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[Numpy-discussion] Indexing a masked array with another masked array leads to unexpected results
Fri Nov 4 11:28:01 CDT 2011
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Pierre GM <email@example.com> wrote:
> On Nov 03, 2011, at 23:07 , Joe Kington wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is exactly a bug, per se, but it's a very confusing
> consequence of the current design of masked arrays…
> I would just add a "I think" between the "but" and "it's" before I could
> > Consider the following example:
> > import numpy as np
> > x = np.ma.masked_all(10, dtype=np.float32)
> > print x
> > x[x > 0] = 5
> > print x
> > The exact results will vary depending the contents of the empty memory
> the array was initialized from.
> Not a surprise. But isn't mentioned in the doc somewhere that using a
> masked array as index is a very bad idea ? And that you should always fill
> it before you use it as an array ? (Actually, using a MaskedArray as index
> used to raise an IndexError. But I thought it was a bit too harsh, so I
> dropped it).
Not that I can find in the docs (Perhaps I just missed it?). At any rate,
it's not mentioned in the numpy.ma section on indexing:
The only mention of it is a comment in MaskedArray.__setitem__ where the
IndexError is commented out.
> ma.masked_all is an empty array with all its elements masked. Ie, you have
> an uninitialized ndarray as data, and a bool array of the same size, full
> of True. The operative word is here "uninitialized".
> > This wreaks havoc when filtering the contents of masked arrays (and
> leads to hard-to-find bugs!). The mask of the array in question is altered
> at random (or, rather, based on the masked values as well as the masked
> Once again, you're working on an *uninitialized* array. What you should
> really do is to initialize it first, e.g. by 0, or whatever would make
> sense in your field, and then work from that.
Sure, I shouldn't have used that as the example.
My point was that it's counter-intuitive that something like "x[x > 0] = 0"
alters the mask of x based on the values of _masked_ elements. How it's
initialized is irrelevant (though, of course, it wouldn't be semi-random if
it were initialized in another way).
> > I can see the reasoning behind the way it works. It makes sense that "x
> > 0" returns a masked boolean array with potentially several elements
> masked, as well as the unmasked elements greater than 0.
> Well, "x > 0" is also a masked array, with its mask full of True. Not very
> usable by itself, and especially *not* for indexing.
> > However, wouldn't it make more sense to have MaskedArray.__setitem__
> only operate on the unmasked elements of the "indx" passed in (at least in
> the case where the assigned "value" isn't a masked array)?
> Normally, that should be the case. But you're not working in "normal"
> conditions, here. A bit like trying to boil water on a stove with a plastic
"x[x > threshold] = something" is a very common idiom for ndarrays.
I think most people would find it surprising that this operation doesn't
ignore the masked values.
I noticed this because one of my coworkers was complaining that a piece of
my code was "messing up" their masked arrays. I'd never tested it with
masked arrays, but it took me ages to find, just because I wasn't looking
in places where I was just using common idioms. In this particular case,
they'd initialized it with "masked_all", so it effectively altered the mask
of the array at random. Regardless of how it was initialized, though, it
is surprising that the mask of "x" is changed based on masked values.
I just think it would be useful for it to be documented.
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Forecasts by analysts promise anything from 12bn to 50bn devices connected by 2020, up from just 1bn in 2010. Machina Research, an analyst, predicts revenue of €714bn (US$948bn) by 2020, including hardware and connectivity, a nearly eight-fold increase from €91bn (US$121bn) in 2010. Although such forecasts can sometimes prove to be overly optimistic, they are whetting the appetite of many eager participants.
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Banning bags a small step with a big message | Letter | Feb. 3
February 2, 2012 · 3:49 PM
“Necessity is the mother of invention” was coined millennia ago, but I challenge proposed plastic bag ban naysayers to apply this wise adage to their home habits.
The precept’s goal is to ensure a future where less economically advantaged nations and our oceans’ sea life are not being strangled by this planet’s current overuse of lightweight plastic carriers.
My grandmother, who grew up on a turn-of-the-century family farm in Missouri and raised her own family during the Great Depression, taught me as a child the value of making do with what is often considered garbage.
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It’s sort of strange to read that The Study of English is a fairly new concept. I guess I always assumed that English was always right up there with Math, Science, History, and everything else. I assumed it had always been like that. I never even questioned it. But, to think it wasn’t even established until after WWI is pretty shocking to me. I’m also pretty shocked that originally people who graduated with the first “English” degrees actually had degrees in Language because it was thought that an English degree wasn’t strong enough to hold on it’s own. It’s crazy how much has changed in the past century. It went from being a debatable topic to one of the most important topics of study. I remember being in school and always being pushed to do my best on English and Mathematics. Even throughout high school, every year, you were required to take both of those.Those two were always the most important, and I can’t believe that less than a century ago it couldn’t even hold a degree on it’s own. It’s sort of amazing how it evolved over the century. I, of course, am glad that it did. I have always loved English and I couldn’t imagine it not being an option of study. Also, I love how it became a source of salvation for the people during the war. To think that something as ugly as war could produce something as beautiful as the new appreciation for the study of English Literature is pretty amazing.
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Now it's not clear if he's going to be able to speak. He's been uninvited from the University of St. Thomas, where Peace Jam is scheduled to take place.
Tutu was uninvited because of this:
The mention of Hitler in the speech comes during a section in which Tutu urged the audience not to assume that the status quo lasts forever, and in which he urged those listening to challenge to “Jewish lobby” in the United States. “People are scared in this country [U.S.], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful, very powerful. Well, so what? This is God‘s world. For goodness sake, this is God‘s world. We live in a moral universe. The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end, they bit the dust.”I'd be REALLY bummed if the students did not get to meet Tutu. But as a Jewish person with extremely conflicted feelings toward Israel, I'm finding this very hard to discuss with my students.
I am in complete agreement with Tutu (aside from his equating the pro-Israel lobby with the "Jewish lobby"). I find it to be a serious problem the way all conversation shuts down the moment it heads toward a certain comparison. I was once at a training session with a horrible organization called "The David Project" whose mission is to teach adults to work with students to reframe Israel as "David" and the Palestinians as "Goliath," rather than the other way around. At the training they went over how to teach students the "red lines" when it comes to discussing Israel, and what to do when another student crosses the line. Needless to say, one of those lines is any comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany. I was repulsed and offended by their curriculum.
So I support Tutu and oppose his St. Thomas ban on many levels, personal and professional. But when it came up in class today, I became very defensive.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the other day a student at my school called a (non-Jewish) teacher a "fucking Jew," or that the kids have been known to use the phrase "That's so Jewish" (part of the South Park Syndrome). For some unknown reason, this brings out my defensive pro-Israel reflex.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Fred Gorell
News Releases 2005
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has selected Okeanos Explorer as the name for its newest deep ocean exploration vessel. Okeanos is the ancient Greek term for ocean. The winning name was submitted by a team of students from Woodstock High School in Woodstock, Ill. and was one of nearly 400 entries received in a nationwide contest.
vessel, formerly the USNS Capable, was transferred from the
U.S. Navy to NOAA last September. It will be equipped for ocean mapping,
deployment of unmanned submersibles, scientific work in onboard laboratories
and real-time transmission of images and data collected during ocean
On May 31, Lautenbacher and the director of NOAA’s Marine and Aviation Operations, Rear Admiral Samuel P. De Bow, Jr., will visit Woodstock High School to congratulate the winning team and meet with earth science students.
Marianne Jahnke, a Woodstock science teacher, supervised the team of five students that proposed the winning name and developed an associated education project. “We believe Okeanos Explorer represents NOAA’s spirit toward exploration,” said Jahnke. The opportunity to name a ship in NOAA’s fleet is a great honor for our team and our school. It’s a challenge in the Midwest, but I’m always fighting to put oceanography in the curriculum, especially because we are far from the ocean.”
The student team presented its education project to a fourth grade class at Westwood Elementary School in Woodstock. “We prepared a mural of a continental margin and the ocean,” said Woodstock senior Eric Hunt, who led the team. We used it to explain how NOAA conducts research and gathers data about the oceans and the atmosphere.”
Woodstock freshman Ashley Pauls introduced the activity to the fourth graders, including individual coloring pages of sea life. “The children colored in the drawings of sea life organisms, cut them out and placed them on the mural where they thought they would live,” said Pauls. The Woodstock winning team also included junior Stephen Shepley, sophomore Elizabeth Gazdziak and freshman John Dew.
The Woodstock team will visit with a renowned ocean explorer and tour a NOAA facility. News releases will be issued locally and nationally and a nationwide radio spot will be aired to recognize the team and school. Woodstock High School will also receive a recognition plaque, and the Okeanos Explorer will carry a plaque with information about the winning team and school.
Okeanos Explorer will be operated by NMAO’s commissioned officers of the NOAA Corps and civilians, in support of NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration. The Corps is composed of officers -- all scientists and engineers - who provide operational, management and technical skills supporting NOAA's environmental programs.
Though far from Okeanos Explorer, scientists ashore will be full members of the science team, operating in science command centers, exchanging data and analyzing real time deep-ocean images taken by remotely operated vehicles on the ocean floor. High-speed satellite to Internet pathways will also offer exciting educational opportunities to raise ocean literacy.
In partnership with Coastal America and the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, NOAA announced the nationwide contest In October 2004, for teams of students in grades 6-12.
NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and providing environmental stewardship of our nation’s coastal and marine resources.
On the Web:
NOAA ocean exploration: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov
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Did you know there are benefits of being a quitter? Many women are afraid to walk away from something they have invested a lot of energy and time in, even if the job, relationship, or activity isn't making them happy.
However, taking a risk and setting forth on new ventures often pays off in the long run. Many people who "stick it out" in a bad job, dysfunctional relationship, or activity they hate eventually hit a brick wall and struggle to recover. Whereas people who quit early have a higher chance of discovering something or someone that they love and that makes them happy. Do you buy into this?
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Publicity 101 for Colleges
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There’s a crisis of federalism happening in Colorado and Washington state since both states voted this month for moving toward marijuana legalization. Possession of less than an ounce of marijuana in Denver would be legal at the state level but illegal at the federal level, and nobody is sure what exactly that means.
The Post, in an editorial today, quickly dismisses the options of nullifying the federal law and sending federal agencies after legal-in-that-state tokers. Instead, the editorial board proposes a plausible-deniability, unofficial sanction of the state regulations — no big rule change, just a shift of priorities, much like the Justice Department’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act while essentially waiting for the courts to strike it down.
As can be expected, most of our commenters find this essentially wussy, an unnecessary contortion on the way to fuller, national legalization that everyone sees coming in the years ahead.
FergusonFoont says the only legal problem with marijuana is where it’s illegal:
The reason that marijuana is illegal today is that it has been illegal for a while. There is no actual reason worthy of the name for its continued illegality. The laws against it damage more lives than its sale, possession and use ever could, even in theory, and they introduce into its market the aspect of violence, and its undeserved reputation as a “gateway drug,” that would be utterly eliminated by its legality.
aahpat sees marijuana legislation at the root of bigger political issues and says politicians need to pay attention because pot is more popular than they are, even when they win:
Keeping pot illegal keeps millions of poor and/or minority Americans in prison and out of the polling booth.
Keeping drugs illegal is a very effective act of economic warfare being waged by the Jim Crow conservative white population upon the poor and minorities of America. Richard Nixon and the Dixie-crats knew this when they colluded to create the Jim Crow Drug War in 1971. It siphons countless billions of dollars in economic vitality out of these communities while at the same time criminally disenfranchising enough members of the community to neutralize the electoral empowerment effects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Consider, in 2008, Massachusetts gave more than 65% of its votes to a pot reform initiative while giving only Barack Obama 62%.
Also in 2008 there were more than 55 million pot smokers in America. More than 18% of the United States population.
In Colorado this year Obama received 50% of the vote. Pot legalization received 53.3%.
scientist1 says any foot-dragging along the path to legalization emboldens people who have been deceiving us all this time:
This editorial is OK as far as it goes, but it studiously avoids the central issues. The War on Drugs is a political campaign, the most important weapon in the culture war of the last fifty years. It should be viewed — and attacked — as such.
The campaign of falsehoods and distortions about cannabis is closely related to the anti-scientific falsehoods being promulgated in particular by Rs with respect to global warming, evolution,and other issues.
Concern for sobriety must be balanced with a concern for the fundamental freedoms of the citizen. The Republicans don’t get this. The Democrats don’t get this. The Washington Post doesn’t get this.
As a result, the Beltway will continue to be surprised by the inexorability of the drive to restore freedom to the citizenry of this country. The go-slow approach advocated by the Post is a failure. The admin should move to reclassify cannabis immediately.
maddog420 has a very good reason this is an urgent concern:
Until cannabis is rescheduled, human clinical trials cannot happen. This is immoral, unethical, and unconscionable. The AMA says it is medicine. 6000 years of anecdotal evidence says it’s medicine. Shame on you, DHHS, FDA and DOJ. Quit practicing medicine without a license. Arrest suffering not patients!
But PostScript doesn’t think that’s true — she finds human clinical trials happening in America — but it looks like they have to be through the National Institutes of Health and/or National Institute on Drug Abuse, and so are subject to high regulation.
PamDB sees this as an opportunity for local farmers:
Grow local and put the Mexican drug operations out of business.
ticked hopes a whole industry will develop around American weed:
Imagine a new USA market- gourmet marijuana . . . grown in the USA and exported to the world.
Replacing the 40+ year failed drug war insanity and incarceration of American citizens and hundreds of thousands around the world killed and over $2 trillion wasted we could become the largest exporter of gourmet marijuana and employ millions and bring in untold amounts of tax dollars...
There is NO DOWNSIDE to legalized and regulated marijuana!
ffrey63 just has to rain on everyone’s local, gourmet, economy-boosting utopian parade:
Well, thanks to Colorado, big pharma will now be able to sell marijuana too — or do you think that they will stay out of it out of the goodness of their hearts?
So chalk it up as another point on the GDP.
PostScript has had some pretty wild dreams while hopped up on antihistamines, so she’s not excessively bothered by giving marijuana to Big Pharma. They’re doing fine with Benadryl and L-tryptophan, after all.
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Osoyoos, An Oasis in The Desert.
desert extends past Osoyoos Lake to Skaha Lake, and west up the
Similkameen Valley towards Keremeos, approximately 24 km. (15 miles).
Talked About - Osoyoos Weather!
Official weather readings have only been taken in Osoyoos since 1990.
It Never Rains In Osoyoos!
temperatures during the summer months average around 38C/100F and dropping
to 16C/60F at night.
Spring greets Osoyoos with orchards in full bloom. Blossoms of peach, apricot, cherry, plum, pear and apple trees spill over the valley hillsides in drifts of pink and white petals. The first orchards were planted in the early 1900's and it was soon discovered that the area could produce excellent fruit. Osoyoos harvests the earliest fruit and vegetables in all of British Columbia and Canada. Crops grown in the Osoyoos area are harvested 10 to 14 days earlier than the more northern growing areas of the Okanagan Valley. In a good year, ground crop farmers can get three excellent crops of vegetables grown, harvested and sent to market.
Osoyoos area fruit trees are in bloom from the end of March thru the 3rd week in April
Wine Industry: While History tells us that grapes have been grown in the South Okanagan as far back as the late 1800's, it's only recently that the 100 miles of the Okanagan Valley have gained international attention, as a world-class wine production area. More than 3000 acres are currently under cultivation, producing premium grape varieties. More vineyards are being added each season. The arid climate, with sunny days and cold nights, is ideal for the wine industry, and today on Highway 97, south of Okanagan Falls, more than 20 picturesque wineries produce a wide variety of wines, and welcome you to their tasting rooms. The Annual Fall Okanagan Wine Festival presents more than 100 events for you to enjoy, including winery tours and sample tasting.
Osoyoos: (we pronounce it "oh-sue-use") is a native word meaning the narrowing of the Lake. These 'narrows' are visible from the bridge on Highway # 3 east, and from "The Spit" along East Lakeshore Drive (Campground Row).
Osoyoos Lake is Canada's warmest fresh water lake, with summer water temperatures reaching 75F (24C). In spring and fall, the lake provides excellent fishing for bass and rainbow trout.
The population of Osoyoos according to the 2009 census is just over 5000. The area population probably accounts for another 3000 - 4000 people.
Osoyoos is a full-service community, with Schools, Churches, and Recreation Facilities. Medical and dental needs are met locally, and the South Okanagan General Hospital is in Oliver, a short 12 miles / 20 km away.
Osoyoos Residents and visitors enjoy skiing on Mt. Baldy or at Apex. There's an international curling club, ice arena and bowling lanes. Golfers enjoy superb facilities from early spring right through until November. Osoyoos golf courses are among the first Valley courses to open in March and the last to close in November.
Osoyoos has gained recognition as a retirement community thanks to short winters and hot dry summers. The Senior Citizens have an energetic organization and offer a wide variety of activities in the Senior's Centre at the foot of Main Street.
Banks, Credit Unions, shops and services are all well represented in the community, and a walk along Main Street provides a wide variety of businesses to fill all your needs.
During the summer months, Osoyoos is a busy and very popular tourist destination, however throughout the rest of the year, residents enjoy all the benefits of small town life: slower pace, friendly neighborhoods, and community events that invite your participation.
Osoyoos - Sunshine and Fine Wine!
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Rationale: To begin to learn how to read and spell words, students need alphabetic lessons that teach them to understand that letters stand for phonemes and spellings show phonemes in spoken words. Before they can achieve that, they have to be able to distinguish phonemes in spoken words. Short vowels are usually what a beginning reader should begin with because they are the hardest to grasp. This lesson will help children identify /a/ or short a. They will be able to recognize /a/ in spoken words by learning a significant representation and a letter symbol, as well as finding /a/ in words.
-chart with "Matt sat by fat apples that ran from Pat"
-drawing paper and crayons
-A Cat Nap (Educational Insight)
-picture page with at, hat, sack, fat, class, fast, mask (Modern Press Phonics, Level A)
1. Introduce the lesson by explaining that our written language is a secret code. The hard part to understand is what letters stand for and how the mouth moves we make as we say words. "Today we are going to work on spotting the mouth move /a/. at first /a/ will be difficult to understand, but with practice and as you get to know it, you will be able to spot /a/ in all kinds of words."
2. Ask students, "Have you ever seen "Home Alone" where Kevin was left alone and scared?" "When someone screams can you hear /a/?" "That’s the mouth move we're looking for in words. Let's pretend we're scared and make the sound /a/. (Put your hands to your face and look scared, and make the sound /a/) We scream when we are scared. Pretend you are scared: /a/."
3. "Let's try a tongue twister (on chart). Matt sat by fat apples that ran from Pat. Everybody say it three times together. Now say it again, and this time stretch the /a/ sound. Maaaat saaaat by faaaat aaaaples thaaat raaan from Paaat. Try it again, and this time break up the words. M/a/tt s/a/t by f/a/t a/pples th/a/t r/a/n from P/a/t."
4. (Have students take out primary paper and pencil.) "We can use letter /a/ to spell /a/. Let's write it. Start below the fence and draw a half circle down the sidewalk, pick up your pencil and draw a line closing the circle from the fence down to the sidewalk. I want to see everybody's /a/. After I put a smile on it, I want you to make nine more just like it. When you see the letter a all by itself in a word, that’s the signal to say /a/."
5. Say: "Let me show you how to find /a/ in the word fast. I'm going to stretch fast out in super slow motion and listen for the scared sound. F-f-f-f-a-a-s-t. (Repeat a few times) There it is! I do hear the scared sound /a/ in fast."
6. Say: "Call on students to answer and tell how they knew: Do you hear /a/ in fast or slow? Sat or sit? Ran or walk? Man or boy? (Pass out a card to each student) Say: Let's see if you can spot the mouth move /a/ in some words. Make a scared face if you hear /a/. It, bat, sit, sack, fat, up, master, tall, lab."
7. Say: "Tab is a very fat cat. Tab naps a lot. Sam plays baseball and finds something in his bag." Read A Cat Nap and talk about the story. Read it again, and have students raise their hands when they hear the words with the sound /a/. List their words on the board. Then have each student draw a submarine and write a message about it using invented spelling. Then display their work.
Assessment: Distribute the picture page and help students name each picture. Ask each student to circle the pictures whose names have /a/.
Murray, Bruce. How to Teach Letterbox Lessons (Reading Genie website)
Educational Insights 1990.
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Originally Posted by melgross
Android isn't considered to be "sticky", because other than the cost of the phone, Android users buy almost no apps. Almost of the apps they do get, and it's a lot fewer than iOS users, are free
I think there's more to it than that, platform stickiness due to applications wasn't the primary problem for Apple gaining desktop market-share back in the 90s. The problem was that Windows had a really strong network-effect, and became in effect a natural monopoly.
Mobile doesn't seem to be going the same way, data level compatibility between devices is high - the same music, books, video etc are for the most part available on each. Apps of course are not, but we're unlikely to see a single 'killer app' like Office that makes a particular mobile platform the one you MUST own.
Even if Android does turn out to have some stickiness from the supplied Google Apps, it still doesn't mean that Apple faces an existential threat due to their burgeoning market-share.
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ACCOUNTING TERMS - ACCOUNTING DICTIONARY - ACCOUNTING GLOSSARY
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IMPUTED COSTS Definition
IMPUTED COSTS refer to the cost of an asset, service, or company that is not physically recorded in any accounts but is implicit in the product.
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PRIOR PERIOD refers to accounting periods that have occurred in the past. See also ACCOUNTING PERIOD.
AUDIT EVIDENCE includes written and electronic information (such as checks, records of electronic fund transfers, invoices, contracts, and other information) that permits the auditor to reach conclusions through reasoning.
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Allah’s Inspiration To Every Man: Conscience
Conscience is a spiritual quality that bids man good attitude and thought, and helps him think straight and tell right from wrong.
That conscience is an inspiration from Allah is mentioned in the Qur'an, in Surat ash-Shams:
And the self and what proportioned it and inspired it with depravity or taqwa, he who purifies it has succeeded, he who covers it up has failed. (Surat ash-Shams: 7-10)
In the above verses, Allah declares that He has inspired the self with depravity (to act in a sinful manner, to disobey, to deviate, to lie, to turn away from righteousness, to stir up trouble, to decline in good manners). The opposite is taqwa (awe or fear of Allah which inspires a person to be on guard against wrong action and eager for actions which please Him). It is this very conscience that makes man guard against evil deeds and find the right way.
One of the most important aspects of conscience is that it helps man to find what is right of his own accord. Conscience will surely show man what is right, even if nobody else will. So, what matters for man is to take recourse to his own conscience, listen to what it says, and act upon it. For this reason, we can say that conscience is the main component of religion.
Above all, there is one point that must be borne in mind; every man, from the moment of gaining consciousness, is responsible for what Allah inspires him with and what his conscience tells him. From the moment he starts to conceive the events around him and becomes able to judge for himself, he is expected to possess and be able to exercise the ability to hear and distinguish the voice of his conscience, and to have the will to follow it. From this point forward, he will be questioned about the actions he takes in the course of his life. If he follows his conscience, he will be rewarded with an eternal life in Allah's heaven, but if he follows his self, he will meet an eternal sealed vault of fire.
Death is not distant from any one of us. It is perhaps even closer than we think. That Allah did not create the life of this world for a vain purpose and that death is not an end is an undeniable fact. We all have to organise our life according to this great truth, because after death, we will be judged according to the life we lived, and we will either be welcomed in paradise, or thrown into hell. Even if one is not convinced by the truth of this, can he really afford to risk so much and not work for his life in the hereafter? The only solution is to obey the commands of Allah by listening to the conscience. If someone does not follow his conscience or use it fully, when he meets the angels of death, he will be plunged into an agony of remorse and hopelessness, which he will suffer for eternity.
Whatever we do, our conscience will not leave us until we die. Conscience is a power that works totally out of our will. It is Allah's voice. We will all continue to hear this voice until we die, but those who do not follow this voice will taste the intense regret of it after they die. Accordingly, in the Qur'an, many examples are given from the conversations in the hereafter in which those in hell confess what they failed to do in life. Therefore, in truth, everyone knows what he must and must not do and evading the conscience does no good.
If man does not want to make the above speech, he must listen to his conscience, follow the Qur'an, follow the Messenger (saas) and follow the rightly-guided people. He must never turn his back on the truth once it has been shown to him, and try to turn off the voice of righteousness within him.
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"A traditional firewall is commonly employed to restrict Web site access to Ports 80 and 443, used for HTTP and Secure Sockets Layer communications, respectively. However, such a device does very little to deter attacks that come over these connections. URL query string manipulations including SQL injection, modification of cookie values, tampering of form field data, malformed requests and a variety of other nasty tricks are often given free passage on allowed, legitimate traffic.
A Web application firewall, such as those reviewed in this issue (see review) might help address security holes in Web servers and Web applications, but there is certainly a great deal that network security professional could and should do before and after employing such measures.
So sharpen your pencils: It's time for Web Application Security 101."
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Among the many benefits of employment at large companies, a short-term disability policy is not the least valuable. The benefits offered by such an insurance policy are not available everywhere in equal fashion, since most states do not mandate coverage and not every employer offers the same sort of coverage plan. These policies are specially crafted to cover those sorts of mishaps and ailments that will require more time for recovery than the typical employee’s sick days or vacation time can provide. Yet these same conditions do not merit or qualify for the benefits provided by long term disability insurance.
What Is A Short-Term Disability?
Most employees with large organizations or government agencies are familiar with the long-term disability insurance. These institutions usually provide such policies to cover severe injuries or grave illnesses that might prevent their employees from working for extended periods of time. However, such policies only apply to catastrophic situations, such as spine injuries or a diagnosis with a life-threatening disease. Other ailments are expected to be covered by an employee’s sick days.
However, experience has taught all involved that accidents and infections can also cause employees to need more time off for recovery than their accumulated sick days can cover. Examples of such ailments are a diagnosis with mononucleosis or the combined injuries suffered in a car accident that do not amount to the severity of a spine or brain injury but are also worse than a simple broken leg. Long-term disability insurance generally does not apply to these sorts of problems, but they clearly require more time for recovery than the average employee accumulates in sick days or vacation time.
How Can A Short Term Disability Policy Help?
This kind of insurance was developed to do some of the same things that long-term disability insurance does for people who have suffered more severe injuries. It provides income during the time of recovery so that the employee does not need to add impoverishment to his or her list of worries during a difficult time in life. When these policies are in effect, the employee also does not have to worry about losing his or her job while recovering from illness or injury.
Each insurance company handles these situations differently and each state has different requirements for carriers who provide such coverage. In some states there is little or no regulation of these policies while some states require employers to offer a certain amount of short-term coverage. Most short-term policies will initiate at some pre-determined point after revelation of a condition meriting the coverage and continue for at least 12 weeks. Some go for as long as 26 weeks. Usually a company will tailor its coverage to dovetail with sick days at one end and the beginning of long-term coverage at the end.
The amount of income received is also variable but many companies go with a changing rate. Plans often begin with payments that are equivalent to somewhere between 70% and 100% of the employee’s usual salary. After a period of weeks, this amount may be reduced to something lower than 50%.
Paying for a Short Term Disability Policy
There are three ways to pay for this kind of insurance. Each of those methods of payment has an effect on total income and on taxation. The method of payment is usually not up to the employee.
- If the employer pays, then the employee will not know anything about the premiums involved and may not have much input if any regarding the level of coverage. Some employers simply prefer to cover their employees in this straightforward fashion. Group rates can save them quite a bit on premiums per employee as well. However, when an employee begins to receive benefits due to a qualifying condition, that income will be taxed.
- If the employee pays the premium from each paycheck, he or she should look at how this payment is handled regarding taxation. If the premium payments are removed prior to taxes, then those taxes will have to be paid when the employee receives benefits upon qualifying for benefits. However, avoiding the taxation at this juncture does lower the taxable income in each paycheck.
- Some plans take the premiums after taxes have been removed from the employee’s salary. This is a more painful option but it has one advantage. When the employee receives benefits he or she does so tax-free. This is an attractive option for many employees.
Qualifying for Activation of Coverage
Qualifying for benefits will require the employee to provide written substantiation of the condition from a physician or other qualified health care provider. It is very likely that the employer in any case will not activate a short term disability policy until the employee has used up all of his or her sick days and vacation time. There may be an interruption of income while the paperwork is processed but, in these cases, later payments will be calculated to make up any earlier payment gaps. These details are determined by each employer and by the insurance carrier that they use to implement their policies.
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October 17, 2011
Significant Park Collection Joins the Consortium of California Herbaria in Providing Online Access
Yosemite National Park announces the Herbarium of the Yosemite Museum has joined the Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH) to provide online access of Yosemite plant specimens to both the scientific community and the general public. It is the first National Park Service herbarium, and the 22nd California herbarium, whose data for vascular plant specimens is included in CCH. This is an online searchable database of herbarium specimen information, and can be found at http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/about.html.
The CCH search engine allows instant comparisons with collections outside the park and instant mapping of geo-referenced specimens. This improved accessibility will increase the use of Yosemite Museum plant specimen collections, enhancing their scientific value as reference tools.
"Adding a National Park Service herbarium is also an important step for the CCH, since these provide a unique regional picture of the local flora that is not available from outside herbaria," said Brent Mishler, Director of the University and Jepson Herbaria at UC Berkeley.
Located in the Yosemite Museum in Yosemite Valley, the herbarium collection has significant regional holdings, with 8,000 specimens dating from the early part of the 20th century to the present. While most of the collections date from the 1920s - 1960s, it is an actively growing herbarium with over 3,000 vascular plant specimens added in the last ten years. The herbarium is a valuable component of the park's museum collections and is an essential tool for managing and protecting Yosemite's complex flora.
Access to the collections in the Yosemite Museum is granted to researchers by advance appointment only.
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When you hear about the Tree That Owns Itself, you think, Hey, that's sounds kind of neat. That sounds like an interesting Athenian story. I wonder how that happened.
Well, it's a nice little Athenian story all right, but it's just a big letdown. It didn't happen at all! It's just a wacky little story, OK? Just let it go. If you can understand why people like the story and why the great white oak tree became a landmark, then you can understand Athens. If MIT students were responsible, it would be called a hack or something. The fraudulent stone marker in front of the tree says:
For and in consideration of the great love I bear this tree and the great desire I have for its protection for all time I convey entire possession of itself and all land within eight feet of the tree on all sides. --William H. Jackson.
William H. Jackson was deceased when this marker was put up, and he never owned the land to allow him give it away in the first place! The current Tree was derived from an acorn off the original and planted in the same spot. If you want to see the Tree and you want to take the easy way there from West Broad Street, you'll have to drive up some damned bumpy cobblestones that are seriously due for a repaving.
If you want all the dates, go get a history book like I did. (I read A Postcard History of Athens, Georgia by Gary L. Doster.)
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The Weekly Commentary of JTS KOLLOT: Voices of Learning
Rosh Hodesh Shevat
January 24, 2004 1 Shevat 5764
This week's commentary was written by Rachel Ain, JTS Senior Rabbinical Student
Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar teaches "Do not pacify your colleague when his anger is raging; do not comfort him when his dead lies before him; do not challenge him at the time he makes a vow; and do not intrude upon him at the time of his disgrace." (Pirkei Avot 4:23) Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar is teaching us an important lesson. We must not only be cautious with the words that we speak, but the context in which we communicate those words to our fellow human beings. For even if we communicate what appears to be uplifting news, if it is at a time of sadness or disgrace, our important message will not be heard, and there is potential for disastrous results.
As we see in this week's parasha, Va-Era, context is everything. We read in Exodus 6:8-9 that Moses communicated to the Israelites God's promise to redeem them and bring them to the land yet "They would not listen to Moses, their spirits crushed by bondage." Ramban, a Spanish commentator, offers an understanding as to why the Israelites were not overjoyed to hear Moses's words. Ramban teaches that "it was not because they did not believe in God and in God's prophet that they did not listen. Rather, they paid no attention to his words because of impatience of spirit, as a person whose soul is grieved on account of his misery and who does not want to live another moment in his suffering even though he knows that he will be relieved later. The 'impatience of spirit' was their fear that Pharaoh would put them to death, as their officers said to Moses, and the 'cruel bondage' was the pressure, for the taskmasters pressured upon them and hurried them in their daily task, which gave them no chance to hear anything and consider it." Ramban is showing that they were so much in the depths of despair that they were not able to hear the uplifting nature of Moses' pronouncement. Similar to Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar, Ramban is communicating to us that it was not that they had a complete lack of faith, yet an inability to hear anything because of their misery.
Unfortunately, Moses' lack of understanding that communicating this message while the people were in despair, eventually set this generation of Israelites up for ultimate failure. Sforno, an Italian commentator, explains that because this generation of Israelites apparently lacked faith, they were not permitted to enter the land, and it was their children's generation who would ultimately be redeemed there.
It is extremely difficult for many of us to be in the presence of those who are in pain or who are deep in despair. Many of us are uncomfortable with silences and want to remind people that "it will be okay, or things will turn around." While these statements might eventually be true, we must be sensitive to the context in which we are communicating our message. We must allow our friends and family time to grieve. We must not tell them how to feel. We must not set our friends and family up for the potential to appear ungrateful, like the Israelites appeared to Moses and God. We must heed Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar and Ramban's teachings, that context in communicating a message is just as crucial as the message itself.
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Front Page Titles (by Subject) Difficulty of Discerning the Causes That Lead the American Government to Economy x - Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, vol. 2
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Difficulty of Discerning the Causes That Lead the American Government to Economyx
[≠In the silence of his study, the observer draws up general rules, and he believes that he has grasped the truth. But a fact, the first cause of which is often lost in the night, appears in his thoughts, and it seems to him that truth is escaping from him.≠]
The man who searches among facts for the real influence exercised by laws on the fate of humanity is exposed to great errors, for there is nothing so difficult to appreciate as a fact.
One people is naturally thoughtless and enthusiastic; another, reflective and calculating. This is due to their physical constitution itself or to distant causes that I do not know.y
You see peoples who love show, noise and pleasure, and who do not regret spending a million that goes up in smoke. You see others who value only solitary pleasures and who seem ashamed to appear contented.
In certain countries, a great price is attached to the beauty of buildings. In certain others, no value whatsoever is placed on objects of art, and what has no return is scorned. Finally, there are some in which fame is loved, and others in which money is placed before all else.
Apart from the laws, all these causes influence in a very powerful way the management of the finances of the State.
If the Americans have never happened to spend the people’s money on public festivals, it is not only because, among them, the people vote the tax; it is because the people do not like to enjoy themselves.
If they reject ornament in their architecture and prize only material and real advantages, it is not only because they are a democratic nation, but also because they are a commercial people.
The habits of private life are continued in public life; and among the Americans the economies that depend on institutions and those that follow from habits and mores must be clearly distinguished.z
[x. ] Former title: that reasons taken from the mores of a people often disrupt or modify general arguments.
Hervé de Tocqueville:
The title [This concerns the definitive title (ed.)] of this division does not seem good to me for two reasons. First, it establishes a sort of contradiction with the preceding chapters, which established that democratic government is not economical; then the difficulty is suddenly resolved in the chapter. I propose changing this title and putting: of the causes for the economy of the american government for certain objects. As for the rest, the chapter is very good. I will make only one observation to which I do not attach great importance; the author assumes preliminary knowledge in his reader. He reasons as if the reader already knew that the Americans like neither the luxury of festivals, nor that of buildings (YTC, CIIIb, 2, p. 16).
[y. ] Fragment of a first version in the manuscript:
≠There is indeed in the bent of the ideas and tastes of a people a hidden force that struggles with advantage against revolutions and time. This intellectual physiognomy of nations, which is called their character, is found throughout all the centuries of their history and amid the innumerable changes that take place in the social state, beliefs and laws. A strange thing! What is least perceptible and most difficult to define among a people is at the same time what you find most enduring among them. Everything changes among them except the character, which disappears only with nations themselves.≠
[z. ] In the margin: “≠The beginning of the chapter does not exactly correspond to the end. The beginning contains a general idea on national character; the end contains a clear and precise observation on what gives the Americans their character.≠”
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NAME: Zhou-Feng Chen
TITLE: Director, Center for the Study of Itch at the Washington University School of Medicine
LOCATION: St. Louis, Mo.
Why do we need a research center dedicated to itch?
First, chronic itch is a major underreported disease. Many patients—as many as 17 percent of adults, according to one study—suffer from it, and many of them never seek medical help. They think they can scratch it away. Because it’s not cancer, you don’t die from it, so people don’t take it seriously. But a majority of chronic itch is resistant to treatment.
What causes it?
It can be associated with a skin condition such as psoriasis, or it can stem from a systemic disease, such as kidney or liver failure. It can also be a side effect of chemotherapy. Other times it is caused by a deregulation of the nervous system: something is wrong with the nervous system and the itch pathway is activated.
Tell me about your current research.
We are trying to understand how our nervous system transmits the itch signal. Three years ago we identified a subset of neurons in the mouse spinal cord through which all itch sensations pass. This raises very interesting possibilities. If those same kinds of neurons exist in the human spinal cord, and if you could block that molecular signaling pathway, you might stop itch transmission and greatly improve someone’s quality of life.
What is the relation between itch and pain?
For a long time, people thought itch and pain were transmitted through the same pathway, that itch was just a weaker form of pain. But now we know that they are transmitted through separate pathways and that they also antagonize each other: when you create pain, you can suppress itch, like when you scratch.
Also, their biological functions are different. When you feel pain, you withdraw to protect yourself. But when you feel an itch, you move your hands toward it. If something attaches itself to your skin, like a mosquito, you want to remove it. So it is possible that the body’s warning system is telling you that something is happening to your skin and that you’d better get rid of it.
What are the main unanswered questions in your field?
We want to know how the itch sensation is caused in the first place. Our discovery of an itch receptor called GRPR and itch-specific neurons was just the first step. The system is so complex that we still don’t know how this information flows in the body, and we also don’t know how different kinds of diseases activate the itch receptor. There are receptors located in the skin, in the brain and in the spinal cord, so it’s extremely complicated. That’s why we need more scientists in different areas working together.
This article was originally published with the title Itch Doctor.
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Beware the Financial Risks of Retiring Abroad
August 20th, 2010
Britons are the least likely to retire at home, according to a new survey revealing that more than half of us plan to desert the UK in favour of a sunnier climate. Better weather and a fiesta lifestyle have obvious appeal, but does this come with any nasty surprises?
Only 43 per cent of Britons see the UK as their preferred retirement location, according to Aon Consulting’s survey of more than 7,500 European workers. In contrast, the vast majority of Spanish workers, 87 per cent, intend to retire in their home country, followed by 81 per cent of French workers. Spain is a firm favourite for British retirees with almost one in four picking it as their preferred retirement destination. In second place came the US, with Australasia and France filling the next two places.
“Not surprisingly, most people want to spend their retirement predominantly in countries with good weather and good social and government benefits, and ideally close enough so they can get home quickly if they need to,” says Oliver Rowlands, head of retirement at Aon Consulting.
While the benefits of retiring in another country often speak for themselves, the dangers may not be so obvious. In some instances, many living costs will be lower but these savings can quickly be swamped by increased healthcare costs and unexpected tax bills. One of the biggest challenges British expats face is currency exchange. If the main source of your income is in sterling, its strength, or lack of it, will have a big impact on your standard of living.
“Expats in Spain, thanks mainly to the weakness in sterling against the euro but also the relatively high rate of inflation there, lost a third of their income in 18 months recently,” says Steve Laird from independent financial adviser (IFA) Carrington Wealth Management. When transferring assets it may be worth considering leaving money in the UK, then using a forward contract from a specialist currency broker such as Travelex, Currencies Direct and HIFX to fix at a more attractive rate later on.
Once abroad, it’s important to open a bank account as early as possible. But for those used to free banking here, it may come as a shock that in some countries banking charges can be sky high. “European banking is more bureaucratic and more expensive than in the UK. Expect to pay a fee for almost every transaction – paying money in, taking money out. Each direct debit will also incur a small fee,” says Lorreine Kennedy from IFA Carematters.
Taxation is another issue to consider. Property taxes in some countries can be high. In many countries, particularly in Europe, local residents are more than happy to rent so a purchase isn’t necessarily the best route.
If you’re thinking of buying property abroad, there are many complications that could arise. Financing the purchase may not be straightforward. In France, for example, lenders apply strict criteria and lend purely on affordability. Currency issues will also make a huge difference to your costs so using a specialist currency broker could save you thousands. You should also check the building regulations carefully. If you’re buying a new build property, ask if the developer or seller has full title to the land or property. Expats buying property in Spain have hit the headlines after buying properties built on protected rural land and face possible demolition as a result.
Retiring abroad can also pose a risk to your state pension. It can be paid into a bank account in your chosen country and usually in the local currency, but if you are a non-resident, your tax liability will depend upon whether you are living in a country with a double taxation agreement with the UK.
“If the country you live in does not have a double taxation agreement, then you will have to pay UK tax and may be subject to tax in your new country,” says Ms Kennedy. In some parts of the world, your state pension payments will also be frozen, rather than increasing in line with inflation as it would in the UK. This isn’t an issue if you are moving to the EU or one of the countries with a long-standing UK arrangement including America and Turkey, but many popular destinations, including Australia and Canada, do not have these in place.
Investments such as ISAs and personal pensions in the UK may not be as tax efficient in your chosen country so take professional advice. One important question is whether you should move your personal pension funds overseas or leave them in the UK. Once you have lived for five consecutive tax years abroad, some countries permit you to move your pension into what is often a more flexible qualifying recognised overseas pensions scheme. In the UK, pensioners can withdraw only 25 per cent of their pension as a tax-free lump sum, but in other countries, this percentage may be far more generous.
“Many expats will not need larger pension funds to retire abroad. There are many different ways in which benefits can be taken from pension funds and some are much more tax efficient than others depending on where you are going,” says Mr Laird.
Failing to investigate exactly what type of healthcare is available to foreign residents is another mistake expats often make. Although many countries operate a national health service, these won’t necessarily cover the total cost of healthcare. “There are so many variables affecting your entitlement – how long you’ve been living there, whether you’re pre or post retirement. Every individual is different so we advise everyone to investigate what their own entitlement is,” says Karen Teasdale, the expatriate manager at AXA PPP healthcare.
Once you’re receiving your state pension you can access free healthcare within the European Economic Area (EEA), but you will still be expected to pay for some or all of your treatment in some countries. Health insurance is your safest bet. If you hold the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), this entitles you to reduced or free medical treatment in the EEA. However, this is for short-term residents and should not replace fully comprehensive health insurance.
Check your benefits too; for example, you can receive certain disability benefits and winter fuel allowance only if you remain within Europe.
Story from The Independent
- Retiring Abroad
- Pay attention to your pension before retiring to the sun
- Beware of hidden extras when buying abroad
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EDUIMHE › Higher Education in the 21st Century – Diversity of Missions: Abstract by Professor John Rickard
Central Queensland University: Regional University; Global Perspective – Breaking the traditional higher education model
Professor John Rickard, Vice-Chancellor & President, Central Queensland University, Australia
Central Queensland University (CQU) is a truly unique regional University.
At its core is the provision of higher education to the Central Queensland region – comprising 141,617 square kilometres in the State of Queensland in northeast Australia. It has regional campuses located in the towns of Rockhampton, Mackay, Bundaberg, Gladstone and Emerald. However, unlike many regional Universities, where the home campus is the dominant campus, CQU is different. Its administrative headquarters are located in Rockhampton, and it is a significant provider of flexible and distance learning, which is mostly serviced from Rockhampton. However, more than half of CQU’s business involves servicing international students based at its Australian International Campuses in the major cities of Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Melbourne and Sydney.
2007 marks the 40th anniversary of CQU’s inception as a higher education institution and the 15th anniversary of it becoming an independent University. During this period it has undergone an enormous period of growth, shifting from a teaching-only institution with a distinctly local mission to one that involves a multi-campus, global operation that is dedicated to providing research, teaching and community service which adds value to its stakeholders and to the education of innovative, effective and empathetic leaders for the public, private and non-profit sectors worldwide (CQU Strategic Plan 2007-2011).
CQU’s mission breaks with the traditional model of a higher education institution in Australia. Whilst it is formally recognised as a public institution, almost half of its revenue is generated through the operation of its Australian International Campuses in a joint venture partnership with a private company. This makes CQU a public-private hybrid institution, a categorisation which is not readily addressed or recognised by government legislation and policies, quality agencies and the like.
CQU describes itself as a value-adding institution – it provides tailored and flexible support to its students through a range of activities such as resource-based and online learning materials and individual student mentoring and monitoring of academic progress. CQU students are from a diverse range of backgrounds, including those from non-English speaking backgrounds, low socio-economic status and rural and regional areas.
By its very nature as a public institution CQU must, and will, continue to remain very committed to its Central Queensland region. However, it has recognised that in order to grow, prosper and remain viable, it's been essential to seek alternative sources of income.
This paper will explain in more detail the complex and unique relationship between CQU and its private joint venture partner and expand on the challenges and opportunities presented in operating a higher education institution which clearly does not fit the traditional model.
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Social networks are a huge part of our lives. Unfortunately for some people, maybe too huge.
At least according to Dr. Uri Nitzan of Tel Aviv University, who just published a report on psychotic symptoms he’s found in a number of Facebook users.
Some of his patients experienced delusions about people they were connected with on Facebook, including one who experienced tactile hallucinations, “believing that the person beyond the screen was physically touching her.”
So does using Facebook drive you crazy? Well, at least not crazy about the fact that you’re crazy. But in some circumstances, Nitzan highlights, vulnerable people who have recently lost love ones and have limited experience with technology look for connection online and go a little too deep, causing real psychotic symptoms.
As they developed extremely intense online relationships, sharing too much private information led to feelings of hurt and betrayal. And more:
In each case, a connection was found between the gradual development and exacerbation of psychotic symptoms, including delusions, anxiety, confusion, and intensified use of computer communications.
A caveat: Nitzan’s report is based on three case studies, not a full in-depth scientific study. So it’s impossible to draw strong conclusions about the effects of Facebook on people in vulnerable situations. But none of his patients had a history of mental illness.
Perhaps the most important point of the paper? Mental health professionals can’t ignore Facebook when they’re treating individuals.
“When you ask somebody about their social life, it’s very sensible to ask about Facebook and social networking habits as well as Internet use,” Nitzan said in a statement. “How people conduct themselves on the Internet is quite important to psychiatrists, who shouldn’t ignore this dimension of their patients’ behavior patterns.”
The good news? All of the patients had a full recovery.
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 1, 2002
National American Indian Heritage Month, 2002
By the President of the United States of America
During American Indian Heritage Month, we celebrate the rich cultural traditions and proud ancestry of American Indians and Alaska Natives, and we recognize the vital contributions these groups have made to the strength and diversity of our society.
American Indians and Alaska Natives have played a central role in our history. In 1805 and 1806, Sakajawea, a Shoshone Indian woman, helped guide Lewis and Clark on their historic expedition to explore the uncharted West. This remarkable journey, known as the "Voyage of Discovery," would not have been possible without her efforts, and today she remains a proud symbol of American Indian courage and strength.
We are also grateful to the Navajo Codetalkers for their service during World War II. Participating in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942-1945, the Navajo Codetalkers relayed secret messages that helped our Nation and the allies secure victory. The Congress recognized these heroes by authorizing the President to award them Congressional Gold Medals, which I was honored to present last year. These examples of our true American spirit reflect our shared history and serve as reminders of the unique heritage of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Upon its completion on the National Mall, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian will help educate all Americans about the lives, contributions, and culture of our Native peoples.
Education is essential to the future success of tribal communities. We will work together to ensure that our Indian education programs offer high-quality instruction and job training that contribute to the vitality of our Native American communities. We will also work to maintain the legacy of American Indians and Alaska Natives by preserving irreplaceable languages and cultural traditions.
To enhance our efforts to help Indian nations be self-governing, self-supporting, and self-reliant, my Administration will continue to honor tribal sovereignty by working on a government-to-government basis with American Indians and Alaska Natives. We will honor the rights of Indian tribes and work to protect and enhance tribal resources.
My Administration is working to increase employment and expand economic opportunities for all Native Americans. Several Federal agencies recently participated in the National Summit on Emerging Tribal Economies to help us accomplish this goal. In order to build upon this effort, my Administration will work to promote cooperation and coordination among Federal agencies for the purpose of fostering greater economic development of tribal communities. By working together on important economic initiatives, we will strengthen America by building a future of hope and promise for all Native Americans.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2002 as National American Indian Heritage Month. I call upon all Americans to commemorate this month with appropriate programs and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-seventh.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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BIOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF ROOT DISEASES OF WHEAT, BARLEY AND BIOFUEL BRASSICAS
Location: Root Disease and Biological Control Research
Title: Effects of Traditional and New Agricultural Practices on Pathogen and Biological Control Agents Populations and on Soil Suppressiveness
Submitted to: European Meeting in the IOBC/WPRS Working Group
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: October 1, 2011
Publication Date: December 1, 2011
Citation: Weller, D.M., Paulitz, T.C., Okubara, P.A., Mavrodi, D.V., Schroeder, K.L., Bonsall, R.F., Mavrodi, O.V., Parejko, J.A., Thomashow, L.S. 2011. Effects of Traditional and New Agricultural Practices on Pathogen and Biological Control Agents Populations and on Soil Suppressiveness. European Meeting in the IOBC/WPRS Working Group. Vol. 71, pp 159-167.
Interpretive Summary: By the year 2050, there will be at least nine billion people on earth to feed using the same amount or less land and water as is currently available. One-third of all agricultural commodities grown worldwide are lost to diseases and other pests, and soilborne diseases account for a significant amount of those annual losses. Crop plants often lack resistance to many soilborne fungal pathogens and pathogenic nematodes. Microbial-based mechanisms are often the first line of defense for roots against soilborne diseases. Over the last four decades, considerable progress has been made in understanding and in enhancing microbial-based methods of disease control, which has improved the management of soilborne diseases especially in cereal-based cropping systems. Farmers worldwide are being challenged to use less pesticides and fumigants and to apply more sustainable cropping-practices. In addition, greater numbers of consumers are demanding pesticide-free food. The call for increased sustainability in farming and the need to produce more food will present tremendous challenges to develop inexpensive and highly effective biologically based methods to control diseases and other pests. This paper focuses on describing sustainable cultural and biological approaches to control soilborne diseases.
By 2050, there will be 9 billion people on earth to feed using the same amount or less land and water as is currently available for agricultural production. Currently about one third of all agricultural commodities grown worldwide are lost to diseases, insects and other pests. Soilborne
diseases account for a significant amount of those annual losses in food production, and crop plants often lack resistance to soilborne pathogens. Farmers will need to increase production, but must do so using less pesticides and more sustainable cropping practices. This paper discusses how changes in agricultural practices that are needed to enhance sustainability in 21st century wheat production also impact populations of soilborne pathogens and diseases, disease suppressive soils and populations of biocontrol agents. We focus on the Pacific Northwest of the USA, and more specifically on wheat production in the state of Washington. Changes to more sustainable agricultural practices such as reduced tillage have led to an increase in the incidence of soilborne diseases but new agricultural practices as well as techniques in precision agriculture and molecular detection of soilborne pathogens are finding solutions to disease problems. Indigenous biocontrol Pseudomonas spp. such as those producing 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol and phenazine-1-carboxylic acid have a role in natural suppression of disease, but their populations and role in disease suppression are also affected by changes in agricultural practices.
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In Grade 1, I was really slow in getting changed for gym. I was almost always the last person ready. I got distracted easily. I was always talking rather then changing. It was getting to the point I was starting to sense the fury of my Grade 1 teacher. For the record, I was scared of my Grade 1 teacher. A lot. She was frightening. I wanted to get back on her good side. I remember there was one day that I was the last person in the change room and I was quickly trying to get finished. I rushed to the classroom in an attempt to appease my ruthless teacher. Instead, I was greeted by laughter by my peers. Why? Well, it appears I did do a good job of putting on my gym t-shirt but not so good at remembering to put on my shorts. In the rush, I was now in the classroom bearing my underwear to all. In retrospect, it is a little funny. At the time, I thought I'd be forever scarred.
That is an emberassing moment. Yet probably a moment that gives you all a slight chuckle. The fact we find that so funny actually makes me wonder for a moment. Why is it that people's misfortunes are such a humorous thing? Why are most comedies based on circumstances where someone suffers indignity? I can't think of any recent comedies where a focus of the jokes aren't on someone who has misfortunes or are in awkward situations. Why do we find these things so funny?
It doesn't really remain in media either. Most jokes seems to usually be targeted at friends. You give a friend a nickname that is based off an emberassing situation. We seem to delight in belittling people even in a playful manner. I'm guilty of this. I admit this. It's just so odd that almost all humour seems to be based on misfortune.
How many jokes can you think of where something bad doesn't happen to someone? Name a comedy where a character doesn't suffer any indignity? Name the last time you cracked a joke at a friend that was based off something uplifting? Why is humour based off such negative connotations?
Is it because we need the humour to get through hard times? Jokes are invented in order to see the lighter side of a bad situation? Maybe I should have named this blog - 'I ask a lot of questions and make sure to not answer any.' This is something I've been pondering a lot. Wondering why most humour is the way it is. Most of all, is it possible to go the other route? Can humour be focused on the positive. Can you crack a joke without targeting a friend? Can you throw nicknames at someone that is funny and encouraging? Is it possible? Do positive nicknames exist????
That is my challenge of the day. Try to keep your humour completely positive. Of course, I still think we are allowed to bash Napoleon Dynamite endlessly. Right?
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I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.
Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.
He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me.
I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.
For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.
For who is God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God,
The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect?
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: And setteth me upon my high places.
He teacheth my hands to war; So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation; And thy right hand hath holden me up, And thy gentleness hath made me great.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.
I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.
I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.
They cried, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.
The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.
Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation,
Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And subdueth peoples under me.
He rescueth me from mine enemies; Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man.
Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the nations, And will sing praises unto thy name.
Great deliverance giveth he to his king, And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore.
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In a ruling which could have major implications for the film and television industry, three senior judges ruled that Andrew Ainsworth could continue to sell the memorabilia.
They rejected an appeal by George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars franchise, against a 2008 High Court decision and ruled that the helmets were not covered by UK copyright law because they were not "works of art".
Mr Ainsworth, from Twickenham, south-west London, made the original Stormtrooper helmets for the Star Wars film in 1976 as a favour to a costume designer friend. In 2004, he found one of the helmets gathering dust on top of a cupboard and realised he was sitting on a potential goldmine.
He dug out the original moulds from the cellar and began producing them through his company, Shepperton Design Studios, along with suits of Stormtrooper armour which cost up to £1500. They are highly sought after by Star Wars devotees, who wear them to fan conventions.
Lucas intends to appeal the decision. A spokesman for his company, Lucasfilm, said: "This ruling deals a significant blow to the copyright protection afforded not only to Star Wars but to every other great success of the cinematic arts, from Harry Potter to Dr. Who and beyond."
Mark Owen, a partner at media and entertainment law firm Harbottle & Lewis, which acted for Lucasfilm said: "To say that you cannot retain copyright unless the object in question is by a renowned artist just seems wrong. Why should people be able to copy something?
"George Lucas is entitled to the protection the law gives just as much as a new film-maker is. The Star Wars films have been incredibly popular - look at the hundreds of thousands of people who put their religion down as 'Jedi' on the last census - and why should you not be entitled to protect that?
"This has huge implications for the entertaniment industry. The Government has made huge play out of Britain being a creative hub, then you have a decision like this which is a huge step backwards."
The decision means that Mr Ainsworth can carry on producing his helmets and uniforms, of which he has sold around 2,000 so far.
"While we have been fighting this case we have been unable to get distributors and have been selling the things ourselves. Now we can really crank the business up," he said.
Mr Ainsworth is still prevented from selling his products in the US, where copyright law is different.
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One bubble isn't enough
The place was a wreck. Decades of neglect had left the once classic Victorian-era home listing like a sinking ship.
Inside, the crumbling foundations made the floors warp like a carnival fun house, setting door frames at wonky angles and splitting the walls with cracks.
Unliveable is a charitable description. Ready for the wrecking ball is more like it.
Yet there was no shortage of buyers willing to pay top dollar — $700,000, in fact — to acquire this pile of decrepit bricks and mortar at auction last weekend.
Located in the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond, it definitely holds a good spot in a popular and pricey enclave. If it looks familiar that's because these kinds of homes can be found in any Australian city, particularly in suburbs that are still being gentrified.
But at 240 square metres, the land size is smallish. What’s more, the single-fronted Victorian is protected by a heritage overlay, meaning an owner would face a tough, if not insurmountable, fight to bulldoze it.
Not that any of that mattered. Three bidders fought over the property, with the winner paying $700,000 at the fall of the hammer when the price blew past the $630,000 reserve. (Yarra council assessed the site value at $585,000 and the capital improved value at $630,000 in early 2010)
What you reckon about this sale is likely to say a lot about what side you’re taking in the increasingly acrimonious debate over whether Australia is in the grip of a dangerous property bubble.
The result certainly appears crazy...
Nearly three quarters of million dollars (including stamp duty) for a property that can’t be lived in or outright demolished to make way for a flash new home or low-rise units.
To bubble proponents — and affordable housing advocates — this kind of result is symptomatic of the unsustainable, not to mention unfair, Ponzi-like scheme that defines and fuels the Australian housing market.
People can’t keep paying these kinds of prices, the argument goes, nor can they can they hope to support the debt required to fund those purchases. And like any Ponzi scheme, when people at the bottom stop buying in it’s only a matter of time before the whole scheme falls in a heap.
Except people haven’t stopped buying in.
Transaction numbers may be way down, but 376,000 owner occupiers, first home buyers and investors still bought into the market last year. And that's no small number.
Source: Australian Property Monitors
As the RBA recently noted, about four per cent of the nation’s residential properties changed hands last year — half what is was a decade ago. And transaction levels tend to dip when the market gets tougher.
Given the bloated stock levels tracked by groups like RP Data, Australian Property Monitors (Fairfax-owned) and SQM Research, it’s clear that many, many, many properties are being listed but not sold. That, of course, threatens to put downward pressure on prices.
But here’s the thing — the long-heralded crash hasn’t happened. House values dropped by 4.5 per cent nationally in the year to February, but there was no catastrophic across-the-board fall despite all the predictions there would be.
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Which brings us back to that wreck of a house in Richmond.
As ridiculous as the $700,000 price tag may appear, that property still offered something that is not only in short supply but simply can’t be recreated — land near the centre of the city.
I’ve seen buyers overlook just about anything to get that kind of prized spot: houses where brutal murders have taken place; houses on busy roads and train lines; houses next door to funeral parlours and pubs; houses in such a ramshackle condition that it will take hundreds of thousands of dollars to put them in order.
What’s changed is that had the same property been auctioned two years ago — in the midst of Melbourne’s last boom — the price would probably have come in at $730,000 or $750,000 or maybe even higher.
It’s not as if the bubble proponents haven’t been able to get their message out. Ponzi schemes can only survive in a climate of silence and ignorance and there's been no shortage of voices crying foul, both in the traditional press and new media.
I think there’s definitely a bubble at work, but probably not in the US subprime crisis sense of the word.
It’s more like a collection of bubbles — some areas will be protected from the worst effects of a collapse by virtue of their features, while others will inevitably been slammed due to the sum of their weaknesses.
There is no all-encompassing property market that can be said to be performing uniformly. It’s a fiction — a convenient narrative device.
Is housing expensive, even ridiculously over-priced, in this country? Sure, that’s probably a fair call from many people's perspectives.
However, it doesn’t mean that many others can’t and won’t continue to buy.
Perhaps the worst predictions of the bubble proponents will come to pass and values will plunge by more than half. But that certainly doesn’t mean that every property in every place will get picked up for a song.
This is just one example, of course, but there's no reason to think it isn't being repeated in every city.
There are always auction and private sales results that buck whatever the dominant trend - or narrative - may be at any given time.
While it's easy to dismiss them as anomalies, these kind of individual results can tell an important story about what is actually going beyond the headlines for specific types of properties, price points, streets or suburbs.
(Disclaimer: I am an owner-occupier of a single-dwelling home in Melbourne's inner suburbs. I do not own any investment properties. I am not in the market to sell or buy.)
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[Update: This tool has been unrecommended given several negative responses from commenters who have had difficulty getting the product to work on both Android and iOS, and have had little or no response from the manufacturer. Several readers have commented about alternatives and a review is forthcoming.--OH]
The WakeMate is a wristband that tracks movements in your sleep and when paired with an iPhone, Android, or Blackberry app serves as an intelligent alarm that wakes you at an optimum time in your sleep cycle based on actigraphy, a method of monitoring sleep through tracking movement.
To use the device you wear the wristband, sync it via Bluetooth on your iPhone, Android, or Blackberry phone, open the WakeMate app, and set the alarm to a certain time which provides you with a 20-minute waking window. For example, I set my alarm within the WakeMate app to 6:42 AM, and that means it will wake me between 6:22 AM and 6:42 AM.
The band uses your phone as the alarm that goes off at the predicted optimum time based on movements in your sleep, in effect waking you when you aren’t about to dive into deep sleep but instead are coming out of it.
In addition to waking you at optimum times, the application also provides useful analytics detailing how long you slept, how long it took you to sleep, and how many times you awoke, and uses this information to produce a sleep score on a scale from 1-100 (I average about a 71, and this goes up and down based on the hours of sleep I got).
I bought WakeMate after reading about actigraphy and sleep tracking. I’ve used it since February 8. So far, with few exceptions, I’ve noticed that I wake up feeling more refreshed than I did before using it. Most importantly I like how easy and comfortable it is to use. For example, although this might be obvious, if I sleep any less than 5 hours, my sleep score significantly decreases. And if I sleep over 6 it keeps going up until I get about 10 hours of sleep. Outside of using it as an alarm, the ability to quantify the quality and quantity of sleep has more than likely contributed to the quality of my rest.
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President Obama enjoys expanding laws he likes beyond the edge of the envelope and ignoring laws he doesn’t like. He knows that the Republican majority in the House of Representatives do not share his views on “climate change,” formerly referred to as “global warming.” He once again plans to go around them.
According to Bloomberg, the White House plans to impose a requirement that all federal agencies must consider climate change impacts prior to any approval of pipelines, highways or any other major projects. The end result, from an economic standpoint, will be to significantly delay many major job-creating activities in the U.S. Since time is money, it will mean that some major initiatives simply won’t happen.
It would be ironic if this “initiative” is the vehicle that the Obama administration uses to finally poison the XL Pipeline that has been languishing for years waiting for approval on the U.S. side of the Canadian border.
But the XL pipeline won’t be the only potential casualty if Obama moves forward with this gambit. The coal industry has already been eviscerated by Obama administration policies. The U.S. exports much of its coal to Asia from West Coast ports. If some federal agency finds that U.S. coal exports have a significant impact on “climate change,” that agency could conceivably ban the exports. That would cost jobs not only in the mining of coal but in the export activity as well.
In essence, the president and his regulators could assume the role of an international Mayor Bloomberg, denying raw materials to nations that need them for adequate, affordable energy supplies and telling them that we know better than they do about what is in their best interest.
This approach by Obama and Company could also have a major impact on the oil and gas industry. This new approach could severely hamper offshore drilling permits and leasing activity. Some agency of the federal government could stifle the shale drilling boom that significantly turned around domestic U.S. oil and gas production. The shale revolution that is creating jobs and tempering domestic energy prices could quickly become a victim of ideology gone awry.
President Obama said in his State of the Union address: “If Congress won’t act to protect future generations, I will.” He is apparently moving forward with that ultimatum. Protecting those future generations by lessening the amount of federal debt that will diminish their standard of living and reduce the amount of federal services available to them is not his concern.
Those things aren’t important to him and the elitists in his base who think their crusade for climate change is more important than the impact it could have on the poor and the middle-class in both the present and the future.
There is still a huge discussion going on in scientific circles about how much and for what reasons the climate is changing; what impact human activity has on any of those changes; and whether adaptation or prevention is the more feasible route to take to address any changes occurring.
Even some of the most outspoken “warmest” climate scientists admit that warming of the planet paused for the last 17 years while the amount of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere increased.
But undeterred, Commodore Obama is damning the potential torpedoes and going full speed ahead, endangering the jobs and economic expansion that large majorities of the American people say is their top priority.
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Despite a Washington Post/ABC News poll this weekend showing 71 percent of those asked oppose a ban on handguns in general, anti-gun activists are stepping up their campaigns to demand tougher gun laws in this country.
"Shame on the NRA," shouted a group of about 100 demonstrators marching on the Capitol Hill offices of the National Rifle Association at noon Monday.
"And obviously it was just the amazing horror of 20 little children (murdered) that was my motivation," said Gayle Fleming." I've gone to a lot of rallies. This is my first time going to an anti-gun rally. It will not be my last."
"Today, we say enough," said one protest leader speaking to the crowd with a bullhorn. "We are here to urge the NRA lobbyists to stand down and allow Congress to pass common sense gun laws that will reduce gun deaths and tragic shootings."
"Arm the teachers! Arm the principals!" yelled one man from a second-floor window nearby.
Larry Ward, who says he is a father of two young children and lives in Virginia, later came down to confront the protestors on the street.
"This principal in the school tried to defend the children and was killed for it," Ward told us. "But if the principal tried to defend the children with a gun, perhaps (she) could have saved many lives."
Rally organizers say they are encouraged by President Barack Obama's remarks in Newtown Sunday night.
"Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage?" asked the President at a memorial to the 26 victims murdered inside Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday morning. "That the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?"
White House officials acknowledging Monday that changing the nation's gun laws is complicated business.
"I don't have a specific policy outline for you today from the President," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. "And I think it's important to remember that this is about our gun laws and enforcing them, but it's also about a broader series of issues."
Outside the White House, there was another midday demonstration, albeit smaller and much quieter. It's been happening every Monday since the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado this summer.
"And it has been an amazing experience because we've talked to people from all over the world and all over the country, and we all really feel that we are changing people's minds, one person at a time," says protest organizer Barbara Elsas.
FOX 5 News has been asking the NRA for comment for two days now for somebody to address the calls for new gun laws, but so far, the organization has not responded.
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Internet passwords are becoming less safe. As crackers are finding out that encryption methods, such as SHA-1 and MD5 have both been cracked using mathematical expressions. Unfortunately, a far worse thing is happening now, this process is being reversed.
The MD5 algorithm is a commonly used method for storing passwords on Internet databases. Almost every time you register on a properly trustworthy website, and when you sign up to services such as phpBB forums and WordPress, the password is encrypted on the database.
How password encryption works
When you sign up on a web page using database password encryption the password you enter in the registration field is converted automatically using an encryption algorithm, such as MD5. For example, if you registered on such a web site, with the password password what would be put into the database would be it’s MD5 converted string, in this case 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99.
One or two years ago this would have taken a huge amount of time to crack, because the user would have to have a computer that attempts to convert this string back, listing possible passwords by comparing the passwords with a dictionary, leaving good upper- and lowercase passwords with numbers fairly safe.
To crack such a password, you do still need to either be the administrator of the server to see the MD5 value in the database or you must crack the MySQL database and access it somehow. This is often not very hard because novice web developers and administrators sometimes don’t have the skill, or do not find it important to make sure their website is secure.
Cracks available for anyone
Now the process has been reversed. Certain Internet users are now offering people access to tables which contain MD5 strings, for passwords up to 14 characters. This takes a huge amount of time to do, but once it’s ready (now) getting passwords from just knowing the MD5 hash takes as long as it takes for the server to search for this string in its tables, which is usually not very long.
Online MD5 crackers:
To make these tables, all they have to do is to take strings and turn them into MD5 hashes and make it into a table. So, for example, they begin converting one character, starting with a into an MD5 hash, then b, then c and so they complete the alphabet and digits from 0-9 and start with two characters; aa, ab, ac. The worst thing is that RainbowCrack allows users to do this themselves, at home; make their own tables and search them for much faster results.
It is also worth mentioning that Windows XP passwords can be cracked using a similar way.
Can be prevented
For people who use the same password on all websites, this could be a huge problem, for example if only one of them gets cracked, the cracker might have access to all of your accounts. This is why I suggest that you use a few passwords, one for secure websites that you must not lose (bank account, PayPal etc.), one for your e-mail account (if it gets cracked it’s easy to take over accounts by resetting the password) and one for forums and communication where you haven’t got much to lose if something happens.
I wish you happy and secure Internet surfing, and I hope that this knowledge will help you protect yourself better on the Internet.
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A stem is a collection of integrated tissues arranged as nodes and internodes. Nodes are regions where leaves attach to the stem. Internodes are the parts of the stem inbetween the nodes.
Stems support the leaves. Leaves are supported by a stem’s internal skeleton of collenchyma and schlerenchyma. turgor pressure in stems provides a hydrostatic skeleton that supports the young plant.
Stems produce the carbohydrates. Stems of some plants are photosynthetic. Although it is insignificant compared to those produced by the leaves, in plants such as cacti it accounts for most of the plants CO2 fixation.
Stems store materials. Parenchyma cells in stems store a large amount of starch and water. For example, water accounts for as much as 98% of weight in cacti syems.
Stems transport water and solutes between roots & leaves. Stems link leaves with the water and dissolved nutrients of the soil. The vascular sytems of stems maintains an aquatic environment in leaves and transports sugars and other solutes between leaves and roots.
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The Educational Talent Search Program is a federal program funded for the last 16 years by the U.S. Department of Education and sponsored by California State University Fresno, Division of Student Affairs.
Talent Search is a college preparatory and outreach program designed to assist and serve students in 9-12 grade from six Central Valley High Schools and to encourage participants to complete secondary education and to undertake a program in post secondary education.
Our program staff conducts various informational workshops on topics such as post-secondary options, admissions procedure, financial aid, and career choices. Our primary goal is to assist students graduate from high school and ensure enrollment into a post-secondary program.
If you do not attend one of our target schools, and you have questions, please call us. We will be more that happy to assist in directing you to the correct office for assistance.
Talent Search Eligibility Criteria
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965
Federal Register/ Vol.58, No. 213 (§643.3)
1. An individual is eligible to participate if the individual meets all the following requirements:
• Is a citizen or national of the United States;
• Is a permanent resident of the United States;
• Is in the United States for other than a temporary purpose and provides evidence from INS;
• Is currently attending one of the target schools.
2. And one or more of the following:
• You are from a low income family or
• Your parents did not graduate from a four-year college
*Resources may still be available if these guidelines are not met. Please see your college advisor for more details.
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The improvements for 110 mph service include the installation of new premium rail with concrete ties and ballast; upgrades to bridges, culverts and drainage; signal and wayside equipment installations and upgrades and grade-crossing improvements.
As of June 16, work will progress to north of Bloomington-Normal.
Union Pacific's track renewal train crews will improve infrastructure to enable Amtrak service to travel at speeds up to 110 mph, an increase from the current maximum of 79 mph. Illinois DOT and Amtrak are planning to preview higher-speed trains in September 2012 between Dwight and Pontiac. The Dwight to Pontiac segment will be the first part of the corridor to experience trains traveling at the higher speed.
This is the last scheduled year of large-scale construction leading to alternate transportation on the corridor. When work began with a ground-breaking north of Alton, Ill., in 2010, it was among the first high-speed rail projects in the country to begin construction.
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Some Businesses, Millionaires Calling for Buffett Rule
"Our members recognize our communities need sustained investments in jobs and infrastructure to restore our communities to economic health and vitality," said a letter sent to senators this week from business groups including the American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street Alliance and Business for Shared Prosperity. "They recognize that those who have prospered most from our society have the obligation to support government investment in a strong economy and healthy communities."
The bill, of course, isn't going to get very far, but it creates political talking points for each party. Democrats, Republicans say, are placing a burden on job creators with higher taxes, while the GOP, Democrats say, is putting their wealthy donors above the interests of the middle class.
There are some wealthy Americans, however, who want to pay higher taxes. The Patriotic Millionaires, as they dub themselves, has been calling for higher taxes on the wealthy for months. This week, about 30 of them were in Washington and attended President Obama's address on the Buffett rule at the White House on Wednesday.
Whitney Tilson, one of the Patriotic Millionaires and a hedge fund manager, acknowledged this week in a Washington Post op-ed that the Buffett rule "would hit me hard," but wrote "it's not class warfare to say that people like me ... should be the first to step up and make a small sacrifice."
"Why am I okay with this?" he wrote. "The answer has to do with simple math and basic fairness."
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The volume called Children's interview guide caught my eye in relation to the idea of fostering a dialogue among generations about family background and heritage. It consists of a series of questions covering all aspects of life, and was apparently published with the intent that it would be used by an individual to leave this information in book form for the future.
The title Children's interview guide is apparently one we supplied. The questions are clearly intended for adults, but could be used by a child (of any age!) to interview a parent. If this is something that interests you, these questions make it easy to accomplish. If you belong to our Special Interest Group on Writing, or are seeking on your own to write your personal history, this volume could be very useful and might remind you of areas that you have overlooked.
The book has the following sections, each with many questions:
- Personal & family history
- Family life
- School years
- Serving your country
- Family tree
- Working your way through life
- Love & romance
- Living your life
Wishing you the best of the season! Carol Magenau, CCGS Librarian
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When you think about the Gaza Strip, do you think "organic farming"? How about "family dairy"? Would you expect California pistachios to flavor made-in-Gaza baklava? Have you heard that Hamas has a 10-year plan to develop sustainable local agriculture?
A new cookbook, The Gaza Kitchen, weaves little-known stories of Gaza food and farming among Palestinian home-cooking recipes. It highlights flavors particular to Gaza — both the crowded, skinny, famous strip of land pinned between Egypt, Israel and the Mediterranean, and the more extensive, southeastern Gaza District of historic Palestine that existed before the first major Arab-Israeli war in 1948.
"Cumin, garlic and chilis are kind of the quintessential trio of the cuisine," co-author Laila El-Haddad, a Gazan now living in Boston, tells The Salt. "Herby, peppery, lemony, piquant. A lot of green dill, as well as dill seeds, as well as sour flavors in all their forms — lemon, sour pomegranates, lots of peppers."
El-Haddad and co-author Maggie Schmitt dreamed up this cookbook after Schmitt visited Gaza in 2009 and wrote a piece in The Atlantic, "Eating Under Siege," describing how Israel's severe restrictions on Gaza affect what people eat.
Doing background research, Schmitt found almost nothing online about local food, save for a few columns from El-Haddad's blog-turned-book, Gaza Mom. The two talked and emailed, but first met in person on the ground in Gaza, when the Rafah border crossing to Egypt opened in 2010 and they could both travel there. They discovered people who have been displaced for decades preserving a very precise sense of identity through food.
"Third- and fourth-generation Palestinian refugees, who make up the bulk of Palestinians in the modern-day Gaza strip, really held on to the very specific food traditions of their villages, down to how they would finish a stew," says El-Haddad. "Someone from the village of Beit Timma might finish their stew with fried onion, never garlic. Whereas someone from Gaza City would add dry red peppers, or generally add a lot of heat. And that would never be the case with the fahaleen, those from the farming, interior areas."
Recipes cover salads, stews, breads, appetizers, desserts and drinks. Kishik, we learn, are breadlike disks of fermented wheat traditionally stored for months as a way to preserve milk products for cooking. The Gazan version uses sheep's milk and red pepper flakes. Fattit ajir is a spicy roasted watermelon salad, a specialty of the southern Gaza strip. There is advice on what basic ingredients to have on hand, and Gazan "common sense" cooking traditions. For example, rinse chicken, rabbit or fish in cold water, with a bit of flour and lemon juice, before cooking.
By spending time in private kitchens, El-Haddad and Schmitt aimed not only to capture and codify Gazan cuisine, but to tell a new tale of Gaza. "For us, describing life in the homes, family economy, households, was really important," says Schmitt, "because that side of the story in Gaza is almost completely unknown and underrepresented."
The Gaza Kitchen tells a political story, too, with sidebars on U.N. food rations, electricity and water shortages, Israeli limits on trade and restrictions on fishing.
"Gaza was once famous for its fish," El-Haddad and Schmitt write. "Now the Israeli Navy limits Palestinian fishing boats to just three nautical miles from the coast. Violations are punishable by violent harassment, boat seizure, arrest and gunfire."
Setting food overtly into a political context is one way this culinary exploration of the region differs from the high-profile Jerusalem: A Cookbook, published last year by the Jewish-Muslim duo of celebrated chef Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, the head chef at Ottolenghi's London restaurants. Ottolenghi and Tamimi's cookbook summarizes the city's centuries of upheaval and disputed ownership today and takes on the "hummus wars" — passionate discussions over whether Jews or Palestinians bring the dish closest to perfection. But it mostly sticks to food.
"I think we dive further into the politics, and they kind of skirt it," Schmitt says. "But reading between the lines, I feel like our intentions are kind of parallel, or sympathetic at least."
Schmitt and El-Haddad say they've been asked to be part of a discussion with Ottolenghi and Tamimi, something The Gaza Kitchen authors would welcome.
"We like to say that when you've entered someone's kitchen, when you've tasted their food, it's harder to bomb that person," El-Haddad says. "You begin to think of them as human beings."
She hopes this peek into home cooking in Gaza starts a conversation about the place and people that "doesn't include the words terrorism, fanatics and rockets."
Below, two Gazan recipes for spring.
El-Haddad and Schmitt write that herbal tea, particularly sage tea, is a traditional way to end a meal, along with fruit and nuts. They found this refreshing herb combination at the Gaza Safe Agriculture Project organic farm.
6 sprigs lemon verbena
6 sprigs fresh mint
3 sprigs oregano or flat-leafed thyme
2 sprigs dried sage
2 sprigs Italian basil
1 sprig rosemary
Combine herbs in a pot and add boiling water. Steep for 5 minutes or until color is a pale yellow-green. Sweeten as desired.
This recipe says avocados are not native to the Gaza area but were introduced by Israeli settlers. Israel pulled out all settlers from the Gaza strip in 2005, but El-Haddad and Schmitt write that "the avocados have been adopted with enthusiasm." This mash may sound somewhat similar to guacamole but brings distinct flavors and presentation. El-Haddad and Schmitt call it "an elegant starter, part of the new Gazan repertoire."
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cloves garlic
1 green chili, chopped
2 small ripe avocados, peeled and seeded
Juice of 1 lemon
1 tablespoon yogurt
Extra virgin olive oil
Paprika, cumin and sliced lemon for garnish
Mash garlic and chili pepper with salt in a mortar and pestle. Add avocado, yogurt and lemon juice and mash until smooth, stirring the bottom of the bowl to make sure all the garlic is mixed in. Swirl the top of the salad with the bottom of a spoon in a circular motion creating a small canal, then drizzle with olive oil. Decorate with paprika and cumin as follows: Wet your thumb with some water, place it in a bowl of paprika, then press down on edge of avocado salad, leaving a red fingerprint. Repeat procedure, alternating paprika with cumin, all around the bowl. Garnish with thinly sliced lemon. Serve with Arabic bread.
Emily Harris is NPR's Jerusalem correspondent.
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Herrad of Landsberg
Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, 1195), was a twelfth century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains of France. She is known as the author and artist of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus Deliciarum (The Garden of Delights), a remarkable encyclopedic text used by abbesses, nuns, and lay women alike. It brought together both past scholarship and contemporary thought that rivaled the texts used by male monasteries. Many of her ideas have been found to have a modern appreciation.
Herrad was a contemporary of several other remarkable women, including Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Heloise (1101-1162), Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), and Claire of Assisi (1194-1253). She is considered a pioneer in the field of women's education and art.
Life in the abbey
The image of women during medieval times was limited. They were usually depicted either along the lines of the Virgin Mother of Christ or the temptress who seduces men away from God. Wealthy women could expect to be married off for their family's political gain, often dying in childbirth. Sometimes they were married off again if their aged husband died. There were few opportunities available to women for education and study because none were allowed into university.
The abbey became the safe environment where girls were able to receive education, whether as a lay student or toward the taking of vows. Many capable women chose to enter a convent in sacred service to God. There, women were often allowed to study and develop their intellect and artistic abilities in the cloistered environment of the abbey, away from the dangers of the "outside world."
An abbess was often an artist or writer herself, like Herrad of Landsberg and Hildegard of Bingen. Many were also patrons of the creativity of others. An abbess often made sure that the nuns and lay students were trained in the arts of needlework, manuscript illumination, letters, and music, as well as their devotional reading.
In the convent life of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, artists were trained by going through the alphabet, letter by letter. Most work was anonymous, as monastic life encouraged women to remain humble and simply offer their art to God. Despite the emphasis on self-denial, some nuns left little portraits of themselves in their work, or a certain mark to indicate their style.
Early life and becoming abbess
In 1147, Frederick Barbarossa appointed Relinda as abbess at the women's monastery of St. Odile at Hohenbourg, near Strausbourg in Alsace, a monastery founded possibly as early as the 600s. She was tasked to institute needed reforms, and Herrad was a nun there at that time. Barbarossa continued to support Relinda after he became emperor in 1155. Under her leadership, the monastery adopted the Augustinian Rule, and in time St. Odile became a rich and powerful monastery, a center of learning, and a school for the daughters of the area nobility.
Herrad of Landsberg was named abbess after Relinda's death in mid 1170. Little is known about Herrad's background or education. However, it is clear the her learning was broad, because she was able to produce an encyclopedic compilation of sources concerning all of salvation history, from creation to the end of the world.
Herrad provided the women under her care with the latest interpretations on the meaning of scripture, using both older theological scholars of the 1100s, such as Anselm and Bernard of Clairvaux, as well as her contemporaries, Peter Lombard and Peter Comestor. Their works formed part of the core curriculum of the new all-male schools, and drew from texts by classical and Arab writers as well. Herrad emphasized texts that reflected the newest thought on theology, biblical history, and canon law. Her book, Hortus Deliciarum (Garden of Delight), is a compendium of all the sciences studied at that time, including theology.
Hortus Deliciarum was begun as early as 1167, and finished in 1185, with some additions continuing until near Herrad's death in 1195. This devotional and encyclopedic teaching manual had both words and pictures to provide an advanced theological education for the learned nuns, and an aid to meditation for the less learned novices and lay students. The book also contained poetry and hymns, some of which were accompanied by musical notations, including early examples of polyphony.
Hortus Deliciarum had 300 parchment leaves of folio size. In addition to the Latin texts it contained 344 illustrations, 130 of them brightly colored, full-page illuminations. Smaller illustrations adorned the pages with text. Drawings and tables were used as well. The book used both Latin and German to aid the younger readers.
Several copyists and artists worked on the book, but Herrad was without question the editor and director of Hortus Deliciarum. The work thus reflects her organization and her integration of text and illustration. Modern literary analysis indicates that probably only seven of the 67 poems were Herrad's. However, through these seven, her voice can be discerned throughout the entire collection.
In terms of its musical significance, Hortus Deliciarum is one of the first sources of polyphony originating from a nunnery. The manuscript contained at least 20 song texts, all of which were originally notated with music. Two songs survive with music intact: Primus parens hominum, a monophonic song, and a two part polyphonic work, Sol oritur occansus.
While not highly original, Hortus Deliciarum shows a wide range of learning. Its chief claim to distinction lies in the illustrations which adorn the text. Many of these are symbolical representations of theological, philosophical, and literary themes. Some are historical, while others represent scenes from the actual experience of the artist. One is a collection of portraits of her sisters in religion. The technique of some of the illustrations has been very much admired and in almost every instance they show an artistic imagination which is rare in Herrad's contemporaries.
Herrad's poetry accompanies various excerpts from the writers of antiquity and pagan authors. It has the characteristic peculiar to the twelfth century: Faults of quantity, words, and constructions not sanctioned by classical usage, and peculiar turns of phrase which would hardly pass muster in a school of Latin poetry at the present time. However, the sentiment is sincere, the lines are musical and admirably adapted to the purpose for which they were intended; namely, the service of God by song. Herrad writes that she considers her community to be a congregation gathered together to serve God by singing the divine praises.
The following is an excerpt from her introduction to Hortus Deliciarum, sent to her religious superior. The bee to which she alludes was the classical symbol of the gathering and organizing of knowledge:
I make it known to your holiness, that, like a little bee inspired by God, I collected from the various flowers of sacred Scripture and philosophic writings this book, which is called the Hortus deliciarum, and I brought it together to the praise and honor of Christ and the church and for the sake of your love as if into a single sweet honeycomb. Therefore, in this very book, you ought diligently to seek pleasing food and to refresh your exhausted soul with its honeyed dewdrops…. And now as I pass dangerously through the various pathways of the sea, I ask that you may redeem me with your fruitful prayers from earthly passions and draw me upwards, together with you, into the affection of your beloved (p. 233).
A song by Herrad
From Herrad's 23-stanza song, "Primus parens hominum" ("Man's first parent"), whose musical notation still exists, describes salvation history, from the creation of humanity and its fall, through the coming of Christ, to the final heavenly Jerusalem.
- Man's first parent
- As he gazed upon the heavenly light
- Was created
- Just like the company of angels,
- He was to be the consort of angels
- And to live forever.
- The serpent deceived that wretched man
- The apple that he tasted
- Was the forbidden one,
- And so that serpent conquered him
- And immediately, expelled from paradise,
- He left those heavenly courts….
- God came seeking the sheep
- That He had lost,
- And he who had given the law
- Put himself under it,
- So that for those whom he created
- He suffered a most horrible death.
- Suffering in this way with us,
- The omnipotent one
- Gave free will,
- To avoid hell,
- If we scorn vices
- And if we do good.
- Nothing will harm our soul;
- It will come into glory,
- And so we ought to love God
- And our neighbor.
- These twin precepts
- Lead to heaven. [stanzas 1-2, 16-19; pp. 245-49]
The fate of the manuscript
After having been preserved for centuries at the Hohenburg Abbey, the manuscript of Hortus Deliciarum passed into the municipal Library of Strasbourg about the time of the French Revolution. There the miniatures were copied in 1818 by Christian Moritz (or Maurice) Engelhardt; the text was copied and published by Straub and Keller, 1879-1899. Thus, although the original perished in the burning of the Library of Strasbourg during the siege of 1870 in the Franco-Prussian War, we can still form an accurate estimate of the artistic and literary value of Herrad's work.
Herrad is seen as a pioneer of women. She possessed great artistic ability, thought, and leadership. During her time as abbess, women under her care were allowed to be educated to the best of their abilities. Not only did she leave a remarkable and beautiful historical document for future generations, but she also set a high standard of accomplishment to which other women, both secular and religious, could aspire.
The Hortus Deliciarum was a unique educational tool for women, bringing the old and new theological and scientific thought to the those within the monastery walls, allowing even the youngest novice and lay woman remarkably good education and guidance for meditation and monastic life.
Herrad's sermons can be seen as having contemporary relevance. In one, she deals the paradoxes of human life. She told the nuns to "despise the world, despise nothing; despise thyself, despise despising thyself." In her original manuscript, Herrad, sitting on a tiger skin, is seen as leading an army of "female vices" into battle against an army of "female virtues." This work both fascinated and disturbed medieval commentators.
Herrad's life inspired Penelope Johnson, who highlighted Herrad's contemporary themes in her book, Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France. The book was researched from monastic documents from more than two dozen nunneries in northern France in the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries. Johnson opines that the stereotype of passive nuns living in seclusion under monastic rule is misleading. She states: "Collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitudes of secular women."
- ↑ www.amazon.ca, Amazon.com's samples of music from Hortus Deliciarum. Retrieved June, 18, 2008.
- ↑ Wikipedia, Hortus deliciarum. Retrieved June 18, 2008.
- ↑ Fiona Griffiths, 2007.
- ↑ home.infionline.net, Herrad of Hohenbourg from "Other Women's Voices." Retrieved June 18, 2008.
- ↑ J.J. Wilson and Karen Peterson, Women Artists: A Historical Survey. Retrieved May 24, 2008.
- Brookes, Barbara, and Dorothy Page (eds.). Communities of Women: Historical Perspectives. Dunedin, N.Z.: Otago, 2002. ISBN 1877276316.
- Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990.
- Eckstein, Lina. Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500. Cambridge University Press, 1896. ISBN 978-0543869180.
- Griffiths, Fiona J. The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0812239607.
- Harris, Ann Sutherland, and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists: 1550-1950. New York: Knopf, 1977. ISBN 978-0394733265.
- Johnson, Penelope D. Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France. University Of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0226401867.
- Schmidt, Charles. Herrade of Landsberg. Heitz und Mundel Strasbourg, 1980.
- Turner, William. "Herrad of Landsberg." In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.
All links retrieved May 24, 2008.
- Samples of music from Hortus Deliciarum www.amazon.ca'
- Lecture notes on Herrad of Landsberg from 'Women Artists: A Historical Survey" by J. J. Wilson and Karen Petersen asstudents.unco.edu
- Library Glossary of manuscript terms, mostly relating to Western medieval manuscripts prodigi.bl.uk
- Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill www/;ob/imc/edu
- for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh www.hss.ed.ac.uk
- Hortus Deliciarum www2.iath.virginia.edu
- Herrad of Hohenbourg from "Other Women's Voices" home.infionline.net
- Encyclopedia(1913)/Manuscripts en.wikisource.org
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In today's post, Chief Fixed-Income Strategist James Kochan and Chief Portfolio Strategist Dr. Brian Jacobsen provide their thoughts on the role of adjustable-rate investments in investors' portfolios.
It isn’t surprising that investors find themselves asking, “What happens when yields go up?” Yields on the 10-year Treasury note peaked at 15.6% in October 1981 and have declined—albeit unsteadily—ever since. As of February 2013, the yield was down to 2%. Yields could stay low for a while, but it looks as if a 12- to 24-month investment horizon may include the onset of tightening by the Federal Reserve and an increase in short-term interest rates.
In response, investors have been stampeding into various types of fixed-income investments with floating- or adjustable-rate features, on the assumption that these investments will help them when rates rise. While adjustable- or floating-rate features can be attractive, we urge investors to be cautious. This post provides some background on these investment options to help investors make an informed decision about the role they should play in a portfolio.
The two basic types of floaters
There are two basic types of floating-rate fixed-income investments: floating-rate notes (FRNs) and bank loans.
- FRNs, essentially, are bonds that are issued with coupon payments indexed to a benchmark interest rate. The benchmark is typically the LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate), but it can also be a U.S. Treasury yield or a prime rate. The coupon rate is typically set at a fixed spread over the benchmark interest rate. However, depending on the issuer, the spread could be negative. There could also be caps or floors on the coupon rate, meaning that the coupon rate may not exceed or fall below a certain percentage. An FRN typically has a coupon rate that changes every six months, but for a certain period of time, the rate may be fixed before it begins to float. The majority of issuers of FRNs are investment-grade companies.
- Bank loans are sometimes called senior loans, leveraged loans, or syndicated loans. Regardless of the label, these are loans made by banks, bundled together, and sold to investors. The senior label refers to a loan that sits in the capital structure of the company borrowing the money. Basically, senior loans get paid first. This can provide some comfort to lenders if the borrower gets into financial difficulties. Many senior loans are also backed by collateral, meaning that the lender can go after an asset if payment is not made.
Another common feature of bank loans is that they are typically loans to below-investment-grade borrowers. This makes a bank loan a type of junk loan, where the creditworthiness of the borrower is less than prime and can change—sometimes dramatically. As a result, yields on these loans are typically higher than they are on investment-grade bonds. However, because the loans are senior and sometimes collateralized, the yields may be lower than they are on high-yield bonds.
Perhaps the biggest selling point to investors of bank loans is that the rates paid on the loans adjust according to a formula. A bank loan has a reference rate, often the LIBOR. The rate paid on the loan will then adjust as the reference rate changes, but only periodically—typically quarterly or monthly. The actual rate paid on the loan is equal to the reference rate plus a fixed amount called the spread.
The danger of floating features
The floating-rate feature of any investment is either a benefit to the bond issuer or buyer; thus, it comes at a price.
- The floating-rate feature may turn out to be costly. When rates are high and expected to decline, the floating-rate feature is a benefit to the borrower. When rates are low and expected to rise, the floating-rate feature is a benefit to the buyer—that is, the investor. In today’s environment, investors seem to be willing to pay for the floating-rate feature, meaning that the yield on the investment may be lower than that on an otherwise identical fixed-income security. Thus, if rates don’t rise as quickly or as much as expected, that floating-rate feature may turn out to be more costly than the investor expected.
- The bond or loan may perform poorly just when it is supposed to protect against rising rates. The market-required spread on bank loans or FRNs can change with time or conditions. When bank loans or FRNs are issued, the spread may seem fair, but if rates rise, it is possible that the creditworthiness of the borrower can change, perhaps requiring a larger spread. As a result, while the rate can go up with the reference rate, the actual market price of the loan or FRN can decline if the spread no longer represents a fair compensation for the default risk of the borrower. This is what likely happened in the late 1970s to early 1980s when rates went up but economic conditions deteriorated.
We do not believe rates are going to rise before the end of the year, meaning that it may be too soon to consider floating rates over fixed rates. Also, because investment results will depend critically on determining whether the spread will be fair if rates do rise, we think investors should be very cautious and diligent in doing credit analysis on the issuers of these instruments to be comfortable with the spread they receive over the reference rate. It’s not just a matter of determining whether the spread today seems fair but whether the spread in the future will continue to be fair as economic conditions change.
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GERD in Infants and Children (cont.)
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The procedure is usually effective, but it is not without risk. Discuss the potential risks and benefits of this operation with your child's doctor.
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It is a small thing, but it says a lot about the country. At Tokyo’s Narita airport, when you take off your shoes at the security screening check, the guard hands you a pair of leather slippers. The message is obvious: This airport cares for your well-being and recognizes your need.
In Japan, taxi doors swing open automatically; toilet seats are electronically warmed and cleaned; and the extraordinary variety of food is presented exquisitely. There is a passion for satiating every imaginable human want and a joy in embracing the science, technology and innovation that might help deliver just that.
For 40 years, between 1950 and 1990, this passion was a key ingredient driving one of the most remarkable periods of growth in economic history. However, for the past 20 years, Japan has been stricken by stagnation. In the late 1980s to 1990s, it suffered a financial crisis nearly as severe as the UK’s. The economic model — the Ministry of International Trade and Industry guiding Japanese companies, the keiretsu networks of loosely conglomerated firms and associated banks, the great global brands — suffered an implosion.
Yet this remains a US$5 tillion economy, the third largest on the planet. The Japanese themselves are desperate to recover the elixir of growth and understand that economic conservatism — in Japan just as in Britain — leads to disappointment and heartbreak.
In 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was elected by a landslide, pledging a root and branch reform of every bureaucratic, corporatist and anti-democratic element in Japan’s broken system. It also pledged to recast economic policy to serve the people. Despite some epic mistakes, notably its handling of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster, it still holds an opinion poll lead over its rival, the Liberal Democratic party (LDP).
However, forces within the government are very much open to pondering where it should go next. I was invited by the DPJ government to go to Tokyo to contribute to this ongoing conversation.
Cabinet members wanted to discuss what a 21st-century social contract might look like, respecting both necessary labor market flexibility and security. They wanted to understand the contribution that open innovation ecosystems and an entrepreneurial state can play in driving forward innovation and investment. Above all, they asked: How could Japan reinvent its stakeholder capitalism of the second half of the 20th century so that it was more democratic? And they thought there might be something in my ideas in the books The State We’re In and Them and Us. In short, how could Japan do good capitalism?
It is the question — not only in Japan but, I would argue, in Britain. In Japan the devastating earthquake in Tohoku 12 months ago has made it even more acute: 340,000 people are still without homes; at least 19,000 died; and the nuclear power station at Fukushima very nearly suffered a meltdown.
At the time of the crisis, Japan hoped that, with the DPJ in power, there would be a decisive change from the way such matters had been handled in the past — obfuscation, delay, inactivity and anxiety to protect corporate interests. Yet the new government bounced off the secrecy of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the bureaucratic ministries, a muzzled media and the enveloping tentacles of the employers’ organization, the Keidanren, as if nothing had changed. Then-Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan became party to delivering inadequate and late information via the impenetrable state and corporate networks; many Japanese became devotees of BBC World News as the only purveyor of truth. Kan was forced to resign last summer.
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In the field of supernatural and fantastic literature, certain names come readily to mind – E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft – but the name of Fitz-James O’Brien has been unjustly overlooked and nearly forgotten since his premature death in 1862 during the American Civil War.
‘The Diamond Lens’, O’Brien’s most famous short story, can be regarded as a forerunner of the science-fiction genre; ‘What Was It?’ is alleged to have served as a model for H.G. Wells’s ‘The Invisible Man’; and ‘The Wondersmith’ is a marvellous tale of Hoffmannesque invention. Taken together, O’Brien’s few surviving stories give him an important place in the development of American fiction and remain as fresh today as when they first written almost a hundred and fifty years ago.
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Oregon startup refining solar-powered rooftop ventilator
By Christina Williams
Sustainable Business Oregon editor
The installation of a SunCooler unit, developed by Yamhill-based Northwest Renewable Energy Corp.
An Oregon startup landed a commercialization grant from Oregon BEST that will fund its work with the Oregon Institute of Technology to refine its solar-powered building ventilator for a national product launch.
Northwest Renewable Energy Corp. in Yamhill developed the SunCooler Destratifier, a solar-powered, rooftop-mounted building ventilator that has applications for buildings including big-box superstores and agricultural warehouses.
Using a $20,000 grant from the Oregon Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Center, known as Oregon BES, Northwest Renewable will work with Sean Sloan, a professor at Oregon Institute of Technology, to test the unit and generate data to back up claims about the product's energy savings potential.
"As with all small businesses, finances are tight, so this grant provides timely, crucial support to validate, quantify and document the energy savings potential of the SunCooler and help us expand in the marketplace," said Jason Wright, president and CEO of Northwest Renewable, in a press release.
Wright said he has fielded some interest from big-box retailers. The company has already installed SunCooler units on a prison building, a modular classroom, and the National Guard armory in Redmond.
The SunCooler is designed to work with a building's heating, ventilation and air conditioning system by collecting and storing solar power and supplementing ventilation without tapping grid power. During cool weather the device can "recycle" warm air that has risen to the ceiling by redistributing it to the floor. In heat, the unit pulls out excess heat and humidity.
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The monitor’s color gamut is larger than sRGB in greens but smaller in blues and reds.
The average uniformity of white brightness is 4.9% with a maximum deflection of 14.7%. For black, the numbers are 6.4% and 18.4%, respectively, which is an acceptable result.
The gamma curves are normal at the default settings except that the contrast is rather too high for the blue curve as is indicated by the characteristic bend of the curve in the top right of the diagram.
It’s better at the reduced contrast: the curves are all shaped well and go near each other, although lower than the theoretical curve for gamma 2.2.
The monitor does not have Response Time Compensation. Its matrix is not fast having an average response time of 12.2 milliseconds (GtG) with a maximum of about 20 milliseconds.
Although the color temperature measurements produced good results formally, I didn’t like the image in the 6500K mode as it had a clear greenish hue.
The color gamut diagram is built for the 6500K mode to show you the answer. The point of white (marked with a white circle) is shifted upwards, towards greens, relative to where it must be (marked with a cross). The numbers in the table above are reasonable because it virtually makes no sense to measure the color temperature with such a shift of the white point. The color on the screen is not white while the term color temperature refers to white only.
There was no greenish hue in the other modes but most users are not going to be satisfied with them as they produce an image that is too cold or too warm. So, the only way to make the HG216D reproduce colors normally is to set it up manually, achieving a correct reproduction of white.
The brightness of white and the contrast ratio are typical for a modern TN matrix. This technology has progressed recently in this respect. A contrast ratio of 300:1 is finally a thing of the past.
The monitor doesn’t have factory-set modes with preset values of brightness and contrast.
- Low price
- Some flaws in the design of the front panel
- Slow matrix
- Sloppy color temperature setup
- No factory-set image modes
- Low quality of interpolation at non-native resolutions
- No HDMI-DVI cable in the kit
- Text-based applications (documents, spreadsheets, Internet)
- Movies and games that don’t require a fast matrix
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Hey guys, I’m back with that tutorial I said I was going to submit yesterday, but I didn't get it finished in time to upload the lesson in a timely fashion. So here it is, today you will learn "how to draw a baby deer", step by step. I know that baby deer are called fawns, but in all reality I just wanted to name this tutorial a common phrase that will enable kids to find what they search for on the site. I don’t know how many people type in ‘fawn’ when they are looking for an adolescent deer, so I played it safe and just went with baby. The deer actually came out really cute and I love the way how I combined that cartoon effect in a realistic manner. I had a lot of fun drawing a baby deer because I always wanted to draw a version that looked as cute as Bambi. Well, I guess that’s it. I have some more tutorials going up a bit later, but for now you can have fun with this lesson. Make sure that you rate and comment to let me know if you liked this baby deer or fawn. I shall return, adios and enjoy!
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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Shrubs can be a decorative
addition that adds privacy
to a yard.
With all their wonderful diversity of size, shape, foliage, and flower, shrubs can turn a mundane piece of property into a beautiful showplace. Shrubs make the yard inviting and livable. You've probably noticed that builders always plant a few shrubs around newly constructed homes. There may be no trees or grass, but there are shrubs.
Shrubs, with their deciduous or evergreen foliage, are enormously decorative and highly useful. Like trees, evergreen shrubs may have broadleaf or needled foliage and can offer colorful berries or cones, interesting bark, and lovely flowers. Even in winter, their leafless, contorted trunks and interesting architecture enhance the landscape. Their size provides a pleasant transition between tall trees and groundcover plantings, softening the edges of boundaries, foundations, buildings, and walls. They also protect the soil, supporting and sheltering all kinds of wildlife.
Shrubs are versatile. Use them as groundcovers on slopes, as living walls, as backdrops for flower borders, and as screens to block street noise and dust. Put them where they'll obscure landscape eyesores, such as heating and cooling units, swimming pool mechanicals, utility meters, and trash can areas.w's the time to invest in your landscaping to add privacy and value to your home! Shrubs are a great way to add natural privacy to your back yard. Better Homes and Gardens has this to say about shrubs:
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Flooding abated slightly in parts of the state today, but surge from the high country runoff isn't yet done, experts warned.
"I hope it's running out of steam," Vail Fire Chief Mark Miller said this afternoon. "Today it's not a lot better, but it's not getting any worse."
A flood warning is in effect for Eagle County until 8 p.m.
Today's break in the fast, heavy flows is probably a result of Tuesday's cooler weather, "but it may be short-lived," said Trest Huse, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service Office in Boulder.
Recent temperatures that have been 10 to 15 degrees higher than usual are expected to drop, but an inch of rain is expected east of the Continental Divide, including the Front Range,
Higher elevations could even see snow, re-supplying areas that Miller said had all but melted out this week. With another round of warmer temperatures early next week, rivers and creeks could rise again, Huse said.
Temperatures in Eagle County have been in the 80s this week, but are expected to cool into the 70s by Friday and back into the more seasonal 60s this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Firefighters, Eagle County jail inmates and volunteers in Vail have been sandbagging along creeks. Several agencies have been on standby for river rescues as the fast snow melt brought on by the warmer-than-usual temperatures have gorged waterways at two and three times their normal flow for this time of year since Memorial Day.
The Eagle River below Gypsum was flowing at 5,070 cubic feet per second today, down from more than 7,000 cfs on Sunday and Monday. The 63-year mean for the dates is about 2,500 cfs, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Several rivers are still running above record levels, however.
The Blue River near Dillon was flowing at 929 cfs today, compared to the previous high, 735 cfs, set in 1997. The 62-year mean for the river for the date is 350 cfs.
The Arkansas River at Nathrop was flowing at 3,980 cfs today. On Monday and Tuesday the river was flowing at about 4,800 cfs.
The previous maximum before the recent meltoff was 3,600 cfs set in 1980. The normal flow for the date is 1,880, according to the USGS.
A flood warning remains in effect for west-central Weld County until 3:45 a.m. Thursday. The Cache La Poudre River had surged beyond its banks in several locations from Windsor to Greeley, including into the Pelican Lakes Gold Course on the south side of Windsor.
A flood warning also is in effect for the Arkansas River from Cañon City to Pueblo until sometime Thursday afternoon.
Water was being released from Pueblo Reservoir today to accommodate additional runoff from the fast snowmelt, according to the National Weather Service.
As a result, the river was expected to fall from the expected high of 9.3 feet back below flood stage, 7 feet, by Thursday afternoon, the Weather Service said.
The last time the river Arkansas crested this high was 9.2 feet on June 2, 1994, according to weather records.
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or email@example.com
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BEIRUT (AP) — Last month, while the world's attention was focused on battles raging in Syria's two largest cities, a quiet transformation was taking place in the country's oil-rich northeast where about 2 million minority Kurds live.
In mid-July, regime forces began pulling back from several towns and villages near the Turkish border. They ceded de facto control to armed Kurdish fighters who have since set up checkpoints, hoisted Kurdish flags, and began exercising a degree of autonomy unheard of before.
It is an extraordinary development for a community that has long been oppressed and discriminated against by the Assad regime, one that threatens to upset a decades-long geopolitical balance involving Syria, Turkey and Iraq, and challenge old regional alliances.
"The Kurds are emerging as one of the major winners of the crisis in Syria," said Fawaz A. Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. "They have begun laying the foundation for an autonomous region like their counterparts in Iraq. It's a dream-like situation for them."
Kurds see their chance to win the kind of autonomy that their ethnic brothers enjoy in Iraq. But this raises alarm bells for Turkey, one of the key state backers of the rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad and a country where Kurdish rebels have been fighting a violent struggle for self-rule for the last 28 years.
Turkey is increasingly worried that the chaos in Syria will open up a new base for Kurdish rebels to press their struggle for self-rule. The government in Ankara has warned it would "not tolerate" any rebel threats from Syrian territory and has staged a number of military drills across the border to put a fine point on it.
The tensions feed myriad concerns that Syria's civil war could spill across borders into a wider regional conflagration.
Turkey has emerged as one of the most vociferous critics of the Assad regime and serves as a base for generals of the Free Syrian Army rebel group and the Syrian National Council opposition group.
In relinquishing border areas to Kurdish fighters, the Syrian regime may have had a dual motive — diverting forces from there to shore up overstretched troops fighting in the northern commercial hub of Aleppo and other parts of the country as well as sending a warning to Turkey.
"With the Syrian government's control over northern parts of the country diminishing ... Ankara's primary concern is that the Syrian Kurds may seek to establish an autonomous state in the region," an August security briefing by British-based risk analysis firm Maplecroft said.
Already, large parts of northern Syria, including a long stretch of the border with Turkey, have fallen under rebel control. In addition to that, the Assad regime has suffered a series of setbacks over the past month that point to a loosening of its grip on the country.
The regime forces pulled back from the Kurdish areas along the border last month shortly after rebels struck in the capital Damascus with unprecedented attacks and a bombing that killed four of Assad's top security aides. There has also been a steady stream of high-level defections by government officials, diplomats and generals, though Assad's inner circle and military have largely kept their cohesive stance behind him. And the regime has been unable to fully subdue rebel challenges in the two major cities, Damascus and Aleppo.
At the same time, Syria's civil war has increasingly taken on deeply sectarian undertones, pitting Assad and his Alawite minority — an offshoot of Shiite Islam — against an opposition dominated by majority Sunni Muslims.
Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria and make up around 10 to 15 percent of the country's 23 million people. Most of them live in the northeaster Hasakeh province near the border with Turkey. Large neighborhoods of Damascus and Aleppo also are Kurdish-dominated.
Kurds have long complained of neglect and discrimination. Assad's government for years argued they are not Syrians, but Kurds who fled from Iraq or neighboring Turkey.
With the uprising, both the Syrian government and opposition forces began reaching out to the long-marginalized minority whose support could tip the balance in the conflict.
Early on in the revolt, Assad ceded ground on a major Kurdish demand, granting citizenship to some 200,000 members of the ethnic minority who were registered as aliens before. Mindful of provoking the Kurds, security forces have refrained from using deadly force to put down protests in Kurdish regions.
The opposition has courted the Kurds, staging demonstrations under Kurdish names in hopes of rallying the community against Assad. In June, Abdelbaset Sieda, a Kurd, was elected as head of the Syrian National Council.
The Kurds in turn took part in the anti-Assad protests staged every Friday, but carried their own flags and chanted their own slogans. In this way, they distanced themselves from the Turkey-backed, Sunni-dominated opposition movement, fearing they would not fare much better if the rebels came to power.
Last month, villagers say, Syrian security forces simply abandoned posts in several border towns and villages outside Qamishli including Amouda, Dirbasiyeh, al-Malkia — as well as Ayn el-Arab and Afrin north of the city of Aleppo.
The government forces were quickly replaced by Kurdish fighters from the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD. The group is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, rebels fighting for autonomy in the Kurdish-dominated southeast region of Turkey. The PKK maintains bases in northern Iraq from where they launch hit-and-run attacks on Turkish targets.
"The regime is sending messages to Turkey through the PYD," said Mustafa Osso, a Kurdish lawyer and activist in the city of Qamishli. "The main message is that the Syrian regime has the capacity to spread chaos in the region."
The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union and has long been suspected of having close ties with Assad's Baathist regime.
If Kurds in Syria seek greater autonomy, this in turn could trigger a strong separatist drive from Turkey's Kurds in the east and south-east of the country, a potential crisis for the government in Ankara.
Gerges called the regime pullout a win-win situation for the Syrian regime.
"They know they cannot take on the Kurdish community and they realized that they have common interests with the PYD because the common enemy for both of them is Turkey," Gerges said.
PYD officials deny they are affiliated with the PKK or that they coordinate with the Syrian regime. They say they will not allow Syrian authorities to return to the areas they relinquished — but nor will they allow Syrian rebel fighters to enter their areas.
It is a unique opportunity for the Kurdish community in Syria, and residents say a politicization process has already started.
For the first time, Kurdish flags have replaced Syrian flags in towns and villages near the border areas. Cultural centers have sprung up and some people have begun taking up classes in the Kurdish language, which was forbidden by Assad.
Kurdish parties also are beginning to build networks with their Kurdish counterparts in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, confirmed last month that Syrian Kurds had received training in Iraqi Kurdistan although he said they had not taken part in fighting in Syria.
Also last month, Barzani brokered an agreement between rival Kurdish factions PYD and the Kurdish National Council, the main Kurdish umbrella group, to control the vacated areas together.
Osso says the reports of Kurdish empowerment and growing autonomy are exaggerated, adding that Syrian forces may return at any minute.
"But what is sure is that there will be no going back to the previous era of subordination and oppression," Osso said.
Although every Kurd aspires for statehood, Syria's Kurds say their goal is rather to become more autonomous.
They realize they are not even a majority in the areas where they live, where they coexist with ethnic Arab Muslims and Christians. The presence of oil wells in the fertile region may also be a cause of future friction with the Arabs in the region.
"A separate state is every Kurdish person's dream," said Siro Issa, a 24-year-old activist and singer, from the town of Amouda. "But we realize the difficulties.
"All we want is our rights, nothing more."
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NSAIDs May Lower Prostate Cancer Markers
Study Shows Ibuprofen and Other NSAIDs Reduce PSA Levels
Sept. 8, 2008 -- Regular use of aspirin, ibuprofen, and other anti-inflammatory pain relievers appears to lower blood levels of the prostate cancer biomarker prostate-specific antigen (PSA).
In a newly reported study, men who used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) almost every day had average PSA levels that were lower than men who didn't use the pain relievers.
The study is among the first to link NSAID use to lower PSA levels, but the clinical significance of the findings is not clear, researchers say.
The findings may mean that regular NSAID use helps protect against prostate cancer. Or NSAIDs may offer no protection at all, and may simply reduce the sensitivity of PSA as a screening tool for prostate cancer.
"All we can say from this study is that taking these medications regularly resulted in lower PSA values," urologist and study researcher Eric A. Singer, MD, of the University of Rochester Medical Center tells WebMD.
NSAIDS, PSA, and Prostate Cancer
Chronic inflammation is increasingly suspected of playing a role in several cancers, including those of the colon, bladder, and stomach.
There is also some evidence that inflammation plays a role in prostate cancer and that regular NSAID use may help protect against the cancer. But these studies are not conclusive, study co-author Edwin van Wijingaarden, PhD, tells WebMD.
"Several studies have reported a small benefit for NSAID use on prostate cancer, but there is very little information on its impact on PSA, which is the main screening tool for prostate cancer," he says.
In an effort to better understand the impact of NSAID use on PSA levels, the researchers analyzed data collected by the CDC in 2001 and 2002 as part of a nationwide health and nutrition survey. Information about dosage and reason for taking NSAIDs or acetaminophen were not available for analysis.
PSA levels and information on NSAID and acetaminophen use were available for 1,319 men included in the analysis. All the men were 40 or older, but most (72%) were not yet 60.
Men who reported using NSAIDs nearly every day had PSA levels that were about 10% lower than men who reported no current NSAID use.
The study is published in the Oct. 15 issue of the journal Cancer.
Study 'Raises Many Questions'
More study is needed to confirm the findings and to determine if regular NSAID use really does lower prostate cancer risk, the researchers conclude.
"This study raises many questions, but it is far too early to recommend aspirin, ibuprofen, or other NSAIDs to lower prostate cancer risk," says Singer.
Len Lichtenfeld, MD, who is deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, agrees.
"NSAIDs are powerful drugs, so we would never recommend them unless the benefits clearly outweighed the risks," he tells WebMD.
Most of the men in the study were younger than 60, and most prostate cancers occur in older men.
"This is an intriguing study, but the association clearly needs to be looked at in larger populations of men and in older populations," Lichtenfeld says.
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The one great ambition of humanity, since time immemorial, has been the establishment of an Ideal Society. There is no dearth of thinkers who construct ideal, each in his own way. The concept of the Ideal Society as visualized by Basava assumed the concrete form in the institution of Anubhava Mantapa. In this Mahamane or Anubhava Mantapa, Prabhu finds an Ideal Society as consisting of those who live according to the will of God who are rewarded in accordance with their spiritual actions by His Grace. Prabhu recognizes free casualty of will and conceives of the Ideal society as Kingdom of Ends. Casualty of will has a twofold function, one the primary and the other secondary. The primary function is exhibited in creation and destruction which is reserved to the Divine Will in its creativeness. All are unanimous in their verdict that Prabhu has attained the status of Jangamahood, that he moves without leaving the footprints, that his body casts no shadow, that he is an embodiment of celestial knowledge, that pure conduct is his wealth, that he is a master of Shivayoga, that he is the crest jewel of the Veerashaiva Darshana, that his resting place is the peerless Absolute, that his mode of worship is purely subjective and that he enjoys immortality.
The contemporaries and the close associates of Prabhu such as Basava, Channabasava, Siddharama, Appanna and a host of others have described the personality of Prabhu in true and glowing colours. All are unanimous in their verdict that Prabhu has attained the status of Jangamahood, that he moves without leaving the footprints, that his body casts no shadow, that he is an embodiment of celestial knowledge, that pure conduct is his wealth, that he is a master of Shivayoga, that he is the crest jewel of the Veerashaiva Darshana, that his resting place is the peerless Absolute, that his mode of worship is purely subjective and that he enjoys immortality. In the sequence of psychospiritual hierarchy, after Aikya sthala comes the Jangama sthala which represents the final consummation of Jangamahood, that is, of supermanhood. For it embodies the love of Bhakta, the power of Mahesha, the knowledge of Prasadi, the Will of Pranalingi, the bliss of Sharana and the unity of Aikya. Hence Jangama sthala signifies the status of Prabhu, who has ensouled the Divine with its diverse aspects and who thereby enlivens the society by his thought, word and deed. His own saying bears evidence to this fact:
The Great one
Whose gait is without feet
Whose touch is without hands
Whose taste is without tongue
Who begs with a bowl of love
For the Supreme.”
Jangama sthala denotes the finest consummation that lies in the complete descent of the Divine with its full love, power, knowledge, bliss and majesty into man. This descent transforms man into superman. Nietzche was the prophet of superman and he conceived Superman as the last product of evolution. He speaks thus: “I teach you the superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves.” Nietzche believes in evolution; as evolution passes from the animal stage to that of man, so its urge makes man emerge into superman. The superman is the man of power, of irresistible will. Nietzche emphasizes upon power and dominating will, and this lends a bad odour to his concept of superman. His revolt against Christ’s idea of love and grace, his repudiation of moral values made him present a titan instead a true man. The concept of Veerashaivism as regards superman differs from Nietzche’s. There is no concept of emergence; rather it is the waking of the Divine that is dormant. When the Divine awakes, it manifests in man either as a descent from above or as disclosure from within, bringing in its wake the transformation of human energies into divine power. The superman is the concrete instrument and centre of the divine play in human society. Shri Aurobindo was a true prophet or superman. His great originality lies in showing how man can be transformed into superman and usher in a divine race of humanity. Shri Aurobindo is very critical of the concept of superman as adumbrated by the ordinary man. All heroes, all saints and all mystics cannot be superman in the true sense. He affirms that the divine descent makes man a superman. But when the Divine force takes possession of an individual, it is likely that the individual may not be completely transformed. There are times when the Divine force meets obstruction in some part of the subject and cannot completely establish itself; or the subject may not be strong enough to receive the full impression of the Divine force; or the Divine may descend no further than the intuitive mind leaving other parts of human nature inelastic and uninspired. Such superman does not exhibit the highest possibility and the finest transformation. The true superman is he when the finest transformation takes place, consequent upon the descent of the Divine with its full range and intensity of power in man, making him all too Divine in place of all too human.
Prabhu has achieved this finest transformation culminating in the spiritualization of flesh. His body, mind, heart and will have all been transformed into the original setting of the Divine power. The tranquillity of being, joyous activity, harmonious movement and the transparency of body are all the visible results of this transformation. Wise and compassionate, he moves freely. But the wisdom of Superman is common sense in an uncommon degree. He reads the panorama of life at first hand, for life in its deeper layers stands revealed before his cosmic intuition. He is moved by compassion but it is difficult to predict the movement of superman, for the texture of his being is always reinforced by the divine inspiration. He sees more extensively, he feels more keenly than ordinary human beings, for his whole being is filled with supernal light. The transforming process under the stress of the Divine power goes up to the physical level, and energizes even the cells and nerve centres of the body by removing disease and death. If with different thought currents the nervous system is affected and the tone is changed, then it is no wonder that the Divine power can spiritualize flesh and remove the sense of its materialistic nature. Matter is indeed energy checked in its creative flow because of the dominance of inertia or Tamas; if by the principle of replacement of energy, inertia is conquered, matter will cease to exist and it will be all life. From the standpoint of life, there is no matter, but only the play of spirit through the different grades of expressions.
What is the principle of replacement of energy? To know this, we have only to understand the nature of life energy. There are two kinds of Prana or life energy, one the Suxma or subtle and the other Sthula or gross. Suxma Prana or the vital energy moves in the artistry of the subtle body, whereas Sthula Prana or gross energy has its movements in the nervous system of the physical body. Sthula Prana is one but as it functions in the body, it is termed variously in accordance with the parts of the body it controls. So we arrive at five kinds of energy known as Prana, Apana, Udana, Samana and Vyana. As there is no equilibrium in their functions, disease sets in the body and degeneration overtakes it. Kaya-shuddhi or purity of the body is obtained by bringing about a poise in the function. But Kaya-siddhi or perfection of body is possible only when the ordinary fivefold functions of Sthula-prana are replaced by the homogeneous action of the Suxma-prana which is charged with vital electricity. Prabhu, as he was a great yogi, knew the secret of the replacement of energy, and by virtue of this principle he had attained the Vyomakaya or the etherial body, which, unlike the physical body, could neither cast shadow nor leave the marks of the movements of the body. That Kaya-siddhi or the attainment of an etherial body is a possibility which can be actualized by great yogis is corroborated by the saying of Shri Aurobindo: “Perfect kaya-siddhi includes other developments such as the Siddhis of Mahima, Laghima, Anima and the invulnerability and incorruptibility of the body powers hitherto attained in the kaliyuga only by very advanced siddhas. They depend primarily on the replacement of the ordinary fivefold processes of Prana, Apana, Samana, Udana and Vyana by the single simplified action of the original or elemental force of Prana, the infinite vital energy surcharged with electricity, vaidyutam.” The statement of the contemporaries as well as of the close associates of Prabhu that his body casts not a shadow, that he moves without leaving footprint is not a fiction; on the contrary, it is an act which can be realized through the process of yoga. Prabhu ascended the Spiritual Throne, the Shunyasimhasana and adorned it with sublime grandeur. The architect of this Spiritual Pontifical Throne was Basava. The Throne was studded with jewels, the colours of which began to flash and its golden peak shone splendidly with incomparable incandescence, but it was surrounded with sharp pointed swords. The throne would often occasion alternate emotions of terror and joy, terror, because of its novelty and uniqueness and joy because of spiritual ecstasy. Basava constructed it with a view to distinguish the true Jangamas from the false ones. Prabhu alone ascended it, for he possessed the etherial body which could remain immune from hurt. The saying of Madivala Machideva, a contemporary of Basava and Prabhu, is typical of this fact. “Behold, the great Master with dishevelled hair ascended the Shunyasimhasana.” Basava with his humility and sincerity, with his faith and sense of surrender was yet critical. He subjected Prabhu to the severe test not because he desired his humiliation, but because he wanted to demonstrate the greatness and glory of Prabhu to the people at large and preferably to the so-called Jangamas.
Prabhu was a possessor of Vyomakaya; he was also a preacher of Vyomasiddhanta or Gaganasiddhanta. Vyoma, Gagana, Shunya, Bayalu all are cognate terms signifying the Supreme or the Absolute. Prabhu preached the truth of the Absolute to the members of the Anubhava Mantapa. Anubhava Mantapa or Shivanubhava Mantapa is variously named as Mahamane, Oddolaga, Puratanara Samiti, etc. Many a time Prabhu refers to it in his sayings, “Sangana Basavanna built the Great House or Mahamane in this mortal world. When I went to see it, it swallowed me even before I stepped into it. Shiva sent a Sharana (Basavanna) to the mortal world lest the Great House or Mahamane go to rack and ruin. Oh! Guheshwara, blessed indeed am I at the sight of the great House of Sangana Basavanna.” Siddharama ejaculates in a similar strain, “Hail to the great House of Sangana Basavanna. Oh! Kapilasiddhamallinatha.”
The one great ambition of humanity, since time immemorial, has been the establishment of an Ideal Society. There is no dearth of thinkers who construct ideal, each in his own way. The concept of the Ideal Society as visualized by Basava assumed the concrete form in the institution of Anubhava Mantapa. In this Mahamane or Anubhava Mantapa, Prabhu finds an Ideal Society as consisting of those who live according to the will of God who are rewarded in accordance with their spiritual actions by His Grace. Prabhu recognizes free casualty of will and conceives of the Ideal society as Kingdom of Ends. Casualty of will has a twofold function, one the primary and the other secondary. The primary function is exhibited in creation and destruction which is reserved to the Divine Will in its creativeness. The secondary function is exhibited in the regulation of cosmic affairs. The transformed human or the Saint can take active part in the latter, but not in the former. With a metaphysical basis and moral and the concept of the Ideal Society, whose members share a common ideal and who strive to establish the Kingdom of Heaven here upon the earth, is one of the noteworthy contributions of Anubhava Mantapa to the religious philosophy of the world.
Tradition maintains that Prabhu gave up his Holy Ghost in the plantain grove of Shrishaila. The terms plantain grove, Shrishaila or Tribhuvanagiri, Amrita, etc. are often met with in his sayings. The Plantain grove represents the body with a cluster of innumerable cells, ganglions and nerves; Shrishaila or Tribhuvanagiri, the Brahmarandhra; Amrita, the cerebrospinal fluid. There is a cavity in the brain and it is known as Brahmarandhra, or rather Brahmarandhra is the intercommunicating cavity of the four ventricles of the brain. Suxma Prana courses through this cavity and is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord. This cavity is constantly secreting fluid which is otherwise known as vitality in occult science. If the nectar of life is preserved and made to course through the whole frame, then every cell of the body is charged with vitality. We must not confuse vitality with electricity. Its action differs in many ways from that of either electricity, light or heat. These cause oscillation of the atom as a whole, but vitality comes to the atom not from without, but from within. An atom then is nothing but the manifestation of a force. As vitality wells up from within, it weans the body from the inertia of matter and converts it into a force centre. The yogi, who has achieved this state, can materialize and dematerialize his body at will; and death cannot touch him. The consciousness of Prabhu was effortlessly identified with universal vitality. Hence gravitation, whether the force of Newton or Einstein’s manifestation of inertia, as powerless to compel him to exhibit the property of weight, which is the distinctive condition of all material objects. Prabhu, who had his consciousness cleared of all mists, could perceive the cosmic essence, a divine light, move with the velocity of light and utilize the creative light rays in bringing into instant visibility any physical manifestation and dematerialization. Prabhu was indeed the master of this process, and hence he did not die a natural death like ordinary mortals nor did he give up his Holy Ghost like a saint, but as a perfect Master he dematerialized his body at will, without the constraint of space and time, of here and thereafter.
Listen to his celestial saying:
“To Him who, ascending the mountain of the triple abode
With His breath pulsing upward from the still base,
Penetrates the plantain grove of the flesh;
To the Glorious one who moves about
Where here and hereafter are one,
Farther than where is the light of the Absolute
Beyond understanding and beyond change,
The consummation of the Ultimate Knowledge;
To Him, the Glorious One who has realized Thy reality,
I say, Hail!. Oh! Hail!!”
This article – ‘Allama Prabhu – His Legacy and Personality’ – is taken from H.H.Mahatapasvi Shri Kumarswamiji-s book, ‘Prophets of Veerashaivism’.
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Semper Fidelis: A Novel of the Roman Empire
Set in 2nd-century Roman Britain during Hadrian’s rule, this interesting read started out slow for a mystery but picked up speed about a quarter of the way through. After that, I had trouble putting it down at night. There are many twists, turns, and setbacks for the protagonist, Gaius Petreius Ruso, a Roman army medical officer, and for his wife Tilla, a native Briton. Upon his deployment to the 20th Legion at Eboracum, Ruso notices an unusually high number of suicides, mysterious deaths and injuries among the new Briton recruits piling up in the medical registry. His curiosity earns him the enmity of the decorated Centurion Geminus, commander of the 20th Legion, and leads to death plots against him and his wife.
The book was well researched, and the author did a fine job providing a feel for what 2nd-century Romans and Britons were like — as well as letting the readers sense their mutual suspicions. There were times, however, when I wished the author had made better use of “he said” and “she said” rather than their substitutes. From an issues standpoint, this book had more depth than most mysteries and perhaps should be classified as mainstream. All of the characters, major and minor, were very well drawn. Highly recommended.
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11/17/2010 1:57 AM
Fox may have won its recent retrans fight with Cablevision but the skirmish represents just the beginning of what could be a new era of access battles between the broadcast industry and traditional and new multichannel distributors.
With more consumers attempting to skirt the traditional pay-TV model by viewing programming for free over the Internet and with subscriptions to streaming services, broadcasters are scrambling to manage program distribution in an increasingly competitive market.
There’s perhaps no better illustration of this dichotomy than the recent introduction of Google TV, which launched last month via a Sony HDTV set, set-top box and Blu-ray player. Despite the perception that just about anything with the Google name on it is an instant success, the jury is still out on whether the new platform, which is essentially a Google browser optimized for TV, will become the glue that finally welds television with the Internet.
Minus a guaranteed revenue model, three of the four major networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, along with their Web distributor Hulu.com, are blocking access via Google TV to their programming, (the networks are, however, currently in negotiations with Google, according to published reports).
Diluting the effect of lucrative retransmission fees seems to be among the prime motives, according to analysts, who speculate that providing such access would lead to even more cord cutting from pay-TV.
Google execs claim that such blockades mean that broadcasters “misunderstand” the concept of Google TV, but we would politely disagree. Broadcasters understand that Google TV is another distribution platform, albeit one with more potential landmines than the traditional cable/satellite models. In fact, Google TV could represent the biggest attempt yet to redefine the relationship between networks and their affiliates.
And the fact that the company decided to go ahead with the launch of its television service without reaching agreements with the networks implies that either Google made too many erroneous assumptions or that they themselves “misunderstand” broadcasters.
Gerry Kaufhold, an analyst with In-Stat believes that the lack of a current distribution deal with the networks “steals a lot of the thunder from the Google TV launch but it’s not a deal breaker.” As for some of the technical problems regarding connecting to the service, software compatibility and video quality, we cover some of these issues in our cover story “Google TV Debuts.”
But as is the case in our industry, the technology problems can often be solved much easier than the problems of content access. The concept of Internet TV has been around for more than a decade; broadcasters have been fully aware that it would become a reality once broadband became more ubiquitous and a company as powerful as Google finally got its act together. Whether that’s the case with Google TV is still debatable; nevertheless, whatever agreement broadcasters hammer out with the search engine giant could very well be the model for future program distribution. Broadcasters have time on their side—for now.
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Domestic violence includes domestic or spousal abuse, battering, or making threats that someone would reasonably place a person in fear that they were about to be physically harmed. Examples of domestic violence include:• Stalking • Harassment • Destroying someone’s property • Trespass • Social or economic deprivation • Battery • Sexual assault • Threats of violence
The person who is being threatened or harmed must have been in an intimate relationship. This includes the following:•Spouse or ex-spouse •Parent •Same-sex partner •Person sharing custody of a child •Roommate or ex-roommate •Girlfriend or boyfriend living together or who once lived together •Current or former fiance
If charged as a simple domestic battery, you face a misdemeanor conviction. A simple battery need not involve physical violence, but can be a threat of force or any contact without consent and if done in an angry or offensive way.
An offender’s record of a simple battery conviction can be sealed within two years of the conviction and cannot be used as a “prior” offense to enhance a domestic violence charge or sentence.
If there is serious bodily injury such as a concussion, broken limb or lacerations requiring stitches, you can be charged with Aggravated Battery, which is a felony. If you had a previous conviction for an aggravated assault within the past 7 years, you can be charged with an aggravated crime.
A domestic violence conviction is generally a misdemeanor unless there was a sexual assault or serious and permanent injuries resulted. It also depends on your criminal history and prior acts of violence. A misdemeanor conviction in California carries a minimum of 3 years of informal probation and up to 1 year in county jail. If you had a prior offense within 7 years, there is a mandatory minimum jail sentence of 15 days. It is 60 days if you had at least 2 prior convictions within 7 years.
You also face up to $6,000 in fines, or $10,000, if you had a prior conviction
Other aspects of your sentence include a payment to a battered woman’s shelter of up to $5,000 and reimbursement of medical expenses to the battered victim. You also face a protective order against any further act of violence against the victim and/or a restraining order prohibiting you from any contact with the victim for up to 10 years.
Typically, the court will order an offender to participate in a community service program or class regarding spousal battering.
A felony carries formal probation and up to 2-4 years in state prison, or up to 5 years if you had a prior conviction for sexual assault or other aggravated assault. Your sentence can be enhanced if the victim or anyone else involved in the incident, regardless if they were an intimate partner, sustained great bodily harm.
You also face a “strike” under California’s Three Strikes Law. A second strike will double your sentence. Three strikes carries a term of 25-years to life in state prison.
You must also comply with any court-ordered community or treatment programs and with any restraining and/or protective orders.
Possible defenses include self-defense if the aggressor was the other party and you were defending yourself against violence.
The credibility of the accuser may be an issue, especially if there are other circumstances such as a pending divorce or child custody dispute where the accuser may be motivated to fabricate a domestic assault charge.
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Does this photo sometimes connect to how you or your child feels when it comes time to talk about math at home?
Do images of yelling, crying, and frustration come to mind? Or maybe you have it pretty well figured out and homework time usually turns out to be quite successful. Whatever the case may be, we all need a little extra help and advice at times and this is the place to get it.
The parent resource section is designed to give parents the tools they need to help their children succeed in math (and not drive parents or kids crazy in the process). Below you will find links to a number of different areas in which parents and students tend to have the most difficulty when it comes to working on math at home.
Please browse through the resources and don't be afraid to jump to a number of different links until you find something that really connects to your individual needs. If you can't find what you are looking for, post a question in the forum or leave us a comment at the bottom of this page and let us know what you need. Enjoy!
Math Anxiety - Your role in preventing math anxiety and building confidence and esteem in your child.
The "H" Word - Tips and strategies to help your child with math homework.
Tutorials - Yes, they are for you too. Help to explain topics in a different way or to brush up on your own skills.
Worksheets - Is your child in need some extra practice materials? Find what you need here.
Parent Forum - Talk with other parents, post questions and concerns, or share success stories you have had.
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QUESTION: My homeowners association passed a rule that prohibits us from having pets, including common household pets like indoor cats, fish and birds. Do I really have to get rid of my fish tank?
ANSWER: Should an HOA be able to stop me from buying my 3-year-old daughter a goldfish for Christmas? Should it be able to demand that your grandmother part with beloved Fluffy?
The answer may surprise you.
Courts may get rid of pet bans because they are unjust, violate public policy, are extremely one-sided in favor of the association or exceed the association's power. However, this is not a guarantee. A court may uphold a pet ban if the ban helps to protect the common area.
Moreover, Arizona statutes govern the validity and enforceability of a homeowners association's declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions. Accordingly, proposed amendments to condominium CC&Rs banning housebound pets would require unanimous consent of all of owners (including those with pets). Thankfully, the overwhelming majority of Arizona associations steer clear of restricting what one can and cannot do within the walls and privacy of their own home. Of those associations that try to play the dictator role, I oftentimes find that the rule was created to satisfy a board member's personal dislike of animals.
Personal biases alone do not create the justification needed for a court to uphold a pet ban. In fact, rules adopted by the board on these grounds are likely a breach of the board's duty to act reasonably in their rule-making powers and to treat the membership fairly.
Clint Goodman is a lawyer with Jackson White, practicing in the areas of real estate and association law. Questions Goodman answers in this column are general in nature and his responses should not be construed as legal advice from either him or the Republic. Send those questions to email@example.com. Goodman is also an attorney for Homeowners Institute, an educational organization providing information to member homeowners about their rights and liabilities in associations.
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Organizations that support ethics initiatives consistently show more productivity and employee retention than organizations that consider corporate ethics merely an issue of compliance. Workplace Answers Ethics in the Workplace course helps employees confront real-life workplace behavior and familiarize them with Code of Conduct and ethics policies. It's training designed to help employees understand their personal obligations and the consequences of violations.
The Value of Ethics in Business
An ethical corporation is not an oxymoron: in fact it can be very successful. A company that conducts business in an ethical manner engenders respect from within the company and from outside. Employee retention is high at companies that promote ethical behaviors. Consumers demonstrate brand loyalty to companies that exhibit a strong sense of corporate responsibility and stewardship.
The need for corporate ethics is strong. In a marketplace of unfair competition, underhanded practices, and consumer distrust, the company that emerges with its integrity intact becomes a preferred consumer choice.
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The challenge for corporations is to translate their mission statement into an everyday model employees can use from the boardroom to the front line. That’s where training from Workplace Answers can help. Our ethics training classes bridge the gap between mission statement and corporate practice.
Our interactive, engaging online ethics training is designed to help employees understand their critical role in maintaining company principles. Real-world scenarios challenge the learner to examine common behaviors and practices and forecast unfortunate consequences. They ask employees to go beyond compliance, to look at the larger issues, while still keeping an eye on the bottom line.
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Ethics training prepares employees to respond appropriately when questionable issues cross their path. Workplace Answers modules cover a variety of scenarios:
Recognizing and preventing money laundering
International trade control and financial transactions
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An ethical company is only as strong as its weakest employee. Assure your staff understands and applies you ethics policies with preventative training from Workplace Answers.
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During last week’s regular meeting of the Fulton Board of Aldermen, city officials discussed whether or not to significantly cut or even outright stop making its annual contributions to the Itawamba County DARE program.
The suggestion was offered by Fulton Mayor Paul Walker, who asked the board to either cut the city’s yearly $10,000 contribution in half to $5,000 or do away with it altogether.
The mayor expressed his belief that the city is putting more into the program than it’s getting back.
“I think we’re paying more than we should,” Walker said. “I don’t think we’re getting more out of it than we’re putting in.”
While the board didn’t outright agree with the suggestion — in fact, they eventually tabled it until they could research it further — they didn’t outright decline the suggestion either.
“Our problem is, we don’t know how they’re spending that money,” said alderman Barry Childers — a statement that seemed to mirror the opinions of the rest of the aldermen.
The county’s DARE program is overseen by the Itawamba County Sheriff’s Department and covers the sixth grade classes at each county school. The program costs just under $43,000 annually. This money is used to pay the salary of part-time DARE officer Terry Fortune, who teaches the class, and purchase the necessary supplies such as workbooks and T-shirts given to students for participating in the program.
Funding for the program comes from several sources: Fulton pays $10,000; the Itawamba County School District provides $15,000; and the Sheriff’s Department’s foots the remaining expenses.
Neither the town of Mantachie nor Tremont contributes funds to the DARE program, though both of their schools participate in the program.
Whether or not Fulton specifically is getting the most out of the anti-drug program would be difficult to see at a passing glance. The city’s annual $10,000 investment can be seen as just that — an investment, the results of which may or may not be accurately discerned until years later.
For example, how many Fulton students has the program prevented from falling into a pattern of drug abuse and arrest — racking up expenses for the local police department — over the years? Without polling each and every single one of the program’s participants, an accurate number is likely impossible to obtain.
Aldermen will continue to discuss the city’s support of the DARE program during future meetings.
The board also is considering whether or not to provide financial support for the proposed Itawamba County animal shelter.
According to Walker, representatives from the shelter’s board of directors have asked the city to make a yearly contribution of $10,000 to the shelter to help with operations. In turn, this would remove the city’s current responsibility of housing stray animals, which is currently done in a small penned area within the city landfill.
Whether or not this is a good tradeoff, the board wasn’t certain. While agreeing the new animal shelter would take some of the pressure off the city, aldermen weren’t sure if the savings were there.
Fulton’s animal control operates using a single dog catcher, who is also an employee of the street department. Captured animals are housed for approximately five days before being taken to the Lee County Animal Shelter, where Street Department Director Stacy Smith said most are adopted.
During their stay in Fulton, animals are fed and receive medical attention, if needed. The city spends approximately $4,300 annually to care for animals housed in its shelter, not including manpower or gas.
Smith said the city is typically housing between five and 10 dogs at any given time.
While still expressing interest in supporting the proposed animal shelter, the board also expressed satisfaction with the current setup.
“Our system isn’t bad right now,” the mayor told the board. “It’s not perfect, but it works.”
Walker said it’s possible the city may support the program in other ways — possibly providing labor or land. The board tabled the issue and is expected to return to it during a future meeting.
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Hurricane Sandy is causing flooding related issues throughout Chester County.
The National Weather Service has issued flood warnings for the Brandywine Creek near Downingtown and in Chadds Ford.
In Downingtown, the most recent staging of the creek was a three feet and flood stage is seven feet, according to the weather service. Flooding is expected by late Monday afternoon and should subside below flood stage by late Tuesday morning, the weather service said.
In Chadds Ford, the latest measurements of the creek were at three feet and flooding occurs at nine feet, according to the weather service. Flooding is expected by late afternoon Monday and the creek is expected to crest at 13 feet.
Communities and residents throughout the county are preparing in numerous ways.
In West Chester, Mayor Carolyn Comitta said she sees everyone doing their part and neighbors helping each other out.
“My input as the storm approaches is that it appears people are prepared,” Comitta said. “Lawn furniture, cans, etc. are indoors for the most part.”
Comitta added that she checked on her 98-year-old neighbor to make sure she had everything she needed. At her home, Comitta said she saw neighbors had already dropped off food and she had a set up complete with a portable radio and flashlights.
West Chester Police Chief Scott Bohn said his department is heading an emergency operations center for the borough, West Chester University and East Bradford. He said downed trees and flooding, especially in East Bradford, are of concern to his department. He said if anyone encounters problems, they need to contact emergency personnel and not try to handle any situations on their own.
“Hopefully people will be patient and relay the necessary information to us directly so we can respond to emergencies as quickly as possible.” Bohn said.
Borough offices will remain closed on Tuesday and Tuesday’s trash collection will be delayed until Wednesday.
Downingtown has declared a state of emergency and has asked any residents in low-lying areas of the borough to evacuate if possible.
“Don’t depend on the electricity being on to run and handle your sub-pumps,” said Borough Manager Stephen Sullins. “Once the power goes out, you have no way (to run it) unless you have generator power.”
Police Chief James McGowan is heading the emergency operations center for the borough and staff is monitoring creek heights and street closings.
The Downingtown Borough website, www.downingtown.org, will be frequently updated with notices regarding road closures, and evacuation and staging areas. Updates can also be received through the borough’s social media websites, including Facebook and Twitter.
In West Whiteland, refuse or recycling collection on Tuesday has been cancelled. The next collection for both services will be Tuesday, Nov. 6.
Residents with questions are asked to e-mail Assistant Township Manager Pam Gural-Bear at email@example.com.
The Warner family, which lives in a 200-year-old farmhouse in Uwchlan, was preparing to be without power and water for an extended period of time as Sandy storms through.
“We always lose power,” Nancy Warner said during a break from baking bread and preparing a turkey breast to last a few days. “The only thing we hope is that we’ve lost so many trees in past storms that there’s only one left that could possibly land on the house.”
Upper Uwchlan Manager Cary Vargo said that the township had identified roads that would likely need to be closed because of flooding, and areas where downed trees have been a problem.
“The police, public works, and administration will be here for the duration of the storm,” Vargo said in an interview. “We’ve become very accustomed to this situation, based on the storms we’ve had in recent ears, snow storms, tropical storms and hurricanes. We’re getting fairly good at it.”
Caln engineer Jeffrey McClintock said that he expected road closures throughout the township and Valley Run was expected to begin flooding during the early afternoon on Monday.
Sunday night In Tredyffrin Township, the emergency operations center came to life.
The emergency operations center last came together during Hurricane Irene one year ago. That experience proved valuable in planning for Sandy’s wrath.
“We have a lot of veteran people here who weathered through Irene, and I expanded the center a little bit to add some things we felt we needed,” Tredyffrin Police Commissioner Anthony Giaimo said. “We looked at what we did well and at what we could use extra support on, and made adjustments accordingly.”
Giaimo said precautions were taken in low-lying areas, including road closures and informing some residents that temporarily vacating their homes could be the best option.
With its emergency plan in full swing, Easttown Township had multiple crews watching for flooding dangers.
“We have them in rotation looking for places where drains need to be cleaned out and doing that,” Easttown Township Manager Mike Brown said. “We were doing much of the same thing starting on Thursday of last week, but it’s difficult to keep up on it because of the volume of stuff that’s already on the ground.”
Malvern Borough also put its emergency plan into action over the weekend
“We did declare it a disaster emergency, and our public works have been out looking for potential sewer problems,” Malvern Borough Manager Sandy Kelley said. “We haven’t really made any other preparations outside of what’s in our emergency operations manual.
“Our biggest concern is power outages and downed trees. We have people out today, and they’ll be checking storm drains again until it’s over.”
The Red Cross has established emergency shelters at Lionville Middle School and Avon Grove High School. They can accommodate about 400 people at the shelters, according to spokeswoman Sara Smith.
Lawrence Dining Hall at West Chester University will close Monday at 5 p.m. According to Pam Sheridan, public relations and marketing for the university, the dining hall was busy Monday preparing boxed meals for those students on meal plans. Students are able to pick up dinner for Monday and breakfast for Tuesday.
Sheridan said provided the University has power Tuesday, the dining hall would reopen and continue to serve meals to students. As of 3 p.m. Monday, 1,700 students had come to claim the meals.
The shuttle service at the university will stop Monday. Sheridan added that those students with vehicles who wish to move their cars into the Sharpless garage could do so free of charge until Wednesday at 8 a.m.
The Chester County Health Department warns that resident should avoid flood waters when possible, because of unknown sewage or contaminants that may be in the water. If flood waters cannot be avoided during clean-up efforts, residents are urged to take precautions such as wearing rubber gloves. The department warns not to digest the flood waters. Residents are encouraged to avoid boating or swimming in the water, as well.
Residents with sewer systems affected by flooding and sewage running into the streets on onto your property are asked to call your local municipal authority to inform the of the overflow, the health department said. Residents with septic systems are warned that the system will likely be damaged and may need to be pumped out after the weather has subsided.
If sewage from the septic system is running into a stream, residents are urged notify their municipality and call the Department of Environmental Protection 24-hour emergency number- 484-250-5900.
If sewage is inside anyone’s home, the first priority is to remove it using a sump pump or some other means and then call a plumber to repair the system once the storm is over, the health department said.
If residents are using a well for water and it has been submerged during the storm, residents are asked to not drink or use the water for hygiene or ice purposes, according to the health department. If the water must be used, it should be boiled for two to five minutes. Once the storm has ended, residents should inspect their wells for damage. If no damage has been done, residents are asked to run water until it is clear before using.
Patty Mains, spokeswoman for the county’s department of emergency services, said dry ice is not available for residents at this time.
Local liquor stores were closed Monday and the state will monitor the storm to determine if stores will open on Tuesday.
Check back as more details become available.
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A new report predicts urban air pollution will become the No. 1 cause of premature death in the coming decades, beating out poor sanitation and dirty drinking water to take more than 3.5 million lives per year.
Fearing reduced chances for re-election by a public angry about mass unemployment, President Obama walked away from a nationwide plan to strengthen air quality standards after business interests lobbied aggressively in opposition. (more)
The National Resources Defense Council has given us a view from above on extreme temperature, smog and allergen pollution, drought and flood vulnerability in the United States for select periods over the last two decades. (more)
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To kick off 2009, we put together a quiz based on citizen questions and some crime/quality-of-life problems we encounter regularly in Jeffco. We invite you to take the quiz and see if you know the best way to handle the following scenarios.
Q: You want to teach your young child to stay away from adults who could harm him or her. What’s a good phrase to help them remember?
a. “Trust no one”
b. “Say no to strangers”
c. “Check first before you go anywhere with anyone”
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As F. Lennox Campello notes in his lively blog, Mid Atlantic Art News, he got there before me in rebuking the Washington Post for its race-based story on Jacob Lawrence in the White House.
Granted. He’s first. Now that I’ve read his stories, however, two things pop up. First is his assessment of Jacob Lawrence’s character. Evaluating the personality of artists isn’t a critic’s job. Just by logging in on that subject, Campello is already over the top. But because I find his version of Lawrence so deeply off base, I’m going to bat the ball back in a court neither of us should be playing on in the first place.
Lawrence was a generous, gentle person. Thomas Merton wrote once that people full of grace accept praise the way a pane of glass accepts the sun. Praise passes through them without changing their character. I’ve seen Lawrence both fawned over and patronized, and he never retreated from the humane, enagaged and thoughtful contact he offered everyone.
Here’s Campello’s take: “In my own personal experience, Jacob Lawrence was pretty close to an a–hole as an arts teacher (which sometimes means that he was also a brilliant teacher to students other than me), a pretty good drinking buddy, and an opinionated b–tard. But Lawrence and his artwork was also without a doubt (in my opinion) one of the greatest American contributions (and artists) of the 20th century.”
You’re entitled, Campello, but I doubt there’s a person in Seattle who’d agree with you on your personal comments. Not a single one.
Onward to eyebrows. He found my comments about Laura Bush’s eyebrow pencil “rather weird.” It would be weird if she were an artist or any kind of private citizen. But she’s First Lady. When she muffs the makeup for a photo shoot, it’s worth a deconstructing comment or two.
What would be petty if I had written it about my mother is fair for the First. She’s surrounded by helpers and heading for the Washington’s Post’s camera. Is it a cry for help? A public sign of private anguish? Decoding Laura Bush’s eyebrow would have been child’s play for Roland Barthes, but since he’s no longer with us, I simply raised the question.
On the other hand, I see Campello’s point. I’m not Barthes nor Tim Gunn. In the future I pledge to leave everybody’s eyebrows alone.
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Montebello della Battaglia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 km south of Milan and about 20 km south of Pavia.
Montebello della Battaglia borders the following municipalities: Borgo Priolo, Casteggio, Codevilla, Lungavilla, Torrazza Coste, Verretto, Voghera.
It is famous for two battles: in that of 1800 the French army under Jean Lannes defeated an Austrian army. That of 1859, part of the Austro-Sardinian War, was a victory of the armies of France and Savoy, again over the Austrians.
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I've been searching around and can't seem to find a definitive answer to my question.
I have just finished downloading U5 to my desktop computer, and packages are being installed as I type this.
My situation is the following. I have a home desktop computer and a laptop computer, both running LMDE 64 bit edition. Both have almost the same software on them with possibly a dozen or so exceptions.
What I would like to do is transfer the downloaded packages from my desktop to my laptop to keep from having to download them all again.
Can I copy over the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives from my desktop over to my laptop and create a local repository to install the update? My plan would be to then sync any new packages downloaded to my desktop with my "local repo" on my laptop. Is there perhaps a better way to do this?
I am familiar with setting up a local repository for .rpm based distributions, but not familiar with .deb based distributions. I really don't want to run a ftp or http server on my desktop machine. Any pointers or tips are surely appreciated.
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One concept that I encountered frequently in my studies of the West Indies and West Indians was “negativity”. Negativity, it is said, perpetuates all kinds of social ills. You’ve got to be “positive” to get anything accomplished. It’s a load of crap, of course, but it is said so often that folks actually start to believe it. Charges of negativity are most often used to stifle criticism and to make victims of social ills blame themselves.
While it is fitting to try to keep on the sunny side of life, it makes no sense to deny that problems exist or to obscure their causes, unless you are the cause. I have known quite a few managers who regard any kind of complaint or criticism as manifesting a “bad attitude” even when the criticism or complaint is well founded. There is no problem except for the critic and his pesky negativity. Problem solving skills get you nowhere, whereas a sunny disposition counts for a lot.
Among West Indians, the concept of negativity serves to keep people in their places and to perpetuate the status quo. The so called “barrel crab mentality” is blamed for a lack of social mobility. Like crabs in a barrel, where any crab that is about to escape gets pulled down by the others, West Indians supposedly prevent their peers from succeeding by “talking them down”. The mechanism by which this negative talk works its magic has never been described to me, and I am a skeptic when it comes to claims about “mentality”. The fact is that there are plenty of barriers to social mobility in West Indian society that have nothing to do with the mentality of would be social climbers. Pointing these barriers out gets you labeled as “negative” and a “barrel crab”.
The same myth prevailed in New Town, the African American section of my hometown. Black folks couldn’t get ahead because other black folks wouldn’t let them. It wasn’t segregation and racism at all. They had only themselves to blame.
In 1999, one of the contestants in the Barbados calypso contest took the concept of negativity and turned it on its head in her social commentary. She dressed as a nurse and sang a piece entitled “Are You Positive?” She was referring to HIV, which was a huge problem that nobody wanted to talk about. She was able to comment on it by using the call for “positivity” in a novel way. Social commentary in calypso is one of the few acceptable outlets for complaints about society. Calypso artists can be as negative as they like as long as they put it to a happy tune.
Joel Osteen and his ilk are looking to get all kinds of people to blame themselves for their problems and to accept whatever crap we are fed with a smile on our faces and a song in our hearts. “You’re dying of pancreatic cancer? Look on the bright side. The man who died from it yesterday would love to be in your shoes!”
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Art Education iPhone and iPad App is Now Available at No Cost
Jan 09, 2013 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) --
Art ABC, from Oh Factory, is a popular educational app designed to help little ones learn the alphabet with fun and sophistication, is temporarily being offered as a free download in the iTunes App Store.
Usually, Art ABC retails for $0.99, and its affordable price point and cultured presentation have already earned the app accolades from fans. Parents love that Art ABC is simple enough for tiny hands to use without much help, as well as the fact that it is illustrated with backgrounds from famous artwork rather than stock cartoon art. Children love its interactive nature, which allows them to explore each background, and rewards them with creative animations and images as they discover objects which match each letter of the alphabet.
Soothing background music and a gentle narrator ensure that Art ABC doesn't overstimulate while it entertains budding scholars. Beautiful artistic backgrounds delight children as they transform when tiny fingers tap the screen, highlighting objects in varied and unique ways. For example, a prompting icon encourages children to tap an impressionistic sky for the letter "M," which reveals the painted moon, lighting the landscape.
Art ABC teaches the alphabet, presents the correlation between sound and letter, and does this in a beautifully artistic setting. It's a great choice for parents seeking apps that can enrich their children's education.
Now is the best time to download the app, given the fact that it's available at no charge. Parents can find Art ABC in the iTunes App Store.
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iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/art-abc-hd/id577730848 mt=8
iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
Requires iOS 4.2 or later
Pricing and Availability:
Art ABC 1.2.1 is now free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store for both the iPhone and iPad.
About the Developer:
Oh Factory is an edutainment app developer who strives to use famous images and classic stories to provide creative methods for children when beginning to learn the alphabet, English vocabulary, numbers and colors.
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10300844.htm
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There is a real inequality in Argentine tango. There are almost always more women than men. How can we explain that? Despite what a lot of people say, men really have it pretty easy. Many teachers tell beginners, “all you have to do is walk.” Meanwhile, they are showing women how to do crosses, molinettes and ochos. Some men just stand there two footed, faking the lead for ochos while their partner works her bum off, staying on axis and powering through her pivots in spite of him… all in high heels, where one badly timed invasion of her axis could cause her free stilleto to slice across her big toe or impale her standing foot.Read More
In tango, a relaxed yet stable walk is very important. It turns out that the same walk in our everyday life can help us be more engaged in the world around us. Feeling our strength in the ground and relaxing through our steps while standing tall feels really good! We can feel much more aware of our selves and the world around us. Relaxing into the walk can be difficult, but luckily we have the ‘Ministry of Silly Walks’ to help us! This is a very silly walk, so maybe you just want to do it at home, unless you don’t mind looking silly, in which case feel free to do this walk wherever you like.Read More
Here is an easy challenge to get a feeling for changing weight and settling into one foot and relaxing the other. It is so very simple, and yet so important. Changing weight and settling is what we should be doing with every step we take. We cannot stress just how important this is, or that you should practice it wherever you go. If you think about it every now and then throughout your day, you will find yourself doing it more and more frequently until it just becomes the way you shift your weight. The end result will be a more relaxed and stable posture and better tango.Read More
This is a greatly expanded version of an exercise that we gave as prerequisite homework for our recent classes. Learning how to fine tune your posture is key to creating posture awareness which is very important in tango and in life. This also ties in nicely with a request for an awareness challenge from a friend in Turkey. Our friend had observed that after a shoulder adjustment, his hips and sacrum would sometimes respond in an unhealthy way. While this is far more than an awareness challenge, it does provide more comprehensive posture exercises to help bring awareness to the possible interactions that may occur as we adjust different aspects of our posture.
This is also one of the primary exercises I did many times a day when I felt my job situation deteriorating last summer. A timer on my computer told me to stand once an hour and this exercise is the minimum of what I did then and every other time I stood up from my desk. Doing this exercise many times a day can do wonders to correct the bad posture caused by stress, sitting too long, or time spent hunched over a desk or computer. Even better, do this exercise combined with a few stretches or even some exercise. Maybe a few sun salutations, some Bulgarian squats, or some push ups. Try it– your body will feel better and so will your mind!Read More
Eric and Susannah of TangoBreath are excited to announce a new immersive beginning tango class!
This is the perfect opportunity to dive into this dance if you have been curious. And this is the class for you if you have been wanting to have an intense, working review of the heart of this dance — core movement, good posture, and refined body awareness!
This 4-hour class would cover essential technique in Argentine tango to prepare you to attend milongas (social dances) and practicas in a much shorter time than a more traditional series. We will also be inviting experienced dancers in our community to participate, so that you will have the opportunity to work with individuals who can give you personalized and knowledgeable feedback during the class.
Sunday, August 26th
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
The West Asheville Vineyard, 717 Haywood Road
DEADLINE FOR REGISTERING: Friday, August 17th
We need to have a minimum number of participants to offer this class, so we encourage you to pre-register or contact us soon, if you are interested!
Additional IMPORTANT information:
We structure our classes in unique ways in order to delve into deep studies and explorations of our bodies and the material. Since we want you to get the best experience and assimilate the most from this intense class, we will have some required exercises and material before the lesson. We will provide all of this material to you two weeks in advance.
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A less commonly considered spiral
Most of the time when we think of our spiral energy as it relates to tango, we consider the torsion that happens in our torso, as our hips and ribs twist in opposite directions. However, there are many other “spirals” that happen in our bodies, and we would like to draw attention to the spiral that happens in our legs as we take a step. Understanding how the leg articulates at the hip joint during our walk can also transform our dance.Read More
Aligning our whole body, sinking into the ground through our standing leg
For those who come to TangoBreath, you have heard us often recall the image of Michelangelo’s David. We talk about sinking into the standing leg through the whole side body and dropping, or relaxing, the free hip. Much to our delight, when we were in Tuscon, Murat and Michelle Erdemsel showed a picture of David in one of their classes on alignments! They also shared a picture of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, which provides us a connection to the feminine form.Read More
As a continuation of last week’s challenge, Finding stability in our pelvis, in which we perceived subtle engagement in the area between the sacrum and hip joint, we are going to concentrate on releasing this same area. Balancing the internal dynamic between engagement and release is important to achieve our greatest flexibility, strength, and resiliency in our joints.Read More
We love the pelvis!
This week, we will explore how we can use deep pelvic muscles to move our sacrum, specifically connecting our sacrum and tailbone to our hip joints.Read More
Asking ourselves about our roles in learning and teaching Argentine tango.
Eric and I have been busy writing articles for this website and are enthusiastic about sharing our thoughts and explorations. We thought that now would be a good time to reflect on why we approach our learning and teaching in the way that we do and our goals in writing what we do.
We have been so grateful for the positive feedback from around the world and would like to thank everyone for having open hearts and open minds when reading our notes, since they are sometimes a bit unconventional. We are constantly seeking to find innovative ways of coming to a noble dance, while honoring its foundation and canon.
We also understand that some people who read our articles, but have never attended our classes or who do not know us personally, might be skeptical. We often contradict very common modes of tango instruction. Our goal in writing these articles is not to say that there is a right or wrong way of learning and teaching tango. Indeed, it is quite the opposite. We feel that being exposed to a variety of teaching approaches is crucial in becoming a well-rounded dancer. It is very likely that the synthesis of several different instructors teaching the same thing, each in different ways, finally creates the connections that a student needs to learn a concept.Read More
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Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound … we know you’ve got one. What’s your 2011 superpower?
For those of you going what the what … stop. Think about it for a moment: what have you learned that you can do better than anyone you know this year? What can you do that no one else can?
I have a specialized ability that is the envy of many. My dear partner C. says it is my superpower, and he should know.
My superpower is. . .
In a dangerously sleep-deprived society, those of us who can get a good night’s sleep are at a decided advantage. We are safer overall, our immune systems function optimally, we process stress better and think more clearly than those who can’t get to sleep at night.
As for my own sleep habits: I start “circling the drain” by about 9:30 or 10 p.m. most nights. If I can be in bed by 10, I might read until 11 or so. Then, lights out and I am asleep within one minute on most nights. I rarely set an alarm unless I have an appointment before 8:30 a.m., as I wake up on my own by 7 a.m.
I wake up slightly when I roll over, or when a cat comes to visit — but am able to get right back to dreamland. Sometimes I wake up for a trip to the bathroom, if I am drinking enough water as I should. However, I think mothers learn during their pregnancies to somnambulate as needed. This sleepwalking skill persists even after the children are grown and gone, if it is cultivated and maintained. If my sleep is interrupted, I can be awake enough without being totally awake.
This is my biological clock, my biorhythm, and my preference. I love to wake up early in the morning, feeling rested and ready for the day. On the weekends, if conditions are right (low light, cool temperatures, snuggly sheets) I can sleep for 10 or 12 hours. I don’t make a practice of it — I just trust my body to know what it needs.
The flip side of this regular, sleep-satisfied rhythm is what I call my “benign manic states,” and they occur three or four times a year. If I am working on an idea or project and find a flow, I can work, play, and stay up for an all-nighter with energy that a seasoned college student would be proud to match. I prop myself up the next day with a little coffee and a lot of protein, and go to bed early for the next couple of nights. It is always well worth the temporary sacrifice. I am thankful that I can choose to do this when I want, and that my life’s demands do not require that I live like this as the norm.
Most Feldenkrais teachers can help you to discover the ability to go to sleep, or to get back to sleep if you should awaken. There is also some very useful work called the Sounder Sleep System that is safe, effective, drug-free, and enjoyable. This is a superpower that can be learned — and practice makes perfect!
I have a bit more work to do tonight, but I’m right on schedule to get to bed by 10. To all a good night!
Problems sleeping? Leave a comment. Other superpowers? Let’s hear ‘em!
[I'm posting daily (ish) during December as part of #resound11 and #reverb11. Join us here.]
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One of the daughters was a polio survivor and the family wanted “to do something” to help in the fight against polio and say “thank you” for the family support from the Polio Foundation.
The family donated a well-used, single-shot .22-caliber rifle which became the lead auction item.
The rifle was sold, given back to the family, then re-auctioned several times a year for several years and raised thousands of dollars for polio research, which led to the polio vaccine.
Rotary International has joined with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF and others in an effort to eradicate polio from the world.
More than 2.5 billion children have been vaccinated, and only small portions of three or four countries remain to be cleared of the “wild” polio virus which causes the disease.
Billions of dollars and 20 million volunteers have joined the effort.
The Polio Auction family and rifle are a unique local symbol of the early fight against this dreaded disease. The Crowley Rotary Club would like to identify and honor this special family.
If, by chance, the rifle could be found, it could be re-auctioned on a much-larger scale to help end the disease.
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For Ellenwood GA-based Grandad's extending its bacon-rind snack into a microwavable product line made perfect sense. After all most would agree that rinds are best when eaten warm and fresh from the cooker-and a microwavable version lets consumers do just that. Grandad's microwavable bacon rinds were introduced to grocery and convenience stores in the Southeast last November. For Miami FL-based food exporter Alamilla and Associates the decision to introduce a microwavable pork rind was based on president Carlos Alamilla's wish to develop a low-fat product. Microwaving instead of deep frying pork rinds reduces fat content about 70% making them a healthier choice than potato chips. Alamilla's product was introduced last August. Both offerings are in flexible pouches designed for sale in grocery and convenience stores. The basis of the package technology is the same: like microwavable popcorn microwavable pork rinds rely on microwave susceptors which consist of patterned metallized film laminated to other films or to paperboard. This metallized film acts as a heat conductor heating the food and causing it to crisp or pop like popcorn. The trick then is to control the amount and the temperature of the metallization in a given package thereby controlling the cooking process.
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Network camera-based system
As open or closed access as needed. Remote access to live images and
remote administration of a network camera are possible from anywhere using a standard Web browser on any PC.
Closed circuit. No possibility for remote access.
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- You can administer and view the images remotely using a standard
Web browser on any PC.
- Images can be recorded on a hard disk, enabling easy
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- The hard disk can be located at a remote location for
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or monitoring is not possible.
- Images must be stored on video tape cassettes, which
require constant changing and lots of storage space. The
quality of recorded images deteriorate over time.
- The video cassette recorder must be located near the
camera. This could potentially enable unauthorized persons
to have access to the video tape.
Digital images do not lose quality in transmission or
storage. A digital picture is created using Motion-JPEG.
Once created, the image is free from degradation. Each frame within
a video stream is sharp.
Image quality is lost when using long cables and the
resolution of a magnetic tape is normally quite low. In
addition, the quality of the recorded video deteriorates over time.
Everything needed to stream live video over networks is included in the network camera.
Simply connect the network camera to a network. View, record
and administer from any networked PC (located
Connection to a coaxial cable, to a multiplexer, to a video
or time lapse recorder, and to a locally placed CRT (cathode
ray tube) monitor.
Simply connect a network camera to the nearest network connection and assign an IP address.
Attach a coax cable to each and every camera and connect to the multiplexer.
One standard UTP (unshielded twisted pair) network
cable can forward images from hundreds of network cameras
One cable can transport video signals from only one
camera at a time. If you have two cameras, you have to have
two cables. This often means large cable trunks filled with
thick and sensitive cables that are connected to a locally
placed control room.
Adding more network cameras to the system is easy.
Very difficult. Each analog camera requires its own cable.
Image quality is lost when using long cables.
A high quality network cable typically costs 30 to 40
percent less than a standard coaxial cable.
A network cable
can also support hundreds of network cameras and other
An IP-based network
infrastructure is often already in place, which means the
cost is reduced to only that of the network camera(s).
Expensive coaxial cables. A classic RG59 75 Ohms coaxial
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quality network cable.
In addition, more cable is required. Each analog camera requires its own
High labor and maintenance demands, plus cost of the
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However high-ranking an individual might be, or however “full” the powers they might be entrusted within the process of political transition in Syria, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will remain in Russia’s opinion, president with full powers, as a “wartime president.” This could be an issue of disagreement or one of understanding in the relationship between the United States and Russia, which is being managed by both US State Secretary John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in the hope of paving the way for a successful summit between their two presidents, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin, next month.
Their focus now is on holding an international conference that has become a priority of the utmost importance primarily for Russia. Moscow wishes very much, and adamantly so, for Iran to have a seat at the table of Geneva 2, an international conference that will include Saudi Arabia and other regional powers alongside the five permanent members of the US Security Council.
But Moscow is equally insistent on excluding Qatar from the issue of Syria, as a result of profound enmity between them due to their struggle over the issue of natural gas and that of the rise of Islamists from the Muslim Brotherhood to power. There is talk of Russian diplomacy having succeeded at convincing American diplomacy to agree to exclude Qatar’s leadership on the Syrian issue.
Russian diplomacy is behaving at this stage with the utmost confidence, and on the basis that the Syrian president will remain in power until the presidential elections one year from now. Russia is confident that the opposition in Syria will grow increasingly fragmented, that the rift within it will deepen, and that it is the opposition itself that will bring about its own defeat.
Proceeding from this, Russia considers it a near certainty that the regime in Damascus will survive, and considers it quite likely for Bashar al-Assad to remain president after the 2014 elections. Contributing most prominently to Russia’s increased rate of self-confidence and to the triumph of the alliance of defiance that includes it along with the regime in Damascus, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Hezbollah, in addition to China to a lesser extent – is the US administration itself.
This means in particular President Obama, whom President Putin views as either unwilling to confront the alliance of defiance, or unable to challenge such an alliance, which is determined to triumph over the United States through the war in Syria.
This extent of belligerence towards the West among Russia’s neo-nationalists –who have been gaining prominence in Russian policy-making over the past few years – is striking. Indeed, haughtiness, arrogance and pride have become the main features of Russian patriotism, taking the form of excessive nationalism and an insistence on achieving victory and the upper hand over the West, even if the means to achieve this is the rise of despotism and tyranny to combat the West (the term “West,” in Russia’s lexicon, means primarily the United States).
Indeed, Moscow still insists on regaining its role as one of the world’s two superpowers, and is determined to put an end to the unipolar era at any cost. One of the means to do so, in the view of extremist Russian nationalism, resides in supporting “religious renaissance” in all its forms and across the spectrum, as well as the growth of authoritarian and tyrannical regimes – both in response to the West.
The goal is to teach the United States a lesson and to place the West – here meaning the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) – in a situation that would force it to defend itself by force of arms. Indeed, the battle is over Western values, and the goal is to bring them down by any means necessary.
This does not at all mean that the entirety of Russian thought can be painted in the same color. There is a whole spectrum of opinions on Russia’s relationship with the West, as there is on the issue of Russia’s priorities in the Middle East, as well as with regard to how to deal with Russia’s “no” to the rise of Islamists to power and to the means of dealing with the danger of Muslim extremism for Russia.
This week, the Valdai International Discussion Club held a conference in Marrakesh entitled “Islam in Politics: Ideology or Pragmatism?” The conference gathered prominent Russian and foreign experts to discuss this issue of great importance for Russia.
The club, which was formed nine years ago, established in 2009 a Middle East Dialogue division aimed at analyzing the region’s main issues and assessing the role played by Russia in the Middle East and North Africa, in addition to formulating recommendations and preparing strategies for the governments of the countries concerned. Members of the Valdai Club also hold meetings with Russia’s president, prime minister and foreign minister, as well as with many prominent figures of politics and society active in Russia.
The Marrakesh conference is noteworthy for many reasons, among them the title chosen by the Russian club for the discussion and the personalities participating, which included representatives from Hezbollah, Hamas, Egypt’s Jamaa Islamiya and Egypt’s al-Nour Party, alongside a number of modernists or secularists from the Arab region and experts from Iran and Central Asia.
Of course, the majority was made up of Russian experts, headed by the conference’s two organizers, Vitaly Naumkin, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, member of the Scientific Council of Russia’s National Security Council and President of the International Center for Strategic and Political Studies; and Pavel Andreev, Executive Director and Head for International Cooperation at Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
It was very striking to listen to Russian opinions during as well as on the sidelines of the sessions, as diverse, numerous and different as they were. The side calling for moderation with the West, rather than the automatic fanaticism against it that characterizes most of Russia’s foreign policies, seemed quite weak.
The opinion of the majority was characterized by patriotic national pride and insistence on Russia’s right to prevent the “trick” played by the West in Libya – in reference to the military action carried out there – from being repeated. As for the stance on the role played by Russia in Syria, it was identical across the spectrum of Russian opinions, being, in short, one of complete support for Russia’s role in its political, military and diplomatic aspects.
Some make sure to rush to say – as they did a few months ago through envoys to New York – that there is no great love lost between Russian diplomacy, as run by Vladimir Putin, and Bashar al-Assad, and that the issue concerns the alternative to the regime. Their opinion, in short, is that the Assad “obstacle” is not a Russian one, and that whether he stays or leaves is not Russia’s responsibility.
Yet upon close examination of Russia’s strategic position on Syria, it appears that its alliance with Iran and Hezbollah is a serious one, and one determined to achieve victory, as represented by maintaining the regime in Damascus.
Russia disagrees with Iran’s leadership and with Hezbollah on the issue of opening up the Golan for resistance against Israel. Moscow is opposed to opening the Golan front to resistance. It is opposed to it by principle, because its relationship with Israel remains a special one, and one that it does not wish to squander.
It is also opposed to reactivating the Golan front because it believes that this will undermine the international conference to which it is now giving priority. Indeed, this conference represents a major milestone in the relationship between Russia and the United States, a relationship in which Putin wants to maintain in a pull-and-tug dynamic.
Geneva 2, as the conference has been dubbed, may represent the opportunity for Russia to lead on the region’s issues, if the US administration were to continue to suggest to Moscow that it is in need of Russian leadership, and if it were to continue to backtrack on its stances towards both the Syrian president and the Syrian opposition equally.
Russia’s opinion is that there has been no change to Moscow’s stance, but that it is rather Washington’s stances that have changed, as the latter has abandoned the precondition of Bashar al-Assad stepping down while Russia has not backed down on its stance that Assad should remain in power.
Even if Assad were to transfer all of his powers – as Joint United Nations and Arab League Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi previously said – to a transitional political authority, he would remain a “wartime president” with full powers, according to a high-ranking Russian official (who did not participate in the Valdai forum). This new terminology for powers during the transitional period would guarantee maintaining the Syrian President with full powers under the slogan that such powers are those of a wartime president.
Clinging to Bashar al-Assad is an absolute stance for Russia and Iran, regardless of talk about shades of grey here or there. Trade-offs could take place later on with the United States or others, which could lead to an “alternative” that would ensure the survival of the regime and completely exclude a takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood or the Salafists. Nevertheless, there is absolutely no sign today of any kind of willingness to abandon Assad. According to high-ranking sources, Hezbollah is fully confident that the alliance of defiance will be victorious in Syria – militarily, strategically and politically.
The alliance of defiance, to which can be added China, bears confessional elements to the same extent as it has strategic bases: Muslims in Russia are Sunni and number about twenty million. The five Muslim republics neighboring Russia too are Sunni. And Chechnya, where Russia continues to fight a war, is Sunni as well.
This is why Russia’s leadership considers its national interest to require an alliance with the Iran, which has resolved to lead the Shiites in confronting the Sunnis. Both want a new world order that would not be based on the unipolar hegemony of the United States. And China agrees with them.
This is while the alliance of defiance sees its weight increasing with its intersecting relations and alliances within the BRICS group of countries, which includes China and Russia alongside India, Brazil and South Africa.
For Russia not to appear to be waging a war against all Sunnis, the Valdai Club has made sure to hold this unique forum in Marrakesh, and some of its Russian participants voiced a desire to hold contact with Sunnis from the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists. One of them considered the meeting between the Russian and Egyptian presidents to represent normalization with the Muslim Brotherhood, bearing in mind that the latter group is banned in Russia.
Opposition to this view came from another Russian. Yet the broad headline appeared to be that Russia was turning over a new leaf, tempering in appearance the tone of its “no” to the rise of Islamists to power, while insisting in effect on absolutely refusing to allow them to come to power in Damascus. And perhaps what the conference’s organizers sought to convey the most was reassurance that the new Russia does not cling to the strict secularism that upsets some in the Muslim world, while at the same time urging its leadership to protect Christians in the Middle East.
Russian policy remains stringent nationalistically and strategically. Its war on Islamic terrorism has recently pushed it to renew its call to the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) to work together in the Middle East in order to eradicate it. The battlefield today is Syria, and Moscow is ready for any price to be paid by Syrians in order to prevent Muslim extremism from heading towards its interior or its neighborhood.
This is its interest and it is willing to wage the war in Syria with even more than it does now if the need arises. Today, however, it looks at the fragmented Syrian opposition, divided between the military extremism of the likes of the Nusra Front, and the struggle between secularists in the opposition, and finds in this the best pretext for it to lay the blame on the opposition and cling to the regime.
Even Syrian refugees, in the view of one Russian expert, must pay the price of waiting for a year as per the electoral schedule, and for even further prolongation according to the military timetable. Such are the requirements of the interests that bear today the banner of an international conference that may or may not be held.
To be sure, the bargaining has not yet matured in the direction of ending the war in Syria. And the struggle of nationalisms, just like the struggle of sects, has found for itself a home in Syria. It is for Syria’s children to suffer this “wretchedness,” being the grass on the field where the titans clash.
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The Worlds Richest Jew
Sheldon G. Adelson, 73, is now the world's richest Jew, worth an estimated $20.5 billion.
Adelson is Chairman of the Board and principal owner of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., the parent company of the Sands, The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and the Venetian Macao Limited in Macao, China. The building of a new Las Vegas-like strip in Macao, which could cost up to $11 billion, has caused LVS stocks, and along with it Adelson's wealth, to skyrocket.
Adelson, born in 1934 to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants, grew up in the poor Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a taxi driver and his mother ran a knitting store. At a young age, Adelson began selling newspapers on local street corners, and by the age of twelve he owned his first business. Adelson later worked as a mortgage broker, investment adviser and financial consultant.
Throughout his life, Adelson has built over fifty different companies, including the Computer Dealers Exposition (COMDEX), designed to bring computer manufacturers and resellers together. Today, COMDEX is the world’s largest computer trade show and operates in over twenty countries.
Adelson has received honorary degrees and other awards and has been a guest speaker at numerous universities including the University of New Haven, Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, Tel Aviv University, and Babson College.
According to Forbes Magazine, Adelson is the 5th richest man in the world, the 3rd richest man in America, and the richest Jew in the world. Adelson’s net worth is $20.5 billion. In 2003, his wealth was only 1.4 billion, but in 2004 his fortune increased by 750% when his company went public. Forbes estimates that over the past two years, Adelson’s fortune has been growing by $1 million every hour.
Adelson’s wife, Miriam, is a physician who specializes in treating chemical dependencies. She was born in Tel Aviv and grew up in Haifa. Dr. Adelson heads both the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Clinics in Tel Aviv and Las Vegas, which have treated thousands of heroin and cocaine drug addicts. The couple plans to open several more clinics in the near future.
Dr. and Mrs. Adelson are supporters of charitable causes in Israel and in Jewish communities abroad. They have been long time donors to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. The building of the Museum of Holocaust Art was enabled by a generous donation from the Adelson’s in memory of Dr. Adelson’s parents, and the members of the Zamelson and Farbstein Families who perished in the Holocaust. Adelson also recently made a $25 million donation to Yad Vashem, the largest private donation ever made to the organization. Adelson is also a member of the board of directors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
On January 1, 2007, Sheldon Adelson established the Adelson Family Charitable Foundation, which is expected to dispense upwards of $200 million annually to Jewish and Israeli causes, the largest by far of any existing private foundation with that aim. The Foundation’s first gift was a pledge of $25 million a year to birthright israel, an organization that provides free trips to Israel for Jews between the ages of 18 and 26. This will double the capacity of the organization, allowing it to bring 20,000 participants to Israel in the summer of 2007.
Photo courtesy of Answers.com
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Finland scientists meet JK Governor
Srinagar, June 09 (Scoop News) –N. N. Vohra, Governor, has said that the exchange visits of scientists and students from various institutions of higher learning and high-end research, from within the country and abroad, facilitate mutually beneficial collaborations for sharing research outcomes and experiences.
The Governor was interacting with a group of 38 scientists from the Helsinki University and the Geological Survey of Finland, who called on him at Raj Bhavan here this evening. These scientists arrived here today on a 10-day visit of the State for field work to study the Himalayan Geology, besides having interactions with the faculty, scientists and students of the Kashmir University. They will visit various geologically important places in Ladakh region and undertake field work. This visit of scientists is a follow up of the visit of Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice Chancellor, Kashmir University, to Helsinki University, in October 2011, for discussions on Himalayan Geology.
Interacting with the visiting scientists, the Governor, who is Chancellor of the Kashmir University, shared his own past experiences of visiting and working in Ladakh in the early 1960s. He observed that Ladakh is a fascinating area where considerable scientific work can be undertaken on Himalayan Geology. Welcoming the scientists, he hoped that their visit would pave the way for varied Indo-Finnish scientific research collaborations. He also spoke about his visits to Finland in the past years.
The scientists spoke about some of their research projects in the Himalayan Geology arena with the Governor.
They thanked the Governor for inviting them to the Raj Bhavan for interaction and presented to him a memento on behalf of the Geological Society of Finland.
Earlier, Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice Chancellor, Kashmir University, briefing the Governor about the visit of the scientists from Finland said that they will hold discussions with the faculty and students of the Kashmir University and discuss possibilities of future research collaborations with the varsity as well as the students exchange programme.
Navin K. Choudhary, Principal Secretary to the Governor, was present on the occasion.
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My boy was reading “Because a Little Bug Went Kachoo” today in the car and it got me to thinking (yeah, I know).
That book is actually quite profound in that it follows the chain of cause and effect through one series of events. We don’t ever see that. We see a bunch of unrelated effects and make a bunch of unrelated causes, but we rarely see an entire chain from beginning (or close enough) to end (or close enough).
I say close enough, because every effect has a cause and we’d have to go all the way to the beginning of the universe and probably before that.
This further reminds me of the Greek Fates. In non-classical Greek myth, the three fates weave the tapestry of life in which intersections of people are actually the threads of their lives touching.
Again, it’s not something that we are you to seeing. I see the guy cut me off in traffic in the morning. It makes me mad. I see that cause and feel that effect. I don’t see how he just got laid off from his job and is going home with no job. I don’t see how his boss was told he could cut five positions or he could lose his job. This goes backward… and forward forever.
I think that the little bug in the children’s book is very intriguing because, you see that bug on almost every future page. The bug gets the rare opportunity to follow a thread (for lack of a better term) of causality that it started itself. That book can really be seen as a statement not only of the massive changes that small effects can cause, but also how the confluence of smaller causes can result in effects that couldn’t have been predicted.
This book explains why we can’t predict the weather very well. This has really been an epiphany for me.
There are just too many aspects to things that can’t be taken into account.
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To create awareness of their mission, Make-A-Wish had a snowman building contest this afternoon at Val Bialas opened to the community.
One area "Wish kid" says the Make-A-Wish Foundation helped him get through a tough battle with leukemia.
"It's probably important because it gives hope to people that have these kind of diseases. People will help you. I have some friends that have parents and stuff like that they had cancer and i tell them they can get through it and stuff like that," said 10-year-old Zach Ellingson.
A representative says the number of children the organization serves has doubled in the past year - and they're always looking for people to help the cause.
Make-A-Wish is looking to grant ninety wishes this year.
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Rule 5.250. Children's participation and testimony in family court proceedings
(a) Children's participation
This rule is intended to implement Family Code section 3042. Children's participation in family law matters must be considered on a case-by-case basis. No statutory mandate, rule, or practice requires children to participate in court or prohibits them from doing so. When a child wishes to participate, the court should find a balance between protecting the child, the statutory duty to consider the wishes of and input from the child, and the probative value of the child's input while ensuring all parties' due process rights to challenge evidence relied upon by the court in making custody decisions.
(b) Determining if the child wishes to address the court
(1)The following persons must inform the court if they have information indicating that a child in a custody or visitation (parenting time) matter wishes to address the court:
(A)A minor's counsel;
(C)An investigator; and
(D)A child custody recommending counselor who provides recommendations to the judge under Family Code section 3183.
(2)The following persons may inform the court if they have information indicating that a child wishes to address the court:
(A)A party; and
(B)A party's attorney.
(3)In the absence of information indicating a child wishes to address the court, the judicial officer may inquire whether the child wishes to do so.
(c) Guidelines for determining whether addressing the court is in the child's best interest
(1)When a child indicates that he or she wishes to address the court, the judicial officer must consider whether involving the child in the proceedings is in the child's best interest.
(2)If the child indicating an interest in addressing the court is 14 years old or older, the judicial officer must hear from that child unless the court makes a finding that addressing the court is not in the child's best interest and states the reasons on the record.
(3)In determining whether addressing the court is in a child's best interest, the judicial officer should consider the following:
(A)Whether the child is of sufficient age and capacity to reason to form an intelligent preference as to custody or visitation (parenting time);
(B)Whether the child is of sufficient age and capacity to understand the nature of testimony;
(C)Whether information has been presented indicating that the child may be at risk emotionally if he or she is permitted or denied the opportunity to address the court or that the child may benefit from addressing the court;
(D)Whether the subject areas about which the child is anticipated to address the court are relevant to the court's decisionmaking process; and
(E)Whether any other factors weigh in favor of or against having the child address the court, taking into consideration the child's desire to do so.
(d) Guidelines for receiving testimony and other input
(1)If the court precludes the calling of a child as a witness, alternatives for the court to obtain information or other input from the child may include, but are not limited to:
(A)The child's participation in child custody mediation under Family Code section 3180;
(B)Appointment of a child custody evaluator or investigator under Family Code section 3110 or Evidence Code section 730;
(C)Admissible evidence provided by the parents, parties, or witnesses in the proceeding;
(D)Information provided by a child custody recommending counselor authorized to provide recommendations under Family Code section 3183(a); and
(E)Information provided from a child interview center or professional so as to avoid unnecessary multiple interviews.
(2)If the court precludes the calling of a child as a witness and specifies one of the other alternatives, the court must require that the information or evidence obtained by alternative means and provided by a professional or nonparty:
(A)Be in writing and fully document the child's views on the matters on which the child wished to express an opinion;
(B)Describe the child's input in sufficient detail to assist the court in its adjudication process;
(C)Be provided to the court and to the parties by an individual who will be available for testimony and cross-examination; and
(D)Be filed in the confidential portion of the family law file.
(3)On deciding to take the testimony of a child, the judicial officer should balance the necessity of taking the child's testimony in the courtroom with parents and attorneys present with the need to create an environment in which the child can be open and honest. In each case in which a child's testimony will be taken, courts should consider:
(A)Where the testimony will be taken, including the possibility of closing the courtroom to the public or hearing from the child on the record in chambers;
(B)Who should be present when the testimony is taken, such as: both parents and their attorneys, only attorneys in the case in which both parents are represented, the child's attorney and parents, or only a court reporter with the judicial officer;
(C)How the child will be questioned, such as whether only the judicial officer will pose questions that the parties have submitted, whether attorneys or parties will be permitted to cross-examine the child, or whether a child advocate or expert in child development will ask the questions in the presence of the judicial officer and parties or a court reporter; and
(D)Whether a court reporter is available in all instances, but especially when testimony may be taken outside the presence of the parties and their attorneys and, if not, whether it will be possible to provide a listening device so that testimony taken in chambers may be heard simultaneously by the parents and their attorneys in the courtroom or to otherwise make a record of the testimony.
(4)In taking testimony from a child, the court must take special care to protect the child from harassment or embarrassment and to restrict the unnecessary repetition of questions. The court must also take special care to ensure that questions are stated in a form that is appropriate to the witness's age or cognitive level. If the child is not represented by an attorney, the court must inform the child in an age-appropriate manner about the limitations on confidentiality and that the information provided to the court will be on the record and provided to the parties in the case. In the process of listening to and inviting the child's input, the court must allow but not require the child to state a preference regarding custody or visitation and should, in an age-appropriate manner, provide information about the process by which the court will make a decision.
(5)In any case in which a child will be called to testify, the court may consider the appointment of minor's counsel for that child. The court may consider whether such appointment will cause unnecessary delay or otherwise interfere with the child's ability to participate in the process. In addition to adhering to the requirements for minor's counsel under Family Code section 3151 and rules 5.240, 5.241, and 5.242, minor's counsel must:
(A)Provide information to the child in an age-appropriate manner about the limitations on confidentiality and indicate to the child the possibility that information provided to the court will be on the record and provided to the parties in the case;
(B)Allow but not require the child to state a preference regarding custody or visitation (parenting time) and, in an age-appropriate manner, provide information about the process by which the court will make a decision;
(C)Provide procedures relevant to the child's participation and, if appropriate, provide an orientation to the courtroom where the child will be testifying; and
(D)Inform the parties and then the court about the client's desire to provide input.
(6)No testimony of a child may be received without such testimony being heard on the record or in the presence of the parties. This requirement may not be waived by stipulation.
(e) Responsibilities of court-connected or appointed professionals
A child custody evaluator, a child custody recommending counselor, an investigator, or a mediator appointed or assigned to meet with a child in a family court proceeding must:
(1)Provide information to the child in an age-appropriate manner about the limitations on confidentiality and the possibility that information provided to the professional may be shared with the court on the record and provided to the parties in the case;
(2)Allow but not require the child to state a preference regarding custody and visitation (parenting time), and, in an age-appropriate manner, provide information about the process by which the court will make a decision; and
(3)Provide to the parents of the child participating in the court process information about local court procedures relevant to the child's participation and information about how to best support the child in an age-appropriate manner during the court process.
(f) Methods of providing information to parents and supporting children
Courts should provide information to parties and parents and support for children when children want to participate or testify or are otherwise involved in family law proceedings. Such methods may include but are not limited to:
(1)Having court-connected professionals meet jointly or separately with the parents or parties to discuss alternatives to having a child provide direct testimony;
(2)Providing an orientation for a child about the court process and the role of the judicial officer in making decisions, how the courtroom or chambers will be set up, and what participating or testifying will entail;
(3)Providing information to parents or parties before and after a child participates or testifies so that they can consider the possible effect on their child of participating or not participating in a given case;
(4)Including information in child custody mediation orientation presentations and publications about a child's participation in family law proceedings;
(5)Providing a children's waiting room; and
(6)Providing an interpreter for the child, if needed.
(g) Education and training
Education and training content for court staff and judicial officers should include information on children's participation in family court processes, methods other than direct testimony for receiving input from children, and procedures for taking children's testimony.
Rule 5.250 adopted effective January 1, 2012.
Advisory Committee Comment
Rule 5.250 does not apply to probate guardianships except as and to the extent that the rule is incorporated or expressly made applicable by a rule of court in title 7 of the California Rules of Court.
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Finance > Assessment > How do I appeal my assessment?
If you disagree with your assessed values, you can appeal the assessment. Remember, a property assessment appeal is NOT about the level of taxation. With an appeal, the Board of Revision is only concerned with whether or not the value of your property was determined correctly, fairly, and in accordance with the procedures, formulas, rules and principles as found in the Saskatchewan Assessment Manual.
The applicable forms to use for an appeal are attached to the assessment notice that has been sent to you. If you do not have the appropriate form, they are available at City Hall.
You can appeal against one of the following four:
Assessment valuation (value of the land, value of the improvements (buildings), or both)
Assessment classification (land classification, or improvement classification, or both classifications)
Errors in the content or preparation of the assessment roll
Errors in the content or preparation of the assessment notice
The proper appeal form is filled out and filed with the Secretary of the Board of Revision (Jon Michaud) at City Hall by the due date. The due dates are either 30 days after the mailing of the assessment notices or the date published in the paper.
The date in which the appeals must be received by the Finance Department (Secretary to the Board of Revision) at City Hall for the 2008 taxation year is Monday June 30, 2008 at 1:00 p.m.
Local Board of Revision
The City of Weyburn is required to establish a Board of Revision to hear appeals. The Board of Revision is appointed by City Council but is not comprised of Council members. For the 2008 taxation year, Krismer and Associates from Regina will serve as the Board of Appeal.
Every property owner has a right to appeal his or her property assessment. However, only valid appeals as per the appeals form will be heard by the Board of Revision. Appeal forms must be accompanied by the appeal fee ($25.00 for residential appeals and $50.00 for commercial appeals) that will be refunded if your appeal is successful.
Valid appeals will be informed when the sitting of the Board of Revision will take place.
Saskatchewan Municipal Board
A property owner can request a review of a decision made by the local Board of Revision.
This review is conducted by the Assessment Appeal Committee of the Saskatchewan Municipal Board.
SAMA participates at committee hearings to help ensure the correct value appears on the assessment roll.
Court of Appeal
Matter of law relating to assessment can be taken to the Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan.
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Tomorrow, October 7 is Ada Lovelace Day, to commemorate the work of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
For those who want to participate, there are a couple of options. You can blog about a woman in the STEM field who has inspired you to become what you are today. You can participate in events in your area that celebrate women in technology. And you can take the time to learn about the contributions that women have made to the field.
The stereotypes about women in science and technology persist that it’s “men’s work.” And indeed, in some respects that has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Women are still disproportionately underrepresented in STEM majors at school and in STEM careers:
- Girls comprised 46% of Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus test-takers, but only 19% of AP Computer Science test-takers.
- Women hold 56% of all professional occupations in the U.S. workforce, but only 25% of IT occupations. Only 11% of executives at Fortune 500 tech companies are women.
- In 2009, just 18% of undergraduate Computing and Information Sciences degrees were awarded to women; in 1985, women earned 37% of these degrees (via NCWIT)
But it’s crucial to “change the ratio” and to encourage more girls and women to pursue STEM education and careers. (One encouraging sign was last year’s Google Science Fair, whose top Continue reading
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The Alexander Mosaic
The Alexander Mosaic was found during the excavation of Pompeii in 1831 in the “Casa del Fauno” (House of the Faun). Today it is one of the most famous Roman mosaics. Measuring 5.82 x 3.13 m, the mosaic is thought by many to depict the Battle of Issus between Alexander the Great and the Persian king Darius III in the year 333 BC. Others however believe that the tableau shows the battle of Gaugamela in the year 331 BC, where Alexander the Great and Darius clashed once again.
The picture shows Alexander storming in at the head of his troops from the left edge, attempting to engage Darius in battle. But the Persian has already turned to flee, with only his eyes directed towards Alexander.
The Alexander Mosaic, independently of its fitting in the “Casa del Fauno”, was created in the 3rd century BC and based on an original no longer in existence. The original may have been the work of Philoxenos of Eretrea from the 4th century BC. There is also a belief that a Hellenistic painting was used as the model. The mosaic shows the magnificence of Greek monumental painting and four-colour painting.
Today, the original Alexander Mosaic is on display in the National Museum of Archaeology in Naples. An exact copy – identical in shape, size, colour and materials used – was created after several years of work by the Scuola Bottega del Mosaico di Ravenna and is now installed in Pompeii.
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Room 137, Bureau of Mines Building, WY
Toll Free: (307) 766-2929
Email: 766-6729 Fax
January 2, 2013 — By Michael Azar
In the face of the religious intolerance that continues to exist in this country's public life, many are rightly led to a quest for religious pluralism -- to a state where all creeds are equally tolerated. Still, this honorable search for pluralism often loses its way.
Somehow, the solution that this quest seeks has become not an equal acceptance and tolerance of all religion, but a denial of all religious influence in hopes of some sort of religionless society and government. This misguided quest becomes ever more real during the holiday season when, for example, the "Christmas tree" is renamed the "holiday tree."
Though separating Christmas from its religious undertones seems to be a relatively easy, and executed, task for some, a brief history of New Year's Day will reveal that separating religion from this country's public holiday celebrations is not only unduly offensive to many, but impossible for all.
Various cultures and religions celebrate the New Year at different times of the year; Jews, for example, usually place the New Year at the end of September. The Chinese locate the celebration of the New Year, perhaps the greatest holiday of their calendar, sometime in January or February. However, our celebrating the New Year Jan. 1 is a tradition that we owe to the Christian influence upon this country's past.
In the first century B.C., Emperor Julius Caesar moved the Western world toward a purely solar calendar. Concurrently, he chose Jan. 1 as the beginning of the New Year. Janus, for whom the month of January is named, was the god of doors, gates and beginnings. Romans sought Janus' assistance in every domestic venture and depicted him as having two faces, one looking forward and the other looking backward. The Julian calendar worked well, at least better than its predecessors. But it was, unfortunately, ultimately flawed.
State authorities absolutely forbade Christians from celebrating the New Year. So, instead, as a sort of counterattack, Christians held special services of expiation on Jan. 1.
As time went on, one new year led to another and, by the fourth century, Christianity had overtaken the Roman Empire. Accordingly, Christians adopted the Julian calendar, together with its Jan. 1 New Year's Day. After Christmas was fixed on Dec. 25, Jan. 1 received its much-needed sanctification from pagan ritual and became the day to commemorate Christ's circumcision, which, according to Luke, took place eight days after his birth.
Despite the calendar's shortcomings, the Western world continued to use the Julian calendar, but by the 16th century, the calendar's discrepancies culminated, throwing off the vernal equinox by 10 days. Consequently, on Feb. 24, 1582, Pope Gregory XIII decreed that the day after Oct. 4 of that year should be reckoned as Oct. 15. Gregory made other changes to the Julian calendar and, thus, produced the Gregorian calendar, which eventually was adopted throughout Europe: by Scotland in 1600, by Germany, Denmark and Sweden around 1700; and by England in 1752.
Until that time, the New Year was celebrated in England March 25 (both the traditional date of Christ's crucifixion and the day of Annunciation), in Germany on Christmas, and in France on Easter. Nevertheless, most of the West eventually adopted Jan. 1 as the first day of the year.
In calculating the year, the Gregorian calendar took the birth of Christ as its starting point, which was thought to be Dec. 25, 1 B.C. ("Before Christ"). Thus, properly speaking, the New Year we now welcome is "anno domini 2013," "the year of our Lord 2013" (hence "A.D.").
The Gregorian calendar, which all of the Western world now uses, also is called the Christian calendar because of its starting point.
The fact that we welcome the year 2013 rather than the year 1433 means that our society has chosen to follow the Christian calendar rather than the Muslim calendar, which, among other differences, begins with Muhammad's flight to Medina in the Christian year of 622. We hereby recognize the impossibility of separating religion from this holiday season.
This brief history of New Year's Day elucidates that religion is too ingrained into our culture to completely extract all its influences and place them in the corner to think about what they have done.
If we were to truly and completely separate religion from our society, we would have to change the names of the months and days themselves (goodbye, ancient Roman religion) and consider our weeks by something other than seven days (have a good life, Judaism) -- and that is just a brief glimpse at the task that would await us.
The solution to the problem of religious intolerance, therefore, is not to pretend as if no religion exists (who really thinks that the new appellation of "holiday tree" will solve the problem? "Holiday" is only slightly changed from the religious "holy day"), but a willingness to recognize the hand that religions have played in forming our modern world -- and from there we can proceed toward a willingness to recognize, tolerate and sympathize with those religions that have not had as big of an impact in shaping our society and government.
Michael Azar, a former instructor in UW's Religious Studies Program, is now a Ph.D. candidate at Fordham University. Past columns and more information about the Religious Studies Program can be found on the web at www.uwyo.edu/RelStds. To comment on this column, visit http://religion-today.blogspot.com.
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1. Prelude: Not Unwilling.
Disclaimer: The characters are Tolkien´s.
Warning: Very disturbing themes.
Second warning: This has been completely rewritten. (the notes have been used again, though)
Thanks to Margit for her beta.
"Tú ya no puedes volver atrás
porque la vida ya te empuja
con un aullido interminable." (J. A. Goytisolo)
Prelude: Not Unwilling.
She wanted to see the sky. Not that dense, oppressing ceiling of leaves that allowed only the light of some stars to fall upon her face, but the sky of her youth, the high dome of the land of her wanderings. And she had tried very hard, the deep lacerations in her skin and dress could tell.
Aredhel cried. It was a cry of rage and impotence, as the throbbing pain of life about to explode forced her to fall to the ground on her knees. She had wanted him to be born free. To be herself free. She had wanted...
A cold wind blew over the trees of the forest, and its lingering sound seemed a lamentation that echoed her cries as she choked in darkness. Years, years. How many years? She had wanted to endure, to be strong; she had wanted revenge.
She had wanted...
Faerroch had known it long before her, as always, but she had not wanted to pay attention to the growing uneasiness of her faithful steed. She had wanted to enter that forest, for she was tired and she thought, with good and sound logic, that there they would have better chances to find some animals to eat and wood to build a fire.
She did not know that sound logic did not have anything to do with sheer horror. If she had known, she would not be there now; but she had entered the forest cloaked in her own daring ignorance, and so she fell prey to the dark spell.
Hateful bastard, thrice-cursed son of darkness. He came to her while she was trying to find her way out of there, tall and silent, handsome but grim; and the agonising light of a star revealed strange features of an unnatural pallor, half covered by shreds of hair of a blonde colour that had sadly waned to something whitish as the hue of his skin. His eyes were red, like blood and fire, and like them they scorched her deeply, painfully, mirroring his lust for her.
"I am Eöl, lord of the forest of Nan Elmoth." he said, when she swallowed her anxiousness and asked him for his name and intentions. "And I want you."
Then, of all things, she had laughed! The brave and fearless Ar-Feiniel, of course, how could she have done otherwise? She had never suffered anyone to think she was afraid, even if perhaps the quick pounding of her heart and the shivers that traveled through her spine against her wishes told her that this time she was in true danger. But she did not pay heed, to Faerroch or to herself, and accepted his invitation to stay that night at his house.
"Come with me. This is your house and mine, the house of the Lord and the Lady of Nan Elmoth."
"At least until tomorrow." she replied, smiling.
She was never to go out again.
Why, why, why? He had never answered that question, as if it was something beyond him that he could not quite explain. Why? she asked repeatedly, struggling and trying to reach for her sword, realising that the strength of the Noldor was this time overpowered by the hidden and terrible might of the Moriquendi. As it was wont to happen, he defeated her. She could still see herself there in her worst nightmares, reduced to a helpless body pinned against the wall, and trembling in anger and dread while he stroked her hair hungrily, ready to take everything from her.
She was going to die.
He was coming closer. He was taking her clothes away, ironically doing his best to try not to harm her before she left her hröa forever.
"My wife you will be until the end of Arda."
"You are fey! I will..."
But then, he kissed her. Her mouth full, she could not speak any longer while he took her in his arms to enter her body in a powerful stroke, and pain and humiliation filled her in a confused turmoil. She would endure everything, except to die this way, forsaking life to escape the lustful embrace. She could endure pain, for a warrior she was, but to die! It was unfair. It meant leaving her without any chance.
Slowly, she felt her eyes beginning to lose focus as the thrusts became harder, and her hatred for that man redoubled. I will kill you, oh, yes, I will kill you one day. I will stay a Houseless One to haunt you!
As she could, feverish Aredhel grabbed Eöl with her remaining strength and refused to let that last thread of hope slip from her hands. Unexpectedly, his efforts began to give her body some feeling of pleasure, and without thinking twice she shut her damaged mind from reality and summoned to her the last remaining memories of happier encounters in a different world.
She would survive.
"I love you", she willed herself to say.
"And I you" his deep voice answered her. With a graceful and slow movement, she wiped the drops of sweat from her brow, and her black eyes sparkled with a mischievous challenge.
"Is that all you are willing to offer?"
Eöl could not hold himself after that, and they made love again and again; two, three, four more times. During all the night, they fought, they claimed, they surrendered; until he became exhausted and a triumphant howl escaped her lips. Then, she dragged him down to the floor, and there they embraced and sighed contentedly gazing at each other´s eyes, the Lord and the Lady of the forest of Nan Elmoth.
It was through. The shriek of the mother had turned into the wail of the newborn one, and now Aredhel was posessively clutching in her arms the tiny shape that had been the fruit of her womb. The child who had made her discover that she could still love after so many years.
Shhh...Do not cry... Her gentle caresses tried unsuccessfully to stop his heartfelt protests for having been born in such a horrible place. I did what I could. I tried to give you the light of the sun, to climb to the tallest of all trees so your eyes could greet the light of the morning, but I failed. Child of Twilight you will have to be for now, my precious, my love.
In spite of her weakness, Aredhel knew she had to feed him. She made an effort, and found the right position to give her little one her breast. That quieted the baby immediately, and she used the opportunity to have a closer, enraptured look at him.
How beautiful he was. How small and seemingly helpless, yet she knew that he would grow to be taller than her one day. He would be a great Noldorin warrior; that destiny was written already in the little bush of dark hair which grew in his forehead, and in the sparkle of radiant light dancing in his wide curious eyes. He would be a strong and handsome adult one day.
Her heart. Her son.
Aredhel had been taught that children had in them a share of both their parents, for they were the fulfilment of their wish to become one. Yet, she could not believe that this law could hold true when the mother had been forced to lay with a man against her will. He was her child, it was written in his very face, that mirrored her traits and not Eöl´s. Even if she was aware that her husband was going to try to take him away from her, he could not change that he was her son, who would learn to love the light of the sun with the years, and who would ride with her far from Nan Elmoth to the open plains and to the fair Hidden City.
"Lómion, my son." she said while she rocked him lovingly, tears welling up in her eyes. "You will be my freedom."
Hours after the second meal she had missed, Eöl was beginning to be seriously worried about Aredhel. He was not very learned in women´s things, but he knew that she was in a very advanced state of pregnancy and that this could make her unusually weak. The thought of his wife lying on the ground, unable to move, was seriously haunting his mind, and he decided that, despite his promise of leaving her roam alone, it was time that he went to search for her.
But, as he was wrapping a cloak around his shoulders at the threshold of the house, the Dark Elf suddenly heard a faint wail accompanied by a rustle of leaves. Immediately, he stopped dead, and raised his head.
There she was. She was tired to the point of breaking down, stumbling as she walked, torn and dishevelled as a tree struck by lightning. And, clutched possessively in her arms there was a very small baby, who was trying tenaciously to find her pale breast.
"Aredhel!" he cried, searching for words for the first time in his silent life, and rushing towards them. But the new mother turned away.
"Do not touch him! He is mine!"
And then, she fell to the floor.
(To be continued)
The name of Aredhel´s horse, Faerroch, means "Spirit Horse". The name was suggested to me by [name removed for review].
As the Elves are generically called "Quendi", Moriquendi (Elves of Darkness) is how the Elves who stayed in the dark lands of Middle- Earth when the Valar summoned them to Aman are called by the ones who did, the "Calaquendi" or Elves of light. I suppose "Moriquendi" must be a little insulting.
This is a work of fan fiction, written because the author has an abiding love for the works of J R R Tolkien. The characters, settings, places, and languages used in this work are the property of the Tolkien Estate, Tolkien Enterprises, and possibly New Line Cinema, except for certain original characters who belong to the author of the said work. The author will not receive any money or other remuneration for presenting the work on this archive site. The work is the intellectual property of the author, is available solely for the enjoyment of Henneth Annûn Story Archive readers, and may not be copied or redistributed by any means without the explicit written consent of the author.
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by Anton Shilov
06/16/2009 | 05:40 PM
At least some partners of Asustek Computer, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of components for personal computers, have started to take pre-orders on Asus “Republic of Gamers” Mars limited edition graphics card. The board carries two Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics processors and is faster than the dual-chip model GTX 295. But at what price!
Asus ROG Mars Limited Edition graphics card is powered by two fully features Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 (G200b) graphics processing units (GPUs) as well as 4GB of GDDR3 memory (2GB per chip) clocked at 2484MHz with 512-bit memory bus width. Each of the graphics processors operates at 648MHz with 480 stream processors in total functioning at 1476MHz, which means that Asus ROG Mars 295 is as fast at two GeForce GTX 285 graphics boards in SLI mode and is faster compared to Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 graphics solution that “only” features graphics chips with lowered clock-speed and “just” 1792MB of GDDR3 with 448-bit memory bus width.
Asustek estimates that its Mars graphics card that belongs to the Republic of Gamers family of premium products offers 23% higher performance compared to the reference Nvidia GeForce GTX 295. An owner of two Asus ROG Mars graphics cards will also be able to built a 4-way SLI graphics sub-system running four GTX 285 GPUs using them, something not technically possible to do using four GeForce GTX 285-based graphics cards or two GeForce GTX 295 boards.
There will be only one thousand of Asus ROG Mars graphics boards ever built, each will be marked with its own unique number, which emphasizes exclusive design of this engineering masterpiece.
But the state-of-the-art graphics card comes at a price: the UK-based Scan.co.uk online store is taking pre-orders onto the board now and charges £1030.98 with value added tax included, which is approximately $1700 or €1222. The United Kingdom is not known for low prices, but even for the UK and even for the potentially highest-performance graphics card on the planet the cost of Asus ROG Mars seems to be too high, especially considering the fact that the GeForce GTX 295 costs about £330 ($540, €391), whereas the GeForce GTX 285 can be obtained for below £300 ($491, €355).
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In the aftermath of the tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Shaker Heights Schools officials want to assure parents that the district has a crisis plan in place.
According to a memo posted this afternoon on the district's website, the district developed crisis plans in conjunction with the city's police and fire departments.
"These plans are reviewed and updated on a regular basis," the memo reads. "We hope that we never need to use these procedures in a real-life crisis, but if a situation arises, we will be as well prepared as possible."
Here is more from Shaker's memo to parents:
Our hearts go out to the students, families, and staff members of Newtown, Connecticut, in the wake of the shootings at an elementary school there.
Understandably, children may be upset and frightened by this tragedy. It is important for parents and teachers to be attuned to students’ behavior and concerns. Psychologists recommend that parents take the opportunity to talk and listen to their children, acknowledge that bad things happen, and reassure them that people are working to keep them safe. The downloadable article at the bottom of this page from the National Association of School Psychologists offers more detailed advice that you may find useful.
Parents are advised to limit children’s exposure to media reports of the tragedy and to be alert to signs that a child might be profoundly traumatized by the event. These signs might include a change in the child's school performance, changes in relationships with peers and teachers, excessive worry, school refusal, sleeplessness, nightmares, headaches or stomachaches, or loss of interest in activities that the child used to enjoy.
Also remember that every child will respond to trauma differently. Some will have no ill effects; others may suffer an immediate and acute effect. Still others may not show signs of stress until sometime after the event.
If your child may need support, please do not hesitate to call the school. Our administrators, counselors, and school psychologists can help.
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I have chosen to recount in detail, the brutal impact that illegal mining is having on ancient Kyebi and the destruction of its ‘history and heritage’. The ancient woodlands, wildlife and historical assets which constitute the principal surviving evidence of Akyem Abuakwa’s historical past is a microcosm of the country as a whole. We are a nation of ‘heritage and history’. The mining of our towns must respect our heritage and historical past. The evidence is one of an escalation of illegal activities and uncontrolled destruction. Gold is now derived out of suffering and death, as well as out of the destruction of our natural environment. This is termed as ‘Conflict Gold’.
This article is inspired by the dubious notion of injustice and cruelty meted out to rural communities. The Town Planning movement started as a movement for social reform. It was principally set up to eradicate the hardships of the underclass and to protect the poor from the rich. It was also about improving the living conditions of all citizens and not only those who reside in urban communities. Rural communities such as ancient Kyebi tend to suffer more because of their subjection to economic inequality, which tends to ensure that they are less powerful and less organised to fight illegal mining within their communities.
The criteria for assessing the suitability of mining sites in any ‘heritage and historic’ town must be based on proportionality – a matter of balance. ‘Heritage and History’ defines us and protecting these precious assets secures our future. ‘Heritage and history’ once lost can never be regained. The benefits of a mining site must be weighed against the substantial benefits to the community. The key test is whether the benefits that will accrue from the mining activity outweigh our ‘heritage and history’.
The fundamental aim of protecting the natural heritage and historic towns of Okyeman is a duty and a matter of public interest. The principal legacy of Kyebi is one inherited from past generations. Generations of men and women who fought against oppression and died for a noble cause. The forest of Kwaebiribirim holds the secrets to Okyeman. Our soul as a people is imbedded in the river valleys of the Birim. The preservation and protection of our heritage is therefore a sacred duty. It remains a legitimate objective against which the demands of illegal mining for ‘Conflict Gold’ must be balanced and fully assessed.
Ancient Kyebi is where the mortal remains of JB Danquah and other national leaders such as Nana Sir Ofori Atta, Kwame Kissi Adu, and William Ofori Atta (Paa Willie) – just to mention a few- are buried. As one of the ‘big six’ JB Danquah died in detention without trial, utterly humiliated, but still an undaunted fighter for “freedom” for his nation, for human rights and civil liberties for his countrymen. His remains are in a simple grave at the Presbyterian Church cemetery in Kyebi. He and his compatriots represent our nation’s willingness to fight oppression and dictatorship. They symbolise a nation’s fight for freedom. The cemetery where he is buried in ancient Kyebi represents a heritage asset for the nation and for Okyeman. Its preservation and enhancement is a legitimate action.
My re-visit to ancient Kyebi
I revisited Kyebi in April 2012. What I witnessed during my site visit shocked me more so than the first visit In April 2010. There was talk of ‘Galamsay’ during my first visit. However during my second visit, they were being referred to as ‘insurgents’. There is an escalation by these insurgents and their warlords in illegal mining activities in the historic town. The River Birim which flows through the town is the main source of drinking water and also provides energy for the rural agricultural economy. The river appeared poisoned and the evidence of river pollution was beyond doubt. The pollution appeared to come from a mixture of mercury and dangerous chemicals such as arsenic oxide used for extracting the gold.
The landscape looked like a battleground. Ancient woodland trees which are a valuable resource for wildlife had been wilfully topped, felled and destroyed; the unique biodiversity and wildlife such as the rare butterfly colonies which adds to the rich fauna and flora of the Kwaebiribirim forest have been exterminated. The blanket destruction of ancient woodland trees have now led to tree diseases on the existing stock, encroachment and damage of livestock and their grazing grounds, large-scale dumping of refuse, vandalism, and arson. Schools in the township have now stopped children from carrying out any form of outdoor activities to avoid death or injury around open cast mines created by these mining activities. Death has occurred in open pits at the historical educational institution known as ‘Abuakwa State College’. Others point to cracks on their buildings and attribute them to the open cast mines near their homes.
The huge open cast mines were like craters formed by alien UFO’s. They were huge and wide with sand banks surrounding the crater. Some had been filled with rain water and looked like poisoned death traps. The signs of aridity and soil erosion were very pronounced. This explains why there is an increasing amount of flooding in the township. There was evidence of sedimentation in parts of River Birim. The discoloration of the river water will suggest that the river was moving more sediments than was considered acceptable. Overall, what I saw will suggest an environmental catastrophe in the near future if this illegal activity is not contained and dealt with. Looking at ancient Kyebi now, it is obvious that the profits from the sale of the ‘conflict gold’ have not been reinvested in the historic town and its environs. My evidence was that this illegal activity had physically worn out the town.
Town Planning Strategies for the future
In order to strengthen our resilience to illegal mining in Ancient Kyebi, one approach is that Town Planners must be given the opportunity to develop strategies to deal with the effects of illegal mining. Town planning is necessary because the region is developing at a speed and manner that overtakes the capacity of our institutions particularly in our rural communities to control growth. We must not forget that the true object of democracy is the creation of a genuinely free society in which the primary duty of the state is the protection and extension of individual liberty. Unless the state acts to protect the poor and the weak, the rich and powerful simply exploit the former in the name of freedom.
Ghana is a signatory to the Rio Earth Summit and therefore has international commitments to its rural communities. The Rio Summit introduced the concept of sustainable development and brought it into prominence. Sustainable development is defined as “development that meets the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs”.
Ghana signed and ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992 and is therefore under obligation to develop a national strategy for the sustainable use of the country's biological resources. The entire country falls within three main bio geographical zones, namely: the south western portion within the Guineo-Congolian zone, the middle belt within the Guineo-Congolian/Sudanian Transition zone, while the northern-tip of the country falls within the Sudanian zone.
Despite the lack of information on the full coverage of the biological resources of the country in such areas as the marine and other aquatic ecosystems, so far, about 2,974 indigenous plant species, 504 fishes, 728 birds, 225 mammals, 221 species of amphibians and reptiles have been recorded. Three species of frogs, lizard, and 23 species of butterflies have been reported to be endemic.
Providing protection to the ancient woodland forest of Kwaebiribirim, the magic forest of Atewa- Atwirebi, and Bunso Arboretum to mention a few is of strategic importance and will contribute in creating a buffer against which the habitats of globally threatened species such as Mahogany, Emire, Odum and Wawa trees, butterfly sanctuaries and wildlife are protected and allowed to flourish.
Strategies such as Conservation Area Status, Tree Preservation Orders (TPO’s), and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) can be used to protect ancient woodlands, species habitats, wildlife habitats and the township of Kyebi. The criteria for protection will depend on the potential threat, archaeological significance, ancient monuments, origins of the area, buildings of historic interest, and areas of high environmental quality.
Conservation Areas have been used successfully to protect Jamestown in Accra (Capital of Ghana) for its historical and architectural importance. The Conservation Area status has generated foreign investment in Jamestown to protect its ancient buildings and historical assets which are vestiges of the colonial era. Kakum National Park in the Central Region of Ghana has benefited from its designation as an SSSI and TPO’s have been used to protect its trees from felling.
As in the case of, or similar to Jamestown, a network of Green Corridors can be used to restore ancient Kyebi’s woodlands, open cast sites and the Birim river valleys destroyed by the miners. Providing them a designation status will protect the designated sites and creating stepping stones for the movement of wildlife from one habitat to another and thus help to ensure the maintenance of the current range and diversity of the fauna and flora and the survival of species. If the soils in the Green Corridors are still intact and the site was left untouched the original ground flora would likely regenerate and in time the site would succeed in getting back to its ancient woodland reality, potentially providing valuable habitats in the process. However, this strategy requires the right level of commitment to its future management and maintenance.
The benefit of preserving ancient Kyebi’s cultural heritage and rich natural environment far outweighs those sites being mined for ‘conflict Gold’. Preserving heritage is in the Public interest. Mining for Conflict Gold in Ancient Kyebi serves only the private interest. Restoration of the damaged ancient woodlands would help secure a better long-term future for the damaged land.
Okyeman must have a growth strategy as an integral part of its Town Planning efforts. At the heart of this planning strategy must be the desire to protect and enhance the special character of ancient Kyebi regardless of the wealth beneath the ground. Natural resources, ‘history and heritage’ must be developed, protected and preserved for the benefit of the many and not merely for the profit of a few.
Ernest Addae-Bosompra is a Town Planner in the UK. Contact; email@example.com
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Bill Haley & His CometsBill Haley and his Comets was a rock and roll band of the 50s led by guitarist Bill Haley, one of the earliest groups of white musicians to record rock and roll bring it to the attention of white America and the rest of the world. Haley was a country performer who converted to rock and roll almost before there was such a thing.
Although several members of the Comets became famous, Bill Haley was the star. With his spit curl and the band all in plaid dinner jackets jumping all over the place, they were as revolutionary in their time as ever the Beatles or the Rolling Stones were. Although not on the early records, Rudy Pompilli's acrobatic tenor sax playing was a highlight of the live show, along with Marshall Lytle on string bass, literally on it, riding it like a pony, holding it over his head, and Frank Beecher on loud, solo, electric guitar. Their music and their act were part of a tradition in jazz and rhythm and blues, but it all came like a thunderclap to most of their audience.
Haley began his rock and roll career with a cover of "Rocket 88" in 1951 which sold well and was followed up with a Haley original "Crazy Man Crazy", a phrase he said he heard from his teenaged audience.
His biggest hit, and one of the most important records in rock and roll history was "Rock Around the Clock", which started slow, but eventually sold 26 million copies and marked the arrival of a cultural shift.
Other hits included R&B covers of "See You Later Alligator" in which Haley's frantic delivery contrasted with the Louisiana langour of the original by Bobby Charles. Furthermore, Haley's cover of "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" was a completely new performance built out of bits and pieces of the original by Big Joe Turner. The difference between the two illustrates the difference between rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Many more people heard Joe Turner's version because Haley covered it.
- Exhaustive biography of Bill Haley.
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- Year Published: 1918
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source: Garis, H. R. (1918). Curly and Floppy Twistytail, the Funny Piggie Boys. New York, NY: A. L. Burt Co.
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 5.5
- Word Count: 1,421
Garis, H. (1918). Chapter 12: “Baby Pinky and the Doctor”. Curly and Floppy Twistytail, the Funny Piggie Boys (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved May 25, 2013, from
Garis, Howard R.. "Chapter 12: “Baby Pinky and the Doctor”." Curly and Floppy Twistytail, the Funny Piggie Boys. Lit2Go Edition. 1918. Web. <>. May 25, 2013.
Howard R. Garis, "Chapter 12: “Baby Pinky and the Doctor”," Curly and Floppy Twistytail, the Funny Piggie Boys, Lit2Go Edition, (1918), accessed May 25, 2013,.
One night, in the piggie house where Mr. and Mrs. Twistytail lived with their three children, there was a crying noise.
“Hey! What’s that?” asked Curly, one of the piggie boys, as he threw some of the straw from his bed over on the one where his brother Floppy slept.
“Oh, I don’t know. Cats howling, I guess,” answered Flop. “Go to sleep and don’t mind ‘em.”
So he and Curly tried hard to go to sleep again, but you know how it is, sometimes, the more you try to close your eyes, and dream, the wider awake you get. It was this way with the two piggie boys, though you can hardly blame them for not sleeping, as the crying noise sounded louder and louder.
“That isn’t cats,” said Curly, after a while.
“No,” agreed Flop. “I guess it isn’t. Sounds more like Baby Pinky crying. I wonder what’s the matter?”
“Let’s get up and look,” suggested Curly who always liked to be doing something, even at night. So the two piggie boys crawled softly from their beds and looked out of the door. They saw in the next room their papa scooting around in his bare feet, carrying a kettle of hot water, and then they heard their mamma saying:
“There, there now, little one. Your pain will soon be better. Don’t cry and wake up the boys.”
“Oh, we are awake!” exclaimed Curly through the open door of his room.
“What’s the matter?” asked his brother. “Is somebody sick?”
“Baby Pinky is,” answered Mrs. Twistytail. “But go to sleep. We’ll call you if we want you.” The two piggie boys saw their papa getting more hot water, and other things, from the kitchen, and they heard their mamma walking around with their baby sister, and they tried to go to sleep, but they didn’t rest much, for they were too anxious.
During the night they managed to doze off, but still they heard noises through the house, and when it was almost morning, but when the stars were still twinkling, they heard their papa go softly out of the front door. And they heard their mamma say: “Tell the doctor to come as soon as he can, Archibald.” You see, Mr. Twistytail’s first name was Archibald. And he answered:
“Yes, I’ll get him soon,” and then the two boys heard their papa sort of blowing his nose hard and coughing, as if he had a bad cold. You see, papa pigs feel as badly when their little children get sick as real papas do, every bit.
Now in the morning, when the sun was up, there was a busy time at the pig-house. First came Grandfather Squealer, the oldest pig of them all, and he was a very nice gentleman.
“You boys must be very good and quiet,” he said to Curly and Flop. “For your little sister is very sick, and may have to go to the hospital.”
“What’s a hospital?” asked Curly.
“It’s a place where they make sick folks get well,” answered Grandfather Squealer. “Now, you boys get ready for school. The doctor is still here, and may be for some time.”
And so Dr. Possum was—up in the room looking after poor sick Pinky. There was something the matter inside her—I didn’t know what it was, but anyhow she had to go to the hospital to have it fixed, just as when the clock doesn’t go, the jeweler has to put new wheels in it, or fix the old ones.
“But I don’t want to go to the hospital,” squealed Pinky, when they told her she would have to. “I want to stay home,” and she made such a fuss that Dr. Possum said:
“This isn’t good for her. We must get her to be more quiet, or she will be very ill.”
“Oh, please let us try to get her quiet,” begged Curly, who, with his brother, heard what was said. “We’ll do some funny tricks, and stand on our tails, and sing a little song, and then Pinky will want to go to the hospital.”
“Very well,” spoke Dr. Possum, so the two piggie boys did all the tricks they could think of, from whirling around on the ends of their tails to rolling themselves down a hill, like a hoop, with an apple in their mouths. As Pinky watched them, she felt a little better, and when the big ambulance automobile came to take her to the hospital she was almost laughing.
And even when she got in the nice big hospital, so clean and neat, she wasn’t frightened, for the little squirrel nurses were so kind to her and they looked so pretty in their caps and blue dresses that Pinky felt sure she was going to like it there. And then the doctor said to her.
“Now, Pinky, little girl, I will have to hurt you the least bit, but no more than I can help, and after it is over you will be all better and you will have no pain and you will be well. Are you going to be a brave little piggie and stand for it?”
“Ye—yes,” faltered Pinky, but when the time came for them to really make her better, and when it hurt, she cried out:
“Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” and she wiggled so hard that the nurses and doctors could hardly hold her, just as when some children get vaccinated.
“This will never do,” said Dr. Possum. “If she doesn’t keep quiet we cannot make her get well.”
“I can’t!” cried Pinky. “I can’t! I can’t!”
Well, no one knew what to do, until just then Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old gentleman rabbit, came along, and he saw at once what was the matter.
“I’ll fix it!” he exclaimed. “If Curly and Flop will stand outside the hospital and sing funny songs while the doctor is fixing Pinky, she will not mind it in the least.”
“We’ll try it,” said Dr. Possum. So the two piggie boys began to sing funny songs under Pinky’s window. They sang about the mousie who had a rubber nose, and every time he blew it he bounced on his tiptoes. Then there was another one about a doggie, who could not wag his tail, because he’d fastened on it the monkey’s drinking pail. And when Pinky heard these songs she felt much better, and she let the doctor do whatever he had to do to her.
And when he hurt her quite badly (though, of course, he did not mean to, for it was to make her better), and when Pinky cried, Curly and Flop danced harder than ever and sang about the kitty who had a penny hat, and when the ribbons all fell off she gave it to a rat.
Pinky laughed at that, and when her two brothers chased after Sammie Littletail, the rabbit, and made him jump over a telegraph pole just for fun, she felt so jolly that Dr. Possum could finish making her all better, and she never cried once again.
So this shows you that even little animal children can go to the hospital and not mind it at all, though I hope none of you boys and girls ever get ill enough to have to go. And in a short time Pinky was all better, and she was glad she had let the doctor do what he had to.
So on the next page, in case the baking powder doesn’t shoot the sponge cake in the bathtub and make the towel ring the bell, I’ll tell you about Curly and the big apple.
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Harbor Hospital Center has added on-site radiation therapy to its cancer center to serve inpatients and cancer outpatients who live in the community.
The Harbor Hospital Cancer Center has teamed up with the University of Maryland Medical Center's Radiation Oncology Associates, offering the service in the hospital's Gruehn Building.
Cancer center patients no longer will need to transfer to other hospitals in Baltimore for radiation therapy. The new service also will give cancer patients who live in Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn easier access to treatment, hospital officials said.
The addition completes the cancer center's inpatient and outpatient services. Services include a 30-bed inpatient unit staffed by full-time, board-certified medical oncologists and an oncology nursing staff. An outpatient program provides more than 7,000 chemotherapy and blood and platelet transfusion treatments a year.
A broad range of sophisticated, state-of-the-art equipment, including some not widely available, will be located at the new center.
Radiation therapy is one of the three major treatments of cancer.
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A United Methodist bishop, prolific author, scholar, and pastor – Bishop Willimon says leading is important because too many congregations have been trained to expect too little. And preaching is important because God has a lot to say to today’s churches.
I was in awe interviewing such a luminary – seriously – where do you start? So we limited our 60 minutes to two of Will’s strengths: leadership and preaching. Enjoy these sage words from one of America’s best-known Christian leaders.
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In the decades Will Willimon has been ministering he has noticed a change in the minister’s role: they’re no longer called just to care, but to lead. And much of that leadership finds expression in the pulpit, a place in which Bishop Willimon is very comfortable. Here are my notes from the interview:
Recalling Heifetz, will says we only need leadership if we want to go somewhere. Of course, Christians do, so Will defines it as, a servant willingness to be used by God to help the Church do the work it’s called to do.’
Rooted in Call
Will thinks it’s absolutely crucial for Christian leaders to recapture their sense of call – that leading a congregation was not their idea, but God’s. Helping leaders articulate this sense that God really does have work to do for people, through people, is an important work for us all.
How I Prepare
Will begins in the summer, sketching out the program year – selecting Bible passages and themes, praying for direction. As the Fall unfolds, he puts clippings and ideas in files – and lets things marinate before taking on the task of sermons construction. All the while, rooting himself in the conviction that, ‘I speak because Ive been spoken to.”
About Will Willimon
The Reverend Dr. William H. Willimon has been a Bishop of The United Methodist Church since 2004. He leads the 157,000 Methodists and 792 pastors in North Alabama. For twenty years he was Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Willimon hold degrees from Wofford College, Yale Divinity School, and Emory University. He has served as pastor of churches in Georgia and South Carolina. He is the author of sixty books. Over a million copies of his books have been sold. In 1996, an international survey conducted by Baylor University named him one of the Twelve Most Effective Preachers in the English-speaking world.
His articles have appeared in many publications including The Christian Ministry, Quarterly Review, Liturgy, Worship and Christianity Today. He is Editor-at-Large for The Christian Century. A 2005 study by the Pulpit and Pew Research Center found that Bishop Willimon is the second most widely read author by mainline Protestant pastors. He serves on the editorial boards of The Christian Century, The Christian Ministry, Preaching, The Wittenburg Door, and Leadership.
Sponsors I Mentioned
Virginia Theological Seminary is the largest Episcopal Seminary in the U.S., forming men and women for leadership in the church. In addition to the MDiv, Anglican Studies and DMin degrees are their Masters of Arts degrees with a fous on Theological Studies, Christian Formation, Religion & Culture, and Biblical Interpretation. Check them out at vts.edu.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The fallout from lawmakers' delay on the debt ceiling is getting real.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Monday that he would start taking "extraordinary measures" this week to keep the country's debt below its legal limit.
In a letter to Congress, he also said that he now estimates he can keep the country out of default until Aug. 2, three weeks later than he estimated last month.
The reason for the extension: The government has taken in more tax revenue than expected -- easing the country's borrowing needs.
He said, however, the pace of U.S. borrowing is still on track to hit the current $14.294 trillion debt ceiling by May 16.
But Geithner said he would need to take action starting this Friday because Congress is unlikely to act by May 16 and the debt is already so close to the cap -- just $58 billion below as of the end of last week.
The Treasury Department will suspend issuance of special Treasury securities that help state and local governments fund, among other things, infrastructure improvements, Geithner said.
That will be the first of several steps Geithner will have to take the longer Congress delays action on the debt ceiling.
Republicans and some Democrats say they will not support an increase to the debt ceiling unless it is accompanied by spending cuts and enforceable budget measures designed to keep spending or deficits down. And agreements on those types of measures will take some time.
Some lawmakers mistakenly believe that not raising the debt ceiling would somehow tamp down future spending.
Geithner pushed back on that argument again on Monday. "The debt limit has never served as a constraint on future spending, nor would refusing to increase the debt limit reduce the obligations the country has already incurred."
Indeed, as the Congressional Research Service has noted, even if lawmakers never pass another spending increase or tax cut, the debt ceiling would need to be increased repeatedly in the future.
As it is, the Treasury Department also estimated Monday that the country will need to borrow $547 billion during the second half of this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
If the debt ceiling isn't raised, lawmakers will have two choices: Either cut spending or raise taxes by that amount, or let the country miss payments on many of its legal obligations.
Geithner said missing any payments would amount to default, a step the United States has never taken and which could have "catastrophic economic impact that would be felt by every Americans."
By way of example, he noted that a broad range of government payments would have to be stopped, limited or delayed. In addition, interest rates and borrowing costs would rise and Americans' home values and retirement savings would get hit.
Some Republicans who are using the debt ceiling to extract fiscal concessions, however, say the country will not be in default so long as it continues to pay interest on its bonds.
There will be sufficient revenue coming in to meet those interest payments, but Treasury would come up short by about $118 billion every month, and that could have severe consequences on government services and benefits.
The fuss over Apple's complex strategies to avoid taxes put the corporate tax code on display in all its convoluted glory this week. More
The 79 tornadoes that hit over three days in 10 states caused billions in losses, with most of damage concentrated in Moore, Oklahoma. More
Users are flocking to a new email program. More
Vermont, a patent-rich state, is cracking down on so-called "patent trolling," a growing problem for entrepreneurs nationwide. More
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Whatever your opinion is... red light cameras are posted up at six intersections in Tallahassee...
A new Tallahassee Voices survey says slightly more people favor having them.
Resident Willie Bell says, "I actually think it makes a whole lot of sense of them being there. At least they will probably slow the traffic down a little bit, especially on the main drags like Tennessee Street and Monroe Street."
The survey says 44 percent of people surveyed agree with Bell... saying red light cameras are essential for preventing accidents, injuries and deaths.
Forty percent say the cameras are just another method for City government to support City programs and services, and retirement benefits.
Tallahassee resident Rick Booth says, "I think we have too many government regulations for everything. This is just one more regulation that the innocent drivers have to put up with. You don't have a way to defend yourself. So, I'm against it."
The fine for a red-light camera violation is 158 dollars.
Also, make sure to tune in Friday at 6pm as Eyewitness News Reporter Gary Parker takes a look at a spray now on the market. It claims to be able to block your vehicle tag from red light cameras. Find out if it works, and what authorities say about it.
Tallahassee, Florida - September 14, 2011 -
To see the full survey, click on the PowerPoint attachment above
Citizens have mixed views on red light cameras. Slightly more citizens favor them and believe they serve a socially responsible function than believe they serve only a revenue generating function.
Some people say the red light cameras installed by the City of Tallahassee are essential for preventing accidents, injuries, and deaths to our citizens. Some people say the red light cameras are just another method for City government to make money to support City programs & services, pay retirement benefits for City employees, pay for increases in the City budget that outstrip population growth, pay building costs and maintenance, vehicle purchases and maintenance, etc.
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Mystic vs. Maniac
The mystic vs. the maniac: every day atrocities are committed in the name of faith. But as Susan Neville reminds us, it's possible to distinguish between the fires of fanaticism and the abiding glow of our better angels. Oprah Magazine: May 2007
Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature, and Land
Calling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, this collection of essays ponders the writing process and the "landlocked imagination."
Iconography: A Writer's Meditation
Memoir and meditation on writing
"Susan Neville is defining the emerging genre of the new nonfiction. The stories she has to tell in Indiana Winter are tales of great emotion and stunning insight."--Michael Martone
FABRICATION: ESSAYS ON MAKING THINGS AND MAKING MEANING
We are a nation of consumers. In this meditation of manufacture, Susan Neville journeys to factories in the heart of the midwest, looking for the sources of things.
Invention of Flight
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
IN THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS
"Susan Neville's language shimmers like light coming through colored glass, and her subtle words uncovered the inarticulate longings that burn the hearts of the most ordinary citizens. Susan Neville is one of the finest short story writers in the country." Maura Stanton
IN THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS
Winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize for Short Fiction, a Chicago Tribune Notable Book of 1998.
Praise for In the House of Blue Lights:
"In the House of Blue Lights dissolves the trimmed and tidied facade of midwestern suburbia to reveal the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Neville's fine stories of infidelity and faith, motherhood and madness, dogged acceptance and quiet hope chart the wide, restless orbit of the human heart."--A. Manette Ansay
"Imagine demands 'a terrible accuracy,' says one of Susan Neville's characters. In this mesmerizing collection of stories, that is what Neville gives us--an accuracy of vision, a harrowing honesty, shot through with tenderness."--Scott Russell Sanders
"In Neville's stories, the soul is a house of blue lights, the earth is a house of blue lights, and responsibility, pleasure, and tragedy all come from the moments when men and women make peace with their restlessness, with history, or with the randomness of God's design. The stories themselves are always graceful and startling; they make the familiar American world seem like it is still full of surprising things, and still worth caring about."--Andrew Levy
"Susan Neville's language shimmers like light coming through colored glass, and her subtle words uncover the inarticulate longings that burn the hearts of the most ordinary citizens. Susan neville is one of the finest short story writers in the country."--Maura Stanton
In Indianapolis, Indiana, an eccentric businessman named Skyles Test had a home referred to in local legend as "the house of blue lights." It was rumored that he kept his wife in a blue glass coffin.
This book is a work of fiction, but the title story fills in the holes in the oral history while retaining the tone of the ghost story. Another story based on history includes an imaginative reconstruction of what happened to Madge Oberholtzer, the secretary who was murdered by the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, D.C. Stephenson.
The book can be ordered through the University of Notre Dame Press, Amazon, your local bookstore, or by contacting the author.
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