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James Barnes(1801 - 1869)
Home State: Massachusetts
Command Billet: Brigade Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Brigade, 1st Division, V Corps
see his Battle Report
Before the Antietam Campaign:
He graduated from West Point in 1829 (Robert E. Lee graduated second in that year) and remained at the Academy as instructor of tactics and French. After brief service in the field he resigned in 1836.
He was then a civil engineer on railroads until shortly after the outbreak of War, in July 1861, when he was appointed Colonel of the 18th Massachusetts Infantry. He first saw action on the Peninsula Campaign, where, as senior Colonel, he was put in command of the Brigade in July 1862.
In the Antietam Campaign:
He was in command of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division/Fifth (V) Corps.
The Fifth Corps was largely in reserve at Antietam, but his Brigade fought in the action at Shepherdstown Ford on the 20th.
The remainder of the War:
He was promoted to Brigadier General in November 1862 and was at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He commanded a Division at Gettysburg, where he was wounded in the leg. He then was in command of the POW camp at Point Lookout, Maryland for the remainder of the War.
After the War:
He was a member of the US Commission on building the Union Pacific Railroad.
References, Sources, and other notes:
A critical Biographical Sketch excerpted from The Generals of Gettysburg: The Leaders of America's Greatest Battle by Larry Tagg .
More on the Web:
A fine collection of Photos and Drawings (prisoner art) from Point Lookout, MD at the Library of Congress. Included is a good portrait engraving of the General.
See more pictures of him at Generals and Brevets.
|Birth Date: 12/28/1801 Place of Birth: Boston, MA |
College: US Military Academy, West Point, NY Graduating Year: 1829 Class Rank: 5th of 46
Death Date: 2/12/1869 Death Place: Springfield, MA
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Nineteen Orange County companies have been named to the Inc. magazine list of the 500 fastest growing, privately owned companies in the United States.
The Inc. 500, started in 1981, is an upbeat reality check even in a slow economy illustrating than some companies are thriving. Their aggregate revenue is $10.5 billion, and their median three-year revenue growth is 1,275%. The top 500 have 46,000 employees.
The publication now also includes the 5,000 fastest growing companies. This larger list employs 350,000 people. Click here to see the entire list.
“There’s no question these companies represent the most resilient Inc. 500 list in its 30-year history,” said Inc. President Bob LaPointe. “Right through the teeth of the worst recession in 70 years, the 5,000 companies created 350,000 jobs.”
Fast-growth young companies are the source of most new jobs in the United States. Inc. has a graphic of some past Inc. 500 dwellers: Domino’s Pizza had 500 employees in 1983 and 145,000 now; Microsoft had 342 employees in 1984 and 89,403 now.
Among the top job creators on the 2011 list is Universal Services of America in Huntington Beach, ranked 2759, which created 7,393 jobs between 2007 and 2010.
The Orange County companies among the top 500, their ranking, headquarters city and three-year revenue growth are: Read the rest of this entry »
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|Type||Private (subsidiary of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation)|
|Founded||Tybee Island, Georgia, U.S. (1970)|
|Founder(s)||Cecil B. Day|
|Headquarters||Parsippany, New Jersey, United States|
|Key people||Clyde Guinn (President)|
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Days Inn is a motel chain headquartered in the United States. Founded in 1970, it is now a part of the Wyndham Hotel Group, based in Parsippany, New Jersey, which was formerly a part of Cendant. It is described by its president, Clyde Guinn, as striving to provide the "best value under the sun".
Days Inns worldwide locations include:
Days Inn was founded in 1970 on Tybee Island, Georgia by Cecil B. Day, a real estate developer who later achieved note as a prominent Christian philanthropist. The name was thought up by Day's friend Mannin Purvis of Savannah, Georgia who was the head of advertising for the Savannah Morning News. This first Days Inn has been purchased and renamed. Through the 1970s hotel guests could take home a paperback Bible (usually the ABS Good News Bible New Testament) from their guest rooms for free.
During the chain's early years, many Days Inns featured Tasty World Restaurants and Gift Shops, along with on-site gasoline pumps to sell unbranded fuel to motel guests at lower prices than nearby Texaco or Exxon stations.
One of the first successful hotel brands, Days Inns of America Inc. began franchising hotels in 1972 and within eight years created a system of more than 300 hotels in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Stanley S. Tollman and Monty D. Hundley via the Tollman-Hundley Hotel Group became the largest franchisees in the 1980s including buying Days Inn of America. They took it into bankruptcy in 1991. They then sold it to Hospitality Franchise Systems in 1991. Tollman and Hundley would be indicted on federal bank fraud and tax fraud charges that they had not disclosed all assets in the process. Hundley was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay more than $110 million in restitution. Tollman fled to London in 2002 where he fought extradition for many years. In 2008 Tollman agreed to a plea deal that would allow him to return home in exchange for more than $100 million.
There are now more than 1900 Days Inn hotels worldwide, serving millions of guests each year. Competitors include AmericInn Hotels, Fairfield Inn by Marriott, Sleep Inn, and Red Roof Inn for limited-service properties; Red Carpet Inn/Suites for certain full-service properties. Though its sister brand, Travelodge, also fits into this segment, it is primarily geared more toward active, outdoor, or adventure-oriented families.
Days Inns is a motel chain. The motel brands of Days Inn include:
- Days Inn/Inn & Suites - the most common variety, found around the world. They may be either full or limited-service. Some properties are only rooms; others have rooms mixed with suites.
- Days Hotel - the full-service variant found in high-traffic and large cities.
- Days Suites - an all-suites variant; may be either full or limited-service.
- Daystop, a budget chain common in the 1970s and 1980s; now discontinued.
- Days Lodge, a rare variant found formerly in resort and high-traffic locations; now discontinued.
The brand is now owned by Wyndham Worldwide Corporation and is in the process of a major upgrade.
- Days Inn: President's letter
- International Directory of Company Histories, Vol.72. St. James Press, 2005 - (retrieved from fundinguniverse.com)
- VIVIAN S. TOY (March 18, 2010). "Maybe He'll Move to a Hotel". New York Times.
- Days Inn: Days Hotels
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Skydiver Leaps From Stratosphere in 'Space Jump' Practice
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner gets set to leap from his capsule at an altitude of roughly 71,500 feet on March 15, 2012.
CREDIT: Jay Nemeth/Red Bull Content Pool
A daredevil aiming to set the record for world's highest skydive moved one step closer to his goal today (March 15), completing a practice jump from more than 13 miles up in the stratosphere.
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner stepped out of a custom-built capsule at an altitude of 71,581 feet (21,818 meters), officials with Red Bull Stratos — the name of Baumgartner's ambitious mission — announced today.
He plummeted to Earth in a freefall that lasted three minutes and 43 seconds, reaching a top speed of 364 mph (586 kph). Baumgartner deployed his parachute at 7,890 feet (2,405 m) and eventually landed safely about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from Roswell, N.M., project officials said.
Baumgartner had lifted off from Roswell in his capsule at about 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT), borne aloft rapidly by a balloon. Once he reached 71,581 feet, the 42-year-old daredevil ran through a 39-step safety checklist, depressurized the capsule and stepped out into the thin, frigid air of the stratosphere in his custom-made spacesuit.
From leap to touchdown, the entire test flight lasted just over eight minutes, officials said. According to Baumgartner, the toughest part of the dive was the extreme cold he experienced high up in Earth's atmosphere.
"I could hardly move my hands," the skydiver said in a statement. "We're going to have to do some work on that aspect."
Baumgartner is gearing up for an even bigger leap — his so-called "space jump" — from 120,000 feet (36,576 m) this summer. The current record for highest-altitude skydive is 102,800 feet (31,333 m), set in 1960 by U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger.
Baumgartner hopes his attempt will also set several other marks. He is chasing the record for longest freefall (estimated to be about 5 minutes and 30 seconds from 120,000 feet), and he hopes to become the first person to break the speed of sound during freefall.
Today's successful flight is a significant milestone, Red Bull Stratos officials said. It gave Baumgartner a taste of what he's in for with his record attempt, and it allowed the team to gauge how well his suit and other equipment held up.
Prior to today's jump, Baumgartner's highest-ever skydive was from 30,000 feet (9,144 m) up, according to team officials.
Baumgartner and his team had hoped to make his record jump in 2010, but they were delayed by a legal challengethat claimed the idea of the dive was earlier suggested to Red Bull by California promoter Daniel Hogan. That suit has now been settled out of court, and the Red Bull Stratos project is moving forward.
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Inspired by protests from Tunis to New York, activists and people’s assemblies have collaborated on a vision for a new global governance.
On Saturday, people will be taking to the streets in almost a thousand cities, 82 countries and six continents. In London, people plan to occupy the Stock Exchange. We are united for global change and united for global democracy: global governance of the people, by the people.
The following manifesto was produced over four months through consultation among groups, activists and people’s assemblies in countries such as Britain, Egypt, Tunisia, Germany, Spain, the US, Palestine, Israel, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, India and Australia. We got comments, suggestions, support, and wrote and rewrote it again and again. The text has been supported by Canadian-based Naomi Klein, Indian-based Vandana Shiva, the US-based Michael Hardt and Noam Chomsky, as well as Uruguayan Eduardo Galeano.
United for #GlobalDemocracy
On 15 October 2011, united in our diversity, united for global change, we demand global democracy: global governance by the people, for the people. Inspired by our sisters and brothers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, New York, Palestine-Israel, Spain and Greece, we too call for a regime change: a global regime change.
In the words of Vandana Shiva, the Indian activist, today we demand replacing the G8 with the whole of humanity – the G7,000,000,000.
Undemocratic international institutions are our global Mubarak, our global Assad, our global Gaddafi. These include: the IMF, the WTO, global markets, multinational banks, the G8/G20, the European Central Bank and the UN security council. Like Mubarak and Assad, these institutions must not be allowed to run people’s lives without their consent. We are all born equal, rich or poor, woman or man. Every African and Asian is equal to every European and American. Our global institutions must reflect this, or be overturned.
Today, more than ever before, global forces shape people’s lives. Our jobs, health, housing, education and pensions are controlled by global banks, markets, tax-havens, corporations and financial crises. Our environment is being destroyed by pollution in other continents. Our safety is determined by international wars and international trade in arms, drugs and natural resources. We are losing control over our lives. This must stop. This will stop. The citizens of the world must get control over the decisions that influence them in all levels – from global to local. That is global democracy. That is what we demand today.
Today, like the Mexican Zapatistas, we say “¡Ya basta! Aquí el pueblo manda y el gobierno obedece“: Enough! Here the people command and global institutions obey! Like the Spanish Tomalaplaza we say “Democracia Real Ya”: True global democracy now!” Today we call the citizens of the world: let us globalise Tahrir Square! Let us globalise Puerta del Sol!
This manifesto is not endorsed by all the people that participate in the worldwide protests on Saturday, of course. With social movements, you can never have everyone writing the text together or endorsing it. But to the extent that we could – we tried to create a process of writing that was truly participatory as possible, worldwide. We feel the text is legitimate as a manifesto coming from the protests, supported by many involved, such as Democracia Real Ya International, the main assembly in Madrid, the main assembly in Boston, in Buenos Aires and Sao Paolo. We hope it is the beginning of a movement.
We decided to call international institutions such as the IMF, the UN Security Council, global markets and international banks our “global Mubarak, our global Assad”. These words were debated vigorously. We decided to keep them. Hard words for hard times. We didn’t define what democratic global institutions are because not everyone completely agrees on a definition.
We prefer to leave it as a principle, and know that there are many suggestions on how to give people control over the global decisions that shape our lives. When French activists demanded national democracy for the first time, no one believed it was possible. Today no one believes global people’s control is possible. Future generations will judge things differently. Today we start building a movement for global democracy.
This manifesto has been published in numerous outlets around the world, including the Guardian
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May 31, 2008
NYTimes columnist Thomas Friedman introduced us to The SEED School of Maryland in his column today. This statewide public boarding school will open in August 2008 with 80 sixth graders, and will eventually grow to serve up to 400 students in grades six through twelve. This tuition-free, college-prep boarding school experience saves the lives of its mostly urban minority population, as has been proven over the past ten years in the first SEED school in Washington, D.C.
Imagine, given the will and the common sense to realize where our own self-interests lie, how many SEED schools we could have supported over the past decade, lifting tens of thousands of children out of lives doomed to poverty, ignorance, and despair, and into a future of hope and accomplishment.
Copyright © 2008 All Together Now.
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Thu October 25, 2012
Obama Will Become First President To Cast His Ballot Early
Originally published on Thu October 25, 2012 5:34 pm
Update at 5:19 p.m. ET. Obama Votes In Chicago:
After joking with some of the poll workers in Chicago, President Obama cast his ballot today, becoming the first president in history to vote early.
When Obama handed his license to the poll worker, he joked that they should ignore the fact that he has no grey hair in the picture. The poll worker actually checked if the picture on his ID matched the face.
After geting a little help to finalize his electronic vote, Obama said his vote showed just how easy and convenient the process was.
"I can't tell you who I voted for," Obama said to laughs.
Our Original Post Continues:
President Obama will take a moment from his current campaign schedule to cast his ballot in his hometown of Chicago today. First lady Michelle Obama also voted early, sending her ballot by mail Wednesday.
The vote will make Obama the first president in history to cast an early ballot.
In an email to reporters, the Obama campaign said the president was voting early "to promote the ease, convenience, and importance of voting."
USA Today adds that the president pushed early voting during his campaign stops today. The paper reports:
"After the Virginia strop, Obama planned to set an example by flying to Chicago to cast his own early ballot.
"'I can't tell you who I'm voting for — it"s a secret ballot,' Obama joked in Virginia, the sixth of eight stops on his national tour. But he added that another early voter — first lady Michelle Obama — 'said she voted for me.'"
As with everything this close to a general election, the politics of Obama's early vote are being dissected.
The Hill, for example, points out that the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign are bickering over who has the advantage so far in early voting. The Obama campaign issued a memo "claiming to be well ahead of Romney among early voters in the critical battleground state of Ohio."
The Republican National Committee responded by saying the memo was "panicked" and "argued that Republicans have been shrinking the president's lead in Ohio early voting."
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politico.com — States have set the pace over the past decade as the nation’s leaders in implementing climate change policy, but much of their work could be on the line this fall.
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Skip to comments.Russia plans tunnel to link Siberia and Alaska
Posted on 04/19/2007 2:10:24 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Russia introduced a plan Wednesday to build a tunnel between Siberia and Alaska under the Bering Strait, saying the $65 billion project could be used to export Russian oil, natural gas and electricity to the United States.
While two officials at the Ministry of Economy endorsed the idea, they made clear that the Russian government had not signed off on it, other than to agree to a study on how to bridge the 93 kilometers, or 58 miles, of icy water that divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres at their closest point.
Plans for a land link over the strait were first floated in the 19th century and have periodically been revived since; the latest twist is an emphasis on the link's being used for exporting energy and natural resources, the mainstay of the Russian economy.
The Russian national electric company and state railroad endorsed the plan Wednesday, adding a patina of credibility to an idea often dismissed as a colossal waste of money, even if it were found technically feasible.
Earlier justifications for the project, from creating a transportation corridor to building a symbol of political unity between Russia and the United States, have met with little sympathy in either country.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
Just put those guys from Massachusetts in charge. They build to Russian specs.
Oh, my God! How much pork would Senator Ted Stevens be able to bring home to Alaska if that idea gets any traction? He would probably propose that the U.S. taxpayers pay for the whole thing.
No advanced anti-submarine listening devices will be installed during this project.....nothing to see here, move along.
As if we don’t have our own gas, oil and electricity. Oh, wait a minute—we can’t drill for our own. Let’s get dependent on the upcoming, new USSR. So they can blackmail us. So we can save ANWR. We will give them the rope....
I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact that we don’t enforce our own borders, and it would thus allow tens of thousands, or even millions, of “guest workers” to walk right in and do Moscow’s bidding?
“Russia plans tunnel to link Siberia and Alaska”
Oh do we get a say in the matter?
A thread yesterday, and old thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/971011/posts?page=1
Political considerations aside, it would be interesting to see how the engineering problems of such a project would be overcome.
Think of it this way--whatever oil and gas we can get them to send us, is just that much more they don't send to China.
Related to this topic (sort of), but really cool:
Its a camera of the Bering Strait, taken from the Kingikmiut school in Wales, Alaska.
You can control direction and zoom
You can see Diomede Island (sort of).
I just saw someone go into the house on the left.
Wales, Alaska is the westernmost point on the continent. The Russian tunnel would connect in Wales.
This is a live view of the strait between Little Diomede Island (US) and Big Diomede Island (Russia). Its a live view of Russia (2 miles away and on the other side of the International date line), and its where the tunnel would have to go over.
Yes the cost seems much too low when you consider the location. Some of the coldest, stormiest (coined word) weather in the world there.
How cool would it be to take a road trip to Europe. I’d do it.
I await the floating bullet train bridge between SF and Hawaii.
Don’t do it. Not only shall the twain never meet, but in consideration of the Big Dig, the Alaska Dig could cost quadruple.
“The total length would be about twice that of the Channel Tunnel between Britain and the Continent and, according to Razbegin, would cost between $10 billion and $12 billion.”
Around February with the top down?
Shoot, we could just sell it back to ‘em...we’d make a nice profit and we could always invade later on : )
This is one of those things that I hope I can live long enough to see happen.
It's just a really damned-nifty engineering thing to do, and, it's really useful too!
It'll be accomplished around 2030 or so, and I might still be around if I can shake that ole song: "Ain't Livin' Long Like This" ............... FRegards
I was surprised to learn that the bridge from Alaska to Siberia was considered shortly after the Alaska purchase from Russia at the end of the Civil War. But then, it was equally surprising to learn that the canal connecting the Danube to the Rhine was considered by Charlemagne. Anyway, the former Governor is in Moscow to see about getting this $65 billion project underway. There is still some laughter about the Hickel Highway, but the Alaska Railroad was originally planned to go to the North Slope rather than stop in Fairbanks in the middle of nowhere.
Massive projects like this always seem to promote understanding and business! The Suez and Panama Canals, the Chunnel, etc., just make things better overall.
But then, I'm an engineer and I like $hit like this .............. FRegards
Funny how some of Hickel’s pipedreams aren’t viewed quite with ridicule today.
Hickel is great, no question. Another good Gov was Cowper, although that sentiment is not popular.
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Sitting for Long Time Linked to Pulmonary Embolism
Study Suggests Excessive Sitting May Increase the Risk for Blood Clots in the Lungs
July 5, 2011 -- Maybe the couch should come with a warning label.
A flurry of recent research has shown that excessive sitting increases the odds of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, some kinds of cancer, and even premature death. Now a new study is adding another health risk to that list: pulmonary embolism (PE), or a blood clot in the lungs.
The study, of nearly 70,000 female nurses who were followed for 18 years, found that those who spent hours sitting and sedentary in their leisure time were much more likely to have blood clots in their lungs compared to those who were more active.
And the risk remained even after researchers adjusted their data to take into account other factors including body weight, heart disease, smoking, and the use of medications like blood thinners and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
"Women who sat the most had more than twice the risk of PE compared to women who sat the least," says study researcher Christopher Kabrhel, MD, an attending physician and assistant professor of surgery in the department of emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston.
Most of the time, these blood clots, which can cause shortness of breath pain with breathing and increased heart rate, can be treated, but they can also be fatal. Researchers say that makes them a problem to take seriously.
"It's the third most common cause of cardiovascular death in the country. It's about as common as strokes," says Kabrhel.
Though this study wasn't able to definitively prove women in the study got blood clots because they sat so much, experts point out that sluggish blood flow, especially in the legs, is known to contribute to the problem. A piece of a clot in a deep vein, often in a leg, breaks off and travels to the lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism.
"Vein blood clots do occur in people who are not very mobile," says James D. Douketis, MD, an associate professor in the school of medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
"The extreme example is someone who's had a stroke and is paralyzed. The risk of having a blood clot there is one in two," says Douketis, who co-authored an editorial that accompanied the study but was not involved in the research.
In contrast, excessive sitting -- in this case, for nearly six hours each day on average -- increased the annual risk of having a pulmonary embolism from one or two out of every 1,000 adults to one or two in 500 adults.
Douketis points out that the risk from sitting appears to be slightly higher than the risk of blood clots associated with taking birth control pills and about half the risk of getting blood clots that a woman faces during pregnancy.
The study is published in BMJ.
"It's a nice study," says Jack E. Ansell, MD, chairman of medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and an expert on thrombosis, or the formation of blood clots.
"There are always limitations to a retrospective review of this nature, but the findings look fairly definite," Ansell tells WebMD. "It provides further, additional evidence that inactivity can be harmful."
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At first I didn’t get it. But Erik Brynjolfsson says we should think of it basically as a loss-leader:
Of course, Amazon knows this and makes a healthy, but not unreasonable, margin on every media sale. What’s more, they avoid having to pay 30% commission that Apple extracts when Amazon sells ebooks via the iPad. Because the profit stream from Amazon’s media products is boosted every time another customer buys a Kindle, Amazon can afford to price it at very low, or even negative margins. That gives them an advantage over standalone competitors. What’s more, Amazon can skimp on memory in the Kindle Fire—only 8 gigabytes – because owners can store an infinite number of books, songs, movies and documents on Amazon’s cloud servers at no cost. They even throw in a 30 day trial of Amazon Prime, the two-day delivery program that boosts loyalty among customers of Amazons non-digital goods.
If you go to the supermarket, they let you use a shopping cart for free. Not because the supermarket has access to a magical supply of free shopping carts, but because they want to sell you more groceries. Gillette makes its razors pretty cheap, then sells blades at a high margin.
That said, this seems arguably upside down as a business model. The marginal cost of distributing a digital copy of a book, song, TV show, or movie is $0. A company with a lot of confidence in its tablet could acquire the copyright of media, treat that as similar to the fixed R&D costs involved in developing new products, and then make its money by selling high margin tablets (rivalrous physical objects) that come with streaming “cloud” access to the firm’s entire library of content. It would then be in a position to pay writers, musicians, etc. to create new content that would be available to tablet owners.
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PESHAWAR: When Malik Faisal Moonzajer set out on a visit to Islamabad mid-June this year from Afghanistan, one thing whirled in his mind: Pakistan is an enemy. So deep-seated was this abhorrence that for decades he had taken everything anyone said positive about this country with a pinch of salt. Unbearable for him was anyone admiring Pakistan.
Just a couple of days before he flew to Islamabad, a Pakistani professor in a pre-departure orientation said “Pakistan is not a bad country.” On this, he confronted him: “You must be an [ISI] agent.” Moonzajer believed the professor had lied.
However, just after nine days stay in Pakistan, he realised his hate was misplaced. He reproduced the professor’s words, “Pakistan is a good country.” His (mis)perceptions were smashed to pieces after he travelled in the country and interacted with the people. “I was born to hate Pakistanis,” he said of his ingrained hatred for this country. “One thing was clearly known to me that Pakistan was an enemy. I had nothing more [in my mind] than that.”
Another man who was won over was Rafiullah, a Pashto-speaking journalist from northern Kunduz province. “I thought upon our arrival that the Pakistanis will find excuses to fight us, or at least will meet us with sullen faces. But I found them that open-hearted, friendly, hospitable and respectful” he said. “It shames me when I think that I had thought so negatively about Pakistanis,” he regretted.
What contributed to changing their opinion about Pakistan? “Interaction with Pakistanis,” says Moonzajer, who comes from northern Afghanistan’s Sar-e Pul province where non-Pashtuns constitute the majority and anti-Pakistan sentiments run high. The first interaction he had was with Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul. “The answers he offered to our questions were reasonable. [That was the point from where] I started thinking that Pakistan might not be an enemy,” he added.
Moonzajer was one of a group of journalists that visited Pakistan as part of an exchange programme initiated by a German organisation, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
“[Then] I met some Pakistani counterparts and [discovered] they were not against Afghans,” he added. On the streets, he was amazed by people’s cooperation. He went to markets alone to learn more about Pakistan without being accompanied by anyone. “I met a taxi driver, who helped me show places without asking for anything,” he added.
Moonzajer noted that a taxi driver in Afghanistan would have grimaced in disgust if you had to tell him that you were a Pakistani. “Some people held my camera and patiently followed me for an hour to take my pictures at Faisal Mosque,” he tells of his experiences.
The programme, titled “Understanding the neighbour,” appeared to have lived up to its expectations and helped almost all the visiting Afghan journalists understand the neighbouring Pakistan. Bravo!
The Afghan journalists travelled in Murree hills to go to University of Peshawar summer campus at Bara Gali. They loved seeing the forested mountains and scenic sights. They also stayed in Islamabad for some days and worked with Pakistani counterparts on stories. Pakistani journalists are visiting Kabul in October.
So fascinated is 23-year-old Moonzajer that now he plans to pursue a master’s degree in an Islamabad university. “What I have learnt [here] is quite opposite to what I had in my mind,” said Moonzajer, wearing glasses and a light stubble, just before leaving hotel for the airport on his return journey to Kabul.
The interaction with people and media made a positive impression on Farkhunda, a radio reporter from Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of Balkh province. “My perception of Pakistan has changed by 180 degree,” she said.
Muhammad Atif, who works in Kabul, said good discussions with Pakistanis caused them to stop thinking negatively about them.
Many Pakistanis also had some fixed ideas about the Afghans. Ayesha Hasan, a Pakistani journalist, wrote in her blog that the Afghan journalists broke several of the stereotypes one-by-one. She thought the Afghans were rigid, serious and the ones who rarely laughed. But she found some of them the funniest. She was also amazed to see no rebel in a generation that grew up in war, something opposite to the perception.
However, cross-border raids and Pakistani militants’ unmolested sanctuaries in Afghanistan and Haqqani network’s alleged safe havens in the tribal areas hobble efforts for normalisation of bilateral relations. But newfound friends like Moonzajer are determined to work for mutual understanding. Thousands others, he said, still held negative opinion about Pakistan and he had to change it.
“When I will go back I will tell people please, please listen to me...and at first they might not listen to me...that there are truths that we should know,” he said. “I have to tell people my stories. I have to write several articles. Maybe they will call me ISI agent, but I have to change it,” Moonzajer vowed.
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Oklahoma CareerTech Foundation
The Oklahoma CareerTech Foundation works to support student opportunities and success through a comprehensive statewide system of career and technology education. The Oklahoma CareerTech system offers programs and services across the state through technology center districts, comprehensive school districts, and Skills Centers campuses.
Foundation staff members work with CareerTech staff to identify and pursue opportunities that align with the CareerTech mission: "We prepare Oklahomans to succeed in the workplace, in education, and in life."
Through generous support, scholarships exist for students who wish to pursue or continue their education. Aid is also available for those who wish to teach within the CareerTech system.
Through Foundation efforts, opportunities to give are aligned with the interests of individuals and corporations looking for an opportunity to help Oklahomans.
If you have questions, please contact us. We are happy to help.
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The haunting eyes & leg of 'The Phoenix' after a frigid stage of the Giro.
Felice Gimondi, nicknamed "The Phoenix," is one of five riders to ever win all three of the Grand Tours during a career. He even won the 1973 World Championships, placing second in 1971 and third in 1970. Classic-ally strong as he was, the 1966 Paris-Roubiax, the 1966, 1973 Giro di Lombardia & 1974 Milan-Sanremo was his victorious Monuments.
Always an elegant and superb rider in the time-trials, mountains, in all terrains he was one of the handful of talented rivals to ride in the deep shadow of Merckx. If it wasn't for the Cannibal, his palmares would be more amazing.
He was asked why he waited until he was 31 to win Milan Sanremo...
Gimondi replied, "Because Merckx had abandoned that day!"
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Soulcage was a really big project, together with a group of four people; we designed and implemented a full 3D action-adventure videogame with a complete playable level. Every model, environment, puzzle or menu that appears in the game was built from scratch. Project took about 8 months to completion and it was the final assignment for a Master Degree in Videogames Design and Programming. It was a real success in terms of quality and timing.
It was a huge project and we were just four people working on it, we tried dividing the work as much as possible but everybody had to work in multiple fields to take the project to completion. I was involved in the game design, enemies design, character animation, intro design, user interface (HUD) design and I also helped studying various technologies for the terrain implementation while designing the main level.
For a detailed explanation on game story and intro implementation, check the other project in the list, The Soulcage Intro Project.
The first idea was implementing a complete new engine for the game. We spend really long time designing and developing the new OpenGL-based engine using what we had learned in the Masterís Degree but after a couple of months and some strength tests, we realized that it was not the path to follow. At that point, we sit down and decided to use some engine. In class we had studied in detail several open source engines and finally we chose OGRE 3D as the best option. It is a very interesting rendering engine and it provides a solid framework to focus our efforts in design rather than programming.
Other libraries we used were FMOD for the sound system; OIS for input/output management; LUA for AI scripting and TINYXML for interface (HUD) implementation and management.
Level Design and Implementation
One of my tasks was designing the main level and checking how to implement it. The first approximation was using a height map. We had studied this technique in class and it looks quite interesting; so I designed the map in that way.
It was a disaster. The map was ok but when applying the textures, the results on the numerous cliffs were horrible. I did several tests but finally we decided the best option was modelling all the level by parts; we were worried about the polygon number it could suppose but finally we saw that Ogre could handle it perfectly.
Here it is some early concept art for the tower, the main level first designs and the final results.
Character Animations and Enemies Design
Another task I took care was the animations for Bara, our main character; I also designed and animated roughly some enemies.
All the modelling and animation was done using Softimage XSI and it was a real nightmare uploading the animations from XSI to Ogre. We found several problems with the predefined skeletons XSI provided when exporting and the final results were not as good as expected. A total of seven animations were finally implemented for Bara but more than fifteen were designed, including some combos with the sword and knife.
The animations implemented were: IDLE, WALK, RUN, JUMP, DRAW, ATTACK and DIE.
Four basic enemies were designed (LIME, BAT, GHOST and SPIDER) but finally only two of them could be implemented in the game, the LIME and the GHOST. The giant SPIDER should appear as a mid monster in the small square just before the stairs to the tower but time and resources were limited and it could not be finished on time.
User Interface (HUD) Design
The user interface was another part I took care. I designed the HUD following the latest tendencies, trying to simplify it to the maximum but keeping it user friendly and showing all the information the player needs to know in every moment. I also implemented all the art for it.
The HUD consist of two bars in the top left corner showing shield and sword energy, a minimap to show playerís position and additional bars for enemyís life. Screen remained empty all the time and just when focusing to an enemy, its life bar appears; when draw our sword, our bars also appear; if speaking with some enemy conversational menus appear. The idea was making the game as simple as possible in terms of information the player should worry about; just show the strictly necessary info and let the player focus on the story we were telling.
There was too an items menu but it also was very simplified, allowing the player just to carry a very limited number of items (including swords and shields). The main reason for those decisions was that we didnít want the player spend too much time sailing through long and never-finishing menus with lot of data and options. We wanted to keep it as simple as possible and just focus on the story.
Main title, team logo and some other HUD elements were also implemented.
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How to Deal with a Low Credit Score
Credit standards are tighter than they used to be. A low credit score today doesn’t mean you can’t work toward better credit health. Let the low credit score be the starting point for your journey toward a more robust score.
Don’t let the damage spread further
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Next, check your credit
Find out where you stand and go from there. Get your score to see where you are. Then work toward paying off your debts.
Don’t let a low credit score discourage you. Credit scores can change, depending on your credit management, over time.
Now that you know more about dealing with a low credit score,
get your FREE credit score.
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Informative events play a significant role not only in explaining cooperation opportunities on ICT research and ICT4D to interested communities but also in offering networking opportunities among parties willing to engage in collaborative projects. More than 30 events have been organised under the EuroAfrica-ICT initiative since 2006, all of them welcomed with enthusiastic participation from African and European delegates (testimonials).
Those kinds of events are thus a standard component of the EuroAfrica-ICT Initiative and will therefore be important milestones for the project offering direct interaction between African and European experts in order to harness the vast opportunities offered by ICT and related services for socio-economic growth.
The EuroAfrica-ICT Initiative will accordingly organise 8 new events over 2012-2013:
- 4 FP7-Horizon2020/ICT awareness/training workshops in Africa
- 2 FP7-Horizon2020/ICT thematic working group meetings in Europe and Africa
- 2 new editions of the “Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT” in Europe (2012) and Africa (2013)
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Eden Prairie students walk out in protest
Eden Prairie, Minn. — For 16-year-old Nick Laurent, walking out of Eden Prairie High School Thursday to protest the school's punishment of students seen partying on Facebook pages was about asking administrators to be fair.
More than a dozen students joined Laurent after learning about the walkout from fliers the junior handed out the day before. The students said school administrators overreacted to the perception that students in the photos were drinking.
"It's the loudest thing we could do," said Laurent, who organized the walkout but said he wasn't one of the students in the photos.
Laurent tried to make his point by passing out red plastic cups that were similar to those seen in some of the photos. He noted that it was impossible to see what was inside the cups, so administrators couldn't prove that students were drinking.
Laurent agreed that athletes and other students who sign a code of conduct to be involved in activities should face consequences if they break the rule against drinking alcohol. But he said the punishments were too harsh.
"They don't have (the) support of the students to hand out arbitrary punishments and punishments that don't fit the crime," he said.
Once the photos on the social networking Web site came to the attention of administrators, 42 students were interviewed and 13 face some discipline over the pictures, school officials said.
School officials haven't said how the students were disciplined, but Minnesota State High School League penalties start with a two-game suspension for the first violation. Laurent and other students said they knew of classmates who were banned from their sports teams for five weeks.
Principal Conn McCartan did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the walkout, but students said they expected they'd be punished.
Fourteen-year-old Ali Saley said cutting class for the cause was worth it. She held signs such as, "They walk or we do," in solidarity with the students who were punished. A few cars honked in support of the students as they gathered on a footbridge over the road in front of the school.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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United States Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), along with eight co-sponsors, has Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act — which seeks to amend the federal Controlled Substances Act so as to “exempt real property from civil forfeiture due to medical-marijuana-related conduct that is authorized by State law.”legislation — , the Medical
Representative Lee’s bill, the first of its kind ever introduced in Congress, is a direct response to Justice Department’s medical marijuana laws. Since October, US Attorneys in California alone have sent more than 300 threatening letters to landlords across the state, resulting in the closure of more than 400 dispensaries, according to tabulations by the group Americans for Safe Access.to sanction property owners whose tenants are in compliance with state
Speaking in support of the proposal, Rep. Lee explained, “As a long-time supporter of the rights of patients to have safe and legal access to medicine that has been recommended to them by their doctors, this bill will provide clarification to California businesses and security for California patients. The people of California have made it legal for patients to have safe access to medicinal marijuana and, as a result, thousands of small business owners have invested millions of dollars in building their companies, creating jobs, and paying their taxes. We should be protecting and implementing the will of voters, not undermining our democracy by prosecuting small business owners who pay taxes and comply with the laws of their states in providing medicine to patients in need.”
The Medical Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act has been assigned before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. You can contact your member of Congress is support of the Act via NORML’s ‘Take Action Center’ .
Several other marijuana law reform bills also remain pending before Congress, including:
*, the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act, which prohibits the federal government from prosecuting adults who use or possess marijuana by removing the plant and its primary psychoactive constituent, THC, from the five schedules of the United States Controlled Substances Act of 1970. The measure presently has 20 co-sponsors. You can contact your member of Congress in support of this Act .
*, the States’ Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act, which ensures that medical cannabis patients in states that have approved its use will no longer have to fear arrest or prosecution from federal law enforcement agencies. The measure presently has 22 co-sponsors. Support this measure by clicking .
*, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act, excludes low potency varieties of marijuana from federal prohibition. The measure presently has 33 co-sponsors. Its just introduced Senate companion bill, , has three co-sponsors. Contact your member of the House and Senate in support of this Act .
*, The Truth in Trials Act, provides an affirmative defense in federal court for defendants whose actions were in compliance with the medical marijuana laws of their state. The measure presently has 22 co-sponsors. You can support this measure .
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Alfred Downing and Frances Cummins
Posted by mikegen48 on January 25, 2007
Alfred Downing was born on 11 Aug 1793 in Kentucky. He died circa 1834 in Indiana.
Alfred married Frances Cummins in 1815 in Sumner County, Tennessee. Frances was born in 1795 in Sumner County, Tennessee. She died in 1874 in Indiana.
They had the following children:
Ruth Downing was born in 1817 in Indiana.
Jane Downing was born on 17 Jan 1821 in Indiana.
Alfred Downing was born in 1823 in Indiana. He died during 1823 in Harrison County, Indiana.
Charles Downing was born circa 1825 in Indiana. He died in 1887 in Kentucky.
Margaret Downing was born in 1828 in Indiana. She died on 4 Mar 1907 in Tennessee.
Julia Amanda Downing was born circa 1830 in Indiana. She died in 1916 in Illinois.
Paula Downing was born in 1833 in Indiana. She died in 1891 in Indiana.
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An Essay on the Principle of Population/Chapter XIX
|←Chapter XVIII||An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
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The sorrows of life necessary to soften and humanize the heart - The excitement of social sympathy often produce characters of a higher order than the mere possessors of talents - Moral evil probably necessary to the production of moral excellence - Excitements from intellectual wants continually kept up by the infinite variety of nature, and the obscurity that involves metaphysical subjects - The difficulties in revelation to be accounted for upon this principle - The degree of evidence which the scriptures contain, probably, best suited to the improvements of the human faculties, and the moral amerlioration of mankind - The idea that mind is created by excitements seems to account for the existence of natural and moral evil.
THE sorrows and distresses of life form another class of excitements, which seem to be necessary, by a peculiar train of impressions, to soften and humanize the heart, to awaken social sympathy, to generate all the Christian virtues, and to afford scope for the ample exertion of benevolence. The general tendency of an uniform course of prosperity is rather to degrade than exalt the character. The heart that has never known sorrow itself will seldom be feelingly alive to the pains and pleasures, the wants and wishes, of its fellow beings. It will seldom be overflowing with that warmth of brotherly love, those kind and amiable affections, which dignify the human character even more than the possession of the highest talents. Talents, indeed, though undoubtedly a very prominent and fine feature of mind, can by no means be considered as constituting the whole of it. There are many minds which have not been exposed to those excitements that usually form talents, that have yet been vivified to a high degree by the excitements of social sympathy. In every rank of life, in the lowest as frequently as in the highest, characters are to be found overflowing with the milk of human kindness, breathing love towards God and man, and, though without those peculiar powers of mind called talents, evidently holding a higher rank in the scale of beings than many who possess them. Evangelical charity, meekness, piety, and all that class of virtues distinguished particularly by the name of Christian virtues do not seem necessarily to include abilities; yet a soul possessed of these amiable qualities, a soul awakened and vivified by these delightful sympathies, seems to hold a nearer commerce with the skies than mere acuteness of intellect.
The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited. It seems highly probable that moral evil is absolutely necessary to the production of moral excellence. A being with only good placed in view may be justly said to be impelled by a blind necessity. The pursuit of good in this case can be no indication of virtuous propensities. It might be said, perhaps, that infinite Wisdom cannot want such an indication as outward action, but would foreknow with certainly whether the being would choose good or evil. This might be a plausible argument against a state of trial, but will not hold against the supposition that mind in this world is in a state of formation. Upon this idea, the being that has seen moral evil and has felt disapprobation and disgust at it is essentially different from the being that has seen only good. They are pieces of clay that have received distinct impressions: they must, therefore, necessarily be in different shapes; or, even if we allow them both to have the same lovely form of virtue, it must be acknowledged that one has undergone the further process, necessary to give firmness and durability to its substance, while the other is still exposed to injury, and liable to be broken by every accidental impulse. An ardent love and admiration of virtue seems to imply the existence of something opposite to it, and it seems highly probable that the same beauty of form and substance, the same perfection of character, could not be generated without the impressions of disapprobation which arise from the spectacle of moral evil.
When the mind has been awakened into activity by the passions, and the wants of the body, intellectual wants arise; and the desire of knowledge, and the impatience under ignorance, form a new and important class of excitements. Every part of nature seems peculiarly calculated to furnish stimulants to mental exertion of this kind, and to offer inexhaustible food for the most unremitted inquiry. Our mortal Bard says of Cleopatra:
- Custom cannot stale
- Her infinite variety.
The expression, when applied to any one object, may be considered as a poetical amplification, but it is accurately true when applied to nature. Infinite variety seems, indeed, eminently her characteristic feature. The shades that are here and there blended in the picture give spirit, life, and prominence to her exuberant beauties, and those roughnesses and inequalities, those inferior parts that support the superior, though they sometimes offend the fastidious microscopic eye of short-sighted man, contribute to the symmetry, grace, and fair proportion of the whole.
The infinite variety of the forms and operations of nature, besides tending immediately to awaken and improve the mind by the variety of impressions that it creates, opens other fertile sources of improvement by offering so wide and extensive a field for investigation and research. Uniform, undiversified perfection could not possess the same awakening powers. When we endeavour then to contemplate the system of the universe, when we think of the stars as the suns of other systems scattered throughout infinite space, when we reflect tha t we do not probably see a millionth part of those bright orbs that are beaming light and life to unnumbered worlds, when our minds, unable to grasp the immeasurable conception, sink, lost and confounded, in admiration at the mighty incomprehensible power of the Creator, let us not querulously complain that all climates are not equally genial, that perpetual spring does not reign throughout the year, that it God's creatures do not possess the same advantages, that clouds and tempests sometimes darken the natural world and vice and misery the moral world, and that all the works of the creation are not formed with equal perfection. Both reason and experience seem to indicate to us that the infinite variety of nature (and variety cannot exist without inferior parts, or apparent blemishes) is admirably adapted to further the high purpose of the creation and to produce the greatest possible quantity of good.
The obscurity that involves all metaphysical subjects appears to me, in the same manner, peculiarly calculated to add to that class of excitements which arise from the thirst of knowledge. It is probable that man, while on earth, will never be able to attain complete satisfaction on these subjects; but this is by no means a reason that he should not engage in them. The darkness that surrounds these interesting topics of human curiosity may be intended to furnish endless motives to intellectual activity and exertion. The constant effort to dispel this darkness, even if it fail of success, invigorates and improves the thinking faculty. If the subjects of human inquiry were once exhausted, mind would probably stagnate; but the infinitely diversified forms and operations of nature, together with the endless food for speculation which metaphysical subjects offer, prevent the possibility that such a period should ever arrive.
It is by no means one of the wisest sayings of Solomon that 'there is no new thing under the sun.' On the contrary, it is probable that were the present system to continue for millions of years, continual additions would be making to the mass of human knowledge, and yet, perhaps, it may be a matter of doubt whether what may be called the capacity of mind be in any marked and decided manner increasing. A Socrates, a Plato, or an Aristotle, however confessedly inferior in knowledge to the philosophers of the present day, do not appear to have been much below them in intellectual capacity. Intellect rises from a speck, continues in vigour only for a certain period, and will not perhaps admit while on earth of above a certain number of impressions. These impressions may, indeed, be infinitely modified, and from these various modifications, added probably to a difference in the susceptibility of the original germs, arise the endless diversity of character that we see in the world; but reason and experience seem both to assure us that the capacity of individual minds does not increase in proportion to the mass of existing knowledge. (It is probable that no two grains of wheat are exactly alike. Soil undoubtedly makes the principal difference in the blades that spring up, but probably not all. It seems natural to suppose some sort of difference in the original germs that are afterwards awakened into thought, and the extraordinary difference of susceptibility in very young children seems to confirm the supposition.)
The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at orig inal thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas. Could we suppose the period arrived, when there was not further hope of future discoveries, and the only employment of mind was to acquire pre-existing knowledge, without any efforts to form new and original combinations, though the mass of human knowledge were a thousand times greater than it is at present, yet it is evident that one of the noblest stimulants to mental exertion would have ceased; the finest feature of intellect would be lost; everything allied to genius would be at an end; and it appears to be impossible, that, under such circumstances, any individuals could possess the same intellectual energies as were possessed by a Locke, a Newton, or a Shakespeare, or even by a Socrates, a Plato, an Aristotle or a Homer.
If a revelation from heaven of which no person could feel the smallest doubt were to dispel the mists that now hang over metaphysical subjects, were to explain the nature and structure of mind, the affections and essences of all substances, the mode in which the Supreme Being operates in the works of the creation, and the whole plan and scheme of the Universe, such an accession of knowledge so obtained, instead of giving additional vigour and activity to the human mind, would in all probability tend to repress future exertion and to damp the soaring wings of intellect.
For this reason I have never considered the doubts and difficulties that i nvolve some parts of the sacred writings as any ardent against their divine original. The Supreme Being might, undoubtedly, have accompanied his revelations to man by such a succession of miracles, and of such a nature, as would have produced universal overpowering conviction and have put an end at once to all hesitation and discussion. But weak as our reason is to comprehend the plans of the great Creator, it is yet sufficiently strong to see the most striking objections to such a revelation. From the little we know of the structure of the human understanding, we must be convinced that an overpowering conviction of this kind, instead of tending to the improvement and moral amelioration of man, would act like the touch of a torpedo on all intellectual exertion and would almost put an end to the existence of virtue. If the scriptural denunciations of eternal punishment were brought home with the same certainty to every man's mind as that the night will follow the day, this one vast and gloomy idea would take such full possession of the human faculties as to leave no room for any other conceptions, the external actions of men would be all nearly alike, virtuous conduct would be no indication of virtuous disposition, vice and virtue would be blended together in one common mass, and though the all-seeing eye of God might distinguish them they must necessarily make the same impressions on man, who can judge only from external appearances. Under such a dispensation, it is difficult to conceive how human beings could be formed to a detestation of moral evil, and a love and admiration of God, and of moral excellence.
Our ideas of virtue and vice are not, perhaps, very accurate and well-defined; but few, I think, would call an action really virtuous which was performed simply and solely from the dread of a very great punishment or the expectation of a very great reward. The fear of the Lord is very justly said to be the beginning of wisdom, but the end of wisdom is the love of the Lord and the admiration of moral good. The denunciations of future punishment contained in the scriptures seem to be well calculated to arrest the progress of the vicious and awaken the attention of the careless, but we see from repeated experience that they are not accompanied with evidence of such a nature as to overpower the human will and to make men lead virtuous lives with vicious dispositions, merely from a dread of hereafter. A genuine faith, by which I mean a faith that shews itself in it the virtues of a truly Christian life, may generally be considered as an indication of an amiable and virtuous disposition, operated upon more by love than by pure unmixed fear.
When we reflect on the temptations to which man must necessarily be exposed in this world, from the structure of his frame, and the operation of the laws of nature, and the consequent moral certainty that many vessels will come out of this mighty creative furnace in wrong shapes, it is perfectly impossible to conceive that any of these cre atures of God's hand can be condemned to eternal suffering. Could we once admit such an idea, it our natural conceptions of goodness and justice would be completely overthrown, and we could no longer look up to God as a merciful and righteous Being. But the doctrine of life and Mortality which was brought to light by the gospel, the doctrine that the end of righteousness is everlasting life, but that the wages of sin are death, is in every respect just and merciful, and worthy of the great Creator. Nothing can appear more consonant to our reason than that those beings which come out of the creative process of the world in lovely and beautiful forms should be crowned with immortality, while those which come out misshapen, those whose minds are not suited to a purer and happier state of existence, should perish and be condemned to mix again with their original clay. Eternal condemnation of this kind may be considered as a species of eternal punishment, and it is not wonderful that it should be represented, sometimes, under images of suffering. But life and death, salvation and destruction, are more frequently opposed to each other in the New Testament than happiness and misery. The Supreme Being would appear to us in a very different view if we were to consider him as pursuing the creatures that had offended him with eternal hate and torture, instead of merely condemning to their original insensibility those beings that, by the operation of general laws, had not been formed with qualities suited to a purer state of happiness.
Life is, generally speaking, a blessing independent of a future state. It is a gift which the vicious would not always be ready to throw away, even if they had no fear of death. The partial pain, therefore, that is inflicted by the supreme Creator, while he is forming numberless beings to a capacity of the highest enjoyments, is but as the dust of the balance in comparison of the happiness that is communicated, and we have every reason to think that there is no more evil in the world than what is absolutely necessary as one of the ingredients in the mighty process.
The striking necessity of general laws for the formation of intellect will not in any respect be contradicted by one or two exceptions, and these evidently not intended for partial purposes, but calculated to operate upon a great part of mankind, and through many ages. Upon the idea that I have given of the formation of mind, the infringement of the general law of nature, by a divine revelation, will appear in the light of the immediate hand of God mixing new ingredients in the mighty mass, suited to the particular state of the process, and calculated to give rise to a new and powerful train of impressions, tending to purify, exalt, and improve the human mind. The miracles that accompanied these revelations when they had once excited the attention of mankind, and rendered it a matter of most interesting discussion, whether the doctrine was from God or man, had performed their part, had answered the purpose of the Creator. and these communications of the divine will were afterwards left to make their way by their own intrinsic excellence; and, by operating as moral motives, gradually to influence and improve, and not to overpower and stagnate the faculties of man.
It would be, undoubtedly, presumptuous to say that the Supreme Being could not possibly have effected his purpose in any other way than that which he has chosen, but as the revelation of the divine will which we possess is attended with some doubts and difficulties, and as our reason points out to us the strongest objections to a revelation which would force immediate, implicit, universal belief, we have surely just cause to think that these doubts and difficulties are no argument against the divine origin of the scriptures, and that the species of evidence which they possess is best suited to the improvement of the human faculties and the moral amelioration of mankind.
The idea that the impressions and excitements of this world are the instruments with which the Supreme Being forms matter into mind, and that the necessity of constant exertion to avoid evil and to pursue good is the principal spring of these impressions and excitements, seems to smooth many of the difficulties that occur in a contemplation of human life, and appears to me to give a satisfactory reason for the existence of natural and moral evil, and, consequently, for that part of both, and it certainly is not a very small part, which arises from the principle of population. But, though, upon this supposition, it seems highly improbable that evil should ever be removed from the world, yet it is evident that this impression would not answer the apparent purpose of the Creator, it would not act so powerfully as an excitement to exertion, if the quantity of it did not diminish or increase with the activity or the indolence of man. The continual variations in the weight and in the distribution of this pressure keep alive a constant expectation of throwing it off.
- Hope springs eternal in the Human breast,
- Man never is, but always to be blest.
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. We are not patiently to submit to it, but to exert ourselves to avoid it. It is not only the interest but the duty of every individual to use his utmost efforts to remove evil from himself and from as large a circle as he can influence, and the more he exercises himself in this duty, the more wisely he directs his efforts, and the more successful these efforts are, the more he will probably improve and exalt his own mind and the more completely does he appear to fulfil the will of his Creator.
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An Islamist backed by the Muslim Brotherhood declared victory as Egypt's first democratically elected president even as the country's military rulers issued a decree that virtually stripped the position of power.
The move by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces -- the military rulers in control since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak -- came Sunday at the conclusion of a two-day presidential runoff, adding to the political turmoil that raised questions about the stability of the fragile democracy.
Even with no constitution, no parliament and, possibly, no power, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi declared victory late Sunday over Ahmed Shafik, who was Egypt's last prime minister in the waning days of Mubarak's regime.
Shafik, though, refused to concede, saying votes were to still to be tallied in his stronghold districts, including portions of Cairo.
The military council will release details of an interim constitutional declaration Monday, said Maj. Mohamed Askar, the council's spokesman.
Under the declaration, Askar told CNN, the military council retains the power to make laws and budget decisions for the country until a new constitution can be written and a new parliament elected.
It is the latest political twist to arise during Egypt's historical elections, following a high court ruling just days before the runoff that invalidated parliament and paved the way for the military council to dissolve the legislative body.
While votes in Cairo, the country's largest population center, were still to be tallied, unofficial results released by the state-run Al-Ahram news website early Monday showed Morsi leading elsewhere in the country with 11.2 million votes, or 52.3%, compared with 10.3 million for Shafik.
In a victory speech, Morsi did not address the move by the military council.
Rather, he used the platform to try to allay fears that he would impose an Islamist state, promising "a civil, patriotic, democratic, constitutional and modern state."
"No one's rights will be left out of it, and no one will dominate over the other. The strong will not oppress the weak, and the weak's rights will not be forgotten because of irresponsibility," he said during a speech at his campaign headquarters in Cairo.
Even as Morsi's supporters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square -- considered the heart of the February 2011 uprising that led to Mubarak's downfall -- to celebrate, concerns were being raised about what the military council's decree meant for the fledgling democracy.
"There is no parliament and there is no constitution," said Hamdi Nayim, who joined the celebration in the square.
"We need to make this constitution very quickly, and we need to fight with the army. ... We will not be satisfied if the army will control us and govern us here."
While the votes were counted, both sides traded allegations of voting irregularities at the hands of the other.
The Supreme Presidential Electoral Committee approved licenses for 53 organizations to observe the elections, including at least three international groups: the U.S.-based Carter Center, the South Africa-based Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa and the Arab Network for Monitoring of Elections.
Shafik's campaign filed more than 100 complaints, alleging "ballot rigging and stuffing."
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I have a new post up at Global Comment
In recent years there has been growing awareness of the ways in which early marriage can be detrimental to the lives of women. Feminists are continually derided for describing patriarchy as a system that acts in real and systemic ways, but there can be no greater proof of its catastrophic effects than underage marriage. Despite the sure knowledge that child marriage leads to early pregnancy, which often results in fistula, early death and poverty, the practice continues to occur across the globe. On the continent of Africa, for example, child marriage continues to be an issue.
In Niger, three quarters of young girls will be married before the age of eighteen. A girl is raised to understand that her destiny is to marry and produce children. Education is seen as a waste because whatever girls do in life will only profit the household of her husband’s family. Ninety percent of Niger’s women are illiterate and without education, and they have no chance to end the vicious cycle of poverty. This legacy is then passed to their children, who are married before their time, thus maintaining a continual cycle of ignorance.
The birthrate is extremely high, with the national average being eight children per woman. According to the United Nations Population Fund:
“Girls younger than 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s, and pregnancy is the leading cause of death worldwide for women ages 15 to 19. Adolescent childbirth is dangerous for the infant as well as the mother. The underdeveloped bodies of girls can lead to complications during childbirth and the death of the child. Infants born to adolescent mothers are much more likely to die than those born to women in their 20s”
There is an insistence that Western culture has infected the young with a rabid form of sexuality and therefore, as a way of controlling this behaviour, many believe that child marriage is unavoidable. In the past, men would wait until girls reached the age of majority before initiating sex, yet today child brides are forced into intimacy as young as twelve or thirteen, if not younger. The virginity of a woman is highly prized and it is considered shameful for a woman to be pregnant outside of wedlock. Child marriage is considered to reduce the risk of this shame and thus, family honour is placed above the best interest of girls.
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AMSAT-North America has started construction of a new low-earth-orbit (LEO) communications satellite. Although the satellite will be similar in mass and size to the original AMSAT MICROSAT design, it will incorporate all new, leading edge electronics and RF technology.
Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, AMSAT-NA President, discussed the new project at the organization's Board of Directors meeting held in Washington, DC, April 20-21, 2002. "I am very pleased that we are embarking on a brand new satellite project. I am particularly pleased that this new project will operate as an EZ Sat, as well as serving as a test bed for new and exciting technologies." he said.
Returning to the original pre-launch numbering system used in many of the earliest AMSAT-NA developed satellites, the new "bird" will be named AMSAT-OSCAR E (Echo) until launch. Plans call for the satellite to contain analog and digital VHF/UHF FM transponders similar to those carried on the UOSAT-OSCAR 14 and AMRAD-OSCAR 27 satellites currently in orbit. In addition, the new satellite will have the capability to host one or two other experimental payloads.
Continuing an approach used in past projects, AMSAT-NA has partnered with an outside contractor, SpaceQuest, Ltd. of Fairfax, Virginia, who will assist in building the satellite bus. AMSAT volunteers are responsible for the design, development, integration and testing of the various experimental payloads.
Dr. Tom Clark, W3IWI, AMSAT-NA BOD member and one of the "spark plugs" for the original MICROSAT project noted that, "The last major program that AMSAT-NA managed was the MICROSATS and this is a superb chance for us to update that legacy with all-new technology." He went on to note that, "We now have accumulated about 70 years of on-orbit experience with the MICROSAT design since our original flock were launched back in 1990, with several other satellites of that same basic design now on the drawing boards. The design is a true classic."
The spacecraft is now slated to be ready for launch in late 2003. A number of affordable launch opportunities are being actively explored.
AMSAT is very proud of its long tradition of excellence and the contributions it has made to the advancement of space communications, space education and the space sciences. AMSAT-OSCAR E will be a new vehicle for amateur radio to continue that quest for communications technologies for future generations.
[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA Vice President Keith Baker, KB1SF, for this information]
AMSAT-NA's Executive Vice President Keith Baker, KB1SF, recently announced that AMSAT-NA is now accepting orders for AMSAT's various printed, hardware and software items on-line, via a secure credit card link. In addition, a new toll-free number at AMSAT-NA Headquarters in Maryland has been launched to help make telephone ordering of these offerings that much easier.
"These two order simplification efforts have been in the planning stages for a long time," KB1SF said. "With heartfelt thanks to the superb efforts of a number of our super-talented volunteers, our dreams are now a reality." Keith singled out the ongoing, "behind the scenes" work of Paul Williamson, KB5MU, AMSAT-NA's webmaster, as well as the efforts of Bob Carpenter, W3OTC (along with Martha at the AMSAT office) as particularly noteworthy in bringing these long-needed improvements to AMSAT's member support activities.
As ANS readers know, AMSAT-NA is a non-profit corporation, and as such, offers various informational and promotional items to members and others in exchange for monetary donations. These donations, in turn, help fund the organization's satellite building and launching efforts as well as help cover day-to-day operating expenses.
The new on-line ordering system now makes it easier for members to order these items than ever before. Overseas members will find the new system particularly helpful, as it avoids the need for them waiting until AMSAT's Silver Spring offices open or placing expensive long-distance telephone calls when ordering. Now, such orders can be taken and accepted on-line at any time, day or night, from anywhere in the world.
Members and others interested in using the new on-line service can do so simply by clicking on the AMSAT Catalog link at the bottom of the main AMSAT-NA web page and then following the prompts and appropriate links from there. The final checkout page uses full security encryption and accepts both VISA and MasterCard credit cards.
KB1SF reports that members and others who still wish to place their orders "the old fashioned way" (via telephone or by mail) can continue to do so. Those calling from the continental USA, however, can also now take advantage of a brand new toll free ordering number at AMSAT-NA Headquarters.
The new number is: 1-888-322-6728.
[ANS thanks Executive Vice President Keith Baker, KB1SF, for this information]
A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying a multinational crew to the International Space Station. Russian Commander Yuri Gidzenko, Flight Engineer Roberto Vittori (of the European Space Agency) and South African businessman Mark Shuttleworth successfully rocketed away from the central Asian launch site in their Soyuz TM-34 craft.
Shuttleworth is a South African Internet entrepreneur flying under contract with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. He will spend almost eight days on the station, conducting experiments and educational activities.
Shuttleworth is scheduled will make four live contact with South African schools during his flight. Contacts are scheduled with the Diocesan School for Boys, the Kwazulu-Natal school, the Gauteng school (in Johannesburg) and the Western Cape school.
Shuttleworth received a special temporary, (honorary) amateur radio station license. The license contains an unusual callsign - ZS RSA. He has already spoken to South African President Thabo Mbeki, who was celebrating Freedom Day in Bloemfontein, South Africa, via a live (non-amateur radio) satellite link-up from ISS.
More information on the second space tourist and some of the research he will be doing is available at http://www.africaninspace.com
[ANS thanks NASA and the ARISS group for this information]
ANS news in brief this week includes the following:
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This week's AMSAT News Service bulletins were edited by AMSAT News Service editor Dan James, NN0DJ.
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By VOA -- (December 6, 2012)
By Kent Klein
President Barack Obama visited a family’s home near Washington on Thursday as part of his campaign to persuade Congress to pass his economic plan.
Obama paid a visit to Tiffany and Richard Santana, who responded to his call asking Americans to use social media to express support for his fiscal plan.
Americans will face substantial tax increases and government budget cuts on January 1, if Congress does not pass and the president does not sign legislation to reduce the nation’s debt.
Obama said failure to enact fiscal legislation would cost a typical American family, such as the Santanas, $2,000 a year in higher taxes.
“An increase of $2,000 or so for her and her husband, in this household, would actually mean $4,000 that was lost. And a couple of thousand dollars means a couple months rent,” he said.
The president said higher taxes for families across the country would cause a ripple effect throughout the U.S. economy.
“That translates into $200 billion of less consumer spending next year. And that is bad for businesses, large and small. It is bad for our economy. It means less folks are being hired. And we could be back in a downward spiral instead of the kind of virtuous cycle that we want to see,” he said.
On Wednesday, the president and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican John Boehner, discussed the issue in a telephone call.
Democrats and Republicans agree that more revenue must be raised to help reduce the national debt, which stands at more than $16 trillion. But Republicans oppose the president’s proposal to raise tax rates on the wealthiest Americans to close the gap.
Obama has been making his case to the public, hoping that Americans will pressure Republicans in Congress to accept the president’s plan.
“I am encouraged to see that there has been some discussion on the part of Republicans, acknowledging the need for additional revenue. As I have indicated, the only way to get the kind of revenue for a balanced deficit reduction plan is to make sure that we are also modestly increasing rates for people who can afford it,” he said.
The president recently has discussed the issue with state governors, corporate executives and the general public. But he has held only one meeting with top lawmakers on the fiscal situation, last month.
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Mark Zuckerberg Pledges Most of $6 Billion Fortune to Charity
One of the world's youngest billionaires, 26-year-old Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has pledged to donate at least half of his estimated $6 billion fortune to charity.
Zuckerberg, along with junk bond pioneer Michael Milken and AOL co-founder Steve Case, are among 17of America's richest people who have added their names to a growing list of the planet's wealthiest people joining the Giving Pledge, a promissory group founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates which seeks to get billionaires to publicly pledge large chunks of their fortunes to charity and not their heirs.
In a release on the Pledge's website, Zuckerberg explained why, among other things, he pledged $100 million to the Newark, N.J., public school system earlier this year.
"People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?" Zuckerberg said. "With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts."
The Giving Pledge comes in part from Buffett's belief that heirs waste money, an idea he gained from steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's book "The Gospel of Wealth," reports The Wall Street Journal.
Starting last year, Gates, his wife Melinda, Buffett and other wealthy individuals hosted a series of dinners for billionaires to discuss setting up the pledge, the journal reports. That led to an announcement in June of the pledge and its earliest signers.
Other members of the pledge include Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, film director George Lucas, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Ted Turner.
After the initial Giving Pledge list came out, some critics decried it as a public-relations stunt, or the product of tax-breaks that are hurting the government's ability to offer critical services, reports the Journal.
However, the group's real reason for the public pronouncements of the Pledge is the idea that giving is contagious, said Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, in the press release.
"Research shows that when people know that others are giving, they are themselves more likely to give," Singer said. "So publicly pledging to give will encourage others to give. This holds true for billionaires and for those of us who aren't anywhere near that level of wealth. We can all make a difference, and play our part in making the world a better place."
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By JENNIFER RAYMOND
The paving of Swan Pond Road is on track and anticipated to be completed by mid-April, TVA officials revealed Monday during a open house to update residents on the cleanup progress of the Dec. 22, 2008, fly ash spill at Kingston Fossil Plant.
The road will be reopened to the public when the paving is completed, TVA spokeswoman Barbara Martocci said during the open house in the gym of Roane State Community College’s main campus.
Martocci said several other roads, including Hassler Mill and Swan Pond Circle, have been paved with the help of the Roane County Road Department.
The open house offered residents an opportunity to ask questions about the fly ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant and the recovery efforts.
A decision has still yet to be made as to where the 5.4 million cubic yards of ash that was released will be placed.
Dredging ash from the Emory River was started on March 19, and everything is moving along as planned, according to ash spill incident commander Tim Hope.
Hope said a little less than 10,000 yards of coal ash has been removed from the water thus far.
A second dredge was also added and placed in the water on Monday.
The dredging was scheduled to run until 10 p.m. on Monday, three hours longer than previously.
Hope said TVA officials were planning to assess the noise level Monday night and make the determination as to whether the later dredging could continue.
The first phase of dredging will last about 60 days.
“It will get a little more than half of it,” Hope said.
Water and air quality samples continue to be taken and continue to meet standards, TVA air program manager Don Houston said.
“We are committed to (sampling) until the recovery is over,” he added.
Long-term ambient air monitors have recently been put in place, according to Houston.
“They are more sensitive monitoring equipment,” Houston said.
The monitors run for a 24-hour period.
Officials with TVA also said they do not expect any impact in water-based recreation due to the spill.
The channel is currently open for boaters, but they are asked to stay away from the spill area because of the dredging equipment.
The water levels of Watts Bar Lake continue to be the same and have not seen an impact from the spill, reservoir operations lead engineer Terry Twine said.
“We’re not doing anything different because of the ash,” he added.
The water level is actually slightly higher than normal due to the recent rainfall.
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Atlantic Cape Community College News Feeds
Want to be the first to get Atlantic Cape's headlines as soon as they are published? Want to find a way to save time if you read many websites? This FAQ will show you how, and will answer some of the common questions about Atlantic Cape's new news feeds.
- What is a news feed?
- How do I subscribe to Atlantic Cape's news feeds?
- What is a news reader?
- Should I use a news reader?
- What is RSS?
- What is syndication?
A news feed (also known as an RSS feed) is a listing of a Web site's content. It is updated whenever new content is published to the site. News readers "subscribe" to news feeds, which means they download lists of stories at an interval that you specify (every 30 minutes, for example), and present them to you in your news reader. A news feed might contain a list of story headlines, a list of excerpts from the stories, or a list containing each story from the Web site (Atlantic Cape's news feeds contain story excerpts). All news feeds will have a link back to the Web site, so if you see a headline / excerpt / story you like, you can click on the link for that piece of content and will be taken to the Web site to read it.
Step one is to download your favorite news reader. If you have never used one before, try installing one of the news readers mentioned below and see which one you like.
Point your news reader to the addresses below for each feed you want to subscribe to.
- News Events : http://atlantic.edu/rss/newsFeed.php
Check back for new types of Atlantic Cape news feeds to subscribe to.
A news reader (also known as a news aggregator) is simply a piece of software that you can use to read your subscribed news feeds. It is to news feeds what Outlook, Hotmail and Entourage are to e-mail.
If you visit a lot of Web sites on daily basis, or read a lot of weblogs (or "blogs"), a news reader can save you a lot of time. Sites like ESPN.com, CNN.com and the New York Times all have syndicated feeds.
Using a news reader to consume your Web media means that you only need to visit a Web site when you read a story in your news reader that is of interest to you. You won't have to visit many sites multiple times every day to see if there are updates; your news reader will do that for you and will let you know when there is a new story to be read!
So if you visit a lot of Web sites regularly, or want to be alerted automatically when your Web sites publish a new story, using a news reader might make sense.
Depending on whom you ask, the acronym RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication,""Rich Site Summary," or any of a handful of others.
The meaning of the acronym is not terribly important, however. An RSS feed (also known as a news feed) is a site's syndicated news feed that you subscribe to using your news reader.
Syndication refers to the process that occurs when a publisher provides content in a form that can be consumed by software (like a news reader).
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Hunting the Beagle
9.00pm, Friday 9 January 2009
HMS Beagle is an icon, one of the most scientifically important ships ever to sail the oceans. She's most famous for the five year voyage during which the ship's scientist, Charles Darwin, began to formulate the ideas which would eventually become the basis of our understanding of evolution. The Beagle was a little ship - only 90 metres long on deck and she never fought in any major battles - yet she changed the world. But a century and a half ago she vanished. After her final voyage in 1843 she sailed quietly out of the historical record and into oblivion.
However, one man is certain he knows exactly where she is. After nearly a decade of painstaking detective work, biologist and maritime historian Dr. Robert Prescott of the University of St. Andrews believes that the timbers of the Beagle lie buried in the mud of the Essex marshes on the River Roach, not far from the village of Paglesham. 'Hunting the Beagle' tells the story of the dedicated detective work, a painstaking paper trail and advanced archaeological techniques which have led Robert Prescott to this spot.
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Antibiotic Treatment Information
Antibiotic treatment is done with the use of antibiotics, a group of medications that specializes in the treatment and elimination of bacterial infections. Depending on the specific bacteria and specific antibiotic used, the bacterial population will either be destroyed or stripped of the ability to reproduce. Once the bacteria has been neutralized, the body’s natural immune system is capable of taking care of repairing damage and controlling other threats. This process can be used to save a patient’s life in some cases where antibiotics are the only method of treatment available. However, antibiotics have no effect when used against viral invaders. Ailments, such as the common flu, are caused by viruses and thus, antibiotic dosage is useless. Ancient populations used antibiotics in the form of molds, but did not know how the molds contributed to a patient’s recovery. In current times, many antibiotics have been created and used to treat many different types of conditions.
There are several different classifications for antibiotic medications. These are based on the bacterial spectrum (narrow or broad), method of administration (oral, topical, or injectable), and type of activity (bacteriostatic or bactericidal). Medications belonging to the same class tend to have similar levels of toxicity and effectiveness. The most common groups of antibiotics are penicillins and cephalosporins. The penicillin class of antibiotics is one of the oldest and there are four types of penicillin: natural, penicillinase-resistant, extended spectrum, and aminopenicillins. For patients who have contracted rat bite fever penicillin is known to be one of the few possible treatment options as the condition is resilient against many varieties of antibiotics. Another class of antibiotics are cephalosporins. These antibiotics are classified into generation groupings and the latest, the fourth generation, is effective in treating a wide base of conditions including meningitis.
Antibiotic side effects can differ greatly with the type of antibiotic used but are generally considered to be very safe medications. In the case of penicillin, it is one of the least toxic drugs known in the world. This lack of toxicity is one of the reasons it has become so popular. Diarrhea is the most frequently encountered side effect of penicillin, but the medication can also cause stomach issues, nausea, and vomiting. In the rarest of situations, an antibiotic dosage of penicillin may be the source of allergic reactions which can include rashes, hives, fever, and anaphylactic shock. While not quite as safe as the penicillin group of medications, cephalosporins also exhibit few antibiotic side effects. When they do appear, they are present in the same form as with penicillin. Both groupings of antibiotics are labeled as category B for expecting mothers.
With the relatively low possibility of side effects and the wide range of disease and conditions that can be treated, administration of antibiotics is extremely common. Any adverse reaction that is discovered after usage of antibiotic treatment should be reported to a local physician.
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Dig The Details:
The Society had offered Ossip Gabrilowitsch, famed Russian pianist and music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, an extension of his contract, but Gabrilowisch agreed to accept the position only on the condition that a concert hall worthy of the orchestra be built. Designed by noted architect C. Howard Crane, Orchestra Hall celebrated its inaugural concert on October 23, 1919.
As noted in the program for the last concert of the 1918-1919 season: “The new hall not only fills a demand, but marks a new era in the annals of musical history in Detroit. It will be the center of Detroit’s musical life.” And for the next twenty years, Orchestra Hall, the DSO and Gabrilowitsch enjoyed an artistic golden era in which the hall played host to the world’s most famous composers, conductors and performers. But by 1939, three years after Gabrilowitsch’s premature death, wracked by the Great Depression and encumbered with debt, the Orchestra left the Hall for the economy and promise of Masonic Auditorium.
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Completely unprocessed and unrefined, whole fruits and vegetables offer vitamins in a form your body uses best. In fact, no supplement manufacturer has been able to replicate the way nature's bounty preserves and delivers these nutrients. Here are 20 recipes that are packed with vitamins A, B, C, D, E, and K. The best part: They're delicious too.
Carrots can do more than help eyesight. They are a key distributor of vitamin A, which plays an important role in our ability to guard against colds and flus -- and possibly helps to prevent cancer.
Avocados and corn are great sources of the B-vitamin family, which includes folate -- a known protector against certain birth defects (for pregnant women). Together with B6 and B12, folate may also guard against heart disease by reducing levels of homocysteine in your blood.
Only a handful of common foods are naturally high in vitamin D; the body's main source is sunlight. To help prevent deficiencies, this nutrient is added to many foods, such as dairy products. Some great food sources include eggs, fortified milk, salmon, sardines, and tuna.
Tomato puree is another great source of vitamin E, which can help limit the production of harmful free radicals. These molecules can compromise LDL cholesterol, which otherwise can build up in the arteries and restrict blood flow. A component of the vitamin is also thought to promote respiratory health, so important during cold and flu season.
Spinach is full of carotenoids such as beta-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin. These help protect against heart disease and some forms of cancer. Research suggests that lutein and zeaxanthin in particular may guard eyes from cataracts and macular degeneration. Some carotenoids are thought to reduce the incidence of cold and flu.
Stock your cupboards with the right ingredients to transform chicken, fish, tofu, or beef into a healthy meal in a snap.Get the Recipes
A steaming bowl of soup is comfort food in the purest sense -- and a worthy meal for anyone aiming to eat a little healthier.Get the Recipes
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In the Public Interest
Among APA's primary roles is increasing and disseminating knowledge about human behavior and applying what we know about psychology to address human concerns. A recent example of our work in these areas was our filing an amicus curie brief, along with the California Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association and the National
Association of Social Workers, in the California case that challenged the decision to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The court found that restricting marriage to same-sex couples violates the state constitution. In its decision, the court cited only APA's brief—one out of the 45 submitted. APA offered rigorous psychological evidence emphasizing the major impact stigma has on well-being, the benefits of marriage, and the lack of difference between lesbian and gay parents and heterosexual parents.
According to the brief:
1. Homosexuality is neither a disorder nor a disease, but rather a normal variant of human sexual orientation. The vast majority of social prejudice, discrimination and violence against lesbians, gay men and bisexuals takes a cumulative toll on the well-being of members in each of these groups. "Minority stress" is the term used by researchers to refer to the negative effects associated with the adverse social conditions experienced by those belonging to a stigmatized social group.
As a product of sociopolitical forces, structural stigma "represents the policies of private and governmental institutions that restrict the opportunities of stigmatized groups." By legitimating and reinforcing the undesired differences of sexual minorities and by according them inferior status relative to heterosexuals, structural stigma gives rise to individual acts against them, subsequently increasing levels of stress as a result.
2. Substantial numbers of gay and lesbian couples are successful in forming stable, long-lasting, committed relationships. Empirical studies using nonrepresentative samples of gay men and lesbians show that the vast majority of participants have been involved in a committed relationship at some point in their lives. Data from the 2000 U.S. Census indicate that of the 5.5 million couples who were living together but not married, about one in nine had a same-sex partner.
3. Being married affords individuals a variety of benefits that have important implications for physical and mental health and for the quality of the relationship itself. These health benefits do not appear to result from simply being in an intimate relationship because most studies have found that married men and women generally experience better physical and mental health than their cohabitating unmarried counterparts.
4. Empirical research has consistently shown that lesbian and gay parents do not differ from heterosexuals in their parenting skills, and their children do not show any deficits compared with children raised by heterosexual parents.
In addition, if their parents are allowed to marry, the children of same-sex couples will benefit not only from the legal stability and other familial benefits that marriage provides, but also from elimination of state-sponsored stigmatization of their families.
In 2004, APA's Council of Representatives adopted two resolutions relevant to this issue, which can be found on APA's Public Interest Directorate Web pages. In the Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Marriage, it was resolved, based on empirical research concerning sexual orientation and marriage, "that the APA believes that it is unfair and discriminatory to deny same-sex couples legal access to civil marriage and to all its attendant benefits, rights, and privileges." In the Resolution on Sexual Orientation, Parents, and Children, the association recognized that "There is no scientific evidence that parenting effectiveness is related to parental sexual orientation."
Adopting these and similar resolutions and filing amicus briefs are but two of the many ways that APA demonstrates its steadfast commitment to providing scientific and educational resources and support to inform public discussion and a clear and objective understanding of these issues.
The full text of the California amicus brief can be found online.
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The Tomato & the Big Apple
Notes from Alwine van Heemstra
People seem to harden, especially in densely populated areas like New York City. The smallest issues engage people into scolding or fighting. In addition New York City is one of the most expensive cities in the world. To survive you have to work harder than anybody else. You get fired instantly. And yet the city is as a magnet to people with big dreams. I made audio snapshots of “real” New Yorkers. They were born and raised in the city or moved there long ago, in search for success: the famous American Dream. The inhabitants have mostly a hate love affair with the city. They have to strain every nerve to exist; each in their own way, each for themselves. But they are all interconnected and part of a bigger whole: they depend on each other to survive.
The city itself is like a body with the urge to survive. Eight million people – like bacteria in an intestinal canal – digest everything that enters, take the important matter out and dispose of the waste. Appropriate for the comparison between city and body is that New York collects the excrements of her inhabitants through the wastewater system and converts it into manure. Amongst other things the city manure is sold to farmers to grow their crops. Especially tomatoes grow well on this fertilizer and people in de city eat tomatoes. A cycle.
For the documentary I selected a tomato in Florida that was destined for New York. The tomato took me from one situation to the other until it ended up on my plate. But it didn’t end there. We had a last encounter in the wastewater plant and from then on my view on life would never be the same.
To place the snapshots in a larger perspective I altered the scenes with short soundscapes revealing hard facts. The soundscapes were edited by a composer with the citysounds that I recorded and with the sounds from a trombonist whom she directed for this piece. It is the only instrument in de documentary except for music on the radio that was on in the truck.
I scripted the whole piece before I went into the editing. My story is narrated by an actress that I recorded in a studio. We took the soundscapes and cut them to the right size to get them in the rhythm of the scenes.
I recorded the interviews and the citysounds with a Tascam DAT recorder and a Sennheiser ME 64. Often the audio is rough. New York City is full of low hum tones like air conditioners, traffic, subways. Especially recording in the truck, it was a challenge. In the editing room my editor and I tried to use it to our advantage. We didn’t try to cover it up — we used it to stress the roughness of the city.
Alwine van Heemstra
About Alwine van Heemstra
Alwine van Heemstra lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She lived in New York City from 1999 until 2001 and visits the city since then on a regular basis. She works as a freelancer in various media and loves radio for its power to create images in peoples minds. She is also the producer of Boundless Sound, the radio-documentary festival in the Netherlands.
Soundscape Composer: Calliope Tsoupaki
Trombonist: Wolter Wierbos
Narrator: Suze Barrett
Editing: Willem Davids
Broadcast Producer:Vincent van Merwijk (RVU Broadcasters The Netherlands)
This program was realized with the support of the Dutch Cultural Broadcast Productions Stimulation Fund and the Dutch version was broadcasted by the RVU/Educatieve Omroep.
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Following the recent Kansas primary elections, there has been much talk about the possible repercussions of conservative Republican candidates ousting more moderate-leaning officeholders. These elections have given political observers much to debate or speculate on relative to what will happen with various state-assisted programs if these victorious GOP conservatives defeat their Democratic opponents and the Kansas Senate becomes a far more conservative body.
Those in the field of education seem particularly concerned and suggest there may be severe cutbacks in state fiscal aid to K-12 schools and to the state-aided universities.
Some of those in this camp are forecasting dark days for schools a year or two from now when, in their eyes, a legislative body created by Gov. Sam Brownback, the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, the “Koch Brothers” and other ultra-conservative individuals and groups have waved their magic wands and created a new tight-fisted, shortsighted, uninformed and uneducated legislative body that is likely to take actions that severely damage the state’s schools.
At this time, who knows what is going to happen to funding for education, but one thing is sure: Those in education, whether they are classroom teachers in K-12 schools, parents of students or faculty and administrators at the college level, all are going to have to do a far better job of telling their story and justifying sound fiscal support for their schools.
Too many people engaged and interested in education seem to think generous financial support for education is a given, almost automatic, and that those who question the effective use of millions of tax dollars appropriated for education are themselves uneducated and don’t know the importance of excellence in all levels of schooling.
The fact is, too many in education, including teachers, school superintendents and those associated with colleges and universities have done a poor and ineffective job of telling their story, explaining their needs and getting the public sufficiently excited and enthused about demanding proper fiscal support by state lawmakers.
One such body, which has failed to be a strong, positive and effective messenger for higher education, is the Kansas Board of Regents. In recent years, the regents have not measured up to their responsibilities.
The past few days, the nine members of this extremely important body have been engaged in a retreat to analyze the status of higher education in Kansas, its needs, how to generate more fiscal support from the state and other topics that probably come before the regents year after year.
With colleges and universities facing the possibility of very modest, if any, fiscal increases, now would seem to be the time for regents to make a much greater commitment to telling their story of why the schools under their jurisdiction need and deserve far better funding.
With Kansas University leaders and the regents intent on making KU a special school with different admission standards and different research goals, they will have to do an even better job of convincing legislators and taxpayers that KU deserves and needs more money than the other regents universities on a per-student basis.
Regents should get tough in demanding they get superior work, not just average performances, from their chancellor and presidents.
As this writer has noted in previous columns, there is no way the nine-member Board of Regents can do an adequate job of monitoring the 32 state institutions they oversee and coordinate.
The governor or lawmakers should study whether to expand the number of regents and create a separate “eyes and ears” body for each school that would help keep the regents informed about what is going on at the campuses. Recent activities on Mount Oread offer excellent proof that regents have either been blind, in the dark or didn’t act on troubling problems.
If KU is to be a special institution, with special goals, should KU have its own board of regents or should KU, Kansas State and maybe even Wichita State have one board while the other universities are guided by another body?
Has the time come for someone with first-hand experience as a university faculty member to be a regent? Do any current regents really know what goes on at a university campus and do they understand and realize chancellors and president can, and frequently do, hoodwink regents?
Do regents listen to the concerns of faculty members and do they realize the greatly reduced, almost neutered, role of faculty in university guidance? Faculty used to play a significant role in the affairs of a university. No longer!
It is hoped those at this week’s regents retreat gave serious, very serious, thought to how they can impose more demanding standards or expectations in all areas of performance on the campuses under their jurisdiction — how they can improve the excellence of their schools, even though substantially increased funding may be difficult to obtain.
It is natural for those living in university communities to be sensitive to the needs of their schools, but adequate funding for all levels of education should be a high priority for all Kansans, no matter where they live.
However, those in education should be far more committed themselves in working for proper funding, rather than sitting on the sidelines, asking others to do the heavy lifting.
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.- Hundreds of Catholics held prayer vigils in the Vietnamese capital over the weekend as part of a continuing effort to recover confiscated church lands, Agence France Presse reports.
After Saturday and Sunday Masses clergy and laity lit candles, placed flowers, and sang at the iron fence surrounding land once possessed by the Holy See’s delegate to Hanoi before his expulsion in the late 1950s.
"It's the land and the property of the church. We have the certificate of ownership of the property since 1933," one priest from the Hanoi archdiocese, told AFP on the condition of anonymity.
The 2.7-acre lot and the large French-colonial villa it holds have been put to other uses by the Vietnamese government. The building has been used as a discotheque, while its garden has been turned into a parking lot.
Undercover police took video and photographs of the protesters, the priest said. "Some Catholic followers were questioned by security officials, and some say they were pressured not to attend the prayers."
Vietnam has Southeast Asia’s second-largest Catholic community, with some six million adherents among a population of 84 million.
The officially communist government continues to control religious activity and forbids Catholics from studying to become diplomats or police officers. The Church remains barred from operating its own newspapers, schools, and hospitals.
Conditions for Vietnamese Catholics are reportedly improving. Christian festivals such as Christmas are increasingly popular even among non-Christians.
In a December meeting with Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung pledged to consider the property disputes.
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Ever consider adding a conversation starter in your house that has a practical side as well? One NBA star has taken a unique route that covers both bases when he decided to install an ATM machine inside his house.
Brooklyn Nets forward DeShawn Stevenson installed an ATM in his Texas home, stocked with money that his guests can use when they are in need of a bit of cash.
According to the New York Post, Stevenson reportedly paid $3,500 for the ATM, which now sits in his kitchen. The cash machine holds up to $20,000 and he restocks the cash approximately 4-6 times a year.
"I like doing things that aren't normal and it's cool to have," Stevenson said.
The basketball star told TMZ he got the idea from skateboarder and entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek.
Stevenson called Dyrdek's idea "genius", also noting his friends use it for last-minute cash withdrawals before they go out or when they need some money when they are over his house and playing cards.
The Post reported Stevenson tweeted, “We play cards," and “Hate leaving house so come on down 2 ATM Dsteve.”
He does charge a $4.50 fee for the convenience; he says he feels no guilt since most of the friends are millionaire NBA stars.
“Pay that 4.50,” he tweeted.
“For the record, I had to get that ATM cause we used to roll dice nonstop and I was sick of loaning people money!” he said.
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In response to the Boston Marathon bombings, Pennsylvania State Police are reminding people about one of their programs.
There are lots of websites and software available, but you may not have thought of smartphone apps for doing your taxes.
Tuesday’s edition of the KDKA Afternoon News featured more updates from the Super Bowl, the Boy Scouts’ possible policy change on gays and who could turn out to be the next head of the Port Authority.
Can skin cancer be diagnosed over the phone? A study at the University of Pittsburgh says be wary.
Pennsylvania State Police have released a new smartphone app to help people report suspicious activity that may be linked to terrorism.
At the top of many New Year’s resolutions is the dreaded “D” word – diet. Consumer Reports’ just-released survey of 9,000 subscribers rates more than a dozen of the most popular diets to see which ones are most successful.
We all know we can save money with coupons, but most of us just can’t find the time to clip and use them. Now, some new, free apps let you skip the clipping and instead bring the coupons, specials and even recipes right to your phone.
A major concern for parents each Halloween is safety, especially when children are trick-or-treating after dark.
A major concern for parents each Halloween is safety, especially when children are trick-or-treating after dark. Now there’s a new way to keep track of children.
If you would like an easier and more convenient way to track your spending on the go, there are five apps that can help you.
Going on vacation is supposed to be relaxing, but air travel can be anything but.
A London cab made a stop in Pittsburgh this morning during its trip around the world in attempt to set the Guinness Record for longest taxi journey in history.
Millions will join the crowds at retail stores on Black Friday, but now online stores are trying to poach.
Stores are gearing up for Black Friday, which is just two weeks away, and shoppers are getting ready to cash in on all those great deals. But instead of racing from store to store or sifting through circulars looking for the best deals, there’s an easier way to save big this year.
Officials say Google has pulled 21 apps from the Android market.
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Bishop Thomas Kurialacherry was the former Bishop of the Diocese of Changanacherry. He was an eminent educationist and social worker. He founded the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (S.A.B.S) in 1908. Bishop Kurialacherry was born at Champakulam, Changanacherry Archdiocese in Kerala. He was ordained pries at Chennankary, Kavalam, Edathua and Champakulam in the Archdiocese. He was appointed as the first Bishop of Changanacherry on December 3, 1911. He founded the St. Berchman’s College, Changanacherry in 1922. He died in Rome and was buried there. His mortal remains were brought to Changanacherry on July 25, 1934 and was interred at the Cathedral. His cause of canonization was taken up in 1983 and he was declared Servant of God on Dec. 13, 1991.
Mar Thomas Kurialacherry Vikas,
Changanacherry, Kottayam, Kerala, India – 686 101
Ph: 0481 – 2424145
Other Candidates For Canonization In India
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How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict
Author: Ivan Arreguin-Toft, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2002-2009
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security
How do the weak win wars? The likelihood of victory and defeat in asymmetric conflicts depends on the interaction of the strategies weak and strong actors use. Using statistical and in-depth historical analyses of conflicts spanning two hundred years, Ivan Arreguın-Toft shows that, independent of regime type and weapons technology, the interaction of similar strategic approaches favors strong actors, while opposite strategic approaches favor the weak. This new approach to understanding asymmetric conflicts allows us to makes sense of how the United States was able to win its war in Afghanistan (2002) in a few months, while the Soviet Union lost after a decade of brutal war (1979–1989). Arreguin-Toft’s strategic interaction theory has implications not only for international relations theory, but for policymakers grappling with interstate and civil wars, as well as terrorism.
Ivan Arreguin-Toft is a Fellow in the International Security Program, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has authored numerous conference papers and his articles have appeared in International Security and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army where he served in Augsburg, Germany, as a military intelligence analyst from 1985–1987.
Praise for How the Weak Win Wars:
"In How the Weak Win Wars, Arreguin-Toft means to convince the reader that when the very strong meet the weak in asymmetric armed conflict, strategy matters more than power. Despite minor excursions in his conclusions, he achieves this goal through expert scholarly analysis and a writing style that elucidates complex topics with facility. His work is extremely relevant in the current geopolitical context and serves as a warning to US policy makers to get military strategy right, regardless of relative power. Arreguin-Toft's argument makes perfectly clear the perilous consequences of neglecting the importance of strategic interaction."
— Edward Bradfield, Harvard International Review (Summer 2005)
Read the entire review.
For more information about this publication please contact the ISP Program Coordinator at 617-496-1981.
For Academic Citation:
Document Length: 250 pp.
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More local students are graduating within six years of starting Grade 8, but the Chilliwack school district still lags almost seven per cent behind the provincial grad-rate average, according to 2011-12 statistics released last week.
The district saw a 3.3 per cent increase in its six-year completion rate overall last year, with a 5.1 per cent gain among girls and a 1.4 per cent bump among boys.
Since grad rates in the province as a whole improved by less than one per cent, 2011-12 saw Chilli-S wack make the biggest gains against the provincial average in more than 10 years.
One important area where this didn't apply, however, was among aboriginal students.
While the provincial average there went up by 2.7 per cent, Chilliwack saw a 2.7 per cent decline, putting its aboriginal rate 3.5 per cent below the provincial average.
Before last year, grad rates in Chilliwack had consistently come in about 10 per cent below the provincial average for more than a decade.
But local officials now say those figures haven't accurately reflected the real picture in Chilliwack because the traditional six-year
rate doesn't account for factors like the district's large number of distance learning students, who may graduate but not within a six-year timeframe.
When such factors are accounted for, Chilliwack doesn't actually have a grad-rate problem, assistant superintendent Rohan Arul-Pragasam told the Times.
Superintendent Evelyn Novak didn't include completion rates as an area of concern in her Superintendent's Report on Student Achievement to the ministry last month despite the seven per cent gap between provincial and local six-year completion averages.
Instead of six-year rates, that report used four-year rates that factored out students in distance education, alternate education and continuing education.
The district's four-year completion rate was 84 per cent last year, up three per cent from the year before. This trend was cited in Novak's report as evidence of improvement in the district's completion-rate results. (No provincial comparators were provided.)
The shortcomings of the education ministry's six-year completion statistics are the subject of a ministry pilot program in five B.C. school districts aimed at developing a new measure that provincial officials are calling a "Success Rate."
One of the districts involved (Kamloops-Thompson) saw a 6.3 per cent jump in its grad rate after factoring out students who had died, moved away, were visiting temporarily on exchange or had such serious disabilities they were never expected to graduate.
The ministry-which plans to replace the six-year completion rate with the new Success Rate after officials have had a chance to test the concept-will be working with all districts in the upcoming months, according to a ministry spokesman.
In the interim, he said both the new rate and the old six-year completion rate will be tracked and made public.
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Obedience is the tendency to comply with the commands of those in authority. Psychologists study obedience to explain how social factors influence human behavior. In the 1960s Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment in which 65% of the participants obeyed commands requiring them to administer what they believed were dangerously strong electric shocks to others (participants obeyed such commands even when those who were apparently shocked screamed as if in pain). Milgram's research, subsequently supported by additional experiments, suggests that people are generally obedient; some psychologists believe this helps explain how people can inflict great harm, as in the Holocaust. People are more likely to obey authority figures with prestige than those without, as well as when physically in the presence of an authority figure.
Chegg is for students
See what's inside!
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Task Force Formed To Cut Kansas Child Poverty Rate
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback announced the group’s formation on Wednesday. His wife will be an unofficial adviser to the task force, which includes the secretaries of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Department for Children and Family Services and the Department for Aging and Disability Services.
The governor says Kansas must reduce the generational cycle of poverty by improving the lives and health of children. He says they need help with their educational outcomes and their chances for long-term economic productivity.
The task force will have its first meeting on Nov. 19 in the Kansas Board of Regents conference room in Topeka.
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There is probably no place where a quality school system is needed than in our "gateway cities". These cities were once booming manufacturing hubs that provided gainful employment for those with limited educational attainment. These opportunities were a major drawing card for immigrants who were looking for a chance at achieving the American dream. But now, those jobs are gone and gateway cities are struggling to successfully reinvent themselves.
Obviously education is important and for lots of different reasons. Parents obviously want a quality school system to ensure their children have the type of education that will give them the tools to be successful in life. Communities want a quality educational system because it ensures an educated workforce. It's also a quality that companies look for when they consider whether or not to build or locate in a specific community.
A poll conducted by MassINC Polling Group shows that 83% of voters in gateway cities give their public schools a passing grade of C or better. This despite other indicators, such MCAS scores that show gateway schools are underperforming in several key areas.
Here in Fall River we've been talking about giving our kids a "world class education" for a long time. How close are our schools to hitting that mark?
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Career advice for teens and students - get your career off to the right start with resume, cover-letter, and interview tips.
Georgia Career and Information Center
Information for career development - this site requires a user name and password that you can get from your school counselor or administrator.
This site has information and laws about everything from employment age to gambling age to tattoos and piercings to voting age to boating age.
Georgia Teen Work
This site was created by the Department of Human Services to provide Georgia teens (14-18) valuable work experiences through summer employment opportunities.
Georgia Work Ready
Offers skills assessment, training, and certification for Georgia residents to meet the needs of Georgia businesses.
Job and Career Resources Subject Guide
The Job and Career Resources Subject Guide and the library's main site covers places to search for jobs, information about government jobs and your legal rights, and places to go for career research.
This site was developed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and brings together infomration about colleges, careers, and military service opportunities from the U.S. Departments of Labor, Education, and Defense.
Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs: Student Center
This site has information on summer camps, scholarships, salaries, and schools for anyone interested in a career in metal forming and manufacturing.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Excellent tool for career research, refining online job hunting, career changers, resume and cover letter preparation and more.
A site for teens looking for a job and the employers who hire them.
Year Up: Closing the Opportunity Divide
Do you feel like you don't have the skills to get a good job? Year Up is a one-year, intensive training program that provides young adults (18-24) with technical and professional skills, college credits, and a corporate internship. Visit the site to see if you are eligible to apply for this valuable free training.
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Twitter’s most recent blog post charts the top Tweets Per Second (TPS) of 2011 (#YearInReview).
According to the blog:
The biggest moments on Twitter this year were live events and breaking news, when millions of people came together to watch significant events as they unfolded in real time. These moments range from natural disasters and geopolitical happenings to championship games, and reflect the way people turn to Twitter for a fast, simple way to communicate.
Beyonce is apparently responsible for the highest spike of all time, with “nearly 9,000 Tweets per second,” while ”live sporting events accounted for six out of the top 16 TPS spikes, with the final game of the Women’s FIFA World Cup holding the TPS record for sports.”
Hard news, including word of Troy Davis’ execution (7,671 TPS) and Steve Jobs’ resignation (7,064 TPS), round out the list.
Check out Twitter’s #YearInReview page to see a compilation of all the lists for 2011, including the Year in Stories and Hot Topics!
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Fayyad and Abbas preach non-violence
while repeatedly honoring terrorists
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Contrary to statements by both Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Chairman Mahmoud Abbas supporting a "non-violent resistance," their actions continue to implicitly support violence and terror. As Palestinian Media Watch has reported, the PA leaders have repeatedly honored terrorists in well-publicized acts of support in recent months.
The PA leadership's most recent show of terror support was last week, when both Abbas and Fayyad honored one of the notorious terrorists of the first years of the Palestinian terror campaign (the "Intifada"). Abdallah Daoud headed the Palestinian intelligence service in Bethlehem, and was actively involved in the Palestinian terror against Israeli civilians. When Israel entered Bethlehem in 2002 in an attempt to eradicate the Palestinian terror, Abdallah Daoud was one of the most wanted Palestinian terrorists who stormed into the Church of the Nativity. For several weeks, Daoud and his fellow terrorists continued fighting against Israel from inside the church, essentially using the monks and the religious site as their shields.
Israel finally agreed to let the terrorists leave without trial and they were deported to foreign countries and Gaza. Daoud was sent to Cyprus and later Mauritania, where he died last week of natural causes.
Ignoring the crimes and terror that led to Daoud's deportation, the PA leaders last week chose to honor the terrorist Daoud by giving him an "official" funeral. The official PA daily reported on the funeral with a large picture on its front page.
Abbas sent his personal emissary to the funeral. He spoke in Abbas's name:
"We must maintain the way of the Shahid
(Martyr) Daoud, who always believed in the struggle, in love of the homeland, and in the realization of national unity." [Al-Quds
, March 28, 2010]
Palestinian PM Fayyad chose to honor the terrorist publicly and in person by paying a condolence visit to the home of his family. Fayyad "enumerated the Shahid's
(Martyr's) virtues" and noted his "suffering from the injustice of his expulsion." The story of his honoring the terrorist was also reported on the front page of the official PA daily.
Other recent examples of Fayyad honoring terrorists:
On December 26, 2009
, Fayyad paid condolence calls
to the homes of each of the three terrorists who murdered Israeli Rabbi Meir Avshalom Hai in a drive-by shooting.
On February 14, 2010
, Fayyad paid a condolence call
to the family of a terrorist who attempted to stab an Israeli soldier.
Other recent examples of Abbas honoring terrorists:
On December 27, 2009
, Abbas honored the three terrorists
who murdered Israeli Rabbi Meir Avshalom Hai in a drive-by shooting, calling them “Shahids
[Martyrs] of the Palestinian revolution...”
On December 29, 2009
, Abbas honored the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi
with a birthday party.
On January 17, 2010 Abbas defended naming a square
after the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi.
On March 6, 2010 Abbas promoted imprisoned terrorist Mahmoud Damra
On March 9, 2010 Abbas’s representative honored
the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi by calling her the "bridge over which we pass on the way to our freedom."
The following is the report on Fayyad's condolences last week on the front page of the official PA daily:
"Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad yesterday expressed his condolences at the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, over the death of the Shahid (Martyr) Abdallah Daoud. The Prime Minister enumerated the Shahid's virtues and said that his death far from the homeland and suffering from the injustice of his expulsion, bestows upon his Martyrdom a clear national and human character."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 31, 2010]
The following is the report on Abbas’s statement read by Mahmoud Al-Aloul, member of the Fatah Central Committee, at the funeral:
"Mahmoud Al-Aloul, member of the Fatah Central Committee, delivered a speech on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas, during which he recounted the life story of the Shahid (Martyr), who sacrificed his life for his country and for his people. Al-Aloul said that we must maintain the way of the Shahid Daoud, who always believed in the struggle, in love of the homeland, and in the realization of national unity."
[Al-Quds, March 28, 2010]
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Radicalism: A Brief Introduction to the Topic
This is a guide to resources in the Tamiment Library, and beyond, on the topic of U.S. radicalism. The Tamiment Library at New York University is a special collection devoted to the history of U.S. radicalism, labor, and progressive social movements.
Radicalism comes from the Latin word for root, and connotes a fundamental critique of the existing order of things: social, economic and political arrangements, culture, class, race and gender, humanity's relationship to nature, and more. Radicalism also suggests, but does not require, the use of militant or radical means to achieve radical ends. Radicalism has typically been international in outlook, and at times organizationally as well.
Although radicalism has been a less powerful force in the U.S. than in much of the rest of the world, it has played a significant role in the history of the U.S. from the latter nineteenth century to the present. Much of what is now considered part of the political center or basic to our understanding of the U.S. is a result of the influence of radical ideas and activism.
Indeed, in an overarching and global sense, this time period can be understood as the story of how society has managed the social strains its development engenders and how it has responded to, and has been shaped by fundamental challenges from the left (and from the right).
For more information, read our "Why Study Radicalism?" essay.
Peter Filardo, Tamiment Archivist
Note About this LibGuide
NYU Libraries acknowledges the work of Donna L. Davey, former Tamiment Librarian, as the original creator and author of the content of this LibGuide.
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In this case study from the April 2013 Quality Engineering, see how a Dutch hospital applied lean Six Sigma to shorten its billing process by one month. Key tools used for the project included the Gantt chart and critical path analysis.
Read the first of a series of three reports providing data on quality operations and their impact on organizations worldwide. Learn about trends and review benchmark data to compare your organization to the current state of quality.
In the latest episode of ASQ TV, see a discussion of recall plans and prevention; an overview of root cause analysis; and case study examples including how a business school improved job placement for students and how a yoga pants maker managed its recent recall.
In the final segment of a three-part series, learn how you can use the Team Excellence framework to enhance success rates with team-based improvement projects. Also see part 1 and part 2, and find more webcasts on topics including quality tools, quality culture, and change management.
A mini-paper from the May 2013 Statistics Division Newsletter presents a case study in which design of experiments contributed to the improvement of online marketing. Experimentation identified a combination of settings expected to optimize click rate, with a projected recovery of $185,000 in lost opportunity the first year.
The Statistics Division Newsletter and mini-papers are member-benefit publications of the Statistics Division.
The recently updated guidelines place additional focus on establishing quality objectives, increase the scope of document control, and stress continual improvement.
Ten years ago the first edition of Permission to Forget was published, and now this landmark anniversary edition is available. The book describes 10 decades of wasteful practices buried deep within U.S. schools.
The May 2013 Quality Approaches in Higher Education focuses on partnerships among universities, industry, and government that enhance and provide experiential learning to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors.
In the current Journal for Quality and Participation, Kenny Moore argues that truly great leaders are not developed in the classroom but are born with qualities that take them far in life and in business.
"Just as passion without a system will fail, so will a system without passion fail. We must have a system with passion." - Thomas Berry
At the 1992 Annual Quality Congress, Hollis R. Lipscomb and John R. Lipscomb presented the "Customer Satisfaction Determination Model" as a departure from the traditional complaint-driven approach to understanding customer satisfaction. Read about their blueprint for developing a continuous improvement strategy to determine and drive customer satisfaction.
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Barrow County School Nutrition Department is working hard to make sure our students are the best they can possibly be. The managers at BCS are
all Serv-Safe Certified and are required to have 12 hours certification training each year, as well as, a 30 hour training class every three years. Managers are trained on
Dietary guidelines, food safety, food production, employee management, and customer service. Barrow County Managers are a cut above the rest.
Dietary Guidelines for
Americans are designed to provide students with all the nutrition they need to succeed in school. At lunch, students can choose from fruits, vegetables, milk, whole
grains and lean proteins. If students take all these foods and fill up on the larger servings of fiber-rich fruits and vegetables, they shouldn't be hungry throughout
the day. Barrow County School nutrition department wants our students to eat as many of the fruits and vegetable offerings they choose. We offer a variety each day, as
well as, at least three entrée options each day.
School lunch was never meant to provide students with 100% of their food or calories. Students should be eating a
healthy breakfast which is offer every morning to our students in the cafeteria or in some schools even in the classroom. Students should also have a healthy dinner which also
includes fruits, vegetables, milk, whole grains and lean proteins.
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It is history's incessant feature to repeat itself overtime.
Fashion, mistakes, and even habits, all of these are seen time and again. So how can we
expect music to be left behind? The Bollywood industry resembles the circle of
life; everything starts and ends at the same point. There are remakes and
sequels of movies and songs, couples and teams are repeated, and all of these
make us nostalgic
. Similarly, the
songs that have released recently, have led us down the memory lane, and
stirred a few strings. This month, BollyCurry presents to you the DJ's
nostalgia at the following songs:
February may be the month when love flies in the air, but the
hangover of the same is depicted in "Mera Mann", which remains on the repeat
for many. The video of the song brings about flashes of innocent love
blossoming in a gift shop nothing less than a fairyland, untouched by the
viciousness of life. Ayushmann Khurrana
strums not only the guitar, but the hearts of
millions as well. But here comes the twist, it is in the knowledge of very
few, that this song was originally a part of the movie 7 Welcome to London,
which did not gather much success with either
the Box Office, or with the audiences.
The song "Hum Jee Lenge" also falls in a similar category. The
original song was sung by Roxen, and is titled "Kaise Jiyein". In the movie,
is seen pining for his lost love, as memories of their cherished
moments haunt him. But credit should be given, as despite the use of original
lyrics and music, many changes have been instilled, including the lyrics.
Har Ek Friend Kameena Hota Hai - Chashme Baddoor(2013)
A trio of guys singing and dancing, celebrating life with spunk is
the most efficacious way to portray the friendship injected in them. This song
is the one that leads to the reminiscence of Dil Chahta Hai, 3 Idiots, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara,
The trio-boys gang is usually
a hit, and rarely fails to please the people. So it is yet to be seen if these
friends can move a heart or few.
While some songs have been picked and used as they are, a few
others have been changed according to the likes of the new generation. These
two songs are a hit since the olden times, both from the movies of the dancing
diva - Madhuri Dixit Nene
. Presently, in the movie, they have been flavored up with
the spices of fast beats and vibrant music to suit the dancing floor.
Govinda Aala Re - Rangrezz
People hadn't gotten over the fever of Prabhu Deva
Sinha moving to the beats of "Go Govinda", when Jackky Bhagnani
singing Govinda Aala Re, in his own unique style. No doubt Prabhu Deva
moves are a legend, but Bhagnani has done justice on his part as a
boy-next-door celebrating the festival of Janmaashtmi with his fellow buddies.
Daaru Peeke Nachna - Jolly LLB
Riteish Deshmukh, and Genelia D'souza Deshmukh had made it big
with their comic romance in Tere Naal
Love Ho Gaya.
One of the catchiest features of the movie was the
gate crashing and dancing at a wedding, the result of them being drunk.
"Daaru Peeke Nachna", reminds you of the same, with Arshad Warsi
shaking their bodies at a marriage in this particular song. This song
doubt, going to grace the parties very soon.
Saadi Gali - Nautanki Saala
Last on the list, but a must hear number, "Saadi
Gali", is a song
that makes your dil go mmm. A very passionate song not only to listen,
also to watch; it takes you back to the golden days when "Paani Da Rang"
become a favorite of the people. Played in a similar soothing tone, and
Ayushmann setting fire on the screen with his husky voice, the song
creates an ambiance for intimacy. The edge of Punjabi in the lyrics just
adds to the
beauty of the song.
Author: Pooja B.
like the songs have been composed in a manner to take you for a ride through
the past. These are the recent songs that bring over a feeling of nostalgia in
the heart. With this, Mr. DJ from BollyCurry is signing off, leaving you all to
pen down the numbers that get your mind worked up to explore the past.
Editors: Fari L. & Jenifer Y.
Graphics: Preet K.
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As you may remember OWN Canada will face the CRTC this week to answer questions as to whether or not OWN Canada is educational TV. Many Canadians have rallied behind OWN Canada in an effort to be heard. Admittedly I am shocked they are even asking the question. Apparently they did not see Super Soul Sunday today with Elie Wiesel or Oprah’s LifeClass. One of our OWN Ambassadors has written a letter that I wanted to share with you. His words are eloquent and the points he makes are exactly what we as Canadians are thinking. Thank You Prasanna for allowing us to share your great letter.
Canadian OWN Viewers please share this letter on Facebook and Twitter. We will keep you updated on the latest news as soon as we hear.
Dear Members of the CRTC:
RE: Oprah Winfrey Network Canada – Hearing – December 2012
I write in support of the Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada) in its hearing before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that is reviewing whether OWN Canada is compliant with its registered mandate to be an educational service.
In outlining my support for OWN Canada in this hearing process, I will explore: 1) the importance of OWN Canada in my life and 2) the knowledge and learning I have gained from the network’s programming.
The Importance of OWN Canada in My Life
Watching the Oprah Winfrey Show, on network television in the United States as carried on CTV in Canada, was a treasured part of my daily routine for 20 years. I can trace the milestones of my own life through the show and its many moments. I now enjoy OWN Canada, a network with vividly luminous, educational programming reminding us to live our best lives and focus on service. OWN Canada’s message is simple and is couched in a nuanced, tailored approach to education and learning: be the change you want to see in the world.
OWN Canada and its programming have created a platform for knowledge, inspiration and empowerment, by introducing us to so many experts, leaders and teachers (on shows such as Lifeclass, Million Dollar Neighbourhood, Next Chapter, Master Class, and Iyanla Fix My Life) who have changed our lives with their wisdom. OWN Canada’s greatest triumph lies in serving as a call to action, a reminder that we, as individuals, are capable of helping others and, in fact, are required to do so as global citizens.
In my opinion, OWN Canada is a distinct cultural phenomenon in that its programming touches its viewers in individual ways and came into our lives at extremely specific moments. For instance, for me, the show Lifeclass changed my life in so many concrete ways when it premiered in October 2011, causing me to look deep within myself to find my authentic voice and to critically examine my career as a lawyer to determine my true calling in life. As a result of the show and its many experts discussing topics such as truth, honoring our callings, financial decision-making, and overcoming fear, I was able to be honest about my identity, my path in life, and my dreams of pursuing work in the field of media. Lifeclass also brought me closer to my parents, as we watched the show together and had nightly discussions about the particular topic or expert and its salience in our daily lives. OWN Canada served as the basis for this collective learning and introspection.
OWN Canada has also taught me the importance of social media as a modern communication and learning tool. By harnessing the power of Facebook and Twitter to promote viewer engagement, exchange, learning and discussion, OWN Canada has given me the chance to learn directly from experts and viewers around the world and forge deep friendships with like-minded individuals inspired by OWN Canada’s educational programming. We have blogged, written articles, filmed videos, and talked about the many lessons of the network and its programming. We have taken the message of OWN Canada into our communities through activities centered on service and learning.
The Knowledge and Learning Gained from OWN Canada Programming
More than creating an overall educational and learning paradigm in the television landscape, OWN Canada and its specific programs have generated a solid base of knowledge, learning, and growth in my life and the lives of viewers. The following programs are but examples of how the network has promoted learning and why it warrants its continued classification in the educational stream of Canadian broadcast networks:
Oprah’s Next Chapter
This signature program on OWN Canada has Oprah speaking to change-makers, politicians, international leaders, artists, actors, directors, to share learning and education on the stories capturing the media’s attention and to highlight issues, experiences and questions that warrant further scrutiny.
As a specific example, Oprah’s Next Chapter episodes in India connected me to my ancestry. For me, India is the birthplace of family, the place where grandma lives, and the geographic underpinning to my identity and values. India is found in my favorite foods, my daily prayers, the curve of my nose, the fabric of my being. Yet, at many levels, India has been a mystery to me – a veritable enigma wrapped in the cloak of the familiar. Being born and raised in Canada, visiting India every few years, I have never fully grasped India in its beauty and complexity. The Next Chapter episodes on India portray India as fluid, vibrant, textured, and beyond categorization, demonstrating that regardless of socio-economic status, history, or condition, everybody has a story and a voice that is worthy of respect. The episodes revealed that though geography may separate us from India, shared experiences and common dreams unite us in fascinating ways. Oprah interviewed families from various socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and spoke with women from the spectrum of Indian society to engage in an in-depth exploration of India, its culture, and the issues that capture our collective consciousness.
This show, launched in October 2011, used the power of Oprah Show moments as teaching tools on life. It used the experiences of guests featured on the 4,561 Oprah Winfrey Shows to share pockets of illumination and insight on how to deal with the issues we all face (anger, parenting, relationships, forgiveness, etc.). It launched an innovative multi-platform focus with webcasts, Facebook streams, discussion forums, and online journaling to allow viewers to engage in the programming in a more direct way. Viewers could learn from the experiences of others, digest this information, and look at how the lessons had salience in our own lives.
The show has included the participation of a host of expert teachers including Iyanla Vanzant, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Vancouver-based, but international expert Eckhart Tolle, Martha Beck, Cheryl Richardson, and many others in live, in-person conferences which are then televised, allowing viewers to have the chance engage more directly with the teachers. Lifeclass filmed two of its episodes in Toronto in April 2012 to a collective audience of nearly 15,000 people committed to learning and growth. Many corporations and individuals attend conferences with these experts regularly, recognizing the educational utility of these fora, speakers, and events for their impact on business development, corporate learning, culture, and interpersonal relationships, and communication.
Master Class / Visionaries
In Master Class, experts in the realm of arts, film, business, sports, music, and politics sit down in an intimate docu-series setting, sharing how the various experiences, complexities, successes and challenges in their own lives taught them valuable lessons about life’s big questions. Featured guests include Ted Turner, Laird Worthington, Diane Sawyer, Jane Fonda, Dr. Maya Angelou, among others. The series was a visual feast, filmed in a powerfully poignant way, replete with lessons, insight and teachings on a range of topics and themes.
The series Visionaries followed the careers of creative people such as fashion designer Tom Ford and musical artist will.i.am to gain insight into the creative process and the focus, work and dedication involved in honoring one’s calling and forging a successful path in the world. The show balanced the creative process with the incisive business skills necessary to build a successful business and career.
Million Dollar Neighborhood
In this Canadian-made series based in the community of Aldergrove, a community comes together to increase its net worth by $1 million by working with financial experts and hosting events, undertaking community activities, and changing their approach to their finances. The show was a revelatory look at personal finance, couched in individual experience, and had viewers joining in by exploring the application of each episode’s central theme or lessons in our own lives.
Gastown Gamble / Buy-o-logic
This Canadian-made series, Gastown Gamble, focused on the launch of the business Save On Meats in Vancouver and used the experience of this entrepreneur and community to explore issues of business planning, community engagement and project implementation.
This Canadian-made series, Buy-o-logic, uses the platform of television to take an in-depth look at consumer products and programs with a view to educating the general public and keeping companies and initiatives conscious of their products and their impact.
Money Class with Suze Orman
In this multi-week course, financial guru Suze Orman takes individual families and guests through the various issues in financial planning and money management, including investments, real estate, debt, retirement planning, education, credit cards and savings. This show used the personal experiences of others to serve a larger purpose of informing the public about financial issues and the importance that a sound basis of financial knowledge plays in our lives.
Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes / Oprah Builds a Network
Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes was an unprecedented look at the creation of the final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show. The show was an incredible, informative, illuminative look at the television industry and the myriad issues that a top-rated network television program faces in delivering quality programming. The instructive value of the footage, interviews, and collective insights (shared by Oprah Winfrey, Sheri Salata and the Harpo Studios team) is unparalleled and is undoubtedly a valuable addition to any media studies program.
Similarly, Oprah Builds a Network was a two-part special where Oprah candidly explored the challenges and work involved in building a network from the ground up. The special was provocative in its candor and unflinching in addressing all of the news, good and bad, that surrounded the launch of OWN. Rarely are networks so willing to open their doors and shine a light on their work with a view to inspiring collective learning and education. This program was valuable not only for those working in the media-communications realm, but for anyone starting a business.
Iyanla Fix My Life
The most recent addition to the OWN Canada line-up features author, spiritual teacher, and expert Iyanla Vanzant going into the homes of people with a view to healing relationships and opening up the lines of communication. The show unleashes the potential of television to use the stories and experiences of others, not to exploit, but to educate and empower the viewing public. Iyanla Vanzant centers each episode on clearly articulated insights and tangible tools for personal growth, communication, and development. Topics addressed include abandonment, abuse, sexual identity, business and personal relationships, celebrity and its impact on family, marriage, and parenting.
The Scope of OWN Canada’s Educational Mandate
The fact that many of OWN Canada’s programs have been recognized by educational institutions as meeting course requirements speaks to the veracity of OWN Canada’s status as an educational channel.
However, one of the criticisms forming the basis of the complaint to the CRTC is that despite evidence demonstrating the pedagogical value of OWN Canada programming, the educational focus of said programming is too limited to the streams of self-improvement and personal growth.
I would submit, as demonstrated in the previous section, that OWN Canada’s programming is not limited to these areas but encompasses a wide range of topics including, but not limited to: business, finance, communication, relationships, psychology, health, wellness, arts, media, culture, travel, and geography.
Furthermore, a commitment to living our best lives, is an animating thread underpinning the programming on OWN Canada. As Oprah Winfrey has often stated, her intention in launching the network was to share insights and pockets of light and illumination with the viewing public so as to encourage everyone to live their best lives. This is a commitment found in the 4,561 episodes of the Oprah Winfrey Show. This is a commitment that imbues the pages of O Magazine each month.
While this is the core commitment, its manifestation encompasses all forms of educational programming, as outlined above. The narrative consistency of this core commitment should not be confused as being a narrow educational focus. Rather, it should be understood in the context of its intended spirit – being the best we can be in all aspects of our lives – and exploring what this means through the prism of educational programming in many areas (finance, health, wellness, psychology, arts, film, and news/interviews).
Let us not underestimate the power of learning provided through the vehicle of collective experience. As Oprah often says, “everybody has a story” and that it is the platform of television that has the ability to elevate these stories to serve as beacons of education and inspiration. For nearly the past three decades, Oprah has been at the forefront of transforming TV into the world’s biggest classroom. OWN Canada continues this proud tradition.
I would be honored to provide the CRTC with more specific information on how OWN has served as a platform for education and learning that has taken the powerful programming from OWN in the US, harnessed the strength of original Canadian content, and created a channel that revolutionizes the relationship that viewers can have with television.
Watching OWN Canada is not a passive experience, but a robustly active one, that encourages viewers to be participants in an educational movement: to dialogue directly through social media, journaling, discussions, and interaction with experts to make tangible changes in their own lives and to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of the world in which we live.
Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to your deliberations. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you require any further information.
Mr. Prasanna Ranganathan
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UT Arlington, Tarrant County College partner for geosciences education
UT Arlington and Tarrant County College are partnering to encourage students from underrepresented groups to consider majoring in the geosciences and to establish an easy transfer process between TCC and UT Arlington.
Officials from the two institutions have received a $200,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s Opportunities to Enhance Diversity in the Geosciences program. John Wickham, professor and chair of UT Arlington’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, is the principal investigator for the grant. Co-principal investigators are Pamela Jansma, dean of the UT Arlington College of Science; Gary Smith, TCC interim vice president for academic affairs and dean of science; and Glen Mattioli, UT Arlington professor of earth and environmental sciences.
“Hispanics, African Americans and other minorities are underrepresented in the geosciences workforce compared to the general population, especially in Texas,” Wickham said. “Projections of job growth in the energy industry, natural resource management and other geoscience-related fields suggest that without attracting more of these underrepresented groups to the geosciences, the United States will have to use foreign nationals to fill the need over the next decade.”
To attract new students to the geosciences, the partnership provides mentors, summer field trips and summer research jobs. These learning experiences will encourage freshmen and sophomore students at both institutions to take geosciences, earn an Associate of Science degree from TCC and go on to earn at least a bachelor’s degree at UT Arlington.
“In addition to providing a strong educational background in geology, the TCC faculty will work with students on such topics as how to be successful in college and career choices,” Smith said. “The grant will provide a mechanism for the faculty to monitor student success and have early intervention if necessary. We hope that this program will be so successful that it will become a national model.”
Organizers will recruit 20 underrepresented students for the program.
Students will be expected to successfully take introductory courses in geology, chemistry, biology, math and physics during their first two years and take part in a summer program. The summer program will consist of a field trip experience at the end of the first year and research experience with UT Arlington faculty at the end of their second year.
The University of Texas at Arlington is a comprehensive research institution of 33,421 students in the heart of North Texas. Visit www.uta.edu to learn more.
The University of Texas at Arlington is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
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Joan Sylvia Lyttle parents were George and Lillian Lyttle (Birman is her married name following her marriage to Joseph L Birman). The family was Jewish. George was born in Russia, brought up in Liverpool, England, and had emigrated to the United States when he was seventeen years of age. He ran a successful business as a dress manufacturer. Lillian was born in New York, but was the daughter of Russian-Polish immigrants. Lillian and George Lyttle had four daughters; in order of eldest to youngest, Helen, Ruth, Joan (the subject of this biography) and Ada. Despite the fact that George praised the opportunities that the United States had given him in business, he wanted his daughters to concentrate on their education and not consider entering the business world.
As a young child Joan developed a love of patterns, for example in primary school she was fascinated by the odd and even patterns which arose in adding and multiplying whole numbers. She attended the Julia Richmond High School, an all-girls school in New York, where she developed a love for geometry :-
It was really a rough inner-city high school, but within it there was a small academic unit, a school within a school. We had some very good teachers. We had a course in Euclidean geometry, and every single night we would have telephone conversations and argue over the solutions to the geometry problems. That was my introduction to proof, and I just loved it, it was wonderful.
After graduating from Richmond High School, she entered Swarthmore College, a coeducational institution of higher learning in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. At school she had shown little talent for languages but loved physics, biology and astronomy but, deciding against studying astronomy as she liked living in cities, she aimed to major in mathematics at college. However, she was unhappy living in the Swarthmore college dorm so transferred to Barnard College, a women's only college affiliated to Columbia University, in order to be able to live at home in New York. She received a B.A. in mathematics from Barnard College in 1948 but had been put off continuing to study mathematics by courses such as calculus which left her feeling she did not understand the subject.
After graduating, she worked for an engineering firm that made microwave frequency meters. She enjoyed the first task she was given which was basically a research task involving calibration but after this was completed she was given routine work and soon became bored. Offered a position as a physics assistant by her physics professor at Barnard College, she accepted with enthusiasm and, while taking up the position, she registered for a Master's degree in physics. She married Joseph L Birman in 1950, the same year as she was awarded her M.A. in physics. However, she felt she did not have much feel for physics and had only passed with mediocre grades having no physical intuition. After being awarded this degree she worked as a systems analyst for the engineering firm General Precision Equipment on aircraft navigation systems from 1950 to 1953. Then she was employed from 1953 to 1955 as a system analyst for the W L Maxson Corporation. Birman gave up work when her first child Kenneth was born in 1955. Two further children, Deborah, and Carl David were born over the next five years. During this time she did some part-time work for the Technical Research Group. The family spent six months at the University of Pennsylvania where Joseph Birman was a visiting professor. Joan had to give up her part-time job to make this move so she took a computer course at the university. This course made her feel she wanted to learn more mathematics.
In January 1961, immediately after Carl David was born, she registered for a part-time Master's Degree in mathematics at New York University's Courant Institute. Since her husband was now a professor of physics at New York University, she could study free of charge. In fact this move owed something to Joseph Birman, not only for his encouragement but also the example he had showed switching from industry to work in the academic world. When she began her studies, it was with the aim of concentrating on applied mathematics courses. However, it was the pure mathematics courses that enthused her most. Birman took linear algebra in her first year, then real and complex analysis in the following year. Courses by Louis Nirenberg on complex variable and by Jack Schwartz on topology were particularly significant in making her realise that pure mathematics was the area she loved. She also took a course by Cathleen Morawetz on applied mathematics.
After taking the examinations for the Master's degree she was given the opportunity to undertake research for a Ph.D. although, to qualify for a fellowship, this had to be on a full-time basis. However, she could use the fellowship to pay for childcare that would allow her to become a full-time research student. She approached Michel Kervaire, a topologist, who did not think she had the right background to work in his area; he also thought she was too old. She then approached Louis Nirenberg who, after asking her about the topics she enjoyed, said she would be better suited to pure mathematics research rather than applied mathematics. She then approached Wilhelm Magnus who was pleased to take her on as a doctoral student :-
He was an algebraist, but he had noticed that I loved topology, and so he met me halfway and gave me a paper to read about braids. That showed great sensitivity on his part. It was a terrific topic. He later told me of his habit of picking up strays, and in some way I was a stray.
Birman was awarded a Ph.D. from New York University for her thesis Braid Groups and Their Relationship to Mapping Class Groups in 1968. The abstract of her thesis reads:-
In 1962 R H Fox introduced a new definition of the braid group as the fundamental group of the space of n unordered distinct points of the Euclidean plane. Fox's definition suggested a natural generalization to the concept of a braid group on an arbitrary manifold, as the fundamental group of the space of n unordered, distinct points of that manifold. The present investigation begins with Fox's definition, and studies the algebraic and geometric properties of these braid groups on arbitrary manifolds. In Part I a new meaning is given to the Fox braid groups, by relating them to the mapping class groups of the manifold. Part 2 contains an algebraic investigation of the braid groups. In Part 3 the algebraic connection between braid groups and mapping class groups is studied.
In August 1968 Birman was offered a position of Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken after an unexpected vacancy arose there. She explained in how lucky this opportunity was:-
I knew I wanted to do research. The job market was very poor when I got my Ph.D. Also, I was a woman, and there were very few women in mathematics; I was older, and there was a lot of prejudice against that. ,,, I was restricted geographically; because we had children it was impossible to go any place far from home. So I was limited to all the colleges in the New York area. I was offered a job in one of the branches of the city university with a high teaching load and uninteresting courses. I didn't want to do that. I really wanted to be a research mathematician.
At the Stevens Institute she began a fruitful collaboration with Mike Hilden (Hugh M Hilden) :-
... he, like me, was a little bit beyond the usual age, though much younger than me. He had been an engineer and he didn't like what he was doing, so he went back to graduate school and had just got his degree. ... We began to have lunch together. I talked to him about this problem that I had tried to solve. We talked about it through the whole year.
This led to their first paper On the mapping class groups of closed surfaces as covering spaces which was published in the Proceedings of the 1969 Conference at Stony Brook, New York. Further joint papers followed such as Mapping class groups of closed surfaces as covering spaces (1971), On lifting and projecting homeomorphism (1972) and Isotopies of homeomorphisms of Riemann surfaces and a theorem about Artin's braid group (1972). Birman was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton University during 1971-72 and was asked to lecture on her work, particularly on her joint research with Hilden. Notes of these lectures were taken by James Cannon, at that time a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton, and these became her classic book Braids, links, and mapping class groups. Wilbur Whitten writes in a review:-
Centring on Emil Artin's braid group and its applications in geometric topology, this thorough, skilfully written monograph, the first devoted entirely to the theory of braids, covers each of its topics - roughly, one for each of five chapters - from its historic beginnings. ... The book is a pleasure to read.
Wilhelm Magnus expresses the brilliance of Birman's text in his own insightful way :-
Talleyrand is supposed to have said that nobody could know the full sweetness of life who had not lived before the French Revolution. One may say that nobody can know the full charm of topology who had to learn it after it became rigorous. Artin's first paper (published in 1925) on the theory of braids is a perfect and lasting monument of this charm. It is a paper containing almost exclusively ideas and results but practically no machinery. Birman's monograph gives a nearly complete account not only of Artin's results but also of the numerous important applications, later developments and generalizations of the theory of braids, many of which are due to the author. Her presentation is, of course, completely rigorous, but it is remarkable that she has been able to preserve much of the appeal to geometric intuition which helped to make Artin's paper so attractive. The book is written in a concise but lucid style.
After spending the year 1971-72 at Princeton, Birman returned to the Stevens Institute of Technology where she was promoted to Associate Professor of Mathematics. She left the Stevens Institute one year later, accepting an appointment as Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College. She served as Chairman of the Mathematics Department in 1973-87, 1989-1991, and 1995-1998.
Let us use Birman's own words to summarise the many different areas of research to which she has contributed :-
I think I was very lucky because my Ph.D. thesis led me to many different parts of mathematics. The particular problems that are suggested by braids have led me to knot theory, to operator algebras, to mapping class groups, to singularity theory, to contact topology, to complexity theory and even to ordinary differential equations and chaos. I'm working in a lot of different fields, and in most cases the braid group had led me there and played a role, in some way.
In 2004 Birman retired from her position as Professor of Mathematics and was made Professor Emerita. However, at the same time she was appointed as a Research Professor at Columbia University's Barnard College, a position she held until 2007 :-
Birman has had twenty-one doctoral students and numerous collaborators. She has served on the editorial boards of several journals and was among the founding editors of two journals, 'Geometry and Topology' and 'Algebraic and Geometric Topology'. Both journals are now published by the nonprofit Mathematical Sciences Publishing Company, for which Birman serves on the board of directors.
Birman has received many distinctions for her achievements including a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 1974-6 and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1994-5. In 1987 she was selected by the Association for Women in Mathematics to be their Noether Lecturer. She was awarded the Chauvenet Prize by the Mathematical Association of America in January 1996 for her article New points of view in knot theory, which appeared in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society in April 1993. Let us quote from the Introduction to this important paper:-
In this article we shall give an account of certain developments in knot theory which followed upon the discovery of the Jones polynomial in 1984. The focus of our account will be recent glimmerings of understanding of the topological meaning of the new invariants. A second theme will be the central role that braid theory has played in the subject. A third will be the unifying principles provided by representations of simple Lie algebras and their universal enveloping algebras. These choices in emphasis are our own. They represent, at best, particular aspects of the far-reaching ramifications that followed the discovery of the Jones polynomial. ... Our goal, throughout this review, is to present the material in the most transparent and non-technical manner possible in order to help readers who work in other areas to learn as much as possible about the state of the art in knot theory. Thus, when we give "proofs", they will be, at best, sketches of proofs. We hope there will be enough detail so that, say, a diligent graduate student who is motivated to read a little beyond this paper will be able to fill in the gaps.
Other honours awarded to Birman include an honorary degree from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in June 1997 and New York City Mayor's Award in Science and Technology in January 2006. She has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences (April 2003), as a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and as an Honorary Foreign Associate of the Moscow Mathematical Society (1996).
Finally, we record that in 1990 Birman donated funds to set up the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics in memory of her sister, Ruth Lyttle Satter, who was a plant physiologist:-
Professor Birman requested that the prize be established to honour her sister's commitment to research and to encouraging women in science. The prizes are awarded every two years to recognize an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the previous five years.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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Zen Master Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo: Case 123
What is the relationship between practice and enlightenment? If all sentient beings are Buddha, why must we practice? These are the questions that propelled the young Dogen on his spiritual quest. In this fiery discourse, Abbot Loori clarifies the qualities of true spiritual engagement: awareness, concentration, meticulous effort, and trust in oneself and the process.
Volume 21 of the Mountain Light Video Library. DVD
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6 March 2013 by Permi Krishna
Motorola manufactures smartphones supporting 4G network to provide users a mobile ultra-broadband internet access, IP telephony (video calling) and high definition mobile TV. These phones make it is easy to download large files in seconds. The speed of Motorola’s 4G phones is ten times the speed of 3G.
The Motorola phones in the market which use 4G technology deploy Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean operating systems. Google Play Store offers you a number of applications to perform tasks with ease. These smart phones are built very thin and have very large screens to support multimedia operations.
The best Motorola 4G products are newly released with dual core processors that helps you play HD videos without interruption. Most of the Motorola 4G phones come with Verizon’s network with suitable and unlimited data plans.
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Therapeutic Recreation - Learning Goals
Therapeutic Recreation - Program Student Learning Goals
Upon successful completion of the therapeutic recreation major, graduates will:
Be able to use recreation and leisure interventions to improve clients’ physical, intellectual and emotional health.
Be able to teach people the skills, knowledge and attitudes necessary to become more independent in their recreation and leisure.
Be able to provide people with limiting conditions opportunities to engage in organized recreation and leisure.
Be confident and effective in their work as a result of over 100 hours of volunteer work and a fifteen week, 525-600 hour internship.
Meet the criteria necessary to sit for the certification exam given by the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC), thus enabling them to become Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialists (CTRS’).
know the seven broad competencies of a therapeutic recreation specialist and be able to evaluate their own perceived competence in each area prior to their internship experience
Demonstrate proficiency in reading and summarizing research articles.
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By Paul Rincon
BBC News science reporter
Antarctic seabirds may be breeding later in response to climate change, according to a scientific study.
Birds such as this Cape petrel have been arriving and breeding later
French researchers analysed records stretching back to the 1950s and think the breeding delays are linked to changes in East Antarctic sea ice.
Bird species are arriving at their colonies an average of nine days later and laying eggs on average two days later than they did in the 1950s.
Details appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
Researchers have found that spring events such as the arrival of migrant birds and the blossoming of trees, have been occurring progressively earlier in the Northern Hemisphere during the 20th Century.
But little information exists for the Southern Hemisphere due to a paucity of long term data sets.
Christophe Barbraud and Henri Weimerskirch from the Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chize in Villiers en Bois, France, have now analysed the only long term record of arrival and egg-laying for all species of seabird that come to breed in continental Antarctica.
Data on the nine species of bird were collected by ornithologists at the Dumont d'Urville Antarctic research station between 1950 and 2004.
Changes in sea ice may be behind the breeding delays
Over this period, four species showed a clear trend towards arriving later in Antarctica and two showed a clear trend toward later breeding.
Most other species arrived and bred later, but the trends were not statistically significant at levels set by the French team.
This is the opposite pattern to that seen in the Northern Hemisphere. It is likely that progressively warmer Northern Hemisphere spring temperatures since the mid-20th Century have increased the availability of food supplies.
In eastern and continental Antarctica, no warming or cooling has been observed since the early 1950s.
Here, a 12-20% reduction in the extent of sea ice over the last 50 years has been linked to a decline in numbers of the krill and other marine organisms that are the major food source for seabirds.
In addition, the sea ice season has been getting longer since the 1970s. The late break-up of sea ice is known to delay access to seabird colonies and food resources at sea.
These two factors reduce the quantity and accessibility of food supplies available in early spring, with birds requiring more time to build up the reserves they need to breed.
There are few long-term data sets for Antarctic fauna
"We think both these factors contribute to the delays observed but do not explain all of the delays observed," Dr Barbraud told the BBC News website.
The changes in sea ice explain only 24% of the variation in arrival and egg-laying, so other factors must be at work. Dr Barbraud said these would need to be identified before predicting how the observed trends would affect breeding success.
But if seabirds continue to arrive and breed later and later, it looks likely that juveniles will fledge - gain the ability to fly - just before winter.
"They would face very harsh conditions just after fledging," Dr Barbraud explained, "They would have less time to learn how to find resources on their own."
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It doesn't hurt that SAS is built on well-established, field-proven technologies. Standards tend to run into interoperability hurdles when every aspect of the technology is new, from the physical layer all the way up the stack. SAS avoids this pitfall by only attempting to solve a single problem (shortcomings in SCSI) and using tested technologies as a foundation.
SAS has a physical layer based on 10 Gb Ethernet's Attachment Unit Interface specification (XAUI), defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). XAUI uses four serial channels running in parallel at 3.125 Gbps to create a 10 Gb connection. SAS and serial ATA (SATA) have taken this technology and used only one channel, running at 3 or 1.5 Gbps to connect a disk and a Host Bus Adapter. So the Physical Layer of SAS is not brand new. Similar flavors have already been developed and refined for XAUI, and are already on the market in the form of SAS's complementary technology, SATA.
SAS and serial ATA share a similar out-of-band protocol (OOB) used to let end nodes identify each other as SAS or SATA devices and perform initialization. SAS uses OOB both for initialization and for interoperability with SATA devices. At the encoding layer, SAS uses 8b10b encoding to create transmission characters and primitives from bits. This is the same encoding method used by Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet. By using such a tried and true encoding method, SAS ensures that there won't be any surprises at this layer when the technology is deployed.
But aside from simply replacing parallel SCSI, why would anyone want to deploy SAS in the data center? For one thing, SAS will be able to support many more drives than traditional SCSI. SCSI was hampered by a 16 device limit on each bus. SAS has defined a device called an expander, allowing one SAS Host Bus Adapter to connect to thousands of disk drives. This alone will lower the cost of deploying SAS relative to SCSI since less HBAs will be needed.
Also, SAS is designed to be extremely flexible, which makes it ideal for nearline storage. Online storage typically implies storage that needs to be available all the time, and is usually implemented with Fibre Channel or SCSI disks. Offline storage implies data that must be kept, but will rarely be accessed and is best kept on slower but reliable tape. Nearline storage is gaining traction in the market as a means of describing storage that requires fast but infrequent access. Typically nearline storage must be faster than tape, but also inexpensive. Many nearline arrays are populated with high capacity, low cost, low reliability parallel ATA disk drives.
SAS enclosures are now being designed so that they can be populated with either SAS or SATA disk drives, because they have similar physical connectors and signaling conventions. Thus enclosures can be bought and used for either online or nearline storage, and all that needs to change is the disks populating the enclosure, since both SAS expanders and HBAs will be able to talk to SATA disk drives.
SAS is built on a solid foundation, offers flexibility and has strong support from the component manufacturers. In addition, SAS is expected to be priced similarly to parallel SCSI. Considering these advantages, SAS is worth a serious look as a means to contain infrastructure costs in the data center.
David Woolf is the principle SAS Consortium engineer at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), which tests SAS and SATA products for interoperability and conformance through open-industry plugfests and ongoing consortium membership testing.
This was first published in November 2004
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Biographical Cyclopędia of
ASTINE, THOMAS JEFFERSON, M. D., late of St. Louis, Mo., was born of Quaker parentage, in Northumberland county, Pa., October 6th, 1808. His parents being in comfortable circumstances, he received a good education, mostly obtained at the Danville Academy, Danville, Pa. On leaving that institution, where he bore himself with much distinction, he entered the office of Dr. Petriken, of Danville, the most eminent physician in that section of the country, for the purpose of reading medicine. Having in that manner duly prepared himself for a collegiate course, he proceeded to Philadelphia, where he attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College as a private student of Dr. McClellan, Professor of Surgery in that institution, and father of General George B. McClellan. He graduated with honor, in 1829, and shortly thereafter commenced practice at Cattawissa and Bloomsburg, Columbia county, Pa., and continued the same until 1835, when he removed to Williamsport, Lycoming county, Pa. There he soon achieved considerable popularity as a physician. About the year 1847, he was led first to inquire into, and eventually to embrace homopathy, through the influence of the late John Redman Coxe, Jr., of Philadelphia. In the following year, he removed to Missouri, and settled in St. Louis, where in the succeeding spring, he associated himself in practice with Dr. J. T. Temple ; but this association continued only until the end of August in the same year. At that time, the cholera was raging in St. Louis, and during its prevalence, Dr. Vastine was engaged without any intermission in a very extensive practice in the disease, and with very remarkable success, only losing three patients in a hundred, while over fifteen hundred cases were treated by himself and his partner. Indeed, so constant was his attention to the suffering, that for ninety days, he did not obtain three consecutive hours of sleep. His arduous labors and exposure resulted in his taking the disease himself in an aggravated form, and, though he recovered from the attack, and apparently regained his usual health, the severe tax imposed on his energies during that cholera season doubtless affected the whole of his after life. Feeling a desire to study the theory of homopathy rather more closely than he had been able to do while attending to his professional duties, and to acquire a further insight into the application of its principles, he proceeded to Philadelphia, where he attended lectures at the Homopathic College, and graduated therefrom in 1851. Returning afterwards to St. Louis, he devoted himself anew to his profession, and continued in active practice, zealously supporting by every means in his power the tenets of Hahnemann, until his death in March, 1872. This resulted from hemorrhage of the lungs, brought on without doubt by injuries received a few months previously through being thrown from his carriage in a collision with a dray, the accident being the result of the drayman's carelessness.
Dr. Vastine was married, in 1833, to the eldest daughter of the late Colonel Joseph Paxton, of Cattawissa, Pa., by whom he had six children, five of whom survive. His mantle has fallen on his eldest son, Dr. Charles Vastine, who until recently held the chair of Physiology in the Homopathic Medical College of Missouri, when the additional professional work, thrown on him by the death of his father, caused him to resign. Dr. Vastine was a very affectionate and domestic man, seldom attending theatres or other places of amusement, preferring to spend his evenings with his family unless called abroad by professional duty. His many agreeable qualities caused his society to be much courted.
He was for several years President of the St. Louis Homopathic Medical Society. He held the chair of Clinical Medicine in the Homopathic Medical College of Missouri, and as such was highly esteemed by his colleagues and students. He was a member of the American Institute of Homopathy.
He contributed to some extent to homopathic literature, and it is to be regretted that his extensive professional calls so exhausted his time and his energies as to prevent him giving permanent form to his abundant practical and scientific knowledge. He was a hard student, a vigorous thinker, a more than ordinarily esteemed physician, an industrious and successful practitioner. Although overworked by an extended practice, he never turned away from the poor, and a large proportion of his most faithful and conscientious professional work was done among those from whom he knew he could expect no remuneration. This made his death, which was a great loss to the community and the profession, peculiarly deplored by the poor.
During an active practice covering nearly half a century, he won the respect and esteem of all with whom he came in contact, and he left behind him hosts of friends to bear testimony to his kindly and unaffected, but effective beneficence.
Source : Cleave's Biographical Cyclopędia of Homopathic Physicians and Surgeons By Egbert Cleave
Copyright © Sylvain Cazalet 2002
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Endotracheal Tube Monitor for Neonates
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Each year, at least 10,000 critically sick babies in respiratory failure are intubated for ventilator support. For these babies, intubation bears major health risks such as airway emergencies, cardiopulmonary arrest, pn
eumothoraces. Neonates, however young, can be quite active, leading to undesirable tube movement and unplanned extubations. To date, there exists no reliable way of assessing Endotracheal Tube (ETT) position in real time without excessive X-ray radiation d
oses. Episodic assessment by X-rays of the baby's head and neck used to determine tube position would not detect a mal positioned tube in real time. In fact, such assessments are often performed late, in response to bedside alarms that continuous monitor f
or oxygen desaturations or poor ventilation. At this point, the effects of tube mal-position have already had detrimental effects on lung recruitment and gas exchange. An easy-to-use real-time sensor that indicates whether an endotracheal tube has moved ou
t of 'good position' is needed. We propose to develop a device entitled Endotracheal Tube Monitor (ETM) that can detect the changes in the ETT position and help the nurse to reposition the tube. Artann Laboratories developed a proof-of-principle optical sy
stem that can track the motion of a tube accurately and remotely through layers of tissue. The system was successfully tested in laboratory studies and in an in vivo animal model. In the proposed project, the ETM technology will be further tested and refin
ed. The objectives of the study include: design, assemble and validate ETM alpha-prototype; conduct cadaver studies on sensitivity of ETM to the motion of the ETT; and design ETM beta-prototype based on the feedback from the laboratory and cadaver studies.
The deliverables at the end of the two year study are ETM's bench validated performances, report on ease-of-use, accuracy of measurement, and individual and operator-to- operator variations, and detailed design and documentation for building the ETM beta-
prototype for Phase II clinical studies. The main ETM market opportunity is in an increased safety of neonate mechanical ventilator support and a substantial cost reduction to an existing method of ETT monitoring. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Each year
, at least 10,000 critically sick babies in respiratory failure are intubated for ventilator support. For these babies, intubation bears major health risks such as airway emergencies, cardiopulmonary arrest and pneumothoraces, To date, there exists no reli
able and easy way of assessing endotracheal tube position in real time without chest radiology. The Endotracheal Tube Monitor (ETM), a compact, inexpensive and easy-to- use optical device proposed in this application will allow endotracheal tube position m
onitoring without the use of hazardous X-ray radiation.
Small Business Information at Submission:
ARTANN LABORATORIES, INC.
ARTANN LABORATORIES, INC. 1459 LOWER FERRY RD TRENTON, NJ -
Number of Employees:
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Electricity and Privatisation
Download the full paper as PDF 2,877Kb
Advice on legislation or legal policy issues contained in this paper is provided for use in parliamentary debate and for related parliamentary purposes. This paper is not professional legal opinion.
Briefing Paper 17/1997 by Stewart Smith
In the late 1800's electricity became the preferred method for street lighting, and it was not long before local councils across the State became responsible for coordinating electricity supply infrastructure. The first power station in Sydney was completed in 1904 at Pyrmont. By 1949, there were 157 electricity suppliers, either generating or distributing electricity to people across the State (page 2).
Post World War II, the burgeoning economy and lack of new investment during the War led the State government to form the Electricity Commission under the Electricity Commission Act 1950. The Commission acquired power stations and distribution networks, and gained centralised control over new investment in generation and the interconnection of distribution networks (page 4).
The centralised, monopolistic electricity supply industry performed its function with little scrutiny until the early 1990's. In 1991 the Industry Commission estimated that the reform of the electricity supply industry could result in national output expanding by $2.2 billion annual (page 5).
Individual State governments and the Council of Australian Governments began the process of reform of the industry. State grids were connected to form a national grid, which allowed the commencement of a national electricity market. The reforms were given a boost with the release of the Hilmer Report on National Competition in 1993 (page 8).
In 1995 the ALP State Government enacted the Electricity Supply Act, the Energy Services Corporatisations Act and the Sustainable Energy Development Act (page 11). These Acts enabled the introduction of a competitive wholesale and retail electricity market, corporatised the power stations and distributors, and provided assistance in the market place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Generators were broken into three competing firms, whilst the distributors were amalgamated into six State owned companies.
In May 1997, the NSW Government introduced legislation to create the national electricity market, which is expected to commence fully in March 1998. Proposals to corporatise the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority did not proceed in Parliament (page 14). In May 1997 the Treasurer released proposals to privatise the electricity supply industry (page 14). In response to criticism about the privatisation plan, the government commissioned an inquiry chaired by Mr Bob Hogg. The majority view of the inquiry was to privatise the industry, with conditions (page 51). A dissenting minority view was also presented, arguing that the privatisation of the industry was not in the public interest (page 51).
The paper briefly explains some basic economic arguments on the reform of monopolies and utilities (page 20). The international experience of electricity supply industry privatisation is reviewed. It is noted that many countries across the world are in the process of privatising their electricity assets. Many power utilities from the United States and the United Kingdom have expressed special interest in acquiring electricity assets in Australia (page 24). Detailed case studies of the privatisation of the electricity industry in the United Kingdom (pages 25 - 31) and New Zealand (pagese 32 - 37) are presented.
The electricity industry in all States across Australai is undergoing reform, whilst the Victorian government has privatised sections of their electricity industry (under 37). Some potential problems of environmental protection in a national electricity market are explored (from page 44.)
Arguments for and against privatising the electricity supply industry are canvassed. Arguments for privatisation rest on teh premise that the private sector can manage a firm more efficiently than can the public sector; the government is exposed to risk if it maintains the industry in pubic ownership in a competitive market; and that the government can pay off State debt with sale proceeds and use excess for the rejuvenation of public infrastructure (page 46). Opponents to privatisation argue that the public sector is an integral component of the economy, and can compete just as efficiently as the private sector. Public ownership of utilities is important to maintain regulatory control and achieve goals of social equality and economic development (page 48).
A summary of the Hogg report is presented (page 51).
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Teacher wins grant to help buy IPads for kids
Bright Ideas Grant Program gives extra money for class projects
Courtney Merkel, a first grade teacher at Roger Bell Elementary, didn't know she would be getting a large check for a large amount from the Bright Ideas Grant Program.
"I've worked so hard for this grant. I had four people look over it before I turned it in because I really wanted this grant," said Merkel.
The 900 dollars will be used to get IPads for her students.
"I am super excited about this grant. I would not be able to implement this in my classroom," said Merkel.
Before the Bright Ideas grant money, Merkel used her personal IPad in the classroom, and the students had to share.
"They're having to take turns using it once a week and sharing it, but with this grant, I'll be able to buy at least three IPads," said Merkel.
It gets the first grade teacher closer to her goal.
"My dream is to have a one-to-one classroom. That means every student will have an IPad," said Merkel.
It's a bright idea to kick start bright futures.
Copyright 2012 by WCTI12. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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As the tail end of the foliar broadcast application season for controlling mesquite approaches, ranchers and land managers are cautioned to observe the condition of the mesquite foliage. Mature healthy foliage is critical to move herbicides from the leaves to the root bud zone in order to achieve control.
Within the last two weeks, mesquite foliage has been severely damaged by insect damage in some parts of McMullen County and surrounding counties. In the south eastern part of the McMullen County, thousands of acres of mesquite have been stripped of all its foliage and appear yellow in color from a distance. Other areas are showing sings of leaf rust.
The main point to stress is that, “Mesquite foliage conditions have become quite variable and monitoring the health of the foliage is needed in order to have success with any foliar chemical treatment.
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World in brief
The fox and the hedgehog
Negotiators for unity and peace in Northern Ireland John Hume and David Trimble will be the recipients of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Fellow laureate Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996, said the Catholic and Protestant negotiators had a working relationship like the fabled fox and the hedgehog. "John Hume is the hedgehog, who knew the big truth that justice had to prevail," wrote Mr. Heaney. Mr. Trimble, a lawyer, was the clever fox who chose the right moment to bring the dominant, pro-British Protestants to acceptance of Catholic positions on unionism. Mr. Heaney, a Catholic, attended college in Londonderry with Mr. Hume, who he said at that time gave the impression "of somebody with a very steady moral and intellectual keel under him, somebody reliable and consistent." Millenium dome
The roof is on, but organizers are not sure a subway link can be completed in time to transport Y2K enthusiasts to Britain's largest and latest attraction, the Millennium Dome. Larger than the current record-holder, the Georgia Dome, the Millennium Dome covers 20 acres, has a circumference of two-thirds of a mile, and is 165 feet high. Forty-four miles of cabling support the Teflon-coated glass fiber roof. Exhibits will be organized around 14 lifestyle zones, which include a "multi-faith spirit zone" that features a monastery and a Zen garden. The dome sits astride the Greenwich Meridian, marker of longitude zero degrees, where the dawn of the new millennium will first arrive.
Calling off trust busters
As one end of Washington pursues antitrust action against Microsoft, another end is lifting antitrust restrictions so American companies can fix the Y2K bug. En route to Middle East peace talks, President Clinton signed a law that encourages companies to help each other prevent massive computer malfunctions in the year 2000. "The Y2K problem is an enormous challenge, and we must meet it," Mr. Clinton said. This law lets competing companies show each other how to repair their computers without getting a knock on the door from Janet Reno. It includes limited liability protection so companies can help one another without the risk of lawsuits.
All aboard the runaway train
"Train wreck" is the shorthand term politicians and journalists in Washington use to describe the series of events that leads to the government's running out of money and having to shut down. The term evokes images of two unyielding locomotives-the Congress train and the White House train, each laden with different spending and policy priorities-bearing down on one another. Kablooey! There is no term, however, to describe the course of action Congress and the White House took last week to avoid a "train wreck." Time was running out to get home to campaign for reelection and there were billions of dollars left to spend to keep government running for fiscal year 1999. So Congress and the White House agreed to crunch together several funding bills-representing almost a third of all federal outlays-into one 4,000-page, 40-lb. budget bill worth more than $500 billion, funding 10 Cabinet-level agencies. The bill passed 333-95, but not without angry opposition. Congressional conservatives seemed to suggest a way to describe their leadership's anti-train wreck deal with the White House. Derailment, perhaps? "What does the Republican majority in Congress stand for?" a disgusted Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) asked rhetorically in a letter to colleagues last week. "Do we have an agenda? What is it? Do we believe in anything?" But it wasn't only Republicans. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) called it a product of "a kind of a bastard parliamentary system," where the leadership of the Congress and the White House cut a deal that is imposed on the rest of the membership. Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) complained that members could not even get a copy of the legislation they were being asked to vote on. Mr. Taylor said on the House floor before the vote that he was wary of White House and congressional leaders saying "trust us"-noting that President Clinton faces perjury charges and House Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted in 1996 to misleading the ethics committee. Mr. Gingrich took to the floor to criticize conservative opponents-whom he referred to as "the perfectionist caucus"-and to laud supporters: those "who have grown up and matured in this process understand we have to work together on big issues." Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.) dismissed the "process" as "business as usual, in the form of high taxes and more spending." Conservative Republicans in the House took their criticism a step further. "It's unconscionable, it's un-American, it's untruthful," said Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). An aide complained that the deal busted by $40 billion the budget caps agreed to in the last White House-Congress budget deal. Although President Clinton won almost all of his spending priorities, there were sweeteners designed to attract conservative support. The legislation defunds the United Nations Population Fund, writes into the foreign aid budget some restrictions on coercive family-planning activities, and requires federal family-planning clinics to report evidence of sex crimes. The big budget deal brought to a conclusion the 105th Congress; members headed home to wrap up their reelection campaigns.
Conservative Judaism (not to be confused with Orthodox Judaism) took a decidedly hipper turn last week. Updating its 1965 Rabbi's Manual, the Rabbinical Assembly unveiled a gender-neutral update with modernized prayers and a new "grieving ritual" for couples who have their unborn children killed. The new Rabbi's Manual also has considerably more heft: 688 pages makes it three times the 1965 size. In 1965, abortion was frowned upon and there were no female rabbis. Today, abortion is a lifestyle choice, and Rabbi Amy Eilberg writes in the Manual, "We grieve with you over the loss of this seed of life, and we affirm your essence as people gifted with the ability to nurture other life." Then there's an update to the deathbed plea. In 1965 it was, "Forgive me for all the sins which I have committed.... I am abashed and ashamed of the wicked deeds and sins which I committed.... Forgive my wrongdoing." Now, instead of sins, it's "times I may have disappointed You." Goodbye, wicked deeds; now, they are "wrongs." Wrongdoing becomes "shortcomings."
Welcome in France
Former schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau, 35, has given birth to the second child fathered by a former student. Now the boy, Vili Fualaau, is in Paris on a book tour about the affair that began when he was a 13-year-old student in her sixth-grade class. In the book, Only One Crime, Love, which isn't available in America, they complain about living in a reactionary age. "We took, I know, a road different from others," Ms. Letourneau says in the book, "the road less traveled, but we're no longer in the Middle Ages, when they burned women, the unfaithful, the witches, who dared to love outside their marriage." That's quite a turnabout from her tearful plea to a judge to let her out of jail: "I did something that I had no right to do, morally or legally. It was wrong and I am sorry." The French publishing house Laffont paid a $250,000 advance for the book. Most of it goes to the boy. Ms. Letourneau's share goes to the two children. Meanwhile, Ms. Letourneau's husband Steve has filed for divorce. He's got custody of their four children (the oldest of them is about Master Fualaau's age). After the first Fualaau-Letourneau child, a girl named Audrey, was born last year, Ms. Letourneau pleaded guilty to second-degree child rape. A judge suspended the bulk of her sentence. When she was arrested in a car with the boy in February, her seven-year, five-month prison term was reinstated.
Internet pioneer dies
If ever a man ran the Internet, it was Jon Postel. His academic title as director of the Computer Networks Division at the University of Southern California disguised his real role as the guru of .com, .org, and .net. Mr. Postel, who died at age 55 last week of complications from heart surgery, ran the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This bureaucracy gives out IP addresses, phone-number like codes that identify computers on the Internet. IP addresses are written like this: 220.127.116.11. When a Web surfer types a domain name into his browser, the domain name system translates that name into the Internet numbers. Mr. Postel helped turn this system into an oligarchy run by two semi-public contractors, Network Solutions Inc., of Herndon, Va., (which issues domain names like worldmag.com) and IANA. Now after much insider bickering, the Clinton Administration is trying to transfer control to a new group. Just before his death, Mr. Postel proposed a new global nonprofit group, called the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, which is supposed to be more accountable than its predecessors. Such a plan may make the White House happy, but critics say this group will be accountable to no one. Since few Internet users want a dictator, insiders will fight over this issue for months to come.
Spicing up the UN
As Congress was cutting off funding for the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund, ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell joined the group as a goodwill ambassador. "Ever since I've entered the media arena I've always stood for the empowerment of women," the former Ginger Spice gushed to an audience at UN headquarters; the population fund supports China's coercive one-child policy. Ms. Halliwell explained her position on abortion this way: "I believe in pro-choice and non-judgment." UNFPA executive director Nafis Sadik said that since Ms. Halliwell has the ear of many young women, she will "be a powerful advocate for the right of women to reproductive health care." The pop singer will travel to some of the 160 countries that the UNFPA meddles in, as it works to have fewer "little girls made of sugar and spice."
Attempting to shift blame from local police, an Egyptian prosecutor charged three Coptic Orthodox clerics with interfering in the legal investigation of two Christians murdered in an Upper Egyptian village in August. The clergymen say that more than 1,000 Christians were rounded up, interrogated, abused, and forced to give untruthful testimony after the murders took place. They are charged with "hiding information influencing the investigation" and "influencing witnesses to change their position" after they took their charges to an Egyptian human-rights group. David Alton of Britain's House of Lords is protesting the charges to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. He accused the Egyptian government of "trying to intimidate the Christian clergy" with criminal charges, instead of punishing "the police officers responsible for this grave abuse of human rights."
A fountain of black gold turned into a deadly fireball that killed at least 500 people in Nigeria. Reports of gasoline spewing from a pipeline leak in the small town of Jesse drew hundreds of nearby golddiggers. Their quest turned to tragedy when the fuel ignited, sending flares more than 60 feet into the air and setting hundreds on fire. Two days after the fire began, firefighters gave up bringing it under control and waited for the blaze, which spread thick black smoke for miles around, to burn itself out. Despite Nigeria's enormous oil wealth, years of government dictatorship and corruption have resulted in perpetual fuel shortages, skyrocketing black-market prices, and long gasoline lines. The same day, rebels in Colombia sparked another pipeline explosion after they sabotaged a 510-mile crude oil conduit owned jointly by the Colombian government and a consortium of U.S., French, British, and Canadian companies. The resulting explosion, which killed 47 villagers, was the 60th pipeline attack by the ELN, Colombia's largest rebel group, this year.
Can Wye talk?
Mideast leaders working on a peace agreement spent most of the week sequestered at the Wye River retreat center on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat moved out of stall after intervention from King Hussein of Jordan, who was in the United States for cancer treatment. The move by King Hussein, whose largely Palestinian country signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1994, prompted President Clinton to cancel a(nother) fundraising trip to California, where he was scheduled to stump for Democratic candidates in congressional races. The obstacles to agreement were extremely familiar ones. Israel's delegation balked after a Palestinian terrorist hurled two grenades into a crowded bus stop near Beersheba on Oct. 19, injuring 64 Israelis. Palestinian delegates contended that security issues should not thwart Israel's concessions to cede more West Bank territory to the Palestinians. Israel countered that it will not withdraw a further 13 percent from the territory, which it agreed to earlier this month, until Mr. Arafat makes key security promises.
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|— City —|
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This city is located at .(33.686301, -86.681913)
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has a total area of 7.0 square miles (18 km2), of which, 7.0 square miles (18 km2) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.43%) is water. It is home to the Turkey Creek Nature Preserve and the Alabama Butterbean Festival.
The Palmerdale Homesteads are located within the city limits of Pinson. The Palmerdale Homesteads were the first of five farmers resettlement communities built in Alabama under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s. The first of the 102 homesteads were completed in 1935. A community store and elementary school/community center were completed in 1937 to serve the farming community.
Note: Census demographic data were enumerated prior to incorporation in 2004
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,033 people, 1,853 households, and 1,450 families residing in the community. The population density was 721.2 people per square mile (278.4/km²). There were 1,953 housing units at an average density of 279.8 per square mile (108.0/km²). The racial makeup of the community was 89.85% White, 8.33% Black or African American, 0.32% Native American, 0.40% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.34% from other races, and 0.76% from two or more races. 2.27% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 1,853 households out of which 41.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.8% were married couples living together, 15.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.7% were non-families. 19.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.08.
In the community the population was spread out with 28.3% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 31.7% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.8 males.
The median income for a household in the community was $39,583, and the median income for a family was $48,707. Males had a median income of $33,843 versus $25,112 for females. The per capita income for the community was $17,704. About 8.6% of families and 10.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.2% of those under age 18 and 10.9% of those age 65 or over.
The local newspaper is The Trussville Tribune. The Tribune, which covers crime, government, sports and community events in Trussville, Clay and Pinson, is published each Thursday and provides up to the minute news online.
Pinson Valley High School- Located on Highway 75 in Pinson. Grades 9-12.
Rudd Middle School- Grades 6-8.
Kermit Johnson Elementary- Grades 3-5.
Pinson Elementary School- Grades k-2.
Notable residents/former residents
- Ed Chandler, former Major League Baseball player
- Melinda Toole Gunter - Former Miss Alabama
- Adam Pinson - contestant and finalist on Jeopardy! College Tournament (University of Alabama at Birmingham) in 2005, contestant on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? in 2008.
- Phil Sims - Former Ombudsman to former Texas Governor George W. Bush.
- Samantha Francis - contestant on America's Next Top Model
- Terry Jones - Former outfielder for the Montreal Expos and Colorado Rockies
- Desmond Jennings- Outfielder in the Tampa Bay Rays organization
- Terry Hoeppner- Assistant coach at Pinson (1974–75), Later head coach for the University of Indiana football team
- Warren Lyles, former Noseguard for the University of Alabama and member of the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame
- "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- "CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING (1790-2000)". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
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Re: Sirius B - The Dog Star
How do, Trow, sorry I haven't acknowledged your post here- I have been up to my neck in Anglo Saxon gold, Rosetta Stones and thoughts of symbolism from coptic to Ogham.
Originally Posted by Trow
The Bearded Finkel there is an interesting fellow and adds to the notion that, counter to some lumpen fools of christendom I encountered recently who maintain that history only began when monks began to write it, symbols on stone and in soft metals and indeed on cave walls and so on are just as accurate when examined forensically and carefully as written records are in Latin and so on.
I was pleased to find in a timeline of the First Great Dynasty of the Pharaohs (4,960 years ago) that Newgrange was mentioned as a timeline comparison in a leading Egyptologist's book).
Studying up on the emergence of scribes in ancient history and their effect on political/social life ... you think Sun journos were bad... this lot were a scruffy and ill-demeanoured lot and shysters abounded among them.
I see that your Dogstar appears in honourable mention as well, Khufu's Great Pyramid aligned with true North to one twentieth of one degree and the small passages off the central chamber aligned to twin polar stars which never disappeared all year round below the Egyptian horizon and of course your friend Sirius B.
I am up to my oxster in sand and symbols here, Trow, and enjoying myself hugely
Think National. Act Local. Oh- and superstition is just the dark matter of human history.
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What you twerkin’ wiiiiiiit?!
Strippers Used In Taiwanese Religious Ceremonies To Honor The Dead
In many Eastern countries, paying respects to the dead with earthly gifts — like food and money — is not an uncommon practice. But in Taiwan, some have taken ancestor worship to freakier heights, as strippers pole dance and peel off their clothes for the benefit of the deceased.
According to an AFP report released Tuesday, pole dances and stripteases are commonly performed at religious festivals in some areas in Taiwan in order to “appease the wandering spirits.”
In some cases, women dressed in tiny miniskirts and revealing brassieres shimmy and shake on stage in front an audience of men, women and children.
However, though this may seem bizarre to some, it is neither a new nor terribly unorthodox practice — at least as far as Taiwan goes.
In 2011, anthropologist Marc L. Moskowitz featured this practice in a documentary entitled “Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan.”
“It’s not at all common for urbanites, but in rural settings, most people have seen these performances,”
Moskowitz added that “actual full stripping has gone underground because there were laws enacted against full nekkidness” in the 1980s. Nonetheless, the documentarian noted that “almost everyone” he had spoken to for his film had said they had seen “full stripping.”
According to locals, this practice is part of their culture just like apple pie is to Americans.
“The groups attract crowds to our events and they perform for the gods and the spirits to seek blessings,” Chen Chung-hsien, an official at Wu Fu Temple, a Taoist landmark in north Taiwan’s Taoyuan county, told AFP. “They have become part of our religion and folk culture.”
Helluva way to go out. Anyone wanna die in Taiwan??
You know what they say, “When in Rome…”
If this isht STILL seems too
good wild to be true, hit the flipper and have a look for yourself!
Image via YouTube
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The CNCF hosts a variety of lectures, workshops and symposia with the aim of stimulating and further developing Cayman’s cultural community of Cayman.
Young at arts
Young At Arts (YAA) is an educational youth programme, which includes after-school instruction and performances. The principal purpose of the programme is to train young creative minds in the practical disciplines of the performing arts.
The Cultural Foundation has a small reference library that is open to the public. The library includes a Cayman Collection and Caribbean Collection of various works such as fiction, plays and children’s books.
CNCF offers tours of the F.J. Cultural Centre to primary and secondary schools and other groups interested in theatre in the Cayman Islands
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 18, 2008) - Imperial Metals Corporation (TSX:III) reports the Supreme Court of Canada issued a decision today granting the application of MiningWatch Canada for leave to appeal from the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal issued June 13, 2008. The Federal Court of Appeal decision confirmed the Federal Environmental Assessment of the Red Chris project was valid and in full compliance with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. The granting of leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada does not overturn the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal. It is a procedural step only which authorizes MiningWatch to bring an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. MiningWatch has 30 days within which to file its notice of appeal. The appeal process, including the filing of written submissions by all parties, scheduling of a hearing and a decision, is expected to take up to one year.
The Red Chris project was subject to both Provincial and Federal environmental review. Based on the initial project description, Red Chris was first scoped for comprehensive study level review by the responsible Federal authorities. Following receipt by the responsible Federal authorities of additional project information, including the fact the project was undergoing a full Provincial environmental assessment, it was determined the Federal environmental assessment would proceed by way of a screening report. Accordingly, comprehensive environmental review of the Red Chris project was carried out by the Province under the B.C. Environmental Assessment Act, in full co-operation with the responsible Federal authorities. This was in keeping with efforts by Provincial and Federal environmental agencies and legislation aimed at harmonizing Federal and Provincial environmental review.
The Provincial review process covered the technical, environmental and socio-economic elements of the Red Chris project, and included consultation with the Tahltan First Nation and other local communities. Environmental assessment application documents were made available for public review at local libraries in Smithers, Terrace and Stewart, the government agent's office in Dease Lake, and band offices in Iskut and Telegraph Creek. Notices of the availability of these documents with the public comment period were advertised in the B.C. Gazette and local newspapers. The documents were also made available through the Provincial and Federal environmental assessment office websites. Open houses were conducted in Stewart, Iskut, Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek, the four communities closest to the Red Chris project.
In July 2005 the Provincial environmental assessment report concluded the Red Chris project was not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects. The Red Chris project subsequently received a Provincial Environmental Certificate. In April 2006 the responsible Federal authorities issued their screening report, which also concluded the project was not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects.
In its decision of June 13, 2008, the Federal Court of Appeal concluded the responsible Federal authorities have discretion to define and redefine the scope of a project for the purposes of tracking an environmental assessment as a screening under section 18 of CEAA or as a comprehensive review under section 21 of CEAA. The Federal Court of Appeal noted in its decision that the conclusions of the scoping decision by the responsible Federal authorities were not challenged and that the appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal involved matters of statutory interpretation.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Imperial Metals Corporation
(604) 687-4030 (FAX)
Imperial Metals Corporation
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We note that debris from the Japanese tsunami continue to find ground on the US West Coast. Knowing the indiscriminate nature of tsunami suction (drawing objects out to sea as the waves retreat) we are not surprised to learn of telephone poles, all manner of cables, wires, metal and trees, stanchions, machinery, automobile components, and you-name-it flotsam being jammed together in island form, relentlessly massaged across the sea in the North Pacific Drift. This drift and discovery saga will continue and stories of unusual artifacts will amaze onlookers for years to come.
There are, however, more serious factors to consider. Marine wildlife can be seriously impacted in many ways (harmful species introduction, physical entrapment, and chemical contamination), and debris rafts are a serious navigational hazard to shipping. Imagine a large vessel moving at 15-20 kts driving into a mass of conglomerated telephone poles, steel cable, wood, and other twisted matted wreckage. We do knot know if this situation would damage the hull's integrity enough to cause sinking, but it could surely foul the propellers and/or steering mechanism. We also recommend that all readers who live in any marine coastal area take time to review our concurrent post on tsunami survival (click here).
What is a tsunami?
large ocean wave: a large destructive ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or another movement of the Earth's surface
[ Late 19th century. < Japanese, "harbor wave" ] Note: this is not a "tidal wave" since that is caused by tidal action and is often repeated as the tide comes and goes.
Some scientists speculate that human remains may be found among the main body of debris as it moves ashore.
If the estimates of debris drift are correct, much worse is yet to come when the main body reaches US shores. We opine that in the end, the March 2011 tsunami may harm the west coast of America more than Japan. No one knows the long range effects of what will be deposited in US waters. There will be costs to cleaning up. Who will pay and how much?
Watch the animation of a 15 year statistical model of tsunami debris movement (click here)
From Oregon Live: If the boat is from Japan, it would be at least the second large chunk of debris swept from that country to hit the Oregon and Washington coasts as a result of the tsunami, which was produced by a 9.2 earthquake. The quake and tsunami together killed thousands in Japan. The tsunami also caused extensive damage to port cities in southern Oregon and northern California. A 66-foot, 132-ton dock that washed up on Agate Beach, near Newport, on June 5 has become a huge tourist attraction become a huge tourist attraction. In the first week after it arrived, more than 12,000 cars were counted in the Agate Beach parking lot.
From The Guardian: They come mostly from ship hulls and the water ships take on as ballast, but also get dumped into bays from home aquariums. The costs quickly mount into the untold billions of dollars. Mitten crabs from China eat baby Dungeness crabs that are one of the region's top commercial fisheries. Spartina, a ropey seaweed from Europe, chokes commercial oyster beds. Shellfish plug the cooling water intakes of power plants. Kelps and tiny shrimp-like creatures change the food web that fish, marine mammals and even humans depend on.
Although the following photo is somewhat dated, it illustrates the sort of debris diversity that continually amazes US West Coast jetsam pickers.
From 2 Wheel Tuesday: Peter Mark stumbled across the washed up Harley as he was riding his quad down the beach. Peter said” ”The door was ripped off it and I could see a motorcycle tire sticking out, So I went closer and looked inside and saw a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The bike was rusty, particularly on the wheels and handlebars, but the logo on the fuel tank was unmistakable.”
The Harley belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a resident of the town of Yamamoto. Yokoyama who lost 3 families members in the horrible disaster was shocked and pleased about the discovery and was very pleased about the discovery. It is also one of his prized possessions that he has some of his fondest memories with. Currently living in temporary housing in Japan this just gives Yokoyama a gift he so much look forward to receiving.
Japanese tsunami debris include anything and everything
From, Baltimore Sun: A refrigerator that may be from Japan was found washed up on a beach near Moclips, Wash., on Wednesday. And a huge Japanese fishing dock washed ashore on the Oregon coast last week.
From LA Times: Usually, debris washes ashore with the kind of barnacles and other sea life common to the deep sea, posing no threat to shoreline populations. “When we walked up to that float on the shore and saw it covered with Japanese organisms, it was the first minute that anybody has really worried about introduced organisms with marine debris. It was like landing on the moon,” Chapman said in an interview. “It took us some time to just sort of grasp the enormity of what this was. We didn't think such a thing could happen. And there it was, on our beach.”
This interesting photo shows tsunami items deposited off Samoa.
From KATU: Tsunami debris is tough to monitor. Winds and ocean currents regularly change, while rubbish can break up. Some trash, like fishing gear, kerosene and gas containers and building supplies, can be tied to the tsunami only anecdotally. But in other cases — a soccer ball and a derelict fishing boat in Alaska and a motorcycle in British Columbia, for example — items have been traced back to the disaster through their owners.
From KSL: "I think this is far worse than any oil spill that we've ever faced on the West Coast or any other environmental disaster we've faced on the West Coast" in terms of the debris' weight, type and geographic scope, said Chris Pallister, president of a group dedicated to cleaning marine debris from the Alaska coastline. David Kennedy, assistant administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Ocean Service, told a U.S. Senate panel last month that in most cases debris removal decisions will fall to individual states. Funding hasn't been determined.
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Do People Secretly Think You're a Pig?
by Jeffrey A. Tucker
You don't want to read this article. But you should and must. It contains some dreadful truths that are universal but no one will is willing to talk about them because the subject is so uncomfortable.
I would like to reveal a universal prejudice — it is a cruel and judgmental attitude that is written on the hearts of people in all times and all place — that might very well wreck your life, but which you can deal with rather easily.
The subject is table manners. No biggie, right? Who cares about how one holds a fork or cuts a steak or eats soup? All this is merely Victorian frippery, irrelevant in our days of social liberation.
Here's the truth. You are being judged every time you lift fork to mouth. And not just judged: you are watched with an eagle eye and mercilessly and horribly criticized in the minds of those around you. They are forming extreme opinions about you. Missteps are being chronicled in the annals of the personal histories others carry around in their minds.
What's more, the assembly of facts that people hold in their minds concerning your table manners rise to the top. It is more important than what you say, because table manners seem to reveal some inner secret about you, your background, your class, your rearing, your parents, your attentiveness and self-awareness. People are perversely interested in your secrets, particularly those you reveal inadvertently. No, people will not admit it. But they are lying. You are how you eat.
It comes down to this. You can be wearing a $2000 suit. You can speak with incredible erudition. You can have the whitest teeth, the best jokes, the coolest haircut, and looks of dazzling beauty. But bad table manners wipe it all away.
Worse: the better you look and sound, the higher the standards are for your manners and the more severe people will be toward your slipups. Why? Because people will figure that all the other externals are nothing but a put-on. You will be a living, breathing hoax.
I know that these truths are hard to take. The first thought might be: hey, don't impinge on my eating freedom! I'll eat how I want!
Ok, that's fine. But then you have to live with the consequences. It's the same with dress and language. You can cuss like a congressman, use the vulgarity word at the table, stink to high heaven, and wear sweats to a dinner party. For that matter, you can staple your face with 100 metal rings, and stretch your earlobes to your shoulders — but then you have to live with the social fallout. People will shun you. You will be an outcast.
It's not only that. Are you really happy knowing that people who have eaten with you carry around an image of you in their heads that has you eating like a pig? It doesn't take much to cause this: stacking your artichoke leaves upside-down, for example. So even if it doesn't hurt your career (which is does!), are you really happy knowing that people think ill of you?
Fine, you say, but first let's discuss this.
At some point in your life, you will be required to eat in front of someone whom you want to impress. It could be a future employer. It could be a present manager higher up in the pecking order. It could be the dean, your pastor, a potential client or donor. It could be a possible future in-law. Don't think that eating alone in a fast-food place protects you. Someone could be watching. That someone might later find himself or herself in a position to do you a favor.
So let's say you blow it on one of these occasions. There will be no announcement. No explanation. No one will take you aside and say: "Next time, eat your soup by moving the spoon away from your body." No one says: "I like Jane, but she needs to brush up her table etiquette."
You will never know the reason for your failure. But neither will you ascend. You will only go as far as your manners place you in the social hierarchy. Again, people are horribly and secretly cruel: they will condemn not only your character but your whole family history. It's not just your reputation that stands in the balance but that generation's.
And remember that you only have one chance to get it right, and then you die and your legacy is established for all of history. Your legacy does not need to be less than it could, all because you never put your napkin on your lap.
These are brutal facts, terrifying ones, even. But it's better that you know now rather than blow your one chance to get it right. Remember the quotation attributed to Oscar Wilde: "The world was my oyster, but I used the wrong fork."
There are many guides to table manners out there. But we live in a blogging culture in which all information must be instant and short. So here are the five essential things you MUST do no matter what:
- Hold your fork and spoon properly. There is only one way: balance them between the first knuckle of the middle finger and the tip of the index finger; the thumb steadies the handle. There are no variations on this, no issues of personal style, and no regional permissions. For some things, such as cutting with the other hand, there are other variations that require turning the fork over. If you are unsure, default to the orthodox way.
- Put your napkin in your lap after you sit down to dinner. Do not forget.
- Don't smack. This is easy, right? Apparently not. Smacking is incredibly and disgustingly common. People must suppose that others don't hear it. But they do, and it's awful. There is only one way in the known universe to prevent smacking: keep your lips closed when there is food in your mouth, no matter what.
- Eat at the margin, not the aggregate. Don't cut all your steak up before you begin eating. Don't butter your whole roll. Prepare each bit separately.
- If in doubt, wait for others. Don't start eating anything until everyone has been served.
There: that's five hard-core rules. There are a hundred others that you can pick up in time, and it is good to read a book, so that you know for sure that you are doing it right. But you do not want to look like an obsessive rule keeper. Equally important to obeying rules is to look like you are not even thinking about them. You must look comfortable, happy, and relaxed. What's more, this is the only way to be in order that you can be delightful at the table.
Okay, so you are jolted a bit, and offended by this article. You are tempted to forget that you ever read it. You are free to do so. But others are also free to think of you as uncouth, ill-trained, low-born, and poorly raised, and to treat you with all those assumptions in mind.
Yes, there are probably great men and women of the past who ate like pigs. They succeeded despite it. Why take the chance that you will happen to be among them, when minding manners is so little to ask?
December 1, 2007
Copyright © 2007 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.
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NEW ORLEANS — The news media covering the Super Bowl are often criticized for the lack of attention paid to the actual game of football. But as the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers get ready to play in Super Bowl XLVII, the talk has largely been about the game on the field, and how dangerous it can be.
President Obama got the conversation going with comments about how he did not know if he would allow a son of his to play the game based on the concussion problems that have been documented in recent years. More surprisingly, skepticism of the league’s future came from a current player rather than a retired one or a member of the media.
“Thirty years from now, I don’t think it will be in existence,” Bernard Pollard, the Ravens’ safety, told CBSSports.com about the N.F.L.’s future. “I could be wrong. It’s just my opinion, but I think with the direction things are going, where they want to lighten up, and they’re throwing flags and everything else, there’s going to come a point where fans are going to get fed up with it.”
Pollard was openly critical of the league’s system of fines for big hits. He received one for a hit to Wes Welker of the New England Patriots in the A.F.C. championship game last week and he believes many of the proposals to make the game safer will result in a lack of interest from fans.
Pollard’s assessment may be surprising, but he is in the majority among players in his lack of approval of Roger Goodell, the N.F.L.’s commissioner. According to a recent USA Today poll, 61 percent of N.F.L. players said they disapprove of Goodell’s job performance. James Harrison, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ player who has received more than $100,000 in career fines, told the paper that he finds a system in which players are fined for big hits while the league simultaneously tries to add more games to the schedule to be hypocritical.
Reached for comment, Greg Aiello, the N.F.L.’s spokesperson, disagreed with the view that safety is not the league’s primary concern.
“We have no higher priority than player health and safety at all levels of the game,” Aiello said in an e-mail.
“As far as the poll, the commissioner’s job is to protect the integrity of the game and enforce league rules,” Aiello continued. “Roger Goodell has tremendous respect for N.F.L. players and always seeks their views on a wide range of issues. He values their input tremendously in working to make the game better. Roger broke into the league 30 years ago working closely with players and he hasn’t changed that approach.”
Regardless of who is right, Pollard’s assertion that fans would lose interest has not happened yet. According to a report issued by the N.F.L. on Monday, the league’s broadcasts have accounted for a majority of television’s most-watched shows over the last three years.
From Sept. 1, 2010 to Jan. 27, 2013, the N.F.L. accounted for 55 percent (135 of 237) of television shows that garnered more than 20 million viewers and 92 percent (11 of 12) of shows that have had more than 40 million.
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TORONTO — Following a five-year roasting by animal-rights activists, KFC Canada is promising improved welfare for the chickens it buys for its fast-food outlets in exchange for an end to a boycott campaign that will continue in the U.S. and elsewhere.
The Canadian Press has learned that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has agreed to call off its Canadian "Kentucky Fried Cruelty" campaign, which featured high-profile actress Pamela Anderson among others, following a signed agreement with the company.
Among other things, the deal obliges KFC Canada to begin buying from suppliers who use gas to kill their chickens painlessly, considered to be the least cruel method of slaughter.
The company is also promising to insist on other "animal-welfare friendly" measures relating to how the birds are kept, including a maximum on crowding and phasing out non-essential growth-hormones and other drugs.
Customers of the popular restaurant chain will also be able to order a vegan "chicken" item, according to the deal that followed almost seven months of at-times "sticky" closed-door negotiations.
"It's going to drastically reduce the suffering of chickens in slaughterhouses and also . . . improve the living conditions for animals while they're on the farm," Matt Prescott, PETA's assistant director of corporate affairs, said from Norfolk, Va.
KFC Canada President Steve Langford said he was delighted with the agreement.
"It will be nice to put this behind us," Langford said. "Our preference is to have nothing negative attached to our brand."
Langford said the Canadian operations, which are independent of those in the U.S., had chosen to take the situation into its own hands and talk to PETA about animal welfare.
"Once I got involved and we actually met face to face, we found out that we had no differences of opinion about how animals should be treated," Langford said.
"We landed in a very good place."
PETA's campaign, which garnered international attention, has included more than 12,000 protests at KFC restaurants and outside the homes of company senior executives.
Demonstrators, who have included former "Playboy" pinup Lauren Anderson, have burned effigies of company icon, Col. Sanders. Other notables such as Paul McCartney, the Dalai Lama, and Chrissie Hynde have participated in the campaign.
KFC Canada was also thrown on the defensive three years ago when PETA released horrific video showing poultry workers torturing chickens in the United States.
The company is owned by Priszm Income Fund, based in Vaughan, Ont., which operates 465 outlets across the country. The fund has been struggling to stem a flow of red ink and shore up falling share values.
Most of the 300 independent franchisees have agreed to abide by the agreement with PETA.
"It appears as though our campaign affected the bottom line to the point where the company finally had enough," Prescott said.
"That said, I also believe that KFC in Canada is genuinely concerned about animal welfare."
While the anti-KFC campaign will now end in this country, PETA said it would continue in the U.S., the U.K. and other countries. However, it is hoping to persuade Yum Brands, which owns KFC outlets in the United States, to follow the Canadian lead.
"With KFC Canada now doing exactly what we want KFC in the U.S. to do, our members and activists will be even more energetic and invigorated about going after KFC in other countries," Prescott said.
"All we want is for KFC worldwide to do what KFC Canada has done."
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The purpose of a review is to evaluate a game by providing a critical statement that is indicative of the title’s merit or lack thereof. As much as some may try to provide an objective opinion, leaving personal feelings, interpretations and prejudices at the door, providing an unbiased opinion based merely on facts is nearly impossible. Even if it were done, it sure as hell would not be very interesting.
The preconceived opinions, attitudes or feelings that make up our prejudices influence how we think about what we perceive. It is because of this that two individuals can come to entirely different conclusions about the exact same experience. One person’s terrorist is another’s vision of a freedom fighter. Similarly, one person’s idea of a perfect game could leave another wanting.
Reviews not only contain bias in order to formulate a subjective opinion on a product, but also within the structure of a review itself. The majority of videogame reviews are rated on a scale of zero to ten. However, it seems the prejudices formulated by the academic background of reviewers and readers have influenced both the use and reception of this scale, giving rise to complications and creating grave inconsistencies in the process.
Our personal biases and life experiences certainly affect who we are and are a crucial part of formulating our opinions. The blending of the academic and critical mindset in ten point reviews does not make a lot of sense and is something that needs to change.
Academically, a student’s work is graded on a scale of failure to excellence, ranging from fifty to one hundred percent. While game reviews are typically scored on a scale of zero to ten where five is the average, years of academia have repercussions on reviewers and readers at an intrinsic level.
The academic rating scale suggests that anything graded in the southwards of seventy percent denotes a lack of quality. This way of thinking is something that is ingrained into children at a very young age, and is reinforced throughout their academic lives.
Due to differences amongst the systems, a score of seventy percent (or seven of ten) may denote an average score in an academic setting, whereas in a review it should signify a game of higher quality.
Unfortunately, the holdover from academics seems to affect how people perceive review scores. Psychologically, former students have a difficult time associating numbers below seven or eight, numbers linked with C and B grades, with quality or excellence.
This mindset leads to a variety of problems. When a game is reviewed with an academic mindset it becomes all too easy to ignore the lower half of the scoring scale. Doing so increases the range of failure, whilst compacting that of success.
While it may seem to go without saying, the average score a game can receive in a review on a scale of zero to ten is a five. So while that might seem odd considering how we associate five with failure, theoretically anything at or above a score of five should still be a decent game that is worth your time. Unfortunately, it seems all too typical for gamers to write off any title that receives a score below seven.
In a ten point scale, positive reviews theoretically would make up the upper half of the scale. This allows for reviews to rate games on an even distribution ranging from typical, average games to titles that are near perfection. Conversely, the lower half of this scale would range from titles that are merely mediocre to broken, awful games that are practically unplayable.
The more commonplace perception of review scores, the academic “anything above a C is acceptable” mindset, leaves only the upper quartile for the wide array of high quality experiences. Cramming everything that is “good” into such a small percentage is irrational when we have a larger scale to utilize than that of academics. Well received titles with similar scores have large differences in terms of quality, while poorly received titles of similar quality can have drastically different ratings. This issue has left the top quartile unbelievably crowded with virtually any and every game that is received in a positive light.
In occasions when reviewers utilize their full unbridled liberty of the ten point scale, particularly with anticipated or high profile releases, they catch a great deal of flak from their audiences. No-one really enjoys being criticized or harassed. Some individuals are actually so afraid of criticism that they will bend to the will of others in order to avoid it. After all, it is a lot easier to say something positive than it is to go against the grain and be critical.
Being critical not only means potentially disappointing an audience that has been looking forward to a game for months, perhaps years but also the title’s publisher and developer. Being brutally honest could risk straining that relationship. In the case of one Kane & Lynch reviewer it could even mean losing your job. Then there is always the rage of fanboys to worry about.
It is unfortunate that this cowardice exists in the first place, much less is supported by a system suffering from a battle between two schools of thought. Those that are afraid to give a game an honest score are camouflaged amongst a sea of individuals who review games as though they are grading papers.
It is understandable that thinking about two very similar things in incredibly different ways is difficult. Anyone that has tried to learn a foreign language can attest to that. However, if we as reviewers and readers begin to utilize the full ten point scale when thinking about games we are not only being more honest, but we are improving the quality of the system which we use to evaluate what we care about and further legitimizing it by differentiating games from other, previously established facets of our lives.
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Summer offers children the opportunity to break away from the grind of school and books. However, some children in Hoboken have chosen to continue their reading into the summer time. On Aug. 26, young readers from the city gathered at the Hoboken Public Library to celebrate their reading achievements.
“We had 124 [children] that joined this year, which is up from 23 who signed up last year,” said Lois Gross, the senior children’s librarian. “Seventy four reported the time they read, and all together there were 1,297 hours of reading.”
The “Make a Splash! Read!” program saw a dramatic increase in attendance this year, as the library offered incentives such as movie tickets donated by Clearview Cinemas for top readers. Gross said the library reached out to schools to promote the program this year.
“We are all about reading and helping kids stay connected with the library.” – Lina Podles, library director
With colorful balloons strewn throughout the building, and ice cream and cake being served to the children, the mood in the library was festive.
“The kids read whenever they could, whenever they wanted to read,” Gross said.
Celia Malba, 7, took part in the summer reading program, and said her favorite book from the summer is “If You Give a Pig a Pancake.”
Tomek Botwicz, also 7, is entering the second grade this year, and named his favorite book as “Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham.”
Grace Cui, 6, is beginning the first grade this September, and she enjoyed the “Jack and Annie” books.
In addition to the summer reading program, the Hoboken Public Library also offers children and their families other opportunities to take part in reading throughout the course of the year.
In the fall, Gross will run a course teaching the children how to write movie reviews and will have participants act as film critics.
“My favorite activity is when we bring in two therapy dogs,” Gross said. “The dogs come in and the kids practice reading to them.”
The library will also offer Saturday programs this fall to cater to working parents, offering families the opportunity to bring children in on the weekends.
Mayor Dawn Zimmer attended the event to personally congratulate the children on their reading accomplishments for the summer.
Lina Podles is the library director at the Hoboken Public Library.
“What really touched my heart was when a parent came up to me just now and said that they used the summer reading time for their child as a time for the family to come together,” Podles said. “They all came together for a half hour to read together.”
Podles sees part of her job as a way to help children develop a reading habit at a young age.
“We are all about reading and helping kids stay connected with the library,” Podles said. “And studies show that kids who read in the summer will do better in school than those who do not.”
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`You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!' said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's, and they walked off together.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
`When I'M a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), `I won't have any pepper in my kitchen AT ALL. Soup does very well without--Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,' she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, `and vinegar that makes them sour--and camomile that makes them bitter--and--and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know--'
She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. `You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.'
`Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.
`Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. `Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was VERY ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.
`The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of keeping up the conversation a little.
`'Tis so,' said the Duchess: `and the moral of that is--"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'
`Somebody said,' Alice whispered, `that it's done by everybody minding their own business!'
`Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added, `and the moral of THAT is--"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves."'
`How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to herself.
`I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your waist,' the Duchess said after a pause: `the reason is, that I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?'
`HE might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious to have the experiment tried.
`Very true,' said the Duchess: `flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock together."'
`Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
`Right, as usual,' said the Duchess: `what a clear way you have of putting things!'
`It's a mineral, I THINK,' said Alice.
`Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; `there's a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is--"The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours."'
`Oh, I know!' exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this last remark, `it's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it is.'
`I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; `and the moral of that is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."'
`I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very politely, `if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.'
`That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.
`Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,' said Alice.
`Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess. `I make you a present of everything I've said as yet.'
`A cheap sort of present!' thought Alice. `I'm glad they don't give birthday presents like that!' But she did not venture to say it out loud.
`Thinking again?' the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp little chin.
`I've a right to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a little worried.
`Just about as much right,' said the Duchess, `as pigs have to fly; and the m--'
But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died away, even in the middle of her favourite word `moral,' and the arm that was linked into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up, and there stood the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm.
`A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a low, weak voice.
`Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke; `either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! Take your choice!'
The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.
`Let's go on with the game,' the Queen said to Alice; and Alice was too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her back to the croquet-ground.
The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen's absence, and were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment's delay would cost them their lives.
All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting `Off with his head!' or `Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.
Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, `Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?'
`No,' said Alice. `I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is.'
`It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,' said the Queen.
`I never saw one, or heard of one,' said Alice.
`Come on, then,' said the Queen, `and he shall tell you his history,'
As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low voice, to the company generally, `You are all pardoned.' `Come, THAT'S a good thing!' she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.
They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun. (IF you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) `Up, lazy thing!' said the Queen, `and take this young lady to see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and see after some executions I have ordered'; and she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited.
The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen till she was out of sight: then it chuckled. `What fun!' said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.
`What IS the fun?' said Alice.
`Why, SHE,' said the Gryphon. `It's all her fancy, that: they never executes nobody, you know. Come on!'
`Everybody says "come on!" here,' thought Alice, as she went slowly after it: `I never was so ordered about in all my life, never!'
They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. She pitied him deeply. `What is his sorrow?' she asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same words as before, `It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know. Come on!'
So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large eyes full of tears, but said nothing.
`This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, `she wants for to know your history, she do.'
`I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: `sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've finished.'
So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought to herself, `I don't see how he can EVEN finish, if he doesn't begin.' But she waited patiently.
`Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, `I was a real Turtle.'
These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of `Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly getting up and saying, `Thank you, sir, for your interesting story,' but she could not help thinking there MUST be more to come, so she sat still and said nothing.
`When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, `we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--'
`Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked.
`We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily: `really you are very dull!'
`You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. At last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, `Drive on, old fellow! Don't be all day about it!' and he went on in these words:
`Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't believe it--'
`I never said I didn't!' interrupted Alice.
`You did,' said the Mock Turtle.
`Hold your tongue!' added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak again. The Mock Turtle went on.
`We had the best of educations--in fact, we went to school every day--'
`I'VE been to a day-school, too,' said Alice; `you needn't be so proud as all that.'
`With extras?' asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously.
`Yes,' said Alice, `we learned French and music.'
`And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.
`Certainly not!' said Alice indignantly.
`Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the Mock Turtle in a tone of great relief. `Now at OURS they had at the end of the bill, "French, music, AND WASHING--extra."'
`You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice; `living at the bottom of the sea.'
`I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. `I only took the regular course.'
`What was that?' inquired Alice.
`Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied; `and then the different branches of Arithmetic-- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'
`I never heard of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to say. `What is it?'
The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. `What! Never heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. `You know what to beautify is, I suppose?'
`Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: `it means--to--make--anything--prettier.'
`Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, `if you don't know what to uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.'
Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said `What else had you to learn?'
`Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, `--Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: HE taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'
`What was THAT like?' said Alice.
`Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: `I'm too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'
`Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: `I went to the Classics master, though. He was an old crab, HE was.'
`I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: `he taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'
`So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.
`And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
`Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: `nine the next, and so on.'
`What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
`That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: `because they lessen from day to day.'
This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little before she made her next remark. `Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?'
`Of course it was,' said the Mock Turtle.
`And how did you manage on the twelfth?' Alice went on eagerly.
`That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided tone: `tell her something about the games now.'
Eric von Hippel
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FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM
NPR HONORED FOR "THE YORK PROJECT": SERIES OF CANDID CONVERSATIONS
ON POLITICS AND RACE DURING ELECTION 2008
The candidacy of President Obama brought the issue of race in America to the forefront of the 2008 election. As part of NPR's coverage, Norris and Inskeep traveled to the city of York, PA, to host a series of conversations with a diverse group of area residents about race, in the context of the election, and in their daily lives. Norris and Inskeep spent more than 15 hours with the group over three meetings in September, October and immediately following the election in November, addressing voting preferences and the role of race in public life, as well as voters' own experiences with race. What resulted were conversations remarkable for their candor and, at times, for illustrating enduring prejudices and misconceptions.
Six stories were produced from these discussions and broadcast on All Things Considered and Morning Edition. To accompany the series, NPR.org produced an interactive multimedia feature profiling the York residents who participated in the conversations. The entire "York Project," including personal essays from Norris and Inskeep, is archived online.
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It’s been six months since Iraq’s parliamentary elections, but still no government. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Anthony Shadid of The New York Times about Washington’s new attempts to get Iraqi leaders to sign on to a power-sharing agreement.
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MARCO WERMAN: I’m Marco Werman. This is The World. The US mission in Iraq changed 10 days ago. Combat troops left and remaining US forces are charged with helping Iraq take responsibility for its own security. But one thing hasn’t changed in Iraq. And that’s the fact that six months after parliamentary elections, Iraqi politicians still can’t agree on a new government. New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid has been covering the story. He says there’s a push on now to break the logjam, and the pressure is coming from two distinct corners.
ANTHONY SHADID: One option is supported by the United States government and that envisions an alliance between Prime Minister Maliki and his main secular rival, a man named Ayad Allawi. The other option out there is the proposal the Iranians are pushing and that would join Mr. Maliki with his Shiite rivals.
WERMAN: I mean it’s interesting the Iranians and the US are both trying to pitch power-sharing deals to Iraq. What dynamic does that suddenly create?
SHADID: I think both see themselves as being able to work with Mr. Maliki, with the current Prime Minister. He is somebody that while he irritates each of them at times, he’s someone they can get along with and they can deal with. I think especially for the Iranians they don’t see an alternative to Mr. Maliki. It is going to say something about the government that takes shape though. Either formula you’re going to see Mr. Maliki with far less power than he had. It’s going to be a government where his authority is curbed. In the American vision there’s going to be a national security council that has a lot of power that [INDISCERNIBLE] with Mr. Maliki’s authority. If it’s the Iranian proposal, his Shiite partners again are going to try to curb his power as much as possible. There’s a fear out there that Mr. Maliki has in him [SOUNDS LIKE] an authoritarian streak that could leave a stamp on Iraqi politics for years to come.
WERMAN: Whenever we hear power sharing we think the Kenya elections, the Zimbabwe elections, and the implication is that it’s not an ideal outcome. A sort of shaky compromise that can forecast more trouble to come. Would any power-sharing plan for Iraq right now essentially be a shaky compromise?
SHADID: I think that’s a great question. I think whatever government you see coming out of this is going to be a weak government. It’s going to be a weak government that’s going to have to tackle some of the most nagging and pressing issues that face Iraq. Disputed boundaries between Kurds and Arabs to an oil law that is seen as crucial to bring in any kind of prosperity to Iraq in the years ahead. What you have right now is politics in Iraq that are motivated by fear. In every faction in the country has this deep-seated fear that if it’s not in the government, their existence is going to be threatened. That there is no sense of an opposition or a legitimate opposition or opposition that can play an important role in Iraqi politics. And that’s why these negotiations are so intense and so [INDISCERNIBLE] in a certain way.
WERMAN: What is at stake for the US if something doesn’t get sorted out with Iraq’s civilian government?
SHADID: It’s already embarrassing, the American government at this point, that it’s gone on as long as it has. We’re talking about six months here and the Americans they expected to have a government far before this August 31 deadline that they had set up as a [INDISCERNIBLE] point in this seven-year experience there. So there is the issue of embarrassment. There’s also the issue of growing frustration in Iraq. This [SOUNDS LIKE] can kind of cross the board where you think you’re reaching a point where you may have the entire political system discredited. It’s always struck me in [INDISCERNIBLE] in Iraq that the country’s still a lot like it did in 2003 in some respects. And I don’t want to overstate that comparison. Back in 2003, as you have now, a country that’s anxious, a country that has an unclear political future. There’s a question about American intentions and there’s a lot of ambiguity covering almost everything that goes on in the country today. That’s not to mention, of course, more practical issues. Electricity, water, sewage, lack of housing for education. It’s an unsettled place right now and it’s probably going to stay that way for a little while.
WERMAN: Anthony Shadid, foreign correspondent for the New York Times, speaking with us from Lebanon. Thank you, Anthony.
SHADID: My pleasure.
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BY STEPHANIE HEINATZ
July 29, 2006
He had marched on the front lines of the War of the Rebellion. He had watched men die, and he had taken men's lives. When he had to, he'd mustered every ounce of his own courage to fight, to survive.
Ratcliff had become one of only 16 black men in the Civil War to earn a Medal of Honor.
But in a world that had changed far more than he, Ratcliff didn't know how much - if anything - his award would mean.
It was early 1867.
The country was scrapping its way through Reconstruction.
Slavery had been outlawed. And in the South, racial tension was left in its wake.
It was then that Ratcliff left Indianola, Texas, where he had been sent to serve out the remainder of his three-year military enlistment.
He went to Richmond, where he was officially discharged from the service.
For the first time in his life, Edward Ratcliff was a free man. He didn't have to return to the farm in James City County where he'd been born a slave.
But he was ready to go home, back to York County and the Virginia Peninsula, where, three years earlier, he'd left his wife, Grace, and daughter, Hannah.
They were waiting for him.
War had been hard on Edward.
Grace could likely see the toll that it had taken.
Edward was 32 and suffering from rheumatism. He'd caught a bad cold in Texas, and the effects lingered.
But he was home. And he wasn't alone.
Freed blacks were flocking to Virginia.
In March 1867, Virginia was designated Military District No. 1. The government was trying to attract freed slaves to the state with offers of 40 acres of land and a mule.
Two years earlier, Congress had established in the War Department (now the Defense Department) the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. It was commonly referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, and its mission was to coordinate all matters related to freed slaves.
A school textbook published by the bureau warned black families that they had much to learn about freedom.
"My friend," it read, "you was once a slave. You are now a freed man. Your experience in this new position has been brief. Your knowledge of what may rightly be expected of you is limited."
Large numbers of freed slaves made their way to Alexandria, Hampton, Norfolk and Yorktown.
Edward, Grace and Hannah followed other black families and some American Indians to a small community on the York River just up from Yorktown.
The community came to be called the "reservation," and its location was good.
Old Williamsburg Road - the route that George Washington used to take his troops to Yorktown for the turning-point battle of the Revolutionary War - bisected the region.
Cheesecake Road stretched from Yorktown to Grove, near James City.
Most of the families clustered around one of those two roads. Families on the lower edge of the neighborhood would travel to Yorktown to purchase goods. Families on the upper end would go to Williamsburg.
According to the U.S. Census of 1870, 48 percent of the black men in York County were farmers. Nine percent were oystermen.
Edward returned to farming. It was what he knew.
It's unclear whether Edward owned land at this time. Some documents suggest that he rented.
Whatever parcel he farmed would have been difficult, at best.
In York County, centuries of heavy farming had bled the land of nutrients.
Everyone at the reservation felt the hardships. And everyone at the reservation worked together to survive them.
"Most of the people were very close neighbors," a former resident of the reservation told college students several years ago. "They worked together. When the time came to harvest, they would go to each other's farm and assist them in harvesting, butchering and things like that."
LIFE WITHOUT SLAVERY
Farming might have been a challenge, but at least it was a familiar one. Far more difficult was learning how to negotiate life in this new world freed of slavery.
In nearby Hampton - home of Fort Monroe, or Fort Freedom, as slaves called it during the war - white men published a newspaper for the freedmen. It was called the True Southerner, and its stories dealt with life after the war.
Writers were honest, encouraging black men to make the best of their situation.
"The chains that held them in involuntary servitude are broken," one story read. "The whip that lacerated their flesh has fallen harmless to the ground."
But because of slavery, the paper noted, "the freedmen are generally destitute of education."
If the country is going to survive, "let the freedman labor to educate himself and his children."
Some stories - written by columnists - were light, offering life advice:
"Let me urge you to the strictest economy in all your expenses, that when you have a home you will have some means with which to decorate that home, that it may be an attractive place to yourself and family."
Purchase quality goods, it recommended, not just cheap goods.
Have at least two outfits - one to wear to town and one to wear for work.
Some stories delivered promising news:
"We are pleased to learn that Colonel Ewell of Williamsburg, President of William and Mary College, and late Colonel in the Confederate Army, is in favor of Negro suffrage."
At the start of a new year, one writer noted, "how different these days are from the old times when the first of January was a day of hiring and selling the flesh, blood and bones of these people."
Some stories, though, were ominous:
"The enemies of freedom are crying out insurrection. They say that the negroes intend to use and indiscriminately murder everything that is white."
These white men considered black men "vicious and revengeful because (they) assisted the United States Army in saving our country."
In Smithfield, black men were being hired out for work to the highest bidder. Men were still enslaved in Surry County, and in Nansemond County, a white man was seen whipping a black man - just as he'd done to slaves before the war.
In a letter to the editor, one man wrote, "You will see that old Virginia is reconstructing with a vengeance."
Then came the most devastating blow.
Pardoned Confederates were getting their land back. It was land that would have been given to freed slaves as a means to start their own lives.
"What a picture it would make - the pardoned rebel and a United States major general knocking at the door of the negro's first and only home to make an arrangement to restore the castle of his liberty to the former owner," the newspaper reported.
"We often hear it said that slavery is dead, that the colored people are now free like the white man.
"Nothing can be more erroneous. Slavery is not dead. The African is not free."
A GROWING FAMILY
But Edward and Grace had much to celebrate.
Their family was growing.
On Feb. 10, 1869, they welcomed their second child, Lucie.
Bennett, their first son, was born June 14, 1871.
Annie came along on Aug. 28, 1874, followed by Samuel on March 3, 1876.
Nov. 1, 1878, was Charles' birthday. And their seventh and last child, U.S. Grant, was born May 24, 1881.
Edward farmed. Grace kept house.
According to census documents, they all lived in the Nelson Township of York County.
Their neighbors were 168 black families. Forty percent of the men owned their land. Fifty-four percent rented, and 6 percent were sharecroppers.
Their farms were largely unproductive, though, compared with neighboring farms of white families.
The average farm production for black families in 1880, according to the Agricultural Census, was $58.11. For white farmers, it was $209.07.
To get by, they planted various crops. To eat, they continued to hunt and fish and harvest oysters on the nearby York River.
Religion was a central part of life. Three churches were built on the reservation. The Ratcliffs worshipped at St. John's, which also had a small cemetery - the Cheesecake Cemetery.
"All the families - white, Indians, whatever you are - were buried there," one resident recalled.
There was "Sunday school in the morning" and "morning worship once a month, on the third Sunday."
Families lingered at the church for hours after the service, catching up on current events and local gossip.
On the second Sunday in May, the three churches would gather together for what they called "Oddfellows Turnout day." It was a time for the entire community to remember where the people there came from.
SEEKING A PENSION
In the 1880s, Edward's health started to deteriorate.
On Aug. 13, 1890, he petitioned the War Department for a disability pension. His request was turned down.
So Edward visited a doctor in Hampton. He told the doctor that his eyesight had grown weak, that he was seeing floating objects and, "at times, can hardly see at all."
He paid an attorney $10 to help him file his second request for a pension. Again, he was denied.
In 1892, Edward's family physician filed an affidavit saying Edward did, in fact, have a disability - rheumatism and failing eyesight.
The doctor was a graduate of Virginia Medical College and had been caring for the Ratcliff family for 15 years.
He called Edward a "very correct and law-abiding citizen."
On April 18, 1894 - at the request of the government - Edward returned to the Hampton doctor. That doctor reported that Edward's pulse was a normal 88, that his weight was 155 pounds and that Edward could "rise and stoop" without any hardship.
The doctor was wrong. In November 1894, Edward traveled to Norfolk, where he appeared before a notary public.
Edward explained to him that in September 1866, he became disabled in Texas when he "contracted a cold resulting in rheumatism from exposure and hardships due to the service."
His rheumatism had spread to his back, knees and limbs, leaving him unable to do most manual labor.
Because of scurvy, he'd also lost most of his teeth.
He was 59.
In March 1895, the government finally agreed to pay Edward a pension. He would receive $6 a month. By that summer, he weighed 141 pounds. He'd lost all but four teeth, and his pulse had increased.
In 1901, Edward weighed 133 pounds, and his eyesight was worsening. His back made it hard to farm.
In 1905, his pension increased to $12 a month because of a "total inability to earn a support by manual labor."
His children, now grown, were leaving to start families of their own.
His wife, Grace, had died - but he wasn't a lonely old man. After Grace's death, Edward had fallen in love again.
In 1912, the government again raised Edward's pension, this time to $30 a month.
And at 77, he married his second wife.
On Jan. 25, 1915, Edward saw his doctor for the last time. He had contracted tuberculosis.
He died March 10, 1915, at 80.
On March 11, he was buried at Cheesecake Cemetery outside St. John's Baptist Church.
His children were probably at the burial. They might have laid tiny purple flowers on his grave.
They would have marked the spot with a marker made of wood.
Copyright © 2013, Newport News, Va., Daily Press
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New Shepherds of the Farm is a beautiful, heartfelt film that takes a realistic look at how animal farming is done today and considers the cost to the animals and the planet. Meet "cattle whisperer" Temple Grandin and the intrepid individuals who are transforming the North American animal farm. Temple, who is autistic, and highly sensitive to cattle has transformed the entire industry into a more humane place for animals. Compassionate people working with pigs, cows and chickens share a philosophy of a world without unnecessary cruelty to animals.
Visit the Website: http://www.naturalheroestv.org
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Why have a monetary system based on gold? Because, as conditions are today and for the time that can be foreseen today, the gold standard alone makes the determination of money's purchasing power independent of the ambitions and machinations of governments, of dictators, of political parties, and of pressure groups. The gold standard alone is what the nineteenth-century freedom-loving leaders (who championed representative government, civil liberties, and prosperity for all) called "sound money."
The eminence and usefulness of the gold standard consists in the fact that it makes the supply of money depend on the profitability of mining gold, and thus checks large-scale inflationary ventures on the part of governments.
The gold standard did not fail. Governments deliberately sabotaged it, and still go on sabotaging it. But no government is powerful enough to destroy the gold standard so long as the market economy is not entirely suppressed by the establishment of socialism in every part of the world.
Governments believe that it is the gold standard's fault alone that their inflationary schemes not only fail to produce the expected benefits, but unavoidably bring about conditions that (also in the eyes of the rulers themselves and most of the people) are considered as much worse than the alleged or real evils they were designed to eliminate. Except for the gold standard, governments are told by pseudo-economists that they could make everybody perfectly prosperous. Let us test the three doctrines advanced for the support of this fable of government omnipotence.
1. The Fiction of Government Omnipotence
"The state is God," said Ferdinand Lassalle, the founder of the German socialist movement. As such, the state has the power to "create" unlimited quantities of money and thus to make everybody happy. Intrepid and clear-headed people branded such a policy of "creating" money as inflation. The official terminology calls it nowadays "deficit spending."
But whatever the name used in dealing with this phenomenon may be, its meaning is obvious. The government increases the quantity of money in circulation. Then a greater quantity of money "chases" (as a rather silly but popular way of talking about these problems says) a quantity of goods and services that has not been increased. The government's action did not add anything to the available amount of useful things and services. It merely made the prices paid for them soar.
If the government wishes to raise the income of some people, for example, government employees, it has to confiscate by taxation a part of some other people's incomes, and then distribute the amount collected to its employees or favored groups. Then the taxpayers are forced to restrict their spending, while the recipients of the higher salaries or benefits are increasing their spending to the same amount. There does not result a conspicuous change in the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
But if the government provides the money it wants for the payment of higher salaries by printing it or the granting of additional credits, the new money in the hands of these beneficiaries constitutes on the market an additional demand for the not-increased quantity of goods and services offered for sale. The unavoidable result is a general tendency of prices to rise.
Any attempts the governments and their propaganda offices make to conceal this concatenation of events are in vain. Deficit spending means increasing the quantity of money in circulation. That the official terminology avoids calling it inflation is of no avail whatever.
The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.
2. The "Cheap-Money" Fallacy
Interest is the difference in the valuation of present goods and future goods; it is the discount in the valuation of future goods as against that of present goods. Interest cannot be "abolished" as long as people prefer an apple available today to an apple available only in a year, in ten years, or in a hundred years.
The height of the originary rate of interest, which is the main component of the market rate of interest as determined on the loan market, reflects the difference in the people's valuation of present and future satisfaction of needs. The disappearance of interest, that is, an interest rate of zero, would mean that people do not care a whit about satisfying any of their present wants and are exclusively intent upon satisfying their future wants, their wants of the later years, decades, and centuries to come. People would only save and invest and would not be consuming.
On the other hand, if people were to stop saving, that is, making any provision for the future, be it even the future of the tomorrow, and would not save at all and consume all capital goods accumulated by previous generations, the rate of interest would rise beyond any limits.
It is thus obvious that the height of the market rate of interest ultimately does not depend on the whims, fancies, and the pecuniary interests of the personnel operating the government apparatus of coercion and compulsion, the much-referred-to "public sector" of the economy. But the government has the power to push the Federal Reserve System, and the banks subject to it, into a policy of cheap money. Then the banks are expanding credit. Underbidding the rate of interest as established on the not-manipulated loan market, they offer additional credit created out of nothing.
"The gold standard alone makes the determination of money's purchasing power independent of the ambitions and machinations of governments."
Thus they are inescapably falsifying the businessmen's estimation of market conditions. Although the supply of capital goods (that can only be increased by additional saving) remained unchanged, the illusion of a richer supply of capital is conjured up. Business is induced to embark upon projects which a sober calculation, not misled by the cheap-money ventures, would have disclosed as mal-investments (over-investment in capital). The additional quantities of credit inundating the market make prices and wages soar. An artificial boom, a boom built entirely upon the illusions of ample and easy money, develops. But such a boom cannot last. Sooner or later it must become clear that, under the illusions created by the credit expansion, business has embarked upon projects for the execution of which the real savings are not rich enough. When this mal-investment becomes visible, the boom collapses.
The depression that follows is the process of liquidating the errors committed in the excesses of the artificial boom; it is the return to calm reasoning and a reasonable conduct of affairs within the limits of the available supply of capital goods. It is a painful process, but it is a process of restoration of business health.
Credit expansion is not a nostrum to make people happy. The boom it engenders must inevitably lead to a debacle and unhappiness.
If it were really possible to substitute credit expansion (cheap money) for the accumulation of capital goods by saving, there would not be any poverty in the world. The economically backward nations would not have to complain about the insufficiency of their capital equipment. All they would have to do for the improvement of their conditions would be to expand money and credit more and more. No "foreign aid" schemes would have emerged. But in granting foreign aid to the backward nations, the American government implicitly acknowledges that credit expansion is no real substitute for genuine capital accumulation through saving.
3. The Failure of Minimum Wage Legislation and of Union Coercion
The height of wage rates is determined by the consumers' appraisal of the value the worker's labor adds to the value of the article available for sale. As the immense majority of the consumers are themselves earners of wages and salaries, this means that the determination of the compensation for work and services rendered is made by the same kind of people who are receiving these wages and salaries. The fat earnings of the movie star and the boxing champion are provided by the welders, street sweepers, and charwomen who attend the performances and matches.
An entrepreneur who would try to pay a hired man less than the amount this man's work adds to the value of the product would be priced out of the labor market by the competition of other entrepreneurs eager to earn money. On the other hand, no entrepreneur can pay more to his helpers than the amount the consumers are prepared to refund to him in buying the product. If he were to pay higher wages, he would suffer losses and would be ejected from the ranks of the businessmen.
Governments decreeing minimum wage laws above the level of the market rates restrict the number of hands that can find jobs. Such governments are producing unemployment of a part of the labor force. The same is true for what is euphemistically called "collective bargaining."
The only difference between the two methods concerns the apparatus enforcing the minimum wage. The government enforces its orders in resorting to policemen and prison guards. The unions "picket." They and their members and officials have acquired the power and the right to commit wrongs to person and property, to deprive individuals of the means of earning a livelihood, and to commit many other acts which no one can do with impunity. Nobody is today in a position to disobey an order issued by a union. To the employers no other choice is left than either to surrender to the dictates of the unions or to go out of business.
But governments and unions are impotent against economic law. Violence can prevent the employers from hiring help at potential market rates, but it cannot force them to employ all those who are anxious to get jobs. The result of the governments' and the unions' meddling with the height of wage rates cannot be anything else than an incessant increase in the number of unemployed.
"The result of the governments' and the unions' meddling with the height of wage rates cannot be anything else than an incessant increase in the number of unemployed."
It is precisely to prevent this outcome that the government-manipulated banking systems of all Western nations are resorting to inflation. Increasing the quantity of money in circulation and thereby lowering the purchasing power of the monetary unit, they are cutting down the oversized payrolls to a height consonant with the state of the market. This is today called Keynesian full-employment policy. It is in fact a method to perpetuate by continued inflation the futile attempts of governments and labor unions to meddle with the conditions of the labor market. As soon as the progress of inflation has adjusted wage rates so far as to avoid a spread of unemployment, government and unions resume with renewed zeal their ventures to raise wage rates above the level at which every job-seeker can find a job.
The experience of this age of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society confirms the fundamental thesis of the true British lovers of political liberty in the nineteenth century, namely, that there is but one means to improve the material conditions of all of the wage earners, viz., to increase the per-head quota of real capital invested. This result can only be brought about by additional saving and capital accumulation, never by government decrees, labor-union violence and intimidation, and inflation. The foes of the gold standard are wrong also in this regard.
4. The Inescapable Consequence, namely, the United States Government Gold Holdings Will Shrink
In many parts of the earth an increasing number of people realize that the United States and most of the other nations are firmly committed to a policy of progressing inflation. They have learned enough from the experience of the recent decades to conclude that on account of these inflationary policies an ounce of gold will one day become more expensive in terms both of the currency of the United States and of their own country. They are alarmed and would like to avoid being victimized by this outcome.
Americans were once forbidden to own gold coins and gold ingots (from 1933 to 1976). Their attempts to protect their financial assets consisted in the methods that the Germans in the most spectacular inflation that history knows called "Flucht in die Sachwerte" (flight into real values). They are investing in common stocks and real estate, and prefer to have debts payable in legal tender money rather than holding claims payable in it.
Even in the countries in which people are free to buy gold there are not yet (1965) conspicuous purchases of gold on the part of financially potent individuals and institutions. Up to the moment at which French agencies began to buy gold, the buyers of gold were mostly people with modest incomes anxious to keep a few gold coins as a reserve for rainy days. It was the purchases via the London gold market on the part of such people that reduced the gold holdings of the United States.
There is only one method available to prevent a further reduction of the American gold reserve, namely, radical abandonment of deficit spending as well as of any kind of "easy-money" policy.
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Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was dean of the Austrian School.
This article originally appeared in The Freeman, June, 1965. Minor editing was done for its inclusion in Planning for Freedom, pp. 179–187.
See "Originary Interest" in Human Action.
Cf. Roscoe Pound, Legal Immunities of Labor Unions, Washington, D.C., 1957, page 21.
© Copyright; Foundation for Economic Growth and various authors. Individual authors retain their own copyright.
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As our population ages, elder abuse is becoming one of the fastest growing crimes in the nation. More than two million elderly Americans are victims of neglect or mistreatment every year. Those are the cases that are reported. Experts estimate that for every case of elder abuse that comes to the attention of professionals, as many as 14 cases go unreported.
What is elder abuse? Elder abuse is an act or omission which results in serious physical or emotional injury or financial exploitation of a person over the age of 60. This includes physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and financial exploitation.
As of July 1, 2004 self- neglecting elders are now served under the Protective Services program. Self-neglect is defined as the inability or resistance of an elder to meet their own physical, psychological or social needs without which the elder would be unable to safely remain in the community. Problems may include:
Who reports elder abuse? Anyone can make a report of abuse- neighbors, friends, family, etc. The people listed below are Mandated Reporters and must make a report if they have reasonable cause to believe that an elderly person is suffering from or has died as the result of a reportable condition.
- not having enough food, money, shelter, or medical care.
- substance abuse, depression, confusion or fear.
- language barriers preventing them from accessing needed assistance.
- danger of losing housing.
- no support from family or friends, or reluctance to accept help.
Reasonable cause to believe is a judgment based on specific facts, observed or obtained from reliable sources, that an abusive act probably took place or an abusive condition probably exists.
Mandated Reporters subject to a fine:
|Licensed social worker
||Licensed physical therapist
|Licensed physician's assistant
||Public employee who meets licensing requirements
|Licensed registered nurse
||Licensed practical nurse
|Licensed occupational therapist
|| Emergency medical technician
|Executive director of a homemaker service agency
Failure to report will result in a fine of not more than $1000.
What is Done? Interventions provided by the Protective Service staff include, but are not limited to, receiving reports of adult abuse, exploitation, or neglect, investigating these reports, case planning, monitoring and evaluation. In addition to casework services, staff may provide or arrange for the provision of medical, social, economic, legal, housing, law enforcement, or other protective, emergency or supportive services.
If you need to report a case of elder abuse then you should call the Protective Services Unit of Elder Services of Worcester Area at 508-852-3205 between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday or statewide 24-hour hotline at 1-800-922-2275. This agency is designated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to deal with all complaints of elder abuse. Mandated reporters are required to follow up on all verbal reports with a written report.
Elder Services investigates reports of abuse and provides protective services to elders who reside in the Elder Services of Worcester service area with the addition of Northboro, Marlboro, Southboro, Westboro and Hudson.
No mandated reporter is liable in any civil or criminal action by reason of submitting a report. No other person making a report is liable in any civil or criminal action if the report is made in good faith. Anonymity of reporter is protected.
Click here to see Frequently Asked Questions about Protective Services
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[T]he explorers were increasingly anxious to reach the once important city of Vientiane. They knew it had been sacked in the 1820s, but they thought it just possible that there might be some some trace of the rich market described by van Wuysthoff more than two hundred years earlier. Vientiane, after all, was set in unknown territory; outside the area explored by Mouhot in his travels in Laos. Their hopes were not very high, not least because they had already found how hollow were the claims made about the supposed riches of Laos by two of the most erudite geographers in France, Cortambert and de Rosny. Writing in 1862, these pillars of the Ethnographic Society had suggested that Laos might hide riches beneath its soil that could make it another California. At this stage the explorers hoped for rather less, yet even for their more modest commercial hopes the sight of an almost deserted river that greeted them as they drew nearer to Vientiane was depressing. And when they reached the site of the formerly important city; on 2 April 1867, any remaining expectations of its providing commercial opportunities vanished.SOURCE: The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future, by Milton Osborne (Grove Press, 2000), pp. 92-93
It was immediately clear how thorough had been the destruction wrought by the Thai king in 1828. Yet the vestiges that remained of the city's former greatness impressed the explorers. The royal pagoda, Wat Pha Kaew, still preserved its basic form, with delicately carved wooden panels, fading gold leaf on the pillars supporting the roof and decorative chips of glass that glistened in the sun like a gigantic setting of diamond brilliants. Wat Si Saket was virtually untouched by time or the advancing forest, having been the one temple spared by the Thai invaders, and That Luang, the most famous monument in Vientiane, had only recently been restored when the explorers saw it. They had some sense of this great stupa's importance, but they could scarcely know how deeply it was held in reverence by the population of the Lao principalities. Nor, of course, could they have predicted that That Luang was to become in the twentieth century a potent symbol for Lao identity; So much so that when Laos was caught up in the Vietnam War the communist-led Pathet Lao forces used the monument as one of the decorative motifs on their banknotes, aligning the traditional past alongside such decidedly modern scenes as delicately engraved soldiers shooting down American aircraft over the war-torn Plain of Jars.
23 October 2004
The Ruins of Vientiane, 1867
In June 1866, a French expedition began exploring the Mekong, heading upriver from Saigon.
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Fears of global slowdown pushes up Treasurys
Stocks, oil, and metals prices all fell Thursday after a Chinese manufacturing index suggested that factory activity there is slowing. China has given the global economy crucial momentum since the financial crisis of 2008.
A separate survey measuring Europe's factory and service sectors also indicated contraction. As they sold higher-risk investments, traders moved money into Treasurys.
The price of the 10-year Treasury note rose 25 cents for every $100 invested, pushing its yield down to 2.27 percent as of 1:30 p.m. Eastern from 2.29 percent late Wednesday.
The yield rose earlier Thursday after the government said that new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to a four-year low.
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Kidneythis posted today about former doctor Scott Strickland, who molested a boy from when he was 9 through 15 in Oregon.
Strickland was arrested in January and has already pleaded guilty and will serve at least nine years in prison. He is also paying his victim over a million dollars.
He had already had his medical license stripped in 1999 for "inappropriate behavior" and for falsely claiming that he was board certified in internal medicine.http://www.mycentraloregon.com/news/...using-boy.html
How is it that the Oregon district attorney's office was able to move so fast on this one? It was a mere six months between the time Strickland was arrested and his guilty plea.
Also, it was only eight months between the time the identical twin pediatricians Dr. Scott and Dr. Mark Blankenburg were arrested in Ohio and their convictions. This case was unbelievably complicated and involved 78 counts of child molestation, possession of child porn and bribery.
Since Dr. Earl Bradley was arrested in Delaware in December of 2009, he has not only been kept in prison but his prolific pedophile behavior (over 200 children molested) has resulted in sweeping changes in the state of Delaware that makes a chaperon mandatory when a doctor is examining a child.
In the case of Calgary, Alberta psychiatrist Dr. Aubrey Levin, charged with molesting males sent to him by the courts, the Alberta district attorney's office has gone back and interviewed everyone who was ever sent to Aubrin by the courts. They are doing this because the men's cases may have become tainted by Levin's examinations.
In the case of pedophile child psychiatrist Dr. Miguel Frontera, the Maryland Board of Physicians has permanently revoked his license, although he has yet to be criminally charged.
By contrast, it's been over three years since Ayres was arrested. Why hasn't anyone in San Mateo County done what the Calgary DA has done, and tried to determine which boys sent through the courts were molested?
Why hasn't San Mateo State Senator Leland Yee - a child psychologist himself - proposed changes to California law on the issue of doctors having chaperons in the room, as they have already done in Delaware?
Why hasn't California Attorney General Jerry Brown permanently revoked Ayres' license, as Dr. Frontera's was in Baltimore?
Why didn't the San Mateo Civil grand jury take action after the San Mateo Citizens Review Panel gave them the names of doctors who strongly suspected Ayres was molesting boys and did nothing?
Why hasn't the San Mateo DA moved faster on the Ayres case- when it has been shown time and time again that around this country, other states can successfully criminally prosecute pedophile doctors more swiftly and decisively?
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National Editor Tom Karst Scanning the Web, there is mostly just the facts reporting on the USDA's new rule on organic testing.
Here is a summary of the final rule, which is effective Jan. 1, 2013:
This final rule clarifies a provision of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 and the regulations issued thereunder that requires periodic residue testing of organically produced agricultural products by accredited certifying agents. The final rule amends the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Organic Program (NOP) regulations to make clear that accredited certifying agents must conduct periodic residue testing of agricultural products that are to be sold, labeled, or represented as ``100 percent organic,'' ``organic,'' or ``made with organic (specified ingredients or food group(s)).'' The final rule expands the amount of residue testing of organically produced agricultural products by clarifying that sampling and testing are required on a regular basis. The final rule requires that certifying agents, on an annual basis, sample and conduct residue testing from a minimum of five percent of the operations that they certify. This action will help further ensure the integrity of products produced and handled under the NOP regulations.
Popoff, of the "Is it organic?" moniker, wrote:
In order to prevent cheating, all testing in the organic industry must occur prior to harvest. There’s little point wasting time or money testing post-harvest.
The reason is that with the exception of genetically-modified organisms, almost everything else that's prohibited in organic production dissipates and eventually becomes undetectable over time. Whether it’s herbicides, pesticides, hormones, improperly-composted manure, or the big-money-maker: synthetic nitrogen, only an unannounced inspection and field test will deter fraud and gross negligence. After all, Olympic athletes are tested before and during the games, not after.
As for the cost being $500 per test, I must strenuously disagree. I performed broad-spectrum field tests on organic crops when I was an active IOIA organic inspector for as little as $125. Surely a certifier recognized by the USDA to audit organic farmers and processors will be able to get as good or better a price.
On that note, instead of ADDING organic field testing to the existing system of record-keeping and record-checking - which costs upwards of $2,000 up-front per-farm - field testing should REPLACE record-keeping and record-checking, and thereby bring down the cost of organic certification.
Lastly, there is still the outstanding issue of "royalties" being collected by USDA-accredited certifiers. How can we expect companies that oversee the USDA National Organic Program to be objective if they stand to collect 1-3% of a farmer's GROSS revenue from each transaction they certify? Organic field testing must be carried out by independent inspectors, not by certifiers which have a vested interest in pushing more product to market.
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Thousands of children participated making cider and learning how to pour it in the activities that LA SIDRA organized inside the Apple Festival.
Inside the program of this year's Apple Festival, a specially nice activity, designed for the little ones, but in which some parents participated happily.
In a land of cidermakers, the tods were more than receptive at the time to make cider, and clearly showed that, while apple smashing (with the traditional "mayos" and "duernu") it's more important the willing to do it than the size.
Lots of participants spent the whole three hours that the activity took apple smashing and working with a small cider press, like true professionals. It was nice to see how it was for some people something completely new but others were experts in the field, since they had a cider press at home or did smash with their grandparents.
Some others preferred the the cider pouring workshop (water in this case, cider is not to be wasted) in which Berto Leal did explain, one by one, the correct technique to get the cider into the glass.
Also here there was a surprise: a pair of kids showed to have the enough pulse and practice to present to the next cider pourers contests. Impressive.
Moreover, all of them had the chance to dress up with cider motives, abounding the apples ("colloraona", "verdialina" or "ernestina" varieties depending on the color preferences), the cider queens, the facial apple orchards and the apple crowns.
Apart of the children's activities, LA SIDRA was present with its stand in which there was made available information about the magazine and our activities, chance that lots of people took to complete their collections with the old issues or to subscribe to it.
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MAYOR DEMONSTRATES MASS NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
(11/26/2007) NEW HAVEN- The City of New Haven has implemented a Mass Notification System to inform residents of emergencies, public safety information and public services information. This is a web-based system that allows the Mayor or other designated City officials to send messages to residents by telephone. When a message is recorded, the system gets calls out to an average of 29,390 homes in the City within 20 minutes.
The system is designed to send phone messages to the entire city, specific zip codes, any address within a radius of a specified location, any street segment or any address in a polygon shape which can be defined on the system. In the past month, the system has been tested twice, first to notify residents of leaf sweeping schedules and second to announce bridge closures.
Today, Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. demonstrated how the system operates by recording a message for all residents informing them about the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CDOT) free bus pass distribution program. This initiative by CDOT offers passes good for 10 free rides on CTTRANSIT local and commuter buses encouraging more residents to utilize public transportation to get to work.
“This is an important tool to make residents aware of opportunities, concerns and incidents in the City,” said DeStefano. “The notification system allows us to get the word out about anything occurring in the city from emergencies to evacuations to positive things like opportunities and events we don’t want residents to miss out on. This bus promotion is aligned with our efforts to be a more environmentally friendly city, cut down on traffic and support public transportation so it’s good news to share with residents.”
The mass notification system costs the city $56,000 a year through its contract with 3N, the provider of the system. This comes to a cost of approximately 45 cents per resident. No equipment is involved as authorized individuals simply need to type their message into the online system or call into a toll-free number to record the notification.
Currently the system is setup to reach all homes in the City via working landlines. However, as more and more people begin to rely on cell phones over landlines for communication, the City is working to give residents an opportunity to submit their cell phone numbers, or other numbers where they can be reached, in the event of an emergency.
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Today, we are going to look at several different kinds of stress and how these can affect you. I'll also give you a version of the Portable Minute that can help you recover from stress quickly—insuring that you are not carrying the effects of that stress around with you for the rest of the day (or the rest of your life).
The word "stress" is sometimes used in a positive way. This is the so-called "good stress"—when you are choosing to do something challenging, like learning a new language or pushing yourself harder at the gym. This stress can be stimulating, energizing and very good for you. This is why I prefer to call it "stretch" rather than "stress."
Then there is acute stress, which is when you perceive a sudden threat or insult, and your body prepares you for immediate action. It releases stress hormones, shuts down digestion and increases your heart rate, blood glucose levels and oxygen delivery to the brain. It also quickens your breathing and tightens your muscles, making you ready to spring.
This is sometimes called the fight-or-flight response—and it was very useful when we lived in the wild. The problem is that it's not so easy to fight or flee these days.
For example, when the bus pulls away from the curb—just as you arrive at the bus stop—you can't hit it with a club. When the insurance company hikes your premium, there's nowhere to run. In situations like these, you don't get to discharge the stress reaction very easily.
And when stress is chronic (e.g., when you're worried about losing your job, or you're coping with an ongoing illness or an abusive relationship), the continual release of stress hormones can be a serious health risk. Chronic stress has been implicated in type 2 diabetes, hypertension, compromised immune systems and putting on extra weight, as well as concentration problems, mood swings and depression.
In addition to the fight or flight response, there is a third response to stress, sometimes known as the freeze response, or "playing dead." This is no more helpful than fighting or fleeing. The freeze response might happen when we are not fully conscious of how stressful the situation is, when we are inhibited from reacting (perhaps out of fear) or when we just can't handle the stress any more. With the freeze response, we shut down emotionally, becoming numb or frozen. Gradually, over many years, we may become unable to feel much of anything—even pleasure or joy.
However, there is something you can do in response to stress that doesn't involve fighting, fleeing or freezing. You can do an After-the-Emergency Minute. This is a Portable Minute that you do as soon as possible after experiencing something stressful. The purpose of the After-the-Emergency Minute is to help make sure you don't get stuck in any stress-related pattern.
With an After-the-Emergency Minute, you will feel the effects of the shock on your body start to dissipate—your muscles relax, your shoulders drop, your breathing returns to a normal rate. You should start to feel less jumpy and more connected to a more peaceful and trusting you.
The After-the-Emergency Minute may not be the easiest Minute to do, but it's certainly worth trying. And, as with the Emergency Minute, you may need to do several of them in a row, one at a time.
On occasion, the After-the-Emergency Minute might make you feel a bit more emotional, because it's giving you some space to experience your authentic reactions to the situation. It's as if you're thawing out, and that's perfectly okay. The most important thing is just to release whatever emotional and physical reaction the stress triggered. By releasing that reaction, you are rejoining with the flow of life.
For the next 24 hours, I'd like you to try an After-the-Emergency Minute after anything stressful happens to you—whether it's a major stress or just a minor one, like dropping a glass, stubbing your toe or being on the receiving end of someone else's bad mood.
If that's not possible, at least take a moment to note that something stressful did happen and that you might have benefited from taking a Minute. Simply being aware that you have experienced some stress is a big step toward letting go of it.
It would be nice, someday, if all emergency personnel—nurses, doctors, rescue workers, paramedics, police, firefighters—carried an After-the-Emergency Minute with them, as part of their emergency equipment.
Because they don't, you may have to be ready to administer one when needed. So I suggest you practice a Portable Minute from time to time, when it isn't needed. Just so you're ready.
Get started with the Portable Minute now
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Aircraft: Cessna 172. Injuries: None. Location: Lebanon, Tenn. Aircraft damage: Substantial.
What reportedly happened: The student pilot was practicing takeoffs and landings. After the third landing he thought the airplane’s left main tire felt flat, so he taxied back to the FBO to have the tire checked.
The FBO representative found no discrepancies and the pilot taxied back to the runway to continue the flight.
During takeoff, as the airplane reached about 30 knots, it began to bobble on the left side. In response the pilot reduced engine power and applied the brakes. The airplane went off the left side of the runway and came to a stop in a ditch.
Probable cause: The student pilot´s failure to maintain directional control during an aborted takeoff, resulting in a runway excursion.
NTSB Identification: ERA11CA115
This January 2011 accident report is provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. Published as an educational tool, it is intended to help pilots learn from the misfortunes of others.
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Tornado makes direct hit on Iowa City
Public Works Administrator
City of Ankeny, Iowa
Member, APWA Facility & Grounds Committee
On Thursday, April 13, 2006, Iowa City took a direct hit from an F2 tornado packing winds over 150 miles per hour. No tornado had ever made a direct hit on Iowa City, home of the University of Iowa. Historically only 15% of the tornados in Iowa have been an F2 or higher. This storm was the beginning of a rare tornado outbreak sequence that struck across the country throughout the following week.
The first sighting of a funnel cloud occurred around 8:30 p.m. Before the tornado had finished cutting its path through Iowa City, Public Works Director Rick Fosse was calling out crews and working with Fire and Police Departments to put the City's Incident Management Plan into action.
Day 1 following the tornado (Photo: Iowa City Press Citizen)
The tornado tore across the south edge of the university's campus, then ripped through the heart of downtown Iowa City and its historical districts leaving a 3-1/2-mile path of destruction one-third of a mile wide. This was one of a number of tornados reported in Johnson County that evening. The ferocity of the storm caused significant property damage destroying buildings, dropping power lines, causing gas leaks, crushing cars, and forcing many residents from their homes. Johnson County opened their Emergency Operations Center to manage the responses throughout the county while Iowa City established a Command Post to coordinate intensive response activities within the city.
Public Works crews hit the streets running in darkness, some contending with bumper-to-bumper traffic, and sidewalks overflowing with people exploring the damage. Crews were in an emergency response operation for the first three days following the storm. The crews' focus was to move the mixed roadway debris to the shoulders of the roadway and along the right-of-way to open emergency access routes leading to hospitals and devastated areas. This facilitated the vital movement of emergency vehicles, and allowed law enforcement to provide the necessary security.
It was soon evident that the extent of damage was beyond local response capabilities. Governor Tom Vilsack declared a state of emergency for Johnson County that evening. The National Guard, Iowa Department of Transportation, and the Highway Patrol handled crowd control, provided security, and assisted with traffic control at intersections where traffic signals were damaged and not functioning. Police, fire and ambulance crews from neighboring communities were also quick to respond.
As darkness prevailed throughout the city, safety was first and foremost in the minds of the first responders in clearing and moving the debris off the roadway. City crews reacted as if there were bodies underneath each and every pile of wreckage. Downed wires were commingled with the debris, requiring close coordination with Mid American Energy before the debris could be removed. Fortunately, Mid American Energy had deenergized much of the area, because of more than 50 reported gas leaks.
Darkness and conflicting reports made it difficult to determine the limits and severity of the damage. Damage assessment teams were deployed Thursday night to focus rescue efforts and again on Friday to examined the path of the tornado and prepare a comprehensive estimate of public damages and a map of the storm's path. The total damage was assessed at $12 million. FEMA arrived in Iowa City on Saturday and was provided with a detailed damage assessment and map.
Contractors work in tandem in removing debris off city streets.
The focus of the City's efforts shifted from emergency response to debris management and removal on Monday morning. Huge volumes of debris would need to be removed and properly disposed. Quick, convenient removal and conservation of landfill space were established as priorities. The City of Iowa City issued a news release providing residents with debris management information. Two drop sites were established for tree debris. Building and tree debris could also be placed at curbside for removal by the City, but residents were asked to separate building debris from tree debris. It was important to get the information out to the public quickly to separate their waste before placing it at the curb. All fees for these services were waived for a period of two weeks as a service to the citizens, and to expedite the cleanup process for public safety. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources was contacted to obtain approval to place commingled waste in the landfill.
City staff met and a systematic approach to debris management was implemented. Curbside cleanup crews were split into two teams. Solid waste crews started at the perimeter of the storm path while personnel from city streets, forestry, Johnson County and the Iowa Department of Transportation started in the center of the path of the tornado. One important aspect of the debris removal was to keep the 50 crew members hydrated, fed, and with access to portable restroom facilities. Two contractors with grapplers were hired to load tandem axle trucks supplied by the Iowa Department of Transportation, Johnson County, and local city contractors. Skid loaders with clam buckets were also used to pick up debris at curbside. As fast as debris was being hauled away, it was piling back up as people continued to clear their properties. Curbside pickup continued for two weeks.
One of the other problems facing Iowa City was that their landfill didn't operate a construction and demolition (C&D) area. After the initial cleanup of debris, homeowners and businesses started to demolish their damaged buildings producing a second wave of waste arriving at the landfill. With the approval of the DNR, a C&D cell was permitted, constructed, and up and running in a short period of time.
During the first two weeks of cleanup, over $88,000 of fees were waived at the landfill. The drop-off sites remained free all summer and ultimately processed 25,000 cubic yards of tree debris into 7,000 cubic yards of wood chips which were given away free of charge.
City crews work to clear debris.
Many cities in eastern Iowa offered to help by providing staff and equipment through the Iowa Mutual Aid Compact (IMAC). The Iowa Mutual Aid Compact is an intrastate voluntary program that allows for one political subdivision to assist another political subdivision in a disaster that has been declared either by the local member political subdivision or the governor. Crews from Cedar Falls and Waterloo were used to help with the restoration of traffic signals. The City of Bettendorf provided a vacuum street sweeper to remove all the glass off the streets. Each of the cities that provided mutual aid was reimbursed for their hard costs such as hotel accommodations, food, and fuel expenses. All the cities waived reimbursement for their labor costs. Information on the IMAC can be found at iowahomelandsecurity.org/asp/IMAC.
Iowa City's total cleanup operation took about two months to complete. Cleanup proceeded faster than expected and within a week of the storm all streets were back open. The traffic signal system was fully restored which included replacing 7 signal poles, 53 signal heads, a control cabinet and 75 signs. After 60 days of contemplation, FEMA's Damage Assessment Team concluded that this event was not a federal disaster and no assistance was provided.
Feedback from the public has been overwhelmingly positive, and City staff was commended for their remarkable work in the cleanup operation. Fosse is especially thankful that only one crew member sustained an injury during the entire cleanup process.
Al Olson can be reached at (515) 963-3525 or email@example.com.
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This object is a Boring Machine, one of a series of machines designed by Marc Isambard Brunel that went into production in 1805 to produce the wooden blocks for sailing ships. Their invention is incredibly significant, both for Portsmouth, the country and ultimately global industry.
At the time this machine was made all the ships in the navy were powered by sails, which were operated by ropes, that needed blocks to allow them to work. A 74-gun ship needed 922 blocks and it was estimated that the navy used 100,000 blocks every year. Before the introduction of Brunel’s machines, contractors, such as the Taylors, of Southampton, made blocks outside the dockyard.
This machine was one of a series of 45 machines installed in the dockyard and powered by steam. Fourteen different types of machines were needed to carry out all the processes to make the blocks. There were three sets of machines, for making blocks of different sizes.
When these machines were first set up in Portsmouth dockyard, they were the first example of the use of machine tools for mass production and they were also the earliest large machine tools to be made of metal. They allowed 10 unskilled men to do the work of 110 craftsmen.
Marc Isambard Brunel was the father of the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who was born at Portsmouth in April 1806. Marc Isambard Brunel was born in France in 1769 and served as an officer in the French navy until the French Revolution. His royalist sympathies meant he had to leave France and went to the United States of America where he practised civil engineering. Eventually, he left for England to marry.
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Freedom in the World - Finland (2007)
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Political Rights Score: 1
Civil Liberties Score: 1
In January 2006, Tarja Halonen of the Social Democratic Party was reelected for a second six-year term as president of Finland. From July through December 2006, Finland held the presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). In September, Finland agreed to contribute 200 troops to a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
Finland was ruled by Sweden until the early eighteenth century and then became a grand duchy of Russia until independence in 1917. The country is traditionally neutral, but its army has enjoyed broad popular support ever since it fended off a Soviet invasion during World War II. Finland joined the European Union in 1995 after its friendship treaty with the Soviet Union became void. It has been an enthusiastic member state and is the only Nordic country to have adopted the euro currency.
In the February 2000 presidential election, Tarja Halonen, of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), was chosen as the country's first woman president. She defeated four other female candidates – in a total field of seven – from across the political spectrum.
In 2003, the Center Party came to power after winning 55 seats in parliamentary elections. The second-largest party, the SDP, had led the ruling coalition since 1995. It remained part of the new ruling coalition, which also included the Center Party and the Swedish People's Party, representing the Swedish-speaking minority. Anneli Jaatteenmaki replaced the SDP's Paavo Lipponen as prime minister, becoming the first woman to hold the post. However, just two months after she was chosen, Jaatteenmaki stepped down when it was alleged that she had leaked information from classified foreign policy documents and then lied about having done so. After Jaatteenmaki's resignation, Matti Vanhanen of the Center Party succeeded her.
A Helsinki court unanimously acquitted Jaatteenmaki of disclosing official secrets in March 2004. However, Martti Manninen, a presidential aide who had given her the documents, was found guilty of violating the Official Secrets Act and fined 3,600 euros. Jaatteenmaki subsequently drew the most votes in the Finnish elections for the European Parliament.
Finland emerged as a leader of the smaller states within the EU during the 2003 drafting of the EU constitution. Unlike in other EU member states, the proposed constitution was uncontroversial in Finland, and Prime Minister Vanhanen ruled out a possible referendum on the treaty in August 2004.
In 2006, the World Economic Forum ranked the Finnish economy as the second most competitive in the world after Switzerland's. Finland was ranked number one for educational and training institutions by the same index. All five Nordic countries – Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Norway – were in the top 15 positions.
On January 29, 2006, Tarja Halonen of the SDP was reelected for a second term as president. She defeated National Coalition Party candidate Sauli Niinistö in a second-round vote. The runoff took place after none of the candidates received more than half of the votes in the first round on January 15.
On July 1, 2006, Finland began its six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union. Major events during the presidency included the Sixth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 6) in Helsinki. The presidency had a pacifying effect on the run-up to the 2007 Finnish parliamentary elections, as candidates were reluctant to raise inflammatory issues while in the European spotlight.
In 2006, Finns continued to debate the proposal of abandoning their traditional neutrality and seeking membership in NATO, an issue of particular relevance given the recent inclusion of the nearby Baltic states – Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia – in the alliance. Despite its past isolationism, Finland in September agreed to participate in the renewed UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) crisis management operation, sending 200 troops to the troubled region. The decision was especially controversial given the fact that an Israeli bombing had killed a Finnish peacekeeper in the town of Khiam in July.
Political Rights and Civil Liberties
Finland is an electoral democracy. The prime minister has responsibility for running the government. The president, whose role is mainly ceremonial, is directly elected for a six-year term. The president appoints the prime minister and the deputy prime minister from the majority party or coalition after elections. The selection must be approved by the Parliament.
Representatives in the 200-seat unicameral Parliament, the Eduskunta, are elected to four-year terms. The Aland Islands – an autonomous region located off the southwestern coast of Finland whose inhabitants speak Swedish – have their own 29-seat Parliament and have 1 seat in the national legislature. The indigenous Saami of northern Finland also have their own Parliament.
The two main winners of the March 2003 parliamentary elections were the Center Party, with 24.7 percent of the vote, and the SDP, with 24.5 percent. Other parties include the National Coalition (18.5 percent), the Left Alliance (9.9 percent), the Green League (8.0 percent), the Christian Democrats (5.3 percent), the Swedish People's Party (4.6 percent), and the True Finns (1.6 percent).
Since 2000, Finland has been ranked as the country with the lowest level of perceived corruption in Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index. In May 2005, the Parliament passed a law criminalizing the acceptance of a bribe.
Finnish law provides for freedom of speech, which is also respected in practice. Finland has a large variety of newspapers and magazines, grants the right to publish printed material to every citizen, and protects the right to reply to public criticism. Newspapers are privately owned but publicly subsidized, and many are controlled by or support a particular political party. In February 2004, the Eduskunta substantially liberalized a controversial media law that had placed burdensome restrictions on internet publishers and service providers. As a result, internet traffic logging is no longer required, and online discussion groups are beyond the scope of the law. However, web publications must name a responsible editor in chief and archive published material for at least 21 days.
Finns enjoy freedom of religion. The Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Orthodox Church are both state churches and receive public money from income taxes, but citizens may exempt themselves from contributing to those funds. Other religious groups are eligible for tax relief if they register and are recognized by the government. The government officially recognizes 55 religious groups. Religious education is part of the curriculum in all secondary public schools, but students may opt out of such classes in favor of more general instruction in ethics. The government respects academic freedom, and privacy rights are also protected. In June 2005, Kaj-Erik Relander, the former chief executive of the telecommunications operator Sonera, was convicted of abusing communications privacy laws by ordering the illegal scrutiny of staff telephone calls.
Freedoms of association and assembly are respected in law and in practice. Workers have the right to organize, bargain collectively, and strike. Approximately 75 percent of workers belong to trade unions.
The constitution provides for an independent judiciary, which consists of the Supreme Court, the supreme administrative court, and the lower courts. The president appoints Supreme Court judges, who in turn appoint the lower court judges. The Ministry of the Interior controls police and Frontier Guard forces. Ethnic minorities and asylum seekers report occasional police discrimination, and according to the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Finland was found to be in violation of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms on six occasions in 2005.
The rights of ethnic and religious minorities are protected in Finland. The criminal code covers ethnic agitation, and penalizes anyone who threatens a racial, national, ethnic, or religious group. Since 1991, the indigenous Saami, who make up less than 1 percent of the population, have been heard in the Eduskunta on relevant matters. The constitution guarantees the Saami cultural autonomy and the right to pursue their traditional livelihoods, which include fishing and reindeer herding. Their language and culture are also protected through public financial support. However, representatives of the community have complained that they cannot exercise their rights in practice and that they do not have the right to self-determination with respect to land use. While Roma (Gypsies) also make up a very small percentage of the population, they are more widely disadvantaged and marginalized.
In May 2004, a new Aliens' Act streamlined the procedures for asylum and immigration applications as well as for work and residency permits. The new law also allowed for the granting of residency permits for individual humane reasons. Despite those changes, the number of asylum approvals has declined in recent years. Although it has experienced some racial tensions, Finland is the only major European country that has not produced a right-wing anti-immigrant political party.
Women enjoy equal rights in Finland. In 1906, Finland became the first country in Europe to grant women the vote and the first in the world to allow women to become electoral candidates. In the current Parliament, 38 percent of the delegates are women, as are 8 of the 18 government ministers. However, women earn only about 80 percent as much as men of the same age, education, and profession. Women are generally employed in lower-paid occupations due to a deeply entrenched idea of "men's jobs" and "women's jobs." According to the U.S. State Department's 2006 Human Rights report, domestic violence toward women is high in Finland as compared to other countries in the region.
Finland is both a destination and a transit country for trafficked people. In August 2004, new legislation came into force, making trafficking in persons a criminal offense. In July 2006, anti-trafficking laws led to prosecution for the first time ever, when 7 men and a woman were caught trafficking 15 Estonian women. In March 2005, the Finnish government unveiled a National Action Plan to combat trafficking. It established a number of services for victims, including a national assistance coordinator, temporary residences, a witness protection program, and legal and psychological counseling. A large-scale trafficking ring from India was uncovered in Helsinki in 2006, as numbers of people being trafficked from India to Finland rose significantly that summer.
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Speaking on the theme of "Following Christ in 21st-century Ireland," Archbishop Brady said that today's challenge is to keep "our lives focused on Christ amid the distractions of increasing prosperity."
He explained: "The land of saints and scholars has become better known as the land of stocks and shares, of financial success and security.
"Tragically it has also become a land of increasing stress and substance abuse. And all of this has occurred as the external practice of faith has declined."
"One of the most subtle but disturbing signs of this underlying fear in Irish life is the increasing reliance of people on practices which claim to 'unveil' the future," the 68-year-old archbishop affirmed. "Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, tarot cards, recourse to clairvoyance and mediums conceal a desire for power over time and a lack of trust in God's providence.
"They are the new Irish superstition. Those who put their trust in them or take them seriously are colluding with an illusion, promoting a fiction. Underlying this trend of 'future telling,' is a fear of the future.
"It is a symptom of the insecurity that lurks behind the seeming confidence of modern Irish culture and life. It is evidence of the failure of a life without God to address the deepest needs of the human spirit." Share
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AfriGeneas Free Persons of Color Forum
Re: Book- Free in Chains
In Response To: Book- Free in Chains ()
The Coleman and Jumper families of Virginia had similar origins. An archivist from the Library of Virginia named Carolyn H. Goudie did considerable research on this subject. She spoke on this and other topics at the AAHGS meeting in 1999. If I recall correctly, she said that most of the cases began in the 1780s and continued until about 1820 or so when testimony about what had occurred in the early seventeenth century was no longer accepted as evidence by the courts.
The Findleys were fortunate in that some of them gained their freedom when they challenged the division of Henry Clay's slaves by the Chesterfield County court in 1772. When Hannah Findlay brought suit in Henry County in 1785, she was able to refer to the 1772 testimony of Henry Clays's neighbors who had been present when he returned from a trip to the Carolinas in 1712 with two Choctaw Indian children.
Rachal Findley of Powhatan County, born about 1750, did not recover her freedom until 1820!
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Rameshwaram to Madurai distance, location, road map and direction
Rameshwaram is located in India
at the longitude of 79.32 and latitude of 9.29. Madurai is located in India
at the longitude of 78.12 and latitude of 9.92 .
Distance between Rameshwaram and Madurai
The total straight line distance between Rameshwaram and Madurai is 149 KM
(kilometers) and 25.87 meters. The miles based distance from Rameshwaram to Madurai is 92.6
miles. This is a straight line distance and so most of the time the actual travel distance between Rameshwaram and Madurai may be higher or vary due to curvature of the road .
Rameshwaram To Madurai travel time
Rameshwaram is located around 149 KM away from Madurai so if you travel at the consistant speed of 50 KM per hour you can reach Madurai in 2.98 hours. Your Madurai travel time may vary due to your bus speed, train speed or depending upon the vehicle you use.
Rameshwaram to Madurai Bus
Bus timings from Rameshwaram to Madurai is around 2.48 hours
when your bus maintains an average speed of sixty kilometer per hour over the course of your journey. The estimated travel time from Rameshwaram to Madurai by bus may vary or it will take more time than the above mentioned time due to the road condition and differnt travel route. Travel time has been calculated based on crow fly distance so there may not be any road or bus connectivity also.
Bus fare from Rameshwaram to Madurai
may be around Rs.119.
Rameshwaram To Madurai road map
Rameshwaram is located nearly east
side to Madurai. The given east direction from Rameshwaram is only approximate. The given google map shows the direction in which the blue color line indicates road connectivity to Madurai . In the travel map towards Madurai you may find enroute hotels, tourist spots, picnic spots, petrol pumps and various religious places. The given google map is not comfortable to view all the places as per your expectation then to view street maps, local places see our detailed map here.
Rameshwaram To Madurai driving direction
The following diriving direction guides you to reach Madurai from Rameshwaram. Our straight line distance may vary from google distance.
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You’ve seen them again and again. Types of stories or story bits the media pummels to death through sheer force of habit, or something. Certainly not because they are particularly enlightening or interesting.
1. “Duh” studies stating the obvious
It’s bad enough that universities and research centres often chew up time and money on studies that reach such obvious conclusions. But it’s even worse when the media pass them along as if they were some kind of revelation. True that sometimes there is some valuable nuance amidst the generally-predictable gist of a piece of research, but if so, focus on that nuance then.
2. Streeters or Vox Pop
“Man in the street” types of interviews. Well-liked by TV news shows in particular for their unique capacity to fill up air time with something vaguely watchable (the “people like to look at other people” principle) while usually adding no real insight into anything. Or even representing public opinion properly, since the news crew will typically just interview the first few people they can find, then bugger off.
3. Opposition politicians criticize government
What do you expect them to say? “This government is awesome; We suck by comparison, says Opposition leader”? There may be the odd exception when the critic has some special insight into an issue, but generally I don’t see the point in giving standard parliamentary debate any more of a public airing than it already gets. Leave it for CPAC and its audience of eight or so. Everyone else gets bored senseless by it.
4. Grieving relatives
“Gripping” TV images of a sobbing mother whose child has been murdered. Or loud newspaper headlines in the same vein: “GIVE US JUSTICE.” At times like these it’s hard to tell the difference between the news and reality TV shows. Or even fictional ones. Personally I see it as an intrusion into the victims’ privacy at what is probably the worst time of their lives. Sure, maybe it could help trigger an anonymous public tip on an unsolved murder… or it could lead to overzealous public witch-hunts like this. I say leave these poor people alone. The audience can get its cheap emotional kicks elsewhere.
5. Definite maybes
In their overeagerness to break a story the media will often report something that may happen. The trouble here is that, by the same token, it may not. How about just letting us know when they make a final decision on it?
Light, bright and trite, an old journalism instructor of mine liked to say. Aim your writing at the head of a 10th-grade student.
It seemed a bit cynical to me at the time, but it wasn’t bad career advice. “Trite is good” is certainly a principle that has been fully embraced in newsrooms all over the world.
But there can always be too much of a good thing. Triteness is easily digested — and it can also be repetitive and annoying, especially when the heavily used expression doesn’t make much sense in the first place.
Here are five overused and downright dumb terms that need to
go the way of the dodo bird die out:
“Arguably her best work,” “Arguably one of the greatest players of all time”
The champion weasel word of the 21st century so far. Most often used to make an assertion without actually asserting anything, or backing it up. I think the word’s wide appeal owes something to the way it packs four syllables into a compact eight letters, thereby allowing the writer to be pretentious and lazy at the same time. At its most weaselly when combined with “one of” as in the example above.
SOLUTION: Assert something in only the strongest terms you feel comfortable with, so you don’t have to wimp out at the last second.
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
“The year in politics: the good, the bad and the ugly”
This heavily recycled title from an old spaghetti western fit well for the movie, but rarely does for the year-in-review and similar articles in which it so often appears. Usually the writers fail to explain what the difference is supposed to be between “bad” and “ugly.”
SOLUTION: The Good and Bad, Hits and Misses, Ups and Downs, etc. Also trite but at least they make sense and, being less figurative, stand up better to repeated use.
3. Thisgate and Thatgate
Weinergate, Spygate, Bingogate, any scandal with -gate on the end
Like a lot of cliches, this was probably quite clever when it was first coined. But that would have been back in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. Probably beaten to death by about 1985, and since then… ugh.
SOLUTION: Just drop it already. Write “scandal,” it’s only a few more letters.
4. Impact (verb)
“How this decision will impact residents,” “The economy was negatively impacted”
A rising favourite for governments and corporations, this trendy usage is increasingly common in the media as well. But it fails to improve in any way on “affect,” and in the case of “negatively impacted,” ignores the richness of the English language: hurt, harmed, battered, undermined, upset, damaged and many more.
SOLUTION: Affect, hurt, etc. etc.
5. Kinder, gentler
“A kinder, gentler policy,” “a kinder, gentler (Famous Tough-Guy Type)”
Another ironic instance of the media copycatting the governments they normally take so much pride in challenging. “Kinder, gentler nation” was George H.W. Bush’s speechwriter-assisted re-election buzzphrase from about 20 years ago, but has since lived on in millions of news headlines for all kinds of stories. Whether Western society has actually become any kinder or gentler in all that time is very debatable indeed.
SOLUTION: Douse it with gasoline, strike a match, and watch it get “negatively impacted.”
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In early December 2011, Oregon OSHA made a number of changes to its workplace safety rules. Most of these changes came about because of Phase III of federal OSHA’s Standards Improvement Project, an ongoing effort to clean up rules that are “confusing, outdated, duplicative, or inconsistent.” Construction rules affected by the changes in December include:
437-003-0015, Drinking Water – updates the definition of potable water so that it is the same as the definition in the general industry (Division 2/J) and Agriculture (Division 4/J) rules. Also, in Construction rules (1926.51 (f)(3)(iv), Sanitation) the word “warm” was removed from the term “warm air blowers.” This allows employers to use a variety of mechanical hand-drying techniques as technology advances.
Effective July 1, 2012, Oregon OSHA has expanded the respiratory protection program requirements when employees are exposed to lead, asbestos, cadmium, and methylenedianiline. Added to the program requirements are 1910.134(e), Medical Evaluation, and 1910.134(o), Appendices. New rules added are:
OSHA removed a requirement for employers to transfer certain exposure and medical records to NIOSH and clarified a reference to 1910.1020, Employee Access to Exposure and Medical Records in the following rules:
1926.1127, Cadmium – OSHA removed a paragraph requiring employers to certify training records.
OSHA revised the blood lead levels at which employers must take certain actions to protect employees exposed to lead. The revision changes the terms “exceeds” and “above” to “at or above” and “at or below” to “below” in the medical surveillance requirements of 1926.62, Lead.See more in ARTICLE 4, Understanding what’s new in Oregon OSHA’s lead rules
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Bodies identified as missing Iowa cousins
Lyric Cook, Elizabeth Collins went missing in July
Relatives of 10-year-old Lyric Cook and 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins got news Monday that no family wants.
Authorities identified the bodies found by hunters in a wooded area last week as those of the two young Iowa cousins, missing since July. Their bodies were found in the Seven Bridges Wildlife Area in Bremer County.
Chief Kent Smock of the Evansdale, Iowa, Police Department, confirmed the news and said that the girls' families had been notified, according to a statement from the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office.
The cause of the death in both cases is pending.
"Our hearts and prayers go out to the families and friends of those precious little girls," said Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson.
He vowed vigilance in pursuit of those responsible, and said no resource would be spared so that "justice may prevail."
Lyric and Elizabeth were last seen by their grandmother on July 13 when they left for a bike ride. The girls' bicycles and a purse were found near Meyers Lake in Evansdale, hours after they were reported missing.
A search of the 25-acre lake turned up nothing, and authorities eventually said they believed that the cousins had been abducted.
About a week after the girls disappeared, investigators said they thought Lyric and Elizabeth were alive.
FBI spokeswoman Sandy Breault declined then to say exactly what evidence they had to push them toward that conclusion, urging anyone with information to come forward.
A $50,000 reward was offered for information leading to the successful recovery of the girls and the prosecution of the person, or people, responsible.
The girls' disappearance sparked a massive volunteer search effort in Evansdale, a town of about 4,700 located some 12 miles southeast of Cedar Falls.
Last week, when the bodies were found but authorities had not yet identified them as belonging to the girls, residents gathered at Meyers Lake for a candlelight vigil, according to CNN affiliate KCRG.
"I guess I'm not surprised ... because of the length of time that they've been missing," Karen Carroll told the network.
Carroll works at Poyner Elementary, where Elizabeth was in fourth grade. She said keeping morale up at the school has been tough.
Students and staff created a "remembrance chain" that they will give to the girls' families, along with a memorial made from pink ribbons. The chain is built from rings of colored construction paper.
Elizabeth's mother, Heather Collins, posted a message on Facebook last week expressing gratitude for the prayers and outpouring of support amid the "gut-wrenching news."
"We know that they are up in heaven with our savior," she wrote. "Lord we know that you have them in your loving arms and we are so blessed."
Copyright 2012 by CNN NewSource. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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