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Outdoor Play - Market Sector Possibilities
A research survey has suggested that outdoor play is making a comeback due to cash strapped parents choosing free days out in the park.
The poll, which includes 1,250 UK parents of school-age children, suggests 44% of youngsters are now spending more time playing outside than they did two years ago.
Parents are discovering that days out to local parks can be more cost effective over other trips like the cinema. England’s weather, however, is the greatest obstacle for outdoor play.
Three-quarters of the parents surveyed said they were aware that they could have a cheap day out visiting parks and green spaces which would also be fun and educational for the family.
The research was taken for food manufacturer Arla’s Kids Closer to Nature campaign. Launched in January 2011, the campaign is encouraging children to embrace more outdoor play.
Kids Closer to Nature is a programme that will see Arla develop a range of activities throughout 2011 and is designed to encourage children of all backgrounds and locations to experience the outdoors and take them ‘closer to nature’ on a daily basis.
As part of the campaign, a grant scheme for members of the public to create natural spaces is also being launched.
Tim Gill, Author and play campaigner, said: “Times are hard, so parents have to make savings. But the good news is that families are realising that fresh air costs nothing. Getting under the open sky – whether in a local park or the great British countryside – is the perfect way for kids to explore, have adventures and feed their curiosity and imagination.”
Source: Toyworld 2012
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- Grades: 6–8
- Unit Plan:
- Demonstrate the ability to read independently for extended periods of time to derive pleasure and to gain information.
- Draw conclusions and make inferences about the text.
- Use skimming and scanning techniques.
- Analyze figurative language: imagery.
- Use graphic representations such as charts, graphs, pictures, and graphic organizers as information sources and as a means of organizing information and events logically.
- Classify and organize information by categorizing and sequencing.
- Excerpts from a Gary Paulsen memoir, like Woodsong, Older Run, or My Life in Dog Years.
- Post-it note pads
- Paper and pencil
- Sensory Details Diagram (PDF) printable
Set Up and Prepare
- Read the memoir(s) to identify excerpts that exemplify imagery that you will want to provide for the students.
- Prepare student copies of the excerpts of Paulsen's memoir.
- Gather a Post-it notepad for each group.
- Copy the Sensory Details Diagram printable for each group.
- Determine groups of students based on your own criteria and student needs.
- If desired, gather multiple copies of Gary Paulsen's books so that the students can independently read a variety of his work. See my Booklist for suggestions.
Part I - Introducing Sensory Details / Imagery
Step 1: Begin by having the students name the five senses: seeing, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
Step 2: Review with students that a memoir is a personal narrative describing an event in the author's life.
Step 3: Explain to the students that they will be reading an excerpt of a memoir written by Gary Paulsen. Ask the students if they have ever read a book by Gary Paulsen. Remind the students that most of Paulsen's books like Hatchet, Dancing Carl, and The River are fictional accounts of events that occurred in his life.
Step 4: Distribute the excerpts and allow students time to read. They may need to finish either as homework if you are using multiple copies or during the next class period, if necessary.
Part II - Classifying the Information
Step 5: Remind the students that sensory details can be written in two different ways: literally and figuratively. If the story says, "I tasted the soup that was hot," the detail is literal. If the story says, "I tasted the soup that burned my tongue like a flame," the detail is figurative as the speaker is not eating fire, but the reader can actually picture how hot the soup is. Explain to the students that the goal is to identify imagery, which is a sensory detail used metaphorically.
Step 6: While assembled in their groups, direct students to the Post-it notepads. Instruct students to reread each excerpt and decide which selections are examples of figurative language. Explain that every time they read a description that helps them to actually see, hear, taste, smell, or feel what is being described, they must take a Post-it note and attach it to the quote on the page.
Step 7: Encourage students to work collaboratively within their group to help each other clarify and analyze the language to determine if it is literal or used figuratively. After they have identified all the sensory details flagged by the Post-it notes, then they need to copy the actual detail from the excerpt onto the Post-it. Upon completion, they should have a collection of Post-it notes.
Step 8: Distribute the Sensory Details Diagram printable to each group.
Step 9: Instruct the groups to review each Post-it with the sensory detail and do one of two things:
a. Discuss the quote as literal and discard the Post-it note.
b. Decide the detail is figurative and place the Post-it on the following areas of the Sensory Details Diagram:
i. on the eyes for details using sight
ii. on the ears for details using sound
iii. on the nose for details using smell
iv. on the tongue for details using taste
v. on the hand for details using touch
Step 10: If every student read the same excerpt, have each group share one detail for sight, then one detail for sound, then one detail for smell, and so on while the class questions or confirms the choices. This would further reinforce the acquisition of this skill. If all the students read different excerpts, then have each group rotate from table to table to observe and discuss details on the group's completed Sensory Details Diagram.
Supporting All Learners
Struggling readers may need to read selections on an easier reading level, while advanced readers may need a more difficult reading selection. In either case, try to make sure to use texts written by Gary Paulsen as all of his writing is rich with sensory details.
- Using a large sheet of butcher paper or a piece of poster board, have the groups draw the top half of a person, similar to the Sensory Details Diagram. Then, have students copy the quotes from the sticky notes onto this hard copy. Afterwards, display these imagery people around your classroom as a reminder of the skill, which will help students complete the culminating activity in Lesson Two.
- Song lyrics, especially from ballads written in the 1970s and 80s, are rich in sensory detail. Bring in recordings of this music, play the songs, and have students complete an individual Sensory Details Diagram by placing an "X" on the sense when they hear the detail. Afterwards, give the correct tally to the students, and offer a prize for the student with the correct number in the correct places.
Have students complete a sensory details chart or journal for homework. In this journal, students write down examples of what they hear, see, smell, taste, and touch. At the beginning of the next class period, students then use this information to write a poem, including similes, metaphors, and other examples of figurative language as a review.
AssignmentsRead a Gary Paulsen excerpt. Identify sensory details within an excerpt. Identify sensory details using a Sensory Details Diagram.
Did the Post-it notes help students better engage in the lesson? Sometimes this technique encourages active reading in a way that adolescents cannot resist. How was the discussion in the groups? Did everyone participate? Why or why not? Did the students have an opportunity to see how other groups selected sensory details? How did that go? Did you observe most of the students accurately identifying sensory details? What will you do with the students who did not complete this assignment successfully before the next stage of the lesson? Since the next lesson is also group work, would it help to put these students together so that you could work with them separately from the students who can work independently?
- While collecting the Sensory Details Diagram from each group, place each in a sheet protector to protect the Post-it notes and their place on the diagram. Check for accurate placement of the notes either informally or formally to determine whether or not the students have attained the skill.
- Observe students while discussing in groups and ask questions that will direct students to correcting assumptions about their examples. Be careful not to answer the questions for them as the self-discovery will help the students better understand the skill.
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It’s funny sometimes how Latin terms are glossed. Consider Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio 55.5;
in eum locum postquam demissus est Lentulus, vindices rerum capitalium, quibus praeceptum erat, laqueo gulam fregere
This is typically translated as something like the following:
When Lentulus had been let down into this place, executioners, to whom orders had been given, strangled him with a cord.
The translation above is almost exactly the one on Perseus, which is the 1899 English translation by J.S. Watson. But he has glossed “executioners” above as “certain men”.
But even then, the word “executioners” is a certain type of gloss. The Latin in question is vindices rerum capitalium, which is far more literally something like “the revengers of the capital matters”, or perhaps more favorably but still rather cryptic (although no more cryptic than “certain men”): “capital revengers”. Anyway this is where we get the idea of “capital punishment” or “capital crimes” from.
A strange turn of phrase, perhaps, but how exactly did Lentulus (and Cethegus, Statilius, and others too) die at the illegal order of Cicero? Is that “strangled with a cord”? Well, yes, but … no. In fact it’s far more brutal than that!
The Latin words for the method of execution are laqueo gulam fregere. Laqueo is ablative laqueus, meaning noose, snare, etc, lets say “by a noose”. Gulam is straightforward: it’s accusative gula – the throat or neck. Now that’s leaves the verb, fregere. Oh yes, perhaps “strangled”, but not exactly: there’s some typical archaising going on here by Sallust that’s altered the form of the verb somewhat, it’s really frango frangere fregi fractum … and look at that supine, fractum, which is were we ultimately derives the word “fracture”. And indeed frango means more like “break”, “crush”, “grind”, “bruise” and also by transference, “violate”, “subdue”, “soften”, and “weaken”. Lentulus is having his throat violated. This being ancient Rome, it’s not a noose breaking the neck as in a 19th century long-drop hanging: it’s a rather brutal garrotting, pure and simple.
So sure, while it might be fine to think that “certain men … strangled him with a cord”, but that makes it sound rather more pleasant a death than the way it surely was (and Sallust had just finished describing just how disgusting in darkness, filth, and smell, the dungeon where the execution took place, actually was). Therefore I think it’s far more fitting to think that in the dark and fetid pit of the Tullianum, that “the capital revengers … crushed his throat with a noose”.
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(Romereports.com) Sunday's Angelus ended in an unusual fashion when Benedict XVI released two doves into St. Peter's Square, only to get attacked by seagulls.
The doves were released to mark the arrival of a Caravan for peace to St. Peter's Square. The Pope released them soon after a member of the caravan spoke asking the Pope to pray for you and their communities. After releasing the doves, Benedict XVI retreated into his papal residence, while the two doves sat around his apartment's window sills. That's when a seagull swooped in and began chasing the doves, as the crowds in St. Peter's Square looked on. In the end, both doves made it out OK.
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(CNN) -- The Environmental Protection Agency finalized new federal standards on toxic pollutants and mercury emissions from coal power plants Wednesday, a move being praised by environmentalists but criticized by others, who predict lost jobs and a strain on the nation's power grid.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, at an event at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, announced that for the first time U.S. coal and oil-fired power plant operators must limit their emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.
"I am glad to be here to mark the finalization of a clean air rule that has been 20 years in the making, and is now ready to start improving our health, protecting our children, and cleaning up our air," Jackson said. "Under the Clean Air Act these standards will require American power plants to put in place proven and widely available pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases. In and of itself, this is a great victory for public health, especially for the health of our children."
EPA rules in place since the 1990s target acid rain and smog-forming chemicals emitting from power plants, but not mercury, a neurotoxin known to damage developing fetuses and children.
Despite federal limits on emissions of mercury from other sources, such as waste incinerators, there have been no limits on coal-fired power plants, which the EPA says constitute the single largest source of mercury emissions.
"These standards rank among the three or four most significant environmental achievements in the EPA's history," said John Walke, clean air director of the National Resources Defense Council. "This rule making represents a generational achievement."
The new regulations are among the most wide-reaching to come from the EPA during Barack Obama's administration. They include separate limits for mercury emissions, acid gasses, and other pollutants from several metals.
Specifically, the EPA will impose numerical emission limits for all existing and future coal plants and propose a range of "widely available, technical and economically reasonable practices, technologies, and compliance strategies," to meet the new demands.
According to an EPA analysis, the larger economic benefits of the reduced pollution will more than pay for the short-term clean-up costs. The EPA also predicts more jobs will be created than lost as power plants invest million of dollars in upgrades.
It also estimates the new regulations, by reducing people's exposure to these toxins, will prevent 11,000 premature deaths each year and trim health costs.
"EPA estimates that for every dollar spent to reduce pollution from power plants, the American public will see up to $9 in health benefits. The total health and economic benefits of this standard are estimated to be as much as $90 billion annually," the agency said in a news release.
But the EPA also acknowledges the regulations will result in increased power grid strain: by its estimate, 14.7 gigawatts of power supply will be eliminated from the U.S. power grid when the rules take effect by 2015. That figure -- enough to power well over 10 million U.S. households -- is overly optimistic, according to other industry analyses.
Several industry groups and some Republicans also disagree about the economic impact the new regulations will have.
Reps. Darrell Issa and Jim Jordan, chairmen of the House Oversight Committee and subcommittee on Regulatory affairs, respectively, sent a letter to the White House earlier this week claiming the "EPA has failed to perform a proper analysis of the rule's impact on job creation" and "consider the rule's impact on grid reliability."
The new rules have also made their way to the Republican presidential campaign trail, with Jon Huntsman recently predicting increased brownouts during the summer and Rick Perry declaring the EPA is a "job-killing" agency.
And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a group traditionally sympathetic to Republicans, has aired ads urging listeners not to "let the EPA turn out the lights on the American economy."
But the Obama administration has found an ally in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who argued in a recent op-ed for the Huffington Post that the new standards are gravely needed.
"We can stop this," Bloomberg wrote of mercury poisoning. "We can spare children this tragic injustice and the pain it brings their families. We can spare adults from losing years off their lives. And we can spare taxpayers the enormous health care costs that come with mercury-related-illnesses."
Environmentalists, who earlier his fall were outraged with Obama over his refusal to push for ozone emission standards the EPA supported, are also strongly on board.
"This bold new announcement means less contaminated fish -- and more protections for kids who are at risk of developing learning disabilities and other problems that have been linked to mercury poisoning," the Sierra Club said in an e-mail to CNN. "This is a big public health victory, 20 years in the making. It's one of the most important anti-pollution measures in recent memory."
Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Beyond Coal Campaign, said, "As a mom, I'm especially excited to know that millions of mothers and babies will now be protected from mercury poisoning. We all teach our kids the simple rule that if you make a mess you should clean it up -- and now polluters will have to follow that same rule."
The new rule requires that the vast majority of mercury contained in coal be captured and prevented from releasing into the air when burned for energy, and would require operators to shut down or upgrade the least efficient power plants.
Power plant operators have three years to comply with the new standards, but plant operators may be granted additional time to install the necessary emissions improvement technologies if they are able to demonstrated a valid need.
Once airborne, mercury enters bodies of water through precipitation, becomes methylmercury, and accumulates in the food chain.
The EPA and the Food and Drug Administration jointly recommend that pregnant women and young children limit their consumption of fish and shellfish to two meals a week because of the methylmercury contamination.
CNN's William Hudson contributed to this report.
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Mr. Incredible, when everybody's special, no one is
In the Pixar movie The Incredibles, the super villain Syndrome reveals that he’s going to sell his inventions to everyone, so that everyone can have superpowers.
He then tells Mr. Incredible; “when everyone’s special, no one will be”.
This basically means that original original superheroes will no longer be glorified because they will no longer be special.
CG makes a reference to this moment in the movie as well as other Pixar movies throughout this song.
To help improve the meaning of these lyrics, visit "The Hour (Upular Remix)" by Childish Gambino Lyrics and leave a comment on the lyrics box
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What is bulimia nervosa?Bulimia nervosa, usually referred to as bulimia, is defined as uncontrolled episodes of overeating (bingeing) and usually followed by purging (self-induced vomiting), misuse of laxatives, enemas, or medications that cause increased production of urine, fasting, or excessive exercise to control weight. Bingeing, in this situation, is defined as eating much larger amounts of food than would normally be consumed within a short period of time (usually less than two hours). Eating binges occur at least twice a week for three months and may occur as often as several times a day.
What causes bulimia?The cause of bulimia is not known. Factors believed to contribute to the development of bulimia include cultural ideals and social attitudes toward body appearance, self-valuation based on body weight and shape, and family problems. Thirty to 50 percent of bulimic teens will also have met the criteria for anorexia nervosa at the onset of their disorder.
Who is affected by bulimia?The majority of bulimics are female, adolescent, and from a high socioeconomic group. All westernized industrial countries have reported incidence of bulimia. An estimated 1 to 4 percent of females in the United States are reported to have bulimia. Adolescents who develop bulimia are more likely to come from families with a history of eating disorders, physical illness, and other mental health problems, such as mood disorders or substance abuse. Other mental health problems, such as anxiety disorders, or mood disorders, are commonly found in teens with bulimia.
What are the different types of bulimia?There are two subgroups of anorexic behavior aimed at reducing caloric intake, including the following:
- purging type - regularly engages in self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas, or other cathartics (medications, through their chemical effects, that serve to increase the clearing of intestinal contents).
- non-purging type - uses other inappropriate behaviors, such as fasting or excessive exercise, rather than regularly engaging in purging behaviors to reduce caloric absorption of excessive amounts of food by the body.
What are the symptoms of bulimia?The following are the most common symptoms of bulimia. However, each adolescent may experience signs differently. Symptoms may include:
- usually a normal or low body weight (sees self as overweight)
- recurrent episodes of binge eating (rapid consumption of excessive amounts of food in a relatively short period of time; often secretive), coupled with fearful feelings of not being able to stop eating during the bingeing episodes
- self-induced vomiting (usually secretive)
- excessive exercise or fasting
- peculiar eating habits or rituals
- inappropriate use of laxatives, diuretics, or other cathartics
- irregular or absence of menstruation
- discouraged feelings related to dissatisfaction with themselves and their bodily appearance
- preoccupation with food, weight, and body shape
- scarring on the back of the fingers from the process of self-induced vomiting
- overachieving behaviors
How is bulimia diagnosed?Parents, teachers, coaches, or instructors may be able to identify the child or adolescent with bulimia, although many persons with the disorder initially keep their illness very private and hidden. However, a child psychiatrist or a qualified mental health professional usually diagnoses bulimia in children and adolescents. A detailed history of the adolescent's behavior from parents and teachers, clinical observations of the adolescent's behavior, and, sometimes, psychological testing contribute to the diagnosis. Parents who note symptoms of bulimia in their child or teen can help by seeking an evaluation and treatment early. Early treatment can often prevent future problems.
Bulimia, and the nutritional problems that result, can adversely affect nearly every organ system in the body, increasing the importance of early diagnosis and treatment. Consult your adolescent's physician for more information.
Treatment for bulimia:Specific treatment for bulimia will be determined by your adolescent's physician based on:
- your adolescent's age, overall health, and medical history
- extent of your adolescent's symptoms
- your adolescent's tolerance for specific medications or therapies
- expectations for the course of the condition
- your opinion or preference
Prevention of bulimia:Preventive measures to reduce the incidence of bulimia are not known at this time. However, early detection and intervention can reduce the severity of symptoms, enhance the process of normal growth and development, and improve the quality of life experienced by adolescents with bulimia. Encouraging healthy eating habits and realistic attitudes toward weight and diet may also be helpful.
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THE TASK OF THE MEN OF
THE Y. M. C. A.
THERE is a great work being done by the men of the Y. M. C. A. these days. As you think of what these men are doing there comes to your mind the parable of the good Samaritan.
In that picture portrayed by the Great Master there was a man in trouble, and a certain priest passed near enough to see him and then went by on the other side. Then there followed the Levite, and he comes near enough to see what happened, and he too passes by on the other side. Then comes the man of whom nothing practically is expected; the man who, if he passed by on the other side, would have given the reporters in the Jerusalem dailies no possibilities for head-lines. But he disappoints those who might have expected him to exhibit the attitude of inconsiderateness, for he stops and goes over to see what the trouble is, and then he uses the means appropriate to the end desired. He doesnít waste his oil and wine by pouring it in and then going on his way, but he justifies the initial expenditure of time and resources by lifting the wounded man on his own beast and taking him to the inn, then he makes his subscription by paying in advance all that is demanded. He meets the immediate obligation and mortgages the future by saying that whatever else is expended in the care of this man shall be paid when he came back.
At this present moment you have a highway on which the world must move. On that highway is one who has been met and foully dealt with, and you have the conception of the ministering spirit come to offer to that troubled and wounded traveler the best he has. We have been thinking very much of that traveler, not of the long ago, but of our own day. He represents so many aspects of life. Wounded and half dead, he represents a type of life in this day of ours in which intellect and faith are stricken and wounded; in which a great soul, with its eagerness, with its receptiveness, with its possibilities, has been not only staggered, but prostrated on the way and is not able to rise.
And the men of the Y. M. C. A. believe tremendously in the obligation which is upon us at this moment of all moments to interpret the unseen world; to help this staggered and prostrated man to rise again, and go on his way again gaining strength at each step of the way. To us this traveler, wounded and prostrate, fairly represents the physical life of the twentieth century that has been so foully dealt with in our day. This traveler on the way represents nations with their multitudes in dire distress; represents the physical anguish that has been occasioned in our day and generation by the atrocities of a national robber and murderer on the worldís highway.
We must think of the Y. M. C. A. as functioning not only in intellectual and spiritual matters, as it must do for the encouragement and restoration of faith, but we must think of it also as ministering to the physical suffering and need of the world to-day. It is by such service in the hospitals, in the camps and trenches, in the ambulances, in the rehabilitation of towns that the Y. M. C. A. is bringing light and cheer to multitudes who have been physically maimed and torn.
Comparing the great conflict over there with this parable of our Master, it would seem that the men of the Y. M. C. A. are over there to minister to the good Samaritan of our day as represented in our great army, the army that is ready to take up the cause of suffering humanity and vanquish the robber and despoiler on the great highway of the world, thus making the highway safe for those who shall come after us. That is precisely what I understand to be the function of the men of the Y. M. C. A. in going over to Franceóto stand by the good Samaritan.
The men of the Y. M. C. A. are not going over the seas to fight the battles of America as their representatives in khaki are doing, and as our Allies are doing, but they are going to stand beside this good Samaritan as he assumes and undertakes a difficult task under new conditions; they are going to help him in every way possible so that he may accomplish that task which to him is as holy a task as the good Samaritans in any age of the worldís history have ever undertaken.
It was during a service in a Y. M. C. A. hut that we heard for the first time the song
"Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag,It sounds a bit pathetic to hear our boys singing over there, but they werenít singing with any throb in their throats. They were singing with just the sort of fine spirit you would like to see in the boys of America.
How many men here are really good at packing things up? Most men when it comes to packing, are quite ready to let their wives and sisters do it, and if they are compelled to do the packing up themselves, they wonder if it would not be a good thing to have four or five hands, especially if there are many things to get into that suitcase or trunk. For just when you think you have everything squeezed in something bulges out. Did you ever observe anything like it? But if you have somebodyís hand to help you, you can release yourself and sit on the old kit bag, or suitcase, or trunk. When it comes to packing up your troubles in your old kit bag, that is a thing that most of us havenít undertaken. To pack up your troubles! Perhaps you think you can pack one or two, but when it comes to packing them all in, I donít believe that any of us here would succeed in getting them in the old kit bag, unless standing very near was that White Comrade of whom the inhabitants of France so constantly speak. And we need that Divine Helper if we are going to pack all our troubles in the old kit bag, and smile while we do it. I donít mean the smile of fun, a smile that has no special significance, but I mean the kind of smile that Donald Hankey speaks of in The Beloved Captain. The smile that comes into life when the Comrade in White draws near and abides in the citadel of oneís soul. We have read those wonderful pages of the men who were lost and found, and how at last they went West, with all the glory of the sunset full in their faces, smiling at death as they went out. And I have a notion somehow or other that it has come to men by the multitudes over there that the consciousness of having given themselves utterly to a great cause has been the avenue of courage through which trembling souls draw near to the Divine Lord. One cannot quite believe that the going West means simply the delirious forgetfulness of present fact, and the anguish of the wound received yesterday. It must also be that those who have consciously surrendered all that they have for the sake of humanity, looked up as they went out and saw the smiling face of Him who wrought for us, and fought for us, and died for us. One of the greatest things that the Young Menís Christian Association is doing over there, and one of the things which we must be constantly praying for over here is that there shall be among our men over there that sense of mastery, that victory over suffering that shall enable them to smile the sort of manly smile that would befit Him who is chief among ten thousand, and the one altogether lovely.
Again, it is a part of the function of the Young Menís Christian Association to discover the troubles that do not have to be carried at all, and to see that those troubles are left behind. There are troubles that are met outside oneís life. A great many of them these days bear on their southwest corner the mark "Made in Germany." Troubles for humanity that we are trying little by little, in the large and in the small, to keep wrapped up. And the Young Menís Christian Association helps, as best it may, in respect to this.
But the greatest troubles, the troubles that fret and worry, are homemade troubles, the sort of troubles that men make for themselves. And that is what Y. M. C. A. men out there in France will be facing from first to last, and their time and their energy will be occupied in the correction and the destruction of such troubles. Troubles intellectual; troubles that grow out of the habits of life; troubles that grow out of the feebleness of the soul, and the handicap of previous conditions; troubles that grow out of the newness and strangeness of the conditions in which men find themselves. And the purpose of the physical helps, the recreational helps, the intellectual helps, the moral helps, and the spiritual helps, brought to the army by the Y. M. C. A. is to aid this man to rightly handle his varied troubles and fit him for the task he has in hand.
Now, if that man is really to be helped, someone must keep by him. It isnít sufficient merely to have a theory and philosophy of life; it isnít sufficient to have the theory of the faith; there must be a practical knowledge of the faith, and there must be the actual approach to the very citadel of this manís confidence, if we are to bring him in touch with that great Comrade in White.
There are a few things that are quite essential in this process that is set before you. I think it would be an exceedingly unfortunate thing if there were no ministry to that man who is fighting with the force of might as the force of might fights against civilization and humanity; if there were any lack of sympathy with him in the task that occupies his hands. The one thing that is characteristic of the Association as the Association is known over there and over here, is that the Young Menís Christian Association is qualified by reason of its apprehension of the facts and by reason of its interpretation of the spirit of the Master to stand beside the men in khaki in an absolutely red-blooded sympathy.
It is highly significant that the spirit of the Association is of so fine a type that General Pershing seems unhesitant and unlimited in his readiness to commit great tasks to the Association. If there is anyone on this side of the seas who assumes even to put an interrogation after the Association, the practical answer to such an objection is the attitude of the great commander over there. There can be no question but that General Pershing is doing all he can do to maintain the morals and morale of the American army. In this the nation rejoices and rejoices too to feel that the commander of our expeditionary forces is striving to meet not only the expectations of our people but also the expectation of Almighty God.
The Y. M. C. A. men are over there to stand beside the champion of human liberty. They are over there to strengthen the hand and make courageous the heart of this chivalrous representative not only of civilization, but of Christianity; this representative of our manhood, and also this representative of our Divine Master. And they must keep close to him and touch his life constantly with their own deep conviction as to the justice of the cause to which he is giving the last full measure of devotion.
It is a wonderful task to which the men of the Y. M. C. A. go. It is altogether so. There is no eight-hour day in the Association over there. There is no bomb-proof job in the Association over there. I havenít discovered many eight-hour days for any really red-blooded soul participant in what is transpiring over there or here. I really donít have many of them myself.
There is a great deal that doesnít have any peculiar glamour about it when you really get at it. A good part of it is the prosaic sort of task that puts a rough edge on nerves, but it is a task from first to last that is to-day and forever glorified. When there is a consciousness that all one has and is goes into the task, and that it is done for His sake, and for the sake of the world He loved, and for this common man whom civilization has agreed to befriend this day, then the task is greatly worth while. It is the sort of task that any strong-winged angel of God would be glad to take, and would gladly exchange the
heights of joy yonder for the dusty highways of earth, that he might have share in the redemptive work of this present day.
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This information is provided under a cooperative agreement between the Better Business Bureau and the U. S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which has prepared this information.
Facts for Business
In Brief: The Financial Privacy Requirements of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
For more information about the Financial Privacy Rule
requirements, please see the FTC's Small Business Guide
Protecting the privacy of consumer information held by "financial institutions" is at the heart of the financial privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act of 1999. The GLB Act requires companies to give consumers privacy notices that explain the institutions' information-sharing practices. In turn, consumers have the right to limit some - but not all - sharing of their information.
Here's a brief look at the basic financial privacy requirements of the law.
The GLB Act applies to "financial institutions" - companies that offer financial products or services to individuals, like loans, financial or investment advice, or insurance. The Federal Trade Commission has authority to enforce the law with respect to "financial institutions" that are not covered by the federal banking agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and state insurance authorities. Among the institutions that fall under FTC jurisdiction for purposes of the GLB Act are non-bank mortgage lenders, loan brokers, some financial or investment advisers, tax preparers, providers of real estate settlement services, and debt collectors. At the same time, the FTC's regulation applies only to companies that are "significantly engaged" in such financial activities.
The law requires that financial institutions protect information collected about individuals; it does not apply to information collected in business or commercial activities.
Consumers and Customers
A company's obligations under the GLB Act depend on whether the company has consumers or customers who obtain its services. A consumer is an individual who obtains or has obtained a financial product or service from a financial institution for personal, family or household reasons. A customer is a consumer with a continuing relationship with a financial institution. Generally, if the relationship between the financial institution and the individual is significant and/or long-term, the individual is a customer of the institution. For example, a person who gets a mortgage from a lender or hires a broker to get a personal loan is considered a customer of the lender or the broker, while a person who uses a check-cashing service is a consumer of that service.
Why is the difference between consumers and customers so important? Because only customers are entitled to receive a financial institution's privacy notice automatically. Consumers are entitled to receive a privacy notice from a financial institution only if the company shares the consumers' information with companies not affiliated with it, with some exceptions. Customers must receive a notice every year for as long as the customer relationship lasts.
The privacy notice must be given to individual customers or consumers by mail or in-person delivery; it may not, say, be posted on a wall. Reasonable ways to deliver a notice may depend on the type of business the institution is in: for example, an online lender may post its notice on its website and require online consumers to acknowledge receipt as a necessary part of a loan application.
The Privacy Notice
The privacy notice must be a clear, conspicuous, and accurate statement of the company's privacy practices; it should include what information the company collects about its consumers and customers, with whom it shares the information, and how it protects or safeguards the information. The notice applies to the "nonpublic personal information" the company gathers and discloses about its consumers and customers; in practice, that may be most - or all - of the information a company has about them. For example, nonpublic personal information could be information that a consumer or customer puts on an application; information about the individual from another source, such as a credit bureau; or information about transactions between the individual and the company, such as an account balance. Indeed, even the fact that an individual is a consumer or customer of a particular financial institution is nonpublic person information. But information that the company has reason to believe is lawfully public - such as mortgage loan information in a jurisdiction where that information is publicly recorded - is not restricted by the GLB Act.
Consumers and customers have the right to opt out of - or say no to - having their information shared with certain third parties. The privacy notice must explain how - and offer a reasonable way - they can do that. For example, providing a toll-free telephone number or a detachable form with a pre-printed address is a reasonable way for consumers or customers to opt out; requiring someone to write a letter as the only way to opt out is not.
The privacy notice also must explain that consumers have a right to say no to the sharing of certain information - credit report or application information - with the financial institution's affiliates. An affiliate is an entity that controls another company, is controlled by the company, or is under common control with the company. Consumers have this right under a different law, the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The GLB Act does not give consumers the right to opt out when the financial institution shares other information with its affiliates.
The GLB Act provides no opt-out right in several other situations: For example, an individual cannot opt out if:
a financial institution shares information with outside companies that provide essential services like data processing or servicing accounts;
the disclosure is legally required;
a financial institution shares customer data with outside service providers that market the financial company's products or services.
Receiving Nonpublic Personal Information
The GLB Act puts some limits on how anyone that receives nonpublic personal information from a financial institution can use or re-disclose the information. Take the case of a lender that discloses customer information to a service provider responsible for mailing account statements, where the consumer has no right to opt out: The service provider may use the information for limited purposes - that is, for mailing account statements. It may not sell the information to other organizations or use it for marketing.
However, it's a different scenario when a company receives nonpublic personal information from a financial institution that provided an opt-out notice -- and the consumer didn't opt out. In this case, the recipient steps into the shoes of the disclosing financial institution, and may use the information for its own purposes or re-disclose it to a third party, consistent with the financial institution's privacy notice. That is, if the privacy notice of the financial institution allows for disclosure to other unaffiliated financial institutions - like insurance providers - the recipient may re-disclose the information to an unaffiliated insurance provider.
Other important provisions of the GLB Act also impact how a company conducts business. For example, financial institutions are prohibited from disclosing their customers' account numbers to non-affiliated companies when it comes to telemarketing, direct mail marketing or other marketing through e-mail, even if the individuals have not opted out of sharing the information for marketing purposes.
Another provision prohibits "pretexting" - the practice of obtaining customer information from financial institutions under false pretenses. The FTC has brought several cases against information brokers who engage in pretexting.
For More Information
The FTC is one of eight federal regulatory agencies that has the authority to enforce the financial privacy law, along with the state insurance authorities. The federal banking agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have jurisdiction over banks, thrifts, credit unions, brokerage firms and commodity traders.
The FTC has additional details on the GLB Act, the Commission's Privacy Rule and a compliance guide for small business owners at www.ftc.gov/privacy.
The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair practices in the marketplace and to provide information to businesses to help them comply with the law. To file a complaint or to get free information on consumer issues, visit www.ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.
Your Opportunity to Comment
The National Small Business Ombudsman and 10 Regional Fairness Boards collect comments from small businesses about federal compliance and enforcement activities. Each year, the Ombudsman evaluates the conduct of these activities and rates each agency's responsiveness to small businesses. Small businesses can comment to the Ombudsman without fear of reprisal. To comment, call toll-free 1-888-REGFAIR (1-888-734-3247) or go to www.sba.gov/ombudsman.
This information is provided under a cooperative agreement between the Better Business Bureau and the U. S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which has prepared this information. The FTC works to prevent fraudulent, deceptive and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid these practices. To learn more about the FTC and its services, visit www.ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261.
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The State House Transportation Committee has a bill that would repeal the requirement that vehicles registered in North Carolina have an annual safety inspection.
Called House Bill 59, the bill would still require vehicle emissions inspections.
Currently, all vehicles registered in N.C. are required to have an annual safety inspection except those vehicles that are 35 years or older. An emissions inspection is required in 48 of the 100 counties that make up N.C., according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
The proposed bill states:
“An act to repeal the requirement that motor vehicles registered in this state have an annual safety inspection, to eliminate the requirement that window tinting be inspected at an inspection station by a licensed safety inspector, to eliminate the affirmative defense to an unsafe tire charge, to eliminate the requirement that a vehicle be subject to a safety inspection before a charge for tinted windows may be made, to develop and implement a management improvement plan for the motor vehicle emissions inspection program administered by the Division of Motor Vehicles … .”
The emissions inspection would still consist of a visual inspection of the vehicle’s emissions control devices and the implementation of the on-board diagnostic, OBD, equipment.
“To pass an emissions inspection a vehicle must pass both the visual inspection and the OBD analysis,” the bill says.
According to the bill, if the vehicle fails the emissions inspection, the owner will have 60 days to have the car reinspected.
The bill was filed on Jan. 31 and stems from a report submitted by the Program Evaluation Division of the N.C. General Assembly.
The report, which was completed in 2008, was called the “Doubtful Return on the Public’s $141 Million Investment in Poor Managed Vehicle Inspection Programs Summary.” The report looked at the effectiveness of the DMV, safety inspections and emissions inspections.
A summary of the initial report said that, “North Carolinians spend $141 million annually on inspections. The report found no evidence that the safety inspection program was effective; it was not possible to determine how much vehicle emissions inspections contributed to the improvement of overall air quality; and program oversight by the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) was inadequate.”
In the report, and repeated in the summary, solutions were given by the Division on how to fix the potential problems found, including eliminating the safety inspection program. The report said, if the General Assembly chose to eliminate safety inspections, the state would lose $2 million in fees, free 38 percent of all registered vehicles from inspection requirements and put a small percentage of inspection stations — those whose primary business is inspections — out of business. But, by repealing the inspection requirement, North Carolinians would save $33 million in annual inspection costs.
A separate summary of that initial report was completed in March 2012 and called “A Three-Year Emissions Inspection Exemption Would Save North Carolina Motorists $9.6 Million.” The summary showed the impact of the emissions levels and air quality under two conditions. The study, which was conducted by the DMV and the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources’ Division of Air Quality in 2011, found that exempting vehicles of the three newest model years would not violate the federal air quality standards and save North Carolinians $9.6 million annually. But, eliminating the emissions inspection program all together would increase pollutants to more than 80,000 tons per year.
The Program Evaluation Division assists the N.C. General Assembly in overseeing government functions.
The bill was scheduled to be heard Tuesday in Raleigh, but the meeting of the House Transportation Committee was canceled. A hearing on the bill has not yet been rescheduled.
— Staff Writer Laura Edington can be reached at 910-997-3111, ext. 18, or by email at email@example.com.
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From MU's Disability Policy & Studies
This popular resource is being updated gradually. It gives VR service providers an entry on each major disability, with an emphasis on implications for career-based employment, counseling situations, and possible job supports.
The Social Security Administration has developed a system of supports to help people with disabilities transition from full support from SSI/DI to full employment. However, sometimes the intricacies of the process are hard to understand. This DPS resource explains the regulations and procedures.
Resources for Community Rehabilitation Providers (CRPs) and other community partners who work with state VR agencies
DPS is developing some innovative resources on employment supports for adults with Autism.
DPS hosts various online webinar trainings. Recordings of many are available here.
a Self-Determination Career Development Model. This DPS resources was developed by the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. It provides information on how to support people with disabilities in making informed decisions about their own career paths. The site provides a tutorial and numerous support documents.
Kathy Moeller is a specialist on support for people with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs). For several years, she answered questions from the public about this topic for DPS. Her answers are informative and thought-provoking.
We have developed a self-directed course on the history and philosophy of the VR system, including first-person case studies based on real VR clients..
A description of Disability Policy & Studies
Last Updated January 11, 2013
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Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule require that covered entities provide patients with access to oral information?
Answer:No. The Privacy Rule requires covered entities to provide individuals with access to protected health information about themselves that is contained in their “designated record sets.” The term “record” in the term “designated record set” does not include oral information; rather, it connotes information that has been recorded in some manner.
The Rule does not require covered entities to tape or digitally record oral communications, nor retain digitally or tape recorded information after transcription. But if such records are maintained and used to make decisions about the individual, they may meet the definition of “designated record set.” For example, a health plan is not required to provide a member access to tapes of a telephone “advice line” interaction if the tape is maintained only for customer service review and not to make decisions about the member.
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v 1: take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because
of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in
Greek stands for an 's' in Latin" [syn: stand for
2: express indirectly; be a symbol of; "What does the Statue of
Liberty symbolize?" [syn: symbolize
3: be representative or typical for; "This period is
represented by Beethoven"
4: be a delegate for; represent somebody's interest, as of
politicians and office holders representing their
constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in
a housing dispute; "I represent the silent majority"
5: serve as a means of expressing something; "The flower
represents a young girl"
6: be characteristic of: "This compositional style is
exemplified by this fugue" [syn: exemplify
7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone
wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These
constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the
chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a
year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute
8: be the defense counsel for someone in a trial; "Ms. Smith
will represent the defendant" [syn: defend
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10: play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to
act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"
11: describe or present as an embodiment of a particular
quality; "He represented this book as an example of the
Russian 19th century novel"
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#Photography #Paul Graham #Street Photography #The Great Leap Sideways #MACK Books #Garry Winogrand #Tod Papageorge
“What has united the vast, and diverse array of great talents who have made their work on New York city’s streets is an interest in uncovering and illuminating the peculiarities of their present moment, and doing so with whatever idiosyncratic strengths and sensitivities each individual photographer has been able to muster. The form they have given to that work brings with it a particular point of view, one that if effective can persuade us not only of the fact of what was depicted but of its necessary importance, its integrality to the particular historical moment of its expression. Straight photography has assumed this particular task in vastly differing forms for over a century, and the matter of our own particular present, of its plurality, its complexity, of its persistent threat of crisis and catastrophe, of its deep and ever widening divisions, can be made visible with stark clarity through the photographic act, even as the policies that govern that reality seem ever more blind to its nature.”
— from an essay on Paul Graham’s The Present, up here.
“34th Street_4th June 2010” © Paul Graham, from The Present
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Alternative Medicine Information
Things tend to come a full circle. Is it any wonder then, that after exploring the fascinating but dangerous world of chemicals and artificial medicine, people are now returning 'back to nature'? True, the medical field has been expanded beyond imagination in the past few decades, but after discovering and inventing almost all that there was to discover and explore, the scientists and doctors alike seem to have come to the most logical conclusion: when mother nature gave us problems in the form of disease, she also gave us the right tools to solve these problems. The only work to be done is to rediscover this tool…which is something that alternative medicine strives to do.
It is, therefore, time to say goodbye to the many expenses, side effects and pain associated with artificial, chemical based medicines. Most of the allopathic medicines being tend to mask the symptoms rather than correct the root cause of the problem or disease. This means that they can, at most, afford palliative care while masking the very signals through which our bodies are trying to communicate to us that all is not well. Moreover, while these symptoms are masked, the body carries on the healing process itself.
Alternative medicine refers to all branches of medicine not involving allopathic medicine. Alternative means of therapy explore everything from healing with the help of gemstones, homeopathy, Ayurvedic medicine, herbal cures, psychosomatic health practice as well as some traditional, regional and ancient healing techniques which may or may not be very well known, but have been passed down from generation to generation, and are still based on sound scientific principles and good old common sense. Some insurance companies even see it this way, but when getting health insurance quotes, I suggest asking their policies on alternative medication specifically.
Some examples of alternative medicine are:
- Chinese acupuncture
- Music therapy
- Water Therapy
- Alexander Technique therapy
- Massage therapy
- Chiropractic care therapy
- Aroma therapy and healing sciences
- Colour therapy
- Herbal medicine
- Hypnosis and behavior suggestion
This list is not exhaustive at all. There are many more alternative healing techniques that can be added, but the ones given above are the most well known and readily available.
According to The Alternative Medicine Site, out of these forms of therapy, a few are now being recognized as viable and reliable forms of therapy. Chiropractic healing can only be performed by professionals with degrees in Chiropractics which allows the professional to practice this therapy. The same is applicable to homeopathy, herbal medicine and, in some countries, to Chinese acupuncture.
While an orthodox way of thinking has prevented many people in the past from using these forms of therapy, one should realize that these are becoming not only more and more acceptable, but also very trendy. What with the essential required qualification, there is less fear of quacks practicing these forms of therapy. Those who have experienced the benefits of these alternative forms of therapy swear by the same and even refuse to be bound by the conventional forms of therapy.
Alternative forms of therapy are also used as an adjunct to allopathic therapy.
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More Than 25% of Teenage American
Has Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
LINDSEY TANNER / AP 11mar2008
At least one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a first-of-its-kind federal study that startled some adolescent-health experts.
First study shows high STD rates
Some doctors said the numbers might be a reflection of both abstinence-only sex education and teens' own sense of invulnerability. Because some sexually transmitted infections can cause infertility and cancer, U.S. health officials called for better screening, vaccination and prevention.
Only about half of the girls in the study acknowledged having sex. Some teens define sex as only intercourse, yet other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some diseases.
Among those who admitted having sex, the rate was even more disturbing — 40 percent had an STD.
"This is pretty shocking," said Dr. Elizabeth Alderman, an adolescent medicine specialist at Montefiore Medical Center's Children's Hospital in New York.
"To talk about abstinence is not a bad thing," but teen girls — and boys too — need to be informed about how to protect themselves if they do have sex, Alderman said.
The overall STD rate among the 838 girls in the study was 26 percent, which translates to more than 3 million girls nationwide, researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. They released the results Tuesday at an STD prevention conference in Chicago.
"Those numbers are certainly alarming," said sex education expert Nora Gelperin, who works with a teen-written Web site called sexetc.org. She said they reflect "the sad state of sex education in our country."
"Sexuality is still a very taboo subject in our society," she said. "Teens tell us that they can't make decisions in the dark and that adults aren't properly preparing them to make responsible decisions."
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said the study shows that "the national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure, and teenage girls are paying the real price."
Similar claims were made last year when the government announced the teen birth rate rose between 2005 and 2006, the first increase in 15 years.
The new study by CDC researcher Dr. Sara Forhan relied on slightly older data. It is an analysis of nationally representative records on girls ages 14 to 19 who participated in a 2003-04 government health survey.
The teens were tested for four infections: human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer and affected 18 percent of girls studied; chlamydia, which affected 4 percent; trichomoniasis, 2.5 percent; and genital herpes, 2 percent.
Dr. John Douglas, director of the CDC's division of STD prevention, said the results are the first to examine the combined national prevalence of common sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent girls. He said the data, now a few years old, likely reflect current prevalence rates.
Disease rates were significantly higher among black girls — nearly half had at least one STD, versus 20 percent among both whites and Mexican-Americans.
HPV, the cancer-causing virus, can also cause genital warts but often has no symptoms. A vaccine targeting several HPV strains recently became available, but Douglas said it probably hasn't yet had much impact on HPV prevalence rates in teen girls.
The CDC recommends the three-dose HPV vaccine for girls ages 11-12 and catch-up shots for ages 13-26.
Chlamydia, which often has no symptoms but can lead to infertility, can be treated with antibiotics. The CDC recommends annual chlamydia screening for all sexually active women under age 25. Trichomoniasis, also treatable with antibiotics, can cause abnormal discharge and painful urination. Genital herpes can cause blisters but often has no symptoms. It's not curable but medicine can help.
The CDC's Dr. Kevin Fenton said given the dangers of some STDs, "screening, vaccination and other prevention strategies for sexually active women are among our highest public health priorities."
Douglas said screening tests are underused in part because many teens don't think they're at risk, but also, some doctors mistakenly think: "Sexually transmitted diseases don't happen to the kinds of patients I see."
Teens need to hear the dual message that STDs can be prevented by abstinence and condoms, said Dr. Ellen Kruger, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.
"You've got to hammer at them," with appropriate information at each stage of teen development to make sure it sinks in, she said.
She said there are a lot of myths out there, too — many sexually active teens think the withdrawal method will protect them, or that douching with Coca-Cola will kill STD germs.
Dr. Margaret Blythe, an adolescent medicine specialist at Indiana University School of Medicine, said some doctors hesitate to discuss STDs with teen patients or offer screening because of confidentiality concerns, knowing parents would have to be told of the results.
Blythe, who heads an American Academy of Pediatrics committee on adolescence, noted that the academy supports confidential teen screening.
Nationally Representative CDC Study Finds
1 in 4 Teenage Girls Has a Sexually Transmitted Disease
CDC Press Release 11mar2008
-- 3.2 Million Female Adolescents Estimated to Have at
Least One of the Most Common STDs --
-- Other Studies Featured at 2008 National STD Prevention Conference Show Missed Opportunities for STD Screening and Innovative Solutions for STD Prevention and Treatment --
Chicago – A CDC study released today estimates that one in four (26 percent) young women between the ages of 14 and 19 in the United States – or 3.2 million teenage girls – is infected with at least one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus, and trichomoniasis). The study, presented today at the 2008 National STD Prevention Conference, is the first to examine the combined national prevalence of common STDs among adolescent women in the United States, and provides the clearest picture to date of the overall STD burden in adolescent women.
Led by CDC’s Sara Forhan, M.D., M.P.H., the study also finds that African-American teenage girls were most severely affected. Nearly half of the young African-American women (48 percent) were infected with an STD, compared to 20 percent of young white women.
The two most common STDs overall were human papillomavirus, or HPV (18 percent), and chlamydia (4 percent). Data were based on an analysis of the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
“Today’s data demonstrate the significant health risk STDs pose to millions of young women in this country every year,” said Kevin Fenton, M.D., director of CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention. “Given that the health effects of STDs for women – from infertility to cervical cancer – are particularly severe, STD screening, vaccination and other prevention strategies for sexually active women are among our highest public health priorities.”
“High STD infection rates among young women, particularly young African-American women, are clear signs that we must continue developing ways to reach those most at risk,” said John M. Douglas, Jr., M.D., director of CDC’s Division of STD Prevention. “STD screening and early treatment can prevent some of the most devastating effects of untreated STDs.”
CDC recommends annual chlamydia screening for sexually active women under the age of 25. CDC also recommends that girls and women between the ages of 11 and 26 who have not been vaccinated or who have not completed the full series of shots be fully vaccinated against HPV.
The study of STDs among teenage girls is one of several presented today at the 2008 National STD Prevention Conference that highlights the significant burden of STDs among girls and women, and identifies creative prevention strategies for reducing the toll of STDs in the United States.
Contraceptive services represent missed opportunities for STD screening, prevention
Two other studies featured at the conference point to missed opportunities for STD testing, and underscore that it is critical for STD screening to be included in comprehensive reproductive health services for young women.
A study by CDC’s Sherry L. Farr and colleagues found that while the majority of sexually active 15- to-24 year-old young women (82 percent) receive contraceptive or STD/HIV services, few receive both (39 percent). In addition, only 38 percent of a subset of young women who reported receiving contraceptive services associated with unprotected sex (e.g., pregnancy testing) also received STD/HIV counseling, testing or treatment, which indicates that many women at high risk are not receiving necessary prevention services.
A separate study, by CDC’s Shoshanna Handel and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, examined STD screening rates among young women seeking emergency contraception, which would suggest recent unprotected sex. The study found that just 27 percent were screened for chlamydia or gonorrhea. A significant proportion of those women (12 percent) had a positive test result, highlighting the need for routine chlamydia and gonorrhea screening at emergency contraception visits.
Innovative programs provide models for effective STD prevention
Other research from the conference highlighted creative programs that are effectively screening and treating people with STDs, and identifying those most at risk.
A CDC-funded confidential chlamydia screening program in high school-based health clinics in California resulted in high rates of screening among those seeking contraceptive or STD services (range: 85-94 percent). It also revealed significantly higher infection rates among African-American women than white women (9.6 percent versus 1.7 percent).
A study by New York City health officials assessed the effectiveness of an express visit option, allowing patients at city clinics to be tested for STDs without a doctor’s exam. Comparing data before and after express visits were routinely offered, researchers found that the express visit option made it possible for an additional 4,588 tests to be performed, and increased STD diagnoses by 17 percent (2,617 versus 2,231).
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"Pax Romana" was a term coined during Emperor Augustus' period of peace following the civil war it is therefore also known as Pax Augustea.
The term is linked to the condition of relative peace in contrast to the unruliness of the barbarian world outside the confines of the Roman Empire. This presumed peace was as much the result of Roman law as it was of the subdual of local warfare between rival tribes or peoples.
Emperor Augustus celebrated the peace he brought with his famous "Ara Pacis" - altar to peace - a marvelous piece of political propaganda which he placed in the campus martius with a solar clock's shadow falling on it on the day and hour of his birthday.
The Pax Romana is commonly accepted to have lasted some 200 years during which civil war and foreign invasions of Roman territories were essentially unknown, spanning from around 30AD (when Augustus beat Mark Anthony and Cleopatra at Actium to end the Roman civil war) through to the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
It is interesting to note how the Pax Romana outlived its own definition by having lasted past the Empire's point of maximum extension ie around 117AD at the end of Emperor Trajan's reign or the beginning of Emperor Hadrian's.
The Pax Romana is mentioned by Seneca, Pliny the Elder, Lucan and Tacitus in reference to the effect which the Roman Empire had in terms of bringing civilisation and order to the barbaric peoples.
Seneca (De Providentia):
"Omnes considera gentes in quibus Romana pax desinit, Germanos dico et quidquid circa Histrum uagarum gentium occursat: perpetua illos hiemps, triste caelum premit, maligne solum sterile sustentat..."
Observe all those people who have been reached by the pax Romana, i mean to say the Germans and all such peoples as may be found in the region of Histrum: continuous winter, interminable, a somber sky weighs upon them, the infertile ground barely gives them sustenance...
Tacitus (57-120AD), like Sallust before him, seems to have been aware of the ill ways of Roman expansion, the decay of the "boni mores" (the good traditional morals) in favour of the growing lust for power and wealth. Like Sallust he doesn't openly criticise the imperialist line and in fact likely upholds it as the lesser evil: the Pax Romana is a guarantee of order and survival for all.
Tacitus writes one of the few self criticism of Roman imperialism in his "Agricola" (ch.30) where has the caledonian chieftain put forward the opposing view to the Pax Romana:
“Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant”
where they make a desert, they call it peace
Pliny the Elder (died in the Pompeii eruption) had the following comment to make regarding the benefits of Roman expansion (Natural History, Book 14, Ch 1): "For these later ages, the enlarged boundaries of the habitable world, and the vast extent of our empire, have been a positive injury."
Nevertheless he immediately goes on to condemn the ills brought by growing wealth and ambitions: "Since the Censor has been chosen for the extent of his property, since the judge has been selected according to the magnitude of his fortune.....the magistrate and the general (by) a large estate....all the true enjoyment of life have been utterly lost sight of, and all those arts which have derived the name of liberal, from liberty, that greatest blessing of life, have come to deserve the contrary appellation, servility alone being the passport to profit."
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Release Date May 2004
Council Special Report No. 4
Africa, mired in poverty, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and armed conflict, has rightfully occupied a prominent place in the G8’s agenda over the past several years.
This report, written in anticipation of the G8’s June 2004 summit at Sea Island, Georgia, highlights the need for the G8 to maintain a strong partnership with Africa, even as the world’s attention turns increasingly to the Middle East.
As an agenda-setter at the G8, the United States has an important role to play in the group’s priorities. The report shows that Africa warrants increased G8 attention for several reasons, including the presence of terrorist cells on the continent, its increasing importance as a major source of oil for the United States, and the large number of African nations that are members of the World Trade Organization. The report also points out that the United States has a good performance record regarding Africa to showcase at the summit. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief targets Africa with billions of dollars to combat the disease over the next five years; the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act has opened the U.S. market further to African products and produced an estimated 190,000 new jobs on the continent; and the Millennium Challenge Account promises substantial additional assistance to countries making progress toward sound economic policies, good governance, and eradicating corruption.
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Why should we put it into practice?
More than just a triad of feel-good buzzwords, the eco-friendly Three Rs are a way of life that incorporates our theme of kindness. Be kind to Mother Nature, and she'll be kind to you. Let's look at reduction, for example. Do you like to breathe? Me, too. By reducing the number of trips you take in the family truckster, you can reduce your annual contribution to air pollution. I'm not saying that you should walk everywhere, but simple steps like carpooling or parking in a central location in order to accomplish several errands within walking distance can really add up.
Reuse. Anyone who grew up during the Great Depression or World War II is a past master of this trick. Outgrown clothes? Pass them down to the next kid in the family. Clothes worn out? Cut them up and use the still-good pieces to make quilts and other items. With the arrival of the Internet, inspiration is just a click away. It's easier than ever now to seek out new ways to use old stuff, rather than wasting resources by buying another impulse item.
Recycle. It's not just for plastic bottles anymore. Batteries, appliances, and metal of all kinds can be recycled. While crossing a bridge one day, my husband and I happened to look down into the creek. Rather than splashing fish and playful raccoons, we saw a washing machine and several tires. My husband was outraged. "Look at that. People live here for thousands of years, and all they leave are a few arrowheads. We're here for a couple hundred, and leave a mess like this." The recycling bug bit us hard that day, and has been hanging on ever since. With a recycling center a matter of blocks away, it wasn't a difficult decision. Now the only hard part is reminding him to tie a sturdier knot around the old newspapers!
Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Three small changes that can add up to big differences. If you'd like to prove it to yourself, try a little experiment at home. For the next month, choose an item to recycle. Cans are a good place to start. Recycle cans for one month, and treat yourself to a trip to the Farmer's Market or the local garden center with the proceeds.
If you've ever tasted a homegrown organic tomato, you know that nature knows how to repay kindness.
Need some more ideas for applying the Three Rs? Download our free lesson plans!
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Nikolai Rozhenko was a Human scientist in the 24th century. Nikolai was the only biological child of Sergey and Helena Rozhenko. In 2347, he became the adoptive older brother of a Klingon child, named Worf. The two went on to consider themselves brothers well into their adulthood despite their conflicting personalities.
Together the Rozhenko family was raised on the farm world of Gault, before eventually returning to Earth. Nikolai would accompany his father and brother on camping trips into the Ural Mountains. He was afraid of the howling of the wolves. (DS9: "Change of Heart")
Known for being somewhat of a loose cannon, Nikolai and his brother had many disagreements as they were growing up, even if they acknowledged and respected each other's strengths; Worf in particular noted that Nikolai was a strong-willed man and a natural leader. Nikolai attended Starfleet Academy but dropped out after one year because the rules were too stringent. (TNG: "Heart of Glory", "Homeward")
Years later, Doctor Rozhenko was assigned to the cultural observation post on the planet Boraal II and was the only observer present by 2370. He broke the Prime Directive by becoming much more involved with the Boraalans than necessary, although he was able to conceal his true origins from them. He conceived a child with a Boraalan female, Dobara, and became very protective of the Boraalans in her village.
It was at that time that Boraal II fell victim to a rapid atmospheric dissipation. Major storms hit the planet for several days before the atmosphere was finally destroyed, and Rozhenko led Dobara and the villagers into a cave to seek refuge after transmitting a distress call. The USS Enterprise-D responded to the distress call and Rozhenko pleaded with Captain Picard to save the small group of Boraalans. He felt it would be irrational to let the culture die and that the Prime Directive did not apply in this situation; not known at the time was the fact that Dobara was pregnant with his child, which served as a further motivation. Picard disagreed and did not permit the Boraalans to be brought aboard.
Shortly thereafter, the Enterprise-D witnessed the complete destruction of all life on Boraal II. However, Rozhenko used the systems interference from the atmospheric dissipation to transport a group of the Boraalans to the holodeck, recreating the caves in which they had sought refuge. Picard was infuriated at Rozhenko's gross violation of the Prime Directive, but decided to find a new home for the Boraalans. He assigned Dr. Beverly Crusher and Lieutenant Commander Data to the task of findng a new planet for the group.
They chose the isolated world of Vacca VI. While Rozhenko and Lieutenant Worf guided the Boraalans out of the simulated caves and to a simulated surface, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge was able to gradually adjust the scenery to more resemble Vacca VI. Once the transformation was complete and the Enterprise-D reached Vacca VI, the Boraalans were transported to the surface, where they began to establish a new village. Rozhenko stayed behind with the Boraalans. All but one of the Boraalans were unaware of the move. (TNG: "Homeward")
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Topaz has been an important gem for thousands of years. There are references to topaz in ancient texts from various cultures. One of the characteristics of topaz that makes it desirable as a gemstone is that it is relatively hard or resistant to scratches. Topaz comes in a variety of colors, with blue being the most widely known and commonly used in jewelry. Blue topaz is the birthstone used for the month of December.
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Montalvo Arts Center is a beautiful 175-acre park that brings together nature, science, history, and the arts. It's the perfect place to bring students for a field trip that is both educational and fun! Tours run through the academic school year and can be tailored to your grade level curriculum needs. Special docented tours for 3rd & 4th grades, focused on California history, are also offered.
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Know thy audience. It's the first commandment of writing. Thanks to the internet, this rule can now be ignored with impunity. The sheer volume of material the internet delivers, borne by tireless backbone routers, forces us to self-select our channels.
Having our own “shopping carts” of news, entertainment, and reference sources carries a number of benefits: As an author, your audience comes to you because they like your work, and as a consumer, you choose only the most appealing content—no more boring channels. On the other hand, both authors and consumers can become complacent, producing and accepting mediocre content and false claims.
Science writing is an excellent example of this phenomenon. Though major news outlets, trade publications, and academic journals could all carry the same information, they don't. Journals carry details of procedures and data that the other formats generally leave out, and trade magazines usually preserve additional analysis and specific names so that keeping track of developments is easier. News articles provide just enough information to attract attention and provide conversation material, but there are always sensationalized bits to provide entertainment.
I'm no purist; journal articles can be (and often are) boring, repetitive, and abstruse. At the same time, news and many popular science sources provide insufficient information, leaving me to search for the original source, making them more work than they're worth. I'll admit I hardly read the news these days, and often the errors in reporting (gross oversimplifications, even leading to misleading information) further dissuade me. I'm not the intended audience, and I've selected myself out of the pool of so-called “layman” popular science consumers.
When Dr. Hammad Azzam's Shifting Borderlines, a pop science/futuristic book was referred to me, I saw it as a nice opportunity to investigate other viewpoints on the future of biotechnology.
Crossing the Borderlines
I'm not in the book's intended audience, and—no big surprise here —I wasn't impressed. As far as pop science books go, Shifting Borderlines is fairly pedestrian. The explanations of the science involved were cursory and, in the biology section, misleading.
For example, DNA repair is described as Terminator-like self-repair, as if single nucleotides in solution happily pair up with single strands with no mention of enzymes or energy expense. Longer strands pair better because of base-stacking, and single nucleotides have to overcome a significant entropy cost to stay attached to partners. DNA doesn't just pull nucleotides out of solution to repair itself.
Of course, the book isn't meant to be a primer on molecular biology—it's a book with a focus on futurism. The author employs four representatives: a skeptic, a Ray Kurzweil stand-in (seriously, it's the futurist with an alias), a popular science evangelist, and Dr. Azzam himself. They discuss the current state of science and the future of science and technology.
Despite his attempts, their discussions end up showing one real viewpoint: Dr. Azzam's. As an electrical engineer, Dr. Azzam proves his mettle in the computational aspects of his book, discussing topics such as the continuation of Moore's Law and the advancement of artificial intelligence. His treatment of physical theories is reasonably good.
Dr. Azzam, like most people, is understandably excited about advances in both computing and biotechnology. And, like most people, he can cite more innovations from computing that have produced tangible entities in his daily life—his iPod, phone, and so on all get a mention.
However, little omissions in biology are the foundation for an overly enthusiastic view of the future of biotechnology—cures for aging, cancer, and what-have-you are mentioned without much regard for the mechanism. One consistent assertion of futurists (and I am not the first to notice this) is that a cure for aging will arrive within their lifetimes. Hope springs eternal, I guess.
I also think it's interesting that both of the futurists he discusses, Aubrey de Grey and Ray Kurzweil, are trained in computer science and yet pick biotechnology as their path to immortality rather than some sort of Matrixy mind-copying deal. Perhaps they have more realistic expectations regarding the fields they are most familiar with?
Where's The Beef?
Are these the expectations of the general populace? Or does the endless stream of “groundbreaking” and “revolutionary” discoveries, as reported by the news media, dull the public's enthusiasm?
Intel, AMD, ARM, and other chipmakers have managed to keep up with Moore's Law, consistently churning out innovation upon innovation. Thanks to the semiconductor crew, we have supercomputing power in your laptop, or even in your phone. Really: The first Crays managed only a couple of gigaflops (floating point operations per second), something my underclocked Core 2 does in a miniscule fraction of the space, power, and cost.
So what have biotechnologists been up to? Where are the consumer toys? The counterparts to the iPads and dooDads? Where's the gourd that lights your house and smells like strawberries or the bandages that disinfect wounds and repair nerve damage?
From the inside, the achievements are indeed amazing—we've seen Moore's Law improvements in DNA sequencing and synthesis, and our toolboxes are expanding in ways that can only be described as incredible. We now have viral vectors, stem cell isolation, artificial microenvironments, new assays, imaging, and so on.
What the consumer sees, though, is very different. The miraculous new treatments like Herceptin and Cerezyme to sequencing that can determine drug response and disease predisposition comprise part of this wonderful pile of work that only a select few will really think about (and my sympathy to those who find out by necessity).
While the generic consumer might whine about a cell phone locking up or how the Xbox cooked itself again, these gripes are easily assuaged with new tech. But claims that “we made it so sharp you can see their pores” or “you never have to be without Starcraft” don't cut it when it comes to biology. Because when it comes down to what the consumer wants, it's also what the futurist wants, what everyone wants—a panacea.
No one expects computers to save the world, but biotech seems to have the world on its shoulders. Instead of “what will they think of next?” it's “when will they get around to fixing that?” This, all on top of the fact that biotech contends with additional regulation, increased complexity, and more caution for unforeseen events.
Engaging the Consumer
It would be nice for biotech to have something equivalent to CES, the annual consumer electronics tradeshow, to have something to unveil every year, with consumer applications. The introductions would perhaps be along the lines of, “Here's your new and improved corn that now prevents pellagra” or “This new fern removes dust, mold, pollen, and other messy things from the air!”
Of course, we run into the one major problem with life: It's alive. It adapts, reproduces, and eats your lunch while you're not looking. But even nonliving products to take on consumer-level problems would make a profitable addition to the less-visible revolutionary cures and discoveries. At the very least, it would break up the monotony and help with consumer acceptance. After all, even the Terminator series did nothing to stop the entrance of PCs, broadband, smartphones, and Google into our lives. Could smart plants work for biotech like smartphones did for electronics?
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A study was made to investigate whether the change in color of acrinol aqueous solution by light affects bacterial potency of acrinol. Acrinol was decomposed rapidly by the irradiation with high pressure lamp when its initial concentrations were lower, but the decomposition was slowed down at higher initial concentrations. Four resultant products were observed by thin-layer chromatography and major one of them was isolated by column chromatography. The bactericidal potency was expressed in terms of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) against Staph. aureus 209-P RIMD. The MIC of the UV-irradiated acrinol solutions remained in the range of 1O.O-12.5μg/ml which was on a level with that of control acrinol solution. The range was irrelevant to the initial concentrations. The major compound isolated by column chromatography also showed similar MIC.
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The Sabarmati River originates from the ranges of Arravalli in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, Western India. The river is about 371 km in length. In its initial course, the river is also called as Wakal
. The river empties into the Gulf of Cambay of Arabian Sea. The river traverses a stretch of about 400 Km. The Banas basin lies to the east of the river, while the Mahi Basin lie to its north, and the Luni Basin to its west. The southern boundary of the river flows along the border of the Gujarat State. The total area of the Basin is 4,164 km square.
Sabarmati River Basin
flows in the mid-southern part of Rajasthan and some parts of Gujarat, between latitudes 23 degree 25` and 24 degree 55` and longitudes 73 degree 00` and 73 degree 48`. The river extends over some parts of Udaipur, Sirohi, Pali and Sabarmati River Dungarpur Districts. Sabarmati River flows in a southwesterly direction.
The main tributaries of the Sabarmati river
are Wakal river
and the Sei Nadi
, which also rise in the Aravali hill range west of Udaipur city and flow south-westwards in courses generally parallel to the Sabarmati river. Owing to the construction of the Dam at Dharoi, Sabarmati river carries only dry weather flow without any assimilative capacity and starts stinking right at the beginning of the city as major storm water outlets discharges Sewage and Industrial waste waters.
Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar are located on the banks of the river. There is a legend of how Sultan Ahmed Shah was inspired to establish Ahmedabad. It is said that while he was resting on the bank of Sabarmati River he got inspired by the courage of a rabbit to chase a bully dog. On the banks of the river Sabarmati, Gandhiji established Sabarmati Ashram during India`s Struggle for Independence.
The course of River Sabarmati
extends for almost 371 km in western India. The Sabarmati River starts its journey in the Aravalli Range of the Udaipur District of Rajasthan. In the beginning of the course the river is also called as Wakal river. The river flows in the Indian state of Gujarat along the majority of its course and debouches in the Gulf of Cambay of Arabian Sea.
The main river and its tributaries form the drainage in Sabarmati River
. The Sabarmati River and its tributaries define the drainage pattern of this River Basin. This basin drains down the slopes of the Aravali hills in Udaipur District, and the Vatrak river which rises in Dungarpur District.
Several surface water projects are carried out in River Sabarmati. The existing surface water projects in Sabarmati River
have facilitated the irrigation procedure to a great strength. There are only 47 minor irrigation projects in the Sabarmati River basin, along with some small irrigation systems, covering less than 20 ha, which are constructed and operated by Panchayat Samities.
Sabaramati River Front Development
was mainly initiated in Ahmedabad, but presently the scheme is being followed all along the riverbanks.
Surface Water projects of Sabarmati River
Several surface water projects of River Sabarmati have facilitated irrigation in this basin. The existing surface water projects in Sabarmati River have facilitated the irrigation procedure to a great strength. There are only 47 minor irrigation projects in the Sabarmati River basin, along with some small irrigation systems, covering less than 20 ha, which are constructed and operated by Panchayat Samities.
The ongoing water surface projects of the Sabarmati River
include 15 minor irrigation projects with a total storage capacity of 15.4 Mm3, which are under construction in this Basin. An additional area of 3.2 kha will be irrigated on the completion of these projects.
The upcoming water surface projects include 26 minor and three medium irrigation projects with one lift scheme. The total live storage capacity of this project is 180 Mm3, which have been proposed in this Basin. An additional area of about 19 kha will be irrigated after the completion of these schemes.
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At Prunella's half-birthday party, her sister unveils a fortune-telling cootie catcher. When the object mysteriously seems able to predict the future, Arthur and his friends become slaves to its every move. Can they ever go against the cootie-catcher's authority or will they be doomed forever? In chapter-book format, for children who are ready to read on their own, this wondrous adventure will surely be a hit among Arthur fans. For ages 5-7.
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Why In-Memory Computing Is Cheaper And Changes Everything by Timo Elliott.
From the post:
What is the difference? Database engines today do I/O. So if they want to get a record, they read. If they want to write a record, they write, update, delete, etc. The application, which in this case is a DBMS, thinks that it’s always writing to disk. If that record that they’re reading and writing happens to be in flash, it will certainly be faster, but it’s still reading and writing. Even if I’ve cached it in DRAM, it’s the same thing: I’m still reading and writing.
What we’re talking about here is the actual database is physically in in-memory. I’m doing a fetch to get data and not a read. So the logic of the database changes. That’s what in-memory is about as opposed to the traditional types of computing.
Why is it time for in-memory computing?
Why now? The most important thing is this: DRAM costs are dropping about 32% every 12 months. Things are getting bigger, and costs are getting lower. If you looked at the price of a Dell server with a terabyte of memory three years ago, it was almost $100,000 on their internet site. Today, a server with more cores — sixteen instead of twelve — and a terabyte of DRAM, costs less than $40,000.
In-memory results in lower total cost of ownership
So the costs of this stuff is not outrageous. For those of you who don’t understand storage, I always get into this argument: the total cost of acquisition of an in-memory system is likely higher than a storage system. There’s no question. But the total cost of TCO is lower – because you don’t need storage people to manage memory. There are no LUNs [logical unit numbers]: all the things your storage technicians do goes away.
People cost more than hardware and software – a lot more. So the TCO is lower. And also, by the way, power: one study IBM did showed that memory is 99% less power than spinning disks. So unless you happen to be an electric company, that’s going to mean a lot to you. Cooling is lower, everything is lower.
Timo makes a good case for in-memory computing but I have a slightly different question.
If both data and program are stored in memory, where is the distinction between program and data?
Or in topic map terms, can’t we then speak about subject identities in the program and even in data at particular points in the program?
That could be a very powerful tool for controlling program behavior and re-purposing data at different stages of processing.
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With fall and winter rains approaching, Snohomish County residents should make flood preparations for their homes and families a priority.
Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon has declared Oct. 21‐27 "Flood Preparedness Week" as a reminder to residents to take time now to plan for the protection and safety of their families and property. The county has a long history of flooding and the effects of heavy rains on rivers, roads, bridges and neighborhoods are well known.
"The preparations we make as a local government are geared toward protecting public safety and ensuring recovery," Reardon said. "It is also important for residents to do their part to be prepared for flood season."
The National Weather Service forecasts a weak, almost neutral El Nino climate pattern this year, which in the past has produced some of the county's biggest weather events, including as recently as 2006 and 2009.
Residents should prepare for flooding by:
• Stocking up on basic supplies, food and water in case of power outages.
• Having an emergency plan for your family, including evacuation routes if needed.
• Checking the area around your home for plugged drains or culverts that can back up and cause flooding.
• Considering purchasing flood insurance.
To stay on top of flood conditions in your area, check the county's Flood Warning System, an online service that shows river levels at key locations, updated every 15 minutes. The Flood Warning System can be accessed from the county's home page at www.snoco.org by searching "Flood Warning System."
This service, along with other information to help residents prepare for and maintain safety during flooding, is featured in Snohomish County's annual Flood Guide. The Guide is mailed to all households within the designated floodplains, and is available online at www.snoco.org by searching "2012 Flood Guide." Hard copies can be obtained at the Snohomish County Departments of Emergency Management at 425‐388‐5060, Public Works Surface Water Management at 425‐388‐3464, and Planning and Development Services at 425‐388-3311, as well as at fire stations and public libraries within county jurisdiction.
There are many websites that also offer flood advice including:
• www.snoco.org by searching "flood emergency information."
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Not all dairy products are equal in keeping your bones strong.
A study by researchers at the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife has found that milk and yogurt are associated with higher bone mineral density in the hip. The spine was not affected the same way.
But cream may be associated with lower bone density mass, or BMD.
The affiliate of Harvard Medical School study was published in the journal Archives of Osteoporosis.
“Dairy foods provide several important nutrients that are beneficial for bone health,” said lead author Shivani Sahni, Ph.D., Musculoskeletal Research Team.
“However, cream and its products such as ice cream have lower levels of these nutrients and have higher levels of fat and sugar. In this study, 2.5 - 3 servings of milk and yogurt intake per day were associated with better bone density."
More research is needed to examine the role of cheese intake (some of which can be high in fat and sodium), and whether individual dairy foods have a significant impact in reducing fractures.
Read more information on the study.
This all makes me feel less guilty about my love for and daily generous consumption of fat-free frozen yogurt.
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Working to empower those you lead is the base concept of Servant Leadership. Schools that challenge you to ignite a fire in those around you, to reach higher, go farther, and do greater things are rare – yet the lessons are incredibly important. What will be your legacy to the world?
Although the concept of Servant Leadership is thousands of years old, Servant Leadership schools have come into existence, only over the last quarter of a century. These schools put forth a set of leadership principals that encourage leaders to view themselves as servants to coworkers and to the resources of faith-based or non-profit organizations and forward thinking corporations, including Starbucks, Southwest Airlines and AT&T.
Servant Leadership schools are becoming the preferred choice, as advanced managerial training is desired by a growing number of organizations. Yet all too often, because of time and distance constraints workers are unable to attend classes offered by a scattering of Servant Leadership schools. Gonzaga University Online is one of the few Servant Leadership schools to offer effective online leadership degrees.
Gonzaga University Stands Out Among Other Servant Leadership Schools
Gonzaga University’s Online Leadership Training Program has embedded a timeless philosophy of educating the whole person into the principals of Servant Leadership to create an educational hybrid– where Servant Leadership education involves the mind, body and spirit. Students learn to draw strengths from their inner self, strengths that enable them to understand why Servant Leadership emphasizes core principals of listening, trust, collaboration, empathy and ethics rather than simple organizational authority; in other words, management from top to bottom.
Gonzaga University’s Leadership Development School is available online, with benefits like 24/7 Tech Support, and more personal interaction with professors. Gonzaga University employs seamless online teaching tools that combine video and other media. Students can also link to a Mentors Gallery of lectures designed to provide a broader perspective of the practices taught at Leadership Training Programs.
Gonzaga’s Leadership Training Program offers advanced leadership course sequences and online leadership programs that can enable hard-working students to excel in their given career fields. If you have any questions, call us toll free at 1-866-295-3105.
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Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America's Affordable Health Choices Act. For example, Republicans continue to claim that health insurance reform will undermine America's small businesses. However, the fact is that small businesses will benefit enormously from America's Affordable Health Choices Act.
Myth: The House Democrats' health insurance reform bill will harm small businesses — undermining their ability to create new jobs.
Fact: Far from undermining small businesses, the bill would significantly cut the costs of health care coverage for small businesses — thereby reducing the cost of doing business for many small business owners and allowing them to help their employees while saving and creating jobs. As the New York Times has pointed out, “The small business community would be one of the biggest winners from health care reform.”
Reform dramatically reduces small business health costs. The Small Business Majority recently released a report that showed that without reform, small businesses will pay nearly $2.4 trillion in health care costs over the next 10 years. If health insurance reform is enacted, the report found that small businesses could save as much as $855 billion over 10 years, nearly 36 percent. This money can be reinvested in the business and jobs.
Reform eliminates price and benefit discrimination against small businesses. A Commonwealth Fund study found the smallest firms pay an average of 18 percent more in health insurance premiums for the same benefits than larger firms. By creating a pool and offering assistance, the House health insurance reform bill will lower small business costs and increase options. As the New York Times states, “[Under the bill,] the smallest employers would gain quick access to new insurance exchanges — where plans would compete for their business with rates comparable to those enjoyed by large employers.”
Reform exempts most small firms from the employer responsibility to cover workers; others are subject to lower rate. In recognition that providing health insurance is unaffordable for many small businesses, the bill exempts most small businesses from the employer responsibility requirement — exempting all firms with payrolls of $500,000 and below. In addition, small businesses with payrolls between $500,000 and $750,000 would face a graduated fee if no health coverage is provided — rather than the 8 percent payroll fee that mid-sized and large firms not providing coverage would pay. Furthermore, many small firms already offer worker health coverage today — and will have better and more affordable options under the bill.
Reform also provides a substantial tax credit for many small businesses to make providing worker health coverage more affordable. The bill creates a permanent tax credit for small businesses to help them offer coverage to their employees — which phases out as employers' size and average wages increase. Specifically, the bill provides a tax credit of up to 50 percent of the costs of providing health insurance to their employees for small businesses with 25 or fewer employees and average wages of less than $40,000.
Reform will not result in a loss of small business jobs. An analysis by Professor Jonathan Gruber, a respected health economist at MIT, concluded that the minority of small businesses that are subject to the requirement to provide health coverage under the bill would see little impact on their employment and profits. Furthermore, most small businesses are exempt from the requirement under the bill and instead will receive much help if they choose to offer such coverage.
Myth: The House Democrats' health insurance reform bill will impose large tax hikes on America's small businesses, taking a big chunk out of their hard-earned income.
Fact: Under the bill, 96 percent of small business owners would pay NO increased taxes. While the 4.1 percent wealthiest small business owners would pay a graduated “health care surcharge” on part of their income, the bill helps ALL small business owners with lower health care costs.
Only 4.1 percent of all small business owners would pay the surcharge, using the broadest definition of a small business owner. Under the bill, the wealthiest 1.2 percent of Americans would pay a graduated surcharge on income over certain levels, to help make health insurance affordable for the middle class and small businesses. For small business owners, the surcharge is only on net profits (what you take out of the business) — receipts minus expenditures (payroll, capital expenses, etc.) — above $280,000 (for single filers) and $350,000 (for married filers). The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that only 4.1 percent of small business owners would net that much and therefore pay the surcharge, using the broadest definition of a small business owner (i.e., any individual with as little as $1 in small business income).
Half of the “small business owners” paying the surcharge earn less than one-third of their income from small businesses — not what we think of as truly “small business owners.”
Only 1.1 percent of “small business owners” would pay the top rate — among them, hedge fund managers, private equity fund managers, lawyers, and lobbyists making millions of dollars a year.
The facts are why employers of all sizes are supporting the America's Affordable Health Choices Act. The Main Street Alliance, a small business group, supports the bill because it “will help make America’s small business more competitive by giving them greater control over one of the most costly and unpredictable aspects of doing business: the spiraling costs of providing quality health coverage.”
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Tsunami Capacity Assessment
The Tsunami Capacity Assessment of the ability of the Republic of Kiribati to receive, communicate and effectively respond to tsunami warnings took place in a workshop held from 8 - 10 September 2008 in Tarawa, Republic of Kiribati.
The completed Tsunami Capacity Assessment Report is made available on this website with the permission of Kiribati.
Click here to download the Results Outline. (0.24Mb)
Click here to download the Status of Key System Components. (0.19Mb)
Click here to download the Full Report. (1.49Mb)
Supporting documents and attachments to the report can be obtained by contacting firstname.lastname@example.org.
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The installation sits back beyond the far row of parking spots, on a berm overlooking a valley. Its collection of geometric shapes reach into the sky, framed by electrical wires and clouds.
It may not be evident at first blush, but it’s a piece of art. Sitting in a parking lot.
“It’s meant to sort of blend with the parking lot and the landscape. You might not even notice it right away, even if you drove to the back of the parking lot,” says Tom O’Day, an art instructor and gallery director at Spokane Falls Community College. “It’s not an eyesore, it doesn’t really stand out.”
The piece, “Sign Post,” was produced by Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, also known as Lead Pencil Studio. The duo, known for pieces around the Pacific Northwest that mix art with architecture, had “Sign Post” installed last summer as part of a state mandate to provide public art along with any new building construction. The piece consists of a pole reaching skyward with several geometric shapes — and an arrow — meant to represent signs.
“Signs create an evocative sense of place and a link to a past that is fast disappearing,” the piece’s inscription reads. The piece has “been positioned in the unusual location of a parking lot to draw students toward the forested river canyon during the day and during the evenings of performance for the night sky beyond.”
At night, the shapes light up in a dreamy sort of teal, highlighting lines on the signs and, in one case, what looks like a strand of DNA.
“That makes it significantly different in the night,” says O’Day. “The thing about public art is it can tend to be a hard sale.”
On an overcast afternoon last week, two SFCC students say they had never actually noticed “Sign Post.”
“I didn’t even realize it was there,” says Kristin Stratte, 20, as she opened the door to her car several rows away.
“I’ve got to be honest with you, it’s probably the first time I’ve looked at it,” says Mike Rhodes, 43, as he stands outside a minivan less than 50 feet away.
The piece hadn’t yet become illuminated for the night. Rhodes says that might affect his impression of it.
“I could see it looking different at night,” he says. “Right now it doesn’t look like that much.”
As commercial aircraft lumber overhead and a string of cars make an exodus from the campus lot, Stratte gets the piece within a few seconds of noticing it.
“A pole with signs on it,” she says. “That’s neat. I’ll have to look at it in the day.”
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The newly discovered glass dune fields, spread across almost a third of the planet Mars,
likely formed from interactions between magma and ice, or water, interactions that could create the perfect environments for microbial life. The northern lowlands spread across millions of square miles in the Red Planet’s northern hemisphere. But dark sediments in the region have puzzled planetary scientists. Briony Horgan and James Bell, both of Arizona State University, used the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter to re-examine light radiated from the Martian plains. They determined that the strange readings were caused by sand composed of glass. Such landforms are not unique to red planet. Iceland boasts thousands of square miles of desert dominated by glass sand. The Martian dunes don’t just make an interesting vacation spot. They also provide tantalizing hints toward their formation. As said Horgan the only way to create an extensive glassy deposit like that is through explosive volcanism. When a Martian volcano erupts, the thin atmosphere and difference in pressure should make for some great pyrotechnics. But a fiery eruption alone won’t guarantee glass. It takes an interaction with water or ice to manage that. The glassy expanse would not be the best location to search for life. But it could lead to more promising environments. According to Horgan they definitely know searching for organisms in the northern lowlands is difficult. He think the better place to go would be those source regions, the ice-magma interactions.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, May 9, 2011
Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), report that they have developed a method—10,000 times more sensitive than other methods—to detect variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD) in blood plasma. vCJD is a type of prion disease in humans that leads to brain damage and death. The NIAID researchers also used the test to rapidly detect scrapie, a prion disease of sheep, in infected hamsters, some pre-symptomatic.
Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are difficult to diagnose, untreatable and ultimately fatal. Scientists believe disease-causing prions are abnormal infectious clusters of prion protein molecules. Normally, prion protein molecules exist in every mammal in an unclustered, harmless form. In prion diseases, tissue damage leaves microscopic sponge-like holes in the brain. Along with vCJD and scrapie, other forms of prion disease include chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease.
Because animals and people can be infected for years before symptoms of disease appear, scientists have tried to develop a rapid and sensitive screening tool to detect prion diseases in blood, which would assist in efforts to prevent the spread of prion diseases among and between species, via the blood supply or otherwise.
Collaborating with scientists from Switzerland-based Prionics AG, the NIAID group combined an antibody-based approach with an improved real-time quaking-induced protein conversion (RT-QuIC) reaction. RT-QuIC, developed in recent years, detects when normal prion protein converts to an abnormal form. The resulting test—which they call enhanced QuIC (eQuIC)—improves prospects for routinely detecting low levels of abnormal prions in tissues, fluids or environmental samples such as soil. The group plans to study eQuIC as a potential tool to diagnose various prion diseases in different animals.
C Orru et al. Prion disease blood test using immunoprecipitation and improved quaking-induced conversion. mBio. DOI: 10.1128/mBIo.00078-11 (2011).
J Wilham et al. Rapid end-point quantitation of prion seeding activity with sensitivity comparable to bioassays. PLoS Pathogens 6(12): e1001217. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001217 (2010).
Byron Caughey, Ph.D., senior investigator in the NIAID Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, is available to comment on this study.
To schedule interviews, please contact Ken Pekoc, 301-402-1663, firstname.lastname@example.org.
NIAID conducts and supports research—at NIH, throughout the United States, and worldwide—to study the causes of
infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News
releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at www.niaid.nih.gov.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research,
and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
NIH...Turning Discovery Into Health ®
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Alabama's brewing industry has doubled in size in each of the last three years and is on pace to double in size again this year, according to a report by an industry trade group.
The market analysis by the Alabama Brewers Guild found that brewers paid taxes on 19,301 barrels of beer in 2012, up 118 percent from 2011. The study projects that brewers will produce 38,944 barrels this year. Ninety-four percent of the state's brewers participated in the study.
The explosive growth has followed the 2009 passage in the state legislature of the "gourmet beer bill," which made legal beers with higher alcohol content. That allowed brewers to make more popular craft and experimental beers, said Dan Roberts, executive director of the guild.
"Small breweries thrive by innovation," Roberts said in a prepared statement. "There are twelve breweries and brewpubs operating in Alabama right now. Ten of those businesses were created after the laws started changing in 2009."
The study also found that:
--Of the brewing licenses in Alabama, 62 percent are held by breweries, and 38 percent by brewpubs.
--Of the beer made in the state, 61 percent is sold in kegs or barrels, 23 percent in cans and 16 percent in bottles.
--Of Alabama-made beer, 89 percent is sold to distributors, and 11 percent is sold on-site.
--About 88 percent of the beer made in Alabama is sold in Alabama, while 12 percent is exported to other states.
--A total of 85 people work in the brewing industry in the state. That number is expected to reach 189 by the end of the year.
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Yi Wang, Jianhua Feng, Shixia Liu
Data compression methods can be classified into two groups: lossless and lossy. Usually the latter achieves a higher compression ratio than the former. However, to develop a lossy compression method, we have to know, for a given type of data, what information can be discarded without significant degradation of the data quality. A usual way to obtain such knowledge is by experiments. For example, from user statistics, we know that human eyes are insensitive to some frequency channels of the light signal. Thus we can compress image data by decomposing them into various frequency channels using a DCT transformation, and neglect the coefficients of the channels that are insensitive to human eyes. However, it is complex and expensive for human analysts to conduct and study so many experiments. Alternatively, we propose to learn the knowledge automatically by using machine learning techniques. Under the framework of Bayesian learning, general prior knowledge is expressed by designing the statistical models, and the refined posterior knowledge can be learned automatically from data to be compressed. More particularly, we consider the compression of some input data as learning a statistical model from the data, and consider the restoration of data as sampling from the learned model. Therefore, only the estimated model parameters are saved as the compressed version. A key to this idea is to design a statistical model that can accurately describe the data (so it is possible to recover the data precisely) and is defined by a compact set of parameters (so to achieve high compression ratio). For a general application of compressing sequential data, we designed the Variable-length Hidden Markov Model (VLHMM), whose learning algorithm automatically learns a minimal set of parameters (by optimizing a Minimum- Entropy criterion) that accurately models the sequential data (by optimizing a Maximum-Likelihood criterion). The selfadaption ability of the learning algorithm makes VLHMM able to accurately model highly varied sequential data. Moreover, as a hidden Markovian model, VLHMM is generally applicable to all kinds of sequences, whatever discrete/ continuous and univariate/multivariate.
Subjects: 12. Machine Learning and Discovery; 1.10 Information Retrieval
Submitted: Apr 9, 2007
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You have probably noticed students who make fossilized errors without realising what the concept is. It refers to an error that is made so often that it has become a natural part of the person's speech.
There are a number of factors that contribute to the phenomenon. One is over-generalisation of rules; for example the addition of "s" in the third person singular present. It is easy for students to remember I come, we come, they come. Students can forget to add the "s" to "he comes" because they over-generalise the rule and apply it to all the verb forms.
Another factor is the constant use of false friends. For example, in French "sympathique" means nice when referring to a person. In English, the word "sympathetic" has a different meaning. If French students are not corrected in their use of the word sympathetic, they can believe they are using it correctly. Regular use of the word in the wrong context without correction leads to a fossilized error. This concept can also be seen in the use of the present perfect. Many languages have a tense that resembles the form of the present perfect, i.e. has / have and the past participle. However, most languages use this tense in different ways to English.
The way to deal with fossilised errors is to raise the students' awareness of the error and to re-teach the language point. The teacher also needs to be aware of the error. If teachers are immersed in the culture of the country they are in, they are less likely to notice the error. There are so many things to think about when teaching and the error seems so natural, it is easy to let it slip by. When students are aware of the error and the teacher has checked they understand the language point, correction is needed each time the error is made. It can take a long time to redress a fossilized error; so patience and good-humour are needed. Of course, the easiest way to deal with them is by prevention. Try to correct the error before it becomes entrenched.
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(CNN) -- The United Nations warned Monday of a possible resurgence of the deadly avian flu virus, saying there are indications a mutant strain may be spreading in Asia.
A variant strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, which can apparently bypass the defenses of current vaccines with unpredictable risks to humans, has appeared in Vietnam and China, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated.
Circulation of the virus in Vietnam threatens Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Japan and the Korean peninsula, the FAO said.
The most recent death caused by avian flu occurred this month in Cambodia, where eight people have died after becoming infected this year, the organization added.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says the virus has infected 565 people since it emerged in 2003, causing 331 deaths.
Avian flu has also directly killed or required the culling of over 400 million poultry and caused economic losses estimated at $20 billion before being eliminated from most of the 63 countries infected at its 2006 peak.
The virus is still present in China, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Egypt, while areas recently affected include Nepal, Mongolia, Romania, Bulgaria, Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
A geographical advance in cases of infected poultry and wild birds since 2008 has apparently been due to the movement of migratory birds, said FAO Chief Veterinary Officer Juan Lubroth.
"Wild birds may introduce the virus, but peoples' actions in poultry production and marketing spread it," he said.
"Preparedness and surveillance remain essential," he warned.
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Giovanni Ruffini was an Italian poet of the early 19th century. He is chiefly known for having written the draft of the libretto of the opera Don Pasquale for its composer Gaetano Donizetti.
Don Pasquale Ruffini had been condemned to death as an enemy of the state and was living in exile in Paris in 1842 when it was suggested to him that he might offer his services to Donizetti as a librettist by Jules Janin. Donizetti told him exactly what he required for his latest opera project, Don Pasquale, but not that he intended to re-use music already written for other purposes. Ruffini duly wrote the draft libretto from the original text dating back to 1810, but Donizetti changed so much from Ruffini's version that Ruffini became angry and refused to allow his name to be mentioned in the programme for the première at the Théâtre Italien in Paris 3 January 1843. Although Ruffini refused acknowledgement of his work for the libretto, Donizetti paid the librettist 500 francs, which was competitive to the length and genre at the time. Ruffini also reportedly enjoyed working with Donizetti in the early stages of their collaboration, though he wrote to family and friends that the composer continually pressed him to work faster.
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The Abington Community Library’s Winter Reading Clubs are now over. Participants in the adult program, “Cabin Fever,” are reminded to pick up their complimentary prizes if they read three books to qualify. Children who took part in “Reading is Mammoth Fun,” can still earn a Certificate and small prizes and coupons if they turn in their completed Reading Logs by Friday, March 8. They will also receive a free chance to enter to win a Webkinz Wooly Mammoth. Call the library for further details if needed.
Last Modified: March 05. 2013 12:16PM
NEW DOCUMENTARY DVDs
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“Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved” – Never-before-seen evidence uncovers revelations illustrating what happened structurally —- minute by minute —- after the ship, hailed as “unsinkable,” collided with an iceberg in April 1912. Stories of passengers and crew plus long-forgotten artifacts combine with state-of-the art imaging technology permitting experts to solve and reveal the mysteries of the “Titanic.”
“Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After” – As information slowly trickled in and word of Japan’s attack on U. S. soil on December 7, 1941 got out, panic gripped the White House. This film gives a rare and surprising glimpse at President Roosevelt and how he confronted the enormous challenge of galvanizing the American people for war.
“Best of Ancient Aliens” – Relying on the most credible alien evidence available on Earth, this collection unravels some of the more puzzling mysteries surround the age-old debate: have intelligent forms from outer space been visiting earth for millennia?
“Secret Access: the Presidency” – Explore places and traditions of the U. S. government and learn about classified information reserved only for Presidents: Air Force One, The White House Behind Closed Doors, and The President’s Book of Secrets by viewing this three-disc documentary.
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Why Not A Growth Supercommittee?
Senior Editor, CNBC.com
The most depressing thing about the supercommittee being formed by Congress is its goals: budget cuts.
Even if you believe that the government is spending too much, it's hard to imagine anyone believing this is our greatest challenge right now. Debt-burdened homes and individuals, unemployment and a looming recession are far more pressing problems.
That’s why it's heartening to read people as influential as Bill Gross are calling for a focus on economic growth rather than budget deficits.
Ezra Klein has an idea: Let’s have a growth supercommittee.
The crisis in Europe, the disaster in Japan, the concerns about China and the clear faltering of the global recovery have sent investors rushing to buy the one asset they still consider safe: Treasury debt.
They have become such eager customers for Treasury debt that the real rate has turned negative. That is to say, the market will actually pay us to issue 5-, 7-, or 10-year debt and take their money. This isn’t just free money. It’s better than free money. If a corporation was being offered these rates and refused to take them, the board of directors would fire the CEO.
This is money that could be used for a massive payroll tax cut. It’s money that could be used to overhaul our nation’s deteriorating infrastructure. It’s money that could help state and local governments stop firing people. It’s money that could go towards medical research.
To believe this money isn’t a good deal, you would have to believe that these activities have a negative real rate of return. At a time of massive joblessness, when factories are idle and roads are crumbling, is simply not credible.
My argument with Klein would be that a lot of the things he advocates actually do have a negative rate of return. Government spending on medical research, state and local government employment and overhauling infrastructure is mostly just wasted money. Sure, the funded projects will keep a few politically connected people employed but in general these things do have a negative rate of return. These projects aren’t part of a growth strategy.
What’s more, having the government spend the money undermines the deleveraging that the American people are attempting to accomplish. It would be far better to balance additional government borrowing with steep—even radical—tax cuts that could be used to accelerate the deleveraging. The faster we get out from under the mountain of private debt, the better off we’ll be. That’s a formula for healthy long-term growth.
If the tax cuts run deep enough, at least some of it is likely to contribute to additional spending—giving the economy a short-term boost as well.
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- Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center - http://www.splcenter.org/blog -
DOJ Study Finds Decline in Hate Crimes Over Last Decade
Posted By Mark Potok On June 17, 2011 @ 2:45 pm In Hate Crime | 7 Comments
The Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday released a major new report showing that hate crimes have decreased nationally since 2003 — a trend that mirrors a general drop in all kinds of violent crime over the same period.
The study by the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) was based on detailed surveys of a statistically representative sample of the population. It found an annual average of 195,000 hate crime victimizations between 2003 and 2009, with the numbers bouncing around from year to year but declining overall, from 239,400 in 2003 to 148,400 in 2009. An earlier BJS study, using the same survey methodology but examining hate crimes during the 2000-2003 period, found an average of 210,000 hate crime victimizations per year.
The decline, Northeastern University criminology professor and hate crimes expert Jack McDevitt told Hatewatch, follows a similar national decline in violent crime overall. The apparent reasons for that decline, which likely apply to hate crimes as well, include the shrinking of the national population of 16- to 24-year-olds, who are by far the most crime-prone population cohort; the rise of effective community policing strategies around the country; and the diminished use of particularly crime-associated drugs like crack cocaine and methamphetamines, he said.
The FBI each year publishes the number of hate crimes reported by law enforcement departments to the states, which then report to the FBI. But those numbers have always been small — between about 6,000 and 10,000 a year, depending on the year. When the BJS published its first study based on victimization surveys, examining the 2000-2003 period, it showed for the first time that the real level of hate crime was almost certainly vastly higher than the FBI national statistics suggested.
McDevitt said that although the numbers based on the victimization surveys are considered more accurate than those reported by police departments — in part, because they include crimes never reported to authorities — they are still only an estimate based on a fairly small sample. But he said he has been independently studying the statistics recently, and has seen a similar drop in hate crimes over recent years, although a drop less precipitous than that of violent crime overall.
McDevitt added that the fact that the two BJS studies had similar findings — the earlier study, for instance, found that 56% of hate crimes were not reported to police, while yesterday’s found that number was 55% — added to his confidence level. “So we know there are a lot of unreported hate crimes,” he said. “I just wouldn’t hang my hat on either set of numbers definitively, the BJS or the FBI numbers. But I do think that between those two, the real level is closer to the BJS numbers.”
The new report included several other interesting findings:
Article printed from Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: http://www.splcenter.org/blog
URL to article: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/06/17/doj-finds-declines-in-hate-crimes-over-last-decade/
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In both Greek and Latin, the most common epic meter was dactylic hexameter. That's a difficult meter to pull off in English, though; English epics aren't associated with any one meter, though most of them beginning with Spenser are in pentameter. Famous English epics include the Old English poem Beowulf (written in alliterative meter); in the Renaissance, Spenser's Faerie Queene (with its complicated Spenserian stanza) and Milton's Paradise Lost (in blank verse). In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, heroic couplets were considered the best form for epics; Dryden's translation of Virgil and Pope's translation of Homer use heroic couplets.
The history of the epic is worth studying in some detail. The Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid are the most famous epics of antiquity, but not the only ones; Statius' Thebaid, for instance, is worth reading. In the Middle Ages, the dominant long narrative form is the romance, which is epic's kissin' cousin. Exactly what to call Beowulf is unclear, but Dante's Divine Comedy is probably best described as an epic
As you get into the Renaissance, the familiar pattern of the classical epic becomes more visible: Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516) mixes romance with epic, but Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata (1575) is clearly modeled on the epics of Homer and Virgil. Camoens's Lusiads are the great Portuguese epic. The first great English epic of the Renaissance is Spenser's Faerie Queene (1590-96), followed by Milton's Paradise Lost (1667-74).
But then the form seems to disappear, or at least to trasform itself radically. In the late seventeenth century, most writers were convinced that epic was the highest form and yet, according to most conventional histories of English literature, no one succeeded in writing a great one. There are good translations of the classical epics by Dryden and Pope; there are also brilliant mock epics. Henry Fielding incorporates many epic features into his novels (he calls Joseph Andrews a "comic epic-poem in prose"). In the early nineteenth century, Wordsworth tries to write a kind of epic, The Prelude, but it's a very loose fit with the traditional definitions.
Sometimes it's unclear whether a particular work is best called an epic. Gilgamesh, for instance, works on a scale similar to most epics, but it's not directly related to the Homeric tradition, and lacks many of the characteristics of the Western epic. Ditto the Indian Ramayana and Mahabharata. In the West, many works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance blend qualities of the epic with the romance there were plenty of squabbles between the supporters of Tasso and Ariosto in sixteenth-century Italy over how much romance can be admitted into epic. And after the decline of the traditional epic in the seventeenth century, many works borrow many epic characteristics, though again, it's unclear whether they should really be called epics. Melville's Moby-Dick, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Joyce's Ulysses, Derek Walcott's Omeros all have epic characteristics, but it's unclear whether they're properly epics themselves.
Whatever you do, though, don't use the term epic loosely for anything large in scope. Although networks will try to convince you every miniseries and telemovie is "epic," don't believe 'em or, at least, don't use that sort of advertising cant in an English class.
Note: This guide is still in the early stages of development.
Three question marks mean I have to write more on the subject. Bear with me.
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By writing the paper, Charles Whittington thought he would confront the anxieties that had tormented him since he returned from war.
He knew it wasn't normal to dwell on the pleasure of sticking his knife between an enemy soldier's ribs. But by recording his words, maybe he'd begin to purge the fixation.
So Whittington, an Iraq veteran, submitted an essay on the allure of combat for his English class at the Community College of Baltimore County in Catonsville. He called war a drug and wrote that killing "is something that I do not just want but something I really need so I can feel like myself."
Whittington's instructor gave him an A and suggested that he seek publication for the piece. The essay appeared in the Oct. 26 edition of the campus newspaper.
Two weeks later, the former infantryman was called to a meeting with high-ranking college officials, who told him he would be barred from campus until he obtained a psychological evaluation. "We all believe in freedom of speech, but we have to really be cautious in this post- Virginia Tech world," says college spokesman Hope Davis, referring to the 2007 massacre of 32 people by a student gunman.
But Whittington, 24, says that he has his violent impulses under control with the help of counseling and medication and that the college is unfairly keeping him from moving forward with his life.
"Right now, that's all I have left," he says of his classes.
The dispute speaks to the apprehension that steers college officials as they try to prevent campus violence. But it also illustrates a common dilemma for veterans, who have endured traumas their peers can barely fathom and who often feel misunderstood when they try to discuss their experiences.
"They have this problem on jobs and at colleges everywhere," says Deborah O'Doherty, president of the Maryland chapter of American War Mothers, a nonprofit group that supports troops. "The minute people feel a little shaky around a veteran, they just kick him out because they're uncomfortable."
A family tradition
Whittington grew up in Southwest Baltimore, attended Catonsville High School and joined ROTC, knowing that he wanted to be the latest in a long line of family members who had fought for the country. He enlisted in the Army in October 2005 and was deployed to Iraq a year later.
His younger brother, Chris, who talks with him every day, says Whittington found a natural fit in the Army. "He's a hard worker, that's the biggest thing," Chris Whittington says. "He has always been patriotic, too. I went in to the Reserves because of watching him."
About two months after his infantry unit arrived in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, Whittington began going on raids to capture insurgent leaders. The Army trucks rolled out in the evening, right around the time curfew set in. They tried to surprise their targets. "But we were the only ones on the road, so they knew we were coming," Whittington says.
Enemy fire could come from anywhere at any time, so Whittington lived on a perpetual adrenaline rush. He tried to stay in constant motion, a lesson he says he learned from neighborhood scraps in Baltimore. He found the insurgents cowardly, prone to firing a few shots and then scurrying into the shadows.
Firefights often erupted when his unit found an insurgent target, and Whittington believes he first shot and killed an enemy soldier during an exchange only a few months into his tour.
"It felt wrong to me," he says. "I had to tell myself that it was him or me. But it bothered me enough that I went to a chaplain to talk about it."
When he was out fighting, he didn't dwell on the danger or the killing. But during down time, his psyche became an open sore. "You can't think about it," he says. "Because that's when it hurts you."
He's not sure how many enemy soldiers he killed but says he became numb to the violence over time.
Whittington was injured by three different roadside explosions, the second of which took the ring finger on his right hand.
Guilt tore at him as the injury kept him from fighting beside his friends. Though he is right-handed, he learned to shoot left-handed so he could stay in Iraq with his unit. He says he also lied about how much it hurt so doctors would clear him for action more quickly.
But his tour ended with the third roadside explosion, which knocked him unconscious for five days. He awoke in a German hospital, disoriented and unable to remember the explosion or large chunks of his childhood. He couldn't walk at first and spent weeks in Germany getting strong enough to return to an Army base in El Paso, Texas. There, he learned that he wouldn't go back to Iraq.
He can't find words to describe the pain of that realization. The guilt haunts him to this day. He says that when he wrote about killing in his essay, he was expressing his intense desire to get back in the fight with his Army buddies.
"It's mostly the guilt that messes everyone up," he says.
Writing as therapy
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Windows Server 2012 from an Architecture Point of View
Customers often ask me and my colleagues for innovative solutions, based on proven technology. While that sounds like a contradictio in terminus, we always deliver. The key behind these successes is to research and implement new technology in an early stage. From there, we combine these new technologies, where appropriate, with our proven architectural principles and project methods.
One of the new technologies on the horizon is Windows Server 2012, the server flavor of Windows 8. At this moment, this product has reached Release Candidate and will be released to customers soon. We’ve been looking at and deploying Windows Server 2012 when it was still Windows Server “8”.
In this blogpost we’ll take a look at Windows Server 2012 from an architecture point of view. We’ll research the validity of the architectural principles as the foundation of our implementations.
When we look at current trends in IT, like Bring Your Own (BYO), Consumerization of IT (CoIT) and Anyplace, Anytime, Any device (Any*), a bigger trend can be spotted. Lew Tucker (CTO at Cisco) describes this trend crystal clear in his presentation ‘The Time Is Now’. Although I don’t 100% agree with his opinion, the contents of slide 6 are carved in my memory:
This figure illustrates the transition, occurring in IT today. For the last couple of years, IT departments have deployed increasingly performing systems in increasingly complex environments to deliver highly available applications. These organizations have embraced the Enterprise Approach.
On the other side of the spectrum, suppliers and customers took the high road, where they used vast quantities of cheap and highly standardized systems to offer information, regardless of the location and platform of the persons consuming this information (with or without applications).
Let’s analyze the slide point by point:
Disadvantages of scale-up as your model
Hardware suppliers like HP and Dell offer systems like the ProLiant DL980 and PowerEdge R910. These machines with over 100 logical processors and terabytes of RAM are real workhorses. You can deploy these as data crunchers and database servers, with confidence. Windows Server can run on this type of machines for years, for Windows Server 2008 R2 already supported 256 logical processors, as you can clearly see in this screenshot by Intel.
Yet, this type of hardware also has disadvantages. It is naïve to think this type of hardware scales linearly. These systems, for instance, use the same type of RAM as our current desktops and lower spec'd servers (DDR3 RAM). Networking interfaces, even though they offer 10GB/s speeds, also don’t resemble the scale of the processing power of these machines. The results of this combination is long startup and boot times and slow memory allocation.
The same 8U rack height you would allocate for one of these systems, you might be better of with 8 PowerEdge R620s or 8 Proliant DL360s. Doing so switches you from using scale-up as your architecture principle to scale-out. Windows Server 2012 helps managing large quantities of servers. Server Manager Remoting is the perfect example and embodies the “The power of many servers, the simplicity of one” tagline. From one Server Manager instance you can make multiple Windows Server 2012 installations on multiple servers install and configure Server Roles (like Active Directory Domain Services) and Server Features (like WINS).
This architectural principle serves as the basis for showing only 64 logical processors in the task manager in Windows Server 2012. Microsoft expects most systems running Windows Server 2012, not to have more than 64 logical processors.
Fail-safe or safe-fail
Lots of enterprise environments are based on the principle of fail-safe. In these environments every part of a complex chain is over-engineered to safeguard them from failing. The result, however, is hardly ever a flawless chain, since the weakest link determines the strength of the chain. Often, this way of thinking results in a ridiculously over-engineered and highly-redundant IT, that has lost any contact with the business and still is not 100%…
Adopting safe-fail from an architectural point of view, results in a different IT solution. A solution where individual parts are safe to fail or even anticipated to fail. The resulting degradation is only marginal, so the business would not notice. This way, organization can create fault-tolerant IT systems, where these systems can self-heal system faults and failures of hardware components.
In earlier Windows Server versions, Microsoft has focused on Clustering Services. This functionality allowed IT departments to create active-passive IT functionality. It brings distinctive advantages to the table in terms of availability. More and more, Microsoft is introducing active-active clustering into its products and technologies. File Servers, running Windows Server 2012 can be used in an active-active setup, so both File Server Cluster Nodes can serve their shared information without shared storage.
It’s the employees, not the applications
Many knowledge leaders talk application delivery these days. In their minds, the productivity of an employee revolves around the time they can spend with these applications.
I share the opinion that business can benefit from employees having access to their application from any place, on any device at any time. From a technology point of view, all the ingredients are already here.However, entering vast amounts of data into a Win32 . Most of the time, Anyplace, Anytime, Any device does not result in a unambiguous experience for employees.
In it’s “three screens and the cloud” vision, Microsoft set out to streamline the end user experience. Elements from the Windows Phone Metro interface, therefore, also show up in Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Xbox 360, Bing and even Facebook:
This vision goes beyond the information-centric point Lew Tucker makes and is perhaps already more a Web 2.0 phenomenon.
In many organization, employees are already utilizing their own hardware, bandwidth, communication devices, power, online storage and off-time to take on their business challenges. Nowadays, we call this BYO. Information and efficient access to this information are the only two things these organizations have to be worried about. Using Dynamic Access Control (DAC) in Windows Server 2012, businesses can configure this access with more granularity than ever before. Not just based on username and group membership, but on any attribute in Active Directory and based on file classification. Of course, this technology extends into Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS).
In the future, applications and platforms will get intertwined even more in terms of experience. Facebook and Bing can both be seen as platforms and applications. Also, making Office Apps a built-in part of Windows RT (Windows on ARM) is a step in the direction of vertical experiences.
There is a good reason why many organizations are getting rid of their mainframes. These powerhouses cost truckloads of money, compared to x86-based systems in terms of deprecation of value, maintenance and power consumption. Switching these systems to commodity systems is a logical choice. Although, in the short run, organizations are faced with (migration) pains, in the long run, this switch will pay for itself.
With commodity systems like Dell’s PowerEdge R620 and server virtualization, practically all standard datacenter functionality can be effectively offered. Standardizing hardware, software and processes lead to vast reductions of cost. Microsoft offers a solution here. For the majority of organizations, with Windows-standardized environments, Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 offers the same functionality as VMware’s vSphere. For a fraction of the cost.
NIC Teaming is another great feature in Windows Server 2012. It allows to bundle Network Interface Cards (NICs) for bandwidth or redundancy from within the Operating System and allows for greater flexibility when deploying commodity systems.
You’ll be surprised by Microsoft’s stack, when, on top of Windows Server 2012, you would also install and configure System Center 2012. The combination of these two products allows for business users, themselves, to create, configure and even phase out virtual servers, desktops and applications, while IT departments in the back solve the availability, security, compliancy, auditing and even chargeback challenges with ease. With these two products, Elastic IT is within reach.
Microsoft has a reputation of being an enterprise software company. With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft joins the ranks of companies, whose products can be implemented based on the web approach.
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I read an interesting article this past week that got me thinking about the message we give to clients. Let me explain.
There is a lot of talk about not missing the best 10 or 20 days of the market. The accepted wisdom says that if you do, your returns would have been lower by X%. And that is certainly true. However, there's another side which does not always get told. That side argues that if you miss the "worst" 10 or 20 days, your returns would be higher by Y%. Actually, the Y% is much greater than the X%.
In other words, it's more beneficial to avoid bad days than good ones. OK, a lot of us get that. But the article went on to explain how contributions play a very major role in the accumulation of wealth. Although I thought I understood that well, I had to check the numbers for myself. I followed three steps in route to the answer.
Step one was to project the annual account values, using various rates of return and assuming a $10,000 contribution per year (Exhibit A).
Finally, I calculated the growth portion as a percentage of the total account value (Exhibit C). I also highlighted the percentages exceeding 50%. In other words, if the growth portion of the account was greater than 50% of the total account value, the cells are shaded in green and outlined. The interesting point is that when comparing various returns over various time frames, it becomes easy to see at what point the growth becomes more important than the contributions.
Therefore, if you have clients who have waited until later in life to get saving, and/or who are more risk averse, the amount that they contribute is the most important factor.
So as I like to say, "Wealth doesn't depend on how much you earn, but on how much you can save." After all, who's wealthier, the 60 year old with $1,000,000 who needs $100,000 a year to live....or the 60 year old with $750,000 who needs $50,000 annually?
The moral? Save all you can, and then save some more!
Thanks for reading and have a great week!
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If you’re a wine drinker, you’re in a powerful position.
Viticulture (the science, production and study of grapes) is a branch of the science of horticulture. “Sustainable viticulture” goes vital steps further and views the vineyard as a whole system which creates a high level quality fruit production reducing reliance on synthetic chemicals and fertilizers to protect the growers, the consumers and the environment. Many conscientious vintners ascribe to this method and produce some very fine wines while pursing a responsible higher goal. Universities and private organizations responsibly teach and encourage these practices.
As an emerging green fashionista will tell you, it’s exciting to discover and fall in love with a new designer — and then later unearth the fact that they are green. It’s like eating an entire tub of ice cream and learning afterwards that it was National No Calorie Day. Or to find out that cigarettes were good for you after all. (I’m so kidding about this inflammatory last remark — no pun intended).
Amidst the all excitement that surrounds socially conscious fashion these days, it’s easy to forget about the basic principle that either makes or breaks beautiful garments, green or otherwise — the cut. There’s no such oversight when it comes to Japanese design duo, Kaito Hori and Iku Furudate. Their Paris-based label Commuun has been presenting exquisite collections at Paris Women’s Ready to Wear Fashion Week since its debut in 2005.
The core of each collection is nature with all its idiosyncrasies. The designers reconstruct these ideas through “simple but strong shapes and fine detailing”. Their commitment to the environment is also displayed through their choice of fabrics: Japanese organic cotton and Italian linen, to mention a few. With the design and materials chosen, the duo employ their trademark French pattern technique to construct long-lasting, beautifully tailored garments that are functional and stylish.
Finally a truly forward thinking design here in America that incorporates both old and new, molding seamlessly into the landscape. The Living Museum, due to open this fall in Golden Gate Park, should push forward all sorts of public building design, and it should be the largest public building to earn a LEED platinum rating (which only 70 buildings worldwide have received so far).
The building is made up of three “domes” built into the ground and topped with 2.5 acres of native plants growing on a sod-style roof, an ancient technology that is making a modest comeback in green circles. From above, it looks like a series of small hills, except for several skylights that dot each hill and provide natural lighting below.
Unexpectedly hearing a loud noise when the room is quiet, you might feel a sudden rush of energy. This is the most basic form of stimulation, left over from your primal survival mechanism. Your body assumes the loud noise is a threat and prepares you for action by engaging the adrenal glands to draw more energy.
In reaction to the first onset of stimulation — a form of stress — we gain energy. We become more alert, our strength can increase and we have the ability to process information more quickly and react faster. Summoning its hormonal resources to momentarily improve strength and reaction time, the body would have likely improved its odds of getting out of a prehistoric bind. Early man would certainly have benefited from greater strength and quicker reaction time if confronted by a predatory animal.
Of course, we aren’t confronted with those types of threats today. But we face a host of modern-day ones that evoke the same hormonal response. Stress of any kind — be it too much work, family-related concerns, poor diet, breathing impure air, constantly having to be “on”, and not enough down time — put strain on the adrenal glands.
Commuting in a car here in the United States just plain sucks. Not only does it suck the fun out of your waking hours, it sucks the good air right out of the atmosphere (or releases bad air… whatever, semantics, and that doesn’t work as well for my lead).
Matra Manufacturing and Services may have an answer to your Commuter Sucking Blues. (Which is far different than the Toe Sucking Blues). Matra MS, formerly a motor sports design leader with their hands in Formula 1 and Le Mans, has come out with a line of Light Electric Vehicles consisting of high-performance electric bicycles and quadricyles, available in Europe this spring for around $5,000 USD.
Here at G Living we like to live on the darker cooler side of green. You know the Rock N Roll, modern, slick G/Designer clothing side of the green world. So when we decided to bring on some new personalities to help us cover world of G, we made sure to hook them up with a fresh organic make over and a suitcase of the best organic fashions on the planet. And to make sure we had only the best, we brought in a Green Fashion expert and our close friend Summer Bowen, the owner of BTC Elements an online Eco Fashion Boutique.
Our first G/Roving Correspondent is no other than, Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s wife, Elizabeth Kucinich. Join Sarah and Elizabeth as they G/Up Elizabeths battered but faithful clothing from the campaign trail.
What’s worse than a roaming monkey? How about a monkey that’s on-the-go because he’s been pushed out of his habitat by climate change?
Talking about White Bearded De Brazza’s monkeys, who got their name from French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. Normally found in the wetlands of Africa, these guys have recently been spotted far from their natural homes, hiding in the forests of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.
According to Richard Leakey, son of famed paleontologist Louis Leakey, this extremely rare migration is just one of several pieces of evidence that Africa’s climate is rapidly changing. Leakey’s peeved at African authorities, claiming they’re ignoring the crisis. He continues to urge them to take action and address the issues at hand.
When I think of big city life, I think of tall buildings, lots of noise and a ton of traffic. I certainly don’t think of green gardens or fields of flowers. As the song says, Green Acres is the place to be. When living the big city life, there isn’t much greenery to enjoy. Those who put up with an often cold, hard existence lose the peaceful feelings of calmer pastures. We also lose touch with animal and plant life — things that are important to have in our lives.
But thanks to Hungarian-born street artist Edina Tokodi, big city green is making an appearance. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Todoki has created a way for city-dwellers to enjoy both city life and the green normally found outside the urban atmosphere. Tokodi uses moss to create animal silhouettes and camouflage designs which can be touched as they touch the lives of those who look at and feel them — a subtle reminder for city dwellers of the importance of our environment.
If you love design in your life, you just might fall in love with this simple high tech water kettle.
Vessel the company who makes this kettle, which they are calling ONE, made a design and function choice to skip the standard steam whistle on most stove top kettles and go with a visual indicator. This is the interesting part. The visual indicator is just freaking hot. Images appear to bleed into the white surface as it heats up. Images like Space Invader Ships, Hello Kitty, and others.
But they didn’t stop there, the kettle also cuts out the middle man. You can go directly from the stove to the table and to the cup. Detail photos after the jump.
The Toyota Prius … a “gateway drug?” So claims a well-known actor in a new book of celebrity essays, “The Green Book,” about the hybrid that hooked him into living more “G.” “You know how people say marijuana is a gateway drug? That’s sorta what buying a Prius was for me,” he says. “I love nature, and I love taking walks on the beach at sunset. And if that makes me sound like Miss February filling out her turn-ons in a Playboy bio, so be it.”
Tony Schaefer, one of the founders of the Chicago Prius Club, uses the same analogy when he describes how the Prius turned him from an unaware Buick Regal owner — “Emissions? Didn’t care. Mileage? Didn’t care” — into a “raving, evangelical environmentalist” with a bumper sticker of a stick-figure man blowing his brains out with a gas nozzle.
When it comes to Priuses, Schaefer turned into a pusher and an enabler, turning on people to hybrids, and helping them score that mileage high. “When you are truly inspired by something,” he says, “you should never want to stop talking about it.”
In this episode of the Running Raw Project: New England is the trail running capital of the U.S. The XTERRA Merrimack River Trail Race brought out some of the best and toughest runners in the country to compete in the wet and mud on this legendary course. Continue Reading / Additional Photos / Videos
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I was sorely tempted to write an unequivocally joyous post this morning, trumpeting the new dawn in American politics. I stayed up far too late last night, drinking far too many celebratory beers, filled with pride in a country that could elect a man named Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a Kenyan and a Kansan, president.
I wanted to proclaim a last and final (yes, I know that's redundant) end to the Civil War, with an African-American not only winning a presidential election, but even gaining the electoral votes of the former capitol of the Confederacy.
I wanted to do this. I really did. But my joy is tinged with grief this morning. Because I see a new Civil War emerging.
While one avenue of oppression was at least partially closed, with racism getting a stinging (if incomplete - the election of a black president neither ends nor erases centuries of institutional racism) rebuke, another avenue of oppression is seeing a tremendous increase in traffic.
Across the country there were ballot initiatives designed to trample of the rights of same-sex couples, and all four of them passed:
With 92% reporting, Arizona Proposition 102 is ahead 57% to 43%, which means, of course, that it has passed. This is especially painful because a similar ballot initiative, Arizona Proposition 107, was defeated 51.8% to 48.2% only two years ago. In those two years, then, it seems homophobia and heterosexism have enjoyed a 9 point bump in Arizona.
Meanwhile, Arkansas voters, responding to a 2006 Arkansas State Supreme Court ruling that a state policy banning LGBT foster and adoptive parents, have "approved a measure banning unmarried couples who are living together being adoptive or foster parents." This ban is essentially a back-door route to banning LGBT foster and adoptive parents, although its victims are not limited to the LGBT community.
In Florida, voters - not content with having already banned same-sex marriage - have voted to do it again, just for good measure, passing Amendment 2 62% to 38%.
But, most shockingly, it looks like California Proposition 8, a measure to change that state's Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage, has probably passed. Yes, even in California, heterosexism and homophobia still rule.
Last night was still a great night for America. The country stood up and demanded change, and change has happened. But many, many more changes are still needed. A young African-American girl or boy may now be able to dream of leading the country without being laughed out of the room, but a gay man or a lesbian can still be denied fundamental rights, and can still be scapegoated for the problems faced by heterosexual couples.
Racism may have been dealt a blow, but it has certainly not been killed. And, this same election that dealt that blow to racism has also proven that heterosexism and homophobia are not only still alive and well, but are in fact growing.
So congratulations to Barack Obama, president-elect of the United States. And congratulations to America for taking a bold but necessary step. We can certainly rejoice in this great moment. But my rejoicing is muted this morning, as I mourn for those citizens of this great nation who were told in no uncertain terms last night that they are still "other," still "less than," still at best second-class citizens, who cannot marry the person they love, who cannot adopt children (or even take in foster children!) and who may even be denied the right to visit their partner in hospitals.
So, by all means, take a moment to celebrate. But when that moment is done, realize this sobering truth: Injustice and inequality persist, and are in some very significant ways growing in strength.
We're not done yet!
Oh, and Comic Elon James White takes on the notion that Obama's victory somehow signals an end to racism and the rise of a post-racial society in Episode 12 of his brilliant This Week in Blackness:
Suns and Warriors Put On a Show (And Demonstrate Why Pace Matters) - Last night the Phoenix Suns and the Golden State Warriors, two of the fastest paced teams in the NBA, were matched up against each other on national televi...
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1/12/2013 (Mediterranean Lamb Medley)
#1 Brenham, TX Numb Toes
Z explains that peripheral neuropathy can often be associated (or as a result of) aloholism, diabetes or B12/Folate deficiency. But, he offers that nearly 25-30% of all cases are idiopathic. Z recommends Gabapentin (an epileptic drug) for his.
#2 St. Louis, MO Cold Legs during Winter
Z suggests taking a list of medications to the pharmacist to rule out medications, as they're the likely culprit. He also makes note that this occurs with more frequency as we age.
Topic Docs Keeping Mum on Obesity
Z and T discuss an Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine report that surveyed parents of obese childen and found that the parents generally don't recall hearing warnings from their doctors. Z says that it can be the effect of a doctor's unwillingness to insult either the child or the parent, citing personal anecdotes of overweight parents in his office. The study showed, however, that once notified, parents were quick to react.
#3 Joplin, MO Adolescent Stroke and Depression
Z cites that adolescent stroke is rare, teen depression is not. He's unsure of a chemical link between a physical destruction of serotonin in the stroke-damaged portion of the brain and depression because he serotonin boost given to curb depression works globally throughout the brain.
E-mail Inca Heritage (Disagree with the Doc)
T reads an e-mail from Athony (who inadvertently creates the ZPOYH Geography Police) by stating that Z's recent comment about Mayan's using cocoa leaves is off, given that in Machu Piccu, it was the Incas who lived there!
#4 St. Louis, MO Food v. Environmental Allergies
Z recommends experimenting with certain foods a second time to test the intolerance/allergic reaction. Z likens her response to gustatory sweating in lieu of food allergies.
E-mail Meat and Cheese
T reads an e-mail from Ein in WI who is translating a question for her French friend. Erin's friend had da physical and the nurse told her no meat and cheese at the same meal. Z thinks this advice is garbage.
TOPIC: Fish Fraud
Z and T discuss a recent report entitled "Widespread Seafood Fraud Found in New York City", which used genetic testing to find that many restaurants were mislabeling which fish they were serving to customers. 81 restaurants and stores were investigated, and 39% of them mislabeled their seafood.
#5 Paradise Valley, MT Daughter's Seizures
Z recommends goingto an academic (University or Medical Group) environment to get a seizure specialist to offer a second opinion on his daughter's condition.
Mythbuster: Watermelon Viagra
T reads a listener myth from a listener named Tom who wants to kno if there's any validity to the claim that watermelon is a natural Viagra. Z says no.
#6 Norman, OK Night Sweats
Z explains that outside of infections, meidcation or menopause (in women) night sweats are idiopathic and common. The caller is on prednisone and Z says that could definitely be the culprit and recommends an ACHT adrenal gland test.
E-mail Licorice or Licorish
The guys close out the show continuing a discussion about the pronunciation of licorice given its spelling. A listener chimed in sayng that his pet peeve is words spelled with an "s" pronounced with a "z" sound.
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When planes slammed into the World Trade Center towers last year, the life of most emergency workers changed as quickly as it did dramatically.
Before Sept. 11, 2001, Neshoba County Emergency Management Director Jeff Mayo said he spent virtually zero time considering terrorism. Now concerns about anthrax and homeland defense take up about half his time.
Lauderdale County Emergency Management Director Clarence Butler said people expect more from emergency workers than they did pre-9-11. But he believes they are appreciated more too.
Firefighters and emergency workers became the new heroes for the work they did during the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. And locals say they hope people will continue to see them in that new light, for the work they do every day.
You can read all of wtok.com's coverage of America's Fight Against Terrorism in our exclusive feature!
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Once again Microsoft have topped the charts in terms of database performance
up 262,243 transactions per minute in standardised
The numbers look good – I’d love to see the kit I look after now chalk up
results like these, but could I really do it? Do these figures really mean
anything to Joe-Average DBA?
Well, for starters the figures were attained on a beta
copy of SQL Server 2000, and I would not fancy running my mission-critical
apps on beta software, much as I have found the beta version I am currently
playing with to be both stable and impressive. The Release version (due very
soon by all accounts) will no doubt perform to similar standards, but you cannot
buy it quite yet, and when you can, would you want to be first to put it live?
What about the hardware used for the tests? Well, the figures were not
exactly attained on the kind of souped-up super-server you want under your desk
but your manager will not sign off on – they was achieved using twelve
of them. Twelve Compaq
8500 servers, all sharing the load between them. Each of these servers were
stuffed with eight gigabytes of RAM and eight 700 Megahertz Xeon CPUS.
By my reckoning 8 x 12 = 96. Agreed? Then we are looking at a cluster of kit
containing 96 Gig of RAM and 96 CPUs. My calculator says that 96 x 700 =
67200, so we are also looking at 67 GigaHertz of raw processing power.
The load was "balanced" using the new "Federated
Database" technology included in SQL 2000. Put
simply, databases, and even individual tables are distributed across multiple
servers – imagine having a database with customers whose names begin with
A, B or C on one server, D, E and F customers on another server and so on, but
accessed through an abstraction layer that makes it look like you only really
have one big database on one big machine – that’s what federated databases
are about. Some people (Oracle for instance) have expressed reservations about
the reliability of this model, and it’s certainly not suited to every
And now the best bit – the bottom line. The bottom line is 5.3 million US
Dollars for that setup.
Except that that is not bottom line. SQL Server was not sharing all that
expensive RAM and CPU power with anything it didn’t have to. Supporting
applications, such as IIS, were run on separate servers – with no less than
three of these "ancillary" servers supporting each SQL Server – now
my elementary maths concludes that that makes 48 machines contributing in some
way or other to these impressive benchmark results.
Don’t get me wrong here – I am not knocking SQL Server, Microsoft or the
Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) – these figure are still
impressive. Everybody plays by the same rules when they go to the Benchmark
Olympics – everybody brings as much kit as their software will run on, and
nobody pretends - at least not very hard - that the tests accurately mirror
real-world applications or hardware configurations, and everybody squeezes every
last ounce of performance, because winning is important. However, unless your
employers have a serious hardware and software budget, don’t expect to be
putting a quarter of a million transactions a minute through your own servers
any time soon.
About the author
Neil Boyle is an independent SQL Server consultant working out of London,
England. Neil's free SQL Server guide is available on-line at http://www.impetus-sql.co.uk
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, May 1, 1834.
Dear brethren:—There are great moves in the west. Last week an alarm was spread in , the seat of iniquity and bloodshed, that the “Mormons” were crossing the , to take possession of their lands, and nearly all the county turned out, “prepared for war,” on Saturday, and on Sunday took the field, near old McGees, above Blue [River]. But no “Mor mons” came; neither did go over to see about his spilt whiskey, so that the scene closed with burning our houses, or many of them. Our peo ple had about one hundred and seventy buildings in , and a bonfire of nearly all of them, at once, must have made a light large enough to have glared on the dark deed and cup of iniquity running over, at midnight.
The crisis has come: All that will not take up arms with the mob and prepare to fight the “Mormons,” have to leave .
I understand some have left the because they refused to fight an innocent people. It is said the mob will hold a “general muster” this week for the purpose of learning who is who. They begin to slip over the and commit small depredations upon our brethren settled near the as we have reason to believe.
It is said to be enough to shock the stoutest heart to witness the drinking, swearing, and ravings of the most of the mob: nothing but the power of God can stop them in their latter day crusade against the .
Our brethren are very industrious in putting in spring crops; and they are generally in good health and the faithful in strong faith of a glorious hereafter.
I remain yours, &c,
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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 was signed by the President on 2 January 2013. The final bill passed the House by a vote of 315-107 on 20 December 2012 and the Senate by 81-14 the following day. It authorized an overall defense base budget of $552.2 billion and $88.5 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding. The bill increases the Shipbuilding and Construction, Navy (SCN) account from the President’s request to provide for an additional Virginia Class submarine in Fiscal Year 2014. However, the bill also decreases funding for the Navy and Marine Corps variants of the F-35 by about $76 million. The President signed the bill despite his concerns that the bill overly restricts the Department of Defense at a time when flexible cuts are necessary and funds must be directed to the most important programs. The White House had previously threatened to veto the NDAA over language on military detainees.
The President is expected to submit his budget request to the Congress for Fiscal Year 2014 in February.
The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Authorization Act of 2012 (which provides authorizations through 2015), was signed into law by the President on 20 December 2012. The bill passed the House in 2011 but languished in the Senate until September 2012 where it was passed with amendments. The House and Senate reconciled disagreements and agreed to changes in early December 2012. There are two new provisions in this version: one that requires the fulfillment a total procurement of 180 Response Boat-Mediums, and one that requires a report and analysis on the reactivating and extending the service life of the USCGC Polar Sea until the estimated commissioning date of the new polar icebreaker. The Senate version also prohibits the Commandant from selling, or recycling the Polar Sea and Polar Star, or expediting funds for placing either icebreaker in inactive service until new icebreakers are acquired.
On April 16, 2012, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood proposed a bill, which he entitled the Maritime Administration Efficiency Act of 2012 in a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner. The proposed bill contained several provisions aimed at allowing the Maritime Administration (MARAD) greater flexibility in executing its varied mission sets. While the bill itself was not introduced to the Congress, the provisions were included as part of the larger National Defense Authorization Act and the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act. Both of these bills passed the Congress and were signed into law by the President. The provisions include extending the critical Maritime Security Program, and allowing (MARAD) to improve efficiency in the National Defense Reserve Fleet while maximizing jobs and investments. Recognizing MARAD’s role in maritime environmental protection, the signed bills included LaHood’s proposal to give MARAD the initiative in finding innovative environmental solutions, such as new ballast water standards. The new laws also allow MARAD to implement common sense to help promote the maritime industry and keep in competitive worldwide.
Congress passed a Continuing Resolution September 22nd that will fund the federal government through March 27, 2013. The resolution was signed by the President on September 28th. The stopgap funding measure prevents a government shutdown and raises most appropriations accounts by about 0.6%, within the $1.047 trillion spending target set by the Budget Control Act. These funding levels will delay the purchase of the Coast Guard’s sixth national security cutter. The Department of Defense will be especially impacted by the new spending limits. The planned multi-year procurement of the V-22 Osprey and the scheduled overhaul and refueling of the USS Abraham Lincoln, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, will be delayed. Overseas Contingency Operations funds, which support operations in Afghanistan, will be cut by $30 billion, almost 24%.
The House passed the Defense Appropriations bill July 19th. The bill, at $606 billion, includes $518.1 billion for the Pentagon’s base budget and $87.7 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations. It includes $5.2 billion for 29 F-385s and $15.2 billion for 11 Navy ships.
The Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee passed its companion measure of the defense spending bill July 31st, with full Committee approval on August 2nd. The $604.5 billion bill includes $92.3 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations. The bill is $29 billion below the FY2012 enacted levels and matches the Administration’s budget request level. It adds $293 million to Navy Operations & Maintenance accounts for increased aircraft carrier, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets and mine countermeasure ships presence in Central Command. It funds the Administration’s requested numbers of Joint Strike Fighters, Navy P-8A Poseidon and F/A-18 aircraft, adds funds for advance procurement for EA-18G Growlers and to replace a USMC MV-22 Osprey lost in overseas operations. It fully funds major shipbuilding programs and add advance procurement for an additional Virginia-class submarine and an amphibious ship. It fully funds an additional DDG-51 destroyer and the conversion of a Mobile Landing Platform to an Afloat Forward Staging Base. It also provides $150 million to begin repairs to the USS Miami, which was damaged by fire earlier this year. It also supports the budget request for the Ohio-class submarine replacement program. It reverses the Navy’s proposal to prematurely retire seven cruisers and two amphibious ships, instead providing $2.4 billion to man, operate, sustain, modernize and equip these ships through FY2014. It adds $100 million to the Defense Production Act and $30 million to the Industrial Base Innovation Fund.
However, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said it is unlikely that any spending measures will pass his chamber. The House and Senate did pass a stopgap measure that will fund the government for the next six months, avoiding a government shutdown.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security marked up their funding bill in June. It funds the USCG at $10 billion, $211.7 million above the President’s budget request. The additional funding includes support for the 6th National Security Cutter and long lead-time materials for the 7thcutter (the Administration’s request included no funding for the seventh cutter). There is also funding for two more Fast Response Cutters than the Administration requested, giving the Coast Guard six new cutters in FY13. The Committee acknowledged that maintaining funding in NSC production led to cost savings for cutters 4 and 5. The bill will go to the full committee in upcoming weeks. The Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, Senator Mary Landrieu, has expressed support for the House version, cementing the procurement of two more Fast Response Cutters than the Administration requested. Coast Guard figures show that it must order a minimum of four cutters per year to keep production lines open and costs down; adding the two ships will allow the Coast Guard to sign a contract for a total of six new Fast Response Cutters in FY2013. The Senate subcommittee has also expressed interest in longer-term capital budgeting for Coast Guard acquisition, to help the Coast Guard have stable, predictable funding.The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security approved its FY13 spending bill by voice vote on May 15th. The legislation totals $45.2 billion in discretionary budget authority, a reduction of $1 billion below the fiscal year 2012 enacted level. The bill provides $10.335 billion for the U.S. Coast Guard, of which $8.913 billion is discretionary spending and $1.423 billion is mandatory spending.
Bill text, Homeland Security Appropriations can be found here.
Bill text, Department of Defense Appropriations can be found here.
Bill text, Senate Armed Services National Defense Authorization Report can be found here.
The House unanimously passed the Veteran Skills to Jobs Act on July 9th, which would allow veterans to substitute their military experience for certain training and certification requirements when applying for federal licenses. The Navy League sent a letter of support for this bill to House leadership.
March 13th - Subcommittee on Military Personnel: “Impact of the Continuing Resolution, Sequestration, and Declining Operations and Maintenance Budgets on Military Personnel and Family Related Programs”
February 26th - Subcommittee on Seapower & Projection Forces
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Anyone can participate, design and place a Blue Mark. Read the text below to understand what this art project is about. I hope to hear from you and I would love to see your blue signs out there.
The Artist – First and foremost a human being
Being trained both as an artist and as an art historian, art was my way of life. When I was not drawing or painting, I visited a museum and/or was reflecting on art. Until I suddenly got ill and never recovered. I ended up with M.E.
M.E. is the abbreviation for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. For anyone who wants to know more about this disease there is plenty of information you can find on the World Wide Web or in any library, I presume. But that is mostly about facts and figures.
If you are interested in the patient behind all these theories about M.E. (and there are a lot), again you turn on your computer and visit blogs or forums.
I am an M.E. sufferer. I can give you endless theoretical stuff. I can tell you how it feels to be unwell all the time. But that is not my main concern.
With this art project I want to emphasize the most important fact, no matter what I am or what chronic condition I have to deal with. It is my mission to let the world know that apart from being a patient, I am first and foremost a human being, like anybody else. So is every M.E.-patient.
If you want to know more about my art works, click here for more information (and click on the underlined ‘Toon meer’ for an English abstract about my work).
When I became ill I started knitting again and nowadays I design knitwear as well. You can find me on Ravelry and please feel free to take a look at my online web shop with all kinds of knitted gifts for any occasion or to treat yourself!
I live in Holland. For Dutch speaking participants there is this part of the website: www.BlueMarkForME.com/nl
The Mission – The need for laughter and fun
This art project is not about complaining how we, as a chronic patient, were insulted or not taken seriously. Surely that happened to every single one of us, but we can live with that. We are bigger and better than any ignorant person who feels the need to accuse an M.E. sufferer of being lazy or unstable. We are also human beings, individuals with needs.
And one of the necessary needs we share with the rest of the world is the need for laughter and fun. That is what this underground movement is all about: let our fellow M.E. sufferers and the rest of the world – even those ignorant persons – know that we are still around.
Although every single patient is different from the other, I am aware that many of us live an isolated life. Mine will not be that different. Patients with M.E. tend to have another way of living than they were used to. But we are still here and through this art project Blue Mark For M.E. it is my intention to make the world aware of our existence as human beings. And to get connected with other M.E. sufferers all over the world.
Hello there, to all of you out there! We are alive and kicking. At least sort of. Still a human being, even though not as we have been before. Perhaps not up to the levels of average people. Possibly indoors most of the time. But don’t forget, that we can still be a part of the world. We can leave a mark and let that be the evidence of your outdoor trip. That moment away from home, from your sofa or bed on which you spend more time than you want to.
Don’t get me wrong: this project is not about positive thinking and how this can have a prosperous effect on your illness. Nor do I want to moan about how annoyed I get by hearing about cognitive behavioral therapies. This is simply about the M.E. sufferers: we exist and we try to make the best out of it. We will be heard. Don’t underestimate the power of the Blue Mark!
How – Anything blue will do
If you are an M.E. sufferer, a supporter of someone with M.E. or just a nice person that wants to contribute to this mission, follow these instructions:
Get yourself something blue. You can use anything for your own design. Keep in mind the golden rule: anything blue will do. An easy way is to buy a blue ribbon at your local craft-shop;
Add a label with ‘www.BlueMarkForME.com’ or use the image below;
Pick a spot somewhere in the wide open world and put your Blue Mark there;
Take a picture and send it to fleur (at) BlueMarkForME (dot) com. Please let me know this information by email:
* Your name – obviously;
* The location – the land and town. It would also be nice to know the street or exact GPS-details. Then I can add it to the World Wide Map;
* The date – when did you put your Blue Mark there?
You are done! Give yourself a big pat on the shoulder.
If you feel like it, you can start over from step 1 * wink *
Let me make clear that this art project is a personal campaign without commercial activities or aspirations for profit. The fun of placing a Blue Mark and the acknowledgement of us as human beings should be the main issues here.
M.E. has much in common with other chronic illnesses – think about F.M., autoimmune diseases, cardiologic, neurologic or (post-) viral things. It is evident that anyone can place a Blue Mark to support someone with whatever chronic condition. Every Blue Mark is very welcome.
To stay up to date, consider subscribing to our email newsletter. You can do that on the Contact page.
This post is also available in: Dutch
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Our North is Our South!
South America’s number one trading group, Mercosur has a motto—“Nuestro Norte es el Sur” which literally translates in English to: “Our North is our South”. The word “North” used in this context of course refers to the “direction” or “focus” of the trading pact.
Mercosur was established in 1991 by the Treaty of Asuncion (capital of Paraguay) and is the 2nd largest trading bloc in the Americas after NAFTA. The members include Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay and its primary aim is to create trading channels that are free of tariffs and other international tax barriers.. Mercosur in Spanish (in Portuguese, Mercosul) means “Mercado Comun del Sur “or Southern Common Market. Venezuela was actually accepted as a member in 2006 but is still undergoing the rigorous integration process, and, although Colombia, Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador are not granted voting status, they do enjoy many of the economic benefits afforded to the trading partners as Associate Members. Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador are actually members of the Andean Community of Nations which happens to be the 3rd largest customs group in the Americas.
Origins as a "Trade Bridge"
Mercosur was primarily established as a trade-bridge to facilitate trade between Portuguese-speaking Brazil and Spanish-speaking Argentina. In fact, most Mercosur transactions are between Argentina and Brazil. When trading with Brazil, given the sharp differences between Spanish and Portuguese, a hybrid tongue, referred to as Portuñol is often spoken between business factions of varying Mercosur countries. Note that in Paraguay, Guarani, and not Spanish or Portuguese is the official language and is the 3rd official Mercosur language. It also happens to be the name given to Paraguayan currency.
Major EU Trading Partner
Mercosur trade with the EU has been critical to South America’s, southern cone’s (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay) economic development.
- In 2008, EU was Mercosur’s largest trading partner representing more than 20% of total Mercosur trade.
- In 2009 EU-Mercosur trade represented nearly as much as EU trade with the rest of Latin America added together. This is noteworthy considering that Mercosur countries represent a mere 4 out of 13 countries in South America!
- Finally, the EU also benefits by exporting almost 20% of its total agricultural output to the Mercosur bloc, making it the number one importer of European agricultural products.
Shifting Political Winds
Mercosur and the Andean trading agreement are examples of a larger movement towards South American free trade. However, the recently left-leaning governments that pepper much of this region present a tricky landscape, which companies seeking to expand in these geographies will need to learn to navigate.
Consilium Global Business Advisors can assist your company in developing a strategic plan for optimizing South American export opportunities while planning around import barriers and minimizing political risk exposure. The LatAm market is an exciting one with huge potential for US Exporters - but it requires experienced guidance to avoid the numerous potential pitfalls. Contact us
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At 50, THE FLINTSTONES stand up as the bedrock of prime-time animated comedy
It can be startling to recognize, let alone admit, how many decades of children were babysat by two men: Hanna and Barbera.
It's accepted to acknowledge the cultural influence of such powerful forces of animation as the "Termite Terrace" gang (Chuck Jones and Tex Avery and Friz Freleng et al.) and the "Nine Old Men" who worked for Walt Disney. Less often, however, do you hear people admitting the degree of artistic legacy left by longtime creative partners Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, who laughed their way into their 90s.
In their first few decades, Hanna and Barbera amassed a raft of Academy Awards for their "Tom and Jerry" cartoons. But it was only after they formed their own studio did they change television forever -- 50 years ago today -- with the birth of "The Flintstones."
The modern Stone Age family not only became the first animated hit comedy in prime-time TV history. The Flintstones and the Rubbles -- virtually "The Honeymooners" in prehistoric cartoon clothing -- also laid down the comedic and artistic bedrock for such future hits as "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy."
Hanna and Barbera weren't beloved by all artists, as they adapted to the cost constraints of '60s television budgets by working in "limited animation" -- by bumping up the character dialogue and reducing the movement, Hanna and Barbera could cut the number of needed cels by roughly a one-seventh ratio compared with film. They had become more savvy businessmen over the years, though, and their TV techniques ensured that they could go on to shepherd scores of characters -- including Yogi Bear and Scooby-Doo and George Jetson -- to the small screen.
So on your 50th birthday, Fred, we salute you -- you taught us how to make a workday exit at the whistle in style. Today, we hoist a cartoon Busch beer to you -- and to Misters Hanna and Barbera. Yabba-dabba-doo, indeed.
THE HISTORY BEHIND THE FLINTSTONES:
Ah, the "Mad Men" era was certainly a different age. Long before Joe Camel was hawking smokes to the half-pints, Fred and Barney were pitching cigs to the Ralph Kramdens of the world during the 1960-66 prime-time run of "The Flintstones." Apparently the '60s Surgeon General's Warning had yet to be set in stone. (And somehow, as Barney flicks a cigarette the size of a brontosaurus burger, we can't help but flash on the classic "Far Side" cartoon that has the caption: "The real reason dinosaurs became extinct"):
And one last cultural curiosity from the town of Bedrock (which briefly was named "Rockville"): Is this the longest animated commercial ever to tout the fix-it-all elixir of a frosty brew? Even Homer's beloved Duff beer has never received such elaborate product placement:
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German Aide: Excuse me for interrupting, but ... British paratroopers have apparently landed. Three kilometers from here.
Field Marshal Model: Why should they do that? There's nothing valuable here. I! I am valuable here! They have all come to capture me!
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Continuity: During the fighting in Arnhem, the man and his son are piling up bodies. They pick up a dead girl and lay her on the pile with her legs hanging off to the right. The father immediately goes to help some other people, the son screams "Father!" and the father rushes over to his dead son. In the background, the dead girl's legs are now hanging off to the left.
Factual error: When the tank corps is shown before leaving, the village is refered to as Leopoldsville. It was in fact the Belgian village of Leopoldsburg. It's shown on the map as Bourg Leopold (which is the correct French name). Leopoldville was the capital of the Belgian Congo which is now called Kinshasa.
Factual error: In many of the scenes, German Mauser rifles do not have cleaning rods. However, judging from many archive footages, almost all Mauser rifles used by the Germans during World War II had cleaning rods attached. Many weapons dealers for some reason sell World War II surplus rifles without cleaning rods, hence why they're missing. Still a mistake though...
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STAPLETON - Something as simple as an apple is a luxury for many on Staten Island’s North and East shores.
In focus groups with City Harvest, youngsters aged 6 to 17 listed the foods they typically purchase in Stapleton and Park Hill: Pizza, chicken, mozzarella sticks, burgers, fries, honey buns, donuts, beef patties, Chinese food, Mexican food, chips, candy, and 50-cent generic-brand “bummy sodas.”
Recent studies reveal the result: Residents of these areas are prone to obesity and nutrition-related health problems, in part because they consume inadequate portions of fresh fruits and vegetables.
consumers tend to know which foods are healthy, according to a recent
community food assessment, but they often fail to maintain a balanced
diet because of tight budgets and poor access to supermarkets.
City Harvest, the Manhattan-based non-profit agency that feeds New York’s hungry, conducted the study that focused on Stapleton and the Park Hill section of Clifton.
“We recognize there is a spectrum of needs in addition to emergency food,” said Jennifer McLean, vice president of program operations for City Harvest, discussing the study at a workshop held last week at St. John’s University’s Grymes Hill campus. “With this assessment we addressed why access is limited and asked the community to offer solutions.”
the barriers to healthy food consumption, the researchers concluded, is
poor access to healthy, affordable foods.
The only two supermarkets serving the neighborhoods, Waldbaum’s and Western Beef, are nearly a mile away from both the Park Hill Apartments and the subsidized Stapleton Houses. Limited transportation compounds the problem, according to the study, as buses are infrequent and residents of Park Hill require transfers to reach their closest supermarket. More than 10 percent of the food shoppers surveyed by City Harvest paid for car services to taxi them home with their grocery bags, adding to the cost of shopping.
Various recent studies have pointed to the need for supermarkets on the North Shore. City Planning identified Stapleton and St. George among the neighborhoods most in need of supermarkets citywide. A City Limits study in 2004 reported that 138,283 Staten Islanders have more McDonald’s than grocery stores in their ZIP codes. North Shore residents have unsuccessfully petitioned grocery providers, including FreshDirect and Trader Joe’s, to serve the area.
Limited access to supermarkets makes residents reliant on abundant convenience stores and fast food outlets. These are stocked with limited varieties of poor-quality staples at higher prices, City Harvest reported.
Food prices also turn healthy eating into an economic calculus.
Poverty constrains Americans’ ability to eat healthy foods nationwide, and 60 percent of those surveyed by City Harvest reported having trouble stretching their food dollars until the end of the month.
Junk foods tend to be much cheaper, calorie for calorie, than fresh produce. And they are readily available.
Anecdotal evidence in the community food assessment suggests that young people in the area may have particularly deficient diets.
“I would say, if I had to make up a statistic, that 75 percent of the teens walk into the teen room after school with food in their hands,” a local librarian told City Harvest. “That’s one of our biggest problems in the teen room. They all complain about having no money, but every day they have enough to buy a 20-ounce bottle of soda and chips. Every day.”
Liberian residents in Park Hill discussed
generational patterns of food consumption, reporting that elders
consume traditional African fresh foods, while youth prefer commercial
fast food. Some suggested that cooking classes would help both
youngsters and adults know what to do with vegetables that languish in
Community members, speaking with City Harvest, expressed a clear demand for healthier food access, according to the study. More affordable produce, establishing community gardens, improving the quality of produce at corner stores, organizing cooking and childcare clubs, and arranging shuttle buses to supermarkets were among their suggestions.
At a recent workshop, Staten
Island stakeholders and service providers discussed various strategies
to improve the local food environment, including establishing youth-run
produce markets, courting large-scale supermarkets, and lobbying
leaders to make food initiatives in the area a priority.
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In this health video learn about why this killer infection (staph infection) is popping up everywhere. Find out what doctors are doing to stop it.
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Jennifer Mathews: Anne Matthews was thrilled when doctors told her she delivered a healthy baby boy, but their joy turned to panic after they discovered Cameron had a staph infection on his spine. Anne Matthews: My husband and I both cried a little while over it and ust prayed. It’s the worst thing you want to hear when you have a new baby. Jennifer Mathews: Doctors saved Cameron with the strongest antibiotic available, but others haven't been as lucky. MRSA infection are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics as a new, more potent strain emerges outside the hospital, especially among athletes who come in close contact. Dr. Tom Talbot: It hits healthy people. It actually seems to be much more virulent, and it can produce toxins and actually make people very sick, very quickly. Jennifer Mathews: That's why scientists are developing a vaccine to stop MRSA in its tracks. In one study, the StaphVAX, appeared to protect 94 percent of people. Another study wasn't as promising, but doctors hope to protect it ideally by wiping out staph bacteria that normally live in the nose. Dr. Tom Talbot: Staph is like an M&M candy. Well, StaphVAX targets are components of that shell. Jennifer Mathews: But until a vaccine is widely available, wash hands often. Don't share towels or other personal items. Look out for signs of infection, like redness, swelling, and warmth. While antibiotics still sometimes work, doctors hope a vaccine will wipe out this potential killer for good. This is Jennifer Mathews reporting.
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March 8th 2012
Maternal obesity may influence brain development of premature infants
ExerciseDaily - Maternal obesity may contribute to cognitive impairment in extremely premature babies, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
"Although in the past decade medical advances have improved the survival rate of babies born at less than seven months, they are still at very high risk for mental developmental delays compared with full-term infants," said Jennifer Helderman, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at Wake Forest Baptist and lead author of the study. "This study shows that obesity doesn't just affect the mother's health, but might also affect the development of the baby."
Published in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics, the study looked at 921 infants born before 28 weeks of gestation during 2002 to 2004 at 14 participating institutions. The researchers assessed the babies' placenta for infection and other abnormalities, interviewed the mothers and reviewed their medical records. At age 2, the children's cognitive skills were evaluated using the Mental Development Index (MDI) portion of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, a commonly used measure.
The scientists found that both maternal obesity and lack of high school education were associated with impaired early cognitive function, as was pre-term thrombosis (blood clot) in the placenta.
"We weren't really surprised by the socioeconomic factors because it has been repeatedly shown that social disadvantage predicts worse infant outcomes," Helderman said. "However, obesity is of particular interest because it is becoming more prevalent and it is potentially modifiable during the pre-conception period and pregnancy."
Obesity has been linked to inflammation, and inflammation can damage the developing brain, Helderman said. What isn't known is if the obesity-related inflammation in the mother is transmitted to the fetus.
"Few studies have addressed prenatal risk factors of cognitive impairment for infants born this prematurely. The long-term goal is to use information from studies like ours to develop treatments that prevent cognitive impairment in extremely premature babies," Helderman said.
Helderman's colleague, Michael O'Shea, M.D., section head of neonatology at Wake Forest Baptist, is currently conducting a study that follows these same babies into mid-childhood to determine long-term cognitive problems.
More than 30,000 extremely premature babies are born each year in the United States.
Contact: Marguerite Beck
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
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Posted on April 18, 2012 10:25 AM
State Legislators Consider Economic Development Incentives
The State of Illinois uses several programs and incentives to attract, retain, and entice businesses to grow within the state. Several of the State’s programs provide financial incentives for businesses to retrain employees or relocate business headquarters, and these programs typically apply to a business regardless of geographic location. Illinois also uses geographic-based economic incentive programs, like Enterprise Zones, where particular fixed areas within a county or municipality are targeted with tax rebates, exemptions, and other incentives to stimulate business development and retention. The General Assembly is currently considering the expansion or extension of several incentive programs.
Since 1984, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Affairs (DCEO) has created 97 Enterprise Zones. Each zone has a 30-year life cycle, and without extensions the oldest zones will expire starting in 2014. This session, the legislature is considering several aspects of the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act, including time limits, geographic size constraints, and the cap on the number zones. Two Enterprise Zone bills have emerged as the lead bills in their chambers of origin, and CMAP anticipates that these bills will be acted on now that the General Assembly has reconvened on April 17, 2012.
- Amendment 1 to HB4189 would amend the Enterprise Zone Act to include additional requirements. If adopted, it would mean that eligible zones must meet three of five criteria:
1. Unemployment rate is at least 120 percent above the state average.
2. Poverty rate is at least 20 percent.
3. At least 70 percent of the households have incomes equal to or less than 80 percent of the median household income to the next largest geographic unit in the area.
4. Population has decreased at least 20 percent between the last two decennial federal censuses.
5. At least 1,000 full-time equivalent jobs would result from the area's designation as an Enterprise Zone.
- SB 3688 was reassigned to the Special Committee on Enterprise Zone Extensions in March. CMAP monitored the hearings, where representatives of the private sector and local government provided testimony. Testimony focused on the business community's support for expansion and extension of the zones.
In their current form, neither of these bills calls for a deep analysis of the existing zones and their tax dollar investments -- after 30 years of implementation, some important insights could be gained by studying the impact of tax incentives on the economic development of the distressed areas targeted.
Other Incentive Programs
While much of the activity in Springfield around geography-based incentives has dealt with Enterprise Zones, several other bills have met procedural deadlines and moved from the chamber in which the bill was introduced to the second chamber for further consideration:
- HB3934 would require Economic Development for Growing Economy (EDGE) tax credit agreements to be posted online.
- HB5440 would reinstate the Business Location Efficiency Incentive Act to encourage the development of affordable housing near mass transit. It would also provide tax credits under EDGE.
- SB3402 would allow municipalities to establish technology development districts by ordinance.
Many geographic incentive bills were introduced this session but never moved far beyond the Rules or Assignments Committees. These bills illustrate the gamut of issues legislators sought to address.
- HB3919 would create tax incentives for Job Renewal Zones.
- HB3922, HB5834, and SB1601 all seek to extend Enterprise Zones for 20 years.
- HB5858 would set the limit to the number of Enterprise Zones that DCEO could certify up to 39 zones per year.
- HB3569 and HB5802 would authorize DCEO to create an additional 50 Enterprise Zones between now and 2015.
- HB6143 would allow for the merger of East St. Louis-area Enterprise Zones.
- HB3472 would require municipalities or counties that request economic development zones, such as Tax Increment Financing districts (TIFs) or Enterprise Zones, to submit relevant information to the State Comptroller within five days so that the Comptroller may post the information on a public website.
GO TO 2040 emphasizes strategic economic development that can build sustainable prosperity for our region. The plan’s section on supporting economic innovation recommends implementation actions that Illinois should employ to help ensure that the state’s limited resources are put to targeted, effective use. GO TO 2040 also recommends rigorous analysis of the history and impacts of these programs, enabling policy makers to make data-driven and informed decisions on the effectiveness of current or proposed incentives. The need for evaluation of state incentive programs is not unique to Illinois, however. A recent Pew Center on the States report, Evidence Counts: Evaluating State Tax Incentives for Jobs and Growth, demonstrates the need for evaluation in many states to inform policy choices and measure the economic impact of incentives.
CMAP will continue to monitor these bills and related amendments as art of its work to analyze tax policy issues that impact the region’s economic productivity. Following the January 2012 report by CMAP’s Regional Tax Policy Task Force, the CMAP Board asked staff to conduct a full assessment of state and local incentives and rebates in FY 2013.
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There are thousands of dams in the Great Lakes basin, many of which alter river flows, disrupt the movement of sediment and nutrients and isolate fish and other aquatic life from valuable habitat.
Many states are working to remove or modify obsolete dams to permit fish passage and restore a more natural flow of water.
One such project was completed recently on Drummond Island, in Michigan’s portion of northern Lake Huron. Learn more here.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources worked with federal officials and a local conservation group to modify the Potagannissing Dam. Built in 1947, the dam blocked fish passage in the Potagannissing River and contributed to a decline of the northern pike population in northern Lake Huron.
The Michigan DNR installed a fish ladder in 1999, but northern pike were unable to navigate the structure. So the state removed three feet from the top of the dam and built a series of four rock-ramp structures, which allowed all species of fish to swim over the dam and reach 800 acres of prime spawning habitat areas upstream.
The Potagannissing Dam modification was one of a growing number of projects that are reconnecting the Great Lakes to more of their tributaries. Projects like these are systematically restitching the biological fabric of the sprawling Great Lakes ecosystem.
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What is Germany's vision for Europe?
"We have started a new phase in European integration," Angela Merkel told the Bundestag last week.
"There are no quick and easy answers. Resolving the sovereign debt crisis is a process and this process will take years."
Few people outside Germany cared much when the quiet and unassuming chancellor stood to address members in the cold and clinical surroundings of the German parliament on 2 December.
But her words were keenly awaited by the German political elite.
Indeed, the speech may eventually be seen as one of the defining speeches in the recent history of the European Union.
In it, Mrs Merkel outlined the German vision of the future of Europe.
As Europe's largest economy - and biggest contributor so far to the bailouts of Greece, the Irish Republic and Portugal - Germany's view going into this week's EU summit is crucial.
"This is all about avoiding the next crisis," says Martin van Vliet, the senior economist at ING Bank in Amsterdam. "It has little effect on this one."
In the current climate, Mrs Merkel's blueprint for the future of the 27-member EU - and the 17-member eurozone - may well be the only one that matters.
Mrs Merkel has called for a new EU treaty - with more power in controlling the finances of wayward nations.
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For Germany, it is a morality play. They say we did our homework and some countries in southern Europe did not”
"We aren't just talking about a fiscal union," she told German lawmakers. "Rather, we have begun creating one.
"We need budget discipline and an effective crisis management mechanism," she said. "So we need to change the treaties or create new treaties."
The German government wants the new treaty to allow the EU to veto national budgets in the eurozone that breach the so-called "golden rule" regarding deficits.
Mrs Merkel wants to introduce sanctions if budgets end up having larger deficits, and she wants the European Court of Justice to have jurisdiction over disputes.
Pushing to transfer more national authority to Brussels at a time when the entire European project often appears to be on the verge of collapse may seem like a brazen strategy, particularly as there were already rules in place to prevent the current debt crisis from getting to this stage.
The Growth and Stability Pact was introduced when the euro was agreed in 1992. It limits budget deficits to no more than 3% of a country's total economy.
And following the recession in the early 2000s, who was it that quickly violated the pact? Germany and France.
Even Germany's closest ally is wary of some of Mrs Merkel's proposed changes, and the European Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, warned last Friday that treaty change could be divisive and "dangerous".
That is because a treaty change would have to be approved by all 27 states - and with some requiring referendums to give up sovereignty, it could get messy.
So in a press conference with the French president on Monday, Mrs Merkel said that the treaty change would be for all 27 members - or for the 17 members of the eurozone to sign it, and other nations to do so voluntarily.
And subsequent decisions on issues such as bailouts will be passed by qualified majority, not unanimity as it now.
Whichever is easier for all of you, seemed to be the German message.
Germany's position is defined as much as by what it does not want to do as what it does.
It does not want to let the European Central Bank use its unlimited resources to fund the eurozone rescue fund, and it does not favour pooling the debts of all the eurozone member states together into so-called eurobonds.
On the first point, Mrs Merkel has said she does not want the central bank to rescue governments by printing money.
This is because pumping money into the economy can lead to inflation - and Germany is still scarred by hyperinflation in the early 1920s under the Weimar Republic.
In April 1919, 12 marks were needed to buy one US dollar. By 1923, 4.2 trillion marks were needed.
And this was quickly followed by the Great Depression.
Since 1957, the Bundesbank has targeted inflation to prevent a repeat from ever happening - and was the first central bank to have full independence.
This created one of the most stable currencies in the world - and Germany insisted that the Bundesbank's successor, the ECB, should adopt a similar mandate and also be based in Frankfurt.
In her speech, Mrs Merkel said that "the European Central Bank has a different task from that of the Fed or the Bank of England".
By this, she means that the ECB (and the Bundesbank) differ from the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England in that they are not mandated to be the lenders of last resort - so they don't have to lend when the markets fail.
Nevertheless, the head of the ECB, Mario Draghi, hinted last week the bank might consider some kind of action if policymakers agreed on a "fiscal compact" for the euro area.
There is also talk of the ECB contributing directly to the IMF, which in turn would lend to stricken member states or to the bailout fund.
On the issue of eurobonds, Mrs Merkel called the idea "extraordinarily distressing".
"A joint liability for others' debts is not acceptable," she told the Bundestag. "Eurobonds are not a rescue measure in this crisis."
The German political establishment is loath to get into the idea of the German taxpayer backing the debts of their much less productive neighbours in the south.
"For Germany, it is a morality play," says Mr van Vliet. "They say we did our homework and some countries in southern Europe did not. That is the dangerous game they are playing.
"They want to avoid the moral hazard problem."
Anyway, the German constitutional court said in September that guaranteeing foreign debts would be unconstitutional.
Mrs Merkel has vetoed most of the options suggested by France and other countries like Spain and Italy, which have passed unprecedented austerity reforms.
That leaves everyone else in the eurozone financially desperate, politically weak and looking to Berlin to be told what to do.
And so Mrs Merkel concluded her speech with: "The future of the euro is inseparable from European unity."
"The path ahead is long and it is difficult but it is the right path for the joint good of a strong Germany in a strong European Union, for the benefit of people in Germany and in Europe."
And then she was done, to polite applause.
"If you look at the future, one thing is now we all know what the flaws of the eurozone are," Mr van Vliet says. "The question is whatever they do, will it be enough.
"One thing is that it will never be like what you have in the US - a political union."
In that case, someone has to take charge. For the rest of Europe, this might mean years of being told what to do by the Germans.
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The southern shore of New Jersey took the direct impact of Superstorm Sandy's onslaught. Barrier island communities on the Jersey Shore were decimated.
On Monday, Coastal Connection got through to custom builder and longtime JLC contributor Eric Borden, owner of ESB Contracting in Toms River, N.J. Borden's own house in Toms River was put out of commission in the storm, he told us: "We took Barnegat Bay through the back wall of the house." But Borden and his family are okay. "I'm at my daughter's," he said. "I won't be back in my house for a few months. But I've got a generator that is running a warm house, and we've got water; so truthfully, I'm happy."
Borden builds almost exclusively on the water. "My friends joke that if it's not within three blocks of the shore, Eric won't build it — and that's pretty much true," he said. Now, he said, "I've got damage in almost every house that I've built in the past fifteen years. I've only had one homeowner call me and say that they had only minor damage, that the water did not get into their first floor."
Almost all of that is high-end work: "Most of my homes are four million plus," said Borden. And because most of the houses were built to FEMA-mandated modern codes, they provide an interesting test case. "They were all built to the higher elevation and the whole bit," said Borden. "And I can show you pictures of two oceanfront houses where we have dug three feet of sand out of the first floor." Evidently, said Borden, Sandy's storm surge flooding was higher than the official Base Flood Elevation for that stretch of shoreline.
"One house, they had a big 14-foot by 22-foot dune-top deck," says Borden (see slideshow), "and that deck just came apart. It floated in and opened up the doors of the house — went right through the storm shutters, blew the doors open, and allowed the house to be compromised. The dune in front of the house was at elevation 23, and the house was at elevation 15. And it just wasn't enough."
At least, says Borden, he now has his work cut out for him. But it's going to take time: "I think that we've lost our summer of 2013. I don't know what's going to happen next year. I mean, here it is November, and we've got seven short months to try and figure out how to do something so that we can get residents and people back on the island."
Insurance won't play a big role for most of the damaged properties, Borden guesses. "Most of the houses on the barrier islands are second houses," he says, "so they're not covered." But even when damaged, the properties represent a lot of wealth. "A five million dollar property," says Borden, "the house may have cost $500,000, and the lot is worth $4.5 million." Wealthy customers are already taking steps to secure and repair their properties: "My clients have a $6.5 million house on the oceanfront, and they didn't have flood insurance on it. It's their second home. They use it for two months a year, and thank God that they've got the beans to turn around and just pay to have it fixed." A relative of the clients owns one of the largest road construction companies in New Jersey, says Borden — "So the day after the storm, he was driving a big Cat front end loader into Bay Head so he could see what the damage was, and the next day he had 12 laborers there taking all the sand out of the house and emptying the house out."
But repairing, or even replacing, an individual home is only a part of the problem facing the barrier islands: "They killed the infrastructure for our whole barrier island the other day," says Borden. "They had to kill the gas lines to the island, and every gas line over there has been compromised. It's either full of seawater or sand or both. They have no idea when we are going to get the gas lines back. You take a ten-mile stretch of barrier island and you just kill the gas lines and you have no power running over there — how much money is it going to cost to rebuild that infrastructure, and how long is it gonna take?"
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According to the most recent findings from CDC's health survey of high school students, far fewer black students are engaging in risky sexual behavior than they were 20 years ago. However, they still participate in risky behavior more often than white and Hispanic students, according to findings released Tuesday at the 19th International AIDS Conference.
Rates of risky behavior among all teens have declined only slightly over the past two decades. In 2011, 46 percent reported ever having sex, compared with 54 percent in 1991. Fourteen percent reported having four or more sex partners, down from 19 percent in 1991. For Hispanic students, the rates in both categories barely changed.
According to CDC, one possible reason for the good news about black students could be sex education and HIV prevention efforts: The proportion of black students taking these classes rose to 87 percent in 2011 from 84 percent in 1991. Black students were the only group to show a steady increase in those taking the classes. Overall, fewer US high-school students have received instruction about HIV and sex due to budget cutbacks in the past decade.
At 65 percent, sexually active black students were the most likely to use a condom in their most recent sexual encounter, though this rate dropped from 70 percent in 1999.
"The overall plateau [among all students] is troubling," Laura Kann, senior scientist at CDC, said at the AIDS conference.
07.25.2012; Lena H. Sun
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On this day in 1903, toy store owner and inventor Morris Michtom places two stuffed bears in his shop window, advertising them as Teddy bears. Michtom had earlier petitioned President Theodore Roosevelt for permission to use his nickname, Teddy. The president agreed and, before long, other toy manufacturers began turning out copies of Michtom's stuffed bears, which soon became a national childhood institution.
One of Theodore Roosevelt's hunting expeditions provided the inspiration for the Teddy bear. Ironically, though he was an avid conservationist, Roosevelt-led hunting trips often resulted in excessive slaughter, including one African trip during which his party killed more than 6,000 animals for sport and trophies. However, the idea for the teddy bear likely arose out of one of Roosevelt's more compassionate acts.
Reports differ as to the exact details of the inspiration behind the teddy bear, but it is thought that while hunting in Mississippi in 1902, Roosevelt came upon an old injured black bear that his guides had tied to a tree. (The age, sex and state of health of the bear remain contested.) While some reports claim Roosevelt shot the bear out of pity for his suffering, others insist he set the bear free. Political cartoonists later portrayed the bear as a cub, implying that under the tough, outdoorsy and macho image of Roosevelt lay a much softer, more sensitive interior.
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Mmm, mmm, freshly baked goods are in the air around these parts for the autumn days that we are now officially in. Here is such a simple, but fun lesson on "how to draw bread", step by step. Instead of doing the traditional bread loaf, I decided to go with an Italian style loaf. This is probably going to be the easiest lesson that you will tackle today and when you have finished your deeds, you will find that making bread is sort of a cool object to draw. Have fun folks, and remember to upload your finished works when you’re done. I’ll meet you guys back here in a bit so stick around or be square!
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Nearly four months after the cyclone, the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar is a flat, dark expanse of ruin populated by dazed survivors, unburied bodies and visions of wandering, moaning ghosts.
The region seems to have avoided mass starvation and epidemic, and people are rebuilding their precarious lives in this vast and often flooded marshland where the margin between survival and death has always been thin.
Within that thin margin, recent visitors say, many of the survivors seem to have lost their spark of life, and some of the dead seem not yet to have disappeared as they haunt the minds of those they left behind.
"There is a weariness in people's eyes here," said a photographer who has been chronicling the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which struck on May 3. He spoke on condition of anonymity because access to the region is forbidden to foreign journalists.
"There's a lost feeling that you get," he said. "People are physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. Some of them don't have the strength to start over."
After an international furor over the government's refusal to admit foreign relief workers, a tightly controlled system has been put in place, and aid is reaching much of the area, where the United Nations says 2.4 million people were affected.
The cyclone left 138,000 people dead or missing and 800,000 homeless, according to UN figures, after tremendous winds and a storm surge that resembled a tsunami.
It leveled most of the fragile thatch homes in its path, uprooted trees, swept away the livestock and fishing boats that provided a livelihood and polluted many rice fields with salt.
For those fields that survived, this year's planting season has now passed, and experts say it may be more than a year before many people see their next decent harvest.
Although some houses are being rebuilt and some fields are being worked, the delta remains a vista of ruin and debris, where human and animal bones and the last decomposing bodies still cluster at the edges of waterways.
Fantastical tales circulate among the survivors, the photographer said, weaving a tapestry of stories from this world and the next.
There is the tale of the boy who survived by clinging to the back of a crocodile, and the story of the boatload of people stranded at low tide who sat waiting on the silt for the water to rise, surrounded by stranded corpses.
There is the story of the mother who was reunited with her baby after it was swept away in a washtub, and the story of the woman who gave birth as the cyclone hit and pulled her baby from the water by its umbilical cord.
And there are the stories of wandering ghosts, whose cries for help can be heard at night in haunted places that no villager dares to enter.
Among these phantoms and traumas, international relief workers have become the survivors' lifeline, delivering aid to all but the most remote parts of the delta.
More than 1,800 visas have been issued to these workers, aid officials say, though access to the hard-hit delta is slowed by an ever-more-complicated process of permissions and paperwork.
By now, most survivors have received aid, said Andrew Kirkwood, country director for the aid group Save the Children. "But very few people have received enough assistance to get them through the next three months, and almost no one has received enough assistance to enable them to rebuild their lives."
He said the reconstruction of schools, clinics and other infrastructure, which should be well under way by now, still lagged because of delays in delivering basic emergency assistance.
The xenophobic military junta that holds Myanmar in its grip prevented large-scale foreign aid deliveries for the first three crucial weeks after the cyclone, then loosened its controls only gradually and partially. It never did allow U.S. and French naval vessels to bring in tons of aid and equipment.
But despite the early demands from around the world that the government permit open deliveries of aid, the United Nations says that nearly half the assistance pledged by foreign donors has yet to appear. Recently it said it had received $339 million in international donations, a shortfall of $300 million.
But life has always been bitter for the people of the Irrawaddy Delta, with 8 out of 10 families living in poverty even before the cyclone, according to Save the Children.
For many people, the harshness of life today may not be so very different from the harshness of the life they have always known.
"They live on a thin line, every day of every year of every decade," the photographer said. "And that is what they are doing now. They just keep going, day by day by day."
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Year 4 Literacy Video
Year 4 literacy lessons have taken an intriguing twist with our continued reading of the Edward Tulane story. The pupils have found Edward to be a fascinating character. We have been learning that the character is a china rabbit with a cold heart. He is very untrusting of people and is quite complex to understand. As our reading of the text has progressed, Year 4 have been observing how the character of Edward starts to change. We have been holding class discussions to think about the reasons behind this, and what Edward must be feeling.
Our literacy work has developed these feelings a stage further. Year 4 have written a series of postcards in the character of the girl who owned Edward. We have been describing how she is feeling now that she has lost her china rabbit. We have also written a series of thought bubbles pieces, allowing the character of Edward to come across as the plot develops. You can watch a video featuring some of this fantastic literacy work from Year 4 above.
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Apple’s new Thunderbolt ports are already the fastest connection ports on the market, but if Intel has their way they’ll be even faster in the near future. In order to boost the performance of Thunderbolt, Intel is working to support PCI-Express 3.0 protocols which will significantly boost data transfer rates.
Thunderbolt has barely been on the market for a year, but the fact that Intel is already looking to make improvements may signify the technology will become a mainstay on all computers. Computers with Thunderbolt communicate with devices using PCI-Express 2.0 technology. While PCIe 2.0 is remarkably fast with its 5 gigatransfers per second, the move to PCIe 3.0 would bring speeds up to 8 gigatransfers per second.
Intel’s aim with Thunderbolt is to unite many data-transfer, networking and display protocols through a single, unified connector. Thunderbolt also supports DisplayPort, and Intel has said it could bring USB 3.0 support to Thunderbolt. All Thunderbolt devices share a common connector, and individuals can simply daisy-chain their devices one after another, connected by electrical or optical cables.
PCIe 3.0 is just starting to hit the market. Intel announced their new Xeon E5 chip which integrates PCIe 3.0 in the processor. Because it’s a new technology, it will take some time before other manufacturers create accessories that support the technology. Thunderbolt was introduced in 2011 by Apple and Intel when Apple included it in their MacBook Pro line. The technology has since gone on to be implemented in the iMac and MacBook Air lines as well.
- Via PCWorld
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Trading to Extinction – a crowdfunded book’s success story
Day by day, hour by hour, our planet’s rarest creatures are being hunted, trapped and slaughtered to feed a global black market in wildlife products.
The trade, worth hundreds of millions of dollars every year, is devastating some of our best loved species and could have irrevocable consequences for life on earth.
For more than ten years, Australian photographer Patrick Brown and British journalist Ben Davies have followed the global wildlife trade and its gruesome pursuit of profit. Their investigations have taken them to some of the most remote corners of Asia to document the poachers, the dealers, the trafficking routes and the battle to save what is left of our dwindling wildlife populations.
“Trading to Extinction” is the result of their decade-long project. Patrick Brown managed to crowdfund the book through Emphas.is with the support of 162 backers who raised $25,820. This is almost $11,000 more than his initial fundraising goal. This beautifully produced black and white photographic book features Brown’s prize-winning images. In one stark portrait, we see an elephant in chains that epitomizes how man has brought down some of nature’s most majestic species. In another, two poachers in a Nepalese jail who face 20 years behind bars if convicted.
Using impeccable contacts with wildlife investigators, conservationists and enforcement agencies, Brown and Davies spent time embedded with various organizations intent upon slowing the trade of exotic animals. The result is an intensely personal story told through photographs and words.
As with drug trafficking, money feeds the animal trade. Its tentacles wrap around the world from the last pristine rainforests in Asia to major cities in the West. A poacher who kills a rhino and removes its horn in India gets $350. That same horn sells for $1,000 in a nearby market town. By the time it reaches Hong Kong, Beijing or the Middle East, the horn is worth $60,000. Tiger bones are worth up to $700 per kilo.
But the fight-back has begun. There is an extraordinary worldwide movement that is bringing together people from diverse backgrounds in a bid to save our most endangered species.
‘Trading to Extinction’ is a compelling expose of the animal trade and a tribute to the men and women who are battling to save our precious wildlife before it is too late.
The project is supported by FREELAND Foundation, an international organization dedicated to stopping illegal wildlife trade and human slavery. FREELAND works throughout Asia, raising public awareness and building local capacity to protect critical ecosystems, wildlife and vulnerable people. For more information, visit Freeland or their facebook page.
About the Photographer/ Author
Patrick Brown is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Sunday Times Magazine, Aperture, The New York Times, Stern, Der Spiegel and GEO. Brown’s photographs of the wildlife trade have earned him prestigious awards including second prize in the World Press Photo Awards 2005, Picture of the Year, Days Japan and a 3p Foundation Award. His photographs are featured in Black Market – Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia, published by Palace Press. Brown has been a member of Panos Pictures since 2004.
Ben Davies is a Bangkok-based journalist whose work has appeared in a wide range of distinguished publications and media including the International Herald Tribune, the London Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal and the BBC. He is the author of Black Market – Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia. He has also written and photographed five other books around Asia including Living with Spirits – A Journey into the Heart of Thailand.
Emphas.is is the first crowdfunding platform devoted exclusively to photojournalism. It connects photojournalists directly with their audience, and in the process creates an alternative funding source for in-depth visual journalism. On Emphas.is photojournalists pitch their projects directly to the public. It is the public, rather than editorial boards, that gets to decide whether a story or book is worth doing. By agreeing to back a story, members of the public are making sure that the issues they care about receive the in-depth coverage they deserve. In exchange backers are invited along on the journey.
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September 29th.—Captain Huntly’s bill of lading, that is to say, the document that describes the “Chancellor’s” cargo and the conditions of transport, is couched in the following terms:—
“BRONSFIELD AND CO., AGENTS, CHARLESTON.
“I, John Silas Huntly, of Dundee, Scotland, commander of the ship 'Chancellor,' of about 900 tons burden, now at Charleston, do purpose, by the blessing of God, at the earliest convenient season, and by the direct route, to sail for the port of Liverpool, where I shall obtain my discharge. I do hereby acknowledge that I have received from you, Messrs. Bronsfield and Co., Commission Agents, Charleston, and have placed the same under the gun-deck of the aforesaid ship, seventeen hundred bales of cotton, of the estimated value of 26,000£, all in good condition, marked and numbered as in the margin; which goods I do undertake to transport to Liverpool, and there to deliver, free from injury (save only such injury as shall have been caused by the chances of the sea), to Messrs. Laird Brothers, or to their order, or to their representative, who shall on due delivery of the said freight pay me the sum of 2000£ inclusive, according to the charter-party and damages in addition, according to the usages and customs of the sea.
“And for the fulfilment of the above covenant, I have pledged and do pledge my person, my property, and my interest in the vessel aforesaid, with all its appurtenances. In witness whereof, I have signed three agreements, all of the same purport; on the condition that when the terms of one are accomplished, the other two shall be absolutely null and void.
“Given at Charleston, September 13th, 1869,“J. S. HUNTLY.”
From the foregoing document it will be understood that the “Chancellor” is conveying 1700 bales of cotton to Liverpool; that the shippers are Bronsfield, of Charleston, and the consignees are Laird Brothers, of Liverpool. The ship was constructed with the especial design of carrying cotton, and the entire hold, with the exception of a very limited space reserved for passengers’ luggage, is closely packed with the bales, The lading was performed with the utmost care, each bale being pressed into its proper place by the aid of screw-jacks, so that the whole freight forms one solid and compact mass; not an inch of space is wasted, and the vessel is thus made capable of carrying her full complement of cargo.
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- Vast gardening info resource.
Includes articles collated from gardening magazines, advice for your region, plant finder, directory of nurseries and suppliers. Also includes all the hints and tips that you could need on when to plant what for the most stunning effect.
- Gardening magazine.
Loads of info contained in this site. Back issues of the mag are included, with the articles sorted by category. Has features, archives, and breaking issues. Chance to look at past chat, and contribute your own ideas and experiences.
- "Goods, tips, expert advice and photos."
Find out how your garden should look at any time of year, and get advice from the people in the know. Order flowers delivered, and follow the links to find the place to supply a certain plant.
The Bonsai Site
- Information about bonsai trees.
Massive amounts of info about the history, and the techniques (both basic and advanced) used in the production of the perfect bonsai. Links to sites for the purchase of all the necessary equipment and seeds to grow your own. Gallery of bonsai for you to compare to your own.
- Gardening tips.
Expert hints on how to make your garden grow to its full potential. Botanical glossary explains all the terms that you may have heard but were not sure what they meant.
- Info for organic gardeners.
From advice on how to begin growing organically, to how to improve your crop yield. The site contains hints and tips, stories on what is new, and links to suppliers of organic materials.
British Gardening Online
- Gardening site.
Browse for info on plants (large database of info) and gardening events around the country. Also has links to 10 gardens around the country so you can read about them before you go and pay a visit.
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Local & Regional
Thu November 8, 2012
Arguments Set in Challenge of Zink Dam Bond Issue
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oral arguments are set in a state senator's constitutional challenge to a planned $25 million state bond issue to repair a dam owned by the City of Tulsa.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday in state Sen. Patrick Anderson's lawsuit seeking to stop the issuance of the bonds. Anderson claims they are an unconstitutional gift that will create debt for the state.
Anderson maintains the bonds were approved by the Legislature in 2009 and were to be matched with federal dollars for a series of low-water dams along the Arkansas River. But the federal funding never materialized, and efforts began to issue the bonds for a new purpose without the Legislature's approval.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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Britain's worst sex offenders will be forced to take regular lie detector tests when they leave jail to catch reoffenders
- The £4,000 polygraphs, which monitor heart rate, breathing and blood pressure, could be in place by 2014
- About 750 offenders will be tested every 12 weeks to make sure they're being honest about what they've been up to
The most dangerous sex offenders will be forced to take regular lie detector tests after leaving jail in a bid to prevent fresh attacks.
After a successful trial was carried out in the Midlands, ministers are now set to introduce compulsory lie detector tests across England and Wales in 2014.
Experts will grill the 750 worst offenders about their activities and intentions to try to discover if they are plotting new crimes.
Tests: No10 wants mandatory tests for all high risk sex offenders - such as nursery school paedophile Vanessa George, left, and child killer Jon Venables, right, after a successful trial in the Midlands between 2009 and 2011
This is expected to include criminals such as child murderer Jon Venables and nursery paedophile Vanessa George, who will be hooked up to monitors every three months.
Lie detectors, known as polygraph machines, measure a person’s pulse, blood pressure and breathing rate. An electronic graph plots these rates as questions are asked, and involuntary changes in the body can indicate whether a person is telling the truth or not.
During the pilot scheme, sex offenders attached to lie detectors made twice as many admissions to breaches of their probation conditions compared to those questioned without the machines.
THE TRUTH ABOUT LIE DETECTORS
Polygraphs are used routinely by police in the U.S. but are considered too unreliable for use in criminal trials in the UK. It is disputed as to how accurate they are.
Until now they have been mostly used on television to settle domestic disputes.
A polygraph measures and records blood pressure, pulse and breathing while the subject is asked a series of questions.
It takes about two hours to complete three different phases. The first is the pre test interview, where the examiner explains the test. The subject is then attached to the polygraph and a set of questions asked several times.
Once the data has been collected it is analysed in stage three and the results are announced. Examiners say nerves should not affect the results.
Deceptive answers produce physiological responses that are different to truthful answers.
The machine was invented in 1921 by John Augustus Larson at the University of California at Berkeley alongside a police officer.
One freed rapist was returned to jail after admitting he had been performing sex acts in public.
In another case, a paedophile confessed he had started dating a woman, leading investigators to discover he had been undressing in front of her young daughter.
Psychiatrist Don Grubin, who helped run the Midlands trial, said: ‘I have no doubt that serious offences have been prevented through use of this technology.’
The Government hopes to have the £4,000 polygraph machines - which monitor a person's heart rate, breathing and blood pressure - up and running by 2014.
Probation minister Crispin Blunt said: 'Protecting the public from dangerous and violent offenders is a crucial part of offender management and I am committed to helping probation officers stop these offenders committing further crime and creating more victims and more misery.
'The recent pilots into using lie detector tests to manage sex offenders in the community has proved a clear success and we are now considering how we will use them across England and Wales subject to Parliamentary approval.
'This will be good news for the public who should benefit from this extra layer of protection.'
The pilot scheme in the Midlands, run by the Ministry of Justice, found that the lie detector tests led to offenders being more honest with their probation officers.
They made twice as many disclosures to staff as those who were quizzed without the polygraphs.
revelations included admitting to contacting a victim or entering an
exclusion zone. Some confessed to fantasies, suggesting they would
Offenders also reported that the tests helped them to manage their own behaviour better.
lie detector tests would be on top of other rigorous conditions that
sex offenders face once they have served their prison sentences.
These include signing the sex offenders’ register, restrictions on where they live and being banned from entering certain areas or coming into contact with potential victims.
The tests were carried out between April 2009 and October 2011 in the East and West Midlands probation regions.
There are around 3,000 sex offenders on licence in the community at any time, with more than 750 considered to be the most serious cases.
Jail: Anyone who fails the test could be recalled to prison or have their parole conditions changed. The lie detector tests a person's blood pressure, heart rate and breathing and could be in place by 2014
The compulsory use of lie detectors was challenged under human rights legislation but judges backed the use of polygraphs, saying that they were ‘proportionate’.
Legislation to test polygraphs on sex offenders was introduced by Labour. The Coalition is now planning secondary legislation to use it on the most serious sex offenders in England and Wales.
The risk of paedophiles re-offending or disappearing after their release from jail is a real one. Last year 57 registered sex offenders were charged with a further crime.
And 843 offenders were on the run from the police in the year ending September 1, 2011, nearly 700 of whom had been untraceable for more than a year.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- New moms who breast-feed may need exercise -- including cardiovascular activity and strength training -- to fight off a loss of bone density caused by lower levels of calcium, research shows.
A new study published in the October issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that new mothers who didn't exercise lost about 7 percent of the bone mineral density in their lower spine after giving birth. The findings come from an analysis of 20 women whose bone density was tested between four and 20 weeks post-partum.
"During lactation, women transfer around 200 milligrams of calcium per day from their own stores to their breast milk," researcher Cheryl Lovelady said in a news release from the American College of Sports Medicine.
"Calcium is critically linked to bone density and health, and this depletion can result in loss of bone mineral density," she added. "When mothers wean their infants, bone mineral density usually returns to normal levels. We proposed that weight-bearing exercise would minimize bone losses during lactation and decrease the risk of osteoporosis later in life."
Exercise decreased the level of bone loss during breast-feeding, the researchers found. A combination of strength training and aerobic exercise for three days a week resulted in less loss of bone mineral density: 4.8 percent compared to 7 percent among those who didn't exercise.
Women who performed weight-bearing exercise also lowered their percentage of body fat and increased their strength, the study authors noted.
"Women in our study found themselves overall healthier and stronger after completing the post-partum exercise program, which lasted just 16 weeks," Lovelady said. "Moreover, implementing this exercise into daily life can help entire families get active and improve their overall health."
Learn more about breast-feeding from the U.S. National Women's Health Information Center.
SOURCE: American College of Sports Medicine, news release, Sept. 28, 2009
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Mitta Mining is a comprehensive historical account of gold recovery around the picturesque hamlet of Mitta Mitta in northeastern Victoria.
Russell J Kelly's research has not only accurately detailed the advent and application of advanced hydraulic sluicing from California but traced the impact of mining pollution on the local surroundings. The community was deeply divided over the destruction of waterways resulting in one of the earliest environmental battlefronts in Victoria.
The monument to Mitta Mitta's past is the large open-cut backdrop that was once the centrepiece of local alluvial gold production. Defeated by a prolonged drought, the Pioneer Mine operated profitably for much of its 20 year life but with mounting public concern over ecological damage.
Anyone interested in the history of mining will enjoy this definitive explanation and recognise the insidiousness nature of gold fever.
ISBN 9780957853324 Published by Wombat Gully Publications, Mitta Mitta, Victoria, Australia
Only weeks before the end of World War 2 a bomber on a training exercise became lost at night in North Eastern Victoria with tragic consequences. How did this experienced crew manage to be 100 miles off-course? Why did it take so long to find the wreck?
Russell Kelly's account of events that took place in 1945 traces the last flight of Beaufort Bomber A9-228, the botched RAAF aerial search and the ultimate discovery by relatives of the wreck in rugged mountain country.
Third Edition now available
ISBN 9780957853317 Published by Wombat Gully Publications, Mitta Mitta, Victoria, Australia
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Burger King has tonight admitted that it has been selling burgers and Whoppers containing horsemeat despite two weeks of denials.The fast food chain, which has more than 500 UK outlets, had earlier given a series of ‘absolute assurances’ that its products were not involved.However, new tests have revealed these guarantees were incorrect in a revelation that threatens to destroy the trust of customers.
It also raises serious questions about whether the food company, which sells around one million burgers a week in the UK, has any good idea about what goes into its products.The contaminated burgers were made by the Irish-based processing company, Silvercrest, which is part the ABP Foods Group.
The same company also made tainted burgers for Tesco, Asda and the Co-op, among others.Burger King has faced allegations of orchestrating a cover-up of its links to the horsemeat scandal in order to give it time to find an alternative supplier.It is currently shipping in tens of thousands of burgers from suppliers in Germany and Italy in order to meet demand at its UK outlets.It is known that the management at Silvercrest has been using a series of non-approved ingredients in their burgers for a range of household name brands.These included meat off-cuts, including horse, that were imported in large frozen blocks from Poland.The contamination has been going on since at least last May and potentially for up to one year, according to evidence presented to MPs earlier this week.Tonight Burger King abandoned its earlier denials, saying: ‘Four samples recently taken from the Silvercrest plant have shown the presence of very small trace levels of equine DNA.
Within the last 36 hours, we have established that Silvercrest used a small percentage of beef imported from a non-approved supplier in Poland.‘They promised to deliver 100per cent British & Irish beef patties and have not done so. This is a clear violation of our specifications, and we have terminated our relationship with them. ‘Through our investigation, we have confirmed that this non-approved Polish supplier is the same company identified by the Irish Department of Agriculture as the source of Silvercrest’s contamination issue.’'We are deeply troubled by the findings of our investigation and apologise to our guests, who trust us to source only the highest quality 100per cent beef burgers.'
- Burger King vice president
The contamination scandal was first triggered two weeks ago, with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland revealed it had found horse meat in burgers sold in Ireland and the UK.When the news first emerged, Burger King said it had been given an ‘absolute assurance’ by its supplier that its products were not involved.Yesterday, Burger King vice president, Diego Beamonte, said: ‘We are deeply troubled by the findings of our investigation and apologise to our guests, who trust us to source only the highest quality 100per cent beef burgers.‘Our supplier has failed us and in turn we have failed you. We are committed to ensuring that this does not happen again.’
He added: ‘We will dedicate ourselves to determining what lessons can be learned and what additional measures, including DNA testing and enhanced traceability controls, can be taken to ensure that we continue to provide you with the quality products you expect from us.’Jeanette Longfield, of the campaigning food and health group, Sustain, has condemned Burger King’s handling of the problem.
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Over a recent lunch, Boris Bukh suggested the following variant of the Turing test: a human and a computer play a game (in the game-theoretic sense). A judge who is observing only their moves must decide with confidence who is the human and who is the computer. The premise is that the human would play irrationally (he’s just a random person off the street), and the computer’s goal is to also play irrationally to avoid detection.
An interesting aspect of the economic Turing test is that it’s not clear whether it’s harder to be the judge or the computer (programmer). On the one hand, how do you program a computer to act irrationally? On the other hand, if a judge has a set of rules that identify humanly irrational behavior (e.g., he read the papers of Kahneman and Tversky), couldn’t the programmer implement the same set of rules?
I found this idea especially appealing because I sometimes think of rationality as a possible key to artificial intelligence. Indeed, one can argue that rationality is perceived as (a sufficient condition for) intelligence, and therefore a multiagent system that is based on game-theoretic principles will be perceived as intelligent, so in that sense game theory can enable classic artificial intelligence (albeit on the multiagent level). The economic Turing test turns this argument on its head: to be indistinguishable from a human the computer must strive to be irrational.
The field of AI has so far failed to deliver human-level intelligence; is this the dawn of the age of artificial stupidity?
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What is tetanus?
Tetanus is an acute, sometimes fatal, disease of the central nervous system, caused by the toxin of the tetanus bacterium, which usually enters the body through an open wound. The tetanus bacterium live in soil and manure, but also can be found in the human intestine and other places.
- Tetanus occurs more often in warmer climates or during the warmer months.
- Tetanus is very uncommon in the US due to widespread immunization. Fewer than 50 cases every year occur in the US.
How is tetanus transmitted?
Tetanus is not a contagious illness. It occurs in individuals who have had a skin or deep tissue wound or puncture. It is also seen in the umbilical stump of infants in underdeveloped countries. This occurs in places where immunization to tetanus is not widespread and women may not know proper care of the stump after the baby is born. After being exposed to tetanus, it may take between 2 days to 2 months to develop any symptoms. In infants, symptoms may take between 5 days to 2 weeks to develop.
What are the symptoms of tetanus?
The following are the most common symptoms of tetanus. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- stiffness of jaw (also called lockjaw)
- stiffness of abdominal and back muscles
- contraction of facial muscles
- fast pulse
- painful muscle spasms near the wound area (if these affect the larynx or chest wall, they may cause asphyxiation)
- difficulty swallowing
The symptoms of tetanus may resemble other medical conditions. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
How is tetanus diagnosed?
Symptoms usually confirm the diagnosis of tetanus.
Treatment for tetanus:
Specific treatment for tetanus will be determined by your physician based on:
- your overall health and medical history
- extent of the disease
- your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- expectations for the course of the disease
- your opinion or preference
Treatment for tetanus may include:
- medications to control spasms
- thorough cleaning of the wound
- a course of tetanus antitoxin injections
- a tracheostomy (a breathing tube inserted surgically in the windpipe) in severe cases with respiratory problems
Prevention of tetanus:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children need five DTaP shots. A DTaP shot is a combination vaccine that protects against three diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis.The first three shots are given at two, four, and six months of age. Between 15 and 18 months of age, the fourth shot is given, and a fifth shot when a child enters school at four to six years of age. At regular check-ups for 11 or 12 year olds, a pre-teen should get a dose of Tdap. The Tdap booster contains tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis. If an adult did not get a Tdap as a pre-teen or teen, then he should get a dose of Tdap instead of the Td booster. Adults should get a Td booster every ten years, but it can be given before the ten-year mark. Always consult your physician for advice.
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Online Resources of Infectious Diseases
Disclaimer - This content is reviewed periodically and is subject to change as new health information becomes available. The information provided is intended to be informative and educational and is not a replacement for professional evaluation, advice, diagnosis or treatment by a healthcare professional. © 2009 Staywell Custom Communications.
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Author: This exercise is based on an instructional web site created by J. Alexander and M. Tate, Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University, July 1996 and modified with the authors' permission. The original website, Evaluating Web Pages, is copyrighted by Widener University, 1996.
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This lesson is designed to help students determine the validity of information that is presented to them on the Internet. After reviewing a series of evaluation techniques for online resources, students form groups to assess selected Web sites based on accuracy and authority, advocacy and objectivity, and currency and coverage.
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A New Delhi based trained gemologist, Asha Kamal Modi
in the face of acute cynicism, has carved a niche for herself as one of the most recognised jewelry designers of India.
The designs are different in style, mood and craftsmanship and are made to perfection by some of India's finest artisans as she draws her inspirations from the basic elements of nature together with the rich Indian heritage, studying its changing moods and traditions.
With an aim to envies the breathtaking view of a woman from head to toe in one's own creations, she has launched her enchanting jewelry line 'Art Karat' in 1988. The designs cater to a wide canvas of both traditional and western tastes, blending majestically with whatever a woman wears.
She has designed jewelry for more than 10 bollywood blockbusters some of which include movies like 'Devdas', Monsoon Wedding' and 'Kamasutra'. Asha has dedicated her collections to the 18th and 19th century Panchchikam jewellery designs of Gujarat and Kutch that also use silver generously.
Asha has been felicitated for her talent with the President's award for design, the FICCI 2005 award and the prestigious Best Designer Accolade by the Gem & Jewelry Export Promotion Council, among many other recognitions.
The designer feels that Indian jewelery has always attracted people for its traditional designs and intricate craftsmanship, while her jewelery line is specialised in capturing timeless appeal in her creations.
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Google has made it a corporate mission to embrace renewable energy, and on Wednesday the company said it's signed its first clean power contract with a utility to buy wind energy to run its data center in Oklahoma.
The contract, totaling 48 MW, isn’t the first renewable power purchase agreement for the search giant, who previously signed contracts directly with a wind farm owner. Google called out the fact that the 48-MW contract is its first contract with a utility, the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA), and the reason for it has to do with the role of a utility.
“Utilities like GRDA are best positioned to integrate renewable energy into their generation mix and to deliver power,” Google said in a blog post.
This line from the blog post may need a bit more explanation though. A utility runs the distribution network (and sometimes the transmission lines as well), and it has to ensure that an electric grid runs smoothly, or else its customers could experience blackouts. To keep the grid humming along, there has to be a balance of supply and demand.
Managing the flow of wind and solar energy into the grid can be challenging because wind and solar farms don’t produce energy steadily throughout the day and night. The intermittency of their power generation, which is heavily influenced by factors such as the weather, requires more diligence in ensuring that balance of supply and demand. A utility may have to crank up a natural gas power plant, for example, to compensate any temporary shortfall.
Google said it’ll pay a premium for the wind power from Grand River, though it didn’t disclose the price. It’s not clear whether it’s more expensive to buy renewable energy directly from a project owner or a utility within the same region. For one thing, it will depend on how much that utility charges for power distribution.
The search engine company has become a corporate role model for using clean power for its data centers. It also has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energy generation and technology development. Last fall, it created a website to show its energy use profile, which showed the amount of renewable energy it had been using and its carbon footprint.
Google’s actions have prompted calls for other tech giants to do the same. Both Facebook and Apple have followed suit — Apple is building a large solar farm next to its new data center in North Carolina. Although using renewable energy wins these tech giants accolades from groups such as Greenpeace, it comes at higher costs and challenges for using power sources that can’t produce a steady amount around the clock. Data centers are the brains of their operations and can’t afford to lose power. Batteries or other types of large energy storage technologies could help to solve this serious challenge, but none has emerged to be cost effective enough or widely deployed.
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Current Haiti Images on Display at Woodruff Library
Sept. 9, 2010
Local photographer documents life after the earthquake
“After: Images from Haiti” opens Sept. 10, 2010 and will run until Sept. 9, 2011 in the ECIT Gallery, outside Emory’s Center for Interactive Teaching, on Level 2 of the Woodruff Library. It is free and open to the public during regular library hours.
The rotating exhibition focuses on the growing nationwide public health crisis and the challenges of rural life in the Central Plateau, and takes a revealing look inside an orphanage in Port-au-Prince. The photographs will change every three months to provide fresh insight into the ongoing humanitarian problems that plague the country.
Meltz (at right) will discuss her work and her experiences in Haiti in an Artist Talk on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Jones Room on Level 3 of the Woodruff Library. The event is free and open to the public. This is the first in a series of discussions with Meltz that will take place throughout the exhibition’s run.
Meltz, who is also an Emory University photographer, first traveled to Haiti in March 2010 on assignment for the Rollins School of Public Health’s magazine. The magazine used several of her shots, but Meltz wanted to expose more of the photos to a larger audience.
“I was trying to find a way to get this out to the broader Emory community and to continue the dialogue, so that people understand the window of opportunity to help is still open,” Meltz says. “The problems are not fixed – it’s not over. I think we have a tendency with the media to cover something to the extreme and then that’s it, move on to the next thing. That’s usually when I get interested in projects, when everyone else loses interest in them.”
The Emory community is still involved in Haiti – an energy conservation project in March funded a trip this summer for Emory students in public health, medicine, nursing, theology and law to work on projects in Haiti and assist in relief efforts. “There are a lot of people at Emory that are involved somehow with what’s going on in Haiti, so I’m also hoping that this can bring some of those people together,” Meltz says. “I’d like to see how people at Emory are using their expertise and how they’re helping there.”
The exhibition also has a multimedia component, with audio accompanying video and photos, so viewers can hear the Haitian people talk about what’s happening to them. “I’m hoping it will give people a more personal connection and bring them a little bit closer to being there than the three-minute clip that’s on the nightly news,” Meltz says.
Julie Delliquanti, associate curator of library exhibitions and director of the Schatten Gallery, says the Woodruff Library had an unusual opportunity to help keep attention focused on such an important issue.
“It puts the library at the center of current research and current activity,” Delliquanti says. “A lot of times, we’re looking back at things, at collections. Most of our exhibitions are ‘let’s look at something from a long time ago and re-examine it now,’ so this is pretty unique for us.”
In May, Meltz began collaborating with Atlanta-based GIANT Global (The Global Initiative for the Advancement of Nutritional Therapy) on a five-year project documenting the rebuilding of Grand Goave, a small town near Port-au-Prince. Emory and Rollins alumnus Dr. Alawode Oladele 93MPH is president and CEO of GIANT; Andrew Young is chairman.
With Meltz planning additional trips to Haiti, “we’ll be getting very immediate images and stories,” Delliquanti adds. “Hopefully, that will inspire some of our students to be more proactive in doing service or asking difficult questions. If we can share it with students and faculty, if we as the University can make sure that the conversation is continuing, then we’re serving our community and our students.”
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The Emory University Libraries (http://web.library.emory.edu/) in Atlanta and Oxford, Ga., are an intellectual commons for Emory University, Atlanta and the world. The nine libraries’ holdings include more than 3.4 million print and electronic volumes, 56,000-plus electronic journals, and internationally renowned special collections.
Emory University (http://www.emory.edu) is known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate experience, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities. Perennially ranked as one of the country’s top 20 national universities by U.S. News & World Report, Emory encompasses nine academic divisions as well as the Carlos Museum, The Carter Center, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, Georgia’s largest and most comprehensive health care system.
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In a time when the workforce is increasingly transient, your ability to identify high-performing and high-potential employees—and that of your managers—is critical. And yet, many struggle to distinguish one from the other, negatively impacting their ability to develop and retain top talent. In many organizations, performance is the primary measure of an employee’s value in the organization. Star performers are promoted and rewarded, while diamonds in the rough become disengaged and move on.
Don’t get me wrong–you should definitely value performance. But if your end goal is to build a more robust talent pipeline (and it should be), performance can’t be the only point of entry. To that end, there are strategies that any manager can apply to develop high-potentials and high-performers effectively.
Step One: Identify
High-performers stand out in any organization. They consistently exceed expectations, and are management’s go-to for difficult projects. They take pride in their accomplishments, but may not have the potential (or the desire) to succeed in a higher-level role.
High potentials can be more difficult to identify, especially for line managers. That’s because most valuable attributes (e.g. stress management, adaptability, business sense) aren’t catalytic in entry-to-mid-level roles. Potential is subjective to what a company values, of course, but there are innate attributes that distinguish them from high-performers.
Line managers’ observations are often limited to the most obvious traits (time management, communication skills, attention to detail). By working with leadership, however, managers can profile the skills that ensure success in key roles—and be on the lookout for examples of both high performers and high potentials from day one.
Step Two: Assess
An established standard of the attributes and competencies of model employees is also an essential part of objective assessment. And though there’s a distinct difference between potential and performance, experts agree that employees should be assessed on competency in both.
Each category requires a different development strategy. With a clearer picture of who falls where, managers can make more informed decisions in how to effectively develop them. For example: High Po/ Low Per employees may need to improve their ability to perform consistently, or may be moved into roles better aligned with their natural abilities. And High Per/Low Po employees would be ideal candidates for soft skill development–or for roles that require more technical skill.
Step Three: Engage and Develop
The important thing about development and engagement strategies (especially for high-potential vs. high-performance employees) is to tailor your efforts to drive the results you want. Typical engagement strategies could look something like this:
Recognition is key for High Per/Low Po employees. They need constant encouragement and challenging assignments. Rather than promoting them to roles they don’t want (or aren’t ready for), give them the independence and engage them with projects that they can take full ownership of.
Alternately, while High Po/Low Per employees are hungry for more high-impact work, they need seasoning. On the job training is a great way to accomplish this, especially when pairing them with high performers. As they develop a stronger understanding of the organization and their role in it, give them projects to manage, new hires to train, and offer cross-training opportunities.
Set Your Line Managers Up for Success
Your line managers are the gatekeepers to your talent pipeline, and they’ve got their work cut out for them. While most will have some natural ability in identifying, assessing, and engaging performers and potentials, few will be adept at all three. If you want to improve your ability to retain top talent, it starts with your line managers. Set them up for success, and invest in their development.
This guest post was written by Kyle Lagunas.
Kyle Lagunas is the HR Analyst at Software Advice—an online resource for HR software comparisions. He reports on trends, technology, and best practices in talent management, with work featured on Forbes, Business Insider, Information Weekly, and the NY Times.
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YIELD Makes one loaf
Kelly Rossiter is taking us through cooking basics; start here and see them all here.
Now that you are ready to try baking, I'll introduce you to this soda bread recipe which is just about as easy as it gets. Soda bread is the traditional bread of Ireland; it uses soda as the leavening agent rather than yeast so it rises in the oven during baking. I started this recipe at 11:00 a.m. and we had warm bread and cheese for lunch. This is a very dense bread, so it isn't really suitable for sandwiches, but it is great as part of a Ploughman's Lunch.
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LONDON – The U.K. government has said it will spend £70 million (about $120 million) to fund a national institute of graphene research and commercialisation activities, in Manchester, in the northwest of England.
A race is on the produce the first commercial products based on graphene, the two-dimensional form of crystalline carbon that has tremendous strength and much higher electron mobility than silicon. And the U.K. government is keen to capitalize on advantages the country enjoys as hosts to pioneering research into graphene and try and build up engineering and manufacturing expertise in the wonder material.
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 was awarded "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene" to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, two scientests who began their academic careers in Russia but who are both now installed as professors at the University of Manchester.
Graphene is the strongest and thinnest material ever measured, and also the world’s most conductive material. It is expected to have a disruptive effect in many areas of electronics including semiconductors, flexible touch screens, sensors, and in composite materials.
The University of Manchester has been confirmed as the single supplier invited to submit a proposal for funding a new £45 million national institute, £38 million of which will be provided by the UK government. This world-class shared facility for graphene research and commercialization activities will be accessible by both researchers and business and although based at Manchester, will be a resource for research groups and businesses across the U.K. and open to broader collaboration.
An additional £12 million is available from the U.K. government to invest in research equipment related to graphene. An additional £10 million of investment is available from budgets to support graphene engineering research, and accelerate the generation of novel devices, technologies and systems. It will also strengthen the UK position in relation to European initiatives with potential for further financial leverage.
A further £10 million has been set aside to fund a separate graphene innovation center for which additional funding is expected to come from industry. The center is intended to help accelerate the development, application and exploitation of new graphene technologies.
South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is one company that is already collaborating with the University of Manchester on the application of graphene technology. Samsung is reportedly working on flexible displays based that utilize the material.
"With a Nobel Prize and hundreds of published papers under their belts, scientists in the U.K. have already demonstrated that we have real strengths in this area. The graphene hub will build on this by taking this research through to commercial success," said David Willetts, the U.K. government minister for universities and science, in a statement.Related links and articles:
Researchers unlock spintronics in graphene
What graphene offers for future electronic devices
Graphene research wins Nobel prize
Graphene discoverers win Europhysics Prize
Group touts graphene transistor advance
Graphene transistor to rival silicon, say researchers
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The recording and archiving of seminars though is sometimes a bit of a mess, and depends very much on the institution. PIRSA, the Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive, aims to provide an interface that makes recorded seminars easily searchable, and allows to refer to them by providing an unique and permanent PIRSA number, much like the arXiv.
The PIRSA websites have just been launched, you can have a look yourself at
The archive presently contains PI’s scientific seminar series (including colloquia), summer schools, courses, workshops, conferences, public lectures, and special events - in total that currently amounts to about 1700. The recording is done using a combination of A/V equipment and Mediasite, which captures both a video feed of the speaker and a VGA feed of any supporting materials – such as presentation slides, transparencies, or black board notes and figures.
Almost like being there. Except that nobody notices when you fall asleep.
The driving force behind PIRSA is PI faculty member Lucien Hardy, who explains
- “Seminars have always played an important role in propagating knowledge. However, it has been the written rather than the spoken word by which scientific knowledge has been recorded, archived, and passed down. These words were written on paper and archived in libraries.
Now technology has progressed further to the point that we can archive seminars. We have modeled PIRSA on arXiv.org. It is not so much a YouTube for science as it is a video arXiv for seminars. It is designed to be a useful resource for researchers rather than an entertainment channel. A permanent archive of seminars allows researchers to watch presentations they were unable to attend, to revisit them many years after they were recorded, and to cite them in their own work just as they would cite a regular article”
Steve Bradwell from our IT department who has been in charge of the software development adds
- “We believe PIRSA’s success as a global, web based physics archive lies in both the quality of content provided and the accuracy and consistency of the supporting information and media formats. It’s more than just feature rich services, people want consistency and cross platform support. PIRSA offers that.”
The ambitious long term goal would be to establish a general recording and archiving standard that other academical institutions could also use.
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Opportunities for Native Americans to pursue higher education continue to grow, due in part to the federal government's mandate to provide aid and support to tribal colleges and universities. Financial aid and college scholarship opportunities grow each year as well, helping to propel the college enrollment rate of Native Americans well above the national average.
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College scholarships: the American Indian College Fund
Located in Denver, Colorado, the mission of the American Indian College Fund (AICF) is threefold: to spread awareness of the Fund and of tribal colleges and universities; to raise college scholarship funds for American Indian students attending tribal and mainstream colleges; and to raise money for other needs and projects of the tribal schools.
The AICF awards approximately 5,000 college scholarships a year. Monies given to individual schools are used to award Tribal College Scholarships to candidates of each school's choosing. Other undergraduate scholarships are awarded directly from the AICF to American Indian students attending both tribal and mainstream colleges and universities.
College scholarships: the American Indian Graduate Center
Another large source of student scholarships and financial aid for Native Americans is the American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC), which provides monies to both undergraduate and graduate students.
The mission of the AIGC is to improve the cultural and economic wellbeing of American Indians and Native Alaskans both individually and tribally. Their efforts focus on developing educated and forward-thinking leaders who will steer their communities into an era of prosperity, productivity, and self-reliance.
The AIGC, with the generous support of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation Foundation, also administers the All Native American High School Academic Team, a program recognizing Native American/Alaska Native students who demonstrate superior success in academics, leadership, and American Indian community service.
As part of the AIGC's overall mission, this program promotes academic excellence and the pursuit of higher education among Native American and Alaska Native students, with the goal of preparing them for future roles as community leaders and role models. All of the students recognized by this program receive financial awards to pay for the cost of attending the college or university of their choice.
College scholarships: other opportunities
In addition to the AICF and the AIGC, there are several other organizations that provide various student scholarships to Native Americans:
AISES (American Indian Science and Engineering Society)
With the goal of substantially increasing "the representation of American Indian and Alaskan Natives in engineering, science and other related technology disciplines," the AISES awards university scholarships to Native American undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in various areas of engineering and science.
AAIA (Association on American Indian Affairs)
Offers college scholarship opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students demonstrating financial need.
IHS (Indian Health Service)
As an arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the IHS awards university scholarships to pay for the education and training of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students pursuing degrees in health-care related areas.
IRD (Indian Resource Development Program)
Headquartered at New Mexico State University, the IRD awards several college scholarships to students at all levels who are pursuing degrees in various areas of science.
ITC (Intertribal Timber Council)
Dedicated to improving the management of natural resources that are important to Native American communities, the ITC sponsors a variety of different undergraduate scholarships and fellowship opportunities each year.
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|←Author Index: St||Richard Strachey
Lieutenant-General in British army. Colonial administrator in India, supporter of the suffragette movement. R.E., G.C.S.I., LL.D., F.R.S.|
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "R. S."
Articles in Popular Science Monthly
- 1. “Geography and Evolution,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 8, December 1875
- 2. “What Is Known of the Earth,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 33, October 1888
- "STRACHEY, Lt.-Gen. Sir Richard" (1907). Who's Who, 59: pp. 1690-1691.
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Long story short: Bing is Microsoft’s old search engine plus some new features, rebranded and advertised aggressively to try and take search market share from Google.
No, it’s not some new Google-killer startup or a genius’s revolutionary breakthrough in search. It’s just Microsoft putting a new face on old products and distancing themselves from the branding to make it look new.
Before consolidating everything into Bing, Microsoft had two search engines and a bunch of web properties that searched for different things. They’ve now consolidated everything into one interface and renamed it Bing.
Some of the stuff that’s rolled into Bing:
- MSN Search (Microsoft’s original search engine)
- Live Search (an offshoot search engine by Microsoft)
- Farecast – Now Bing Travel – (airfare prediction and booking engine)
- Medstory – Now Bing Health – (health-based search)
- Jellyfish.com – Now Bing Shopping – (shopping comparison)
Not Much Has Changed
For search engine optimization purposes it’s business as usual for Microsoft search. Your MSN ranking will transfer pretty much untouched onto Bing, with no extra work required to keep your website ranking well.
But that’s not to say that a Bing ranking will get you very far. According to Hitwise, in June Bing managed a 5.25% piece of the search market share pie, and comScore clocked Bing in at around 12% immediately following their launch at the beginning of the month.
Compare those numbers with Google’s consistent 65% to 75% market share, and a Google killer Bing is not.
Microsoft would like you to think different, however, with a $100 million dollar advertising campaign designed to get you to abandon Google:
But the the guys over at CollegeHumor did a hilarious job of cutting through Microsoft’s messaging with this edited version of a Bing ad.
Bing: the best way to Google!
So will you be switching to Bing?
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By Deidre Williams
News Staff Reporter
In the event of a disaster, a properly trained community is a surviving community.
That’s the driving principle behind the Community Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Project organized by the United Black Men’s Think Tank of Buffalo.
It connects Masten District residents with nearby block clubs and churches to provide emergency management guidance after disasters big and small, natural or man-made.
“This is a systematic way for people to know where to go if something happens,” said Bernadine J. Kennedy, the management consultant and event planner who will serve as the project’s program manager. She developed the idea of joining churches with block clubs to form a cohesive bond with Masten District residents.
The project will be launched at an informational meeting for block club representatives from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Delavan-Grider Community Center, 877 E. Delavan Ave.
Masten Council Member Demone Smith and United Black Men’s Think Tank of Buffalo partnered with representatives from more than 25 churches and faith-based organizations to organize the project.
The system works like this: Each of the 101 block clubs in Masten selects a representative to be the disaster coordinator. The coordinators then are assigned to one of the 25 churches in close proximity to their respective block clubs.
The faith-based groups will serve as emergency management training centers and will become repositories of the kinds of things people need when disaster strikes. They will store bottled water, batteries, candles, blankets, toiletries and dry goods. To pay for the items, churches are asked to collect special offerings twice a month, so the effort becomes self-sustaining.
“The thought process was to work with churches and make them a hub,” and the block clubs around the churches will act as “spokes of the hub,” said L. Nathan Hare, acting director of the Think Tank and executive director of the Community Action Organization of Erie County.
When an emergency occurs, residents reach out to their block club representatives, who notify their respective churches, which also will provide the “spiritual guidance often needed to help people cope with misfortune and loss,” said the Rev. James A. Lewis, spiritual adviser of the Think Tank. The emergencies can include natural disasters like floods, tornadoes, hurricanes or blizzards. They can also involve other, more personal crises like homicides, other untimely deaths and unforeseen job loss that can be devastating for a family.
The Think Tank, which meets the first and third Saturdays of each month, is not a service provider focused on one issue. Rather, it is a catalyst for the men to analyze various issues and come up with ideas to address them, Hare said.
For now, the CDEPP project focuses primarily on Masten District residents, churches and block clubs, but once the plan is completed, it can be implemented in other parts of the city and county.
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The answer is still largely speculative, of course, but it goes to the heart of several interesting controversies about the distinctions between microevolution (changes within and between breeding populations over time) and macroevolution (the rise and fall of identifiable species). Is the questioner interested in whether changes will take place in Homo sapiens or whether new Homo species will appear? For example, geographic isolation is one of the traditional mechanisms invoked for triggering the rise of new species; some experts therefore flatly say that human evolution has ended because in the modern world, no one is really isolated from the rest of humanity. And depending on how it might be applied, culture and technology could either isolate some people from others, or it could help to renormalize them to the rest.
Meredith F. Small, associate professor in the anthropology department at Cornell University, offers one perspective:
"First of all, humans haven't really changed the rules of natural selection. We might think that because we have culture--and with it all kinds of medical interventions and technologies--that we are immune from natural selection, but nature proceeds as usual. Evolution is defined as a change in gene frequencies over time, which means that over generations, there will be changes in the gene pool, and humans experience those changes as much as any other organism. Some people live and some people die, and some people pass on more genes than others. Therefore, there is a change in the human gene pool over time.
"But we might suggest that with all that cultural and technological intervention that there would be some kind of influence in the composition of the gene pool, and there is. Take smallpox, for an example. Years ago millions of people died from smallpox, and their genes were not passed on because many of them died before reproductive age. The human gene pool was then missing the genes of those people. But now, since smallpox has been wiped off the planet, people who normally died of the disease now live, probably have children, and thus contribute to the human gene pool. In another example, the birth rate always goes down the more developed, and economically affluent, countries become. Today the highest birth rates are in Latin America, Africa and Asia. People in these places are now the major contributors to the human gene pool. In many generations, the human species will be more composed of genes from those groups than from developed countries.
"And so culture, development and medicine might change the tenor of the human gene pool, but they do not take away the force of evolution, the force of change. Also, keep in mind that culture may not seem a 'natural' force, but because it is part of our environment, it is just as natural as disease, weather or food resources. We in developed nations may think we are immune from natural selection because we are so surrounded by material goods and high technology, but this immunity is an illusion. Technology protects us from nothing, and medicine surely hasn't cured all the diseases--just ask the people in Nebraska near the Red River what they think!
"We in developed nations are more comfortable, but we still die, and we still contribute differentially to future generations. And most important, we have to realize that the developed-nation view of the human species is a very narrow take on humanity. The majority of the human population does not live like this; more than half the people on the earth have never spoken on a telephone.
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Whenever we plan to build our new home we start searching for the materials that will first strengthen the new dwelling and then the products and amenities that will make up for the home décor. There is nothing wrong with this approach as, after all, we will have to live in the newly constructed house ourselves. However the builder of a 90-year-old mansion on the outskirts of Cambria, California, didn’t think likewise and opted to build a mansion not from materials conventionally used for building, but actually made it from trash.
Built by Arthur Harold Beal, who was a local trash hauler and obviously loved all things rubbish, the mansion uses trash of all types and took 50 years to complete. The project started in 1928 with Beal using a shovel and a pickaxe. He dug a 2.5 acre hollow on the hillside in Cambria and filled it with trash. Over the course of the next few years he made terraced gardens, stone arches, buildings, fountains and walkways.
The structure stands three-stories tall and is made using shells, used rocks, beer cans, car parts, old stoves, washer drums and tiles. Oddity Central writes that the builder dies in 1992 and his ashes were spread around the site. The house now belongs to Michael and Stacy O’Malley, who just like the builder, are equally enthusiastic about the place and conduct tours of the house and gardens by appointment.
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Journalists in prison as of December 1, 2010
Saudi Arabia: 1
Raafat al-Ghanim, freelance
Imprisoned: July 29, 2009
Security agents arrested al-Ghanim, 26, a Syrian blogger living in Saudi Arabia who wrote critically about social and political issues in both countries, according to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information. He was held incommunicado for 50 days before being transferred to Al-Hair Prison, according to a website advocating for his release. No formal charges had been disclosed by late year.
Before his arrest, al-Ghanim had signed a petition calling for the release of two activists arrested after announcing their intention to attend a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, according to the human rights network. In March 2010, a group of Syrian human rights organizations issued a statement calling for his release. The government has refused to disclose details about his legal status.
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LONDON – 18 February, 2010 - As the population swells and clusters increasingly in urban centers, appetites for personal convenience surge and the environment suffers. The increasingly urgent need to address consequent issues, and especially the pressing need to mitigate climate change, have fueled interest in alternative transportation modes. One of the most innovative and promising of these is car sharing, a personal transportation solution based on shared, self-service, on-demand, pay-as-you-use, short-term vehicle usage. This form of car rental slashes the fixed costs of vehicle ownership, curbs fuel costs, reduces vehicle congestion and emissions, and, importantly, provides a solid platform for the growth and acceptance of EVs.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.automotive.frost.com), Sustainable and Innovative Personal Transport Solutions - Strategic Analysis of Car sharing Market in Europe, finds that the market earned revenues of €217.00 million Euros in 2009 and estimates this to reach €7.00 billion Euros by 2020 mainly due to the emergence of new initiatives such as integrated mobility solutions, cars-on-demand, peer-to-peer car sharing, and the consumer trend towards low carbon mobility.
"The introduction of these innovative services and increasing commercialisation, car sharing is expected to garner more than 5.5 million members sharing around 77,000 vehicles in Europe by 2016," predicts Aswin Kumar, Senior Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan's Automotive & Transportation Group.
With its support of the Paris Autolib' scheme, the French Government is spearheading crucial federal-level support for car sharing schemes and is one of the major proposals integrating EVs in car sharing. Frost & Sullivan estimates that from 2012, one in three new vehicle additions in car sharing in Europe will be a battery operated EV, while by 2016, one in five car sharing vehicles will be a battery operated EV.
Vehicle Manufacturers (VMs) are bracing themselves for the inevitable threat presented by car sharing schemes by transforming themselves into service providers offering integrated mobility solutions. Major VMs like Peugeot and Daimler are unveiling integrated mobility on-demand solutions and using car sharing both as a branding exercise and also to determine consumer perceptions and attitudes towards their vehicles.
Car sharing has an estimated revenue potential of more than €2.6 billion by 2016 and the potential to replace more than 1 million vehicles by 2016 in Europe alone. "With the integration of EVs and carpooling services into the market, the market is expected to transform as a key sustainable mobility solution for European consumers," argues Kumar. France and the United Kingdom will likely be the high growth markets thanks to efficient mobility management solutions and strong federal support in mainstreaming car sharing services. "New services, new target groups, integration with other operators and solutions, innovative marketing strategies using Web2.0 and geographic diversity are likely to provide major competitive edge and are necessary to ensure that car sharing does not remain only as an urban niche phenomenon," concludes Kumar.
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Within the first quarter of 2009, the Obama Administration and
the 111th Congress have advanced a number of policies that will
undermine family and religious freedom in America. Together they
show a serious disregard for parental rights, human dignity,
freedom of conscience, and civil society in American life.
In these difficult economic times, policymakers should recognize
and empower the vast resources of family, religious institutions,
and civil society. Instead, Congress and the Administration have
systematically promoted policies that debilitate the protective and
problem-solving capacity of these fundamental institutions.
Undermining Family, Faith, and
1. Discouraging Charitable Giving. Even as charities
struggle to make ends meet during the economic recession, the
President's budget would reduce the amount higher earners can
deduct from their income taxes for their charitable giving.
Faith-based ministries and other non-profits serving the public
good are dependent on the generosity of others through charitable
giving. Individuals targeted by this proposed policy are some of
the most significant supporters of these charitable causes. The
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University estimates that
households with the highest incomes will reduce their giving
annually by 4.8 percent, or $3.87 billion, in response to this
2. Blocking Educational Opportunity for Low-Income D.C.
Students. Due to a devastating policy included in the omnibus
bill, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program is in danger of
ending after the 2009-2010 school year. Since 2004, this program
has provided approximately 3,700 scholarships worth $7,500 each for
low-income children to attend safe and effective private schools of
their choice. Evaluations show that parents are very pleased and
test scores are moving in the right direction, with students
regaining lost ground.
President Obama has made a smart choice in sending his daughters
to private school rather than the D.C. public schools. Low-income
parents should have the same opportunity to choose safe and
effective schools for their children.
3. Reducing Abstinence Education. The omnibus bill
reduces spending on the Community Based Abstinence Education
program by $13 million while increasing family planning funding by
A Heritage Foundation report indicates that the government
spends $12 to promote contraception and safe-sex education for
every dollar spent to encourage abstinence. Evidence shows that
abstinent teens report better psychological well-being and higher
academic achievement while avoiding risky behaviors.
Further, a 2004 Zogby poll revealed that 96 percent of parents want
teens to be taught that abstinence is the best option.
4. Rolling Back Conscience Protections for Health Care
Professionals. The Obama Administration has announced plans to
eliminate a regulation that protects the conscience rights of
doctors and other health professionals who object to participating
in controversial procedures such as abortion or sterilization. 87
percent of respondents to a March 2009 poll believe it is important
to "make sure that health care professionals are not forced to
participate in procedures and practices to which they have moral
5. Subsidizing Planned Parenthood. The omnibus bill
includes a provision that increases the profits of Planned
Parenthood and manufacturers of contraceptives.
Under Medicaid, drug companies are required to pay rebates to
the Medicaid program. Certain sales offered at discounts can be
excluded from the calculation of the "best price," reducing the
rebate owed to Medicaid. The omnibus bill expands the exclusion to
cover discounted sales of contraceptives through additional family
planning clinics. The result is that drug companies can sell
contraceptives at deeply discounted prices, and these lower prices
increase profits for the clinics that resell them.
Ironically, while forfeiting higher rebates from the sale of
these contraceptives, the President's budget proposes to increase
other drug rebates.
6. Restricting Parental Notification and Expanding Family
Planning. The President's budget seeks to expand family
planning services through Medicaid.
Initially proposed as part of the stimulus bill, this provision
was eliminated after attracting negative attention. Now back as a
part of the budget, the proposal would likely allow states to
disregard the income of an applicant or recipient for family
planning under Medicaid. This would allow a child--no matter what
his or her family's income level--to be eligible for free family
planning services without parental notification.
In addition, the proposal would supersede current law and would
likely not allow states to provide coverage without including
family planning services.
7. Using Tax Dollars to Finance Abortion Abroad. On
January 23, the President overturned a policy that prohibited the
use of U.S. tax dollars for family planning organizations that
provide abortions and abortion counseling overseas. 58 percent of
Americans disapprove of this decision by the Obama Administration,
according to a February 2009 USA Today/Gallup poll.
U.S. taxpayers should not have to pay to export this
controversial practice abroad, where it serves as poor public
diplomacy for the nation's commitment to life and liberty.
8. Taxpayer Funding for Controversial, Unproven Embryonic
Stem Cell Research. President Obama issued an executive order
authorizing federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
It also repeals a 2007 executive order that encouraged the National
Institutes of Health to explore alternatives to embryonic stem cell
research that do not involve destroying a human embryo.
While advocates of embryonic stem cell research discuss the
potential cures, many medical advances have already been achieved
by ethically sound, alternative stem cell research.
9. Violating Religious Groups' Equal Access on College
Campuses. The stimulus package offers funds for the renovation
of colleges and universities. These funds are prohibited, however,
from use in the renovation of facilities used for gatherings like
religious worship or sectarian instruction. This provision can be
interpreted broadly enough to keep groups such as the Catholic
Students Association or the Fellowship of Christian Athletes from
meeting in buildings renovated with these funds.
10. Rolling Back Successful Welfare Reform. The stimulus
package undermines the fiscal incentive structure that drove
national welfare reform.
The 1996 reform rewarded states for decreasing their caseloads
and putting people into jobs. As a result, the number of welfare
caseloads shrunk by more than 60 percent, and child poverty fell by
1.6 million. The stimulus bill moves in the opposite direction,
creating a new $5 billion cash welfare program that pays states
when their caseloads rise. This new program gives states an
incentive to grow their rolls, decreasing their motivation to move
people into jobs and self-sufficiency.
11. Expanding Dependence on Government. The stimulus
package combined with the omnibus bill and the President's budget
represents a massive expansion of overall welfare spending. The
stimulus bill alone will add nearly $800 billion in new spending
over the next 10 years on programs like food stamps, government
housing, and Medicaid. Significant changes to Medicaid and
SCHIP--programs intended for low-income Americans--have extended
eligibility to families well into the middle class, costing
taxpayers an extra $25 billion over 10 years.
12. Leaving a Legacy of Debt to Future Generations. Since
its start in January, the 111th Congress has already spent more
than $2 trillion in response to the recession, and that figure
could go much higher, incurring an enormous debt that will have to
paid by future generations. The stimulus package alone represents
an added debt burden of $9,400 per household in America.
These 12 policies represent a troubling new direction in social
policy. They will leave Americans less equipped to provide for
themselves and their neighbors in the midst of trying times.
Policymakers can ensure America's social welfare, economic
stability, and capacity to lead in the world by pursuing policies
that encourage stable family formation; show respect for parental
rights, conscience, and the role of religious institutions; and
create positive incentives for work, thrift, and private
initiative. In the first quarter of 2009, the Administration and
Congress have pursued policies that move in the opposite
A. Marshall is Director of and Katherine Bradley is Research
Fellow in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil
Society at The Heritage Foundation.
David Prentice, William L. Saunders, Jan
Ledochowski, and Lukas Lucenic, "Adult Stem Cell Success
Stories--2008 Update: July-December," Family Research Council,
January 12, 2009, at http://downloads.frc.org
/EF/EF09A32.pdf (April 2, 2009).
Brian M. Riedl, "Obama Budget Would Double
the National Debt," Heritage Foundation Commentary, March
24, 2009, at http://www.heritage.org/press/commentary/ed032409e.cfm.
This total was calculated by dividing the stimulus bill's cost
($787 billion, plus approximately $324 billion in net interest
costs) by the estimated 118 million U.S. households.
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Provides a comparative look at several of the major political and intellectual revolutions that transformed the West from an unimportant corner of the world in 1500, to a major site of world economic and cultural power. Covers the Scientific, American, French, and Russian Revolutions, as well as others.
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