal from the advances of a genetically modified variety, is off to a colourful start here.
The festival, organized after the threat of Bt. Brinjal started looming large over the future of the Mararikulam Brinjal, was inaugurated by Local Self Government Minister Paloli Mohammedkutty in the presence of Agriculture Minister Mullakara Ratnakaran and Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac at the Kanichukulangara Temple grounds here on Sunday.
The week-long event, which according to its organizers can be seen as part of various nationwide attempts to block the entry of Bt. Brinjal into the fragile vegetable market here, is expected to drum up public
opinion against the genetically modified version of the brinjal, focusing on the negative effects of the latter on ecological biodiversity as well as human health.
An agricultural cum industrial exhibition, which is already on; organic farmers’ get-togethers; a documentary film festival on the various aspects of genetically modified food substances that will begin on Wednesday; discussions on what panchayats can do to help indigenous agricultural methods survive the onslaught of genetic engineering; and a national seminar on the entire issue of organic brinjal versus Bt. Brinjal, to be held on January 2; are part of the festival, according to general convener D. Priyesh Kumar.
The national seminar, which is expected to gather, put together, analyze and bring out a concise version of scientific opinion on the subject, will be inaugurated by P.M. Bhargava, founder director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad. State Planning Board vice-chairman Prabath Patnaik, scientists and activists including Dinesh Abrol, T.K. Bose, Suman Sahai and G.V. Ramanjaneyulu will be part of the seminar.
The agricultural and industrial exhibition, meanwhile, is already drawing crowds with its stalls on the varieties of brinjal apart from those exhibiting methods of successful organic farming.
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It is not a mirage or a miracle; it is a fact. Nearly half of all net jobs created in the United States since 2009 have been in Texas. It is also a fact that Texas’ unemployment rate, currently at 8.4 percent, is the highest it has been since 1987, even though it is below the national rate of 9.1 percent.
As Gov. Rick Perry continues to tout Texas’ low-tax, low-regulation business climate as the secret to the state’s relative economic strength, critics have pointed to Texas’ unemployment rate and low-wage jobs, noting that Texas ties Mississippi for the highest percentage of minimum wage workers.
The debate raises several questions: What jobs do Texans commonly hold right now? How much do those jobs pay? And what jobs is Texas creating?
According to statistics from the Texas Workforce Commission, the annual median wage in 2010 for all occupations in Texas was $31,500, or 7 percent less than the national median.
The most common occupation sectors in Texas were office and administrative service, sales, and food service. Of the three, office jobs had the highest median wage, at $29,300. Food service had the lowest median wage of all occupation groups, at $17,700 annually. Together these occupational groups made up more than a third of employed Texans.
But the same pattern can be observed in both national numbers and nearly every state, said Ray Perryman, chief executive of a nonpartisan economic research firm based in Waco. These broad categories encompass many jobs “necessary to run a modern economy,” he said.
What sets Texas apart is that it is “the only large labor market state in the nation that’s shown a positive growth in private-sector jobs,” said Tom Pauken, chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission. Perry took office at the end of 2000, and since 2001 the nation as a whole has had a net loss of private-sector jobs, while Texas had a net gain of 825,400 private-sector jobs.
The fastest-growing industry in Texas is mining and logging, which grew by 19.4 percent, or 40,500 net jobs, over the last year. Rising energy demand, along with discoveries of natural gas in shale formations across Texas, have resulted in the expansion of hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling operations, both environmentally controversial practices.
Energy extraction flourishes in Texas because of the “low taxes and low regulations,” said Bill Peacock, the director of the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation’s economic center. Peacock said states cannot match Texas’ success because those with resources have often prohibited offshore drilling or increased regulations on hydraulic fracturing.
“People can come here and drill,” he said.
Texas has a large low-wage work force and an undeniably high unemployment rate, said Don Baylor, a senior economic analyst at the liberal Center for Public Policy Priorities. But the “economy has diversified,” he said, “so there are a lot more opportunities that exist now than before.”
Three other industry sectors added more jobs than mining over the last year: trade, transportation and utilities increased by 57,900 net jobs; professional and business services by 53,400 net jobs; and leisure and hospitality by 44,900 net jobs.
Baylor said the Texas economy might suffer when budget cuts come in September and the state runs out of the federal stimulus funds that propped up the economy in the last budget cycle. Texas cut 9,400 government jobs in July. The Center for Public Policy Priorities estimates that the state will lose 49,000 government jobs as a result of budget cuts, primarily to education financing.
“Given the economic status of most of the country, arguments that the growth in Texas is somehow a bad thing are unlikely to be persuasive,” Perryman said. While Perry’s tax and regulatory policies have “improved the business climate,” Perryman said, the governor cannot take credit for recent discoveries of shale formations, the price of oil or “many other factors that have provided Texas with a competitive advantage in recent years.”
The work force commission projected in 2008 that Texas would add nearly two million jobs by 2018. Pauken said it is difficult to trust any predictions, given the current economic climate. “We’re doing a good job of poaching jobs from other high-tax, high-regulatory states,” he said. “But ultimately it’s a zero-sum game if the nation at large is losing jobs to other nations.”
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As the next presidential election draws near, American voters and pundits alike are wondering just how big an impact religious and values voters will play in 2012. Christian Americans are deciding where, and with whom, they will stand on key issues. But, the church has often been as politically divided as the culture, leading many Christians to withdraw from politics altogether and even distance themselves from believers of a different political persuasion.
In Body Broken: Can Republicans and Democrats Sit in the Same Pew? (New Growth Press, Feb. 2012), Charles D. Drew addresses this enmity among Christian political activists and supplies workable solutions to finding common ground without abandoning personal convictions... or each other.
In this updated and revised version of A Public Faith (NavPress 2000), Drew helps Christians to develop practical biblical convictions about critical social and political issues, while also keeping the peace.
Carefully distinguishing between moral principle and political strategy, Body Broken equips believers to build their activism upon a thoughtful and biblical foundation. This balanced approach will provide readers—Democrats, Republicans, or Independents—with solid scriptural tools for decision making. Body Broken prepares Christians of all political perspectives to understand how they can practice servanthood, cooperation and integrity in today's public square.
Emphasizing the importance of unity in the church, despite differing views, Drew provides those who care deeply about their faith as well as the church's corporate calling in the world with an alternative to polarizing fear and hatred.
He assists Christians in navigating their political differences without panic and resentment, teaching them to respond instead with love and understanding. With questions at the end of each chapter to help readers explore and apply these principles, Body Broken will train believers to actively engage with political issues while at the same time standing united as a church.
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Tue August 23, 2011
After Quake, Rush To Phone Loved Ones Overwhelmed Networks
After an earthquake shook the East Coast on Tuesday, many people reached for their cellphones and tried to call loved ones. And many couldn't get through — but it wasn't the earthquake's fault.
No damaged cell towers or wires were reported by the major mobile carriers following the quake, which struck just before 2 p.m. EST and registered a magnitude of 5.8 at its epicenter in Virginia.
So what caused the problems?
Too many people using their phones at once, overloading the cellular networks.
"You have X amount of bandwidth and once you have a sufficient amount of data trying to get through that bandwidth, it overwhelms the system," says Hal Cohen, an emergency response expert at Witt Associates in Washington. The firm is run by James Lee Witt, who ran the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the Clinton administration.
Today's problems come just weeks before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — after which there were major upgrades to telecommunications networks nationwide in a bid to guard against outages during disasters or another attack. Cohen says even a minor incident, as Tuesday's earthquake turned out to be, underscores the continued vulnerability of communications networks.
"Any emergency plan that says 'we're going to rely on a cellphone system' is not an emergency plan," Cohen says. "Good emergency planning essentially assumes the failure of one or more channels of communications and is going to rely on multiple means."
Verizon Wireless spokesman Melanie Ortell said the company has found no damage to its network, "which was built for reliability in situations like this." Ortell added that "there was significant network volume for some customers in parts of the East for about 20 minutes after the tremor ... everything returned to normal quickly once the tremors ended."
However, a number of Verizon Wireless customers in the Washington area — including many at the NPR headquarters — reported their service interruptions continued an hour after the quake.
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“Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone. For the times they are a-changin’.”
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is live-blogging on his Facebook page this afternoon. Judging by the silence from mainstream media, most journalists are not impressed.
And who can blame them? Another baby-boomer politician on Facebook is not exactly a stop-the-presses story.
But if reporters looked beyond the obvious, they might just see an event that could very well signal a sharp change in how we conduct our politics and engage as citizens. For anyone paying attention to the growing chatter in the social media environment, Michael Ignatieff’s live Facebook conversation is happening at a tipping point.
Two recent events in particular signal a change in the prevailing domestic winds: the creation of an anti-prorogation Facebook page and the social-media response to the Haitian disaster.
Today, all but the most hardened sceptics or partisans are admitting that there might be something to the outpouring of online anger and frustration channelled by the Facebook group Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (now over 200,000 strong).
And look at how social media sites are being used to share information and engage Canadians in Haitian relief efforts. You’ll see a different, more synergistic expression of solidarity than at any other time in our history. While Facebook, MySpace and other social networking platforms were around at the time of Hurricane Katrina or the South East Asian tsunami, this time the response has a different feel. It is not only more pervasive and widespread, but more organic.
How can we explain this?
There are probably two key factors at play. We may have achieved a degree of critical mass in Canada with respect to social networking participation across demographics; and social media sites create both a platform for sharing information quickly within social networks and a place where subtle peer pressure is applied.
Today, Michael Ignatieff takes his first go at live blogging. In doing so he becomes the first federal party leader to use social media to engage directly and in real time with Canadians. More importantly, taking a page from president Obama’s playbook, he taps into a powerful tool for citizen engagement that until today, had been largely neglected in our country.
If the Liberal party extends aggressive online engagement to its spring policy conference, it could be riding a wave that changes the way the game is played; not only for the party, but for Canadian politics.
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4th Global Forum on Aid Effectiveness
Towards a new global partnership for development
Ownership, harmonisation, transparency, results and mutual accountability were the keywords guiding the 4th Global Forum on Aid Effectiveness. Held in Busan, South Korea, from 29 November to 1 December, the forum brought together senior representatives of governments, civil society and the private sector. The Swiss delegation was led by SDC Director-General Martin Dahinden. After three days of discussions, the States adopted an agreement that paves the way for a new global partnership for development.
Aid effectiveness: progress in some areas
After the Paris Declaration in 2005 and the Accra Agenda for Action in 2008, the international community continues to work towards greater aid effectiveness. With this in mind, it has recognised the need to help recipient States assume genuine ownership of the development process. This ownership goes hand in hand with the introduction of instruments to ensure transparency and results-based management. Moreover, the countries signatory to the Paris Declaration have committed themselves to harmonising their practices, this is an important prerequisite for greater aid effectiveness.
Despite these commitments, it must be acknowledged that results have fallen short of expectations. Consequently, Busan was an opportunity to reflect on the obstacles to greater aid effectiveness and on ways to overcome them. Another key challenge for the Busan forum was to recognise the diversity of development actors as well as models and forms of cooperation.
Changing the constellation of actors: towards development effectiveness
In recent years, new actors have become increasingly involved in development cooperation efforts without having actually been integrated in the Paris integration process. On the one hand, private actors, in some cases major ones, have joined their efforts to those of governments. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the best known example. On the other hand, a number of emerging States, such as Brazil or China, now have significant cooperation programmes.
The Busan Declaration: a turning point
After three days of debate, the international community agreed on a framework that integrates all actors: traditional donors, South-South cooperation representatives, emerging countries, civil society representatives, and private foundations. This represents a turning point for development cooperation: the Busan Declaration must now be translated into actions to increase aid effectiveness. Switzerland, for its part, will draft an action plan that will aim to fulfil its commitment to a new global partnership for effective development cooperation.
Having one of the fastest growing economies in the world, over the past fifty years South Korea has gone from being a beneficiary of international cooperation to being a donor country. The fact that it is hosting the 4th Global Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 2011 is rich in symbolism.
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- SDC organises meeting on the effectiveness of development cooperation
- A Global Partnership to enhance effectiveness in development cooperation
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Swine Flu Update
State Health Commissioner Dr. David Lakey told doctors Friday at the Texas Medical Association that lab testing for suspected swine flu cases is getting hard because there are so many samples being sent to the state. Lakey also said that extra equipments and staff is underway to help get lab results out quicker.
There are two probable cases of swine flu in Travis County under investigation. Austin Travis County Health and Human Services says a 23 or 24-year-old woman has a possible case of swine flu. An Austin pre-k student’s possible case is also being tested.
41 influenza type A cases from the Austin area have been sent to the state for further testing. Swine flu is a kind of type A virus, but so is the regular seasonal flu.
An Austin Regional Clinic doctor says people with Type A flu are being treated with Tamiflu or Relenza.
The Not Your Ordinary School has closed both of its campuses in Austin until May 11th. School officials say a teacher from the Magnolia McCullough campus tested positive for the flu- it is not certain what type yet.
There are 43 confirmed cases of swine flu in the state of Texas.
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Ammonia with hydrogen bonding:
To recognize the possibility of hydrogen bonding, examine
the Lewis structure of the molecule. The electronegative atom
must have one or more unshared electron pairs as in the case
of oxygen and nitrogen, and has a negative partial charge. The
hydrogen, which has a partial positive charge tries to find another
atom of oxygen or nitrogen with excess electrons to share and
is attracted to the partial negative charge. This forms the basis
for the hydrogen bond.
Open new window with polar molecule -
Ammonia - Chime
in new window
In other words - The hydrogen on one molecule attached
to O or N that is attracted to an O or N of a different molecule.
In the graphic on the left, the hydrogen is partially positive
and attracted to the partially negative charge on the nitrogen.
Nitrogen has only one lone pair, only one hydrogen bond can be
made to each nitrogen.
This is a very specific bond as indicated. Some combinations
which are not hydrogen bonds include: hydrogen to another hydrogen
or hydrogen to a carbon.
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The latest news from academia, regulators
research labs and other things of interest
Posted: Oct 19th, 2010
(Nanowerk News) The long-held dream of creating atomically precise three-dimensional structures in a manufacturing environment is approaching reality, according to the top scientist at a company making tools aimed at that ambitious goal. John Randall, Vice President of Zyvex Labs in Richardson, Tex., says his researchers have demonstrated a process that uses a scanning tunneling microscope tip to remove protective surface hydrogen atoms from silicon one at a time and then adds single atomic layers of silicon only to those meticulously cleared areas. Randall describes the achievement today at the AVS 57th International Symposium & Exhibition, which takes place this week in the Albuquerque Convention Center in New Mexico.
To date, Zyvex Labs researchers have demonstrated removal of 50 hydrogen atoms per second. But with experience and innovation, Randall predicts large improvements in the speed of this limiting factor.
"There are many paths to scale-up, including parallelism," he says. "A thousand-fold increase in speed will be fairly easy to achieve."
Within seven years, Randall expects that Zyvex Labs will be selling initial production tools that can remove more than a million hydrogen atoms a second using 10 parallel tips at a cost of about $2,000 per cubic micrometer of added silicon (48 billion atoms).
Applications that would benefit most from having tiny atomically precise structures include nanopore membranes, qubit structures for quantum computers and nanometrology standards. Larger-scale applications, such as nanoimprint templates, would need still further cost-performance improvements to become economically viable.
The Zyvex process is currently used only on silicon surfaces, which are typically coated with hydrogen atoms bound to any exposed silicon atoms. The process has two steps: first, in an ultra high vacuum, a scanning tunneling microscope is directed to remove individual hydrogen atoms from only those locations where additional silicon will later be added. Second, a silicon hydride gas is introduced. A single layer of these molecules adheres to any exposed hydrogen-free silicon atoms. After deposition, the gas is removed and the process is repeated to build up as many three-dimensional layers of atomically pure silicon as is needed.
Source: American Institute of Physics
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1913 (170 Kb); Oil on canvas, 110 x 120.6 cm (43 1/4 x 47 1/4 in)
Small Pleasures was preceded by a number of studies and related works, the earliest of which, With Sun (oil and tempera? on glass) appears to date from about 1910. The composition of Small Pleasures is centered round two hills, each crowned by a citadel. On the right-hand side is a boat with three oars which is riding a storm under a forbidding black cloud. To the bottom left it is possible to make out a couple at a steep angle to the hill, and above them three horsemen arrested in full gallop. A fiery sun flashes out wheels of color.
The actual interpretation of these elements has been the subject of much controversy; especially since the recent discovery of an unpublished essay on the painting written by Kandinsky in June 1913. This document appears to discourage the irony which some have read into an imagined discrepancy between the title and the actual work, and reduces the heavy apocalyptic signification of the imagery. Indeed Kandinsky writes of the 'joyfulness' of execution. It is legitimate then, to see the work as a celebration of Kandinsky's style during this period, as affirming the spiritual and practical pleasures he manifestly derived from painting; he speaks of 'pouring a lot of small pleasures on to the canvas'. While giving the impression of heavenly chaos, Small Pleasures is obviously not the product of pure spontaneity. The various modes of paint application, and the complexity of pigment selection and mixing are enormous. The way colors are washed and blurred together, and seldom contained by bounding lines is typical of Kandinsky's work at this time. The predominantly curvilinear aspect of the work, however, is undermined by the angular geometry of the citadel, perhaps presaging Kandinsky's Bauhaus style. There are few monochrome patches in the composition, underlining the local scale of execution, and part of Kandinsky's pleasure in the work was his reflection on a number of minor technical achievements. He wrote of the 'fine, very fine lines' scrupulously worked in with an extra-thin brush, and of his successful suppression of 'lustre' from the gold and silver areas.
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Starting about midnight, March 17th
Today’s chopper missions over Daiichi have been canceled.
The IAEA has asked Japan to cooperate with the international community. Kan says he will do the utmost to overcome the crisis – vows to disclose more info to the int’l community. -kyodo news
The new electrical cables are on site, but radiation may prevent the workers from connecting them. Readings of 20mSv/hr. are regular. – NHK
2 more fire trucks and 1 borrowed US pump truck have cycled through . -NHK
4AM March 18th
“High radiation detected 30km from nuke plant” – NHK
“Japan has raised the accident level at a stricken nuclear plant from four to five on a seven-point international danger scale for atomic accidents.” -BBC
”renewed nuclear chain reaction feared”
5PM March 18th
TEPCO is very sorry about this disaster of mother nature.
The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan, badly damaged during the extremely severe earthquake and tsunami there a week ago, continues to stabilise. It is becoming more probable by the day that public health consequences will be zero and radiation health effects among workers at the site will be so minor as to be hard to measure. Nuclear experts are beginning to condemn the international hysteria which has followed the incident in increasingly blunt terms.
For more information and essays about the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Reactor problems in Japan CLICK HERE.
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Migratory Birds Study Receives $1.3 Million from CFI
January 21, 2013 - News Release
A University of Guelph professor will use everything from isotopes and radar to the International Space Station (ISS) to track migratory birds as part of a new $1.3-million research project.
Integrative biology professor Ryan Norris will work with Canadian and German researchers to learn more about the migratory patterns of birds and better understand how environmental changes and human actions impact wildlife.
“This will be the most extensive and intensive study of migratory birds ever undertaken in Canada,” Norris said.
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) recently announced an investment in the Advanced Facility for Avian Research, including more than $400,000 to support Norris’s part in the project. The facility is based at the University of Western Ontario.
“My colleagues and I are grateful that the CFI saw the value in this important research initiative,” said Norris, who is well-known for his research on the migration patterns of insects and birds. “We are using the latest technology, which will allow us to strengthen our knowledge of birds and their migration patterns.”
The funding will allow the researchers to purchase infrastructure to study connections among breeding, migrating and wintering locations for all of Canada’s birds by 2030. About 80 per cent of Canada’s birds are migratory, and many species have been declining for decades.
The team, including Norris and pathobiology professor Claire Jardine, will use radio-telemetry receivers to monitor marked birds on large regional scales. Norris will also analyze feather isotopes to track birds between Canada’s boreal forest and their tropical wintering grounds. A new ICARUS global tracking system, which will be deployed on the ISS in 2014, will provide unprecedented details on the movements of birds and other animals across the globe. Researchers will use radar to measure wind direction, speed and altitude of aerial fauna and track tagged individuals in the air. They will also look at disease ecology, physiology and behaviour.
“We expect to see Canada benefit in environmental quality and biodiversity conservation and the training of individuals to utilize this advanced equipment,” Norris said.
Along with Jardine, the researchers hope to better understand and predict the emergence of zoonotic diseases by tracking both regional and large-scale movements of migratory birds.
For more information:
Ryan Norris, PhD
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Oct 5, 2012
Sitting in my Women’s Health Issues class, we talk about a wide range of topics. So of course the dreaded PAP test is a topic of discussion. Pap smears are gynecological procedures in which a sample of the cervix is examined for precancerous cells. It’s not as bad as everyone makes it seem but an interesting point was brought up in the discussion.
To get a birth control prescription, including refills, you DO NOT need to have a pap smear done. Pap smears can be included in a “well woman” exam and can be scheduled accordingly with your doctor (depending on your health history and risks), but it is not mandatory to receive a prescription for birth control pills. Secondly, STD testing is not automatically done when you receive a pap test which is a common misconception about pap tests. You have to request STD tests, which if you are sexually active, you may want to get tested every 6 months or before and/or after every new sexual partner.
These are common errors that females make when thinking of pap smears, so get the truth from your doctor if you have questions. Most importantly your vagina may bring you happy years as long as you take care of it! So remember to protect yourself EACH AND EVERY TIME you have sex.
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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Ender, Thomas
|←Ender, Johann||The Encyclopedia Americana
|Edition of 1920. See also Thomas Ender on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.|
ENDER, Thomas, Austrian artist: b. Vienna, 4 Nov. 1793; d. there, 28 Sept. 1875. He was twin brother of Johann Ender (q.v.). He also studied at the Vienna Academy, becoming a noted landscape painter. He won the grand prize at the Vienna Academy 1816. Going to Brazil in 1817, he brought back nearly a thousand drawings and water colors. He visited Italy, Palestine, Greece and Paris. In 1836 he became corrector and later professor at the Vienna Academy, filling that chair until 1849. Among his works are ‘View of Grossglockner’; ‘Castle Tyrol’; ‘Coast of Sorento’; ‘View of Rio de Janeiro’ (Vienna Academy); Chapel in the Woods’ (National Gallery, Berlin).
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Subject: What is it?
Location: Yucca Valley, CA
May 5, 2013 11:15 pm
I have lived in my house for 5 years and have seen 4 of these. The first 1 was in the garage on the wall up high. The second was at the bottom of my laundry basket that came from the garage. The third was in my hall by the attic up high and the fourth was tonight in my kitchen on the wall up high. People say it is a crab/huntsman spider or a wolf spider. I have 3 kids and was wondering if they are poisonous and if it is one of the spider’s I mentioned.
This is a Huntsman Spider or Giant Crab Spider in the family Sparassidae, and considering your location, it is most likely in the genus Olios, though you photo does not have enough detail to be certain. Giant Crab Spiders in the genus Olios are native and they are not considered dangerous. You can see additional images on BugGuide. Olios giganteus is documented from Yucca Valley on BugGuide.
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Initial report by Min Lee, April, 11, 2006
QT301 Capacitance to Analog Converter Data Report by Min Lee; Spring 2006 Min's ITP blog
Touch lighting up the QT113
Unlike the QT113, the one-channel, touch sensor, the QT301 works off of the capacitance and outputs an analog signal. It has a PWM pin as oppsed to a digital OUT pin on the sensor.
Quantum Research's QT300 family QProx programmable capacitive ICs are suitable for touch, proximity, fluid, and material sensing.
What is it? - The QT301 QProx™ programmable capacitive IC is suitable for fluid, and material sensing. It can project sense fields through up to 100mm (4”) of insulation or air. It is an 8-pin device available in SOIC or DIP. - Its only output is raw, unprocessed data in filterable PWM form that can be translated into an analog voltage. - PWM signal is a eight bits in resolution.
How is it different from other Touch Qprox sensors? - Rescaleable PWM: PWM is set by two inputs that control the starting and the end point of the range. (Calibration pins) The PWM range can be optimized for the zone of interest for the user. - Sync input is present to avoid external noise sources. - Sensor's Internal Operation : QT301 has an EEPROM to store the two calibration points.
- In the circuit above, R1, R2, R3 are all 10K resistors and the C1 is 100nF. - power-up delay of 300ms.
Cs/Cx Dependency - The signal value depends directly on the Cs and Cx, where the Cs is the fixed capacitor, Cx is the unknown. - The two values influence the sensitivity, resolution and response time of the electrode. - Sensitivity and resolution are also a function of the size, shape and composition of the electrode.
PWM Output - output is 100KHZ +- 7% square wave - may not be 100% linear with changes in Cx - during CAL, PWM output value is locked with the value just before the CAL process
Calibration - CAL PINs are inputs used to trigger CAL process on the upper and lower Cx - pins go through a pull down resistor to prevent damage (Note: NEVER BE driven low. will short circuit the chip) - calibrated to have an effective properly scaled PWM output - CAL_DN should be used to calibrate when the signal of the electrode is at its lowest - CAL_UP should be used to calibrate when the signal of the electrode is at its max - does not matter whether CAL_DN or CAL_UP are applied first - after calibration, i can be calibrated again for adjustment
Like in the QT113, I found out that shielding the electrode with a ground around it gave it more focus for the part that was sensing.
For my Living Art Project, I am using about 80 LEDs per candy jar to add movement and light to the LEDs. Hence, I attempted at trying to get as many LEDs to work off the PWM QT301 PIN. I had to go through a TIP120 transistor to be able to power all the 54 LEDs all at once to PWM according to the electrode off of the QT301.
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Sarah Dies and is Buried
Abraham’s beautiful and beloved wife, Sarah, died when Isaac was 37 years old. God had granted her a son in her old age (90), and had given her time to raise him and enjoy the privilege of seeing him grow into a man of God, like his father. God is so good, His timing so perfect.
Abraham asked the people of Hittite to let him purchase a cave to bury his wife. The people offered to give him the burial site so that they would still own the land.
Abraham rejected this and negotiated with Ephron for ownership. Ephron agreed and sold the land at a much higher price that it was worth. Of all the land in Canaan that God gave to Abraham, this one tract was all the he ever took legal title to. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would also be buried in this place with Sarah, when they reached the end of their lives.
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Ten years ago, “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” won the Best Picture Oscar. It was also the highest-grossing movie of 2003 in the United States. Its Best Picture predecessors enjoyed box-office similar success—“Chicago” was tenth in the domestic box office in 2002, and “A Beautiful Mind” was eleventh in 2001. Notably, these films also had large budgets—in 2012 currency, “The Lord of the Rings” and “A Beautiful Mind” both cost over a hundred million dollars to make.
Lately, though, movie of the year is no longer solely the domain of big-time flicks. “The Artist” was seventy-first in revenue in 2011, and had a budget of only sixteen million dollars. “The Hurt Locker” was hundred and sixteenth in the 2009 box office, and was also made for a mere sixteen million.
What’s the trend? Smaller movies are getting more attention on the biggest stage in Hollywood. Big-name directors and actors are also getting involved with smaller-scale, independently-financed films that generate awards buzz but not always ticket sales. Since 2006’s “The Departed,” no Best Picture winner has cost more than thirty million dollars to make. And while some of the winners have fared well at the box office, others haven’t.
This year’s winner, if we’re to believe the predictions, will probably be “bigger”—many of the nominees have done exceptionally well at the box office, and the budget figure will likely be higher than that of the past five winners. But small-timers like “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Amour” are in running.
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IN Africa poverty has a female face because it is the woman who bears much of the brunt of poverty.
Globally, women are poorer than men in all racial and ethnic groups for a number of reasons. In some places, women still earn less than their male counterparts while having the same qualifications and doing the same work.
The majority of women occupy "pink collar" or typically low-paying jobs and spend time providing unpaid care-giving duties more than men.
Pregnancy affects women's work and educational opportunities more than men and lately, domestic and sexual violence (leading to job loss, poor health or homelessness for example) has also been seen to be pushing women into a cycle of poverty.
According to a women and poverty diagnosis conducted by UN Women, the uncertain global economic climate accompanied by economic restructuring, persistent, unmanageable levels of external debt and structural adjustment programmes have contributed to a significant trend of poverty among women in some countries in Africa.
Additionally, all types of conflict, including displacement of people and environmental degradation, have undermined the capacity of governments to meet the basic needs of their populations. Gender disparities in economic power sharing are also an important contributing factor to the poverty of women.
Migration and consequent changes in family structures have placed additional burdens on women, especially those who provide for several dependants. Essentially, the poverty gap is a complex, multi-dimensional challenge requiring nation states to come up with innovative ways to break the vicious cycle of poverty and hunger among women.
African leaders will be meeting soon in Addis Ababa for the 2012 African Union Summit. There are ongoing campaigns to compel them to recommit to smarter investments in the areas of agriculture and nutrition, among others directly impacting the lives of women and children.
Last week the Zimbabwe Poverty Observatory Steering Committee was launched as a national chapter of the regional Sadc Poverty Observatory Committee. This development came hard on the heels of the country finalising its Poverty Income and Consumption Expenditure Survey, which is intended to provide updated poverty figures and spells out where Zimbabwe is today as compared to 2003 when the last poverty assessment was conducted.
The discussion within Sadc to institute a poverty reduction framework at this stage therefore comes at a most opportune time.
The poverty observatory plays an important role of providing timely, accurate and comparable statistics to inform policy as well as assess the impact of policies and programmes. Most importantly, it will see to the development of standard indicators to monitor and evaluate poverty impacts, particularly of various Sadc protocols.
While various Sadc protocols, programmes and conventions contain crucial elements for poverty reduction, whose full implementation have the potential to transform the lives of disadvantaged groups - they remain with no target or monitoring frameworks.
Such a move is critical getting the issues affecting women heard, as it would be able to recognise the underlying differences in how poverty circumstances affect men and women differently. This initiative also follows best practices from other regions and at country level within the Sadc region.
In the past, Zimbabwe had a similar structure established in the 90s as the Integrated Poverty Monitoring and Analysis System. The now defunct IPMAS had a vibrant technical advisory group that saw to the production of two poverty assessment reports in 1995 and 2003.
The launch of the ZPOSC is essentially re-activating that body under the auspices of Sadc to provide direction on poverty data collection, analysis and dissemination in order to influence policy decisions both locally and regionally.
In specific terms, the ZPOSC - constituted by stakeholders from Government, civil society, the business sector and development partners - co-ordinates the monitoring and evaluation of socio-economic poverty development strategies.
It feeds into policy planning and implementation and develops relevant tools to collect and analyse data that will result in the setting up information banks for ease of access to information by all stakeholders.
It will also document and publish best practices as well as provide statistics for reporting on the MDGs and Human Development reports.
What is a most encouraging aspect about the observatory is that it is made up of thematic committees for analysis and development of the indicators. The committees include one on gender and development as a cross-cutting dimension of critical relevance as development and poverty alleviation strategies that fail to target women and girls have little to no chance of success in Africa.
This ensures that Sadc will recognise poverty as having a gender dimension and the resultant commitment to mainstreaming gender into the region's development agenda as enshrined in the Sadc Protocol on Gender and Development.
According to Mrs Naome Chimbetete, who chairs the gender thematic group in the observatory, the development of standard poverty indicators will ensure that Sadc "promotes gender equality in all spheres of life, and develops deliberate policies to reverse the growing trend of feminisation of poverty".
The Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network is an information-based organisation advocating for gender equality and equity.
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If your game is going to be remotely hardware intensive then you need threads to cope with all modern hardware; future CPUs coming out in the next year or two are starting to make 4 cores the minimum and up to 16 cores common for enthusiast/performance markets. If you're doing any multi-threading at all, definitely do a task-oriented architecture as any other threading model is inherently broken for forward-looking game engines.
Now keep in mind that by "tasks" I mean "jobs" and not "separate threads for different engine subsystems." You absolutely completely do not want to do something like having one graphics thread, one physics thread, one AI thread, etc. That doesn't scale beyond a tiny handful of cores and it doesn't actually gain you any real parallelism anyway. Physics shouldn't run more than one update per AI update (you want your AI to be able to react to physics events), and graphics has almost nothing new to render if physics hasn't run, so each subsystem naturally runs in a sequenced order. You don't even get any benefits out of having physics update the next iteration of the simulation while graphics is running the current iteration because there is so much data shared between the two that you either need lots of duplicated data structures (and the costs of copying from one to the other) or you end up with bad lock contention in shared data structure synchronization code.
What you want is to do is this. Create a thread spool. Run your game loop with the classic sequence of subsystem updates. However, for each subsystem, separate the workload into distinct separable batches, and distribute those to the thread pool. Wait for all jobs to complete before running the next state of the game update loop. Some subsystems may have multiple substages; e.g., graphics may issue a series of jobs to do culling and then a second series of jobs to do render queue creation. This approach avoids the synchronization problem of the first approach, scales to much larger numbers of cores, and frankly is just easier to code, debug, and maintain.
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February 2013 Vol. 18 No.2
New world order set to take shape
Category: Global, U.S.A.
By William R Thomson
Some spooky scenarios on the road to 2030
Every four years since 1789, the new president of the US has been sworn in on January 21. A more recent development is for the new arrival to receive a long-range assessment, prepared by the National Intelligence Council, of the likely global political and economic challenges ahead.
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The percentage of students who are women has been steadily increasing since the 1970s. Today, women students are the statistical majority; however the social climate is slow in adjusting to this change.
- In the job market, women typically earn less money than men doing the same job.(Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2010.)
- Women are most likely to be the battered partner in violent relationships. (Kilmartin and Allison, 2007.)
- Women are more likely than men to be faced with the dilemma of limiting career opportunities to care for family. (National Committee on Pay Equality, 2010.)
- Women have more difficulty reaching upper levels of most professions. (National Committee on Pay Equality, 2010.)
- Women are less likely to be electedto public office; Pennsylvania ranks 46th out of 50 states for proportion of women in state legislature. In Congress, women hold only 16.8% of the states. (Center for American Women and Politics, 2010.)
SRU recognizes the need for ongoing advocacy and support for women if such discrepancies are to change.
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Fear seems to be more and more prevalent in a society addicted to psychotic drugs and prolonged counseling sessions. A proper perception of our loving and powerful God does more than anything else to dispel fear in our lives.
Life was good for Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. It was a true paradise until Satan slithered into their lives. They went into hiding after they had offended their Creator. "Then the Lord God called to the man and said to him, where are you?" Its not like God didn't know where they were, it was a preparation question by which God was about to reveal himself to them. Adam replied, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid." Adam and Eve then revealed the sin in their hearts by participating in a blame game.
Fear can be paralyzing. The sound of God's movement in the garden was incapacitating. It was heart stopping. John Haggai said, "For many, fear has grown like a tree until it over shadows them from morning till night." Fear is probably the most destructive force of mankind. Satan tempted Adam and Eve with the sin of pride and then the assaulted them with fear.
Fear is a leading health problem among Americans. Fear and depression are like destructive twin sisters. They can spawn ulcers, heart problems, liver and kidney disease in their wake. Fear and worry are probably responsible for more deaths than all the wars combined. "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7) If fear doesn't come from God it must originate with Satan. Satan unleashes fear upon us and then he "prowls around like a lion looking for someone to devour." (1 Peter 5:8) A.W. Tozer said, "Fear is of the flesh and panic is of the Devil."
I am a Kentucky basketball fan and I recently enjoyed watching Kentucky plow to a national championship. I noticed their intensity increased dramatically as they neared the end of each game they played. I think Satan's activity is increasing dramatically as the endgame draws near. "But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short." (Revelation 12:12)
There are numerous verses in the Bible that admonish us to fear God. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." (Psalm 11:10) There is not a single verse in the Bible that tells us to fear Satan. When we have a reverential respect for the all-powerful God, our fear of Satan is erased like black marks on a dry erase board.
Fear is indelibly woven into the fabric of our culture. We fear unemployment. We fear poverty. We fear an empty bank account. We fear foreclosure. Our anemic economy has generated a great fear that Medicare, Medicaid and our Social Security will one day be no longer available. This spirit of fear is an evil spirit, it hounds us and torments us and it is born in hell.
I was very discouraged when I looked at the bottom line on this year's tax return. I owed the federal government a sizeable amount of money. I owe money to the mortgage company but it doesn't give rise to any fear. I owe money to the dentist, I owe money to the Medical Center but these debts stir in me no fear. For some reason, owing money to the U.S. Government produced a dreadful fear in me. I began to imagine people pulling up in my driveway in black limousines, jumping out in Colombo style overcoats to serve me papers with Barack Obama's name on them. I painted a house during Spring Break to pay off our taxes and I'm relieved to say, "I don't owe the U.S. Government one red cent."
Ten years ago my wife and I left public schools to work in private Christian schools. The move from public to private required we take a $20,000 to $30,000 combined pay cut. We had no idea how we would pay our bills but we both felt strongly that God was calling us to teach in Christian schools where we could openly, daily proclaim the name of Christ. I want to reveal, to the glory of God, that we have never missed a house payment, we have never missed a car payment and we've had more than enough food to eat since we decided to trust God for our needs.
If God is asking you to do something but you just can't seem to crunch the numbers on it, don't be smothered by a spirit of fear. I boldly and confidently write these words, "If you are doing the bidding of God who 'owns the cattle on a thousand hills', (Psalm 50:10) he will take care of you."
Over a hundred years ago, while her husband was away for several weeks on a preaching assignment, Civilla Martin wrote these words:
"All you may need he will provide,
God will take care of you;
Nothing you ask will be denied,
God will take care of you.
No matter what may be the test,
God will take care of you;
Lean, weary one, upon His breast,
God will take care of you."
As a school teacher I really connected to a quote I read recently, "When you are going through something hard and wonder where God is, remember, the teacher is always quiet during the test."
We often become arrogant about the things we have accumulated over the years. We think we have earned those things. We have what we have because God gave those things to us. "Every good and perfect gift comes from above." (James 1:17)
My brother, Dennis, has been a missionary to Japan for over thirty years. He and his wife are packing their belongings and preparing to return to the states as I write these words. They have experienced some severe health problems that forced them into early retirement from the mission field. God spoke to Dennis' heart when he was but a teen-ager about dedicating his life to the Japanese people. Dennis obediently served God for all those years, depending on God and the goodwill of others to support his ministry.
I asked him the other day, "Dennis, what are you going to do now? Your retirement plan is not enough to sustain you. You are still buying a house. Your wife has a mountain of medical bills to pay. What are you going to do?" His reply went something like this, "Kevin, God has taken care of us for over thirty years. Do you think he will now forget about us now?"
Then I began to consider why my brother was called of God to the mission field and I was not. Perhaps it was because he was able to drown out his fears with faith in a trustworthy God. While I was fearfully quizzing my brother concerning his next move, he was resting on the promises of a loving God. There is no need to be fearful, was it not said of the Author of the Universe, the One who cannot lie or deceive, the One who has never broken a promise, "And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus" ? (Philippians 4:9)
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Bringing the world to NYU and NYU to the world
Global problems need global solutions, and the Law School is leading the way on issues as diverse as international human rights, law and development, cross-border investment disputes and climate change.
NYU Law is committed to preparing students to work in a global setting. Our students get direct exposure to global legal issues both in the classroom and beyond it. The Law School’s curriculum includes an unsurpassed array of courses, clinics and colloquia in international, comparative and foreign law. At the graduate level we offer specialized LL.M. programs in International Legal Studies, International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration, and International Taxation.
The curriculum we offer in New York is complemented by opportunities for NYU Law students to study abroad in places like Argentina and China and to work abroad in Law School-sponsored internships or fellowships at organizations such as the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. For JD students these opportunities are organized under the rubric of our innovative International Immersion Program.
The Law School’s intellectual reach is global in scope. The Hauser Global Law School Program brings leading law professors from around the world to teach at NYU. In addition, the Global Fellows Program invites a diverse array of researchers, fellows and scholars from other countries to conduct and present their research at NYU. These Global Faculty and the Global Fellows are further joined by more than 300 international students, including the top-ranking Hauser Global Scholars. Centers such as the Center for Constitutional Transitions, the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice, the Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law, the Institute for International Law and Justice, and the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice regularly sponsor conferences and research programs on issues of global concern, involving NYU Law students as well as faculty, in New York and around the globe.
The international interest rate-rigging scandal currently ensnaring at least a dozen banks—and the fact that regulators might have known about it—stokes suspicions that corporate malfeasance is spinning out of control. This spring, the Law School magazine invited 10 distinguished faculty and alumni representing corporate defense, regulators, and prosecutors to discuss fraud, corruption, and bribery, and how to fight it. more
As commerce expands, both across borders and through space (the Internet), the study of commercial law and bankruptcy has become increasingly complex. At NYU Law, 12 faculty are taking part in conversations with scholars, regulators, courts, and legislators, raising such questions as whose laws should govern international sales, how to protect consumers, and how to best unravel businesses gone bad. more
"Drones: warfare in the 21st century"
ABC Rear Vision (Audio)
Expert: Sarah Knuckey, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ)
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Germany is UAE’s 5th largest trade partnerMay 24th, 2010 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, May 24 (IANS/WAM) Germany is the UAE’s 5th largest trade partner with non-oil trade reaching $8.4 billion in 2009, a 36.5 percent increase compared to $6.1 billion in 2006. Germany’s share in the UAE’s total non-oil trade was 4.7 percent in 2009.
In 2008, the value of non-oil trade between the two countries was $10.6 billion.
The figures were revealed by the foreign trade ministry Monday in a report on the nature of investment and trade between the two countries.
The report examined the current opportunities that are available to further strengthen trade relations, including exploring new export markets, increasing competitiveness of UAE exports and providing suitable environment to encourage private sector to participate in exports.
Economist Ahmed Al Ananbeh, who worked on the report, said there are about 157 German companies in the UAE, placing it in the 3rd place on the list of countries with most companies in the UAE, after Britain and the US.
- UAE's non-oil foreign trade reaches $133 bn in August - Nov 15, 2010
- Abu Dhabi posts $37 bn in non-oil foreign trade - Mar 06, 2012
- Dubai's non-oil trade surges to $156 bn in 2010 - Mar 07, 2011
- UAE, US hold talks - Jan 17, 2012
- UAE, India business groups discuss trade ties - Apr 25, 2011
- UAE posts $599 mn trade surplus with India - Sep 04, 2010
- Abu Dhabi hosts industry meet - Dec 19, 2011
- DP World seeks close trade ties with India - Oct 14, 2011
- Workshop on maritime law held in Dubai - Jun 27, 2012
- UAE's exports to Saudi Arabia exceed $266 bn - Sep 04, 2010
- Abu Dhabi's foreign trade $29 bn in 2010 - Mar 05, 2011
- UAE seeks to boost foreign trade - Sep 19, 2010
- UAE's non-oil trade increases to AED 63 bn; India top trade partner - May 16, 2010
- UAE trade minister meets Arab business delegation - Jan 21, 2012
- UAE's non-oil trade up 7 percent - Jun 30, 2010
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In this We the People Fact Finder report, WISC-TV looks at a question one viewer had after seeing a recent ad about Republican candidate for governor Scott Walker and pension funds.
Pat Gilbert of Madison asked: "Did Scott Walker borrow $400 million to correct a problem with pension funds?"
The city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County had two very different pension dilemmas, but an ad from Democrat Tom Barrett, who is Milwaukee's mayor, leads viewers to think the dilemmas are the same, WISC-TV reported.
"Under Tom Barrett, the city of Milwaukee met the crisis head on, and Barrett used smart budget cuts to help solve the problem," says the ad.
A WISC-TV analysis found this needs clarification.
The city of Milwaukee's pension issues last year amounted to a $49 million shortfall in the pension fund following the 2008 drops in the stock market. Milwaukee County's gap was 20 times that.
Barrett did make cuts rather than borrow money to balance the city budget, but he also raised the tax levy about 4 percent to cover the shortfall, WISC-TV reported.
"In Milwaukee County, Scott Walker borrowed $400 million, and passed the pension debt onto the next generation," says the ad.
A WISC-TV analysis found this also needs clarification.
It's true that Walker, who is the Milwaukee County executive, was supportive of a move by Milwaukee County to issue $400 million in pension obligation bonds to help cover a nearly $1 billion long-term shortfall in the pension fund.
What does that mean? Essentially the county borrows money at a low interest rate, invests it at a higher interest rate and hopes to profit. That of course is all dependent on the market.
In this case, $400 million was borrowed at about a 6 percent interest rate, then put into the pension fund, where the assumed rate of return is 8 percent. That 2 percent difference goes to increase the pension fund as well.
Walker called it a cost-savings move, saying in the long run it could make the county $237 million over 35 years. But it's risky considering market fluctuations, WISC-TV reported.
Last year, the pension fund made 22 percent, according to the county budget director, and this year it's likely to be only 1 or 2 percent.
To further compare, the city of Milwaukee's pension fund is now more than 100 percent funded. Milwaukee County's, while making strides, is only about 93 percent funded.
If you have a political claim you'd like checked out, send it to firstname.lastname@example.org.
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You probably wonder – GPS, PLM, BIM… What do they have in common today? In my view, the common is their relationship with real objects of a physical world around us. GPS can position us and give us a direction in surrounding world, CAD/PLM is the universal mechanism to design everything, PLM and BIM respectfully are set of product and tools to organize processes around product design, manufacturing, building etc.
For years engineering and building systems like CAD, PLM, BIM was completely disconnected from a real world. I always had the feeling of separation. This is like a wall between engineering and rest of the company. You (engineers) can use any systems you want, design and plan whatever you want… The real things will be disconnected from this virtual engineering world. Not anymore in my view. Few announcements and publications drove me to think about future leapfrog in this space.
Google’s announced first Droid phone with Google Navigation System. You will ask me how it related to PLM? Not as much, for the moment. However, thinking in deep and applying some PLMish language you can see Google providing 3D application connecting physical driving experience and virtual world model based on Google Maps.
Another one – Google SketchUp. On the surface, there is nothing special. I used to hear from many engineers their opinion about this product as a toy, far from “Real CAD” systems. Slow down, please. Keep your engineering ego for the future. Google is using SketchUp to re-create the world in 3D on top of Google Map. Google 3D Warehouse is a very good example of building blocks in this 3D universe. Read more in about Google Building Maker in Google official blog.
Some business thoughts. You need to see the following article: Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less than Free” business model. This is not the first time when we see the power of free products. I’m almost hearing engineers that saying – but this is not for the real enterprise world, this is on the different planet. Not anymore, in my view. Connection between real and virtual happens much faster that you can think about it.
So, conclusion for today. I’m thinking about immersive world where design, engineering and real people are all connected to dream, design, plan, build and manufacture life around us. And, in my view, this is a perfect time for today’s CAD/PLM/BIM vendors to think about a future of their products. How to catch up before Google’s next leapfrog? Just not to find themselves in place of GPS manufacturers today.
Just my thoughts.
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Flower Identification: common and botanical names of flowering plants.
Flowering plants in this data base are divided into seven (7) groups:̣ ̣(1) Trees, (2) Shrubs (bushes), (3) Vines, (4) Bulbs, (5) Aquatic plants, (6) Cactus and succulents and (7) Annual, Perennials... The last group is big and it contains mostly annuals and perennials. Beside annuals, perennials, you can find many other plants such as ornamental grasses, indoor house plants and tropical plants in this group. Recently, I added some videos of whole plants, so you can recognize them easier.
All plant names are listed in English. Because there are many names for a plant, I try my best to use the most common name. However, each plant has a unique botanical name in Latin, you can use plant's Latin name to search the web for more information about a specific flower.
Plant cold hardiness is the ability of plants to tolerate cold temperature. In the US, you can find the cold hardiness at the USDA website.
Grasses: Grass is the common word that generally describes monocotyledonous green plants. They include some more specialized crops such as lemongrass, as well as many ornamental plants. Grasses in this site are ornamental grasses which are used in landscaping.
Weeds are any plant that crowds out cultivated plants, any unwanted plants that grown in the lawns, gardens or crop fields.
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AgDM newsletter article, June 2005
By Mike Duffy, extension economist, 515-294-6160, firstname.lastname@example.org
Recent increases in Iowa farmland values and the turbulence in the stock market have resurrected a perennial question. Which is a better investment - the stock market or farmland?
Iowa farmland values have risen over the past four years and recent estimates suggest that this increase is continuing. Based on the Iowa State Land Value Survey, the 2004 estimated farmland value was $2,629 per acre, a record high. This was an increase in Iowa land values of 15.6 percent over the 2003 estimate. Since 1990, the estimated average value of Iowa land has more than doubled going from $1,214 to $2,629 per acre.
On the other hand, the stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial (DJI) average, last year closed higher for the second time in four years with an increase of 3 percent. Even though the DJI lost more than a quarter of its value (27.4 percent) between 1999 and 2002, its overall record has been positive over the past 13 years. Stock values rose from 2,633in 1990 to 10,783 in 2004, an increase of nearly 300 percent in spite of the declines in recent years.
Are the changes in the stock market, low interest rates, 1,031 exchanges, and increases in land values causing people to shift to land investments? Does purchasing land make sense economically, in the short term and the long term?
To determine which option provides the better investment, this paper compares and contrasts the various returns over the past 50 years. It also discusses some of the important factors to consider over the next few years.
The returns to land or stocks are composed of two parts. The first is capital gains or the increase in value. Obviously, this also could be a capital loss if values decrease. The second component is yearly returns.
Another consideration for investors is that land has an unavoidable annual ownership cost not associated with stocks. Average property taxes have now been subtracted from the rent value in our calculations and this adds to our understanding compared to previous versions of this comparison.
The data used for this analysis comes from three sources. The Iowa Land Value Survey, FM 1712 (AgDM File C2-70) and Cash Rental Rates for Iowa, FM 1851 (AgDM File C2-10) come from Iowa State University surveys. The average land tax per acre comes from the USDA, Economic Research Service. And, the Dow Jones Industrial averages and yearly dividends come from the Dow Jones Web site, www.djindexes.com/jsp/industrialAverages.
The annual percentage changes since 1950 in the DJI and Iowa land values reflect considerable yearly variation in both investments. For land, the average percentage change is 5 percent with a standard deviation of 11 percent. Percentage changes for land range from a negative 30 percent to a positive 32 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial shows an average percentage change of 9 percent with a standard deviation of 16 percent. The yearly percentage change in the DJI ranges from a negative 28 percent to a positive 44 percent.
Land rent after taxes has averaged 5.8 percent of land value since 1950. The Dow Jones Industrial dividend has averaged 3.8 percent of the DJI closing level over the same time period. A few assumptions are necessary to determine which provides the better investment. It is assumed $1,000 is invested in each alternative at the beginning of the period discussed. The amount of land or stock purchased will depend on the existing value. For example, if land was $500 then you could buy 2 acres with the initial investment.
Another assumption is that all of the rent or the dividend earned in any year will be reinvested in the land or the stock market. This will increase the number of units held. To continue the example above, if the after-tax rent was $27.50 per acre then the amount of rent earned was $55 (2 acres times $27.50). The $55 would be reinvested in land at the end of the year. Suppose the land values had increased to $550 over the year, then at the end of the second period there would be 2.1 acres, the original 2 acres plus the .1 acres that could be purchased with the $55 in rent.
Land taxes are the only ownership cost considered for land. There is no ownership cost assumed for stocks. No transactions costs or other costs are considered in this analysis.
Figure 1 shows the return to $1,000 invested in 1950. At that time, $1,000 would have purchased 4.59 acres or 4.25 shares of the DJI. Using the assumptions above, an investor at the end of 2004 would have 98.65 acres worth approximately $259,344 or they would have 33.21 shares of the Dow Jones Industrial, worth approximately 358,132. In other words, the value of the DJI investment would be 28 percent higher than the stock investment.
Figure 2 shows what would happen if the $1,000 investment in land or the DJI had been made in 1970. At that time $1,000 would purchase 2.4 acres or 1.2 shares in the DJI. By 2004 the land investment would have been worth $48,582, while the DJI investment would have been worth $44,433. A land purchase in 1970 would have approximately 8 percent greater value relative to a land investement.
Figure 3 presents the results of a $1,000 investment had it been made in 1980, near the earlier peak in Iowa land values. In 1980, the $1,000 investment in land would have purchased only .48 acres of land or 1.04 shares of the DJI. By 2004, the land investment would have been worth $5,891 while the DJI investment would have been worth $24,488. This means the DJI investment would be worth nearly four times the land investment.
Figure 4 shows a comparison of the returns based on the year of the initial investment and the difference between the investment in Iowa farmland and the Dow Jones Industrial as a percent of the value of the Dow Jones. A negative percentage indicates that the Dow Jones had a greater return and conversely, a positive percentage indicates that land had the greater turn. For example, if the investment was made in 1962, land would be worth approximately 60 percent more than an investment in the Dow Jones. On the other hand, an investment in land in the early 1980s would be worth about 80 percent less than an investment in the Dow Jones.
Figure 4 shows that the timing of the investment makes a difference in which appears to be a better investment. Land would have been a better investment if the investment was made in the late 1950s through the late 1960s. Similarly, starting in 1995, an investment in land has once again produced higher returns than the Dow Jones.
This raises several interesting questions, including whether or not land is a “good” investment and which is the “better” investment. Much of the difference in returns can be attributed to taxes. If the taxes are not removed from the land rents, a $1,000 land investment in 1950 would have outperformed the stock market at the end of 2004. Taxes have a large long-term effect on land returns, and the tax climate must be considered in making the investment decision. It should be noted that no costs have been removed from the DJI returns in our study.
It also is important to remember that the majority of farmland purchasers are already farming. Since 1989, the ISU Land Value Survey has asked the respondents who was the primary purchaser of farmland that year. In 1990 and 1991, existing farmers represented more than 80 percent of the purchasers. This number dropped to 56 percent in 2004. This is important because for the most part farmers do not buy land strictly as an investment. They buy land for a variety of reasons and the expected return is only one of many factors.
The proportion of purchasers classified as investors by the ISU land survey respondents has risen considerably over the past several years. In 1989, investors represented only 12 percent of the purchasers, but in 2004 they represented 38 percent of the purchasers. Many of the purchases over the past few years have been for a variety of nonagricultural uses, including summer homes, hunting camps, and other recreational purposes.
Investors also may purchase farmland to diversify their financial portfolios.
Given what has happened to the stock market, the lessons learned in the land
market during the 1970s and 1980s should not be forgotten; that is, what
goes up also can go down and there is no such thing as a market that will
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Feb. 28, 2001
CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR ENGINEERING PROFESSOR SELECTED FOR UNM'S HIGHEST FACULTY
of New Mexico Regents' Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering and the
founding Director of the Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies Mohamed
S. El-Genk has been selected as the University's 46th Annual Research Lecturer,
the highest honor UNM bestows upon members of its faculty.
The title of the public lecture he will deliver on Tuesday, April 24, at 7:30
p.m. in the UNM Continuing Education Auditorium, 1634 University Blvd. NE, is:
"SPACE EXPLORATION: A Journey into the Future."
His selection was announced by Dr. John K. McIver, Interim Vice Provost for
Research. "Dr. Mohamed El-Genk is internationally recognized for significant
contributions to a number of areas, including boiling heat transfer, space nuclear
power and propulsion, heat pipes and thermosyphons, and nuclear reactor safety
and thermal-hydraulics, nuclear fuel, and interfacial phenomena, and advanced
energy conversions such thermoelectric, thermionic, and alkali-metals thermal-to-electric
conversion. As a creative and prolific researcher, his research has been outstanding
in terms of quantity, quality and impact on all of these fields," McIver
El-Genk, who holds three U.S. patents, has published more than 185 refereed
papers in journals and more than 230 papers in conference proceedings and edited
a book on space nuclear power and propulsion and more than fifty volumes containing
more than 4000 articles in the fields of heat transfer, boiling, interfacial
phenomena, space nuclear power and propulsion, space exploration and related
areas. In 1984, he established the UNM Institute for Space and Nuclear Power
Studies and has served as its director since its inception.
"He has been successful in integrating his research accomplishments into
his teaching, and maximized the benefits to his students," McIver said.
El-Genk has supervised 22 masters theses and 21 doctoral dissertations since
joining the UNM faculty in 1981.
El-Genk has been elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), and Fellow of the American Institute
of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). "This unique distinction represents three
engineering disciplines and is an unusual achievement and testimony to the breadth
of his research," McIver said. El-Genk is also an Associate Fellow of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Additionally, he is a member of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, editor
of the International Journal of Energy Conversion and Management and active
in several other professional organizations, including the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Engineering Education and the
Society. He was the 1987 recipient of the ANS Distinguished Faculty Member
Honor and is the 2000 recipient of the AIChE Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion
At UNM, El-Genk was named a Regents' Professor in 1996 and, in 1984-85, was named to receive the UNM Presidential Lectureship Award. In 1987-88, he was named the recipient of the Graduate Students' Outstanding Teacher Award in the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering. In 1988, El-Genk was named to receive the School of Engineering Research Excellence Award and is the 1989 recipient of the School's Teaching Excellence Award. In 1996, he won the Student's Faculty Recognition Award. He is also the recipient of other certificates, awards and honors.
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Parshas Lech Lecha
No Justice, No Peace 1
The king of Sodom want out to meet him after his return from defeating
Kedala’omer…at the Valley of Shaveh…Malki-tzedek, king of Shalem, brought
out bread and wine. He was a priest of G-d the Most High.
The two kings could not have been more different. Perhaps that is the whole
The king of Sodom is quite clueless about his humiliation. He owed his life
and his kingdom to Avraham, to whom he had rendered no assistance. Avraham
had triumphed on the battlefield with his band of ragtag irregulars, while
the Royal Sodom Legionnaires had been trounced. Were he conscious of his
sorry state, he would have had to come begging to Avraham, his frame bent
over, and with averted eyes. He did beg – but as an equal. He asked Avraham
to honor his collegial request as a professional courtesy. You know, the
kind of things rulers do for each other. The king’s personal debasement
didn’t figure. What mattered was that he was still a monarch, still royalty,
and failures don’t really count. The pitiable monarch met with the hugely
successful Avraham – and insisted that they were equals. Thus, they met in
the Valley of Shaveh, which means “equal.”
To the king of Sodom, nothing mattered so much as the station and rank of
his monarchical privilege. Completely dependent upon Avraham, he did not
even think of coming to him with a tribute or gift, let alone something
practical, like food and drink for Avraham’s famished soldiers. Kings can’t
be expected to involve themselves in pedestrians concerns like that..
Malki-tzedek, king of Shalem, downplayed the trappings of external majesty,
in favor of the inner majesty of regal and sterling character. He owed
nothing to Avraham, and sought nothing from him. Nonetheless, he understood
that food might be needed and appreciated, and so he brought it.
The difference between them is indicated in the pasuk. Malki-tzedek served
“G-d, the Most High.” Serving G-d made the difference between the emperor
with no clothes and the one who reflected Divinity.
We would think that these two personalities are entirely incompatible. That
was not the case, however, in the ancient pagan world, in which many deities
were acknowledged and served by choice, like items in a Chinese menu. To his
contemporaries, Malki-tzedek served one particular G-d, albeit the most
elevated of them. They may have understood that peace emanated from Shalem,
and that it was achieved only because it was joined with justice/ tzedek.
Such a combination appealed to some people – but there were other gods
available who could be served in very different ways. The god of
licentiousness could be served through moral license and abandon; the god of
war loved large body counts. Serving them was much more…convenient.
With so many gods available, it was a spiritual buyer’s market. The effect
of this was to box in the qualities that Malki-tzedek represented. His G-d
held sway in His small neighborhood – but had no great influence elsewhere.
In Shalem, one propitiated the Deity by working for justice; elsewhere, you
served the local deity through whatever struck that god’s fancy. The king of
Sodom, for all we know, served a god of egotistic arrogance and pompous
ceremony. The king may have been as dedicated a servant of his lord as
Malki-tzedek was to his.
The effect of such polytheism was to leave room for Malki-tzedek’s G-d –
even to see Him as the chief among many – but to circumscribe His influence.
People in those days could even comprehend that this highest of gods
demanded justice and a righteous life, but consigned Him to a small sphere
of influence. He may have been the highest god, but he didn’t get the
highest ratings. The G-d of Malki-tzedek brought the blessings of peace to
devotees of justice – but only to a small group of people, living in a
particular area. The Jewish people would champion these same values of
justice and peace, and understand their co-dependency. They, however, would
insist that these become the legacy of the entire world. Jews would not be
satisfied with keeping His gifts restricted to a narrow application. They
would not rest until He would become the object of veneration of all of
humanity, and His words would become its guiding principles.
In the many centuries that followed Malki-tzedek, his tradition was kept
alive in his city, Yeru-Shalem. The values of justice and peace were
cherished and kept in trust for the rest of humanity. It is perfectly
understandable that centuries later, when addressing Dovid, the new king of
Shalem, HKBH would remind him of an earlier possessor of the same title.
“Hashem has sworn:…You will be a priest forever, on the order of
Malki-tzedek.” Your commission is to propagate the ideals that were first
advanced by that ancient king, who also acted as a priest in the service of
It is a commission we still cherish today.
1. Tehilim 110:4
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A Guide to Using Residual Current Devices
- What is an RCD?
- In what circumstances can electrocution occur?
- How does the RCD work?
- How should an RCD be installed?
- What should the tripping current be?
- What can RCDs provide protection for?
- What do RCDs NOT provide protection for?
- What to do if the RCD trips?
- Why do RCDS respond faster to high fault currents than lower ones?
- What kind of RCDs are there?
What is an RCD?
A Residual Current Device, is an electrical safety device which breaks a faulty circuit. When installed correctly, an RCD can detect faults in the electrical system and is designed to disconnect quickly enough to prevent potential injury or death from electrocution by switching off the supply almost instantly.
In what circumstances can electrocution occur?
RCDs provide protection against electrical currents flowing to earth. This can occur when a person accidentally touches a live part or metalwork of an electrical system, for example by running over a cable with a lawnmower. They would then suffer an electric shock from the current flowing through their body to earth. Or, if the flow was through wiring or electrical appliances this could cause a fire hazard.
How does the RCD work?
When an electrical system is working properly the phase and neutral currents are equal and opposite, however, when a fault occurs and current flows to earth, the phase and neutral currents will no longer be balanced, and the RCD will react to this and cut the incoming supply almost simultaneously.
How should an RCD be installed?
Ideally the RCD should be built into the main switchboard so that the electrical supply is permanently protected. Alternatively an RCD can be built into an electrical socket outlet, or a plug in RCD adaptor can be used.
However, be wary of using the same RCD to protect the entire electrical system as a fault in one area could result in a complete loss of power. For example, using the same RCD as the one connected to the lighting circuit could cause a dangerous blackout should the RCD trip.
What should the tripping current be?
To be effective enough to prevent accidents an RCD should have a tripping current of 10mA or 30mA. An RCD with a trip range of 30mA greatly reduces the risk of heart fibrillation and death. Higher tripping currents are used to protect against fire, in which case the RCD would have an operating current of 100mA or 300mA .
What can RCDs provide protection for?
RCDs can be used for both direct and direct contact with an electrical system. It provides protection against substandard wiring and unearthed equipment Whilst short circuits and current surges are covered by fuses and MCBs, only an RCD will prevent an electric shock.
What do RCDs NOT provide protection for?
Faults which do not come from an external leakage, overloads, or short circuits between phase and neutral or phase to phase. For this, over current protection in the form of a fuse or circuit breaker must be employed.
What to do if the RCD trips?
Do not use the electrical system again until it has been checked as the RCD is designed to trip when there is a fault. It is possible that the RCD itself is faulty, in which case both should be tested to eliminate risks.
Do not assume that the RCD will always be working correctly. RCDs have a test button which should be checked each time the electrical system is used to ensure it is functioning properly.
Why do RCDS respond faster to high fault currents than lower ones?
RCDs are designed to do this to avoid nuisance tripping which can be caused by minor occurrences such earth leakage, voltage spikes and surges.
What kind of RCDs are there?
There are four types of RCD:
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VADODARA: In 2005, fed up with all the talk of using foot as negative metaphor for calculating environment damage at a workshop, a bunch of school kids from Andhra Pradesh insisted that they would rather prefer the image of hand to 'do' something useful. Little did they know that they were giving birth to such a powerful symbol of hope which would soon catch the imagination of the rest of the worrying world which wants to work for sustainable development.
Then just 10, Shrija, who was among the group of school kids attending the workshop organized by Centre for Environment Education (CEE) readily dipped her hand in natural colours to put her handprint on a sheet of paper, which is now going global as a logo as well as a tool, to measure positive action of individuals or groups on environment.
Back in India, environmentalists feel, rather loftily, that just like so many ancient philosophies and scientific concepts which India gave to the world, handprint could emerge as another of this ancient civilization's contribution towards saving the world from an environment catastrophe.
According to the latest buzz in the environment preservation groups, the concept and logo of handprint is set to go truly global in the UNEP's upcoming COP-11, the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 11) being held in Hyderabad next month, which is likely to adopt it as an international symbol.
"The Handprint is being given a special place in Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) Fair (during the conference) and it has been proposed that handprint be the symbol of positive action on ESD for biodiversity. It is expected that this will be adopted and welcomed by countries present at COP 11," says Padma Shree Kartikeya Sarabhai, chairperson of Ahmedabad-based CEE, which 'discovered' the concept in that workshop in 2005.
So what is the concept of 'handprint'?
Talking to TOI, Sarabhai explained, "Our human footprints now exceed the planet's capability of regeneration by about 25 per cent. For this year, humans have already exhausted the quota for nature's budget by mid-August and are now operating in overdraft. Handprint is a measure of ESD action; action that is directed to decrease the human footprints and make the world more sustainable."
CEE website explains the concept as a "tool, which is meant to help measure action at different levels. One needs to ask what one does at individual, community, national and global level. The handprint analyses positive impact on the three aspects of sustainability: environment, society and economy. Various questions cover each aspect, investigating on amongst others your use of resources, your social engagement and your awareness of sustainable investments. While the footprint is the negative effect you leave on global resources, handprint is your positive efforts towards sustainability."
When CEE started taking the concept to international conferences, it created a flutter, starting with the 4th international conference on environment education held at CEE in Ahmedabad in 2007. Soon, South Africa developed 12 resource books on the subject by Rhodes University Environmental Education and Sustainability Unit. Soon, Canada and Sweden adopted the concept and, recently, at the Intergovernmental Conference, 'Tbilisi+35: Environmental Education for Sustainable Development' organized by government on Georgia, on September 6-7, 2012, the final outcome document 'Tbilisi Communique: Educate Today for a Sustainable Future' talked of adopting handprint practices, which was endorsed by 104 countries, say CEE experts.
Recently CEE has developed a handprint calculator called 'Electricity Hand Print Calculator' focusing on the component energy (electricity consumption and setting target/commitment to reduce it).
Finally, here's a hand to guide the world for better future.
A typical 'handprint' quiz evolved by CEE asks the respondents whether they make conscious efforts to save water, eat locally grown fresh food, use renewable sources of energy, protect biological diversity in their areas, promote environment education, support small-scale producers, share resources with charitable organizations, invest in sustainable funds, or teach children about the need to conserve resources and reduce comsumption, among other actions needed for sustainable development.
Shrija goes global
Shrija, who lent her handprint, is now a 17-year-old girl studying in a Guntur college. She was recently tracked down by CEE after a German company, mighty impressed about the handprint concept, contacted CEE, expressing their interest in making a docu-movie on her and the concept.
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National Day Special Issue
The Philippine Reporter marks the June 12 Philippine National Day this year with the reprinting of two historical articles on the Philippine-American War of 1899 (page 4) and on the conflict that led to the trial and execution of Andres Bonifacio (page 8), the founder and leader of the revolutionary Katipunan that launched the armed struggle that toppled the more than 300-year old Spanish colonial regime.
Both articles are from Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, with footnote numbers pointing to sources and references. We did not remove the note numbers but we did not print the footnotes themselves. Readers may log on to www.wikipedia.org for the footnotes.
We hope that notwithstanding the enormous volume of facts, names of people, dates of events and references to various other information, readers, especially those who didn’t have the opportunity to study Philippine history in a profound way, will form a general though substantiated view of the crucial events that helped shape Philippine society today.
– The Editors
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Route 101 widening all about being safe
State transportation officials used the meeting to give some 50 Bedford residents an update on plans to improve and widen the road that divides the northern and southern sections of the town and serves as the only major thoroughfare to western parts of the state.
Construction is expected to begin in 2016 with a completion date of December 2017, according to Alexander Vogt, project manager with the DOT's highway design bureau. Vogt said 90 percent of the funding for the project will come from the federal government with the remaining 10 percent to be picked up by the state.
Preliminary plans call for adding an extra travel lane in both directions, which would make the road a four lane highway between Route 114 and Wallace Road with a landscaped, raised median dividing the east- and west-bound lanes. The plan also calls for providing turning lanes at several strategic locations, sidewalks, crosswalks and traffic lights at key intersections.
The purpose of the raised and landscaped median, said Vogt, is to provide a traffic calming device that would encourage drivers to slow down on that two-mile stretch of road and restrict left turns to intersections with traffic signals. "Just that visual impact can make a difference," said Vogt. "There's lots of little things that can be done and we'll be looking at all that."
But for one resident, there's little the state can do to make that road any safer. "I don't think you can make 101 safe for anyone," said Elaine Tefft. "It's a very dangerous highway, and I personally think that (a sidewalk) is what is known as an attractive nuisance and you're endangering lives."
According to the DOT, as many as 34,000 vehicles per day travel that stretch of Route 101, with significant daily backups caused by the traffic lights at Meetinghouse Road and Nashua Road, which runs perpendicular to Route 101 and is the main entrance route to the high school.
Over the last five years, there have been 322 motor vehicle accidents on the stretch of highway between Wallace Road and Route 114, most of them rear-end collisions, said Michael Duggas, chief of preliminary design for the DOT. The speed limit on the road is 40 mph, but drops to 30 mph near the Constitution Drive intersection, which is near the town's public safety complex.
"It's a very large volume of traffic we're trying to serve with this project," said Duggas, who added that because Route 101, which was built in 1952, runs from Bedford all the way to Keene, it's a road that's used by more than just Bedford residents.
The last time the state studied traffic patterns on the road was in 2002. After 2002, the widening project was taken off the state's 10-year plan, but was placed back on after a significant lobbying effort by local officials.
Resident Linda Gould urged DOT officials to consider the needs of people who walk and ride bicycles along the road. "It should be built so people walking from Wallace Road eastward can walk safely," she said. "It's very important to accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians."
Other residents called on the DOT to consider either an overpass at Bell Hill Road and Nashua Road or perhaps an underpass similar to one under Route 101 in Amherst.
"We can evaluate that," said Vogt. "But I would mention that bridges are very expensive. I'm just saying that funding is tight."
Preliminary designs for the road are expected to be unveiled this summer, followed by two more public information meetings - one in the fall and one in winter of 2014.
Dodgeball returns to Windham schools
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Healthier Lifestyles through “Commitment Contracts”
This can be pretty hardcore, but we’re all adults here, right? Check out stickK! It’s a service that “promotes healthier and happier living by helping people achieve their personal goals through the signing of Commitment Contracts.” Founded by Yale economists who tested the idea through behavioral and economic research, the concept of Commitment Contracts is grounded on the principles that 1) people don’t always do what they claim they want to do, and (2) incentives get people to do things.
So, stickK helps you select your goal (lose weight or quit smoking for example), set the stakes (i.e., pay money to charity if you fail your goal), get a referee (a friend to make the final call), and invite friends to cheer you on.
Looking at the “hot contracts” at stickK, like “recycle paper” and “buy only organic produce,” it looks like it can be used for a lot of less-intense goals, too.
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MesotheliomaHelp.net is dedicated to fighting cancer and providing helpful resources to mesothelioma patients and their caregivers. The purpose of this infographic is to share importance of us focusing on a cure for cancer and asking people to support the organizations that are working hard to find one. Please go to http://www.mesotheliomahelp.net/beat-cancer to donate to your favorite cancer charity today!
I really like this design style and color scheme. It keeps a serious tone overall to go with the serious topic, the visuals are simple and clear, and the story path is easy to read from top-to-bottom. The light gray paper backgound texture also provides clear boundaries to the infographic when displayed on a white background (like this blog). The lined up person icons to represent “1,500 people die each day” would be easier to understand with ten icons in each row.
I like idea behind the icons and the stacked grids of squares in “Cases of Cancer by Type”, but I’m unclear as to the values being visualized. It appears to be the percentage of deaths of of the total cases of each type of cancer, but that percentage value isn’t shown anywhere. The rows of squares should also be ten squares across to make the visualization easier to understand.
The “Mortality from Cancer” visualization is a basic line chart, but that visual does such a great job of telling the story of the overall trend over time. I think this particular section should have been bigger, since that data is so impressive.
The footer should include a copyright statement, and the URL to the original, full-size infographic on the MesotheliomaHelp.net site.
Thanks to Oakes for sending in the link!
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Date: Thursday, March 07, 2013, 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Dickson Mounds Museum is offering a new monthly program series for mothers and their young children in 2013. Fun forMoms & Tots will be held on the first Thursday of each month from 9:30 am-11:00 am in the Museum’s Discovery Center. On March 7, 2013 the program will be Create with Clay. Moms & Tots will learn how ancient people made food containers using items from their environment. Then, participants will have a chance to make a Native American pinch pot or experiment in making their own unique clay creation. They will also have a chance to explore the Discovery Center together, while making new friends.
Admission is free and registration is not required. Dads and grandparents are also welcome to participate in the program. Light refreshments will be served. This program is sponsored by Havana National Bank. If you are interested in becoming a program sponsor, please contact Curator of Education Christa Christensen at 309-547-3721.
The Illinois State Museum - Dickson Mounds is located between Lewistown and Havana off Illinois Routes 78 and 97. The museum is open free to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day. Tours and special programs are available for groups with reservations. For more information call 309.547.3721 or TTY 217.782.9175 or visit the museum's web site at www.museum.state.il.us/ismsites/dickson/ or www.experiencedicksonmounds.com. Remember to *Like* Illinois State Museum-Dickson Mounds on Facebook.
For more events at ISM Dickson Mounds Museum.
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The defendants, Andrew Benjamin Cook and Adria Joy Hinkle, each face 22 counts of Cruelty to Animals and 3 counts of Obtaining Property By False Pretenses. If convicted, they could face between 25 and 30 months in prison for each Cruelty to Animals count.
On June 15, 2005, police in Ahoskie, North Carolina witnessed Hinkle and Cook throwing trash bags -- containing the bodies of 18 dead pets -- into a shopping-center dumpster. After arresting them, police recovered 13 additional dead animals from the PETA-owned van in which the two were traveling. Witnesses from the Ahoskie Animal Hospital and the Bertie County Animal Shelter later confirmed that Hinkle and Cook had collected the animals, including puppies and kittens, earlier that day on the promise that PETA would find them adoptive homes.
Government records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services show that in 2005, the Norfolk-based PETA killed 90 percent of the animals it took in for adoption. By comparison, the nearby Norfolk SPCA killed less than 4 percent of its animals in that same year. The state average was 43 percent. Since 1998, PETA has put down over 14,400 dogs and cats. PETA's 2006 numbers will be made public by the end of January.
The previous/original version of this post linked to the website of the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a lobbying organization that is even more reprehensible to me than PETA; a watchdog group funded by the fast food, meat and tobacco industries to name a few. In addition to their campaign against PETA, they have also campaigned against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. I didn't take time to check my sources which I usually do. A friend alerted me to this error, thus the edited version of this post. Thanks S!
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The Lenten Fast has started and some may wonder why should we follow this ancient practice of abstinence. Many may dismiss fasting saying, "We are approaching the twenty first century and the rules of fasting are man made". Irrespective of what some people may think or suggest, the fact is that fasting is based on the Holy Scriptures (the Bible) and the Tradition of the Church dating to the time of the Apostles. Fasting was practised by Jewish communities before Christ was born; it is interesting to note that the early Church adapted the Jewish weekly fasts on Mondays and Thursdays to commemorate Christ's betrayal by Judas Iscariot on Wednesdays and His crucifixion on Fridays. We also know that Christ fasted for 40 days in the desert (Matthew 4:2), and that Elijah (as recorded in the Old Testament) and John the Baptist fasted, and that Christ said we should fast and pray to cast out some kinds of evils (c.f. Mark 9:29).
Christ advises, "Do not lay up for yourselves treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (Matthew 6:19-21). Fasting helps us stop relying on food for the stomach, and helps us realise that we are gathering treasures for ourselves in heaven though our prayers and the spiritual food for our souls. Christ also said, "Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man" (Matthew 15:11). This is another type of fast we have to participate in to lay treasures in heaven, but we have to fast inconspicuously anointing our heads and washing our faces "so that you do not appear to men to be fasting" (Matthew 6:18).
God has no need for our fasting, and He does not ask us to fast for His benefit. We can not gain His love by following some legalistic system. God does not desire sacrifice or burnt offerings, but "the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart..." These He will not despise (c.f. Ps 51:16-17). This is a personal and spiritual struggle based upon love for God and is not a measure of how much or how strictly we fast, or if we fast for the 40 days of the Great Lent. You may recollect St. Chrysostom's words on this very subject, when he said "...If any have arrived only at the eleventh [hour], let him not be afraid because he comes so late. For the Master is generous and accepts the last even as the first". In other words, we can not buy God's love or grace by simply following a mechanical-like formula for fasting, because God's love is always given freely. However, this love is not forced on us, we have to accept or open ourselves to it and allow it to change us. Fasting is a way that opens us to accepting God's love. We fast because we love God (not because it is a rule).
Why do we fast? You may have noticed that we fast in preparation for a feast in the Church. We fast in preparation for the Eucharist, and fast in preparation for the Great Feast and Christmas. This preparation involves a participation and expectation, and there is even a deeper meaning to fasting. The Church does not separate the body from the soul, but sees a person as a whole. She calls the whole (body and soul) to participate in preparations for the fasts and feasts. Our Orthodox faith is not restricted to the activities of the mind, but involves all the senses. Hence, the Church calls our total being to share in the life of the Church (i.e. all the feasts and fasts). By the way, you may have noticed that the Divine Liturgy revolves around taste (e.g the Eucharist), touch (e.g. kissing the priest's hand), smell (e.g. incense), sight (e.g remembering Christ in the Icons around the Church), and hearing (e.g. the chanting and Bible readings). Each of these require the cooperation between the body and mind. In an analogous way, we fast and pray during the fasting periods (see Luke 2:37).
Fasting is not a rejection of food or the world, but is a search for the kingdom of God. In the same way we fast from all food before the Divine Liturgy so that we might receive the holy Eucharist, which is the true food.
Another aspect of fasting is that the Church Fathers tell us to spend the money we may save to feed the poor.
Fasting is therefore a way our Orthodox Church teaches us to Love God with all our heart, mind and soul, and to love our neighbours as ourselves.
from The Truth, v. 5(5), 1998, Perth, Western Australia
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Few headlines were made by the devastating fire at a small chemical plant in Marl, Germany at the end of March in which two workers tragically died.
The plant was a leading producer of PA-12, a resin widely approved for use in the manufacture of, among other things, brake pipes, which are then supplied to the world’s automotive manufacturers.
The danger that car production lines may be halted as a result looms large over the industry, with all the huge financial losses that would flow from that. What if you were an affected brake pipe supplier who couldn’t supply the manufacturer?
The legal doctrine of force majeure excuses liability, if an unforeseen event, beyond the control of a party, prevents it from performing its obligations under a contract. Typically, force majeure clauses cover natural disasters, war, or the failure of third parties, such as suppliers, to perform their obligations to the contracting party.
Unlike most continental jurisdictions, English law does not allow the doctrine of force majeure to be implied. Unless dealt with in the contract’s terms, the affected party will remain liable to its customer even if the cause, like the PA 12 shortage, was something entirely beyond their control. This could be catastrophic.
Careful consideration must also be given to exactly what events will or will not justify the use of a clause. For example the flight ban caused by the volcanic ash cloud raised the question – was that ban the result of a natural disaster or of governmental action – the volcano put the dust in the sky, but the CAA stopped planes flying through it.
Events such as these underline the fact that all manufacturers involved in delicate supply chains need to assume worse case scenarios and ensure that their contracts insulate them from all risks outside of their control.
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Heifer International begins new program close to home
By Doug Rich
If, like me, you thought Heifer International was focused just on the hungry and poor in other countries, then, like me, you would be wrong.
When Perry Jones took over as the director of U.S. Country Programs two years ago, Heifer International had 108 projects in 34 states. Jones said Heifer International, originally known as Heifers for Relief when it was started in 1944, has always had projects in the U.S.
Seeds of Change
Heifer recently kicked off a new $13.5 million program called "Seeds of Change" that will directly benefit the hungry and poor in central Appalachia and Arkansas. Perry said the program is designed to create jobs, improve health, and steward the environment through the use of locally produced food.
"We want to use local food and sustainable agriculture as an economic engine in persistent poverty regions," Jones said. "We do this in persistent poverty areas with limited access to land."
The Seeds of Change program will target a five-county area in central Appalachia and a nine-county area in the Delta region of Arkansas. Jones said they have already started working in Hughes, Ark., population 1,400, to develop the Hughes Producers Cooperative.
"This area is as rough as any inner city neighborhood you have even been in," Jones said. "There is absolutely no opportunity in a place like Hughes. When Heifer sets up camp in a place like Hughes, you can feel the ground shake because we have a lot of people working right besides us."
Generally the first challenge is to get beginning farmers access to land. Jones said they look for someone who will loan or lease a small plot of land and then they develop a marketing plan.
"There is plenty of land in the form of abandoned lots, but getting it cleared off is the challenge," Jones said.
Heifer has 10 people in the program now, but their goal is to have 65 members by the year 2020.
"We have everything there to do this new farmer incubator program," Jones said. "We have interest, we have land availability, we have markets--now we just need to fill in the gaps."
A group from Hughes has been to the Heifer Ranch outside Perryville, Ark., for their first intensive sustainable agriculture-training course. The 1,200-acre Heifer Ranch was originally a collection point for livestock going overseas as part of Heifer programs. Today the ranch is a premier educational center that attracts over 17,000 visitors every year.
Chuck Crimmins, agricultural educator at the ranch, said there are two aspects to their work at the ranch. The first is global education. School and church groups come to the ranch to learn about issues surrounding hunger and poverty not only overseas but also here in the U.S. There are educational programs for students of all ages from kindergarten to college. Students over 12 years of age can take part in overnight visits to the ranch.
"We expose kids to how the rest of the world lives like," Crimmins said. "It is not just a field trip but students get classroom credit for what they are doing."
Students who participate in the Global Gateway program at the ranch experience living without everyday conveniences like water from a sink, ingredients from a refrigerator, or cooking on a stove. Like people in many poor regions around the world, they learn to start a fire and cook a meal with simple ingredients like rice, vegetables, and eggs.
The second aspect is agricultural education, which has two main areas. Crimmins said the first is generic or basic agricultural education for school kids to teach them how food is grown. Children visiting the ranch might have the opportunity to pick produce from the garden and then eat that produce for lunch so they get a complete field-to-table experience. The second area is technical training similar to what they did for the Hughes group.
"In the past seven years we have done three to four of these technical training sessions every year," Crimmins said. "These were for Heifer project farmers, Extension agents, and others, all based around small scale and organic production."
When the group from Hughes came to the ranch they started them out with a course on marketing but discovered they probably needed more information about actual production. In the five-county area in Central Appalachia where they are working with another Seeds of Change groups there are at least 200 small-scale sustainable producers. Jones said they need a different kind of help such as access to capital and improved practices. Out of the nine-county Delta region that surrounds Hughes, Ark., there are only two intensive small-scale producers.
The ranch is also home to 14 of the 29 animals species that Heifer uses around the world. Heifer started out by shipping dairy heifers to poverty-stricken areas around the world but they have expanded that list to include llamas, alpacas, goats, chickens and honeybees. When Dan West founded Heifer his concept was to give them a cow, not a cup. That philosophy can still be seen in Heifer project today.
"We want to make strategic investments in agriculture and not prop it up on grants," Jones said. "We expect our projects to grow legs and walk on their own two feet."
Heifer projects, whether here in the U.S. or overseas, share four core program strategies. They are community organizing and coalition building; training and support in sustainable agriculture and social entrepreneurship; facilitating access to capital; and facilitating access to diverse markets.
Since 1944 Heifer International's common-sense approach to helping resource-poor communities has touched 13.6 million families in more than 125 countries. Now, like me, you know that number includes people right here in the U.S.
You can learn more about Heifer International by going to www.heifer.org.
Doug Rich can be reached by phone at 785-749-5304, or by email at email@example.com.
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